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Serbia is a parliamentary democracy with competitive multiparty elections, but in recent years the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) has steadily eroded political rights and civil liberties, putting pressure on independent media, the political opposition, and civil society organizations. Despite these trends, the country has continued to move toward membership in the European Union (EU).
A series of antigovernment protests that were initially prompted by a November 2018 assault on opposition politician Borko Stefanović continued throughout the year, with participants calling for the resignation of President Aleksandar Vučić, increased press freedom, and fair elections.
The Independent Journalists' Association of Serbia (NUNS) documented 119 incidents of pressure or violence against journalists during the year, as independent media continued to endure smear campaigns by progovernment outlets, harassment, and physical threats.
Recent scandals involving alleged plagiarism in the doctoral theses of senior state officials resulted in confrontations between rival groups of university students in September and the annulment of the finance minister's doctorate by Belgrade University in December.
The president is directly elected for up to two five-year terms. In 2017, then prime minister Vučić won the election with 55 percent of the vote in a field of 11 candidates. The campaign was characterized by media bias and allegations of misuse of public resources and vote buying. Vučić remained prime minister throughout the election period, blurring the line between official and electoral activities.
The prime minister is elected by the parliament. Vučić named Ana Brnabić, then the minister for local government and public administration, to succeed him as prime minister following the 2017 presidential election, and she was subsequently confirmed in office by lawmakers.
The Serbian National Assembly is a unicameral, 250-seat legislature whose deputies are elected to four-year terms under a system of proportional representation with a single nationwide constituency.
In the wake of the snap parliamentary elections held in 2016, leaders of several opposition parties accused the SNS of rigging the polls, including by tampering with ballot boxes. Election observers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) noted pressure on public-sector workers to vote for the ruling party. Private television outlets largely favored the SNS in their coverage.
While the SNS and its coalition partners won the largest portion of the vote, enabling Vučić to remain prime minister, they lost 27 seats, falling from 158 to 131. Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić's Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) and its allies, running separately from the SNS-led list, took 29 seats. The far-right Serbian Radical Party (SRS) placed third with 22 seats, returning to the parliament after a four-year absence. The progressive Enough Is Enough movement and a coalition led by the Democratic Party (DS) each won 16 seats. The pro-EU Alliance for a Better Serbia bloc won 13 seats, as did the conservative and Euroskeptic Dveri–Democratic Party of Serbia. The remaining seats went to smaller parties representing ethnic minorities. The SNS also performed well in the concurrent local and regional elections, particularly in the Vojvodina region, where the opposition DS had previously enjoyed broad support.
Belgrade city council elections held in 2018 were, according to domestic observers, marred by procedural errors and numerous irregularities. Some voters were pressured to vote for the SNS, while others were allegedly provided with completed ballots. Media coverage was largely biased in favor of the ruling party, and there were multiple reports of the misuse of administrative resources for campaigning. Some independent observers from the Center for Research, Transparency, and Accountability (CRTA) were threatened and expelled from polling stations before vote counting commenced. Similar problems were reported during municipal elections in smaller towns later that year; opposition parties boycotted in three of four towns that held balloting in December.
Electoral laws largely correspond to international standards, but aspects of the electoral process are poorly regulated, and implementation of existing rules is flawed in some respects. The Republic Electoral Commission's composition before the 2017 presidential election raised concerns about partisan influence. A parliamentary oversight committee meant to monitor the campaign was never established, and the media regulator did not proactively track and punish biased media coverage.
Political parties may be established freely and can typically operate without encountering formal restrictions. However, campaign finance regulations are weakly enforced and place no overall cap on the private funds raised and spent by parties and candidates. Following the 2017 presidential election, the OSCE reported that the Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA) had decreased the resources dedicated to proactively monitoring campaign funds and did not thoroughly investigate dubious donations. The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) found that the SNS had orchestrated the use of thousands of proxy donors to bypass legal limits on individual donations and disguise the true source of funding.
There have been peaceful transfers of power between rival parties over the past two decades, and the political system remains competitive. However, the current ruling party has used various tactics to unfairly reduce the opposition's electoral prospects. These include manipulating the timing of snap elections, exerting pressure on independent state institutions, and mobilizing public resources to support the SNS's campaigns.
The SNS has expanded its influence over the media through both state-owned enterprises and an array of private outlets that are dependent on government funding, and it has harnessed this influence to strengthen its political position and discredit its rivals, further reducing opposition parties' competitiveness. Opposition figures have also faced escalating harassment and violence in recent years. In November 2018, prominent politician Borko Stefanović of the Serbian Left party was severely beaten by seven men before a scheduled debate in the city of Kruševac. The attack was symptomatic of a broader campaign carried out by the ruling party to intimidate opposition leaders.
Voters enjoy a significant degree of freedom to make political decisions without undue interference, though the ruling party and allied private businesses allegedly use patronage networks to influence political outcomes. Various incentives have also been employed in recent years to convince hundreds of local elected officials to form alliances with the SNS or change their party affiliation after elections. SNS electoral campaigns have allegedly benefited from the misuse of public resources, such as use of public buses to transport loyalists to rallies. Separately, Russia has been accused of attempting to influence Serbian politics through its state-owned media and an array of small pro-Russian parties, media outlets, and civil society groups in Serbia.
During the 2017 election, there were widespread reports of employees at state or state-affiliated entities facing pressure to support the SNS and to compel their friends and families to do the same. Allegations of bribery, usually with money or food, in exchange for SNS votes, were extensive during the 2018 local elections. Citizens were also reportedly intimidated by SNS operatives who knocked on doors and pressured them to vote.
The country's 5 percent electoral threshold for parliamentary representation does not apply to parties representing ethnic minorities. Groups centered on the ethnic Albanian, Bosniak, Slovak, and Hungarian communities won a total of 10 seats in the 2016 legislative elections. Nevertheless, ethnic minorities have a relatively muted voice in Serbian politics in practice. No party representing the interests of the Romany minority ran in the 2016 elections.
Women enjoy equal political rights. According to electoral regulations, women must account for at least 33 percent of a party's candidate list, and women currently hold 34 percent of seats in the parliament. Ana Brnabić became Serbia's first woman and first gay prime minister in 2017, but critics argued that her appointment was a superficial bid to showcase the government's claims of openness toward the LGBT+ community without systematic engagement on policy issues important to LGBT+ people.
Vučić's move to the presidency in 2017 raised new concerns about the personalization of governance and politicization of state institutions. Vučić has remained the dominant figure in government despite the presidency's limited executive powers under the constitution, creating a de facto presidential system.
Moreover, the executive largely controls the legislative process, and opposition lawmakers are sidelined through the disproportionate use of disciplinary measures, frequent use of accelerated legislative procedures, and late changes to the legislative agenda, among other tactics.
Although the number of arrests and prosecutions for corruption has risen in recent years, high-profile convictions are very rare. Critics have credibly accused President Vučić and the SNS government of having ties to organized crime, and cronyism—in the form of jobs provided to allies of the president and the ruling party—is reportedly common. The responsibility for prosecuting corruption cases has been passed among different public prosecutors, who typically fault the police for supplying insufficient evidence in cases against government ministers. The work of the ACA is also undermined in part by the ambiguous division of responsibilities among other entities tasked with combating corruption.
Notable cases that came to light in recent years without being resolved include those of Nenad Popović, a minister without portfolio who was implicated in a questionable privatization that caused an important electrical transformer manufacturer to declare bankruptcy; Finance Minister Siniša Mali, whom anticorruption agencies have investigated for suspected money laundering; and Health Minister Zlatibor Lončar, who allegedly has links to an organized crime group. Senior officials' close relatives and associates have also faced corruption allegations. For example, a series of reports and leaked documents since 2018 have tied the father of Interior Minister Nebojša Stefanović to an arms-trading scheme and other malfeasance. A whistleblower who implicated Stefanović's father in the purchase of arms from the state at reduced rates was arrested in September 2019, potentially deterring others with knowledge of corruption from coming forward.
Score Change: The score declined from 2 to 1 because many cases of alleged corruption among senior officials have gone unaddressed in recent years.
The government has received sustained criticism for a lack of transparency in large-scale infrastructure projects and for secrecy surrounding public tenders. For example, details about the state-funded Belgrade Waterfront project, which includes the construction of hotels and luxury apartments and has been beset by controversy since its announcement in 2012, have not been made available to the public.
Members of parliament do not have adequate opportunities to ask questions about government activities and legislation, and the vast majority of parliamentary questions go unanswered by the government.
Public officials are subject to asset disclosure rules overseen by the ACA, but penalties for violations are uncommon. While a 2004 freedom of information law empowers citizens and journalists to obtain information of public importance, authorities frequently obstruct requests in practice.
Despite a constitution that guarantees freedom of the press and a penal code that does not treat libel as a criminal offense, media freedom is undermined by the threat of lawsuits or criminal charges against journalists for other offenses, lack of transparency in media ownership, editorial pressure from politicians and politically connected media owners, direct pressure and threats against journalists, and high rates of self-censorship. The Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM) has been criticized for a lack of independence.
The state and ruling party exercise influence over private media in part through advertising contracts and other indirect subsidies. Many private outlets are owned by SNS supporters. Some privately owned national broadcasters and popular tabloids regularly participate in smear campaigns against the political opposition and other perceived government opponents. The incumbent political parties generally receive the majority of media coverage from public broadcasters. In March 2019, protesters in Belgrade stormed the headquarters of the Serbian public broadcaster RTS to draw attention to its biased coverage.
A number of critical journalists and outlets faced smear campaigns, punitive tax inspections, and other forms of pressure in 2019. According to NUNS, there were 119 media freedom violations against journalists during the year. They included physical assaults, though most incidents involved aggressive rhetoric and other forms of pressure or intimidation. In December 2018, investigative reporter Milan Jovanović, who has reported extensively on corruption, was the victim of an arson attack for which an SNS official was on trial at the end of 2019.
The constitution guarantees freedom of religion, which is generally respected in practice.
Academic freedom has largely been upheld, though recent practice and legal changes have raised concerns about political influence. The Law on Higher Education, adopted by the National Assembly in 2017, increased the presence of state-appointed members on the National Council for Higher Education and a national accreditation body; another education law, also adopted in 2017, gave the education minister centralized control over the appointment of school principals.
Over the last several years, senior state officials have been accused of plagiarizing their doctoral theses, stirring debate within academia and casting doubt on the autonomy of university administrative bodies. The officials implicated include Interior Minister Nebojša Stefanović, Finance Minister Siniša Mali, and National Bank Governor Jorgovanka Tabaković. The plagiarism controversies have triggered a smear campaign against academics who express criticism of the government and the accused officials. In May 2019, the ethics council of Belgrade University ruled that Mali did not commit plagiarism, but it reversed its decision in November, and the university senate annulled his doctorate in December. In September, a group of students calling for Mali's dismissal blocked the rectorate building at Belgrade University and clashed with activists affiliated with the SNS.
Private discussion is generally free and vibrant, but a pattern of retribution against high-profile critics of the government has contributed to an increasingly hostile environment for free expression and open debate. Throughout 2019, perceived government opponents including journalists, university professors, civil society leaders, and celebrities were targeted with smear campaigns in progovernment media outlets, as well as with criminal investigations and other retaliatory measures. Particularly worrisome were instances in which even the highest government officials took part in discrediting nonpolitical figures based on their public criticism of government policies.
Citizens are generally able to exercise freedom of assembly, though in late 2019 there were more than 30 ongoing prosecutions against activists associated with the protest movement Ne davimo Beograd, which had organized demonstrations against the contentious development project on Belgrade's waterfront.
The assault on Stefanović in November 2018 prompted massive demonstrations against the SNS and President Vučić, which continued through 2019. The protesters called on the government to cease attacks on the press and opposition figures, and denounced corruption within the government and the SNS.
Foreign and domestic nongovernmental organizations (NGO) generally operate freely, but those that take openly critical stances toward the government or address sensitive or controversial topics have faced threats and harassment in recent years. In 2019, a number of NGOs were the targets of sustained smear campaigns in the media in response to their activities. Some individual activists were physically assaulted, and the offices of the Youth Initiative for Human Rights and the Pride Info Center were vandalized or attacked, apparently by right-wing extremists.
Workers may legally join unions, engage in collective bargaining, and strike, but the International Trade Union Confederation has reported that organizing efforts and strikes are often restricted in practice, with employers allegedly retaliating against workers and union activists.
The independence of the judiciary is compromised by political influence over judicial appointments, and many judges have reported facing external pressure regarding their rulings. Politicians regularly comment on judicial matters, including by discussing ongoing cases or investigations with the media.
Due process guarantees are upheld in some cases, but corruption, lack of capacity, and political influence often undermine these protections. Among other problems, rules on the random assignment of cases to judges and prosecutors are not consistently observed, and mechanisms for obtaining restitution in civil matters are ineffective. High-profile, politically sensitive cases are especially vulnerable to interference.
The population is generally free from major threats to physical security, though some prison facilities suffer from overcrowding, abuse, and inadequate health care. Radical right-wing organizations and violent sports fans who target ethnic minorities and other perceived enemies also remain a concern.
Legal safeguards for socially vulnerable groups are poorly enforced. For example, women are legally entitled to equal pay for equal work, but this rule is not widely respected. The Romany minority is especially disadvantaged by discrimination in employment, housing, and education. LGBT+ people continue to face hate speech, threats, and even physical violence, and perpetrators are rarely punished despite laws addressing hate crimes and discrimination. The government has made some gestures of support for the rights of LGBT+ people, for example by sending representatives to pride events and ensuring adequate police protection for parades.
There are no formal restrictions on freedom of movement. Serbians are free to change their place of employment and education, and have the right to travel. Citizens have been able to enter the Schengen area of the EU without a visa since 2010.
In general, property rights are respected, but adjudication of disputes is slow, and problems such as illegal construction and fraud persist. An estimated two million buildings in Serbia are not registered. Romany residents are often subject to forced evictions, and those evicted are generally not offered alternative housing or access to legal remedies to challenge eviction notices.
Personal social freedoms are generally respected, and men and women have equal legal rights on personal status matters like marriage and divorce. However, early and forced marriage is reportedly more common among the Romany minority, with more than half of Romany girls marrying before the legal age of 18. A new law aimed at preventing domestic violence took effect in 2017, but such violence remains a problem; Serbia has one of the highest rates of domestic violence in Europe.
Residents generally have access to economic opportunity, but factors such as weak macroeconomic growth and a relatively high rate of unemployment contribute to labor exploitation in some industries. Several reports in recent years have described worsening conditions in factories, particularly those that produce shoes and garments, including low wages, unpaid overtime, and hazardous work environments. Legal protections designed to prevent such abuses are not well enforced. According to the Ministry of Labor, Employment, Veterans Affairs, and Social Affairs, 53 workers died in workplace accidents in 2018, and a similar number of occupational fatalities was reported for 2019.
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Nobody likes spam, and it can be a very frustrating for WordPress site owners as it typically involves taking time to set up filters and researching the best way to block it. Many by now are used to dealing with referrer spam, as it something that has plagued us for years. However, in the past couple months, there has been a new approach to this, in the form of what everyone is now calling language spam. Most of you probably started noticing this right around the time of the 2016 US elections. Follow our tutorial below on the best ways block language spam and prevent it from skewing your traffic and analytics statistics. It is very important to fix these as soon as they start appearing.
While referrer spam is mainly about targeting search engines, language spam typically is used by a spammer for a certain agenda or to promote their own sites or products. What happens is they manipulate the language used by real sites like motherboard.vice.com, thenextweb.com, lifehacker.com, reddit.com, etc. Language spam also typically only registers pageviews on the homepage of your WordPress site.
This is a screenshot taken on a brand new WordPress site, and as you can see, between November 1st and December 17th, 929 of the 1,377 sessions was from language spam! Talk about skewing your data.
The language spam problem was brought up on Search Engine Roundtable on November 9th. And if we take a look at Google Trends we can see that starting in November 2016 the activity around "google analytics spam" skyrocketed.
There are a couple options when it comes to tackling the language spam in Google Analytics. We don't necessarily recommend using a WordPress plugin, as it is usually better to do this closer to the source of the problem. Also, plugins have a hard time of eliminating ghost referrals. Google Analytics is actually quite powerful when it comes to manipulating, filtering, and segmenting data. And by not using a plugin you can ensure that whatever happens to the installation of your site that the filters/segments will stay in place.
The first step is copy your current view so that you can filter the data only on a separate view. This is optional for your safety. You might already have a separate view in which case you can skip to Step 2. Otherwise, click into the Admin section in Google Analytics and into your current "View Settings." Then click on "Copy view." The reason you want to use copy is because this will carry over any other filters and goals that you already have in place on your WordPress site.
You will need "Edit" access at the "Account" level in Google Analytics in order to set up new filters, or you won't have the ability to follow through on these next steps.
And that is it! You now will only see valid/real languages pass through in your Google Analytics.
The second option you have for fighting language spam in Google Analytics is to use an advanced segment. These actually work with your historical data and are generally regarded as a safer option to alter your data as they don't change anything. You can deactivate them at any time to return to the previous state. However, if you are using a separate view with a filter like we showed above, this is just as safe.
Just like with filters, you will need "Edit" access at the "Account" level in Google Analytics in order to set up new filters, or you won't have the ability to follow through on these next steps.
And that's it. You can then select the language segment on your Analytics dashboard and remove "All Users." Remember, segments modify the data in real-time. Tip: You can create a custom dashboard/shortcut with your new segment already applied for quick viewing later.
Analytics-Toolkit: This company provides what they call an Auto Spam filter which is constantly updated for you.
Analytics Edge has free pre-built segments which you can utilize with a single click. These are also consistently updated.
As you can see, it is pretty easy to filter out and exclude this new language spam tactic. We recommend looking through the analytics on your WordPress sites and ensure your data isn't being skewed. What are your thoughts on the language spam situation? We find it simply downright annoying and hope that in the future Google can help combat more of this useless data that business owners are now having to deal with.
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USC vs. Fresno State: The Day Before
One more day until the start of the Trojans' 2014 season.
By Evan Budrovich Aug 29, 2014, 9:51am PDT
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Buck Allen would love to build off his 2 TD performance against the Bulldogs in Vegas.
After nearly nine months on the job, cultivating players through initial spring football, the long summer months of conditioning and the grueling three-week Fall Camp, the USC Trojans recognize the close proximity of the opener.
In a week filled with off-the-field controversy, players have been tested to ignore distractions -- something that is nothing new for this program. The Trojans head to the Coliseum winners of their last 15 season openers, 17 of the last 19 as well as having won seven of their nine all-time games in the month of August.
The Trojans are looking to end the month, and begin a new era of fast-paced football, on a strong note against a familiar foe in the Fresno State Bulldogs. There are several instances of these teams and players be familiar with one another. For example, offensive graduate assistant Jaron Fairman was a wide receiver and special teams performer at Fresno State (2003-06), captaining the Bulldogs during the 2006 season.
GETTING TO KNOW FRESNO STATE
USC is 28-1-1 versus current Mountain West Conference teams and have beaten Fresno State in each of their past two meetings with the only loss coming in the 1992 Freedom Bowl. Speaking of first-timers, new head coach Steve Sarkisian has a strong reputation to live up to -- each of the last five USC football head coaches have won in their coaching debuts.
What we do know, for certain, is that USC will want to run about 80 plays on offense and plenty of weapons will be on the field. The rotations have been set, and guys up and down the roster recognize that they will have chances to make an impact on the field -- even if not with the first-team offense or defense right away.
The Fresno State Bulldogs come to Los Angeles winners of back-to-back Mountain West Conference titles. The Bulldogs return 16 starters from last season, including preseason All-American candidate safety Derron Smith who intercepted a Cody Kessler pass and returned it to the house for a touchdown during the Las Vegas Bowl.
USC enters this game with confidence, defeating Fresno State 45-20 in impressive fashion during that Vegas Bowl matchup but the Bulldogs will be differently configured from the last time when Derek Carr was leading the attack. The Trojans are led by Cody Kessler, who threw for four touchdowns in the bowl game and led one of the nation's most efficient red-zone offenses last season.
After only averaging 73,000 fans last season, the presence in the Coliseum should be much improved right from the very start given all the increased hype surrounding the No. 15 ranked team in the AP and Coaches Poll. The season has arrived, and nothing would better alleviate the pain of all the off-the-field distractions than an impressive opening performance.
PLAYERS ARE PUMPED
"It's the day befo!!!" #USCfootball
— Randall Telfer (@RandallTelfer) August 29, 2014
You don't always get what you wish for, but you always get what you work for! #puntersarepeopletoo #FightOn #thedaybefo #beatthebulldogs
— Kris Albarado (@Albarado19) August 29, 2014
Tomorrow is the start if a fantastic season, hope everyone can make it to the Coliseum tomorrow to watch the start of the Trojan Football
— Jordan Austin (@jaustin0056) August 29, 2014
On a better note .. It's almost game time ✌
— George Farmer (@Gfarmer8) August 28, 2014
The @CoachSark era begins tomorrow! #FightOn #AudiDrive2Kickoff pic.twitter.com/919HCzEbT2
— USC Trojans (@USC_Athletics) August 29, 2014
Can USC handle these distractions heading into the season opener?
Yes, Still Easy Win
Yes, But Closer Game Then Expected
Yes, But Not Against Stanford
No, Watch Out For Fresno
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Former Commissioner of the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation Joins Binance.US
Leading digital asset marketplace Binance.US has recently announced that Manuel "Manny" P.Alvarez, who previously served as Commissioner of the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, would be joining their team as Chief Administrative Officer from July 22 onwards.
As the Chief Administrative Officer, Alvarez will supervise the major control functions such as risk, compliance, and legal. Moreover, he will also help Binance.US reinforce trust and stability with its clients and partners all over the US. He will be reporting to Binance.US's CEO Brian P. Brooks.
Manny is a highly respected senior government official and business executive with deep expertise in financial services regulation and technology. Compliance is the key to creating trust with both our customers and our regulators, which is why we are hiring recognized leaders in the field such as Manny. He is that rare brilliant regulatory mind with a strong sense of law and compliance who also brings a strong technology and Silicon Valley perspective. He was General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of the point-of-sale lending platform Affirm, where he helped build the company in the years leading up to its successful IPO earlier this year. Manny left Affirm to answer the call to public service leading one of the most important financial regulatory agencies in the country. Manny's leadership will be instrumental as Binance.US seeks to fulfill our vision of serving as the most beloved and dependable destination for cryptocurrency in America. It is a huge honor that Manny is joining us.
Brian P. Brooks, CEO of Binance.US
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Evan Sharp (* 1982) ist ein US-amerikanischer Unternehmer und Co-Gründer der Firma Pinterest. Die Gründung dieser Internet-Firma fand im Jahr 2010 statt.

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Evan Sharp wuchs in York, Pennsylvania auf. Sein Studium schloss er erfolgreich an der Universität von Chicago ab. Im Jahr 2014 heiratete er Christina McBride.
Im Jahr 2009 traf er Ben Silbermann, mit dem er sich anfreundete und im darauf folgenden Jahr die Firma Pinterest in  San Francisco, Kalifornien (USA). gründete. Sharp übernahm die Gestaltung und Programmierung von Pinterest und das Pinterest Grid für die erste Produkteinführung im März 2010. Derzeit ist er für die Beaufsichtigung des Designs von Pinterest verantwortlich.

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Gemäß dem US-Wirtschaftsmagazin Forbes beträgt das Vermögen von Evan Sharp etwa 1,1 Milliarden US-Dollar (Stand: Dezember 2015).

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$500m Australian War Memorial expansion to honour recent conflicts
By Sally Pryor
November 1, 2018 — 4.17pm
The Australian War Memorial expansion will cost $498 million and take nine years.
The expansion will include a split-level Anzac Hall, underground display space.
There will also be a live feed of defence activities.
The additions will honour modern veterans, as well as past wars.
The redevelopment of the Australian War Memorial will be designed to honour modern veterans, as much as commemorate past wars, director Brendan Nelson says.
The ambitious nine-year project, which will cost $498 million and has bipartisan support, will include demolishing and rebuilding Anzac Hall over three levels, a substantial increase to exhibition space, a new entrance and new research centre.
Artist impressions of the planned redevelopment of the Australian War Memorial.
There'll be a complete redesign of the memorial's lower ground floor and a new underground exhibition hall to display large items such as helicopters and jet fighters.
The redevelopment will also include a live feed of current defence activities, an area for quiet reflection and a display of the nation's cenotaphs and memorials.
But Dr Nelson maintained the building's original facade would remain unchanged, as a symbol, in direct line of sight from Parliament House, of "the price paid for the freedoms that we enjoy and too often we take for granted".
Speaking at the unveiling of the plans at Parliament House on Thursday, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the memorial could never be "a static institution", and needed to reflect the changing story of Australia's veterans.
"It is sacred to us all. It transcends politics, it transcends all of us," he said.
"[P]eople are very passionate about the memorial - its past and, importantly, its future. As in the future, we look to ensure that the stories of an entire new generation of service are told and remembered for future generations. Because, sadly, there will be future generations of service as well."
He said when the memorial was first opened in 1941, it "stood out, as it does today, not for its size but its simplicity, its restraint, its humility. It was not a tribute to war or a nation's power or strength. It was a simple, humble memorial to the fallen and a home for their memory."
But Dr Nelson said that today, the memorial, in its current state, was not able to adequately tell the stories of Australian personnel who have served overseas in the past two decades.
"Today's servicemen and servicewomen are returning home to a country that has no idea what they have done, does not understand their service or the sacrifices they have made," he said.
"Young servicemen and women are barely able to explain it to their families, let alone the rest of the nation. Their story must be told to help them understand the impact service has had on them, to help them transition to life back home, and to heal."
He said he had been approached that morning by a Vietnam veteran who thanked him for doing what hadn't been done for previous returning soldiers in his day.
"The opportunity, and the responsibility our nation now has, is to proudly tell the stories of what has been done in recent years in Afghanistan, Iraq, the Solomon Islands, and East Timor, and in peacekeeping and humanitarian operations," he said.
"We must tell these stories not years or decades after they have occurred, but now. It is also the stories of families who love and support them."
He also defended the cost of the redevelopment, maintaining that the funding was not at the expense of existing services to veterans.
"What the government is investing in the Australian War Memorial is one quarter of 1 per cent of what our nation will invest in defence over the next 10 years," he said.
"Not one cent of it is actually coming in any way from veterans entitlements. This is for veterans, it is for them, it is for their families."
Sally Pryor
Sally Pryor is a reporter at The Canberra Times.


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working in construction/development, looking at lots of framing, I don't know how or why, but I thought of an idea that would be cool if you could pull it off.
Basically, it would be cool if you could build a house/house frame that would collapse if just one certain pin was pulled or one member was broken. Almost like a house of cards
This would actually be quite an engineering challenge to do it with house framing.
To lay some rules down, the house does have to be able to withstand the local seismic forces (wind, snow loads, dead and live loads). It does NOT need to be able to be put back up again, though that would be cool too. Now perhaps it would be necessary to make a rule that the frame only needs to be able to do this WITHOUT the sheathing. There is no feasible way to make the frame collapsible WITH sheathing, the whole point of the sheathing is to tie all the members together. I mean, it could in theory be done if each outer wall entirely fell over, or large pieces of wall like that did that, but that would be too easy. In that case, the rule would be that the frame need to be able to handle seismic loads ONCE SHEATHING IS APPLIED.
Obiouvsly, one way to do this is to use hinges instead of nails to join framing members together. When built, they rest freestanding on each other, like a joist on a column, or anything, but in the other direction it swings freely. And then you take advantage of that. That's just one starting idea how it could be done.
Part of the rules we may also need to ban simple central-column lean-to's. Perhaps the rule would be the (outline pad of the) house needs to be made of straight lines at right angles.
And the mechanism to initiate the collapse doesn't HAVE to be the pulling of a pin. Could be breaking one small member, could be hitting one spot with a sledgehammer to shake everything, or cutting of a rope, anything. I do believe it would be possible to not have a hard rule for this part.
Different engineering teams from different schools could participate, and there could be some kind of prize, or just recognition.
— EdwinBakery, Jun 07 2012
This really doesn't sound all that hard. The cop- out answer is to live in an inflatable house like a tennis court or football stadium, but an easy real solution would be to make the house out of panels. All the side panels fit in slots in the foundation and where the front and rear panels fit in recesses of the side panels and then have the side panels held together with cables. The cables come together in an X with a pin. Pull the pin and the weight of the roof pushes out the side walls, the front and back fall out and the rest fall into the center. This building plan probably has some advantages in that all the panels could be made and flat packed for shipment, then the assembly would take one crane. If you made the panels with a outer facing lip that would lock into the foundation as it rotates into its final position this would even work well in earthquake and hurricane areas as the cable structure would allow stretch and slide under extreme forces and then could return on its own or be brought back to align with turnbuckles. What do I win?
— MisterQED, Jun 07 2012
An igloo? The single pin pull turns up the thermostat.
— AusCan531, Jun 07 2012
Or it opens a gas valve and starts a spark plug, but I'm not sure if that's following the principle of the idea, because that's two things...
— Ling, Jun 07 2012
The scaffolds used to support lighting, loudspeakers, canopies, and other production equipment for rock concerts is made to go up quickly and come down even faster. I'd start with that as my design basis.


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Unless you have deployed a wireless network security solution that has integrated wireless intrusion detection & prevention features you are probably wide open for some hurt.
The Threat: A threat that is not very publicized or well known is called Ad-Hoc wireless networks. This is a feature built into Windows and is available as a third party application in other operating systems. Essentially it is a way for client machines to connect to each other wirelessly so they can communicate between themselves in a peer to peer network.
Back before wireless was a ubiquitous medium for networking, client machines could network with each other peer to peer over a simple cross over cable. Now this can be done without wires and thus we have our threat.
With the introduction of Windows 7 we are presented with yet another Ad-Hoc type threat called Virtual WiFi.
This feature built into Windows 7 is a "soft AP" that allows a user to turn their laptop into an access point. Clients can connect through this virtual AP and are NAT'ed through the wireless or wired network the laptop is connected to.
The clients are given private IP addresses by the application so to any Network Access Control solution or other security application the traffic appears as though it is coming from the laptop IP rendering the solution ineffective. There are ways to control this feature in Group Policy but only from Windows Server 2008 R2.
Anyone with some creativity has the ability with a laptop to scan for other client machines offering Ad-Hoc or Virtual WiFi connectivity. Picture this if you will, a devious hacker sits outside a Hospital or Medical Clinic and scans wireless networks looking for an Ad-Hoc or Virtual WiFi connection to join. When he finds one he connects and now has communication with that client PC.
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Commentary: What US business post-COVID can learn from shipping post-2008
Greg Miller
· Friday, May 29, 2020
Owners of these buildings face the same issues shipowners did 10 years ago (Photo: Flickr/Michaela Loheit)
The global financial crisis in 2008-2009 differs in many ways from the current crisis. But even so, what befell shipowners in the decade after the Great Recession offers telling parallels to what U.S. businesses will likely face in the years ahead.
Income streams plunge
Shipowners rode a China-fueled super-cycle in the half-decade before the financial crisis. Record-high spot rates and time-charter rates supported historically steep vessel valuations.
Bank debt was abundant, at times covering 90% of asset values. Lenders were relatively indiscriminate in whom they lent to.
When the global financial crisis struck, spot rates plummeted. Owners with long-term charter coverage at high precrisis rates thought they had protection, but they didn't.
Many charterers either walked away outright or told vessel owners they would honor contracts only if rates were substantially reduced.
A massive wave of charter defaults ensued. When the dust settled, the income stream earned by ships — whether in the spot market, renegotiated time charters with existing counterparties, or time charters with new counterparties — was sharply reduced.
What this means today: A shipowner with long-term cover is analogous to a commercial or residential real estate owner, or the lessor of anything from cars to equipment. A ship owner with spot exposure is analogous to any business depending upon a daily flow of sales.
Because of the coronavirus, there is a heightened probability that lessees (renters) will default, or that lessees will only pay a substantially reduced rate — because they will not be able to afford to do otherwise. As with shipowners in the aftermath of the financial crisis, lessors (landlords) have contracts, but it may effectively be too costly to collect on those contracts, and lessees can ultimately fall back on bankruptcy protection.
The stakes are staggeringly high. According to one estimate, U.S. commercial real estate tenants pay $16 trillion in rent per year.
Asset values plunge
The value of any asset or business is derived from its income stream, whether it's a crude tanker or a shopping mall, a commodity trading house or a laundromat. Slash the income stream and the resale value of an asset or business plummets.
Following the collapse in charter income in the wake of the Great Recession, the assessed value of oceangoing ships collapsed.
Fleets at that time were highly leveraged. Banks require a certain level of collateral coverage for the loans, and the fall in asset values put the majority of shipowners in violation of their loan agreements' loan-to-asset-value covenant.
Tripping those covenants and others required lenders to agree to not accelerate the loan and foreclose on the assets. The parties entered a so-called "forbearance" period as a restructuring plan was negotiated.
Long-term debt was reclassified as a current liability, dividends were halted, and language on "substantial doubt on the ability to continue as a going concern" became commonplace.
To help bridge the collateral gap left by the plunge in asset values, ships were sold (at below book values, requiring impairment charges), and if the shipowner was public, shares were sold at a discount to net asset value to raise cash.
Shipping stock prices sank in response to dilutive follow-on offerings, dividend restrictions and loss-making results. Many public owners had no choice but to conduct multiple reverse splits to keep their share price above $1, the minimum to remain listed. The pool of potential investors evaporated as share pricing and market caps fell below the floors required by various funds.
It has been over a decade since the financial crisis and shipping stocks have yet to recover.
What this means today: The broader implication for U.S. business is that debt covenants are likely to be breached, if they haven't already. According to Fitch Ratings, borrowers representing 17% of U.S. commercial mortgage-backed securities had already asked for forbearance as of April.
Investors who buy stocks for the dividends should watch this closely, because dividends are one of the first casualties of loan renegotiations.
The debt-covenant issue, and/or an inability of debtors to make full scheduled amortization (progress) payments, also raises a crucial question: Will U.S. creditors move aggressively to enforce their rights, or will they wait? International shipping creditors faced the same question a decade ago.
Changes of control ahead
Shipping banks did not foreclose on ships in the immediate aftermath of the Great Recession. The last thing banks wanted was to be stuck owning ships and paying managers to run them when rates were unprofitable.
Another reason shipping banks did not call their loans in the early years was that if they did so, they would have to write down the value of their loan portfolio and "crystallize" losses.
Instead of foreclosing, banks pursued a strategy known as "amend and extend" or "amend and pretend," in which amortization payments were reduced and maturities were pushed back. The hope was that the shipping cycle would turn positive, asset values would recover, and covenant breaches would cure themselves.
Despite the banks' leniency, many shipowners were forced to seek U.S. bankruptcy protection (whether Chapter 7 or 11 if the primary proceeding was in the U.S., or Chapter 15 if the primary proceeding was outside the U.S.), ultimately transforming defaulted debt into equity and/or paying back debt through asset sales.
Bankruptcy filers in the first half-decade after the financial crisis included Eastwind, Excel Maritime, General Maritime, OSG, TBS, Trailer Bridge, Korea Line, Samsung Logix, Sahmo, Sanko, U.S. Shipping Partners, B&H, and Omega Navigation, among others.
The Chapter 11 filings of Genco Shipping & Trading (NYE: GNK) and Eagle Bulk Shipping (NASDAQ: EGLE) in 2014 highlighted a new trend.
As the years passed, banks became more willing to crystallize loan losses and write down portfolios — in part because regulators in Europe were forcing them to. Consequently, banks started to ask lower prices for distressed debt, which attracted more bids from private-equity (PE) buyers, and eventually the bid-ask spread narrowed. Bank debt of both Eagle Bulk and Genco was sold to PE buyers.
PE groups bought the debt to pursue a strategy called "loan to own." Once they controlled the debt, they compelled the companies to restructure via Chapter 11 bankruptcies, with the PE debt converted to equity in the restructured companies.
Meanwhile, a different post-crisis dynamic emerged in the liner sector than in the shipowner sector. Numerous container lines would have collapsed but governments bailed them out. One major carrier did finally go down in 2016: Hanjin Shipping. South Korea's government stepped in to save Hyundai Merchant Marine but let Hanjin go under.
What this means today: The takeaway for U.S. businesses is that creditors may not move immediately to take over debtors' properties even if they can legally do so, because they may not want to own and operate such properties in the middle of an economic crisis.
However, distress investors eventually move in. There will be changes of control ahead to the extent governments do not intervene.
The COVID-19 crisis will curtail income streams, which will reduce property and business values, which will breach debt covenants (at the same time debtors are unable to make full amortization payments due to reduced revenue), which will give creditors the legal right to accelerate loans, which will provide distress investors the opportunity to obtain ownership at highly discounted prices.
Funds are already in position to do so. A New York Times article published Wednesday reported that real-estate funds have around $300 billion ready and available to deploy on distress opportunities.
There is an important difference between today's distress-investment scenario and what happened to shipping in the past decade.
PE investors pursuing loan-to-own strategies bought distressed shipping debt for 80-90 cents on the dollar in 2013-14, on the belief that asset values would revert to the mean. That turned out to be far too small a discount. Shipping asset values didn't revert to the mean and many PE funds suffered heavy losses.
Distress investors will look at land-based properties and businesses differently in the wake of COVID-19 than in the case of a purely financial crisis. Behavioral changes will likely mean that values of some businesses and properties will not revert to previrus levels for many years, if ever. Consequently, buyers may insist upon much higher discounts, which would lock in the new normal for business valuations at even lower levels.
Shipowners suffered through an incredibly tumultuous decade after the global financial crisis. A vast amount of value and wealth was lost and never recovered.
Ironically, shipowners' travails put them in a better position to weather COVID-19. Because asset values are still low, they don't have too far to fall this time around, so loan-to-value debt covenants are not being breached.
Bulk shipowners also have much lower leverage, with debt covering 50%-60% of asset value, not 90%. The same is not true for container lines — which have very high leverage due to consolidation deals — but governments are once again intervening to bail out these companies.
The challenge for many segments of the U.S. business community, particularly office and retail commercial real estate, is that values do indeed have a long way to fall. One need only look to the skyline of Manhattan to grasp the enormity of the problem.
It will be a long road ahead, more akin to the experience of ocean shipping post-2008 than to a regional recovery from a hurricane.
Businesses that can't placate their creditors in the face of lower income streams will either go insolvent or see ownership change hands. The new normal for valuations for certain types of businesses and properties will dramatically decline. And for all the uncertainty that lies ahead, one thing is guaranteed: The lawyers will be extremely busy. Click for more FreightWaves/American Shipper articles by Greg Miller
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Greg Miller covers maritime for FreightWaves and American Shipper. After graduating Cornell University, he fled upstate New York's harsh winters for the island of St. Thomas, where he rose to editor-in-chief of the Virgin Islands Business Journal. In the aftermath of Hurricane Marilyn, he moved to New York City, where he served as senior editor of Cruise Industry News. He then spent 15 years at the shipping magazine Fairplay in various senior roles, including managing editor. He currently resides in Manhattan with his wife and two Shih Tzus.


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Трофимовская — река в России, протекает по Енисейскому району Красноярского края. Устье реки находится в 249 км от устья реки Сочур по правому берегу. Длина реки составляет 13 км.

Данные водного реестра
По данным государственного водного реестра России относится к Верхнеобскому бассейновому округу, водохозяйственный участок реки — Кеть, речной подбассейн реки — бассейн притоков (Верхней) Оби от Чулыма до Кети. Речной бассейн реки — (Верхняя) Обь до впадения Иртыша.

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Utilities today, no matter what size, face a number of significant challenges in their market environment. The last decade has provided striking evolution into deregulation, alternative energy sources, and smart metering among many other changing market variables. Utilities are required to constantly advance with these market trends, as well as their growing customer base in order to be competitive and profitable.
Similarly, Public Sector organizations face significant issues on both the business and constituent side. Regarding business issues, public sector organizations face increasing regulations, funding uncertainty, budgetary restraints, economic challenges, and the continuing evolution and importance of technological strategy. Regarding constituent issues are increasing service demands from citizens, business and other government agencies.
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The West Bengal assembly has passed a resolution to rename the state as 'Bangla'.
Though the process for final approval will be long drawn requiring an amendment to the constitution, the move is aimed at climbing the alphabetical sequence of state names in which West Bengal appears last in the list now.
The resolution said the state will be called Bangla in three languages – Bengali, English and Hindi.
The state BJP, however, later said that it was in favour of renaming West Bengal as 'Paschim Bango' (West Bengal) and not 'Bangla'. The Centre had in the past rejected the state government's proposal of having three names – Bangla (in Bengali), Bengal (in English) and Bangal (in Hindi). The Mamata Banerjee government's move to rename West Bengal as 'Paschim Bango' in 2011 was also turned down by the Centre.


Enjoy this parody of the Dos Equis "Most Important Man In The World" commercials. This video was part of the Trauma Education: The Next Generation conference produced last week. Enjoy, and please comment or give it a thumbs up on YouTube!


BOULDER, Colo., Feb. 13, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Intermountain and Amplifire partnered to produce clinical knowledge engineering courses targeted at reducing CLABSI and CAUTI incidents. Together with the Amplifire Healthcare Alliance, Intermountain co-developed two courses, Central Line Associated Blood Stream Infection Prevention and Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection Prevention. Using the latest evidence-based information and best practices, these courses were designed to eliminate Confidently Held Misinformation (CHM), uncertainty, and knowledge gaps that lead to avoidable infection. The courses were deployed to 3,707 nurses and 4,511 nurses respectively through the Amplifire knowledge engineering platform. The result was a 51% reduction in CLABSI and a 36% reduction in CAUTI incidents. The personalized online training took just 26 minutes on average per nurse.
Intermountain and the Amplifire Healthcare Alliance are now partnering to make these clinical knowledge engineering courses available to health systems across the country to help solve this important patient infection risk nationwide.
CAUTI: In the US, about 30 million Foley catheters are inserted each year, leading to nearly 1 million catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs). These infections are the most commonly reported hospital-acquired condition (HAC). Intermountain employed the Amplifire platform to acquire data on what its nurses knew and didn't know about managing urinary catheters, and to find and fix any misinformation. Following deployment of the Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection Prevention course and seven months of measuring efficacy, CAUTI rates had fallen by 36% compared to the previous 32 months.
CLABSI: Central venous catheters (CVCs) are used for the administration of intravenous fluids, blood products, medications, and nutrition. They also provide access for hemodialysis and other forms of long-term treatment, such as chemotherapy. Widespread and essential, CVCs are also a frequent cause of healthcare-associated bloodstream infections. It is estimated that 250,000 cases of central line–associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) occur in the U.S. every year. According to the CDC, CLABSIs are associated with a mortality rate of 12–25% and each episode costs approximately $22,000 of unreimbursed care to the health system. Following deployment of the Central Line Associated Blood Stream Infection Prevention course and seven months of measuring efficacy, CLABSI rates had fallen by 51% compared to the previous 12 months.
Intermountain Healthcare is a Utah-based not-for-profit system of 23 hospitals, 170 clinics, a Medical Group with close to 2,300 employed physicians and advanced practice clinicians, a health plans group under the name SelectHealth, and other medical services.
To date, Amplifire has delivered 1.8 billion learner interactions and remediated 194 million instances of confidently held misinformation. Healthcare, education, and Fortune 500 companies use Amplifire's patented learning algorithms, knowledge analytics, and diagnostic capabilities to save time, money, and lives.


Well, that second novel has been "cooking" in my mind for many years, and builds on years of experiences that reach back to 1990. That year I moved to Yuma, Arizona to teach middle school students at Crane Junior High School. Yuma first introduced me to the Sonoran Desert, and naturally, I experienced the hottest part of it first. Yuma temps that first summer hit 122 degrees Fahrenheit. My friends and neighbors taught me how to stay safe while traveling, and how to get out early in the morning before the heat made it impossible.
All around the school and neighborhoods where I lived, agricultural fields stretched out in long even rows with canals as borders, while row upon row of blue water soaked into the ground, evaporating in the intense heat. Surrounded by a sea of broccoli, my school was embedded in the large-scale industrial farming operations in which many of my students' parents labored. On these intensely hot days, I wondered at the ability of human beings to endure hard labor in those fields.
Then, the fact that the water came from the high Wyoming plateaus and Rocky Mountains was only vaguely in my awareness. Precious river water poured down through deep canyons into the dams that controlled the North American Nile, and by a complex system came to Yuma and the Imperial Valley to grow 90% of America's leafy produce between November through March. Then, I was focused on my students' daily struggle to learn and grow up under harsh conditions of poverty and discrimination. But, all around us was a BIG STORY about a river, its people, and how it came to be the most controlled and overused body of water in North America. Indeed, the Colorado River is so over-allocated that it no longer winds its way to the Gulf of California as it did for thousands of years. The magnificent delta region, one of the world's largest and most productive wetlands, literally dried up and died.
This is the subject of my second novel, The American Nile: Voices of a River and Its People. I am working with a talented editor and should have a solid draft completed before I return home from Tucson in late April.
In Threshold, Dr. Carla Connors takes a 2-yr sabbatical from her job as a climate scientist to learn from ethnologists at the Mission Garden in Tucson who are growing heirloom seeds to test for viability in new climate conditions, while demonstrating many previous cultures' farming practices in their Timeline Garden.
Carla investigates the potential of plants to sequester carbon from the atmosphere and deposit it into the soil. While this is a normal activity of some kinds of microbes in the plants we call legumes (barley, soy, clover), she wants to know if the ways farmers planted, grew, and harvested crops actually may be important clues to how farmers might help stem global warming.
Its called CARBON FARMING. See this article from Modern Farmer, "Carbon Farming: Hope for a Hot Planet" by Brian Barth, March 25 2016.
Scientists now believe carbon framing could become an important and beneficial tool in fighting the rise of carbon dioxide in the air and could potentially reverse it while producing healthier food and enriching top soil.


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Filistata maguirei est une espèce d'araignées aranéomorphes de la famille des Filistatidae.

Distribution
Cette espèce est endémique de la province d'Hormozgan en Iran.

Description
Le mâle holotype mesure  et la femelle paratype .

Étymologie
Cette espèce est nommée en l'honneur de Tobey Maguire.

Publication originale
 Marusik & Zamani, 2015 : Additional new species of Filistatidae (Aranei) from Iran. Arthropoda Selecta, , ,  (texte intégral).

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Filistatidae
Espèce d'araignées (nom scientifique)
Faune endémique d'Iran


Chalmers Institute Badly Damaged in Storms – Preserve Marshall County & Holly Springs, Inc.
Many of you know how hard Preserve Marshall County & Holly Springs, Inc. has worked to get this project to where it is today from an uncertain fate in 2009. Last night a violent storm blew through Holly Springs, leaving historic Chalmers Institute severely damaged.
This structure, built in 1837, has weathered an untold myriad of storms that have rolled across north Mississippi in the last 181 years; survived the American Civil War and years of neglect, before Preserve Marshall County & Holly Springs, Inc. came to be its custodian in 2009. Last night…its luck ran out.
The tree (A Very Large Tree) impacted upon the building's Northeast corner, pretty much wiping out that room and its attendant roof structure and tearing off one of the east wall chimneys.
While we work through determining the limits of our insurance coverage on this historic building and with other agencies that might offer assistance; we will be facing some immediate costs in stabilization and then reconstruction, once the dust settles.
Get the tree off the remaining wall to prevent further damage from the extreme weight on the wall.
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Tarp the structure, so that clean-up and damage assessment can be done.
We welcome your donation towards getting historic Chalmers Institute past this critical time and its recovery underway. Thank you!
Preserve Marshall County & Holly Springs, Inc.


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Captivating from the first few pages, Jodi Picoult's most recent novel "a spark of light" is intense, thought provoking, and dynamic. The story, which predominantly takes place at an abortion clinic in Mississippi, tackles the heavily opinionated debate on the moment in which a life becomes a life and how that relates to the option to end it. Picoult has meticulously done her research on abortion, presenting both sides to the unsolvable debate in an educated, fact stating manner. Though the opinions of the characters on the subject are ever present, and in some cases ever changing, they are presented in a manner that is so undeniably human, it is easy to see, hear, and even understand all sides of the debate. The novel is bursting with educated information and questions intended to pick at your thoughts and put yourself in the shoes of those involved, getting the reader actively engaged in the debate. At times uncomfortably graphic, the author describes abortion in grave particular, detailing the physical components and appearance of an aborted fetus at different weeks of conception, allowing the reader to further develop an opinion on the controversy.
The main action of the novel, a high-stake hostage situation, takes place over a ten-hour time frame. The chapters, titled by the hour in which they take place, start at 5pm and work backwards until the last at 8am. The epilogue, occurs at 6pm. Her choice of telling the story backwards leads to a successful hook from the first chapter as we are instantly let in on the life changing action that has transpired for the characters. The subsequent chapters are a page turning adventure to find out how the action came to be. The pace of the novel alternates between fast and slow. When the present-day action occurs, the pace is fast and electric. Then Picoult effectively manages to slow the pace down by delving back into the characters' past to set up their unique story, their dimension. The mix and contrast between the two is exceptional.
The multi-dimensional characters created in "a spark of light" are both intriguing and identifiable. With no shortage of character development, the reader is introduced to each character with thorough, individual attention, paving the way for relatability and profound comprehension. We intimately come to know about their partners, pasts, and pregnancies. We see their journey, how they came to be who they are, and how they ended up in the abortion clinic on that day. The characters themselves represent the array of different sides in the abortion debate. We are presented with Dr. Ward who performs the abortions, and the nurse Izzy who is debating her own pregnancy. We meet young Wren who isn't even at the center for an abortion, and Joy who is. And we met the loved ones, their fathers, their aunts, their partners, the unexpected stakeholders. But most importantly, we meet a defeated and devastated George Goddard who is so overcome by his own daughter's abortion; he feels there is no other option than to hold people accountable. The characters all present their views on the central theme of abortion, some in favor of a choice, and some in favor of a "life." But even in the array of for and against view-points, there is fascinating grey area, ambiguity, and exception. An element that successfully gives so much life and humanity to the characters. On top of the relevance the characters provide to the debate, we are taken on a journey through the importance they have to each other. The way they intertwine and intersect is creative, pulsating, and on occasion, shocking. In this, Picoult's latest novel, there is no shortage of action and thought-provoking material. The piece is intelligent, educated, emotional, and riveting. With "a spark of light," Jodi Picoult has created an engaged and compelling piece that is well worth the read.


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The Theodore Roosevelt Museum In Oyster Bay, NY
The 26th President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, is honored at the Theodore Roosevelt Museum, commonly known as Sagamore Hill, which is situated near Oyster Bay, New York. The museum is housed in the residence that served as President Roosevelt's primary residence from 1885 until his death in 1919. The home was recognized as a National Historic Landmark in 1963 and is now a National Historic Site.
Visitors to the museum get the chance to go back in time and witness the life of one of America's most important presidents. The Roosevelt family's heirlooms and personal effects may be found throughout the main residence, which is available to the public and has been meticulously restored to its former state. The President's office, where he authored several speeches and publications, as well as the family's bedrooms and parlors, are open to visitors.
The museum also has a sizable collection of Roosevelt's personal belongings, including trophies from hunting and natural history items. The President's Rough Rider costume, a collection of his many medals, and other artifacts from his time in office are also on display for visitors.
The "Roosevelt in His Own Words" exhibition, which includes a collection of Roosevelt's speeches and writings, is one of the museum's most well-liked displays. Visitors may hear recordings of some of Roosevelt's most well-known speeches, including as his "Square Deal" and "New Nationalism" addresses. This exhibit sheds light on Roosevelt's political beliefs and his outlook for the country's future.
The museum also offers a range of interactive exhibitions, such as a virtual tour of Sagamore Hill and an interactive chronology of Roosevelt's life. For visitors of all ages, the museum's education center provides a range of programs and activities, including guided tours, interactive games, and special events.
A natural walk meanders across the 80 acres of the estate at Sagamore Hill. The President's favorite "Summer White House" and the many animals that he liked to monitor are visible to visitors who stroll through the stunning natural environs.
More than simply a museum, the Theodore Roosevelt Museum serves as a living memorial to one of America's most adored presidents. Visitors to the museum get the chance to study about Roosevelt's life, political beliefs, and influence on American history. A fitting homage to a president who devoted his life to public service, the museum is a must-visit for everyone interested in American history and politics.
The Theodore Roosevelt Museum at Sagamore Hill is a storehouse of knowledge and artifacts that chronicles the life of one of America's most adored presidents, in conclusion. Visitors may get an insight into Theodore Roosevelt's life at the museum, including his political beliefs, his influence on American history, and his love of nature. For anybody interested in American history and politics, the museum is a fitting memorial to a president who devoted his life to public service.
The Theodore Roosevelt Museum also offers a unique chance to delve into the private sphere of President Roosevelt's life, including his family and home life. The museum is situated at Sagamore Hill, his old residence where he spent more than 30 years with his family. The President's office, where he authored many of his speeches and publications, as well as the family's bedrooms and living areas, are open to visitors. This helps us comprehend Theodore Roosevelt's character and the ways in which his life experiences influenced his politics and behavior.
The museum also provides insight into the significance of Sagamore Hill in the President's life. To escape the pressures of being president and to spend time with his family, he often withdrew to his "Summer White House." The 80-acre estate has a nature walk that visitors may tour to view the President's treasured "Summer White House" and the other animals he liked to monitor. This helps visitors understand President Roosevelt's connection to Sagamore Hill personally and how it affected his viewpoint and behavior.
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The Theodore Roosevelt Museum is committed to safeguarding President Roosevelt's legacy for next generations. The staff of the museum seeks to conserve and maintain the artifacts, documents, and other items in the collection so that future generations may learn about Theodore Roosevelt's life and legacy. The museum's staff seeks to make its collections and research discoveries accessible to academics and the general public while the museum is also actively involved in research.
In conclusion, everyone interested in American history and politics may benefit much from visiting the Theodore Roosevelt Museum at Sagamore Hill. Visitors to the museum get the chance to study about President Roosevelt's life, political beliefs, and influence on American history. The museum also offers a window into his private life and the significance of Sagamore Hill in his life, paying honor to a president who committed his life to public service. The museum is a great place to visit for families and groups of all ages thanks to its events, activities, and research. It also plays a significant role in preserving President Theodore Roosevelt's legacy for future generations.