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The Most Absurd, Needless Cultural Suicide in History
By Susan D. Harris
With a family member seriously ill and confined to different hospitals recently, I've sought out hospital chapels to be alone and say prayers. Or I should say I sought out the areas formerly known as "chapels." Now they are known as Interfaith Centers or Spiritual Care Areas or Meditation Rooms. There is no Christian cross hanging in any of them lest someone be offended. There are, however, Muslim prayer rugs and signs pointing toward Mecca.
In some of these spiritual areas you can write down a prayer for your loved one and put it in a prayer wheel: a cylindrical container that has instructions to "spin it" after you put in the tiny paper containing your prayer. Though the wheels are of Tibetan Buddhist tradition, there is no telltale Sanskrit on the outside, or anything else indicating it's anything other than a fun way to spin your prayer from your fingertips up to God, or some Creator, or whatever force you think will have some impact on your life.
There are tiny prayer rocks you can put in your pocket; pamphlets with inspiring verses from the Psalms, the Quran, the Talmud, a little Buddhist dharma thrown in and some Native American quotes about the Great Spirit to round out your peaceful ecumenical experience. I suppose some people might lament that there is nothing for the atheists and Satan worshipers. In at least one spiritual area, there were pamphlets with inspirational thoughts for pagans.
As I kneeled to pray, I didn't know which way to face. The front of the room held a table and vase filled with artificial flowers. That wouldn't do – I felt as though I were praying to Keats' Grecian urn. I turned the other direction, but Mecca didn't seem an appropriate way to face either. Two choices left – one direction faced an abstract painting that looked as though it had spilled out of someone's troubled mind just before they'd purposely leapt from a window; the other direction faced some stacked chairs.
Finding a Post-It note and a pencil, I drew a cross and stuck it to a panel behind the fake flowers in the front of the room. I got down on my knees and faced it. That's when I saw the CCTV camera. For a brief moment I panicked realizing I had just broken the rules and put a cross on public display. I said my prayers and left, but noticed the tiny drawing was gone first thing the next morning.
I wandered into the back halls of the spiritual room in this great, large hospital in upstate New York. They had dozens of Christian Bibles piled next to dozens of Qurans – all ready to be given to whoever was in spiritual need. Two new unopened boxes of Qurans had just come in and were waiting to be stacked on the shelf. There was one book labeled as a guide to Jewish prayer.
I take my Bible everywhere, so I never really need a room or a special place to talk to God. But I do remember those places used to exist in hospitals -- places where a Christian cross adorned the front of the room and a Bible lay open on a lectern for anyone to read. When you walked in, a quiet reverence came over you because you believed that room to be blessed as a designated dwelling place for the presence of God. There you could commune with a power that could bring about divine intervention. I remember kneeling in some of those rooms, begging God to spare the life of a loved one; asking for mercy, forgiveness, or letting my tears fall onto a carpet where so many other's had shed tears with similar pleadings.
But in these new touchy-feely, one-religion, one-world, global-peace-inspired rooms I feel…nothing. It's as though your mind, and even history itself, has been wiped clean of any memory of that God your parents talked about. Then you angrily wonder what the hell happened while you were busy taking the kids to soccer practice. If you have any sense of the gravity of what's really happened, you feel like Charleton Heston riding up the beach and finding the Statue of Liberty broken and beleaguered in the sand: "You maniacs! You blew it up!...God damn you all to hell!"
The worst part was nobody seemed to care about little things like hospital chapels. Our Christian chapels were replaced with generic meditation rooms containing not-so-generic Muslim prayer rugs, qiblah compasses and Buddhist prayer wheels and nobody dared peep in protest. In fact, in many places, the moves were likely heralded as "interfaith solidarity."
Such was the case with the sign I passed on my way home from the hospital. With a Lutheran billboard as a backdrop proclaiming "Hallelujah Jesus Lives!" a sign below it proclaimed, "To our Muslim neighbors, Blessed Ramadan." I pulled into the parking lot to take a closer look. The sign was a product of the New York State Council of Churches. Apparently I didn't notice them last year when they began popping up "in front of churches and synagogues, and on urban and suburban lawns across the Capital Region."
An article in the Albany Times-Union last year waxed progressively poetic when it said the signs "were meant as a kind of metaphor, these small candles of interfaith solidarity lighted against the darkness of religious intolerance and racism." The article went on to say that, "They were a rebuke to anti-Islam rhetoric spouted by the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Donald J. Trump, who called for a ban on Muslims entering the United States." Apparently, it didn't start out as a New York thing; the NYS Council of Churches got the idea from a Michigan counterpart, and it also comes up under other states Council of Churches' organizations. On the Minnesota website, you can "request a #BlessedRamadan sign" and also memorize what to say, verbatim, when you call to "tell Congress that you oppose Trump's rewritten order to discriminate against refugees…"
I cannot follow the logic that leads to embracing diversity by ripping down crosses in hospital chapels, while Christians simultaneously stampede to the curb in order to be the first ones to wave "Blessed Ramadan" to their passing Muslim neighbors.
Maybe it's time for everyone to come clean about their true intentions: To discard all individual religions in the name of peace and form that one universal religion that the United Nations has been clamoring for. The idiocy is the Vatican thinks it's going to be able to hold a rosary in one hand and a Quran in the other; and the Lutherans think all they have to do is take pork out of their church suppers and the Muslims will be their BFFs. Meanwhile, Muslims have no intention of capitulating, and the West mistakenly thinks it can integrate Islam into everyday life the same way it successfully absorbed Yoga, Reiki and Feng shui.
We are watching the most absurd, needless and naïve cultural suicide in history.
Susan D. Harris can be reached at www.susandharris.com.


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So, not much time has passed since our last blog post, but so much has happened!
As some of you may have seen on AVO's Facebook page, Saturday the 26th November was the date of AVO''s Open Day! After a veeery busy week of meetings with AVO staff, marketing trips, painting the gate, endless packaging, and lots of sweeping the courtyard, we turned up on the day with the stalls set up and ready to go!
Welcome to the Open Day!
The actual Open Day was a real success! Our DJ kept everyone in the mood for dancing with his selection of top Burkinabe Bops and there were an impressive number of products and produce including: shea butter, crisps, soap, papayas, and bissap juice! Not to mention the exotic foreign snacks prepared by the British volunteers, aka lemon cake and garlic bread. Yum! The women of AVO, th staff, and of course Mama AVO herself all worked tirelessly through the week (and many nights as well!) and then continued to push their food and drink until way past the official end time!
All of the government officials that we invited sent representatives to attend the event, which will help to raise AVO's profile publicly as well as within the local community. Everyone who came was very supportive of AVO and its work and agreed that it played a really important role in the community. As for the volunteers we thoroughly enjoyed the whole day and despite the fact that we finished at 20:00, we signed off in spectacular fashion with an impromptu dance party with the visiting Reo volunteers! Plus, the money we raised will help to fund our Christmas party for the widows and children, including buying presents and food for the day. In the end all the hard work payed off and we cycled home tired but incredibly proud of everyone involved.
This Tuesday was the 5th of our 6 projected Awareness Raising Sessions to promote the rights of girl's access to education and health. After 4 already thoroughly-rehearsed presentations, the session ran like a well-oiled, if not very sweaty machine as we arrived in Villy in the raging midday heat rather than the breezy 9 o'clock cool that we had originally hoped for. The turnout for Villy was lower than some of the others presentations but our information was still well received by our audience and it meant that we managed to finish our surveys in record time! As a fitting end to our final excursion to the villages, we then proceeded to get hopelessely lost along our fondly nicknamed 'Rabbit Road' (definitely unfit for anything more than rabbits!) but were luckily rescued from the expansive bush by one of the villagers and set back on the road home.


There has been no coroner's report—the infographic is not dead.
This powerful form of visual storytelling, a graphic representation of information, data or knowledge, may be overused in today's data-obsessed world but is still very much alive. The use of visualized information has surged over the past decade, prevalent in nearly every publication (print or digital) and shared widely across social media.
We receive five times the amount of information as we did in 1986, and our brains crave easy ways to sort and digest it all. Whether showcasing socioeconomic trends or sports statistics, a great infographic can curate and convey information more clearly than plain text. And in a time when our attention spans have all but diminished, infographics make consuming ogles of information easy, entertaining and sharable.
We truly demand data to be represented in this graphic medium. In the last few years alone, infographic search volumes have increased more than 800 percent.
"We're creating more data and developing even more ways to track and visualize it," said Larry Buchanan, a designer, illustrator, coder and The New York Times journalist who teaches a "Your First Infographic" series to aspiring graphic designers at Generally Assembly in New York.
Infogaphics can truly be beautiful and informative works of science and art.
"Excellence in statistical graphics consists of complex ideas communicated with clarity, precision and efficiency," says Edward R. Tufte, the long-standing leader of data visualization, in the introduction to his iconic The Visual Display of Quantitative Information.
On the other hand, there are entire websites (and even infographics) dedicated to the mass of incoherent, misleading and poorly designed infographics crawling the web, many that serve little purpose other than "link bait," as Buchanan describes them.
As perhaps the most powerful communicative medium today, infographics must be designed—and interpreted—with care, precision and integrity.
If people are tired of bad infographics, then the answer is refreshingly simple: Make better ones. As a society, we must learn to become more critical consumers of data visualization—learning to decipher between "good" and "bad" infographics—a move that will push those producing them to use more than jazzy fonts and cute illustrations.
As infographics become more ubiquitous, society will become more literate in reading charts, diagrams and graphic representations of data. In turn, producers of infographics—from marketers to brands and designers—will need to be more mindful in creating impactful graphics.
Lucinda Hitchcock, another graphic design professor at RISD, echoes the idea of designing infographics with real meaning. Arming students with a solid knowledge of data interpretation and the tools to create innovative infographics from data is a big focus for RISD.
Design can be a source for good or a source for confusion, says Buchanan.
Buchanan asks questions to see if data holds up. He calls experts to fact check numbers. He conducts vast amounts of research. He works with different editors. He even creates up to 100 charts representing the same data to see which graphic tells the story in the most compelling, understandable way.
Undeniably, the future of the infographic is bright.
Expect to see infographics using parallax scrolling (a lá The New York Times' "Snowfall"), motion graphics, image tagging, real-time data and more. Infographics are here to stay because, well, we both need them (they're easy to digest and share) and want them (they're becoming more engaging).
As technology and tools become more sophisticated so will the ways in which we track data and tell stories. And in a world (wide web) where data dominates, the infographic just may be immortal.


I've been using Fedora-10 Since its Beta on my Macbook Pro. As always the F-10 Is available to the rawhide users, before its available to the outside world.
All other users need to wait for the Final ISOs to come out. So far experience with Fedora 10 is really fantastic compared with the previous releases.
AFAIK, all the devices are working out of the box. Even i can Hibernate My Notebook With Fedora 10, Atleast KDE4 is doing that when my battery runs out (which was not possible in earlier releases).
I was hoping you can help me out.
I've read your blog and instructions on installing fedora to my macbook pro.
I'm installing it into an external esata OCZ 32gb throttle drive.
On my internal drive I have tiger and vista 32 bit.
Then I rebooted and the rEFIt menu comes up.
If I chose Linux, it attempted to boot windows and gave me an error, with instructions to insert my Vista DVD and repair Windows.
I did this, and rebooted.
Back to the 3 Options in rEFIt.
I chose Linux, and it proceeded to load VISTA from the internal HD.
I chose Vista, and it loads VISTA.
My /boot is installed into the 200mb I created at the start.
Make sure you create a "GPT" (GUID Partition Table) on your second harddisk, then you should be able to boot from it.
AFAIK, gparted live CD can do the requested partitioning.


The indicator is based on the two-buffer scheme and does not require any additional settings. It can be used on any financial instrument without any restrictions. The indicator is a known ZigZag, but it does not redraw. The indicator allows to easily detect significant levels on the price chart, as well as demonstrates the ability to determine the probable direction of a price movement. The calculations are based on the candles' Close prices, thus improving the reliability of the levels.
MinBars – amount of calculated bars, the default is 500. If 0, calculation is performed on the entire available history.
Constructive suggestions and feedback are highly appreciated.
Fixed the indicator start algorithm.
Improved the indicator launch after a long period of inactivity.


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Realising digital ambition through talent and culture
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Companies face a unique mix of cultural and strategic set of challenges in undertaking digital transformations to meet changing consumer demands and emerging digital competitors. Addressing these challenges starts with defining a clear digital ambition and the role talent plays in making it successful.
Christopher Uhrinek
This article first appeared in the Q3 2019 issue of the SID Directors Bulletin published by the Singapore Institute of Directors.
Most companies understand the value a digital transformation can generate, but many struggle to capture its value. A recent Heidrick & Struggles survey of companies in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region revealed that only 35 per cent are satisfied with the results of their current digital efforts.
The three biggest obstacles identified are lack of articulation of a digital strategy (39 per cent), lack of necessary talent (33 per cent), and moving too slowly (33 per cent).
The good news is that there is a significant appetite among APAC governments to help businesses go digital and future-proof their economies. For example, Singapore's Government Technology Agency had indicated that S$2.8 billion of government infocomm technology contracts would be given out between April 2018 through to March 2019, a shade more than the previous year's S$2.4 billion.
APAC companies, for their part, should focus not exclusively on technology but also on articulating a strategy, developing the workforce, and establishing a culture that accelerates progress.
A successful digital transformation takes a company from a traditional approach to customer experiences and operations to one where digital is used to innovate new approaches to existing tasks and processes, and to incubate new offerings and business models.
The destination is inevitably a moving target, since new technologies are always emerging. By striving for digital acceleration, which can be defined as the ability to successfully develop and scale new digital initiatives across the business, companies can build the capabilities and infrastructure that will allow them to smoothly manage both current transformation projects and test future innovations in parallel.
Digitally accelerating organisations should take a few clear steps to achieve a well-defined and understood strategy for harnessing digital capabilities.
First, leaders should clarify their digital ambition. They can assess the future of their market by asking some basic questions—for example, what opportunities will exist to deliver step-change outcomes like a 10X improvement in customer value, what skills and capabilities they will need, and what the skills gap is likely to be. The answers will help them better articulate their digital ambition, the way it leverages their existing assets, and how to close the gaps.
Then leaders can begin to build the internal infrastructure to support that ambition by asking themselves: What will the journey look like, and how can processes be reworked to help along the way?
Lastly, to ensure they stay on track, organisations can measure their progress along the five stages of digital maturity and focus on developing their leadership, workforce, and culture to advance. (See box on "Measuring Digital Acceleration.")
Investing in talent, skills, and capabilities
More often than not, talent is the limiting factor when pursuing digital acceleration. Only 23 per cent of APAC companies surveyed consider their digital talent strategy to be ideal, and 57 per cent believe they need a new or different talent base. The best approach starts at the top and reaches across the entire workforce.
While 33 per cent of companies say they create strategic roles such as a chief innovation officer or chief analytics officer to spur progress in their digital efforts, this move alone is not sufficient.
Though not all leaders need to be technical experts, every executive should be an effective driver of digital change. Indeed, the entire senior management should evolve their digital capabilities to match their company's evolution (see box, "Shaping Clear C-suite Roles for Digital Acceleration").
Transforming the workforce
Companies must also raise the digital dexterity of the entire workforce to truly build a long-term advantage. Organisations can support their employees in a number of ways:
Bring on external hires, partners, and freelancers who can fill current digital capability.
Balance institutional knowledge with new hires' perspectives, and factor in the increased impact of automation on the workforce.
Look beyond acquiring designers, developers, and data scientists to anticipate critical emerging roles – for example, incubation managers or behavioural scientists.
Developing a supportive culture
Two aspects of culture are particularly important to digital acceleration.
First, companies should support and reward two types of innovation. "Big I" innovation is disruptive, looks to the future, and can fundamentally change the way a business operates. "Little i" innovation continually improves the core business.
Second, companies should also create a culture of continuous learning, in which people are encouraged to build new digital capabilities. When training is combined with support, communication, and knowledge sharing, the result is a workforce with the tools to innovate and solve problems more creatively.
Many enterprises have advantages they can use to protect and expand market share. In particular, APAC companies report a higher-than-global adoption of disruptive technologies such as the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, and conversational interfaces. This makes APAC an ideal test lab for new digital innovations that may be ahead of other regions.
But tech adoption alone will not create sufficient digital acceleration to win. The most successful APAC companies will build the capabilities to ensure they have the right talent at the right time as well as a culture that supports continuous learning and breakthrough innovation.
Scott Snyder (ssnyder@heidrick.com) is the leader of Heidrick Consulting's digital offering and a partner in the Philadelphia office. He is a senior fellow at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and the coauthor of Goliath's Revenge.
Christopher Uhrinek (cuhrinek@heidrick.com) is a principal in the Singapore office and a member of Heidrick Consulting.
The overlooked weapon in the war for talent
Three tactics HR leaders can use to optimize career development and employee retention in a hybrid world
Human resources insights: Heathrow Airport's people-first strategy
Paula Stannett, the chief people officer at Heathrow Airport, discusses how Heathrow supported their workforce through the challenges of COVID-19 and the importance of employee health and well-being.
Leading with purpose in the energy sector: An interview with Chris Wright, CEO and chairman of Liberty Oilfield Services
Chris Wright, CEO and chairman of Liberty Oilfield Services, discusses the importance of leaning into dialogue about the energy transition.


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Paranormal cinema can be a difficult challenge both for filmmakers and audiences. Fear is a highly visceral emotion, and how audiences respond to fear is affected by the times. Be that as it may, we can think of a few timeless paranormal/horror movies that can scare or at least intrigue even the most seasoned horror-hounds.
1. Rosemary's Baby (1968)
You've heard the expression and you've probably seen other movies or episodes of different series either parodying or paying tribute to Rosemary's Baby, but have you actually seen it? In this 1958 thriller, a young couple moves into a fresh new apartment and is then surrounded by strange occurrences and even stranger neighbors. We won't say anything more except that you should definitely see the movie which some critics still hail as the best horror movie Hollywood ever made.
2. Jacob's Ladder (1990)
The great Tim Robbins stars as a Vietnam War veteran who struggles to uncover bits and pieces about his past while mourning his dead child, struggling with PTSD, and suffering from a severe case of dissociation. The result is a suspenseful psychological thriller as Jacob is forced to decipher dreams and delusions from reality while digging into his own dark past. IMDb calls it an obscure and underrated thriller-mystery that's definitely worth searching for.
3. Deathgasm (2015)
Comedic action-horror movie Deathgasm explores the idea that death metal isn't just a genre with which musicians can channel their anger and fascination for the occult. In this movie, your run-of-the-mill high school losers who start a band in order to become cooler, accidentally stumble onto a song written to summon a powerful demon. Castle of Chaos can confirm that you can watch this one on Netflix, so prepare for a night-in of bloody, horrific comedy that would make Sam Raimi proud.
4. Return to Babylon (2013)
While this modern take on the silent film genre is classified as a biographical comedy/drama, the paranormal activity surrounding its production is more than enough to qualify it for this list. According to director Alex Monty Canawati, the story began when he and his producer found 19 rolls of 16mm black and white film abandoned but sealed on a Hollywood Boulevard sidewalk. This prompted them to write a movie that would utilize the film, giving birth to Return to Babylon, a hand-cranked camera-shot tribute to the scandalous 1920s with contemporary actors playing some of silent-era Hollywood's biggest stars. This includes Debi Mazar who plays Gloria Swanson and the underrated Jennifer Tilly who stars as the iconic Clara Bow. Both of these stars along with their co-actors have reported feeling "oppressive entities" lurking about during production, and some even reported being grabbed or touched by unseen hands. Even more disconcerting are how the actors' faces seem to be grotesquely twisted in some scenes. While some experts attribute this to natural film degradation, even the Brooks Institute of Photography couldn't explain how the images were twisted in this manner.
Since the movie failed to find widespread distribution in 2013, director Alex Canawati hasn't released another feature-length film to date. Similarly, star Jennifer Tilly hasn't had any breakthrough roles since Return to Babylon, and has literally disappeared from Hollywood. She can, however, be found brushing shoulders with professional poker players, reported PartyPoker – a far cry from her Oscar nomination many years ago. We are not saying that the movie banished everyone in it (or behind the camera) to obscurity; that's for you to decide.
5. Q: The Winged Serpent (1982)
This monster b-movie explores what it would be like if murderous cultists successfully summoned the mythical feathered Aztec serpent Quetzalcoatl to appear in New York City in the 80s. Apart from its so-bad-it's-good b-movie aesthetics, io9 reports that Q: The Winged Serpent is also a must-see movie for Michael Moriarty's bizarre performance as the jewel thief who finds the serpent's nest. Killbill's David Carradine also plays a cop who investigates the disturbances.
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Ukrainian President To Address Irish College Students
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will make a special address to Ireland's third-level students...
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Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will make a special address to Ireland's third-level students next month.
The Minister for Higher Education Simon Harris said President Zelenskyy has already made similar addresses in the UK and US.
Minister Harris said the Ukrainian president would also take questions from Irish students.
"I have been working very closely with the Ukrainian Ambassador to Ireland and trying to work through a load of issues in relation to education, English language, and the likes and the Ukrainian Ambassador to Ireland did indicate to me that President Zelenskyy would like to address all third level students in Ireland," he said.
"This is something the Ukrainian President has done in the UK, he has done it in a number of universities in the US so we are organising for President Zelenskyy to virtually address all our college students and all campuses in the month of October.
"President Zelenskyy has also very kindly agreed to take questions from students."
He said the address will be "really important" for Irish students.
"It's so important that the next generation hear directly from the president of a country that is experiencing an illegal invasion but also a president that is standing up for democracy, freedom, and European values," he said.
"I am delighted that we would facilitate in the third-level sector President Zelenskyy addressing our student next month."
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Lesley & Rick Bradstreet: "Three Conflict Resolution Styles...Why Can't We All Just Get Along"
Every conflict includes several levels of differences between parties. The level receiving the most attention is the "who gets what" part of the conflict: Who has to pay? How much? Who gets custody of the children and pets?
Another level of every conflict is how participants prefer to solve the conflict: stick to the facts or include personal history? Trust logic or trust emotions? Be diplomatic or "tell it like it is"?
This presentation will explore 3 distinct styles of solving conflicts. Participants will learn to identify their own preferred style; mediation parties'styles; and how to bridge the differences during mediation.
We meet at the DRC, 5407 N. IH-35, Suite 410, on Friday, April 26, 2019, from 11:30am - 1:00pm (We start at 11:30 for lunch and networking, presentation starts at 12:00).
Lesley was born in Nebraska and raised in the Midwest. She made her living as the Marketing VP for a credit union. Rick was born in Arizona and raised in California. He made his living as a police psychologist and has been mediating at the DRC since 1991.
Lesley and Rick met in Austin in 1997: both divorced ; with their kids mostly out of the nest. They began presenting trainings together in 2007. Both enjoy the process of co-teaching, as it stimulates their creativity, understanding of the material, and their patience with each other.
The meeting (including lunch) is free of charge for Austin Mediators Association (AMA) members, and $10 for non-AMA members.
One (1) hour of CE is available for those who attend.
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14 Dec 2018 Jonathan Crowe "The Role of Party Self-Determination in Mediation Ethics"
15 Jun 2018 Mark W. Sims "Child Protective Services Mediations"
Here are some of the diverse topics presented by many outstanding practitioners in the conflict resolution field.
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La réserve naturelle nationale de l'étang de la Mazière (RNN76) est une réserve naturelle nationale du Lot-et-Garonne. Créée en 1985 par Alain Dal Molin (1947-2015), elle occupe une surface de  et protège un étang (bras mort de la Garonne).

Localisation

Située sur la commune de Villeton entre Agen et Marmande, la réserve naturelle protège un étang et ses abords et occupe .

Histoire du site et de la réserve

L'étang de la Mazière correspond à un ancien méandre de la Garonne isolé au milieu de la plaine alluviale dominée par l'agriculture intensive. Après plusieurs tentatives d'assèchement et un remembrement drastique entre 1968-1971, cet ancien bras ou « Gaule » est classé en RNN en 1985. Il abrite une importante colonie de bruants des roseaux.

Écologie (biodiversité, intérêt écopaysager…)
Le site forme une mosaïque de milieux (étang, bois humide, roselière, gravières, friche pâturée) qui constituent un attrait pour les oiseaux et la faune aquatique. Plus de 70 espèces d'oiseaux dont le loriot d'Europe, le milan noir et la rousserolle effarvatte nichent en son sein.

Chaque année, le gestionnaire procède en outre au baguage de nombreuses espèces d'oiseaux migratrices. Plus de 230 espèces d'oiseaux ont été observées sur le site depuis sa création.

On trouve également dans la faune recensée 18 espèces de reptiles et d'amphibiens dont la rainette méridionale, la grenouille agile, le pélodyte ponctué et la cistude d'Europe. Celle-ci fait l'objet d'un suivi particulier. En 2006, la population était de 27 individus. En 2010, 71 cistudes de deux ans ont été lâchées dans la réserve. 27 l'ont été sur l'autre site et une centaine seront relâchées entre 2011 et 2012.

Les inventaires naturalistes menés depuis 1985 ont également permis de répertorier 50 espèces de mammifères dont 9 de chiroptères, 47 espèces d'odonates, 356 espèces de plantes et plus de 1000 espèces d'insectes sur le site.

Intérêt touristique et pédagogique
Le site dispose d'une Maison de la Réserve ainsi que d'un observatoire ornithologique.
La réserve n'est pas libre d'accès, les visites se faisant avec des employés de celle-ci.

Administration, Plan de gestion, règlement
La réserve naturelle est gérée par l'association SEPANLog, section départementale de la SEPANSO pour le Lot-et-Garonne.

Outils et statut juridique
La réserve naturelle a été créée par un décret ministériel du , instaurant une superficie de 68 ha d'espace protégé. Un arrête préfectoral de 2014 porte la superficie totale du site à 102 ha.

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Liste des réserves naturelles nationales de France (classées par région et département)

Liens externes

 www.sepanlog.org

Notes et références

Réserve naturelle nationale en Lot-et-Garonne
Aire protégée créée en 1985
Aire protégée de l'UICN - catégorie IV

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The white-tailed shrike (Lanioturdus torquatus) is a small passerine bird from the family Platysteiridae. It is also known as the chatshrike or ground batis. It occurs only in western Angola and Namibia in thorn scrub. It forages from ground level, where it hops about in large bounds and upright posture, to 25m above ground, scanning for insects. The very short tail, with a small black mark at the tip of the central two feathers, is always carried down, never sticking up. Its range of calls includes loud ringing territorial whistles.

This curious bird, which some consider to have close affinities with the batises and others the  bushshrikes, was discovered in 1837 by James Edward Alexander in the Naukluft Mountains of Namibia. Waterhouse subsequently described it in 1838, the name Lanioturdus ('shrike-thrush') reflecting the uncertainty of its classification, and torquatus denoting 'collared'. The sexes have a similar appearance.

It is a common, endemic, breeding resident in the region, small seasonal migrations taking place. Its favoured habitat is scrub-savanna, thornbush and mopane-veld. It is found singly or in pairs during the breeding season, and in small groups at other times. It is a clumsy flier with shallow and rapid wingbeats like other batises.

Nests are usually located in thorny acacias and are constructed by both sexes. Nests are deep, neat well-moulded cups incorporating spider-web and placed about 3 metres above ground. The usual clutch is 2-3 eggs pale-green to white with sparse reddish-brown spots. Only the female incubates the eggs.

References

Shrikes of Southern Africa - Tony Harris & Graeme Arnott (Struik Winchester 1988)

External links
 White-tailed Shrike - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.

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The Hin Nam No National Protected Area (NPA) provides good potential for tourism. Tourists mainly come to Hin Nam No for nature trekking, visits to the historical Ho Chi Minh trail and the big cave in the Xe Bang Fai river. But for turning this potential into reality, a ticketing system is needed as a basis for fair sharing of tourism revenues among stakeholders. Therefore, a district workshop was held in mid-October which aimed mainly at Government agencies and village tourism groups to agree on such a ticketing system.
Village representatives, province and district officials as well as staff from the GIZ project Integrated Nature Conservation & Sustainable Resource Management in Hin Nam No used the workshop to agree on village group service fees, the price of tickets and the establishment of a Village Development Fund.
Village groups are now allowed to raise set fees for various services such as homestays, tour guides or boat services. The revenues stay with the service groups. Tourists are now asked to pay 30,000 LAK for a ticket to enter the Hin Nam No NPA for maximum four days. The benefits are to be shared between different district authorities and the Village Development Fund which will receive 30% of the revenues. The fund will be used for village development activities. 'It is very important to link tourism to conservation. As tourists will come to enjoy nature, we depend on good conservation for the continued success of tourism', said Mr Panya from Deputy Director of the Province Information, Culture and Tourism Office.
The ticketing system is a first step towards generating a sustainable funding system for the Hin Nam No NPA. 'This is a good system which will be supported by Bualapha District Government. It provides a clear mechanism for coordination between stakeholders. I hope that this system provides village groups with a good incentive to improve their services', stated Mr Thongsouk, Deputy Secretary of the Bualapha district.
Even though the revenues initially will be low as numbers of tourists are still small (485 in 2014), the system could reward a substantial income to villagers and the Hin Nam No NPA itself on the long run. It also sets a pattern of sharing benefits between villagers and the state which is a building block for sustainable co-management.


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Viola Richardson's Facebook page shows a photo of her with people of different ages in pink shirts emblazoned with "Team Viola." Richardson stands behind them like a warrior as they prepare for a walk-a-thon for the American Cancer Society's Making Strides Against Breast Cancer.
Courtesy Viola S. Richardson's Facebook page
The picture speaks volumes. It exemplifies Richardson's dedication to community service; it reveals her ability to unite people for the common good; and it shows her deep love for Jersey City, which inspired a long and fruitful career in community service and politics.
On Friday, April 10, former Jersey City police officer and Ward F Councilwoman Viola Richardson passed away from Covid-19 complications. She was 74. As the city mourns her passing, friends and colleagues are posting tributes to her on social media that speak of her activism, resilience and devotion to her community.
"Viola was the true embodiment of what Jersey City is all about," Mayor Steve Fulop said. "She was a fighter, she was a public servant and she was a leader for the ward she passionately represented. I was fortunate to serve with Viola for eight years on the city council. This pandemic has taken too many people too soon, and the former councilwoman will be dearly missed by us all."
Police Officer and Three-Term Councilwoman
In 1981, Richardson joined the Jersey City police department. She was one of 85 African American officers at the time and spent 21 years walking the beat. In 2001, she campaigned for a city council seat in Ward F on the same ticket as mayoral candidate Glenn Cunningham. She won and was re-elected in 2005 and again in 2009.
Appointed to the city council in 2017, Jermaine Robinson, who owns the Light Rail Café on Randolph and Union Streets, remembers when Richardson urged him to get involved in city politics.
"Viola was my first mentor," Robinson says. "When they were looking for Ward F candidates, she approached me and asked would I want to serve the community. Viola was a no-nonsense person. She wanted to know are you serious about community? Are you willing to give the time that's needed to get the people of the community what they deserve?"
Richardson fought for the people of Jersey City every day, Robinson says.
"She was top dog. She would have remained there until she passed. It got tricky when she became at-large, but I don't think anyone could beat Viola as Ward F councilperson. She did what she said, and she said what she did. She was a rock in the community, and we'll miss her. I truly am following in her footsteps, and those are some big shoes to fill."
In 2013, Steve Fulop took office as mayor, and Richardson lost her seat on the council. She told her constituents that night: "I've had an excellent run. I have served the citizens of Jersey City, and I have given them all that I have. I have done the best that I can do. I'm happy. Now I can go on vacation. I can do whatever I want … I can be grandma."
A state delegate for the Women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America and founding member and former president of the Concerned Citizen's Coalition Richardson was the first woman president of the Inter-Departmental Minority Police Action Council in Jersey City.
A Pioneer in Community Engagement
With Rudy Snelling Jr., courtesy Viola S. Richardson's Facebook page
Retired Jersey City police officer Rudy Snelling, Jr. recalled that as a police officer, Richardson got to know the residents and store owners on her beat.
"It was about visiting churches, going to Boy Scout and Girl Scout meetings and visiting civic associations," Snelling said. "The community saw you as a person, a friend, an aunt, uncle, not just a cop. Relations is having a relationship like 'Hi, how are you, what's the problem?' Every cop is community relations, but community engagement is connecting, becoming an intricate part of that community, going to the neighborhood bakery when you're not looking to purchase something and say, 'how's business?'."
When Snelling joined the police force, he says, he would call Richardson for advice. When she retired from the police force, Snelling threw her a party.
"Viola would say we have not yet arrived," Snelling says. "She would say, 'When civilians see police officers as their friends and not as their enemy, then you've arrived.'"
Governor Phil Murphy took to Twitter and described Richardson as a warrior for Jersey City.
"Viola Richardson served the people of Jersey City for 12 years as a member of City Council," Governor Murphy tweeted. "Before that, she was a Jersey City police officer. Tough and outspoken, a fighter for her community and her city. Her life defined the meaning of the words public service."
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Janet Walker remembers the good times she and Richardson shared as "church sisters" at Trinity Lutheran Church. The two went to the movies and often dined on Richardson's favorite sushi.
"Here was this tall statue of a woman, a beautiful sister," Walker says. "She was obedient to the word of the Lord. Everyone who knew Viola loved Viola. She loved her family, the people she worked with. I love her so much. She was a free spirit, a special person."
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Hudson County Community College has been named the recipient of a one-year, $850,000 investment from the JPMorgan Chase. The investment will be utilized for a program the College developed to address the challenges of the economic crisis in Hudson County that were brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. The program is designed to provide lasting improvement in the County's workforce ecosystem.
Mayor Steven Fulop and the Jersey City Economic Development Corporation (JCEDC) have launched the latest round of emergency funding to provide over $2.5 million in direct aid and support to Jersey City's neediest residents, regardless of immigration status. The city will partner with York Street, Women Rising, United Way, and Puertorriqueños Asociados for Community Organization.
Mayor Steven Fulop is joining forces with Uber to announce a new agreement that will expand residents' access to COVID-19 vaccinations with free Uber rides to and from Jersey City vaccination sites. Phase 1B includes essential frontline workers and seniors 75 years old and over.
The federal Paycheck Protection Program, which offers businesses loans that can be forgivable, reopened on January 11th. The revised program focuses first on underserved borrowers – minority- and women-owned businesses.
Keep abreast of Jersey City Covid-19 statistics here.
Governor Murphy has launched a "Covid Transparency Website" where New Jerseyans can track state expenditures related to Covid. Go here.
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Saving jobs by vacationing
Employers slash costs through unpaid leave.
Home for the holidays means a pay cut for Johnnie Hurt, who works for Chrysler. The firm is idling its North American plants until at least Jan. 19.Read moreTONY DEJAK / Associated Press
by By Ellen Simon, Associated Press, Inquirer
NEW YORK - Here's the vacation no one wants, courtesy of the recession: Forced time off without pay.
Financially struggling universities, factories and even hospitals are requiring employees to take unpaid furloughs - temporary layoffs that amount to onetime pay cuts for workers and a cost savings for employers. This year, the number of temporarily laid-off workers hit a 17-year high.
"If they do it once, I think it's easier for them to try to do it again," said Carrie Swartout, who researches traumatic brain injuries at the University of Maryland Medical Center. Maryland is requiring unpaid time off for 67,000 of its 80,000 employees as it struggles with a budget crisis. The state says the furloughs will save an estimated $34 million during the fiscal year.
State governments, facing lower revenue but stymied by the long process required to cut public-sector jobs, are using furloughs as a quick way to trim payroll costs. Private-sector businesses - from automakers to small businesses - are shutting down factories and offices as sales drop.
The temporary layoffs are "kind of employment purgatory, but it's better than the alternative," said Carl Van Horn, a professor of public policy at Rutgers University. They are a typical response to decreasing demand in a recession, although this round is slightly worse than past bad recessions, Van Horn said.
Of 10.3 million unemployed workers in November, roughly 12 percent were unemployed because of temporary layoffs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The last time this many workers fell into the category was February 1991, when 1.4 million workers were unemployed because of temporary layoffs. As a proportion of the total workforce, workers on temporary layoff are roughly 1 percent, nearly the same now as 17 years ago.
Swartout, the 28-year-old Maryland researcher, could lose as much as $800 in pay, or nearly 2 percent of her salary, depending on how long she's furloughed. "That's a huge chunk," she said.
At state-funded Winthrop University in South Carolina, workers are being asked to stagger days of unpaid leave as the state's sales-tax revenue declines. Professors were told to take nine furlough days without canceling classes or office hours, missing meetings or interfering with any other university responsibility. They are required to take the days before June 30, when the university's fiscal year ends.
"Most faculty I know will end up taking few if any of those furlough days off - they'll just go about doing the good jobs they normally do for less money," said education professor Nakia Pope. "I'm grateful to be working at all, considering I live in the state with the third-highest unemployment in the nation."
This month, RV-maker Winnebago Industries Inc. said that all its workers, including chief executive officer Bob Olson, would take an unpaid week off during the current quarter, along with a two-week production shutdown during the holidays.
3M Co. said early this month that it had ordered some workers to take vacation or unpaid time for the last two weeks of the year. Computer-maker Dell Inc. in November asked employees to consider taking unpaid vacation days during the fourth quarter.
By Ellen Simon, Associated Press, Inquirer


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. It was during this time he decided he wanted to build and operate his own boat. With determination and hard work, he started building his boat in 2000 and she was put in the water in the summer of 2001. Captain Olan has two beautiful grown daughters that love to go out on the water. His wife is a local school teacher and loves to go fishing whenever she gets a chance.
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On Tuesday's radio show I outlined how the coming stock market crash will drastically impact the U.S. and world economies and the severity of what October's nightmare might mean to the average citizen in the U.S.
Needless to say, I did not paint a picture of unicorns flying overhead spewing rainbows and Skittles out of their rears.
I was never a fan of their lunches and dinners but their sundaes rocked as this story is more of an indication that the middle class is once again pulling back hard in anticipation of difficult economic times. This week has seen a downward revision by Edmunds of auto sales this year and another indication that despite a 30K plus decrease in unemployment claims filed, Christmas retail hiring will only mitigate that number for about sixty days as the problems in Europe and our financial system spread fear into the economy causing retail sales for the holidays to likely disappoint.
If the stock markets reach their daily closing downside limits and close before 4 p.m. Eastern time on any given day next month, does anyone really think there will not be a run on the banks both physically and electronically?
The panic that would ensue from a 20% plus one day decline and cessation of trading before the close would pale compare to how our media and the masses would react. The first nature of humans is self-preservation and that includes what little personal fortunes they might have. It will start with the money markets and rapidly spread to ATM machines and branches within hours of the news breaking as the herd begins to freak out.


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Fayemi disowns Oshiomhole's and Ajayi's rigging allegations
Ekiti State Governor Dr. Kayode Fayemi, on Tuesday, May 17 picked holes with the rigging allegations by erstwhile All Progressives Congress Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole and a former State Attorney General and Social Democratic Party chieftain, Owoseeni Ajayi, saying they were an attempt to tarnish his image.
The Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Olayinka Oyebode, said: "Fayemi remains steadfast in pursuing his aspiration to get the APC ticket for the 2023 presidential election. There is no amount of mudslinging from disenchanted individuals that would distract or discourage him".
While Oshiomhole, in a television interview, accused Fayemi of asking him to rig the election during his tenure as APC chairman, Ajayi, in a petition, alleged that the governor had constituted a task force to disrupt the June 18 Ekiti governorship election.
Oyebode in a statement titled, 'Oshiomhole's allegation laughable, a figment of his imagination, said: "For the avoidance of doubt, Governor Fayemi has no reason to approach Comrade Oshiomhole for favours for any election. Fayemi has a stellar track record of being a consummate democrat even in difficult times.
"The allegation, which was made on national television, is not only false, puerile, and laughable, it is a figment of the imagination of the former APC chairman as Fayemi has never asked Oshiomhole to rig the election for him or any other person and never had any reason to ask for such.
"Members of the public are therefore urged to disregard the allegations by Oshiomhole, who apparently is still experiencing a post-traumatic stress disorder because of his removal as Chairman of APC. If true, we challenge Oshiomhole to provide the public with independently verifiable evidence of his unsubstantiated claims.
"It is on record that Fayemi was not responsible for Oshiomhole's removal as Chairman of the APC. He has his ward executives and the courts to blame for that.
"The Ekiti State governor has always considered Oshiomhole a friend and political associate even if they had fundamental differences over his kangaroo approach of disqualifying Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State from the APC primaries and his unconscionable autocratic management of party affairs whilst he was chairman of the party."
Oyebode also, in another statement titled, 'Ekiti 2022: Owoseeni Ajayi's allegations, highly irresponsible', said the SDP chieftain's allegation that a task force had been constituted to disrupt the Ekiti election "would have been ignored as another dubious fabrication from the stable of the troubled SDP, but for the fact, a supposed learned fellow wrote it."
The CPS said: "It is rather ridiculous that a former AG of the state is the one assigned the role of a chief fiction writer for the dying party. More saddening is the relish with which he undertook concocting the spurious allegations.
"While we pity Ajayi for descending to this low level of engagement, we urge the relevant security agencies in the state to thoroughly investigate the allegations contained in the report, to determine the truth of the matter, and take necessary steps to ensure that purveyors of lies and those who make false claims are brought to book."
Oyebode stated that the "Fayemi administration remains committed to improving the quality of lives of Ekiti citizens through effective implementation of the five-point development agenda."
It will be recalled that Oshiomhole who until recently pulled out of the presidential race to focus on the Edo North senatorial seat said in an interview with Channels TV that Fayemi approached him to help him rig the 2018 gubernatorial polls which he eventually won.
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Today I want to talk a little bit about fear. Over the past week I have just had my moments where fear is overcoming who I am. Even though I have been cancer free for six months, there still that fear that it will return. I just want to take a minute to talk about Sarcoma, because the general public does not know much about this cancer because of its rarity. Sarcoma is the cancer with no rules. In most cases there is no cause as to why this cancer develops, the exception is a disease that does not come to mind at this time. It affects the young and the old. It is located in the soft tissue. Where's that? Everywhere, so it can pop up anywhere at anytime, and then travel to the lungs. There are many types of Sarcoma, and some are not easily treated. So yes, I fear this disease. I fear leaving behind my husband, and children, I sob at the thought of this. This is me, this is real. However, I cannot let fear overcome my life. I have to face it every day and be thankful for each day. If I don't do that then I am letting life pass me by.
Below is a short 3 minute video of my doctor, Dr. Kurt Weiss, also a Sarcoma survivor. In this video he talks briefly about Sarcoma, and how to raise funds for research. If it has been laid on your heart to donate to a good cause, please help us raise money to find a cure. Below is the link to raise money. I greatly appreciate it, and so do the families of sarcoma patients, survivors, and those lost to this disease.
So how do I punch fear in the face when it comes to Sarcoma, I remain as healthy and positive as possible. Being healthy is what led me to the discovery of my tumor, and I will not stray from a healthy diet and regular exercise. Being in tune with a fit body gives me the best chance of identifying any new issues or any return. This is why I am so adamant about nutrition and fitness. This is why I love what I do as a Beachbody coach in addition to being a stay at home mom of 2 little boys. The other part of coaching has been the connections I have made with inspiring and positive people. Negativety surrounds us, and by surrounding myself with positivity, I see the blessings in situations that may completely break people. So I know that this is not a normal post on my blog, but I hope you can relate to this or that it helps someone else out there struggling with fear.


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I've been fly fishing for about 15 years and guided for 5 while living in the Black Hills of South Dakota. If you ever take a road trip to Yellowstone or other points west, be sure to spend a day in 'the hills' and fish Rapid Creek and Spearfish Canyon. Beautiful streams with quality wild trout. Let me know ahead of time and I'll point you to some specific places to fish.
Anyway, so far I've fished a few of the wild trout streams in the Tellico area, a few tribs to the Hiwassee and Ocoee as well as the Hiwassee itself. I'm in love with the Hiwassee and have spent just about every weekend up there trying to really understand it. It's pretty unique from the kind of water that I am familiar with and it's been fun figuring it out.
Seems like most anglers on this forum are in the northeast part of the state but if there are any members in the Chattanooga or Cleveland area who want to grab a brew and talk fish or get out on the water, feel free to reach out.
I was stationed in Montana I'm surprised SD doesn't have better fishing! I love tellico and will try citico now that I have a Jeep! You need to posts some fly fishing tutorials online I love fly fishing but my friend always had everything ready and just handed me a pole. It's quite overwhelming trying to figure everything out yourself!
Spearfish Creek in the canyon is one of my all time favorite streams. Absolutely amazing water. Welcome to the board by the way! Stop and say hi if you see me down on the Hiwassee during the winter.
H20, On the last trip to Montana, my buddy and I were planning to fish the areas you spoke of in S.D. Forget what happened, but we didn't, went on to Montana without stopping. Any way, welcome to this part of the country. Some good fishing around here, like any place else, just gotta spend some stream time. Have not fished the Park a whole lot, the Hiwassee was my classroom away from college, where I learned this game called flly fishing. The "HI" doesn't fish like it did back in the late 80's, but I still get back there. In my opinion, our prettiest tailwater trout stream in Tennessee.
South Dakota locals are primarily walleye guys, but there is great trout fishing in the Black Hills and phenomenal smallmouth bass and pike fishing on the Missouri river. They never get pressure since everyone's chasing walleye, so I would often have the whole river or creek to myself.
I think there are a whole lot of good tutorial videos on YouTube these days. No one in my family fished much growing up so I taught myself through a whole lot of trial and error. I remember the Orvis Beginners Guide to Fly Fishing was a big help when I first started out.
I have not been to Citico yet but I hear it's worth checking out.
Glad you had the chance to fish Spearfish Creek, David. It is near and dear to my heart. I lived outside of the town of Spearfish and so primarily guided on Spearfish Creek. Have walked and fished every inch of river from its confluence with the Redwater River all the way up to its headwaters up in the hills. It's amazing how many quality trout can be found in that stream. Hasn't been stocked since the 70's.
I'll keep an eye out for you on the Hiwassee this fall. You might not remember but when I first moved to Cleveland I emailed you directly after reading one of your blog posts about the Hiwassee. I appreciate the info you gave me and hope to see you on the water.
I'm not an expert by any means but I have been fishing in the Tellico watershed for a few years now and I could help you out finding some of the wild brookies if you wanted to take a trip sometime. Just shoot me an email at khooper03@gmail.com if you're interested.
Hey hoop235, thanks for the offer! I'll shoot you an email, always looking for people to fish with! I've been up there a few times now, but I know there are miles and miles of water to explore and would be glad to have a little guidance.


Srinagar: Two soldiers, four militants and two civilians were killed in a gunfight in Jammu and Kashmir's Kulgam district on Sunday, police said. The incident triggered clashes between civilians and security forces, leaving around two dozen people injured.
The fighting erupted after the security personnel surrounded Frisal village in the district following a tip that militants were hiding in a house, police said.
"When the militants were challenged, they fired at the forces, triggering the gunfight," said a police officer.
The dead included two soldiers from Rashtriya Rifles who were injured in the gunfight and later succumbed to their injuries.
Three civilians and three soldiers were injured in the fighting.
While a civilian, identified as Ashaq Rishi, died earlier on Sunday, another injured civilian, identified as Mushtaq Ahmad, 22, succumbed in hospital taking the death toll in this gunfight to eight.
As news of the civilian deaths spread, angry villagers poured out of their homes and stoned the security forces, who fired in the air and used tear smoke in an attempt to disperse them.
Reports said around two dozen people, including protestors as well as security personnel, were injured in these clashes.
The militants' bodies were recovered from the site of the gun battle.
Police said the operation had now ended.


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Usually not, very rarely a referral is necessary for insurance reasons. You can call your insurance company to find that out.
We take all insurances. However SC Medicaid does not cover our services unless it is a diabetic individual.
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Less than one week an usually the same day. We welcome walk-ins.
5Aren't you just going to tell me my shoes are bad?
Absolutely not! There are better options that may be available when you can, but we know style, activity and budget all come into play. We are more than happy to tell you if your shoe selection may hurt or help your particular foot type and make suggestions, but this office has plenty of guilty culprits of high heel wearing!
6There is nothing you can do for a broken toe, right?
Incorrect. In fact, if nothing is done, there is a much greater chance of future development of a hammertoe or contracted toe.
7I'm an athlete. I'm afraid if I come in to see you, it'll result in not being allowed to play or greatly restricting my activity level.
We understand this predicament, so we have made a point not to "sideline" our athletes unless it is absolutely necessary. If we can get you through the season or the year or even the recital, we'll do just that. Dr.Lee and I have played sports our whole lives and understand the importance of staying active as well.