On the occasion of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD), this 3rd December 2018, the Working Group on the Rights of Older Persons and People with Disabilities in Africa of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights joins celebrations happening all over the world aiming at, among others, promoting understanding of disability issues and mobilising support for ensuring the dignity, rights and well-being of Persons with Disabilities.
The theme of this 2018 edition of the IDPD is ""Empowering persons with disabilities and ensuring inclusiveness and equality". It speaks to three of the core objectives of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Africa (the Protocol), which was adopted this year by the 30th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Head of States and Governments of the African Union (held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 22 to 29 January 2018).
It will be recalled that, at the request of the African Union, the drafting process of the said Protocol was led by the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights through its Working Group on the Rights of Older Persons and People with Disabilities in Africa.
(vii) The Right to Work (Article 17), etc.
The above Articles are to safeguard Persons with Disabilities against all forms of exclusion and discrimination on the basis of disability.
The Working Group therefore calls on Members States of the African Union to ratify the Protocol as a matter of utmost priority and to commit themselves at promoting and protecting the rights of persons with disabilities living in their respective countries. This applies equally to any other legal framework pertaining to the rights of persons with disabilities which would seek to equip them with the requisite means to help overcome such disabilities. The Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works to Visually Impaired Persons and Persons with Print Disabilities is one such legal framework. It addresses some of the main barriers hindering the empowerment of persons with visual impairment; namely the unavailability of reading material in accessible formats and it is important that advocacy for its widest ratification in Africa be pursued.
At this juncture, the Working Group wishes to underscore that it fully supports initiatives from various stakeholders aiming at ensuring that persons with disabilities are not left behind in the implementation of Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development as pledged by the United Nations. This noble goal is achievable by enabling persons with disabilities to participate in actions or plans relative to their rights and conditions, because it ensures ownership as well as the clear identification of challenges they face and a proper framing of the appropriate solutions.
Further, the Working Group reaffirms its commitment to work toward the promotion and protection of the rights of persons with disabilities and welcomes the UN Flagship Report on Disability and Development | 2018 – Realizing the SDGs by, for and with persons with disabilities; which aim "is to contribute to the full and effective implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and enhance the current efforts to mainstream the needs, rights and perspectives of persons with disabilities into the process of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals at all levels." This Report will undoubtedly guide stakeholders in their strives to promote and protect human rights of persons with disabilities as it poses a clear diagnosis of challenges faced by them and "presents good practices and policy trends in the respective areas".
The Working Group acknowledges that lot is yet to be done in relation to combatting discrimination on the basis of disability and ensuring the dignity of persons with disability, but remains confident that with coordinated efforts and continuous advocacy, stereotypes associated with disability can and will be changed.
It is on this rather positive note that the Working Group wishes all Persons with Disabilities and their caregivers a happy celebration of the 2018 edition of the IDPD.
 This is a treaty on copyright adopted in Marrakesh, Morocco, on 28 June 2013. It entered into force on 30 September 2016.
 United Nations 2018 flagship report on disability and development: realization of the Sustainable Development Goals by, for and with persons with disabilities - Note by the Secretariat presented at the 73rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly.


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In The Weeds: White Snakeroot
"Weeds are flowers too," said Eeyore, "once you get to know them."
A few weekends ago, my boo, Isa, and I went on a walk in Prospect Park. She's an avid birder (is there any other kind?) and I love plants more than cheese, new shoes, and lots of other Very Good Things. It was my first time in the park in the fall and I was amazed that even in October, there were fat, speckled berries on the trees and a rainbow of flowers along every path.
Although birders keep lists for big days (Isa's that day had a pin warbler, a dark-eyed junco, a clark's nutcracker, and 9 others), most plant people want more. We like to know where a plant comes from, how people have used it, how it grows, where it got its name, and at least three fun facts to foist on a friend who never asked us to identify it in the first place.
All of which is a long way of saying that it's high time for a weekly series where we learn everything we can about weeds. I'm starting with intrigue; this weed's story is a heady mixture of animal husbandry, deadly contagion and, of course, a good dose of misogyny and white supremacy.
As we walked through Prospect Park, every trail seemed to be bordered with clumps of small, white flowers. I identified them as white snakeroot, but didn't think much of the nondescript blooms until we left the woods. The same white flowers were peeking from under every tree on Isa's street and had even colonized a pot on her front stoop. Suddenly, like pumpkin-spice in October, white snakeroot was everywhere.
White snakeroot grows in shady, wet places.
It turns out that you're most likely to find white snakeroot growing in shaded, moist, and uncultivated areas – just like the wooded areas of Prospect Park and the untended patches of ground under urban trees. Although herbaceous, it can grow as high as four feet tall (which just might be where it gets its latin species name altissima). Its bright white flowers are usually the first thing to catch your eye among the decaying autumn foliage. In fact, the latin genus name ageratina refers to its "unaging" quality. The blooms of this native perennial are 2-6" clusters of what appear to be ¼" flowers. In reality, each flower is an inflorescence composed of dozens of tiny disk flowers. Later on in the fall, the disks are replaced by small white hairs that help the seeds spread in the wind. White snakeroot's toothed leaves grow opposite on purple-stained stems.
Leaf miners often leave lacy patterns on the leaves of many plants, but they don't seem to hurt mean old white snakeroot.
Named for the its root's more useful property as an indigenous snakebite remedy, white snakeroot is better known for its role as a staunch native defender of what we now call North America. In the 1800s, Europeans were moving farther west on the American frontier. As they formed settlements along the Ohio River, white snakeroot got busy manifesting its destiny as a killer plant.
Europeans initially began noticing their livestock getting "trembles" before seeing the disease jump to humans in 1809. This "milk sickness" caused people who drank the milk of infected animals to become lethargic and experience severe stomach pain. Doctors tried bloodletting – a very much an en vogue (and totally useless) treatment of the day – milksick patients, but death was inevitable. As many as half of all deaths in 19th century Europeanssettlements are attributable to milk sickness. Abraham Lincoln's mother is probably the disease's most famous victim.
While Europeans found milk sickness as mysterious as cholera and yellow fever, indigenous residents were well-acquainted with white snakeroot. A member of the Shawnee nation passed knowledge of white snakeroot onto Anna Pierce Hobbs Bixby, a European midwife and dentist. Anna's sister and mother had succumbed to milk sickness, leaving her desperate to understand the cause of the mysterious frontier disease. Milk sickness's seasonal contagions led Anna to believe that the cause must be a poisonous herb; however, she was unable to identify the culprit until the Shawnee woman showed her the innocuous-looking plant in the 1830s.
At the end of the fall, white hairs help the seeds spread in the wind.
Anna taught European farmers to remove white snakeroot from their field and to prevent their cows from wandering in the woods to graze. This female and indigenous contribution to medicine was largely ignored; in 1928, research confirming white snakeroot's role in milk poisoning was finally published. With the local success that Anne obtained from her medical and botanical knowledge, she became a famous doctor – perhaps the first woman doctor in the state of Illinois. Legend has it that she buried a treasure in a cave in Rock Creek, Hardin County, Illinois. The name of the Shawnee woman who taught Anna about white snakefoot was never recorded.
Today, tremetol poisoning is incredibly rare. Cows who are given other options will naturally avoid white snakeroot. The modern practice of combining milk from many different cows also lowers the risk of milk sickness as tremetol-laced milk from any infected cow will be diluted to a harmless level.
Although white snakeroot was responsible for the deaths of thousands of cattle, horses, sheep, goats, and Europeans, there are are plenty of reasons to appreciate it today. As one of the last plants to bloom during the growing season, it provides food for bees and other pollinators who are stocking up in preparation for winter.
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The story I tell about ageratina altissima (yes I too id plants when not requested) is that Lincoln's mother had a cow that got into the snakeroot and did not eat enough to do it any harm – but much of the poison came out in its milk, which she drank – and it killed her.
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Ooh! I had no idea. Weeds really just pop up all over history!

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GILFORD – Adrian Siravo raced down the court, gathered his dribble from the left block and raised up above the rim for a crowd-pleasing, one-handed dunk.
For Siravo and the Gilford boys' basketball team, the throwdown was more than just an impressive show of athleticism, it was an exclamation point and the final dagger the sixth-seeded Golden Eagles needed to safely put away No. 11 Stevens, 53-33, Thursday in the opening round of the Division III tournament.
"That's the push over the hill right there," Gilford guard Nate Hudson said of Siravo's dunk.
With Siravo taking flight and pouring in a game-high 20 points, Greg Madore (13 points) feasting on rebounds inside and the team's defense clicking from the start, Gilford (15-4) bested Stevens (10-9) for the second time this season and will advance to take on No. 3 Berlin in Saturday's quarterfinal at 7 p.m.
"Knowing them helped, but at the end of the day it doesn't matter because a different night is a different night of basketball," said Hudson, who added seven points for Gilford. "We came out and we were slower this time than we were last time, but just working the ball inside was big tonight.
Feeding Siravo and Madore in the post was also part of head coach Chip Veazey's game plan.
The pair started quick, combining for all 11 of Gilford's points in the first quarter and stayed hot throughout. Madore scored six and Siravo had eight in a fourth quarter as the Golden Eagles outscored Stevens, 19-7.
The Cardinals, who trailed 11-7 after the first and 24-13 at halftime, failed to reach double-digit point totals in each quarter except the third where they were able make a small run.
Stevens scored the first five points of the third thanks to buckets from Derrick Stanhope (five points) and Josh Stithen (nine), but Gilford responded with a 3-pointer from Siravo and another from Jon Nelson to stay on top, 31-19.
The Cardinals again fought back in the final minutes of the third quarter when Luke Come (team-high 14 points) connected on a reverse layup and Stithen drained a 3 to cut the deficit to eight, but Gilford played its best basketball in the fourth quarter to eliminate any thoughts of a comeback.
Highlights/key moments: The Mountaineers topped the Sachems and will take on No. 6 Gilford in Saturday's quarterfinal.
Highlights/key moments: Gansert scored 10 of his 12 points in the fourth quarter and the Raiders held Mascenic to four points in the frame to pull off the road upset. Belmont gets No. 2 Somersworth next in Saturday's quarterfinals.
Highlights/key moments: The Hawks jumped out to a 21-10 first-quarter lead and extended it to 20 by halftime to notch the victory. Jake Tomlinson, Tyler Allen and Shepyrd Murdough all provided some scoring off the bench with five points apiece. Hopkinton faces No. 9 Monadnock in Saturday's quarterfinals.
Highlights/key moments: Swanson's effort wasn't enough as the Lakers suffered just their second home loss of the season in the opening round. Monadnock will face No. 1 Hopkinton in Saturday's quarterfinals.
Highlights/key moments: Up against one of the top teams in Division II, the Green Giants trailed by 15 at halftime before rallying back and falling short. Brady cut the deficit to three with 1:30 remaining, but Lebanon closed the game out at the free-throw line.


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The Osbournes Return To Reality TV On BBC With "Home To Roost"
If you haven't heard the news yet, it has been confirmed that The Osbournes are returning to reality TV on BBC.
The announcement is coupled with the family's explanation move back to Britain.
"I'm fed up with people getting killed every day. God knows how many people have been shot in school shootings. And there was that mass shooting in Vegas at that concert. … It's f***ing crazy," Ozzy said in a statement to The Guardian.
The family will return to their 350-acre estate in Buckinghamshire, England sometime in February.
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The 10-part docuseries "Home To Roost" will serve as a reboot to the fan-favorite show "The Osbournes" where viewers were given a look inside the crazy lives of the rock royalty family.
The show will "document Ozzy and Sharon's journey back to Britain, alongside Kelly and Jack's efforts to support them, as they attempt to re-start their lives in rural Buckinghamshire." Sharon's 70th birthday, the birth of Kelly's baby, and Ozzy's upcoming tour are all slated to appear in the series.
Clare Sillery, Head of Commissioning, Documentaries said, "I'm delighted that the Osbournes will be sharing this next chapter in their lives with BBC viewers in what promises to be a funny, moving and honest insight into their new life in the UK."
One thing is for sure, if it's anything like the last show, we're going to love it!
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Be brave and do the things you're scared of anyway, I know I will.
My pride got slapped in the face last week. I failed and got humbled real quick. All I can do now is learn from my mistakes and keep moving forward. I won't let fear prevent me from making art that makes a difference in people's lives, myself included.
My heart sank last week when I found out that Instagram deleted not one but two of my posts. It freaked me out so much that I didn't post a thing for a few days. I went through the cycle of fear and anger until it paralyzed me with indecision. When your actions are questioned you can't help but take a step back and wonder if you are still going in the right direction.
Then I remembered that it took fear to get me where I am today. I was afraid to quit my job to draw full time even though everyone told me I was crazy. I was scared that no one would value my opinion when I began teaching even though my ideas go against industry standards. And now I'm terrified that when I explore more serious subjects around cannabis, mental health, and body positivity in my work, that my account will be deleted.
But every time I went for it in the past, even when my I had that fear gnawing at my stomach, it all worked out for the better. I have to remember that and keep moving forward being the most honest version of myself.
Let's all keep growing but challenging ourselves to lead more authentic and happy lives. Feel that fear, and do it anyway.


A fake website appealing for Bitcoin investments is circulating in Singapore. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has issued a statement to make people aware and act with extreme caution while investing in Bitcoin.
Not just the Deputy Prime Minister but the website is also portraying the MAS chairman as 'venture capitalist' who according to the website has announced Singapore's entry into the cryptocurrency market. After such a misleading headline, the website is asking users to sign up and make payments using credit and debit cards.
Monetary Authority of Singapore has officially proved such news as false. MAS said that the website's article on Bitcoins is highly misleading. The statement has nothing to do with DPM Tharman.
MAS advised people to be highly aware and avoid providing any useful financial information to such fraud websites.
A year ago, on December 19, MAS had put a notice warning people of the risks involved in cryptocurrency. A similar warning was given by the DPM Tharman in a reply to a Parliamentary Question on February 5, 2018, that people of Singapore could lose their shirts if they invest their money in cryptocurrencies.
MAS appealed to people that they should inform or report to police when they suspect such fraud websites.
In May, the MAS notified eight cryptocurrency trading platforms that before offering a digital token, trades for tokens constituting securities or digital tokens. The notice was emanated at the time when the amount of exchanges and token offering had grown fast in the country.
Also, MAS impeded ICOs that time claiming that the issuer violated law after the central bank found the tokens (represented equity ownership) not having the required MAS registered description.


Operation Torch (8–16 November 1942) was an Anglo–American invasion of French North Africa during the Second World War. It was aimed at reducing pressure on Allied forces in Egypt, and enabling an invasion of Southern Europe. It also provided the 'second front' which the Soviet Union had been requesting since it was invaded by the Germans in 1941. The region was dominated by the Vichy French, officially in collaboration with Germany, but with mixed loyalties, and reports indicated that they might support the Allied initiative. The American General Dwight D. Eisenhower, commanding the operation, planned a three-pronged attack, aimed at Casablanca (Western), Oran (Center) and Algiers (Eastern), in advance of a rapid move on Tunis.
The Western Task Force encountered unexpected resistance, as well as bad weather, but Casablanca, the principal French Atlantic naval base, was captured after a short siege. The Center Task Force suffered some damage to its fleet, trying to land in shallow water, but the enemy ships were sunk or driven off, and Oran surrendered after heavy fire from British battleships. The Eastern Task Force met less opposition because the French Resistance had staged a coup in Algiers, and the Allies were able to push inland and compel surrender on the first day.
The success of Torch caused the commander of French forces in the region, Admiral Darlan, to order full co-operation with the Allies, in return for being retained as High Commissioner, with many Vichy officials keeping their jobs. But Darlan was assassinated soon after, and De Gaulle's Free French gradually came to dominate the government.
Operation Torch was the first mass involvement of US troops in the European–North African Theatre, and saw the first major airborne assault carried out anywhere by the United States.
The Allies planned an Anglo-American invasion of north-western Africa/Maghreb—Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, territory nominally in the hands of the Vichy French government. With British forces advancing from Egypt, this would eventually allow the Allies to carry out a pincer operation against Axis forces in North Africa. The Vichy French had around 125,000 soldiers in the territories as well as coastal artillery, 210 operational but out-of-date tanks and about 500 aircraft, half of which were Dewoitine D.520 fighters—equal to many British and U.S. fighters. These forces included 60,000 troops in Morocco, 15,000 in Tunisia, and 50,000 in Algeria, with coastal artillery, and a small number of tanks and aircraft. In addition, there were 10 or so warships and 11 submarines at Casablanca.
The Allies believed that the Vichy French forces would not fight, partly because of information supplied by American Consul Robert Daniel Murphy in Algiers. The French were former members of the Allies and the American troops were instructed not to fire unless they were fired upon. However, they harbored suspicions that the Vichy French navy would bear a grudge over the British attack on Mers-el-Kebir in 1940. An assessment of the sympathies of the French forces in North Africa was essential, and plans were made to secure their cooperation, rather than resistance. German support for the Vichy French came in the shape of air support. Several Luftwaffe bomber wings undertook anti-shipping strikes against Allied ports in Algiers and along the North African coast.
Senior US commanders remained strongly opposed to the landings and after the western Allied Combined Chiefs of Staff (CCS) met in Washington on 30 July, General George Marshall and Admiral Ernest King declined to approve the plan. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave a direct order that Torch was to have precedence over other operations and was to take place at the earliest possible date, one of only two direct orders he gave to military commanders during the war.
Planners identified Oran, Algiers and Casablanca as key targets. Ideally there would also be a landing at Tunis to secure Tunisia and facilitate the rapid interdiction of supplies travelling via Tripoli to Rommel's forces in Libya. However, Tunis was much too close to the Axis airfields in Sicily and Sardinia for any hope of success. A compromise would be to land at Bône (Annaba) in eastern Algeria, some 300 miles (480 km) closer to Tunis than Algiers. Limited resources dictated that the Allies could only make three landings and Eisenhower — who believed that any plan must include landings at Oran and Algiers — had two main options: either the western option, to land at Casablanca, Oran and Algiers and then make as rapid a move as possible to Tunis some 500 miles (800 km) east of Algiers once the Vichy opposition was suppressed; or the eastern option, to land at Oran, Algiers and Bône and then advance overland to Casablanca some 500 miles (800 km) west of Oran. He favoured the eastern option because of the advantages it gave to an early capture of Tunis and also because the Atlantic swells off Casablanca presented considerably greater risks to an amphibious landing there than would be encountered in the Mediterranean.
The Combined Chiefs of Staff, however, were concerned that should Operation Torch precipitate Spain to abandon neutrality and join the Axis, the Straits of Gibraltar could be closed cutting the entire Allied force's lines of communication. They therefore chose the Casablanca option as the less risky since the forces in Algeria and Tunisia could be supplied overland from Casablanca (albeit with considerable difficulty) in the event of closure of the straits.
Marshall's opposition to Torch delayed the landings by almost a month, and his opposition to landings in Algeria led British military leaders to question his strategic ability; the Royal Navy controlled the Strait of Gibraltar, and Spain was unlikely to intervene as Franco was hedging his bets. The Morocco landings ruled out the early occupation of Tunisia. Eisenhower told Patton that the past six weeks were the most trying of his life. In Eisenhower's acceptance of landings in Algeria and Morocco, he pointed out that the decision removed the early capture of Tunis from the probable to only the remotely possible because of the extra time it would afford the Axis to move forces into Tunisia.
In July 1941, Mieczysław Słowikowski (using the codename "Rygor"—Polish for "Rigor") set up "Agency Africa", one of the Second World War's most successful intelligence organizations. His Polish allies in these endeavors included Lt. Col. Gwido Langer and Major Maksymilian Ciężki. The information gathered by the Agency was used by the Americans and British in planning the amphibious November 1942 Operation Torch landings in North Africa.
These officers were willing to support the Allies but asked for a clandestine conference with a senior Allied General in Algeria. Major General Mark W. Clark—one of Eisenhower's senior commanders—was dispatched to Cherchell in Algeria aboard the British submarine HMS Seraph and met with these Vichy French officers on 21 October 1942.
The Allies organised three amphibious task forces to simultaneously seize the key ports and airports in Morocco and Algeria, targeting Casablanca, Oran and Algiers. Successful completion of these operations was to be followed by an eastwards advance into Tunisia.
A Western Task Force (aimed at Casablanca) was composed of American units, with Major General George S. Patton in command and Rear Admiral Henry Kent Hewitt heading the naval operations. This Western Task Force consisted of the U.S. 2nd Armored Division and the U.S. 3rd and 9th Infantry Divisions—35,000 troops in a convoy of over 100 ships. They were transported directly from the United States in the first of a new series of UG convoys providing logistic support for the North African campaign.
U-boats, operating in the eastern Atlantic area crossed by the invasion convoys, had been drawn away to attack trade convoy SL 125.
At Safi, the objective being capturing the port facilities to land the Western Task Force's medium tanks, the landings were mostly successful. The landings were begun without covering fire, in the hope that the French would not resist at all. However, once French coastal batteries opened fire, Allied warships returned fire. By the time General Ernest Harmon's 2nd Armored Division arrived, French snipers had pinned the assault troops (most of whom were in combat for the first time) on Safi's beaches. Most of the landings occurred behind schedule. Carrier aircraft destroyed a French truck convoy bringing reinforcements to the beach defenses. Safi surrendered on the afternoon of 8 November. By 10 November, the remaining defenders were pinned down, and the bulk of Harmon's forces raced to join the siege of Casablanca.
Casablanca was the principal French Atlantic naval base after German occupation of the European coast. The Naval Battle of Casablanca resulted from a sortie of French cruisers, destroyers, and submarines opposing the landings. A cruiser, six destroyers, and six submarines were destroyed by American gunfire and aircraft. The incomplete French battleship Jean Bart—which was docked and immobile—fired on the landing force with her one working gun turret until disabled by the 16-inch calibre American naval gunfire of USS Massachusetts, the first such heavy-calibre shells fired by the U.S. Navy anywhere in World War II. Two U.S. destroyers were damaged.
The Center Task Force was split between three beaches, two west of Oran and one east. Landings at the westernmost beach were delayed because of a French convoy which appeared while the minesweepers were clearing a path. Some delay and confusion, and damage to landing ships, was caused by the unexpected shallowness of water and sandbars; although periscope observations had been carried out, no reconnaissance parties had landed on the beaches to determine the local maritime conditions. This helped inform subsequent amphibious assaults—such as Operation Overlord—in which considerable weight was given to pre-invasion reconnaissance.
The U.S. 1st Ranger Battalion landed east of Oran and quickly captured the shore battery at Arzew. An attempt was made to land U.S. infantry at the harbour directly, in order to quickly prevent destruction of the port facilities and scuttling of ships. The operation—code named Operation Reservist—failed, as the two Banff-class sloops were destroyed by crossfire from the French vessels there. The Vichy French naval fleet broke from the harbor and attacked the Allied invasion fleet, but its ships were all sunk or driven ashore.
As agreed at Cherchell, in the early hours of 8 November, 400 mainly Jewish French Resistance fighters staged a coup in the city of Algiers. Starting at midnight, the force under the command of Henri d'Astier de la Vigerie and José Aboulker seized key targets, including the telephone exchange, radio station, governor's house and the headquarters of 19th Corps.
On 8 November 1942, the invasion commenced with landings split between three beaches—two west of Algiers and one east. Under overall command of Major General Charles W. Ryder, Commanding General of the U.S. 34th Infantry Division, British 11th Brigade Group from the British 78th Infantry Division, landed on the right hand beach, U.S. 168th Regimental Combat Team, from the 34th Infantry Division, supported by 6th Commando and most of 1st Commando on the middle beach while the U.S. 39th Regimental Combat Team, also from the U.S. 34th Division, supported by the remaining 5 troops from 1st Commando landed on the left hand beach. The British 36th Brigade Group from the British 78th Division stood by in floating reserve. Though some landings went to the wrong beaches, this was immaterial because of the extremely low level of French opposition. All the coastal batteries had been neutralized by French resistance, and one French commander openly welcomed the landing Allies. The only fighting took place in the port of Algiers, where in Operation Terminal, two British destroyers attempted to land a party of U.S. Army Rangers directly onto the dock, in order to prevent the French destroying the port facilities and scuttling their ships. Heavy artillery fire prevented one destroyer from landing, but the other was able to disembark 250 Rangers before it too was driven back to sea. The landed troops pushed quickly inland and General Juin surrendered the city to the Allies at 18:00.
Giraud succeeded Darlan but like him replaced few of the Vichy officials. He even ordered the arrest of the leaders of the Algiers coup of 8 November, with no opposition from Murphy.
The French North African government gradually became active in the Allied war effort. The limited French troops in Tunisia did not resist German troops arriving by air; Admiral Esteva, the commander there, obeyed orders to that effect from Vichy. The Germans took the airfields there and brought in more troops. The French troops withdrew to the west, and within a few days began to skirmish against the Germans, encouraged by small American and British detachments who had reached the area. While this was of minimal military effect, it committed the French to the Allied side. Later all French forces were withdrawn from action to be properly re-equipped by the Allies.
Giraud supported this but also preferred to maintain the old Vichy administration in North Africa. Under pressure from the Allies and from de Gaulle's supporters, the French régime shifted, with Vichy officials gradually replaced, and its more offensive decrees rescinded. In June 1943, Giraud and de Gaulle agreed to form the "Comité français de Libération nationale" (CFLN), with members from both the North African government and from de Gaulle's "French National Committee". In November 1943, de Gaulle became head of the CFLN, and de jure head of government of France, recognized by the U.S. and Britain.
In another political outcome of Torch (and at Darlan's orders), the previously Vichyite government of French West Africa joined the Allies.
One of the terms of the Second Armistice at Compiègne agreed to by the Germans was that southern France would remain free of German occupation and self-governed from Vichy. The lack of determined resistance by the Vichy French to the Allied invasions of North Africa and the new de Gaulle policies in North Africa convinced the Germans that France could not be trusted. Moreover, the Anglo-American presence in French North Africa invalidated the only real rationale for not occupying the whole of Metropolitan France—it was the only practical means to deny the Allies use of the French colonies. The Germans and Italians immediately occupied southern France and German troops moved to seize the French fleet in the port of Toulon, beginning on 10 November. The naval strength of the Axis in the Mediterranean would have been greatly increased if the Germans had succeeded in seizing the French ships, but every important ship was scuttled at dock by the French Navy before the Germans could take them.
The British Eighth Army in the east—commanded by Lieutenant-General Bernard Montgomery—stopped around Tripoli to allow reinforcements to arrive and build up the Allied advantage and to repair the port there. In the west, the forces of the First Army came under attack at the end of January, being forced back from the Faïd Pass and then suffering a reversal at Sidi Bou Zid on 14–15 February. Axis forces pushed on to Sbeitla and then to the Kasserine Pass on 19 February, where the U.S. II Corps retreated in disarray until heavy Allied reinforcements halted the Axis advance on 22 February. Fredendall was replaced by George Patton.
General Sir Harold Alexander arrived in Tunisia in late February to take charge of the new 18th Army Group headquarters, which had been created to take overall control of both the Eighth Army and the Allied forces already fighting in Tunisia. The Axis forces again attacked eastward at Medenine on 6 March but were easily repulsed by the Eighth Army. Rommel counselled Hitler to allow a full retreat to a defensible line but was denied, and, on 9 March, Rommel left Tunisia to be replaced by Jürgen von Arnim, who had to spread his forces over 100 miles (160 km) of northern Tunisia.
Despite Operation Torch's role in the war and logistical success, it has been largely overlooked in many popular histories of the war and in general cultural influence. The Economist speculated that this is because French forces were the initial enemies of the landing, making for a difficult fit into the war's overall narrative in general histories.
The operation was America's first armed deployment in the Arab world since the Barbary wars and, according to The Economist, laid the foundations for America's post-war Middle East policy.
^ I sommergibili dell'Asse e l'Operazione Torch.
^ Granito and Emo. Navi militari perdute, Italian Navy Historical Branch, page 61-62.
^ "The Stamford Historical Society Presents: Operation Torch and the Invasion of North Africa"
^ Playfair et al. 2004, pp. 126, 141–42.
^ Smith, Jean Edward (2012). Eisenhower in War and Peace. New York: Random House. pp. 214–15. ISBN 978-0-679-64429-3.
^ a b Peter Mangold, 2012, Britain and the Defeated French: From Occupation to Liberation, 1940–1944, London, I.B.Tauris, p. 159.
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DEADWOOD, S.D. — The Lawrence County Sheriff's Deputy who shot a dog on March 5th in Whitewood has been cleared of wrongdoing following a formal investigation by the South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation and the Lawrence County State's Attorney's Office.
On the evening of March 5th, the deputy arrived at his residence outside of Whitewood at the end of his shift. After exiting his vehicle, a neighbor's dog, described as a "large pit-bull mix" in a release from the sheriff's office, left its property and rapidly approached the deputy while barking. The dog initially moved away when its owner was able to call out to the dog, but it then turned and ran towards the deputy a second time while barking.
When the dog closed the distance between them to a few feet, the deputy fired one round from his service weapon, striking the dog. The dog returned to its home where the owners and a veterinary tech provided medical care to the dog. The dog was able to recover at home.
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During her time in Paris, Mexico and The Netherlands Nancy commissioned portraits of familiy members, close friends and interesting people she met throughout her life.
From an early age Nancy delighted in drawing and writing. Her illustrations and stories won prizes and in recognition of her talent and potential, she was accepted by the prestigious Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague.
In 1951, eager to refine her painting techniques and further explore colour, she enrolled in the 'Académie André Lhote in Paris. It was at that time that she discovered Picasso, Paul Klee, Kandinsky, Surrealism, Cubism, Cobra and impressionism. These artists and art styles inspired her in the search for her own style.
When Nancy met and fell in love with Reinhart Ruge, who lived in Mexico, she settled with him in Mexico City where later Nancy's first daughter Tiahoga was born. In this new and fascinating environment Nancy's passion and affection for Mexico's culture and its people blossomed and dramatically influenced her paintings.
Immersed in a macrocosm of brilliant light and vast dimensions, where life often reflected the interplay of cosmic forces, her colourful naïve realism and compositions with scarce lines recreated authentic Mexican landscapes and depicted the daily village life which she encountered during her travels throughout Mexico.
Working always with oil paints and a spatula, Nancy depicted the moods and pulsating rhythms of Mexico's 1950's and 60's. Commissioned portraits together with scenes of fiestas, musicians, dancers, and dream-like figures, dominated her work. She separated from Reinhardt, but her work had attracted the attention of Mathias Goeritz, renowned and influential modernist sculptor and painter who introduced her to prominent figures of Mexico City's vibrant art world, among whom were Ángela Gurria, Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo and surrealist Remedios Varo and others. Later on, she met and married her second profound love Valentin Saldaña, and their daughter Alejandra was born in 1964. Her paintings now expressed undulating movements of water, fire and air and became increasingly dramatic. Transformations appeared and forms merged into other forms in large, colourful paintings, often culminating in the figure of a bird that seemingly flew out of the canvas.
After the untimely death of Valentin in 1976, Nancy decided to return to Holland with her daughter Alejandra and created a studio in her parent's home in Wassenaar. Here, while practising meditation and rediscovering her spiritual inner-self in this contrasting environment with its changing seasons and subtle light, she searched for a new path of artistic expression. Inspired by the flat terrain and the reflections of birds, trees and clouds mirrored in the abundance of canals lacing the Dutch landscape, Nancy's forms and figures evolved into fractals which became increasingly smaller as they danced towards a central point on the canvas, repeating themselves in ever-darker tones and richer colours.
From 1980 onwards, this process of miniaturization reverses itself. The horizon becomes a source. From a central point on the canvas, round and angular patterns emerge, becoming larger as they spiral out to the edges. Nancy strives to bring harmony to the chaotic interplay of forms by adding rhythm. Later, living in Lelystad and influenced by the changing seasons, the low Dutch light and animals she encountered on her travels, her painting continues to develop. From many directions, patterns and shapes move in rhythmical recurrence across the canvas until they unite, forming an orchestrated image. In her most recent works, the source becomes an arch and points become circles which create openings to other spaces where gesturing figures tell amazing stories – an allegory of Nancy's bountiful and colourful artistic life.
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Source: Favim Out of all the signs in the zodiac, Geminis definitely have earned a reputation for being manipulative. Why a woman has to be conquered and courted. Pet names is another way of expressing a loving gesture. All the while her clock is saying. Consistently Judge and Criticize You to Make You Feel Inadequate Distinct from the previous behavior where negative humor is used as a cover, here the manipulator outright picks on you. That's why it's helpful to recognize the signs of manipulation, so you don't get used, duped, or sucked into the drama. It's very difficult to call someone on their bad behavior when they constantly claim to be doing things for your own good, or for the good of society as a whole.
He will, in time, come to buy into her rationalizations and feel guilt for his hatred for his new job. They tell you various stories. In a sense she is like a puppeteer and gains control and power through that process. He said when she gets out of line, he checks her, and she backs down. This serves to keep you diminished and undermine your confidence. If a person manipulates facts or tries to overwhelm you with facts and information, they could be trying to manipulate you.
This was also done as I slid my letter of resignation to her. In which case as the kids turn older she will be plotting how to cash you in. Men should realize they are the prize. Gaslighting involves planting false information as true in order to make another person doubt themselves and their perceptions. Manipulative people want to listen to what you have to say so they can find out your strengths and weaknesses. She questions it not out of manipulation, but out of genuine curiosity. Narcissists always make a strong showing right out of the gate, and it takes time for them to reveal their negative qualities.
Spirituality is not objective truth. In the end, instead of getting him to come your way, you achieve the opposite by chasing him away, maybe even for good! They just have a hard time figuring out what they want sometimes. It states that there is a painful gap within our minds that we desire to close in order to relieve us from this pain. As long as you truly love the world you will love freedom and disdain the authority Dominant people place on you. Face it, some men enjoy women having the upper hand because of what they consider to be benefits. In some cases, manipulators lack empathy and part of the extreme behaviour involves them acting the part of a caring person.
Notice if you are made to feel inadequate or judged. This whole article is frame control with the supposistion that women are a certain way and men are not. Basically, Capricorn girls are ruthless when it comes to getting what they want. In the first two, the man demonstrates a lack of vulnerability, in the second two, the man demonstrates vulnerability. For example, they will befriend wealthy people just for the occasional freebies and crazy social life, they will straight up lie on social media, and they will ditch old friends for more popular people. There's always an expected exception. Overwhelm You with Procedures and Red Tape Certain people use bureaucracy — paperwork, procedures, laws and by-laws, committees, and other roadblocks to maintain their position and power, while making your life more difficult.
She may command you to do some gardening work with a very negative and commanding tone. I could go into great depth with this subject, as I have spent the last decade working with hundreds and hundreds of different women and girls, unfortunately waking up to the reality isn't that enjoyable, because it largely goes against what men are conventionally taught about women. Take a return-to-sender approach with guilt trips and don't let the person's interpretation of your behavior determine the situation. In fact, people who manipulate others have difficulty in maintaining good interpersonal relationships. The lake does not know who ai am and what mt values are.
If they had listened, I would need to act this way etc. All you have to do is listen. It was a little bit crazy and my parents hated it. I don't know why you still talk to me. Don't feel stupid, or like you should have seen this coming.
Is there anything that motivated it? We have been found out! Figure 1 and 2 illustrate this process. Lived it, have to deal with it, but what is twisted can not be made straight no matter how much love and understanding you have. I have learned the hard way that women, no matter what they may say, do not go for Nice Guys or gentlemen, but instead go for the scumbags and the assholes, etc. However, people who are manipulators engage in this behavior on a regular basis. Try to be considerate of others and think about how you would feel if they did the same thing to you.
Because me, my friends, my boyfriend and my therapist think of me as a reasonable and likeable person. Then I'm prepared to stay forever single and happy. If you can safely predict how someone will behave in order to achieve certain ends, you are most likely on the right track to picking up on manipulative behaviors. I will finish reading your book and write more. She is able to do this so well because she has taken the time to study men and understand men psychology so as to effectively code how they may react to different situations. And when my husband is sick, I question his motives Because I'm used to people using illness to manipulate. Hope she gets what's coming to her when she behaves like that to her boss.


MDA brought a declaratory relief action on behalf of a homeowners' insurance carrier seeking a determination that it had no duty to defend and indemnify an insured in the underlying tort action alleging that he stalked, assaulted, and raped a 15-year-old student. The Court of Appeal found in favor of the homeowners' carrier and held that: (1) a refusal to stay the declaratory relief action pending the determination of the underlying action did not prejudice the insured, inasmuch as there was no possibility of coverage, and (2) that there was no potential coverage under the homeowners' policy for acts involving sexual misconduct and thus no duty to defend or indemnify.
In defending a tort action against a church and its pastor, in which the pastor denied that any sexual conduct occurred, MDA argued that even if the conduct had occurred as alleged, a pastor is not liable as a matter of law for engaging in consensual sexual conduct in the context of pastoral counseling. The Court of Appeal agreed. Although such a duty may exist with respect to licensed marriage counselors, the pastor was not a licensed marriage counselor, and pastoral counselors are expressly exempted from state licensing requirements. This exemption does not violate the 1st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The pastor provided counseling to the plaintiffs based upon his status as a clergyman as part of his church ministry. There was no evidence he received payment for his counseling services. Further, the evidence led to a conclusion that the sexual conduct as alleged was consensual.
In this action, a local church parish that severed its ties with a national church brought a quiet title action against the national church and its bishop to resolve the dispute over the right to property that had belonged to the parish. MDA defended the action and filed a cross-complaint on behalf of the bishop. The trial court found that the property belonged to the local parish. MDA filed an appeal upon the grounds that the board of directors of the parish failed to obtain the bishop's approval of the board's election contrary to the constitution of the church, making all acts of the purported board unauthorized and a nullity. In addition, MDA argued that the property of the parish reverted to the national church after the parish's unapproved board voted to sever all ties with national church based upon a reversionary clause in the national church's constitution. The Court of Appeal found in favor of the bishop and overturned the trial court, ordering that the church property be transferred to the national church.
The parents of two children brought a negligence and premises liability action against a day care center and lessor of property after the children were killed when a man deliberately drove his car through a chain link fence and struck the children. MDA argued that the defendants owed no duty to the parents as a matter of law since the driver's criminal act was unforeseeable. The California Supreme Court agreed, holding that a property owner owes no duty as a matter of law for unforeseeable criminal acts.
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The Insane Clown Posse (ICP) (Link) are no strangers to hate and controversy, and have even gone so far as to proudly wear the label of 'World's Most Hated Band' (Link) like a badge of honour. But recently, things were taken in an unimaginably strange direction, when the FBI took the absurd action of labelling the Juggalos (the dedicated followers of ICP's music) as a hybrid gang (Link).
The move was a very serious one, and has needlessly affected countless Juggalos since (Link). By labelling the Juggalos a gang, the FBI and United States government have created a near insurmountable obstacle for many law-abiding music-lovers. At present, having a 'Juggalo'-related tattoo, merchandise, etc. could prevent a person from joining the military, could be considered a breach of probation terms, has been cited to affect custody agreements between parents, and extend sentences for minor crimes—reclassifying them as gang-related crimes (Source).
Even the self-styled 'Most-Hated Band' sees this as a step too far. While they've borne the brunt of media scorn with an optimistic grin, the ICP have taken the FBI Gang-ruling to court. Backed by the ACLU (Link), and toting a long list of grievances reported by Juggalos to stem from the ruling, ICP have invested a great deal of time and capital into suing the Federal Government to justify or overturn the ruling.
…Not bad for a couple of Clowns.
Thus far, the lawsuit has met with little success, initially being thrown out of court, and continuing to languish under delays and red-tape. But say what you will about ICP's music, their fight against this ruling is entirely justified, and potentially one of the more important debates of our time in the realm of art and music.
You see, a gang is something which essentially functions to create meaning for an individual who suffers a desperate lack of such. It can provide a place of belonging, an identity, even a sense of purpose and community. Unfortunately, these perceived benefits tend to come—in the case of organized, criminal gangs—with their share of drawbacks—ranging from risk of injury or death, to the harm of others, and of course criminal charges.
But gangs aren't the only way for a wayward person to find meaning. As discussed in our article, 'The Metaphorical Imperative' (Link), stories and art can also serve this function. By finding a sense of acceptance, guidance, and structure in the confines of a well-constructed metaphor, people throughout history have escaped from the dismal confines of their daily life and been elevated to something far greater.
In the case of ICP, this is quite literally what happened. As discussed in our article, 'Circular Journey' (Link), Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope initially founded ICP (then 'Inner City Posse') as a legitimate (if somewhat unimposing) street-gang. Rapping was just a small part of that identity. But as Violent J shares in his book, 'Behind the Paint' (Link), the Inner City Posse quickly fell prey to the more dangerous gangs of inner city Detroit at the time, experienced myriad legal conflicts, and all but fell apart. Violent J, ultimately finding himself in a jail cell, came to the epiphany that the gang life was not for him, and resolved thereafter to focus his efforts on music.
The Inner City Posse soon became the Insane Clown Posse, and the rest was history. ICP's musical career is what raised them out of the gang life and gave them purpose. Likewise, many of their colleagues at their self-founded 'Psychopathic Records' came from similar backgrounds, and as such ICP stand as a true bastion against the gang life in Detroit. They have been a source of reprieve for anyone seeking something more meaningful for their lives. In fact, they have created purpose and employment opportunities in the poverty stricken city of Detroit, where the government has only lamented for the lost.
This effect continues today. When asked exactly what 'Juggalos' are, the most common answer you can expect to get is 'family'. ICP have created for their fans a sense of unity and belonging rarely achieved—whether in music, community organizations, or even religious institutions. They have fostered a sense of meaning and purpose for countless youth—often as disenfranchised and wayward as the two Clowns were in their early life.
It is true that throughout their music, there have been themes of violence, misogyny, and even gang affiliation. In point of fact, in the song 'Gang Related', Violent J states it in unambiguous terms: 'Do you rep the Hatchetman—you're in a gang!'.
Now surely to the wise men and women of the US court system, this is as clear a confession as you could ever ask for. But the funny thing about art is that what is said is not always meant to be taken literally—that's the beauty of metaphor after all. This point is not some foreign notion, nor is it a stretch to expect the good people of the judicial system to maintain this basic understanding of the creative process. In his song 'Nebraska', Bruce Springsteen admits to the mindless killing of ten individuals, but it's unlikely he will ever be summoned before a jury on those charges, isn't it?
Ultimately, the 'Gang' designation placed on the Juggalos is an affront to freedom of expression. What's more, considering the incredible work ICP have done to improve the city of Detroit, and how their work has saved innumerable people from the gang life, it seems rather akin to striking at the hand that's doing your work.
If the government had the clairvoyance to provide for its citizens in an informed and just way, it may be we would see far fewer people so devoid of meaning and desperate to belong. As it is however, we must simply embrace the power of music (and all metaphor) to provide these intrinsic human needs, and fight doggedly against any judicial ruling which seeks to punish the well-intentioned for fear that their decency would unveil the system's own complacency.
So fight on ICP! The Juggalos—and the artistic world moreover—are behind you. The Wicked Clowns will never die!


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The following guest post comes to us via Edna Meza Aguirre, regional associate development director for Planned Parenthood Arizona. Edna is a native Tucsonan, bilingual and bicultural. She received her JD from the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law and worked in the area of criminal defense for 12 years before changing careers. Edna is in her 16th year of volunteering at the University of Arizona Medical Center's neonatal intensive care unit helping comfort newborn babies.
The neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) I volunteer in is among the best in the country. It is known nationwide for the cutting-edge research and techniques that not only save the life of a premature baby, but encourage that same infant to thrive.
The moment the delivery health care staff senses the as-yet unborn child is in stress, the amazing doctors, nurses, and respiratory therapists are on the scene in the delivery room. As in a well-coordinated symphony, the lifesaving process begins. Through the priceless intervention of these medical professionals, I have seen babies born blue return to a normal color. I have seen listless children born with no sign of life emerge back into this world through the medicine and touch of these professionals. I've seen sobbing parents struggling with this difficult reality as hospital staff explain the problem at hand with caring words and a gentle tone.
There isn't a single parent who isn't deeply emotionally affected by watching their vulnerable baby receive treatment.
Premature birth, also called preterm birth, occurs when a baby is born before the pregnancy has reached 37 weeks, and affects 1 out of every 10 babies born in the United States. Because the last few weeks of pregnancy are so crucial to a baby's development, being born too early can lead to death or disabilities, such as breathing, vision, or hearing problems, as well as cerebral palsy and developmental delays. Treatment can sometimes depend on how premature the baby is. With a normal gestation period of 40 weeks, a premature baby might be born at 25 weeks, 30 weeks, etc. This time frame can be calculated easily enough with mothers who are receiving prenatal care.
The following guest post comes to us via Cynthia.
Breastfeeding is the most natural, rewarding, challenging, frustrating, amazing, and empowering thing I have ever done. While I was in my second trimester of pregnancy, I was starting to make all kinds of decisions about how I wanted to care for my baby, including diapers, daycare, pediatrician, and breastfeeding. After doing the research and talking to other women about breastfeeding, I decided it was the best decision for me. There are amazing benefits.
I was referred to a lactation consultant. I called this woman my fairy milk mother.
In fact, there are so many great benefits the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has a health initiative around breastfeeding and recommends that babies be breastfed through 6 months of age. A breastfed baby gets a nutritional superfood (to use a popular phrase) that is so dense with beneficial vitamins, minerals, and fats that the list of ingredients is long enough to fill several sheets of paper (women's bodies are pretty spectacular).
Breast milk is powerful stuff, too. Studies show that breast milk will boost the immune system of the baby and benefit the mother's health as well, in addition to reducing her chance of breast cancer. Additionally, breastfeeding reduces the rate of SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) and future obesity for infants as they go into childhood and adulthood. Oh, and breastfeeding helps a mom shed her pregnancy pounds quicker — bonus!


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Word of Windsor bar owner's reward for patrons who don't drink and drive goes viral
Windsor's John O'Kane wasn't comfortable with the sudden notoriety after becoming a hero of the anti-drunk driving movement, until learning the tragic tale of stranger in Washington, D.C.
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Jul 13, 2015 • July 13, 2015 • 3 minute read
John O'Kane, owner of John Max Sports &; Wings on July 13, 2015 in Windsor, Ont. O'Kane is shown at the Lauzon Parkway address, one of two John Max locations in Windsor. He became an Internet celebrity after putting notes and gift cards on cars left in his parking lot to thank people for not drinking and driving. (JASON KRYK/The Windsor Star)
O'Kane, who owns John Max Sports & Wings
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, has become an Internet celebrity after putting notes and gift cards on cars left in his parking lot to thank people for not drinking and driving. The act garnered so much attention that O'Kane, who doesn't care for the spotlight, decided he likely wouldn't do it anymore.
Then he received an email from Steve Wenzel, a stranger from Washington, D.C., whose 58-year-old father was killed by a drunk driver.
John O'Kane, owner of John Max Sports & Wings, shown at his Lauzon Parkway bar on July 13, 2015 in Windsor, became an Internet celebrity after putting notes and gift cards on cars left in his parking lot to thank people for not drinking and driving. (JASON KRYK/The Windsor Star)
"I just came across this picture online and was incredibly touched," Wenzel wrote. "I'm not sure if you do this all the time or this was a one-time thing but I applaud your morals.… I just want to thank you for promoting responsible drinking. You just might have saved someone else's life."
O'Kane first put thank-you notes on cars, which people had left at the Lauzon Road location of his restaurant, on July 3.
"Please accept this as a thank you for being responsible," he wrote. "Life is valuable, have a wonderful weekend."
With the letter, he included a $20 gift card and a voucher for two hours of free volleyball. The Lauzon Parkway restaurant has beach volleyball facilities.
Somebody posted a picture of the letter online.
"It started to go viral right away that weekend," said O'Kane. "I couldn't believe the response."
He did it again the following Friday, around 7 a.m.
"By noon, it was everywhere," said O'Kane. "Yahoo called me for an interview on Friday. Then over the weekend it's just grown and grown."
People have been posting the letter and talking about it on forums including Reddit, Imgur and Facebook. Yahoo News wrote a story about him. Hot 89.9 FM in Ottawa also posted the letter.
O'Kane got the idea a few months ago from one of his wife's friends who saw something similar on Pinterest. After that, he started noticing that customer cars were still in his lots when he arrived at 6:45 a.m.
"So I thought this is the perfect time to go write a letter and thank these responsible patrons," said O'Kane.
He didn't think much about what he was doing.
A thank-you letter to Scott Defoe from John Max Sports Bar owner, John O'kane.
"I just felt like it was the right thing to do, so I did it and I went back to work," said O'Kane.
Shortly after, friends and family started telling O'Kane — who isn't on Facebook — that word was spreading about his kind gesture. Then reporters started calling.
"The response we got from the public on this is really touching," said O'Kane. "It's overwhelming."
He was starting to get uncomfortable with all the attention and didn't think he would do it again, until he received an email Sunday from Wenzel.
"I was very moved by it," Wenzel told The Star Monday. "I never heard of a bar owner doing something like this. I was moved by it because of what happened to my father."
On July 25, 2009, Wenzel's father Russell was killed by a drunk driver. Wenzel's mother was battling cancer. There was a complication. Russell took his wife on a late night trip to the hospital. Afterwards, while they were headed home, a drunk driver slammed head-on into their car.
"My father was killed probably instantly," said Wenzel. "My mom made it out alive with critical injuries, to say the least."
John Max Sports & Wings on Lauzon Parkway on July 13, 2015 in Windsor, Ontario. (JASON KRYK/The Windsor Star)
He said O'Kane should be applauded for encouraging customers to make the right decision about drinking and driving.
"One decision is what killed my father," said Wenzel. "He may not be able to affect 1,000 people, but he may be able to affect three or four people and one of those may save someone's life. Down the line, somebody's going to change their decision to drink and drive."
O'Kane said the email from Wenzel was all the encouragement he needed.
"I'll keep doing the program for the simple fact I'm touching people like that," he said.
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Detroit, MI (August 20, 2012) - The GM Foundation today announced a $50,000 grant to the National Kidney Foundation for its continued efforts to prevent kidney disease and educate the public about risk factors and early detection.
The check was presented at the Detroit stop of the NKF Golf Classic. The annual tournament series of 40 events across the United States draws thousands of amateur golfers to compete for a chance to play at the celebrated Pebble Beach Resorts while raising funds and awareness for the disease. More than $80 million has been raised for the kidney foundation community since the tournament's inception in 1987.
The grant will support the foundation's Kidney Early Evaluation Program, which provides basic free tests to determine kidney function for those most at risk. More than 175,000 people have been screened since the program started.
Since its inception in 1976, the GM Foundation has donated hundreds of millions of dollars to American charities, educational organizations and to disaster relief efforts worldwide. The GM Foundation focuses on supporting Education, Health and Human Services, Environment and Energy and Community Development initiatives, mainly in the communities where GM operates. Funding of the GM Foundation comes solely from GM. The last contribution to the GM Foundation was made in 2001. For more information, visit www.gm.com/corporate/responsibility/community.


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How this technology helps boats fly almost like a plane
Hydrofoils are a rather incredible piece of technology that enable boats to lift out of the water. This removes the contact between the water and the hull of the boat, allowing them to reach high speeds. The idea of a hydrofoil has been around for decades but only recently has it been more widely applied in activities like sailing. Traditional sailboats use a keel to keep them balanced in the water as the wind pushes against the sail. This is essentially a counterweight in the water. A hydrofoil replaces the keel with a wing-shaped structure, which pushes down under the water and generates lift as the boat moves forwards and water rushes over it. As water is much denser than air, the rate of lift is about 1,000 times greater than that of a plane wing. At a high enough speed this will cause enough lift to raise the boat out of the water. Too much speed and the water under the boat will churn, causing it to stall and fall back into the water. Too little speed, however, and not enough lift will be generated. When used optimally, hydrofoils can enable a boat to go three-times faster than the wind speed. Often made from carbon fibre, hydrofoils must be raised, lowered and tilted in order to get the optimal amount of lift and speed.The use of hydrofoils has progressed quite a bit over the last few years. They had fallen out of favour for more general use due to their complexity and cost. However, they have recently been used in sporting contests like the America's Cup, one of the world's most prestigious sailboat competitions.
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How hydrofoils enable the Land Rover BAR to lift out of the water
Size – The sail measures a huge 23.5m tall, while the boat itself is 8.5m wide and 15m long.
Weight – The whole boat weighs about 2,400kg and took 35,000 hours to build.
Power – A crew of six generates 1,200 watts of power to operate the boat.
Hydrofoils – Two hydrofoils, one under each side, allow the boat to generate lift as it speeds forward.
Communication – The British BAR team use bone conduction technology — where sound is generated as vibrations in the skull — to communicate while sailing.
Sensors – The BAR team uses 190 sensors and four video cameras in order to monitor their boat.
Speed – Hydrofoils can enable speeds of up to 100kph — three times that of the wind.
Lift – One side of the boat can be raised out of the water by altering the hydrofoils, enabling sharp turns.
The first hydrofoil was built in 1906 by Italian Enrico Forlanini, enabling him to reach speeds of 68kph.
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Humaid Yousuf Al-Ajmani is a Committee Member at the Abdulaziz Bin Humaid Leadership Program. Since 2013, Mr Al-Ajmani has served as Head of the Business Transformation Office at Etisalat UAE, helping to shape the telecommunications giant's corporate strategy and develop its long term business transformation plan. He has been responsible for guiding the department's business operations modernisation to help cope with shifts in the market environment.
He was previously on the company's Care Strategic Development Program, being selected from the top high potential employees to working alongside McKinsey & Company, the global management consultancy, in leading initiatives to transform Etisalat's customer experience. He comes with long experience in the company's 'Mobile Network Operations' and 'Operation & Maintenance Center-Radio' departments.
Mr Al-Ajmani has also been closely involved in social work: he is co-founder and board member of the Al-Ajmani Charity Foundation, established in Ajman in 2013. His passion on the social contribution derived him to developed several workshops on emotional intelligence and personnel development and also delivered TedTalk in TedxAjman on the subject of "Change begins from within", illustrating a self-story of personal development to motivate young people and new college graduates.
He was selected by Sheikh Abdulaziz Bin Humaid Al Nuaimi to be a committee member of the ALP in 2014/15 after spending a year voluntarily helping to design and run the program. Mr Al-Ajmani holds Master of Science in Engineering Systems Management and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from the American University of Sharjah. He is a certified Project Management Professional from the Project Management Institute in Pennsylvania, USA.
Engineer Marwan Bin Ghalita is the Chief Executive Officer of RERA in Dubai, which is responsible for organizing and equipping the Emirate's real estate environment. Moreover, he is part of the Government Advisory Board of the Federal National Council. He has gradated in a variety of positions during his work in the Land Department and contributed to developing and implementing the strategy of the real estate market in the Emirate of Dubai. He has chaired and participated in many of the specialized committees drafting Dubai's real estate laws.
Engineer Marwan has received many awards and honours, and was selected in the list of 500 most influential Arab figures in 2012, where he was honoured with the award for Best Administrative Officer at the level of Dubai Government in 2007. He has also received a completion certificate from the Mohammed Bin Rashid Program for young leadership development and Government leadership development. He has participated – and still participates – in several committees within the strategy of the Dubai government team, including the Economic Commission of the Government of Dubai, the financial crises committee, the Urban Planning committee, the Geographic Information Systems committee and the Land Affairs committee.
Engineer Marwan has also contributed to the knowledge transfer of real estate management by representing the Emirate as a speaker at numerous conferences and seminars, regional and international – including the Economic Forum in Germany and Japan, and the real estate investment conferences in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Turkey. He holds a Master's degree in Business Administration and Bachelor's degree in Surveying Engineering from Fresno University (California, United States).
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Inas Abu Shashieh is a Committee Member at the Abdulaziz Bin Humaid Leadership Program. She is also the Program Director, drawing upon her considerable experience designing and delivering various projects targeting young people in the Arab region.
Mrs Abu Shashieh is an experienced project manager in the management consultancy industry, internationally certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP) by PMI. Since 2013, she has been Corporate Services Director at Ajman Holding. In this role, she has held numerous responsibilities: establishing the company's corporate services to its subsidiaries, establishing policies and procedures, defining potential investment opportunities and evaluating them to the Board of Directors, and overseeing the rebranding of the company's subsidiaries, among others. Prior to her current role, Mrs Abu Shashieh was PMO Manager at Ajman, coming to the company after serving as Project Manager at Compass Rose. Before that, she served as Gender Integration, Workforce and Youth Development Specialist at the USAID Economic Development Project, designing a Labour Force Study in the Mafraq governorate in Jordan, and managing grants for women's and youth's organisations. She has also worked at Shabakat Al Ordon / NetCorps Jordan as a Project Manager, at the USAID AMIR Program as a Consultant, and at the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology.
Mrs Abu Shashieh graduated from the Princess Sumaya University of Technology with a BA in Computer Science, attaining an Excellent grade. She was awarded Princess Sumya's award for Distinguished Students in 2005, and the King Abduallah Award for Distinguished Student in IT (Higher Council of Youth, in Amman, Jordan) in 2004.
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Come about quarter past seven the wind came in, and of course it shifted. It came in very thoroughly and very variably f3-5, maybe gusting more and shifting all over the place with very harsh gust onslaught: I can only assume there was some kind of big cumulo-nimbus cell above us, but frankly I was too busy trying to stop the Canoe's bow from exploring the depths to look... My sources tell me that nothing spectacular happened at Queen Mary just a few miles away. Anyway I wasn't the only one: at least one Laser sailor commented that even his boat was attempting to go down the mine*. Quite where the wind had gone round to I really wasn't quite sure: I was having enough trouble hearing sound signals and working out when the start was... A limited slow boat fleet saw Mike and Alex Storey's National leaving: they at least appeared to have the situation under control. Kevin Pearson and Rob Sumner took an early lead amongst the Lasers with the start somewhat complicated by a particularly big gust blowing the committee boat off station! They were back in time for a somewhat straggly fast boat start as those of us who hadn't got the time right realised that we needed to be crossing the line. The late starters were joined by the Storeys, who must have hurtled round the first lap in something well under seven minutes... I really didn't expect to have to unlap myself on a Wednesday night race!
As for race incidents themselves: your correspondent was busily engaged in continual gear changing and attempting to keep the flappy bits upright: I hardly noticed what other folk were doing... I went up the first beat with most of the sail bladed out and only the bottom battens drawing... Others didn't keep the tin above the plastic from time to time, I did notice that much. I also noted that Kevin Pearson was an awful long way in front of me in his Laser, and that Carl Mayhew was easily leading the 200s, and, having started on time, took a bit of catching... The wind had gone round sufficiently that there was a one sided beat, two deep reaches and a semi fetch, which might seem a bit boring, but believe me, for the first three or four laps there was enough entertainment for everyone... On one lap, for instance, I approached the end of the fetch in a big gust and a few boat to lengths to windward of a Laser, who might well have wanted to tack for the mark. He got the unconventional-and-not-in-the-rule-book hail of "please don't tack, I don't know if I can respond!"
After that the wind dropped off considerably, so having spent the first two laps desperately dumping power the last two were spent desperately hunting for it... Isn't it strange how once you've set the boat up for max depower it never seems right when you power it up again, even if all the numbers on the strings look right? Or is it just me? Anyway the initial laps had scattered the fleets comprehensively as you can see from the finish times and especially the number of laps recorded in the results... The Twelve did us all comprehensively: they were about 30 seconds short of having a lower elapsed time than *all* the supposedly faster boats... Kevin was second on the water and on handicap, whilst Carl Mayhew picked up third, Rob Pettit 4th, July Harrison (in an RS200) 5th and your editor 6th with the Canoe. The personal handicap was a bit less close than normal too: Alisdair MacLean won, breaking Ian Hamilton's run of firsts in the Xenon, with the Storey's second, Canoe third, Ian H 4th, Kevin P 5th and Dave Baldwin (Laser) 6th.


Climate indicators and country risk ratings developed by the University of Notre Dame Global Adaptation Index (ND-GAIN) will be instrumental in a new partnership announced Tuesday (Feb. 25) whose goal is to develop the Climate Change Risk Management (CCRM) application.
This application, which will enable large corporations to quickly map and quantify global supply chain risks due to climate change, leverages climate indicators and country risk ratings developed by ND-GAIN, the world's leading research index showing which countries are best prepared to deal with climate disruption and other global shifts. Four Twenty Seven, a climate consultancy based in the San Francisco Bay area, has partnered with supply chain assessment experts from Climate Earth Inc. to develop the enterprise-quality application. The announcement was made at the Climate Leadership Conference in San Diego.
The 2014 World Economic Forum called climate change an "economically disruptive force," and climate-related risks have risen on the agenda of global corporations in the past years. In Davos, Switzerland, in February, Jim Yong Kim, president of the World Bank, called on corporate leaders to take action: "Be the first mover. Use smart due diligence. … It's simple self-interest. Every company, investor and bank that screens new and existing investments for climate risk is simply being pragmatic." Business giants Coca-Cola Co. and Nike were recently featured in the New York Times as taking proactive measures to assess and prepare for climate-related disruptions in their supply chain.
This new CCRM application is the first in the industry to provide comprehensive mapping and modeling of climate change risk for every commodity across the entire supply chain. Typically implemented in 90 days or fewer, the CCRM application models all the goods and services that are hidden deep in a company's supply chain and provides a quantitative assessment of the carbon, energy and water footprint associated with making its products and running its business. It also maps the country of origin from these goods and services, and provides users with an assessment of the exposure to the physical impacts of climate change.
"Companies need better tools to understand and act on climate risks. This application is a first foray into delivering climate intelligence to corporate leaders to support business resilience," said Emilie Mazzacurati, managing director of Four Twenty Seven.
"We are delighted to be partnering with the expert consultants at Four Twenty Seven, and to have the opportunity to integrate ND-GAIN data into our core supply chain modeling system. Together we offer a powerful and innovative solution to help companies better understand and manage the rapidly growing risk of supply chain disruption due to climate change," said Chris Erickson, a veteran Fortune 500 leader and president and CEO of Climate Earth.
"Corporate leaders are seeing more and more physical risks from climate change impacting their value chains," said Joyce Coffee, managing director of the Notre Dame Global Adaptation Index. "Embedding the Notre Dame Global Adaptation Index, a free and open source platform, in CCRM will help decision-makers better understand their future risks and opportunities, thereby unlocking corporate adaptation solutions that save lives and improve livelihoods while strengthening market positions."
Climate Earth's Platform for Integrated Management provides a solution for systematically informing strategy and managing sustainable enterprise by linking an organization's financial transaction data to environmental impact data in an enterprise-quality and scalable database.
Find us one scientist that agrees a crisis WILL happen or is "inevitable" or anything beyond; "could be".
Science has proven evolution, smoking causing cancer and "eventual" "comet hits but not their own 31 year old comet hit of a climate change crisis. Science did not lie, you "believers" exaggerated "consensus".
The 2014 World Economic Forum called climate change an "economically disruptive force," and climate-related risks have risen on the agenda of global corporations in the past years.
"Corporate leaders are seeing more and more physical risks from climate change impacting their value chains,"
"Use smart due diligence. … It's simple self-interest. Every company, investor and bank that screens new and existing investments for climate risk is simply being pragmatic"
You climate change deniers must be uninformed or just don't have much going on upstairs.