Work Out and Get Rid of Arthritis Pain!
Does arthritis hurt you a lot? Arthritis has become a common illness that people face these days. Earlier, it was just the elder citizen who faced this issue. Now, there isn't any particular age group for this illness to occur. In current generation, you can even find youngster suffering from this arthritis. People run behind severe medication to get rid of the pain caused due to arthritis. Most of them are unaware of the fact that exercise is the best way to get rid of arthritis to a great extent. Performing exercise daily will provide you great relief from the pain caused due to arthritis.
Performing exercise for arthritis provides you various benefits. Even the physicians recommend their patients to work out daily for relief from the pain. Choosing the best exercise for people with arthritis will fetch you best results.
Doing exercise once in a while is not sufficient to get relief from the pain. You need to perform the exercise on regular basis to get the desired results. There are different types of exercises that you need to do to relieve yourself from pain. Few of the best exercise for people with arthritis are given below. Try implementing this exercise daily to feel the difference. Scroll down to know more about it.
This resistance cables help you in strengthening your tendons and muscles. With resistance cables, you can perform exercise, which are done with free weights or on the machine. Few best cables exercise for arthritis include bicep curls, chest flies, cable squats, cable scaption, rows, side oblique lifts and bicep curls. In addition to these, working out on core exercises like cobras and crunches will work out your complete body.
Stretching exercise and range of motion has to be done daily in order to keep the joints flexible and limber. Few people have a misapprehension that range of motion and stretching cause injury to your body. Yet, it is not so. Performing warm up before this exercise will hinder the chance of injuries. The exercise to increase your range of motion include rolling and lifting of shoulders, bending backwards and to sides, reaching overhead and reaching for the toes while in sitting position. This is considered as best exercise for people with arthritis.
Free weight is also best exercise for people with arthritis. Dumbbells, wrist weights, ankle weights and barbells include under the category of free weights. If your arthritis pain restricts you from going ahead with free weights, try using ankle weight, wrist weight and dumbbells as they will not be dropped from your hand. In addition, you also need to perform hamstring curls, chest presses, lat raises, bicep curls, and triceps extensions to get the best results.
So, perform regular exercise to get complete relief from arthritis pain.


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Piedmont: New school opening at Zion site
By Vallejo Times-Herald |
PUBLISHED: August 5, 2015 at 12:00 a.m. | UPDATED: September 7, 2018 at 12:00 a.m.
PIEDMONT — The Renaissance International School (TRIS) in Oakland is opening a second campus at 5201 Park Blvd., Piedmont, the site of the former Zion Lutheran School, which closed last year.
The Montessori-model TRIS opened its first campus in the Dimond District in 1992 and currently has about 150 students in preschool through middle school.
"We open our new location on Sept. 1, the first day of school," said Leslie Hites, head of school and the school"s founder. "Children in preschool through kindergarten will remain at the Dimond campus and children in first through ninth grades will attend the Park Boulevard campus."
Hites said the campus at 3650 Dimond Ave. will continue to house administration offices and possibly an infant program down the line.
TRIS opted to lease the 10,000-square-foot Park Boulevard building after another school that was considering the location dropped out. Hites said she only learned in mid-June that the site was available and decided to seize the opportunity. Some renovations are scheduled in August to be completed by the first day of school.
"Montessori classrooms are typically more spacious because we use a lot of beautiful didactic materials to help students understand what they"re learning," Hites said. "So, we are knocking down some adjoining walls between classrooms — this is going to be the fastest renovation that has ever taken place."
TRIS, which draws the majority of its students from the Oakland hills area, as well as Piedmont, San Leandro, Alameda and Castro Valley and offers students and families a different educational pathway, according to Hites.
"It"s a different option, particularly for students who are looking for more and love learning, languages, fine arts and music," Hites said. "We offer multilingual education at all age levels."
Both English and a choice of French or Spanish are taught in preschool (age 2 and up) through kindergarten. Students in grades one through nine are immersed in all three languages.
"Depending on the grade level, we have two or three teachers in the classroom at all times, who are Montessori-trained native speakers," said Hites, adding that class size varies from 25 to 30 students.
TRIS also offers annual trips abroad for students in fifth grade and up. Last year, 13 students from the school attended the Montessori Model United Nations (MMUN) conference in Zhengzhou, China. Another convoy of TRIS students will attend the 2016 MMUN conference, this time in Chile.
Hites said the new location will provide the space to expand all class levels, from preschool to middle school.
"The Piedmont site is a great asset to our school, and meets the needs of our growing student body," Hites said.
For more information about The Renaissance International School, visit http://www.therenaissanceschool.org or call 510-531-8566.
Vallejo Times-Herald
Cal State officials approve much-needed affordable housing plans for students
Woman charged with felony elder abuse following death of 94-year-old at senior care facility

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Aspiring home buyers looking to get their first step in the property ladder, families looking for their next move, or those looking to down-size, will be able to sit down with independent financial advisers on hand during the day to explain the different aspects of buying a home, as well as offering free, private consultations.
Home buyers with a property to sell will be able to take advantage of the Moving Made Easy scheme, which takes care of manging the sale of a buyer's current house from start to finish. Consultants will be available on-site, with their fees paid for by Latimer and Westerhill Homes, meaning buyers can reserve and hold their new chosen home at Conningbrook Lakes.
The government-backed Help to Buy Equity Loan Scheme is also available on many of the properties at Conningbrook Lakes, meaning first time buyers can make their move with just a 5% deposit.
To book your appointment, contact the sales team on 01233 215.


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Two weeks ago I attended TechEd here in Australia as a guest of Microsoft. It was a great experience which has already resulted in two published interviews, here and here, with more to follow. Here's a short post about my experiences of TechEd and why you should attend next year if you haven't been already.
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Eric Gordon (2009) writes of "network locality – the experience of interacting with located data within the perceived infinity of global access" (p. 22). The smartphone, alongside the rise of digital mapping systems such as Google Maps and Open Street Maps, has seen the increasing need for people to locate their activities. Photographs can be geo-located, capturing places frozen in time, and we can now log-in to virtual equivalents of shops, work buildings, or our own homes with applications such as FourSquare and Gowalla. Each of these instances is only possible through an underlying network of global connections. However, in doing so, they are also changing the mapped narrative of local areas.
The map is more than a means of seeking directions, but allows for a visualisation of data in various formats. This paper will focus on mapped data collected from areas local to the GPS co-ordinates of each data collection. FourSquare places, ephemeral geo-located tweets and geotagged photographs will be visualised against a background of a local map. Each area will be defined in terms of a community or town, and will be viewed as an isolated snapshot, depicted as a miniature mapped landscape in amongst the surrounding area.
The project seeks to understand the changing landscape of each local area by analysing what John Pickles (2004) defines as "socio-spatial identities" that he sees to be the basis of many contemporary maps as "digital mapping has begun to influence many more domains of social life" (p. 10). Whereas most location-based applications seek to define the user's position in amongst a global network, this project examines the changing narratives of the local area through numerous check-ins, tweets and images. The changing nature of the map is captured at different points in time as a way of analysing the ephemeral landscape of data depicting the opinions, locations and imagery left as digital memories or tokens by those within the area. The narrative of place takes precedence over the identity of the user as places and spaces are re-examined in light of this user-generated content.
Gordon, E. (2009). 'Redefining the Local: The distinction between located information and local knowledge in location-based games', in de Souza e Silva, A & Sutko, E. Digital Cityscapes. New York: Peter Lang.
Pickles, J. (2004). A History of Spaces: Cartographic reason, mapping and the geo-coded world. London: Routledge.
"In the ancient city of Llasa it is common to see a throng of people circumambulating the sacred precincts…I have followed the circular flow of the pilgrim's movements …While walking and praying in the yak-butter-lit, mystical space, the pilgrims appeared transported into an enhanced, symbolic world – an augmented reality." Czegledy, N. 2005. On Spatial Perception, Proboscis.
A range of recent location based media projects and practices involve navigating landscapes layered or augmented with personal, social or historical meaning. In what ways do they echo and intersect with older cultural practices involving spatialised narrative and the walking of a meaningful landscape – the practice of pilgrimage? This paper will explore pilgrimage as a form of spatial narrative, in both European and Asian culture, and the ways in which earlier notions of walking a meaningful landscape might inform emerging location based and augmented reality practices. The paper will draw upon a range of walked, pilgrimage-style experiences, including the 88 Temple Buddhist pilgrimage on the Japanese island of Shikoku, and more secular practices describing journeys to sites of collective / cultural significance, as well as make reference to selected work-in-progress materials from Heyward's current creative work, Pilgrim.
With the enormous rise in uptake of iPhone and Android enabled phones over the last eighteen months, increasingly museums and other cultural institutions are seeking to bring cultural contents to mobile audiences in meaningful ways. Easily accessible mobile apps such as Layar and Junaio readily allow virtual annotation of the environment, however, issues of engagement and motivation can be problematic for both practitioners and audiences. While FourSquare and SCVNGR utilise challenge and reward models to maximise audience participation, religious and secular pilgrimage practices across many cultures continue to engage people in complex and challenging conceptual and physical journeys, taking place across extended periods of time, and traversing considerable geographic spaces. This paper explores spatialised, walked narrative in location based media and in pilgrimage practice, and the potential intersections, echoes and challenges that artists and cultural practitioners might encounter in developing locative and augmented media projects.
The paper presents case studies of early locative media art projects drawing connections to popular commercial location aware mobile applications. It will be argued that their influence goes beyond the specifics of similarities in approach between particular applications and artworks but rather represents a fundamental conceptual shift in thinking about location which has far reaching implications for the future of location-aware applications.
From its inception locative media has set itself the task of defining a mode of operation for emergent locative technologies. This approach emphasises the technology's ability to augment space through revealing hidden histories and layers of meanings and associations which foreground the rich lived experience of place. It will be proposed that this approach of locative media has shifted the locative agenda from an emphasis on cartesian position to a more user-centred focus on location as the locus of lived experience.
In the past year location-aware mobile phone apps and services have become mainstream with the rise of locative social networking services like FourSquare, place based narratives such as Soundwalks and a plethora of location-aware information services typified by Yelp. The paper will trace a connection between the user-centred idea of place at the heart of these applications and the concept of place espoused and developed in locative media art demonstrating that this approach stands in stark contrast to the native cartesianism of GPS and other locative technologies. I propose that this is not coincidental and in fact represents the agency of locative media in shaping these emergent technologies.
While location-aware services and applications may not have made their much anticipated breakthrough in 2010 there is no doubt that location will play a significant role in the future of the mobile internet. This paper argues that this agency of locative media points toward a framework for the consideration of art engaging with emergent technologies.
Locative arts could be better described as relational arts, as very few artworks created using GPS or other location data address location as such, but rather movement, relationships between participants, relation to place and its multiple histories. As such, locative arts conceptually demap location as a Cartesian dot on a geographical scale and suggest that sites are experienced as they are performed, visited, and played at.
Paradoxically, locative used to mean stationary, not in movement in military discourse. In several languages the locative case indicates "a place where". And indeed, locative arts share that preposition, bringing participants to places where they play, discover, learn, and communicate. In other words, to experience locative arts, you have to be on the move, and not locative.
In my talk, based on three years of research I will discuss locative art projects by Blast Theory, Christian Nold and Esther Polak as practices of demapping location and offering ways to perform sensory and social relations.
The growing amount of user-generated data is a sign for the society's dependence on digital networks. Not surprisingly the rapid development of technology is mirrored as well in arts. The virtual environment is an inspiration and as well a working medium for many creative people.
The aim of the paper is to introduce a different approach for the interpretation and usage of geo-located social data and real-time web. To be more precise, the art project described here can be categories as a real-time and mixed reality art piece. We are proposing an innovative and artistic way for applying geo-located social data for describing a city's pace of life. Our concerns are about the malleability of the digital world to the physical one, and the interpretation of social data for artistic purposes.
The goal of the art project is to metaphorically describe the locations by extracting geo-tagged content and translating it into a rhythm of physical metronome in real time. In short, a metronome represents a city. The installation consists from the 10 modified metronomes whose rhythms correspond to the selected cities' the digital pace of life of. The audience is given a chance to discover and experience an alternative way of perceiving different locations through a continuous performance of 10 metronomes.
To put in a nutshell, "The Rhythm of City" is an art installation that explains in original way digital geo-located social content and characterizes cities. Even more, the work is an ongoing performance that embraces different locations, digital social data, and physical kinetic motion.
The second part of the paper aims to introduce real-time web as an artistic medium by discussing a number of related artworks.


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Sanour Assembly constituency (Sl. No.: 114) is a Punjab Legislative Assembly constituency in Patiala district, Punjab state, India.

Members of Legislative Assembly

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See also
 List of constituencies of the Punjab Legislative Assembly
 Patiala district

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1. "Magnetic field dependence of blocking temperature in monodisperse oleic acid functionalized Iron Oxide nanoparticles", Sanju Tanwar, V.P.S. Awana, Surinder P. Singh, Renu Pasricha, Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism (Springer), 25, 2041-2045(2012).
2. "De-noising Filters for TEM (Transmission Electron Microscopy) Image of Nanomaterials", Himmat S. Kushwaha, Sanju Tanwar, K.S. Rathore, Sumit Srivastava, IEEE Computer Society Digital Library (ACCT), 276-281 (2012).
1. May 11-20, 2015: TEQIP-II sponsored two week faculty development programme on "Teaching Pedagogy and Research", RTU, Kota, Rajasthan, India.2. October 21-25, 2013: One week short term training program on "Research Methodology and Design of experiments", Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.
3. October 7-9, 2013: TEQIP sponsored short term course on "MEMS design technologies and applications", University College of Engineering, RTU, Kota, Rajasthan, India.
4. July 1-5, 2013: One week short term course on "Structure, properties and applications of engineering Materials", Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.
5. November 24, 2012: "National workshop on Recent Trends in Physical sciences RTPS-2012", Vivekananda Institute of Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.
6. March 13-16, 2012: "International Conference and Workshop on Nanostructure Ceramics and other Nanomaterials", Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi,New Delhi, India.
7. January 7-8, 2012: "Second International Conference on Advanced Computing &Communication Technologies", R. C. Education Society, Rohtak, India.
8. January 9-21, 2011: "Winter School on Recent Trends in Physics of Atoms, Molecules and Lasers (Under UGC Networking Programme)", Banaras Hindu University, Banaras, India.
9. January 6-9, 2011: "National Conference and Workshop on Modern Communication Systems and Nanotechnology", Centre for Converging Technologies, University Of Rajasthan, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.
10. December 2-3, 2010: "International Interdisciplinary Science Conference on Nanobiotechnology", Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Basic Sciences, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India.
11. June 24-26, 2010: "National Seminar on Nanomaterials for Devices: Characterization and Applications", Department of Physics, University of Pune and Department of Applied Physics, Defence Institute of Advanced Technology, Pune, India.
12. May 18-20, 2010: "National Seminar on Water Auditing", University Of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India.
1. Faculty co-ordinator "National workshop on Recent Trends in Physical sciences RTPS-2012", Vivekananda Institute of Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, November 24, 2012.


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Turkish soldier killed, 4 wounded by PKK attack in southeastern Turkey
A Turkish soldier was killed and four others were wounded in an armed attack carried out by PKK terrorists at the Gerkitepe Base defense zone in the district of Çukurca in southeastern Hakkari province, the Turkish military said on Thursday.
The attack took place around 9:15 p.m. local time on Wednesday, the statement said, adding that the four wounded soldiers were not in critical condition.
Founded in 1978, the PKK has waged a decades long bloody campaign against Turkey.
The PKK - listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the U.S., and the EU - resumed its armed campaign in July 2015 after a brief reconciliation period.
Since then, the PKK has been responsible for the deaths of some 1,200 security personnel and civilians, including women and children, while more than 4,000 security personnel and over 2,000 civilians have been injured.
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Nikki shares her journey of being diagnosed with generalised anxiety disorder (GAD), and preparing for a 34 mile trek across extreme terrains to raise money for better mental health.
It was last October, a few days before my 38th birthday. I was sitting cross-legged in my husband's arm chair. He was at the pub, playing his Tuesday game of darts. The kids were asleep upstairs. Even the German Shepherd, my only protector, had retreated to her bed. I felt completely alone. And the anxiety built.
I've suffered from anxiety for nine years. It appeared on my doorstep, like an unwelcome guest, alongside its friend depression. Following the birth of my son, I suffered from post-natal depression and panic attacks. Both were so severe I had to be hospitalised for more than two months. While I beat the depression the anxiety still lingers. In the summer of 2018, I was diagnosed with generalised anxiety disorder (GAD).
I sat in the armchair with my rising anxiety.
As I sat in the armchair with my rising anxiety, I felt I had to do something to stop it. I started scrolling through the Mind website. It was then that I came across Mind Hike 2019 – the Scottish Isles.
The concept of hiking for 24 hours around the Isle of Arran is not something that has ever crossed my mind. I'm not that physically fit. I walk the dog a few times a week and occasionally go to a fitness class. But something jumped out to me about this hike. On a whim I registered to take part and was accepted.
For the last few months I've been trying to get my mind and body ready for what it will go through. 34 miles across extreme terrains with minimal breaks and no sleep. I'm fairly used to minimal sleep thanks to my 17-month-old. But no sleep. And no toilets. Now that's making me very anxious.
But before I can even think about the mountains I first have to focus on two key tasks that lie ahead: fundraising and training.
Just before Christmas I hosted a fundraising bingo evening at my local pub. This was tougher than I anticipated. It pushed me to do everything that thrusts my anxiety into overdrive.
A selection of festive prizes was needed for the bingo, as well as donations towards a Christmas hamper raffle. This sounded good in theory, until the reality kicked in that I would have to contact all the local businesses, speak to strangers, tell my story verbally and ASK FOR HELP. All the above started to cause a lot of panic. In the beginning there were so many NO's. So many people said, "come back later in the week". I felt completely disheartened, like a failure already.
But I kept trying. I took several deep breaths. I emailed my fundraising story ahead of time to reduce the stress of verbalising it to strangers. I pushed through the anxiety until I had a beautiful selection of prizes. I felt a great sense of achievement and the evening hadn't even begun yet.
When the night arrived, I was a wreck. I had developed severe laryngitis and couldn't speak. My usual, high anxiety symptoms rose to the forefront. I was uncontrollably snappy (which is tough without a voice!), sweaty and obsessed about being late. The what ifs appeared again too.
What if no-one turns up? What if everyone laughs at me? What if I don't make enough money? Oh God, what if I have to do this ALL OVER AGAIN!
With bunting and mince pies at the ready, I passed my thank you for attending blurb over to a friend, who kindly read it out on my behalf. At least there was one advantage to having no voice. The wine (and money) flowed and before I knew it my evening target was reached and doubled. A huge success. I felt an overwhelming sense of gratitude and relief.
With 2019 symbolising a fresh start for myself and my family, I headed off into the January sales to look for my new boots. Husband and children in tow. I've never bought proper hiking boots before. I nervously asked for some help and explained about the hike. Each pair I was presented with, pinched or rubbed in some way or another. Which started to worry me. (Cue the what ifs).
I've started to understand what I've signed myself up for.
I awkwardly climbed the pretend mountain in the shop. All too aware of the silent giggles coming from my family. I pushed my toes forward and rolled my heals back, simulating the ascents and descents I'd be doing on the hike. Feeling my anxiety and embarrassment rising, I decided to get out of there. I bought a pair of boots and questioned my decision the whole way home.
The truth it is, it's only been since I've put the boots on and stepped out into the mud, that I've started to understand what I've signed myself up for.
Mind Hike 2019 is only a few months away.
Each week I'm pushing myself to walk that bit further. I struggle with the what ifs ahead of a walk. Fearful of failing. Terrified of getting lost. But once I've completed it, although I ache, I feel a sense of pride in myself. And that's a feeling I realise I don't feel often. And the anxiety disappears.
Mind Hike 2019 is only a few months away. I'll be there on that Scottish island, challenging myself to the extreme and beating anxiety off with my walking pole.
Nikki is a Mental Health Writer who blogs about her experiences with Anxiety and Depression.


BEARS Quarterly Meeting, Annual Elections & VE Session on July 18th! | BEARS Welcomes You!
Our final quarterly meeting of the 2017 activity year will be held July 18th, 5pm, at ABC News HQ, 47 West 66th Street in Manhattan (between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue).
Thanks to the incredible talent and effort of our Club secretary, Brad Berson/W2ZZZ, BEARS is pleased to announce that electronic nomination & voting is in place for our 2017 Elections.
Only members in good standing registered with the Club by 5pm ET on June 30th, 2017 may participate in the 2017 election process. If you're receiving the BEARFax newsletter, consider yourself a member in good standing.
Our constitution and bylaws specify that only FULL MEMBERS (active or retired employees of The Walt Disney Company, or its subsidiaries) are eligible to hold executive office, act as a director or repeater trustee or serve as repeater control operators.
Committee chairs must also be active or retired TWDC employees. It also goes without saying (we hope) that all executive officers, committee chairs and directors MUST HOLD VALID FCC AMATEUR RADIO LICENSES.
But…committee membership (except for committees established to revise our constitution and bylaws, which are limited to Disney employees or retirees) is open to all members in good standing.
And ALL members in good standing, FULL OR ASSOCIATE, can cast votes for prospective officeholders – and for other Club business – in this or any other election.
It is critically important that we have participation from as many ACTIVE employees as can volunteer, as our repeater systems sit on Company-controlled or Company-leased property. Further, a full slate of elected officers is also required to maintain our legal status as a 501c3 charitable organization under IRS and NYS regulations.
ALL NOMINATIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY 12 Noon ON JULY 12th, 2017 TO BE CONSIDERED VALID. BEARS members should refer to the latest BEARFax (in your e-mail boxes now) for instructions on how to nominate, and vote for, candidates in this year's election.
This year's BALLOT will be announced online and in a special BEARFax or or shortly after July 12th, and must be filed online by 12 Noon ET ON JULY 18th, 2017 TO BE CONSIDERED VALID.
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A Microleo attenboroughi az Ausztráliai korai miocén korszaki erszényesek erszényesoroszlán-félék családjának kistermetű faja, amely a nedves erdőben él, amely körülbelül 18 millió évvel ezelőtt uralta Riversleigh-t. A Microleo nemzetséget jelenleg egy törött szájpadcsontból és két állkapocsból ismerik, amelyek néhány fogat és gyökeret tartalmaznak, amelyek megfelelnek a többi erszényesoroszlán fajnak. A pengeszerű P3 fog, az előmolaris alakja és szerkezete új nemzetségként különböztette meg a fajt. A queenslandi Riversleigh fosszilia lelőhely korai miocén korú lelőhelyein találták, amelyet az egyik legjelentősebb paleontológiai lelőhelynek tartanak.

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Egy kistestű erszényesoroszlánfaj, amely a korai miocén idején élt a Riversleigh-ben. A fajt aprónak tekintették, összehasonlítva a korábban ismert 2–130 kg-os erszényesoroszlánnal, mérete hasonló a Pseudocheirus fajokéhoz.  A húsevő állat körülbelül 18 millió évvel ezelőtt élt a nedves erdős környezetben, és az azonos időszakban élő állatvilág gazdag változatosságát zsákmányolta.

A holotípus egy hiányos szájpadcsont, amely feltárta a családhoz kapcsolódó fogazatot, a késszegű kétpikkelyes P3 fogat és az őrlőfogakat, amelyek alkalmazkodtak az állatok leöléséhez és fogyasztásához. A szájpadlásbeli benyomásból levont premolar morfológiáját arra javasolták, hogy a testvér taxont külön és korábban ismeretlen nemzetségként válasszák szét. A holotípus anyaga a bal felső állcsont részleges maradványaiból áll, amelyek még mindig a második és harmadik moláris (M2 – M3) közvetlen bizonyítékai, a harmadik premoláris gyökerek (P3) - M1, az alveolusok benyomása az M4-nél, a gyökér pedig az arc ívénél. Részleges jobb felső állcsontot is leírnak, megőrizve a P3 – M2 betétet, és feltárva az M1 és P1–2 alveolusokat. Egy másik példányt, a bal M3 paratípust mellékelték paratípusként a Microleo attenboroughi eredeti leírásához.

A M. attenboroughi súlya a becslések szerint körülbelül 600 gramm, a család legkisebb képviselője, de nagyobb ragadozó a korábbi miocén kori gerinces faunája között. A faj előmolarai élesek és hosszúkásak, ezek a hegyes és késélű fogak és a medencéhez hasonló őrlőfogak a családra jellemzőek.

Előfordulás
A "Neville's Garden Site" néven azonosított Riversleigh-képződményekből ismert, más fosszilis fajokban gazdag lelőhely. Az ezen a helyen végzett vizsgálatok radiometrikus dátumtartományt hoztak létre a lerakódás időpontjáig, körülbelül tizennyolc millió évvel korábban (18,24 ± 0,29 millió és 17,85 ± 0,13 millió). A Riversleigh fosszilis területe egy kis régió az ausztrál kontinens északkeleti részén. Amikor a mintát feltárták, és kiderült, hogy a lerakódáskor milyen vízgyűjtő volt, egy a sok közül, amelyek a régiókban mészkő képződményekben alakultak ki, egy nagyon magas csapadékkal és enyhe éghajlattal rendelkező erdőben. A régió éghajlata és ökológiája, amely ma száraz, nyílt erdő és a fű által uralt élőhely, összehasonlítható volt a modern Borneo esőerdőivel. A Riversleigh fauna más típusú erszényesoroszlán nemzetségeket tartalmaz, két nagyobb ragadozót, amelyek egy időben laktak a területen. Ezek a rokon ragadozók versenyezhettek M. attenbouroughival a hasonló zsákmányért, de az állat kisebb mérete valószínűleg lehetővé tette az erdei lombkorona magasabb részeinek elérését. A faj valószínűleg vadászott a rovarok, madarak és gyíkok sokféleségére, amelyek elfoglalták az élőhelyének felső Wakaleo szintjét, miközben a nagyobb ragadozók elérhetetlenné váltak, beleértve a Wakaleo fajokhoz hasonló kapcsolatokat is.

Jegyzetek

Fordítás

További információk
 Microleo attenboroughi: Ausztráliában előkerült erszényes oroszlán új fajai
 "Egy kipusztult, 600 grammos" mikrooroszlánt "fedeztek fel Ausztráliában."

Fosszilis erszényesek
Ausztrália állatvilága a miocénben


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Areerat Intadis (* 10. März 1996 in Ratchaburi) ist eine thailändische Leichtathletin, die sich auf das Kugelstoßen spezialisiert hat.

Sportliche Laufbahn
Erste internationale Erfahrungen sammelte Areerat Intadis bei den Juniorenasienmeisterschaften 2014 in Taipeh, bei denen sie mit 13,20 m den siebten Platz belegte. 2015 gewann sie bei den Südostasienspielen in Singapur mit 13,31 m die Bronzemedaille hinter der Singapurerin Zhang Guirong und ihrer Landsfrau Sawitri Thongchao. Zwei Jahre später gewann sie bei den Spielen in Kuala Lumpur mit 15,33 m die Silbermedaille hinter der Indonesierin Eki Febri Ekawati. Anfang September nahm sie an den Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games in Aşgabat teil und wurde dort mit 14,70 m Vierte. 2018 belegte sie bei den Asienspielen in Jakarta mit 14,50 m den achten Platz. 2019 siegte sie dann bei den Südostasienspielen in Capas mit neuer Bestleistung von 15,80 m. 2022 gewann sie bei den Südostasienspielen in Hanoi mit 15,04 m erneut die Silbermedaille hinter Ekwawati aus Indonesien.

In den Jahren 2020 und 2021 wurde Intadis thailändische Meisterin im Kugelstoßen.

Persönliche Bestleistungen
 Kugelstoßen: 15,80 m, 10. Dezember 2019 in Capas
 Kugelstoßen (Halle): 14,70 m, 20. September 2017 in Aşgabat

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Pick a time of day and there's Gritty: "Good Morning America ," ''Last Week Tonight " and "Weekend Update" all put their comic spin on the Philadelphia Flyers' mascot.
Hungry? Hop in an Uber for a Philly food tour and load up on Gritty cupcakes , Gritty mac 'n cheese fries , Gritty Italian ice and, of course, the Gritty cheesesteak (steak, whiz wit, French fries and Cheetos).
Gritty's been loved and lampooned, swept into politics and become more than just an orange face that turned into a No. 1-trending hashtag.
There's little need to play 82 games this season to find the NHL rookie of the year: it's Gritty.
Even the commish admits he's a Gritty Guy.
"If he's supposed to bring attention to the game , I think he's done a pretty good job of doing that," NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman said.
Gritty's been in your face (and invaded your dreams ) since his debut last week.
Gritty can't be blamed for looking more threatening than the Flyers' Stanley Cup chances once he stumbled out of captivity. The Flyers say Gritty was found by the team in his secret hideout during offseason renovations at the Wells Fargo Center.
His father was a "bully," and his unkempt beard suggests he may have arisen from the ashes of the Flyers' long-ago home, the Spectrum. And those crossed-eyes? Well, yours would be too if you spent all that time trapped trying to find Patrick Kane's Game 6 goal.
But the truth is, the Flyers had missed out on the in-game frivolity, the merchandise revenue streams and the community outreach programs that result from a marketable mascot. At the 2016 NHL All-Star game in Nashville, Tennessee, the Flyers' marketing department saw the rest of the league's mascots — like Bailey the Lion , S.J. Sharkie and Stormy — competing in various games and realized it was time to make a mascot from myth to reality.
"Our players, the Flyers' wives, the alumni, you can only ask them to do so much," said Joe Heller, Flyers' vice president of marketing. "We felt that there is so much more we could do by creating a mascot program."
Some mascots are obvious: The Panthers mascot is, well, a panther. The New Jersey Devils? Yup, a Devil. The Arizona Coyotes mascot is ... wait for it ... a coyote!
"It didn't seem like any animal or person would fit what a Flyer would be," Heller said.
The Flyers didn't have to search far for inspiration: the mascot gold standard — make that, the green, potbellied, red-tongue and big-beaked, ATV wheeling mascot standard — was launching hot dogs and dancing on dugouts across the street.
"I really believe Gritty is on a path to becoming that," Raymond said.
"I began the project by sketching over 20 different possible mascots, including, bats, bulls, groundhogs, dragons, tough guys, yetis, and even a flying squirrel," Allen wrote on his website. "Once the client saw the sketches, they picked a big dumpy monster I had drawn as the starting point."
"(He) chimed in, 'How great would it be if we named our mascot Gritty?" Heller said.
"He's getting a ton of attention, and I suppose that's what mascots are supposed to do," Bettman said. "Looking at social media, he has admirers and he has doubters, but it looks like the greater Philadelphia community and in particular the Philadelphia hockey community has embraced him."
Yes, a GoFundMe page was set up to euthanize Gritty. And comedian Jon Oliver said Gritty "looks like the end result of the orange McDonald's Fry Guy hooking up with Grimace."
But Philadelphia's new director of fun won over the city in his debut when he bit it on skates and fell on his fuzzy rear at a preseason game. Gritty's been carved on pumpkins, made beer menus and palled around with Flyers stars Claude Giroux and Wayne Simmonds . He made it into HQ Trivia and has nearly 120,000 Twitter followers in just 10 days.
"I don't think we have our arms around everything that's out there," Heller said.
Gritty's going to throw his around everyone he can — and wins fans over one furry hug at a time.


Fabric yarn is made out of cotton, so we do suggest washing your final project by hand in cold water to prevent any shrinkage.
Allow it to dry on a flat surface, such as a table, to prevent any deformation from occurring.
How many balls of yarn do I need to make a blanket ?
Can I bring knitting needles on the plane?


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Luke Freeman relishing Bristol City's Sky Bet League 1 run-in
Bristol City's Luke Freeman is relishing the Robins' Sky Bet League 1 run-in, starting with the challenge of Swindon Town tonight.
Steve Cotterill's side are five points clear at the top of League 1 ahead of the clash with their fellow Robins, and they also face Preston North End, who are second, as well as Play-Off chasing Bradford City and Chesterfield during April.
City suffered a 1-0 defeat at the hands of fourth-placed Swindon in the reverse meeting, taking their winless spell against the Wiltshire club to 10 games in all competitions, stretching back to October 2003.
Freeman says he and his team-mates are full of confidence, though.
"They [Swindon] are in and around us in the table which is why it's important to win. Everyone's looking forward to it," he told Bristol City Player.
"We know what's coming up and we're looking forward to it. I think we all believe we can win all of them - we're looking forward to the games.
"We need to just get as many points as we can and finish the season off on a high."


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Purpose: The workshop will provide SMEs with a comprehensive introduction to business resilience, including disaster risk assessment, and planning to prepare for, respond to, and recover from a disaster – business continuity planning. After the training, SMEs should be able to do a basic risk assessment and develop basic preparation, response and recovery plans.
Invitation to the UNFCCC Suva expert dialogue on 2–3 May 2018, Bonn, Germany.
Country delegates, experts and representatives from relevant observer organizations are invited to register for the Suva expert dialogue, which will take place on 2–3 May 2018, during the Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany. Please note that the participants to the Suva expert dialogue are required to have official access to the World Conference Centre.
Present the draft SOP for project appraisal & templates.
Continue stakeholder consultation on the draft SOP and collect final feedback for finalisation.
This technical workshop will be greatly complimented by the participation and input from all esteemed Vanuatu marine experts.
Starting in early 2016, VIA and local partners have reached over 1000 households in ten islands of Vanuatu with the first rollout of pay-as-you-go (payg) solar home lighting systems in the Pacific region. A world-first program of solar mill deployment has also been undertaken, with over 40 solar powered crop-processing machines now operating across Vanuatu, including coconut and cassava graters, corn shellers, flour grinders, kava mincers, refrigerator/freezers and new low-cost water pumps.
USP will be hosting its first-ever Climate Finance Workshop, a join initiative between the USAID's Adapt and Climate Ready Projects. Drawing on the 6-years experience of the USAID Adapt Asia-Pacific project, which specializes in assisting with the preparation of adaptation projects, the workshops will cover important aspects of the landscape of climate finance then look into the practicalities of developing an adaptation project.
The Department of Environmental Protection & Conservation and FAO will begin implementation of the national GEF5 STAR Ridge to Ridge (R2R) project this year 2017 and are inviting select stakeholders and guests to attend its 2 days national inception workshop. The project is titled: Integrated Sustainable Land and Coastal Management (ISLCM). The workshop date is from 13-14 June 2017 and will be held at Melanesian hotel. The project focus islands are Aneityum, Tanna, Efate, south Pentecost and some ad hoc assistance to Gaua Lake Letas Conservation Area.
The Vanuatu Information Services for Resilient Development in Vanuatu (Van CIS RDP) project was approved at the Green Climate Fund (GCF) Fifteenth Meeting of the Board in Apia, Samoa from 13-15 December, 2016. The approval was made with a number of conditions and requirements that have been put forward by the GCF Secretariat, the Independent Advisory Panel, and the GCF Board. The one week country consultation workshop will bring together key project stakeholders to work together to make significant and substantial progress towards meeting the conditions placed on the project.
The Ministry of Climate Change and Adaptation is aiming to conduct a workshop to engage the stakeholders in the Displacement Policy Drafting Process. The planned date is 27 March from 9.am to 4.30am, Venue of the workshop is Shefa Provincial Government Conference Room. A detailed agenda with a formal invite will follow in coming days, at this stage through VHT we would like to have VHT partners informed for their time management and planning purpose. The given below will help partners to understand the scope of the workshop.
This email serves to kindly remind you all to please attend the presentation/workshop on WASH Sector Strengthening led by the MFAT Design Team.
This workshop is being organised by the VCCI in collaboration with Learn.fast Pacific http://www.learnfastpacific.com/ and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) https://www.unisdr.org/. Refer to the workshop concept note attached.
Greetings from the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)!
We very much looking forward to seeing you at the Sustainable Ocean Initiative National Workshop for Vanuatu.


Emery became a fan favorite during the early years of the Binghamton Senators.
Former NHL goaltender Ray Emery has drowned in his hometown of Hamilton, Ontario. He was 35.
Hamilton Police said Emery was identified as the victim of the swimming accident Sunday morning. Staff sergeant Paul Evans said police received a call just after 6 a.m. that an adult swimmer did not surface and that the Niagara Police assisted in the recovery effort. Emery's body was recovered Sunday afternoon.
Emery became a fan favorite playing for the Binghamton Senators at the start of his professional career. He played parts of four seasons in goal with Binghamton from 2002-2008. He appeared in 156 games with the B-Sens, most in franchise history for a goalie and ranks first in wins (77), shutouts (10) and goals-against average (2.51 - minimum of 30 games played). During his first two professional seasons (2002-2004) in the AHL, Emery was selected to the league's All-Star Game and helped lead the B-Sens to the playoffs in his first three seasons.
Emery was inducted into the Binghamton Hockey Hall of Fame in April 2017 along with Steve Stirling and Patrick Snyder.
Originally drafted in the fourth round, 99th overall by the Ottawa Senators in 2001, Emery played a total of 17 seasons in the NHL, AHL, KHL, OHL and DEL.
Emery dealt with off-ice problems throughout his career, including an incident of road rage, assault of a trainer in Russia and behavior that led to him being sent home from Ottawa's training camp. Teammates and executives lauded Emery's mentorship and leadership, especially in his final professional season in the American Hockey League in 2015-16.
Staff writer Matt Weinstein contributed to this report.


The bike ran well all summer, but then after sitting 6 weeks it would only start & run on full choke, then bog & quit if I turned the throttle. I didn't realize how sensitive the carb was to stagnant fuel in such a short time, owning fuel injected RC51 for 10yrs will do that.
I have heard every suggestion from re-moving the carb & cleaning it to re-building it, to spraying carb cleaner etc. Just learned there is a 10mm drain bolt on the bottom of the bowl and that might be the fix??? Anyone have experience/advice on this?
Pilot jet is plugged, carb needs to be taken off and cleaned. Ours has always ran a bit lean but for the most part a good bike.


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Rose Marie Berger speaks frequently on the relationships between faith, art and activism. In her talks, she invites audiences to consider how their faith is enriched by the arts, how daily life in their neighborhoods and cities influences their faith, and how personal faith fuels activism for the common good. She is noted for her "bible-busting" ability, opening up scripture in fresh and engaging ways.
Rose brings her vocation as a poet and her more than two decades of Christian social justice work to her presentations. Lively and interactive, Rose's workshops and lectures incorporate visual art, music and lots of dialogue.
To invite Rose to speak at your school, church, group, or event, email rbergersol at gmail dot com.
1 May 2019 @ 6:30p. First public poetry reading with Rose Berger from her new collection, Bending the Arch, poems addressing family history, settler colonialism and climate collapse. The Potter's House Café and Bookstore (1658 Columbia Road NW, DC, 20009). Books will be available for purchase on site or purchase ahead of time from publisher and bring it for Rose to sign.
2 June 2019, 9:15a-10:15a. Rose will speak at the Sunday Forum at St. Stephen's & the Incarnation Episcopal Church (1525 Newton St NW, Washington, DC 20010) from 9:15a-10:15a. Sunday morning forum title: Bending the Arch: Poems with Rose Marie Berger. Join Sojourners' poetry editor, Rose Marie Berger in a short reading and discussion about her collection of poetry, Bending the Arch. "Rose Berger is doing poetic alchemy in her new book, Bending The Arch. She does it right before us. She is mixing vision with insight, words with symbol, and hope with common sense . . . and coming up with gold."—Steven Charleston, retired Episcopal Bishop of Alaska. You can purchase the book here: https://wipfandstock.com/bending-the-arch.html (For an additional 20% off, use discount code: ROSE).
28 June 2019, 1:45p (PST), plenary address at International Thomas Merton Society 16th General Meeting at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, Calif.
4-5 April 2019, Rose will be present at a 2-day event on "Experience of Violence – Path of Nonviolence – Towards a Culture of peace" hosted by Pax Christi International in collaboration with the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development of the Holy See in the Conference Hall of the Dicastery (Palazzo San Calisto, Rome, Italy). This event is part of the Catholic Nonviolence Initiative process.
23 March 2019, 4:30-6:30p, at the home of Margaret Mattinson and Vasu Mohan, a celebration of Nawruz, the Bahai new year, with poetry readings from Hafez and Bending the Arch.
20 July 2018, 3p (EST), Want Peace? Prepare for it. A webinar by Pax Christi USA with Rose Marie Berger and Nick Mele, retired U.S. diplomat.
University, African Studies and Research Department; Marie Dennis, Co-President, Pax Christi International.
21 April 2018, 3:30-5p, "Poetry of Praise: Reclaiming Religion and Spirituality for the Resistance (Reading)" at Charles Sumner School Museum & Archives "Memorial Hall" (1201 17th St NW, Washington, DC 20036). Presenters: Ayari Aguayo-Ceribo, Kazim Ali, Rose Berger, Sunu P. Chandy, Temim Fruchter, Letta Neely, Marie Varghese. Part of Split This Rock Poetry Festival 2018.
In this reading and workshop, poets will share writing from varied religious, spiritual, and cultural backgrounds to reclaim religion and find sustenance, healing, and holiness in faith practices and communities. In this time where religion is being used to institute regressive policies, we amplify the good that is inspired by religion, discuss how spiritual practices are vital to many of us who identify as part of the resistance, and highlight how religious practice has historically served this purpose. This session explores the connections between poetry and prayer, between faith and sharing our truths, liberation theology, and the idea of Infinite Sustenance. Together, we will consider how we all harbor holiness, how the Divine and faith enter our work and our poetry, how queer identities find spaces within religious communities, and how racism impacts faith communities. For the workshop, we will share writing prompts and exercises with participants and interact with them and their writing as guides.
5 April 2018, 3-6 p.m., Rose Marie Berger will teach at Georgetown University as part of Jim Wallis' course "Faith, Race, and Politics" in the Public Policy department.
16 March 2018, at 12 noon at Lafayette Park, in front of the White House Rose Berger will read her poem "An Outline for a Service Acknowledging War Crimes" at the My Lai: Never Again Prayer Vigil, part of Vietnam Peace Commemoration Committee events.
19-23 February 2018, Bartimaeus Kinsler Institute hosted by Ched Myers and Elaine Enns, in Oak View, Calif. Rose will offer worship leadership, a presentation on "The Trump List" after year one, and a workshop on Catholic Nonviolence Initiative.
2 February 2018, 6 p.m. the Jerry S. Parr Lecture at The Festival Center (1640 Columbia Rd. NW, Washington, DC). Rose Marie Berger, senior associate editor at Sojourners, Catholic poet, and peace activist will present on "Game Changer": What if 1.2 billion Catholics embraced gospel nonviolence? A look behind the scenes at one of the most historic changes in church history—moving beyond the 1,500-year-old just war tradition. In January, Pope Francis issued his letter "Nonviolence: A style of politics for peace." In November, he categorically condemned the possession of nuclear weapons, a change of 50 years of Catholic tolerance of nuclear deterrence. In December, San Diego's Bishop McElroy said, "the traditional norms of just war … increasingly appear to be incapable of effectively constraining violence in the modern world. The power of non-violence, once relegated to the category of romantic idealism, has emerged as a potent force for social transformation and the building of lasting peace." What will happen next? And why is this good news for the Body of Christ around the world?
8-10 December 2017, Rose Berger and Marie Dennis will lead the Advent Retreat hosted by Mary's House Catholic Worker in Birmingham, Ala., on the Catholic Nonviolence Initiative.
11 November 2017, 5p -8:30p. Pax Christi Metro DC-Baltimore has named Rose Berger and Gerry Lee, Director, Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns as their Peacemakers of the Year. They will be honored on Saturday, November 11 at Holy Redeemer Church in Washington, DC, 5 p.m. Mass and the Peacemaker of the Year Award Dinner from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Space is limited to 200 people. Your donation of $25 for adults and $10 for students includes a buffet meal. Please pre-register with your donation online or by mail no later than Nov. 6. Full details here.
9 June 2017 at 7:00p the Holy Fool Theater and Potter's House present "Wade Through Deep Water "an evening of ceremonial theater about water and collective liberation (doors at 6:30 p.m.) at the Festival Center (1640 Columbia Road NW). This will also be a celebration of the book Watershed Discipleship: Reinhabiting Bioregional Faith and Practice, edited by Ched Myers and with a poem, "Prophecies from the Watershed Confederacy," by Rose Berger. You'll be able to the buy the book at the event tonight and get it signed by some of the contributors. Everyone is welcome to this event, with tickets on a sliding scale, from $0-$50.
1 April 2017 at 8:30a – Noon. "WALKING INTO THE FUTURE WITH JESUS, MARTIN, & FRANCIS." Location: Friends Meetinghouse (Dupont Circle 2111 Florida Ave. NW, Washington, DC).
7 October 2016 at 7:30 p.m. "Just War, Just Peace, Just Catholic: Where are we going?" Place: Dorothy Day Catholic Worker: 503 Rock Creek Church Rd. NW, Washington, DC, 20010. In April an unprecedented conference took place in Rome on re-centering the Roman Catholic Church on active gospel nonviolence. Hear about the gathering from those who were there. More than 80 Catholics from around the world gathered with the Vatican to discuss how to renew active gospel nonviolence as a "instrument for peace," to paraphrase Pope Francis. Join the global conversation on moving from a war church to a peace church. Sign the appeal asking Pope Francis for an encyclical on nonviolence. Be part of Francis' 3-legged legacy: A church of the poor, defense of creation, and radical Christian nonviolence. For more information, please contact [email protected] or call 202-360-6416.
22 March 2016: Watershed Discipleship webinar with Denise Nadeau & Rose Berger, hosted by Ched Myers and Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministries. To purchase this webinar, go here.
This webinar celebrates World Water Day with a conversation about various strands of the watershed discipleship vision. Ched Myers recently edited an anthology entitled "Watershed Discipleship: Reinhabiting Bioregional Faith and Practice" (Wipf & Stock, to be published later this year). Denise Nadeau wrote the Foreword to the volume; joining us from Vancouver Island, she will talk about the indigenous "Waterwalking" movement. Rose Berger contributed poetry to the volume and is active in watershed literacy and protection work in the Chesapeake Bay watershed in Washington, D.C.
December 1, 2015, at 11 a.m. Sojourners in Washington, D.C., will host Rose Berger as guest preacher for the First Sunday of Advent chapel service.
May 8, 2015 at 6:30 p.m. Lebanon Valley College will host Rose Marie Berger, senior associate editor for Sojourners magazine, as Baccalaureate speaker for the 2015 graduating class.
April 24, 2015 at 7 p.m. an Earth Day lecture: "Caring for the Least of These – Matthew 25, Christians, and Climate Change" with Rose Marie Berger at the Church in Bethesda at 5033 Wilson Lane, Bethesda MD, 20814. For more information, contact the church at (301) 654-4159 or todd (at) churchinbethesda (d0t) org. In partnership with DMV Interfaith Power and Light. All are invited.
February 16-20, 2015. Bartimaeus' Kinsler Institute: Between Seminary, Sanctuary, Streets and Soil: A Festival of Radical Discipleship. Oak View, Calif. (Tuesday) "40 Years of Radical Discipleship"–Rose will present on a panel about the history of Sojourners. "When We Were Young and Did Our Dreaming Awake: Radical Christian communities of the 70s and 80s with Jim Perkinson"–Rose will speak on the mechanics of Sojourners base community and Jim Perkinson will speak on Church of the Messiah in Detroit. (Thursday) "Writing and Publishing in The Movement"–Rose will present on Sojourners magazine and blog along with Ted Lewis (Wipf & Stock), Tom Airey and Lydia Wylie Kellermann (RadicalDiscipleship.net) and Mark Johnson (the Center and Library on the Bible and Social Justice). "The Spiritual Roots of Protest" by Gordon Oyer — Rose will offer a response to Gordon Oyers presentation of his material on the 1965 peacemakers retreat hosted by Thomas Merton at the Trappist monastery in Kentucky. (Friday) Rose will lead the closing liturgy with jazz musician Warren Cooper and preacher R. Carter Echols.
March 7, 2014, at 7 p.m. Lenten Soup Supper: "Coming Into Our Sacred Watershed: A Lenten Journey." Friday, March 7 at 7 p.m. at Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Church (2700 S. 19th St. Arlington, VA 22204). For more information, contact Michelle Knight (mknight at gmail dot com).
June 20, 2013, at 10 a.m., religious leaders speak out against Keystone XL pipeline at National Press Club.
April 26, 2013, Morning Seminar for Sojourners' interns: "God's Cathedral–Poetry in D.C.'s Last Old Growth Forest." The Olmsted Woods at the National Cathedral holds the last bit of old growth beech forest within the District of Columbia. We will read poetry, write, and contemplate God's presence in the history of these trees and this place. This event is not open to the public.
"Palms, Matzoh, the Planet, and the White House: A Religious Call to Civil Disobedience" — Sojourners' Rose Marie Berger will speak with Rabbi Arthur Waskow of The Shalom Center on Thursday, March 21, 2013, at 12 pm outside the White House in Washington, D.C., as part of a pre-Holy Week event hosted by Interfaith Moral Action on Climate (www.interfaithactiononclimatechange.org).
The Festival Center's annual fundraising dinner will be held on Saturday, October 27, 2012, at 1640 Columbia Road NW, Washington, DC 20009. The theme is "Creating Beloved Community" and this year's speaker will be Catholic peace activist, poet, and Sojourners columnist Rose Marie Berger. Please join us for an evening of good food, entertainment, and inspiration in support of The Festival Center and its life-changing programs. The festivities will begin at 6 p.m.. For more information, contact Joseph Deck, Festival Center executive director, at 202.328.0072.
Tuesday, July 31, 2012 in Washington, D.C., at 7 -8:30 p.m. Rose will present on "Joy, Worship, and Resistance" for the Servant Leadership School class "Christianity as Movement: Conversations on Faith and Social Change" facilitated by Tim Kumfer, director of the Servant Leadership School, member of Eighth Day Faith Community, and a graduate of Duke Divinity School with a concentration in critical theory through the literature department. For more information, contact Tim Kumfer (202.328.0072). Address: The Festival Center/1640 Columbia Road NW/Washington, DC 20009.
Friday, May 4, 2012 in Washington, D.C., at 7:30 p.m. Rose will present on "Catholics, climate change, and the Keystone XL pipeline" for the Friday evening Clarification of Thought hosted by Dorothy Day Catholic Worker (503 Rock Creek Church Road, NW, Washington, D.C. 20010). For more information contact Art Laffin at 202.882.9649.
Rose will participate in the closing retreat for the Word and World year-long Mentoring Program in which she has served as a mentor the past year. The Word and World Mentoring Program puts motivated, passionate 22-30-year-olds with a thirst for justice and a hunger for formation in conversation with some of the most influential and committed radical theologians and activist-scholars of our day. This year-long course of study and reflection is one answer to what lay theologian William Stringfellow might have called a vocational question—namely, in the face of globalization, political division, environmental degradation, and a culture of violence, what is theological education for?
Wednesday, March 14, 2012, in Washington, D.C. at 12:00 p.m.
Rose will preach at noon chapel service on the topic of "Celebrating International Women's Day" at the United Methodist Building (100 Maryland Ave., NE, Washington, D.C., right next to the Supreme Court and across from the Capitol). For more information, please contact Linda Bales ([email protected]).
Rose Berger and Lisa Sharon Harper will speak at the breakfast and lead two workshops on Christians and the environment for 400 women at this 70th anniversary gathering of Church Women United, one of the largest Christian women's organizations in the U.S. representing 26 denominations and supporting organizations.
From the Genesis creation story to Isaiah's critique of imperial clear-cutting of the cedars of Lebanon to contemporary issues like the Keystone XL pipeline and fracking, Christians are engaged in advancing environmental justice. What do we need to understand about climate change, environmental racism, and environmental sexism? How do our scriptures give us a firm foundation for entering into very contemporary environmental issues? Led by Rose Berger and Lisa Sharon Harper.
Monday, November 7, 2011, 6 p.m.
Sunday, October 30, 2011, at 6 p.m.
Rose Berger and Joseph Ross will read poetry as part of the UnChurch! gathering at Clarendon Presbyterian Church in Virginia. For more information, contact Pastor David Ensign.
Sunday, October 30, 2011, 11:30 a.m.
Join a conversation on Oct. 30 after the 10:30 multicultural Mass to learn more. Several in the St. Camillus community have been working very hard to learn about and take action around an oil pipeline that is proposed to be built from Alberta to Texas. After the 10:30 Mass on Oct. 30 in the St. Francis Room Rose Berger from Sojourners, Fr. Jacek, Luisa Saffiotti and others will discuss how they got involved in learning about the tar sands development in Canada and the Keystone XL pipeline that is proposed to carry tar sands oil to refineries in Texas. This will be a lively conversation on how tar sands development relates to current climate change; what hard questions the pipeline raises regarding jobs, Middle East wars, the U.S.-China economic race, indigenous rights, and transition to a post-fossil fuel economy; and how Catholic social teaching helps us think through these issues. For more information, contact Fr. Jacek at 301-434-8400 ex.14 or Rose Berger ([email protected]).
Sunday, July 24, 2011, 8:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m.
Rose preaching at Church of the Epiphany, Washington, D.C.
Church of the Epiphany – Episcopal (1317 G St, NW/Washington, DC 20005—Metro Center) Rose Marie Berger, a Catholic peace activist and writer, will preach at the 8 am and 11am liturgies on July 24. She will also be present after coffee hour for a time of conversation about her sermon and environmental stewardship issues of our faith. She comes to Church of the Epiphany through Greater Washington Interfaith Power & Light, which helps congregations of all faiths throughout the DC area save energy, go green, and respond to climate change (www.gwipl.org). Please make plans to hear Rose preach on July 24 and stay for coffee and the Sermon Conversation at 12:45pm in the Willard Room. All are welcome. For more information contact Susan Walker 202-347-2635, ext 20.
Congressman John Lewis will lead a trip to Birmingham, Montgomery, and Selma, Alabama for Members of the House, Senators, and invited guests. Rose Berger will represent Sojourners on this historic trip hosted by the Faith and Politics Institute.
Wednesday, 16 February, 2011, from 12-1p.m.
Rose Berger and Jeannie Choi, editor of God's Politics blog, will speak at the noontime series held at Sojourners offices on the topic of starting a blog, costs involved, the importance of women's voices, 5 tips for a successful post, and more.
Sunday, 26 September, 2010 from 5-6 p.m.
Rose Marie Berger reading from Who Killed Donte Manning? at The Baltimore Book Festival as part of the New Mercury Reading Series at CityLit Stage.
Description: This year Hope House DC is participating with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Humanities Council of Washington, DC, in the national Big Read program. Along with providing Earnest Gaines' novel A Lesson Before Dying, Hope House DC is sponsoring two-day writing workshops in two prisons with award-winning writer Rose Berger to help incarcerated dads write their own lessons from behind bars for their children. A selection of their work will be available online in fall 2010.
Workshop: 10:45 a.m. – 12 p.m.
St. Columba's Episcopal Church, Washington, D.C.
Poetry Reading at opening of Peace Mural in Washington, D.C.
3336 M Street. NW, Washington, D.C.
This is special reception, open to the public, that honors Poets Against the War. Huong will unveil the newest segment of the Mural, depicting a number of poems that have been submitted by poets across the country and published to the Peace Mural. The public is invited to join this special event, followed by a reception. There will be select readings of poems throughout the day.


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Quebec NDP Saganash calling for provincial health minister to quit following comments
Romeo Saganash, the NDP MP for Abitibi-Baie-James-Nunavik-Eeyou in northern Quebec is calling for the province's health minister to step down.
"Yesterday, on National Indigenous Peoples Day, I learned of the deeply held racism and hatred Quebec Health Minister Gaétan Barrette has for my community and constituents in the North," Saganash said in a statement released Friday.
"The stereotypes he expressed are rooted in colonial violence. They are harmful to Indigenous families and those who experience addictions. I also wish to echo his call for the resignation of Minister Barrette."
An audio recording of Barrette obtained by Le Devoir and CBC has him saying in English that within six months, there will be at least one case of a person who will not be allowed to board an air ambulance plane because they are agitated, drugged or under the influence.
Barrette was referring to a decision taken by the government in February that reversed a policy forbidding parents or guardians from accompanying their children on emergency flights from northern communities to medical facilities.
In the audio recording, Barrette said, "I can tell you one thing, if you follow that in the news, I guarantee you that there will be one instance in the next six months, someone will not be made allowed to board a flight, not allowed to get on the plane.
"Why? Because no one — agitated, drugged, under whatever influence — would get on the plane at any cost. That will not happen. And that happens all the time."
He made the comments two weeks ago in a conversation with a citizen at an event in his riding on Montreal's south shore.
"If you're over there, and your kid has to be transported, and you're the parent and you're agitated, you're under the influence or whatever, you will not get on the plane," Barrette said in the recording. "As simple as that."
The head of the Assembly of First Nations in Quebec and Labrador is calling for Premier Philippe Couillard to fire Barrette.
"We are not done digging up and tearing down the deep roots of discrimination and prejudice against Indigenous peoples," said Ghislain Picard in a statement.
"The minister's utterly unacceptable statement clearly indicates that these roots are deep into the heart of Philippe Couillard's government, who should immediately demand the resignation of Minister Barrette, or dismiss him."
Picard suggests that Barrette should also appear before Quebec's ongoing inquiry into the province's relationship with Indigenous peoples.
"Maybe the Commission should have called Gaétan Barrette first, to assess how much discrimination in the important Ministry that he manages starts from the top and how much the Minister's prejudices influence the delivery of the essential health and social services to First Nations and Inuit people? " said Picard in the statement.
Barrette's statement also drew the ire of the mayor of Kujjuaq Tunu Napartuk who is also calling on Barrette to be fired.
The health minister apologized repeatedly on Thursday but insisted to reporters at a Montreal event those comments were about general issues surrounding air ambulance use and not a direct reference to Indigenous communities.
"I apologize that my remarks offended Aboriginal communities, I never intended to target them in the explanations I gave, and I have the greatest respect for the Aboriginal communities," he said in a statement.
-with files from the Canadian Press
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package org.optaplanner.core.impl.heuristic.selector.move.decorator;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import com.google.common.collect.Iterators;
import org.optaplanner.core.config.heuristic.selector.common.SelectionCacheType;
import org.optaplanner.core.impl.heuristic.move.Move;
import org.optaplanner.core.impl.heuristic.selector.common.SelectionCacheLifecycleBridge;
import org.optaplanner.core.impl.heuristic.selector.common.SelectionCacheLifecycleListener;
import org.optaplanner.core.impl.heuristic.selector.move.AbstractMoveSelector;
import org.optaplanner.core.impl.heuristic.selector.move.MoveSelector;
import org.optaplanner.core.impl.solver.scope.DefaultSolverScope;

public abstract class AbstractCachingMoveSelector extends AbstractMoveSelector implements SelectionCacheLifecycleListener {

    protected final MoveSelector childMoveSelector;
    protected final SelectionCacheType cacheType;

    protected List<Move> cachedMoveList = null;

    public AbstractCachingMoveSelector(MoveSelector childMoveSelector, SelectionCacheType cacheType) {
        this.childMoveSelector = childMoveSelector;
        this.cacheType = cacheType;
        if (childMoveSelector.isNeverEnding()) {
            throw new IllegalStateException("The selector (" + this
                    + ") has a childMoveSelector (" + childMoveSelector
                    + ") with neverEnding (" + childMoveSelector.isNeverEnding() + ").");
        }
        phaseLifecycleSupport.addEventListener(childMoveSelector);
        if (cacheType.isNotCached()) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("The selector (" + this
                    + ") does not support the cacheType (" + cacheType + ").");
        }
        phaseLifecycleSupport.addEventListener(new SelectionCacheLifecycleBridge(cacheType, this));
    }

    public MoveSelector getChildMoveSelector() {
        return childMoveSelector;
    }

    @Override
    public SelectionCacheType getCacheType() {
        return cacheType;
    }

    // ************************************************************************
    // Worker methods
    // ************************************************************************

    public void constructCache(DefaultSolverScope solverScope) {
        long childSize = childMoveSelector.getSize();
        if (childSize > (long) Integer.MAX_VALUE) {
            throw new IllegalStateException("The selector (" + this
                    + ") has a childMoveSelector (" + childMoveSelector
                    + ") with childSize (" + childSize
                    + ") which is higher than Integer.MAX_VALUE.");
        }
        cachedMoveList = new ArrayList<Move>((int) childSize);
        Iterators.addAll(cachedMoveList, childMoveSelector.iterator());
        logger.trace("    Created cachedMoveList: size ({}), moveSelector ({}).",
                cachedMoveList.size(), this);
    }

    public void disposeCache(DefaultSolverScope solverScope) {
        cachedMoveList = null;
    }

    public boolean isCountable() {
        return true;
    }

    public long getSize() {
        return cachedMoveList.size();
    }

}


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TSC develops turnkey radar and fire control systems that enhance the performance of ground systems. Our radar and fire control systems leverage expertise in subsystem hardware and software. We have proven capabilities in areas such as Antennas, Exciters, Receivers, Transmitters, Digital Signal Processors, Arbitrary Waveform Generators, Missile Datalinks, Fire Control Algorithms, Enhanced Target Range and Classification, and much more. We provide support for integration and test activities to ensure success from the laboratory to the field.
TSC provides full spectrum systems engineering support to our customers including theoretical analysis, requirements generation, test planning, test execution and test data reduction/analysis in both real-time and post-mission. System integration efforts consist of the introduction of newly developed hardware into existing systems as well as the integration of components to form new systems. We have been instrumental in the integration and test of radar and communications equipment for various Government and Industry customers. TSC offers SMEs and a long heritage in the development of requirements, system architecture design, formal verification or analysis for weapon systems. TSC performs these activities for fielded systems as well as new development efforts.
TSC's Radar models include threat models, trajectories and tactical code simulation.
TSC develops RF subsystems for many customers as well as for our own integrated Radar solutions. We develop all RF and digital subsystems necessary for radar systems including Antennas, Exciters, Receivers, Transmitters, Digital Signal Processors, Arbitrary Waveform Generators, and others.
TSC has a long history of developing custom antennas for our own systems or as products for our customers. We have the experienced staff and design and modeling tools to develop antennas for many applications including rugged designs that must operate in the most challenging military environments. Our facilities are equipped with fabrication and integration laboratories as well as an anechoic chamber. TSC can provide antenna design support, testing support or end-to-end solutions.
TSC provides continued support for the Sentinel radar. TSC redesigned the Transmitter Control Unit (TCU) and Power amplifier module Interface Card (PIC). These subsystems have been integrated with the radar system. TSC's has manufactured these systems since 2003.
TSC developed the sensor, a phase interferometer, as well as the signal processor and fire control system for the Close-In Active Protection System installed on a Stryker Armored Combat Vehicle. The image captures the defeat mechanism, a blast fragmentation interceptor, as it punctures the thin skin of the incoming projectile to disable its warhead.
TSC's Radar Position Analysis System (RPAS) is a software tool that simulates, analyzes and predicts the Site-Specific performance of a radar. It uses detailed radar models and digital terrain data to predict the radar scan, track and location performance. To date, TSC has integrated models for multiple fielded radars including AN/TPQ-36, 37 Firefinder radars.
TSC has leveraged its modular, Software Defined Radar (SDR) designs and converted them to 3U Open VPX based architectures. TEMPR Combines 5G Telecom Technology, COTS Embedded Processing, and TSC's FPGA-Based, Mixed-Signal RF Open VPX Cards.


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Gold Coast light rail: the star performer of the Commonwealth Games transport plan
04-24-2018 updated on 05-22-2018G:link, the tram network operated by Keolis Downer and GoldlinQ played a central role in the Queensland Government transport plan, carrying more that 1.1 million passengers. G:link operated 24/7 with services running every six minutes during peak periods.
Keolis Downer hired and trained more than 350 extra staff to ensure the service ran smoothly
How to successfully transport thousands of passengers during Melbourne's major events
Keolis Downer, operator of Yarra Trams, is currently delivering services to peak patronage across its network, with Melbourne's major events season underway.
Keolis Downer launches a new extension to the Gold Coast tram network in Australia
Keolis, who has been operating the Gold Coast (Australia) tram network since 2014, opened a new 7.3km extension on 17 December 2017. This extension enhances the multimodality of Gold Coast's transport network, and therefore helps the state of Queensland in their ambitions to accelerate the modal shift, in this dynamic and touristic coastal city.
Keolis-IVADO : a partnership about Big Data
By signing a strategic partnership with IVADO, Keolis will benefit from the expertise of one of the most important global excellence centres dedicated to mass data analysis, to develop innovative urban mobility solutions.
Engagements et actions du Groupe Keolis pour le respect de la loyauté des pratiques
Keolis has been commited since 2013 to a transparent and exemplary approach to business, founded on the respect of strict regulations and ethical standards. Whether it concerns the Group's relationship to public or private clients, suppliers, contractors or stakeholders, this commitment to fair business practices guides the daily actions of Group employees and is one of the key pillars of Keolis' social responsibility policy.
Ethics and compliance at the heart of Keolis' social responsibility
Like all businesses, Keolis wants to develop and win contracts in all its areas of activity, in France and abroad, while respecting the highest standards of business ethics. The Group is evolving in an increasingly competitive and regulated environment, and has therefore established strict principles and rules for itself regarding ethics and compliance, in accordance with its commitments to social responsibility.
Shared by its 58,300 collaborators around the world, this transparent and exemplary approach aims not only to satisfy Group legal obligations but more importantly, to allow the Group to act responsibly with its clients, suppliers and stakeholders in each country where it is present.
A concrete and demanding compliance programme, focused on three major areas
Since 2013, Keolis has been operating based on a compliance programme integrated into the Group's continuous improvement framework, Keolife, under the topic of fair business practices. Known as 'Konformité', this programme uses simple and practical terms to describe the right behaviour as well as what is forbidden, both by law and by the Group's ethical business standards. It enables each employee to adopt the right attitude on a daily basis, in order to prevent and manage risks they might be confronted with.
Konformité is structured around three main areas:
The strict respect of free and fair competition
The prevention of corruption and fraud
The protection of personal data
For each field of action, the Konformité programme specifies the fundamental principles to be respected, prohibited practices and daily check points.
A comprehensive programme to become fully compliant
The Konformité programme is also dedicated to providing training and other useful tools for Group employees.
A workstream composed of the Ethics & Compliance Committee that brings together representatives from all Group entities and a network of correspondants to encourage the adoption of good business ethics, a culture of compliance and the achievement of programme benchmarks.
Training: an e-learning module on prevention and corruption; 'governance and business ethics' modules included in the induction programme for new employees, etc.
Practical and accessible information centered on two reference documents: the 'Keolis Group ethical guide to business affairs' and the 'Code of conduct for the prevention of corruption and conflicts of interest'. These are complemented by reference guides dedicated to the three key areas of the programme. Suppliers and commercial partners (link at http://www.keolis.com/fr/espace-fournisseur) are also welcome to refer to the 'Commercial partner relationship guide'.
A professional whistleblowing system is also set up for employees and permanent and short-term employees: Keolis Ethic Line
To download
Guide for ethical business conduct - Keolis brochure (pdf) (680.61 Ko)
Keolis' 58,300 employees are all responsible for our actions with stakeholders, which make up the environment in which they carry out their work. Accepting this responsibility is part of the honour of being in the public service sector and being able to serve the public.
Jean-Pierre Farandou, Keolis Group Executive Chairman


Potential Conflicts of Interest: Disclosures can be viewed at www.acponline.org/authors/icmje/ConflictOfInterestForms.do?msNum=M11-0086.
From University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555.
We thank the correspondents for their interest in our paper. Dr. Mitchell and Drs. Meltzer and Chung note potential issues with internal and external validity in our observational study. We agree that assessing long-term outcomes could be a way to indirectly examine the presence of selection bias, and we have used that method in other studies 23. In this study, we controlled for medical utilization and costs in the year before the index hospitalization. We also included instrumental variable analyses in earlier versions of the paper but deleted them in favor of conditional models with the nonpooling approach of propensity analysis in response to the statistical reviewer's suggestion.
Published: Ann Intern Med. 2011;155(10):722.