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How Endangered Species Cause a Domino Effect
Joana dos Reis
"A species is classified as endangered when its population has declined between 50 and 70%. This decline is measured over 10 years or three generations of the species, whichever is longer."
– Red list of threatened species
Do we have any idea about what happens after an animal or plant species disappear? Worldwide, more than 27,000 species are endangered and close to extinction. This is equal to over 27% of all species known to humans.
There are two main reasons why species become endangered. Either they lose genetic variation or their habitat.
Extinction by Genetic Variation
The term genetic variation is used to describe the difference between same and different species. It's what enables species to adapt when the environment changes.
In our case – human beings – genetic variation gives us different eye and skin colors, different height, different blood type, etc. If we have sex with a close family member and have children, those children will have little genetic variation. This type of offspring may have problems in the future. They become less resistant to diseases and cannot evolve when environmental variables arise. For this reason, populations with low genetic variation face a significant probability to become extinct.
When it comes to other species, loss of genetic variation can occur naturally (mutations) or be induced by humans. Think about overfishing, overhunting, pollution, the introduction of invasive species to the wild, and deforestation. These are all examples of the many human activities disturbing whole populations. Such disturbances force populations to become smaller and create fewer breeding mates. This leads to a poor genetic variation and then extinction.
Extinction by Loss of Habitat
When species disappear due to loss of habitat, that can occur by a natural cause. If the environment changes abruptly in a short period of time, several species may or may not be able to adapt to the new environment. This is what led dinosaurs to their extinction. Once again, extinction by loss of habitat is mainly caused by humans. While we grow cities, industry, and agriculture, millions of species get closer to the edge of extinction.
When humans make a whole species disappear, we play the role of natural selection. However, the way we do it is far from natural and seriously interferes with biodiversity. It interferes with the natural process of evolution that cannot keep up the pace of massive extinctions.
Gray Wolves
Think about the case of the gray wolf extermination in the U.S. during the 20th century. Gray wolves feed on deer, moose, and elk. They also control the population of beavers, raccoons, and coyotes. Without gray wolves, their prey populations grew exponentially. The massive growth of the elk population led to the depletion of willows and riparian plants. Consequently, the amount of food and shelter to songbirds decreased. This caused the growth of the mosquitoes population that were the food source of these birds.
Species like the wolf, rhino and polar bear are close to vanishing due to human activities. At the same time, a chain reaction or domino effect will create a conflict in the whole ecosystem — one species at a time.
The same happens with smaller species. Take the example of a tiny animal such as the mussel. While mussels filter water to get the nutrients they need, they also purify it. It's what makes mussels such an essential piece in the aquatic ecosystem. Mussels serve as food to several other species, such as otters, ducks, baboons, and egrets. Without mussels, their predators have to move to a different area, with no certainty on finding other food sources.
Worldwide, bees are going extinct due to excessive use of pesticides, loss of habitat, and climate change. They are the bridge between plant reproduction, as they transfer pollen from the male stamens to the female pistils. Without bees, one-third of the global food supply will disappear. Since bees are a key to pollinate crops, no bees on Earth would immediately create a catastrophe. As Albert Einstein once said: "If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live."
Coral reefs follow the same path. They home a quarter of all marine fish species, and their extinction will affect the entire ocean ecosystem. Corals are dying mostly due to warming sea-surface temperatures and increasing acidification-both caused by human activities. Careless tourism, pollution, destructive fishing techniques, and coastal development helped to put corals in the endangered list of species. Today, about 19% of the world's coral reefs are dead and beyond repair. Their extinction will compromise 500 million people that depend on coral reefs for their livelihoods.
For Each Lost Species, Comes Another Loss
The ecosystem falls apart when a single species is endangered. When we remove one element from any ecosystem, we provoke long-lasting effects on biodiversity. Fish depend on corals to live. Crops depend on bees pollination. We also depend on all species, animals, or plants, to keep our planet working in balance. We will lose water, land, and clean air if there are no healthy rivers, oceans, and forests. Humankind depends on healthy ecosystems to purify the environment.
Even our medicine depends on healthy ecosystems. More than 50% of the most used medications derived originally from plants. Yet, only 5% of the plants we know were tested for medical uses. Imagine how many thousands of plant species are waiting to be identified and studied. They could be the cure to many diseases scientists still search for.
Right now we are losing species at 1,000 to 10,000 times faster than the usual pace. Climate change alone is responsible for the loss of 50% of the global wild animal population. We are creating the biggest extinction since dinosaurs vanished from the planet. Note that dinosaurs have been gone for roughly 65 million years. We became the biggest threat to every living species, including ours.
Letting go even a slight strand in the web of life contributes to the falling of our planet's sustainability, the crucial equilibrium that affects each and every one of us.
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Bittacidae is a family of scorpionflies commonly called  hangingflies or hanging scorpionflies.

The genus Bittacus, comprising approximately 75% of all species within the family, occurs worldwide. Other genera are mostly confined to South America or Australia. Members of this family may be confused with crane flies, in the order Diptera, but can be distinguished by their two pairs of wings and lack of halteres.

They are distinguished in the fact that during mating the male captures a prey insect and offers it to the female as a nuptial gift. The larger the prey item is, the more receptive the female will be to mating.

Genera
This list is based on The World Checklist of extant Mecoptera Species. Presumably complete up to 1997, it is updated as needed. The number of species in each genus are in parentheses. A number of extinct(†) genera have been described from the fossil record.

 Anabittacus (1) Kimmins, 1929 (Chile)
 Anomalobittacus (1) Kimmins, 1928 (South Africa)
 Apterobittacus (1) MacLachlan, 1893 (Southern United States)
 Austrobittacus (1) Riek, 1954 (Australia)
 Bittacus (124) Latreille, 1805 (worldwide)
 Edriobittacus (1) Byers, 1974 (Australia)
 Harpobittacus (12) Gerstaecker, 1885 (Australia)
 Hylobittacus (1) Byers, 1979 (United States, Mexico + fossil species from the Eocene Bitterfield and Baltic amber of Europe)
 Issikiella (5) Byers, 1972 (South America)
 Kalobittacus (8) Esben-Petersen, 1914 (Central America)
 Nannobittacus (4) Esben-Petersen, 1927 (Brazil to Panama)
 Neobittacus (2) Esben-Petersen, 1914 (Brazil)
 Orobittacus Villegas & Byers, 1982 (California)
 Pazius (8) Navás, 1913 (Brazil to Panama)
 Symbittacus Byers, 1986 (Australia)
 Tytthobittacus Smithers, 1973 (Australia + fossil species from the Early Cretaceous (Berriasian) aged Purbeck Group)
Extinct genera

 †Antiquanabittacus (1) Petrulevicius and Jarzembowski 2004 Weald Clay, United Kingdom, Early Cretaceous (Barremian)
 †Archebittacus (1) Riek, 1955 (Mount Crosby Formation, Australia, Late Triassic (Norian)
 †Asiobittacus (1) Novokshonov 1993 Sagul Formation, Kyrgyzstan, Early Jurassic (Toarcian)
 †Baissobittacus (1) Novokshonov 1997 Zaza Formation, Russia, Early Cretaceous (Aptian)
 †Burmobittacus (1) Zhao et al. 2016 Burmese amber, Myanmar, mid Cretaceous (Albian-Cenomanian)
 †Composibittacus (2) Liu et al. 2016 Daohugou, China, Middle Jurassic (Callovian)
 †Cretobittacus (1) Novokshonov 1993 Zaza Formation, Russia, Aptian
 †Decoribittacus (2) Li and Ren 2009 Daohugou, China, Callovian
 †Exilibittacus (3) Yang et al. 2012 Daohugou, China, Callovian
 †Formosibittacus (1) Li, Ren & Shih, 2008 Daohugou, China, Callovian
 †Haplobittacus (1) Bode 1953 Posidonia Shale, Germany, Toarcian)
 †Jurahylobittacus (1) Li, Ren & Shih, 2008 Daohugou, China, Callovian
 †Karattacus (2) Novokshonov 1997 Daohugou, China, Callovian Karabastau Formation, Kazakhstan, Late Jurassic
 †Liaobittacus (1) Ren 1993 Haifanggou Formation, China, Callovian
 †Mesobittacus (4)  Handlirsch 1939 Posidonia Shale, "Green Series", Germany, Toarcian, Itat Formation, Russia, Middle Jurassic (Bathonian)
 †Mongolbittacus (3) Petrulevicius, Huang & Ren, 2007 Daohugou, China, Callovian
 †Neorthophlebia (12) Handlirsch 1906  Dzhil Formation, Kyrgyzstan, Early Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian) Posidonia Shale, "Green Series", Germany, Sulyukta Formation, Kyrgyzstan, Toarcian, Tugnuy Formation, Russia, Upper Jurassic, Tuodian Formation, China, Late Jurassic (Oxfordian)
 †Orobittacus (2) Villegas and Byers 1981 Karabastau Formation, Kazakhstan, Late Jurassic, Sharteg, Mongolia, Late Jurassic (Tithonian)
 †Orthobittacus (4) Willmann 1989 Kyzyl-Kiya, Kyrgyzstan, Early Jurassic (Pliensbachian), Daohugou, China, Callovian, Karabastau Formation, Kazakhstan, Late Jurassic
 †Palaeobittacus (1) Carpenter 1928 Green River Formation, Colorado, Eocene
 †Parabittacus (2) Handlirsch 1939 Posidonia Shale, "Green Series", Germany, Toarcian
 †Pleobittacus (1) Bode 1953 Posidonia Shale, Germany, Toarcian
 †Plesiobittacus (1) Novokshonov 1997 Sagul Formation, Kyrgyzstan, Toarcian
 †Preanabittacus (2) Novokshonov 1993 Daohugou, China, Callovian Karabastau Formation, Kazakhstan, Late Jurassic
 †Probittacus (1) Martynov 1927 Karabastau Formation, Kazakhstan, Late Jurassic
 †Prohylobittacus (1) Novokshonov 1993 Karabastau Formation, Kazakhstan, Late Jurassic
 †Scharabittacus (3) Novokshonov 1993 Karabastau Formation, Kazakhstan, Late Jurassic Sharteg, Mongolia, Tithonian
 †Sibirobittacus (3) Sukacheva 1990 Karabastau Formation, Kazakhstan, Late Jurassic Glushkovo Formation, Russia, Tithonian, Yixian Formation, China, Aptian

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Taxa named by Anton Handlirsch

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Coronavirus Could Postpone New York's Presidential Primary, Promote Mail-In Voting
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ALBANY, NY (WSKG) – Several New York State lawmakers and a co chair of the state Board of Elections are pressing for New York to expand its absentee voting laws to allow for more mail in balloting, and to post pone the April 28th Presidential primary until late June.
New York has strict rules, outlined in the state's constitution, about who can request an absentee ballot. The person either must be ill, or out of the county they live in, on Election Day.
A bill, sponsored in the Senate by Alessandra Biaggi, a Bronx Democrat, would expand the reasons to vote by mail to include a concern over fearing the spread of an illness during a state of emergency, as is not the case with COVID-19. Biaggi, speaking during an on line news conference, says New Yorkers are willingly agreeing to orders to stay home, but they should not have to sacrifice their right to vote.
"Any at risk individuals should be rightfully wary of voting in person at crowded polling places," Biaggi. "They should not have to choose between safeguarding their health and fulfilling their civic duty."
The bill also applies to people under quarantine.
The measure is backed by the Democratic co –chair of the New York State Board of Elections Commission, Douglas Kellner. He believes there is precedence for bending the rules for absentee balloting. He says it occurred after 9/11 and no one challenged the changes in court. But he says having a new law in place dealing with concerns over the corona virus would help.
"It would certainly help to immunize those rulings against any challenges in court later on," Kellner said.
There is currently an effort underway in the legislature to amend the state's constitution to essentially allow mail in voting for any reason. But it's a lengthy process , requiring the approval of two consecutively elected state legislatures, and a vote by the public. It could not be completed before November 2021.
A bill in the Assembly sponsored by Joe Lentol, a Democrat from Brooklyn, would go further than Biaggi' s bill, and mandate mail in voting for the April 28th Presidential primary.
Dustin Czarny, who is Onondaga County Elections Commissioner and chair of the New York State Elections Commissioner Association's Democratic caucus, says it's not feasible right now to switch exclusively to mail in voting.
"Hundreds of thousands of people are inactive on the voter rolls right now, that means we don't have proper addresses for them," said Czarny.
The lawmakers and elections officials, along with the good government groups Common Cause, and the League of Women Voters, among others, are also seeking to post pone the April 28th Presidential primary, and hold it on June 23rd instead. That date is already set for state and congressional primary elections.
Under the rules of the Democratic National Committee, states must hold their Presidential primaries by June 2nd, or risk losing some of their delegates at the national convention. Senator Biaggi says he believes the DNC will change the rules. She says it would be a "very bad PR move" for the DNC to punish New York for postponing a primary at a time when the virus is expected to peak in New York.
Biaggi and the others say they hope the legislature can expand absentee voting when lawmakers convene next week, either remotely or in person at the Capitol. They say they may also need the rules for the November elections, if the corona virus is still a threat.

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Hosted by Russ Bray, the evening will also include your chance to ask questions in the Q&A session.
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A downtown Rochester location a historic building and extras like free Wi-Fi distinguish the Inn on Broadway. A boutique hotel the four-story Inn on Broadway is in a building dating from 1929 that once held the University Club of Rochester. The 23 rooms are individually decorated and include featherbeds topped with Egyptian cotton linens TVs with VCRs and free Wi-Fi access. Grab your free morning newspaper and enjoy a cup from your gourmet coffeemaker. Some rooms have chandeliers gas fireplaces and whirlpool tubs. The on-site steakhouse serves lunch and dinner and room service is available. Parking is free. In downtown Rochester the Inn on Broadway is walking distance to historic sights like the Eastman Theatre. The Rochester Museum & Science Center home of the Strasenburgh Planetarium and the George Eastman House are both a mile east. I-490 is minutes away and the city's other major thoroughfares are almost as close. The University of Rochester is three miles south. Greater Rochester International Airport is five miles southwest.
We were excited about our first visit to this historic/boutique hotel. But, it would have been nice if the hotel had advised us that on the day of arrival there would be a wedding reception going on until eleven that evening. Our room was above the reception. We were exhausted from our long day of travel and the walls are very thin. We could not get to sleep until after midnight because of the noise. Also, we were advised that the kitchen would be open until eleven in the evening. At 10:15 p.m. on Saturday the kitchen closed and we were not able to order even a simple appetizer. It is disappointing to spend more money on an upscale historic/boutique hotel and then have the hotel not follow thorough on what they say they do. Our suite was nice although the fan did not work. We will be going back to Rochester but will not return to this hotel unless things change.
Liked: Clean room. Within walking distance to the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra venue.
Disliked: (1) The first night there was a very loud wedding reception going on right below our room. Even though the music stopped at 11:00 p.m., the walls are thin and we kept hearing noise. It had been a long traveling day, with a busy day scheduled the next day, and we were not able to go to sleep until after midnight. We should have been advised prior to checking in that this reception was scheduled in this small historic/boutique hotel. (2) After the symphony on Saturday night, we came back to the hotel around 10:15 p.m. We were told by the receptionist that food could be ordered from the bar until 11:00 p.m. We went directly to the bar to get a drink and asked if we could order something to eat. The server said she thought the kitchen was closed. She went to check and came back to say it was closing early. She did not even offer a simple appetizer or anything. We left without ordering a drink and went to our room where we ordered outside of the hotel for food to be delivered. We were very disappointed to not be able to sit and unwind in the bar with drinks and light food after an evening at the symphony. (3) During our first night, three of us ate at the hotel restaurant. The food was okay but over-priced.
The Inn is really 5 minutes to the best Rochester has to offer and they have a lot to offer. Staff at the Inn are friendly, the food was fantastic and the place is gorgeously preserved. It's steeped in history, character and charm. Can't wait to make it back.
Liked: It was all good.
Disliked: Breakfast needs tonstep it up a bit. .
Liked: Not much of a room for 215$. Nice historic hotel though. It was clean and staff was helpful.
Disliked: I couldn?t get the heat to go above 67 degrees.
Liked: Nastalga feel, fire place, comfort of the bed.
Disliked: There was no view other than the fitting view of the Little Theater.
Liked: Location, also the charm, it?s not a typical, generically appointed hotel.
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Q: java program in eclipse to read text file in command line I am trying to read a text file in eclipse, I have "run configurations" -> arguments   set in eclipse , but it always says
Exception in thread "main" java.io.FileNotFoundException:  file.txt (The system cannot find the file specified)

I have put file.txt under the same folder of myclass and in /bin folder
What else I should look into?
Thanks

A: Set the working or starting directory in the run configuration, then put the file in that directory.

A: Put it in the folder of the project, not in bin folder. If you want to see what is the base path of the files, you can print:
System.out.println(new File(".").getCanonicalPath());

A: If you need to read a file from within an Eclipse plugin you are creating, you should treat at as a resource. Check this for an example: http://www.vogella.de/blog/2010/07/06/reading-resources-from-plugin/ Hope that helps.

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The state of eInvoicing in AUS and NZ
eInvoicing has taken off in countries around the world. Here in Australia and New Zealand, eInvoicing is still in its infancy, but steadily gaining momentum.
eInvoicing enables organisations to send and receive invoices electronically, directly to and from their software. It removes the need for unnecessary data entry and inaccurate OCR scanning.
eInvoicing in Australia and New Zealand is provided through a network of interoperable Access Points, like MessageXchange, conforming to the Peppol standard. The standard was developed in Europe, but has been adopted around the world, including here in October 2019.
The current state of eInvoicing
The term 'eInvoicing' has been thrown around here in Australia for a number of years now. It really started to gain traction in 2019 when Australia and New Zealand signed a trans-Tasman eInvoicing agreement, allowing it easier for businesses both countries to exchange eInvoices.
Today, the largest users of eInvoicing are government agencies. The Australian government is providing incentives for suppliers to use eInvoicing by promising suppliers with contracts less than $1 million payment within 5 days of issuing an eInvoice. In New Zealand, the government have set a target to pay 95% of all domestic invoices within 10 business days and eInvoicing is one of the key strategies to help reach it.
New Zealand Inland Revenue (NZIR) was one of the first New Zealand government agencies to use eInvoicing. The focus for NZIR was to pay invoices early to help suppliers' cash flow and to give them a seamless experience. Check out the case study here.
The New South Wales state government has been a leader in eInvoicing in Australia. The Department of Customer Service (NSW DCS) recently implemented eInvoicing as part of the NSW Digital Government Strategy. The strategy's purpose is to offer digital services that benefit customers and suppliers. Learn more about NSW DCS eInvoicing journey here.
Some of the government agencies that are currently up and running with eInvoicing include:
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The government is currently looking for ways to increase the uptake of eInvoicing. The 2020 Budget here in Australia includes $120 million in funding to help businesses implement digital technologies. It also includes $3.6 million to make eInvoicing mandatory for all government agencies by the 1st of July 2022.
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Personality #11
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Glynis Johns - an Actor - born on Friday October 5th 1923, in Pretoria, South Africa,.
Glynis Johns possesses a great talent for creativity and self expression, typical of many accomplished writers, poets, actors and musicians. He is also witty, owns the gift for gab, and savors the limelight.
Johns is optimistic and masters the resilience to overcome many setbacks. Thanks to his gift for self expression, he can be the life of the party, and the center of attention. When used constructively, Glynis' talent for self expression can be a great inspiration force in the world, uplifting others, and bringing much success and happiness to him. However, Glynis Johns could easily squander his talent by becoming a social butterfly.
His talent for the expressive arts is so abundant that Glynis may well have felt drawn to becoming an artist while still very young. However, these artistic abilities can only be enhanced through discipline and commitment to the true development of his talent. In other words, creativity is the gift that can give Glynis Johns the comfort and luxury he desires, but not without continual focus and discipline.
Glynis Johns is emotional and vulnerable. He can be generous to a fault, but when hurt, he withdraws into a cloud of silence, eventually emerging from his reticence with jokes and laughter that cover up his true feelings. More...
More flavors to Glynis' personality
Glynis Johns is a person of thinking and planning.
Having well-developed business mindset, he is good at making effective plans, setting goals and working out the best way to achieve them.
He may also have excellent organisational and administrative skills, but that depends on how often he skips the details in order not to lose sight of the bigger picture.
It is natural for Glynis to think before he acts, to constantly plan the short- and long-term future, and to keep elaborate notes and diary with everything well planned and written down.
He also knows how to work effectively and efficiently with others in business, while maintaining self control and discipline, and teaching them to appreciate knowledge as the key ingredient to success.
If Glynis is over-organized, he should practice finding his way in disarrayed environment, or otherwise feel confused and in disarray himself.
But if he ignores the details in favor of the bigger picture, others might view Johns as undisciplined with details, and not appreciate his great planning skills.
Entrepreneurial and progressive, Glynis Johns is ever-striving, heading for the top, and enjoying an enterprising, ambitious and determined personality to do things well, and an unyielding dedication to his plan until the goals are achieved.
He bounces back easily from setbacks and can overcome any adversities or obstacles thrown in his way.
There is danger, however that his trait of determination and dedication will shift to stubbornness, making Glynis cling to ideas and projects well past their fruitious season. It is a good idea for him to keep fresh pipeline of ideas to make it easier to replace outdated plans by new and better ones.
Patient as he is towards his goals, Glynis' flying, ravaging temper endangers his relationships with the very same people that will help him to accomplish those goals. He should use his strength of will to study and practice anger management.
Tour Glynis' menu and gain more insight into his personality traits, relationships, strengths and weaknesses, likes and dislikes, compatibility with you and with others, and much more.
July 18th 2019 finds Glynis Johns focused inward and with a tendency to withdraw.
This is a day of self-growth, full with spiritual insights and healthy curiosity.
Glynis feels special and full of purpose. However, he should trust his instincts and avoid bottled up feelings that need to be dealt with.
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An American actor, author, playwright, and comedian who won the Vail Film Festival Rising Star Award for playing Mills Joaquin in The Living Wake, starred as Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network, and as Lex Luthor in Batman v Superman (2016)
Bernie Mac (1957-2008)
Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958)
An American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator who studied at Harvard University, the University of Texas and Columbia University, was a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University, and has been the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for
Steve Miller (1943)
An American guitarist, singer, songwriter and the leader of the Steve Miller Band, who began his career in blues and blues rock and evolved to a more pop-oriented sound which resulted in a series of highly popular singles and albums
Brian Johnson (1947)
An English singer and songwriter who is the third lead singer of the Australian rock band AC/DC since 1980, after the death of their second lead singer Bon Scott, and is inducted, together with the rest of the band, into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Guy Pearce (1967)
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Dillon Francis (1987)
An American DJ as well as moombahton and electro house producer who rose to fame after gaining the attention of American producer Diplo and eventually collaborating on the song "Que Que", with featured Latin-pop artist Maluca
Ramzan Kadyrov (1976)
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Les eleccions federals suïsses de 1947 se celebraren el 1947 per a renovar els 200 membres del Consell Nacional de Suïssa i els 46 membres del Consell dels Estats de Suïssa que escolliran els 21 membres del Consell Federal de Suïssa. El partit més votat fou el Partit Radical Democràtic de Suïssa.

Resultats electorals

Consell Nacional de Suïssa
Resultat de les eleccions al Consell Nacional de Suïssa de 1947
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Religion Returns to the Public Square:
Faith and Policy in America
Hugh Heclo and Wilfred M. McClay
352 pages, paperback
Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 2002
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The authors explore the expanded role of religious institutions in welfare and education and questions like the relation of Islam to American values in the shadow of Sept. 11.
Hugh Heclo is the Clarence J. Robinson Professor of Public Affairs at George Mason University. He is the 2002 John Gaus Distinguished Lecturer. An expert on American democratic institutions, as well as the international development of modern welfare states, Heclo has received national awards for his books including Comparative Public Policy; A Government of Strangers: Executive Politics in Washington; and Modern Social Politics in Britain and Sweden. Heclo is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has served in the White House and as a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He chaired the Ford Foundation research advisory committee, which published The Common Good: Social Welfare and the American Future.
Wilfred M. McClay has held the SunTrust Bank Chair of Excellence in Humanities at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he has also been professor of history since 1999. He is currently an adjunct public policy fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., and a member of the Society of Scholars at the James Madison Program of Princeton University. He is a member of the National Council on the Humanities, which is the advisory board of the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is author of The Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America (1994), which won the 1995 Merle Curti Award of the Organization of American Historians. Among his other books are The Student's Guide to U.S. History (2001) and Religion Returns to the Public Square: Faith and Policy in Modern America (2002). He is the coeditor of Rowman and Littlefield's book series titled American Intellectual Culture, serves on the editorial boards of the American Quarterly, Continuity, Touchstone, University Bookman, and Wilson Quarterly, and is a frequent contributor to such journals as Public Interest, First Things, American Scholar, Reviews in American History, and Wilson Quarterly.
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It's your friend over at "Why We Are Screwed" again.
I wanted to reply to your posts, "Women Scared of the Big Issues?" and "Business Ethics and Women". Thank you for posting them. I wanted to share a few personal experiences with you and your readers.
I spent the last number of years working in an area of science/engineering consulting. Most recently, I had to deal with harassment, wherein I was the unfortunate recipient of an inappropriate sexual remark made by a male coworker, who was attempting to mock and disrespect me. I subsequently left this position because of this and many other reasons; either way, I did not want to continue working in that type of environment and I've now been unemployed for many months.
Although overt harassment, toxic workplaces, etc. are issues that affect women, (and not just women of course), the less overt male behavior I observed was probably more disappointing because it was more prevalent yet more difficult to identify since it was just under the surface of the company culture, e.g. a bunch of isolated occurrences/behavioral observations. Let me elaborate.
One manager I worked with always talked about sports with the guys around the office common areas, but never engaged with women in the same way because he just didn't know how. When the annual company golf tournament approached, this manager made sure to "stack" his team with the best male golfers so he would have a shot at winning, which was obviously much more important to him than encouraging teamwork or just having fun. During one golf tournament I attended, this manager made a comment in front of me at a table of mostly men that he was "able to play 27 holes of golf" and something to the effect of, "women could only do 18 holes or less because they'd be too tired to do more than that". I'm quite sure he was trying to show off in front of his buddies by blurting out his completely irrelevant comment, and was probably attempting to get a dig in at me because he was upset that I was no longer working in his office. I was the only one to speak up (none of the men at the table would bother, I mean, it didn't affect them, right?), but none of the women said anything either. I replied sarcastically, "Oh, is that it? Women just can't do it?". After I made this comment, there was total silence at the table.
This same manager actually asked a female colleague if she was pregnant during an annual performance review. One could hardly think he was effective at his job, and yet, no one would bother to do anything about it, because well, the business was making money, he'd just been with the company for a long time, and, the company was run by men.
I've watched women have children and later leave their jobs, or, after being overlooked for promotion, elect to work part time after having children. There is nothing wrong with this option of course, but is working part time a free choice a woman makes, or is it the result of a workplace refusing to accommodate parental needs? It was absolutely true that some managers thought that it was not possible to promote any woman who was aged 25-40ish, if married and childless, into a management role, since she might potentially have a baby (I emphasize the word potentially, not even pregnant). The problem was, no one thought to ask these women whether they would want to consider taking on more responsibility.
On a positive note, I've noticed Generation X/Y and onward males often have a better attitude towards women in the workplace, and thus I hope that the culture will slowly change for the better.


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Jewish Family Services, in partnership with the Rabbinical Association of Greater Kansas City, has teamed up with area congregations in response to the ever-growing need for food assistance in Kansas City. Our congregation has been asked to collect donations of granola/fiber/snack bars and toilet paper during the summer month of June through August. These items will be stocked in the JFS Food pantry and will provide for more than 200 households in our community.
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The New Reform Temple launches the eighth season of its monthly film series for adults which brings to our community cutting edge, award winning films that will explore the Modern Jewish Experience. On Thursday, January 16 at 7pm at the Sulgrave, we will screen: SUGIHARA – CONSPIRACY OF KINDNESS. The story of Japanese diplomat Chiune […]
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Jewish Family Services, in partnership with the Rabbinical Association of Greater Kansas City, has teamed up with area congregations in response to the ever-growing need for food assistance in Kansas City. Our congregation has been asked to collect donations of soup (including low sodium) and Kleenex during the month of January. These items will be […]
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Al Gorgoni is een Amerikaanse gitarist, tekstschrijver, componist en arrangeur.
Hij deed veel werk als sessiemuzikant, en werkte samen met Trade Martin en Chip Taylor.

Carrière
In 1959 begon Gorgoni te werken bij Aldon Music, een muziekuitgeverij van de beroemde Don Kirshner en Al Nevins.
Kirshner en Nevins waren grote namen in de jaren 60, en werkzaam in het fameuze Brill Building. Ze waren mede verantwoordelijk voor wat nu de Bril Building Sound wordt genoemd.
Ze hadden veel songwriters onder contract zoals Neil Sedaka, Howard Greenfield, Carole King, Gerry Goffin, Neil Diamond, Phil Spector & Barry Mann. Gorgoni speelde gitaar op veel demo's van deze songwriters, die in die dagen nog weleens uitdraaiden tot echte single opnames.

Hij kwam onder de aandacht van meer producers en songwriters, en algauw kon hij aan de slag als studiomuzikant. Hij begon te werken voor andere Leiber & Stoller, Mickey Leonard & Herb Martin, Burt Bacharach & Hal David, Jeff Barry & Ellie Greenwich, en Paul Simon.

Als sessiemuzikant is hij te horen op veel hits uit de jaren 60, zoals onder andere "Sugar, Sugar" van The Archies, "My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own" van Connie Francis, "Sherry", "Big Girls Don't Cry", "Walk Like A Man" en "Ragg Doll" van The Four Seasons, "Our day will come" van Ruby & the Romantics, "Leader of the Pack" van de Shangri-Las en "Chapel of Love" van The Dixie Cups.

Ook is hij te horen op verschillende hits van Neil Diamond zoals, "Solitary Man", "Cherry Cherry" en "Kentucky Woman".

Andere grote hits waar Al Gorgoni op te horen is zijn onder andere, "The Sound of Silence" van Simon & Garfunkel, "Brown Eyed Girl" van Van Morrison, "I'm a Believer" van The Monkees, "At Seventeen" van Janis Ian, en "Brand New Key" van Melanie.

Verder werkte hij met veel grote artiesten als, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell, Astrud Gilberto en James Taylor.

In de jaren tachtig opent hij zijn eigen Lightstream Studios. Hij werkte daar samen met zijn zoon Adam, tot Adam besluit naar Los Angeles te gaan om een carrière te beginnen als filmmuziek componist.
Recent heeft hij twee albums geproduceerd, een van de Amerikaanse flamenco-gitarist Dennis Koster, en klassiek gitarist Jerry Willard.

Hij heeft ook bijgedragen aan de jazz-instructieboeken, Pentatonic Khancepts en Contemporary Chord Khancepts van de Amerikaanse jazzgitarist Steve Khan.

Met Chip Taylor & Trade Martin
In 1963 speelde Al mee op een demo van Chip Taylor, ze raakten bevriend en hij gaat nummers met hem schrijven.
Vanaf 1965 schrijven ze enkele nummers voor de toen nog jonge zangeres Evie Sands, zoals Angel of the Morning.
Taylor schrijft de tekst en Al is de arrangeur, en samen doen ze de productie. Het wordt geen hit voor Sands, maar later wordt het eerst voor Merrilee & the Turnabouts een grote hit in 1968, en in 1981 een wereldhit voor Juice Newton. Ook schrijven ze I Can't let go. Ook dit nummer wordt eerst opgenomen door Evie Sands, maar is een hit geworden voor The Hollies in 1966, en in 1980 voor Linda Ronstadt.

In 1966 brengen ze als het duo Just Us de single I can't grow peaches on a lemon tree uit. Deze bereikte de 3e positie in de Billboard Adult Contemporary-hitlijst en de 34e positie in de Billboard hot 100. De single werd ook in Engeland, Duitsland en Nederland uitgebracht onder het CBS-label, zonder succes. Ze nemen daarna direct een gelijknamig album op, dat wordt uitgebracht op het Kapp Records-label.

In 1966 produceerde Al Gorgoni samen met Chip Taylor een album van de eerste band van James Taylor, "The Original Flying Machine", Gorgoni speelde ook Klavecimbel en toetsen op het album. Het album werd in 1971 uitgebracht.

In 1971 schreven Gorgoni en Taylor samen met Trade Martin, en vormden ze korte tijd het trio, Gorgoni, Martin & Taylor.
Ze brachten in 1971 het album Gotta Get Back To Cisco uit, gevolgd door "Gorgoni, Martin & Taylor" in 1972. Ook brachten ze een aantal singles uit.

Privé
Al Gorgoni is getrouwd en heeft twee zonen.

Credits in films en series
 In twee afleveringen van de Music-variety tv serie Hollywood A Go-Go in 1966, trad Evie Sands op met de nummers I Can't Let Go, You've Got Me Uptight, Run Home to Your Mama & Take Me foor a Little While.
 In 1967 traden The Hollies op in het programma American Bandstand met het nummer I Cant Let Go van Al Gorgoni & Chip Taylor.
 In de film 80 Steps to Jonah uit 1969 zit het nummer It's Such a Lonely Time of Year van Wayne Newton, geschreven door Al Gorgoni & Chip Taylor.
 In de film Margot at the Wedding uit 2007 zit het nummer One Fine Summer Morning van Evie Sands, geschreven door Al Gorgoni.
 In de film And When Did You Last See Your Father? uit 2007 zit het nummer I Can't Let Go van The Hollies, geschreven door Al Gorgoni & Chip Taylor.
 In de film Life Of The Party uit 2018 zit het nummer You've Got Me Up Tight van Evie Sands, Geschreven door Al Gorgoni & Chip Taylor.

Discografie

Just us
Albums:

Singles:

Barry Mann And Al Gorgoni

James Taylor and the Original Flying Machine
Album

Singles

Gorgoni, Martin & Taylor
Albums:

Singles:

Externe links
 Trade Martin op Allmusic
 Al Gorgoni op IMDb
 Chip Taylor op Train Wreck Records

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Amerikaans componist
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Amerikaans gitarist


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Why Choose George Brown
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Rita Remark
Shaping Her Career
Nail Technician Certificate and Esthetician and Medical Spa Therapist Certificate* Graduate
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George Brown helps develop the skills of a trendsetting Canadian nail artist
What do Serena Williams, Cara Delevingne and Kendall Jenner have in common? They all have had their nails painted by George Brown College's School of Makeup and Esthetics graduate Rita Remark – one of Canada's most fashion-forward nail artists.
"I have so many moments when I want to pinch myself," notes Rita. In addition to being Essie Canada's lead nail artist since 2012 and the iconic nail polish brand's first-ever global lead educator since 2015, she is also an on-set manicurist for advertising, fashion, music and film. "Like at the Alexander Wang show during New York Fashion Week, first I'm there with him and his team, designing nails, and then I'm backstage polishing Kendall Jenner's nails before the show. And I'm like, 'Who am I? How did this happen?' Of course, I know how it happened and the path it took to get here, but those moments are incredible."
Rita's educational path started with enrolling in a university-level new media program, but she soon realized she preferred to pursue her love of all things beauty and work with people rather than computers. With thoughts of becoming a makeup artist, she attended makeup school but quickly lost interest in the profession. She decided to become an esthetician instead and turned to George Brown in 2008, completing both our Nail Technician Certificate and an advanced esthetics certificate.
"Ironically, I had no opinions on taking the manicure class," she says of a required course that was part of her certificate experience. "It sounds corny, but within the second week of taking that course, I was like, 'Okay, that's it! Done! This is all I want to do.' It came as a complete shock. I never thought I would like it that much."
"George Brown helped me to channel my creativity into a craft that I never thought would have been possible for myself. It took my abilities and helped me to direct them."
George Brown offered Rita the right combination of environment, hands-on experience, teachers and products. She was also able to take advantage of the school's flexible course schedules, which allowed her to work and go to classes at the same time.
While Rita was attending her part-time courses, the nail industry, where nail artists are now a staple at photo shoots and fashion shows, was just taking off. Once she expressed her ideal career direction to her teachers, they helped her to focus on specific topics, offered personalized advice and encouraged her to pursue activities that would ensure she was confident, professional and industry-ready.
"George Brown helped me to channel my creativity into a craft that I never thought would be possible for myself," says Rita, who still uses some of the tools that came in her certificate program student kit and employs techniques she learned at the college for executing an immaculate manicure. "It took my abilities and helped me to direct them. My nail art was self-taught. Everything else is George Brown."
Despite her quick rise through the nail world, which began with a stint at a top Toronto nail salon, Rita points out that the industry is not all glitz and glamour. That's especially true, she says, when she is hunched under a table at Toronto Fashion Week to paint a model's nails while being covered in hairspray and with show producers yelling that it's almost show time. During those moments, says Rita, she is taken back to George Brown.
"My teacher would insist we would do drills of fast, flawless nail applications. I thought that was really strange, but it's that day in class that I think about when I'm backstage at Fashion Week doing a nail application in 10 minutes," she remembers.
In between designing and painting celebrity nails and educating consumers and industry professionals about the Essie brand, Rita is also a guest teacher at George Brown.
"It's a full-circle moment," she says. "And it's been helpful for me because I've hired some of the George Brown students who I have taught. You know talent and passion when you see it. It has enabled me to pay it forward in a way."


Our clients live in Warfield, Berkshire and we had previously designed and installed their master bathroom the year before. They wanted us to be even more daring in the design of this bathroom which was to include a freestanding bath and a basin unit.
Our clients wanted a luxury family bathroom that suited their lifestyle and was a more dramatic design than the master suite we had designed and installed the previous year.
Our designer picked the colours black and white to add a rich and stylish feel to the bathroom along with a basin unit with a white matt rubber finish and the iconic shaped bath.
The floor area where the bath is was raised to create a feature space with lighting and also hid the pipework.
The Amalfi bath by Victoria + Albert created a dramatic impact against the dark tiles.
Niche areas were created to add storage and a colourful contrast.
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The mosaics were used in the raised bath area and also created features in the niche storage areas.
A glass door with a privacy finish allowed light to come in from the spacious upstairs hall.
Mr & Mrs H were as delighted with their family bathroom as they were with their master master suite the previous year.
Our clients wanted a family bathroom with a luxurious feel to it and were keen for it to have a strong and dramatic look.
Our designer picked the colours black and white to add a stylish feel to the bathroom.
Mosaics were used in the bath area and as features in the niches to add interest.
We suggested a glass door with a privacy finish to allow light to come in from the spacious bedroom.
Our clients were delighted with the designs and samples of mosaics chosen for their family bathroom. They were able to see the bath,basin unit and tiles on display in our showroom.
Our clients were as happy with their finished family bathroom as they were with their master bathroom we had completed the previous year.


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Cory Diane is a composer, researcher, and MA Candidate in Music Composition at Tulane University. At A Studio in the Woods, they will continue work on a project that uses sound as a means for exploring the complex ecologies and histories of the Gulf of Mexico, centering one of its most endangered and little-known inhabitants, the recently-named Rice's Whale, a being whose critically endangered status is connected directly to the sounds of industry and oil exploration in the Gulf. While most people are aware that marine mammals rely on sound for basic survival, navigation, and communication, it's less understood that oil companies and the U.S. military also rely on sound, that nearly every day of the year they use sonar guns to map the floor of the Gulf of Mexico for oil exploration. These sound waves have the capacity to kill animals who are close to their line of fire, to injure those who are further out, and, because of how sound travels underwater, to diminish the precious sonic space available for marine animals living across the entirety of the Gulf of Mexico. The prevalence of sonar blasts is just one contributing factor to soundscape of the Gulf, one with devastating consequences, that connects the well being of these marine mammals to those of us living in cancer alley, to all whose presence and futures are compromised by extractive fossil fuel economies. While Diane hopes to use their time at A Studio in the Woods to write an article, they hope to develop this into a multidisciplinary project, collaborating with scientists, musicians and filmmakers.
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Thank You 2018 Half-Marathon Team – Life Without Lupus!
The Lupus Research Alliance Team Life Without Lupus made a run for it this weekend at the United Airlines NYC Half! Over the past nine years, Team Life Without Lupus has raised over $1 million!
We thank this determined team for the thousands of steps they took over the 13.1 mile route – every single one brings us closer to our finish line – A Life Without Lupus!
The mighty half-dozen is made up of passionate individuals determined to make a difference not only for themselves, but also in the lives of their mothers, friends and the entire community.
This year's top fundraiser is Jenna Riepepe who has raised thousands to fund scientific study through the Lupus Research Alliance
Jenna explains, "I chose to run with the Team life without Lupus because it's something very close to me. I was diagnosed with lupus at 20. For the past seven years I've been truly blessed and have been able to live a healthy and active lifestyle. I decided to run the NYC Half to prove to myself and other people living with lupus that an illness does not define you. I've learned a lot about myself during these past months of training. One thing being that strength does not come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you thought you once couldn't."
Shanelle Gabriel, who has been living with lupus for 14 years, is running to raise awareness and funds for the disease.
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Conditional Relations Vol 1 - 2
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Volume I of the two part partial translation of the Chaṭṭha Saṅgāyana text of the seventh book of the Abhidhamma-pitaka.
Conditional Relations I is a translation of the first volume of the enormously long and extremely intricate Paṭṭhāna, the seventh and final book of the Abhidhamma piṭaka. Conditional Relations is based on the translation of vol I of the Chaṭṭha Saṅgāyana text. Paṭṭhāna deals with the 22 triplets and 100 couplets of the Dhammasaṅgaṇī, i.e. all the ultimate realities, both singly and in combinations with reference to the 24 conditions to show how their cause and effects are related.
In the methods of the Four Noble Truths and Dependent origination, only the manifested causes and effects are considered. But in Paṭṭhāna, the forces that bring about the relations between the causes and effects are also taken into account and it is with these forces that this subject is primarily concerned.
Volume II of the two part partial translation of the Cha ha Sa g yana text of the seventh book of the Abhidhamma-pitaka.
Conditional Relations II is a translation of the first volume of the enormously long and extremely intricate Pa h na, the seventh and final book of the Abhidhamma pi aka. Conditional Relations is based on the translation of vol II, III, IV and V of the Cha ha Sa g yana text. Pa h na deals with the 22 triplets and 100 couplets of the Dhammasa ga , i.e. all the ultimate realities, both singly and in combinations with reference to the 24 conditions to show how their cause and effects are related.
In the methods of the Four Noble Truths and Dependent origination, only the manifested causes and effects are considered. But in Pa h na, the forces that bring about the relations between the causes and effects are also taken into account and it is with these forces that this subject is primarily concerned.
This book, Conditional Relations, has undergone some corrections by the Pali Text Society. View the corrections here.
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Washington(CNN) President Donald Trump said Friday he is greenlighting a doubling of steel and aluminum tariffs on Turkey and warned that US relations with the country "are not good at this time."
Erdogan, in an op-ed dated Friday in The New York Times, decried US actions toward Turkey and warned that the future of their decades-long "shoulder to shoulder" alliance could be in peril.
CNN's Zachary Cohen, Barbara Starr, Daniel Shane, Ivana Kottasová and Joe Sterling contributed to this report.


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Ken Budd is the author of the memoir The Voluntourist: A Six-Country Tale of Love, Loss, Fatherhood, Fate, and Singing Bon Jovi in Bethlehem (Morrow Avon), the story...
Author of The Voluntourist
BENJAMIN BUSCH
Benjamin Busch is an award-winning writer, actor, photographer, film director, decorated United States Marine Corps Infantry Officer who served two tours of combat duty...
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Wiley Cash's debut New York Times best-seller, A Land More Kind Than Home (William Morrow), is a literary thriller about the bond between two brothers and the evil they...
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A world-class thinker and entrepreneur, Rolf Dobelli is an expert on human psychology and reasoning. He is the author of the international best-seller The Art of Thinking...
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A three-time Edward R. Murrow and six-time Emmy Award-winning feature producer with ESPN for 13 years, Lisa Fenn reported on major league sports interviewing every big...
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Bassey Ikpi embodies the brilliance of multifaceted creative minds. Ikpi is a writer, performer, mental health advocate and author of the instant New York Times bestselling...
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William Kamkwamba is the co-author with Bryan Mealer of The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope (William Morrow), the story of how he...
New York Times Best-Selling Author of The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
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Olympic, Cu-Au-U | Commander Resources Ltd.
The property covers a very large (+10 km) hematite breccia complex with numerous copper and copper-gold showings, which are similar in style and age to the Olympic Dam deposit in Australia. Two deep seated magnetic blocks have recently been identified which underlie the western portion of the breccia complex based on ground magnetic surveys. Although some drilling has been completed at Olympic, these new targets have not been evaluated or tested.
The Olympic property is located just within the proposed boundary of the Peel Watershed Plan. In 2014 the Yukon Government presented its plan for the Peel Watershed area. It now encompasses the Olympic Rob Property in a Protected Area designation that could impact the company's ability to access or develop a mine at that site. Request for relief from assessment work was applied for due to the uncertainties surrounding the Peel Watershed plan. The plan has not yet been finalized and is subject to further challenges.


Jeremy Bright is originally from the U.K., from Essex in fact and likes to point out from 'real Essex, not London overspill – and proud of it'. Cortinas and fluffy dice aside he feels that being born and raised in this heartland gives him a certain edge to his character that people feel drawn to. In 2010 he formed Grabb – for image excellence, a commercial photographic company that produces stills and moving imagery specifically for businesses and corporates whilst continuing to work as a freelance documentary photographer.
In both endeavours his fascination is for storytelling – to discover the subtle nuances behind the person, subject or business – in other words what makes people tick. He loves the chance encounter, a passing conversation or an observed situation.
His journey continues . . . .


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The World Packaging Organisation has named Gill Loubser, longtime doyenne of SA's packaging industry, as a recipient of a 'Lifetime Achievement in Packaging' prize, an announcement made at the recent WorldStar Packaging Awards 2019.
Loubser is co-founder and editorial director of the outstanding magazine, PACKAGiNG & Print Media, and has four decades' experience of writing about the South African and global printing and packaging industries.
She was previously named 'Packaging Achiever' by the Packaging Council of South Africa in recognition of her years of dedication to the South African packaging industry (1995), and granted Honorary Life Membership of the Flexographic Technical Association of South Africa (1996).
She was named as a Fellow of the Institute of Packaging South Africa (1998) and, since 1979, has been Africa's sole member of the International Packaging Press Organisation.
The Gold Pack Awards, organised by Packaging SA, took place in November 2018 at the Inanda Club in Sandton and included Packaging SA's prestigious award of Packaging Achiever of the year.
This year it was decided to rename the Award to the Gill Loubser Packaging Achiever Award in recognition of Gill Loubser's outstanding and committed contribution to the packaging industry over many years.


Kanashimi wa Yuki ni Nemuru or Namonaki Tane?
It was difficult to choose, but I'm going to go with Kanashimi wa Yuki ni Nemuru.
I just adore the melody and the wintery feel in that song.
Kanashimi wa yuki ni nemuru ! Namonaki Tane was great, but it lacks something I think... Well, the end is incredible, but Kanashimi was just totally my jam.
Namonaki Tane. That song better appear on her next studio album.
Oh, this was soooo tough, but I voted for Kanashimi wa Yuki ni Nemuru. I love this song very much and I think that the translation of the title is very beautiful!
But I love "Namonaki Tane" a lot too!!
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"Thanks for all the work with Maddison. Her progress since coming to your clinic is impressive. Under your guidance she has made great strides and Bruce and I really appreciate you and your staff."
"As the parents of a young boy who struggled with school and basic social interactions, the diagnosis of Asperger's Syndrome was both a relief and a concern. Fortunately for us and for our son, we found the Center for Speech, Language, and Learning (CSLL). In just over 16 months our son has made tremendous strides in school and at home.
Laurie Johnson, our main contact at CSLL, understood what our son was dealing with. She taught our son how to cope with situations that previously resulted in meltdowns, poor performance or awkward reactions. Laurie also provided us a clear picture of what our son is dealing with and created a plan that made our home life much more enjoyable.
The people at CSLL are wonderful and extremely talented. We strongly recommend Laurie Johnson and the Center for Speech Language, and Learning."
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Laurie and Jean have been the best advocates to help me with support during all of our IEP meetings. I was having a really tough time getting the needs of my kids met in the school system before I found her. When I reached out to Laurie, she met with me and looked over the IEPs for both of my children as well as the outside evaluations we had done. I explained the troubles each was having in school. She understood how we needed to make accommodations to get what I had hoped before she had even started working with my children. With Laurie's understanding of how to navigate within the school system and her knowledge of how to meet the chidren's needs, we finally were able to have fruitful meetings. She is very accessible even with a busy schedule she finds time to respond to emails and be present as needed for IEP meetings. I have not found this kind of support anywhere else. Jean and Laurie have been amazing.
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SPRI will be exhibiting new products at IHRSA 2012, including one of the newest products to the fitness world, the Step360 Pro. Cardio, strength and flexibility workouts all are launched to the next level with the unique Step360 Pro by SPRI. This versatile, functional training tool uniquely combines a stable platform atop dual inflatable oscillating air chambers for a valuable balance challenge during a multitude of functional and traditional exercises. All levels of exercisers can add excitement to their routines, improve core strength and stability, maximize exercise efficiency and achieve optimal performance through 360 degrees of movement.
The Step360 is accompanied with a hand pump, full-color wall poster featuring some of the most popular Step360 movements and a DVD which features three 20-minute workouts, plus an additional bonus section. However, if you would rather try the Step360 Pro for yourself instead of watching it on DVD, then stop by the SPRI booth and try it there. You can also sign up to experience it during the Step360 pre-conference session and/or one of the early morning workouts at IHRSA.
This company is an exhibitor at IHRSA and an advertiser in the February 2012 issue of Club Industry.


Born in Northern Italy 1979, Patrizio Belcampo moved to Edinburgh in 2003. He became a member of Edinburgh Printmakers in 2005, and in 2011 he graduated in Drawing and Painting at Edinburgh College of Art. His work explores literature, material history and the decorative arts, though his main objective in printmaking is not the illustration of concepts borrowed from those disciplines, but the creation of well-resolved images through close engagement with technique. He says: "Colour, quality, movement of a line, and the overall composition and visual impact of an image, are what my prints are about." Patrizio has exhibited in Scotland with the Royal Scottish Academy, the Society of Scottish Artists, Edinburgh Printmakers and the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts. He has also showcased work at major Art Fairs and the London Original Print Fair.


It is now widely acknowledged that, as a nation, we do not adequately understand, identify, prevent or effectively reduce the significant risks that some adolescents experience (ADCS, 2013). This is despite some excellent practice at local level.
The purpose of this Evidence Scope is to explore key dimensions to adolescent risk and resilience (including the ways in which choice and behaviour can play a role in both) and consider the implications of all of this for current practice and service design. It calls for a system-wide rethink of how adolescent risk is identified, understood and responded to.
In addition to the main resource you can also download from this page a summary, a full list of references, an Appendix of Practice Submissions and a table summarising Seven principles to improve responses to adolescent risk.
Please contact Jenifer Matthewman, Sales, Marketing and Communications Co-ordinator (jen.matthewman@rip.org.uk) for further information, interviews, statements or articles.


Successful organisations understand the importance of strategic positioning, and how accessing new markets will allow them to broaden their reach and increase potential to sell to more customers. Strategic Market Development is a highly participative 3-day training course that will equip participants with the tools required to accurately assess and identify market development opportunities.
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With a career that started in retail, Jim has over 25 years experience developing high-performance people, and has held a variety of senior management, sales, business development and marketing related positions. Jim believes that training is critical to developing potential, and that when expertly designed and delivered, can power business performance and corporate growth.
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Poligrip and Fixodent Litigation Update
For 14 years until just last month, GlaxoSmithKline sold a denture cream called Super Poligrip that contained high levels of zinc.
The zinc helped with adhesion and was probably safe so long as people used moderate amounts of cream. Indeed, the human body needs small amounts of zinc to function. But some people ended up using much larger amounts, and they began to develop the kind of nerve damage associated with excess zinc.
Read the full New York Times story here.
Johnny Howell of Winston-Salem, N.C., who was using a tube of Poligrip a week, had to quit his job as a car mechanic and now needs a walker to get around his house. He is 53 years old. Rodney Urbanek, another Poligrip customer, began using a walker in 2007, at age 63. He died a year later, apparently a result of a copper deficiency from "zinc overload," according to his autopsy.
Poligrip has a lot of zinc. Too much zinc causes copper deficiency. A lack of copper causes nerve damage.
The evidence has become strong enough that last month GlaxoSmithKline stopped making the version of Poligrip with zinc, after having previously resisted just such a move.
We are not taking toxic risks seriously enough.
The story of denture cream and zinc is a good example. A dentist in the Navy noticed the link between zinc and copper deficiency in the 1950s, according to Dr. Harold Sandstead of the University of Texas in Galveston. Studies in later years confirmed the relationship. Early last decade, researchers made the connection from excess zinc to copper deficiency to neurological problems. "It's nothing new," Peter Hedera, a Vanderbilt University neurologist, told me. "If you researched the field, you would find out."
In 2008, Dr. Sharon Nations of Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas and other researchers published a study in the journal Neurology that took the research one step further. It specifically tied denture cream to severe neuropathy. Dr. Hedera followed up that study with another one analyzing 11 patients with high, unexplained zinc levels. To his surprise, all 11 turned out to be heavy users of denture cream.
Yet even after those studies appeared, GlaxoSmithKline continued to sell Poligrip. The company simply inserted a small piece of paper into the product's box containing some mild statements that barely even seemed to be warnings. The headline on the insert was, "For Best Results Start With a Small Amount."
Perhaps even more questionable than GlaxoSmithKline's response has been that of Procter & Gamble, the giant consumer products company. Procter is still selling a denture cream with zinc in it. Why? The cream, Fixodent, has only about half as much zinc as Poligrip did.
Even so, it may be enough to cause problems. Some of the 11 patients in the Hedera study were Fixodent users. "I would withdraw both" — not just Poligrip but also Fixodent, Dr. Hedera says.
Mr. Howell, the former mechanic, who is suing GlaxoSmithKline, said he was careful to apply the cream how the instructions showed. He was less careful, however, about dosage.
Today, Mr. Howell has to rely on friends to drive him to the grocery store. "Before all this started happening, I used to have a race car and I used to go fishing all the time," he said.
"Now, I can't drive. I wrecked my car because my legs wouldn't hit the brake. I tore the whole side of my car off."
It's too late to prevent much of whatever damage has been caused by denture cream. But it is not too late to prevent the next such problem, and there will be a next one. Companies are just not going to regulate themselves. Their mission is to make money, and they pursue it well. They have shown again and again — with lead in paint, mercury in canned tuna and zinc in denture cream — that they are less zealous about protecting consumer safety.
If you or a family member has been personally injured because of the fault of someone else: by the use of dangerous and defective drugs, bad products, or toxic injury etc then please contact the Fort Worth Texas Defective Drugs Product Liability Attorney Dr. Shezad Malik. For a no obligation, free case analysis, please call 888-210-9693 or Contact Me Online.
The Dr. Shezad Malik Law Firm is currently evaluating and accepting Poligrip and Fixodent Zinc Neuropathy cases.
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This green sea turtle is gliding through the water in the Hawaiian Islands, where it's known as honu. The species has a special meaning in Hawaii, where it's associated with peace and good luck, but its future hasn't always been certain. The green sea turtle is listed as an endangered species and faces multiple threats, including pollution, poaching, and habitat destruction. On December 28, 1973, President Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act into law to protect some of our country's most at-risk species, like our turtle. Sounds like a good reason to shell-abrate.
The green sea turtle, also known as the green turtle, black turtle or Pacific green turtle, is a large sea turtle of the family Cheloniidae. It is the only species in the genus Chelonia. Its range extends throughout tropical and subtropical seas around the world, with two distinct populations in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, but it is also found in the Indian Ocean. The common name comes from the usually green fat found beneath its carapace; these turtles' shells are olive to black.


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