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Ascoli Piceno (acentuación: Áscoli) es una ciudad de la región de Marcas, en Italia, y capital de la provincia del mismo nombre. Su población, según el censo de 2021, es de 46.520 habitantes.

Geografía
La ciudad está situada en la confluencia del río Tronto con el torrente Castellano, y está rodeada por tres lados por montañas. Dos parques naturales se encuentran en las cercanías de la ciudad, uno en el flanco noroeste (Parco Nazionale dei Monti Sibillini), y otro en el flanco sur (Parco Nazionale dei Monti della Laga). Ascoli está bien conectada por ferrocarril con la costa Adriática y con la ciudad de San Benedetto del Tronto, y por carretera con Roma y Porto d'Ascoli.

Historia
Ascoli fue fundado por los Picenos, varios siglos antes de la fundación de Roma, sobre la importante Vía Salaria, la cual unía el Lacio con las áreas de producción de sal en la costa Adriática. En el año 268 a. C. se convirtió en una civitas foederata, sólo nominalmente independiente de Roma. En 91 a. C. se rebeló contra Roma junto con otras ciudades de la Italia central pero en 89 a. C. fue conquistada y destruida por Pompeyo Estrabón. En cualquier caso, se convirtió en parte integrante de Roma.

Durante la Edad Media fue devastada por los ostrogodos y luego por los lombardos del duque (dux) Faroaldo I (578). Después de casi dos siglos como parte integrante del lombardo Ducado de Spoleto (593-789), Ascoli fue gobernada por los francos por medio de vicarios, aunque en última instancia los obispos de la Iglesia católica fueron progresivamente ganando influencia y poder dentro de la ciudad.

En 1189 se convirtió en una república libre, pero las luchas internas condujeron a la ciudad a la pérdida de valores cívicos y libertad, y a empresas desafortunadas contra los enemigos vecinos. Esta situación incierta abrió el camino al gobierno de caudillos extranjeros, como los de Galeotto Malatesta (siglo XIV), al principio llamado a la ciudad como condotiero en la guerra contra Fermo, y de Francisco Sforza.

Este último fue expulsado en 1482, pero Ascoli quedó bajo la soberanía papal. Ascoli seguido entonces casi dos siglos de estancamiento cultural, económico, convirtiéndose en un pequeño centro agrícola hasta las guerras napoleónicas. En 1860 fue anexionado, junto con Marcas y Umbría en el Reino de Italia.

Monumentos principales
El casco histórico de la ciudad está construido con un tipo de mármol llamado travertino, de tonos grises y extraído de las montañas circundantes. Su plaza central de estilo renacentista, la Piazza del Popolo, es considerada una de las más hermosas de Italia. Según las tradiciones, en Ascoli Piceno se alzaban más de doscientas torres en la Edad Media; hoy aproximadamente cincuenta de ellas todavía se mantienen en pie.

Iglesias y conventos

 La Catedral de San Emidio, alberga un altar de Carlo Crivelli, que vivió y trabajó en la ciudad y alrededores durante muchos años.
 La iglesia de San Francisco,  de estilo gótico, comenzada en 1258 y completada en 1549. En la entrada lateral se encuentra un monumento al papa Julio II, mientras que la entrada central es uno de los ejemplos más fino de la decoración local travertina. Anexo a la iglesia se encuentra un edificio del siglo XVI, la Loggia dei Mercanti, de estilo Bramantesco.
 La iglesia románica de San Vitorio (conocida desde 996) con una fachada principal y un pequeño campanario.
 La iglesia de San Augustín (siglo XIV). Construida con una sola nave, fue ampliada con dos alas al final del siglo XV. La fachada rectangular tiene un pórtico de 1547 similar al de San Emidio. Destacan también las casas conventuales, la biblioteca, la galería de arte contemporáneo y un auditorio.
 El convento de Santo Domingo, ahora una escuela, tiene un claustro renacentista con frescos del siglo XVII.
 La iglesia de San Pedro Mártir (siglo XIII), con un pórtico lateral de Cola d'Amatrice. El interior contiene el precioso relicario de la Espina Sagrada, un regalo de Felipe IV de Francia.
 La iglesia de Santo Tomás (1069), albergando numerosos trabajos artísticos y construido con partes del vecino anfiteatro romano.
 El convento franciscano, del que son dignos de mención los claustros que han perdurado hasta hoy. Fue un prestigioso centro de cultura, entre cuyos estudiantes destaca al Papa Sixto V.
 El Palazzo dei Capitani del Popolo (Palacio del Capitán del Pueblo). Construido en el siglo XII conectando tres edificios preexistentes, fue la sede del podestà, el capitán de la gente y después, del gobernador. En el siglo XV el lado Sur fue ampliado y en 1520, una fachada manerista se añadió en la parte trasera. En 1535 pasó por una renovación general y en 1549 se añadió un nuevo pórtico con un monumento del papa Pablo III.

Otros edificios
 Puente romano
 Palacio Lombardo y Torre Ercolani (siglos XI-XII)
 Fortezza Pia, una fortaleza que preside la ciudad, reconstruida en 1560 por el papa Pío IV (del que toma el nombre).
 Fortaleza Malatesta, emplazada en un lugar probablemente ocupado anteriormente por unos baños romanos. Fue reconstruido por Galeotto Malatesta, señor de Rímini, durante la guerra contra Fermo. La construcción, usada como una cárcel hasta 1978, fue ampliada por Antonio Sangallo el Joven en 1543.

En Castel Trosino, no lejos de la ciudad, en 1893 se halló un raro ejemplo de una necrópolis lombarda del siglo VI.

Economía
La industrialización reciente ha llevado a varias empresas italianas y multinacionales (YKK, Manuli, Pfizer, el Mazacote) a instalarse en Ascoli, pero la mayor parte de la economía se basa en las pequeñas y medianas empresas clasificadas y en el sector servicios. La agricultura es todavía importante (trigo, aceitunas, frutas).

Cultura
La festividad principal es el primer domingo de agosto. En honor a San Emidio, patró de la ciudad, se celebra un desfile histórico con más de 1500 personas vestidas con trajes del Renacimiento. El desfile es seguido de un torneo, llamado Quintana, en cual seis caballeros, cada uno compitiendo por una de las seis vecindades de la ciudad, galopan uno tras otro tratando de golpear la efigie de un guerrero árabe. La fuerza y la habilidad son necesarias para el caballero para ganar el palio, es decir, el premio principal.

Deportes
La ciudad cuenta también con un club de fútbol, el Ascoli Calcio 1898, actualmente juega en la Serie B (segunda división del fútbol italiano). Su estadio es el Cino e Lillo Del Duca que posee un aforo superior a los 20.000 espectadores.

Fracciones
Ascoli Piceno se divide en las siguientes fracciones:
Bivio Giustimana, Campolungo-villa sant'Antonio, Caprignano, Carpineto, Casa circondariale, Casalena, Casamurana, Case di Cioccio, Casette, Castel di Lama stazione, Castel Trosino, Cervara, Colle, Colle san Marco, Colloto, Colonna, Colonnata, Faiano, Funti, Giustimana, Il Palazzo, Lago, Lisciano, Lisciano di Colloto, Montadamo, Morignano, Mozzano, Oleificio Panichi, Palombare, Pedana, Piagge, Pianaccerro, Poggio di Bretta, Polesio, Ponte Pedana, Porchiano, Rosara, San Pietro, Santa Maria a Corte, Talvacchia, Taverna di mezzo, Trivigliano-villa Pagani, Tronzano, Valle Fiorana, Valle Senzana, Valli, Vena piccola, Venagrande, Villa S. Antonio.

Evolución demográfica

Ciudades hermanadas
  Tréveris (Alemania), desde 1958
  Massy (Francia), desde 1997

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Picard Season 3 Showrunner Hints Some Next-Gen Crew Members May Not Survive
The Star Trek: The Next Generation cast will reunite for Star Trek: Picard's third and final season, but it's possible that not all of their characters will survive the experience. While the TNG cast has teased multiple times that there may be more Star Trek adventures in the future, showrunner Terry Matalas can't guarantee the former's safety. Company-D senior crew. Matalas confirmed this in a new interview with SFX magazinewhere he sees the future of the Star Trek: The Next Generation crew postalStar Trek: Picard's final. In the interview, he does note that if a character drops into the season, Star Trek's sci-fi setting means you never know when they might come back.
"They certainly had a great time and they would definitely all like to do this again," says Matalas of the return Next generation form. "I think there are ways to see these characters back, in a Next, Next Generation kind of story. Not all of these characters – I'm not going to say they all necessarily make it out of season three safely. But I'll do that in sci-fi, there are always ways to see people again. So of course, who wouldn't want to do this forever?"
But for Matalas, Picard's final season is about seeing that Next generation characters pass the torch to their successors. May or may not The next generation The crew's story continues after that, according to him, is really up to the Star Trek fans.
"This season is mainly about passing the torch to the next generation," says Matalas Star Trek: Picard's last season. "So it will really be up to the fans to decide if they want to see more. Star Trek has always been up to the fans. The fans brought back the characters from the original series into feature films and conventions and kept it alive, it will have to be the same here. So we'll see." You heard the man. If someone messes this up, there will be words."
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2-methylbutyrylglycinuria (2MBG) is an inherited condition in which the body is unable to break down certain proteins. It is classified as an organic acid condition because 2MBG can lead to a harmful amount of organic acids and toxins in the body. Symptoms of the condition vary. If 2MBG is identified early and treatment is begun, individuals with 2MBG can often lead healthy lives.
No one knows the exact number of individuals who are affected by 2-methylbutytylglycinuria (2MBG), but it is considered a rare condition. However, it is more common among people with Hmong ancestry. This condition is estimated to occur in every 1 out of 250 to 500 people of Hmong ancestry. In many cases, these individuals never develop signs or symptoms of the condition.
Your baby's doctor may ask you if your baby is showing any of the signs of 2MBG (see Early Signs below). If your baby has certain signs, your baby's physician may suggest starting immediate treatment.
If your baby's newborn screening result for 2-methylbutyrylglycinuria (2MBG) was out of the normal range, your baby's doctor or the state screening program will contact you to arrange for your baby to have additional testing. It is important to remember that an out-of-range screening result does not necessarily mean that your child has the condition. An out-of-range result may occur because the initial blood sample was too small or the test was performed too early. However, as a few babies do have the condition, it is very important that you go to your follow-up appointment for a confirmatory test. Because the harmful effects of untreated 2MBG can occur soon after birth, follow-up testing must be completed as soon as possible to determine whether or not your baby has the condition.
Follow-up testing will involve checking your baby's urine and blood samples for harmful levels of acids and toxins. Certain acids and toxins build up in the body when a child has an organic acid condition, so studying the amounts of these substances in your baby's body can help doctors determine if your child has a condition. High levels of C5 acylcarnitine in the blood and organic acids in the urine may be signs that your baby has 2MBG. In some cases, follow-up testing may also include testing a very small sample of skin.
There have been very few reported cases of 2-methylbutyryl glycinuria (2MBG). Of those reported, all of the babies were healthy at birth. Signs of 2MBG often begin in infancy, sometimes as early as a few days after birth. In other cases, signs do not develop until childhood.
When 2-methylbutyrylglycinuria (2MBG) is diagnosed early, treatment can help prevent signs and symptoms. In fact, some children will never need treatment.
The best way to prevent the symptoms of 2MBG is to have a very restricted diet for your child. A dietician or a nutritionist can help you plan a low-protein diet that still gives your baby the nutrients he or she needs for healthy growth.
Your baby's doctor might recommend special baby formulas and foods designed for children with 2MBG. These formulas will likely need to be continued through adulthood.
In addition, your baby will need to eat often to help prevent your baby from experiencing many of the signs mentioned in the Early Signs section. Illnesses and infections can also trigger these signs.
Your baby's doctor might prescribe L-carnitine supplements. L-carnitine is a natural substance, but your baby's body might not produce enough of it. Taking these supplements can help get rid of harmful substances in your baby's body. Your baby's doctor will need to write you a prescription for these supplements.
If 2-methylbutyrylglycinuria (2MBG) is treated early, your baby can have healthy growth and development.
It is important to get screened and start treatment early. If 2MBG is not treated, children could develop breathing problems, seizures, coma, or brain damage.
When we eat food, enzymes help break it down. Some enzymes break down proteins into their building blocks, called amino acids. Other enzymes break down the amino acids further into their base molecules. In 2-methylbutyrylglycinuria (2MBG), the enzyme 2-methylbutyryl-CoA dehydrogenase is not working correctly.
This enzyme's job is to break down the amino acid isoleucine for energy. If your baby has 2MBG, your baby's body does not make enough or makes non-working 2-methylbutyryl-CoA dehydrogenase. When this happens, your baby's body cannot break down isoleucin, which causes harmful organic acids build up.
2MBG is an autosomal recessive genetic condition. This means that a child must inherit two copies of the non-working gene for 2MBG, one from each parent, in order to have the condition. The parents of a child with an autosomal recessive condition each carry one copy of the non-working gene, but they typically do not show signs and symptoms of the condition. While having a child with 2MBG is rare, when both parents are carriers they can have more than one child with the condition. Learn more about autosomal recessive inheritance.
Work with your baby's doctor to determine the next steps for your baby's care. Some children with 2-methylbutytylglycinuria (2MBG) have severe signs and symptoms while others may never develop them at all. The type of care your child needs depends on whether they develop signs and symptoms. Your baby's doctor may work with a metabolic doctor and a dietician to provide care for your baby. Some children with 2MBG have developmental delays. If you think that your baby is not meeting his or her developmental milestones, ask your baby's doctor about the next steps in accessing a developmental evaluation and care.
Because 2MBG is a genetic condition, you may want to talk with a genetics specialist. A genetic counselor or geneticist can help you understand the causes of the condition, discuss genetic testing for 2MBG, and understand what this diagnosis means for other family members and future pregnancies. Speak with your baby's doctor about getting a referral. The Clinic Services Search Engine offered by the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics and the Find a Genetic Counselortool on the National Society of Genetic Counselors website are two good places for you or your baby's health care provider to use in identifying local specialists.
At this time we have not located a family story for this particular condition. If your family is affected by 2-methylbutyrlglycinuria (2MBG) and you would like to share your story, please contact us so other families may benefit from your experience.
Each family's experience with a condition is unique, but there are some parts of the evaluation and treatment of 2MBG that are similar to other organic acid conditions. You may find it useful to read the stories of families affected by other organic acid conditions. You can read these stories at the Organic Acidemia Association's website.


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Posted on Oct 31, 2019 Jun 20, 2020 by Rustom Deboo
England and New Zealand will clash for the first time since their epic World Cup final in July, when they take the field for the first of a five-match T20 international series at Christchurch's Hagley Oval on November 1. Since their first meeting in the shortest format at the inaugural edition of the World T20 in 2007, the two teams have faced each other in 16 T20Is, with England holding a 10-5 advantage.
With a day to go for the series to commence, here is a look back at five memorable T20I encounters played between England and New Zealand over the years.
World T20 Super Eight Stage, Durban, 2007-08
New Zealand prevailed narrowly in what was a crucial fixture, despite a disastrous start – they were reduced to 31/4 inside six overs. The revival came through Scott Styris (42) and Craig McMillan, who put on a fifth-wicket stand of 60. McMillan went on to hit 57 in just 31 balls, taking the eventual total towards 164/9.
Darren Maddy (50) and Vikram Solanki began the chase with intent, adding 62 in good time. But New Zealand clawed back, and the score read 146/5 with two overs remaining. Three wickets in the 19th over gave New Zealand the upper hand, and England were duly restricted 159/8; the defeat effectively ending their campaign.
World T20 Super Eight Stage, Gros Islet, 2010
England had already qualified for the semifinal coming into this last Super Eight game for both teams, while New Zealand needed to win in order to make the grade. The Black Caps were placed at a sluggish 65/3 in the 11th over, before a fourth-wicket stand of 62 between Ross Taylor (44) and Styris (31) pushed them to 149/6.
In reply, England wobbled from 60/1 to 66/4 after an attacking start from Michael Lumb (32). Eoin Morgan (40) and Luke Wright put the innings back on track by adding 52 for the fifth wicket, and even though England lost three more wickets, they ensured that they achieved a three-wicket win with five deliveries to spare.
England's Jason Roy in action during his match-winning 78 against New Zealand in the 2016 World T20 semifinal at Delhi (source – Getty Images)
First T20I, The Oval, 2013
Boyd Rankin got rid of James Franklin for a duck in the first over, but Hamish Rutherford (62 in 35 balls) and captain Brendon McCullum (68 in 48) put the English bowling to the sword thereafter. The duo added 114 for the second wicket, and their exploits, coupled with Taylor's quick 32*, ballooned New Zealand's total to 201/4.
Lumb and Alex Hales (39) raced to an opening stand of 50 in 3.4 overs, before Hales added 55 for the second wicket with Wright (52). The wickets of captain Morgan and Wright made the score 139/4 after 15 overs. Ravi Bopara (30*) kept the chase alive, but a target of 16 off the final over proved too much, and the innings ended at 196/5.
World T20 Semifinal, Delhi, 2015-16
The first semifinal of the 2016 World T20 saw England secure a convincing victory. Having been put in to bat, New Zealand were at a robust 91/1 in the 11th over, with captain Kane Williamson (32) and Colin Munro (46) in the middle. However, the English bowlers, led by Ben Stokes (3/26), bounced back to limit the total to 153/8.
Jason Roy (78 from 44 balls) dominated an opening stand of 82 in 8.2 overs with Hales, which all but extinguished New Zealand's chances. Ish Sodhi removed Roy and skipper Morgan in successive balls, but a fourth-wicket stand of 49* between Joe Root and Jos Buttler (32*) sealed England's seven-wicket win with 17 balls left.
Sixth T20I, Trans-Tasman Tri-Series, Hamilton, 2017-18
The outcome of this last round-robin match was to determine who would be facing Australia in the final. Morgan played a captain's knock after England were inserted, scoring an unbeaten 80 from 46 balls. He came in at 24/2 in the fourth over and put on 93 for the third wicket with Dawid Malan (53), paving the way for a total of 194/7.
To enter the final, England had to win by at least 20 runs. However, openers Martin Guptill (62) and Munro (57 in 21 balls) raised a stand of 78 in just 6.3 overs. New Zealand confirmed their spot in the final in the 18th over, but could not win the game – needing 12 off the last over and four off the last ball, they were kept to 192/4.
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by M3 Contributor | Jun 30, 2017 | Stories, Updates
Medical Bridges' vision is a world in which every person enjoys access to quality healthcare with dignity and respect. They exist to bridge the healthcare gap worldwide by procuring and distributing medical equipment and supplies to under-serviced communities.
Today, it is estimated that the United States medical community generates nearly $9 billion of surplus product every year simply because the materials have been opened but never used or the items are outdated by U.S. standards and are replaced by the newest available technology. At the same time, countries all over the world are in urgent need of medical equipment and supplies. Medical Bridges was established in 1997 to channel unused medical equipment and supplies — everything from x-ray machines to band-aids — to qualified healthcare providers who desperately need them.
Mobilizing Medical Missions (M3) loves Medical Bridges and their vision, and we are honored to have them as part of the M3 community. Click here to find out more about Medical Bridges and the work they are doing around the globe.
Sarah Riggsbee – Saying Yes: Our Journey to Nepal
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In this session at the 2017 M3 Conference, Sarah Riggsbee, an acute care speech language pathologist, shares her family's story of what happened after they answered "Yes" to God's calling into missions. Their "yes" led her and her husband, a family medicine physician, and their two children to Nepal, where they serve at a mission hospital.
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Through global and local missions, disaster relief, Farmer Field Schools, and the WC Trading Co., Woodlands Church makes a significant impact in the hearts and lives of people around the world. At the Mobilizing Medical Missions (M3) Conference, Woodlands Church sets up their WC Trading Co. Fair Trade Store. WC Trading Co. exists as an expression of Woodlands Church because they believe every life has purpose. Every single person has God-given gifts and talents. WC wants to help empower others to break the chains of poverty and help lift them with dignity and hope to reach their God-given purpose. Buyers at any of the WC Trading Co. stores are a part of a gift that gives twice! By purchasing products at a fair wage, WC Trading Co. is able to break poverty cycles and create sustainable change and development. Each item represented in the store is handmade and uniquely characterizes a different person, culture and story. WC Trading Co. has the opportunity to give artisans from remote parts of the world a global voice simply by shopping with purpose!
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Peter Hotez, MD, PhD – Neglected Tropical Diseases: The Ancient Afflictions of the Poor
Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) are the most common diseases of people living in extreme poverty. More than one billion people are affected globally, including the impoverished Christian-majority countries of Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Through programs of mass drug administration we have made a big dent in terms of reducing their global prevalence, in some cases up to 50 percent or more, but there is still an enormous amount of work that remains. Moreover, we have seen the rise of several new vector-borne NTDs such as dengue, Zika, chikungunya, leishmaniasis and schistosomaisis. The rise of these diseases has been especially acute in Latin America, Southern Europe and in the conflict zones of the Middle East. However, we have also seen an uptick in the Southern United States.
In this session at the 2017 M3 Conference, Dr. Peter Hotez discusses NTDs and the efforts that are underway to develop new vaccines for these conditions, many of which are under development at the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, where Dr. Hotez serves as Dean.
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Nicole; "I left school in York at 17, moved to London and took the Portfolio Course at LCFPortfolio Course at LCF instead of finishing my A Levels. I passed the course and was auditioning for a part in Skins when I found out I'd got a place on BA Textile Design. (I didn't get the role in Skins in the end). I graduated from that in 2014 and embarked on a series of random jobs and internships.
The idea for glitter came from doing hair wraps; my final collection at LCF had involved hair wraps and body wraps to go over clothing – and a friend hired me to hair-wrap and bring glitter at an LGBT Fresher's party at Goldsmiths she had organised. The glitter did so well there were queues all evening and people loved it. It was rewarding to have such an enthusiastic response to your work; I remember thinking then that glitter had potential. At the time, as well as hair wrapping, I was making jewellery; I'd recently started assisting an amazing photographer after walking out of my job in a department store having decided a 9-5 wasn't for me. I decided I needed to focus on one thing and see how that went.
My goal was to learn how to run a business. I feel like glitter is only the first one – I'd like to run more businesses in the future. I love fashion and studied textiles but having interned and worked for small fashion businesses, I know how difficult it is to turn a profit and what the risks are. So many of my favourite labels have ended up closing down.
I had an accident on a job where hot oil was spilt on my leg. They paid me a lump sum as compensation – so that was my main start-up investment capital.
I started out by doing a few glitter stalls at events to trial the products, but I found that there are already loads of small boutique glitter brands out there so I didn't want to follow that route and focused more on the product, branding and quality.
DISCO DUST LONDON's point of difference from other brands is the combination of love and attention to detail within each glitter product, as well as our hand-picked selection of the newest and highest quality glitter products. We would place ourselves at more of a luxury product market, we want it to feel like treasure that you can roll around in. I did all the branding and design, it's my favourite part of the job, and built and designed the website myself.
In May we did a trade show called Pulse at Olympia, which specialises in gifts, modern living and fashion accessories with a design focus. We gained a lot of stockists and support from it alongside attention from our Instagram, and currently have 32 stockists including Cyberdog, Not Another Salon [on Brick Lane], Dolls Kill in California and Beyond Retro in London with more in the pipeline.
Instagram has been an amazing platform, it has allowed us to really build up an identity and document some of our favourite customers creations. It also allowed us to reach out to some insanely talented people and make up artists such as Theresa who did our first campaign or Bea [pic above] who introduced me to [this blog] in fact!
The wholesale model is quite a challenge since of course you could see it as less profit per sale. Straight to consumer is more profitable but we do really enjoy working with other companies. it is also really rewarding to have the support of some really influential stores which in turn can tend to send traffic in our direction.
The big development in the world of glitter is that in the future we hope that everything will be biodegradable. We launched our biodegradable range of 15 colours at the trade show in May and are currently planning a new range for next year!
Biodegradable glitter is made from cellulose film which is a raw material that can decompose with heat, water and air. It has to decompose within a certain amount of time or it can't get certified as biodegradable, so far I haven't been able to find any in iridescent or holographic but we are working on it!
The next goal is to expand our workspace. In the beginning we had five months in a property guardianship so that really helped to cover start-up costs. I haven't made too many sacrifices to get the business going, although I haven't been able to learn to drive yet as it's just been so busy.
The way I set things up was to jump into it without a long planning period. You could spend forever planning so you may as well learn on the job by making mistakes. My biggest challenge is deadlines, time planning, getting orders out on time.


CAROLS on the Oval will light up Southern River this Saturday night December 17.
Get along to Sutherland Park (Reserve C) on Southern River Road by 6pm, when events will kick off with a sausage sizzle.
There will also be face painting for the kids and lots of great music.


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RUBBISH! Anti-Defamation League Brands Rush Limbaugh As a Jew-Hater
by Jeff Dunetz | Jan 22, 2010 | Other
The Anti-Defamation League started with good intentions,
The Anti-Defamation League was founded in 1913 "to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all." Now the nation's premier civil rights/human relations agency, ADL fights anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry, defends democratic ideals and protects civil rights for all.
But in more recent years it has become a tool of the Liberal/Progressive agenda of its leader Abe Foxman.
The focus of Foxman's latest attack, is radio legend, Rush Limbaugh. Yesterday the ADL issued this press release:
New York, NY, January 21, 2010 The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said Rush Limbaugh reached a new low with "borderline anti-Semitic comments" on his radio show, in which he raised the possibility that liberal Jews were having "buyer's remorse" with President Obama in light of the outcome of the Senate election in Massachusetts.
Limbaugh told his listeners: "To some people, banker is a code word for Jewish; and guess who Obama is assaulting? He's assaulting bankers. He's assaulting money people. And a lot of those people on Wall Street are Jewish. So I wonder if there's if there's starting to be some buyer's remorse there."
Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, issued the following statement:
Rush Limbaugh reached a new low with his borderline anti-Semitic comments about Jews as bankers, their supposed influence on Wall Street, and how they vote.
Limbaugh's references to Jews and money in a discussion of Massachusetts politics were offensive and inappropriate. While the age-old stereotype about Jews and money has a long and sordid history, it also remains one of the main pillars of anti-Semitism and is widely accepted by many Americans. His notion that Jews vote based on their religion, rather than on their interests as Americans, plays into the hands of anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists.
When he comes to understand why his words were so offensive and unacceptable, Limbaugh should apologize.
Now what Rush really said was:
Look, folks, there are a lot of people who when you say "banker," people think "Jewish." People who have prejudice is the best way to put it. They have a little prejudice about them. So for some people, "banker" is code word for "Jewish," and guess who Obama's assaulting? He's assaulting bankers. He's assaulting money people, and a lot of those people on Wall Street are Jewish. So I wonder if there's starting to be some buyer's remorse there.
Foxman's press release left out the first two lines above, the ones in bold. Limbaugh made it clear that bigots, prejudiced people think "bankers" is a code word Jews. As a long-time listener of the show, and someone who tends to wear his "yarmulke on his sleeve," I have never heard Limbaugh utter something that caused me to think he was a Jew-hater.
Foxman was conveniently skewing the truth and trying to score political points, if Rush was a confidant of Barack Obama, Abe would have been silent or would have included the first two lines that explained what he really meant. What Foxman did was a deliberate case of what Jews call "Loshen Hara" using words, albeit true, in a way meant to do harm.
That same Abe Foxman-run ADL never attacked President Obama for appointing Samantha Power to his National Security Team. Power likes to use the anti-Semitic stereotype "Israel Lobby" as a code word for her false impression that Jews control American foreign policy. Nor has Foxman ever complained about the frequent anti-Semitism on the progressive website the Daily Kos.
Truth be told, Foxman's attack on Rush Limbaugh is part of the over-all progressive agenda of Abe's Anti-Defamation League. To prove the point here is a sample some of the ADL's position papers supporting the progressive agenda:
Amnesty for illegal immigrants:
ADL Welcomes Bipartisan Agreement On Immigration Reform
Senator Kennedy Issues Call For Meaningful Immigration Reform
L.A. Area Organizations Issue Declaration For Human Rights For Immigrants
Partial Birth Abortion
ADL Disappointed With Supreme Court Ruling On Partial Birth Abortion Act
Terrorist Fighter Geert Wilders
Use of Holocaust in Health Care Debate. While I agree with the ADL that the use of Holocaust imagery in any political debate is wrong, it's strange that the ADL bashes it now and was totally silent when the progressives were Calling Bush and Cheney Hitler and/or Nazi's.
The ADL also trashed the Tea Party Movement. Calling it part of the "New Rage in America". A quick read of this White Paper show the group has totally abandoned its mission to fight anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry, and is using its donated tax-free funds to concentrate on a political agenda, the President's mission to silence all dissent to his policy.
Tea Parties: At any rally attended by hundreds of thousands of people there are a few wackos. There were some people at the Tea Parties who held signs that were inappropriate and even offensive. These people were few and far between. The overwhelming majority of the people at the rallies were average folks upset at too much government spending and taxation. In the section about Tea Parties, the ADL seeks to minimalize the movement by branding the protesters as people misusing the Holocaust, Nazi imagery or White Supremacists.
Created by Fox News or other conservative outlets? Playing into the "AstroTurf propaganda pushed by the Democrats:
The Tea Party movement is made up of individuals and groups, at the grass-roots level and from established conservative organizations, who plan and attend rallies around the country to express their anger at the government. Some conservative media outlets, such as the FOX News Network, have also played a role in promoting Tea Parties.
The President is a Socialist or even worse. Again the Nazi illusions are wrong. But overall they are refuting the claims with out any facts. The President ran as a socialist in 1996 in Illinois, and his public call for redistributing wealth is a basic tenet of Socialism, he has appointed many self declared Marxists to his administration… what would they call it? When the President abrogated the rights of the primary lenders of Chrysler and GM to give to the Union, the president broke the constitution.
While most people attending Tea Party events claim they harbor no extreme views, many of the ideas they promote fall outside the mainstream, especially the more conspiratorial ones. Angry protesters have frequently made claims ranging from proclaiming Obama's "socialist" intentions to making explicit Nazi comparisons to suggesting that the President is defying or even subverting the Constitution.
Then they return to the right wing crazy argument. Notice how the describe the "over the top incidents as one lady or one report? That's because they were few and far between but you wouldn't know it based on their report.
.…During the April 15 protests, signs depicting President Obama as Hitler began to appear as some protesters equated his bailout plan with socialism or Nazism. Some speakers claimed that Obama was intent on taking away civil liberties by destroying the Constitution or the American way of life. According to one report on a rally in Beacon, South Carolina, various speakers talked about "taking back the nation." A local Republican Party chairwoman at the event described participants as "people standing up for their Constitution…They're ready to fight for their country. Socialism is being pushed and we don't want any part of it." At a rally in Madison, Wisconsin, one woman reportedly even had a sign comparing President Obama to the anti-Christ.
According to the ADL the tea party movement morphed into a conspiracy following, group of crazies.They use the example that a few protesters were "birthers." They know very well that the "birther" movement is outside the mainstream of the tea party movement and also has been discredited by most conservatives. Maybe they should mention that the POTUS appointed Van Jones, a 9/11 truther. Using the same ADL measuring stick, that would make the entire Obama Administration a bunch of truthers.
At later events, demonization of President Obama became more common and began to morph into more anti-government conspiratorial thinking. On July 4, numerous rallies once more were staged across the country. At one rally in Ventura, California, a common theme again emerged. A man who later posted his video to YouTube said, "We want our America back which is being stolen by Barack Obama." He later talked about Obama bringing socialism to the country. People also held up signs at the rally asking for Obama's birth certificate. Obama's alleged lack of a U.S. birth certificate [See The 'Birther' Movement] became another piece of the "proof" that he was a usurper intent on destroying America's freedom.
Under Abe Foxman, the ADL ignores its noble mission and spends its time and donated funds to support the Progressive Movement in this country. Bashing Rush Limbaugh is just part of that agenda. Perhaps it should spend a little more of its time on its primary mission, stopping REAL anti-Semitism in the world. There are so many of those, but by falsely pinning the label on people who do not deserve it, Abe Foxman and his crew cheapen the effect of the charge when it is made against a real Jew-hater.


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'Everybody hates us'
While the racist abuse of black England players attracted media attention outside Bulgaria, within the country it is the Roma who are the principal targets of thugs. The Roma community makes up just under 5% of the country's population of almost 7 million and is its biggest minority group.
Jonathan Lee, spokesman for the European Roma Rights Centre, said: "Unfortunately, racist chanting and offensive gestures from the terraces is not even close to as bad as it gets in Bulgaria. Last Monday night, Europe was confronted with what for most Roma in the country is the everyday. Rising anti-Gypsyism, decline of the rule of law, and increasingly fascist political rhetoric is nothing new – it just rarely gets such a public stage." Lee added: "This is an EU member state where violent race mobs are the norm, police violence is sudden and unpredictable, punitive demolitions of people's homes are the appropriate government response, random murders of Romany citizens only a fleeting headline, and the rights and dignity of Romany citizens are routinely denied on a daily basis."
The government of prime minister Boyko Borissov is propped up by a grouping of three small rightwing populist parties known collectively as the "United Patriots". They are made up of the National Front for the Salvation of Bulgaria (NFSB), the Bulgarian National Movement and the Attack party.
Krasimir Karakachanov, head of the Bulgarian National Movement, holds three portfolios – deputy prime minister, minister for defence and minister for public order and security. His "Roma integration strategy," or "concept for the integration of the unsocialised Gypsy (Roma) ethnicity" to give it its formal name, is due to be presented to the Bulgarian parliament and could soon become law.
It defines Roma as "asocial Gypsies," a term used by the Nazis, and calls for limits on the number of children some Roma women can have; the introduction of compulsory "labour education schools" for Roma children and forced work programmes for sections of the community. It also depicts the Roma as "non-native Europeans" left over from the Ottoman empire.
His party's manifesto also calls for the creation of "reservations" for Roma based on the model used for Native Americans or Indigenous Australians, claiming that they could become "tourist attractions".
Karakachanov declared: "The truth is that we need to undertake a complete programme for a solution to the Gypsy problem."
His predecessor as deputy prime minister Valeri Simeonov described the Roma as "arrogant, presumptuous and ferocious humanoids". He was also chair of Bulgaria's National Council for Cooperation on Ethnic and Integration Issues at the time.
Zvezdomir Andronov, leader of the Bulgarian National Union, an ultra-right party, was recently a guest on one of the country's most popular political talk shows, where he said: "Gypsies, Turks, Armenians and Jews are guests in Bulgaria and if they are good guests, they can live peacefully here."
Following elections in 2017, which saw the trio of far-right parties emerge as key players in Bulgaria's government, campaigners claim that hate crimes and rhetoric against the Roma have intensified.
Incidents include anti-Roma riots; demolition of Roma homes deemed "illegal"; police raids and deaths in custody; and members of the community in rural areas killed while out collecting firewood.
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Court Denies Immunity to Police Officer Accused to Siccing Dog on Suspect
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By Jack Bouboushian, Courthouse News Service
CHICAGO – The Seventh Circuit denied immunity to a police officer accused of siccing his dog on a burglary suspect trapped in an empty pool, yelling, "You like to rob houses, punk?"
Mitchell Alicea had burglarized a residence in Hammond, Ind., when he saw a police vehicle and fled, the ruling states.
He ran down the street, through an alley, jumped over a fence into a backyard, and vaulted into an empty, 5-foot-deep pool where he crouched down to hide.
But Alicea could not hide from Sgt. Aubrey Thomas and his 72-pound police dog, Leo.
Leo tracked the suspect to the pool, at which point the parties' stories diverge.
Alicea says he stood up and raised his hands in the air, but Officer Thomas commanded Leo to attack him.
"You like to rob houses, you f****** punk?" the officer yelled, according to Alicea's story, as told in the Tuesday ruling (pdf) with redactions.
Thomas claims that Alicea did not immediately respond to requests to show his hands, causing him to fear he had a weapon. The officer says he ordered Leo to bite and hold Alicea so he could safety enter the pool to pat down and arrest the suspect. The dog latched onto Alicea's right arm for several minutes, while he attempted to struggle free, causing permanent muscle damage, pain, numbness, and scarring.
Alicea then claims that Officer Alejandro Alvarez arrived on the scene, who allegedly punched him, and stomped on his head before dragging him to the squad car.
A federal judge found that the officers' use of force was reasonable, given that Alicea's prior flight cast doubt on the genuineness of his surrender.
But the Seventh Circuit reversed Tuesday.
"If Alicea attempted flight, he would need to get out of the pool first. The obstacle of vaulting out of the pool would provide Thomas with ample time to discharge his weapon or to command Leo to chase and hold Alicea. Moreover, Alicea gave no indication that he would flee. He immediately complied with Thomas's orders," U.S. Circuit Judge Ann Claire Williams said, writing for the three-judge panel. "While surrender is not always genuine, it should not be futile as a means to de-escalate a confrontation with law enforcement."
Taking Alicea's version as true, Thomas' yelling "you like to rob houses, punk?" before commanding Leo to attack "casts doubt on Thomas's assertion that he made a split-second safety calculation," Williams said. "If one infers from the statement that rather than making a safety calculation, Thomas was acting out of retaliation, then his decision to deploy Leo was not reasonable at all."
The panel said it saw even less basis to find Alvarez's alleged actions reasonable.
"At the point at which Alvarez first saw Alicea, Alicea's arm was in the jaws of a seventy-two pound dog. Two other officers were already at the scene. A reasonable officer would not think that punching, kicking, and stomping on Alicea was required to control the situation," the 15-page opinion states.
Given that the parties dispute whether Alicea was resisting arrest when Thomas ordered Leo attack, a grant of qualified immunity was inappropriate, the court concluded.
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Saint-Bernard è un comune francese di 437 abitanti situato nel dipartimento della Côte-d'Or nella regione della Borgogna-Franca Contea.

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Lo sfondo è composto dallo stemma attribuito a Bernardo di Chiaravalle; le due verghette simboleggiano la strada romana lungo la quale è situato il villaggio di Saint-Bernard.

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Fukushima: The Disaster Continues
CND remains seriously concerned about the current state of the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in central Japan. The continuing disaster at Fukushima underlines the constant danger that nuclear power presents due to events totally beyond the control of power station operators. CND urges the UK government to reconsider its support for building new nuclear power stations in Britain and instead to invest in truly safe, clean and sustainable forms of energy.
The March 2011 disaster
In March 2011, an earthquake and tsunami hit the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan. The earthquake caused the reactors at the plant to shut down automatically, activating the emergency generators. But the tsunami which followed the earthquake, estimated at 13-14 metres in height, flooded the basements in which the emergency generators were housed, cutting power to the pumps which circulate cooling water to stop the reactors from over-heating. According to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Fukushima Daiichi plant would have been overwhelmed even by a tsunami half this size. The company which runs the power plant, the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), had built a breakwater to anticipate defence from waves up to four metres in height only.
The four explosions which followed released radioactive materials into the atmosphere in what was the biggest nuclear disaster since the explosion at Chernobyl twenty five years earlier. It is only the second incident ever to be classified as a Level 7, the highest possible, on the International Nuclear Event Scale. An estimated 30,000 square km, 8% of the Japanese landmass, was contaminated by radiation fallout from the disaster.
At the time, a 12-mile compulsory evacuation zone was designated around the plant with those living closest evacuated and others instructed to stay indoors. In the first year alone 170,000 people were ordered to evacuate from their homes. It has still not been deemed safe enough for tens of thousands of people to return to their homes and many of those that remain in upheaval are stigmatised by communities because of the incorrect assumptions about nuclear radiation.
What's the current situation?
TEPCO has been forced to admit that serious problems remain at the site. Since the meltdown, highly radioactive water has been leaking out to sea, resulting in the Prime Minister ordering the government to step in by partially nationalising the company. The committee reviewing the terms of a government bail-out of Tepco has finalised a proposal to nationalise much of the clean-up effort.
The prospect of water contamination is alarming people both in Japan and internationally, as TEPCO has admitted it tried to keep the extent of leaks and power failures secret. Estimated radiation doses to local people and workers have remained high. Efforts to control this problem have included injecting over 300m3 of water into the reactor cores every day, even more contaminated wastes of which TEPCO still have no means of disposing. The result is that 300 tonnes of radioactively contaminated water is dumped into the sea each day: this is strongly opposed by fishermen. Commercial fishing has been banned near the nuclear complex.
TEPCO estimates the total cost of damages at 13.3 trillion yen (£100 billion), but more recent statistics from the Trade Ministry see this figure rise to 20 trillion yen (£142 billion). The Japanese Board of Audit in March 2015 concluded it would take TEPCO 30 years to repay the financial subsidies of nine trillion yen it has so far received from the government.
Tepco's failures
Radiation levels have now reached a new high, with recent robots recording figures as high as 650 sieverts per hour; six Sieverts is a fatal dose in most instances. So far, seven robots sent into the reactors have broken down, because their electronic circuits could not withstand the fierce radiation fluxes; with worrying consequences for workers and civilians. In fact, in October 2013, six workers at the plant were doused in radioactive water. In February 2014, around 100 tonnes of highly radioactive water leaked from a storage tank, after a valve was left open by accident.
In 2014, TEPCO has managed to successfully remove the spent fuel rods from the storage pool in Unit 4. However, the rest of the programme continues to languish. New roadmaps suggest the removal of spent fuel for Unit 3 to finish in 2019, while work at Units 2 and 1 is not expected to be done until 2022. This will be over 10 years since the earthquake and tsunami.
In February 2016, three TEPCO executives, Tsunehisa Katsumata, then TEPCO chairman, and two former vice presidents Ichiro Takekuro, and Sakae Muto, were formally charged with professional negligence for their handling of the Fukushima disaster. Their trial opened in June 2017, with each of the defendants pleading not guilty. The court heard that the defendants had been aware of the risks posed by a massive tsunami since 2009, but had dismissed the possibility.
Campaigners have criticised the World Health Organisation for releasing a 2012 report which hides important information on the health impacts of the Fukushima disaster. It has been claimed that the report underestimates the impact of the radioactive release on those people who were unable to leave the affected area quickly. The report did conclude that people in the area worst affected by the accident have a higher risk of developing diseases: one third of the plant's workers face an increased risk of developing thyroid cancer, leukaemia and all solid cancers during their lifetimes.
The fallout from the Fukushima disaster continues. Hundreds of thousands of victims in Japan are still denied fair compensation from a regulatory system that allows the nuclear industry to evade its responsibilities and forces the public to pay for its disasters. Despite the Japanese government's long promise that TEPCO will eventually pay the damages, the government has now admitted that electricity customers will incur a portion of the clean-up costs, through price hikes in their electricity bills.
Nuclear power in Japan
Of Japan's 48 nuclear energy reactors, only three are running at present, after the Fukushima disaster brought concerns about nuclear to the forefront. Since the 2012 election victory for pro-nuclear Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Liberal Democratic Party, however, the nuclear industry has been gaining ground. A recent victory for the industry at the high court saw an injunction overruled. The injunction had ceased operations at a nuclear plant in Kansai.
In a poll conducted by the Asahi Shimbun newspaper in October 2016, 57% of Japanese voters said they opposed the Prime Minister's plan to restart the country's nuclear power plants, with support for resumption dwindling to 29%.
The alternatives
In the aftermath of Fukushima, many countries have started to rethink their position on nuclear power. Switzerland, Germany, Italy and France have all since committed to phasing out nuclear or using less of it.
Switzerland first proposed phasing out nuclear power in 2011, with a public referendum in May 2017 backing this position.
In Germany, there was an almost immediate response to the Fukushima disaster. The government announced it would close all of the country's nuclear power stations by 2022, with most older plants being decommissioned immediately.
These examples could serve as models for Britain and other countries for how to move to a nuclear-free, low carbon future. If a high-skilled society such as Germany – with a strong industrial safety record – says it can't justify the risk to its citizens from nuclear power, then Britain should take heed. Germany reached this decision after a serious review of the evidence, whereas the British government has said there is 'no reason' for scrapping nuclear power because a tsunami is unlikely here. The disaster at Fukushima tells us is that you cannot predict what could go wrong at a nuclear power plant – an accident, resulting from human error or from a natural disaster could have grave consequences. Indeed, Britain was very lucky during the Windscale accident in 1957: the effects could have been far worse.
Germany and Switzerland look set to ensure their energy security by investing in new technologies. Britain could be doing the same if the government were to take a genuinely open-minded approach to this issue. As it is, we look set to remain dependent on a dirty, dangerous, out-dated technology that, sixty years on, still relies on public subsidies and huge bail outs from the taxpayer when accidents happen.
CND urges the government to reconsider its support for building new nuclear power stations. Over many years, successive governments have attempted to minimise the threats posed by nuclear power plants in order to justify their construction. This is irresponsible behaviour as it puts at risk the lives of hundreds of thousands of people who live near them. It's vital that the government learns from the continuing disaster at Fukushima.
In June 2017, CND hosted a successful conference to examine why we should stop producing nuclear power and invest in renewables instead. The conference highlighted how renewable energy produced more than half of Britain's electricity needs for the first time as well as how renewables provide far more employment opportunities.
The UK government should immediately abandon its agreement with EDF to subsidise a new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point C, especially in light of recent confirmation from the company that the project will cost even more than anticipated. The government should also set out a new non-nuclear agenda which builds on and develops the country's undoubted potential for renewable energy.
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Forthcoming Poetry Collection to Feature QR Codes
News by Dan Shewan	October 22, 2012	2 comments
Eloise Klein Healy
Reading poetry and hearing it read by the actual poet are two very different experiences. When Eloise Klein Healy's latest collection of poems, A Wild Surmise: New & Selected Poems & Recordings, is released through Red Hen Press next year, readers will be able to access supplemental material including audio recordings by scanning a Quick Response (QR) code, according to Galleycat.
Smartphone users can scan the codes, which will be printed on the book's cover, using an app on their mobile device to access around 35 audio files of more than 100 poems contained in the collection. Although the bonus material will be made available on Healy's website for readers who don't have smartphones, the move is the latest example of publishers making use of technology to encourage readers to go beyond the printed page.
Earlier this year, Mashable reported that Simon & Schuster would be adding QR codes to all its titles in the near future. However, rather than providing readers with a more engaging experience or offering additional material, it appears that the publisher plans to use QR codes in a far more familiar way.
"The QR code is a way to use the distribution of our physical books as a means to build our [subscriber] database," Ellie Hirschhorn, executive vice president and chief digital officer at Simon & Schuster, wrote in a memo distributed to publishers. "This direct-to-consumer relationship then enables us to market future books and authors more cost-effectively."
How can publishers use QR codes a little more creatively?
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Originally from London, Dan Shewan currently resides in New England. His nonfiction has been published in Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and he is a contributor to the poetry section of The Rumpus. Although careful to avoid stereotypes, he enjoys single-malt Scotch whiskey and long, brooding walks. Having gathered an extensive collection of rejection notices from many major publications, he is currently working on his first novel.
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jyh	from VA is reading whatever he feels like October 22, 2012 - 3:26pm
Part of me likes gimmicky stuff like this, but it never seems to influence my purchasing.
Dan Shewan	from Boston, MA is reading Crime and Punishment October 23, 2012 - 6:12am
I know what you mean. I like the idea of being able to access suplementary material through nontraditional means, but I doubt whether it would push me to pick up a title I wouldn't have bought anyway.


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by Ana Zeballos · Published July 8, 2021
LDCs present VNRs at the HLPF (13–15 July 2021)
By Barbara Adams and Tejaswini Vavilala
The second PrepCom session will take place on 26-30 July 2021 and will launch negotiations on the Programme of Action for LDCs for the next decade, a decade that coincides with the last decade of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
This is the last HLPF before the Doha conference / LDC5. During the HLPF Ministerial segment of the HLPF, eight LDCs will present their Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs), making a total of 53 LDC VNR presentations over the last six years, many by countries for the second, and some for a third, time. Read more
by Ana Zeballos · Published June 24, 2021
Mismeasuring foreign aid
By Simon Scott and Hedwig Riegler
DAC members as a group have never got near meeting the ODA target, but for political reasons they have also never dared to abandon it. Their unfortunate solution to the conundrum has been a series of dubious rule changes that weaken ODA's concessional nature and therefore help donors look as if they are spending more without really doing so. Read more
by Ana Zeballos · Published May 5, 2021 · Last modified May 10, 2021
Broad consensus, paltry results. The UN Forum on Financing for Development 2021
The UN Forum on FfD 2021 was the first FfD forum held as planned since the outbreak of the COVID-19 crisis. Accordingly, the expectations were high. Development finance is currently facing a triple challenge: to mitigate the humanitarian crisis, funds for an acute crisis response are needed – for example, to finance universal access to vaccines through the COVAX-facility, or for social protection measures. To mitigate the further divergence between countries, resources must be made available for economic stimulus programmes in the Global South that match those of the Global North. To prevent the failure of the Agenda 2030, the SDG financing gap that already existed before the COVID-19 crisis and has widened as a result of the crisis must be filled. The UN FfD Forum 2021 was a pivotal moment on the international policy calendar to take the necessary steps. Read more
by Ana Zeballos · Published April 6, 2021
Financing for Sustainable Development Report 2021: The yawning gap between development finance needs and political ambition
In the lead-up to the UN's Financing for Development Forum that takes place virtually from April 12-15, the 2021 edition of the Financing for Sustainable Development Report has been released. The report is published by the so-called Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF), which comprises numerous UN entities, but also the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the World Trade Organization. It is widely considered the most comprehensive source of data and analysis on development finance topics.Read more
Video of the virtual workshop "Making the 2030 Agenda accountable: What is the role for civil society?"
The video of the virtual Campaign Activation Workshop "Making the 2030 Agenda accountable: What is the role for civil society?" is now online. The virtual workshop was co-organized by Global Policy Forum, Global Policy Watch and Social Watch as part of the 2021 SDG Global Festival of Action and it was held on March 25, 2021. Read more
by Ana Zeballos · Published March 18, 2021 · Last modified March 19, 2021
Campaign Activation Workshop: Making the 2030 Agenda accountable: What is the role for civil society?
The promise of the SDGs makes governments accountable but who is to be made responsible for global issues like the climate, the pandemic or finances? Join us to discuss this issue in a workshop hosted by Global Policy Forum, Global Policy Watch and Social Watch as part of the 2021 SDG Global Festival of Action. The workshop will be hold on March 25, 2021 from 04:30 to 05:30 PM (CET). Read more
by Ana Zeballos · Published February 12, 2021
Women's Major Group Position Paper on the HLPF Review
As the global community coalesced to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the United Nations in September 2020 under the shadow of COVID-19, Member States in their Declaration A/RES/75/1, made commitments to strengthen the multilateral system and set forth plans to "build back better". Among the tools to do so, as recognized by UN leadership and Member States, are the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Their importance is highlighted by marking 2020 as the start of the Decade of Action, the final 10 years to achieve the SDGs, as well as the widespread recognition that COVID-19 is threatening to reverse development gains over the past decade. Read more
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by Ana Zeballos · Published February 1, 2021 · Last modified February 5, 2021
A survey among CSOs in "programme countries" evidences a very high level of commitment to UN values and principles, much dissatisfaction with the actual operations at country level and articulation of areas for improvement.
For a number of CSOs, the UN system is appreciated for its inspiration, legitimization and promotion of the values they stand for, but is also viewed as a competitor for funds and influence, often displacing the social sector instead of building it. And frequently it is seen as both at the same time. Read more
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UN General Assembly Special Session: Transformation or Continuation of the Status Quo?
The General Assembly (GA) will host its 31st Special session in response to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic on 3 and 4 December 2020. The UN Charter (Chapter IV, article 20) provides for the General Assembly to meet in special sessions which can be "convoked by the Secretary-General at the request of the Security Council or of a majority of the Members of the United Nations." Read more


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Google's most underrated app finally comes to iPhone
By Killian Bell • 3:46 am, October 12, 2017
Google Opinion Rewards pays real cash for your opinion.
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Google Opinion Rewards, the company's most underrated app, has finally landed on iPhone.
For the first time, iOS users have the chance to answer surveys that earn them real cash. More than 10 million people are already using the service on Android.
Opinion Rewards is a genuine and incredibly easy way to earn real money. Google sends out more than 3 million surveys every week from companies big and small. You get the chance to answer some of them and you get paid up to $1 a time for your efforts.
The surveys are quick to complete; each one is comprised of ten questions or less, and some include just one. Nearly all take less than 30 seconds to answer, and are based on a range of topics from hit TV shows to retail stores you visit regularly.
Google will send you a notification (if you allow it to) when a new survey is available to you.
How do you get paid?
On Android, Google rewards participants with Play Store credit. This can be redeemed against apps, in-app purchases, music, movies, TV shows, and more.
On iPhone, however, your cash is paid directly into your PayPal account, so you can spend it on whatever you like.
There is no catch. That's what's great about Opinion Rewards. You earn real money for completing a simple task. And although it's only a maximum of $1 per survey, that soon adds up if you take part regularly.
You can skip the surveys you don't want to complete, and you won't be penalized for doing so.
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Simply download the Opinion Rewards app from the App Store to get started. Sign in with your Google account, and you'll start receiving surveys every so often.
For now, the app is only available in the U.S. However, Opinion Rewards is available in other countries on Android, so we're hoping the iOS version will expand its reach soon.
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While the practice of oil pulling may be thousands of years old, oil pulling for improving oral health has only become a widespread trend in the past few years. Advocates of oil pulling claim that by swishing coconut, sesame, or sunflower oil around in the mouth for 10-20 minutes each day, you can remove plaque and prevent, or even cure, caries (commonly called cavities).
How much of this claim is true? A lack of thorough clinical studies stops experts from giving a definitive answer, but understanding the process of oil pulling helps sort through the seemingly endless assertions made about this supposed cure-all practice.
Oil pulling is believed to have originated in India 3,000 years ago as a Hindu medicinal practice as a type of Ayurvedic medicine. Recently, these scientifically unproven methods have become more popular, both in their country of origin and in other regions around the world. The practice of oil pulling is said to "pull" toxins out of the body through the mouth, which is allegedly evident when the previously clear liquid turns cloudy once it is ready to be spit out.
Oil pulling has only recently been studied for oral benefits, but in the past, it was suggested for a wide range of ailments, including headaches, asthma, acne, and even diabetes. Oil pulling is widely believed to stop cavities from forming, reduce bacteria in the mouth, and promote healthy gums. According to supporters, it can even banish your bad breath, relieve stress, cure insomnia and fatigue, dissipate body pains, and make digestive problems a thing of the past.
Although there is no evidence to support all of these contentions, the use of oil pulling in dental hygiene practices is slightly more substantiated.
The process of oil pulling is very easy to do!
1. Swish 1-2 teaspoons of the preferred oil (historically sesame oil, but now is more typically organic coconut oil) in the mouth for ten to twenty minutes. If twenty minutes is too long, try the routine for five to ten minutes to start.
2. Once you reach your time limit, spit the oil into a trashcan. It's usually best to not spit the oil out into a sink. The oil can clog your sinks piping when it hardens.
3. Rinse your mouth out with warm water and brush your teeth.
Even though there have been very few studies done on oil pulling, there have only been a small number studies that have properly tested and proven that oil pulling really does help lower bacteria in the mouth that causes plaque buildup and cavities.
Scientists and doctors have many theories about how the oil actually lowers bacteria amounts in the mouth. Some postulate that the act of swishing any liquid around the mouth dislodges food particles that lodge between the teeth, causing plaque to break down. The act of swishing also over-stimulates the salivary glands and the excess saliva traps the bacteria within the oil particles.
Other researchers believe that the oil creates a thin barrier that prevents harmful bacteria from sticking to the teeth. While others claim that the oil moisturizes the gums and cures dry mouth, which is known to increase bacteria growth.
Scientists have found that oil pulling is not as effective as modern mouthwashes when it comes to fighting bacteria that lead to cavities.
If oil is accidentally pulled into lungs while swishing, it can lead to lipoid pneumonia, a condition that occurs when lipids accidentally accumulate in the lungs.
Some people report developing an upset stomach after oil pulling.
Allergic reactions to specific oil types may occur and can lead to dangerous respiratory complications.
Tooth decay is not reversible. You should not expect oil pulling to serve as an alternative to necessary dental restorations.
Although the science behind oil pulling is not concrete yet, there is enough credible evidence that, when used in conjunction with methods recommended by the American Dental Association, these oils may supplement your dental health plan. Keep up with your normal brushing and mouthwash routine and see how oil pulling affects your oral health!


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Can Romney Make a Credible Pivot to the Center?
To secure the GOP nomination, former Gov. Mitt Romney has had to make a hard shift to the right to convince social, economic and foreign policy conservatives that he's their guy and can be trusted to uphold their values in the general election against President Obama. The shift has been transparent and increasingly awkward for a politician who many consider to be personally awkward. Romney's button down persona has been described as square and to the right of cool. Romney backers would counter that personal flair and style should not be a consideration in the voting booth. However, since elections can be decided on factors like Nixon's awkward debate appearance against John F. Kennedy, visuals do play a part in deciding elections.
Juxtaposed against Obama who sang lines from "Sweet Home Chicago" with BB King, Mic Jagger, and Buddy Guy who were in attendance at an event at the White House and his unsolicited singing of the Rev. Al Green's "Let's Stay Together" during a fundraising stop at the historic Apollo Theater in Harlem, Romney would be Obama's alternative personality in a parallel universe.
"Daily Show" host, Jon Stewart, joked with David Letterman, "If you were to design something to be a president, that's what you would make it (Romney) look like," Stewart said. Adding, Romney's "like pixels. I think if you look at him closely, it's zeroes and ones…He puts on jeans, but you know he's got his suit pants underneath it."
In modern campaigns for the White House, Republicans have, by and large, gone to the right during primaries only to eventually shift back to the middle to win over independents. Richard Nixon and Sen. John McCain shifted right and Mitt Romney is following suit. Similarly, while Richard Nixon argued that he would end the Vietnam War if elected, Romney claims he can fix the economy if elected.
Undercutting his sole argument why he would make a better president than Obama is the fact that the economy has begun to recover in earnest, which negates his argument why he should occupy the White House in January of 2013.
Striking many as an odd argument, was Romney's recent speech to a business roundtable in Nevada outside of Reno, where he suggested, "This recovery has been slower than it should have been, people have been suffering for longer than they should have had to suffer. Will it get better? I think it'll get better. I don't know how long it's going to take," Romney said. "We got good news this morning on job creation in January. I hope that continues, we get people back to work."
Aside from the economy, Romney has increasingly leveled that Obama has come up short on foreign policy and interestingly, has chosen to argue that the Obama administration is waging war on Christianity. For a politician increasingly uncomfortable with discussing his own Mormon faith, this strategy could backfire in November. Romney's strategy of shifting right on social and domestic issues like illegal immigration, was born out of the necessity to undercut Newt Gingrich and Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who both at times held the top spot in polls. Hispanic voters, a key demographic in the general election, will potentially be alienated by Romney's posturing on illegal immigration.
Romney's decision to wade into the contraceptive debate reflects the surge in the polls of his most recent upstart opponent, former Sen. Rick Santorum. During the controversy surrounding Susan G. Komen's decision to pare back grants to Planned Parenthood, Romney argued that it was the right decision in light of the fact that Planned Parenthood does provide low-cost abortion services. Romney even went further by arguing that the Federal government should stop funding Planned Parenthood altogether. Taken together, his stance on illegal immigration and Planned Parenthood, Romney has now alienated women and Hispanic voters.
Importantly, Romney seemingly forgot that he was once an outspoken pro-choice candidate while running for governor of Massachusetts. Besides attending a Planned Parenthood fundraiser in Cohasset, Massachusetts in 1994, Romney's wife, Ann Romney, wrote a check for $150 to the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts.
The challenges Romney faces are daunting should he secure the GOP nomination. He will have to balance competing interests in his own party while trying to assure independents that his policies are not as extreme as those advocated during the primary contests. "Romney's twin challenges are to unify the Republican base, where significant elements remain unconvinced of the strength of his conservative philosophy, while at the same time not genuflecting so much that he can't appeal to the independent vote that will ultimately decide the election," said Ken Duberstein, who worked in the Reagan administration. Up until now, Romney and his team of surrogates have largely pinned electability on Romney's biography, a successful self-made millionaire who has the business acumen to turn around a stalled U.S. economy. But this strategy has fallen on deaf ears within some of the GOP electorate, who have a seemingly unbalanced hatred towards Obama and his policies.
Romney's 59-point economic plan, "Believe in America" which was released last year relies on many of the same Republican policies that some on the left and independent voters credit with creating the economic conditions in 2008. Former President George W. Bush's chief advisor, Karl Rove, warned in a column in the Wall Street Journal, "What worked against an underfunded Mr. Gingrich won't work against the well-funded Barack Obama." In particular, Rove advised Romney's campaign, "He should become bolder in his prescriptions, presenting a confident agenda for economic growth and renewed prosperity through reforms of taxes, regulatory and energy policies."
The last Republican primary is scheduled in Utah on June 26. It is unlikely that former Sen. Rick Santorum will be able to compete that long even if he should win in Michigan and/or Arizona next Tuesday. Romney has the personal fortune and support of the GOP establishment to remain in the GOP contest over the long run. Mitt Romney's sole focus on winning enough delegates to secure the nomination has come at a price. His shift to the right and overreliance on negative advertising to crush former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and now Sen. Rick Santorum has amplified his negatives, given ammunition to opposition researchers and has contributed to his unpopularity among independent voters.
Whether he can repair his image come November remains to be seen. What is likely is that Romney will seek to offer a contrast to Obama, choosing to cherry-pick areas like Afghanistan, Iraq and the economy where the president has failed while hoping that social issues remain on the backburner despite their renewed focus for some GOP voters and in several state legislatures. Romney's "flip-flopping" on abortion, gun control and illegal immigration reinforces the image that Romney is a "severely" inconsistent politician.


Today's blog post is going to be even less scintillating than yesterday's edition, I'm sorry to say. Anne cried inconsolably at bedtime last night, proceeded to wake up hysterically at 12:30 am, and stay awake until nearly 3. I barely dragged myself out of bed at 6:30 to get Henry up and ready for school, and myself for work. I just nearly fell asleep at a meeting and looked barely alive on the reference desk this morning.