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Gibraltar Celebrates International Day of Persons with Disabilities
Written by YGTV Team on 03 December 2022 .
Today, Gibraltar and the world marks International Day of Persons with Disabilities. This day is about inclusion and promoting awareness of disabilities and how different attitudes can have a positive or negative effect on people with disabilities.
A Government statement continued: "In June the Minister with responsibility for disability, Samantha Sacramento, announced that Gibraltar would see the extension of the UN Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Considerable work has since been undertaken on this by the Ministry for Equality and the Government Law Office.
"Additionally, the Minister for Equality has also announced the enactment of sections 13 and 14 of the Disability Act. Since 2017 and the publication of the Approved Document R under the Building Rules 2017, all new buildings need to be accessible. Upon the enactment of the remaining sections all existing buildings will also be required to be accessible.
"An information booklet called "Gibraltar Building Rules Approved Document R – Access to and use of buildings" prepared by the Ministry of Equality and the Department of Town Planning and Building Control can be found on the Ministry of Equality's website.
"The Ministry of Equality will be announcing further information on this topic throughout 2023, which will include a public session in January next year where business and property owners will be able to learn more about their forthcoming legal obligations and ask questions to an accessibility auditor.
"Property owners are further reminded that the Income Tax Disabled Access to Property (Deductions) Rules 2020, which were originally due to cease in June 2022, have been extended for a further 3 years in order to allow businesses and property owners the chance to receive a deduction of up to £15,000 for any costs in modifying a property to enhance the access to disabled individuals.
"The Ministry of Equality is also excited with the opportunity this year's Census will give HM Government of Gibraltar to better understand the makeup of Gibraltar's population with any form of disability. The Ministry has for the last couple of years been in discussions with the Statistics Office to explore and recommend the possibility of introducing questions to determine anonymised information on people with disabilities and looks forward to the anonymised data being released.
"Finally, the Ministry of Equality would also like to take this opportunity to remind the public of the successful Disability Information Card and the RADAR Key Schemes. The Disability Information Card allows the holder to inform any person who may need to know about their disability in a discreet manner without anybody else having to find out. The RADAR Key Scheme allows key holders to access certain accessible public toilets after they are closed. This allows people with mobility impairments or incontinence more freedom when going out in the evenings and at night. Private entities have also enquired about this scheme with a view to installing RADAR Key Locks at their establishment.
"Further information on the work the Ministry of Equality, as well as electronic versions of application forms, booklets, leaflets and other initiatives launched by the Ministry of Equality can be found on the Ministry of Equality website: https://www.gibraltar.gov.gi/department-equality."
The Minister with responsibility for Disability, Samantha Sacramento, said: "Accessibility is a collective responsibility and our Government has taken very big steps in improving the lives of people with disabilities. I am very proud with the work that is being done and with the collaboration between the departments, agencies and charities; the initiatives highlighted show good examples of what can be achieved by working together towards making Gibraltar more inclusive. It is also very encouraging to see a number of charities coming up with their own ideas and working with Government to develop them. There is certainly more that needs to be done, but I am happy to see that Gibraltar has transitioned to a more inclusive place than it was when I initially came into office and became the first Minister for Equality eleven years ago. I must particularly thank everyone, be they public servants, charities or individuals who have worked behind the scenes in implementing successful initiatives and spreading awareness and the message of inclusivity. I wish to encourage everyone to continue to think about how they can help make Gibraltar more inclusive in the future and act on it."


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LIRR And MNRR Random Thoughts Thread
lirr42 replied to EE Broadway Local's topic in MTA Railroads
Norfolk Southern owns the Port Jervis line and leases it to Metro-North on a long term basis.
M-9 Discussion
lirr42 replied to East New York's topic in MTA Railroads
The M-9 option cars (the first 110 car option) are late too, now those won't be completed until April 2022--13 months later than previously announced.
Draft/(Unofficial) Long Island bus redesign
lirr42 replied to lirr42's topic in Nassau Inter-County Express
Yes, when a bus network is designed inefficiently with routes that are so slow and infrequent that only the poorest riders are able to tolerate them, this is what happens. Why is everyone so keen on keeping it this way?? The idea is not to get 100% of people to switch to the buses...but by building a bus network that is actually useful to most people (instead of a largely duplicative system for poor people) and is frequent enough so that every train or nearly every train has a timed bus connection, coupled with increases in parking charges (to reflect the value of downtown, adjacent land and to fund these bus improvements) will lead to a gradual shift from the drive-and-park model to taking the feeder buses...thus, allowing for downtown parking land to be reduced and repurposed for housing so more people can live in our communities and more commercial space so Long Island can court higher-paying jobs. "Rome wasn't built in a day" ... ok, so we shouldn't even bother trying at all on Long Island?
For the third time, the redesign is meant to be viewed in the context of an overall improvement and modernization of LI's transportation, including reduced LIRR fares. We should not be encouraging people to spend 2+ hours sitting on slow buses and subways when we have a perfectly good railroad right across the street that could do the trip in less than half the time. Long Island's transportation network is clearly segregated...I, for the life of me, can't understand why everyone here is so insistent on keeping it that way. If anyone has any substantive feedback or comments other than why aren't we going to allow people to sit in slow Queens traffic while trains whizz past them a few thousand feet away?, or why we are not keeping an existing slow, circuitous route that serves 12 people every hour just because it's what we have now?...I would be interested to hear that and welcome it.
These are the same tired arguments, again. Why do you think there is a bus stigma? Because the bus network is infrequent, poorly designed, slow, and unreliable (since so many of the routes are way too long and circuitous). When you design a inefficient, duplicative bus network that only the poorest riders who don't have any other options can tolerate, it's no wonder so many Long Islanders think of the buses in the way they do. And nothing's going to change if we keep clinging to status quo (including inefficiently wasting resources having buses inching through traffic in Queens) as if there was no better option, like you keep insisting. The point for suburban transit is not to get people to give up their cars completely, but to build a strong, frequent network that people can use as much as possible, reducing traffic volume and parking demand in downtown areas during the peak periods so street space and parking land can be dedicated to supporting denser development and more job growth in transit-adjacent areas. Again, the point of refocusing resources and taking buses out of traffic in Queens is to dedicate them to increasing frequency in Nassau and Suffolk counties. What use are the buses at all if they only come once an hour or, at best, half-hourly, and then take forever to get you to where you want to go? Right now Long Island has just about 6 frequent bus routes (service every 20-25 minutes or better during rush hours). Only 156,000 employed Nassau and Suffolk County residents currently live within 0.5 miles of a frequent bus route. Under the network in the map...which requires the same number of vehicles in service and only represents a modest increase in total service hours (because the routes are more efficient): The number of frequent bus routes (service every 20-25 minutes or better) increases from 6 to 113. The amount of transit-accessible area increases by 932% from 53 square miles to 543 square miles The amount of employed Nassau/Suffolk residents living within 0.5 miles of a frequent bus route increases by 451% from 156,090 workers to 860,307 workers The percentage of Nassau/Suffolk residents living within 0.5 miles of a frequent bus route increases from 15% to 79% The number of jobs located within 0.5 miles of a frequent bus route increases by 283% from 229,812 jobs to 881,134 jobs The percentage of jobs located within 0.5 miles of a frequent bus route increases from 23% to 87% I think we can do a little better than 3% of residents taking the bus with a network like that. And if one of the 12 people spending an hour on a bus winding through Nassau County has to transfer an extra time, or someone has to walk across the street to the train at Hempstead, then so be it. The point of a bus network redesign is not to retain one-seat rides for 100% of existing trips. As the saying goes, you can't make an omelet without breaking some eggs...
All of these are arguments for why we should continue propping up the status quo, not focusing on where the greatest demand could be with a properly designed, frequent feeder network. The point is not to continue to provide a one seat ride for every existing route that carries a dozen riders per bus with only hourly service, but rather to deliver an overall improvement in service to all potential passengers (both existing riders AND those that currently drive). Buses should collect riders from more sparsely populated areas and feed them to faster and more frequent rail/light rail/BRT routes. In 2017, only about 3% of Nassau County residents traveled by bus on an average weekday. The current system is clearly not designed properly to serve the vast majority of residents. Think bigger.
A bus network redesign should seek to maximize the total number of transit-accessible trips Island-wide, not just be a copy-paste job of the existing route network. In this example, the commuting demand from Great Neck to Lynbrook is near-zero. According to the US Census, a grand total of 7 people live in Great Neck and work in Lynbrook (26 do the reverse). It would be wasteful to plan a bus route around that. And even today's n25 is barely time competitive with taking the LIRR via Woodside if the connections line up reasonably well... That said, I do see a need for better north-south connections closer to the city line based on your point...there's probably a way to extend or combine some of these routes to make that a ~2 seat ride.
Try using this link if you are not able to access the map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1U586sl6xydXvAKOJAiXvDh7uwfMnNo13 I have to stress again the point is to increase service within Nassau and Suffolk Counties and make mass transit more accessible and usable there (where there is not duplicating LIRR and NYC bus services) rather than waste resources having buses sitting in traffic inching along Northern Boulevard or Hillside Avenue. Just because the current duplicative routes are the busiest doesn't mean those riders can't be handled in a better way. Roughly half of NICE's weekday service hours are dedicated to routes that are almost entirely duplicative of the railroad. Cutting those back to the city line would free up a significant amount of resources that could be dedicated towards increasing frequency on LI routes or expanding bus service to people who have no options now. I'm not sure what I see the issue to is...if you're transferring in Hempstead, Freeport, or Great Neck, you walk a few hundred feet more and get on a train. If you're coming from Manhattan, you get on the train there. If you're coming from the subway, you take the E train or transfer at Forest Hills...not sure how that's any more tedious than taking the F train and sitting in traffic for 50+ minutes to get to Hempstead. And, again, as mentioned at the beginning, this should be viewed as part of a holistic overhaul of LI's transportation network, including more frequent service and more affordable fares on LIRR. NICE doesn't do anything to help people get to Brooklyn or western Queens. If you are going to a local destination east of Jamaica within Queens, you can transfer to a NYCT Bus around the city line. You may not have been able to see the map, but I'm not suggesting eliminating routes like the n6 entirely, just refocusing their resources to improve service at Nassau stops, and diverting passengers to either Floral Park or Belmont Park/Elmont to complete their trips to Jamaica or New York in a fraction of the time.
The LIRR goes into Queens... And either the Queens/Nassau routes could be extended one or two stops over the city line to allow the small handful of passengers who travel locally within Queens to make connections (Q17/Q87/Q34 to Great Neck, Q67 to Floral Park, Q38 to Belmont Park, Q42 to Valley Stream, etc.). We should not be spending resources inefficiently ferry people to the subway when the railroad does exactly the same thing.
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In a similar vein with the local bus network redesigns currently underway in the city, I thought it would be an interesting exercise to work out some ideas for redesigning the NICE/SCT/HART bus networks on Long Island. I am curious if anyone here has any comments or thoughts... The map below shows (roughly) the realigned routes and the particulars about frequency, connections, etc. shown in the descriptions. DRAFT LI Bus Redesign (v3) The draft network was imagined as a "clean slate", starting over from scratch with a much greater focus towards feeding the LIRR (instead of running largely duplicative routes), connecting rail lines to existing job hubs, and filling in the gas in the rail network (e.g. frequent north-south routes), along with an overall eye towards increasing frequency and decreasing the length of runs to improve reliability and save on down-time. The redesigned network is meant to be viewed holistically and as part of a larger modernization effort for LI transit (including increasing frequency/speed and standardizing service patterns on the LIRR, and reducing fares to more affordable levels). In other words, it shouldn't be thought of only in the context of existing routes, where there is demand for bus ridership now, etc. I'm curious to hear your thoughts and suggestions... Thanks
Paris has one ticket. Why not NYC?
lirr42 replied to Deucey's topic in New York City Subway
Full fare integration is a worthy goal, but we are a long way from that being practical in NYC. The New York metro area is a lot more expansive, with more people living out in the suburbs than most comparable cities. Metro/rapid transit coverage also typically extends to cover more of the population, so the suburban railways have to fill smaller gaps. Comparable systems also tend to be a lot more competently managed, adopting modern operating practices that helps bring down operating costs and makes those lower fares financially sustainable. In NY, high rail fares for intra-city travel is definitely a problem...but it is also a significant problem out in the suburbs as well. Overhauling the railroad fare structures to standardize fares at express bus-levels should be a good initial starting point, and then work downwards from there as the railroads adopt modern operating practices and increase capacity.
OMNY implementation on MNR/LIRR
lirr42 replied to Optheduim's topic in MTA Railroads
Those contactless readers were installed as part of the EMV upgrade to the ticket vending machines, which the MTA is four years late to the game on. It is not related to OMNY. All of the ticket machines on LIRR and Metro-North will be replaced with "Configurable Vending Machines" as part of OMNY around 2023. The MTA's maintenance contract for the TVM's expires in 2022, at which point the machines will be about 10 years beyond their design life.
Uni-Ticket LIRR + MTA
lirr42 replied to pranavbhat924's topic in MTA Railroads
The UniTickets should just be flashed to the bus driver. There is an endorsement on the front of the ticket that differentiates it from a normal ticket....where you see the printed "MTA" logo on the face of the tickets is replaced with a block with text in it, like this: I'm not surprised nobody seemed to know anything about the UniTickets, with such poor coordination between trains and buses, hardly anybody uses them. Just 422 monthly NYCT/MTA Bus UniTickets were sold in all of 2018.
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Penn Station Emergency Repair Work Mitigation Plan
lirr42 replied to Union Tpke's topic in MTA Railroads
The responsibility disclaimer does complicate their case, but in no way invalidates it. Just because the LIRR says they're not responsible it doesn't mean those few sentences absolve them of any potential guilt. If I put a sign on the door to my office that says I can't assume responsibility for any inconvenience, expense or damage resulting from me shooting you in the foot, and then I shoot you in the foot, am I now free of any responsibility, because I had the sign on the door?
Cheaper Commute?
lirr42 replied to Q113 LTD's topic in MTA Railroads
There is some merit to the idea...the LIRR does have the most expensive one-way fares in the country...if fares were brought down to the same level as express bus fares (where a one-way fare is close to $5.86) and commuter rail commutation pass holders were given transfers to subway or bus routes, then it can be pretty reasonable. Lowering fares to $2.75 like the City Council suggested last fall is a little too much, I think. By my figuring, lowering LIRR fares to express bus levels within the city (and to all the other fare zones on Long Island as well) would result in about $82 million in lost revenue each year. That could be more than offset if the LIRR ditched their 18th century fare collection system and went to something like Proof of Payment.

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History of Pan-Africanist intellectuals
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Pan-African movement, Movement dedicated to establishing independence for African nations and cultivating unity among black people throughout the world. It originated in conferences held in London (1900, 1919, 1921, 1923) and other cities. W.E.B. Du Bois was a principal early leader. The important sixth Pan-African conference (Manchester, 1945) included Jomo Kenyatta and Kwame Nkrumah. The first truly intergovernmental conference was held in Accra, Ghana, in 1958, where Patrice Lumumba was a key speaker. The Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC) was founded by Robert M. Sobukwe and others in South Africa in 1959 as a political alternative to the African National Congress, which was seen as contaminated by non-African influences. The founding of the Organization of African Unity (OAU; now the African Union) by Julius Nyerere and others in 1963 was a milestone, and the OAU soon became the most important Pan-Africanist organization.


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International Breastfeeding Journal
Effect of peppermint water on prevention of nipple cracks in lactating primiparous women: a randomized controlled trial
Manizheh Sayyah Melli1,
Mohammad Reza Rashidi2,
Abbas Delazar3,
Elaheh Madarek1,
Mohammad Hassan Kargar Maher4,
Alieh Ghasemzadeh1,
Kamran Sadaghat5 &
Zohreh Tahmasebi6
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Nipple pain and damage in breastfeeding mothers are common causes of premature breastfeeding cessation. Peppermint water is popularly used for the prevention of nipple cracks in the North West of Iran. The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of peppermint water in the prevention of nipple cracks during breastfeeding in comparison with the application of expressed breast milk (EBM).
One hundred and ninety-six primiparous breastfeeding women who gave birth between February and May 2005 in a teaching hospital in Tabriz, Iran, were randomized to receive either peppermint water or EBM. Each woman was followed for up to three visits or telephone calls within 14 days and then by telephone call at week six postpartum.
Women who were randomized to receive peppermint water were less likely to experience nipple and areola cracks (9%) compared to women using EBM (27%; p < 0.01). Women who used the peppermint water on a daily basis were less likely to have a cracked nipple than women who did not use peppermint water (relative risk 3.6, 95%CI: 2.9, 4.3). Nipple pain in the peppermint water group was lower than the expressed breast milk group (OR 5.6, 95% CI: 2.2, 14.6; p < 0.005).
This study suggests that peppermint water is effective in the prevention of nipple pain and damage. Further studies are needed to assess the usefulness of peppermint water in conjunction with correct breastfeeding techniques.
Trial registration number: NCT00456404
Sore nipples are a common complaint among breastfeeding women and one reason why some women decide to stop breastfeeding. The incidence ranges from 11 to 96% [1–3]. Preparation for breastfeeding happens naturally in pregnancy [4], and the presence of 'epidermal growth factor' in breast milk has potential therapeutic benefits by promoting the growth and repair of skin cells [5, 6]. Nipple damage may occur due to trauma to the nipple from incorrect attachment to the breast [7, 8] and healing may be difficult because of repeated trauma from the infant's suckling [9]. Therefore, the prevention of nipple pain and cracks is important.
A number of reviews have examined the effect of various protocols on either the prevention or treatment of nipple pain and/or trauma [10–12]. Most of the reviewed studies had an inadequate sample size or other methodological problems, which limits the applicability of their findings. Furthermore, the superiority of the creams, sprays, lotions or ointments used for the prevention of nipple crack in lactating primiparous women is in doubt or a scientific basis for their use has not been well-documented [10]. Renfrew and colleagues have stated "There are no grounds for using topical agents to prevent nipple pain and... there are no adequate trials to date" [12] (see p. 29). Some authors have concluded that the use of ointments "may be unnecessary and costly" [13] (see p. 92). However, recently, Tanchev et al have shown the effectiveness of purified lanolin in the prophylaxis and treatment of sore nipples [14].
Unfortunately, many women delay seeking treatment until substantial damage already has occurred. Sore nipples heal rapidly, often within a day or two. However, it is still easier to prevent rather than to treat them [15].
Natural remedies in conjunction with medical care may provide relief from breastfeeding problems [16, 17]. Peppermint (Mentha × piperita) and its oil are used extensively in foods and drugs [18]. Menthol, which is found in the highest concentration in peppermint oil, is pharmacologically active in relatively small doses. In small doses, it is safe for ingestion by babies and has been widely used over many years as a calming agent to soothe an upset stomach. As is observed with numerous other volatile oils, peppermint water possesses antibacterial activity [19]. Because it has calming and numbing effects, it has been used externally for skin anaesthetic, burns, wounds, itching and inflammation. Peppermint water is popularly used for the prevention of nipple pain and damage in Azarbayejan Province, North West of Iran; however, this has not been evaluated previously.
In a pilot study, which we carried out in Alzahra Research and Development Center of Clinical Studies, the topical use of household peppermint water by new breastfeeding mothers was more effective than expressed breast milk in the prevention of nipple cracks (10% compared to 40%). Therefore, we conducted a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to evaluate the effectiveness of a topical preparation of peppermint water in comparison with that of expressed breast milk for the prevention of nipple cracks in primiparous breastfeeding women.
We recruited women who gave birth in Talegani teaching hospital in Tabriz, East Azarbayejan Province, North West of Iran, where a total of approximately 7,200 women give birth each year. All mothers were given a standardized breastfeeding education with face-to-face demonstrations before starting breastfeeding.
Entry criteria were primiparous women who had given birth to a healthy term infant. Mothers who were discharged before an interview or who had preterm birth, postpartum fever, breast infection, nipple abnormalities, age less than 18 years, twins, taking medications at night, and also who did not have a telephone line or were illiterate, were excluded. Also, the infants who were fed infant formula or used a pacifier, or who had mouth infection or an abnormally short frenulum were excluded. Equal numbers of women who had given birth vaginally and by caesarean section (CS) were recruited.
After giving informed consent, a random numbers table was used to allocate participants (stratified by method of birth) to the experimental group, application of peppermint water after each feed, or the control group, application of expressed breast milk after each feed. The peppermint water group was instructed to put soaked cotton with peppermint water on the nipples and areola after washing the nipples with water following every breastfeed from day 1 to day 14 and wash before the next feed. The same instruction was given to the expressed breast milk group with the difference being that milk was used to soak nipples in place of peppermint water. A single supply of quantified peppermint water was given to all participants of the peppermint water group and they were asked not to use their own household peppermint water or any other medication. Preparation of the peppermint water is described in the Additional file (Preparation of the peppermint water) (See Additional file 1).
Demographic and peripartum information were abstracted from the medical records. An interview was conducted during the postpartum stay.
The follow-up telephone interviews were conducted by a trained midwife at days 4, 8 and 14 postpartum. In the case of nipple or areola crack and pain, both examination of the breast and the scoring were carried out by one researcher according to published methods [10, 20]. All mothers were asked about the frequency and duration of breastfeeding at 24 hours and the data were recorded. A follow-up visit was arranged for both groups one week after recruitment (day eight) or at any time during the trial course in the case of nipple crack or pain.
A telephone interview was conducted with all mothers at week six. A questionnaire was used to determine the presence and severity of nipple damage and pain. Each mother scored her own pain during breastfeeding. Rating scales were used to determine the level of pain as follows: no pain, mild (discomforting), moderate (distressing), and severe (excruciating) [10].
The main outcome measures include responses to questions about nipple pain at week six and objective findings from the physical examination at each visit. The physical examination included cracks within and beyond the areola and was expressed in millimeters using criteria used by Amir et al [20]. The nipple damage was defined on the basis of the width of the damage as follows: 1–2 mm, mild; 3–9 mm, moderate; >10 mm, severe and/or a visible yellow color in the crack. Areola damage was also assessed according to the same criteria.
The sample size of the study was determined according to the pilot study by Cochran formula (estimation of percent and ratio) of n = t 2 p q d 2 MathType@MTEF@5@5@+=feaafiart1ev1aaatCvAUfKttLearuWrP9MDH5MBPbIqV92AaeXatLxBI9gBaebbnrfifHhDYfgasaacH8akY=wiFfYdH8Gipec8Eeeu0xXdbba9frFj0=OqFfea0dXdd9vqai=hGuQ8kuc9pgc9s8qqaq=dirpe0xb9q8qiLsFr0=vr0=vr0dc8meaabaqaciaacaGaaeqabaqabeGadaaakeaacqWGUbGBcqGH9aqpdaWcaaqaaiabdsha0naaCaaaleqabaGaeGOmaidaaOGaemiCaaNaemyCaehabaGaemizaq2aaWbaaSqabeaacqaIYaGmaaaaaaaa@3705@ with a confidence of 95%, where t is the confidence level, p is the ratio of the number of subjects showed nipple crack (n = 18) to the total number of subjects in the pilot study (n = 30), q is the ratio of the subjects did not show nipple crack (n = 12) to the total number of subjects in the pilot study (n = 30), and d is 8% of the obtained value for p [21]. Therefore, the number of subjects in the present study was calculated as: (1.96)2 × 0.6 × 0.4/(0.075)2 = 196.
The measured values were given as mean and standard deviation (SD). Comparison of the categorical variables was made using chi-square tests (χ2) when appropriate. Intragroup comparison was carried out using ANOVA test and t-test was used to compare means. Test-retest reliability was used for confirmation of the validity of recorded pain. Odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were calculated for the independent variables. For all statistical analyses, the differences were considered statistically significant at p < 0.05. The statistical analysis was performed using SPSS program (SPSS 13.0; SPSS, version for windows).
The Medical Ethics Committee of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences approved the research study, all participants were given adequate information, and consent was obtained from each participant.
One hundred and ninety-six mothers who gave birth between February and May 2005 were recruited for the study. We lost eight mothers to the study before the first telephone call. Also, eight mothers were excluded during the course of the study due to infant illness. The CONSORT flow chart is shown in Figure 1.
Flow of the study participants.
No differences were found between the two groups (peppermint group and EBM group, respectively) in terms of sex (male; 49% vs. 62%, p = 0.7), and the weight of the infants (3.3 ± 0.4 vs. 3.2 ± 0.4, p = 0.8) by t-test. The demographic characteristics of the participants were also similar in the two groups. At 24 hours postpartum, there were significant differences between peppermint water and expressed breast milk groups with regard to the mean frequency of breastfeeding at 24 hours (10.1 ± 0.9 vs. 10.9 ± 2.1; p < 0.015), and mean duration of breastfeeding at each feed at 24 hours (19.1 ± 5.0 vs. 12.9 ± 3.2 minutes; p < 0.001).
The overall nipple crack rate in the peppermint water and expressed breast milk groups were 7% and 23%, respectively which was statistically significant (p < 0.01) (Table 1). No women in the peppermint water group experienced severe nipple or areola cracks, compared to 13 women (15%) in the breast milk group (Table 1). In the peppermint water group, the nipple crack took place on median of day 7 (6.2 ± 1.9), whereas, in the breast milk group, this was observed on day 4 (3.8 ± 0.9). Only 8 and 19 mothers had a mild or moderate crack, which occurred with delay in the peppermint and EBM groups, respectively. Damaged nipples were less likely in mothers who used peppermint water compared with those who did not (relative risk 3.6, 95%CI: 2.9, 4.3).
Table 1 Comparison of the severity of nipple and areola cracks in mothers using peppermint water and expressed breast milk
Nipple pain reported by mothers during the first two weeks of the study has been tabulated in Table 2. Women in the peppermint water group were less likely to report pain (n = 6) than women in the breast milk group (n = 26) (p < 0.001). The breast milk group had a higher odds of experiencing nipple pain than the breast milk group (OR 5.6, 95% CI: 2.2, 14.6).
Table 2 Reports of nipple pain in women who received peppermint water and expressed breast milk
During the study, mothers who used peppermint water had a decreased odds of 3.2 (95% CI: 3.02, 6.31) of having pain, while mothers using expressed breast milk had an odds of 0.53 of pain reduction (95% CI: 0.41, 0.68). There were no severe nipple cracks in the peppermint group and the mean ranking for nipple crack was low, but for the expressed breast milk group mean ranking for nipple crack was high (20%) (p < 0.001).
The duration and the frequency of breastfeeding at 24 hours were also assessed according to the type of birth. In the peppermint group, the mean frequency of breastfeeding at 24 hours for vaginal birth and CS were 10.12 and 10.22, respectively. For breast milk groups, the mean duration for each group was 8.72 and 8.08 minutes, respectively. The frequency of breastfeeding in the peppermint group was higher than the EBM group (t-test, p < 0.001). The two-way ANOVA test revealed a significant difference between peppermint water and breast milk groups with regard to the mean duration of breastfeeding for vaginal birth and CS at 24 hours (19.1 vs. 19.24 and 13.8 vs. 11.9 minutes, respectively, p < 0.015). The mean duration of breastfeeding at 24 hours for the peppermint group was higher than the EBM group and was not affected by the method of birth. In the peppermint group, there was no significant difference in the rate of nipple crack between mothers who gave birth by CS or vaginally (p = 0.13). Whereas, the rate of areola crack in mothers who gave birth by CS was significantly lower than mothers who birthed vaginally (p = 0.04).
At week six, in the peppermint group, all participants with vaginal births continued to breastfeed, whereas 13% (n = 6) of the mothers with cesarean delivery used infant formula in addition to expressed breast milk. The corresponding values in the expressed breast milk group were different. In the EBM group, 15% (n = 14) of the cesarean group, and 6% (n = 6) of vaginal birth group used formula in addition to breast milk (χ2 = 3.57, p > 0.05) (Table 3). Six mothers in the expressed breast milk group ceased breastfeeding because of the severity of the nipple crack.
Table 3 Outcomes for women using peppermint water and expressed breast milk: objective evidence of nipple and areola cracks, reported pain in the first two weeks, and breastfeeding at six weeks postpartum
With adequate support and good information on preventing some of the common problems associated with breastfeeding, a woman's chance of successfully breastfeeding her new baby is greatly improved. There are a number of clinical studies with different treatments and treatment combinations to prevent nipple pain and damage in breastfeeding women [10]. "No one topical agent showed superior results in the relief of nipple discomfort. The most important factor in decreasing the incidence of nipple pain is the provision of education in relation to proper breastfeeding technique and latch-on as well as anticipatory guidance regarding the high incidence of early postpartum nipple pain." [11] (see p. 435). However, no study had examined peppermint water, a common household remedy in Iran, which was thought to prevent nipple pain and damage.
This study showed a significant reduction in the frequency of nipple pain and cracks in breastfeeding mothers where peppermint water was applied after breastfeeds. These effects could be attributed to the calming and numbing effects and the antibacterial activity of peppermint water leading to the reduction of irritation and nipple discomfort. In addition, painful feeding could be the reason for the reduction of frequency and duration of each feed in the expressed breast milk group.
The use of herbs is a time-honored approach to strengthening the body and treating disease [22]. Herbs, however, contain active substances that can trigger side-effects and interact with other herbs, supplements, or medications [22]. For these reasons, herbs should be taken with care, under the supervision of a practitioner knowledgeable in the field of botanical medicine. Pure menthol is poisonous and should never be taken internally. It is important not to confuse oil and tincture preparations. It should be kept away from the eyes and other mucus membranes and should not be inhaled by or applied to the face of an infant or small child [23, 24].
As the study was not blinded, a bias could have occurred and influenced the study results. Feeding can be affected by the psychological state of the mother. As in our study the mothers were not matched in terms of their psychological parameters, this could be considered as a limitation for this study.
Ideally, further studies should be performed to gain more insight into the effectiveness of peppermint water. Because the use of a cream or an ointment is easier than a solution, and in order to prescribe a fixed dosage of peppermint water, planning a randomized trial comparing peppermint cream/ointment to no treatment, could be the next step.
This study suggests that peppermint water is effective in the prevention of nipple crack and the effectiveness is comparable with other remedies. Daily peppermint water use was associated with an increased duration and number of feeds, and less nipple pain compared to the application of expressed breast milk alone. Further studies are needed to assess the usefulness of peppermint water in conjunction with correct breastfeeding techniques.
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The authors thank and fully acknowledge the participants for making this study possible and Talegani Hospital staff for their help. Finally thanks from Tabriz University of Medical Sciences for supporting this work.
Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Alzahra Teaching Hospital, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, South Artesh Avenue, Tabriz, Iran
Manizheh Sayyah Melli, Elaheh Madarek & Alieh Ghasemzadeh
Drug Applied Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, University Street, Tabriz, Iran
Mohammad Reza Rashidi
Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, University Street, Tabriz, Iran
Abbas Delazar
Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Gholgasht Street, Tabriz, Iran
Mohammad Hassan Kargar Maher
Faculty of Literature and Human Sciences, Azarbayegan University, Tabriz, Iran
Kamran Sadaghat
Taleghani Teaching Hospital, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Rahahan Street, Tabriz, Iran
Zohreh Tahmasebi
Manizheh Sayyah Melli
Elaheh Madarek
Alieh Ghasemzadeh
Correspondence to Manizheh Sayyah Melli.
All authors contributed to the design of the trial, SMM, reviewed the literature, conducted the trial, wrote the first draft of the paper and revised the final draft. RMR and DA, prepared the compound and revised the final draft. ME, GA and KMMH participated in the sequence alignment and drafted the manuscript. SK participated in the design of the study and performed the statistical analysis. TZ participated in education of participants and coordination. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
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Police allegedly kills Student over N100 Bribe
Inspector-General of Police, Idris Ibrahim
Imo Ekanem, a final year student Department of Mass Communication, Uyo City Polytechnic, Nduetong Oku, has allegedly been shot to death by a policeman after he refused to part with N100 bribe.
According to Punch, Ekanem was reportedly shot in his hometown Nkek, in Ukanafun Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State.
Usung Simeon, an eyewitness, told newsmen that Ekanem was shot by one of the policemen attached to the special squad the Commissioner of Police, Zubairu Muazu, sent to the area to confront recurrent cult activities.
The deceased had reportedly been stopped and searched while running an errand. When nothing incriminating was found on him, the policemen reportedly demanded N100 bribe.
When Ekanem refused, he was allegedly shot in point blank range by one of them. Simeon said:
He was shot dead after a heated argument with one of the policemen attached to the special squad sent by the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Zubairu Muazu, to fight recurrent cult activities in our LGA.
Because the activities of the cultists are always carried out with the use of motorbikes, the police have been conducting stop-and-search operations. So, they just stopped him and subjected him to a search, but nothing was found on him.
We were surprised that the police demanded for N100 bribe.
His refusal to part with the money infuriated one of the policemen, who cocked his gun and shot him at close range.
The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, DSP Chukwu Ikechukwu, denied the allegations.
He said the deceased was shot after he got into a skirmish with a policeman, trying to take away the policeman's gun. He said:
The matter was not about N100 issue, though the police is still investigating the case.
After our meeting today (Monday), the CP has directed the Area Commander, Ikot Ekpene, to transfer the matter to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Ikot Akpanabia, for thorough investigation.
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The winners of the Chant West 2015 Super Fund Awards were announced at a gala event in Sydney on 6 May, attended by more than 300 guests in attendance including industry luminaries and VIPs.
The top award of Super Fund of the Year was won by UniSuper, the primary fund for staff employed in Australia's higher education and research sectors.
Taking out the Pension Fund of the Year award – for the third consecutive year – was Queensland public sector fund, QSuper.
Introducing the awards, Chant West principal, Warren Chant, drew attention to the many distractions that funds faced from new regulations, Government inquiries and policy debates. "Despite this, what we see every day in the course of our research is funds striving to do everything they possibly can to improve the retirement outcomes of their members and the services they receive along the way," he said.
Chant also commended funds for focusing on member services as well as investments and fees, saying: " ...Almost as important is getting people to understand what they can do to improve their personal situation. This involves relevant product design, member segmentation for messaging, education in its various forms and the availability of financial advice. Increasingly, the focus is being extended beyond people's working lives and right through their retirement years – which is as it should be."


In this tutorial, we will show you how to use the rm command to remove files and directories through examples and explanations of the most common rm options.
To remove (or delete) a file or directory in Linux from the command line, use the rm (remove) command.
Be extra careful when removing files or directories with the rm command, because once the file is deleted it cannot be recovered.
If the file is write protected you will be prompted for confirmation as shown below. To remove the file type y and hit Enter. Otherwise, if the file is not write protected it will be deleted without prompting.
To delete multiple files at once use the rm command followed by the file names separated by space.
When you use rm with wildcards (*) and regular expansions, it is recommended to list the files with the ls command so that you can see what files will be deleted before running the rm command.
To remove an empty directory use the -d option.
To remove non-empty directories and all the files within them, use the r (recursive) option.
If a directory or a file within the directory is write-protected, you will be prompted to confirm the deletion.
To remove non-empty directories and all the files without being prompted use the r (recursive) and -f options.
To remove multiple directories at once, use the rm command followed by the directory names separated by space.
Same as with files you can also use a wildcard (*) and regular expansions to match multiple directories.
By now you should have a good understanding of how to use the Linux rm command and you should be able to safely remove files and directories using the command line.


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Marcus McDermott est un acteur d'origine australienne, né le  à Goulburn (Nouvelle-Galles du Sud), mort le  à Glendale (Californie).

Il est généralement crédité Marc McDermott, parfois Marc MacDermott.

Biographie
Marc McDermott commence sa carrière d'acteur au théâtre, passant notamment par Sydney, Londres et Broadway (New York), où il joue une première pièce en 1902, The Joy of Living d'Hermann Sudermann et Edith Wharton (produite par Charles Frohman), aux côtés de Charles Bryant.

Installé définitivement aux États-Unis, il joue encore à Broadway dans deux autres pièces jusqu'en 1909, dont Peer Gynt d'Henrik Ibsen en 1907, avec Emma Dunn.

Cette même année 1909, il apparaît pour la première fois au cinéma, dans une série de courts métrages. En tout, il contribue à deux-cent-huit films muets — dont de nombreux autres courts métrages —, majoritairement américains (sauf un britannique en 1922). Son dernier film est The Whip de Charles Brabin (réalisateur qu'il retrouve souvent), avec Ralph Forbes et Anna Q. Nilsson, sorti en septembre 1928, moins de quatre mois avant sa mort prématurée, des suites d'une cirrhose.

Entretemps, mentionnons Larmes de clown de Victor Sjöström (1924, avec Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer et John Gilbert), L'Aigle des mers de Frank Lloyd (version de 1924, avec Milton Sills et sa compatriote Enid Bennett), Sa vie de Frank Borzage (1925, avec Norma Talmadge et Wallace MacDonald), ou encore La Tentatrice de Fred Niblo et La Chair et le Diable de Clarence Brown (tous deux de 1926 et avec Greta Garbo).

Théâtre (sélection)
1902 : The Joy of Living d'Hermann Sudermann et Edith Wharton, production de Charles Frohman, avec Charles Bryant (à Broadway)
1904-1905 : Peggy Machree de Patrick Bidwell (à Bristol, en Angleterre)
1907 : Peer Gynt d'Henrik Ibsen, adaptation de Charles et William Archer, avec Emma Dunn (à Broadway)
1908-1909 : Peggy Machree de Patrick Bidwell (reprise à Broadway)

Filmographie partielle
(films américains, sauf mention contraire)
1909 : Lochinvar de J. Searle Dawley (court métrage = CM)
1909 : Comedy and Tragedy de J. Searle Dawley (CM)
1909 : Les Misérables (titre original) de J. Stuart Blackton (CM)
1909 : The House of Cards d'Edwin S. Porter (CM)
1910 : The Engineer's Romance d'Edwin S. Porter (CM)
1910 : Michael Strogoff de J. Searle Dawley (CM)
1910 : Un chant de Noël (A Christmas Carol) de J. Searle Dawley (CM)
1910 : The Lady and the Burglar de Bannister Merwin (CM)
1910 : L'Attaque du moulin (The Attack on the Mill) d'Edwin S. Porter (CM)
1911 : Foul Play d'Oscar Apfel (CM)
1911 : In the Days of Chivalry de J. Searle Dawley (CM)
1911 : The Strike at the Mines d'Edwin S. Porter (CM)
1911 : Aida d'Oscar Apfel et J. Searle Dawley (CM)
1911 : An Old Sweetheart of Mine de Bannister Merwin (CM)
1912 : What happened to Mary de Charles Brabin (CM)
1912 : Les Frères corses (The Corsican Brothers) d'Oscar Apfel et J. Searle Dawley (CM)
1912 : The Insurgent Senator de Bannister Merwin (CM)
1912 : The Dumb Wooing de Willard Louis (CM)
1912 : The Convict's Parole d'Edwin S. Porter (CM)
1912 : The Passer-By d'Oscar Apfel (CM)
1912 : Mr. Pickwick's Predicament de J. Searle Dawley (CM)
1913 : An Unsullied Shield de Charles Brabin (CM)
1913 : Confidence de Bannister Merwin (CM)
1913 : The Portrait de George Lessey (CM)
1913 : Mary Stuart de J. Searle Dawley (CM)
1914 : The Antique Brooch de Charles Brabin (CM)
1915 : Pawns of Fate de Frank Lloyd (CM)
1915 : A Theft in the Dark de Charles Brabin (CM)
1916 : The Footlights of Fate de William Humphrey
1916 : The Price of Fame de Charles Brabin
1917 : Intrigue de John S. Robertson
1917 : The Collie Market de J. Stuart Blackton (CM)
1917 : Babette de Charles Brabin
1917 : An Alabaster Box de Chester Withey

1918 : The Green God de Paul Scardon
1918 : Buchanan's Wife de Charles Brabin
1918 : The Girl of Today de John S. Robertson
1919 : Kathleen Mavourneen de Charles Brabin
1919 : Dans la nuit (The New Moon) de Chester Withey
1919 : La Treizième Chaise (The Thirteenth Chair) de Léonce Perret
1920 : Blind Wives de Charles Brabin
1920 : Les Nuits de New York (While New York Sleeps) de Charles Brabin
1921 : Footlights de John S. Robertson
1921 : Miss 139
1922 : The Spanish Jade de John S. Robertson (film britannique)
1922 : The Lights of New York de Charles Brabin
1923 : Hoodman Blind de John Ford
1923 : The Satin Girl d'Arthur Rosson
1923 : Lucretia Lombard de Jack Conway
1924 : Larmes de clown (He who gets slapped) de Victor Sjöström
1924 : The Miles Out d'Irvin Willat
1924 : In Every Woman's Life d'Irving Cummings
1924 : Dorothy Vernon (Dorothy Vernon of Hadden Hall) de Marshall Neilan et Mary Pickford
1924 : This Woman de Phil Rosen
1924 : L'Aigle des mers (The Sea Hawk) de Frank Lloyd
1925 : The Goose Woman de Clarence Brown
1925 : Sa vie (The Lady) de Frank Borzage
1926 : La Tentatrice (The Temptress) de Fred Niblo
1926 : The Lucky Lady de Raoul Walsh
1926 : Kiki de Clarence Brown
1926 : La Chair et le Diable (Flesh and the Devil) de Clarence Brown
1927 : Taxi-girl (The Taxi Dancer) de Harry F. Millarde
1927 : The Road to Romance de John S. Robertson
1927 : Resurrection d'Edwin Carewe
1927 : California de W. S. Van Dyke
1927 : Man, Woman and Sin de Monta Bell et John Gilbert
1928 : Glorious Betsy d'Alan Crosland et Gordon Hollingshead
1928 : Under the Black Eagle de W. S. Van Dyke
1928 : Yellow Lily d'Alexander Hall
1928 : The Whip de Charles Brabin

Liens externes

 Marc McDermott sur le site de l'Université de Bristol, Collection "Théâtre"

Acteur australien du muet
Naissance en Nouvelle-Galles du Sud
Naissance en juillet 1881
Décès en janvier 1929
Décès à Glendale (Californie)
Personnalité inhumée au Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale)
Décès à 47 ans

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A 29-year-old Mississauga man is facing charges following an overnight stabbing in Streetsville.
Emergency crews responded to a domestic call at 3 a.m. at Britannia Rd. W. and Hogan Dr., just east of Erin Mills Pkwy. where the suspect and victim share a home.
The victim, a 53-year-old woman, is in hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
"She'll be released soon," said Peel Police Const. George Tudos.
Anthony Ionadi is charged with aggravated assault and assault with a weapon.
He's appearing in court Friday for a bail hearing.


ON APRIL 27, 2013, A CURSE RANG THROUGH the thin, cold air. In the sunlight, the Lhotse Face, on the Nepal side of Mt. Everest, shimmered like a tilted glass. Swells of ice turned to white fire. Two groups of men converged near 7100 meters. Early that morning, a team of Sherpas had started fixing ropes for guided expeditions. Three independent European alpinists soloed up behind them, about fifty meters to the side. As Jonathan Griffith, Simone Moro and Ueli Steck tried to cross the ropes to reach their camp, Mingma Tenzing Sherpa shouted down at them to stop, and he rappelled in Steck's direction. Steck put his hand up (he later said) to try to keep Mingma Tenzing Sherpa from colliding with him. The argument escalated: Mingma Tenzing Sherpa accused them of knocking ice on a Sherpa below. The Europeans insisted that they hadn't. According to Griffith, Mingma Tenzing Sherpa appeared to be threatening Moro with his ice axe. And then Moro shouted the Nepali word, Machikne.
At first it might have seemed as though the insult glanced off the slope and vanished in the rising winds. The Sherpas headed down. Later that day, after both groups were back in Camp II, a fight broke out. Struck with fists, boots and rocks—and threatened with death if they remained on the mountain—Griffith, Moro and Steck left the normal route and down climbed, without a rope, amid a jumble of crevasses. When Griffith looked back, he saw a line of people standing along the ridges, watching. The three men continued to the Khumbu Icefall. The sunlight finally faded. Dusk drifted across the shadows of the blue chasms, muting the bright tents, prayer flags, laptops and satellite phones of the base camp that lay like a teeming, microcosmic city, waiting below.
BY APRIL 28, REFLECTIONS of the violence spread throughout the Web, starting (for many international readers) with a single press release from Moro's team, then multiplying and refracting across thousands of forum posts, online news reports, comment sections, interviews, blogs and op-eds, thickening into a sharp, dense flurry of contradictory views. Even now, most of the "facts," (including those in the paragraphs above) are debated. To date, none of the Sherpas directly involved in the fight has agreed to speak publically.* The effects of altitude and intense emotions may well have blurred other witnesses' recollections. It's possible to view the conflict merely as a momentary flare of anger between a few tired, hypoxic and strong-willed people.
And yet the event still reverberates, unsettling the usual seasonal reportage of fixed-rope traffic jams, commercial excess and Everest "firsts" with a sense of some deeper unease—some tremor rippling beneath the surface of that surreal, dystopian image of a peak that has long since become, to much of the public, as the British climbing journalist Ed Douglas once wrote, "a distorting mirror in which the world saw the whole point of mountaineering" (Chomolungma Sings the Blues, 1997). It was as if the outburst had shattered that same mirror into countless fragments.
AMONG THE RESPONSES to the incident, one of the most prevalent themes was what the author Amanda Padoan calls a "nostalgia for something that never fully existed." Old photographs of classic Everest expeditions show men who seem, today, almost incandescent, ablaze with resplendent smiles and pale light, on the edge of terrain that still appeared as remote and unknown as the moon. Behind what looks like transcendent solidarity, those iconic images also conceal memories of quieter struggles. The initial attempts on the mountain took place at a time when Britain ruled India. Although Nepal never became a colony, foreign explorers often approached the high peaks as a kind of vertical empire, a world with seemingly immutable divisions between sahibs and porters.
"Soon enough," the Indian climber M.S. Kohli narrrates, "the Sherpas began to assert themselves. Most of them had not grown up in the 'colonial' atmosphere of India to consider the British sahibs as their 'masters'" (Sherpas: The Himalayan Legends, 2003). During the 1930s, Sherpas carried out strikes that increased their pay and helped define their role as skilled high-altitude staff. In 1953, as Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary descended from the first ascent of Everest, the expedition leader Colonel John Hunt ran through deep snow to embrace both the Sherpa and the New Zealander. "Anyone who had seen us then," Tenzing Norgay declared, "could never have thought about distinctions between sahibs and Sherpas. We were all mountaineers together, who had climbed our mountain." In that bright instant, it seemed as if the remnants of the imperial age had entirely disappeared.
Yet fragments of the old categories still lingered, fading in and out of view. Tenzing Norgay later noted that he was made to seem like a lesser character in Hillary's story (Tiger of the Snows, 1955). In the years since the first ascent, Sherpa mountaineers have found themselves navigating ambiguous terrain in which their status slips back and forth between that of high-altitude porters and that of climbers or guides. Even today, many Western accounts portray Sherpas as almost-fantastical beings, willing to drag the most inexperienced clients to the summit, to sacrifice themselves without complaint and to efface themselves from view. As the American climber Pete Athans says, "There is a Romanticization of [Sherpa] culture that borders and tiptoes around myth."
In the international media, past discussions about the ethics of Himalayan alpinism have rarely included many voices from indigenous people. Much of the profit from commercial climbing goes to the Nepal government and to foreign-owned guiding businesses. Although Sherpas are well paid by Nepal's standards, most earn far less money than top Western guides do. Nonetheless, on commercial Everest climbs, Sherpas now fix ropes and shepherd clients from base to summit, even if, as Ngawang Nima Sherpa points out, they are often still portrayed as mere "helpers" and "assistants." Increasing numbers of Sherpas have training from the Khumbu Climbing School or even IFMGA guide certification. For the younger, more professional generation, the Nepali outfitter Sumit Joshi believes, "There was a frustration that was a long time coming, held inside for many years, until finally something happened that was too much to tolerate."
Since the April 2013 incident, Sherpa climbers have posted comments across social media sites protesting a lack of "credit" and "respect" for their work. Their words have echoed what Ang Tharkay Sherpa, the sirdar on the 1950 first ascent of Annapurna, stated nearly six decades ago: "Sherpas are born alpinists... Since the first explorations of Everest.... It is they who have, one might say, made these expeditions possible" (Memoires d'un Sherpa, 1954).
SINCE THE APRIL INCIDENT, Griffith has woken up every night sweating and shaking. "The closest I can come to explaining it," he says, "is being stuck on a belay about twenty meters beneath the biggest serac you've ever seen, and it's starting to crack and groan; you can't run, your heart races, your mouth goes dry, you're certain these are your last few moments." Much of the ensuing media and Internet commentary has either tried to pass summary judgments on a faceless "Sherpa mob" or else to reduce Griffith and his partners to mere stereotypes of "Western arrogance"—as if it's all too easy to forget that these events impacted real human lives. In this sense, both groups seem trapped in one of the recurring nightmares of Everest's modern history, the dehumanization that happens on the mountain each season.
Published in Outside Magazine last year, Ralf Dujmovits' famous photo depicts hundreds of human dots lined up along the Lhotse Face like nearly identical beads on a string. Everest has become like a factory, with its mass-production of summiters and future motivational speakers. Oxygen masks, fixed ropes and mountainside social media all combine to form barriers between people and the actual features of rock, ice and snow. The representation of the "mountain experience" detaches itself, increasingly, from its grounding in a particular place and perspective. Even the deaths of the overcrowded or the underprepared begin to appear like just another part of a gigantic business.
"Everest will be Everest and climbers will always come," says Luis Benitez, an American guide. "We do however have the power to change the questions that are being asked. How will we define success?" By the numbers of people capable of jugging fixed ropes to the top? By the fees obtained, slideshows given and book deals signed? By such dubious records as the world's highest bank transactions, made this year from the peak? If Everest guiding must continue, might it be possible for a more ethical form to develop, one that tries to provide more equitable opportunities for local people and to spread more of the values shared by both Buddhism and the traditional spirit of alpinism—such as self-denial and compassion—rather than the notion of "the bottom line above all else"?
FIFTY YEARS AGO, nine hundred and nine porters marched toward Everest with the 1963 American expedition, sixty-five-pound loads strapped to their backs in clunky boxes. Many porters were dressed in rags. Some of the women had babies attached to the top of their packs. By day, their laughter formed a melodic background. At night, the air cracked with the rhythm of tubercular coughs. The road turned north, toward steep riverbanks and sharp ravines. Rickety bridges stretched across the cloudy blue waters of the Dudh Kosi. One American climber, Dan Doody, noticed an eleven-year-old porter frozen with fear at the exposed, mud-slick slope ahead. He reached his hand out to the boy. "And he with his sixty-pound load and I with my thirty pounds proceeded down the hill," Doody recalled. If either of them had slipped, "we'd both go sliding off into nothing" (James Ramsey Ullman, Americans on Everest, 1964).
Across the Greater Ranges, a vast infrastructure of labor has supported the legends and myths of mountaineering history: the unnamed assistants who carried Godwin-Austen's survey poles in the 1850s; the Balti guide, Wali, who led Sir Francis Younghusband down the Muztagh Pass in 1887, using a pickaxe to chop steps in ice; the low-altitude porters who have ferried supplies to base camps for nearly all expeditions, past and modern, commercial and independent alike. Each of these people is a protagonist in his or her own life, one that may, at times, have little to do with the kinds of narratives recognizable to adventure media, but instead with the more fundamental human struggles and heroisms of daily survival.
Had the events of this season gone as planned, Moro, Steck and Griffith might have successfully linked Everest's Hornbein Couloir to a route on Lhotse—a light-style enchainment that could have helped shatter assumptions that Everest no longer has room for visionary climbs. There are other paradigms that should also be broken. True mountaineering, the Polish alpinist Voytek Kurtyka wrote in 1988, requires "mystery" (Mountain 121). And so does true humanity. Long before the world's highest mountain became "Everest," local Tibetans knew the peak as Chomolungma, the dwelling of the goddess Miyolangsama, the Inexhaustible Giver. Perhaps the beginning of change lies in restoring a sense of that sanctity and specificity of place. In the mirror of these hills, we can all see much greater things than profit or self-image. Their beauty and their wonder might reflect in us. As the Nepali mountaineer Dawa Steven Sherpa once declared, "We are all what the mountains shape us into."
"Had the events of this season gone as planned, Moro, Steck and Griffith might have successfully linked Everest's Hornbein Couloir to a route on Lhotse—a light-style enchainment that could have helped shatter assumptions that Everest no longer has room for visionary climbs. There are other paradigms that should also be broken. True mountaineering, the Polish alpinist Voytek Kurtyka wrote in 1988, requires mystery' (Mountain 121)"
Pages 4, 5 and 7 of the accompanying Everest report (www.alpinist.com/doc/web13x/wfeature-everest-2013-full-report) discuss the history, present and potential future of adventure climbing on the mountain in more detail.
Ueli Steck and Everest was to be this seasons excitement however it did not eventuate as planned. The drama and tension of the violent incident has greatly damaged this season and future seasons.
Nothing has been written about the boring nature of high altitude tourism and the excitement Ueli was bringing.
I don't care about the fixed ropes or the tourists who use them. I was only interested in Ueli Steck.


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First set of rules came in 1774 with 22-yard pitches, 4 ball overs, stumping, no-balls and stopping wicket-keepers from blocking movements of the batsmen. Even then, Australians were different and an Australian over had 8 balls.
Overarm bowling came late only in the 19th century – in 1864. This effectively stopped women from playing cricket, but they came back to the game at an International level recently.
This was also the year when John Wisden started the record book of cricket: Cricketers' Almanac.
No cricketer thought he was a great cricket player unless he became one of the year's five best players at least for one year during his playing days.
Test matches against Australia in 1877 at Melbourne and this was repeated at Oval in 1882.
Both times, Australia won and stumps used at the second match were burnt thus the Ashes of English cricket was formed.
Cricket game facts report that both England and Australia are still fighting for these Ashes.
One of the first great cricketers was WG Grace and he played for Gloucestershire. Since Australia was a long ship travel away, he did not lose the Ashes.
Cricket was first the domain of Englishmen and their colonies dominated by them. Thus, New Zealand and South Africa became the first alternative test playing nations.
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There is a lot of money now coming into cricket through one-day matches of 60 or 50 overs each. Since weather often interferes with the game, there is an infamous Duckworth-Lewis formula to decide how many overs should be played after the weather interference is known.
Even that takes a day, and now people can only spend the evening at the ground. So, we have come up with 20 overs a side games. Weather interferes with these games too.
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Power button wasn't working. I just replaced the home button because I thought it would look cool and the phone would already be open so I thought, what the heck, why not.
It works better now. Still a couple clicks to get it working but that may also be my cases' fault. The process was pretty difficult and time consuming. The Phillips driver that was sent was so hard to use on the tiny screws inside the phone. I had to use a pocket knife to get most of them. And some screws alone took 10+ minutes to get out. It was pretty stressful but after I got all the screws out, the process and steps were easy to follow.
Look for a better Phillips screw driver. A smaller one than the one on this site. And use the YouTube video and written steps. But be careful because they don't take out the screws in the same order. Do it on white paper. Or on a white poster board. Use double sided tape. Place the screws on the tape and label above the tape where you got them from. Or an even better idea if you have any artistic ability. Make a enlarged sketch of the opened phone and place the screws around were you took them from.


Myth, legends, folk, and fairy tales make up some of the oldest and most treasured stories of human history. More than just entertainment, they teach lessons, preserve tradition, and influence entire generations. Heroes, heroines, dragons, faeries, genies, and demons live on in today's popular fiction. Authors Renee Ahdieh (The Wrath and the Dawn), Laura Bickle (Dark Alchemy), Tonya Hurley (Hallowed), Julie Kagawa (Talon & Rogue), and Naomi Novik (Uprooted) discuss new works of fiction that borrow from these stories and other tales as old as time. Moderated by Ali T. Kokmen (Barnes & Noble, Nook Digital).


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MetLife and MetLife Diverse Abilities network are the hosts of the Disability:IN North Carolina 2019 Thought Leaders Luncheon. The luncheon in honor of national Mental Health Awareness month will be held on May 16, at the MetLife Technology Center at 201 MetLife Way in Cary NC. Join us to learn about how MetLife's commitment to diversity and inclusion is fostering work-life balance and mental health awareness in the workplace.
Our keynote speaker for the 2019 Thought Leaders Luncheon is Kevin Rumley a service-disabled veteran of the Marine Corps who was injured in Iraq. Kevin was awarded a Purple Heart for his service to our country. Kevin is the Veterans Treatment Court Coordinator for Buncombe County and is also a person in long-term-recovery and a vocal advocate for harm reduction modalities.
A panel of community experts and business leaders will follow Kevin's keynote to discuss how employers across the state can support mental health wellness in the workforce.
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Phoebe Bridgers, Adrianne Lenker, Jeff Tweedy, more to take part in new livestream-concert subscription service
You'll be able to subscribe to the streaming service for $9.99 per month
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A new streaming subscription service called Bandsintown Plus is set to put up over 25 livestreams per month, according to Pollstar.
You'll be able to subscribe to the streaming service for $9.99 per month, where you'll be able to access a new livestream nearly every night.
The indie rock-heavy lineup for January and February is set to feature Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, Big Thief's Adrianna Lenker, Phoebe Bridgers, Fleet Foxes' Robin Pecknold Soccer Mommy, Waxahatchee, Flying Lotus, Empress Of, Little Dragon, Local Natives, a Toro Y Moi DJ set, and more.
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In encouraging news this week, former Victorian AMA President Dr Stephen Parnis has visited Western Australia ahead of a parliamentary vote on assisted suicide to be held next year. Dr Parnis has been meeting with MPs and doctors in the West to urge them to learn from the experience in Victoria and to provide clarification about some of the misrepresentations being made by pro-death lobby groups.
He also warns against the risk of coercion, which the Victorian legislation fails to safeguard against. Coercion can take many forms, and as is demonstrated by the hidden epidemic of elder abuse, often goes undetected, even by legal and medical professionals.
In a sign that pro-euthanasia activists are worried about their misinformation campaign being called out, the Chair of the Joint Select Committee on End of Life Choices, Amber-Jade Sanderson MP has taken to the media in response to Dr Parnis' visit, urging him to 'not scuttle WA support'. Whilst urging Dr Parnis not to ignore the "overwhelming community support" for assisted suicide, Ms Sanderson fails to mention that 56% of the submissions provided to the WA committee over the course of its inquiry were opposed to the introduction of assisted suicide, compared with 25.5%, which were supportive of legislative change.
Ms Sanderson then refers to "the many hundreds of people who have and are suffering unnecessarily at the end of their lives with terminal illness." Once again, we witness pro-euthanasia advocates undermining the practice of palliative care by using the fact that people are suffering as evidence that palliative care does not work, rather than it being evidence that the government has not adequately funded palliative care.
Indeed, the Committee's own report found that "Western Australia has the lowest number of publicly funded in-patient beds per capita and access to specialist palliative care is limited across the state." Further, it states that palliative care is further limited in rural areas and 'almost non-existent in remote regions'.
The scare campaign by euthanasia advocates continues to exploit the normal fear of suffering as a way of convincing the community that the only way to relieve that suffering is to legalise assisted suicide. The real solution is to ensure adequate funding for palliative care in our community.
Dr Parnis is to be commended for his commitment to bringing facts, research and clinical experience to this debate, and for his work in dispelling the falsehoods and misrepresentations being promoted by pro-euthanasia advocates. His lobbying efforts were ultimately successful in the Federal Senate earlier this year and his advocacy is bringing true hope to the vulnerable in our community.


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Q: DOI support for hyperlinks The Digital Object Identifier system is a way to identify content objects in digital networks. Among its advantages are that the DOI number is relatively short (compared to many URI on websites) and that they are stable (so much less likely to suffer from link rot).
A lot of academic resources (journal articles specifically) are most reliably linked to using their DOI number.
Minor feature request for the academic SE sites (like physics or maths): Can we support a link syntax for DOI numbers? I'm imagining something like [DOI:1234.5678/901] getting turned into what would be displayed by [DOI 1234.5678/901](http://dx.doi.org/1234.5678/901)?

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The Stanford, California Bank Of The West Classic Tournament's main attractions, Venus and Serena Williams, began doubles action on Monday.
The sisters were briefly challenged in the first set by Chen Yi and Mashona Washington on Monday afternoon before winning 6-4, 6-2. The sisters' doubles titles this year at the Australian Open and Wimbledon gave them nine Grand Slam championships.


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Q: Sequelize ORM include model only if active = true how can I findAll orders with id: 1 and include items only if this item has active = true? Otherwise there will be empty array...
Order.findAll({
    where: { id: 1 },
    include: [
      { model: Item, where: sequelize.and({'active' : true }) }
    ]
}).then(function(order) {
    callback(null, order);
});

This shows me only orders where are some items with active = true. I wanted to show all orders with id: 1 and items as a sub-array ...

A: From Sequelize Tutorial:

Adding a where clause to the include automatically makes it required

The solution is this:
Order.findAll({
    where: { id: 1 },
    include: [
      { model: Item,
        where: sequelize.and({'active' : true }),
        required: false
      }
    ]
}).then(function(order) {
    callback(null, order);
});


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Q: How do I fix issue with renewing my certbot certificates on ubuntu I am trying to renew my certbot certificates running the command
cerbot renew
and I get this error
2021-12-02 10:46:30,686:INFO:certbot.plugins.selection:Plugins selected: Authenticator nginx, Installer nginx
2021-12-02 10:46:30,779:DEBUG:acme.client:Sending GET request to https://acme-staging-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory.
2021-12-02 10:46:30,783:INFO:requests.packages.urllib3.connectionpool:Starting new HTTPS connection (1): acme-staging-v02.api.letsencrypt.org
2021-12-02 10:46:30,960:WARNING:certbot.renewal:Attempting to renew cert (ventureserp.com) from /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/ventureserp.com.conf produced an unexpected error: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:645). Skipping.
2021-12-02 10:46:30,975:DEBUG:certbot.renewal:Traceback was:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 595, in urlopen
    chunked=chunked)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 352, in _make_request
    self._validate_conn(conn)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 831, in _validate_conn
    conn.connect()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 289, in connect
    ssl_version=resolved_ssl_version)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/util/ssl_.py", line 308, in ssl_wrap_socket
    return context.wrap_socket(sock, server_hostname=server_hostname)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/ssl.py", line 377, in wrap_socket
    _context=self)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/ssl.py", line 752, in __init__
    self.do_handshake()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/ssl.py", line 988, in do_handshake
    self._sslobj.do_handshake()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/ssl.py", line 633, in do_handshake
    self._sslobj.do_handshake()
ssl.SSLError: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:645)

When I run cerbot --version it gives me 0.31.0 which seems to be the latest version of certbot, so I am not really sure why this is happening? I have gone through numerous articles online and it didnt help my cause, please anyone who can kinldy help as this is urgent.


Hi Rob, yes I did an apprenticeship in the mid 1960s. Then got drafted in the army. They (the army) could have cared less. I spent 20+ years in high tech digital electronics and communications world. After retirement from the army worked for "them guys you can not talk about" in communications installation and maintenance. I always wanted to get back to the metal working world and when I finally really retired went back into it as a hobby. I remember most of the theory but am working on relearning the skills. I try to make things look good as well as functional. I find it takes little time and effort to do things like remove file marks, round corners and put a little polish and shine on your work.
The switch size is big, but it is the type of switch that was found on most commercial equipment. An OEM switch was $21 and change plus shipping. I have had 2 of them go bad. When I talked to the place I bought the lathe from they said they were "out of stock". The person that I talked to just about admitted they have a problem with the switches. That monster switch was $57 and change and no shipping thru the local Graybar Industrial Supply. I hate having to fix things again and again. I also will be able to remove the sheet metal cover on the head stock without UN-mounting the switch. I know that I will never have to replace that switch again.
Your workmanship looks impressive. I can't remember, have you been a professional machinist?
And that switch is big, but I like it.
Man, that switch is a bit of overkill for that lathe, isn't it?
This is a ball turner I completed. The Idea came form the 7X turner on this web site. It fits my 9X lathe. What appears to be rust on the handle is a refection from something, the handle is stainless. You can see the first ball on the end of the handle.
Below is the switch that I installed for my lathe. in front of the blue plastic switch is a contact from it. Contacts are about 3/32 dia. and some sort of mystery metal, I took a file to it and it is not solid copper, only copper plated. You can see the solid copper contacts in the new switch. No small plastic cams or miniscule parts to go bad. I am mounting the new switch with a couple of magnets. It works great.
Below is my Cq9325A lathe. I think I have most of the problems with it worked/fixed.
It looks like I screwed up the first two pictures. Lets see if I can get it to work this time.
Here is the metal shop area of my workshop.