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Report: India mulls tripling Qatar Airway's seat capacity
Shabina S. Khatri
Qatar Airways may soon be making deeper inroads into India, under a new bilateral air service agreement that would significantly up its weekly seat capacity to the country, the Economic Times reports.
Quoting an unnamed Indian civil aviation official, the India-based newspaper said that negotiations for the exact number of increased seats is wrapping up, and that the pact should be completed "soon."
Qatar's national carrier, which flies to a dozen Indian cities, currently has a weekly seat quota of 24,800, which it regularly meets, the report said. It is now seeking an increase to 72,600 seats, which if granted would place the airline ahead of its regional competitors, ET added.
The deal would mesh well with the opening of Qatar's new Hamad International Airport and could net the airline some $200 million over 10 years, Arabian Business adds.
The relaxing of restrictions on the Gulf carrier comes at a time when India's airlines struggle with huge financial losses, and as competition increases for the Indian market in the GCC.
According to Gulf Business, a weakening rupee is driving domestic fares up, but competition between local and regional airlines is concurrently forcing them down.
Meanwhile, earlier this month, Abu Dhabi-based Etihad won approval from the Indian government to acquire a 24 percent stake in Jet Airways. The CEO of Etihad, whose seat capacity was raised from 13,000 to 49,000 seats weekly around the same time period, said of the deal:
"India is one of the largest and fastest-growing markets in the world and a key part of the Etihad Airways growth strategy."
The move comes after the UAE pledged to spend some $50 billion on India's infrastructure sectors in the coming years, Arabian Business reports.
Qatar Airways has previously said it is not interested in investing in Indian airlines, but ET reports that the carrier is in talks to find a code-share partner, and may sponsor Air India's entry into the oneworld alliance.
In Qatar's case, the seat allowance increase is thought to have been propelled by a deal to lower the price of LNG to India.
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Q: Running a Python Script in 32 Bit on 64 linux machine to connect to oracle DB with 32 bit client I am trying to set up a cronjob that executes a python (3.6) script every day at a given time that connects to an oracle 12g database with a 32 bit client (utilizing the cx_Oracle and sqlalchemy libs). The code itself was developed on a win64 bit machine.
However, when trying to deploy the script onto an Ubuntu 16.04 server, I run into a dilemma when it comes to 32 vs 64 bit architectures.

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*The server is based on a 64 bit architecture

*The oracle db is accessible via a 32 bit client

*my current python version on ubuntu is based on 64 bit and I spent about an hour of how to get a 32 bit version running on a 64 bit linux machine without much success.

The error I receive at this moment when trying to run the python script refers to the absence of an oracle client (DPI-1047). However, I already encountered a similar problem in windows when it was necessary to switch the python version to the 32 bit version and to install a 32 bit oracle client.
Is this also necessary in the ubuntu case or are there similar measurements needed to be taken? and if so, how do I get ubuntu to install and run python3.6 in 32 bit as well as the oracle client in 32 bit?

A: I am a bit confused about your question but this should give some clarification:

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*A 32-bit client can connect to a 64-bit Oracle database server - and vice versa

*You can install and run 32-bit applications on a 64-bit machine - this is at least valid for Windows, I don't know how it works on Linux.

*Your application (the python in your case) must have the same "bitness" as installed Oracle Client.

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Transportation Utility Fee to Fund Transit in California
Public transit is a key tool to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to combat climate change; improve safety for pedestrians, cyclists, and drivers; and expand accessibility and mobility for all. However, we can only realize this potential by making sufficient investments to provide transit service levels that attract and retain greater ridership. To help with this needed investment, a handful of local governments have turned to transportation utility fees (TUFs), primarily collected as a monthly charge on customers' utility bills or property tax bill. While more widely used to support street maintenance, this study identifies six case studies where TUF revenues have been used to support transit or active transportation modes. This study closely examines the legal enabling environment for TUFs, the fee calculations methodology, the eligible uses, and other critical details about how these fees work. This study concludes by investigating the feasibility of employing TUFs in California to support public transit and meet the state's GHG emissions reduction goals.
Transportation Utility Fee to Fund Transit in California (Full Report)
SHISHIR MATHUR, PHD
Dr. Shishir Mathur is an MTI Research Associate and a Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at San Jose State University. He served as Associate Dean of Research (College of Social Sciences) during 2016-2019 and the Director of the Certificate in Real Estate Development during 2016-2020. His research interests include transportation finance, urban and real estate economics, affordable housing, international development, infrastructure and development finance, and growth management. His research has been published in top-tier journals such as Transportation Research Part A, Transport Policy, Journal of Planning Education and Research, Urban Studies, Land Use Policy, Cities, and Habitat International. He is the author of two books: Understanding India's New Approach to Spatial Planning and Development: A Salient Shift? (Oxford University Press) and Innovation in Public Transport Finance: Property Value Capture (Routledge). He is currently working on his third book, Development Charges to Fund India's Urban Development (Cambridge University Press). Dr. Mathur has advised several international and national organizations. United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) sought his input on ways to encourage land-based financing in Africa, Asia, and South America. He advised Federal Transit Administration on ways to promote land value capture to fund transit-oriented developments and transit infrastructure.
RALPH ROBINSON
Ralph Robinson is an Assistant Planner with Good City Company. He completed his Master's in Urban Planning at San José State University (SJSU), where he was recognized with an American Planning Association (APA) Outstanding Planning Student Award and a department service award. Furthermore, he received an honors designation for original research on the benefits of municipal energy utilities in California. He has worked on various projects through the Mineta Transportation Institute related to transportation financing, walkability, and sustainability in the Bay Area. While at SJSU, he also worked as a project coordinator with CommUniverCity on a robust assessment of a historically underserved Eastside San José community, a project that was recognized with both a 2020 San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR) Impact Award and an Award of Excellence by the APA California Chapter Northern Section. He previously earned his bachelor's in Geography from the University of Richmond in Virginia.
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Rental property mortgages help you with the purchase of investment properties. They offer cash flow, leverage funds and obtain an appreciating asset. I have helped many property investors with rental property mortgages at rates that they didn't even know were possible for rental properties.
How Much Down Payment Do I Need For A Rental Property Mortgage?
You will require at least 20% down payment in order to qualify for a rental property mortgage. If your preference is for apartment buildings or buildings with more than 4 residential units, please see my commercial mortgage page.
How Much Income Do I Need For A Rental Property Mortgage?
Rental property mortgage requirements will vary depending on the lender and the property you are purchasing. I have some lender options that (in theory) do not require personal income at all. However, the property's income will need cover the payments on the mortgage.
One item of note is that it is easier to finance homes with all legal units as opposed to unauthorized or illegal suites. However it is still possible to finance a home with illegal suites. Rooming houses are extremely difficult to finance and manage and should be avoided.
Another noteworthy item is (as much as I love the Vancouver area) that buying rental properties in the Vancouver area is difficult due to high prices and relatively low rents. Properties may not appreciate in value as quickly outside the lower mainland as in Vancouver but the cash flow will be better.
These guidelines to rental property mortgages are very general in nature, and are often changing, and it is a good idea to discuss your specific needs with me in order to determine what you can do with regards to rental property mortgages. Call me today and I would love to sit down and discuss with you how to grow your property investment portfolio.


Companies seeking qualified workers should consider members of the armed forces who are returning from duty overseas, and they should provide a safe working environment.
Everybody knows there's a shortage of qualified workers in manufacturing here in the United States. There are a lot of organizations out there doing what they can to fill in the gap, like the Society of Manufacturing Engineers' Tooling U and many other training programs. Although many seek to attract high school students searching for a career path, others target veterans returning from serving our country overseas, with one example being Save Our Veterans (www.saveourveterans.org). These are people who have been handed a great deal of responsibility, many of them at a very young age, and have received training in technologies that you and I don't even know about. They deserve a chance at a good job, especially if they've been injured, and those men and women in particular deserve a safe working environment.
The reality is that many of these individuals may have special needs. They might be navigating life in a wheelchair, or learning what they can do—and how they can do it—with a prosthetic limb. Some may be adjusting to varying degrees of hearing or vision loss. No matter the situation, you'll need to consider their abilities in exactly the same way you would anyone else's: what skills am I looking for in this position, and does this person possess those skills or the potential to acquire them? If they do, then that should be your primary consideration. The second one should be making sure your workplace doesn't present your new hire with any unnecessary challenges.
You may have noticed in recent years that public spaces such as airports, hotels, and government buildings—the newer ones, at least—are more open than they were in years past. In some cases this is an example of what's known as "Universal Design," in which the needs of people with disabilities are factored into the actual design of a structure, resulting in wider doorways, more ramped exits and entrances, and elevators that are clearly marked to provide access to upper and lower floors. What you also might notice is that this type of design is really better for everyone, with fewer tight corners and more railing around elevated platforms. Think about a ramp at the entrance to a hotel, for instance, and how that makes it easier for everybody to wheel in their luggage, and greater access inside the building allows maintenance workers to move their equipment around more easily as well. While this mostly has to do with access, it also leads to increased safety, because you don't want someone in a wheelchair or with a cane having to take risks just to get where they're going.
And that's basically what you'll need to think about at your own facility. Are the doorways wide enough for someone in a wheelchair or using other devices to get through, both in the offices and on the shop floor? Do you have parking spaces available in your lot for disabled drivers that are clearly marked both in blue and with signage, and is there adequate room on the passenger side for a ramp to drop from an accessible van? Are there graduated ramps throughout your facility for ease of entry to all areas, and are the passages between rooms smooth with no hardware mounted to the floors? You'll want to pay even more attention than usual to containing and cleaning up spills quickly, especially slick lubricants and metalworking fluids, and to make sure that manufacturing cells are contained with no moving parts unexpectedly jutting into passageways. The good news is that the manufacturing environment is generally designed to accommodate big pieces of equipment and products that need to be moved around a lot, so you should concentrate on things like making sure the height of signage, water fountains, eyewash stations, and first aid kits makes them available to everyone.
Those who have risked their lives protecting our country deserve our gratitude and respect, but they're probably more interested in moving on with their lives and getting started on a career than brushing parade confetti off their shoulders. And if they've returned from military duty with mobility challenges we should do all we can to ease their entry back into the working world.


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The original MapOSMatic project used Transifex as its web translation frontend.
As my fork diverged over time, and as Transifex became less open, I have been thinking about an alternative for quite a while now. So far none of the alternatives I'd been looking at really convinced me though.
Now yesterday I stumbled across Weblate, and almost fell in love immediately. Almost everything I ever wished for, supports self hosting, and is even easy to setup.
The only thing from my wish list that's still missing now is OpenStreetMap OAuth support, but as the project already supports other OAuth providers this should be easy to add over the next weekend, if not earlier.
I was able to add the contour line overlay quite a while ago, with the actual contour line data generously provided by OpenSnowMap.
Unfortunately I couldn't also provide hillshading data offered by OpenSnowMap, too, back then, as storage space on my previous server had already almost completey been used up.
I moved to a server with more storage space a little while ago already, and I now finally got to making hill shading work.
While I was on it I also added a variant of the contour line overlay that only renders contour lines for each 100m increment of height, instead of each 10m, so that maps don't get overloaded by contour lines in mountaneous areas.
Author hartmutPosted on March 31, 2019 Categories maposmatic2 Comments on Hillshading – finally!
Most map styles use sans-serif fonts only, and so does the renderer for most map decorations, too. The only exception were index section headers, which was slightly visually disturbing. These have now been changed to use a sans-serif font, too.
As part of the preparation for my FOSSGIS talks on how to set up multiple Mapnik styles on the same server (more on this later) I did some statistics on which of the styles I offer on my MapOSMatic instance are the most favorite.
Below you will find the raw results. The OpenStreetMap Carto style is the leader by far, but that's not much of a surprise as it is the default selection. The numbers for the runner ups are more more interesting, showing the HikeBikeMap as the most popular choice.


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"He was very gracious, very apologetic, very classy," said Holtmann, adding that Lavin tried to reach him on Wednesday but wasn't able to because Holtmann recently changed his number. "He didn't have to do that."
The incident happened with 8:26 left in the first half of Butler's 85-62 victory at Hinkle Fieldhouse. The two were running down the court and apparently trading words when Obekpa -- one of the country's top shot blockers and a leading candidate for Big East Defensive Player of the Year -- threw his right arm out and struck Wideman, who remained on the ground for more than a minute.
The officials reviewed video of the play and ejected Obekpa. Wideman missed a week of preseason practice because of a concussion, but returned to Tuesday's game during the second half. Holtmann said he will be available when No. 22 Butler hosts DePaul on Saturday.
"I'll take the bullet," Obekpa told the New York Post after Tuesday's game. "He hit me three times and I told the ref and nothing happened. How many times can I let him hit me?"
The game was physical and also included a flop by Sir'Dominic Pointer that made national sports programs because of how egregious it was, but Holtmann said Lavin only apologized for the incident involving Obekpa. The Butler coach had no problem with that.
"We did some knucklehead things too," Holtmann said. "It wasn't all them."


Yes, there was a Pride event in Bolingbrook last June. Yes, we were one of the sponsors. Now there's video proof!
Sources inside Representative Peter Roskam's campaign say the campaign will run a haunted attraction based around his Democratic opponent, Sean Casten. Based on "Hellhouses" run by Christian ministries, the attraction will be called "Casten you to Hell." It will open October 1st and run through Halloween.
Will this graphic promote Rep. Peter Roskam's 'Hellhouse'?
The receptionist walked into a meeting room. Roskam and eight other men were sitting around a table.
"Wow! I've felt God in Wheaton, but—but." The man started speaking in tongues.
The rest of the staff started speaking in tongues.
Representative Peter Roskam's campaign is undeterred by one of their Facebook ads getting a "Pants on Fire" rating by Politifact Illinois.
A web ad allegedly produced by Rep. Peter Roskam's campaign.
"You're supposed to say, 'Sleazy Casten.'" said another staffer.
Flush with money from political action committees and support from the Congressional Leadership Fund, the Roskam campaign is aggressively attacking Casten. The Cook Report rates the race a tossup, and Bobby says they are working hard to change that.
Roskam pressed a button and put down the headset.
Hosted at the Village Hall, attendees divided their time between speakers and the festival outside.
Swain proposed that Bolingbrook mayors should be elected to one 40 year term. He also suggested that trustees should be appointed by the mayor to a ten-year term. A mayor could then reappoint trustees at their discretion.
Mayor Roger Claar and the trustees who are members of Claar's Bolingbrook First party smiled and nodded during the speeches.
Claar reached into a cooler and pulled out a frozen Asian Carp. He extended it towards Jaskiewicz.
"What are you doing?" asked Jaskiewicz.
Hello. If you have been a long time reader of the Babbler, then you'll remember that I used to write the Skeptical of Skeptics column. Today, we're part of the Freethought Blogs network, and the skeptical movement is just a fraction of the threat it used to be to open-mindedness. So I don't need to write that column anymore. Instead, the editor was kind enough to let me stay on as a political pundit. Thanks, Sara Langston.
Which political party do you want to win the 2019 Bolingbrook Trustee Election?
Based on this poll, it looks like Bolingbrook United is in a strong position heading into the election. Bolingbrook Pride Reborn is going strong considering they haven't run a candidate since the 1980s. If they can get on the ballot, it's possible they could form an alliance with Bolingbrook United and take over the village board.
Despite the name, The Roger Claar party isn't affiliated with Mayor Roger Claar. Usually, Claar kicks them off the ballot, and the courts affirm his decision. If they get on the ballot for 2019, then they could take at least one seat from Bolingbrook First. We could end up with a Board meeting where these two parties debate which is the most supportive of Claar. That's probably why Claar has raised over $300,000 for his campaign fund— He knows he will need that much to support the Bolingbrook First party and to maintain his lifestyle.
Of course, things could change when the candidates are announced sometime in December. Until then, this poll will inspire months worth of columns, most of which you can only read in the print edition of the Babbler. It's going to be a fun election season next year.
From the Webmaster: This poll is based on a convenience sample of five people on Twitter. Assuming everyone who participated was a Bolingbrook resident, the margin of error is ±43.826%.
Alien Antifa fighters dealt a humiliating defeat to members of the Proud Boys who tried to violently end the occupation of Bolingbrook's Clow UFO Base.
The twelve members gathered outside Clow Airport, wielding wooden sticks. They were wearing helmets, black and yellow polo shirts, and homemade armor. Their leader, Clint, read a statement to this reporter saying that "space aliens with ties to space Muslims and anti-Western ideologies" had captured Clow UFO Base. The Cook County Democrats, he claimed, were "preventing Bolingbrook's Mayor Clark (sic) from doing what needs to be done." He also called Bolingbrook a "Space Alien Sanctuary City" and said his group would free the residents from "Illegal Space Aliens." Clint added that the Proud Boys, while having ties to white nationalists groups, were not white nationalists, but were pro-Western Civilization.
"We can't help that the West is white," said Clint.
The men then marched in formation towards the airport chanting "Space Jews will not replace us!" and "Islam is a virus from outer space!" When they reached the flag poles, the members started defecating in their clothes. Clint ordered them to start reciting brands of breakfast cereal.
Seconds later, a Martian Colonial battleship hovering over the airport de-cloaked. The Proud Boys angrily waved their wooden sticks at it. The word "Antifa" appeared on the craft before the crew fired a cognitive dissonance ray at the protesters. The men fell to the ground screaming.
After the attack, Clint ordered the Proud Boys to run away. They were then arrested by the Bolingbrook Police.
After the protesters showered, and a cleaning service washed their clothes, Mayor Roger Claar met with them. According to sources, Claar said he would release them since he didn't to "deal with the headache of Internet racists." He added that all the protesters were now banned from Bolingbrook, and would be arrested if they ever came back.
The Proud Boys refused to be interviewed after being released from jail. One was overheard saying, "We should have gone to Washington. They needed more people." An email to their website was not returned.
A receptionist for Claar said he was out of the office, and that there was already a line of people waiting for him.
Rep. Roskam: My pants aren't on fire, lying Sun-Times!
Caine, a member of FtB, lost her battle with cancer this week.
Honestly, I mainly knew her through the back channel. I knew she had cancer, but I didn't realize how severe it was.
I feel for her many friends and followers I also feel sad that I will never get to know her better, or ever get to meet her in person. That opportunity is gone.
Humans are fortunate, in that we appear to be the only animals on Earth that can perceive and appreciate the universe. Our advances in medicine and science have extended our lifespans. Still, at least for this week, it feels like there's never enough time. So I'll try to make the most of the time I do have. However long that is.
Many Bolingbrook residents claim to have met weresunks canvassing for Republican candidates.
"I told them I was going to call the police," said Dolly. "I swear, one of them turned in to a 10-foot tall man-skunk with sharp claws. It said calling the police was the wrong answer. I slammed the door and locked it. It sprayed the door and the front yard! I thought tiny skunks were bad." Dolly added that she had to spend a fortune on peroxide, baking soda, and liquid detergent to deodorize her home.
According to Shannon, the canvassers confessed to being wereskunks, and they were really working on behalf of Mayor Roger Claar. The wereskunks said that if the Republicans swept all of the races on the November Ballot, Claar would continue to ban garbage toters. Garbage bags were more manageable for their cousins to open than garbage toters.


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Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie,  francoski zgodovinar, filozof, univerzitetni profesor, akademik, * 19. julij 1929, Les Moutiers-en-Cinglais, Calvados, Francija.

Predstojnik katedre za zgodovino sodobne civilizacije na Collège de France, direktor študija na École des hautes études en sciences sociales in učenec Fernanda Braudela, je eden od vodilnih pobudnikov
in postane v 70-letih prejšnjega stoletja simbol nove zgodovine. Nekatera njegova dela, ki sodijo med temeljna dela zgodovinske antropologije, so pri številnih bralcih naletela na topel odziv. Njegovi glavni prispevki na področju zgodovine se ukvarjajo z gospodarsko in družbeno zgodovino podeželskega sveta ter z zgodovino okolja, zlasti v njegovem pionirskem delu o zgodovini podnebja. Prinesli so mu velik mednarodni ugled.

Družina in zgodnje življenje

Njegov oče Jacques Le Roy Ladurie je bil minister za kmetijstvo v času vladanja Maršala Philippa Pétaina in posredno tudi član francoskega uporniškega gibanja La Résistance v Vichyjski Franciji. Le Roy Ladurie je bila v osnovi aristokratska družina, katere prednik je bil duhovnik, ki je zaradi ljubezni zapustil katoliško cerkev in dobil plemiški naslov. Družina Le Roy Ladurie je bila strogo katoliška, Emmanuelov ded je bil celo nečastno odpuščen iz vojske zaradi upora proti zapiranju katoliških šol. Katoliška vera in rojalistična politična usmerjenost sta imeli velik vpliv med Emmanuelovim odraščanjem na družinski posesti v Normandiji.

V otroštvu mu je bil vzor maršal Pétain, katerega zgodba je v Emmanuelu vzbudila zanimanje za ljudi, ki so bili sprva zelo uspešni, nato pa so postali nič – taki ljudje so bili tudi glavna tema njegovih kasnejših del.

Študij in kariera
Učil se je na osnovni šoli Saint-Joseph v Caenu, na gimnaziji Henri-IV v Parizu in na gimnaziji Lakanal v Sceauxu.
Študiral je na eni najbolj prestižnih univerz v Franciji  - École normale supérieure in je bil med najboljšimi učenci na področju zgodovine, zato so ga sprejeli v UNEF (Union nationale des étudiants de France) – nacionalno študentsko zvezo. Tam je sodeloval tudi s Françoisjem Furejem in je v reviji Clarté objavljal članke proti kolonializmu in korejski vojni.

Prvič je bil za učitelja imenovan med letoma 1955 in 1957 na srednji šoli za dečke v Montpellierju. To obdobje je bilo ključno za preostanek njegove kariere, saj se je takrat lotil raziskovanja. Od 1958 do 1960 je bil znanstveni sodelavec v Nacionalnem centru za znanstvene raziskave, od 1960 do 1963 je bil asistent na Filozofski fakulteti v Montpellieru, nato docent na École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS). Od leta 1973 do 1999 je vodil katedro za zgodovino moderne civilizacije na Collège de France.

Leta 1966 je zagovarjal svoj doktorat v pismih Les Paysans de Languedoc, iz katerih je leta 1975 izpeljal svojo svetovno uspešnico Montaillou, village occitan.

Od leta 1987 do 1994 je bil generalni direktor Narodne knjižnice - pripravljal se je na ustanovitev nove enote z Dominiqueom Jametom, predsednikom javne ustanove Francoske knjižnice, ki je z združitvijo dala francosko nacionalno knjižnico - je marljiv bralec v knjižnici Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme in knjižnici francoskega nacionalnega meteorološkega urada (Météo-France), kateri je zapustil knjige o podnebju iz svoje osebne knjižnice.

Nedvomno je Emmanuel Le Roy Laduire eden najpomembnejših sodobnih zgodovinarjev, ki veliko dolguje svojemu mentorju, velikemu zgodovinarju iz šole École des Annales, Fernandu Braudelu.
V zgodnjih sedemdesetih letih je Le Roy Ladurie sodeloval v "Novi zgodovini".
Je pionir mikrozgodovinske analize. Njegovo najbolj znano delo Montaillou, village occitan (1975), ki temelji na zapiskih inkvizitorja Jacquesa Fournierja, pamierskega škofa (1318-1325), ki jih je v francoščino prevedel Jean Duvernoy, da rekonstruira življenje majhne vasi v Languedocu v času katarizma. Tako postane specialist za zgodovinsko antropologijo,
ki nam omogoča, da dojamemo človeka preteklosti v njegovem okolju.

Ladurie je bil eklektičen raziskovalec, ki ga je zanimala zgodovina regij (Histoire de France des regions, Seuil, 2004) in je s študijem fenologije igral pionirsko vlogo v zgodovini podnebja. Med svojim osebnim raziskovanjem v francoski knjižnici je odkril Drevo pravice, prvi organigram francoske države, ki ga je izdelal Charles de Figon v šestnajstem stoletju, ki ga je analiziral in prepisal v sodobne koncepte.

Kljub upokojitvi je še vedno je zelo aktiven, podaja intervjuje, predava in objavlja članke, predvsem s področja zgodovine podnebja in njegovih posledic za človeka.

Les Paysans de Languedoc
Les Paysans de Languedoc je eno od najpomembnejših del Emmanuela Le Roy Ladurieja. Sprva je bilo to delo njegova doktorska disertacija pod enakim imenom. Že ta je privabila veliko pozornosti. Leta 1966 je na osnovi njegovega doktorata izšla knjiga Les Payesans de Languedoc, s katero je Le Roy Ladurie zaslovel.

Knjiga se osredotoča na suženjstvo v bivši francoski provinci Languedoc. V knjigi je Le Roy Laudurie uporabil ogromno kvantitativnih informacij, kot so plačne knjige, davčni prejemki, prejemki najemnin, evidence dobička in desetine, skupaj s teorijami mislecev, kot so Ernest Labrousse, Michel Foucault, David Ricardo, Fernand Braudel, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Thomas Malthus, François Simiand, Sigmund Freud in Max Weber. Prišel je do ugotovitve, da je zgodovina tega kraja l'histoire immobile, kar v grobem pomeni zgodovina, ki še traja. Zaznamovana je s številnimi vzponi in padci, ki so se skozi čas zelo malo spremenili. Po njegovem mnenju to ni le posledica klime in geografije, ki sta glavni gibalki zgodovine po teoriji Fernanda Braudela. Le Roy Ladurie v svojem delu trdi, da pri nespreminjaju oz. enakem spreminjaju zgodovine skozi čas na območju Languedoca, glavno vlogo igrajo tudi človeška kultura, tradicija, način razmišljanja in ekonomija.

Zgodovino Languedoca med 15. in 18. stoletjem je razdelil na več ciklov ekonomske rasti in upada.
Prvi cikel je poimenoval  po »oznaki za najnižji nivo vode«. Začel se je v 15. stoletju, ko se je francoska družba počasi opomogla posledic kuge, ki je zajela Evropo v 14. stoletju. Da bi čim hitreje spet povečali populacijo, se je v tistem času izvajal na ljudi velik pritisk, da bi imeli čim več otrok. Rast pa je pomenila, da se je lastnina nenehno delila, plače pa so padale. Naslednji zgodovinski cikel je poimenoval »napredovanje«. Zaradi zaostanka pri novejših načinih kmetovanja, se produktivnost zemlje, ki jo je zahtevala naraščujoča populacija, ni povečala. Zato je ekonomija začela upadati. V tretji fazi, ki jo je Le Roy Ladurie poimenoval »zrelost« je produktivnost zemlje končno dohitela zahteve populacije. Bogastvo se je počasi začelo kopičiti. Vse to se je spremenilo v zadnji fazi »dolgega obdobja recesije«, ki je potekala v drugi polovici 17. stoletja. Podložniki niso mogli plačevati davkov, desetin, najemnin in posojil. Vladala je tudi vsesplošna slaba higiena, ljudje so se selili v druge francoske province in se pozno poročali, kar je povzročilo upad prebivalstva Languedoca.

Na začetku 18. stoletja se družba ni kaj daleč premaknila od tod, koder je bila v 15. stoletju. To obdobje zgodovine je bilo torej l'histoire immobile oz. nespremenjena zgodovina.
S tem je Le Roy Ladurie nasprotoval dotedanjemu prevladujočemu pogledu Karla Marxa na to obdobje.
Po Marxu je bila zgodnja moderna zgodovina Francije popoln vzpon in kopičenje bogastva ter lastnine kapitalistov, kar pa Le Roy Ladurie očitno zavrača.

Montaillou, village occitan de 1294 à 1324
Knjigo
je Ladurie objavil leta 1975. Knjiga sodi med dela, ki ustvarijo novo vejo antropologije, historično antropologijo.
Knjiga preučuje življenje in verovanja prebivalstva majhne vasice  v Pirenejih z le okoli 250 prebivalci na začetku štirinajstega stoletja. V veliki meri knjiga temelji na Fournierjevem registru, zbirki zapisov inkvizicije, ki je raziskovala in poskušala zatreti širjenje katarizma v regiji Ariège od 1318 do 1325, med vladavino Filipa V. visokega in Karla IV. poštenega.
Delo je sestavljeno iz dveh delov. Prvi del raziskuje fizični svet prebivalcev Montaillouja, pripoveduje zgodbe o Pierru in Bernardu Clergueu, dveh najmogočnejših moških v Montaillouju, in pastirju Pierru Mauryju. Drugi del raziskuje prepričanja prebivalcev Montaillouja - to kar so zgodovinarji iz šole Annales poimenovali njihova mentaliteta.
Pisanje tega dela je sprožilo odkritje knjige Jeana Duvernoya z naslovom Inquisition à Pamiers, ki je izšla leta 1966. Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie je dve leti svojega življenja posvetil t.i. izgubljeni vasi v Ariegenskih Pirenejih. Spektakularni uspeh dela je presenetilo veliko kritikov. V Franciji so knjigo prodali v okoli 250.000 izvodih in jo prevedli v številne jezike.

Politično delovanje
Med letoma 1945 in 1956 je bil Le Roy Ladurie član Komunistične partije Francije (PCF). Po Veliki depresiji, ki se je zgodila v 30-ih letih 20. stoletja in po nemški okupaciji, so ljudje zgubili zaupanje v kapitalizem in liberalno demokracijo. Zato jih je veliko prevzelo načela in ideje komunizma kot so jih poznali v Sovjetski zvezi, saj so se zdele najbolj uresničljive. Stranka PCF je v letu 1940 pridobila na ugledu, posebej zaradi njene vloge med drugo svetovno vojno v francoskem uporniškem gibanju (La Résistance).
Leta 1940 je madžarski avtor Arthur Koestler izdal roman Mrak ob poldnevu (Darkness at noon), o katerem je Le Roy Ladurie napisal esej leta 1949. Le Roy Ladurie je vsebino romana razumel kot poveličevanje stalinizma in ne kot njegovo kritiko, kakor jo je zastavil Koestler. Kasneje je moral priznati, da je vsebino in sporočilo romana narobe razumel.
Po Madžarski revoluciji leta 1956, je Le Roy Ladurie zapustil komunistično partijo, saj so ga srhljivi prizori sovjetskega zatrtja revolucije v Budimpešti preveč pretresli. Spremenil je svoje mnenje glede komunizma in uvidel, da je to totalitarna in nečloveška ideologija, ki zatira ljudi. Še vedno pa je ostal levo politično naravnan in je kandidiral za Socialistično stranko. Vendar je leta 1963 tudi to zapustil.

Petnajst let kasneje, leta 1978, je bil eden od ustanoviteljev Odbora intelektualcev za Evropo svoboščin (Comité des intellectuals pour l'Europe des libertés).
Odbor so sestavljali francoski intelektualci, ki so se borili proti komunizmu. Njihova glavna načela so bila Evropa, kultura in svoboda.
Komunizem in socializem so dojemali kot grožnjo demokraciji, zato so se zavzemali za branitev svobode po celotni Evropi, ne samo v Franciji.
Le Roy Ladurie je svojo politično angažiranost in komunizem opisal v svojih delih Ouverture, société, pouvoir: de l'Édit de Nantes à la chute du communisme (2004) in
Les grands procès politiques, ou la pédagogie infernale (2002).

Le Roy Ladurie je med svojo kariero vseskozi pisal za znane francoske časopise kot so Le Monde, Le Nouvel Observateur in L'Express. Pogosto so ga gostili tudi na televiziji.

Izbrana bibliografija
 Les Paysans de Languedoc, Paris, Flammarion, 1969.
 Histoire du climat depuis l'an mil, Paris, Flammarion, 1967.
 Anthropologie du conscrit français d'après les comptes numériques et sommaires du recrutement de l'armées (1819-1826) : présentation cartographique, (skupaj s J.-P. Aron et al.), Paris, Mouton, 1972.
 Médecins, climat et épidémies à la fin du XVIIIe siècle (skupaj s J.-P. Desaive et al.), Paris, Mouton, 1972.
 Montaillou : Cathars and Catholics in a French village 1294-1324, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1980.
 Les paysans de Languedoc, Paris, Éditions de l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales, 1985.
 Le carnaval de Romans : de la chandeleur au mercredi des cendres 1579-1580, Paris, Gallimard, 1979.
 L'argent, l'amour et la mort en pays d'Oc : roman languedocien (1756) de l'abbé Jean-Baptiste Castor Fabre, Paris, Le Seuil, 1980.
 Histoire de la France rurale. Tome 2, L' âge classique des paysans (v sodelovanju), Paris, Ed. du Seuil, 1975.

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Zunanje povezave
 Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie pri založbi Fayard.  [citirano 29. 11. 2021].

Francoski filozofi
Francoski zgodovinarji
Francoski akademiki
Francoski univerzitetni učitelji

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It's been quite a few weeks since I wrote a blog post -- this is largely due to how crazy busy I've been lately! I'm truly gratified by all my clients entrusting their special trips to me, but it hasn't left much time for writing!
Add to that the fact that we've been helping our daughter and son-in-law move into their new home and the youth community theatre program I direct is now in full swing.
Regardless, something I've been wanting to do for a while is to get feedback from readers about their favorite vacation destinations. If you've read this blog at all, you know that so far it's been mostly about Walt Disney World, which just happens to be one of my favorite places on earth! However, one of my favorite trips was going to Napa, California with my husband -- it's such a beautiful place and there's something so serene about it. Of course, the wonderful wine and fabulous food in the area are the main reasons to travel there!
Another favorite vacation was traveling around England with all five of us -- we saw a lot, but I really wish we'd had more time. I definitely want to return -- there's a comfortable familiarity about London that's unusual and it's an easy city to navigate.
So now it's your turn -- tell me your favorite vacation destination -- what was special about a place you've been. I'd also love to hear where you'd like to go next!
Happy & safe travels, everyone!


As an associate in the firm's real estate department, Chip Herin assists business and property owners in the purchase, sale and financing of commercial real estate. Chip serves as a business advisor, guiding clients through real estate transactions from beginning to end. He helps clients structure and manage deals and identify any pre-purchase issues with properties. He also performs due diligence and transitioning after closings.
Chip is experienced with real estate transactions of all sizes, ranging from a family-owned business selling an indoor sports facility to a national chain acquiring more than 80 gas stations throughout the Midwest. Chip also has significant experience negotiating and preparing commercial leases for office, industrial, retail, and medical sites, as well as cell towers, easements, and licenses.
In addition to handling commercial real estate transactions, Chip practices corporate and municipal law. He advises public and privately-held businesses, nonprofits, and partners on issues related to organization, structure, and governance. He negotiates and structures business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, shareholder and member buyouts, funding activities, and private securities offerings. In the area of municipal law, Chip handles zoning as well as tax valuation challenges.
Before joining Coolidge Wall, Chip worked for a local general practice firm where he gained significant experience in matters involving real estate, business and commercial law, labor and employment, municipal representation, creditors' rights and bankruptcy, construction, business tort, and commercial litigation. In the Ohio Supreme Court case State of Ohio ex rel. Matthew C. Johnson et al. v. Council of City of Clayton, Ohio et al., Case No. 2011-1945, Chip co-authored the Answer and Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings that caused the Supreme Court to dismiss the case.
As a law student at the University of Dayton School of Law, Chip served on the Editorial Board of the University of Dayton Law Review. Additionally, Chip served on the University of Dayton Moot Court team and placed second out of thirty teams in the 2010 Thurgood A. Marshall Memorial Moot Court Competition held in Washington, D.C. He also competed on the University of Dayton Mock Trial team in the National Trial Competition. Chip received the CALI Award for Excellence (highest grade) in three law school courses: Appellate Practice and Procedure; Advanced Civil Procedure; and Externship. He scored in the top 1% of all candidates on the July 2011 bar examination.


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Georgetown Journal of International Affairs -- They Are Not Alone: Supporting Prisoners of Conscience
January 14, 2013 | By Katrina Lantos Swett
The following appeared in the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs on January 14, 2013.
Former Soviet prisoner and refusenik Natan Sharansky, Burmese human rights activist Aung San Suu Kyi, and Iranian Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani are some of the many people across the globe who were unjustly imprisoned for their beliefs. Fortunately, these three men and women of conscience are now free. We applaud their lives and the work they have done to advance the cause of freedom and dignity for all.
Unfortunately, many people today are not free but languish in jail cells around the world. They are imprisoned because of who they are, what they believe, and how they have chosen to express their convictions. These prisoners are prevented from enjoying the most fundamental human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and other international standards.
We must shine a light on these prisoners of conscience until they are free and the countries that keep them in bonds have released them and have implemented needed reforms.
To that end, as Chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), I join the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission of the U.S. House of Representatives and Amnesty International, USA in support of our joint Defending Freedoms Project. Through this project, members of Congress will select prisoners across the globe to support, highlight their causes, stand in solidarity with them, and let them and the world community know that they are not alone. In addition, by training a spotlight on the laws and policies that have led to their incarceration, members of Congress will be working both for their release and to hold offending governments accountable.
This new initiative will rely not on laws or customs that are specific to any one country, including our own, but on universal human rights benchmarks to which nearly every nation has assented. It will use the same internationally approved standards, freely agreed upon by most of the same countries which violate them in practice, to hold those states responsible for abusing the innocent.
Representatives Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) and Frank Wolf (R-Va), who have taken the lead in this project, are longtime champions of human rights worldwide. My late father, Tom Lantos, was proud to call them colleagues and friends, and worked closely with them on Capitol Hill for many years.
Sadly, as we survey the global landscape, it is clear that there are walls of tyranny in far too many places, and compared to these barriers, our words and deeds might appear humble indeed. But as the late congressman Jack Kemp once said, "there is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble." And in the words of the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy, "each time…[we]…strike out against injustice, [we] send forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other….those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."
Let these memorable words stir our hearts, deepen our commitment, and strengthen our resolve as we open a new chapter in the cause of human rights and universal dignity.
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WASHINGTON — It sits on the Corsica River along the Eastern shore, a 45-acre Russian compound known as the Washington Dacha to those who use it.
When it was closed on Thursday as part of the White House's response to what it called Russian interference during the presidential election, questions began to swirl around what took place at the estate in Queen Anne's County.
The property in Centreville, Maryland, consists of two Georgian-style mansions, six guest cottages, a pool and tennis court. It was mainly a retreat for Russian diplomats stationed in Washington according to Earley and wasn't used as a site for spying activities.
The site, however, did play a small role in Russian espionage, Earley said.
As the story goes, according to Earley, Russian generals at the compound wanted a speed boat to use on the water, but the only one docked there was for diplomats. To sell the Kremlin on the idea of buying a boat for military officers, the generals came up with a plan to use the boat to discard old spy gear.
"They would take speed boat out into the middle of the river and they would dump all this smashed spy gear into the water," Earley said.


The father of the bride wedding speech is the key wedding speech. It is the first speech to be given and sets the scene for other speeches that follow.
Unless you have considerable experience at public speaking or have some natural public speaking talent it is recommended to follow a standard speech format. Here are the key points that a good speech should contain.
The simplest start to your speech is to introduce yourself, the bride and groom, thank everybody for coming to this joyful occasion and give special thanks to those persons who have helped plan and organize the event. Tell everyone how honored you are to have such a wonderful daughter and how proud you are to host her wedding. Next talk about the events of the day so far and how perfect the wedding ceremony has been.
The wedding is all about your daughter and you are her very proud father. Compliment your daughter on how wonderful she looks, her fine qualities, achievements and tell everyone how proud you are as her father.
Everyone is expecting you to talk about how your daughter grew up and became the fine woman they see before themselves. So speak about your daughter's childhood years, perhaps telling a humorous story or two about when she was growing up. A key element to any wedding speech is teasing her about some of the things she has done in the past but be kind. Never say anything that you know would embarrass your daughter. After all, this is her special day that she will remember forever.
In this part of the speech you need to formally welcome the groom and his family into your family. Talk about when your daughter first brought home her boyfriend and now husband. This may be the perfect time for a funny story. Speak about when you realized that the relationship was serious and had developed into true love. Mention when the couple became engaged and had their engagement party. This may be the time to express how you finally have a son, if you don't have one, or maybe you have more girls in the family and the balance is about to change. It is customary to make a mild joke about the groom but don't over do it. Always be positive and show respect to the groom.
As you are the father of the family you are expected to have some final words of wisdom in your father of the bride speech. This may well be the most difficult part of the speech. Speak about the future happiness of the wedding couple and ask everyone to raise their glass to toast the bride and groom. Wish the bride and groom the best for their future together. Make sure you have organized the reception staff to have everyone's glass full ready to make the toast.


►▼ cranberry[Edit] : An evergreen dwarf shrub or trailing vine in the genus Vaccinium, subgenus Oxycoccos.
Castilian Arbusto de hoja perenne enano o rastrero en el género Vaccinium, subgénero oxycoccos.
English An evergreen dwarf shrub or trailing vine in the genus Vaccinium, subgenus Oxycoccos.
French Arbrisseau ou vigne rampante à feuilles persistantes du genre Vaccinium, sous-genre Oxycoccos.
German Immergrüner Strauch oder Rebe aus der Gattung der Heidelbeeren.
Italian Un arbusto sempreverde nano o o rampante del genere Vaccinium, sottogenere Oxycoccos.


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Zoltan Sztanity (né le  à Győr) est un kayakiste hongrois qui a concouru dans les années 1970. Participant aux Jeux olympiques d'été de 1976, il y remporte la médaille d'argent.
Aux Championnats du monde, elle remporte deux médailles.

Palmarès

Jeux olympiques
Jeux olympiques de 1976  à Montréal,
 Médaille d'argent en K-1

Championnats du monde
Championnats du monde de course en ligne de canoë-kayak de 1975 à Belgrade :
 Médaille d'or en K-1 4x

Championnats du monde de course en ligne de canoë-kayak de 1977 à Sofia :
 Médaille de bronze en K-1

Notes et références

Naissance en février 1954
Naissance à Győr
Kayakiste hongrois
Kayakiste de course en ligne
Médaillé d'argent olympique hongrois
Kayakiste aux Jeux olympiques d'été de 1976


Yes, I know, there are many video production houses working on weddings and corporate videos who aren't likely to hire Howard Shore to compose the score. (Well, except for the odd Lord of the Rings geeks tying the knot.) So, it makes sense that we'd see yet another software product that promises to generate the music algorithmically according to a musical genre and custom hit points. Because, of course, it's not like there are a bunch of composers around hard up for money who would do anything for a gig. Ahem. Sony is teasing their new Wndows-only product Cinescore at the NAB broadcasting show; you can see the details in an online brochure. Basically, it looks like Acid and Vegas, but with the ability to automatically create music rather than assemble it from loops. The brochure even says "Don't fumble with clunky blocks of prearranged music," which could be interpreted as a dig at Apple's Soundtrack and GarageBand, except Sony's own ACID product started the whole loop rage in the first place.
The problem is, as always, that you're limited to pre-defined styles, and Sony has included only 20 options. (There are variations; hard to know without hearing it how cheezy it is, but past experience with this kind of product suggests . . . Velveeta.) But look closely at the brochure: clearly, you have everything you need! "High Adrenaline" "Drum 'n' Bass", "High Voltage" Rock, "Fourth World Surge" Ambient (not entirely sure where the Fourth World is, but I guess it's nations with even more poverty than the Third World?), and, most importantly, Klezmer! (Hey, if you have 20 styles, you better make one of them Klezmer.) I'm sure it'll go well with the video about . . . parrots . . . shown in the brochure.
I'll let you know when the demo version is available so the CDM community can unleash its High Adrenaline Klezmer mash-ups on the world.


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Will Congo's Next President Be Jewish?
April 20, 2017 Winter Watch Around the Web, International News, Politics 0
Pinchas Sadai, a convert to Judaism, weighing presidential bid. However, he is not the only potential candidate with Jewish roots.
By Yoel Domb | 14 April 2017
ARUTZ SHEVA 7 — Pinchas Eliyahu Sadai was born in Kinshasa, the capital of Democratic Republic of Congo, immigrated to Paris and then fell in love with Judaism. After studying and completing his conversion, he immigrated once again (to Israel), married and set up his home in the Old City. As if this is not unusual enough, Sadai, also known as Kituku Sadai Mare Pinchas, intends to compete for president of his native country Congo – that is, if elections take place at all there.
Ostensibly named the Democratic Republic of Congo, the country has been ruled for the past 17 years by Joseph Kabila, the DRC's current leader, who took power when his father was assassinated. Kabila is barred by the constitution from seeking reelection but has intentionally delayed elections in the war-torn country for some time.
Sadai has been endeavoring for a number of years to promote his candidacy by gaining international support as well as using Israeli influence which he says could have a powerful effect on his native country, as Israel has the resources to help the poverty-stricken and backward nation. At present Sadai does not dare work in Congo for fear of being thrown into jail like other opposition leaders there. However he still wishes to help his brethren in Congo while maintaining his Jewish identity. Sadai even believes that his Jewishness could help him gain election, as Congolese people view the Jewish nation as blessed by God.
Strange as it may seem, Sadai is not the only Jewish person with aspirations to reach the presidency of Congo. Moise Katumbi, described by The Economist as "probably the second most powerful man in the Democratic Republic of Congo after the president, Joseph Kabila", is the scion of a Greek Sephardic Jew, Nissim Soriano, and a Congolese princess. …
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Ри́хард За́ндерсон (1910—1981) — латвийский и советский актёр, заслуженный артист Латвийской ССР. В 1962—1972 — председатель Гостелерадио Латвийской ССР.

Биография
Родился 15 (28 мая) 1910 года. Окончил Латвийские драматические курсы (педагог Э. Фелдманис). В 1937—1962 гг. — актёр ГАТД Латвийской ССР имени А. Упита. Был секретарем партийной организации театра.

В 1962—1972 гг. — председатель Гостелерадио Латвийской ССР.

Умер 24 февраля 1981 года.

Творчество

Роли в театре
 1937 — «Воители в Хельгеланде» Г. Ибсена — Торольф
 1947 — «Глина и фарфор» А. П. Григулиса; «Кремлёвские куранты» Н. Ф. Погодина — В. И. Ленин

Фильмография
1939 — Сын рыбака — Эдгарс
1947 — Возвращение с победой — Лазда

Награды и премии
 Два ордена Трудового Красного Знамени (1950; 03.01.1956)
 Заслуженный артист Латвийской ССР
 Сталинская премия второй степени (1948) — за исполнение роли в спектакле «Глина и фарфор» А. П. Григулиса, поставленный на сцене Театра драмы Латвийской ССР.
 Государственная премия Латвийской ССР

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Заслуженные артисты Латвийской ССР
Персоналии:Латвийский Национальный театр
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YouTube Must Censor 'Misleading' Election Videos, Senate Democrats Say
"These videos seek to undermine our democracy and cast doubt on the legitimacy of President-elect Biden's incoming administration," says open letter to YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki
Sean Burch | November 24, 2020 @ 10:19 AM
Four Senate Democrats are calling on YouTube to censor "false or misleading" videos related to the 2020 U.S. election. The lawmakers, in an open letter to YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki on Monday night, said the video giant needs to "immediately stop the spread of misinformation" before the Georgia Senate runoff elections in January, which will determine whether the U.S. Senate leans red or blue.
"We urge you to immediately remove all election outcome misinformation and take aggressive steps to implement prohibitions, as other social media companies have done, regarding outcomes in future elections," the letter said.
A YouTube rep, when reached for comment, said the site's rules allow users to share their opinions on the election outcome and how votes have been counted.
"Our teams are working around the clock to quickly remove content that violates our policies and ensure that we are connecting people with authoritative information about elections. Our panels linking to Google's election results feature — which we display on our homepage, on videos and in searches — have collectively been shown billions of times," the rep said.
The rep added: "The most popular videos about the election are from authoritative news organizations. On average 88% of the videos in top-10 results in the US come from authoritative sources when people search for election-related content. Like other companies, we allow discussions of this election's results and the process of counting votes, and are continuing to closely monitor new developments."
The letter was signed by Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI), and Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI). In their letter, the senators pointed to one YouTube video claiming voter fraud swung the election in Michigan, "despite any evidence of such fraud," and were concerned it had more than five million views.
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"These videos seek to undermine our democracy and cast doubt on the legitimacy of President-elect Biden's incoming administration," the letter added.
YouTube, the senators said, needs to immediately purge videos with "false" election information, although they did not outline what constitutes "false" information or who should determine it. The senators also asked YouTube to respond to a handful of questions, including:"What steps will YouTube take to ensure that the platform is free from content that suppresses voting, incites violence, or makes false claims concerning the casting of ballots surrounding the January 2021 Georgia run-off elections?"
The push for YouTube to remove more content comes after the Google-owned video site was less of a focus than Facebook and Twitter during the 2020 election cycle. Both Facebook and Twitter implemented several new measures leading up to the election that they claimed would help weed out misinformation, including adding warning labels to posts from President Trump and other politicians that the companies deemed questionable. On Tuesday, The New York Times reported Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a temporary tweak to the platform's algorithm after Election Day, aiming to highlight "authoritative" news outlets like CNN and The NYT over "hyperpartisan" outlets like Breitbart.
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Toddlers can make you doubt your sanity. They really can. How can a crushed cookie be the end of the universe as they know it? Why do they think you can make more cookies appear on demand? And how to explain to this person that thinks you hung the moon that you simply cannot erase crayon marks?
This post is an effort to explain how to successfully negotiate (most of the time) with children 18 months to 5 years old. It is based on The Happiest Toddler on the Block strategies by Dr. Harvey Karp. Once I learned his techniques, I never looked back and became a toddler whisperer. Really. You need to embrace his two most important ideas and then you are ready to hit the negotiating table with your toddler.
Dr. Karp's most basic concept is that you need to understand that the toddler brain isn't capable of much logical thinking due to immaturity. This means that they cannot negotiate well, even when calm. It gets better as they get older, so a 4 year-old will have flashes of rational negotiation, and an 18 month-old may never get it. She can't. Her brain simply doesn't "do" rational well at all until that frontal cortex is mature. The other concept is true for negotiation with anyone, including your partner and your boss. You have to see their side of the story and communicate to them that you are aware of their feelings….whether or not you agree with them!
Agreeing that they get 2 more bedtime stories but not a snack as well, agreeing that they get the giraffe cup but can't spill half of it on the new carpet to make a pattern, agreeing that they can wear pajamas to the park but only with shoes are all successes. Tell them that you understand that wearing Spiderman jammies is indeed cooler with Spiderman sneakers helps them negotiate the deal. Honestly saying that you are too tired to read 6 more books using an exaggerated yawn and a sad look helps. You need to go night-night too. They may be able to see your perspective since they are tired as well (but may never admit it to you).
So here is where your paradigm shift happens. You have to be OK with deals that seem unfair to you. Adults want a 50/50 split at the very least. But you aren't negotiating with another adult. Be prepared to leave your ego at the door. If you are the kind of person that needs to be right, you are going to fail at toddler negotiation. Toddlers negotiate from the heart and with heart. A mature sense of fairness isn't going to be helpful with an irrational mind. Hint: if you have ever had a totally irrational boss that you actually liked when things weren't exploding all over the office, you will have had some experience with the toddler mind.
Successful initial negotiations with a toddler often yield a 90/10 split. 90% for them, and 10% for you. If they walk away happy, you should too. This is why this is not only a good deal for you, it is the only way to teach fairness in negotiation: toddlers start out expecting 100%. A 90% deal is, in their mind, having given in big-time. But if they feel OK about it and life goes on, you won. If you can manage that, the next negotiation could be 80/20.
Many toddlers cannot manage this when tired, overwhelmed, hungry, etc. So negotiations can start over something simple, something that doesn't matter very much to either party, and when things are calm. You are teaching a skill, not making a business deal. But the results could make everyone's life a lot calmer in the end!
This entry was posted in behavior issues, parenting, preschoolers, toddler sleep strategies, toddlers, Uncategorized and tagged behavior, defiance, discipline, happiest toddler on the block, negotiating with children, parenting, whining on August 13, 2017 by Tranquil Babies.


A verb is a word or group of words that describes an action, experience, or state, such as 'come', 'see', 'jump' and 'put on'. There are estimated to be more than 20,000 verbs in the English language. Here is a list of the top 25 verbs from the Oxford English Dictionary.
1 Be [past tense: was, were, past participle: been, present participle: being, first person singular: am, second person singular and plural: are. third person singular: is.]Used with a present participle to form the continuous tenses of verbs. We will be starting in one hour. Gemma was reading. That man is always causing trouble.
2 Have Used to say what someone or something looks like, what qualities or features they possess. He didn't have any manners.
The food does not have any flavour.
3 Do To perform an action or activity. You need to do more exercise.
4 Say To express an idea, feeling, thought etc. using words. Did she say what happened at the meeting?
5 Get To receive something that someone gives you or sends you or to obtain something by finding it, asking for it, or paying for it. What did you get for Christmas? We need to go and get help.
6 Make To produce or create something. I am going to show you how to make a box for your tools.
7 Go To travel or move to a place that is away from where you are. I want to go to the shops.
8 Know To have information about something. Do you know what time it is? I don't know where to go.
9 Take To remove something from a place. Take your feet off the seat. Did you take my pen?
10 See To notice or examine someone or something, using your eyes. Can you see the aeroplane in the sky?
11 Come To move towards you or arrive at the place where you are. Can you come here for a minute?
12 Think To have a particular opinion or to believe that something is true. I think I left my keys at John's house.
13 Look To turn your eyes towards something, so that you can see it. If you look careful you can see a rabbit in the hole.
14 Want To have a desire for something. I want a piece of cake.
15 Give To let someone have something, or to provide something for someone. What did Bob give you for your birthday?
16 Use If you use a particular tool, method, service or ability, you do something with it for a particular purpose. Can I use your phone? I always use the same shampoo.
17 Find To discover, see, or get something that you have been searching for. Did you find your keys?
18 Tell If someone tells you something, they communicate information, a story, their feelings etc to you. I'll tell you all about the accident when I get back.
19 Ask To speak or write to someone in order to get an answer, information, or a solution. I will have to ask someone how to get to the station.
20 Work To do a job, activity or duty. I have a lot of work to do in the garden. I work at the University.
21 Seem To appear to exist or be true, or to have a particular quality. Anne didn't seem to know the answer. Doesn't that seem strange to you?
22 Feel To experience a particular physical feeling or emotion. I feel a bit better today. Do you still feel hungry?
23 Try To attempt to do or get something. I am going to try to reach that box on top of the cupboard.
24 Leave To go away from a place or a person. My baby gets upset when I leave the room.
25 Call To telephone someone. I will call him tomorrow; To use a word to describe someone or something in a particular way. Are you calling me a liar?
This entry was posted on Monday, January 17th, 2011 at 11:34 am and is filed under Useful Vocabulary. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.


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Students from 26 countries advised to travel to Korea after 70% first-dose vaccination rate
In preparation for an influx of students coming for the fall semester, the Education Ministry has come up with a separate set of guidelines for students from 26 countries where there has been a higher risk of the spread of virus variants, including the highly contagious delta variant. The government has designated 26 countries where COVID-19 variants are spreading fast. The countries are South Africa, Malawi, Botswa...
Incoming foreign students required to take 3 PCR tests
By Kan Hyeong-woo
Foreigners in protective gear walk by an arrival dashboard at Incheon Airport on July 19. (Yonhap)
In preparation for an influx of students coming for the fall semester, the Education Ministry has come up with a separate set of guidelines for students from 26 countries where there has been a higher risk of the spread of virus variants, including the highly contagious delta variant.
The government has designated 26 countries where COVID-19 variants are spreading fast. The countries are South Africa, Malawi, Botswana, Mozambique, Eswatini, Zimbabwe, Bangladesh, Brazil, Suriname, Paraguay, Chile, Uruguay, the Philippines, India, Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Nepal, Russia, Lebanon, Malaysia, Haiti, Angola, Kuwait and Trinidad and Tobago.
The Education Ministry advises foreign students from the 26 nations to enter Korea after the first-dose vaccination rate here reaches 70 percent.
The government plans to achieve the 70 percent first-round vaccination rate by the end of September. Approximately 35.8 percent of the country's population have received their first dose as of Wednesday, according to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency.
If foreign students from the 26 countries choose to come to Korea before that milestone is achieved, the ministry recommends they stay at designated self-quarantine facilities where medical staff are always on duty or at university dormitories for their 14-day self-isolation. They can also self-isolate at accommodations of their choice.
In addition, there will be at least two health monitoring sessions per day for the students. When going to a health center, they will have to take separate routes from other foreign students.
Foreign students entering South Korea for university in September must also undergo three coronavirus tests, according to the Education Ministry. The country previously implemented the antivirus measure in January ahead of the first semester.
As part of the country's COVID-19 prevention measures, foreign students are required to submit negative results from polymerase chain reaction tests taken before departure in their home country upon arrival at the airport in Korea. Negative results from self-test kits will not be accepted.
The students will then have to install a self-quarantine application on their smartphones and start their 14-day mandatory self-isolation.
They have to be tested for the coronavirus again within the next day of their arrival. They can get tested at the public health center nearest to where they are self-isolating.
At the end of their two-week quarantine, they must take another PCR test and receive a negative result before they are free to leave.
The Education Ministry also looks to stagger the arrivals of foreign students with support measures to promote remote learning.
Even if international students decide to take online classes from their home country after getting a student visa to Korea, the government will not revoke their visa so they will still be able to come to Korea in the middle of the semester.
In order to prevent a shortage of medical personnel or test kits, the ministry will map out individual plans with each university and share the information and timeline of incoming foreign students with their respective local governments.
Furthermore, the Education Ministry intends to include each university's efforts to protect and manage foreign students in evaluating the government certification of the International Education Quality Assurance System.
According to the ministry, there were about 34,000 foreign students who came to Korea in the first half of this year, down 82 percent from 185,000 in the first half of 2019, before the coronavirus pandemic.
Of the 34,000 foreign students, there were 255 confirmed cases, including 33 found at the airport where they tested positive for COVID-19 and 222 who tested positive during their self-isolation period.
Antivirus measures targeted at foreign student arrivals during previous semesters, such as providing separate transportation and conducting more tests, had helped prevent the spread of the virus in the local community, the ministry said.
"We are deeply grateful to universities and local governments for their efforts to protect and manage foreign students for a year and a half, starting with Chinese students in February last year," Education Minister Yoo Eun-hae said.
"Even though the COVID-19 situation is serious due to variants of the virus, we ask universities and local governments to work together to ensure schools' stable management of academics in the second semester."
By Kan Hyeong-woo (hwkan@heraldcorp.com)
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Design thinking has already been seen as a competitive advantage for individuals who want to excel in their career or business. Many schools, such as the Rotman School of Design and Stanford University's d.school, have offered exclusive courses on Design Thinking to executives and professionals. They aim to give students with design backgrounds a stronger business advantage, while offering business-minded people a more creative edge.
According to the Wall Street Journal, prospects are willing to pay up to $40,000 per year for a Design Thinking MBA, while a Stanford's three-day Design Thinking bootcamp costs $9,500! There are many individuals willing to fork out huge money to gain valuable design thinking tools and knowledge – all in order to compete, and be more effective.


Babar is an elephant who has a wonderful adventure. After his mother died tragically from a hunter, Babar goes into the city, where he lives with a little old lady. Upon returning to the forest, Babar is elected king and is married to Celeste, another young elephant. The two set off for their honeymoon.
Brunhoff, Jean de, "The story of babar the little elephant," Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University, accessed April 21, 2019, https://dlp.lib.miamioh.edu/picturebook/items/show/6235.


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The Best Books, Websites, and Support Groups for People With Eczema
Get the support you need with these helpful resources for people with eczema.
By Jessica Migala
Each product we feature has been independently selected and reviewed by our editorial team. If you make a purchase using the links included, we may earn commission.
Over 30 million Americans have some type of eczema, a skin condition that's characterized by patches of dry, itchy, rashy skin. There's no cure for eczema, although treatments and lifestyle strategies can help ease symptoms and reduce flares. And because it can be challenging to cope with this condition, especially if those around you aren't familiar with it, many people with eczema also find it helpful to connect with others who have the condition, too. Here, six helpful resources that are dedicated to making your—or your child's—life with eczema a little easier. From books to blogs to online communities, these resources provide much-needed information and support.
National Eczema Association
Looking for basic information about eczema? This should be one of the first places you turn. The National Eczema Association's website has lots of helpful info about everything from the different types of eczema to their recommended products for easily-irritated skin. The organization hosts a variety of events, such as one-day forums for people to learn more about managing their eczema; there are two such forums scheduled for 2017, one in Denver and another in New York City. Another great resource is the NEA Support Network, a community that connects people with eczema around the country. You can also reach out to the NEA directly anytime you have questions or concerns about your condition. They are available by phone (800-818-7546) on weekdays, or you can email them anytime.
International Eczema Council
The International Eczema Council (IEC) is another great resource for collecting general information about the skin condition, including symptoms to look out for, possible triggers, and resource
I Have Eczema by Jen Greatsinger
If you have a child who's suffering from eczema, it can be tough to help them understand what's going on with their skin. This beautifully-illustrated book ($13; amazon.com) features a character named Emma who learns what's causing her itch, dealing with the frustration from the need to scratch, and what it means to see a dermatologist.
American Academy of Dermatology Eczema Resource Center
The American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) has an impressive online resource center that's geared towards parents who have children with eczema. You'll find helpful tips for reducing eczema triggers, signs to watch out for that your child has eczema (and how to distinguish it from other skin conditions), as well as general skincare tips (think: the best moisturizers, home remedies, and how to get through bath time).
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There are countless private Facebook groups out there, but two that may be particularly interesting for people with eczema are the Eczema Support Group (over 8,200 members) and Eczema Parents (over 9,700 members). Both groups are private, but you can join the discussions by clicking the green "Join Group" button.
ItchyLittleWorld.com
This blog (itchylittleworld.com) was created by a mom of two named Jennifer after both her children were diagnosed with eczema—her son's case has been particularly challenging, and at different points in time the rash has covered 90% of his body. Jennifer focuses on the natural remedies that have helped her family, tips on coping with the emotional impact of eczema, her favorite products, and more. While many of the posts focus on her family's personal experiences (meaning they may not be right for everyone), this is a great place to read about their journey and find out what has and has not worked for Jennifer's children.
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