This pamphlet is designed to help people with age-related macular degeneration and their families better understand the disease. It describes the causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of age-related macular degeneration.
How does Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) damage vision?
What are the types of Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD)?
There are two types of Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) – the dry (atrophic) form and the wet (exudative or neovascular) form.
The dry form of AMD affects about 85-90 percent of AMD patients and usually begins when tiny yellow deposits called drusen appear in the macula. Drusen usually do not cause serious loss of vision, but can distort vision. However, for reasons that are not yet understood, sometimes drusen are associated with macular atrophy (thinning) and tissue breakdown, slowly leading to vision loss. Patients may have blind spots in their vision; in the advanced stages, patients may even lose central vision.
The wet form of AMD occurs in about 10-15 percent of AMD patients. It is caused by the growth of abnormal blood vessels beneath the macula that can leak fluid and blood into the eye. The wet form of AMD usually causes major vision problems, such as blind spots and loss of central vision, in the affected eye, and can advance rapidly. These abnormal blood vessels eventually scar, leading to permanent retinal damage and loss of central vision.
Most patients with AMD have the dry form of the disease and will not lose central vision. However, the dry form of AMD can lead to the wet form. People who have the wet form of AMD are much more likely to have serious vision loss. For these patients, early diagnosis and treatment are important to save as much vision as possible.
Age-related Macular Degeneration may be hereditary, meaning it can be passed on from parents to children. If someone in your family has or had the condition, you may be at higher risk for developing the disease. Talk to your eye doctor about your individual risk.
Who is at risk for Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD)?
Smoking: Smoking may increase the risk of AMD.
Cholesterol: People with elevated levels of blood cholesterol may be at higher risk for wet AMD.
How is Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) detected?
How is Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) treated?
Dry AMD currently cannot be treated. But this does not mean that you will lose your sight. Fortunately, dry AMD develops very slowly. You may lose some of your central vision over the years. However, most people are able to lead normal, active lives--especially if AMD affects only one eye.
Laser surgery is performed in your eye care professional's office or eye clinic. Before the surgery, he or she will: (1) dilate your pupil and (2) apply drops to numb the eye. In some cases, he or she also may numb the area behind the eye to prevent any discomfort.
If you have dry AMD, you should have your eyes examined through dilated pupils at least once a year. This will allow your eye care professional to monitor your condition and check for other eye diseases as well.
You should also obtain an Amsler grid from an eye care professional to use at home. This will provide you with a quick and inexpensive test to evaluate your vision each day for signs of wet AMD. It works best for people who still have good central vision. You should check each eye separately--cover one eye and look at the grid, then cover your other eye and look at the grid. You also may want to check your vision by reading the newspaper, watching television, and just looking at people's faces. If you detect any changes, you should have an eye exam.
If you have wet AMD, it is important not to delay laser surgery if your eye care professional advises you to have it. After surgery, you will need to have frequent eye examinations to detect any recurrence of leaking blood vessels. Studies show that people who smoke have a greater risk of recurrence than those who don't.
What can I expect after drug injection treatment?
After treatment, your physician may order another OCT picture, or sometimes an angiogram, to make sure there are no other areas of blood leakage. If the OCT shows that there is still leakage, more treatment is usually recommended.
Are there any side effects of the anti-angiogenesis eye injections?
in very rare instances, retinal detachment or severe loss of vision may occur. In studies, 1 to 2% of patients receiving the drugs had a heart attack or stroke over the next year, which appears to be a similar rate to that seen in the control group of patients.
Can treatment help if I am legally blind?
Depending upon the cause of legal blindness, it is possible that treatment may help. If recent bleeding or leakage under the retina has resulted in legal blindness, surgery is a possibility. Retinal cell transplants and stem cell therapy are under study; a new implanted electronic retinal "chip" was recently approved for human use and may be an option in highly selected cases.
Can I have treatment if lasers were used as an earlier treatment?
Because bleeding or leakage may occur beneath the retina even after the laser treatment, it is possible that treatment with injected drugs can help.
I have other medical conditions. Can I still have treatment?
Other medical conditions or age should not be a factor if you are considered an appropriate candidate for treatment, although sometimes anti-VEGF injections may be delayed after a recent heart attack or stroke.
What is the outlook for people with Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD)?
Unfortunately, AMD can return even after successful treatment. The various treatments can slow the rate of vision loss and hopefully preserve some sight.


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Pablo S. Torre (born September 27, 1985) is a Filipino-American sportswriter and the host of ESPN Daily. Torre hosted (with Bomani Jones) High Noon, a daily show from the new ESPN studios in New York City's South Street Seaport. He is a regular guest on various ESPN shows such as Around the Horn and The Sports Reporters. Torre also frequently serves as an alternate host for Pardon the Interruption, Around the Horn, and Highly Questionable. He has also appeared on Outside the Lines, The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz, and TrueHoop. Aside from ESPN-related productions, Torre is also a contributor to National Public Radio.

Education
Torre, whose father Pablo is a urologist and mother a dermatologist, attended Regis High School in New York City. (Torre once humorously referred to his father as "the LeBron James of Filipino urologists.") He graduated from Harvard College magna cum laude with highest honors in sociology in 2007, and was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Society. There, he wrote a 114-page thesis entitled Sympathy for the Devil? Child Homicide, Victim Characteristics, and the Sentencing Preferences of the American Conscience, which won the Albert M. Fulton Prize for best thesis in the field of sociology. He contributed to the college newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, and became an executive editor.

Career
Upon graduating from Harvard, Torre joined Sports Illustrated as a staff writer, where his focuses included sports investigations, boxing, and basketball. His 2009 award-winning article, "How (and Why) Athletes Go Broke", along with two follow-up reports, spurred an investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of the investment firm Triton Financial for defrauding investors in a multimillion-dollar scam. A federal jury would later find Triton's CEO Kurt Barton guilty of criminal charges. Broke, an ESPN 30 for 30 documentary, prominently featured Torre, and was based on his research.

On October 10, 2012, Torre joined ESPN as a senior writer for both its website and magazine.

On March 12, 2014, Torre first filled in as host on TV talk show Around the Horn in the absence of Tony Reali. In August of that year, Torre covered for Reali when he took time off for the birth of his daughter. In 2015, Torre was the first person to report that Tony Wroten had begun using the term "Trust the Process" when talking to the Philadelphia 76ers during their rebuilding phase.

In 2016, Torre produced his first 30 for 30 entitled Friedman's Shoes, which was directed by Danny Lee.

In 2018, Torre and Bomani Jones debuted High Noon, a daily show from the new ESPN Studios in New York City's South Street Seaport. The show was cancelled in March 2020.

In 2020, Torre began hosting the ESPN Daily podcast.

Personal life
Torre is of Filipino descent. Torre is married to Elizabeth Doherty since 2016. They have a daughter.

Filmography

References

External links
Official blog

1985 births
Living people
American writers of Filipino descent
The Harvard Crimson people
Sportswriters from New York (state)
Regis High School (New York City) alumni
ESPN people
NPR personalities
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1st Cy Young poll has some surprises at top
By Richard Justice @RichardJustice
Justin Verlander is at the top of the heap in the American League in MLB.com's first Cy Young Award poll of 2019, and that's probably the least surprising thing you'll read. Verlander received a whopping 32 of 46 first-place votes. Meanwhile, Reds ace Luis Castillo leads a much closer National
Justin Verlander is at the top of the heap in the American League in MLB.com's first Cy Young Award poll of 2019, and that's probably the least surprising thing you'll read. Verlander received a whopping 32 of 46 first-place votes.
Meanwhile, Reds ace Luis Castillo leads a much closer National League poll, with 57.3 percent of possible points, followed closely by Padres rookie Chris Paddack (56.1 percent) and Dodgers veteran Hyun-Jin Ryu (45.6 percent). (Note: These are percentages of the highest possible point totals -- also known as their awards "share" -- so they don't add up to 100. More on that below.)
Interestingly, Paddack (15) and Ryu (14) received more first-place votes than Castillo (13), but Castillo had enough total support up and down the ballot to finish in first place.
As for Verlander, he's the very definition of a future Hall of Famer. In the 12 seasons before this one, he was a top-five finisher in AL Cy Young Award voting seven times. That Verlander won the award just once -- in 2011, when he was also the AL Most Valuable Player Award winner -- takes nothing away from the fact that for more than a decade, he consistently has been in the best-in-the-game conversation.
The righty has been as good as ever in his 15th Major League season, with a fastball that still touches 98 mph and a smothering 0.820 WHIP and 10.7 strikeouts per nine innings. Since he joined the Astros on Aug. 31, 2017, he leads the Majors in wins and is second in innings, strikeouts and earned run average.
Verlander received 32 of 46 first-place votes, but the rest were spread among four pitchers: Matthew Boyd (seven), Gerrit Cole (three), Jake Odorizzi and Jose Berrios (two apiece).
Tyler Glasnow of the Rays was in close contention before being sidelined for several weeks with a right forearm strain. Glasnow leads the AL with a 1.86 ERA, but since this poll is about predicting a winner, he appears to be a longshot unless he makes a fast recovery.
Here's a breakdown of the top three vote getters in each league, with their "share" listed in parentheses. A share is their vote points divided by the highest possible number of points, which in this case is 230 (46 total votes, with 5 points for each first-place vote, 3 for second, 1 for third):
1. Justin Verlander (79.6 percent) -- Milestones come routinely these days for Verlander. Most recently, he reached 22nd place on the all-time strikeout list with 2,774. He's 29 behind Cy Young, who is No. 21. This season, Verlander has pitched at least six innings in eight of his nine starts, and finished at least seven innings four times. His name is all over the AL leaderboard. Heading into Monday, he was first in batting average against (.163) and WHIP (0.82), second in innings pitched (57 1/3), third in strikeouts (68) and fourth in ERA (2.51).
2. Jose Berrios (28.3 percent) -- The right-hander entered Monday's start with a personal five-game winning streak, and the Twins were 7-1 in his eight starts before the Angels knocked him around for five runs on 12 hits and three walks over 5 2/3 innings in a 5-4 loss. The 24-year-old had previously allowed more than two earned runs just twice in 2019. Berrios has tweaked his approach slightly, throwing fewer fastballs and more curves and changeups this season.
3. Matthew Boyd (26.5 percent) -- The lefty is building on a breakout second half in 2018 in which he had a 1.08 WHIP and a .230 opponents' batting average. Before allowing three runs on five hits and two walks over four innings vs. the powerful Astros in an 8-1 loss Monday, Boyd ranked fourth in the AL with 65 strikeouts and seventh in WHIP at 0.99.
Others receiving votes: Odorizzi, Cole, Glasnow, Charlie Morton, Domingo German, Mike Minor.
1. Luis Castillo (57.3 percent) -- It's been a breakout season for the 26-year-old right-hander. In nine starts, Castillo has allowed more than two earned runs just once, and was the NL Pitcher of the Month Award winner for March/April with a 1.45 ERA and 50 strikeouts. In 14 starts since Sept. 1, he has been close to untouchable: 1.51 ERA, .168 batting average against and 104 strikeouts in 89 1/3 innings.
2. Chris Paddack (56.1 percent) -- The 23-year-old has a chance to join Fernando Valenzuela (1981) as the only rookie to win a Cy Young Award. Paddack will be pitching on seven days of rest Tuesday at Dodger Stadium, as the Padres attempt to manage his workload. Paddack pitched 90 innings of Minor League ball last season in his return from Tommy John surgery on his right elbow, and he hasn't pitched on fewer than five days of rest as he approaches the 50-inning mark this season.
3. Hyun-Jin Ryu (45.6 percent) -- The veteran's great start is one of the best comeback stories in the sport. Ryu made just one start in 2015-16 (left shoulder surgery and elbow soreness), was on the injured list twice in '17 (left hip and foot) and was limited to 15 starts last season (left groin injury). In three starts this month, he has allowed one earned run in 25 innings. Overall, the lefty has three walks and 54 strikeouts in 52 1/3 innings.
Others receiving votes: Max Scherzer, Caleb Smith, Zack Greinke, Zach Davies, Jon Lester.
Richard Justice has been a reporter for MLB.com since 2011. Listen to his podcast and follow him on Twitter at @RichardJustice.


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The Africa Programme carries out research on rising socio-political dynamics and geo-economic transformations unfolding in Sub-Saharan Africa. The aim is to develop awareness of the manifold challenges that Africa faces, but also of its potential. In cooperation with ISPI's Centre for Business Scenarios, the Programme also publishes Africa Watch, a bimonthly newsletter for businesses with an interest in new trade and investment opportunities opening up throughout the continent.


Now that cannabis is legal for recreational use in over half of The United State, it raises the question, "Can people really abuse this plant?" There's no doubt that too much of something good can turnout to be pretty bad.
Many people try to avoid the possibility, that you can become addicted to cannabis. Not sure if it is due to taboo or if people just think cannabis already gets a bad enough wrap as it is. Personally, being a huge cannabis advocate myself, I do believe labeling cannabis as addictive gives it negative connotation. Despite that, I still think being aware of the risks is extremely beneficial.
Theoretically speaking, if you can get addicted to chocolate, you can also get addicted to marijuana. No matter how much people deny, it is still possible to abuse marijuana. Remember, it can be habit forming. A habit in itself is extremely difficult to kick. Depending on how much cannabis you consume, and how often, would certainly effect the likelihood of you developing a habit. An occasional toker will probably never see their self craving another bong rip or hit from the doobie, but a very active, 18 blunts a day smoker might never see himself stopping.
The symptoms of addiction are as followed: irritability, unstable mood change, hard time sleeping, and sometimes maybe a huge overcast of gloom on everyday tasks. If you expereince any of these symptoms while you are on a tolerance break, there is a high possibility that you allowed yourself to make cannabis a habit in your everyday life.
At the end of the day, it is definitely possible to become addicted to using cannabis. It is very important to exercise responsible use so that it does not happen to you.


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Creative Director at her own studio Kitfox Games & Co-Director of Pixelles
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Current position: Creative Director at her own studio Kitfox Games & Co-Director of Pixelles
Games shipped: Moon Hunters, Shattered Planet, Age of Conan, Fashion Week Live, The Secret World
Q&A with Tanya
How did you first become interested in a career in gaming?
I've always loved games! I was particularly addicted to text-based online games (called MUDs) as a teenager, probably because I was a girl out in the middle of nowhere, literally living off of two dirt roads in the desert, and needed a social life of some kind! After playing these games addictively for years, I started volunteering to make rooms, monsters, and items – essentially being a content designer, though I didn't know it at the time.
Why did you choose to get your education from the Guildhall?
Its hiring-focused curriculum, based on portfolio-building and veteran developer faculty. I didn't have any interest in discussing the theories of games. I wanted to learn how to make levels and games so I could get a job at the best possible company.
How did the Guildhall prepare you for your career in gaming?
It set my expectations for the industry, both in terms of what a designer does on a large team and what the overall production cycle of a game looks and feels like. Although I was hired as a junior, I felt confident in stepping into my designer role knowing everything I needed. I was told my ability to work independently was unmatched and was promoted to senior designer after only three years. I attribute my initial successes entirely to the Guildhall's preparation. Also, the master's degree helps with getting work visas to work in foreign countries, so it also helped me to live as a designer in Norway and travel Europe.
What impact has the Guildhall had on your life?
It was the only reason I could get that first job at Funcom as a designer, as well as two other offers I declined from top-tier companies. Success at Funcom gave me the confidence to start Kitfox Games, and my level design from the Guildhall is still up on my personal website, five years later. The Guildhall also gave me excellent connections in my network.
What is the greatest piece of advice you've ever been given?
There are two ways to screw up a career: 1) stop trying to improve because you think you're too good to learn from anyone, 2) stop trying to improve because you think you're not good enough. Most of us fall into the second category, but identify which one you're most likely to do, and be on guard at all times. Look up "imposter syndrome."
What advice would you offer for current Guildhall students?
Get as much out of this experience as you can. You can and will learn tons once you're in the industry, but this, right now, is your best opportunity to glean as much as you can, where your inexperience and ignorance doesn't count against you for a raise or a promotion. Ask every question. Put your heart and soul into every assignment, because you never know when you'll end up with a portfolio piece.


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/C O R R E C T I O N -- YachtWorld.com/
By Anna Ohlden | July 24th 2009 12:17 PM | Print | E-mail
SEATTLE, July 24 -- In the news release, Yachtworld Launches Global Charter
Portal issued on 22 Jul 2009 14:03 GMT, by YachtWorld.com over PR Newswire, we
are advised by a representative of the company that the contacts details in the
release were incorrectly transmitted by PR Newswire. Complete, corrected release
- http://www.yachtworldcharters.com, a Single, Global Marketplace for Yacht
YachtWorld.com, the world's leading Internet yacht brokerage portal and a
division of Dominion Enterprises, today announced the launch of
http://www.yachtworldcharters.com, a single, global marketplace for both the
yacht charter industry and individual yacht charterer alike.
Benefits for the charterer include a choice of nearly 5,000 vessels in more
than 300 destinations worldwide, together with stories and reviews on both boats
and destinations. The new site also offers online pricing, availability and
reservations together with the ability to receive special offers the moment they
become available.
The sheer choice of boats and destinations, on a global basis, are what sets
YachtWorld Charters apart, said Ian Atkins, VP and general manager of
YachtWorld.com and Boats.com, when making the announcement. No one else comes
close. Add to this the 2.5 million global visits by boating enthusiasts to
YachtWorld each month interested in chartering or buying a boat and you can see
why http://www.yachtworldcharters.com is so compelling for both charterers and
charter operators.
Benefits for the charter industry include visitor traffic, the ability to
manage their inventory on a day to day basis, to display detailed descriptions
of each vessel with multiple photographs, provide real-time availability and
information about special offers, late availability and cruising areas.
The Internet is a necessary and powerful route to market for charter providers
and http://www.yachtworldcharters.com will deliver not only a global audience
but also essential functionality to allow them to manage their businesses more
effectively day to day. This includes the option to receive charter enquiries
directly or have YachtWorld manage the whole booking process for them, said
Robert Corden, commercial director, YachtWorld.com and Boats.com International.
About YachtWorld - YachtWorld.com is the single most powerful and effective
global marketing solution for the boating industry. With over 125,000 brokerage
boats worldwide offered by over 2,500 yacht brokerage houses and 10,000
individual yacht brokers in 100 countries, YachtWorld.com receives nearly 2.5
million global visits by boating enthusiasts each month. YachtWorld.com provides
a complete suite of online marketing services for its yacht broker members
through BoatWizard and SoldBoats, their proprietary back-end tools.
Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, YachtWorld.com has European headquarters
in the United Kingdom, with sales and customer service representation in France,
Germany, Italy, Holland, Turkey and Estonia. YachtWorld.com is a division of
Dominion Enterprises, based in Norfolk, Virginia, USA.
About Dominion Enterprises - Dominion Enterprises is a leading marketing
services company serving the automotive, enthusiast and commercial vehicle, real
estate, apartment rental, and employment industries. The company's
businesses provide a comprehensive suite of technology-based marketing solutions
including Internet advertising, lead generation, CRM, Web site design and
hosting, and data management services. The company has more than 45
market-leading Web sites reaching more than 16.7 million unique visitors, and
more than 450 magazines with a weekly circulation of 4.3 million. Headquartered
in Norfolk, Virginia, the company has 5,400 employees in more than 200 offices
nationwide. For more information, visit http://www.DominionEnterprises.com.
Contacts: James Nolan James Nolan Associates Inc. +1-410-336-2240
jnolan@jamesnolanassociates.com Mike Dickman YachtWorld.com and Boats.com
+1-954-532-0000 mike@dickmanmarketing.com
SOURCE: YachtWorld.com
Contacts: James Nolan, James Nolan Associates Inc., +1-410-336-2240,
jnolan@jamesnolanassociates.com. Mike Dickman, YachtWorld.com and Boats.com,
+1-954-532-0000, mike@dickmanmarketing.com
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It's migration time on the Pacific, Mississippi and Atlantic Americas Flyways - Plovers
It's migration time and northern breeding waders will be moving north, soon, if not already. The northward spring migration is usually a short sharp migration with the urgency heightened by the need to breed. There are three flyways in the Americas; Pacific, Mississippi and Atlantic Americas Flyways.
Adapted from and copyright of EAAFP Secretariat
There are 74 species of wader that occur in the Americas (including the Eskimo Curlew which is in all probability extinct). Of these 44 occur in North America and 60 in South America with 31 of these species travelling between the two.
There are, 6 plovers that occur in both North and South America; 5 of them are migrants that travel between the two continents and they are Grey, American Golden, Semipalmated and Wilson's Plover plus Killdeer. The 6th species, Snowy Plover also occurs in both continents, but the southern population is resident and the northern, although migratory does not reach south America just getting as far as Panama.
Grey (Black-bellied) Plover Pluvialis squatarola; Least concern, global population estimated at 692,000 individuals. Global population trend declining, American population appears stable in study that covered 50% of range.
Adult Grey Plovers move south from the breeding grounds in the Arctic tundra between July and September with the juveniles leaving some 5 or 6 weeks after the adults, migration continues up to about November. The wintering grounds are coastal and range from Canada on both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts to Argentina and Chile respectively. The return movement starts in April and some birds don't leave their wintering grounds in northern South America until as late as June. As they move north across North America they do so along both coasts and up the Mississippi valley.
These birds return in a variety of plumage stages, some almost in full breeding plumage and others, possibly first year non-breeding birds still in their winter garb. Most first year birds do not make it back to the breeding grounds instead only partially migrating along the route or remaining on the wintering grounds for their first summer.
Grey Plover Pluvialis squatarola; Almost in full breeding plumage, the very black appearance would suggest this is a male. Galveston, Texas, USA. April 2013.
Grey Plover Pluvialis squatarola; This bird is in much less advanced moult, again probably a male and also possibly a first breeding year bird when most do not acquire full breeding plumage. This photograph was taken on the same day at the same location as the photograph above. Galveston, Texas, USA. April 2013.
Grey Plover Pluvialis squatarola; non-breeding plumage. Bunche Beach, Florida, USA. December 2012.
American Golden Plover Pluvialis dominica; Least concern, global population estimated at >c200,000 individuals. Global population trend declining, American population trend declining.
American Golden Plovers move south very often over the Atlantic, their migration taking them in a large circuitous loop. Some, apparently mainly juveniles use more westerly routes along the coasts or through the central plains. When they return to the north it is by a much more inland route through South and Central America or across the Gulf of Mexico to Texas. They reach their Canadian breeding grounds in late May leaving again from early August.
American Golden Plover Pluvialis dominica; this was as close as we got to seeing this species in breeding plumage which as you can see is in transitional plumage from non-breeding to breeding. Rice Country, Louisiana, USA. April 2013.
American Golden Plover Pluvialis dominica; non breeding bird with one or two black feathers remaining around the face and underparts. Tavares, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. October 2013.
American Golden Plover Pluvialis dominica; juvenile note the brown barring on the breast and underparts. Parati, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. October 2011.
Semipalmated Plover Charadrius semipalmatus; Least concern, global population estimated at >c150,000 individuals. Global population trend stable, American population trend increasing slightly in study that covered 50% of range.
Semipalmated Plovers are also long distance migrants breeding across northern North America and leaving there from early July heading south mainly along the coasts to the coasts of southern North America and South America as far south as central Chile and southern Argentina. Once again non-breeding birds can be found all year on the wintering grounds as we found in south-east Brazil when we were living there, encountering small numbers in most months of the year.
Semipalmated Plover Charadrius semipalmatus; Adult breeding, Galveston Texas, USA. April 2013.
Semipalmated Plover Charadrius semipalmatus; Non-breediing plumage. Parati, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, February 2012.
Wilson's Plover Charadrius wilsonia; Least concern, global population not available. American population trend decreasing.
Wilson's Plover has a large resident population in Central America the Caribbean and Florida, but those further north in North America are migratory. In the west birds range down as far as Peru outside the breeding season and birds in the east migrate as far as Brazil. In South America there is a resident population in the north and there is also thought to be a resident population in Brazil that may constitute a separate subspecies.
Wilson's Plover Charadrius wilsonia; adult male. Galveston, Texas, USA. April 2013.
Wilson's Plover Charadrius wilsonia; adult female. Galveston, Texas, USA. April 2013.
Wilson's Plover Charadrius wilsonia; first winter bird showing pale juvenile coverts and plain upperparts. Key Biscayne, Florida, USA. November 2013.
Killdeer Charadrius vociferus; Least concern, global population estimated at 1,000,000 individuals. American population trend decreasing.
The Killdeer is another species with both resident and migratory populations. The sedentary populations live in the Greater Antilles and Peru while the migratory population, the nominate race, breeds across central and southern North America and winters down to north-west South America. They move south from August to November with the bulk moving in late September returning as late as March. They are particularly common along the coast on passage but they also migrate across a broad front across the continent.
Killdeer Charadrius vociferus; Adult. Galveston, Texas, USA. April 2013.
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Birdlife International (2014) Species factsheet: Pluvialis squatarola. Downloaded from www.birdlife.org on 07/04/2014.
Birdlife International (2014) Species factsheet: Pluvialis dominica. Downloaded from www.birdlife.org on 07/04/2014.
Birdlife International (2014) Species factsheet: Charadrius semipalmatus. Downloaded from www.birdlife.org on 07/04/2014.
Birdlife International (2014) Species factsheet: Charadrious wilsonia. Downloaded from www.birdlife.org on 07/04/2014.
Birdlife International (2014) Species factsheet: Chardrius vociferus. Downloaded from www.birdlife.org on 07/04/2014.
Gantsau, R. & Lima, P. C. (2008). Uma nova subespécie de Charadrius wilsonia (Aves, Charadriformes) para o Brasil. Atualidades Ornitológicas 142: 4-5


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Mayor of London throws £1.2m at London Games Festival
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The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has announced £1.2 million of government investment for Games London, ahead of the London Games Festival in April - guaranteeing the event will be renewed through to 2021.
A partnership between Film London and Ukie, formerly the Association for UK Interactive Entertainment, Games London launched the London Games Festival in 2016 after the original event of the name was retired in 2013. Designed as a showcase for the UK games industry's cultural and economic impact, the event is backed up by other services including networking events, trade missions, and training and skills initiatives which Games London claims will generate over £35 million for participating businesses and 270 full-time jobs.
All this is supported by cash from the Greater London Authority, but the original £1.2 million grant from 2016 was running out - until the announcement from Mayor of London Sadiq Khan that an additional £1.2 million was being provided to renew the event and supporting services through to 2021.
'The Mayor's continued support for the Games London programme is critical in maintaining and building on our global reputation as the capital for games and interactive entertainment,' claims Dr. Jo Twist, chief executive of Ukie. 'As an important part of the Mayor's Cultural Strategy, the Festival celebrates the significance games play in an inclusive, diverse culture for all, and the investment programme is crucial in driving economic success for our innovative businesses making cutting edge experiences and technologies.'
'London's creative industries are vital to our success as a global city. That's why I am delighted that the Mayor has committed a further £1.2m to Games London,' adds Justine Simons, Deputy Mayor for Culture and Creative Industries. 'This deal will ensure the capital's reputation as an international games centre will continue to grow and will provide a boost to jobs and investment in the city's creative sector.'
London Games Festival 2018 is scheduled for April 5th to April 15th, with more information available on the official website.
UK government announces Cryptoassets Task Force
Aims to harness cryptocurrency benefits.
Government issues IoT security recommendations
Targets 'Secure by Design'.
March 7, 2018 | 11:13
Appeals Court rules against government surveillance law
'Inconsistent with EU law,' ruling states.


Holiday Catalog Sneak Peek! | Robin Armbrecht-Really Robin Stamps!
Before we know it, August will come and go and the fall season will start with a bang! Anticipation of my favorite season always makes me happy, and plans are being made for fall parties and classes using images and papers to celebrate the season so stay tuned! Check out the projects made at my demonstrator gathering last week using Holiday Catalog products! Contact me to get your copy of the new 2017 Holiday Catalog!
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Basketball Jan 20th 2021 - 11pm
Confidence booster: Jimmies knock off No. 11 Tigers
U.S. executes first woman on federal death row in nearly seven decades
Montgomery was convicted in 2007 in Missouri of kidnapping and strangling Bobbie Jo Stinnett, then eight months pregnant. Montgomery cut Stinnett's fetus from the womb.
Written By: Bhargav Acharya and Kanishka Singh / Reuters | Jan 13th 2021 - 7am.
Activists in opposition to the death penalty gather to protest the execution of Lisa Montgomery, who later became the first woman put to death by the federal government in nearly 70 years, at the United States Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, on Jan. 12. REUTERS/Bryan Woolston
Jan. 13 (Reuters) — The U.S. government executed convicted murderer Lisa Montgomery, the only woman on federal death row, on Wednesday, after the Supreme Court cleared the last hurdle by overturning a stay.
Montgomery was the first female prisoner to be executed in by the U.S. government since 1953.
Challenges were fought across multiple federal courts on whether to allow the execution of Montgomery, 52, who was put to death by lethal injection of pentobarbital, a powerful barbiturate in the Justice Department's execution chamber at its prison in Terre Haute, Indiana.
The U.S. Supreme Court, with its conservative majority, cleared the way for her execution after overturning a stay by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Kelley Henry, Montgomery's lawyer, called the execution "vicious, unlawful, and unnecessary exercise of authoritarian power."
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"No one can credibly dispute Mrs. Montgomery's longstanding debilitating mental disease — diagnosed and treated for the first time by the Bureau of Prisons' own doctors," Henry said in a statement.
She was pronounced deceased at 1:31 a.m. EST on Wednesday, the Federal Bureau of Prisons said in a statement.
Montgomery was convicted in 2007 in Missouri of kidnapping and strangling Bobbie Jo Stinnett, then eight months pregnant. Montgomery cut Stinnett's fetus from the womb. The child survived.
Some of Stinnett's relatives traveled to witness Montgomery's execution, the Justice Department said.
As the execution process began, asked by a female executioner if she had any last words, Montgomery responded in a quiet, muffled voice, "No," according to a reporter who served as a media witness.
Federal executions had been on pause for 17 years and only three men had been executed by the federal government since 1963 until the practice resumed last year under President Donald Trump, whose outspoken support for capital punishment long predates his entry into politics.
Convicted murderer Lisa Montgomery pictured at the Federal Medical Center Fort Worth in an undated photograph. Courtesy of Attorneys for Lisa Montgomery/Handout via REUTERS./File Photo/File Photo
Montgomery's lawyers asked for Trump's clemency last week, saying she committed her crime after a childhood in which she was abused and repeatedly raped by her stepfather and his friends, and so should instead face life in prison.
It was one of three executions the U.S. Department of Justice had scheduled for the final full week of Trump's administration. Two other executions scheduled for Thursday and Friday have been delayed, for now at least, by a federal judge in Washington, to allow the condemned murderers to recover from COVID-19.
The American Civil Liberties Union and some liberal lawmakers had previously opposed the government's plans to execute Montgomery, with ACLU saying her life had been "marred by unthinkable trauma that resulted in documented brain damage and mental illness."
Montgomery's execution was the first of 2021 by the federal government and the 11th since last year.
In 2020, the U.S. government executed 10 people and it was for the first time ever that the federal government conducted more executions than all U.S. states combined, according to a database compiled by the Death Penalty Information Center.
(Reporting by Bhargav Acharya and Kanishka Singh in Bengaluru and Jonathan Allen in New York; Editing by Shri Navaratnam, Kenneth Maxwell, Jacqueline Wong and Nick Macfie)
FEDERAL EXECUTION
Nation Jan 20th 2021 - 9pm
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In the fourth century, St. Helena, mother of the Roman Emperor Constantine, went to Jerusalem in search of the holy places of Christ's life. During the excavation, workers found three wooden crosses. Legend has it that the one on which Jesus died was identified when its touch healed a woman.
Instead of emphasis on the religion part, this documentary film aspires to showcase the enthusiastic relationship between artists and their wood work, as well as the meaningfulness of our encounters with wood by capturing the celebration at the Monastery of Vosakos and the interaction with local wood carvers.


Have a look, I finally finished another one of C.S. Lewis' books. It's been a long time since I first picked up the book. Minor distractions in life, such as school, always seem to keep me from what I like to do. Lewis is a great writer. As I was reading his book, I could not fathom how he came up with his lines of reasonings. They just seem to flow. He can take one tiny aspect of something and talk about it so in depth it is dizzying at times (at least for my level of intellect).
I was speaking with a friend recently about how people nowadays don't seem to think on that deep of a level anymore. There is a morning radio show whose hosts talk incessantly about the previous night's T.V. shows or fashion/celebrity news. They know business, for they know their audience and what they like. It seems like people have become more and more shallow. I admit I am generalizing, as I'm sure there are many people out there who still dwell on things abstract and philosophical, such as my friend Dorcas, who is pursuing a master's degree in philosophy. Some people might argue that it is a dead science. But what will happen if we abandon intellectual discourse and the search for truth? C.S. Lewis used to write from a stance opposing Christianity. The more he reasoned, the more he found Christianity to be true. C.S. Lewis searched for the truth and found it.


There was a huge turnout for the August 17, 2013 Continuing Education Courses. These seminars were presented at the beautiful Hilton Hotel in Jackson, Mississippi.
The day started with a brief legislative update from the MS Pawnbrokers Association lobbyist, followed by the first educational course, "Yellow Pages vs. Google AdWords: Where Are Your Customers?" presented by the Mississippi Pawnbrokers Association's marketing consultant.
After a break, Scott Sweeney from Marshall & Sterling presented "Insurance and Security for Your Pawn Shop".
The day ended with a Mississippi State Law Compliance Review, given by the association's president, Kevin McDonald.


The microblogging platform's business has struggled since selling to Yahoo in 2013.
Remember Tumblr? You'd be forgiven for having forgotten. Ever since Yahoo acquired the microblogging platform for $1.1 billion in May 2013, Tumblr has tumbled out of the zeitgeist. Four years after the acquisition, Tumblr remains, though its founder will not.
Tumblr founder and CEO David Karp is leaving the company, and its president and COO, Jeff D'Onofrio, will replace him, a spokesperson for Verizon's Oath, the division that houses Tumblr, confirmed on Monday. The New York Times reporter Mike Isaac reported the news earlier on Monday through Twitter.
"David Karp will depart Oath by the end of the year. David founded Tumblr ten years ago as a space for the world's creators, and we thank him for his commitment and passion driving the growth of the platform to almost 380 million blogs and over 155 billion posts. Going forward, Jeff D'Onofrio, President and COO of Tumblr, will continue to lead the team," the spokesperson said in an emailed statement.
"I beg you to understand that my decision comes after months of reflection on my personal ambitions, and at no cost to my hopefulness for Tumblr's future or the impact I know it can have," Karp wrote in an email to Tumblr's employees, which he published to his personal Tumblr on Monday.
The news of Karp's departure may not be such a surprise. Once a social media success story, Tumblr has been a flop since being acquired by Yahoo. Agency executives have said that Yahoo had mismanaged the acquisition, leading Tumblr to fade from advertisers' radar and fail to generate the revenue that Yahoo had anticipated. In 2014, Yahoo's then-CEO Marissa Mayer said that Tumblr would generate more than $100 million in revenue in 2015. That never happened. Then in 2016, Yahoo wrote down Tumblr's value by $712 million and even subbed in Facebook to help sell ads on Tumblr.
The timing of Karp's departure also may not be such a surprise. When Yahoo acquired his company in 2013, he agreed to a four-year earn-out, over which time Yahoo would release his stock in the portal — whose sale to Verizon closed in June 2017 — as well as $40 million in cash, but he would only receive the full amount if he remained an employee for those four years, according to Yahoo's regulatory filings. Now those four years are up, and Karp is out.


Traffic easing after an earlier police incident on the M25 clockwise at J23 A1(M) South Mimms.
One lane blocked due to a broken down vehicle on the A406 North Circular Park Royal.
One lane closed on the A1 Watford Way (Barnet By-Pass) Hendon due to emergency repairs.
Very slow traffic on the A406 North Circular Road Ealing.


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HC S: [Debate on the Address]
House of Commons Speech
Hansard HC [994/18-28]
Agriculture, Conservatism, Conservative Party (history), Defence (general), Defence (arms control), Economy (general discussions), Education, Employment, Industry, Monetary policy, Privatized & state industries, Environment, Pay, Public spending & borrowing, Trade, European Union (general), European Union Budget, Foreign policy (general discussions), Foreign policy (USA), Labour Party & socialism, Law & order, Northern Ireland, Race, immigration, nationality, Social security & welfare, Terrorism, Transport, Trade unions
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The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)
I am happy to join the Leader of the Opposition in paying tribute to the speeches of my hon. Friends the Members for Wokingham (Mr. van Straubenzee) and Nelson and Colne (Mr. Lee), who moved and seconded the humble Address. My hon. Friend the Member for Wokingham and I were elected to the House on the same day. Since that was 21 years ago, that makes us fellow old Members of the House. My hon. Friend arrived in this place at his second attempt. I arrived at my third.
My researches show that my hon. Friend is the first Church Estates Commissioner to move the humble Address. In that capacity his appearances at Question Time, though infrequent, have become highlights of this Parliament. When my hon. Friend was elected, the usual channels had some difficulty in pronouncing his name. He explained that it rhymed with Mackenzie—and was promptly put on the Scottish Grand Committee. In view of his explanation of the reason why his ancestors came here, that must have been a traumatic experience for him. Nevertheless, he survived.
My hon. Friend mentioned the success of the new town of Bracknell, which has been developed under successive Governments. I appreciate his support for the legislation which is foreshadowed in the Gracious Speech about conserving the countryside for the benefit of us all.
My hon. Friend the Member for Nelson and Colne was elected in May last year. His was the first Conservative gain to be announced. I hope that he achieves his preliminary ambition of achieving 21 years of continuous service in the House. The whole of the Front Bench has a vested interest in seeing that he does. He spoke with real feeling and with deep knowledge about youth unemployment. As chairman of the National Youth Bureau he is well qualified to do so. He referred to that passage in the Gracious Speech which confirms the Government's commitment to an extended programme of employment and training measures for the unemployed, particularly for the young. I shall have something more to say about that later. [column 19]
I was glad that my hon. Friend referred to the success of Coldroll Ltd, the 32-year-old managing director of which said, earlier this month:
"We will emerge from the recession fitter, stronger and healthier."
He went on to say that his firm's results were proving that already.
It is the custom that the Leader of the Opposition has the privilege of being the first to congratulate the mover and seconder of the humble Address. Of course, the right hon. Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Foot) added a somewhat miscellaneous collection of things to that duty. It was difficult to follow him through his grasshopper collection. I shall refer to one or two matters. He referred to the capital reconstruction of steel. The great tragedy was that steel was ever renationalised. Its future would have been very much greater if it had not been.
The right hon. Gentleman referred—or, rather, he did not refer—to restrictive practices in the print industry, a subject about which he knows something. He read references from The Times, scarcely conscious that The Times is under threat because of restrictive practices and that jobs might be lost because people have refused to terminate those practices so that The Times can be profitable.
The right hon. Gentleman also referred to my distinguished predecessor, Mr. Harold Macmillan, and school books. He forgot to say that one of the things that Mr. Harold Macmillan pointed out was that public sector pay was taking so much out of the education service that there was just not enough money left for school equipment and school books and therefore urged that we should spend a good deal less on public sector pay, not that we should spend more overall. That would not be Harold Macmillan. He would not have built up a splendid business unless he had learnt the elementary laws of accountancy.
The right hon. Gentleman seemed to avoid a lot in the Queen's Speech, particularly the parts referring to foreign affairs. He mentioned arms control cursorily and in passing. He did not mention his party's policy on that, and he scarcely referred to Europe. Given his views, that is not surprising. Ever since joining Labour's Front Bench, the right hon. Gentleman has shown the consistency of a chameleon. No one can or should deny his steadfast commitment to the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament—that is, until he became a member of the 1974 Labour Government. That Government rightly retained Britain's independent nuclear deterrent, and the champion of the unilateral disarmers managed to swallow his principles.
No one can or should deny the right hon. Gentleman's antagonism to Britain's membership of the European Community. He was remorseless in his efforts to prevent our joining the Six.[Interruption.] The European Community and this Government's commitment to it are mentioned in the Gracious Speech. The right hon. Gentleman was content to play a prominent role in an Administration who endorsed and continued our membership of the Community. The trouble with the right hon. Gentleman is that he tends to forget not only what he has said but, when it is convenient, what he did in the last Labour Government.
The Gracious Speech makes extensive reference to foreign and defence matters, and I intend to follow that. [column 20]Today in foreign and defence matters Opposition Members are displaying the irresponsibility that always characterises them when they are deprived of the restraint of office. Once again, they are ignoring the facts. They know that our future is inextricably involved with the fate of our neighbours in Europe, with that of our partners in America and with that of our friends elsewhere. They know, but not many will say so. As a result, their attitude on three fundamental issues—on Europe, on defence and on international trade—is negative and profoundly destructive. [Hon. Members: "What about the Queen's Speech?" ] Perhaps right hon. and hon. Members have not read it. It actually refers to Europe, to foreign affairs and international matters.
If we walk out of Europe, our trade, of which more than 40 per cent. is with other members of the Community, will suffer; our economy will be damaged; and our international effectiveness will be diminished. Today our major problems with the Community are on the way to being solved; our trade with the Community is moving into surplus; and the prospective accession of three newly restored democracies—Greece, Spain and Portugal—demonstrates the appeal of the Community for those who wish to remain free.
Mr. Robert Maclennan
(Caithness and Sutherland): Will the Prime Minister accept that her cause in Europe will be greatly strengthened if she ceases to treat it as a partisan matter in this House? Is she further aware that she carries less conviction today, since 38 of her hon. Friends have organised themselves in direct opposition to her, led by the hon. Member for Southend, East (Mr. Taylor), who was formerly a member of her Shadow Cabinet?
I understand that the official policy of Opposition is to withdraw from Europe. Ours is to remain in the Community, and the Gracious Speech refers directly to that. I am speaking to the Gracious Speech. Just when most of our problems are being solved, the Opposition would like to throw everything away.
Let me turn to the next subject to which the right hon. Gentleman scarcely referred. The Opposition are pledged to disarm unilaterally. If we did that, or reneged on our defence commitments, the security of the West as a whole would be undermined. We should be powerless to resist pressure in time of peace and virtually defenceless in time of war.
I come to the third major belief of the Opposition. If we become protectionist, others will retaliate. Our foreign trade—which accounts for a larger proportion of our national product than in the case of any other major industrialised country—will be crippled; the poorer countries with which we trade will be the first to suffer. In all these matters, the policies of the Opposition are deeply hostile to the true interests of the United Kingdom.
There was a time when the right hon. Member for Ebbw Vale expressed in this House the hope that we in Britain would be determined to maintain our influence in Europe. He was right then and he would be right now if he chose to repeat the sentiment. Whether he does or not, we intend to see that our influence is maintained. Since coming into office we have combined a firm commitment to the ideal of the Community with a vigorous determination to defend our national interests. Through tough negotiation, we have achieved a fair deal for Britain on a number of issues—on the budget, on sheepmeat, on conservation of fish stocks.
Mr. Nigel Spearing
(Newham, South): On fish?
We are on our way to achieving more—notably on the common fisheries policy as a whole, the agreement that the right hon. Member for Deptford (Mr. Silkin) was incapable ever of reaching.
Mr. John Silkin
(Deptford): Perhaps the right hon. Lady will be fair enough to recognise that the reason why I was incapable of reaching such an agreement was that I was unwilling to surrender British waters to the EEC.
The reason why the right hon. Gentleman was incapable of reaching an agreement was the right hon. Gentleman.
In the second half of next year we shall hold the presidency of the Community, just when the Community will be deciding how to restructure its budget. We intend to take advantage of the occasion to press for the long-term financing of the Community to be put on a sound and equitable basis.
Let me stress the Government's belief—this will be most important during the coming year—which is shared by the Governments of France and Germany, that the necessary reforms can and will be achieved within the limits imposed by the 1 per cent. ceiling on VAT receipts. The Community's budget, like the budgets of the member States, must be restrained.
The right hon. Gentleman scarcely referred to East-West relations and defence, although they are vital to the future of our people. The security of Europe is indissoluble from that of North America. Governor Reagan has already made it clear that he attaches the highest priority to the maintenance of a confident and powerful alliance. On the Government Benches we welcome that. It creates the right basis for close co-operation and partnership between Europe and America. Proposals from the Labour Party to weaken the alliance—and there are plenty—are irresponsible in the highest degree. Michael FootThe right hon. Gentleman was once an anti-appeaser: I fear that he is now an arch-appeaser.
We, for our part, will maintain Britain's contribution to NATO. Despite the economic difficulties, we shall achieve or come very close to the 3 per cent. target in each of our first two years in office and will continue to increase defence expenditure in the coming years. Let those who say that that is too ambitious look again at the growth in the Warsaw Pact's military expenditure in the last decade and ponder the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
As for nuclear weapons, the Government have made their decisions and will stick to them. Of course, we recognise the dangers of an unrestricted arms race. Of course, we are anxious to reach agreement on arms control measures, to which Michael Footthe right hon. Member for Ebbw Vale referred. But we intend to approach any necessary negotiations as an equal partner and not as a supplicant. The right hon. Gentleman—like all the unilateralists—is deluding himself if he thinks that mere eloquence, earnestness or example will win concessions or respect from the Russians. They will not. Such delusions are dangerous.
Protectionism is another delusion, first because retaliation is a reality, not a vague spectre. Recently we imposed quotas on textile goods from Indonesia worth just £3 million per year. We now find that this has lost us major orders for construction projects and for exports of high [column 22]technology worth well over £100 million. We cannot afford to lose the world markets on which so much trade and so many jobs depend.
Worse still, protectionism would do no more than disguise our problems—and then only briefly. Imports enter this country because industry or the consumer wants to buy them. The advocates of import controls are saying to the purchaser "You cannot have the cheapest, you cannot have the best, you cannot have the most modern—all you can have is what we make here." That is a recipe for discouraging British industry from being competitive, for slowing down change, and for increasing prices. It is also a declaration of total lack of faith in British industry.
Of course, we do not ignore the pursuit by other countries of unfair policies that discriminate against our manufactures or damage our industries. While we shall always seek to resolve such problems first by discussion rather than by retaliation, we shall insist that free trade must be fair trade.
Mr. Jack Straw
(Blackburn): I appreciate the genuine difficulties of retaliation that exist in respect of textile imports. However, is the right hon. Lady willing to ensure that the Government will provide the same level of aid for our textile industry as the Dutch, the Belgian and the French Governments are providing for theirs?
First, some of those decisions are not yet through. Secondly, some of the aid provided is much less than the total already provided to the British textile industry.
The Gracious Speech then moves on from foreign and defence matters to the economy. The right hon. Gentleman has attacked the Government's economic policies in the disingenuous manner that characterised his performance as an economic Minister in the first two years of the previous Labour Government. Surely he is not seriously saying that we should leave the oil in the ground with all the catastrophic consequences for jobs in Scotland. Nor is he seriously saying that Michael Edwardes said that—of course he did not.
The right hon. Gentleman was the architect of the so-called social contract, whereby the trade unions got everything they wanted without delivering anything of lasting benefit in return. He was the advocate of the dangerous myth that we could spend our way to prosperity. Aided and abetted by the right hon. Member for Leeds, East (Mr. Healey), that brought the country to the highest inflation rate in modern times, the imminent threat of national bankruptcy, and finally the IMF. By that time, the right hon. Gentleman was no longer in charge of an economics Department.
If the right hon. Gentleman would look at the facts, he would find that the whole industrial world has moved into recession largely because of last year's doubling of oil prices. For example, 900,000 jobs have been lost in the United States motor industry this year, and industrial output in Germany has fallen by 5 per cent. The whole world has been affected by the world recession. So although our exports have performed better than anyone predicted, our industries—like everybody else's—have inevitably suffered. The right hon. Gentleman would also find that our loss of competitiveness over the past two years has mainly been not because of the exchange rate but because our labour costs have risen nearly twice as fast as [column 23]those of our competitors. People have been taking out more than they have earned, and many thousands have lost their jobs as a result.
Mr. Austin Mitchell
(Grimsby): Will the Prime Minister accept, in all this prating, that this year the pound has risen more than earnings?
With all due respect to the hon. Gentleman, that does not defeat my argument in any way. The main reason why we are having difficulty with exports is the loss of competitiveness because people have failed to match pay and productivity.
The right hon. Member for Ebbw Vale would have us think that the Government could have prevented sterling from appreciating. He knows that North Sea oil is the principal cause of sterling's strength. He ignores the experience of his right hon. Friend Denis Healeythe Member for Leeds, East, who, in November 1977, was forced to abandon the pretence that he could hold out against market forces and hold down sterling. He ignores the fact that while many industries have found the strong pound difficult to cope with, some have benefited from it, and that the country as a whole has benefited from lower prices. He seems to have forgotten that the damage caused by the collapse of the pound under his Government in 1975 and 1976 far outweighed its transitory benefits.
Finally, the right hon. Gentleman seems to have forgotten that this country has been bedevilled for the past 25 years by a rising trend of unemployment—a trend that has been caused by the underlying weakness of our industrial economy and the fact that we have just not been sufficiently competitive. The average level of unemployment was only 300,000 in the first post-war Conservative Government; it was almost 500,000 during the Labour Government of 1964–70, almost 750,000 during the last Conservative Government, and 1.2 million under the last Labour Government. [Interruption.] Of course, Opposition Members do not like that. We started the current recession from the base that they left us of 1.3 million unemployed.
Mr. Michael English
(Nottingham, West): I welcome the Prime Minister's—[Interruption.] The right hon. Lady's supporters must be short of something if they have to cheer me. They should be cheering her. I welcome the right hon. Lady's desire to keep down costs and to protect British industry from imports. Why does she not believe in keeping agriculture competitive? Why does she not believe in keeping British food cheap?
British food is very much cheaper than the remainder of the items in the retail price index. Food has risen far less than the retail price index as a whole. The worst offenders in the retail price index are those Socialist industries, the nationalised industries.
None of us denies that rising unemployment and falling production present a sombre picture. Where we disagree is about the cause and the cure. There are no magic or quick solutions. What this Government can and will do is to create the conditions in which, when the world economy recovers, the seemingly endless cycle of economic decline can be broken. Meanwhile, because we are all deeply concerned about unemployment, especially among young people, the Government will be introducing new [column 24]employment measures. The right hon. Member for Ebbw Vale asked me to say a few words about that. I shall do so, although the details will be given by my right hon. Friend James Priorthe Secretary of State for Employment, who hopes to make a statement tomorrow.
Mr. Alexander W. Lyon
(York) rose——
I am about to announce the measures, and I wish to continue. As a result of the review that I promised in the summer, we have decided to expand the youth opportunities programme next year. We are asking the Manpower Services Commission to aim to provide 440,000 places on the programme next year—180,000 more than for the current year. On the basis of that expansion, we are asking the commission to improve the present undertakings to employ young people. My right hon. Friend James Priorthe Secretary of State for Employment will give further details to the House tomorrow.
To mount that programme, the commission will need the fullest support from employers, unions, voluntary agencies and local authorities. There will also be changes in other special employment measures, which will be covered in my right hon. Friend's statement. In total, the Government have allocated some £570 million to these measures in 1981–82 in place of the previously planned expenditure of just over £320 million.
Mr. Guy Barnett
(Greenwich): That is a U-turn.
I hope that that announcement will be welcomed in all parts of the House. Of course, they are temporary measures to alleviate the present difficult position. They will not solve the long-term problem. Our first task will remain that of bringing down the rate of inflation. We took over when the inflation rate was accelerating. It is now coming down rapidly.
Mr. John Maxton
(Glasgow, Cathcart) rose——
Mr. Speaker
Order. The hon. Gentleman must not remain on his feet.
Mr. Maxton
I am sitting down.
Only because I stood up. Does the Prime Minister intend to give way?
As the hon. Member for Glasgow, Cathcart (Mr. Maxton) is new, I shall give way.
I am grateful to the Prime Minister. She says that the Government are keen to fight inflation. Will she explain why the copy of the Gracious Speech costs 70p this year when it cost 25p last year? That is a threefold increase.
The reasons are public sector pay and restrictive practices in printing.
Our first task remains to bring down the rate of inflation. We took over when inflation was accelerating. The figures show that. It is now coming down rapidly. The latest annual figure of 15.4 per cent. is below what my right hon. and learned Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer forecast at the time of the Budget, and during the past six months retail prices have risen by only 4.3 per cent. Our aim now is to bring down our inflation rate to below that of our competitors. Only then will our industries regain some of the competitiveness they have lost. That is just what we would not get if we were to listen to the call from Opposition Members for reflation. They want still more spending, ever more borrowing and lower interest rates—a sure recipe for higher inflation. [column 25]
If pumping more money into the economy was the answer to our problems, we would have solved them long ago. However, pumping more money into the economy has not solved the problems of the car industry, for example, on which so much else depends. Ten years ago, we built 1.7 million cars and new registrations were only 1 million. Last year, the position was almost exactly reversed. New registrations amounted to 1.7 million and production only 1.1 million. It has not been lack of demand that has caused problems for industry; it has been the failure to build cars that people want and at a price that they are prepared to pay. Lack of demand is not the problem. It is the inability to fill that demand in Britain. Therefore, pumping in extra demand is just not the answer.
We must get both inflation and interest rates down. That is why the Government have been conducting a searching review of public expenditure. I hope that the right hon. Gentleman will be pleased if my right hon. and learned Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer makes a statement on Monday, which I am sure he will seek permission to do. There has been vastly increased spending on public sector pay, we are massively overspending on the nationalised industries and we are spending more on social security.——[Hon. Members: "What about unemployment?" ] I am about to come on to that point. Opposition Members should be patient. Higher spending on social security is the inevitable consequence of the recession. However, the problems of the nationalised industries go much deeper.
Mr. Kevin McNamara
(Kingston upon Hull, Central) rose——
I am sorry, but I must get on. There is a legacy of years of overmanning and inefficiency for which we are all now paying dearly. Indeed, the amount that the taxpayer is now having to find to support these industries is equal to more than three-quarters of our North Sea oil revenues this year, or, alternatively, equal to 4p on the standard rate of income tax. That is why we are determined to open up as much of the nationalised industries as we can to the competition and discipline of the private sector.
We made a good start in the last Session. We are committed to going further, and this Session we shall bring in legislation affecting transport, telecommunications, posts and the British National Oil Corporation. The Transport Bill will enable British railways to introduce private capital into non-railway activities and allow private investment in a reconstituted British Transport Docks Board. The British Telecommunications Bill will create a new corporation to run the existing telecommunications and data processing business of the Post Office. It will provide powers to reduce the postal and telecommunications monopolies—much overdue—and to encourage partnerships with private capital, also overdue. These changes are essential if this country is to take full advantage of the information technology revolution. The petroleum and continental shelf Bill will provide powers to enable the British public to participate in the BNOC through the purchase of equity shares.
The third reason for reviewing spending plans is that the pay bill for the public services has gone up by some 50 per cent. in two years.
The House would be grateful if the Prime Minister could say something in response to my right hon. Friend about the firemen.
I have said a great deal about the firemen at almost every Prime Minister's Question Time, and I expect that there will be a great deal more to be said. The facts have not changed. I intend to make my own speech today, just as the right hon. Gentleman did.
I was in the midst of saying that in the last two years alone, public sector pay has gone up by 50 per cent. in total. We have scrupulously implemented the Clegg comparability commitments, and public servants have at least caught up—many would say more than caught up—with pay in the private sector. But industry has had to pay the price in terms of both higher interest rates, because of higher Government borrowing, and, as a result, lost jobs. That is why we are determined to see much lower public service settlements from now on.
Besides getting inflation down and curbing the public sector, our other major task is to make our market economy work more efficiently.
Mr. Bob Cryer
(Keighley) rose——
I must get on. Years of nationalisation, controls, high personal taxes and entrenched and over-powerful trade unions have left their mark. Enterprise and initiative have been stifled, and we have failed to adapt fast enough to changing technology. Too much protection of yesterday's jobs has been at the expense of tomorrow's. We have already made a start at overcoming these problems. We shall continue to do everything that we can to make our economy more responsive to the opportunities that lie ahead—by reducing controls through tax incentives, by increasing competition and by encouraging the new technology industries.
I have outlined some of our proposals for legislation in the economic sphere. The Gracious Speech also sets out other measures which we shall bring forward. I should like to mention a few of them now and to say a little about them.
Mr. Clinton Davis
(Hackney, Central): The House will be interested to know how the right hon. Lady squares what she has said about public sector pay with the unqualified commitment given by the Home Secretary in 1978, a matter which she has studiously ignored.
Perhaps the hon. Gentleman will read the answers that I have already given again and again on this question. Any further answer that I gave would be the same, and I do not believe that we benefit from repetition.
The right hon. Gentleman referred to the nationality Bill. We promised that we would introduce legislation on nationality to define entitlement to British citizenship and the right of abode in this country. Last July, we published a White Paper containing an outline of the proposed legislation, and we shall introduce a Bill shortly.
My right hon. Friend the Home Secretary will also bring forward a criminal attempts Bill which, among other things, will repeal the "suspected person" offence. We have been concerned that its simple repeal might leave an unacceptably wide gap in the criminal law. The repeal of "sus" will, therefore, form part of a Bill which will reform the law of attempt and ensure that the public is properly protected. [column 27]
In education, we propose to amend the law governing special education in the light of the Warnock report, which I and my hon. Friend William van Straubenzeethe Member for Wokingham set up when we were at the Department of Education and Science. Our proposals will give the parents of handicapped children rights to early consultation about their children's education and will extend the appeals machinery of the Education Act 1980 to include them.
Mr. Jack Ashley
(Stoke-on-Trent): rose——
The Education (Scotland) Bill will make parallel provisions for special education in Scotland. It will also provide for the extension of the rights of parents to choose a school for their children. That is much-wanted and much-needed legislation in Scotland.
Another of the measures that we shall introduce will make employers responsible for sick pay in the early weeks of sickness. The right hon. Gentleman made some comments about that. Our proposals have been substantially amended in the light of comments on the Green Paper "Income During Initial Sickness" . These amendments will concentrate particularly on the problems of small businesses, and my right hon. Friend will be explaining the proposed scheme in detail later in the debate.
The Transport Bill will include measures to tackle two of our most serious and urgent road safety problems—drinking and driving and motor cycle safety.
We had hoped to bring forward legislation on Northern Ireland. For many months the Government have been seeking agreement in the Province to bring forward proposals for a substantial transfer of responsibilities to elected representatives of the people there. That agreement has not been forthcoming. Therefore, we are now considering other ways of making the administration of the Province more responsive to local needs, and my right hon. Friend will report further to the House in due course.
Let me make one point about the hunger strike in the Maze prison. I want this to be utterly clear. There can be no political justification for murder or any other crime. The Government will never concede political status to the hunger strikers, or to any others convicted of criminal offences in the Province.
Mr. McNamara
Finally, I return to the economy, on which all else depends. I shall give way to the hon. Gentleman.
I am grateful to the right hon. Lady for giving way on this point, particularly because of the last issue that she raised. She is obviously right that if a person is properly convicted before a judge, with a jury, and with properly corroborated evidence, that person should not be given any degree of political status—or, indeed, any status—for the infamous crime that he has committed. But in Northern Ireland there is effective bending of the rules of evidence, and those people, whether or not they have committed political crimes, are different. Therefore, will the right hon. Lady say whether she will restore the same degree of trial for all offences in the Six Counties as exists in the rest of the United Kingdom?
Both Labour and Conservative Governments have had to make modifications to the legal systems for the protection of the people of Northern Ireland. I supported the Labour Government when they needed to introduce those modifications and, for the greater part, they have supported us. In the light of that, I wanted to make the position clear. There can be no such thing as political status for people convicted of criminal offences in the Province.
Mr. Merlyn Rees
(Leeds, South): Is the right hon. Lady aware, as the person who ended political status, that her words are right and that they should be heard throughout the world? [Hon. Members: "Hear, hear." ] But shortly after it was ended we looked at the Northern Ireland emergency provisions legislation. Is it not time that we looked at it again and examined some of the points that have been made by my hon. Friend the Member for Kingston upon Hull, Central (Mr. McNamara)? We agree that in no way should there be political status for anyone, but we should at least look at the legislation again.
I understand that that legislation is automatically looked at every six months.
Finally, as I have said, I return to the economy because all else depends on it. The Opposition's prescription for the country's problems is that we should spend more money—money that we do not have. That might relieve unemployment in the short run, but the cost would be another, larger surge in inflation, leading to yet another decade of unemployment.
The British people are fed up with phoney palliatives. They have always known that the Government cannot create wealth and that they can only draw on the wealth created by others. Attitudes are changing. Managers are once more managing; trade unions and their members are acknowledging that pay increases have to be earned. Exports have done well despite the pound's strength. The balance of trade is good. The number of strikes has fallen dramatically. We are the only major industrial nation self-sufficient in energy. Rising revenues from North Sea oil will give us the opportunity to promote real growth in the economy.
We have got inflation right down. [Interruption.] We have got inflation down from its previous heights, and we intend to go on. [Interruption.] In the last six months it has been right down. I agree that on the annual basis it is not yet right down. When we have got inflation, on the annual basis, right down, when we have achieved better productivity, when we have realistic pay settlements, we shall see a real revival in our country's fortunes.
Nations overseas are applauding our new strength and resolve. [Interruption.] They have found again their confidence in Britain. So long as we do not flinch from our responsibilities, neither they nor our people will be disappointed. We shall carry through the task that we have undertaken. There is no other way to success.


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Q: "Access denied" when pushing to remote repository via SSH I am a newbie with Git and seem to have a problem with pushing to a repository over a network.
Here is what I do to recreate the problem:

*

*create a new Git repository on the computer to push to
mkdir ~/git/test.git
cd !$
git --bare init

*On my local computer I then create a new Git repository and add a random file to it:
mkdir test
git init
touch TEST
git add .
git commit -m "initial commit"

*Then add the remote computer via: git remote add origin ssh://user@site.com/~/git/test.git

*Then I try to push the local repository to the remote via: git push origin master
This is what I get when I do that:
fatal: protocol error: bad line length character  <- sometimes not there
Access denied
Access denied
Access denied
Access denied
FATAL ERROR: Server sent disconnect message
type 2 (protocol error):
"Too many authentication failures for user"

I am using cygwin on an XP machine and trying to push to a unix server.
I have also tried it between my two computers I have at home and I have the same problem, both are windows machines by the way.
I have set up passwordless login via SSH and I can ssh no problem via: ssh user@site.com
I've been trying to figure this out for two days now, any help would be appreciated

A: The issue is probably that ~ won't expand correctly when using it in a ssh URI. You would need to specify the absolute path to the git repository on the remote machine in the ssh URI, like this:
ssh://user@site.com/home/user/git/test.git

A: I was having a similar issue, but the solution turned out a little different for my situation.  The error message I was getting was:
$> git push -v unfuddle master
Pushing to git@subdomain.unfuddle.com:subdomain/repo.git
Received disconnect from 174.129.246.239: 2: Too many authentication failures for git
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

I couldn't figure out what the problem was, ssh -vv didn't show anything either.  I already had this text in my ~/.ssh/config
Host subdomain.unfuddle.com
    User git
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/unfuddle-subdomain-key

The issue turned out to be that Unfuddle's SSH server is configured to deny access after a certain number of SSH keys are tried.  Even though I had a specific IdentityFile set my SSH client was, for unknown reasons, trying all of my local SSH keys in sequence until Unfuddle denied access.  The solution was to set the SSH "IdentitiesOnly" config option to "yes" which tell the local SSH client to only send just that one IdentityFile and no others.
# The fixed ~/.ssh/config line
Host subdomain.unfuddle.com
    User git
    IdentitiesOnly yes
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/unfuddle-subdomain-key

Ref: http://railspikes.com/2010/2/1/fixing-the-heroku-too-many-authentication-failures-for-git-problem
Hopefully this helps someone.
James

A: Try to use
ssh://user@site.com:/home/user/git/test.git

A: I'm not sure about your access problems, but the path in
git remote add origin ssh://user@site.com/~/git/test.git

worries me.  What do you get with
git remote add origin ssh://user@site.com/git/test.git

?
Also please show output from git push -v ...

A: In your case the problem is probably the ~ character. Use:
  git remote add origin user@site.com/git/test.git

However, I've also seen this problem (always on Windows client machines) when the username ("user@") part was missing, so anyone else with this problem should check that too.

A: One more key to solve such a problem. In our case the reason was gitolite.conf file with repositiories and permissions. Someone have edited it with Windows Notepad which added BOM header to it. After this repositiory had very weird behavior when some users could but some could not write to it getting access denied messages.

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Toshiyasu Abe, a resident of Vancouver, Washington, has filed a lawsuit against Apple in Oregon district court this week, accusing the company of infringing upon his patent with Key Flicks and 3D Touch on select iPhone and iPad models.
The patent in question is No. 6,520,699, granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office in February 2003.
The '699 patent covers at least a touchscreen device having a plurality of buttons displayed on the screen, each button being associated with a plurality of characters or functions. When a user touches or taps on a button, the device will respond by displaying a plurality of characters or functions associated with that button. The device can also detect an applied force and direction of motion, which enables a user to simply flick or swipe their finger toward the desired character or function to thereby select that character or function.
There are several other embodiments of the invention, including physical thumb control pads on a mobile phone, notebook, or steering wheel in a vehicle, each with a multitude of pressure-sensitive, geometrically-shaped keys.
The touchscreen embodiment does sound similar to how accented characters are managed on the iPhone keyboard. When a user taps on the E key, for example, a menu appears with diacritics such as È, É, Ê, and Ë. The user then slides their finger over the desired character and releases to input it in a text field.
Abe believes Apple's infringement extends to the Flick Keyboard, introduced in iOS 11 for select iPad models. When enabled, the feature allows an iPad user to simply tap and swipe down on a key to input a number or symbol. If a user taps and swipes down on the D key, for example, a $ symbol is inputted.
The complaint alleges that 3D Touch also infringes upon his patent, given its pressure-sensitive, multifunction attributes.
Apple is also said to be further inducing infringement by aiding and abetting the development of third-party iPhone keyboards and apps that implement flick-style keys and 3D Touch, available through the App Store. Abe, who is Japanese, said flick input has particularly gained popularity in Japan.
The accused products include at least the following iPad and iPhone models sold in the United States: iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone X, iPad Air, iPad Air 2, iPad mini 2, iPad mini 3, iPad mini 4, 9.7-inch iPad, 9.7-inch iPad Pro, and the 10.5-inch iPad Pro.
The complaint alleges that Apple has known of Abe's patent since at least as early as 2009, when he first gave written notice of its infringement. The plaintiff allegedly exchanged a number of emails with Apple, and engaged in at least one phone call with the company's in-house counsel, but no agreement was reached.
Then, in 2017, the complaint alleges that Abe discovered an increase in Apple's infringing activities relating to the release of iOS 11, prompting him to send Apple another patent infringement notification letter last December. Apple and Abe communicated again, through counsel, but nothing transpired from the talks.
Abe is seeking damages adequate to compensate him for Apple's alleged infringement of his patent, in an amount to be proven at trial, but no less than a reasonable royalty. The court still has to agree to hear the case.