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Message from Mr Jackson – 8th July

We have had a very positive end to the year with an increasing number of key worker children attending school, and a significant proportion of students in Year 10 and Year 12 able to return to school, albeit on a limited basis. It has been great to see students smiling and happy to be in school, and keen to continue their learning with face to face contact with their teachers.
You may be aware the government guidance on schools opening in September was released on Thursday and this provided the clear message that all students will be back in school full time in September; what was less clear was how schools could translate that instruction into reality. The guidance itself can be found here.
Whilst we are all really looking forward to seeing our students return in September, there is a considerable challenge in keeping any risk to an absolute minimum, and this has been the key factor in our plans. The guidance is clear that the DfE expects schools to reopen to all students at the start of term, with full-time provision for all, and for students to be accessing the full curriculum (with only slight modifications, where needed). The following factors were uppermost in our minds when planning for September:
ensuring procedures are in place which minimise the risk of contracting the virus for all members of our community;
re-establishing relationships, routines and positive attitudes;
ensuring there are effective procedures for dealing with anyone who is symptomatic or where there are confirmed cases;
effective hand-washing facilities/routines and good respiratory conditions;
enhanced cleaning of surfaces;
maintaining year group bubbles;
minimising student movement where possible.
The senior leadership team have already spent a significant amount of time planning for September and our plans are currently embryonic in many ways, but I wanted to share our current thinking to provide you with the reassurance that we are doing all that we can to ensure school opens safely in September and that it supports both our students' learning and well being.
The guidance is clear that students are to remain in their year group 'bubble' throughout the day and we need to make sure that students in each year are kept apart from those in other year groups whilst they are in school (Year 12 and 13 are considered as one 'bubble' as the combined number of students is similar to a year group in the main school). To support this, we are providing separate routes into school for each year group, planning for students to be taught in general classrooms that are located together so the teachers move classrooms rather than students, and ensuring that they have separate locations for breaks and lunches – a huge challenge in itself! The government are clear that they want students to access the full curriculum so we will need to manage access to specialist rooms carefully, for example in science, computing, technology, PE and the performing arts. The guidance suggests that social distancing for students within in each year group will not take place, but adults are expected to maintain this wherever possible.
As such teachers will need to stay at the front of the class and will not be able to circulate and support students as they normally would.
After careful consideration we have concluded that different start times are not practicable and we can only stagger the end of school by a short amount of time for each year group. We will though, need to stagger break times and students will access a location that is separate from other year groups. There will be no food served before school or at break and students may want to bring a snack and drink with them. Lunchtimes will take place during an extended period 5. There will be five lunch slots, one for each year group. Students will have 20 minutes to access the canteen/hall with a further ten minute 'break' in their classroom. Students are encouraged to bring a packed lunch with them or alternatively they can purchase a meal in the canteen as usual, though there will be a reduced choice. We want to minimise the amount of cash handled in school and would therefore ask that parents use ParentPay wherever possible to credit their child's lunch accounts or pay by cheque.
In terms of travelling to school, the government has made a distinction between dedicated school transport (school buses) and general public transport. The guidance indicates that social distancing is not required on dedicated school transport and as such 'school buses' can operate as they have always done, with students sitting in close proximity. Currently all transport accessed by students at Haslingden High School is available for use by the wider public and as such would be subject to social distancing rules. This would mean that those buses would only be able to operate with at most a 25% occupancy. This would clearly create difficulties in transporting the numbers of students required to attend school. This is a significant issue for all secondary schools in Rossendale and the headteachers have met with the Commercial Director of Transdev to discuss our concerns. We have been advised that Transdev are putting plans in place to reclassify the buses our students use to get to and from school as 'school buses' and so should be able to meet the demand. This is a complex logistical problem for Transdev to resolve and we have been informed that information relating to revised times and services will be made available next week. I will keep you updated as soon as I have more information. The government advice is still that students should avoid public transport where possible and you may consider encouraging your child to walk or cycle where this is an option.
The emphasis in school will continue to be on prevention of the transmission of the virus and I respectfully ask that parents support us in keeping the whole of our school community safe. If your child is not well or is exhibiting symptoms of Covid-19 then they should stay at home and engage with the NHS test and trace scheme if necessary. We will be putting enhanced cleaning regimes in place and will be encouraging students to wash their hands and employ the 'catch it kill it bin it' approach to promote good hand and respiratory hygiene. There will be foot operated pedal bins and hand sanitiser in every classroom, though we would encourage all students to bring hand sanitiser with them wherever possible. Students will need to bring with them all the equipment they will need for school as sharing of equipment will not be possible. Parents are respectfully requested to make an appointment if they need to come into school for any reason. Your co-operation with this would be greatly appreciated.
There will not be any extra-curricular activities at the start of the year, but we hope we can start to offer these again as soon as it is practical to do so. I firmly believe these are an essential part of school life at Haslingden High School and we normally offer a wide range of opportunities for students to pursue their interests and aptitudes. We look forward to seeing the return of the vibrancy of school life at the end of the school day.
We pride ourselves on the high standards we set regarding all aspects of school life, including behaviour in school and the standard of dress. Full school uniform will be expected in September and I thank parents for their support in this matter. If there are any particular problems relating to school uniform please contact the relevant head of year in the first instance. Our Eight Expectations have never been more important and we will need to amend our behaviour for learning policy to take account of the current circumstances, in order to further support the health, safety and welfare of all our school community. We will ensure that you are updated on any changes that affect your child. It is essential that we work together to support our young people through what has been a very difficult time for many and we will be supporting students as best we can to ensure the return to school is as smooth and successful as possible. We understand that students will have been affected by the pandemic in a wide variety of ways and want to help in any way we can.
Finally, we will not be able to hold our Open Day or Open Evening next term and so we have decided to move the INSET days which are allocated to facilitate these; students are now expected to be in school on Tuesday 15 and Wednesday 16 September. We have moved one of the INSET days to Wednesday 2 September and this allows us a little bit more time to prepare for the return of our students and the revised start to the year is as follows:
Tuesday 1 and Wednesday 2 September: Staff Inset days, no students in school.
Thursday 3 September: Years 7 and 12 in school.
Friday 4 September: All students in school.
The second INSET day has been moved to Monday 4 January 2021. An updated list of term dates for 2020-2021 can be found here.
I will provide a further update before the end of term. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Haslingden High School
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Inside Politics Speed Read: Red state Democrats rethinking Obama?
CNN's Z. Byron Wolf
Red state Democrats rethinking Obama? – For months, the political conventional wisdom has been that endangered Senate Democrats seeking re-election in red states would steer clear of President Obama and distance themselves from Obamacare.
Fueling this narrative were three instances of Democratic senators declining (or citing scheduling conflicts) to appear with President Obama when he visited their states. And in the case of Louisiana Democrat Mary Landrieu, she recently touted her ability to stand up to the president on oil and gas issues.
But there are three pieces of evidence this week that confound that strategy.
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First, Sen. Mark Pryor, the Arkansas Democrat, invited Obama to view tornado damage with him in his home state.
Related: Disaster Politics – How Obama's Arkansas visit could hurt Democrats
Then, the White House announced that Landrieu would appear with Michelle Obama for an event in with veterans in New Orleans on Saturday. Landrieu was unable to appear with the President when he visited Louisiana late in 2013.
Finally, Sen. Kay Hagan, the North Carolina Democrat, indicated support for expanding Medicaid as part of Obamacare in her state. Hagan voted for the health law but along with other conservative Democrats has put it on the backburner since. No more. In an interview with North Carolina-based McClatchy newspapers, she defended the Medicaid expansion, a key feature of the law that has been rejected by many states, including North Carolina. Hagan's Republican opponent, Thom Tillis, was state House speaker when the Medicaid expansion there was rejected.
Don't look for these Democrats to start sounding like Nancy Pelosi and Obama, but it is evidence that conventional wisdom can oversimplify things.
Politics roils Benghazi inquiry – Democrats are meeting Friday to decide whether they should take part in the new special select committee House Republicans authorized to investigate the Benghazi attack.
House Republicans, meanwhile, continue to deal with backlash after their campaign arm used the Benghazi effort in an online fundraiser. House Speaker John Boehner was asked to respond four times at a news conference Thursday, and he came back with repetitions of a talking point.
Koch brothers to spend $125 million on 2014 – Politico reports Friday that Charles and David Koch, the conservative billionaires who have spent millions to affect the political conversation, will double down on the midterm elections through their super-PAC Americans for Prosperity. The Politico report suggests that the Koch brothers, who have increasingly become a target of Democrats' ire, have already spent $35 million on attacking vulnerable Democrats over Obamacare. That amount will apparently balloon to $125 million by year's end, according to Politico.
Analysis: The biggest mistake Democrats could make on Benghazi
Solar panels at the White House – A bipartisan bill to promote energy efficiency at government and private buildings has stalled for now in the U.S. Senate, but President Obama is pushing forward with executive actions. And as part of the PR effort, the White House on Friday released new video of solar panels being installed at the White House.
Also on Friday, CNN's Adam Aigner-Treworgy reports, Obama will announce a series of executive actions meant to bolster green-job creation and combat carbon pollution.
The President also plans to use a visit to California on Friday to reveal commitments from more than 300 private companies and public sector organizations to make the buildings they use more energy-efficient.A fact sheet outlining the details of the announcement brags that these new solar commitments "span every corner of the United States." They also include commitments from well-known companies like Clif Bar, Apple, IKEA and Whole Foods to increase solar usage.
The President will probably point to his host on Friday, Wal-Mart, as an example of a corporate leader on the issue of solar. The company has set a goal of producing or procuring 7 billion kilowatt-hours of renewable energy by 2020 and as part of that is committing to double the number of solar projects at its facilities.
Related: Obama to announce new slate of climate actions
Filed under: climate change • Inside Politics • Kay Hagan • Mark Pryor • Mary Landrieu • President Obama
Wake Up People! Many Rivers to cross.....
President Obama still has it. Problem is most of the Democratic Party are female nether regions that are terrified of the GOP. In a way I admire the GOP. They don't shake and cower like the dems. There are only a few dems I admire. Número uno The POTUS, AG Holder, Hillary and Nancy Pelosi. The rest are so scared of the GOP it's a shame.
May 9, 2014 10:07 am at 10:07 am |
I heard a Republican remark this morning that Democrats boycotting a new Benghazi committee would politicize the tragedy. He said this right after not condemning the new Republican effort to fund raise off of the Benghazi attacks.
loco motion
More proof of just how concerned the gop is about the Americans killed they're. They don't talk about the Iraq war deaths, why not, because there is no political advantage there. They couldn't care less what happens to others, why else would you obsess about four deaths, which we had zero control over, yet ignore over 4500 killed in a war based on lies by our president.
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One problem I had with Reagan was his removal of the solar panels from the white house that jimmy carter had installed.
He most certainly did remove them. Reagan also cut all spending on alternative, renewable forms of energy. Reagan committed the U.S. to fossil fuel dependence, and that has been Republican policy ever since. To fully appreciate the folly of Reagan's actions, you have to understand the geopolitical atmosphere of the times.
The world had experienced several artificial oil embargoes during the 1970s. OPEC would simply reduce production until the prices were start rapidly rising. America experienced gas rationing. Depending upon the final digit of your license plate, you could only buy gas on even or odd numbered days of the month. Reagan wanted to make us vulnerable to that sort of extortion again, and he succeeded.
don in albuquerque
Wake Up People
Could not agree, we need to collectively grow a pair. And we need to remember what Will Rogers said–"I'm not a member of any organized political party....I'm a democrat."
Obama had been toxic since the day he took the oath of office.
sonny chapman
Are these the same solar panels that Jimmy Carter installed in 1978 & which Ronald Reagan tore down in 1980 ?
Marie MD
It would be nice since most red states receive a large sum of fed money to keep them afloat.
I take it that heal are ain't so bad after all?
"House Republicans, meanwhile, continue to deal with backlash after their campaign arm used the Benghazi effort in an online fundraiser. "
DUH! "You were supposed to keep the fundraising off Benghazi private!!!!" There's one really big, overriding reason that 206+ House GOPers/Teatrolls are climbing all over each other for one of the 7 GOP/Teatroll seats on the select committee. Wanna guess what that is? Go ahead...guess.
Then watch the "war chests" of the 7 who get chosen. Matter of fact, check out Gowdy's over the past couple weeks and compare.
Lynda/Minnesota
A lot of red-meat GOPerville talking points in this article ... none of which interests me.
BENGHAZI (The Sequel) 2016
What??? You mean there's actual backlash because the GOP is fundraising off 4 dead Americans??? Where, when I haven't heard about it. All I keep hearing is Hillary and Obama Benghazi booga booga booga!!!
much thunder...little rain
pryor is a do nothing senator ....who road his dads coat tails....having obama see the damage of tornado ...thats what presidents do....pryor been there to long ....
Tampa Tim
Republican witch hunts are good fund raisers. It helps people forget that elected baggers shut down the government to the tune of $24 billion, that the baggers refused to vote for helping the uninsured, refused to help the poor, voted against women's rights, voted against veterans, voted against seniors, voted against sensible background checks, but voted for anything that the billionaires wanted. Fortunately for the GOP, their base is as bright as a burned out light bulb.
But republican fundraising off the deaths of 4 Americans is even more disgusting than the crap they have pulled over the last five years.
Or perhaps I should have stated:
BENGHAZI (The Fundraiser) 2016
It is all one in the same.
smith1
republicans once again seek money off the backs of the dead in Benghazi these trolls are more worried about Hillary and keep trying to find a link to discredit her. She out polls all repos put together and they need to start now to screw up a possible run in 2016. Why can't the repo trolls see this? Not patriots but traitors riding on the backs of he dead. How many investigations do we need.? Just like the bill they keep trying to pass on the Affordable health care act. Vote them all out
Unsure of the dates off the top of my head, but, yes. Reagan also gutted Carter's Department of Energy, and declared it wasteful spending of taxpayer dollars. He said the solar panels were wasteful spending, despite the fact that the White House could almost fulfill all of its' electricity needs from them.
There is no honor among politicians.
"BENGHAZI (The Fundraiser) 2016"
LOL! I like that one. You're on a roll today Ms. Lynda.
Malory Archer
So let me get this straight, you harp on Bush for serving in the Air National Guard during the Veitnam War but you give Bill Clinton a pass for not serving in the military because he protested the Veitnam War? Then you give Obama a pass for not serving in the military because the Veitnam War was over? Your statement is one of 100% hypocrisy and is beyond dumb.
Yes, I DO give Bill Clinton "a pass" because unlike the previous occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue who DESERTED THE ANG after getting preferential treatment to GET THERE and all the while being gung-ho about sending EVERYONE ELSE there, at least Bill Clinton had the spleen to stand on principals. I know that's anathema to your ilk, but the majority of thinking human beings respect that.
- wow,according to you JW Bush send everyone to Vietnam, but you have all the respect for Bill Clinton who went to Canada, VP BIDEN who ask for FIVE deferments, and you probably think Hanoi Jane is the best thing since the creation
Sniffitt's right Lynda... You are on a roll today my friend!!😍😍
BENGHAZI ( The Fundraiser)
It should be an Obamacare amendment that Obama be required to appear with every Democrat that voted for Obamacare, as well as Pelosi and Reid. The American voters have a right to see, all on one stage, the people that are wrecking their healthcare system, driving their costs through the roof and getting their policies cancelled.
Come Democrats, step up to the plate. As Pelosi says..."embrace the suck"!!

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Q: Logical indexing with lists I have a program I'm looking through and with this section
temp = [1,2,3,4,5,6]
temp[temp!=1]=0
print temp

Which if run gives the result:
[1, 0, 3, 4, 5, 6]

I need help understanding what is going on in this code that leads to this result.

A: As Already explained you are setting the second element using the result of comparing to a list which returns True/1 as bool is a subclass of int. You have a list not a numpy array so you need to iterate over it if you want to change it which you can do with a list comprehension using if/else logic:
temp = [1,2,3,4,5,6]
temp[:] = [0 if ele != 1 else ele for ele in temp ]

Which will give you:
[1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]

Or using a generator expression:
temp[:] = (0 if ele != 1 else ele for ele in temp)

A: If NumPy is not an option, use a list comprehension to build a new list.
>>> temp = [1,2,3,4,5,6]
>>> [int(x == 1) for x in temp]
[1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]

A: temp in your example is a list, which clearly is not equal to 1. Thus the expression
 temp[temp != 1] = 0

is actually
temp[True] = 0  # or, since booleans are also integers in CPython
temp[1] = 0

Convert temp to a NumPy array to get the broadcasting behaviour you need
>>> import numpy as np
>>> temp = np.array([1,2,3,4,5,6])
>>> temp[temp != 1] = 0
>>> temp
array([1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0])

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Fonds MS-930 - Brown, Chorley Family fonds
Brown, Chorley Family fonds
Brown, Chorley Family
16 photographs
Brown, Thomas G. 1897-1975
Chorley, John 1879-1922
John Chorley was born in 1879 in South Wales to Elizabeth Winter* and William Chorley. He married Alice Bailey ca. 1900 in Wales and they had two children, Archibald (born 1902) and Dorothy (born 1903). John emigrated to Canada ca. 1910 or 1911 and his wife and children arrived in June of 1911. The family settled in Edmonton, AB where John worked as a tinsmith.
The 51st Battalion, C.E.F., was authorized in November 1914. John enlisted on 15 Feb 1915 as a Private (Regimental No. 436903). The battalion trained in Edmonton at the Edmonton Exhibition grounds and the Drill Hall (now known as the Prince of Wales Armouries Heritage Centre). On Victoria Day (May 1915) a military parade of the 51st Battalion was held at Victoria Park (between approximately what is now the Royal Glenora Club and the Victoria Golf Course). The 51st Battalion, CEF, embarked for Great Britain on 1 April 1916. At some point during the war John was injured and returned to Edmonton ca. 1920 or 1921. He worked as a Customs examining officer. John died suddenly on 16 June 1922 due to a heart attack that was secondarily attributed to injuries sustained in the war. He is buried in the Edmonton Cemetery.
Thomas George Brown was born in 1897 in Cardiff, Wales to Alice Winter* and Edward Brown. At the age of 13, he emigrated to Canada in 1911 with his parents and siblings (Edward, Alice, William, Lillian and John). In November 1914, he enlisted with the Alberta Dragoons then transferred to the 138th Battalion, C.E.F., in late 1915 (Regimental No. 811170). In August 1916, he went overseas with the 138th Battalion as a signaler. In December 1916 he transferred to the 28th Battalion, serving in France until he was wounded in May 1918. Thomas returned to Edmonton.
He married Mildred Gwendolyn Henshall in 1920 and they had two daughters, Mildred (born 1921) and Dorothy (born 1928). Thomas was the Manager at the Edmonton Journal. He also remained active in the military
In 1922 Col. Brown joined the 1st Battalion Edmonton Fusiliers as a signals officer. He attended Royal Military School in Esquimalt, B.C. in 1927 and then qualified as a Major. In 1930, he took command of the Fusiliers. From 1935-1939 he was a Paymaster with Fusiliers. At the outbreak of war, he resigned his non-combatant commission and was placed in command of a company. From August to December 1943 he served with the South Saskatchewan Regiment in Britain. In January 1944, Major Brown rejoined the Fusiliers. He was promoted to Lt. Col. T.G. Brown, E.D. in December 1944 and made Commanding Officer of the 1st Battalion Edmonton Fusiliers.
In 1946 he returned to the Edmonton Journal as business manager. Thomas and his wife Gwendolyn retired to White Rock, B.C. in 1960. Gwedolyn died in 1963. Thomas remained in White Rock, B.C. until his death in 1975.
John Chorley and Thomas G. Brown were first cousins.
Joseph Chorley was born in 1900 in Wales to Elizabeth Winter and William Chorley. He emigrated to Canada settling in Edmonton, AB, working as a bookkeeper. He is the youngest brother of John Chorley and first cousin to Thomas G. Brown.
Elizabeth Winter Chorley (mother of John and Joseph Chorley) and Alice Winter Brown (mother of Thomas Brown) were sisters.
Catherine Chorley was the sister-in-law to John Chorley and the cousin-in-law to Thomas G. Brown; she was married to Joseph Chorley (youngest brother of John Chorley and cousin of Thomas G. Brown).
The fonds consists of photographs that reflect the involvement of John Chorley and Thomas Brown in the Canadian military and cover WWI and WWII time periods.
The photographs pertaining to John Chorley are training and parade photos of the 51st Battalion, CEF, based out of Edmonton (1915) (EA-296-1 to EA-296-4).
The photographs pertaining to Thomas G. Brown include group portraits of officers, sergeants and platoons of the 51st Battalion and Edmonton Fusiliers (EA-296-5 to EA-296-8, EB-42).
This fonds was donated to the City of Edmonton Archives by Catherine Chorley in 1976 and 1993.
The material was arranged by the archivist in chronological order.
The photographs were assigned item numbers with the prefix EA-296 and EB-42.
Andrew L. Parnham fonds
Accession numbers: A76-156, A93-125
In bio note: Lt. Col. Thomas G. Brown, "E.D." - Efficiency Decoration - given for length of service for non-permanent officers serving 20 years or more.
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Home India Amarinder to seek legal opinion on Sidhu's TV stint
Amarinder to seek legal opinion on Sidhu's TV stint
Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh will seek legal opinion on whether his minister Navjot Sidhu can continue as a celebrity-judge on a popular TV comedy show.
He told a TV news channel that he will ask the Advocate General to give his opinion on Sidhu's continuation as a celebrity-judge on 'The Kapil Sharma Show'.
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"I do not know what the Constitution or the law says on this matter. We will have to ask our advocate general to give us an opinion whether a person who is a minister can do what he wants to do.
"It will entirely depend on legal opinion and then I will bring it to Navjot Singh Sidhu's notice. Frankly, I do not know whether it is a conflict of interest. Once I get an opinion from them (advocate general and legal experts), I will have a chat with him," Singh told the channel.
Sidhu, a front runner for the post of deputy chief minister, was given a rather lightweight department to look after. He has been made minister of tourism and culture, and local bodies in the new Congress government.
Reacting to the issue, Sidhu insisted his TV shows will not interfere with his Cabinet responsibilities.
"I have no liquor, sand mining or transport business like former deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal.
Watch here for our latest video update by Rifat Jawaid, editor-in-chief, Janta ka reporter.
"I earn a living through TV shows and I will be in Chandigarh from Monday to Thursday and in Amritsar from Friday to Sunday. What I do at night should not be anyone's concern.
I will take first flight back to Punjab after TV shoots in Mumbai," he said.
As he invited criticism for saying he will continue to appear on the show, his wife and former state legislator Navjot Kaur Sidhu came out in his support.
In a Facebook post, Kaur on Sunday said her family had no other source of income but television, and undue hype was being created over the issue.
"Such hype has been created about Navjot earning a living from television. When I was working as an MLA, my electricity bill and tea for guests cost more. We have no other business or source of income except television. He has left 80 per cent of shows, which included IPL, commentary, etc.
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Gazania rigens
Asterids
Arctotideae
Gaertn.
Gazania rigens[1]
(L.) Gaertn.
Melanchrysum Cass.
Gazania /ɡəˈzeɪniə/[3] is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, native to Southern Africa.[4][5][1][6]
They produce large, daisy-like composite flowerheads in brilliant shades of yellow and orange, over a long period in summer.[7] They are often planted as drought-tolerant groundcover.
1 Taxonomic history
3 Cultivation
4 Species[2][20]
Taxonomic history[edit]
Illustrations of Gazania rigens from De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum, 1791
'Copper King', Desert Demonstration Garden, Las Vegas
The genus was first formally described by German botanist Joseph Gaertner in the second volume of his major work De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum in 1791.[8] Gaertner named the genus after Theodorus Gaza, a 15th-century translator of the works of Theophrastus.[9]
Gazania is a member of the tribe Arctotideae and the subtribe Gorteriinae. Within the subtribe it is close to Hirpicium and Gorteria.[10] Many of the species of Gazania are hard to distinguish and the number of species assigned to the genus has varied widely from one author to another.
In 1959, Helmut Roessler published what he considered to be a preliminary revision of Gazania. At that time, he recognized 16 species.[11] Roessler published some amendments to his treatment in 1973.[12]
In 2009, a phylogeny of the genus was published. It was based on molecular phylogenetic analysis of chloroplast and nuclear DNA sequences.[9] In this study, all of Roessler's species except Gazania othonnites were sampled. The authors found that eight species were not really separate, but formed a species complex. The seven species found to be distinct were G. jurineifolia, G. caespitosa, G. ciliaris, G. tenuifolia, G. heterochaeta, G. schenckii, and G. lichtensteinii.
Distribution[edit]
The genus occurs from low-altitude sands to alpine meadows[7] in South Africa, Swaziland, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Angola.[8] Additionally, species are naturalised in Australia, New Zealand, the Mediterranean, and California.[8][13]
Cultivation[edit]
Gazania species are grown for the brilliant colour of their flowerheads which appear in the late spring and are often in bloom throughout the summer into autumn. They prefer a sunny position and are tolerant of dryness and poor soils.[14]
Numerous cultivars have been selected for variety of colour and habit. In temperate regions, they are usually grown as half-hardy annuals.[7] A commonly grown variety is the trailing gazania (Gazania rigens var. leucolaena). It is commonly used as groundcover and can be planted en masse to cover large areas or embankments, assisted by its fast growth rate. Cultivars of this variety include 'Sunburst', 'Sunglow', and 'Sunrise Yellow'.[14] Another popular cultivated variety is the clumping gazania (Gazania rigens), which has a number of named cultivars including 'Aztec', 'Burgundy', 'Copper King', 'Fiesta Red', 'Goldrush' and 'Moonglow'. [14]
The following cultivars have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit:-[15]
G. 'Aztec'[16]
G. 'Cookei'[17]
G. rigens 'Variegata'[18]
Talent Series[19]
Species[2][20][edit]
Gazania caespitosa Bolus
Gazania ciliaris DC.
Gazania heterochaeta DC.
Gazania jurineifolia DC.
Gazania krebsiana Less. - Terracotta Gazania
Gazania lichtensteinii Less..
Gazania leiopoda (DC.) Roessler
Gazania linearis (Thunb.) Druce - Treasureflower
Gazania maritima Levyns
Gazania othonnites (Thunb.) Less.
Gazania pectinata (Thunb.) Hartw.
Gazania pinnata DC.
Gazania rigens (L.) Gaertn.
Gazania rigida (Burm.f.) Roessler
Gazania schenckii O.Hoffm.
Gazania serrata DC.
Gazania tenuifolia Less.
Gazania thermalis Dinter
Gazania krebsiana Goegap N.R., Namaqualand, Northern Cape, South Africa
Gazania lichtensteinii Goegap N.R., Namaqualand, Northern Cape, South Africa
Gazania rigens (flower)
White and purple gazania
Yellow and White variety of Gazania rigens
Orange gazania in Palestine
List of Gazania cultivars
^ a b Tropicos, Gazania Gaertn.
^ a b Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
^ Sunset Western Garden Book, 1995:606–607
^ Gaertner, Joseph. 1791. De fructibus et seminibus plantarum 2(3): 451–452 in Latin
^ Gaertner, Joseph. 1791. De fructibus et seminibus plantarum 2(3): plate CLXXIII (173) line drawing of Gazania rigens
^ Per Ola Karis. 2007. "Arctotideae" pages 200-207. In: Klaus Kubitzki (series editor); Joachim W. Kadereit and Charles Jeffrey (volume editors). The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants volume VIII. Springer-Verlag: Berlin; Heidelberg, Germany.
^ a b c RHS A-Z encyclopedia of garden plants. United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley. 2008. p. 1136. ISBN 1405332964.
^ a b c "Aluka - Entry for Gazania Gaertn. [family COMPOSITAE]". Archived from the original on 2013-08-01. Retrieved 2008-04-11.
^ a b Seranne Howis, Nigel P. Barker, and Ladislav Mucina. 2009. "Globally grown, but poorly known: species limits and biogeography of Gazania Gaertn. (Asteraceae) inferred from chloroplast and nuclear DNA sequence data". Taxon 58(3):871-882.
^ Vicki A. Funk and Raymund Chan. 2008. "Phylogeny of the Spiny African Daisies (Compositae, tribe Arctotideae, subtribe Gorteriinae) based on trnL-F, ndhF, and ITS sequence data". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 48(1):47-60.
^ Helmut Rössler. 1959. "Revision der Arctotideae - Gorteriinae (Compositae)". Mitteilungen der Botanischen Staatssammlung München 3:71-500.
^ Helmut Roessler. 1973. Mitteilungen der Botanischen Staatssammlung Muenchen 11:91-99.
^ "Genus Gazania". PlantNET - New South Wales Flora Online. Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney Australia. Retrieved 2008-04-11.
^ a b c Arthurs, Kathryn L. (ed.) (1979). Lawns & Groundcovers. Lane Publishing Co. ISBN 9780376035073. CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
^ "AGM Plants - Ornamental" (PDF). Royal Horticultural Society. July 2017. p. 39. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
^ "RHS Plantfinder - Gazania 'Aztec'". Retrieved 27 February 2018.
^ "RHS Plantfinder - Gazania 'Cookei'". Retrieved 27 February 2018.
^ "RHS Plantfinder - G. rigens 'Variegata'". Retrieved 27 February 2018.
^ "RHS Plantfinder - Gazania Talent Series". Retrieved 27 February 2018.
^ "African plants database". Retrieved 2008-04-11.
PlantZafrica.com: Gazania krebsiana[permanent dead link]
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Wikispecies has information related to Gazania
Wikispecies: Gazania
APNI: 108634
eFloraSA: Gazania
EPPO: 1GAZG
FNA: 113351
FoAO2: Gazania
NCBI: 13540
NZOR: 4932ea77-9cab-4894-a4cc-b636885fe828
PLANTS: GAZAN
POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:331621-2
VicFlora: 2cc9dfd7-92e1-49b0-b5a7-2d96691afd3a
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Mystery Solved! Now We Know What The ACLU Has Been Doing While State Governments Were infringing On Basic Civil Rights
May 15, 2020 May 15, 2020 / Jack Marshall
It was rotting.
The non-profit organization that is supposedly dedicated to protecting the rights of all Americans against government incursions, as the Bill of Rights holds in both letter and spirit, made no effort to protect the citizens whose liberties have been arbitrarily manacled by power-mad governor and mayors, though the pandemic over-reach seemed to be a perfect battleground for the once non-partisan and idealistic group.
However, once Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos spearheaded a much-needed revision of Title IX designed to protect the due process rights of male students accused of sexual misconduct on campus, the ACLU sprung into action—to try to block her.
It is hard for me to imagine how any objective reader could peruse the revised federal guidelines on how sexual assault allegations should be handled on college and K-12 campuses and conclude that they are hostile to the Bill of Rights in any way. Nevertheless, the federal lawsuit filed yesterday, with the backing of the ACLU, claims the changes would "inflict significant harm" on victims and "dramatically undermine" the civil rights of accusers—you know, those women who must be believed when they want men to be punished.
The suit was filed on behalf of four advocacy groups for such women, including Know Your IX and Girls for Gender Equity. The objective is to block the Education Department's fixes, made necessary by the Obama Education Department's unethical "Dear Colleague" letter that threatened universities with the loss of funds and other sanctions if they didn't make it easier for women to get male students kicked out of school in she said/he said disputes. The reform regulations will go into effect by August 14 unless they are rejected by the courts.
The rules championed by DeVos bolster the due process rights of those accused of sexual assault and harassment, allowing for live hearings and cross-examinations.
The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Maryland by the American Civil Liberties Union and the New York-based law firm Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP, is Orwellian. "This new federal effort to weaken Title IX makes it more difficult for victims of sexual harassment or sexual assault to continue their educations and needlessly comes amid a global pandemic."
What does the pandemic have to do with anything? I guess it's because the ACLU had a retreat or something and decided that the Wuhan virus suspended civil liberties. Says Yahoo!,
Advocates for sexual misconduct suspects and some civil liberties organizations have argued that the guidance under the Obama administration was too loose and didn't properly afford the accused a presumption of innocence or hold schools to a standard of impartiality.
Ya think? Instead of a reasonable doubt standard, the Obama soft edict ('Nice little college you have there. Be a shame if anything were to happen to it…') demanded a preponderance of the evidence standard but did not require such basic elements as the opportunity to cross-examine accusers and to be represented by a lawyer. The reputations and educational opportunities of young citizens are at stake, and such consequences are far closer to what criminal defendants face than what is at stake in most civil trials. Using the reasonable doubt standard constitutes basic fairness and due process. The Obama "Dear Colleague Letter" was a sop thrown to the Democratic Party's militant feminist base that became an even more powerful force as the #MeToo movement accelerated.
Now, of course, it may be possible for students accused of sexual harassment and assault to avoid discipline by proving they are Democrats and promising that they will vocally oppose President Trump on campus.
Angela Morabito, a spokeswoman for the Education Department, said yesterday that the final rule only codifies guidelines that hold schools to the same standards and ensures "no survivor is brushed aside and no accused student's guilt is predetermined." She added,
"The ACLU, which used to defend civil liberties, should be supporting such an approach.Instead, they're helping schools trample on basic due process and gut protections for survivors to serve an ideological agenda where the ends justify the means."
Exactly. The lawsuit shows that the United States of America no longer has an organization that exists to prevent governments from imposing its objectives on citizens at the cost of their basic liberties.
Someone should start one.
"bias makes you stupid", Education, Ethics Alarms Award Nominee, Gender and Sex, Government & Politics, Law & Law Enforcement, Rights
"Dear colleague" letter, American Civil Liberties Union, due process, Education Department, fairness, hypocrisy, lawsuits, Title IX
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13 thoughts on "Mystery Solved! Now We Know What The ACLU Has Been Doing While State Governments Were infringing On Basic Civil Rights"
WallPhone
There's an old joke in the gun owning communities that if you were to ask the ACLU to count to ten, you'd get "1, 4, 5, 6…". I believe even the ACLU website's FAQ at the time explained that rights that weren't incorporated didn't need defending… Which actually is an odd chicken and egg problem if you think of it.
I guess now that the 2A has officially been incorporated against the states, the ACLU has entirely abandoned counting.
Glenn Logan
Well, with this latest action, the sixth has joined the second in "uncountable" amendments
I have to ask again, as I always do when this topic comes up, why are schools investigating these things anyway? We're talking about actual crimes here, for fuck's sake. We have police and district attorneys and an entire court system for that. We're not talking about breaking a dress code, we're talking about sexual assaults and rape. If a student was murdered on campus, would the school be in charge of that investigation, too? The whole thing is utter insanity.
That's been my position all along. The victim can continue the education they were there for while the perp rots in jail.
I see it as analogous to a company investigating a report of sexual assault. The police should be involved if there is a criminal element to the allegation, but the company has a right and even an obligation to do an internal investigation and potentially reprimand or dismiss employees who violated their policies in some way, even if it is non-criminal or the evidence does not support those standards in a criminal investigation. The school still needs to investigate.
I think the issue here is that often these things do not rise to the level of criminal misconduct yet still violates some policy that might get you expelled or disciplined in some way. If we are talking about criminal conduct being handled only by the school then I agree this is rather problematic, criminal conduct should be investigated by the police, not schools. I am not so sure that schools are investigating criminal conduct so much as policy violations.
No matter what happens with a schools investigation, they do not have the power to incarcerate someone. The most that is going to happen is someone is going to get expelled. Now, there might be some Due Process issues with expelling someone on this lesser standard, and I do think that several universities have paid this price in lawsuits directly because of the "Dear Colleague" letter, where it has been found that the schools were disciplining staff and students without appropriate due process, I suppose there are potential defamation implications here as well.
Finaldi
Current systems act as a giant rug under which to sweep potentially criminal behavior on campuses. It is not a given that crimes will be reported to police at all. In colleges and universities, and reaching as far back as elementary schools, ed systems and districts have their ways keep dirty laundry from being aired.
The organizations have motives for suppressing criminal incidents, and are diligent and practiced in this regard. Employees, students and parents get the message soon enough.
It appears that people are starting organizations. But freedom of speech is now a "conservative" position.
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/wisconsin/2020/04/16/coronavirus-wisconsin-sheriff-threatened-jail-over-instagram-post/5145087002/
Notice how the organization suing on first amendment grounds is labeled "conservative." Fourty years ago this would have been the bread and butter ACLU case. Today they're silent and a "conservative" organization is fighting for the first amendment.
It is hard for me to imagine how any objective reader could peruse the revised federal guidelines on how sexual assault allegations should be handled on college and K-12 campuses and conclude that they are hostile to the Bill of Rights in any way.
Indeed, such a position is both incomprehensible and would seem to be untenable, except we know it somehow isn't.
Perhaps that's why the were offered in Maryland, in order to get in front of a sympathetic judge and a slightly leftish 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals. They stand a decent chance to obtain an injunction and have it sustained for years, if they get lucky in the appellate draw.
You said: What does the pandemic have to do with anything?
The case needs as much emotion as possible, since it's substance is fatally flawed. That increases the chance a left-leaning judge will find in their favor. It is the equivalent of the left "…pound[ing] the table and yell[ing] like hell."
Well, we have good organizations defending the First and Second amendments. The rest, sadly, are left to stand on their own. Perhaps we'll get lucky and the judge will stand up for them and not "If only one child …"
Aaron Paschall
My favorite is the wag who pointed out that if Biden were held to his own Title IX standards, he'd be toast long before now!
Phlinn
There are two complaints in the ACLU post that aren't completely bogus. 90% bogus maybe?
Changing the "severe, pervasive, or objectively offensive" to "severe, pervasive, AND objectively offensive". I can see a reason for complaint there, if they are correct that in all other cases it's "or".
Requiring complaints to be brought to a particular individual. This is set up so students can avoid a full investigation if they so choose… but that could also be handled by explicitly giving them that option. As it is, depending on whether other officials will reliable redirect to the correct one, there is some ability for schools to drop a case without the complainant being aware. However, this goes back to the question about why schools are investigating crimes at all. And I'm not at all convinced they've summed up the rules fairly.
I take issue with the bogus statistics they use in the first paragraph to pretend sexual harassment is more common than it really is.
Jeffrey Valentine
He would have been fine if he had my life philosophy too.
When in doubt, shut the fuck up.
Chris Marschner
You said someone should start one – meaning a new civil liberites organization.
See Harmeet Dillon. She has created a new org to fight civil liberties issues. She is representing 500,000 barbers and beauticians fighting Newsome's edicts
Correction. Her last name is spelled Dhillon.
The org is Center for American Liberty.
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Suspect held in connection to the Buddha Gaya blasts.
The Special Task Force of the Kolkata Police is looking into whether a man held late on Saturday evening and suspected to have links with the banned terrorist outfit, the Indian Mujahideen, is involved in the Bodh Gaya serial blasts.
Anwar Hussain Mullick was arrested from a bus stop in the heart of the city with explosives and fake Indian currency notes.
He is a resident of Chapra in West Bengal's Nadia district bordering Bangladesh. He has been remanded in police custody till July 20th.


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Relatives of Sarah Halimi, French Jewish Pensioner Murdered by Islamist, Lodge Negligence Complaint With Paris Prosecutor
by Ben Cohen
Sarah Halimi.
Relatives of the brutally murdered Parisian Jewish pensioner Sarah Halimi have lodged a formal complaint with the Paris Public Prosecutor's office over the manner in which local authorities in the French capital have treated her case.
Dr. Halimi was tortured and murdered in her Paris apartment in April by an Islamist intruder with a prior record of harassment toward her. The complaint filed by her relatives asserted that police reacted with "inertia" after being alerted to the attack by Halimi's neighbors.
The complaint also slammed the "lack of coordination" in the provision of care and welfare services to Halimi, who lived in public housing in the depressed Belleville neighborhood. Because she knew and feared the intruder, who lived in her building, Halimi had formally requested that the public housing department move her to a new apartment, but without explaining why.
"My sister was terribly afraid of this man, he had called her a 'dirty Jew,' but she was afraid that filing a complaint would be dangerous for her," her brother William Attal explained in an interview with French news agency AFP following the family's decision last week to take the case to the public prosecutor.
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Attal said that the family's goal was not to have the police condemned, but for Halimi's murder to be legally tried as a hate crime. "Our struggle is for justice to recognize that this was an Islamist and antisemitic murder," Attal declared.
Halimi's killer, 27 year-old Malian immigrant Kobili Traore, broke into her apartment on April 7 just after 4 a.m. As he subjected Halimi — a 66-year-old former kindergarten teacher — to a savage beating, neighbors alerted police after hearing her screams. Officers who arrived at the scene just before 5 a.m. heard Traore shouting "Allahu Akhbar!" and "I have killed Shaitan!" (Arabic for 'Satan'). Fearing a terrorist attack was being planned, the officers called for backup. But by the time anti-terror units arrived, Traore had thrown Halimi's fractured and bruised body out of the window of her third-floor apartment.
Traore is currently in hospital awaiting a psychiatric evaluation. There is deep concern in the French Jewish community that he will escape a charge of murder motivated by antisemitism if he is determined to be mentally unfit, thereby evading criminal responsibility under the terms of the French legal system.
In an op-ed published on Monday in the top French daily Le Figaro, Francis Kalifat — president of the French Jewish representative body CRIF — argued that the country was in denial that "again in France, Jews are assaulted and even killed solely because they are Jews."
The widespread media indifference to Halimi's ordeal has led to an increasingly agonized national debate, with several of France's leading intellectuals condemning the "silence" around both Halimi's fate and the broader challenge of antisemitism among French Muslims. One common theory is that top journalists and editors ignored her case so as not to boost the electoral fortunes of Marine Le Pen, the far-right National Front presidential candidate who was defeated by Emmanuel Macron in May.


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Arroyo Hondo is a settlement in Cuba near Guantánamo Bay. It is located in the municipality of Guantánamo.

See also
Las Lajas
Paraguay (village)
List of cities in Cuba

References

Populated places in Guantánamo Province
Guantánamo


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Haydar Sükan (* 1911 in Edirne; † 16. Mai 1995 in Istanbul) war ein türkischer General des Heeres (Türk Kara Kuvvetleri), der zwischen 1966 und 1968 Kommandeur der Gendarmerie (Jandarma Genel Komutanı) sowie von 1968 und 1969 Kommandeur der 1. Armee (Birinci Ordu) war.

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Sükan begann nach dem Besuch der renommierten Kadettenanstalt Işıklar Askeri Lisesi in Bursa 1928 eine Offiziersausbildung an der Heeresschule (Kara Harp Okulu) und fand im Anschluss Verwendung als Offizier und Stabsoffizier in verschiedenen Heereseinheiten. Als Generalmajor (Tümgeneral) war er Militärischer Vertreter bei der Zentralen Paktorganisation CENTO (Central Treaty Organization) und danach als Generalleutnant (Korgeneral) Kommandierender General des V. Korps (V. Kolordu).

Am 12. Juli 1966 wurde Sükan zum General (Orgeneral) befördert und als Nachfolger von General Fikret Esen zum Kommandeur der Gendarmerie (Jandarma Genel Komutanı) ernannt. Diesen Posten bekleidete er bis zum 22. August 1968 und wurde dann durch General Kemal Atalay abgelöst. Er selbst wurde daraufhin am 22. August 1968 Nachfolger von General Memduh Tağmaç als  Kommandeur der in der Istanbuler Selimiye-Kaserne stationierten 1. Armee (Birinci Ordu). Diese Funktion übte er bis zum 29. August 1969 aus und wurde daraufhin abermals von General Kemal Atalay abgelöst. Zuletzt war er vom 29. August 1969 bis zu seiner Versetzung in den Ruhestand am 30. August 1971 Leiter der Nachrichtendienst-Abteilung im Generalstab der Türkei.

Weblinks
 Eintrag in Kim Kimdir? (Seitenaufruf am 8. September 2016)
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General (Türkei)
Oberbefehlshaber einer Armee (türkische Streitkräfte)
Türke
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Q: Shinobi Charts bar graph Customising I'm using Shinobi Controls Charts to do this project and i'm having some trouble to find ou how to customise my chart to look as close as possible to this:

Here is what i have so far:

The labels at the bottom are the ones that are represented as [name] in the first chart.
The colores of the bars are ok i know how to change them. My problem resides on the labels on the top of each bar and the grid and background grid.
1) How can i remove the grid and change the graph color to transparant? chart.xAxis.style.gridStripeStyle.showGridStripes = NO; does not remove the grid.
2) The radial series had a callback where i could change the labels position, but after taking a look at all the documentation that comes with the demo i can't find anything to change the position of the axis's labels for a bar graph and add more complexity like an image and 2 or 3 labels to it. Also those boxes have to move along with bars.
Does anyone know how to do this 2 topics?
Thank you in advance for any given help.
EDIT :
I've been able to remove the axis with
axis.style.gridStripeStyle.showGridStripes = NO; // removes the main bar
axis.style.majorGridLineStyle.showMajorGridLines = NO; // removes the grid bars

A: Regarding your second point, use
- (void)sChart:(ShinobiChart *)chart alterTickMark:(SChartTickMark *)tickMark
beforeAddingToAxis:(SChartAxis *)axis

A: Regarding your first point use
chart.axis.style.majorGridLineStyle.showMajorGridLines = NO


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Upstate New York Resident and Rosie the Riveter Leaves Lasting Legacy
Traci Taylor Published: August 1, 2018
During World War II more than 310,000 women stepped up to help with the war efforts. They left their homes and worked in factories and shipyards producing a variety of things, including munitions and war supplies. 'Rosie the Riveter' was the star of a campaign featured in movies, newspapers, posters, photographs, and in articles. She stressed the patriotic need for women to roll up their sleeves and help. The women who answered the call were known as 'Rosie the Riveters.'
On July 28, 2018, the United States of America lost another one of our most treasured cultural icons when Marilynn Jean White, a real-life Rosie the Riveter passed away at the age of 94 in the Mohawk Valley of New York.
Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Marilynn moved to Seattle, Washington at the age of 16 where she picked up a job working for Boeing Aircraft as a Rosie The Riveter and according to her obituary, Marilynn's story is, "held in the archives of the National Historic Trust WW II Rosie the Riveter Museum in Richmond, CA, as well as in a book of Rosie Stories."
Marilynn's life truly was an incredible one. Not only did she play an important role in World War II, but after the war, Marilynn went on to work at General Electric and Duofold. She believed in giving back to the world around her and volunteered much of her time to various organizations, including the Utica Zoo.
In 2016 at the age of 92-years-old, Marilynn finally received her high school diploma from Central Valley Academy in Ilion, proving that a person really isn't ever too old to achieve their goals. Marilyn is survived by her children Donna, Martin, and Sandra. She was preceded in death by her husband, Robert and her daughter, Barbara.
It's no coincidence that on the very same day that Marilynn passed away, I was at a fundraising event for the Twin Tiers Honor Flight which is a not-for-profit organization, that transports area veterans, including World War II veterans, to Washington, D.C. so that they can visit their war memorials and receive the honor they are so deserving of.
While at the Twin Tiers Honor Flight fundraising event, I met a woman named Tina Pitcher-Johnson. Tina is part of a group of women who call themselves the Parlor City Dolls. These women dress as pinup girls and attend various functions around upstate New York, educating our community about what life was like during World War II. Tina also dresses as Rosie the Riveter and donates her time to explain to groups the story and importance of Rosie in the history of the United States.
On Saturday, the very day that sweet Marilynn was called home, Tina shared with me the story of how she was at an event with Marilynn and the national anthem was about to be sung. Marilynn, in a wheelchair and unsteady on her feet, asked Tina to help her stand. She insisted that she must and always would stand for the National Anthem. What a woman!
*In January of 2018, Naomi Parker Fraley, the woman who inspired the creation of Rosie the Riveter passed away at the age of 96.
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Encyclopedic is one way to describe L.A.'s oldest art institution. Sprawling is another. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art opened in its current Miracle Mile location in 1965 and has not stopped growing, becoming the largest museum in the western United States. Its 135,000-piece collection spans 6,000 years of art. It also includes some of the museum world's most photographed outdoor sculptures, such as Michael Heizer's mind-boggling Levitated Mass and Chris Burden's Urban Light. The museum hosts some 40 exhibits per year, plus a dynamic schedule of events, such as Tuesday film matinees and picnic-friendly Jazz at LACMA (held weekly on "summer" weekend nights—which in L.A. means April to November). While anyone can join free tours throughout the day, docents also lead customized experiences for a fee, which will take you through the galleries before or after hours to marvel at artists as wide-ranging as Henri Matisse, Ai Weiwei, Diego Rivera, and Catherine Opie. Kids are also catered to with a special gallery, Sunday activities, and a free membership, which includes entry for them plus an adult guest any day of the year. Pro tips: Plan to spend several hours at the museum, fueling up on wood-fired pizza midway through the day at Ray's & Stark Bar. And if you'd like to experience the outdoor sculptures without the crowds, go early in the morning or on Wednesdays, when the museum is closed and gloriously quiet.
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Art across Eras at LACMA
The largest art museum in the western United States, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) offers permanent and rotating collections that span from ancient Egyptian objects to modern art like Claes Oldenburg's giant pool balls. It's practically a requirement for visitors to take a photo in front of or amid artist Chris Burden's Urban Light installation that marks the entrance to this institution, so expect to see slews of well-dressed art lovers snapping pics at the golden hour. Children 17 and under receive free admission here, and L.A. County residents can visit for free after 3 p.m. on weekdays.
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Friday Night Jazz at LACMA
On Friday nights the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) hosts live jazz from April to November each year. Jazz at LACMA has run for more than 20 years, and many L.A. residents consider it a must-do in the area. More than 42,000 people attend the free event each year, where artists like Wayne Shorter, Billy Childs, the Cannonball-Coltrane Project, and Ernie Watts have showcased their talents. After the show, I recommend heading over to Rays for Mediterranean-inspired dishes. Located on LACMA's campus, Ray's menu is constantly shifting to take advantage of seasonal fare and new ideas. Their crispy pig ears are one of my favorite dishes. Photo by Ian Irving/Flickr.
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LACMA was worth my 20 min dash
So i ran to the museum before it closed with worry that I may not get to see it all but I did. We'll kind of. Lol. I saw the work in the Resnick Pavilion and Broad of Contemporary Art building and it was worth it. My bad dash through both buildings were inspiring and worth the rushed taxi.
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Levitating Mass at LACMA
Los Angeles is not widely acknowledged for its museums, but in fact, LA has some fantastic museums, including LACMA. Don't miss Levitating Mass by artist Michael Heizer - it's worth a visit, plus, it's free to see.
"Hey! I've seen these before!" I said pointing to the enormous collection of lamp posts situated outside the museum. My friend nodded, "Of course, they've been featured in tons of movies." That's when I realized I was standing in front of the famous lamp posts at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Only in Los Angeles are lamp posts so exciting. Yet, they are only a fraction of the amazing art you can see inside the museum. From Native American Art to Asian Heritage Art, LACMA boasts an incredible collection of famous pieces from our collective human past. With optical illusion sculptures, giant kitchenware, and tar lakes with floating dinosaurs, LACMA is the perfect place for children and adults. I would definitely recommend visiting this museum during your stay in the LA area.
Alexis Tristin
Best Museum to Spend the Day In
The LACMA is a massive structure with an impressive collection to boot. Even if you are not that into art just spend the day wandering and looking at the magnificent buildings. Of course this is Los Angeles and the museum has it's own coffee shop, restaurant and craft cocktail program if you are not that into the famous Magritte hanging on the wall.
Anna C
Great art gallery in LA
The LACMA is the biggest art museum in Western America and houses thousands of art works. Street lamps outside the building make a great photo opportunity.
Jen Spencer
A scenic walk & Camille
Everyone checks our the lamp posts at LACMA. We walked toward "the Rock" and heard a story about Camille. "The Rock" is actually a sculpture called Levitated Mass, which is apparently a commentary on fame. Standing between us and it was a security guard who offered to walk us around it. He told us about the Rock and about Camille, a young Jamaican single mother he had tried to help. The more he talked about Camille, his anger and pain rising as he warned us against helping people who weren't ready to be helped, the more we questioned whether this man should be entrusted with security. After dark. In the darker part of the LACMA grounds. We wished him well, said a prayer for Camille, bid the levitated mass adieu, and learned a valuable lesson about staying close to the light.


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Setting the standard for school success: The power of the principalship
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Gracie Branch serves as the associate executive director for professional learning at the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP). In her current position, Branch works with principals to promote leadership development and mentor public school administrators. She sustains and grows leadership opportunities by providing quality professional learning experiences for administrators that encompass national educational standards, initiatives, and reforms. In 2016, the University Council for Educational Administration recognized Branch for excellence in educational leadership. Branch feels that her 43 years in education serve as a solid foundation to carry out her responsibilities at NAESP and to achieve high professional standards and best practices in our nation's schools.
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Carmen Concepcion has been an educator for 25 years. She currently serves as area superintendent in Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools where she supervises and coaches 16 principals and schools. In 2018, she opened a new Dual Language Immersion School in Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools, Charlotte East Language Academy. She has been committed to high achievement for Title I schools throughout her career, leading the highest performing Title I school in the district for six consecutive years and winning state recognition. Concepcion has coached beginning principals through the Wallace Foundation Principal Pipeline initiative for six years. She is certified as an NAESP National Principal Mentor and is a Columbia University 2018 Cahn Fellow (Cahn Fellows Program for Distinguished Principals).
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It's not just The Australian. "The ABC has a lot to answer for"
John Menadue. Listen here.
Here's an extract from his speaking notes at a New News conference.
Under-resourced mainstream media is not in a healthy state. It is failing significantly, with a few notable exceptions, in the health field as in most other fields. It is much more than just the shrillness of the Murdoch media. With so little news to break or analyse, it is not surprising that journalists spend such an inordinate amount of time-sharing opinions with each other.
Can online media fill the vacuum? Crikey/Croaky, Centre for Policy Development and others are in the field, but they will take time to grow. The important issue for online media to recognise is that technology is the easy part. The hard part is content both information and analysis.
In pay television for example, we have excellent new technology that has given us more channels and better pictures, but the improvement in content is marginal. We have more choices, but little increase in value. Online media is much cheaper to produce and deliver, but the continuing problem will be access to good content at reasonable cost. Bloggers give us worthwhile and diverse opinions, but are not particularly strong on the dissemination of factual information.
The Australian polity and the media are in a downward spiral, almost a death wish. Disappointment and disillusionment with politics and the media is widespread and growing.
Trivia and personalities prevailed in the media in the last election campaign. The best example of trivia that I can recall was the Australian Financial Review's portrayal of Julia Gillard saying 'Nauru' instead of 'East Timor'. As the AFR put it 'Gillard's Nauru gaff rocks asylum seekers' stance'. Really? I have been getting my four children's names confused for the last 50 years! Even Kerry O'Brien mis-speaks the ABC for the ALP.
Politicians are clearly running away from the big ticket issues – particularly climate change and the two or three track economy that the mining boom is foisting on Australia. Politicians listen closely to lobbyists on these big-ticket issues – 900 full-time of them, or 34 for every Cabinet minister. Journalists are under-resourced to examine policy issues and in many cases have become the mouthpiece of special interests with their well-funded public relations activities. The Australian Centre for Independent Journalism at UTS found in a survey of the 10 major metropolitan newspapers published in Crikey in March this year that 55% of content was PR driven, and 24% of content had little or no significant journalist input. In the specific field of health/science and medicine, the survey found that 52% of content was PR driven, with 23% of content having little or no significant journalist input.
Before I come specifically to health, let me mention the problem in the wider media context.
The Rudd Government introduced timid climate change proposals and then over-compensated the polluters. Frightened by a 'big new tax', the government ran away. The result of the power of special interests and the failure of the media to explain has resulted in what Ross Garnaut has described as a 'diabolical problem'.
For a $7 m advertising campaign, the three wealthy foreign-owned miners saved themselves $7 b in taxes. There were some media commentators, Ross Gittins and Ian Verrender, who wrote cogently on the issues, but much of the media, which was the beneficiary of the miners' advertising money, either diverted public attention from what was at stake or clambered in political support of the foreign miners. I wonder how those same journalists will react when Chinese state-owned enterprises follow BHP, Rio Tinto and Xstrata in running future political campaigns against the Australian government. The media was missing in action on this big-ticket item.
On asylum seekers, the government and the media, and particularly the ABC, failed to frame the debate with facts. Television news and current affairs obviously worked on the assumption that if there were no pictures, there was no news. It was easy to get pictures of asylum seekers' boats floundering in the Arafura Sea, but it is hard to get worthwhile pictures of asylum seekers' coming by air, despite the fact that over 90% of asylum seekers come by air and not by boat. Tony Abbott said that Australia was being 'invaded' by asylum seekers, yet neither the government nor the media took the trouble to point out that asylum seekers represented only 1% of our migration intake...
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Why was this uploaded image rotated 90 degrees?
I recently uploaded this image in chat.
However, on upload, the image was rotated 90 degrees to the right, for no obvious reason that I can discern. I didn't ask for it!
Looks like the rotation metadata got missed due to the missing header.
So as it turns out, imgur was acting correctly.


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Le lac de Kruth-Wildenstein  est un lac artificiel du versant alsacien du massif des Vosges.Il se situe essentiellement dans le territoire de la commune de Kruth et une petite partie dans la commune de Fellering, mais également une petite partie amont sur le territoire de la commune de Wildenstein.

Caractéristiques

 Coordonnées :
 Altitude : 545 m
 Surface : 81 ha en eau pleine
 Largeur maximale : 520 m
 Longueur maximale : 2,1 km
 Profondeur maximale : 35 m

Le barrage
Établi sur la Thur, le barrage permet la retenue d'un maximum de  de m.

Historique
Le bassin versant de la haute Thur se compose essentiellement de ballons fortement enneigés chaque hiver. Des crues printanières parfois catastrophiques ont suggéré, dès le  lors d'une rupture d'un réservoir en amont de Wildenstein cette retenue était utilisé par une usine de filature et tissage, l'édification d'un barrage
permettant leur régulation.
Ce n'est cependant qu'en 1954 que sa construction fut décidée, sept ans après une dernière crue dévastatrice. Édifié de 1959 à 1963, le barrage fut mis en eau en 1964 afin de soutenir les étiages de la Thur encore fortement industrialisée. Le barrage fait également fonction de rétention des crues hivernales ce qui s'est averé très bénéfique lors du dernier événement des 4 et , permettant alors de retenir plus de  et de réduire de  le débit de point de la crue de la Thur (25 %).

Le barrage est de type « barrage poids sans noyau d'argile » (technique courante en Allemagne), une construction très stable avec une protection amont étanche en béton bitumineux constituée de quatre couches successives. L'ouvrage est une propriété départementale.

En raison du faible débit de la Thur à cet endroit, il n'a pas été jugé rentable d'installer une centrale hydroélectrique.

Activités

 Pêche, canoë-kayak, plongée, bateaux à pédales.
 Camping.
 Parc Arbre Aventure, créé en 2004. Parcours en forêt, tyrolienne, via ferrata.

Voir aussi
Liste des lacs de France
Cascade du Bockloch

Liens externes

 Tourisme

Notes et références

Wildenstein
Wildenstein
Kruth-Wildenstein


Iran's environment chief has condemned the savage killing of stray dogs in Shiraz, calling for a fitting punishment for the perpetrators.
Protest rallies have been held across Iran after a gruesome video went viral featuring the brutal killing of several stray dogs in an industrial park in Shiraz. The three-minute video shows the dogs dying after apparently being injected acid by men wearing masks.
Shiraz Municipality has denied any involvement in the killing of the dogs, saying it does not supervise the industrial parks.
The recent video has prompted people and officials to ask sources of emulation about the Islamic view on animal abuse.
Senior Shiite clerics have unanimously rejected the killing of animals as religiously and ethically unjustifiable. For instance, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Nouri Hamedani has said that the killing of non-harmful animals is not [religiously] permissible.
Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Mohammad Ali Hosseini Alavi Gorgani has said that it is not acceptable to kill animals under the pretext of protecting the environment and [people's] health by arguing that there are other means to that end.
Grand Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi has said that the killing of animals is permissible only when they endanger human lives and there is no other way [to eliminate the threat].
Officials too have condemned the brutal act, vowing to pursue the case and bring those behind it to justice. It came as a group of animal lovers gathered outside the Environment Protection Organization in Tehran on Sunday, protesting against the killing of stray dogs in Shiraz.
Ahmad Nabavi, an official with the Environment Protection Organization, told the protesters that the EPO has sent a letter to a Shiraz court asking for the punishment of those involved in the brutal killing of stray dogs in the city.
He further said that the environment organization stands by the protesters until the cold-blooded killers of the dogs are punished.
Nabavi went on to say that measures should be adopted to help animals be treated properly, adding that rabidanimals should be identified and collected.
Protesters also signed a petition, asking for an immediate end to the inhumane act.
Mohammad Darvish, another EPO official, said in the protest rally that the environment chief has – in a letter – asked the head of the Fars Provincial Environment Department to follow up the case and identify and hand in the dog killers to judicial officials.
The environment organization has released guidelines on treatment of unclaimed dogs and other animals which wander in cities, he said, adding that we need to adopt ethical methods to neuter the homeless dogs and identify the rabid canines.
This way we can control the stray dog population, he stressed.
Darvish went on to say that Iran's wildlife will definitely undergo change after the current protests against the gruesome killing of stray dogs, adding that the environment protection will become legally mandatory [in the country].
We are following the case through legal channels, trying to bring to justice both the perpetrators of these savage killings and those who have ordered it [the acid injection], he said.
Darvish also said that the organization has studied the world's valuable scientific experiences and compiled a style book on treatment of such animals, adding the style book will be communicated by the Interior Ministry [to government agencies] to help make such inhuman acts a thing of the past.
The EPO director thanked people for the responsibility they feel toward the wildlife and said that animal cruelty is not acceptable under any circumstances, adding that the EPO will follow the Shiraz case through the provincial department of environment protection.
She also said that officials in Fars Provincial Environment Department have said that several leads have been found, but that there are some gray areas in the case because the municipality has denied the incident.
Ebtekar then criticized the legal loopholes that exist in animal protection law, saying that the EPO has general regulations on the wildlife, but there is nothing specific on the rights of dogs and cats.
We are trying to define a legal framework for animal rights so that we know what should be done in such conditions, she said.
The environment chief further said that all responsibility lies with the municipality and its districts and that the Environment Protection Organization is not legally responsible for such cases.


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MARIETTA, Georgia (Aug. 30, 2016) — A capacity crowd of real estate investors and other bidders packed into the John Dixon & Associates offices last week, while dozens more watched and bid online for commercial properties, land, homes and other real estate.
A partially complete retail and medical office building on Marietta's Powder Springs Road sold for more than $1 million. Also selling were two motels across the street from each other in Wayne County, Georgia.
"There's a lot of demand, and that was reflected in the number of bidders both live and online. Our simulcast bidding has become so popular that these are often the same group. It's not unusual to have someone stop by the office on the auction day to pick up some materials and then go back to their office or home to bid," said John Dixon, president of the auction company.
Dixon said the company's Multi Seller auction format, which features properties from a number of sellers, is growing in popularity with sellers and buyers alike.
"As in previous Multi Seller events, we had several banks, some individuals, and institutional investors who sold property throughout the Southeast. Bidders like it because they have more properties to choose from," said Dixon.
The company now turns its sights to Puerto Rico, where the company will conduct an auction of approximately 40 properties on September 10. Individuals seeking more information on that, or on selling assets in the company's auctions, may visit www.johndixon.com or call 800-479-1763.
John Dixon & Associates, based in Atlanta with offices in Florida, North Carolina and South Carolina, is one of the nation's largest auctioneers of real estate properties, including land, residential, commercial and industrial properties.


With the advent of services like Turo, I've toyed with getting something cheap for my DD and then renting something nice for weekend trips when I want to get away. Here in San Diego, there are a ton of nice road cars (C7 'vettes, Boxsters, an F-Type, etc.). That way you never get bored and can try something different depending on what you need for that particular weekend.
Curious how maintenance would compare to another E9x M.
I've always liked the 997.1 GT3 cars, but feel the maintenance costs will be through the roof.
Man that has done zero research.
They are actually quite reliable.
Maintenance is not too bad, but parts are more expensive. As with Bmws the dealer is a rip off. Find a good Indy.
The Achilles heel are the oem coolant pipes which can fail on all 996/997 mezger engines. The fix is replacing the plastic elbows with metal ones and pinning them. This requires engine removal at a cost of $3500.
Also, the ceramic brakes are costly to replace and most swap to steel rotors.
Hmmm, for 65 you can have my Dinan S3R....!


The "EVO" part of this Sym's title is spot on. The Taiwanese built scooter started its life as a 250, and then evolved into the 263,7cc engine which currently provides its thrust. In fact parent company Sym are busy with a bit of an evolution themselves. 2018 world wide sales are significantly up, to more than 750000 units, this despite sales in China, their previous biggest market being down. Sym products have built a reputation for quality and reliability over the years which is now starting to bear significant fruit.