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From oat to pea milk: which alternative do you choose?
Nobody is surprised by a splash of oat milk in your coffee, and coconut yogurt is almost as common as a packet of custard in some circles. We drink much less dairy than before, but which replacement is right for you?
We consume less dairy. Between 2016 and 2019, we bought 6 percent less milk, 10 percent less custard and 25 percent less dairy desserts, according to results from market researcher IRI.
We can regard that as good news, says Stacy Pyett, researcher at Wageningen University (WUR), because in the long term we want to move towards a society in which we get half of our proteins from plants and half from animal products. Ideally it will be 70/30. We are not there yet. In order to provide the growing world population with sufficient proteins in the future, says the WUR, we will have to look for alternative protein sources.
Truly all dairy alternatives are better for the earth than dairy. A 2018 study from the University of Oxford found that producing a glass of animal milk causes almost three times more greenhouse gas emissions than any plant milk.
Pyett: "The consumer has plenty of choice, but this theme contains a lot; it is about climate impact, nutritional value, animal welfare, costs and water consumption. You can include all that in your search for an alternative, so there is no ideal replacement."
Almond milk: takes a lot of water to make
The nut milks, says the WUR researcher - because you also have cashew, hazelnut and coconut milk - you can better leave them for climate reasons. "Producing nut milk takes a lot of water. Moreover, the nuts are often not locally grown in Europe."
80 percent of global almond production takes place in Central Valley, California; an area plagued by drought. Almond milk is not vegan: almond cultivation flourishes thanks to the hard work of bees, who die en masse on the almond groves. For pollination, 70 percent of all commercial bees are flown in, according to reports from the British newspaper The Guardian. The bees are working so hard that a large number of them die: last year a record number - more than a third of them - did not reach the end of the season.
Rice milk: low in protein
This drink is not a full-fledged dairy alternative. There is simply too little protein in it, Pyett said. Moreover, rice milk cannot be produced locally, and growing rice takes a lot of water.
Coconut milk: not completely vegan
It sounds vegan, but it is not, says Alexandra Yablonska, who is responsible for the Milk, Je Kan Zonder! Campaign at the Dutch Association for Veganism. Animal rights organization PETA investigated the living conditions of macaques (a monkey species) and came with rather shocking results: the macaques are forced to harvest coconuts for our milk and are abused.
Reason for Albert Heijn, among others, not to sell Chaokoh and Aroy-D products for the time being. Yablonska: "Veganism is not a diet, but a lifestyle in which you resist the use of animals. Monkeys and bees are used for our gain, and therefore those types of milk are not vegan. Coconut milk is very fat, and I would only recommend people to arrive. "
Oat milk: possible winner
This dairy alternative could very well be the winner. Pyett: "The taste is neutral enough to replace milk, something that cannot be said of legume milk, for example. It can be grown locally, so that your ecological footprint is less than for example with soy and almond milk." Oat milk is also easy to make yourself.
This is how you make oat milk yourself
Mix 100 grams of oat flakes with 800 milliliters of water and make a smooth mass with the hand blender.
Let the mixture stand for a few minutes. Not too long, otherwise the milk will become too slimy.
Pour the mixture through a cheesecloth or thick tea towel and collect it in a bowl. You can do this twice: the more often, the thinner your milk.
Then pour your oat milk into a glass bottle and keep it in the fridge.
Soy milk: good if it does not come from the rainforest
Soy milk is a worthy substitute for milk in terms of protein. Growing soybeans here in Western Europe has not yet proved cost effective, so much of the soy is still coming from South America, where patches of rainforest in the Amazon are being burned to make way for the cultivation of soy. Soy is also grown in North America and Canada, where no rainforest is sacrificed, and even in Twente Dutch soy is grown on a small scale.
"Take fruit instead of yogurt."
Those who want a more plant-based diet do not have to make things difficult for themselves, according to the WUR researcher. "I would stay away from too much processed food. Take a can of chickpeas instead of a ready-made veggie burger. Replace your yogurt bowl with a piece of fruit instead of looking for complicated yogurt made from peas. Then are you there too? "
Whether we as Dutch people have an extra hard time leaving our glass of milk? No, Pyett knows. European ING research into the interest for protein alternatives mainly shows the difference between men and women across Europe. "Men mostly miss meat, women miss cheese."
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Q: How to get the child element of a JSON string with multiple level in JavaScript This is my JSON string generated by C# JSON parser:
{
    "NewDataSet": {
        "Table": [
            {
                "ResultId": "1",
                "AttachmentId": "1",
                "AttachmentName": "Report1",
                "RowsCount": "34",
                "NotifyUserName": "william",
                "InsBy": "developer",
                "InsAt": "2012-12-07T17:28:01.46+08:00",
                "IsNotify": "false"
            },
            {
                "ResultId": "2",
                "AttachmentId": "2",
                "AttachmentName": "Report2",
                "RowsCount": "37",
                "NotifyUserName": "william",
                "InsBy": "developer",
                "InsAt": "2012-12-07T17:28:15.57+08:00",
                "IsNotify": "false"
            },
            {
                "ResultId": "3",
                "AttachmentId": "3",
                "AttachmentName": "Report3",
                "RowsCount": "69",
                "NotifyUserName": "william",
                "InsBy": "developer",
                "InsAt": "2012-12-07T17:28:25.58+08:00",
                "IsNotify": "false"
            }
        ]
    }
}

Then I would like to parse the string to front end JavaScript to iterate the value.
I did this way.
  var jsonText;
        $.ajax({
            type: "POST",
            url: "Default.aspx/MethodWithNoParameterJSON",
            data: {},
            contentType: "application/json;charset=utf-8",
            dataType: "json",
            async: true,
            cache: false,
            success: function (msg) {
                //rulesName = dbtitle+msg.d;
                //rulesCount = +msg.d;
                jsonText = msg.d;
               alert(jsonText.NewDataSet.Table[0].ResultId),
            },
            error: function (x, e) {
                alert("The call to the server side failed. " + x.responseText);
            }
        });

How can I get the child element data like jsonText.NewDataSet.Table[0].ResultId? Whenever I call alert(jsonText.NewDataSet.Table[0].ResultId), it will always prompt null or undefined object.

A: Why are you using msg.d to set your jsonText variable? Where does the .d property come from? The msg parameter should already be the object created from your JSON response. Try this instead:
msg.NewDataSet.Table[0].ResultId

(And note that your jsonText variable is badly named: what you have at that point is not JSON or "text", it is an object - or, in your case, undefined because msg.d is undefined. But you are trying to use it as an object, not as JSON.)

A: typo? I think it should be
jsonText.NewDataSet.Table[0].ResultId // replace RulesId with ResultId

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Home / News / Penguin Random House Remove Degree Requirements for New Jobs
Penguin Random House Remove Degree Requirements for New Jobs
Penguin Random House publishers recently announced that they are doing away with university degree requirements for its new jobs in an attempt to appeal to a more diverse audience.
How do they think this will help?
On top of removing degree requirements Penguin Random House UK have also removed requirements for A-Levels or UCAS points, basing its decision on "increasing evidence that there is no simple correlation" between work performance and having a degree.
The publishing group simply feels that in order to source the best possible applicants they need to move all academic barriers, and place candidates based on their potential, creativity, strengths and ideas. They also hope to show those that have been through higher education that the university they graduated from will not impact the company's decision.
Penguin Random House UK also believe creating a more diverse workforce, with people with different perspectives and from different backgrounds, will play a vital role in making their products appeal to a wider audience.
Is this the right move?
Penguin Random House UK aren't the first company to take this approach. Late last year Accountancy firm Ernst & Young announced that they would no longer consider degree or A-level results when assessing potential employees, also citing little evidence for success at university relating to achievement later in life. They believe that "screening students based on academic performance alone was too blunt an approach to recruitment.".
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) are another company that has begun to pay less attention to UCAS points as entry criteria for its graduate scheme. A decision that was made to avoid missing out on key talent from those from disadvantaged backgrounds, whose performance at school may have been hindered.
None of these organisations have said that they won't consider candidates with degree level education more highly, they have simply stated that they want to broaden the range of applicants by removing qualification requirements and give talented people from different backgrounds a chance.
Not only do they provide an opportunity for those that have chosen not to pursue higher education, but they open up the possibility of finding that extremely talented, ideal individual that they may not have found before.
Do we agree with their approach?
In short, yes.
When we and our clients look at CVs these days the most important thing is professional credibility and achievement.
It certainly won't hinder your application if you have some good academic qualifications alongside that experience but it can't replace it. And if we're honest there are occasions where a long list of academic qualifications (whilst impressive) does pose the questions as to why the candidate has delayed entering full-time, permanent employment.
Providing there are suitable processes in place to assess the candidate's skills and strengths and prove their ability to perform in the role, we can't see any reason why degree level education is the be-all and end-all when selecting the ideal candidate.

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Tellurion A tellurion is a mechanical device constructed to demonstrate the rotation of the earth around its axis, the rotation of the moon around the earth and the rotation of both celestial bodies around the sun. When the candle on the tellurion is lit, the metal plate will reflect light onto the globe. The celestial bodies of the tellurion are set into motion by turning the crank. The earth will then rotate around its axis and around the sun (the candle), and the moon will rotate around the earth. As they do, it becomes evident that the four seasons are caused by the rotation and orientation of the earth around its axis and by its orbit around the sun. The months are engraved into a plate under the candle. The tellurion was used to explain seasonal changes and also the principles of solar and lunar eclipses. The best place to use a tellurion is in a dark room. It is then quite easy to observe how sunlight affects the planets. The tellurion in the picture was used in Tuv School in the village of Yttermalax. It was made in the 1890's by Ernst Schotte & Co in Berlin, Germany. Brinken Museum
Slate The slate was used to practice writing. Made of rock also called slate, it came encased in a wooden frame. A special slate pencil was used to write on the slate. The pencil, too, was made of slate, only of softer slate than the writing pad itself. Later, slate pencils were replaced by pieces of chalk. When the slate was full, it was wiped clean using a rabbit's paw. Slates were commonly used in schools well into the 20th century. Brinken Museum
Doll and bed Children have played with dolls for thousands of years. The earliest dolls were made of readily available materials such as cloth, wood, bone or leather. In the 19th century, factory-made dolls with porcelain heads and cloth torsos could be bought, but home-made ragdolls remained popular well into the 20th century. Ragdolls were made of left-over pieces of cloth, and they were often stuffed with any soft material available in the home. The doll in the picture was made by Edith Lind, when she attended the 3rd grade of Långmossa School in 1930–31. Textile handicraft was on the curriculum, and the 4th grade pupils of elementary school were expected to make a doll complete with bed linen and a blanket. Edith did all this a year earlier, as a third-grader. She made the doll and all its clothes, as well as the bed linen and the blanket. The bed is a tiny replica of beds commonly found in farm houses all around the region. In Swedish, this type of bed was known as a "fölåtansienje", a curtain bed. The bed has been donated to the museum by Eva Ekblad. It originally belonged to Eva's mother, who presumably played with it in the early 1900's. Brinken Museum
Toy horse Toys were often made at home using readily available materials such as wood, pieces of cloth, clay, etc. The children often made the toys themselves, sometimes with the help of an adult. The horse on wheels was made by Emil Lind, who gave it to his daughter Ethel (whose married name was Helenelund), probably as a Christmas present. The horse was made around 1933. Brinken Museum
School books Spelling books, the Catechism explaining the ten commandments and the heroic poem Fänrik Ståls Sägner (The Tales of Ensign Stål) by Johan Ludvig Runeberg, the Finnish national poet, were commonly used in schools. Children were expected to learn quite a number of the poems from The Tales of Ensign Stål by heart. Boken om vårt land by Zacharias Topelius – a book describing Finland historically, geographically, ethnically and culturally – was commonly used to teach biology, geography and history. Writing books, songbooks and arithmetic books were used as well. Granösund Fishing Museum
Abacus The abacus, also known as a counting frame, is a calculating tool used to teach the four rules of arithmetic. The abacus is a wooden frame with wires on which wooden beads can be slid back and forth. Each bead represents a sum. On the first wire, at the bottom of the abacus, the bead represents "1". On the second wire, a bead is the equivalent of "10". On the third, it is "100", etc. An abacus can be used for quite sizable calculations, up to the sum of ten billion. The abacus in the picture belongs to Övermalax School.
School posters School posters were quite important for the tuition. School books were almost never illustrated, but through the posters, the children could catch a glimpse of foreign countries, learn of animals and plants, experience historical events and learn tales from the Bible, etc. Brinken Museum


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Story 18 - Last Night in Brisbane
(Extract from 'The Cream of Her Youth', Chapter 7 by Stuart Weller)
The last night in Brisbane (1 May 1967) for 104 Signal Squadron before deploying to South Vietnam, saw a large number of the guys deciding to go to the National Hotel in the City for a few drinks. By closing time (10pm) the boys were charged and it appeared no allowance was to be made for Vietnam bound diggers and they were asked to leave.
Geoff Molineaux who depending on who you talk to on the night's events could be seen as anything from a 'victim of a horrible misunderstanding' to a 'noble, good Samaritan and righter of wrongs'.
Anyway it appears Geoff was one of the first out of the Hotel but was a little stirred, saw what looked like a 104 guy sprawled face down on the roadway with an unknown person standing over him. Geoff enquired as to the problem and why one of his mates was face down on the roadway. They were obvious requests and Geoff may have been a little rude in the way he posed them. That is he grabbed the vertical one by the scruff of the neck, spun him round and belted him one on the mouth – always intending of course, to ask the question shortly thereafter. You can imagine Geoff's surprise therefore, when the guy (through a mouth full of loose ivory and busted lips) informs him (Geoff) that he (with the loose ivory) is a loyal, card-carrying member of the Queensland constabulary.
Well, as Geoff was to say later, "You could have flattened me with a feather!" That however, wasn't quite what the good policeman had in mind and Geoff was somewhat taken back when, with all his defences down and his mind in a whirl the good policeman returned the compliment and loosened a couple of his bicuspids. That's not cricket of course, as Geoff had felt he'd already squared things away by apoligising profusely and so all bets were off. More of 104 poured out of the National, more Queensland police gravitated to the scene and it quickly developed into an all in brawl.
A few of the 104 guys did a job on Queensland's finest and a number escaped in a fighting withdrawal movement – Some of the police looked like they had damaging rounds with a cement mixer!
After Queensland's finest got the best of the engagement, a number of 104 guys were cooling their heels in paddy wagons, on their way to the city watch house. Geoff however, was closely examining one of the tram poles in the middle of the street. John Lonergan was handcuffed to another pole and spends a quiet half hour trying to chew through the cuffs.
Geoff remembers while the others left in their wagons, he was taken separately "the long way round" in another, with 4 or 5 police for company. They insisted on him examining each and every panel of "his" wagon by bouncing him off them with their fists.
Next morning saw Geoff almost alone in a cell, most of the others having been released as they've sobered up. Still with Molineaux was John Lonergan who hadn't woken up yet – John sure knew how to enjoy himself!
Geoff and three others were charged with a grab-bag of offences and appeared before a beak at a special early morning sitting of the court.
Capt Ren Hinton, 2IC 104 Sig Sqn, arrived at Enoggera and has, in no uncertain terms, informed the duty officer at the front gate what he can do with his sick joke about half of 104's men being in the city watch house overnight. You don't need things like that happening the night before; you're due to lead the main body of 104 to war. After the orderly room confirmed that sizeable percentage of the unit have been through the watch house during the night, he seriously considers opening a vein. Ren contacts the army legal eagles and had somebody front for the group and orders the rest to parade in front of him. So there he sat, the unit's senior officer (Major Lawrence, the OC was already with the advance parity in Vietnam), with four members in the slammer, the Queensland police still looking for others, the bulk of the rest hung-over and showing definite signs of wear and tear, due to fly out to a war this afternoon and suddenly very, very alone in command – Duntroon's training, had not prepared him for this!
Hinton was to say later that it was a useless exercise trying to get the correct story. All the blokes were either lying or could not remember. He learnt little and the only thing he was sure, he got out of it was a headache.
Meanwhile, back in court, the defence lawyer makes big of the fact that all the boys were high spirited because:
"To-day …(pregnant pause, followed by a slow and deliberate turn of the head to look at the wall clock) …that is to say in exactly 3 hours, 10 and one quarter minutes – these soldiers must be on the tarmac at Brisbane's Eagle Farm Airport to board a plane to fly to Vietnam. Last night's get –together was a final farewell to Brisbane and quite possibly Australia, before departure to an uncertain and danger fraught existence in the steaming jungles of Asia in pursuit of an enemy etc, etc"
"I am sympathetic to your plight gentlemen", says His Honour the beak, who is apparently a WW1 or WW2 veteran.
"Thankyou, Your Honour", put in the 104 quartet.
"But we must not allow all this fighting in the streets to continue", say His Honour.
"Couldn't agree with you more, Your Honour", echo the 104 four.
"Who is going to make restitution to the detective for his suit and the police uniforms?", asked His Honour.
"Your Honour, we've acknowledge our guilt and accept that we must pay". A quick whip around between these in the dock and the amount required of $50 was handed over.
"Very well then", says His Honour, "In that case I find you guilty of the offence as charged and you are to remain guilty until the rising of the this court" – Guilty for all of about 5 seconds!
While the police sit dumbfounded the boy's bolt – they're sober now and know what the score is with the Queensland constabulary.
With Geoff still looking over his shoulder for his police mates, he boards the plane mid afternoon and the main body of 104 departs Eagle Farm for Darwin as planned, with all members and a very relieved Ren Hinton!
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Fair Play (NMR Collection)
August Belmont II
A. Jack Joyner
Fair Play was arguably the best colt August Belmont II ever raced in America. A chestnut son of Hastings out of the Bend Or mare Fair Gold, Fair Play set track records as a 3-year-old at both Belmont Park and Gravesend and later became a three-time leading sire.
Trained by A. Jack Joyner, Fair Play broke his maiden in his second career start in 1907 at Brighton Beach. He won three times as a juvenile, including the Montauk and Flash stakes. He also finished second in the Hopeful and third in the United States Hotel.
Fair Play finished first or second in 15 of 16 starts as a 3-year-old in 1908. He set a track record for 1¼ miles at Gravesend and for 1 5/16 miles at Belmont Park. Fair Play, however, was always behind the undefeated Colin and finished second to him in the 1908 Belmont Stakes, missing victory by only a head. It was the fifth and final meeting between Colin and Fair Play, as Colin retired following the Belmont.
With Colin on the sidelines, Fair Play dominated the second half of the 1908 season, winning the Brooklyn Derby, Coney Island Jockey Club Stakes (equaling the track record of 2:31⅕ for 1½ miles), Lawrence Realization, First Special (setting a track record of 2:03⅖ for 1 ¼ miles), Jerome Handicap (setting a track record of 2:10⅖ for 1 5/16 miles) and Municipal Handicap. He finished his sophomore season with a record of 7-8-1 from 16 starts and earnings of $70,215.
Betting on a race became illegal in New York when the Percy Grey law was repealed in 1908 and Belmont sent many of his horses, including Fair Play, to run in England. As a 4-year-old, Fair Play was winless in six starts overseas, finishing no better than fourth. He was retired with a career record of 10-11-3 from 32 starts and earnings of $86,950.
Fair Play went on to become America's leading sire in 1920, 1924 and 1927. His equine masterpiece was the immortal Man o' War. Other standouts sired by Fair Play included Display, Mad Hatter, Chance Shot, Chance Play, Mad Play and the great steeplechaser Fairmount.
Fair Play died Dec. 16, 1929 at Elmendorf Farm near Lexington, Ky., at the age of 24.
1907 2 10 3 3 2 $16,735.00
1909 4 6 0 0 0 $0.00
Notable wins:
Montauk Stakes — 1907
Flash Stakes — 1907
Lawrence Realization Stakes — 1908
Jerome Handicap — 1908
Brooklyn Derby — 1908
Coney Island Jockey Club Stakes — 1908
First Special — 1908
Municipal Handicap — 1908


It all started with a comment and a pull request.
I hadn't put time into maintaining my fitbit gem reference app in quite awhile, and when I got a pull request to update it to the latest rails version I at first hesitated. After talking with some folks at my coworking space, however, I decided to use some holiday downtime to pull in the changes and see if I could build on them to improve the quality of the site.
At first I was horrified to learn that I'd stopped in mid-refactoring and I realized it was no wonder that Marcel (the submitter) reported he'd had trouble getting tests to run. The first step was to delete whole directories of files and tests that no longer conformed to the current design of the site and ensure that the files that remained all contributed to that design.
I grabbed Marcel's pull request and got to work merging it in, at which point I looked at the login code and got embarrassed again. The truth is, the fitgem library wasn't really built for managing oauth logins; instead it is optimized for using a token/secret for a given user to fetch data from the API. Yes, you could use fitgem to facilitate an oauth login process, but it certainly wasn't built with rails in mind and you had to roll your own controllers, views, and token and secret management.
The thing is, we already have a library that does that sort of thing: OmniAuth is a fantastic library for consuming pluggable login strategies. I didn't have to search long before I found a fitbit strategy for omniauth, and I set to work integrating it into the reference app.
Unlike Twitter and Facebook, logging into Fitbit via omniauth-fitbit doesn't allow devise to remember you from session to session, so you end having to re-login every time. I haven't yet figured out why but it may be something about how Fitbit conducts OAuth logins or it may be a configuration issue with omniauth-fitbit.
raise "Account is not linked with a Fitbit account" unless linked?
Eventually I should use a better pattern for this, but for now it's simplistic and anywhere you have a logged-in user in your application you will be able to call fitbit_data to get access to a configured FitbitClient instance.
And with that we're logging in via Fitbit and using the token/secret returned via omniuath-fitbit to fuel data retrieval from the Fitbit API through fitgem.


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Cyclammininae es una subfamilia de foraminíferos bentónicos de la familia Cyclamminidae, de la superfamilia Loftusioidea , del suborden Loftusiina y del orden Loftusiida. Su rango cronoestratigráfico abarca desde el Paleoceno hasta la actualidad.

Discusión
Clasificaciones previas incluían Cyclammininae en el suborden Textulariina, en el orden Textulariida o en el orden Lituolida.

Clasificación
Cyclammininae incluye al siguiente género:
 Cyclammina

Bibliografía

Loftusiida
Foraminíferos aglutinados

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Ouvidor is a municipality in southeast Goiás state, Brazil.

Location
Located 267 kilometers from the state capital, Goiânia, Ouvidor is connected by BR-352 / Bela Vista de Goiás / Cristianópolis / GO-020 / Pires do Rio / BR-352 / GO-330 / Ipameri / Catalão / GO-330 / BR-352. See Distancias Rodoviarias Sepin

Ouvidor has boundaries with the following municipalities:
north:  Catalão and Davinópolis;
south:  Três Ranchos;
east:  Minas Gerais state;
west:  Catalão

History
The origin of Ouvidor dates to 1922, when the train station on the Estrada de Ferro Goiás was inaugurated.  The settlement began to grow with farmers moving into the region and it belonged to Catalão.  The first name was Catuaba, the name of a local plant.

With the increase in population the town became a district in 1948 and finally a municipality in 1953.  The name was changed to Ouvidor, because of the small river that passes nearby.

Political Information
In January 2005 the Mayor was João Cezar Fonseca.  The city council had 9 members and there were 4,268 eligible voters in December 2007.

Demographics
In 2007 the population density was 11.45 inhabitants/km2.  In 2007 there were 4,111 inhabitants in the urban area and 625 inhabitants in the rural area.  The population has increased by about 1,200 inhabitants since 1980.

The economy
Ouvidor has an economy based on the exploration of minerals.  The most important is Niobium, which is extracted from open pits and transformed into ferro niobium See Angloamerican which is used in the airplane industry.  There are only three deposits of niobium in the world:  two in Brazil, in Ouvidor and Araxá, and another in Canada.  All of the niobium is exported.

MCG - Mineração Catalão de Goiás, began its activities in refinement of niobium in 1976.  Its production is exported to countries like Japan, United Kingdom, Germany, and the United States. See Angloamerian

In addition to ferro niobium there are two large plants producing phosphates.  COPEBRAS See Copebras started producing phosphates in 1978.  Its product is sent to Cubatão São Paulo to make NPK and phosphoric acid.  Ultrafértil began producing phosphates in 1982.  Its production is used to make fertilizer.

Another important industry in Ouvidor is Sakura—Nakala Alimentos Ltda., which is a national leader in the segment of soy sauce.  It employs around 200 workers in the city.

Economic Data
Industrial units:  11
Retail commercial units:  53
Dairies:  Joaquim Teodoro Neto de Souza
Financial institutions:  Banco Itaú S.A.

The economic sector employing more people was that of transformation industries, followed by public administration.

In 2004 there were 27,000 head of cattle.  The main agricultural products were garlic, rice, coffee, sugarcane, manioc, corn, soybeans, and tomatoes,  None exceeded 1,000 hectares in planted area.

Agricultural data 2006
Farms:  361
Total area:  11,149 ha.
Area of permanent crops: 121 ha.
Area of perennial crops: 653 ha.
Area of natural pasture:  9,945 ha.
Area of woodland and forests:  271 ha.
Persons dependent on farming:  900
Farms with tractors: 20
Number of tractors:  35
Cattle herd:  27,000

Health and education
In 2007 there was 1 hospital, with 34 beds, and 2 ambulatory health clinics.   In 2000 the infant mortality rate was 16.95, well below the national average of 33.0.  In 2005 the school system had 4 schools, 35 classrooms, 69 teachers, and 1,195 students.  There was 1 secondary school with 199 students.  In 2000 the adult literacy rate was 90.2%, well above the national average of 86.4%.

Ranking on the Municipal Human Development Index
MHDI:  0.785
State ranking:  22 (out of 242 municipalities)
National ranking:  945 (out of 5,507 municipalities) See Frigoletto.com

See also
List of municipalities in Goiás
Catalão Microregion
Microregions of Goiás

References

Frigoletto
Distancias Rodoviarias Sepin

External links
Site with useful information (Portuguese)

Municipalities in Goiás


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Eluding Case Leads to Search Warrant
Jackson Co. Sheriff's Office Case 19-26648 On 12/27/19, at 1537 hours, Jackson County Sheriff's Office deputies attempted to pull over an unlicensed silver Mercedes Benz sedan in the 20,000 block of Hwy. 62 near Shady Cove, OR. The vehicle attempted to elude and drove onto a private driveway where it was stopped. The driver and a passenger were both arrested. The Mercedes was seized and towed. The driver, Michael Bradley Herlikofer, 30 years old, Shady Cove, Oregon was lodged on three warrants for Failure to Appear; Attempting to Elude a Police Officer-Vehicle; Giving False Information to Police Officer; Distribution of Schedule II Controlled Substance; Possession of Schedule II Controlled Substance and Possession of Schedule III Controlled Substance. The passenger, Tiffany Anderson Burke, 27 years old, Eagle Point, Oregon, was lodged for a probation violation detainer initially. While being booked at County Jail additional charges for Possession of Controlled Substance
STONE HARLEY COLLINS ARRESTED ON SEX CHARGES
DCSO Jailviewer RAPE 3RD DEG CONTRIBUTING SEXUAL DELINQUENCY MINOR
Woman Wanted After Nearly Running Over State Trooper
Washington Co. Sheriff's Office On Sunday, December 29, 2019, just before 11 a.m., Washington County Sheriff's Office deputies were dispatched to a welfare check at NW Cedar Canyon Rd. and NW Killin Rd. near the community of Banks. A passing driver told dispatch the driver of a blue 1991 Geo Prism was slumped over behind the wheel near that intersection. An Oregon State Police trooper found the car a short time later near the Banks City Hall on NW Main St. The trooper was trying to get the woman out of the driver's seat when she put the car in reverse. The trooper was not hit by the car and was not run over, but he was thrown to the ground as she drove backwards. He was not injured. The woman, later identified as 25-year-old Aubri Jenkins of Timber, hit the trooper's front bumper causing minor damage and hit a parked truck before fleeing in her car at speeds of about 80 miles per hour. The trooper pursued Ms. Jenkins north on Highway 47 and then west on Highway 26 befo
Fatal Crash on Hwy 101 - Coos County
Oregon State Police On Saturday, December 29, 2019 at approximately 12:05 A.M. Oregon State Police Troopers and emergency personnel responded to a vehicle crash on Hwy 101 near milepost 241. Preliminary investigation revealed that a Ford Focus, operated by John Shorb (27) of Myrtle Point, was northbound on Hwy 101 when he struck a pedestrian, Daniel Fowers (74) of Coos Bay, which was crossing Hwy 101. Fowers sustained fatal injuries and was pronounced deceased. OSP was assisted by the Coos County Sheriff's Office, Millington Fire Department, Bay Cities Ambulance, and ODOT.
Oregon State Police Fish & Wildlife Troopers Requesting Public's Assistance with Unlawful Take and Waste of Buck Deer - Deschutes County
Oregon State Police The Oregon State Police Fish & Wildlife Division is asking for the public's help for information regarding the person(s) responsible for the unlawful take of a buck deer east of Bend near Pine Mountain. The buck deer was found shot and left to waste. Troopers believe the deer was shot sometime during the week of Christmas. Anyone with information regarding this case is urged to contact OSP Trooper Aaron Roth through the Turn in Poachers (TIP) hotline at 1-800-452-7888 or OSP (mobile). Report Wildlife and Habitat Law Violators The TIP program offers preference point rewards for information leading to an arrest or issuance of a citation for the unlawful take/possession or waste of big game mammals. Preference Point Rewards: 5 Points-Mountain Sheep 5 Points-Mountain Goat 5 Points-Moose 5 Points-Wolf 4 Points-Elk 4 Points-Deer 4 Points-Antelope 4 Points-Bear 4 Points-Cougar The TIP program also offers cash rewards for
Two Teens Arrested After Stabbing at Overnight House Party
Washington Co. Sheriff's Office On Sunday, December 29, 2019, at 1:16 a.m., Washington County Sheriff's Office deputies responded to a report of a stabbing at a house in the 300 block of SW Devonwood Avenue. An 18-year-old man and a 17-year-old boy called 911 and said they had been at the house when they were both stabbed and were on Highway 26 driving to the hospital. While on the phone with dispatch, the two victims saw a Portland Police Bureau Officer and pulled over to get help. That officer provided medical aid while calling for paramedics. The 18-year-old had one stab wound in his neck and shoulder area and a second in his shoulder blade. The 17-year-old had been stabbed in the side of his rib cage. Both of them were taken to area hospitals and have since been released. While the two victims were being helped, other deputies went to the house and detectives from the Violent Crimes Unit were called out. Investigators learned that several teens who live at the hom
Update: Active Search and Rescue Operations Suspended
Washington Co. Sheriff's Office After five days of searching for Ms. Allyson Watterson, the search and rescue operations have been suspended. Allyson has not been located at this time. The decision to suspend that phase of the investigation was made after the search and rescue teams spent thousands of search hours covering an area of about 1,600 acres. Detectives continue to investigate the circumstances surrounding Allyson's disappearance. If new information comes to light or new areas to search are identified, the search and rescue teams may be recalled to continue their efforts. The public is reminded that the entire search area is private property, meaning members of the general public would be trespassing if they attempted to search on their own unless they had specific permission from each property owner. The Sheriff's Office wishes to thank the many people and organizations who helped with this search, including the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office Search and
Fatal Crash Investigation
Douglas Co. Sheriff's Office DIAMOND LAKE, Ore. - On Wednesday, December 25, 2019, at 8:11 PM, the Douglas County Sheriff's Office received information from Jackson County dispatch of an injury crash in the Diamond Lake area near the Jackson/Douglas county line. Resources from Jackson County were dispatched as well as resources from Douglas County. The initial report was that a single vehicle had went over an embankment and the occupants were injured. The crash was determined to have occurred on Forest Service Road 6530 on the 100 spur. Emergency crews located a 2017 Toyota 4-Runner approximately 150 feet over the embankment into a ravine. Following the crash, a large boulder struck the vehicle. The driver, 23 year-old Cody Ray Bean of Redmond, was declared deceased at the scene. Passengers 22 year-old Lauren Elizabeth Bean and 24 year-old Kody Dale Gray, both of Central Point and 48 year-old Lisa Ann Preston of Medford, all sustained injuries and were transported to M
K9 Nike captures wanted subject
Roseburg Police Dept. On Thursday, December 26th, 2019 Roseburg Police K9 Nike and his handler were called to assist in tracking a wanted subject who fled from Douglas County Sheriff's Deputies. The male, 29 year old Trevor Hollenbeck of Dillard, had several warrants for his arrest, and had been wanted since 2018. During this incident K9 Nike tracked Hollenbeck for approximately 1 1/2 miles through blackberries, brush and in the South Umpqua river in the Dillard area. After crawling about 80 yards through blackberries and bruch, K9 Nike found Hollenbeck concealed in the riverbank, covered in brush and a layer of dirt. Hollenbeck refused to come out, so K9 Nike made a biting capture and held Hollenbeck until Hollenbeck was placed in handcuffs. Hollenbeck was treated for minor injuries and lodged at Douglas County Corrections.
DCSO Searching for Missing Skier
Deschutes Co. Sheriff's Office UPDATE - SUBJECT LOCATED The Deschutes County Sheriff's Office is seeking the public's assistance in locating a resident of California, last seen on Christmas Day at approximately 3:40 pm near the top of the Sunrise chair lift, at Mt. Bachelor. On 12/25/19, at approximately 5:03 pm deputies with the Deschutes County Sheriff's Office were contacted by Mt. Bachelor Ski Patrol regarding an overdue skier. It was reported that Ashlee Gingerich, 30 years of age, had not reunited with her party on Mt. Bachelor. Mt. Bachelor Ski patrol swept all runs on the mountain and searched likely areas without success. Gingerich is described as approximately 5'6, 140 lbs with dark blonde hair. She was last seen around 3:40 wearing a black helmet, pink/purple pants with a green jacket. Gingerich does not have a phone with her. Deschutes County Sheriff's Office Search and Rescue responded to Mt. Bachelor with one deputy and nine DCSO SAR volunteers. DCSO SAR
Fatal Crash on Hwy 126W - Lane County
Oregon State Police On Wednesday, December 25, 2019 at approximately 4:30 A.M., Oregon State Police Troopers and emergency personnel responded to a vehicle collision on Hwy 126W near milepost 51. Preliminary investigation revealed a red GMC Sierra pickup operated by Conrad Schwarzkopf (25) of Springfield, was eastbound on Hwy 126W when it struck a bicycle, operated by Travis Ewert (49) of Veneta, in the eastbound lane. Ewert sustained fatal injuries and was pronounced deceased. Schwarzkopf was not injured. Hwy 126W was closed for approximately 4 hours with a detour in place. OSP was assisted by Eugene Fire Department, Eugene Police Department, and ODOT.
Crash Leaves One Seriously Injured
Gresham Police Dept Gresham Police is investigating a crash that left one man with life threatening injuries. Last night at 9:25 p.m., police responded to the report of a single vehicle collision at SE 182nd Ave. and SE Yamhill St. Police found one adult male passenger inside the vehicle with life threatening injuries. He was transported to an area hospital. According to a witness, the adult male driver was seen running from the vehicle. He has not been located. Speed appears to be a factor in the crash. The East Metro Vehicular Crimes Team is investigating. Anyone that witnessed the collision is asked to call the Gresham Police Tip Line at 503.618.2719.
Police Investigate Bus VS Pedestrian Collision
Gresham Police Dept Gresham Police is investigating a Tri-Met bus vs. pedestrian collision on SE 182nd Ave. just south of SE Division St. This morning at 4:59 a.m., an out of service Tri-Met bus was traveling southbound on 182nd Ave. when an adult male pedestrian suddenly stepped off the sidewalk and in front of the bus. He was deceased at the scene. The East Metro Vehicular Crimes Team is investigating. Anyone that witnessed the collision is asked to call the Gresham Police Tip Line at 503.618.2719.
Police Investigate Car VS Bicyclist Collision
Gresham Police Dept Gresham Police responded to a car vs. bicyclist collision which left one 17-year-old male deceased. Last night at 9:00 p.m., police responded to a report of a bicyclist struck at SE Hogan Rd. and SE 4th St. Police arrived on scene and found that the bicyclist was deceased. The investigation revealed that a group of teenagers were riding their bicycles northbound on Hogan when one crossed the street directly in front of a passing vehicle and was struck. He was not wearing a helmet. The driver of the vehicle remained on scene and is cooperating with the investigation. Impairment and speed do not appear to be factors. The East Metro Vehicular Crimes Team is investigating. Anyone that witnessed the collision is asked to call the Gresham Police Tip Line at 503.618.2719.
Sheriff's Office Searching for Missing Woman
Washington Co. Sheriff's Office On Monday, December 23, 2019, Washington County Sheriff's Office deputies received reports of a missing woman in a wooded area near the City of North Plains. Allyson Joy Watterson, 20, was last seen during the day on Sunday, December 22, while she was hiking with a man. Allyson's family hasn't heard from her since the morning of December 20th. Allyson is described as a while female, 20 years old, with teal colored (naturally brown) hair and blue eyes. She is approximately 5'7" and 120 lbs. Allyson has a tattoo of an eye on the front left shoulder area along with a tattoo of a fairy sitting on a spider web on her left forearm. She was last seen wearing an orange/yellow-colored hooded sweatshirt, black jeans and brown Calvin Klein boots. She was also carrying a red backpack. If you have any information on the location of Allyson Watterson, please contact the Washington County Sheriff's Office through our non-emergency number: 503-629-
Two Arrested On Pornography Charges
Jackson Co. Sheriff's Office Case #19-19406 On October 24, 2019, JCSO detectives, aided by the JCSO special weapons and tactics (SWAT) team, served warrants at residences in the first block and the 1800-block of Upper Applegate Road. At the time of that incident, detectives arrested Joaquin Amadeus Cowart, 41, of the 1800-block of Upper Applegate Road. Cowart had felony warrants for absconding from parole, and for charges related to a domestic violence incident. He was lodged in the Jackson County jail without bail due to the State Parole Board warrant. Also, Cowart is a registered sex offender who had not updated his registration as required. The investigation has been continuing since then. On 122319 JCSO Detectives added additional charges on Cowart, who has been in custody since October. Cowart has been charged with one count of Encouraging Child Sexual Abuse in the First Degree and five counts of Encouraging Child Sexual Abuse in the Second Degree. Total bail $
Pursuit Intervention Technique (PIT) Stops Vehicle Pursuit on Friday
Douglas Co. Sheriff's Office ROSEBURG, Ore. - On Friday, December 20, 2019, at approximately 12:15 pm, an observant deputy saw a white 1995 Honda that was previously reported as stolen pass by his location on Roberts Creek Road. The deputy turned around and attempted to stop the vehicle, at which time the driver accelerated and led deputies on a pursuit. A police officer from Roseburg Police Department was able to successfully deploy spike strip on the vehicle near Dixonville. Despite the spike strips, the suspect continued to attempt to elude deputies toward Glide on Highway 138 East. As the pursuit continued, a deputy in the Glide area successfully deployed a second set of spike strips on the vehicle. The driver continued east on Highway 138 on only the rims of the vehicle. In order to end the pursuit, a deputy performed a PIT (Pursuit Intervention Technique) maneuver. The PIT is a low-speed maneuver designed to cause the suspect vehicle to spin out, stall and come to
Man in Custody Following Stand-Off
Douglas Co. Sheriff's Office TILLER, Ore. - On December 23, 2019, at 11:14 AM, Douglas County Sheriff's Office deputies attempted to make contact with 39 year-old Rodger Vince Royle at a residence in the 34000-block of Tiller Trail Highway regarding an arrest warrant. The deputies later made a radio transmission that a male subject had retrieved a rifle with a scope. Deputies requested additional resources to the scene. Assistance was received from the Jackson County Sheriff's Office, Eagle Point Police Department, Myrtle Creek Police Department and Oregon State Police. Additionally, the Douglas County Sheriff's Office Tactical Response Team and Jackson County SWAT Teams were dispatched. Deputies attempted to negotiate with Royle, but received no response. Shortly before 3:00 pm, the Tactical Response Team deployed gas into the shed where Royle was located and still did not receive a response. Additional gas was deployed at which time Royle exited the building. K9
Southern Oregon Scanner (SOS)
UPDATE - Human Skeletal Remains located near Interstate 5 in Roseburg Area
Oregon State Police On June 6, 2018 Oregon Department of Transportation personnel located a human skull in the area of Interstate 5 near the 124 northbound exit ramp. Through DNA testing the remains were determined to be Scott Evenson (44 years of age at time of recovery) from Myrtle Creek, OR. The Oregon State Police is requesting anyone with information about Evenson between 2015 and 2018 to please contact Detective Tina Nibblett at (541) 440-3334 or Detective Michael Tabor at (541) 440-3315 **************Previous Release****************** Human Skeletal Remains located near Interstate 5 in Roseburg Area Oregon State Police (OSP) is continuing the investigation into the discovery of human remains this morning near Interstate 5 in the Roseburg Area. Preliminary investigation revealed that on June 6, 2018 at about 8:00 AM, Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) personnel were in the area of Interstate 5 near the exit 124 NB off ramp performing maintenance operatio
Narcotics Search Warrant
Lincoln Co. Sheriff's Office On December 20, 2019 at approximately 2:30 PM the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office, with the assistance of the Newport Police Department, Lincoln City Police Department, and the Toledo Police Department served a narcotics search warrant at 515 SE Melody Street, Depoe Bay, as a result of an ongoing investigation into the distribution of methamphetamine by Michael James Tatum, 56, and Casea Francis Williams, 34, both of Depoe Bay. Tatum and Williams are pictured below. While executing the search warrant, upon contact with law enforcement, Tatum attempted to flush the methamphetamine. Subsequently, law enforcement located approximately 13 ounces of methamphetamine, packaging material, and scales in the residence. Also located in the residence was a user quantity of heroin, and various narcotics related paraphernalia. Tatum and Williams were both transported to the Lincoln County Jail. Tatum was lodged for Unlawful Possession of Methamphetami
Arrest Made In Child Pornography Case
Jackson Co. Sheriff's Office On December 20th, 2019 Jackson County Sheriff's Office Detectives made an arrest in a child pornography case first reported in 2018. The investigation began in September 2018 with a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The initial report was that child pornography was being downloaded at a residence in the 7300 block of Upper Applegate Road near Jacksonville, Oregon. The investigation led to a search warrant being served at the home of the suspect. Subsequently, evidence belonging to the suspect was analyzed by the Southern Oregon High Tech Crimes Task Force. Seven hundred images of child pornography were found along with over fifty images of animal sexual abuse. Detectives arrested Gary Lee Watts, 61 years old, of the 7300 block of Upper Applegate Rd. Jacksonville, Oregon at his home this morning. Watts was lodged at the Jackson County Jail. He is lodged on twenty counts of Encouraging Child Sex Abuse I (ORS 16
Fatal Crash on Hwy 138W - Douglas County
Oregon State Police On Friday, December 20, 2019, at approximately 4:05 P.M. Oregon State Police Troopers and emergency personnel responded to the report of a single vehicle crash on Hwy 138W near milepost 21, approximately 3 miles west of Sutherlin. Preliminary investigation revealed that a blue Ford Focus, operated by Corydon Stillwell (37) of Sutherlin, left the roadway and struck a tree. Stillwell sustained fatal injuries and was pronounced deceased. OSP was assisted on scene by Sutherlin Fire Department, ODOT, and the Douglas County Sheriff's Office.
Robbery/Homicide Investigation
Beaverton Police Dept. On December 18, 2019 at 10:58 a.m., Beaverton Police officers responded to a robbery at the Wells Fargo Bank located in the Murray Hill Shopping Center at 14725 SW Teal Blvd. While responding to the bank, officers learned that there were at least two victims inside who had been stabbed. Two minutes after the initial 911 call, responding officers were advised of another call for service at the Planet Fitness next door to Wells Fargo. Officers were advised an adult male had been stabbed in the parking lot and the suspect stole his car. The suspect then fled towards Tigard, Oregon in the victim's vehicle. At 11:03 a.m., Tigard Police Department officers were dispatched to a residential area close to SW Murray Blvd. and SW Scholls Ferry Rd. on a third report, where an adult female was stabbed and her vehicle stolen by the suspect from the prior two incidents. The suspect eventually fled from the second stolen vehicle on foot in residential area near SW Pa
Reward Offered in Salem Homicide Investigation - Crime Stoppers Featured Case #19-34
Crime Stoppers of Oregon The Salem Police Department, in partnership with Crime Stoppers of Oregon, is asking for the public's help to solve a double shooting and homicide that occurred at the Pine Street Pub. On August 18, 2019, at 1:36 a.m., Salem Police Department officers responded to the report of a shooting at the Pine Street Pub, located at 460 Pine Street Northeast in Salem. Officers and medical personnel arrived and located two gunshot victims, both of whom were transported by ambulance to an area hospital. A 37-year-old male survived his injuries; however, 40-year-old Jennifer Anne Black died as a result of the shooting. At this point in the investigation, there is no suspect information. Crime Stoppers of Oregon offers cash rewards of up to $2,500 cash for information, reported to Crime Stoppers, that leads to an arrest in any unsolved felony crime and tipsters can remain anonymous. Visit the App Store and download P3 Tips to submit secure and anonymous tips.
Oregon State Police Fish & Wildlife Troopers Requesting Public's Assistance with the Killing and Waste of Black Bear in Lincoln County
Oregon State Police The Oregon State Police (OSP) Fish and Wildlife Division is asking for the public's help locating the person(s) responsible for the unlawful killing and waste of a black bear in Lincoln County. On Saturday, December 14, 2019, a Newport OSP Fish and Wildlife Trooper discovered a deceased black bear sow. The black bear was located off of Forest Service Road 5360 south of Eckman Lake in Waldport. The black bear was killed within the past two weeks and left to waste with no meat removed from the carcass. OSP is asking anyone who was in the area or anyone who may have information on the suspect(s) to call the TIP line at 1-800-452-7888 or dial OSP and refer information to Trooper Andrew Butler or by email TIP@state.or.us . Report Wildlife and Habitat Law Violators The TIP program offers preference point rewards for information leading to an arrest or issuance of a citation for the unlawful take/possession or waste of big game mammals. Preference Poin
Oregon State Police Fish & Wildlife Troopers Requesting Public's Assistance with Killing and Waste of Cow Elk in Lincoln County
Oregon State Police The Oregon State Police (OSP) Fish and Wildlife Division is asking for the public's help locating the person(s) responsible for the unlawful killing and waste of a cow elk in Lincoln County. On Sunday, December 15, 2019, a Newport OSP Fish and Wildlife Trooper discovered a deceased cow elk. The deceased cow elk was located off of Gopher Creek road near the junction of Forest Service road 31. The area is also accessible from 1000 Line Road. The cow elk was killed within the past two weeks and left to waste with no meat removed from the carcass. OSP is asking anyone who was in the area or anyone who may have information on the suspect(s) to call the TIP line at 1-800-452-7888 or dial OSP and refer information to Trooper Andrew Butler or by email TIP@state.or.us . Report Wildlife and Habitat Law Violators The TIP program offers preference point rewards for information leading to an arrest or issuance of a citation for the unlawful take/possession or
19-year-old Newport resident arrested for sex abuse of 11 year
Newport Police Dept. The Newport Police Department was alerted to a reported rape and sex abuse of an 11-year-old Lincoln County resident that occurred on December 8th, 2019. An investigation was conducted and the victim was able to identify the suspect as 19-year-old Caleb Colgan of Newport. Colgan was interviewed at his residence in Newport on December 10th and confirmed that the sexual assault occurred. Colgan was arrested and lodged at the Lincoln County Jail. On December 17th, Colgan was indicted by the Lincoln County Grand Jury on charges of: Rape 1 Sex Abuse 1 x3 Sodomy 1 x2 Strangulation x2 Unlawful Sexual Penetration I x2 Luring a Minor During the investigation, Detective's learned Colgan may have had contact with additional juveniles. If anyone knows of inappropriate contact with Colgan, please contact Det. Mitch France at the Newport Police Department.
Tony Eugene Hadd Convicted of Multiple Charges in Child Sex Abuse Case
Washington Co. District Attorney's Office HILLSBORO, Ore.- On December 16, 2019, a Washington County jury found Tony Eugene Hadd guilty of three counts of second-degree rape, three counts of second-degree sodomy and three counts of first-degree sexual abuse. Deputy District Attorney Rayney Meisel prosecuted Mr. Hadd in visiting Senior Judge Henry Kantor's courtroom. In April of 2019, the teenage victim made a disclosure of abuse to her mother and a school counselor. The allegations were reported to law enforcement. The victim was then interviewed by experts at CARES Northwest where she told investigators that the abuse began on a camping trip and lasted several months. The Washington County District Attorney's Office would like to acknowledge the bravery shown by the victim in coming forward. This office also commends the Tigard Police Detective Unit, CARES Northwest and the Oregon Department of Human Services for their work on this case. A sentencing hearing is schedul
ROSEBURG MAN ARRESTED FOR SEX ABUSE
Roseburg Police Dept. In late November of 2019 the Roseburg Police Department received a report alleging a minor female was sexually assaulted by an adult male, 28 year old Danya Czernowski of Roseburg. The ensuing investigation revealed this incident occurred while the minor was visiting Czernowski's residence in Roseburg. On December 17th, 2019 Czernowski was arrested by Roseburg Police Detectives and lodged at Douglas County Corrections. Czernowski was charged with Sexual Abuse in the Second Degree.
Roseburg Police Logs 12-16-19
Police Logs for 12/16/2019 PATROL: Roseburg Police OFFICER: RPD DATE: 12/16/2019 LOCATION: 350 Harvard, Roseburg (Denny's) TIME: 1205 INCIDENT: Minor Injury Traffic Collision CASE #: 19-5961 PERSON(S): (D1) St Clair, Yvonne Adela (71) Roseburg (D2) Sparks, Libby Marie (63) Roseburg CHARGE(S): St Clair - Dangerous Left Turn VEHICLE(S): (St Clair) OR ZJA323 White 2008 Dodge Avenger (Sparks) OR 757GHS White 2013 Honda Fit DETAIL(S): St Clair was driving eastbound on Harvard and made a left turn into the Denny's driveway. Sparks was westbound on Harvard and ran into St Clair's car as St. Clair pulled into Denny's in front of her. Both drivers were able to pull their vehicles into the Denny's parking lot, and both were wearing their seatbelts. Both vehicles suffered moderate damage, but did not need tows. Sparks complained of chest pain and was transported via ambulance to Mercy Medical Center for evaluation. DISPO: Traffic Collision. PATROL: Roseburg


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Khalid Ismaïl Mubarak (7 de julho de 1965) é um ex-futebolista emiratense, que atuava como meia. Na epoca que jogou como futebolista, como todos os emiratenses, ele não é profissional, dividindo sua carreira de jogador como vice chefe do corpo de bombeiros de Dubai.

Carreira
Khalid Ismaïl integrou a histórica Seleção Emiratense de Futebol da Copa do Mundo de 1990, marcando o primeiro gol do país naquela competição contra a Alemanha Ocidental na derrota de 5 a 1.

Ligações externas
Perfil em Fifa.com

Futebolistas dos Emirados Árabes Unidos
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Home 48 Prisoners Growing calls to release long-time prisoner Walid Daqqa from isolation
Growing calls to release long-time prisoner Walid Daqqa from isolation
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Long-time Palestinian prisoner Walid Daqqa continues to be held in solitary confinement for the fourteenth day; Daqqa, 55, from the town of Baqa al-Gharbiyeh is a pre-Oslo prisoner who has been held in Israeli jails since 25 March 1986.
He was suddenly transferred into solitary confinement on 25 January 2017, accused of unauthorized correspondence with his lawyer. He is suffering from a number of health problems. His lawyer, Ahmed Khalifa, said that he needs hospitalization and the prison clinic cannot provide proper treatment for him, emphasizing that isolation puts him at further risk of deterioration of his health. He requires treatment for an excessive red blood cell count twice weekly, which is not being provided; for him to visit a hospital requires a lengthy trip in the so-called "Bosta," the metal prison transport van, which can take up to 48 hours with many stops and a lack of access to basic facilities.
A prominent leader in the prisoners' movement over the years, Daqqa's writings about the prison experience have been published and widely circulated. The play, "A Parallel Time" – the subject of an Israeli state campaign against a Palestinian theater in Haifa in 2015 – reflects Daqqa's stories and experiences.
He and his comrades, Ibrahim and Rushdi Abu Mukh and Ibrahim Bayadseh, have been jailed for over 30 years and are sentenced to life sentences for their involvement in a Palestinian resistance operation targeting an Israeli occupation soldier. Despite multiple pledges to release pre-Oslo prisoners, the Israeli state has refused to release Daqqa and his comrades, insisting that as they are Palestinians holding Israeli citizenship, they are a separate matter from their fellow 7,000 Palestinian prisoners.
The isolation of Daqqa comes as he has been brought into the Israeli allegations against Palestinian Knesset member Basel Ghattas of the National Democratic Alliance (Balad/Tajammu') along with Daqqa's brother Assad, accused of bringing cell phones into Israeli prisons for Palestinian political prisoners. On the same day Walid Daqqa was isolated, his brother As'ad was brought before an Israeli district court; As'ad Daqqa is accused of providing the alleged cell phones to Ghattas. As'ad Daqqa was ordered to house imprisonment in Baqa on 1 February.
Daqqa's wife, Sana Salameh – who he married while imprisoned in 1999 – called upon the United Nations' Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, to "pressure the occupation to remove the captive Walid Daqqa, who is suffering from a serious health issue, from solitary confinement." His comrades in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine's Prison Branch issued a statement saying that "We hold the occupation and its prison administration fully responsible for the life and safety of Comrade Walid Daqqa and see this isolation as an attempt to sentence him to slow death."
Events are being organized in various cities highlighting Daqqa's isolation and demanding his release from solitary confinement. A protest in Yafa on 2 February called for his release; participants included family members as well as Knesset members Jamal Zahalka and Osama Saadi.
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Women's voting rights
A centenary of Dutch universal suffrage
A centenary of Dutch universal suffrage, or gender and the politics of history and memory
Summary of the Rosa Manus lecture
In the Rosa Manus lecture Mineke Bosch, professor of Modern History at the University of Groningen, addressed the binary opposition that historians usually create between 'history' and 'memory'. Doing this, they follow in the footsteps of Pierre Nora, who deplored the loss of 'memory-history' and the advent of the contemporary 'memory boom' or even a 'bulimina of memory'. In the Netherlands the dichotomy between history and memory was assessed by the Utrecht-based historian Ed Jonker in his inaugural lecture 'wild memory' versus 'disciplined history': subjective, activist, fragmented, personal versus objective, academic, unified or intersubjective expressions of historical consciousness. Indeed, wild forms of doing history versus disciplined historical analysis.
But where does women's and gender history stand in this? It may be that gender historians, in their aim to have their work recognized by professional historians, have kept a distance to memory and commemoration, especially when it comes to histories of feminism. Indeed, it never crossed Bosch' mind to publish her biography of Aletta Jacobs in 2004, instead of 2005, that is 150 years after her birth. So why, she asked herself for the occasion, did she become so passionate about celebrating the centenary of women's suffrage?
First of all she was inspired by literature on the British commemorations of the struggle for women's suffrage that suggested the importance of commemoration for enhanced research activities, as well as public recognition of the story. Don't we all remember the Suffragettes entering the scene at the splendid opening of the Olympic games? Besides these thought provoking reflections on British commemorative practices, there were other intellectual and political reasons that she stumbled upon when writing her biography of Aletta Jacobs. One was the obvious neglect of the historical struggle for women's suffrage in the national narrative as told by professional historians. The story was either completely ignored, or it was stereotyped as a story of an elite group of bourgeois women who wanted restricted suffrage in order to strengthen their class position. Besides, there was the tacit conviction, also among gender historians, that the real history of women's suffrage was written in the UK where a militant movement took center stage. In comparison to these women, Dutch suffragists' activities paled, and were therefore not worthy of much attention.
This neglect was annoying in itself but it also had an impact on the preparations for the celebration of the Dutch centenary of universal suffrage that originally would be commemorated nationally in December 2017, and that only gradually changed into a plan of celebrating the centenary of Dutch universal suffrage in 2019. The political squabbles over what to remember when, and the reluctance to acknowledge universal suffrage to be reached only when active women's suffrage was gained, convinced Bosch that this story should really be told far and wide. At the annual meeting of the VVG in 2018 this conviction was taken over by the VVG who from then on took the lead in organizing a committee 100 years of Women's Suffrage that coordinated and publicized the many activities in the context of the centenary of women's suffrage.
The next question Bosch addressed was: what did the commemorations of the centenary of women's suffrage bring? Did it indeed bring new insights into the history of the long struggle for women's suffrage? And did the commemorations (still going on) attract new audiences and by consequence, enhance recognition of the importance of this story for our understanding of the history of Dutch democracy?
Exhibition Strijd!
As for the exhibition Strijd! 100 jaar Vrouwenkiesrecht that she co-curated with Egge Knol in the Groningen Museum, and that attracted 120.000 visitors she mentioned a few new insights. One was that the story of suffrage could easily be told without a central role for Aletta Jacobs. Another was the insight that banners were meaningful objects in the story of suffrage in their suggestion of local and regional activity. Banners, the use of folklore, but also the many boxes with signatures for the 'volkspetitionnement', all contributed to a new understanding of the suffrage movement as a real mass movement. At last she demonstrated how much more women she had been able to identify as a corollary of trying to bring the many photographs and visual objects 'home' in preparation of the exhibition and her book Strijd! De geschiedenis van de vrouwenkiesrechtbeweging in Nederland, 1882-1922.
Besides the exhibition Strijd!, Bosch drew attention to the many publications that enhanced our knowledge such as books, special issues or articles in local and national journals, series in national and local newspapers, as well as several other exhibitions and many lectures. She singled out Utrecht, Haarlem and Groningen for its active commemorative practices in the year 2019. Another important contribution to the celebrations was the Winterschool that Atria organized at the start of 2019, with three evening lectures by scholars and activists about women's suffrage in the Dutch East Indies, Suriname and the Dutch Antilles. With the series Atria asked attention for the colonial context in which the history of women's suffrage should be seen. With the ever louder call for the 'first' female prime minister in the Netherlands, it is also good to realize that in the Dutch Antilles there have been female prime ministers, such as the longtime PM Maria Liberia Peters who will be Atria's guest in Oktober 2019, also as part of the centenary of suffrage.
Bosch' conclusion was that as a consequence of the celebrations of the centenary there is a definite growth in what she calls 'suffrage literacy' among professional historians, and the wider public. She underlined this with a few examples, such as the wider use of the figure of Marijtje in articles on women's suffrage, the recent find of the banner of Hoorn that for 100 years had been slumbering in the stacks of the archives, or the appropriate use of photographs and propaganda material in recent publications. Spaarnestad had even revised a wrong caption with a picture of four suffragists at the Binnenhof (maybe as a result of the letter Bosch wrote to the NRC about their uniformed use of that picture), one of whom according to the new text had always 'wrongly' been identified as Aletta Jacobs.
All in all the experience of having been immersed in the commemorative practices of the Dutch centenary of women's suffrage made her confident that professional historians should leave their hesitations behind and commemorate and celebrate history in order to get our stories across!
Rosa Manuslezing door Mineke Bosch (3 okt. 2019 / NL)
Photocredits: Clyde Semmoh
By: Atria


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Malaria can be eliminated from Africa
October 6, 2011 - 09:30 -- Bart G.J. Knols
A perspective article carrying the above title appeared in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene this month. As it was freely accessible I have taken the liberty to attach it to this editorial (hoping the publisher will not come after me...) for those of you that have not seen it.
In it, Carlos Campbell and Rick Steketee inject encouragement into all of us that we have made substantial gains in the battle against malaria over the last decade, and that with the same relentlessness we may actually succeed in wiping the scourge off the continent. The article is a pleasant read when one starts up the computer and reads this first thing in the morning...
Regretfully, after a few paragraphs, the euphoria is spoiled when they write 'However, it is too soon to celebrate'. Both authors make a case for doing what we have done over the last decade, but than at an even larger scale. 'We have the tools' they claim, so basically the funding and management of scale-up are bottlenecks. And with hopefully a vaccine on the horizon in the coming decade, well, we should be in good shape.
When I sit back and contemplate over what I just read, it is hard to keep the positive spirit of the article with me. There is not a word on the dramatic increase in resistance, both against insecticides and, as some believe, artemisinins. Even in Africa. We're even losing DDT, and although Martin Akogbeto's group reports excellent results with bendiocarb in Benin in the article that comes next in this issue of the journal, how long will it be before resistance strikes back? Can we sustain the gains?
A few weeks ago I visited the National Library of Medicine in Washington DC, to explore the archives of Dr. Fred L. Soper, a man with major successes in the field of tropical medicine in his name. He was, for instance, instrumental in eliminating malaria in Egypt during WWII. I ploughed through just 9 of the 75 boxes with notes, diaries, reports, and articles and found the same level of enthusiasm about malaria elimination in Africa as I read in today's article by Campbell and Steketee.
One of the handwritten notes by Soper relates to the then (1963) recently published book 'A textbook on malaria eradication', by Emilio Pampana. Whereas Soper published a nice review (see here) of the book, on the note he scribbles some important issues:
First, he notes that the book has 'None of the concept of eradication'. Today, half a century later, Campbell and Steketee write that we still have a hard time defining a blue print for elimination across Africa. What's more, Soper writes on the note 'Malariologists are now where Yellow Fever + Aa [Aedes aegypti] were in 1930. They have still not devised the technique of making low level transmission viable'. Again, fifty years later, Campbell and Steketee write about low level transmission by saying: Clearing these infections requires strategies to systematically find and kill parasites in the human population. This is not simply an improved management of symptomatic infections because many infected (and transmitting) people are asymptomatic; to further reduce transmission, we must find and cure all infected people.' Soper and Campbell/Steketee clearly agree about this critical issue here – sad though, that fifty years have passed and we're still struggling with such fundamental issues of elimination.
Finally, note that Soper states 'Why should malaria have [a] time limit? [The] objective is zero'. Soper refers here to the opposing views within the League of Nations at that time – where some argued for sustained control yet others (Soper amongst them) argued for massive and immediate action to reach zero malaria transmission.
The somewhat political perspective of Campbell and Steketee would surely have been endorsed by Soper if he was still alive (he died in 1977).
Good to see that collectively we are starting to appreciate the lessons from the past.
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The Reality is that WHO is failing
Submitted by William Jobin on October 6, 2011 - 16:21
Thanks Bart, for the note about the article by Campbell and Steketee,
You are right to be sceptical, even though these two gentlemen are competent and experienced. However I think the sad truth is that they are disconnected from reality. What agency is going to carry out the task of fighting malaria in Africa? It isn't WHO. A friend in Geneva recently informed me that WHO is starting to lay off from 500-1,000 people in the coming year. Does that sound like they have a plan to fight malaria in Africa?
Or maybe the US PMI? The US is just now cutting their foreign aid programs drastically, and this will certainly wipe out whatever plans PMI had for Africa.
I fear that the bland statement that malaria can be controlled in Africa is similar to Bill Gates saying we can eradicate it. Just wishful thinking. You can't fight malaria with public relations and encouragement.
1. We need a realistic strategy, a sustainable approach that Africans can afford.
2. We need an African organization.
In place of WHO, I think it might be smart to go to the African Development Bank in Tunis and convince them to add malaria prevention components to their loans for water projects in Africa. Another group to focus on would be the southern African regional efforts which already have some success and are looking at sustainable strategies, instead of the drugs, biocides and bednets of the failed WHO strategy.
William Jobin Director of Blue Nile Associates
Soper's words of wisdom
Submitted by Lauren Pinault on October 6, 2011 - 20:38
Thanks, Bart. I especially appreciated Soper's words of wisdom that we ought to be helping our neighbors and not just protecting ourselves. Even when malaria-free countries fund elimination efforts, the "us vs. them" mentality among many people is scarily rampant.
Good point
Submitted by Bart G.J. Knols on October 7, 2011 - 15:16
Thanks Lauren, I had overlooked these very important words from Soper.
Malaria Research Institute at Macha - Johns Hopkins
Submitted by William Jobin on November 19, 2011 - 14:49
I just attended a Grand Malaria Bash at the World Trade Center in New York on 16 November 2011, put on by Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and focussing on their expanding field research on malaria control in Macha, Zambia. They will soon expand to another site in Zimbabwe and will become one of the leading field research centers. There were 10 speakers covering a broad range of subjects, mostly their current research at Macha.
It was interesting to note how many speakers alluded to the drainage of swamps in the historical advances against malaria, but how far removed their research was from such environmental approaches. The final and keynote speaker, Jeffrey Sachs from Columbia University said that we cannot expect the successes of the USA, the Panama Canal Zone, and the Pontine Marshes of Italy to be repeated in Africa because the force of transmission in Africa is so much greater than it was in those subtropical zones.
But I cannot forget the story of the Panama Canal. While the French lost thousands of engineers and laborers to mosquito attacks and eventually had to leave Panama, the Americans, by draining and oiling swamps and by screening houses and hospitals, built the canal. I think the force of infection in Panama at that time was pretty high, almost as bad as Africa. And a century later, malaria is still under control in Panama. Not eradicated; but suppressed to an acceptably low prevalence. Sachs doesn't believe we can expect an analogy when hoping for similar suppression of malaria in Africa.
I summarize the following individual reports made at the Wednesday meeting:
Phil Thuma – Community involvement.
In the area around Macha Hospital, linked to many nearby community health centers, the prevalence of malaria had declined by more than 95% in the last ten years. He realizes that it might be hard to replicate such community involvement in other parts of Africa, but it might be a basic necessity for control. Community involvement is less expensive than a vaccine.
Sungano Mharakunwa – Surprises from the field.
Firstly, in an area where people have long been treated with sulfadoxine/pyrmethamine, the P.falciparum found in local people are highly resistant to pyrmethamine. However the parasites found in local mosquitoes were not resistant, but had high resistance to cycloguanil, despite absence of prior use of cycloguanil in the area.
Secondly, the decrease in malaria around Macha started before the interventions. Meanwhile, in Mutasa near the Zimbabwe border, there is a resurgence in malaria. So they are studying the epidemiology in both places, plus that of Nchelenge where the malaria is remaining high but stable. The center at Macha and a new one in Zimbabwe will receive increasing funding in coming years.
Photini Sinnis – How parasite establishes infection in people.
They are following parasite from its injection into the skin by mosquito, to its movement to liver, looking for weak points that new drugs could attack.
George Dimopolis – Stopping malaria in the mosquito belly.
They are engineering mosquitoes with super immunity to parasite. Then expect to use forced genetic system to get these traits into general population.
Bacteria in mosquito gut, plus Vitamin C, can kill the parasite. My question; why not just kill the mosquito?
***He concluded that no matter their success with genetically engineered mosquitoes; malaria control will require multiple interventions.
David L. Smith – How to lose the battle
The USA has been a prime funder of global malaria control efforts during the last 50 years but there have been irregular ups and down in the dollar amounts, with drastic effects. In 1963 the US contribution dropped, and the Global Malaria Eradication Program collapsed in 1969. Then worldwide efforts increased in 1978 but US contributions were small. In 1994 they went to zero. Why? Republican party took power in 1978, then Gingrich and Republican Revolution was in 1994. Gingrich cut the US contribution to UN, with drastic effects that we still see in the empty hallways of WHO building in Geneva.
Smith and his group has helped Zanzibar deal with question of going for complete elimination of malaria, or just control.
He wants to demolish 4 Myths:
1. MEP failed in 1969 because of DDT resistance. But in fact resistance showed up much earlier.
2. Malaria can't be interrupted in Africa. No one has really tried.
3. Countries trying to eradicate it are worse off after their efforts failed. No evidence for this.
4. Climate change will make malaria worse. No evidence for this either.
***He concluded that any attempt at eradication would require a highly organized program with multiple interventions.
Jeffrey Sachs – Progress in the Forever War.
With current budget negotiations in Washington, funding for malaria control and research are on the chopping block. Nonetheless there has been incredible progress in last 100 years. By beginning of this new Millenium malaria is now confined to tropics, and is primarily in Africa. Since 2007 and with help from US PMI, attack has shifted away from clinics to homes, using rapid diagnostic tests instead of microscopic exams. Another major step is use of mobile fones. Sachs estimates that we could control malaria in Africa with $3 billion per year.
My comment: Sachs is very optimistic. More recent cost figures indicate about $10 billion per year is needed, and donor fatigue will set in if there is no Exit Strategy. An exit strategy would require permanent measures being added to the unsustainable ones currently in use. The obvious ones are permanent environmental modifications including habitat elimination and improved housing. I cited success in US and Italy, but Sachs did not agree. He thinks situation in Africa is much more difficult. But I think that the impacts from permanent modifications such as habitat elimination and housing improvements are in a different class from those due to drugs or biocides.
This was a strong group from Johns Hopkins, let's hope they continue to flourish.
Other forces at work
Submitted by Ricardo Ataide on December 5, 2011 - 00:18
Thanks for your review of the meeting. It certainly is helpful for those of us who didn't attend.
I'd like to speculate that on the conquest of malaria in the Panama canal area by the United States other forces (rather than transmission force) were at work. Namely, the political and economic forces that were "working their magic" so that the interests of a nation could be achieved. I think that that is a major issue with fighting malaria in Africa. There is no concerted drive or joint will driven by huge economic benefits (or no ability to glimpse them!). Ah, if only the Red Sea didn't exist and we had to build a canal from Senegal to Tanzania...
Ricardo Ataíde
Let us build and operate dams in ways that prevent malaria
Submitted by William Jobin on December 5, 2011 - 13:37
Hi Ric,
I see your point about the money and resources put into malaria and Yellow Fever control while the US was building the Panama Canal a century ago. There were other factors too. Juan Carlos Finlay and Walter Reed had just demonstrated in Cuba that people who slept in screened buildings did not get malaria nor Yellow Fever, while people all around them did. So the health establishment working with the canal builders was focussed on permanent protection methods and no longer bothered with bednets. This happened long before chloroquine or DDT - so they did not get distracted by these unsustainable measures. They did use simple larviciding however, using oil.
Also the canal engineers knew how to drain swamps, as well as cut canals through hills. So to protect themselves and the workers, the engineers drained everything.
You are right, if we were digging a trans-African canal, it is likely that a lot of swamps would be drained, and the vicious mosquitoes, blackflies and snails would be cleaned out so that the work force could be protected.
Although that might not happen on a grand scale, there are some opportunities of that kind, now developing in Africa, The African Development Bank is considering the Grand Inga Dam and others on the Congo River, to supply the hydropower for a huge part of central Africa. Ethiopia is planning a large series of dams, something like the US TVA development, in order to give them food and energy security in the face of disastrous droughts. These projects could be developed in ways that prevent mosquitoes, blackflies and snails from infesting the reservoirs, and could provide healthy and sanitary housing for the thousands of people who would have to be resettled around them. Thus the drive for food and energy - which is getting stronger all the time in Africa - could be harnessed to also improve the health of nearby populations.
The improved health around the Panama Canal was due to exemplary cooperation of health, entomology and engineering people with a common and clear goal. When we can overcome the current preferences of the health profession for unsustainable drugs and for endless spraying of biocides, and for such ephemeral measures as bednets, then we can make permanent progress against malaria.
The real puzzle for me, is who will do it? To play on words, that was a question, not a statement that WHO will do it. I am afraid WHO is about finished. Their Roll Back Malaria program is unsustainable, and their largest funder, the Global Fund, has just announced that it is out of money. WHO and the US PMI have proceeded blithely along for the last 6 years with no Exit Strategy. And now the people they have protected by these temporary measures are no longer immune to malaria, and will suffer devastating epidemics with the first really wet year.
Maybe we should look to the African Development Bank? Or some of the regional African efforts like SADC? We need to think about this. We need a new organization.
malaria elimination
Submitted by Stuart Spani on June 22, 2019 - 00:26
For the past 14 years I have been working on a malaria elimination program in Mizoram NE India. The death rate from malaria has dropped by over 99% and cases by 97%. A major tool has been Artemisia A3. Our emphasis was education and encouraging hundreds of farmers to get involved. The cost was extremely low. I belive this can be duplicated anywhere. see www.bye-bye-malaria.org and www.anmaed.org.
We are now tackling HIV and Cancer with the same herb.
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