Did you know that every record submitted to eBird goes through the eBird data verification process? Using a combination of automated data filters and a network of local experts, eBird tackles the issue of data quality in Citizen-Science. In order for us to maintain the integrity of the database, and for it to be used fully by the science and conservation communities, we as observers must fully understand and strive to reach the highest level of data quality. eBird's procedures facilitate communication between eBird observers and experts, including some new and improved review tools for our editors. Through our combined effort to maintain high data quality, eBird has become one of the most valuable large-scale data sets on bird distribution and abundance in the world.
What do we do when you report birds that are rare and far outside their range of known occurrence? What about records of early/late migrants, or out of season records of lingering birds at local scales? As with any large-scale citizen-science project open to the public, there is the possibility that erroneous data will be submitted. At eBird we consider data quality to be paramount, and we're taking every step possible to ensure that our data are the best they can be. Using advanced data vetting technology, we've developed a combination of automated filters and a network of regional editors that work together to verify eBird data. Each eBird submission, regardless of observer or location, is checked for data quality using the same process.
Be respectful. Our reviewers aren't paid. They volunteer for an often thankless task that is difficult. Interact with reviewers in a respectful manner and always assume a positive intent. We do not tolerate abusive treatment of our reviewers or others in the eBird community. Abusive language or threats are not tolerated and will result in probation or permanent removal of your account.
Reviewing records takes time. We have 500+ volunteer reviewers who devote many hours of personal time to this cause. These reviewers have families, jobs, and also enjoy going birding themselves. They participate because they share our belief in the purpose and goals of eBird. Please treat them kindly and respectfully. They do their best to act with dignity and they offer their expertise freely, often handling challenging situations with skill.
Review is not always chronological. Our review team may work on different chunks of data at different times. Sometimes records may be dealt with chronologically, but at other times a reviewers may tackle all records of a certain species, from a certain location, or tackle just those with photos or just those with notes. This may make the process appear arbitrary and sometimes it may be true that your report has yet to be addressed while more recent reports from others are already showing as accepted. Please be patient and understand that these apparent inconsistencies may relate only to how the pending records were sorted by a reviewer.
Records awaiting a decision are not shown on maps and graphs. There is a difference between "not accepted" and "awaiting review", but neither are shown on maps and graphs. Oftentimes a record will not be shown in eBird output. When you see "Unconfirmed" in eBird Alerts or smartphone apps, this simply means that the reviewer has yet to act on the record. Patience is the best policy.
Please do not be offended. Being questioned about a record is not personal. It is simply a request for more information so that your record will hold up to scientific scrutiny. Some submitted records are typos, geographical errors, date errors, the result of taxonomic confusion (e.g., Common Snipe vs. Wilson's Snipe), or another simple error.
Documenting rarities is up to you. The best way to ensure acceptance of a rarity that you observe is to provide unequivocal proof. An embedded photo is ideal, but links to photos or a description of the key field marks is also enough in many cases. Adding details to your noteworthy records is key for expedient review.
Non-public records. Reviewers cannot change, edit, or delete records and anything you submit will always be in your personal account (and appear on your checklists) unless you change it. Some records are treated as "unconfirmed", which means they are not shown on maps, graphs, charts and other data output. No record is ever deleted from the database by reviewers, and all records are available for reassessment.
Please trust us. Ensuring data quality for millions of records per month is a huge task. We are constantly working towards more refined and speedier review, but sometimes it can takes days or even weeks before a record is acted upon. Rare bird sightings are shown in a timely fashion via eBird Alerts; your other sightings are a benefit to eBird even if the review is delayed and even if a record is flagged as "unconfirmed".
Go birding. Please don't stress over whether a record is being acted on. Much better to go birding and find some more unusual birds for us! We'll get to them all in time and your best contribution is to keep submitting observations.
eBird filters are the lynchpin of the eBird review process. The filters provide an automated check on every record submitted to eBird.
The filters are a matrix that checks the species, count, location, and date for every observation. Anything that exceeds expected totals for a given species at a location on a given date, will be 'flagged' for review. Filter thresholds for species that have occurred in the area but are very rare are set at zero, so that any record will be reviewed. These species are marked "Rare" on the data entry checklist and can be exposed or hidden by toggling the "Show rare species" checkbox.
Fig. 1. Example of an eBird checklist filter from Lubbock Co., Texas. The species set at zero (e.g., Violet-green Swallow) would be flagged on any date, but Barn Swallow would only be flagged in winter or when the counts exceed the numbers on the filter (e.g., 105 would be flagged on August 25).
The eBird filters are assigned to certain geographic areas, and eBird has thousands of such filters in place around the world. In many places in the USA, Canada, and United Kingdom we have very fine-scale (county-level) filters and some places have even finer scale filters (e.g., IBA, bioregion within a county). In many other countries (e.g., Mexico, Guatemala, Australia, etc.) we have state-level filters. In some areas (e.g., Africa) we still have broad-scale checklists, but we are moving to make the filters more site-specific and accurate.
As soon as you define the date and location of your list the eBird filters start to work. The data entry checklist is always customized by date and location so that you only see species appropriate for the area you went birding and the date of your observation. This makes data entry quicker and easier (imagine trying to navigate a list of 10,500 bird species!). The checklist is also customized so that rarities are not shown. It is simple to add them to the checklist using "add a species" (right under the "jump to species" box) or by clicking "show rare species". If you saw something that is definitely not on the list, the "add a species" box allows you to add it (but you will be asked to enter notes to confirm the sighting!).
Fig. 2. Regular eBird users will recognize this message. This is the first step in the data quality process, protecting against typos and allowing the user a chance to reconsider a reported rarity.
The messages come in two forms: either the species is unusual or the count is unusually high. Watch for these messages to let you know if the record is being questioned because the species is unexpected, or because the count is higher than expected.
Anytime a record gets flagged, please stop and double-check. Do you know why this record was flagged? If so, and if you are certain of the identification, please add appropriate details and continue. If you don't know why it was flagged, please double check the date, location, and species. Did you make a typo? If traveling internationally, are you following the correct taxonomy? If you are sure, please do enter as many details as you can to support the identification. IMPORTANT!--DO NOT take these messages as an indication to remove a species you know you saw, or to lower a count that eBird has flagged for review. Instead, take the opportunity to provide the required details to support your observation, such as notes on the species' identification or an explanation of how you made the high count and the circumstances of the observation.
Once flagged, a record is withheld from the public view of the database until it can be confirmed by our expert reviewers. The flagged records are placed in a separate series of tools where they can be reviewed in detail by our reviewers.
eBird reviewers are set up for certain regions where they can review records and change the filters. When eBird reviewers travel outside their region, their records are reviewed by the same process as everyone else's. Our reviewers often have a long history of birding in their region. We try to select reviewers that are enthusiastic, work hard, and are kind people with good communication skills. It bears stressing that this is a corps of volunteers and we are incredibly grateful for the hard work they do. eBird would not exist without this team.
Each reviewer has login credentials that allow them to see all flagged records for their region in one place. Records are treated as "not valid, unreviewed" (see the red type at right in Fig. 3) until acted upon, at which point they are considered "reviewed". Reviewers have the option of marking records as unconfirmed or confirmed, and have all the information from each submission available: species, count, date, location, and observer are all shown and the full checklist (and written details) can be seen as well. By clicking the "mail" icon, they can quickly send you an email request for more information.
Fig. 3. Example of the review list for Vietnam. This is the list that reviewers use to make decisions. Note that Sri Lanka Green-Pigeon has been entered erroneously presumably because the species has been split and the current taxa are confusing. Reviewers follow up on rarities, check for location accuracy, correspond about typos and taxonomy errors like this, and much more. The little mail icon sends the review email.
Sometimes a reviewer has 10 minutes to spare and will review a handful of recent records. Sorting the list can help to identify records in different ways. We know users are sometimes confused about why some records were accepted quickly but theirs took more time. Perhaps the reviewer sorted taxonomically and acted on everything up to Barn Swallow, but not on your bird. Perhaps it was a sort by date and acted on everything but yours before being called away for dinner or work. This list never goes away until a decision is reached though, so the reviewer is sure to return and address your bird, even if it takes a while.
Another part of each reviewer's responsibility is maintaining the filters in their region. New filters are put in regularly and sometimes an error on the filter is corrected and the data are re-run. This can result in records from 10 years ago suddenly getting flagged for review. This is an important part of the ongoing process, and while we understand that it may be hard to provide details many years after the fact, we also should point out that the bird is no less rare (so should have been documented at the time!).
We have a long document (40+ pages!) that gives guidelines for reviewers for how to deal with records, how to maintain the filters, and how we would like them to correspond with the eBird community. We also have an online forum where Regional Editors can discuss the process and how to better serve the needs of eBird and its users. These people believe strongly in the project, as do you, so please consider that we are all part of the same team.
The ability to quickly email eBird users is very important for our editors who must deal with tens or hundreds of records in a single sitting. Please be sure to read the beginning of the email, since reviewers often put short notes there about the significance of the record or specific questions (which may relate to the location or date, and not to the identification). We know form letters can sometimes be viewed negatively, but in order for our volunteers to be able to review so many records, an automated process is required to initiate discussion.
I am a volunteer regional data reviewer for eBird. My goal is to keep up with data submissions and try to ensure the accuracy of reports of rare and unusual species, as well as unusually high counts of common species.
Can you please provide additional details on the following observation? It is unusual either because it is a species that does not normally occur in this region on this date, or the count you've reported is above expected levels of occurrence.
In your description, it is often very helpful to include how similar species were eliminated. If you saw and remember relevant field marks please take note of those and tell me about them. If you identified the bird by voice, a description of this is often helpful. The best supporting evidence for any bird record is a photograph, which you can simply attach in an email response to me, or embed directly into your eBird checklist (click http://help.ebird.org/customer/portal/articles/973966-adding-photos-videos-and-recordings-to-checklists for details on that process). If you do embed a photo, please drop me a note to let me know that you did.
If you were not sure about the identification, please let me know. Without sufficient supporting details, the sighting will be left as unconfirmed and therefore not included in the output for scientific analysis, but your personal records and lists will be kept intact. If you do wish to edit the observation, you can do so from the checklist link above (just click 'edit species' on that page and change it as needed).
Thanks for your understanding and for any help that you can provide. And most importantly, thank you for using eBird. Your participation is valued, and the observations you submit are an important part of helping us better understand birds and biodiversity in your area and around the world.
Why worry about data quality?
eBird is increasingly being used by scientists (hundreds of data downloads/month) and conservation, so it is important to provide those communities with an accurate dataset. The eBird review process intentionally errs on the conservative side, so that we are more likely to treat a possibly correct record as not accepted than we are to treat a possibly incorrect record as accepted. This means that the maps and graphs in eBird can be trusted to be correct and that we can vouch for any record in the system. If anything, the current maps and graphs under-represent the ranges and seasonal patterns of birds, and it should be very rare to have over-estimations in the system. If a less conservative approach were taken, it would be much harder to know which records can be trusted. We recognize that this may be disappointing to some users who have their correctly-identified birds not included, but we hope that the larger scientific goals can be understood and appreciated by all. If nothing else, when hoping to answer questions about bird occurrence, we are all happy to get accurate data back.
eBird is accessible to anyone around the world and as a result has a user community that runs the gamut from rank beginner to expert ornithologist. Your eBird reviewer has no easy way to know if a submitted record is coming from someone submitting their first checklist and inexperienced with the challenges of bird identification, or a professional birding tour leader who has been studying birds for decades. Reviewers make an effort to treat everyone equally and to assess records based on the quality of the description of the bird and to assess records objectively. It is certainly true that individuals that demonstrate care and caution in their identifications and respond promptly and helpfully will quickly earn reputations as skilled eBirders who respect the process. Those that do not respond to queries, do not enter comments, or do not participate in the process in a constructive way may find that fewer of their records are accepted. We want eBird to be accessible to everyone, but typographical errors, upload errors, misidentifications, and taxonomic confusions account for tens of thousands of mistakes annually. Please understand that the review process is very important and works very well when the whole eBird team -- from users to reviewers --participates in the process and tries our collective best. eBird is truly a global team of tens of thousands of bird-lovers, so thanks for playing your part!
We recognize that your records are your own, and reviewers cannot truly know what you saw. Reviewers can only decide whether the evidence to support the record is strong enough to withstand objective scrutiny 100 years from now, when all of our personal experience will long since be forgotten!
Fig. 4. Adult Ivory Gull, Piermont, New York, 26 February 2007. Photo by Sean Sime. Photo documentation like this leaves few questions for reviewers and even poor or distant photos can help to conclusively establish an identification.
Prior to 2012, the eBird filters were specific only to a given month. In North America, many eBirders may remember the days when an expected spring migrant would be flagged as rare on 30 April but not on 1 May. This was because reviewers had the difficult decision of whether to consider that migrant "rare" or "expected" in April, even if it was rare before 25 April and expected thereafter.
In 2012 we adapted to the daily filters seen in Fig. 1. This means that our rare bird flags are much more accurate and allow us to set arrival dates that better match bird biology.
Along with this, we made a number of revisions to make the job of our editors easier. These revisions continue to pay dividends as more records are getting reviewed more quickly than ever before.
How can I document my birds better? eBird has several stories to help with information on how to document your birds. The best source is the "Reporting Rarites--Elements of a Bird Description". Our "How to use the eBird comments" fields gives advice on using written comments to better document birds for reviewers. Our story on "Embedding rich media" gives instructions for how to embed links to photos and videos in your checklist.
How can I tell if a record has been reviewed? In general, if you can find it on the eBird point maps, it is being treated as a "public" record. If you cannot, it may be: 1) blocked by another pin (be sure to look in satellite mode, where you can zoom in farther); 2) still awaiting review; 3) reviewed and treated as "not public". Note that there are several reasons to treat a record as not public that do not relate to the ID of the bird, including imprecise location. Plotting your location correctly is of paramount importance (See more on location specificity).
How can I dispute a review decision? In general this is not possible, but any record is open to re-review. Amending and adding to your field notes after the fact is not good practice since you should have given a complete description at the time, but if you have photos that you did not provide before, please embed those and let your reviewer know. If you know of others who saw the bird, please put your reviewer in touch with them.
Do reviewers have to send me the email? We strongly recommend that reviewers give everyone a chance to defend their records and that reviewers send everyone an email. If you consistently respond to review requests with a positive demeanor, you are sure to always be given a chance to provide extra information for rarities.
Does eBird follow records committee decisions? Our reviewer guidelines recommend following Records Committees for species on the review list for a given area. We do recommend that eBird editors make preliminary judgments for rarities in real time, since eBird review proceeds much faster than most records committees.
Why is this species flagged in my area? Our reviewers use a number of considerations to set the common/rare species lists. Sometimes regular species that are hard to identify, or species that are only found at one or two sites, will be flagged so that potential errors are more easily caught. Your records from expected places will be easily processed.
Birds have wings, so anything can happen, right? We do hear this defense at times for reported rarities. As of 2015, we have more than a century of careful bird study in many parts of the world. We have a good sense for what birds are prone to long-distance vagrancy and which ones essentially never move. For example, South American antbirds and antpittas tend not to stray from their home ranges, while sandpipers, swallows, and gulls often turn up thousands of miles away. Spring migrants often have established very punctual arrival schedules (for example, Willow Flycatcher has never been documented in the U.S. and Canada in March), so an early arrival might be more unlikely than a far-flung vagrant from the opposite coast. Please listen to our reviewers; it is not true that "anything is possible" with birds, and some things are far more probable than others. Everyone makes mistakes (eBird project leaders included).
Why were expected subspecies or spuhs flagged? Since the eBird filters also define the checklist entry list, editors sometimes must strike a balance between showing the most often used options and every conceivable option for the area. eBird allows entry of lots of subspecies including obscure things such as Mallard (Northern), and Osprey (American). These are not always worth showing on the checklist filters, so they may get flagged as a "rare bird", even if the subspecies is perfectly expected. Likewise for some rarely used "spuh" options, such as Blackpoll/Bay-breasted Warbler or woodpecker sp. These are not really rarities, but since they are not shown on the list they may get flagged. Don't worry, these will always be easily accepted. If you have a "spuh", a hybrid, or slash combo that you feel should be added to the filter, try writing "Please add to filter" in the species comments along with your observation. Editors see these comments, so you are giving them information about what additions are needed on the regional checklists.
Fig. 5. Embedded photos, like the one of this Fieldfare in Massachusetts, can be seen by reviewers and simplify the review and acceptance of rare species considerably. Please see the first FAQ above for instructions on how to embed photos. Thanks to Steve Mirick for his checklist with images of this exciting bird.
As eBird continues to grow, data quality will remain a challenge, and we thank you for your participation and understanding of the process. We believe that eBird reviewers are not only helping with scientific accuracy, but providing a valuable service to birders to help keep their data accurate, especially the instant feedback during data entry and subsequent direct communication.
Please don't stress about review. Our editors are doing the best they can. Time lags can occur. Your records are certainly appreciated, and they will be reviewed as soon as possible.
Provide the best documentation you can. Providing good notes and photos is the best way to have your records shown publicly. Make sure that your documentary notes include information on field marks and how similar species were eliminated. Notes that say "Seen in treetop then flew away" really do not add much to help support the record. See the FAQ above for how to better document records for links that help improve your documentation habits.
Nothing is final. If a record is treated as unconfirmed that doesn't mean it isn't valuable. As the status of birds change, your record may be reassessed.
eBird is attempting something that has never been done before -- to provide data validation at some level for every bird identified by birdwatchers worldwide. Tens of thousands of identification errors, typos, taxonomic errors, and other mistakes have been entered into personal databases, notebooks, refuge sightings logs, and other places where bird records are kept. There was a time when the only records accepted for science were ones where the bird was shot and could be re-examined by anyone. But today we have modern technology at our disposal to help document what we see, allowing confirmation with digital photos and detailed field notes.
Given today's fast-changing landscape and the wide variety of anthropogenic factors affecting bird populations (e.g., global climate change), now more than ever we need the help of birders in monitoring birds. These factors are certainly increasing the rate at which changes in bird distribution and abundance are taking place. Only through large-scale citizen-science efforts like eBird will we be able to fully understand these changes globally. With that we ask you to participate in eBird, to understand that every observation you make is valuable, to realize that data quality is also important, and to bear with us as we continue to help narrow the gap between birding and science!
Research and development of the eBird Review Process, especially the recent update to an advanced emergent filter process, is funded in part by the National Science Foundation.


Highlighting growing caste, religion-based and gender violence during the past five years of the Narendra Modi government, as well as attacks on rights such as food, education, health, employment, wages and reservation of seats in parliament, several women's organizations last week presented an 11-point charter of demands to political parties. This comes ahead of the Indian elections which are scheduled to begin on April 13.
Seeking inclusion of these demands in election manifestos, Mariam Dhawale, general secretary of the All India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA), said at a press conference here that the increasing violence against women and the government's inaction towards it was very worrisome.
The organizations that drafted the joint charter of demands include: All India Dalit Mahila Adhikar Manch (AIDMAM), All India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA), All India Mahila Sanskritik Sanghathan (AIMSS), All India Progressive Women's Association (AIPWA) Guild of Service, Muslim Women's Forum (MWF), National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW) and Purogami Mahila Sanghathan (PMS).
Describing the 2019 elections as one of the most "difficult challenges in front of all secular democratic forces in the country and an opportunity at the same time to dislodge the nightmarish regime of violence, fear, hunger and unemployment unleashed by the RSS-BJP dominated Modi government in the last five years," Dhawale said issues like political reservation, food security and price rise, among others, were crucial.
The joint charter has also demanded universalization of the public distribution system (PDS) to exclude only taxpayers and to ensure a minimum entitlement of 35kg of foodgrains per household and ration cards (which are necessary to access the PDS) to all, especially single women, unorganized sector workers, disabled, migrants and street dwellers.
The charter points out that the horrors of rising religious and caste fundamentalism within Hindu society are revealed in growing incidents of 'honor' crimes in Modi's four years (79% rise just in one year, 2014-2015). "If Modi is a champion of women's causes, how is it that he has not moved a finger to bring in stringent legal measures against such crimes? …This lack of concern for oppressive customs which victimize Hindu women lays bare the hypocrisy of shedding crocodile tears for divorced Muslim women by criminalizing triple talaq [a custom whereby a man can divorce his wife by merely stating the word 'talaq' (divorce) three times] after it has already been made illegal by a Supreme Court order. This ethics of divisiveness and hatred is strengthened by the official and unofficial leanings of the party in power", the charter adds.


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Atlant's Fox Theatre in Midtown
Photo: Michael West
The Fox Theatre: Guide and event information
Brian O'Shea
The former movie palace on Atlanta's famous Peachtree Street is almost as well known as a place for walking tours and private parties as it is for big shows
First things first. it's The Fox Theatre, ending in t-r-e, not Fox Theater. And to many folks, it's full name is The Fabulous Fox Theatre. The former movie palace on Atlanta's most famous street (Peachtree) is almost as well known as a place for walking tours and private parties as it is for big shows.
The Fox has plenty of both.
RELATED: Fox Theater address is 660 Peachtree St NE, Atlanta, GA 30308. Web site is foxtheatre.org. Closest MARTA station is North Avenue. Main Phone: 404-881-2100, Fox Theatre Tickets 855-285-8499.
"The Fox is the last and grandest of six movie palaces that once bejeweled downtown Atlanta," according to former AJC writer Jim Auchmutey, who wrote about the Fox on the occasion of its 75th birthday in 2004. "The others -- the Paramount, the Erlanger, the Capitol, the Roxy, Loew's Grand -- have long since vanished," Auchmutey wrote. "The Fox endures because Atlantans, threatened with its demolition, did something they had never done before: They rallied to protect a building from the wrecking ball.
"'It was too cool to tear down,' comedian Jeff Foxworthy at the time. He grew up in Hapeville and remembers slapping a 'Save the Fox' bumper sticker on his car in high school. Years later, when he headlined at the theater for the first time, he stood outside staring at the marquee and marveling: I'm playing the Fox. A photo of that marquee hangs in his home."
Atlanta's Fox Theatre in Midtown
The first impression of the Fox is that lighted marquee over the entrance from Peachtree Street. But the marquee pales in comparison to the grandeur of the Arcade entrance.
Now open Marquee Club, a new rooftop lounge. First it's helpful to know that many architectural and decorative features of the Fox are Arabian and Middle Eastern. More on that below. In 2016, The Fabulous Fox Theatre began renovation plans to add a lounge and rooftop bar, with Moroccan decor and what should be a spectacular skyline view of downtown and Midtown Atlanta over Peachtree Street. This project marks the Fox's most significant expansion ever. Or at least since 1929. Take a virtual tour of the rooftop Marquee Club.
The Grand Staircase, which sweeps Fox Theatre visitors from the entry arcade upstairs to the Grand Salon and Egyptian Ballroom.
Walking tours? Fox Theatre Tours takes paying visitors into places that most theater-goers never see, including a close look at the Moller organ known as Mighty Mo. Chances are you'll learn about the stars on the Arabian-sky ceiling above the balcony. The architecture and stylistic touches throughout the building are amazing and unique. The architecture is heavily influenced by Middle Eastern and Islamic themes, but it has also been called "fantasy architecture" because of the inventive approaches used. The building was originally intended as the headquarters for the Atlanta Shriners, but they partnered with the Fox movie empire in order to pay for it. Fox leased the main auditorium as a movie palace. The National Park Service, under its role as protector of historic sites, has a good overview of the building.
The Fox is popular for private events in its two ballrooms, the Grand Salon and the better known Egyptian Ballroom.
In the summer, there are usually movies as part of the Coca-Cola Summer Music Festival. At Christmas, there's the Nutcracker -- make that The Atlanta Ballet Nutcracker, performed with the Atlanta Ballet Orchestra.
At other times, the Fox is host to Broadway in Atlanta theater performances and a wide range of concerts and performing arts.
How old is the Fox? The theater opened two months after the stock market crash in 1929, opening on Christmas Day. It will turn 90 in 2019.
And no, "Gone With the Wind" did not premiere at the Fox in 1939. That honor went to the Loew's Grand, because of its ties to MGM. The Grand burned in the 1980s and was torn down to make room for a downtown office tower, not far from Margaret Mitchell Square. And it's also true that Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh, who played Rhett and Scarlett, stayed across the street from the Fox at the Georgian Terrace hotel when they were in Atlanta for the premiere and GWTW parade.
Upcoming shows at the Fox Theatre from the Access Atlanta calendar
For Atlanta Concert and Atlanta Live Music News, see the Atlanta Music Scene Blog
For Atlanta Concert Dates and Live Music Listings, see the Access Atlanta Concerts Calendar
Photo Tour of the Fox: Here's a great modern photo gallery from a recent tour, or you can step back in time with our historic Fox Theatre gallery.

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Teachers to Go to Court Over Visa Rule
By Kang Shin-who
A group of human rights lawyers plan to file a petition with the Constitutional Court against what they call discriminatory visa rules that require foreign English teachers to take an HIV and drug tests.
Chang Suh-yeon, an attorney with the Korean Public Interest Lawyers Group ``Gong-Gam,'' told The Korea Times Tuesday that her group will take the issue to the court this week or next.
``The visa rules violate the Constitution that guarantees a basic right to freedom, equal treatment, the pursuit of happiness and the protection of privacy,'' Chang said.
``They are based on vague prejudice and bias that foreign English teachers have disordered sex lives and use drugs,'' she added.
Under immigration regulations, applicants for an E-2 English teaching visa have been required to submit documents on criminal records and health checks since December 2007 after the arrest in Thailand of pedophile suspect Christopher Neil, who had once taught children in Korea.
A foreign teachers group has already filed complaints with the National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK), claiming the visa regulations were discriminatory.
The human right agency plans to hold a public hearing on the issue late this month in order to finalize an official position as early as July.
``A subcommittee consisting of three members will rule on the complaint. If there are conflicts among the panel members, the petition will be forwarded to a larger committee consisting of 11 members,'' said Lee Sung-taek, an official of the state agency.
If it backs the foreign teachers group, it is likely to push the Ministry of Justice to revise the related law and also influence future rulings by the Constitutional Court.
The Association for Teachers of English in Korea have contended the government should apply the same regulations to foreign English teachers as it does to Korean English teachers.
In response, the ministry says that a visa policy is a country's own right and foreign nationals are not entitled to complain about it. ``We believe the human rights agency is well aware of this fact and will take sides with us,'' said Ahn Kyu-seok, a ministry official.
Meanwhile, the ministry has not taken any action against an American English lecturer who refused to submit mandatory health checks but still had her E-2 visa renewed.
Andrea Vandom, working at Chung-Ang University, visited the Suwon Immigration Office last March and got the visa without health check documents.
After the incident, the immigration office said the approval was a mistake by an official and that it would ask her to submit the necessary documents. The office added that it would deport her if she didn't heed the request.
kswho@koreatimes.co.kr


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This is a COMPLETE set of COLLECT-A-CARD EASYRIDERS Metal Cards series, 20 cards in original TIN.
This set comes with the Certificate of Authenticity which is serial numbered XXXXX of 49,900 sets produced.
Limited Edition!1994.This "David Mann" illustrated card was issued by Collect-A-Card Corporation in 1994.
It was presented only to Collect-A-Card licensed dealers ordering the Harley Davidson Easyrider tin set series which had a very limited production run.
The card features "The Picnic", which was one of Mann's most popular paintings done in 1983.
Mann, who passed away in 2004, was Easyriders Magazine's most prolific artist since 1971.
Encapsulated in both plastic and an acrylic case. It is extremely rare and is in mint condition.
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The 1987–88 Primera División de Fútbol Profesional season is the 37th tournament of El Salvador's Primera División since its establishment of the National League system in 1948. The tournament was scheduled to end in December 1988. Aguila were crowned champions without the need of playing a final, as they were the best team in the regular and championship round.

Teams

Managerial changes

During the season

League standings

Final round standings

Top scorers

List of foreign players in the league
This is a list of foreign players in 1987-1988. The following players:
have played at least one apetura game for the respective club.
have not been capped for the El Salvador national football team on any level, independently from the birthplace

Acajutla
  Eraldo Correia
   Asdrúbal Padin
  Raul Esnal

C.D. Águila
  Néstor Doroni
  João Cabral
  Juan Carlos Carreño
  Luis Güelmo

Alianza F.C.
  Óscar Biegler
  Ruben Alonso
  Carlos Reyes
  Hernán Sosa

Atletico Marte

Chalatenango
  Arnaldo Martínez
  Marco Pereira

 (player released mid season)
  (player Injured mid season)
 Injury replacement player

Cojutepeque

C.D. FAS
  Manolo Álvarez
  Rogelio Flores
  Roberto Montepeque
  Héctor Cedrés
  Julio César Tejeda

C.D. Luis Ángel Firpo
  Rubén Darío Plaino

Metapan
  Clemente Uruguay Gussoni

Once lobos

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1986–87 in Salvadoran football

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A 21 chapter salute to a cultural icon. Winner of the Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2007 biography category, this book offers fascinating insights into the world of New Zealand music, literature and fine art through the eyes and ears of one of New Zealand's most creative sons, 'the father of New Zealand composition', Douglas Lilburn.
Written by Philip Norman, himself a leading New Zealand composer as well as holding a PhD in musicology, the book is a happy blend of meticulous research with the human-interest revelations of Lilburn's personal papers.
Lilburn was at the vortex of arts activity in New Zealand from 1940 onwards, forging friendships with many of the luminaries of New Zealand's cultural history – Allen Curnow, Ngaio Marsh, Denis Glover, James K Baxter, Rita Angus, Evelyn Page, Robin Hyde and Charles Brasch to name but a few – as well as associations with New Zealand's leading arts organizations from the National Film Unit, Landfall and New Zealand Players, to the Royal New Zealand Ballet and New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.
The 'musician with the farmer's hands', as Lilburn once described himself, touched and enriched many lives. This biography is a lively account of this complex and extraordinary man.
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"Philip Norman has written a magnificent book that exposes and illuminates a huge chunk of New Zealand's cultural history … This book is a compulsory read, not only for those with some familiarity with Lilburn the man, or Lilburn through his music, but also for anyone with a skerrick of interest in New Zealand's path to cultural maturity in the 20th century."
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A charming and illuminating tribute to Emeritus Professor Dr John Ritchie on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday, written by 60 of his friends, colleagues, family and former students, and compiled by fellow composer Dr Philip Norman. Includes over 90 photographs, a complete list of compositions and arrangements, transcripts of interviews, thought-provoking quotes, a biographical time-line and examples of hand-written manuscripts.
Spitfire pilot, composer, conductor, Catholic convert, professor, patron, president of an international music society and father of five: John Ritchie's colourful and varied life is beautifully encapsulated in this elegant and eloquent publication. 214pp, plus index, soft cover, perfect bound.
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'Judy' review: A film about love, sadness and Hollywood
John AndersonSeptember 28, 2019
Renée Zellweger is Judy Garland in 'Judy' (photo: BBC Films)
In "All About Eve," the less-than-endearing title character explains her Machiavellian motives for getting on stage. "If nothing else there's applause… like waves of love pouring over the footlights." In "Judy," the utterly endearing Judy Garland—birdlike, brittle, addicted to pills and booze—is also a junkie for the standing O. "I'm gonna love you/ Like nobody's loved you/ Come rain or come shine," she sings to—and at—a London audience in 1969. And virtually dares them not to return the affection.
Directed by Rupert Goold and adapted by Tom Edge from the Peter Quilter play "The End of the Rainbow" (which took place entirely in Garland's hotel room), "Judy" might have been a standard portrait of doom, a parable about the evils and excesses of studio-era Hollywood, the story of yet another innocent sacrificed on the cross of celebrity—although along those lines, the Garland story is something singular. So is Renée Zellweger's performance, which makes a sad story elevated, elevating and all about love.
"I want what everybody wants," she tells a pushy London chat-show host. "I just seem to have a harder time getting it." What she wanted, of course, was a stable life, romance, a family that stayed together. What she settled for was adulation.
But while Zellweger's portrayal of Garland may well put her in the Oscar race by virtue of its novelty and reverse "Raging Bull"-ishness, it's also an immersive, emotionally authentic thing.
Every year at this time, it seems that some actor whom we've come to know as one kind of thing becomes an entirely other kind of thing—transformed, newly intense and remade in the makeup chair. That this happens at awards season hardly seems a coincidence. But while Zellweger's portrayal of Garland may well put her in the Oscar race by virtue of its novelty and reverse "Raging Bull"-ishness, it's also an immersive, emotionally authentic thing. No one needs to be told that Judy is an alcoholic who doesn't eat. She moves with the clumsy kind of grace that anticipates falling down; her smile is the smile of someone who grew up feigning one—and the means by which Zellweger mutely explains this aspect of Garland's character cannot be found in a makeup kit. The musculature of her face is involved; it pops and tenses and flexes in answer and resistance to those forced smiles imposed upon her as an unhappy Hollywood child, terrorized by Louis B. Mayer (Richard Cordery) and browbeaten by a martinet publicist (Lucy Russell). Both are seen in flashbacks with young Judy, played by Darci Shaw.
The film takes place mostly during the five-week engagement Garland played at London's Talk of the Town in 1969, a gig she didn't want to take but had to: She was homeless, thanks to tax debt and managerial mismanagement; she had to leave her children, Joey and Lorna Luft, with her ex-husband and former manager Sid Luft (Rufus Sewell) and she was hoping the job would enable her to get her life together. In real life, the engagement was a thorough disaster, in the movie less so: Zellweger, singing in her own voice and eschewing a Garland impersonation, concentrates on capturing her character's real gift, which was less for singing than for selling a song. Garland wasn't a great vocalist, despite the hype. But each rendition of every standard is a small drama, acted as much as sung—especially that number, which she finally sings, from that movie about munchkins and witches. It has clearly terrified her from the start of the film. Can she still sing it? It's one of the anxieties Judy keeps constantly with her, along with her vodka and Seconal.
It's Zellweger's movie, of course, and it is in many ways a fantasy.
Surrounding Zellweger is a movie that largely doesn't quite deserve her but doesn't get in her way either. Michael Gambon (Dumbledore, for all you kids) is Bernard Delfont, the impresario who gets Judy cheap and lives to rue it; Finn Wittrock is Mickey Deans, Judy's fifth husband, who serves mostly as a symptom of his wife's bad judgment; Jessie Buckley is Rosalind Wilder, the young woman assigned to get Judy from here to there, and keep her sober, and fails quite spectacularly.
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In the process, he outlines the role that government should play in a society dedicated to freedom and relying primarily on the market to organize economic activity.".
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Milton Friedman was arguably the single most influential economist of the 20th-century. His influence, particularly on conservative politics in America and Great Britain, substantially helped - as both supporters and critics agree - to shape the global economy as it is today. Capitalism and Freedom (1962) is a passionate but carefully reasoned summary of Friedman's philosophy of political and economic freedom, and it has become perhaps his most directly influential work. Friedman's argument focuses on the place of economic liberalism in society: in his view, free markets and personal economic freedom are absolutely necessary for true political freedom to exist. Freedom, for Friedman, is the ultimate good in a society - the marker and aim of true civilisation. And, crucially, he argues, real freedom is rarely aided by government. For Friedman, indeed, "the great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government." Instead, he argues, they have always been produced by "minority views" flourishing in a social climate permitting variety and diversity." In successive chapters, Friedman develops a well-structured line of reasoning emerging from this stance - leading him to some surprising conclusions that remain persuasive and influential more than 60 years on.
Capitalism Vs Freedom by Rob Larson
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For years, we've been taught that capitalism is good for freedom. Dominant right-wing talk radio hosts to this day recommend "libertarian" classics like Hayek's Road to Serfdom and Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom that claim markets free us, and this picture still dominates the schools and the political spectrum. Well get bent, one percent, because Rob Larson's Capitalism vs. Freedom: The Toll Road to Serfdom puts big business under a microscope. This book debunks the conservative classics while demonstrating that the marketplace has its own great centers of power, which the libertarian tradition itself claims is a limit to freedom. In fact, Larson illustrates how capitalism fails both this and other concepts of human liberty, not just failing to establish a right to a share of society's production, but also leaving us subject to the great power plays of the one percent's corporate property.
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This remarkable, expansive text, explores the impact and ramifications this domineering economic phenomenon has had over our personal and social liberties. In this epoch of capitalist globalisation, Peter Nolan argues that capitalist freedom is a two-edged sword, and its contradictions have intensified, threatening the natural environment, and intensifying global inequality.
Why Government Is The Problem by Milton Friedman
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Friedman discusses a government system that is no longer controlled by "we, the people." Instead of Lincoln's government "of the people, by the people, and for the people," we now have a government "of the people, by the bureaucrats, for the bureaucrats," including the elected representatives who have become bureaucrats.
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Since the publication of Max Weber's classic, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, it has long been assumed that a distinctly Protestant ethos has shaped the current global economic order. Against this common consensus, Kathryn D. Blanchard argues that the theological thought of John Calvin and the Protestant movement as a whole has much to say that challenges the current incarnation of the capitalist order. This book develops an approach to Christian economic ethics that celebrates God's gift of human freedom, while at the same time acknowledging necessary, and indeed vital, limitations in the context of material and social life. Through sustained interaction with such unlikely dialogue partners as Adam Smith, Milton Friedman, Deirdre McCloskey, and Muhammad Yunus, this book shows that the virtues of self-denial, neighbor love, and sympathy have been quite at home in the capitalism of the past, and can be again. Though self-interest has enjoyed several decades as the unquestioned ruling principle of American economics, other-interest is steadily coming back into view, not only among Christian ethicists, but among economists as well. This book explores the important implications of this shift in economic thinking from a theological perspective.
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This book relates Wikipedians' conceptions of their activities in terms of play, game, work and labour, to their views on Wikipedia and capitalism. The author identifies and compares ideology formations with each other, and with contemporary Marxist theory, providing critical evaluation of the perceived economic relation between peer production and capitalism. The book covers a range of topics including encyclopaedias and the digital revolution; Marxist approaches to cognitive capitalism; and crowdsourcing. The book richly contributes to the emerging literature of critical internet studies, providing a unique intersection of three fields of knowledge: social effects of digital technology; ideologies and politics of cognitive capitalism's social relations; and the culture of contemporary capitalism. Wikipedia, Work and Capitalism will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines including political economy, sociology and digital cultures, as well as social activists, Wikipedians, and peer producers.
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Wired has an excellent piece on how corporate boards have been complicit in sexual harassment for decades, as claims by victims have gone unpunished or paid off to silence, and serial sexual harassers are kept around when they make good profit.
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Josué Danny Ortiz Maldonado (July 26, 1976 – February 29, 2004) was a Guatemalan football goalkeeper who played for the Guatemalan national team and CSD Municipal.

Club career
Ortíz played for both Guatemalan giants Comunicaciones and CSD Municipal as well as for CD Suchitepequez and Deportivo Carchá. He succeeded national team goalkeeper Edgar Estrada between the Comunicaciones goalposts when Estrada moved to Municipal, only to take him to Municipal himself a year later in a swap deal which returned Estrada to the Cremas.

International career
Ortiz made his debut for Guatemala in a February 2001 friendly match against Panama and had collected a total of 10 caps, scoring no goals. He had represented his country at the UNCAF Nations Cup 2001 and at the 2002 CONCACAF Gold Cup. He was deemed the natural successor to Edgar Estrada in the national team until his premature death.

His final international was an October 2002 friendly match against Jamaica.

Death
During a 2004 match with Municipal against their eternal rivals and his former club CSD Comunicaciones, the 211th clasico between the clubs, Ortiz collided with Mario Rodríguez of the opposing team, suffering a torn pericardium. He was taken to the Hospital Centro Médico where Ortiz died two hours later.

He became the third Municipal player after Jhonny Aldana and goalkeeper Rolando Marroquín to die while active for the club. His wife and their two children were left behind.

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 Tribute to Dany Ortiz - Seleccion de Guatemala

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The Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative–composed of Great Lakes mayors–is requesting a hearing to challenge the decision to allow Waukesha to divert water from Lake Michigan.
Denis Coderre, the Mayor of Montreal and new chair of the Cities Initiative said, "For the Compact Council to grant an exception to the first application that does not meet the conditions of the Compact sets a very bad precedent. To make sure the Compact and Great Lakes are not compromised in the future, this decision should be overturned."
The Cities Initiative has expressed opposition to the approved diversion during the course of the proceedings on a number of issues, including the availability of reasonable alternatives to Waukesha for water supply, the impact of the return flow of Waukesha sewage on the Root River, and the service area that includes communities that are not part of the City of Waukesha.
Now that the Compact Council has approved the diversion, the group is concerned that it will set a precedent for future applications.
"This decision opens the door to every neighbouring city and county to the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Basin in the U.S. and Canada to get water from the basin without meeting the conditions of the Compact. This is not in the best interest of these resources that are so important to our region," said Mayor Paul Dyster of Niagara Falls, New York, Vice Chair of the Cities Initiative.
The Mayors of the Cities Initiative were also disappointed with the public consultation provided during the review and approval process. The only public hearing held by the Regional Body that recommended approval was held in Waukesha, which is hardly representative of the people in the Region.
When the final decision included conditions related to some of the problems with Waukesha's application, no opportunity for comment was permitted on those changes.
Mayor Sandra Cooper of Collingwood, Ontario, Secretary/Treasurer of the Cities Initiative, added, "We are taking this step to launch a legal challenge to the Compact Council's decision regarding the Waukesha water taking application because we do not feel that Waukesha met the rigorous standard set in the Compact to qualify for an exception to the ban on water diversions to communities outside of the basin."
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Successful Energy efficiency renovation projects thanks to One-Stop-Shop Assistance
Île de France Energies is an example of One-Stop-Shop created to support the energy renovation of condominiums, and implement the energy transition in the Region.
Energies POSIT'IF was created in 2012 as public-private partnership by the Île-de-France region. It is now called Île-de-France Energies. The mission of the SEM is to assist condominiums and small social landlords with their energy efficiency renovation projects, acting as a third-financer for a part or the totality of the project cost. Île-de-France Energies aims to:
Support the energy renovation of condominiums in Ile-de-France;
Support the actors of the building sector (public and private) in gaining skills on energy efficiency improvements.
The initiative was created to promote, organise, support and implement the energy transition of the Île-de-France region. It acts as an integrated service provider offering technical design, implementation and operations, financing and insurance services to owners of multifamily residential apartment buildings. The target audience of the service are 1 million multifamily apartment buildings or Condominiums (homeowners' associations, social housing companies) with an EPC certificate of E, F or G (230 to 450 kWhep/m2/year), which represents 47% of the total residential houses in those classes. The target is achieving the label "BBC Effinergie renovation" (low energy retrofit) which is 104 kWhep/m2/year in the Region.
The aim is to use a significant amount of energy savings to pay for the investments. Île-de-France Energies acts as a public ESCO to integrate the different steps of the process, with an aim to reduce transaction costs (information, strengthening of the capacity of the home owners, feasibility studies, quality control, follow-up, etc.). Île-de-France Énergies's shareholders are representing various entities comprising 14 collectivities from the Ile de France Region(61%) and the city of Paris (10%) 2 financial entities (including the Caisse des Dépots et Consignation for 9,7%), and benefits from a support of the EU.
The SEM covers all aspects of a renovation project:
Provision of advice and information;
Support to the finalization of the financing plan;
Possibility of third-financing;
Design and implementation of the energy renovation works;
Operation / maintenance and guarantee of energy performance.
The OSS offers two operational business models.
In the first option, the condominiums collaborate with it on developing the plan and potentially in arranging financing. The actual implementation remains in this case in the hands of the condominium.
Alternatively, the OSS develops the financing and implementation/operation plan. It provides third-party financing (loan directly from the OSS or a bank loan) and can assist in the accession of other funds/grants. It also acts as an intermediary between the owners and the technical partners. The OSS accompanies the condominiums from A to Z in their energy retrofitting works (including the follow up and the financing of the projects) and in exchange they pay a monthly fee for these services. The fee takes into account the energy savings; however it may still be higher due to the selected payment period and/or renovation measures that did not generate energy savings.
Network and operational capacity
The semi-public company Île-de-France Energies counts with director, technical expert, financial expert and project manager. It outsources and coordinates the architects, engineering companies, energy service companies, and contractors.
The board of directors takes decisions on the investments. Furthermore, the Project Development Unit offers an Energy audit to identify the energy savings potential and financial implications. It establishes a mandate from the co-owners to the property management association (syndicus) and a contractual agreement that covers the energy renovation project. Structured partnerships have been developed with professional stakeholders in the energy efficiency and renewable energies sector and the building sector, with companies that meet the necessary qualification, expertise and commitment criteria for ensuring the quality of energy retrofits.
Financial model
In terms of financings, there are two cooperation models between the condominiums and Île-de-France Energies:
Île-de-France Energies can provide its financial engineering services to the condominiums. It develops a global financing plan for the building energy renovation which consists of individual financing plans adapted to each home owner. Individual financing plans can include self-financing of the apartment owners, grants and subsidies (national, regional or local) for which they are eligible and a bank loan. Condominiums can also take a collective loan involving all interested home owners. The condominiums pay the OSS for the renovation works as well as a fee to for its services. Ile de France Energies acts as an intermediary between the condominiums and technical partners that carry out the renovation works. However, it does not provide any additional financial sources.
Île-de-France Energies can as well provide its financial engineering services and additional financing sources to the condominiums. In this case, it develops a global financing plan for the condominiums; it seeks the third-party financing sources (in form of a bank loan) on behalf of the condominiums and provides them with additional financial sources from its own budget. It acts as an intermediary between the condominiums, technical partners and banks. The condominiums are in direct contact only with Ile de France Energies. They pay monthly (or semesterly) instalments and a service fee to the OSS which then pays back to the banks. The beneficiaries reimburse the renovation costs through regular payments (installments) which take into account the financial savings generated thanks to reduced energy consumption. However, the payments are not always equal or lower than the financial savings achieved. The condominiums may decide to pay higher installments and so shorten the pay-back period or, in some cases, the installments are high due to too high renovation costs that include measures that do not generate (or generate too little) energy savings.
In 2015, Île-de-France Energies reported accompanying 21 co-owner associations at different stages of development (audit, project assistance, design and implementation) covering about 3200 individual homes for a total investment of over 50 millions euros VAT incl. With an overall capital of 5.32M devided between diverse actors, Île-de-France Energies was in contact with 25 condominiums after 9 months of operation. 8 are negotiating a renovation contract, representing 1,700 housing units and € 25 M of investments. The project pipeline has increased to 60 condominiums, with a total of 18 contracts signed. In 2015 more than €30 M of works are to be signed, covering the renovation of 2553 apartments. Currently, the project has ended, but the ESCO/OSS is still operational.
Since 2013 Île-de-France Energies has carried out studies
for 55 condominiums, representing 7 200 appartments.
3 100 have approved a renovation programme
25 % of the households are low income
Renovation lead to an average 48 %, equal to 64 M€ investment and created or maintained 1019 FTE jobs
Île-de-France Energies is a reference for several French regions :6 out of 13 regions have created / are creating a public / private third-party financing company.
There are several reasons that can explain the success of this initiative: the strong political decision of the initiator (region Ile-de-France) and its partners, the continuous dialogue with national public authorities which helped overcoming legislative and fiscal barriers in the renovation of condominiums and social hosuing and lastly, the facilitation and promotion of the project by crucial actors such as consultants, local energy info points and agencies.
In the future, the SEM will support local authorities as well for the energy renovation of public buildings.
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Michèle Chardonnet (* 27. Oktober 1956 in Toulon) ist eine ehemalige französische Leichtathletin und Olympionikin.

Michèle Chardonnet gewann bei den französischen Hallen-Leichtathletik-Meisterschaften die Goldmedaille im 60-Meter-Hürdenlauf in den Jahren 1979, 1981, 1982 und 1983.

Bei den Mittelmeerspielen 1983 in Casablanca gewann sie eine Goldmedaille im 100-Meter-Hürdenlauf.

Bei den XXIII. Olympischen Sommerspielen 1984 in Los Angeles gewann sie die Bronzemedaille im 100-Meter-Hürdenlauf zusammen mit der US-Amerikanerin Kim Turner hinter der US-Amerikanerin Benita Fitzgerald-Brown (Gold) und der Britin Shirley Strong (Silber).

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Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and Osteoporosis are common degenerative diseases of aging. Previous research has found that AD and osteoporosis may overlap .
Observational studies demonstrate a correlation between the osteoporosis and AD that suggest, rather than one condition causing the other, both conditions are related by a common underlying mechanism .
Previous studies have investigated bone mass in mouse models that recapitulate the pathology of AD .
This study focuses on the 5xFAD mouse model, another AD mouse model that exhibits a more aggressive form of AD. Thus, the 5xFAD mouse model rapidly recapitulates major features of AD amyloid pathway: rapidly accumulating Aβ42 in the brain, early amyloid deposition and gliosis, robust intraneuronal Aβ labeling, neurodegeneration and neuron loss.
The goal of this study was to investigate the skeleton of the 5xFAD mice and compare its bone density to age-matched healthy control mice.
Shakthivel, S. (2019). The Pathological Interaction Between Alzheimer's Disease and Osteoporosis in 5xFAD Mouse Model.


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FRACKVILLE, SCHUYLKILL COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A local doctor is preparing for the biggest personal challenge of his life, but that challenge isn't just about him.
Dr. James Greenfield is packing his bags; he's got boots, band-aids, and lots of layers, to keep him going as he climbs the tallest mountain in the world.
Before he flies to Asia, he's preparing his lungs for the high altitudes.
But he won't be making the journey alone. Six volunteers will trek up Mount Everest — with a common goal — raising money for disadvantaged children in Africa.
"We don't realize how much we really do have in our country until you see places that really don't have anything," said Greenfield. Greenfield volunteers with Care Highway International– a charity that brings health care and education opportunities to kids in Kenya.
Last year, he joined the group and had his first experiences in Africa. As a physician, he offered free clinics, gave immunizations and physicals to children in need.
"They're so grateful for anything you do. You go ahead and buy a girl a jump rope. She's ecstatic," said Greenfield.
He won't be seeing the kids on this trip, but the money raised from sponsors of his trek and donations will go directly to the children.
"You don't realize how far a little bit goes in a country like that," said Greenfield.
One U.S. dollar equals about 100 dollars in Kenya.There are 150 kids at the CHI facility. 300 U.S. dollars feeds all those kids for three months.That's what's motivating Greenfield to make the 10-day trip up a freezing, dangerous mountain.
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A MAN was remanded to prison yesterday after he was arraigned on firearm related offences.
Charlton Thurston, 37, appeared before Magistrate Carolyn Vogt-Evans facing a count each of possession of an unlicensed firearm and possession of ammunition.
It is alleged that he was in possession of a black Austrian Glock 9mm pistol and 15 rounds of 9mm ammunition without being the holder of a license or certificate to possess the items.
Thurston pleaded not guilty to both allegations and is scheduled to return to Magistrate's Court on June 7.
He was remanded to the Department of Correctional Services in the interim.