text:
package org.apache.stratos.email.sender.api;

import java.util.Map;

//This holds the email address and email parameter map
public class EmailDataHolder {

    private String email;
    private Map<String, String> emailParameters;

    public String getEmail() {
        return email;
    }

    public void setEmail(String email) {
        this.email = email;
    }

    public Map<String, String> getEmailParameters() {
        return emailParameters;
    }

    public void setEmailParameters(Map<String, String> emailParameters) {
        this.emailParameters = emailParameters;
    }
}


text:
Q: Python 2 vs 3. Same inputs, different results. MD5 hash Python 3 code:
def md5hex(data):
    """ return hex string of md5 of the given string """
    h = MD5.new()
    h.update(data.encode('utf-8'))
    return b2a_hex(h.digest()).decode('utf-8')

Python 2 code:
def md5hex(data):
    """ return hex string of md5 of the given string """
    h = MD5.new()
    h.update(data)
    return b2a_hex(h.digest())

Input python 3:
>>> md5hex('bf5¤7¤8¤3')
'61d91bafe643c282bd7d7af7083c14d6'

Input python 2:
>>> md5hex('bf5¤7¤8¤3')
'46440745dd89d0211de4a72c7cea3720'

Whats going on?
EDIT:
def genurlkey(songid, md5origin, mediaver=4, fmt=1):
    """ Calculate the deezer download url given the songid, origin and media+format """
    data = b'\xa4'.join(_.encode("utf-8") for _ in [md5origin, str(fmt), str(songid), str(mediaver)])
    data = b'\xa4'.join([md5hex(data), data])+b'\xa4'
    if len(data)%16:
        data += b'\x00' * (16-len(data)%16)
    return hexaescrypt(data, "jo6aey6haid2Teih").decode('utf-8')

All this problem started with this b'\xa4' in python 2 code in another function. This byte doesn't work in python 3.
And with that one I get the correct MD5 hash...

A: Use hashlib & a language agnostic implementation instead:
import hashlib
text = u'bf5¤7¤8¤3'
text = text.encode('utf-8')
print(hashlib.md5(text).hexdigest())

works in Python 2/3 with the same result:
Python2:
'61d91bafe643c282bd7d7af7083c14d6'

Python3 (via repl.it):
'61d91bafe643c282bd7d7af7083c14d6'

The reason your code is failing is the encoded string is not the same string as the un-encoded one: You are only encoding for Python 3.

If you need it to match the unencoded Python 2:
import hashlib
text = u'bf5¤7¤8¤3'
print(hashlib.md5(text.encode("latin1")).hexdigest())

works:
46440745dd89d0211de4a72c7cea3720

the default encoding for Python 2 is latin1 not utf-8

A: Default encoding in python3 is Unicode. In python 2 it's ASCII. So even if string matches when read they are presented differently.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


text:
'use strict';/* jshint indent: 2 */

module.exports = function(sequelize, DataTypes) {
  return sequelize.define('SubjectReader', {
    studyID: {
      type: DataTypes.INTEGER(11),
      allowNull: false,
      primaryKey: true
    },
    groupID: {
      type: DataTypes.INTEGER(11),
      allowNull: false
    },
    readerID: {
      type: DataTypes.INTEGER(11),
      allowNull: false,
      primaryKey: true
    },
    subjectID: {
      type: DataTypes.INTEGER(11),
      allowNull: false,
      primaryKey: true
    },
    startDate: {
      type: DataTypes.TEXT,
      allowNull: false
    },
    endDate: {
      type: DataTypes.TEXT,
      allowNull: true
    }
  }, {
    classMethods: {
      // Creates an association function that is run AFTER all the models are loaded into sequelize.
      associate: function (models) {
        models.SubjectReader.belongsTo(models.subject, {foreignKey: "subjectID"});
        models.SubjectReader.belongsTo(models.reader, {foreignKey: "readerID"});
      }
    }
  });
};

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


The Colorado Department of Transportation begins the construction of upgrades on the Highway 9 bridge Monday at 10 p.m. over Interstate 70, requiring an around-the-clock closure to all traffic and major detours for vendors.
Construction continues through Sept. 27, with the bridge and Exit 203 closed from 10 p.m. to midnight Mondays through Thursdays. The construction work consists of removing old expansion joints and installing new ones.
The bridge will remain open Friday mornings through Monday night to accommodate weekend traffic.
While the closure is in place, all ramps remain open, providing access between eastbound I-70 and Frisco. The westbound ramps also will be open, allowing residents on the north side of the interchange to exit or enter I-70.
All large trucks weighing more than 10,000 pounds will need to use Hwy. 9, Summit Boulevard, to access eastbound I-70. Westbound truck traffic will need to go east on I-70 to the Silverthorne Interchange Exit 205 and turnaround to access westbound I-70.
Expansion joints allow bridges to expand and contract, and avoid structural damage. Replacing the joints periodically can extend the service life of a bridge several years, Alderman said.


text:
Q: How to navigate from DialogFragment to DialogFragment? I have a fragment where I click a button and it opens a dialog(DialogFragment). In this dialog, i have a button that if I press it, I want to dismiss this dialog and open another different dialog(DialogFragment).
In this new dialog I want to do something similar, I want to make a button to go back to the previous dialog.
In my navigation graph I have this:
    <dialog android:id="@+id/dialog_first" android:name="com.example.dialog.FirstDialog" android:label="first" tools:layout="@layout/myfirstdialog">

    <argument android:name="phonenumber" app:argType="string"/>

    <action android:id="@+id/action_dialog_first_to_dialog_second" app:destination="@+id/dialog_second"/>

</dialog>

<dialog android:id="@+id/dialog_second" android:name="com.example.dialog.SecondDialog" android:label="second" tools:layout="@layout/myfirstdialog">

    <action android:id="@+id/action_dialog_second_to_dialog_first" app:destination="@+id/dialog_second"/>

</dialog>

In my first dialog, I recieve an argument to show it, if I travel to second dialog and come back to first dialog, I want to still have the argument in the dialog,is it needed to pass the argument to second dialog and pass it back then to the first dialog again to keep it or not?
Thats how Im doing it but when I click the button to navigate from the first dialog to the second dialog it only dismiss the dialog.
    btnGoToSecondDialog.setOnClickListener{
       dismiss()
       findNavController().navigate(
           FirstDialogDirections.action_dialog_first_to_dialog_second()
       )
    }

How is the best way to do this? How can I show the second dialog? Is it needed to pass the argument to the second dialog if I go back from the second dialog to the first to still showing the argument?

A: When you go from one dialog to another, if you delete the current dialog from the background and send the data in the current dialog to the second dialog, you will have done what you want.
When you want back to first dialog you should delete the second dialog from the background and send the data to first dialog.
Thus, when you press the dismiss button from the first or the second dialog, there will be no unwanted dialog in the background.


text:
/Presented by High-Def Digest
3D Cinema
3D Gaming
Movie & TV Awards
Movie Merchandise
Blog News & Misc.
Live-Blogs
Blu-ray & Discs
Streaming & VOD
Design & Accessories
HT Gear
Basic Cable
Back to High-Def Digest
Posted by Josh Zyber - June 27, 2017
'Twin Peaks' 3.08 Recap: "Got a Light?"
What… the… holy… f….. ???… I mean, seriously, what the hell did I just watch? With the latest episode of 'David Lynch's Batshit Gonzo TV Experiment' (inaccurately mislabeled 'Twin Peaks' by the network), I think Lynch may have just set fire to the entire medium of television storytelling and gleefully danced around the pyre as it burned to the ground. Even by Lynch's extremely out-there standards, this is just… I… I don't even know what this is.
After the episode aired, fellow blogger Shannon emailed to wish me luck in trying to recap it. I'm not even going to pretend to get every detail, because I honestly don't have any idea what most of the random flashing lights and colors and movements and noises mean, if they mean anything.
The first thing to note is that only two familiar characters appear in the episode: Mr. C (Cooper's evil doppelganger) and the Giant from the Lodge. Well, also Mr. C's accomplice Ray, but he's been a pretty minor presence on the show until now. We don't see any of Mr. Jackpots (probably a good thing, in my book), or Gordon Cole, or anyone at all from the town of Twin Peaks. Huge chunks of the episode take place as flashbacks to decades earlier, and other huge chunks are comprised of totally abstract images and sounds.
The Part I Can Make Some Sense Out Of
After being sprung from prison, Mr. C and Ray drive toward someplace called "The Farm." They have an awkward conversation. Mr. C lies about his girlfriend Darya (whom Ray conspired with against Mr. C) still being alive. Mr. C needs some piece of information that Ray claims to have memorized. Ray makes the stupid mistake of trying to blackmail Mr. C for it. This does not seem like a good idea.
At night, Ray drives the car down a deserted road and pulls over to take a leak. Mr. C takes a gun out of the car's glovebox (he'd insisted that the prison warden provide him with one) and demands that Ray tell him what he wants to know. Ray pulls his own gun. Mr. C tries to shoot but his gun doesn't fire. Gloating, "Tricked ya, fucker," Ray shoots Mr. C in the gut a couple of times, more than enough to kill a normal person. Mr. C's body falls to the ground, seemingly dead.
Suddenly, lights flash. Ghostly figures emerge from the woods and circle around Mr. C's body as Ray watches in horror. Round and round they mournfully stomp and dance and claw at the body. From a bloody wound in Mr. C's stomach, a grotesque tumor with the snarling face of BOB emerges.
Ray eventually runs back to the car and flees the scene. On his cell phone, he calls someone named Phillip (I assume Phillip Jeffries?) and leaves a message explaining what happened. He almost doesn't sound surprised by it and suggests that Mr. C may not be dead yet.
From this, the episode then cuts to the Roadhouse for our only stop in Twin Peaks this week. Appearing on stage are Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails, who seem like an awfully big act for a small town dive bar. For four unbroken minutes, we watch concert footage of the band performing the song "She's Gone Away" in its entirety. If anyone from the town is visible in the audience, I didn't spot them (not even Jean Michel the bartender).
At the end of the song, we return to the woods as Mr. C bolts upright, bloodied but intact.
Where It Gets Really F'ing Weird
I scrawled several pages of notes for the rest of the episode. Attempting to transcribe them all seems futile, but I'll do my best. Keep in mind that it's the type of thing that can't be entirely digested on the first attempt.
On-screen text identifies the time and place as July 16, 1945, White Sands, New Mexico – the location and date of the famed Trinity test. In rather beautiful, haunting slow-motion, a nuclear explosion illuminates the desert, the first to ever erupt. The camera slowly, slowly, slowly zooms into the heart of the fireball.
The next, maybe 10 minutes… or 20… or possibly 70… I don't know, I lost track… of screen time are utter chaos and confusion – stars swirling and shaking in the void, fire, explosions, colors, no discernible forms or figures, one very extended WTF. It's extremely bizarre and surreal, but not in the usual Lynchian way. The score on the soundtrack may not actually be Ligeti's "Atmosphères" (the music Stanley Kubrick used during the stargate sequence at the end of '2001'), but sure sounds a lot like it. Without question, what Lynch is doing here is intended to evoke that scene, as well as the experimental collage work by Stan Brakhage. I'm puzzled by this, as Lynch has never been an imitator of others before.
Finally, something to interpret appears. A lonely gas station with a convenience store. Flashing lights and smoke. In choppy stop-motion, people flitter in and out and around the building.
A monstrous figure that more than a little resembles the 'Eraserhead' baby but with distinctly female features floats in space, then pukes a long tendril of something. Eggs emerge from it. (This, at least, is very Lynchian.) Along with the eggs is a bubble once again containing the face of BOB.
A vast, dark ocean. We've seen this before, when Cooper fell through the floor of the Lodge. A mountain island with a building on top. Inside, a woman sits on a couch, listening to music and swaying. She has no dialogue but is identified in the episode credits as "Senorita Dido."
A strange, alarm-like sound repeats over and over. The Giant enters the room, looks concerned, and turns it off by pressing a button. He leaves and goes to another room, where a projection screen displays the image of the atomic bomb exploding, then of the puking monster, and then freezes on the bubble with BOB's face.
The Giant levitates into the air. Senorita Dido watches as swirling lights issue from his head and coalesce into a human-sized cocoon. A bubble of light emerges and floats down to Dido's hands. She sees Laura Palmer's prom photo inside it and smiles. She kisses the bubble and sends it up into the air, where it floats into a tube. It comes out the other side, where an image of the Earth now appears on the projection screen. The bubble floats into the screen and becomes part of the image as it travels to Earth.
It Only Gets Stranger, Folks
We're now in 1956, still New Mexico. An egg lying in the desert sand hatches, and a disturbing creature that seems to be part frog and part insect emerges.
Another gas station at night. A young boy and girl walk past, perhaps having left a school formal. The boy walks the girl home and kisses her goodnight. She swoons. They part company for the night.
A ghostly body floats down from the sky and lands in the desert.
A frighteningly weathered hobo (whom I believe is supposed to be the Woodsman played by Jürgen Prochnow in 'Fire Walk with Me', or at least a Woodsman – perhaps all the scary ghost men are Woodsmen) terrifies a couple in a car on the road. A number of others like him run around behind them.
The hobo walks to a local radio station and kills the receptionist and DJ by crushing their skulls with a single hand. (The action is no doubt supposed to be metaphorical for how viewers feel watching this episode, like our brains have just been smushed.) He stops the music and speaks into the microphone, repeating a short poem over and over and over again.
"This is the water and this is the well
Drink full and descend
The horse is the white of the eyes
And dark within"
I would conservatively estimate that he speaks this in its entirety about 56 times in a row, very slowly. At hearing it, people in the town, including the young girl, pass out and fall asleep. The bug/frog enters the girl's room through her open window and crawls into her mouth.
Having finished whatever it was he was doing, the hobo leaves the radio station, walks into the desert, and vanishes. In the distance, we hear the sound of a horse braying.
Episode Verdict
Yeah, exactly. Got all that?
Your guess is as good as mine as to what any of it means. Certain images or references may be meaningful to longtime 'Twin Peaks' fans (the convenience store, the horse) or David Lynch's other movies. The influence of 'Eraserhead' is very strong in particular. How they connect narratively is, needless to say, elusive.
From what I can tell, the nuclear test in 1945 opened a breach between our world and the spectral plane where the Lodge exists, allowing a number of dark spirits to visit the Earth. The Giant sent something or someone to follow them. Beyond that… ?
I've read one fan vehemently insist that this is an origin story for BOB. I don't think the Woodsman and BOB are supposed to be the same person, but the implication seems to be at least that BOB was one of the other spirits to arrive with him.
This is clearly a statement episode for David Lynch, boldly asserting the new direction he's taking the show. It doesn't feel much like 'Twin Peaks' at all. It's more a cumulative expression of his entire career rolled into the backdrop of the 'Twin Peaks' universe. It's already proving to be the most divisive episode of not just this series, but of any television series that has ever aired. It's not a TV episode at all; it's an abstract art film. This will enrage some 'Twin Peaks' fans while pleasing other fans of the director. Immediate reactions have ranged from calling it a brilliant masterwork to "over-indulgent pretentious BS" (Shannon's words).
As someone who's been incredibly skeptical of this 'Twin Peaks' revival, I honestly don't know where I fall on the spectrum of opinions. I felt exhausted watching the episode, and was frankly dumbfounded at the end when I saw it was only a standard one hour long. Lynch has somehow broken our temporal reality and compressed the very draining physical and emotional experience of watching an entire 6-, 8- or perhaps as much as 12-hour art installation exhibit while only 60 minutes of actual time pass on the clock. In some ways, that's a good thing, in that I'd gotten totally lost in the show. As abstract as they are, parts of the episode are very beautiful and affecting. The visual effects work is also several leagues above the crappy VFX in prior episodes this season.
I also feel like I'm witnessing something totally unprecedented, in which a TV network has given an artist – not "artist" in the coy way we talk about everyone in the entertainment industry, but a genuine creator of challenging and confrontational works of art – a healthy budget and free reign go absolutely bonkers, delivering his uncompromised vision straight from his subconscious to viewers' eyeballs for 18 hours. That's amazing, even revolutionary. Nothing like this has ever aired on television before, and I say that at a peculiar moment in time rife with plenty of quirky and weird and boundary-pushing content on cable airwaves. Shows like 'Fargo' and 'Legion' and 'American Gods' would not exist if not for the original 'Twin Peaks', yet here David Lynch is going 30 steps beyond his past work. He's treating this as his magnum opus, the summation of his career, and tearing loose with it in ways he never could on the original ABC series.
On the other hand, this simply isn't 'Twin Peaks'. And when I signed up to watch a third season of 'Twin Peaks', I'd kind of like to see 'Twin Peaks'. That doesn't seem like an unreasonable expectation.
TagsAuteur Theory: David Lynch David Lynch Kyle MacLachlan Recap Showtime Twin Peaks
About Josh Zyber
Josh Zyber is a veteran movie and video disc reviewer from Laserdisc to DVD and beyond. He previously wrote for DVDFile.com, DVDTalk.com, and Home Theater magazine.
View all posts by Josh Zyber →
The Walking Dead 10.03 Recap: "Peanut Butter, Mee...
Watchmen Pilot Recap: "Trust in the Law"
Treadstone Pilot Recap: "I Guess I'm Not Fe...
The Walking Dead 10.02 Recap: "Oh, You're D...
June 27, 2017 at 6:27 am - Reply
Yeah, this was really weird. Last week we had the most Twin Peaks-like episode, and now this thing. During the nuclear bomb sequence it felt to me more Terrence Malick than Lynch.
Anyway Josh, you forgot to mention that the image of Bob appears on the projection screen when the Giant is floating. Many fans are saying this is the origin of Bob.
Karl DeGraide
There's a thread on Reddit that goes into the potential link between the nuclear test and Twin Peaks. It's pretty interesting stuff:
https://www.reddit.com/r/twinpeaks/comments/6jjh9n/s3e8_how_the_bomb_is_connected_to_twin_peaks
There's some stuff in the recent "Secret History of Twin Peaks" book that Mark Frost wrote that talks about it as well.
The music that was playing during the bomb blast was Penderecki's "Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima". It definitely has a Kubrick vibe to it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp3BlFZWJNA&feature=youtu.be
Darkmonk
June 27, 2017 at 12:35 pm - Reply
The "mother" creature is the same creature that appeared in the Glass box. (Also the "mother that was feared by the eyeless woman in episode 3). In the eps it was credited as "experiment".
The convenience store/gas station has been where the woodsman/BOB/Man from Another World/Philip Jeffries congregate (as documented in FWWM).
The BOB egg, and Laura Palmer egg were sent to Earth in 1950's as a result of splitting the atom and opening a door. It remains to be seen which egg creature entered the girl. Many speculate that the girl is Sarah Palmer, and the Boy was Leland.
But this is definitely an origin story – so I am sure it is a standalone epidsode in that way.
Great episode.
There really are two different kinds of David Lynch fans:
People who have seen all of his work and enjoyed it,
And people who THINK they are Lynch fans only because they watched and enjoyed the original Twin Peaks. TP (the original) was always a more tame version of Lynch, and I doubt a lot of those fans sought out LOST HIGHWAY or ERASERHEAD – or they would not be at all surprised by last night's episode.
It was pure David Lynch. I understand, and sympathize, that people want to see Cooper back drinking coffee and eating pie – but there are still 10 episodes left…
Boston007
Are all Lynch fans pretentious?
Josh Zyber
The Lodge inhabitants congregated in a room above a convenience store in FWWM. The convenience store in this episode only has one level, no rooms above it.
Shannon Nutt
I love being quoted accurately. 🙂
Yeah, I wasn't a fan of this one. I swore I was never going to sit through "Inland Empire" again, and I think I got tricked into doing so.
Lemule
June 27, 2017 at 1:02 pm - Reply
It was fantastic (in every sense of the word).
For the first few episodes of this I was one of the people grumbling a bit that it was too different from old Twin Peaks, but now I've settled in for the ride. I love having no idea what's coming next. I'll take this over Andy & Lucy comedy and Josie as a maid.
I watched the episode a second time last night and have made some clarifying edits to the article. The episode plays rather differently when you go into it knowing what will happen and what to expect.
You sat through it again? Props. This might be the only one I don't watch twice.
Wow… I for one didn't like the original Twin Peaks. Somehow it felt as if they were making it up as it went. However this season (2017) I've decided to sit through. At first it was just because it was limited to 18 episodes, but after this week's episode I'm really intrigued. The reference to '2001' can't not be noticed. The woodsman is super creepy. Ray should have double tapped Mr. C. Why didn't he? Heck, he should've emptied the whole magazine into his head. I sure wished for it. Anyway, I think that David Lynch is a genius of a kind, I just haven't figured out what kind yet.
Wes Morrison
60 minutes of highly concentrated, utter artistic brilliance. David Lynch opened up his mind and poured out his subconscious on screen, and before I knew it, an hour of my life just flitted by. I've already watched it twice and will be watching several more times I'm sure before the 9th episode airs in about 2 weeks. I sometimes wondered if I was truly a David Lych fan or if I was just one of the "fans" who liked some stuff a little weird but got uncomfortable when it went too far. Nope. I'm DEFINITELY a Lynch fan. It's impossible to believe that an artist of his caliber would actually be doing his peak work at 70 years old. This 3rd season of TWIN PEAKS is a fucking blessing. I love every second of it.
Hi there, I would love to have some kinda advice...
I find it notable that the reviews that pan this ...
Julian De Backer
"After deciding to screw up our courage and watch...
Thanks for the response, I had all the dynamic EQ...
Pedram
Glad to see that we finally got a review of the p...
3D 4k Ultra HD ABC AMC Awards Batman Blu-ray Blu-ray Highlights Box Office Contest Criterion Collection CW DC Comics Documentary Film Festival Finale Fox FX HBO Home Theater Marvel Comics Movie Trailers NBC Netflix Now Playing PC Poll Premiere PS3 Recap Sequel Star Trek Star Wars SteelBook Superheroes The Flash TIFF Toronto Trailer Park Video Games Walking Dead Weekend Movies Weekend Roundtable Xbox 360 Zombies
Subscribe to The Bonus View RSS
Get all latest Bonus View content delivered to your email daily!
Welcome to The Bonus View presented by High-Def Digest!
This blog serves as a catch-all for topics, beyond Blu-ray, that interest us as home theater junkies including movies in theaters, high-definition gear, television shows, video games and 3D programming.
Ben's Bargains
Engadget HD
Steve's Digicams
Search The Bonus View
©2014 High-Def Digest: The Bonus View
Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Do Not Sell My Personal Information

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
Audit: Medical system board was 'deeply compromised'
by: BRIAN WITTE, Associated Press
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The University of Maryland Medical System paid $500,000 to buy the self-published books of Baltimore's now disgraced ex-mayor, but there's no evidence any system executives ever read them or that a process was in place to determine their fair market value, an audit released Friday said.
The audit comes amid a scandal that rocked the medical system this year and after former Mayor Catherine Pugh, a former board member of the system, pleaded guilty to federal charges related to her "Healthy Holly" books. The books were purchased by the system in five installments to be donated to Baltimore City schools, as part of an educational initiative.
The audit said the former board of the system, known as UMMS, was "deeply compromised"and that there was no evidence any executive with the medical system had ever read installments of the book "to support a belief that the books would serve that population health goal."
The audit was conducted by a committee formed by new board members named to the system after the scandal. Last month, Pugh pleaded guilty to four counts of conspiracy and tax evasion in federal court to charges relating to the book deals.
The audit found significant ways the board's effectiveness as an oversight and decision-making body "were deeply compromised, not only by the self-interested transactions of a group of Board members, but by structural and operational flaws in the Board's organization and operation.
"The policies governing conflicts of interest were both ineffective and incomplete," the audit concluded.
The audit noted that it did not identify many clear violations of the medical system's policies, because, generally, the transactions technically complied with the policies in force until this year.
"But those policies allowed conflicted transactions to proceed and multiply, without careful objective review, approval, or oversight," the audit said.
The audit found that policies seemed to allow board members "to lobby management on behalf of their financial interests without adequate controls or disclosure.
The audit said it was determined certain board members frequently contacted management to promote potential businesses transactions "in which the members had a financial interest."
The audit also noted that a failure to observe term limits enabled a number of board members to exercise disproportionate influence. Under state law, board members are not allowed to serve more than two consecutive full terms of five years each.
Pugh, a former state senator, served on the board for 17 years, the second-longest after Frank Kelly, who also is a former state senator and served for 33 years on the board, the audit said. Kelly resigned from the board in June.
Top officials at UMMS stepped down in the scandal's aftermath. Earlier this year, the Maryland General Assembly approved emergency legislation to reform the system's leadership.
The law firm of Latham & Watkins conducted the audit. It interviewed 38 people, including current and former officials in the system. The review involved scrutiny of more than 100,000 email communications collected from 17 current and former senior executives, including nearly 44,000 communications with board members.
by YANAN WANG, Associated Press / Jan 17, 2020
BEIJING (AP) — A second person has died from a new coronavirus that has caused an outbreak of pneumonia in central China, health authorities said.
A 69-year-old man surnamed Xiong fell ill with the respiratory condition on Dec. 31, according to a statement late Thursday from the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission. He died Wednesday.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon teenager who was taken out of state by her mother to avoid surgery for a rare type of liver cancer has had the operation while in the custody of the state welfare officials, several Portland, Oregon TV outlets reported Thursday.
Kylee Dixon, 13, was recovering in an intensive care unit after surgery on Tuesday to remove liver tumors, KPTV-TV reported. Her mother, Christine Dixon, said she was allowed a supervised visit with Kylee after the surgery despite a no-contact order.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — An HIV-awareness campaign featuring condom wrappers with cheeky slogans that put a sexy spin on state pride met a quick end in Utah as the governor ordered the health department to stop distributing them.
Utah Gov. Gary Herbert's intervention came hours after the designs became public on Wednesday. Herbert, a Republican, he understands the importance of educating residents about HIV prevention, but he does not approve of using sexual innuendo as part of a taxpayer-funded campaign.
Messy weekend storm, lake effect snow by Sunday
Today's Forecast / 35 mins ago
Erie County / 47 mins ago
Canada / 2 hours ago


text:
Quebec Man Breaks Record For Speeding On The Trans Canada Highway
One of the fastest speeds police have on record.
Michelle Cadieux
Published August 06 2018
Updated August 06 2018 at 05:26 PM
sureteduquebec
Before the construction holidays came around, I wrote about a post about the Quebec police ramping up their patrol team for the weekend. Apparently, the construction holiday is a deadly time to be on the road.
READ ALSO: Video Showing Montreal Teen Getting Assaulted At Gym For Being Too Loud Is Going Viral
As a result, police are everywhere. And it's a good thing as reportedly 13 people have died in the province over the construction holiday weekend due to busy roads and poor driving.
Now, we heard a story of a Quebec man who REALLY wanted to test the limits of the road.
This young man was caught driving on the Trans Canada Highway in Nova Scotia at a mind-boggling speed of 232 KM/Hour. That's 122 KM over the speed limit and is not only an extreme danger to himself but all the other families and people on the road.
This man was actually racing with another car, and the police subsequently caught both men. The young Quebec man was charged and fined a whopping $2,422, and his vehicle was immediately seized, and his license was suspended.
According to a source, the arresting officer claimed that it's one of the fastest speeds the police force has on record, and the highest he's seen in his 14-year career.
I hope it was worth it.


Shepherds Kristen Whittle and Denise Leonard will demonstrate herding sheep up and around the steep meadows of Sheep Hill using their skilled border collies; submitted photo.
The Sheep to Shawl festival is a celebration of spring and New England heritage, with local artisans and food producers, farm animals, and a focus on the region's historic fleece and fiber industry. The legendary Fred DePaul will spin stories while shearing sheep with traditional tools. Shepherds Kristen Whittle and Denise Leonard will demonstrate herding sheep up and around the steep meadows of Sheep Hill using their skilled border collies. Local farms will bring sheep and small farm animals along with delicious home-grown and locally produced products for tasting and purchasing.
The Green Mountain Weavers & Spinners Guild will demonstrate carding, spinning, and weaving throughout the day. Blacksmithing and traditional building techniques will also be showcased. There will be fiber-arts and crafts projects for children and enthusiastic adults. Local farmers and artisans will show and sell their wares, including basketry, hand-made wearable items, jewelry, maple syrup, pastured meats, and fiber products.
Cricket Creek Farm and the Store at Five Corners will offer, artisanal cheeses, fresh baked goods, sandwiches and other delicious edibles available for purchase.
Admission is $7 per individual, $12 per family and $5 per individual and $10 per family for WRLF members. Those who come by bicycle get in free! Become a WRLF member at the gate and receive free admission! All are welcome to enter their admission tickets in a Sheep to Shawl raffle for a 'locally produced' prize basket. Proceeds from the Sheep to Shawl Festival support the Williamstown Rural Lands Foundation (www.wrlf.org) and its public programming.
The Williamstown Rural Lands Foundation is a non-profit, member-supported land conservation trust working to preserve the rural New England character of the north Berkshire region. It offers programs in natural and cultural history year-round at Sheep Hill and other conservation properties. Sheep Hill is located on Route 7 approximately one mile south of the Williamstown rotary. Look for the sign on the west side of the road.
For more information, visit our website at www.wrlf.org or call Sheep Hill at 413-458-2494. WRLF is grateful for the support of Nature's Closet for underwriting this event.


The CEO of Botswana Accountancy Oversight Authority (BAOA) Duncan Majinda says the Authority will not stop corporate failures in State Owned Enterprises (SOEs), but will identify at the earliest, institutions that are under financial stress so that action can be taken by the shareholders. Speaking at his maiden press conference this week in Gaborone, Majinda who was accompanied by BAOA board chair, Michale Lesolle and other executive members, said their role in monitoring the performance of the parastatals will be limited to advisory to the minister if there is a problem with some institutions. Last month when reading the 2018/19 budget speech, the Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Kenneth Matambo said the continued loss making by some SOEs was a major to concern for government and in an effort to address this he said institutions such as Public Enterprise Evaluation and Privatisation Agency (PEEPA) and BAOA were to monitor SOEs financial performance and governance. He said going forward government will work closely with PEEPA and BAOA to strengthen the performance mechanisms for SOEs to ensure that they deliver on their mandates and that the country derives value-for-money from their existence.
Some of the SOEs that made losses during the 2016/17 financial year include Botswana Meat Commission (BMC) with a net loss of P229.7 million compared to a net profit of P332.6 million the previous year which was driven mainly by government cash injection of P600 million. In the same period last year, the National Development Bank (NDB) recorded a net loss of P168 million compared to a net loss of P21.2 million the year before while Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) registered a net loss of P140.2 million in 2017, compared to a net loss of P99.6 million in 2016. Water Utilities Corporation (WUC) recorded a net loss of P137.6 million in 2017, from a net profit of P119.4 million in 2016, while Air Botswana, improved its performance with a net loss of P12.4 million in 2017, compared to a larger net loss of P86.1 million. BAOA's role is not only limited to monitoring financial performances of SOEs but will be looking at companies which are termed Public Interest Entities (PIEs) which include listed companies and auditors.
PIEs registered with BAOA besides listed ones include those under the supervision of Bank of Botswana which are commercial banks and bureau de changes, and those under the supervision of Non-Bank Financial Institutions Regulatory Authority (NBFIRA) which range from insurance companies, stock brokers and various financial institutions like pension funds. BAOA is also responsible for setting standards and codes, promoting high standards of corporate governance, monitoring of certified auditors and monitoring professional accountancy bodies like BICA, ACCA and CIMA. The reason the Authority takes interest in reviewing PIEs, according to Majinda, is to among others ensure compliance with international standards, ensure compliance with applicable legislation and ensuring compliance with best local and international practice in corporate governance. PIEs are expected to follow different financial reporting frameworks under which they fall such as International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), IFRS for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS). According to Majinda, institutions are struggling with problems of compliance with international education standards, compliance with codes of ethics, compliance with IPSAS, weak disciplinary and investigation process, capacity constraints and audit quality review systems among others. He said government have problems too like resource constraints, false confidence in the accountancy and auditing profession and its ability and said government often refer organisations like the World Bank to accountants on issues of establishing and independent oversight.


The Quran and Hadith inform us that when a person will die, when a person will enter the grave and when a person will stand before Allah ﷻ on the day of judgement he will beseech respite by asking 'O Allah, give us another chance.' These people will also make the same request to the Angels who will remind them 'What was it not that Allah ﷻ already gave you infinite chances?'. The Angels will remind these people about the glorious month of Ramadan, the blessed month came every year and was an opportunity for those who truly sought a second chance. Allah ﷻ will reply 'I didn't just give you this one life, rather every morning when you awoke I gave you a new life, look how many lives you have lived'. Likewise, we are given the opportunity in Ramadhan to correct and amend our ways. It is an opportunity to repent and make a fresh start.
The example of Ramadan is like a mountain of gold. Imagine you are told that you can enter the mountain for thirty days and gather from that mountain as much gold as you like for yourself. Then you enter on the first day and sleep and laze around for the rest of the twenty-nine days. When your time to leave the mountain arrives you leave only with copper and stones.
What do you think your family and general people will say about you? Somebody, who was given the chance of a lifetime wasted it and even after thirty days came back with nothing! What a hopeless person.
Similarly, Ramadan is like this mountain and Allah ﷻ has given us the chance once again to accumulate as much treasure as possible in this month. However, most of us collect nothing other than hunger or thirst.
Prophet Muhammad ﷺ said that "Perhaps a person fasting will receive nothing from his fasting except hunger and thirst" [Ibn Majah, Sahih]. From this it is meant that some of us have spent the entire duration of Ramadan fasting with the stomach but we haven't even gained an inch of reward. Why is that?
Read carefully and see what is about to be written in terms of Preparation of Ramadhan. Preparation can't be done after Ramadhan, it is done beforehand, now. So read on with an intention to start today!
In order to truly benefit from your fast and attain more than just hunger and thirst then you will need to challenge yourself in more ways than just abstaining from food. Rather you will need to adopt the spiritual fast. Below is an easy method for you to bring in to your day-to-day life.
To abstain from eating, drinking and marital relationships from dawn to dusk. To perform Salah 5 times a day, perform Tarawih at the end of the night.
This level will only boost your Taqwa level just a little bit. It doesn't improve your spiritual fast a great deal but it does have a little affect.
Fasting is not only Fardh upon your stomach. Fasting is on the 'whole self'. This level is therefore to make your tongue, eyes and feet keep the fast. Fasting of these sensual organs means that you should refrain from sins of these organs.
This level challenges you to make the whole body fast. This includes fasting of all seven sensual organs of the body: 1. Tongue, 2. Eyes, 3. Ears, 4. Hands, 5. Stomach, 6. Private Parts and 7. Feet.
Fasting with all the sensual organs helps us shield our heart from darkness of sin. Refraining from sins of the organs is like spiritual training.
In this level you are not only abstaining from sins of all organs but you are also replacing the negative traits with the positive traits. So you are performing good deeds with the tongue, eyes, ears and so forth.
In this fast you also fast with your mind. How does the mind fast? To refrain from thinking of bad thoughts. If Shaitan tries to make that whisper enter into the mind you reject it immediately.
In this level one is to think, especially at the times of worship (Ibadat) deeply about Allah ﷻ. One is to think about Allah ﷻ with the heart that 'Allah is with me, Allah is watching me and Allah is listening to me'.
This is the highest level of fasting. In this level the person falls into the real presence of Allah ﷻ and of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ all throughout the month. This is the highest boost of Taqwa and this will benefit the individual for the remaining eleven months of the year.
What level have you chosen?
If you have spent all of your previous Ramadan's just fasting with the stomach on an outward basis then you have not really gleaned the essence and core of Ramadan. Why not make this Ramadan the one for change, the one where you reap the rewards and benefits from fasting with the whole self?
Make a decision from today about which level you would like to keep your fasts at. Then make sure you try your best to keep the fast it in the proper way. The preparation starts now!
"Surely, paradise is decorated the whole year for Ramadan to come. When the first night of Ramadan enters, a wind called 'Musira' blows from the bottom of the Skies. The leaves of the trees of Paradise and the handles of the doors of paradise shake strongly and from that a remarkable sound is made. The listeners have never heard a more beautiful sound than that. The Hûris of Paradise appear standing on the highest point of Paradise and declare: 'is there anybody who wants to become engaged with us and has the intention to marry us?' Then the Huris ask, 'O the keeper of Paradise! What night is tonight?' The keeper replies with respect, 'Tonight is the first night of the month Ramadan. The doors of Paradise were opened for the ones from the ummah (community) of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ who observed fasting'".
These are the majestic sights and experiences those whose Ramadan is accepted. For those who enter and inhabit the heavenly realms.
Choose your level of fast today and contact your mentor so that you can be assigned the relevant task sheet. You can monitor your progress online or on an android device.
You may watch the Fasting Series online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aesI6GV57z0 for a detailed outline of the Ramadan course.
Have a blessed, life-changing Ramadan.
Remember the Prophetic Path team as well as the Ummah in your prayers and duas.


As per a report A US-based international Hindu reform organisation has expressed disapproval of the ritualistic ceremonies performed by Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan for his son Abhishek and fiancée Aishwarya Rai.
Aishwarya is a Manglik (astrologically Mars-bearing), which is believed to have negative consequences for her impending marriage. The actress is said to have married a peepal tree at Benaras, a banana tree at a Bangalore temple and a god's idol in Ayodhya.
The organisation Navya Shastra commends the Bachchans for their Hindu religiosity and charitable works but is extremely concerned about their actions, which will have an unhealthy impact on their fan base.
Before announcing their engagement, Abhishek and Aishwarya performed a series of poojas (offerings) at the Kashi Vishwanath temple and the Sankat Mochan temple in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. After their engagement, the couple also sought the blessings of the deity at the Vindhyavasini Temple.
The organisation opines that astrology and similar unscientific practices should be renounced in marital matchmaking and other everyday activities in Hindu society.


text:
Losing Leslie -- A Sad Week for Cycling
It's been a sad week for cycling, but if you think I'm writing about Lance Armstrong, you would be mistaken. I'm deeply saddened by the death of Leslie Bohm, one of the best people I've met since taking the helm at Adventure Cycling seven years ago.
Leslie was a one-of-a-kind guy who could make anybody feel good, with his big smile and positive personality. Most recently, he owned and ran Catalyst Communications, which was a pioneer in direct marketing for the bike and outdoor industries. Earlier, in the 1970s, he started up Eclipse Bags, which became a producer of front packs, panniers, and other products for bicycling and motorcycling. He was an avid cyclist and bike traveler, who rode on many continents, from North America to Europe to Asia. In fact, Leslie was one of the first Americans to ride through China when it reopened to tourists in 1981.
You can read more about Leslie's illustrious life in this excellent piece in Bicycle Retailer, but one other highlight was how he was so instrumental in building the bike industry and community. Of course, he was a generous supporter of Adventure Cycling. But more importantly, through his work, he helped spur the growth of independent bicycle dealerships -- those great shops where we buy the best in bikes and gear, and where people who are passionate about cycling tend to gather. He also helped build up organizations that have made biking more pervasive and powerful in America. He was a founder of Bikes Belong, the bike industry's trade association that has become such an influential advocate for putting more people on bikes. Ever the innovator, he sparked the idea to have 1,000 shared bikes at both the Democratic and Republican National Conventions in 2008, raising the visibility of cycling even further.
I will miss Leslie's contributions to the growth of cycling, but most of all, I'll miss Leslie's infectious good spirits and the joy he brought to the world. If you're in or near Boulder, Colorado, on September 2 and want to pay homage to a terrific person who did so much for biking, you could do no better than attend Leslie Bohm's memorial service. Farewell and thanks for a wonderful life, Leslie.
Photo of Leslie Bohm used courtesy of Bicycle Retailer & Industry News.
JIM SAYER is executive director of Adventure Cycling Association.
Enter your email address and we'll send you an email that will allow you to reset it. If you no longer have access to the email address call our memberships department at (800) 755-2453 or email us at memberships@adventurecycling.org.
Not Registered? Create Account Now.
40th Anniversary (50)
Adventure Cyclist Online Extras (48)
Adventure Cyclist Online Only Features (3)
And Then the Mental Calisthenics (5)
April Fools Day (8)
Art. Adventure. Awesomeness. (32)
Best Guest Blogs 0f 2016 (5)
Best Guest Blogs of 2017 (2)
Bicycle Route 66 (6)
Bicycle Travel Basics (5)
Bicycle Travel Etiquette (6)
Bicycle Travel Gear (10)
Bicycle Travel Photo Contest (4)
Bicycle Travel with Children (1)
Bicycles: Maintenance & Technical (12)
Bicycles: Selection (10)
Bike & Gear Reviews (19)
Bike Overnights (18)
Bike Overnights & Shorter Tours (1)
Bike Travel Weekend (19)
Bike Your Park Day (21)
Bikepacker (28)
Bikepacking & Off-Road Touring (18)
Biking Without Borders (50)
Blogging About Your Tour (1)
Building Bicycle Tourism (63)
Building the U.S. Bicycle Route System (98)
Climate Ride (1)
Corporate Spotlight (33)
Cyclists Only Lodging (13)
Cyclo Notes (66)
Epic Montana Film Series (2)
Fat Bike February (9)
From the Executive Director (28)
GeoPoints Bulletin (132)
Guided Tour (1)
Holiday Campaign (3)
How to Videos (2)
How-To Information (1)
Making a Bike Touring Video (7)
Membership Highlights (101)
Multimodal (1)
News Networking and New Media (45)
Olivia Round (3)
On The Road (178)
Regional Gatherings (1)
Routes & Maps (4)
Shipping & Rentals (1)
Shipping News (18)
Sights and Sounds (254)
Support Adventure Cycling (108)
The Greg Siple Award (19)
Touring Gear and Tips (250)
USBRS Campaign (119)


text:
El Monumento al Centenario de San Salvador en Argentina se construyó en 1989 para conmemorar los 100 años de esa localidad entrerriana .

La obra fue realizada por Grillo Santángelo, y representa el histórico pasado del lugar, el protagonismo del presente y la esperanza de un futuro próspero. Se encuentra ubicado en la intersección de las avenidas Malarín, Concordia y Villaguay , y se pensó como un pórtico que da la bienvenida a la ciudad. Se ha convertido en un verdadero símbolo de San Salvador
en toda la provincia.

En la parte de atrás del monumentos se encuentra enterrada una cápsula del tiempo que posee información, fotos y videos de San Salvador al cumplir sus primeros 100 años de vida. La misma será abierta cuando la ciudad festeje su Sesquicentenario.

Referencias

Monumentos de Argentina
San Salvador (Entre Ríos)
Cultura en la provincia de Entre Ríos
Arquitectura de Argentina de 1989

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


Naseru and the Four Winds held Winter court at Kyuden Miya. Each clan had to vie the favor of an heir, and with these advisors the Winds could decide the place where the Court would spent the Winter. The Clan who owned the location would get a favor from them.
The court was a complete disaster, as the Winds had a heated discussion moments before a Pekkle no Oni was unmasked at Court. The murder of the Oni, and it's tainted blood staining the Steel Throne resulted in the end of the court without conclusion.
Many clans reviled the Emerald Champion, Yasuki Hachi, as a simple pawn of Hantei Naseru.
Hachi's right hand, Bayushi Norachai played a gambit with the Anvil after the events that had taken place regarding the Yasuki lands. Akodo Kaneka claim, recently discovered as illegal, had resulted in a non-lethal duel between Kaneka and Hchi. Norachai asked the Imperial Court for Naseru's support, beating the Anvil at his own game and manipulating the perception of others. By speaking in Hachi's favor, Naseru would seem to be supporting a shamed and incompetent Emerald Champion, but by speaking against him he would no longer appear to be controlling Hachi. Naseru decided for the latter, increasing Hachi's shame but dispelling the common perception of Hachi as Naseru's pawn.
Naseru as The Wanderer. Note the tattooed left eye.
"Virtue. Virtue is the key to the throne. Seek it out or we are lost."
"...it is my will that the Shogun Kaneka take the throne as Toturi the Fourth..."
Kaneka was killed during the Khan's assault upon the capital in 1169, and it was unknown if the Kolat had in any way released the information contained in the Last Will of Emperor Toturi III.
Despite his reputation as a malicious villain, Naseru had had some very loyal allies, most of whom joined his side before he ascended the throne and used to be his fierce enemies. His wife, Kurako, was an excellent match, as she was cool and objective as well as a skilled tactician, formed both by the Ikoma and the Akodo families.
Bayushi Sunetra, Naseru's Underhand, joined his staff initially as a Scorpion agent, but her fascination with him lead her to transfer her loyalties to him. Thankfully, Naseru's and the Scorpion Clan's interests have remained mostly aligned. She even gave up the Clan Championship in order to serve him and the Empire better.
Otomo Hoketuhime, daimyo of the Otomo family, was fiercely loyal to him and was rumored to still harbor feelings for him. However, she was married to a husband her father selected for her, so that was a moot point.
Seppun Kiharu, the daimyo of the Seppun family and Keeper of the Ten Thousand Temples, was also Naseru's loyal friend and his confident for spiritual matters.


The 2014-15 school year officially began for upper school students on Aug. 22 during the annual matriculation ceremony. Each grade filed into the neatly arranged seats in the upper school quad. As is now standard practice, the newly minted high schoolers of the Class of 2018 were greeted by a rousing ovation from the students of grades 10, 11 and 12.
Nikoloff explained that both selves are necessary to fully live our lives. "If we only had the experiencing self, we would live like a piece of music in which each note has no relation to the note that went before or the note that comes after," he said. Later he added that living too much in accordance with the remembering self "can remove us from the life all around us." Nikoloff ended his speech by communicating his hope that the students will be able to find the right balance between the two selves.
Next, ASB president Sarah Bean, grade 12, welcomed the students to the new year and reflected that "time flies whether or not you're having fun." Bean reminisced about her previous three years, particularly the friends she grew to know and cherish. "When I look back on my freshman, sophomore and junior years, I remember the highs and lows of pretty much everything. I also remember the people I was with." She encouraged the Class of 2018 to seek out new friends of their own and to seek the ASB's help with any issues they may encounter. "There's always something that can be better, and that's what we're here for," she said.
The ceremony closed with "Freshman 101," in which the student council officers introduced to cornerstones of upper school life – including student clubs, time management and academic honesty – by way of hilarious parodies of the Kardashians, Kanye West and reality TV programs such as Master Chef.


Need to catch up on degree requirements? Want to lighten your Spring class load? Register for Winter Intersession today!
Winter Intersession offers traditional semester-long courses in online, 4-week classes, helping you accelerate your education. Registration deadline is Monday, December 17, 2018.
Registration for Spring 2019 classes is now open.
Remember that this session is only 26 days long! These classes are fast and furious and four times more accelerated than a regular semester. Expect to logon into your course daily and spend 3-6 hours learning and completing assignments for a single class. By focusing your efforts on a single Winter Intersession class, our data shows that you increase your chances of being successful. Obviously, the choice is yours and we're happy that you're considering Winter Intersession classes at Mesa Community College.


text:
Das Bundesnaturschutzgesetz (BNatSchG) bildet in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland die rechtliche Basis für die Schutzgüter Natur und Landschaft und die Maßnahmen von Naturschutz und Landschaftspflege. Es ist in seiner ursprünglichen Fassung im Dezember 1976 in Kraft getreten und hat das bis dahin geltende Reichsnaturschutzgesetz von 1935 abgelöst. Nach der deutschen Wiedervereinigung hat es in den neuen Ländern das Landeskulturgesetz (1970) der DDR ersetzt.

Neben dem Bundesnaturschutzgesetz hat jedes Land sein Landesnaturschutzgesetz.

Zielsetzung
Das Gesetz definiert in den Eingangsbestimmungen die Ziele und Grundsätze für Naturschutz und Landschaftspflege und stellt den Zusammenhang zum europäischen Naturschutzprogramm "Natura 2000" her. Jeder wird aufgefordert, "nach seinen Möglichkeiten zur Verwirklichung der Ziele und Grundsätze des Naturschutzes und der Landschaftspflege bei[zu]tragen und sich so [zu] verhalten, dass Natur und Landschaft nicht mehr als nach den Umständen unvermeidbar beeinträchtigt werden" ().

Wichtigste Regelungsbereiche und -inhalte
Die bekannteste Auswirkung der Naturschutzgesetze sind die Naturschutzgebiete. Unabhängig von deren großer Bedeutung muss Naturschutz flächendeckend betrieben werden. Deswegen sind hier an erster Stelle die Regelungen genannt, die für Flächen gelten, die nicht speziell dem Naturschutz gewidmet sind.

Kapitel 1 Allgemeine Vorschriften
Kapitel 1 () regelt die allgemeinen Vorschriften.

Landwirtschaft
Die Landwirtschaft ist derjenige Wirtschaftssektor, der am meisten in der Fläche wirkt, oft an naturbelassene Flächen angrenzt und naturnahe Flächen bearbeitet. Deswegen ist für die Verwirklichung der Ziele des Naturschutzes von großer Bedeutung, dass sie sich dessen Erfordernissen in gewissem Umfang anpasst.  des Gesetzes macht das zur Pflicht, indem Grundsätze einer so genannten "guten fachlichen Praxis" aufgestellt werden, d. h. naturschutzverträglicher landwirtschaftlicher Methoden. Diese Vorschrift ist erst 2003 nach langjährigen Auseinandersetzungen mit den landwirtschaftlichen Interessenverbänden erstritten worden, sie stellt einen für die Ziele des Naturschutzes bedeutenden Fortschritt dar.

Der Begriff "Gute fachliche Praxis" stammt aus den Vorschriften des Pflanzenschutz- und des Düngemittelrechts, wo er bereits in den 1980er Jahren verwendet wurde.

Begriffsbestimmungen
In  werden einige Begriffsbestimmungen angeführt, u. a. die Definition der besonders und der streng geschützten Arten (vgl. Artikel Artenschutz).

Kapitel 2 Umweltbeobachtung, Landschaftsplanung
Kapitel 2 () regelt die Umweltbeobachtung, Aufgaben der Landschaftsplanung, Inhalte der Landschaftsplanung, Landschaftsprogramme und Landschaftsrahmenpläne, Landschaftspläne sowie Zusammenwirken der Länder bei der Planung.

Kapitel 3 Allgemeiner Schutz von Natur und Landschaft (Eingriffsregelung)
Vermeidbare Eingriffe in Natur und Landschaft sind zu unterlassen, unvermeidbare müssen grundsätzlich durch Ausgleichs- oder Ersatzmaßnahmen kompensiert werden ( BNatSchG). Ist eine solche Kompensation nicht möglich, ist der Eingriff verboten, wenn in der Abwägung die Belange des Naturschutzes anderen Belangen im Rang vorgehen. Der "Eingriff" wird von  Abs. 1 BNatSchG definiert als "Veränderung der Gestalt oder Nutzung von Grundflächen oder Veränderungen des mit der belebten Bodenschicht in Verbindung stehenden Grundwasserspiegels, die die Leistungs- und Funktionsfähigkeit des Naturhaushalts oder das Landschaftsbild erheblich beeinträchtigen können". Die Bezugnahme auf den Grundwasserspiegel dient dem Schutz von Feuchtgebieten und von Trockengebieten (einschließlich ihrer speziellen Flora und Fauna) sowie indirekt der Reinhaltung des Grundwassers im Interesse der Wasserversorgung.

Bauleitplanung und Planfeststellung
Auch die Bauleitplanung muss Belange des Naturschutzes berücksichtigen.  Abs. 3 in Verbindung mit  Abs. 6 Nr. 7 lit. a BauGB sieht die Vermeidung und den Ausgleich voraussichtlich erheblicher Beeinträchtigungen des Landschaftsbildes sowie der Leistungs- und Funktionsfähigkeit des Naturhaushalts im Bauleitplan vor. Insbesondere die Auswirkungen auf Tiere, Pflanzen, Boden, Wasser, Luft, Klima und das Wirkungsgefüge zwischen ihnen sowie die Landschaft und die biologische Vielfalt sind bereits bei der Planaufstellung (im Planungsprozess) zu berücksichtigen. Die naturschutzrechtliche Eingriffsregelung gilt insoweit nicht ( BNatschG); vielmehr muss bereits vorbeugend-planerisch dafür gesorgt werden, dass Eingriffe in Natur und Landschaft möglichst gering gehalten und, soweit möglich, ausgeglichen werden (sog. Baurechtskompromiss). Die Inschutznahme bestimmter Gebiete (wie Landschaftsschutz- oder Naturschutzgebiete) ist als "sonstige Nutzungsregelung" bzw. "Festsetzung" gem.  Abs. 4,  Abs. 6 BauGB in den Bauleitplan nachrichtlich zu übernehmen.

Einige Vorhaben, wie etwa der Bau von Verkehrswegen oder großen Kraftwerken, erfordern in den meisten Fällen ein Planfeststellungsverfahren, in das die Belange des Naturschutzes durch Beteiligung der zuständigen Naturschutzbehörden gemäß  Abs. 2 VwVfG mit eingebracht werden. In der Abwägung zwischen Nutzungsinteressen und Naturschutzinteressen laufen letztere allerdings häufig Gefahr, "weggewogen" zu werden, wie Kritiker es ausdrücken. Diese Problematik liegt jedoch weniger im Gesetz oder einer ordnungsgemäß durchgeführten Abwägung begründet als in Entscheidungsstrukturen, -kriterien (manchmal zu knappe Begründungsinhalte für die jeweilige Entscheidung) und -personal einzelner Behörden.

Kapitel 4 Schutz, Pflege und Entwicklung bestimmter Teile von Natur und Landschaft (Flächenschutz)
Das Gesetz sieht verschiedene Kategorien geschützter Gebiete sowie den Schutz bestimmter Einzelobjekte vor. Der Charakter dieser Gebiete wird in jeweils eigenen Beiträgen beschrieben:

Abschnitt 1 Biotopverbund und Biotopvernetzung
 Naturschutzgebiet ()
 Nationalpark, Nationales Naturmonument ()
 Biosphärenreservat ()
 Landschaftsschutzgebiet ()
 Naturpark ()
 Naturdenkmal ()
 Geschützte Landschaftsbestandteile ()
 gesetzlich geschützte Biotope ()

Diese Gebiete sollen nach Möglichkeit nicht isoliert voneinander bestehen, sondern in einem Biotopverbund miteinander vernetzt sein und insgesamt mindestens zehn Prozent der gesamten Landesfläche erreichen.

Abschnitt 2 Netz "Natura 2000"
Bund und Länder erfüllen die sich aus der FFH- und Vogelschutz-Richtlinie ergebenden Verpflichtungen zum Aufbau und Schutz des zusammenhängenden europäischen ökologischen Netzes Natura 2000.

Ferner sind in diesem Abschnitt das Vorgehen bei der Ausweisung von FFH- und Vogelschutzgebieten und der Überprüfung der Verträglichkeit und Zulässigkeit von Maßnahmen in Natura-2000-Gebieten festgelegt.

Kapitel 5 Schutz und Pflege wild lebender Tier- und Pflanzenarten (Artenschutz)
In Kapitel 5 () enthält das Bundesnaturschutzgesetz zahlreiche Regelungen zum Artenschutz:
 Im Abschnitt zum allgemeinen Artenschutz () stehen die für alle Tier- und Pflanzenarten geltende Regelungen. Beispielsweise legt  fest, dass Hecken und Bäume zum Brutschutz für Vögel in der Zeit vom 1. März bis 30. September nicht geschnitten werden dürfen.
 Der Abschnitt zum besonderen Artenschutz () enthält Vorschriften, die bestimmte Tier- und Pflanzenarten betreffen. Hier wie bei der Sanktionierung (s. Kapitel 10) wird zwischen besonders und streng geschützten Arten unterschieden:
 Zu den streng geschützten Arten gehören die in Anhang A der EU-Artenschutzverordnung (das sind durch Handel stark gefährdete Arten des Anhangs I, teilweise auch Anhangs II des Washingtoner Artenschutz-Übereinkommens), in Anhang IV der FFH-Richtlinie oder in Anlage 1 der Bundesartenschutzverordnung als streng geschützt aufgelisteten Arten.
 Zu den besonders geschützten Arten gehören neben allen streng geschützten Arten die in Anhang B der EU-Artenschutzverordnung gelisteten Arten, die europäischen Vogelarten (vgl. Art. 1 der Vogelschutzrichtlinie), in Anhang IV zur FFH-Richtlinie und die in Anlage 1 der Bundesartenschutzverordnung als besonders geschützt aufgelisteten Arten.

Kapitel 6 Meeresnaturschutz
Kapitel 6 () regelt den Naturschutz im deutschen Küstengewässer sowie Bereiche der deutschen ausschließlichen Wirtschaftszone und des Festlandsockels.

Kapitel 7 Erholung in Natur und Landschaft
In Kapitel 7 () finden sich Regelungen zur Erholung in Natur und Landschaft.

Kapitel 8 Mitwirkung von Vereinen
Die 2002 erfolgte Novellierung des Bundesnaturschutzgesetzes hat die Mitwirkungsmöglichkeiten und -rechte für Naturschutzverbände ausgedehnt. Sie werden – eine förmliche Anerkennung vorausgesetzt – vor dem Erlass von Naturschutz-Verordnungen und im Rahmen von Planfeststellungsverfahren angehört. Allerdings gilt diese Regelung nur für den Bereich der Bundesbehörden. Für die überwiegende Zahl derartiger Verfahren, die von Landesbehörden durchgeführt werden, gilt das jeweilige Landesnaturschutzgesetz. Das Verbandsklagerecht wurde durch Bundesrecht verbindlich geregelt (früher Ländersache). Seit 2010 finden sich diese Regelungen in Kapitel 8 ().

Kapitel 9 Ergänzende Vorschriften
Ergänzende Vorschriften finden sich in Kapitel 9 ().

Kapitel 10 Bußgeld- und Strafvorschriften
Vorschriften zu Bußgeld- und Strafregelungen finden sich in Kapitel 10 ().

Geschichtliche Entwicklung des BNatSchG

Bundesnaturschutzgesetz
Nach dem Ende des NS-Regimes blieb von 1949 an in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland das am 26. Juni 1935 erlassene Reichsnaturschutzgesetz (RNG) mit Ausnahme des § 24 gültig. In der Folgezeit erstellten die Bundesländer eigene Naturschutzgesetze. Aus der Forderung nach einer Verbesserung des Naturschutzrechtes, wie sie Naturschutzvereine anstrebten, und den Bestrebungen der akademisch verankerten Landespflege sowie des administrativen Naturschutzes folgte ab den 1960er Jahren eine intensive Diskussion um ein neues, umfassenderes Naturschutzgesetz. Strittige Punkte bei der Erarbeitung der Gesetzesvorlage waren z. B. die sogenannte Landwirtschaftsklausel und die Ausgleichsregelung. Schließlich wurde 1976 das Bundesnaturschutzgesetz (BNatschG), an das die Naturschutzgesetze der Bundesländer angepasst werden mussten, verabschiedet und am 1. Januar 1977 in Kraft gesetzt.

Seither wurde das BNatschG unter Berücksichtigung umweltrechtlicher Entwicklungen wie internationaler Vereinbarungen und Änderungen im Recht der Europäischen Union sowie neuer flankierender Umweltgesetze (wie das UVPG) mehrfach geändert. Mit dem Beitritt der neuen Bundesländer zur Bundesrepublik Deutschland am 3. Oktober 1990 trat es an die Stelle des ostdeutschen Naturschutzgesetz von 1954, abgelöst durch das Landeskulturgesetz von 1970. Nach einer ersten Novellierung 2002 wurde das BNatschG aufgrund der Föderalismusreform von 2006 mit Wirkung zum 1. März 2010 neu gefasst. Es beruhte bis dahin zum größten Teil auf der Rahmenkompetenz des Art. 75 GG a.F. Gab es zunächst den Ländern den inhaltlichen Rahmen für ihre Landesgesetze vor, enthält es seit 2010 vorwiegend unmittelbar wirkende Regeln, die in den (inzwischen erneuerten) Landesnaturschutzgesetzen insbesondere durch Ausführungsbestimmungen ergänzt werden.

Änderungsgesetze
Mit dem Ersten Gesetz zur Änderung des Bundesnaturschutzgesetzes vom 12. Dezember 2007 wurde das Urteil des Europäischen Gerichtshofs vom 10. Januar 2006 zur Fauna-Flora-Habitat-Richtlinie in deutsches Recht umgesetzt.

Seit dem Zweiten Gesetz zur Änderung des Bundesnaturschutzgesetzes vom 4. März 2020 ist das Füttern von Wölfen verboten. Außerdem erlaubt  BNatschG, Wölfe zu jagen, wenn sie im Verdacht stehen, Schafe oder andere Nutztiere gerissen zu haben.

Der Entwurf eines Dritten Gesetzes zur Änderung des Bundesnaturschutzgesetzes sieht zur Umsetzung des Aktionsprogramms Insektenschutz einen besseren Insektenschutz vor.

Kritik
Als Geburtsfehler wird die Sonderstellung der Landwirtschaft bezeichnet, denn laut Gesetz dient ordnungsgemäße Land- und Forstwirtschaft in der Regel den Zielen des Gesetzes und ist daher nicht als Eingriff zu werten. Später getroffene Änderungen blieben zu unbestimmt und erwiesen sich als untauglich für den Vollzug durch die Behörden. Es wird seit Jahrzehnten kritisiert, dass in der Landschaftsplanung die programmatischen und planerischen Aussagen zu unbestimmt, zu unverbindlich und unzureichend sind. Selbst bei rein privatwirtschaftlichen Eingriffen können diese trotz zumutbarer Alternativen durchgesetzt werden, ohne dass zwingende Gründe der überwiegenden öffentlichen Interesses vorliegen. Bei Bebauungsplänen greift die Eingriffsregelung erst seit 1993, dabei ist eine Kompensationspflicht nicht zwingend vorgeschrieben, sondern unterliegt dem Vorbehalt der Abwägung. Art und Umfang der Kompensationsmaßnahmen stehen meist in keinem Verhältnis zum Eingriff oder erfüllen nicht die zugeschriebene Wirksamkeit. Kompensationsmaßnahmen erfolgen in der Regel ohne langfristige bzw. dauerhafte Bindung. Historische Kulturlandschaften mit ihrem Landschaftsbild unterliegen gar keinem Schutz. Deutliche Verbesserungen gab es nur durch die Pflicht der Umsetzung von EU-Recht z. B. bei Natura-2000-Gebieten.

Siehe auch
 Bundesamt für Naturschutz

Literatur
 Erich Gassner, Michael Heugel: Das neue Naturschutzrecht. BNatSchG-Novelle 2010 • Eingriffsregelung • Rechtsschutz, 2010, Verlag C.H. Beck, ISBN 978-3-406-60043-2
 Robert von Landmann, Gustav Rohmer: Umweltrecht. Kommentar. Loseblattkommentar, Bd.IV: Sonstiges Umweltrecht: BNatSchG, 56. Ergänzungslieferung, München 2009, Verlag C. H. Beck (auch als Online-Kommentar bei beck-online)
 Stefan Lütkes, Wolfgang Ewer: BNatSchG. Kommentar, 1. Aufl., München 2011, Verlag C.H. Beck, ISBN 978-3-406-60552-9
 Hans-Jürgen Müggenborg, Anja Hentschel: Neues Wasser- und Naturschutzrecht. NJW 2010, 961
 Jochen Schumacher, Peter Fischer-Hüftle: Bundesnaturschutzgesetz. Kommentar. 2. Auflage. Verlag W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-17-021257-2
 Walter Frenz, Hans-Jürgen Müggenborg: BNatSchG Kommentar, 1. Aufl. 2011, Erich Schmidt Verlag, ISBN 978-3-503-12665-1

Weblinks
 Seit 1. März 2010 geltende Fassung, buzer.de: Gesetz über Naturschutz und Landschaftspflege (Bundesnaturschutzgesetz – BNatSchG)

 bundestag.de: Erläuterung zu den Novellen von Bundesnaturschutzgesetz und Wasserhaushaltsgesetz (61 kB, am 19. Mai 2010 erstellt von den Wissenschaftlichen Diensten des Deutschen Bundestages)
 bfn.de Website des Bundesamts für Naturschutz (BfN)
 Bundesrecht Gesetzesmaterialien zu Verordnungs- und Gesetzgebungsverfahren des Bundes im Bereich Naturschutz und Landschaftspflege, Website des BfN
 nabu.de: Recht einfach – Das Bundesnaturschutzgesetz (zur Fassung 2010, PDF 2,4 MB)
 Naturschutzgebiete in Deutschland Website des BfN
 springerlink.com, Hans Walter Louis: Das neue Bundesnaturschutzgesetz. (Natur und Recht (NuR) 2010, 77, PDF-Datei)
 Peter Berghoff, Katharina Steg: Das neue Bundesnaturschutzgesetz und seine Auswirkungen auf die Naturschutzgesetze der Länder. (pdf, NuR 2010, 17)

Einzelnachweise

Rechtsquelle (Deutschland)
Rechtsquelle (20. Jahrhundert)
Naturschutzrecht (Deutschland)
Nebenstrafrecht (Deutschland)
Gesetz und Regelwerk zur Jagd


backsplash ~ Outstanding Southwest Kitchen Backsplash Ideas Handmaden Tiles Rustic For Wall Southwestern Home Decor Living Room Bathroom 61 Outstanding Southwest Kitchen Backsplash Ideas. French Country Kitchen Backsplash Pictures. Kitchen Tile Backsplash Pictures. Low Cost Kitchen Backsplash Ideas.
Outstanding southwestn backsplash ideas low cost pictures wallpaper designs cheap panels modern. Download clever design ceramic tile backsplash rvaloanofficer com appealing subway kitchen bbacksplashjpg pictures with white. Southwestern kitchen backsplash tile by vicki morrow grays pictures designs low cost plastic panels.


The Threshold Choir has grown in the past 17 years into a movement, a tremendous bouquet of beautiful singers in many communities who dedicate their voices and their hearts to bring kindness and comfort at the important thresholds of life.
(5) be willing to use self-monitoring and accept peer feedback as we work together to bring the sweetest, most blended, and graceful sound to our precious clients.
Please feel free to contact us even if these singing guidelines seem a little beyond your current abilities or you're not really sure. Some chapters offer other opportunities to members who do not intend to sing at bedsides, such as singing in a larger group at hospitals or memorial services; some even have non-singing members who find other ways to participate in our work.
Many prospective singers have other questions as well: How will I prepare myself for singing in the bedside environment? How much time must I devote to this group? How much does it cost to belong? What if I can only sing on weekends? And so on.
If you think you are interested, please contact us. We'll do our best to answer your questions, and we'll enjoy getting to know you!
Fill out the form to the right. You can find the chapter nearest you on our map and choose the chapter you are interested in. We look forward to hearing from you.


text:
4WardUpdates
Tributes & Remembrance
Cases Abroad
Youth Cases (UK)
Adult Cases (UK)
Short Case Profiles
New Case Profiles
Events/Resources
Remembrance & Event Calendar
UFFC Annual Rally
INQUEST Skills Toolkit
Sounds4Justice
Archive Downloads
Legal Search
Links/Film
4WardEver on YouTube
4WardEver Film Club
Appeals & Petitions
Find-a-Campaign
Find-a-Facebook-Campaign
Gallery4Justice
Rallies & Demo's
Victims: Youth
Victims: Adult
Victims: Death Row
Subscribe/Publish
Updates via RSS : Social Networks
4WardEver UK Archives
Volunteer Writers
Volunteer Researchers
Appeals, Petitions
Breaking News & Digests
Facebook Campaigns
Volunteering & Funding
What's On Events
Audio & Film
Featured Media (Archive)
Film Gallery (Archive)
Print & Film
Custody Deaths
Mental Health & Others
Police Brutality & Killings
Prison Deaths
Civil Protest
Race & Society
Refugees & Asylum
Questionable Convictions
State Terror
Link Alerts
UR Shout
Man jailed for life for 1998 murder of Surjit Singh Chhokar
Posted By: Larry Fedjaon: 1 November 2016 In: All News, Race & Society
Surjit Singh Chhokar
source: SRV News
The man who murdered restaurant worker Surjit Singh Chhokar in 1998 has been jailed for 19 years and eight months. Ronnie Coulter was found guilty of stabbing the 32-year-old in a retrial last month under double jeopardy laws.
The attack happened as Mr Chhokar returned from his work at an Indian restaurant in Wishaw, North Lanarkshire, on November 4, 1998.
Coulter, 48, was previously acquitted when he stood trial in 1999 for the murder but was convicted by a majority when the case became only the second to return to court since Scotland's centuries-old double jeopardy law was reformed in 2011.
His nephew Andrew Coulter and David Montgomery were also acquitted of murder when they went on trial for the same crime in 2000.
Coulter returned to the High Court in Glasgow on Monday for sentencing, where judge Lord Matthews jailed him for life with a minimum of 19 years and eight months.
Read full article >
Tags: Good NewsPolice IntelligenceUpdates
The hidden mental health crisis in women's prisons
Hundreds join rally over deaths in police custody
Larry Fedja
Larry Fedja has been a volunteer with 4WardEver UK since it was set up. He assists with researching information and submitting them for inclusion on the website and other on-line resources developed by 4WardEver and its associate organisations. 4WardEver UK was launched in 2006 by Tippa Naphtali the cousin of Mikey Powell, who died in the custody of West Midlands police, Birmingham, UK in September 2003.
Police must face legal action for Anthony Grainger's death, says partner
Thomas Orchard: Police officers avoid misconduct hearing over custody death
Tick the box to sign up for our e-Newsletter!
Get UK.Gov Report
Apply Now! Applications for 2019 Campaign Bootcamp 17 are now open
Eddie Africa of the MOVE 9 released after nearly 41 years in prison
Police failings contributed to death of Reading man in custody, inquest rules
Inquest concludes police restraint contributed to death of Darren Cumberbatch
Pakistan has announced a partial rescind of capital punishment
Deepcut Army recruit Pte Geoff Gray's death was suicide [rules Coroner)
Article Archives Select Month July 2019 (5) June 2019 (16) May 2019 (7) April 2019 (10) March 2019 (12) February 2019 (7) January 2019 (8) December 2018 (18) November 2018 (17) October 2018 (6) September 2018 (12) August 2018 (8) July 2018 (17) June 2018 (4) May 2018 (6) April 2018 (9) March 2018 (10) February 2018 (7) January 2018 (4) December 2017 (3) November 2017 (22) October 2017 (26) September 2017 (19) August 2017 (18) July 2017 (15) June 2017 (7) May 2017 (14) April 2017 (5) March 2017 (15) February 2017 (6) January 2017 (4) December 2016 (10) November 2016 (14) October 2016 (7) September 2016 (16) August 2016 (7) July 2016 (14) June 2016 (15) May 2016 (14) April 2016 (17) March 2016 (7) February 2016 (6) January 2016 (9) December 2015 (11) November 2015 (14) October 2015 (6) September 2015 (7) August 2015 (20) July 2015 (17) June 2015 (10) May 2015 (9) April 2015 (7) March 2015 (11) February 2015 (5) January 2015 (19) December 2014 (17) November 2014 (17) October 2014 (17) September 2014 (19) August 2014 (19) July 2014 (31) June 2014 (20) May 2014 (15) April 2014 (15) March 2014 (18) February 2014 (12) January 2014 (18) December 2013 (6) November 2013 (11) October 2013 (13) September 2013 (6) August 2013 (7) July 2013 (7) June 2013 (5) May 2013 (4) April 2013 (4) March 2013 (8) February 2013 (4) January 2013 (7) December 2012 (9) November 2012 (15) October 2012 (8) September 2012 (7) August 2012 (14) July 2012 (9) June 2012 (9) May 2012 (9) April 2012 (11) March 2012 (7) February 2012 (14) January 2012 (11) December 2011 (8) November 2011 (7) October 2011 (9) September 2011 (9) August 2011 (10) July 2011 (1) June 2011 (2) May 2011 (3) April 2011 (4) March 2011 (7) January 2011 (6) December 2010 (9) November 2010 (13) October 2010 (4) September 2010 (7) August 2010 (5) July 2010 (5) June 2010 (3) May 2010 (8) April 2010 (4) March 2010 (5) February 2010 (4) January 2010 (9) December 2009 (17) November 2009 (8) October 2009 (10) September 2009 (20) August 2009 (31) July 2009 (15) June 2009 (5) May 2009 (6) April 2009 (9) March 2009 (8) February 2009 (6) January 2009 (8) December 2008 (1) October 2008 (2) September 2008 (2) August 2008 (1) June 2008 (2) May 2008 (2)
Article Categories Select Category All News (1,327) Announcements (86) Appeals, Petitions (26) Audio & Film (65) Breaking News & Digests (105) Capital Punishment (119) Civil Protest (51) Custody Deaths & Abuse (495) Facebook Campaigns (45) Featured Articles (16) Featured Media Archive (15) Film Club (16) Film Gallery (Archive) (28) Human Rights (103) Jobs & Opportunities (8) Link Alerts (40) Mental Health & Others (161) Monthly Digest (107) National Family Fund (13) New Case Profiles (26) Police Brutality & Killings (295) Police Corruption (72) Policy & Reform (163) Print & Film (23) Prison Deaths (61) Questionable Convictions (67) Race & Society (134) Refugees & Asylum (25) Research & Reports (88) Short Case Profiles (7) State Terror (28) The State (80) The Web (60) Tributes & Remembrance (70) TV, Radio, Web (8) UR Shout (12) Volunteering & Funding (17) Web Services (30) What's On & Events (28)
Auto-Scroll Ads
Sites & Services
4WardEver Archives
Get 4WardEver Documents
National Mikey Powell Memorial Family Fund
Red Alert HELP!
Catalyst 4 Change CIC
Family Web Pages
Migrant Media
Naphtali & Associates
The NewsSpotta
United Families & Friends Campaign
Featured Video Spot
Click icon for instructions!
Your Name / Nickname
Verified via email - Check your 'SPAM' in case it ends up there in error!
Family campaigns are invited to register with National Family Fund
UK PM's response to No10 custody death petition (intro)
Donate: Protect child victims of war
Fifty years on, the Black Panthers should be honoured, and not in prison
Petition: Seek an independent inquiry into the death of Kishni Mahay
Petition : Wali Dar and his family – the right to remain in UK
Lost in custody: It couldn't happen here – could it?
Khadija Shah and baby held in notorious jail
Support The National Mikey Powell Memorial Family Fund
Call for apology and inquiry into police spying
Case Profiles Counter
Now stands at:
This is the number of case profiles and tributes currently featured on this website. (See 'Cases' section).
4Ward Tweets
Support & Share - National Family Fund £2 a Month Appeal - https://t.co/fMGfyiyVJd
"They have let us down": Eric Garner's family criticizes decision not to indict NYPD officer https://t.co/WfTowuTjHg via @voxdotcom
Thanks to all those that donated - we raised £230 Others can donate via https://t.co/BlaAPPR4hc https://t.co/Sj2WQ9fD3E
Eric Garner: no charges against white police officer over chokehold death https://t.co/7vQsERKEaj
Police must face legal action for Anthony Grainger's death, says partner https://t.co/jZliF6nyja
Politics.co.uk
"It Is Not Just War. It Is Life": Acclaimed Doc "For Sama" Offers Rare Glimpse into War-Torn Syria
Nearly 100,000 in Puerto Rico Protest Demanding Gov. Rosselló Resign over Lewd Texts & Corruption
Headlines for July 18, 2019
Happiest Place on Earth? Meet the Disney Heiress Speaking Out Against Disneyland's Abuse of Workers
Guardian Communities
Is this the future – five-year-olds designing smart technology? | Anna Bawden
Vanished neighbourhoods: the areas lost to urban renewal
Delays to safety reforms 'risk a repeat of Grenfell disaster'
Archives..
Archives.. Select Month July 2019 (5) June 2019 (16) May 2019 (7) April 2019 (10) March 2019 (12) February 2019 (7) January 2019 (8) December 2018 (18) November 2018 (17) October 2018 (6) September 2018 (12) August 2018 (8) July 2018 (17) June 2018 (4) May 2018 (6) April 2018 (9) March 2018 (10) February 2018 (7) January 2018 (4) December 2017 (3) November 2017 (22) October 2017 (26) September 2017 (19) August 2017 (18) July 2017 (15) June 2017 (7) May 2017 (14) April 2017 (5) March 2017 (15) February 2017 (6) January 2017 (4) December 2016 (10) November 2016 (14) October 2016 (7) September 2016 (16) August 2016 (7) July 2016 (14) June 2016 (15) May 2016 (14) April 2016 (17) March 2016 (7) February 2016 (6) January 2016 (9) December 2015 (11) November 2015 (14) October 2015 (6) September 2015 (7) August 2015 (20) July 2015 (17) June 2015 (10) May 2015 (9) April 2015 (7) March 2015 (11) February 2015 (5) January 2015 (19) December 2014 (17) November 2014 (17) October 2014 (17) September 2014 (19) August 2014 (19) July 2014 (31) June 2014 (20) May 2014 (15) April 2014 (15) March 2014 (18) February 2014 (12) January 2014 (18) December 2013 (6) November 2013 (11) October 2013 (13) September 2013 (6) August 2013 (7) July 2013 (7) June 2013 (5) May 2013 (4) April 2013 (4) March 2013 (8) February 2013 (4) January 2013 (7) December 2012 (9) November 2012 (15) October 2012 (8) September 2012 (7) August 2012 (14) July 2012 (9) June 2012 (9) May 2012 (9) April 2012 (11) March 2012 (7) February 2012 (14) January 2012 (11) December 2011 (8) November 2011 (7) October 2011 (9) September 2011 (9) August 2011 (10) July 2011 (1) June 2011 (2) May 2011 (3) April 2011 (4) March 2011 (7) January 2011 (6) December 2010 (9) November 2010 (13) October 2010 (4) September 2010 (7) August 2010 (5) July 2010 (5) June 2010 (3) May 2010 (8) April 2010 (4) March 2010 (5) February 2010 (4) January 2010 (9) December 2009 (17) November 2009 (8) October 2009 (10) September 2009 (20) August 2009 (31) July 2009 (15) June 2009 (5) May 2009 (6) April 2009 (9) March 2009 (8) February 2009 (6) January 2009 (8) December 2008 (1) October 2008 (2) September 2008 (2) August 2008 (1) June 2008 (2) May 2008 (2)
Profiles Counter..
Website powered by WordPress | Goodnews Theme by Momizat Team | Developed and managed by First Stop Web Design
National Mikey Powell Memorial Family Fund Appeal
The fund is the first permanent national resource of its kind for those affected by deaths and abuses in custody
Cookie Usage Consent
We'll assume you're OK with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. Be aware that opting out may affect or disable some features of this website.
Accept View Policy Reject
Links & Film


Recognized as the leading KTM 300 dealer for customers throughout the Greater. Woodstock KTM carries all KTM 300 motorcycle models, and on the occasion you don't. Chicago-KTM-Motorcycle-Dealer · Chicago-KTM–Street–Bike-Dealer .
Adventure, Purity, Performance, Extreme – KTM is READY TO RACE.. Watch the video KTM 450 SX-F. 300 XC-W TPI 2019. Please choose your bike.


So, your customer wants a different style of decoration on the garment but they are not quite sure what would work. They want something that will give a lot of cover but won't cost the earth. What can you offer them? John-Paul Burton, director of YES Ltd explains.
Only a few years ago the answer would have been sequins but these days there is so much more on offer and the two probable market leaders are rhinestones and spangles – but what is the difference?
Both of these transfers work very well in the bling game but they have very different attributes, especially where the 'feel' of the garment is concerned. Rhinestones tend to be three dimensional and so will stand proud of the garment whereas spangles are always flat. They may give a 3D effect but that is because they are holographic and only give the optical illusion of depth. This is a very important fact where spangles are concerned as the thinness not only gives a better handle to the garment, it also adds no excess weight making them ideal, for instance, for a neck design. The weight of the rhinestones in such a design would affect the way the garment drapes whereas the spangles would have no such effect. The thin weightless specification of spangles also makes them ideal for a wider range of applications such as dance costumes, cheer leader outfits, sportswear and children's garments.
It will depend on what your customer wants though. They may prefer the three dimensional look and tactile feel of the rhinestone and this may be because of the fashionable nature of the garment. The point is that both you and your customer now have a choice.
Both are applied to the garment using heat. Rhinestones tend to be fed to the garment using a hopper system whereas the spangles are carried on release paper. Both will stand usual household laundering as long as the garment is turned inside out prior to washing.
It is cost though where you will see the biggest difference. Spangles have a much lower cost attached to them and yet achieve, in many cases, the same results as rhinestones. This gives you the option of meeting the price point demanded by the customer or, preferably, increasing your profit margin. Not only is the raw material more economical, machines such as the Spangle Elite operate four times faster than an equivalent rhinestone machine giving you increased productivity as well as profit.
Designs are easy to generate using the provided software which reads a .dst file so you can easily generate patterns from embroidery designs. You can also mix and match using both embroidery and spangles.
Both rhinestone and spangle application works well in the embroidery or print environment but spangle is the more cost effective to employ. The investment is lower and the raw material and production costs are also lower than with rhinestone. Adding in a wider range of applications spangle decoration is something that embroiderers and printers should definitely be looking at.


"I'm such a fan of pouring yourself into your passion," says American Housewife's Katy Mixon, who can truly appreciate tonight's storyline about "not letting anyone hinder your dreams." Rebellious and vocally talented Taylor Otto (Meg Donnelly) announces plans to trade college for a career behind the mic — but her judgy parents, Katie and Greg (Mixon and Diedrich Bader), are decidedly not on board.
Squeezing in filming on the busy Idol stages took the split-second timing of an action movie. "We were waiting until they had a break, then we shot it very quickly and got out," says Mixon, who reveled in her own imperious stint in the judge's chair.
Accomplishing your goals also comes up in Katie's latest event-planning gig for the rich and flawless ladies who are her neighbors in Westport, Connecticut. While arranging a businesswomen's gathering, Katie, inspired by her daughter's determination, tries to help the delusional high-society housewives — none of whom actually work. "She thinks they're ridiculous," says Mixon, a self-proclaimed "encourager" in real life. "She literally says, 'Guys, if you're gonna do something, go for it; don't just talk about it!'"
One thing Mixon and the cast can't stop talking about is May's season finale. "It's an entire musical," reveals the actress. With songs by Dear Evan Hansen Tony winner Justin Paul and Tangled's Glenn Slater, plus "huge choreography" from Ashley Wallen (The Greatest Showman), Mixon says, "it's going to take the audience on a ride for 22 minutes."


High adventure awaits as you join your cabin mates in exciting challenges, adventure programs, and faith experiences. You'll have a blast as you and your peers take on a vertical obstacle course, paintball, canoeing, and much more as you experience all that camp has to offer.
Take on new challenges and become a leader at camp! Scale the high ropes circuit course, sail on the lake, and lead songs at campfire as you reinforce outdoor living skills, make new and lasting friendships, and grow in faith.
Explore the backcountry of Camp Hamilton by backpacking the 570 acres of property and spending multiple nights under the stars. Learn and practice outdoor living skills like fire cooking, food gathering, and natural shelter building while having the comforts of camp not too far away.
Choose your own adventure, lead songs at campfire, and be a leader in the camping community this summer. Our summer camp staff will serve as your guide for the week as you challenge yourself in the outdoor adventure programs that you choose. Get to know new friends, learn new skills, gain confidence, discover nature, and experience God in new and surprising ways!


Written on October 24, 2017 . Posted in Speakers.
Joe Kean is a Team Manager for CGL in Bradford, a charity that supports families and individuals affected by substance misuse. His previous role was as the regional Steroid Project Lead in the north east for Lifeline.
He is the current Vice Chair for the Yorkshire and Humberside Steroids and IPED Consultation and Reference Group, a Public Health Advisory Committee Co-opted Member for recent update of NICE Guidance PH52, has an MSc in Contemporary Issues in Drug Use and regularly offers support to national media requests.
He considers himself fortunate to have undertaken research projects and received subsequent co-authorship alongside (among others) Professor Harrison Pope and Dr Gen Kanayama from Harvard Medical School.
Alongside his background in the social services sector he has also worked in the fitness industry for over 10 years, is a fully qualified personal trainer and L3 nutritionist, and a nationally competitive power lifter (in a tested federation of course!).
Joe spoke about 'What's next for IPED's?'.


This Essay provides a new framework for criticizing originalism or its alternatives --- the framework of positive law.
Existing debates are either conceptual or normative: They focus either on the nature of interpretation and authority, or on originalism's ability to serve other values, like predictability, democracy, or general welfare. Both sets of debates are stalled. Instead, we ought to ask: Is originalism our law? If not, what is? Answering this question can reorient the debates and allow both sides to move forward.
If we apply this positivist framework, there is a surprisingly strong case that our current constitutional law is originalism. First, I argue that originalism can and should be understood inclusively. That is, it permits doctrine like precedent if those doctrines can be justified on originalist grounds. Second, I argue that our current constitutional practices demonstrate a commitment to inclusive originalism. In Supreme Court cases where originalism conflicts with other methods of interpretation, the Court picks originalism. By contrast, none of the Court's putatively anti-originalist cases in fact repudiate originalist reasoning. These judicial practices are reinforced by a broader convention of treating the constitutional text as law and its origin as the framing. So while constitutional practice might seem, on the surface, to be a pluralism of competing theories, its deep structure is in fact a nuanced form of originalism.
Third, I suggest that originalism's positive legal status has important normative implications for today's judges. Judges promise to follow the law, and their judicial authority is premised on the assumption that they do. So if an inclusive version of originalism is the law, judges ought not be the ones to change it. Courts ought to privilege our current legal conventions over academic theories that are anti-originalist and against narrower forms of originalism as well.


Pomegranate juice augments memory and FMRI activity in middle-aged and older adults with mild memory complaints.
Bookheimer SY, Renner BA, Ekstrom A, Li Z, Henning SM, Brown JA, Jones M, Moody T, Small GW.
Center for Cognitive Neurosciences, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California, Los Angeles, 760 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA ; Center for Human Nutrition, David Geffen School of Medicine, and the UCLA Longevity Center, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Despite increasing emphasis on the potential of dietary antioxidants in preventing memory loss and on diet as a precursor of neurological health, rigorous studies investigating the cognitive effects of foods and their components are rare. Recent animal studies have reported memory and other cognitive benefits of polyphenols, found abundantly in pomegranate juice. We performed a preliminary, placebo-controlled randomized trial of pomegranate juice in older subjects with age-associated memory complaints using memory testing and functional brain activation (fMRI) as outcome measures. Thirty-two subjects (28 completers) were randomly assigned to drink 8 ounces of either pomegranate juice or a flavor-matched placebo drink for 4 weeks. Subjects received memory testing, fMRI scans during cognitive tasks, and blood draws for peripheral biomarkers before and after the intervention. Investigators and subjects were all blind to group membership. After 4 weeks, only the pomegranate group showed a significant improvement in the Buschke selective reminding test of verbal memory and a significant increase in plasma trolox-equivalent antioxidant capacity (TEAC) and urolithin A-glucuronide. Furthermore, compared to the placebo group, the pomegranate group had increased fMRI activity during verbal and visual memory tasks. While preliminary, these results suggest a role for pomegranate juice in augmenting memory function through task-related increases in functional brain activity.


Can we eliminate chemical warfare? Perhaps, not, but scientists seek antidotes and vaccines to chemicals used in warfare.
Why Hasn't Cheaper Gas Created a Stronger Economy?
While consumers have benefited from lower gas prices, higher discretionary spending hasn't been enough to trigger large gains in the economy. Why not?
The 50th anniversary of the 140-foot NRAO Green Bank, West Virginia telescope was held on October 13, 2015. What was it all about? Why was it historic?


Thank you for your interest in employment at the Frazier History Museum. A current listing of available positions can be viewed by clicking on the link below.
For inquiries related to current open positions, please contact Donna Beckner at dbeckner@fraziermuseum.org or at (502) 412-2220.


Another exciting week at DigiCloud with the release of our new module which integrates Magento Community Edition with Vend Point Of Sale.
After popular demand, we decided to listen.
Please email support@digicloud.com.au if you are interested in participating in our beta stage.
Synchronize, Automate, Simplify & Save!