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Koschneiderei (polnisch: Kosznajderia oder Kosznajdry) ist die umgangssprachliche Bezeichnung für ein Gebiet südöstlich der polnischen Stadt Chojnice, gelegen zwischen Kaschubei, Tucheler Heide und Krajna, das bis zum Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges  weitgehend von einer deutschsprachigen Bevölkerung bewohnt wurde.

Geschichte
Ab Anfang des 14. Jahrhunderts wurden vom Deutschen Ritterorden im Rahmen der so genannten Deutschen Ostsiedlung deutsche Siedler in dieses Gebiet geholt. Es entstanden die Dörfer Frankenhagen, Osterwick, Petztin, Deutsch Cekzin, Granau, Lichnau und Schlagenthin. Als im Thorner Frieden von 1466 das Gebiet westlich der Weichsel an das Königreich Polen fiel, wurden die deutschsprachigen Einwohner dieser Dörfer zwar polnische Untertanen, unterlagen aber einem besonderen Recht. In der zweiten Hälfte des 15. Jahrhunderts siedelte der Konitzer Ratsherr und spätere Bürgermeister Jacob von Osnabrück zahlreiche neue Ansiedler aus seiner Heimat, dem Fürstbistum Osnabrück, in dem Gebiet an. Auch die Einwohner der neuen Dörfer (Gersdorf, Harmsdorf, Jakobsdorf, Sternberg, Damerau, Groß Zirkwitz, Obkas, Mosnitz, Hennigsdorf und Döringsdorf) wurden als Koschneider bezeichnet.

Von 1772 bis 1918 gehörte das Gebiet zum Königreich Preußen und von 1918 bis 1920 zum Freistaat Preußen. Von 1818 bis  1920 war die Koschneiderei Teil des Landkreises Konitz im Regierungsbezirk Marienwerder in der preußischen Provinz Westpreußen.

Nach dem Inkrafttreten des Versailler Vertrages am 10. Januar 1920 gehörte der Kreis Konitz als Powiat Chojnicki (Kreis Chojnice) als Teil der Woiwodschaft Pommerellen zur Republik Polen. Nach der deutschen Besetzung Polens wurde zum 26. November 1939 der Kreis Chojnice als Landkreis Konitz Teil des Regierungsbezirkes Danzig im neugebildeten Reichsgau Danzig-Westpreußen des Deutschen Reiches. Im Frühjahr 1945 wurde das Kreisgebiet durch die Rote Armee besetzt und danach ein Teil der Volksrepublik Polen. Heute ist der Landkreis Konitz Bestandteil der Woiwodschaft Pommern der Republik Polen.

Sprache
Die Sprache der Koschneider war niederdeutsch, ihre Mundart gehörte zu den süd-hinterpommerschen. Sie war innerhalb des gesamten Gebietes und darüber hinaus verhältnismäßig gleichartig, jedoch wiesen die Dörfer untereinander einige Unterschiede auf. Lautmalereien und bildhafte Ausdrücke zeugten von echtem niederdeutschen Sprachgut, das sich in vielen Sprichwörtern, Redensarten, Liedern, Märchen und Sagen zeigte.

Dörfer
Zur Koschneiderei gehörten die folgenden Dörfer (deutsche Bezeichnungen; heutige polnische Bezeichnungen in Klammern dahinter):

 Abrau (Obrowo)
 Annafeld (Nowa Wieś)
 Blumfelde (Niwy)
 Damerau (Dąbrówka)
 Deutsch Cekzin (Ciechocin)
 Döringsdorf (Doręgowice)
 Frankenhagen (Silno)
 Gersdorf (Ogorzeliny)
 Granau (Granowo)
 Groß Zirkwitz (Duża Cerkwica)
 Harmsdorf (Jerzmionki)
 Henningsdorf (Angowice)
 Jakobsdorf (Zamarte)
 Lichnau (Lichnowy)
 Mosnitz (Moszczenica)
 Obkas (Obkas)
 Osterwick (Ostrowite)
 Petztin (Piastoszyn)
 Schlagenthin (Sławęcin)

Kirchen
In der Koschneiderei gab es fünf Pfarrkirchen – Damerau, Frankenhagen, Gersdorf, Lichnau, Osterwick und fünf Filialkirchen – Deutsch Cekzin, Schlagenthin, Obkaß, Groß Zirkwitz und Mosnitz.

Etymologie
Bis heute konnte Herkunft und Bedeutung des Begriffs "Koschneider/Koschneiderei" nicht geklärt werden; es gibt verschiedene Deutungen dieses Namens. "Kopfschneider" oder "Kuhschneider" sind Beispiele solcher Interpretationen.

Der Name selbst taucht 1830 zum ersten Male auf, bezieht sich jedoch auf die bis 1484 zurückliegende Zeit. Es ist der Name "Koschnäwen" und "Koschnäwjen"; Koschnäwen für die Bevölkerung, Koschnäwjen für das Land. Ein wissenschaftlicher Beweis für die Herkunft dieses Namens fehlt bis heute. Ein Erklärungsansatz von Paul Panske besagt, dass laut einer Urkunde von 1484 für die Koschneiderei der polnische Starost Koschnewski aus Tuchel zuständig war. Nach ihm sei die Bevölkerung, für die er zuständig war, als "Kosznewski-Leute" bezeichnet worden, woraus dann der Name "Koschnäwjer" entstanden sei. Als später dieser plattdeutsche Ausdruck gewissermaßen ins Hochdeutsche übertragen wurde, erscheint er im Jahre 1854 zum ersten Mal als Koschneider beziehungsweise Koschneiderei.

Weitere etymologische Ansätze:

Der Begriff beruhe auf dem polnischen Wort "kosa" = Sense und "żniwiarz" = Schnitter, Erntearbeiter, weil ihre polnischen Nachbarn gesehen hatten, dass die Deutschen richtige Bauern waren die ganze Zeit in der Erde "gebuddelt" hätten.

Der Begriff Koschneiderei stamme vom deutschen Wort "kouzen", welches auf polnisch "paplac" = "plappern" (etc) heißt. Die niederdeutschen Bevölkerung der "Koschneiderei" hatten einen von dem ihrer Mittel- oder hochdeutschen Nachbarn stark abweichenden Dialekt.

Persönlichkeiten
 Augustinus Rosentreter (* 13. Januar 1844 in Abrau; † 4. Oktober 1926 in Pelplin) – Bischof von Kulm
  Joseph Rink (* 18. Januar 1878 Mosnitz; † 30. Juli 1945 in Küstrin) – römisch-katholische Historiker, Studienrat und Professor, Licentiat, Theologe und Autor
 Paul Panske (* 28. Juni 1863 in Granau; † 10. Februar 1936 in Pelplin) – Domkapitular und Domherr von Pelplin, Autor zahlreicher Abhandlungen über die Koschneiderei
 Johann Schweminski (* 1812 in Lichnau; † 1874 in Posen) – Oberlehrer, Autor und Wissenschaftler

Weblinks
 Die Koschneiderei auf koschneiderei.de
 Die Koschneiderei auf glischinski.de
 Koschneiderei/Kosznajderia auf ahnenwiese.de
 Familien der Koschnaewjerdörfer im 18. Jh.
 Die Koschneiderei, Kreis Konitz
 Die Familien der Koschneiderei, Kreis Konitz
 polnisches Video Kosznajderia - Kraina między Tucholą, Chojnicami a Kamieniem Krajeńskim
 http://www.nasze.kujawsko-pomorskie.pl/Etnografia/Kosznajderia.html

Literatur
 Paul Panske: Handfesten der Komturei Schlochau. Nebst einigen verwandten Urkunden (Quellen und Darstellungen zur Geschichte Westpreußens; Bd. 10). Kafemann Verlag, Danzig 1921.
 Paul Panske: Personennachweis für die Koschnaewjerdörfer von 1651–1702 (Schriftenreihe deutsche Sippenforschung in Polen/N.F.; Heft 3). Historische Gesellschaft, Posen 1938.
 Paul Panske: Zur Familienkunde der sogenannten Koschneiderei. 1. Die Schulzen- und Lehnmannsfamilie Stolpman (Stoltmann) zu Deutsch-Zekzin. In: Mitteilungen des Coppernicus-Vereins fuer Wissenschaft und Kunst zu Thorn, Heft 18 (1910), S. 43–57; Heft 19 (1911), S. 64–75.
 Joseph Rink: Koschneidersöhne (Koschneider-Bücherei; Bd. 3). Verlag Boenig, Danzig 1924.
 Joseph Rink: Die Seele des Koschneiders (Koschneider-Bücherei; Bd. 12). Westpreußen-Verlag, Danzig 1932.
 Joseph Rink: Die im Weltkriege 1914–1918 aus den Koschneiderdörfern Gefallenen (Koschneider-Bücherei; Bd. 13). Formell-Verlag, Danzig 1940.
 Maria Semrau: Die Mundart der Koschneiderei. In: Zeitschrift für Deutsche Mundarten, Jg. 10 (1915), Heft 2,  (zugl. Dissertation, Universität Breslau 1915).

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The Philadelphia Live Arts/Fringe Festival 2008
The Media Bureau, September 2008.
The haunting image of Ophelia, so young and beautiful floating amongst the willows in a glassy stream stirs the imagination. The proximity of beauty, madness, and suicide is fused in the archetypal character of Ophelia, the young beauty, driven from reason to madness and finally to suicide, escaping the maelstrom of the dark forces that surround her. Using the archetypal figure of Ophelia, The Ophelia Project excavates and unravels the delicate balance between women, madness, and suicide through a multimedia physical theatre investigation. Weaving a collection of poems, historical texts, and journal entries of renowned poets Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, and Virginia Woolf, who tragically took their own lives and wrote prolifically about the daily struggle and agony between life, death and madness, The Ophelia Project walks the tightrope between these realms, aiming to illuminate the poetry of being in-between: life and death, madness and reason.
Research and Production HistoryTwo-year script development November 2006 – April 2009. Original devising team: Rachel Bowditch, Elizabeth Widmer, Kerry Wieder, Caitlyn Conlin, Monique Messiah and Katie May.
First presentation at the Lyceum for two sold out nights in April, 2008.
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The Ophelia Project was a contemporary and provocative piece of theatre that deals with difficult subject matter such as addiction, mental breakdown, and suicide. By bringing the words and lives of Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, and Virginia Woolf to life on stage is an homage to the tremendous challenges and accomplishments each writer faced, ultimately forging the path for women today, especially in the arts. In the life of Virginia Woolf, being a woman writer in the Victorian era was practically unheard of and she fought resistance her entire life. Both Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath faced similar societal pressures in the 1950s and 1960s. To be a woman and an artist in these times produced tremendous hardship, leading these women through cycles of depression, addiction, and eventually suicide. While the play deals with these difficult topics lived by these three writers, the message is ultimately about hope and inspiration. As Virginia Woolf poignantly wrote:
t would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare. Let me imagine, since the facts are so hard to come by, what would have happened had Shakespeare had a wonderfully gifted sister, called Judith, let us say. […] She died young – alas, she never wrote a word. She lies buried where the omnibuses now stop. […] Now my belief is that this poet who never wrote a word and was buried at the crossroads still lives. She lives in you and in me, and in many other women who are not here tonight, for they are washing up the dishes and putting the children to bed. But she lives; for great poets do not die; they are continuing presences; they need only the opportunity to walk among us in the flesh (A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf:113). This piece is an homage to their struggles, their failures, their successes, and ultimately their incredibly rich and full creative, artistic lives as a way for us to reflect on our own lives, how far we have come and how much further we have to go.
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Director: Rachel Bowditch
Performers: Monique Massiah (Ophelia), Elizabeth Widmer (Sylvia Plath), Kerry Wieder (Virginia Woolf), and Kristi Detch (Anne Sexton).
Media Design: Dallas Nichols.
Set and Sound Design: Rachel Bowditch.
Costume Design: Jayoung Yoon.
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I write this from the Atlantic Ocean underway to French Guiana.
As usual, the first couple of days of sailing are a bit of a struggle as we settle into watches and I get seasick. At this stage it's a lot better, I just get through the motions of it. We had an eventful first three days at sea. It felt like we were spat out of Mindelo, through the acceleration zone between the islands of Sao Vicente and San Antao. That evening, we could hear a clacking noise coming from the mast base in the saloon. A new noise we hadn't heard before. The noise continued as we sailed 50 or so miles away from Mindelo. We slowed the boat down and discussed what our options were, as we didn't know if there was damage to our mast.
We could either go back to Mindelo (a hard beat to windward into a force 6 or 7, with steep seas and the current against us, with what might be a dodgy mast), and try to find somewhere to pull the mast so we could investigate, or we could continue to sail south and stop at the next island, which was Brava. There are no marinas or yard there, but we could at least stop the boat. The other option was to continue sailing and investigate/reinforce it whilst underway. We decided to continue sailing, but we reduced sail and were now sailing at 3 knots instead of 6.5 knots. Mattis thought it could be the join between the two sections of the mast. Or rather, the sleeve inside joining them, moving slightly as the boat rolled. Mattis decided to reinforce the mast below decks with an epoxy GRP sleeve. This took him at least a couple of hours. It was the first time working like this underway.
The last thing we could think of where the noise could be coming from was from the mast step (the step is usually a piece of wood sat on the keel, with a metal fitting fastened to it). Talking to other owners of Contessa 32s, we'd been told that the mast step is made of balsa wood (a soft wood) covered in fibreglass, and that it is prone to rot and compression issues. Mattis didn't think this sounded right. He wanted to investigate the mast step, but before drilling holes to see if it was waterlogged, Mattis wrote an email to Kit Rogers via our satellite communication device. Kit is the son of Jeremy Rogers, the original builder of the Contessa 32, and now runs the boatyard.
In the meantime, Mattis continued working and wrapped a jubilee clip around the base of the mast and tightened it as hard as he could. This alone stopped the clacking noise! Thank goodness, we were running out of ideas. Kit wrote back and let us know that all of their mast steps are made out of a solid grp laminate. Therefore, there should be no issues with compression. Kit was great and reassured us straight away. It was brilliant to know that even underway and at 2200 UK time, we were able to get advice.
On the second day of our passage, there was very little noise coming from the mast. And on the third day, once our strength was back up, I hoisted Mattis up the mast to check on a creak (from a halyard sheave), and to give the rigging a once-over.
I'm currently on watch and Mattis is taking a rest, reading a book down below. I write this whilst listening to Herbie Hancock. A friend asked me a while ago if I've had any tricky moments since we've left. What scares me the most is when we're on our night watches. I worry that Mattis might not be there when I wake up. For example, if he falls off the deck when checking something. The more experience I get with each passage, the more I realise what can go wrong. Sadly, it can and has happened, where a partner has woken up and their other half wasn't there anymore. The person off watch would have no idea what time it happened or which direction they had gone. Luckily, we're always clipped on no matter where we are on the boat. Our number one rule is no going overboard.
Then the same every day after that.
A friend we'd met, Ally, told us that melons keep for a long time if you don't open them. They're nice to have especially when it gets really hot during the day. It's been getting warmer and warmer every day since we left Mindelo.
We were hoping to catch more fish this time and we have been fishing, but there's so much sargassum seaweed out here that the lures get caught in it. They drag the weed and eventually break off under the weight. We've lost two lures so far. We're going to leave fishing until there's no more sargassum. At times we see so much out there, it's like carpet floating on the water.
Yesterday, we saw our first whale. We were chatting away in the cockpit and I saw this huge black mass diving back in the water, making a mammoth splash. Out of nowhere. We stared to see if the whale was going to do it again and it did, twice, leaping clean out of the sea. It must have seen our hull under the water. Not sure what kind of whale it was, but it was definitely larger than our 10 metre boat. This was the first animal that we'd seen so far, apart from flocks of flying fish and birds. No dolphins yet.
0300: As I was writing for our next blogpost and keeping watch, I was looking up at a constellation, the Big Dipper, and I heard a 'BANG'! A 12" flying fish happily flying through the air had hit our boat. I was looking around thinking 'what's broken off?'. I turned on my headtorch and put him back in the water. 2 minutes later, another one needed saving. This seems to happen a lot more during the night than the day. I suppose they can't see out of the water very well (and in the dark).
Watermelon Day! And half-way day! We opened our first watermelon and it was amazingly fresh. We checked the distance we covered yesterday at noon and we had sailed 152 miles in 24 hours. Our quickest yet and today, still steaming ahead, we were doing 9.5 knots surfing down the waves. Our top speed so far.
Since around Day 6, the days and nights have been flying by. We've gotten used to our watch system and have a routine. We're really enjoying being at sea!
30 flying fish landed on our deck overnight. This was many more than the 5 or so we'd normally get in a night. We'd save the ones we could hear flapping around in the dark. There was a new moon tonight (no moon), maybe that had something to do with it?
For the past few days we'd been sailing around 140-150 miles each day. Yesterday, we covered 90 miles. It felt like a lot more, but after checking the pilot atlas (a 1998 edition of "Monatskarten fuer den Nordatlantischen Ozean" that we found by the marina skip in Tenerife, it is full of useful information and amazingly detailed), we found that the Guyana Current has an eddy that reverses its direction in the region we were crossing. So we were stemming a 1.5 knot current. It looks as though we'll be in the eddy for the next day or so, but once we get nearer to the coast of South America, the current should sweep us along to French Guiana.
We're currently 5 degrees north of the equator. As each day passes, we get more and more thirsty as it gets hotter out here. At the moment it's about 30 degrees celcius. I've been reading a new book every couple of days and I didn't realise how much I missed reading. With so many screens in front of us all the time at home, it's easy to stop picking up books. The last fiction novel I read happened to include a lot of astronomy and I gazed up a lot on my night watch, figuring out which constellation was which. On this passage, the Big Dipper has kept me company most of the time. I liked seeing how the angle of the 'handle' twisted slowly through night, circling round Polaris, the north star.
Last night on Mattis' watch, a seabird landed above him and made itself comfortable sitting on the boom. It was quite happy there, its head nestled into it's wing, sleeping. As we were swapping watches, we noticed another bird of the same species was also trying to land. It hadn't quite grasped that it couldn't land on the swinging Hydrovane. Eventually, it settled on the boom as well. Slowly through the night, the second, more vocal seabird decided to edge the other bird right off the end of the boom until it flew away. Lots of bird poo on our sprayhood by the next morning, but it was nice to see how sociable the animals are out here, even in the middle of the Atlantic.
Today was one of the more peaceful days on the water. Slowly gliding along at about 3 - 4 knots. Much calmer and quieter than our faster days.
It's Friday tomorrow, which means that our Atlantic crossing is coming to an end soon. Part of us feels as though we can't wait to get there and part of us feels as though we don't want this passage to end. We've gotten used to the life and routine on the water, that we'll definitely miss it when it ends.
Well today is our last full day at sea. We hope to be in Cayenne, French Guiana tomorrow at around 0700 local time (+3hrs UTC). So far, we were under twin headsails all the way across the Atlantic. To increase our speed for the last 120 miles, we gybed the genoa and hoisted the mainsail. We're now in a wind-driven ocean current called the Guyana Current, which has been whisking us west along the coast of Brazil towards French Guiana, giving us a speed of 7-8 knots. We could see something flashing at the end of our fishing line once we changed sails. It was a bonita (tuna)! We let it go as it was too big for us. Shortly after, we were up on the foredeck admiring the view and we could see 3 birds of prey near our line. We'd caught a king mackerel. We kept this one and had it for lunch. This has by far been the best day. Gorgeous warm sunshine from morning, smooth, glassy waters, fast sailing (never below 7 knots) and catching fish. We couldn't have asked for a better day's sail. We've been lucky, sunshine all the way with very little rain or squalls.
Sailing more quickly than expected we arrived in Cayenne 5 hours early, in the middle of the night. The glow from the city illuminated where we needed to go. We motored in as we got closer to the anchorage. We knew low water was at around 0200, and that we would struggle to find a way in that was deep enough, especially as the charts are not very reliable in this area. However, the charts say that the bottom is soft mud, so we weren't too afraid of running aground, especially on a rising tide. Our draft is 1.65 metres. By the time we'd motored as far in as the buoys for the entrance of the anchorage, the water depth was 1.7m, 1.6m then 1.5m... We thought do we chance it as the rising tide would float us off again if we got stuck. We braced ourselves for a sudden stop. I was at the tiller and was trying to go to port, but I had no steerage. No more movement. We'd gone aground. It was so subtle, we hadn't even noticed. Mind you, the depth sounder was saying 1.0m now. It was after 0400, so we anchored where we were, tidied up, got our bed together and slept a little, until 0700. We woke up close to high water and motored to our anchorage, only 5 minutes away. But we are here now!
We're looking forward to no-frills canteens and cafés, simple tables with paper tablecloths, random photos, food served in paper trays. Though from what we read in the pilot book, Cayenne, French Guiana, is just like France. Can't wait to see it.
– Having guidance from our good friend Grahame back home in England, giving us regular weather reports on wind and swell. Thank you Grahame for all your guidance!
We sailed 1800 miles, across 2 time zones, in 15 days. It has been the most enjoyable sail we've had out of our 7 passages so far. Trade wind sailing, warm winds, being the only ones out in the ocean for hundreds of miles around and letting our sails carry us to South America has been mind-blowing. You only get to cross the Atlantic for the first time once!
After Suriname and Trinidad, we hope to continue north. Explore more of the Caribbean and then... head through the Panama Canal and into the Pacific Ocean. We've been talking a lot about what to do, whether we just do the Atlantic Circuit and come home, or go through the Canal and explore the other side? The time is now and we've decided to do it. This passage was 1800 miles in 2 weeks. Once we go into the Pacific one of our first passages will be 3000 miles. We can do it!
Hi Mo and Mattis very pleased to read that you are safely across the pond safe and sound and enjoying your adventures! Thanks for the very interesting and informative blog that you guys keep and share always a good read to look forward to.


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Q: how to stop scheduled auto reboots on Ubuntu i installed a encrypted script on my server. all works as expected but there is a scheduled reboot after installing that script.
server auto reboots at a specific time everyday.
how can i stop this ? i can't read the scripty since it is encrypted
server info -  Ubuntu 20.04 (LTS) x64

A: You can check in cron records for root user. IMHO other users can't reboot your machine.
And next time be careful when install unknown scripts :)


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DAY OF A STRANGER is an intimate portrait of world-renowned Trappist monk, Thomas Merton, during his final years living as a hermit from 1965 to his untimely death in 1968. Interweaving meditative images of his hermitage nestled deep in the woods of Kentucky and rare audio recordings he made as a hermit; the film pieces together a first-person narrative of one of the twentieth century's most brilliant minds.
This film explores the final years of Merton's life when he moved to a hermitage on his monastery property. While there, he continued to write, take photos, and even record audio that included excerpts from his journal, thoughts within the day, and more. The film pieces together footage from his hermitage alongside some never before heard audio which our team gained exclusive access to.
From 1965 until his death in 1968, Merton lived in this small hermitage on the Gethsemani Abbey property in the woods of central Kentucky. The film focuses on this specific time period and the important work that emerged from this tiny cabin in the woods.
"Sermon to the birds: 'Esteemed friends, birds of noble lineage, I have no message to you except this: be what you are: be birds. Thus you will be your own sermon to yourselves!' Reply: 'Even this is one sermon too many!'"
— Thomas Merton (Day of a Stranger, p.51)
Archival photographs ©The Merton Legacy Trust.
Used with permission of The Thomas Merton Center.


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Update on the Taunton Diagnostic Centre (10 June)
10th June 2022 (last updated 11th October 2022)
Peter Lewis, Chief Executive of Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, said:
"I am very pleased to confirm that Somerset NHS Foundation Trust is stepping in to run the community diagnostic centre in Taunton on a short-term basis from this Friday, 10 June. This means that NHS patients in Somerset will continue to have diagnostic tests at the centre and we will continue to reduce patient waiting times for diagnostic tests.
"The centre, now named the Taunton Diagnostic Centre, will be closed on Friday 10 June and Monday 13 June, and we plan to reopen it on Tuesday 14 June. We are contacting those patients who are affected, and thank them for their patience and understanding. Please continue to attend your appointment unless you hear directly from us.
"The centre has made a real difference to our ability to scan patients quickly. Since it opened at the end of September last year, the percentage of NHS patients in Somerset who are waiting longer than the national standard for a diagnostic test has reduced considerably.
"I am therefore delighted that the centre will remain open and I thank colleagues at the centre, Trust colleagues and those in the wider NHS who have worked to make this happen so quickly with only a few days' interrupted service for our patients."
When the centre opened in late September 2021, 7,375 Somerset NHS Foundation Trust patients were waiting for a diagnostic test and 45.8% of them were waiting longer than the national 6-week standard. Our latest figures show that 7,574 patients are waiting for a diagnostic test and 28.3% of them are waiting longer than the 6-week standard.
The centre's location away from our busy hospital is convenient for patients and prevents disruptions to scanning services which can arise at a busy acute hospital. Feedback from patients, families and our colleagues who work at the centre is very positive.
The Taunton Diagnostic Centre provides Computed Tomography (CT), Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Ultrasound, X-Ray and other relevant diagnostic services.
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Chancellor: "The Strip and the Route initiative is an attractive path that can provide an align perspective between countries, cultures and economies"
Route, organized by the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Senate and the Chinese Embassy in Chile.
During his speech, the Minister highlighted the great relation between the two countries, remarking that 50 years of diplomatic bonds will be celebrated in 2020.
"Nowadays we can be proud of the solid and mature relationship we have built, which reflects in the fluid cultural, political and commercial exchange between both nations. I have no doubt this will continue to improve for the welfare of our citizens", said the Chancellor during his speech.
Also, the Minister pointed out the importance of this seminar, assuring that it was very relevant. "I hope this leads to a fluent exchange of ideas that can provide a better understanding of our international position on this important matter promoted by President Xi Jinping", he added.
Regarding the importance of the The Strip and the Route initiative, Chancellor Ampuero highlighted that "Chile is willing to reaffirm, in the international forums in which participates, its firm commitment to the values of multilateralism and the principles of free trade with a clear and independent voice". And he added, "Based on this vision, we consider that The Strip and the Route initiative is an attractive path that can provide an align perspective between countries, cultures and economies".
At the end of his speech, the Chancellor declared: "Our participation in The Strip and the Route is not an isolated action, we must consider it next to other actions mutually reinforcing, such as; the organization of APEC 2019, the ratification of TPP11, today at the Congress for approval, the invitation to participate in the G20 in Osaka next June, or our Pro Tempore Presidency in the Pacific Alliance, which also seeks an approach to Southern Common Market and an efficient projection of our economies towards the Pacific".


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WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States announced on Friday it will effectively close its consulate in the Iraqi city of Basra and relocate diplomatic personnel assigned there following increasing threats from Iran and Iran-backed militia, including rocket fire.
The decision adds to mounting tension between the United States and Iran, which is the target of increasing U.S. economic sanctions.
In Tehran, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi said the consulate closure was "unjustified and unnecessary", and said Iran condemned any attack on diplomats or diplomatic locations, according to the ministry's website.
Iraq is committed to protecting diplomatic missions, spokesman Ahmed Mahgoub said in a statement on Saturday.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, as he explained the move, renewed a warning that the United States would hold Iran directly responsible for any attacks on Americans and U.S. diplomatic facilities.
It followed recent rocket attacks that Pompeo said were directed at the consulate in Basra. U.S. officials said the rockets, however, had not impacted the consulate, which is located on the Basra airport compound.
Pompeo did not explicitly say whether a U.S. response was imminent, however, and other U.S. officials did not disclose potential response options.
Still, Pompeo said the threats against U.S. personnel and facilities in Iraq were "increasing and specific" and added that Washington was working with Iraqi forces and U.S. allies to address them.
"We look to all international parties interested in peace and stability in Iraq and the region to reinforce our message to Iran regarding the unacceptability of their behavior," he said.
In a statement, the U.S. State Department said the consulate was placed on "ordered departure," which technically involves a drawdown in staff. Although some personnel could remain on the diplomatic compound, the move is believed to effectively close the consulate, at least temporarily.
Trump's national security adviser, John Bolton, speaking at a nearby event in New York on Tuesday, warned "there will indeed be hell to pay" if Iran crosses the United States, its allies or harms U.S. citizens.
In May, Trump withdrew the United States from an international deal to put curbs on Iran's nuclear program in exchange for easing sanctions.
France, Britain, Germany, China and Russia have stayed in the pact, vowing to save it despite the restoration of U.S. sanctions. The rial has lost 40 percent of its value against the U.S. dollar since April.
Iran has blamed U.S. sanctions for the currency's fall, saying the measures amount to a "political, psychological and economic" war on Tehran, and accused the United States and Israel of involvement in a deadly attack at a military parade in southwestern Iran this month.
Basra has already been rocked by violent protests seen by experts as a rejection of the Iraqi political establishment that has held on to power — with the support of the United States and Iran — despite failing to improve people's lives there.
For the first time in several years, mortar shells also landed this month inside Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, which houses parliament, government buildings and many foreign embassies.


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Q: Installing ubuntu without usb or cd I do not have a flash drive or a CD that I can burn, what are some other ways that I could install Ubuntu on my computer (dell latitude d620)?

A: In case you have a running Ubuntu system ... You can add the Ubuntu install ISO file to the GRUB boot menu and install Ubuntu without having to create an installation media (DVD or USB drive).
Open a terminal and execute :
sudo apt-get install gksu

gksudo gedit /etc/grub.d/40_custom

Insert the following into the file :
menuentry "ubuntu install media" {
set isofile="/…/XXX.iso"
loopback loop (hdX,XX)$isofile
linux (loop)/casper/vmlinuz.efi boot=casper iso-scan/filename=$isofile noprompt noeject toram
initrd (loop)/casper/initrd.lz
}

Note : ... =  ISO file path | X = disk | XX = partition | XXX = ISO file name )
Save the file and execute :
sudo update-grub

Now reboot - choose the new entry from the GRUB boot menu and proceed installation as usual.
You will find some alternatives here -> Is it possible to install Ubuntu without a CD or USB drive ?


Well trust my blog post day to fall on April Fools Day!! Sounds about right eh?
As you have seen in previous posts I have used the Blossom Bunch in quite a few samples. I really love this stamp and find it very versatile for colouring, paper piecing, Zen tangling and masking. And talking of masking, (see what I did there!), this is what I did with the next sample.
I took the masks that I made from the class sample cards of the Blossom Bunch and then stamped a single image in the centre of my Watercolour Card and then masked it off. I then stamped another image of the Blossom Bunch either side of it and then removed the masks.
For the next sample I used the Daisy Thanks stamp from Stampendous. I stamped the image with Versafine Black Onyx and embossed it with Wow Sparkle Embossing Powder. I then used the Spectrum Aquas to paint the centre of the flowers and the stems.
Again I kept it simple, adding a stamped message, some matted layers, a bow and a touch of bling.
Well, I hope you like today's inspiration, both stamps are now back on the website.
Finally, I added a number of new items to the website yesterday. I am delighted to be a stockist of Sweet Poppy stencils & dimensional pastes, you'll find the first selection of both on the website.
Next, we have metallic paints from Viva Décor, the colours really are gorgeous.
Please note; not all of the new items will be available to buy at Friday's classes. If there is something you want, please let me before by Thursday evening.


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House passes bill requiring disclosure of diversity on corporate boards
By Lori Tripoli2019-11-20T20:55:00+00:00
The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday approved H.R. 5084, which would amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to require publicly traded corporations to disclose diversity information about their boards of directors, nominees for the boards, and executive officers of the corporation. The bill, introduced on Nov. 14 by Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.) and cosponsored by Reps. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.), David Scott (D-Ga.), and Gilbert Ray Cisneros Jr. (D-Calif.), would also require the Securities and Exchange Commission to report annually to Congress an analysis of diversity trends. The SEC would also have to establish a Diversity Advisory Group to work on initiatives to increase gender, racial, and ethnic diversity on corporate boards. If the bill does become law, the SEC Office of Minority and Women Inclusion would also be tasked with publishing best practices for compliance with disclosure requirements on diversity.
The bill, called the "Improving Corporate Governance Through Diversity Act of 2019," is "the culmination of years of work dedicated to increasing transparency so that the highest levels of corporate America can begin to reflect the diversity of America," said Rep. Meeks when the House passed it.
Under the bill, the data in diversity disclosures would be based on voluntary self-identification of race, ethnicity, and gender.
Lack of board representation
A white paper issued by Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) earlier this year noted just 10 percent of current board members in Russell 3000 companies belong to ethnic minority groups, although 15 percent of new directors are minorities. In 2019, 45 percent of new board seats were filled by women (compared to 12 percent back in 2008), but just 19 percent of all seats are held by women, according to "U.S. Board Diversity Trends in 2019." The report noted gender diversity in some measure got a boost thanks to 2019 regulations in California requiring boards headquartered there include at least one female.
"To the extent that diversity of any kind improves a company's ability to increase corporate value—by, for example, deepening the board's understanding of its customer base or introducing new ideas that a more externally homogeneous board might have missed—it is an eminently reasonable issue for consideration by anyone interested in a company's welfare."
Hester Peirce, Commissioner, SEC
"While the trend of increasing ethnic diversity on boards is visible, the rate of change is considerably slower than the trend in board gender diversity," wrote the author of the ISS report, Kosmas Papadopoulos, CFA at ISS Analytics.
"Studies have shown that the lack of diversity in C-suites and corporate boards is not only an injustice, it is a detriment to business and a hindrance to innovation," Meeks said. Improving board diversity "will make companies more accountable to the public and to the economy and improve their financial performance," he explained.
Is everyone on board?
Speaking at the Society for Corporate Governance national conference earlier this year, SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce said, "To the extent that diversity of any kind improves a company's ability to increase corporate value—by, for example, deepening the board's understanding of its customer base or introducing new ideas that a more externally homogeneous board might have missed—it is an eminently reasonable issue for consideration by anyone interested in a company's welfare." At the same time, she maintained "there is mixed evidence as to whether the mere inclusion of women on boards has an effect on a company's performance."
The House bill, which Meeks had just introduced on Nov. 14, "earned broad bipartisan support across civil rights groups, corporate America, and investors alike," Meeks said. The House approved the bill by a vote of 281 to 135 (with 14 not voting). Voting in favor of the legislation were 226 Democrats and 55 Republicans. One independent and 134 Republicans voted against the bill.
Congress has the authority to enact this legislation pursuant to its Article 1 Commerce Clause powers, according to Meeks.
Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) introduced a bill in the Senate on improving corporate governance through diversity in February of this year. Sens. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) are cosponsors of the bill, a.k.a. S. 360. The Senate bill has been referred to the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
Meeks said he looks forward "to working together with the Senate" to get the legislation passed.
Lori Tripoli is a writer based in the greater New York City area who focuses on legal and regulatory issues.
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Case 1: A 61-year-old hypertensive male with glued intraocular lens (IOL) implantation 2 years ago presented with decreased vision in his right eye. Ozurdex implant was injected intravitreally a week ago for refractory macular edema. On examination, the right eye had well-centered glued IOL with corneal edema [Table 1], iris defect at 10 o'clock, and migrated Ozurdex implant [Figure 1] in the anterior chamber (AC).
Case 2: A 57-year-old diabetic male with glued IOL implantation with Ozurdex injection for diabetic macular edema [Figure 2]a and [Figure 2]b 3 weeks ago presented with decreased vision in his right eye. On examination, there was implant migration into the AC [Figure 3]a and [Figure 3]b with centered glued IOL.
Under peribulbar anesthesia using the viscoelastic device the implant was made to align perpendicular to the long axis of the incision and explanted with viscoexpression [Figure 3]a and [Figure 3]b by counter pressure on the posterior lip. Case 2 required pre Descemet's endothelial keratoplasty (PDEK) for corneal decompensation [Figure 3]c, [Figure 3]d, [Figure 3]e, [Figure 3]f after a month.
Ozurdex migration into the AC was initially reported with iris-fixated IOL requiring corneal transplantation., Owing to the proximity to the uvea, the sulcus, AC IOL, or iris fixated IOLs may require steroid implants to control inflammation., However, the inflammatory response is less with glued IOL. Both cases in our report had corneal edema, whereas case 2 required PDEK. The proximity to the endothelium and the greater rigidity of the implant soon after injection may be the probable risk factors for corneal edema. Deficient capsules, iridectomy, zonular dialysis, and prior vitrectomy are known threats for implant migration. Our report showed that even a well-centered glued IOL may not prevent this migration, and hence, the need for meticulous follow-up should be emphasized.
Pardo-López D, Francés-Muñoz E, Gallego-Pinazo R, Díaz-Llopis M. Anterior chamber migration of dexamethasone intravitreal implant (Ozurdex ®). Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 2012;250:1703-4.
Rahimy E, Khurana RN. Anterior segment migration of dexamethasone implant: Risk factors, complications, and management. Curr Opin Ophthalmol 2017;28:246-51.
Amino K, Yamakawa R. Long-term results of out-of-the-bag intraocular lens implantation. J Cataract Refract Surg 2000;26:266-70.
Evereklioglu C, Er H, Bekir NA, Borazan M, Zorlu F. Comparison of secondary implantation of flexible open-loop anterior chamber and scleral-fixated posterior chamber intraocular lenses. J Cataract Refract Surg 2003;29:301-8.
Kumar DA, Agarwal A, Packialakshmi S, Agarwal A. In vivo analysis of glued intraocular lens position with ultrasound biomicroscopy. J Cataract Refract Surg 2013;39:1017-22.


Rage to Master is an "undisciplinary" project that combines a talk show/documentary, training manuals, and performance art to radically reform the Eurocentric art history of museums and academia. Art institutions promote that students must learn the dominant art history narrative before they are allowed to learn a more global, gender-inclusive, and politically engaged perspective. In an art world fashioned on a notion of "the West and the Rest," Rage to Master shows the world another way to look at art that decolonises the practice and study of it in dominant museological, curatorial, and studio practices for a broad, popular audience.
Artist-scholar Rashayla Marie Brown (RMB) manages a living studio practice through installation, photography, performance, voice acting, writing, and video, using the voice and the image to enact a code of ethics beyond mere representation. A lifelong nomad who has moved 24 times, she began her artistic practice as a poet in London, England. From 2013-17, RMB served as the inaugural Director of Diversity and Inclusion at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC).
RMB's work has been commissioned by Bemis Contemporary, Omaha; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco; and Rhodes College, Memphis; and presented internationally at Tate Modern, London; INVISIBLE-EXPORTS, New York; Krabbesholm Højskole, Copenhagen; and Turbine Hall, Johannesburg. Grants include the Artadia Award; US Dept. of Ed. FLAS Grant; and 3Arts Grant; among others.
Her work and words appear in Artforum, Blouin Modern Painters, Hyperallergic, Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, Prospect.4 New Orleans, and Radical Presence (CAM Houston). Her essay "Open Letter to My Fellow Young Artists and Scholars on the Margins" was shared 10,000 times online as of 2018. RMB holds degrees from Yale University and SAIC, advised by Paul Gilroy and Barbara DeGenevieve respectively, and Northwestern University.


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Milpitas soldier in "Best Ranger Competition"
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PUBLISHED: April 15, 2016 at 12:00 am | UPDATED: September 12, 2018 at 12:00 am
A sergeant first class in the Army and a 1999 Milpitas High School graduate, Eugene Mirador is expected to compete in the "Best Ranger Competition 2016" beginning today (April 15) through April 17.
Held at Fort Benning, Ga., the 33rd contest features two-man "buddy" teams from the U.S. Armed Forces competing in several events. Mirador has served all his 12 years in the military with the 75th Ranger Regiment at Fort Benning. His partner in the competition is Scott Slater, a corporal.
Mirador last appeared in the competition in 2010 and finished 11th out of 50 teams.
"So hopefully this is the year my teammate and I win it for the regiment," he said in an email.
Additionally, Mirador said he admires his fellow Rangers and others serving in the Armed Forces far from their homes.
"It"s an honor to compete in this competition against the best of the best in the Army. However, (Best Ranger Competition) is just a competition. The real Rangers/heroes are the ones currently overseas bringing the fight to the enemy," he said.
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Facts: Ds were convicted of espionage by transmitting classified docs and sought reversal of their convictions becaue of warrantless surveillance and searches. Ds argue FBI violated 4h amendment. No court authorization was ever sough or obtained for the installation of wire taps, for mail intercepts, etc. Ds thought "solely" for foreign policy reasons should be the test.
The government relied on a "foreign intelligence" exception to the Fourth Amendment. The FBI sought and received approval for the surveillance from the president's delegate, the AG, – FBI says this approval is constitutionally sufficient to authorize foreign intelligence surveillance because of President's constitutional prerogatives in foreign affairs (thus doesn't need a warrant).
Issue: Whether the fourth amendment is violated when domestics are subjected to warrantless wiretapping for the purpose of foreign intelligence gathering.
(1) The government is only relieved from seeking a warrant when the object of the search is a foreign power, its agent or collaborators. Where there is no foreign connection, the executive's needs become less compelling; and the surveillance more closely resembles the surveillance of suspected criminals, which must be authorized by warrant.
(2) The executive should be excused from securing a warrant only when the surveillance is conducted "primarily" for foreign intelligence reasons. (i.e. not for criminal prosecution).
Needs of executive are so compelling in foreign intelligence, as opposed to domestic security, that a uniform warrant would unduly frustrate the President in carrying out his foreign affairs responsibilities.
Executive branch has expertise (constantly aware of security needs) to make the decision whether to conduct foreign intelligence, as opposed to the courts unschooled in military affairs and diplomacy.
Crucial: Executive branch constitutionally designated as the pre-eminent authority in foreign affairs.
On July 20th, the investigation of D became primarily criminal, thus all evidence obtained through surveillance after that date must be excluded.


While some comparative work has provided evidence for a universally positive impact of built environment features that promote physical activity, less is known about chronic diseases and hospitalization among different social contexts and health care systems. Parallel international linkage efforts present an opportunity to study health impacts of the built environment.
This study compares the impact of neighbourhood environments on health outcomes for patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) in two countries. Neighborhood-level measures for walkable environments were derived for Canada and Wales using Geographic Information Systems. Hospitalization admissions from routine data sources and linked survey data responses (from the Welsh Health Survey and Canadian Community Health Survey) allow for the generation of population-based descriptive statistics on socio-demographic information, self-reported health, diagnostic patterns, and health care use. We examine the feasibility of investigating contextual differences in walkable environments, T2D, and hospitalization between Wales and Canada.
Data linkage in respective privacy protecting safe havens in the Canada Research Data Centre Network (CRDCN) and the Wales Secure Anonymised Information Linkage (SAIL) Databank show promise for a comparative study, enabling parallel modelling of environmental and socio-demographic factors with hospitalization data. Both the Canadian and Welsh surveys ask respondents about their current diabetes status, allowing us to compare hospitalization rates and neighborhood effects of those who report having diabetes with the those who do not. Moreover, the linking of survey responses and similarity in geographic scale permitted consistent measurement of walkable environments across countries. Key administrative variables have been identified relating to health and behaviors, such as socio-demographic information, smoking status, and body mass index, and hospitalization metrics in both countries are commensurable.
The generation of comparable linked datasets, built environment indicators and comparative research for T2D patients will have wider implications for international assessment of the impacts of environment on chronic diseases, and the hospital burden associated with these conditions.


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Global Europe Brief: Westlessness?
By Alexandra Brzozowski | EURACTIV.com
Welcome to EURACTIV's Global Europe Brief, your weekly update on the EU in the global perspective from our foreign affairs news team: Georgi Gotev and Alexandra Brzozowski.
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MUNICH MINUTES
As the world faces an increasingly wayward US, as well as more assertive Russia and China and an internally divided NATO, one word is set to dominate the debates at the Munich Security Conference and has the potential to become the catch-phrase of 2020:
'Westlessness', or the idea that the world in general and 'Western' countries themselves are uncertain of their values and their strategic orientation. The word, coined by the authors of the Munich Security Report, is meant to address the changing geometry of global power, the fact that the world has become less Western-oriented and the West has become less Western in itself, too.
High-ranking world leaders descend on Bavaria this weekend for the Munich Security Conference, often dubbed the 'Davos of global security, as flashpoints across the world multiply and the rift between Europe and Washington widens. With representatives from Europe, the US, Russia, China and the Middle East, Munich will be about taking the temperature of the current global security environment. On Friday afternoon, a 48-hour program kicks off, packed with dozens of events featuring debates between prominent world leaders — including those from hostile and even warring camps.
Alexandra Brzozowski is heading to Munich and she wrote down a couple of issues to watch. Stay tuned at our website and our social media channels as she'll be taking over our Instagram stories with live updates from behind-the-scenes at Munich.
IMAGE OF THE WEEK | Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the UN Security Council as the body debates US President Trump's Middle East peace plan. New York, US, 11 February 2020. [EPA-EFE/JASON SZENES]
PEACE PLAN FALLOUT. The transatlantic relationship's latest stress test is US President Trump's so-called "deal of the century" for Israel-Palestine. Trump's controversial Middle East peace plan (MEPP), staunchly backed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, would unilaterally annul previous UN resolutions on the Palestinian issue. It would give Israel a green light to annex Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank and entrench Jerusalem as Israel's "undivided capital."
The EU's chief diplomat, Josep Borrell, trashed Trump's Middle East peace plan, and his first diplomatic visit to Washington to discuss the Iran nuclear deal, bilateral and regional issues did not bring any breakthroughs. "International relations travel at the speed of trust and an international agenda based on trust between the EU and the US is key to successfully tackle global challenges that we jointly face. We should always remember that we sit on the same side of the table when it comes to most core challenges, even if we don't agree on everything," Borrell commented after his trip.
The EU rejected parts of Trump's peace plan for the Middle East earlier in February, with Borrell announcing in a statement that Trump's plan departs from "internationally agreed parameters". Only this week, a majority of EU lawmakers slammed Trump's Middle East peace strategy during their Strasbourg plenary session, denouncing the plans for going against international law and being biased in favour of Israel.
The EU's initial response to the proposal was rather weak, promising to "study and assess" the plan, as several member states issued conflicting statements – Austria, France and Poland "welcomed" the plan, which the UK called a "serious proposal", while Hungary blocked a stronger unanimous statement by the EU27 just to later come out in support of it.
TRADE SPAT. And it is not the only matter of contention along the EU-US lines. Relations between the two major economies have lingered for months in a tense truce. "Europe has been treating us very badly," Trump told a White House event, only to add later on Monday the time has come to 'very seriously' pursue trade negotiations with Brussels, which he accused of imposing "incredible" barriers to US goods.
A group of EU member states are unhappy about the lack of information from the European Commission on the trade talks with the US and have expressed their "nervousness" about what could be in the deal, various diplomats and European officials recently told EURACTIV's Jorge Valero.
PACIFIC RIM. The EU wants a greater security role in the Pacific and will have no problem working with China in a region where Beijing has boosted its influence in recent years, the EU"s ambassador for the Pacific, Sujiro Seam, recently announced.
DEFENCE CORNER
MACRON GOES NUCLEAR. Addressing the top brass at the L'École de Guerre in Paris, President Emmanuel Macron laid out France's much-awaited post-Brexit nuclear weapons strategy and said Europeans "cannot confine themselves to the role of spectators" in the face of the nuclear arms race. He also urged Europeans to propose together "an international agenda of arms control" at a time when the existing treaties are questioned by other world powers. Alexandra Brzozowski took a closer look.
POPULARITY BLOW. Confidence in NATO sharply declined in France, Germany and the US after Trump and Macron questioned the value of the Western alliance, according to a new Pew Research Center study. Although NATO is overall seen favourably in 16 EU member states, with 53% of people with a positive opinion, there are major reservations about the fulfilment of obligations linked to collective defence.
SPANISH DELAY. Waiting for Spain, North Macedonia's parliament unanimously ratified NATO's accession protocol, taking Skopje a step closer to becoming the military alliance's 30th member in the coming weeks. The document had been stuck in the Spanish parliament since June 2019.
Asked by EURACTIV what the obstacles are and what the expected timeline for ratification is, a Spanish MFA spokesman said there had been "no other obstacles to the ratification except for the parliamentary agenda", which has been on constant stand-by due to repeated elections and the text has been just sent to the newly composed Parliament. "It is expected to be completed as soon as possible through a special urgent procedure but at the end of the day, it depends on both Houses' legislative agenda," the spokesman added.
ENLARGEMENT LATEST
CREDIBILITY QUESTION. The European Commission's new proposal for enhanced accession process of the Western Balkans is 'a small masterpiece of European compromise' that could foster momentum and reforms. But it still lacks details on funding and convergence and realistic target years, write EPC Belgrade's Milena Lazarević, Sena Marić and Strahinja Subotić in a commentary for EURACTIV.
EU lawmakers in Strasbourg overwhelmingly endorsed the enlargement methodology proposal when it was presented to MEPs by Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi. MEP Nathalie Loiseau (Renew) France's former minister for European affairs and Macron's voice in Brussels, however, also warned that "what counts is what's actually happening, not what's written on a piece of paper." Something she could maybe suggest to her boss in Paris?
EURASIA DIGEST
AZERI HOPES. Long-term President Ilham Aliyev's ruling party won a majority of seats in Sunday's snap parliamentary election, according to exit polls. The main difference compared to past elections is that many more young and Western-trained people are expected to fill the 125-seat Azeri Parliament, writes Georgi Gotev, who was on the ground in Baku.
As modernisation appears to be the keyword in Azerbaijan in recent months, with opportunities being given to young and well-educated professionals replacing a Soviet-time old guard, EURACTIV took a closer look in this Special Report.
US ELECTION WATCH
It's 264 days until the US Presidential Election and the next week will see several caucuses: from North Carolina (13), Nevada (15), Arkansas (17), Texas and Utah (18) to Arizona (19).
What to watch and why it matters: Democratic insiders see an increasing possibility that left-wing Democrat Bernie Sanders — who tied Pete Buttigieg in Iowa by a razor-thin margin and edged him in New Hampshire with 26% of the vote — will be their nominee.
WHAT ELSE WE'RE READING
A New Nuclear Deal Won't Secure the Middle East [Foreign Affairs]
'The Intelligence Coup Of The Century' [Washington Post]
ON OUR RADAR FOR THE NEXT DAYS…
Munich Security Conference
| Fri-Sun, 14-16 February 2020 | Munich, Germany
Informal EU-Western Balkans meeting
| Sunday, 16 February 2020 | Brussels, Belgium
Leaders of Western Balkan countries are to meet with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Charles Michel. The meeting comes ahead of EU-organised International Donors' Conference for Albania to support the reconstruction efforts after the earthquake that struck the country at the end of November.
Foreign Affairs Council
| Monday, 17 February 2020 | Brussels, Belgium
EU foreign ministers are set to discuss the Libya crisis after they moved the meaningful discussion to this meeting. Also on the agenda: US Middle East peace plan proposal, EU-African Union relations, Venezuela and the Western Balkans.
European Parliament's SEDE Committee
| Mo-Tue, 17-18 February 2020 | Brussels, Belgium
MEPs are set to discuss PESCO, post-Brexit security and arms control issues as well as the recent crises in Libya and Iran.
European Council on first post-Brexit budget
| Thursday, 20 February 2020 | Brussels, Belgium
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GHAZIABAD: The overpowering stench of garbage in Pratap Vihar is most probably the answer to the question in the minds of residents Ghaziabad — why did the city fail in three attempts to be on the list of smart cities? Although the report card on the failure to make the cut is awaited, waste management — an important smart city criterion — is obviously the city's Achilles' heel.
Thousands of residents in the vicinity of Pratap Vihar landfill site live amid an unbearable stench and health hazard. Tonnes of garbage dumped every day has turned the site into a mountain of waste as high as a five-storey building and visible from a distance.
The only assurance the Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation (GMC), which is termed apathetic by residents facing a daily health risk from the garbage, can give is an alternative landfill site will be functional in Galand within two years.
Spread across an area of 13 acres, the Pratap Vihar landfill site came up in 2005 and currently about 1,100 metric tons of civic waste is dumped every day from all the five zones of the city.
The GMC, which is the custodian of the site, has outsourced the management of the site to a private company, which is paid Rs 35 lakh per month.
"It is such a waste of money and even after spending so much the condition of the landfill site is awful," said Alok Kumar, resident and patron of FedAOA.
"For years now we are forced to live in a place where each morning begins with the pathetic sight of tonnes of waste, not to mention the stench it raises," said D K Maurya, a resident of Niho Scottish Garden, a society in Indirapuram's Ahimsa Khand 2 facing the Pratap Vihar landfill site. There are close to half a dozen societies in the area where residents get up with the same sick feeling every morning.
Resentment is growing among residents of societies in Ahimsa Khand 2 to the point of planning a protest to be heard. They want relocation of the dumping ground, but that is easier said than done. "With the monsoon round the corner, the growing humidity is intensifying the stench and every year it is the same old story. Now we are planning an agitation," said Debashish Sahoo, resident of Arihant Harmony.
"Kites and other birds could be seen hovering over the dumping ground all the time and it such an awful sight," said Anil Sharma, another resident.
Bhavna Saxena of Cloud 9 said the garbage pile in the rear of her society is often burned, leading to the emission of poisonous gases.
"I am a sincere tax payer like many other fellow residents, but being forced to breathe in polluted air. The authorities concerned will perhaps wake up from their slumber only if their loved ones are put to such risk," Saxena said.
"But I assure you that it we will soon be shifting the landfill site to Galand on the outskirts of the city where we have already acquired 18 acres of land to develop a solid waste plant," Singh said.


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Adirondack Forest Ranger Search and Rescue Highlights: 1/5/15-01/11/15
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Forest Rangers respond to search and rescue incidents statewide. Working with other state agencies, local emergency response organizations and volunteer search and rescue groups, Forest Rangers locate and extract lost, injured or distressed people from the backcountry.
"DEC Forest Rangers' knowledge of first aid, land navigation and technical rescue techniques are often critical to the success of their missions," said DEC Commissioner Joe Martens. "Search and rescue missions often require Rangers to function in remote wilderness areas from rugged mountainous peaks to white-water rivers, and through vast forest areas from spruce-fir thicket to open hardwoods."
Recent missions carried out by DEC Forest Rangers in the Adirondacks include:
High Peaks Wilderness
Essex County, Town of Keene
Distressed Hiker: On January 10 at 2:53 p.m., DEC Ray Brook Dispatch received a call from a distressed hiker on the trail to Dial Mountain. The 51-year-old male of Honeoye Falls, NY stated he was unable to continue down the trail but was otherwise uninjured. Essex County 911 provided his location coordinates to Dispatch. Eight DEC Forest Rangers responded, along with New York State Police Aviation who placed a Forest Ranger at the summit of Dial Mountain. Rangers located the hiker uninjured but in need of medical attention. He was hydrated, warmed up and escorted down the mountain. Additional Forest Rangers met the hiker at the trailhead and transported him by snowmobile down Lake Road where he was evaluated by the Keene Valley Fire and Rescue Squad and released at 8:30 p.m. Back Country Rescue assisted in the rescue.
Dix Wilderness
Essex County, Town of Newcomb
Lost Hikers: On January 11 at 9:04 p.m., DEC Ray Brook Dispatch received a call requesting assistance for two hikers lost on Santanoni Mountain. A 32-year-old male of Schenectady, NY and a 51-year-old male of Amsterdam NY, said they were following a stream down the Express Trail and believed they were .3 miles from Bradley Pond. Three DEC Forest Rangers responded to the Upper Work with one Forest Ranger proceeding in by snowmobile. Rangers located the hikers a few miles in at 10:45 p.m. in good condition. Rangers transported the party out by snowmobile and arrived at the trailhead at 11:20 p.m.
Be sure to properly prepare and plan before entering the backcountry. Visit DEC's Hiking Safety and Adirondack Trail Information web for more information.
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COWLSO DONATES BIRTHING SUITES, NEO-NATAL INCUBATORS TO LAGOS HOSPITALS
The Committee of Wives of Lagos State Officials, COWLSO, on Tuesday, donated 32 neo-natal incubators to 13 government hospitals, and six birthing suites to Lagos Island Maternity, Amuwo Maternal and Child Centre, as well as Epe General Hospital.
Chairman of COWLSO and wife of the Governor of Lagos State, Mrs. Bolanle Ambode accompanied by wife of the Lagos State Governor-elect, Dr. Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu, led the Committee's project team on inspection and handing-over of the items, said that their vision for pregnant women in the State was for them to have access to world class delivery facilities in public hospitals.
She said further that, ideal child birth was that which ensured the best outcome for the mother and baby, in a safe environment that guaranteed quick recovery from birthing process, and allowed early and optimum bonding of the baby with its mother.
According to her, "My vision and that of COWLSO, is that in Lagos State, any pregnant woman, regardless of origin, economic status and location, will have access to quality and safe child delivery experience that is in line with international best practice, in any of our public hospitals, at a minimal cost'.
"Childbirth has always been one of the life-changing experiences that women go through. Different women go into labour having different emotions and expectations about the process and outcome. There is hardly a woman who had been in labour that would not remember that experience, many years after".
She stressed that the committee envisioned that the model would be replicated in other government health facilities in future.
Birthing suites are stand-alone delivery units, where all three stages of a woman's labour and delivery take place. They have their own private conveniences for patient privacy and fitted with automated birthing beds, ultra-modern vital signs monitors for mother and baby; as well as specialized machines for monitoring the heartbeat of mother and baby and post delivery care.
The incubators would regulate the body temperature of preterm babies and avail them the right environment to be nurtured, till they are fit to go home, thereby reducing infant mortality in the State.
Responding on behalf of the benefitting hospitals, medical director of Lagos Island Maternity Hospital, Dr. Ademuyiwa Eniayewun, expressed appreciation for yet another enviable intervention and laudable achievement of COWLSO.
He thanked the Committee for their consistent support and effort at reducing infant and child mortality in the state, and for donating the ultra-modern facility where babies could be delivered and nurtured till they are sound in health to go home.
He assured the Committee that the hospitals would put the facilities to good use, hoping that the gesture would be replicated in other government hospitals.
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AFTER NUJ OGUN STATE COUNCIL ELECTIONS, WHAT NEXT?
The elected Local Government Review Committee (LGRC) members from six selected Local Governments in Ogun State, have been advised on the need to be effective and be transparent in the discharge of their duties, for sustainable development in the State. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Community Development and Cooperatives, Mrs. Melutia Ogunremi, gave this advice during a one- day training for LGRC members, with the theme, "The Roles of LGRC in the Community Development Project (CDP) Formulation and Implementation'', organised by the Community and Social Development Agency CSDA, at the Conference Hall, Ministry of Community Development and Cooperatives, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta.
Mrs. Ogunremi, charged the elected committees saddled with the responsibilities of community development projects to effectively coordinate and execute World Bank assisted projects, adding that this would aid government's intervention in executing more projects. According to her, "by the time the projects would be completed, the less privilege in our communities would feel the impact of good leadership", adding that, accountability, sincerity, as well as transparency should be their watchword. On his part, the General Manager Community and Social Development Agency, Engineer Sakirudeen Salam, said the training was organised for elected committee members on their roles to facilitate and fast track the process of the proposed projects. He disclosed that, eighty participants which cut across the six selected Local governments including, Abeokuta North Local Government, Odeda Local Government, Ipokia Local Government amongst others, were duly represented.
Reacting, the Chairman, Board of Director, Community and Social Development Agency (CSDA), Pastor Oladipupo Odeyemi, disclosed that the programme had been in existence since 2009 and the State was already involved in the second phase, while striving to be among the third phase if all projects would be done with all honesty, describing the programme as a measure for poverty alleviation in any society. One of the participants at the training, Honourable Bode Kusimo commended the International agency, as well as the State government's effort at eradicating poverty at the grassroots, pledging to ensure the success of the project, thereby assisting in the socio-economic growth of the areas.
The plan to elevate Lagos to become a smart city is not a mere political rhetoric, but an agenda that is being supported by policies that will make the goal achievable, Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has said.
The Governor said his administration's commitment to reinvigorate the state's economy and make it a smart city was reinforced by its growth potential and profile as one of the top investment destinations in Africa.
The smart city agenda, Sanwo-Olu said, is on course, stressing that his administration would achieve the goal in partnership with private sector as key driver of development.
The Governor spoke on Wednesday at the 13th Annual Business Law Conference organized by Business Law section of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), at the Eko Hotels and Suites on Victoria Island.
To achieve the aim, Sanwo-Olu said his government had identified key areas to drive growth, stating that investment in infrastructure remained prominent.
He said: "As Africa's most populous city, with a population larger than several countries on the continent, but confined to a space that is less than 4,000 square miles in size, Lagos is confronted by problems that exert great pressure on its infrastructure, especially our transport infrastructure and public utilities.
"Lagos urgently needs to mobilize huge investments into these critical sectors by delivering new roads and bridges, expanding air and sea ports' capacity, exploiting the potential of our vast waterways. And, very importantly, Lagos needs to deliver an intra-city rail network. We must have a city-wide rail system that will move people and goods faster."
Steady electricity, Sanwo-Olu pointed out, remains critical to delivering a smart city with a flourishing economy. He observed that Lagos, like other states, still had a huge gap to fill in the area of power supply to businesses and homes.
The Governor said a sustained but strategic investment in key infrastructure would have direct positive impacts on workers' productivity, commerce and economy.
He said: "Provision of infrastructure creates jobs for artisans, engineers and other workers who will deliver these projects, and also for the contractors who supply raw materials. And by expanding our transport and power supply capacities significantly, we will succeed in unleashing the economic productivity long-constrained by these bottlenecks."
Sanwo-Olu said the effort required private sector partnership and investment to deliver on the objectives. He urged local and international investors to leverage the government's Public Private Partnership (PPP) policy in facilitating collaboration, which, he promised, would be mutually beneficial.
While the Governor re-assured investors that his government would create "friendly atmosphere" for investment to thrive, he said the state had embarked on reforms in its business law to protect the interests of all parties when disputes arise in business.
He added: "By leading the way with these reforms, we are making the point that we understand the place of Lagos in the national economy, and we understand the connection between confidence in legal and regulatory systems on the one hand, and, on the other hand, a willingness by investors to invest.
"In terms of the business regulatory environment, we are fully aligned with the Federal Government's Ease of Doing Business reform agenda. I am pleased to note here that Lagos was in 2018 adjudged by the World Bank as one of the most improved states in terms of the Ease of Doing Business."
Sanwo-Olu praised members of the NBA's Business Law section for choosing Lagos as its choice location to discuss the objectives of the business conference.
The Speaker, House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila with Chief Dennis Otuaro at the reception party organized for the Speaker by the Lagos State Government at the Eko Hotels and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos on Sunday, June 23, 2019.


Air conditioners are very important during summer as they help you to manage the heat of the season. During the hot season, your conditioner should be functioning well to serve you excellently. To keep your conditioner functioning, it is advisable to do frequent maintenance. There are some tips, which will make your goal realistic.
Monitoring your unit is very important especially if your conditioner has a centralized conditioning system. To attain your goal, it is important to call an expert who will make sure that the unit is in good position. When you are looking for a technician, call a professional who understands your system better. Repair is necessary before the season comes.
It is advisable to have the filter changed monthly to ensure proper efficiency and superb operation of your system especially if it is for cooling and conditioning. A technician should check the system each month and fix any problem that may exist in the system. However, if the system is not in multiple uses, you can call a technician when time for use comes. Checking makes your system up all the time.
If your filter has developed some issues, repair is necessary. Repair comes from professionals who understand the system well. When you are repairing the filter, the system should not be on. Keeping the system on will give you much trouble as dirt may be sucked into the system. When dirt accumulates inside, it may cause serious problems, which may force you to spend more money for repairs. Since filters are many and different, you have to buy the right size. To avoid unnecessary expenses, it is important to keep your system safe from damages.
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The Tide® Gospel Radio Ministry Recognizes the National Day of Prayer
Where the Spirit Is, There Is Liberty
CHAMBERSBURG, Pa.—The Tide® global radio ministry is looking forward to the National Day of Prayer on May 6 as an opportunity to lift up local and national ministries. The Tide ministry broadcasts the Gospel message in 30 languages over the airwaves on three continents, but 75 years ago, they began as a local Christian broadcast in Pennsylvania.
"When Rev. Charlie Byers started producing The Gospel Tide Hour in 1946, he had no way of knowing how far the ministry would stretch," said The Tide Director Don Shenk. "We've been blessed for the past 75 years because of the prayer and support of our partners in America, and we are pleased to be able to honor that by offering the same prayer and support to other ministries around us."
Though The Tide ministry no longer broadcasts in the United States, they understand that this nation is in need of the Word of God as much as any nation. "America has become a secular country, and the souls here are just as much in need of Christ as the souls in Nigeria, India or Pakistan," Shenk said. "As The Tide reaches out internationally, we are proud to partner with ministries working on the national front."
The National Day of Prayer theme this year is 2 Corinthians 3:17: "Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty." Because the Spirit provides such a freedom to know the Lord, The Tide ministry'sprayer is that many in America and across the world will feel the Spirit and turn to Him with softened hearts, ready to receive and meditate on the Gospel.
The Tide ministry is celebrating their 75th anniversary of recording and broadcasting Gospel programming. Millions of people in multiple regions on three continents can hear Gospel content recorded in 30 heart languages, including those in Afghanistan, Albania, Bhutan, India, Kosovo, Mozambique, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Thailand and Zimbabwe. With more than 7,000 languages spoken worldwide and more than 2,000 people groups yet unreached with the Good News of Jesus, the opportunities are tremendous.
For more information about The Tide broadcast projects, history, radio programs around the world, special yearlong campaigns, the weekly Global Update radio features or other news, visit its website at www.thetide.org or its Facebook page. Read more about The Tide ministry and Director Don Shenk here.
To schedule interviews with Don Shenk, director of The Tide global radio ministry, contact Media@HamiltonStrategies.com, Marjorie Pratt, 610.584.1096, ext. 107, or Deborah Hamilton, ext. 102.


'Transformation of Religions as Reflected in Javanese Texts', a joint project of Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and KITLV, aims at analyzing texts that may help to clarify religious change in Java between the 9th and 19th centuries. The project includes the building of a database of Javanese and Old Javanese texts while also a number of international seminars will be held.
Texts in Javanese and Old Javanese form a rich source of information on religion and religious change in Java. Many ideas found expression through a great variety of texts of a religious, literary, historical or other nature. However, only a very small part of this source has been tapped; many texts still await exploration. At the same time, the number of people who can read them is small. The project hopes to arouse scholarly interest by making access easier. Presently, printed material is being selected for digitization. It is hoped that in the future also handwritten material can be added to the list.