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Grey wolf at Yellowstone National Park
NPS Photo / Jacob W. Frank
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Reintroducing Wolves to Yellowstone National Park
How NPF is helping monitor wolf packs
By Emily Kamin July 21, 2020
Related Parks
The beauty of our parks is found in many places: its incredible landscapes, diverse histories and cultures, endless opportunities for adventure, and precious ecosystems and varied species. An important part of the National Park Foundation's mission is to support the conservation of the wildlife that reside in our national parks.
Yellowstone National Park is a world in and of itself; home to nearly 300 species of birds, and an array of amphibians, reptiles, and fish. And then there are the mammals of Yellowstone: badgers, black bears, grizzly bears, coyotes, mountain lions, lynx, bison, elk, and so many more. All in all, there are 67 different mammals that inhabit the park – exploring, migrating, hunting, foraging, and mating - all while unknowingly participating in a delicate ecological web.
Wolf in Yellowstone National Park (NPS / Jim Peaco)
Maintaining a healthy ecosystem at Yellowstone can be tricky. Scientists warn that there needs to be balance between the number of predators (for example, coyotes) and prey (elk) or there could be a "trophic cascade" or the loss of a vital link in the ecosystem's food chain with devastating ecological consequences. There was a time when wolves sat atop the Yellowstone food chain, but their population dwindled and eventually disappeared from the park. In the 1990's, after they had been absent for almost a century, the National Park Service undertook an exciting experiment. They re-introduced 41 wolves to Yellowstone. Some years later, the National Park Foundation committed to providing funding for the ongoing research, tagging, and monitoring of the wolves to study how they have adjusted to their new home. This research is also providing information on how the wolves are impacting the dynamics of the rest of Yellowstone's ecosystem, including prey species like elk and bison.
With the help of financial support from NPF, scientists and park staff monitor the wolves throughout the year via in-person observations, aerial monitoring, GPS collars, and remote cameras. These items collect and study data on wolf movements and occupancy, predation, behavior, disease, genetics, pup survival, impacts to elk and bison populations, as well as second-hand impacts to other species like bears, cougars, and aspen trees.
"Gibbon" pack of wolves at Yellowstone National Park (NPS Photo / Doug Smith)
The reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone has been transformative for the park. As of 2015, the wolf population had grown from 41 to more than 400! Since then, the population has stabilized, and studies have become an example of important lessons in understanding wolf ecology worldwide, how a naturally regulating ecosystem functions, and how to manage public lands most effectively. Biologists and public land managers around the world look to Yellowstone's wolf program as one of the most longstanding and renowned studies on the species. In 2018 alone, the wolf program published two peer-reviewed papers, conducted 35 media interviews, appeared on CBS' 60 Minutes segment, conducted a TEDedx talk, and published a book on Yellowstone wolf recovery.
Understanding the impact of the wolves is one of Yellowstone National Park's highest priorities and it requires a long-term commitment to research and monitoring both within the park and the surrounding areas. NPF has been glad to partner with the park from 2014 to 2020, the 25th anniversary of the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone. Help us to continue to support wildlife conservation endeavors like the Yellowstone Wolf Project by donating today.
Yellowstone National Park, America's first National Park, offers truly unique experiences like spectacular hiking trails, beautiful views, Old Faithful, and geysers shooting water 100 feet into the air.
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Here at GetVoIP, we love attending as many trade shows, conferences and events throughout the year as possible. We're always looking for new insights on how the industry is growing and evolving, as well as the opportunity to experience new products and innovations first hand.
However, with so many different events going on, many at the same time, it can be really difficult to keep track of the really important ones. So we went ahead and compiled a thorough list, tracking all the major Cloud Communications events you absolutely should attend for the year of 2018.
These conferences are mostly within the U.S., and have a focus on Cloud Communications, including topics such as Business VoIP, SaaS solutions, and Contact Centers.
Select the month to jump to the chart below.
Join with thousands of founders and executives at the largest SaaS conference with CEO interviews, workshops and more than 200 speakers.


Businesses need to take measures to avoid the over-simplification of thought that can result from the use of artificial intelligence.
It's not often that we find artificial intelligence (AI) in the company of a U. S. Supreme Court Chief Justice, a prestigious all-girls high school and a good joke – which itself sounds like a classic setup to a joke! But we did.
At his daughter's high school graduation, Chief Justice John Roberts recently opined on a number of thoughtful topics – including the risk of getting caught in an echo chamber of our personalized feeds and messaging, telling us what we want to hear and blocking out the formation of new ideas.
In addition to the political implications, there's also a business-practical side to Roberts' warning. He's spot-on with a key observation: One of the potential unintended side effects that we should watch for in a big data- and AI-driven world is precisely this "narrowing and over-simplification." If AI decides what goes on the retail shelf, and the sales from the retail shelf inform AI what to keep and what to drop, the universe of options narrows down to the familiar and repeated.
What if, in 1975, AI analyzed market research and found that no one wanted a computer in their home? And say in 1980 that AI listened to automobile purchasers and decided that consumers weren't asking for a minivan to replace their station wagon? But when Chrysler began selling minivans in 1983, it brought in enough revenue to save the company.
Only those with the vision to break the infinite loop of quantitative market feedback can create new markets with new ideas. An auto industry quote attributed (incorrectly) to Henry Ford is too good to pass up: "If you asked people what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse." Despite its flawed attribution, the quote hits a key point: It takes the creative human spirit, coupled with careful observation and understanding of human nature, to create new ideas and ensure that we don't operate in an echo chamber of tailored stories feeding our tailored prejudices – be they politics, lifestyle choices or retail decisions.
One remedy is to start from the bottom-up and examine basic human needs that are critical to sustaining a business. For example, a bank should ask, "What do people think about money and financial security?" rather than, "What do they want in a banking app?" A healthcare insurance carrier should inquire, "What do people think about their health planning?" rather than, "What do they want in a claims management screen?" We've found that assembling the "thick data" (gained through anthropological study) that surrounds our lives, actions and motivations is a necessary complement to the big data that provides dashboard views of past behavior.
In his commencement address, Roberts described another remedy for breaking the trend of narrowing thought: taking personal quiet time to ponder your own thoughts rather than simply acquiring more information. This personal entreaty is probably just what the graduating class needed to hear – but for those of us in business, the advice must go deeper.
Organizations can start by assembling a team of talented people – ethicists, sociologists, human scientists, marketers, consumers and teachers – to assess every aspect of an AI- or big data-driven system, from algorithm creation through training. An august group like this, guided by strategic consultants, can conduct a reality check and encourage brainstorming in a way that will shape the ethical use of AI and analytics for years to come and countermand infinite-loop thinking.
A major toy manufacturer with whom we worked realized that playtime was socially connected and that it reflected on personal skill and pride. It discovered its market was not price-sensitive and didn't require a race to the bottom in quality and cost.
A credit card issuer with whom we partnered came to understand that small businesses considered their choice of credit supplier to be part of the fabric of their business success. Rather than being motivated solely by fees and features, they were also compelled by trust and experience.
Could AI could have written that line? Not yet.


On today's episode, Charles Max Wood interviews Brandon Hilkert. Brandon currently works at Bark, a company that builds software to help protect kids online. He was also on the show on episode 291 and talked about Building Ruby Gems. Tune in to learn more about what he's up to these days and know how he got into programming!
Brandon's path towards programming wasn't the traditional way. Graduating from mechanical engineering, his first exposure to programming was when he attended required classes in college, where he worked with C++. He felt miserable and concluded that it wasn't his thing.
Soon he landed a job where he did HVC design for the church and school spaces. Boredom struck him and was later led to becoming part of the tech support in the school district where he was. His interest in programming was born from that experience, where he did desktop support, systems, and networking.
Brandon never imagined that he'd be directed towards programming. During his transition at the age of 26, he felt inferior with his colleagues. He doubted as to why people would listen to him when there were others who have 25 years of experience in programming.
However, he realized that there are people who may have the background, yet they do not have the drive to excel in that field. Programming is a trade, and it can be learned easily. One can delve into it without necessarily taking a college degree related to it. You just need to have the passion.
Brandon practiced a lot to overcome the impostor syndrome. He built usable toy apps. He also read a lot of code in Github, and observed how other people did it.
The Rails Way book inspired him in the process. It was a series on writing clean and elegant Ruby Rails code.
From that moment on, he gradually improved in coding. He looked for ways to solve problems by finding common patterns in those he worked on. Writing in his blog was what really elevated him when it comes to programming.
To hear the rest of My Ruby Story Brandon Hilkert, download and listen to the entire episode.
Connect with Brandon on Twitter and blog. You can also follow him through the links below. Don't forget to let him know you heard about him on Devchat.tv's Ruby Rogues My Ruby Story podcast!


yep. As AGEOD gives us less and less biscuit, less and less people come. And those who come are more and more impatient and not as "happy chappy" as one could hope. At least that's my case. I suppose I should stop coming because I am not really being helpful, I feel like a whiny broken record on how disappointed I was by WON, but deep down all I want is to get enthusiastic and talka about a new game !
I understand the feeling, but the truth is that we are working full time on the new engine and the new theme associated with it!
While marketing is keeping things quiet, it seems that interest in all things AGEOD is drifting away. People are moving on, it seems. I find this very sad. But I do hope that interest will revive when news of the new system becomes available.
Regardless, it is good to hear from you, Pocus. I hope you are well and wish you the very best.
Interest will revive if new engine is fitting (and new games are still interesting).
Communication is low on our side because we aim for the right timing, with enough content to show. This is how it was decided anyway.
A lot will change with the new engine, and yet ...A lot will be the same. Our small group of internal testers, most being grognards are liking it. Hopefully you too.
Perhaps you'll have enough content to show soon?
Yes, I'm here :-) Just discovering the excellent AGEOD engine with the great AJE !
Can't wait for CW2, WON and of course, for the AGEOD Engine 2.0 !
That number seems strange to me considering the number of posts made daily.
Unless there is a horde of Ageod fans waiting for the new game.
Nikel wrote: That number seems strange to me considering the number of posts made daily.
I do not find it strange.
More people reed these articles than writes something here.
Likewise more people plays ageod than visit this forum.
I'm still here, and browse the forums from time to time. Sadly, most forums are pretty dead nowadays. Social media has come and scooped up all the folks, I'm afraid. Back in my day, forums WERE social media.
Pocus wrote: The younger you are, the more 'fast paced' you like all activities.
True, but I still like my occasional quick game of Doom. Some things never lose their charm.


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The US to allocate $50 million for demining and human rights activities in Syria
BY Flyn Braun	 October 13, 2019 3:26 am GMT+0300 October 14, 2019 9:33 am GMT+0300 302 Views
Washington also called on its regional and international partners to continue to contribute to the stabilization process in the region.
President Donald Trump has ordered $50 million to support ethnic and religious minorities, protect human rights and clear mines in Syria. This was reported in a press release published on the official website of the White House.
"This funding will provide emergency financial assistance to Syrian human rights defenders, civil society organizations and facilitate reconciliation efforts through direct support to ethnic and religious minorities who have been victims of the conflict," the press release said. It is noted that the amount will also be spent on clearing unexploded ordnance and documenting violations of human rights and international humanitarian law.
The United States encouraged its regional and international partners to continue to contribute to the stabilization process in the region.
On October 7, Donald Trump said that the United States began to withdraw troops from the Northeast of Syria. On October 9, Turkey announced the operation "Source of peace" in Northern Syria, which began with airstrikes by the air force on the positions of Kurdish formations. The operation aims to create a buffer zone there, which should become a protective belt for the Turkish border. There, according to Ankara's plan, Syrian refugees will be able to return from Turkey. Syrian state Agency SANA called the operation aggression. The world community condemned the actions of Ankara.

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I'm finding the going pretty tough right now, with work and the school holidays, bad weather and the usual issues of health etc. I seem to get over one health problem only for the next one to start. The problems with my legs seem to be never ending. Anyway I will go to the studio and work because that is what I do.
I have a recurring dream where I have taken up smoking and I hate myself for it but I do it anyway.


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About 2 km north of the town there is "Městský les" (a forest) which is 450 ha big. There are tourist paths and in the winter it is used for cross-country skiing. 3 km east of the town is a recreational area called "U hlubokého rybníka" (a pond). Other places for swimming are about 2 km west of the town "Červený rybník" and "Vlčí hora".
"Na Jemničkách" (2 km south) are the preserved remains of medieval mining pits.
In the village Dešná (7 km south) there is a private horse riding stable.
Historical monuments around Jemnice:
Dačice (13 km)
The large Renaissance chateau from the beginning of the 17th century, was reconstructed in the Empire style surrounded by a park. Inside the chateau there is a museum with an exposition about the history of the town and the work of Max Švabinský.
Slavonice (18 km)
An urban historical reserve with unique late Gothic and Renaissance houses with attics and sgraffito decorations.
Telč (25 km)
Since 1992 this town has been included in the list of UNESCO historical and cultural areas of merit. There are Renaissance houses with sgraffito decorations and the chateau of Zachariáš from Hradec.
Bítov (19 km)
A stronghold from the 11th century, at the end of the 15th century it was enlarged, in the middle of the 19th century it was reconstructed in the Romanesque-Gothic style with a valuable interior with collections of hunting weapons. The original town was drowned by the Vranovská reservoir.
Vranov dam (15 km)
This dam was built between 1930-1933. Around the thirty km long reservoir there are a lot of recreation facilities.
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Bacon, who cited a decades-long fight with mold and mildew allergies as a factor in his decision to leave the Statehouse, was the top vote-getter for the at-large seat on the Warrick County Council in the Republican primary election Tuesday night.
"I wasn't quite ready to stop serving," Bacon said. "I know the experiences I had at the Statehouse will be helpful to the county, particularly getting through the financial issues we all face related to the (pandemic). I think Warrick County has done a great job with that so far, and I hope to be able to continue that."
Bacon received 3,902 individual votes for 25.4 percent of the overall vote.
The top three vote-getters in the at-large primary move on to the general election. Incumbents Brad Overton and Ted Metzger finished second and third in the race, respectively. Overton got 22.4 percent of the vote with 3,435 votes, while Metzger got 19.9 percent with 3,047 votes.
One Democrat, Nancy Woolsey, has filed for the race and will be on the general election ballot.
Bacon endorsed Mike Griffin for his vacated District 75 post, but the vote went instead to Cindy Ledbetter.
Ledbetter, a nurse practitioner specializing in mental health who has also served on the Warrick County Council, got 2,551 votes in Warrick County, 460 votes in Spencer County and 190 votes in Pike County for a total of 3,201 votes and 52.2% of all votes.
Griffin received 2,124 votes in Warrick County, 580 votes in Spencer County and 233 votes in Pike County for a total of 2,937 votes and 47.8 percent.
Final results from the state on the District 75 race were made available just before 2 p.m. Wednesday.
Ledbetter will face Democrat John Hurley in the general election. Hurley was unopposed in the Democratic primary for the District 75 seat.
"I'm excited to move forward and I'm excited the people have entrusted me with this responsibility to be their voice at the state level," Ledbetter said. "I'm looking forward to meeting and talking with constituents and discussing matters that are really important to them."
Ledbetter said she believes there is a disconnect between state and local governments and hopes to work to bridge that gap. Other issues she sees as crucial are economic development in Spencer and Pike counties and increasing access to mental health services.
"I'm grateful to the District 75 voters and want to express a heartfelt thank you," she said. "I'm grateful for this opportunity to represent them."
Sarah Seaton likely will retain her position as Warrick County Coroner, winning more than 72 percent of the vote over Christopher LeDuc. No Democrat challenger has filed for the general election.
"It's been my pleasure to serve Warrick County as the Coroner for the last seven years, and I am honored that residents continue to put their faith in me," she said.
Seaton, who has faced challenges as coroner dealing with the COVID-19 situation, said this primary season had been both unusual and challenging — both in her methods of campaigning and because of an unusually crowded field.
Indiana and Evansville Area Election Results: Primary
"Voters were charged, this year more than ever, to do their homework before casting a ballot," she said. "COVID stripped away nearly every conventional campaigning method, leaving us all to reach voters via social media and through other means that promoted social distancing. Hopefully, the fall will bring more normalcy to the election and our daily lives in general."
Warrick County incumbents scored wins in other races. Sitting County Clerk Patty Perry earned 56.3 percent of the vote over challenger B.J. Farrell's 43.7 percent. Perry will face Democrat challenger Barton Heath in the generals. Heath ran unopposed.
More:With popularity of mail-in ballots high, here's what in-person voting in Vanderburgh County is like
More:Indiana Primary: See live results from presidential, local races
County recorder Pat Brooks won 69.5 percent of the vote over Don Williams, who earned 30.5 percent. Judy Beem, sitting county treasurer, won 63.1 percent to Joe Hardesty's 36.9 percent.
No Democrat challenger has filed for the general election in either the recorder or treasurer races.
In all, 10,273 ballots were cast in the primary, or 22.2 percent of voter turnout. There are 46,190 registered voters in Warrick County.


Greetings to you and your families as we begin a new ecclesiastical year. I pray you had a pleasant summer. I write to you today as our president and United States Congress contemplate military action against Syria. As those of us with deep roots in that land already know, more bombs and destabilization of the country will only lead to further bloodshed and devastation. In my opinion, based on a lifetime of knowledge in that area of the world, it serves neither the interest of the United States, nor the Syrian people (or the people of the Middle East at large for that matter) to bomb and further destabilize the country. Extremists groups such as Al-Kaeda are waiting in the wings to prey on any weakness in the Syrian government and infrastructure. The results of such a bombing would be yet another step in the extermination of our Christian presence in the Middle East, a presence that dates to the dawn of Christianity. Our Church has already suffered greatly and has new martyrs waiting to be glorified –we do not need any more!
Therefore, I urge all of you during the next few days to contact your respective senators and congress people to urge them to vote NO to any unilateral military action by the United States. Time is of the essence so please distribute this email to everyone you know as quickly as possible and share this message on your Facebook and other mass media sites.
Members of the Archdiocese from the United States are particularly encouraged to write their U.S. Representative and Senator. While you are welcome to use the language of the statement above in your letter, please consider these tips for writing effective letters to congress. Please click here to find contact information for your congresspersons.


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Responding to Human Trafficking
Children and youth survivors of human trafficking will likely require a complex array of services, including mental health services, legal services, a safe place to live, and help with education and employment. Below are some resources to help professionals connect with and provide appropriate and timely services and supports to young victims and survivors.
The ACF Response
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families
Details how the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) responds to human trafficking through collaboration between Federal programs and departments.
Building Collaborative Responses to Human Trafficking
Futures Without Violence (2020)
Highlights a project that provides training and technical assistance to community organizations seeking to respond to human trafficking in their communities. The website offers a list of helpful resources, including webinars, training handouts, and more.
Human Trafficking and Child Welfare: A Guide for Caseworkers
Due to their potentially unstable living situations, physical distance from friends and family, traumatic experiences, and emotional vulnerability, children involved with child welfare are at risk for being targeted by traffickers who are actively seeking victims to exploit. This bulletin explores how caseworkers can identify and support children who have been victimized as well as children that are at greater risk for future victimization. It provides background information about the issue, strategies caseworkers can use to identify and support victims and potential victims, and tools and resources that can assist caseworkers.
Human Trafficking and Child Welfare: A Guide for Child Welfare Agencies
Due to their potentially unstable living situations, physical distance from friends and family, traumatic experiences, and emotional vulnerability, children involved with child welfare are at risk for being targeted by traffickers who are actively seeking children to exploit. This bulletin is intended for child welfare agency leadership and explores how child welfare agencies can support children who are victims of human trafficking, as well as children who are at greater risk for future victimization. It provides background information about the issue, including its scope and relevant Federal legislation and initiatives, and strategies that agencies can implement to address the trafficking of children. State and local policy and program examples also are provided.
Human Trafficking: Coordinating Resources
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Shares what Children's Bureau's grantees have learned about coordinating specialized resources and services for child and youth victims of trafficking at the State and local levels.
Human Trafficking: Developing Housing Options
Shares what Children's Bureau's grantees have learned about effective housing and treatment approaches for child and youth victims of trafficking and the strategies they are using to address common challenges.
Human Trafficking: Working With Faith-Based Groups
Shares what Children's Bureau's grantees have learned about developing and working with faith-based organizations to support the response to human trafficking in any community.
Provides information, statistics, and resources on a wide range of topics related to human trafficking, in addition to a national hotline.
Preliminary Recommendations to Strengthen the Nation's Response to the Sex Trafficking of Children and Youth in the United States
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office on Trafficking in Persons (2019)
Presents recommendations from the National Advisory Committee on Sex Trafficking of Children and Youth in the United States on how States should adopt a comprehensive, trauma-informed approach to serving victims while ensuring offenders will be held accountable for their crimes.
Reaching Out for Help: A Guide for LGBTQ Youth on How to Receive Support and Services From the National Human Trafficking Hotline
Polaris (2016)
Designed to help lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth feel more comfortable utilizing hotline services. This presentation explains the resources available through the National Human Trafficking Hotline, including trained service providers and LGBTQ-sensitive supports.
Report to Congress: The Child Welfare System Response to Sex Trafficking of Children
Gibbs, Feinberg, Dolan, Latzman, Misra, & Domanico (2019)
Addresses State and Federal efforts to prevent and respond to the sex trafficking of minors. It focuses on the additional risk and response for children who run away from their foster placements, State efforts to provide specialized services and services for victims who are minors, and the importance of providing stable and permanent connections to a caring adult.
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Human Trafficking Task Force e-Guide
U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office for Victims of Crime Training and Technical Assistance Center
Lists supplemental information and resources about promising practices, addresses gaps when human trafficking victims enter the juvenile justice system as criminals, and gives providers and community partners tools they can use to address victims' needs.
Describes the work of the National Human Trafficking Hotline, National Human Trafficking Referral Directory, and Global Modern Slavery Directory in responding to the problem of human trafficking. The website also lists other resources and information about work to combat human trafficking.
State and Territory Profiles: Efforts to Combat Human Trafficking
Provides a snapshot of anti-trafficking activities and resources in each State and territory. State and territory profiles are also available in Spanish.
Understanding and Addressing Trauma and Child Sex Trafficking (PDF - 406 KB)
National Child Traumatic Stress Network (2018)
Explores how child welfare professionals and others can respond to trauma and child sex trafficking. Exposure to childhood trauma and adversities contribute to vulnerability for being trafficked, and trafficked youth are often involved with child-serving systems. The report addresses services that can be provided to help serve trafficking survivors needs.
Find more resources about responding to human trafficking through Child Welfare Information Gateway's Library by choosing a topic below. Search results are updated continually and include documents from 2012 to the present.
Cultural Considerations When Responding to Human Trafficking
A Multi-System Approach to Human Trafficking
Training Child Welfare Professionals About Human Trafficking
Responding to Child Victims of Human Trafficking
Human Trafficking and Individuals With Disabilities [Webinar]
Episode 3: Interagency Collaboration to Address Human Trafficking [Podcast]
Child Welfare Information Gateway (2016)
ACF and Other Federal Resources Addressing Human Trafficking


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Commercial Pop/Dance
Soulful R&B/Hip Hop
Country Pop and MOR
Pop Rock/Acoustic Pop/Indie Pop
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Moonshine Rebels
Leopard Music are delighted to be promoting Moonshine Rebels with their exciting debut EP release, comprising four original tracks which showcases their multi-instrumental skills with traditional Celtic influenced rock music and instruments combined with modern production for a unique sound.
You will find all the information below with links to their website. Paul and Sam are available for live interviews and auditions and we hope you will consider giving their music some airplay.
The EP will be followed by an album release in 2019, please contact us for any further information.
Moonshine Rebels combine folk music with high production values to achieve a finely crafted sound. Proving that a niche genre can be brought into the 21st Century, revitalised for a wider audience, yet remaining true to its roots.
Multi-instrumentalists Paul Sudlow & Sam McGrady are the craftsmen, writing and arranging each song to perfection, as well as playing the majority of instruments. They are also joined by musicians that add their own unique skills to the mix, to then be nurtured and shaped by producer Paul Hutchinson.
Bonnies Cafe Bar tells the bittersweet tale of the loneliness and friendships of the everyday barfly… There must be a bar like Bonnie's in every town, wherever you go, 'Where you'll never find a better clientele'.
Varley Street – A modern portrayal of life on the bottom line, trying to survive each day as it comes.
Bonnie Banks Of Fordie – An intricate murder ballad which takes you on a journey of an innocent walk that quickly descends into darkness with a twist like no other.
Eighty Shillin' is a tour de force of an instrumental, mixing traditional style Celtic tunes and instruments with modern day production to create a unique sound
Moonshine Rebels debut 13 track album to be released early 2019
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The definitive chronicle of the forgotten Lakers from 1992-1996.
The Los Angeles Lakers are one of basketball's most successful franchises. But even they are not immune to black holes - years devoid of championships or generation-defining players. Magic Johnson's shocking retirement in 1991 thrust the Lakers into a painful and forgotten era of lowlights that lasted until Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal arrived in the summer of 1996.
Four different coaches in five years. Rosters of past-their-prime veterans and immature youngsters. Shockingly unprofessional captains. A record losing streak. A retired star who couldn't let go. But with recalibrated expectations, there are achievements from this era that have been overlooked. Sneaking into the playoffs against all odds in 1992. Showtime's final stand in Phoenix. The buzzer beater at Boston Garden. An unexpected playoff run in 1995. Giant leaps forward in HIV and AIDS awareness.
Comprehensive and reflective, Between Dynasties documents a missing link in Lakers history.


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By Kate Meakin
Worker centers are community-based, community-led and community focused organisations that support the expanding workforce of low-wage, contingent workers largely made up of immigrants, people of colour and women. Despite their size, limited resources and low number of staff, worker centers have been able to wield exceptional power in making changes to the US landscape of worker rights on an individual, workplace and sectoral level. The reasons behind their successes have been the focus of much debate, especially in the face of declining union density and a lack of labour market protections, making it much harder to hold employers to account.
One aspect of worker center success can be found in their encouragement of sharing personal stories and integrating these into their popular education workshops and political campaigning. Focusing specifically on the workplace justice campaign and the use of public dramas, low-wage immigrant workers discussing and sharing their personal experiences have been central to attempts to build worker power. Even when these political campaigns lead to limited practical changes on an individual or systemic level, the publication of these stories can constitute a form of discursive victory by shaping and influencing the conversation on worker's rights. Worker centers play a vital role in raising awareness of deteriorating wages and conditions, and place these concerns within a broader social justice frame.
Grounding the workplace justice campaign in personal experiences
Janice Fine identifies the first part of any worker center organizing and advocacy campaign tends to focus on building a movement of low-wage workers (Fine, 2006: 100). This movement building, however, frequently begins on an individual level before the expansion to fight for necessary systemic change. Community organizing in worker centers often engage in consciousness raising, leadership development and other individual interventions as part of their collective change work. Workers accessing worker centers are often the most vulnerable and marginalised in terms of both the work they are doing and their status as undocumented/non-white groups. In sharing their experiences of precarity, a deep sense of solidarity with those around them is often produced, based on a recognition of their shared suffering. Workers found that they could share their problems with others in the worker center and that any problems "got lighter…when you pour your heart out" (Apostolidis, 2018: 202). Despite a culture that expects workers to compete with others for the scarce job opportunities available, Apostolidis found that workers in worker centers gradually forged a "spirited, caring, and increasingly politicized collectivity from within and from out of the dire situation of precarity" (Apostolidis, 2018: 212). One of the most notable examples of building power based on collective experiences of precarity can be found in workplace justice campaigns.
Arise Chicago Worker Center, originally founded in 2002 as a programme of the Chicago Interfaith Committee on Worker Issues, developed their workplace justice campaign as an intervention strategy that applies community organising principles to individual cases of workplace abuse. The workplace justice campaign combines popular education and direct action to achieve redress for workplace abuse. It also focuses on consciousness-raising, building an active member base, developing strong worker-leaders, and laying the groundwork for campaigns to achieve what the Arise Chicago worker center calls "systemic change" (Lesniewski, 2013: 4). The workplace justice campaign is a process that begins with a workers' rights workshop in which workers share their experiences and learn about their rights in the workplace. Through the process of popular education, participants are invited to share their personal experiences and think critically and collectively about the problems they are facing. The workplace justice campaign therefore lays the groundwork for any plan to take direct action. Although usually based on individual cases of wage theft, the intervention of a workplace justice campaign can be important for achieving social change, social justice, or power for low-wage workers, operationalized by Jacob Lesniewski as "collective benefits" (Lesniewski, 2013: 8-9). Following these workshops, the next stage of any workplace justice campaign relies on gaining broad public support through direct action and engagement with the media.
Media campaigns: public dramas and discursive victories
The second aspect that is integral to any advocacy and organising work, according to Fine, is the publication of issues that low wage workers face to the larger public. This is frequently framed in terms that will win them over: locating the issues within a human rights, anti-sweatshop or social justice framework that is difficult to refute: "a fair day's pay for a fair day's work" (Fine, 2006: 100-101). Successful worker center campaigns typically produce compelling narratives that centre the stories and voices of low-wage workers themselves and frame claims in the moral language of social justice (Milkman, Bloom and Narro, 2010). As Fine suggests, dramatic personal stories of hard-working low-wage immigrants help to illustrate the problem and evoke public empathy with their plight (Fine, 2006: 181). These campaigns often consist of revealing particular aspects of poor working conditions or wage theft in the hope that they will gain public sympathy. Bobo and Pabellon describe how the issue that generated people's outrage during a campaign by Arise Chicago to support laundry workers was when people described that, in hot and sweaty working conditions, they were denied drinking water (Bobo and Pabellon, 2016: 58).
These personal narratives are frequently used to stage "public dramas" to attract media attention. Jennifer Jihye Chun writes of four examples of "public dramas" created by janitors in both the US and South Korea contexts following threats of outsourcing and/or refusal to adhere to living wage ordinances. By publicising particular mistreatment and the lowering or stagnating of wages in a way that creates a dramatic narrative, the crisis is presented to reveal the "true state of affairs" in the center of public life where it "cannot be ignored or wished away" (Turner, 1974: 38-39). Not only is the true state of affairs exposed but demands are made that produce a resolution for the workers – and for the audience. It is in the process of crisis creation and resolution that mundane labor disputes on wages and working conditions are transformed into violations of the norms of society. For USC and Harvard, the university institutions that were targeted by these campaigns, public dramas on campuses were able to condemn the "hypocrisy of wealthy universities that exacerbated the poverty of workers in their own backyards" leading to victories in protections of worker's rights and pay (Chun, 2005: 499). These public dramas, for Chun, create associational power in which workers transform themselves from a state of "invisibility and marginality to one of explicit recognition as a collective social group" (Chun, 2005: 490). By telling their stories in the public square, workers have been able to attract the empathy of elected officials and the general public, exercising their moral power (Fine, 2015).
Thus, even when demands go unmet or structural issues remain unchanged by individual successes, publicising worker injustices by those directly affected can constitute moral and discursive victories that have sustained effects beyond their enactment. This is the comparative advantage of small-scale organizations with very limited resources, for "the existence of an injustice can be communicated by even a handful of people" (Jenkins, 2002: 64). Sharing these narratives, as Lesniewski (2013: 8) suggests, are vital for any larger-scale confrontation with economic and political powers because they function as "raw materials" for the construction of social movements. Ultimately, by focusing on consciousness-raising, solidarity and the publication of immigrant worker narratives that can gain public sympathy, worker centers are shaping the conversation on worker rights and initiating discursive shifts towards broader worker justice.
Apostolidis, P., (2018) The Fight for Time: Migrant Day Laborers and the Politics of Precarity, New York: Oxford University Press.
Bobo, K., and Pabellón, M. C., (2016) The Worker Center Handbook: A Practical Guide to Starting and Building the New Labor Movement, New York: Cornell University Press.
Chun, J. J., (2005) 'Public Dramas and the Politics of Justice: Comparison of Janitors' Union Struggles in South Korea and the United States' Work and Occupations, Vol. 32 No. 4, November, pp. 486-503.
Fine, J., (2006) Worker Centers: Organizing Communities at the Edge of the Dream, New York: Cornell University Press.
Fine, J., (2011) 'New Forms to Settle Old Scores: Updating the Worker Centre Story in the United States,' in Departement des Relations Industrielles, Universite Laval, 66-.4, pp 604-630.
Fine, J., (2015) 'Alternative Labour Protection Movements in the United States: Reshaping Industrial Relations?' International Labour Review, Vol. 154, No. 1, pp 15-26.
Jenkins, S., (2002) 'Organizing, Advocacy, and Member Power: A Critical Reflection' Journal of Labour and Society, Vol 6, No 2, pp. 56-89.
Lesniewski, J., (2013) 'Constant contestation: Dilemmas of organizing, advocacy, and individual interventions at a worker center' Ann Arbor, MI: Pro Quest/UMI Dissertations Publishing.
Milkman, R,, Bloom, J., and Narro, V., (eds.) (2010) Working for Justice: The L.A. Model of Organizing and Advocacy, Ithaca and London: ILR Press, Cornell University Press.
Turner, V., (1974) Dramas, fields, and metaphors: Symbolic action in human society. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Kate Meakin is a doctoral researcher studying Gender Studies at the University of Sussex. Their research considers the ways in which feminist utopian and dystopian fiction is used by UK-based activists. As part of her partnership with Autonomy, Kate is researching worker centers, focusing on questions of demography, the services they provide and their role in the local economy.
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Heat oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Add garlic, basil, parsley, and oregano; sauté 1 minute, stirring frequently. Stir in vinegar and remaining ingredients. Reduce heat, and simmer 10 minutes.


The apology carried in the Sunday Times, October 14, 2018.
This last weekend, the editor of the Sunday Times Bongani Siqoko issued an apology for the reporting done by the newspaper on the Cato Manor death squads and the Zimbabwe rendition saga.
And two years ago, the same editor apologised for the SARS "rogue unit" reports.
The latest apology has led to a range of commentary and opinion, and a lot of outrage about the state of South African journalism in general, and about the Sunday Times and its reporters in particular.
I too am outraged. But not for the same reasons as everyone else. Mine are specific to the traditions of the craft which has been my lifeblood for almost 35 years.
I would guess that the broader public doesn't really think about the complex matrix by which a news publication gains the trust of its readers over time. Readers probably also don't think about the internal processes in which trust and credibility are made and maintained. As a start, here's my understanding of how it should work.
Let's imagine a newspaper in a city (go with me on this, I do know that such a thing no longer really exists, but situating it in this way might make it easier to understand). The newspaper has an editorial policy, perhaps left-wing, or right-wing. It is "on the side of the people" or it is a business publication. Its readers understand these editorial positions, and make their own interpretations of what they read based on that understanding.
It has reporters, the people who go out and gather the news. Reporters are a varied bunch, but some traits are inherent: disregard for authority, curiosity and general bolshiness are a given. Some are careful, dogged types, and others are arrogant and egotistical. Some hunt for a scoop. Others want to hold truth to power. Some just want a quiet life, perhaps as a municipal reporter. All live to see their byline in the paper. In general, though, they are a troublesome lot, because they have to be. And some of them, some of the time, are so driven by ego that they may be susceptible to manipulation (as so eloquently described here by Tom Eaton – subscription required).
When any one of these reporters is sent, say, to cover an event in which the mayor opens a new housing development, their report on the event is read by everyone who was at the event (or at least the dignitaries who were there). If they interview a local business person, that person and his or her business scrutinise the report for accuracy. When a reporter covers an event at a local school, every single teacher and parent at that school read the report and note whether it reflected the event properly. And over time, the reporter's name (and his or her publication) becomes trusted – people know that if he or she says it happened, then it did. That's how external trust is established.
When reporters start to investigate hidden wrongdoings and skulduggery, things become dangerous. The troublesome reporter is now working on the margins of society, getting leads and information from sources, some of whom are shady, and all of whom have their own agendas. There is always the chance that something can go wrong here.
There's a system to deal with this that has been in place at news publications all over the world for decades. With some variations, and differences in how things are named, here's what happens to that big scoop from well-placed sources.
The first line of defence is the news desk, usually staffed by experienced people who have themselves been reporters. They will read the scoop, narrow their eyes and ask penetrating questions about sources, facts and background checks. If they think there is something amiss, they will send the reporter back to the drawing board. They will also talk to more senior staff and alert them to the fact that the story is on the radar. In many cases, the story idea may have originally come from the news desk, or those more senior editors, and may be worked on by a team of people, or be done by a specialised investigative unit.
But in all cases, a range of people – many of them experienced – work on a story of this nature.
If it is decided to go ahead and publish, the story will then be edited by another team of senior people (in South African terms, the sub-editors), who will read it and question it and think about it. If they are worried about aspects of it, they will alert their boss (the chief sub-editor). That person may double-check with even more senior people that this or that aspect of the story is correct, or whether a particular inconsistency has been spotted. If these objections are substantial enough, the story could be sent back to the news desk be worked on again.
At the top of all this sits the Editor, who will usually have a deputy and one or more assistant editors to consult. But he or she carries final legal responsibility for what is published. The Editor is the one who will have to go to court if the sh*t hits the fan.
The legal aspect of it is not the most important thing to understand about all this, though.
It looks from the outside as if this is a very top-down, hierarchical structure, and it is. But what is not seen, unless you have lived in this world, is the hidden underpinning of mutual trust that makes it all work. In this system, everyone has everyone else's back.
The hungover reporter who has the scoop knows that all these senior people are there to protect her from herself, that they are there to make sure that the story stands up. The crabby news editor knows that the taciturn chief-sub is not going to let something through that shouldn't get through. The editor and his or her staff know that all these people are there to keep things straight, to make sure that the publication is not going to be shamed or found legally wanting by something that happened on their watch. These are the ties that bind journalists more closely than anyone outside the profession can ever understand.
There is also a system of clear accountability. If the news editor somehow misses something, and a story gets published that shouldn't have, he or she takes responsibility. They never, under any circumstances, blame the reporter. The chief sub never blames a sub-editor. The features editor never blames the food writer. And the Editor gets paid the big money and never blames any of these people. If it happened under their command, they take the fall. The buck stops on that big and fancy desk.
Much of the public anger for the wrongs done by the Sunday Times is focussed on the reporters who wrote the stories. There have been many calls for them to account for the damage that the reporting did. They are culpable, certainly, and I see no reason for them not to name their sources now. I second Max du Preez's call for a forum to investigate the matter. But I know who should be standing in front of that forum, and it is not the current editor of the Sunday Times.
In the traditions of journalism, someone else is supposed to be stepping forward and taking responsibility. Ray Hartley and Phylicia Oppelt, who were the editors of the paper at the time of these disputed reports, should come forward and explain how it is that the systems failed, how it is that the trust that underpins all journalism was so badly broken, how it is that journalists in their employ were captured without their noticing.
They should have the balls to say: This is on me.
Their not doing so is one of the most shameful things I have ever seen in journalism. They dishonour all of us.
The system of checks and balances I describe here has been decimated at many publications, as declining revenues affect all of journalism. Please consider paying for the journalism you consume!
Renee Moodie is a South African journalist who has worked as a reporter and sub-editor on the Cape Times and the Cape Argus. She was deputy editor at Independent Online, and is now running a content and web services business called Safe Hands. This article was originally published on her blog. Follow her on Twitter or visit her Facebook page.


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Q: Python failing to import my modules I am working on a Django project, and am attempting to set up the URLConf for an app I have created in it. (You don't really need to understand Django to understand my issue)
Here are the relevant parts of my project
 /PROJECT
    __init__.py
    settings.py
    urls.py
/home
    __init__.py
    views.py
/user
    __init__.py
    views.py

I am attempting to import home from PROJECT/urls.py:
PROJECT/urls.py (relevant parts)

from django.conf.urls import url, include
from django.contrib import admin
import user
import home  # <---

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^$', home.views.index, name='index'),  # <---
    url(r'^register/$', user.views.register, name='register'),
    url(r'^login/$', user.views.login, name='login'),
    url(r'^logout/$', user.views.logout, name='logout'),
]

For some reason importing user does work, while importing home (and its submodules) does not.
When I run Django's built in web server I get the error:
AttributeError: module 'home' has no attribute 'views'

I do not get this error for importing user and its submodules
I should note that when I run urls.py in a normal python shell it comes back with import errors for both home and user, though only home errors when I run Django's webserver. The user part of my code has been running fine since the beginning, and I assume it errors in a normal shell as it is not supposed to be run by itself.
Again, for some reason I cannot fathom, user imports correctly, while home does not, despite being no apparent differences between them.
This is in Python 3.5.1 and Django 1.9

A: Use this:
import home.views

When you import a package in Python, it does not recursively import all of its subpackages or modules contained in it.
The reason why import user works is not obvious, but it might be because you are importing views inside user/__init__.py. Barring that, it's also possible that another module imports user.views before it is being accessed in the url call. That makes Python insert the views module into the namespace of the user package after the fact.
Consider the following example:
/tmp/importtest $  mkdir mod_a mod_b
/tmp/importtest $  touch mod_{a,b}/__init__.py
/tmp/importtest $  echo 'A=1' > mod_a/a.py
/tmp/importtest $  echo 'B=2' > mod_b/b.py
/tmp/importtest $  echo 'import mod_b.b' > mod_c.py
/tmp/importtest $  python
Python 3.4.3 (default, Jan  4 2016, 22:02:53)
[GCC 4.9.3] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import mod_a, mod_b
>>> mod_a.a
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'a'
>>> mod_b.b
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'b'
>>> import mod_c
>>> mod_b.b
<module 'mod_b.b' from '/tmp/importtest/mod_b/b.py'>
>>> mod_a.a
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'a'
>>>

As you can see, before importing mod_c, there was nothing inside mod_b, but that changed once mod_c was imported, because it had a side-effect of inserting the b object into the namespace of mod_b.
Does this make it any clearer?
In conclusion, if you want to access user.views or home.views, always import user.views and home.views instead of just importing the top-level package and hoping that something else just happens to have the right side effect.

A: The common solution is to add home folder to your python environment.
# in your Django settings
import os
import sys

PROJECT_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__))
BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(PROJECT_DIR)

# add here
sys.path.append(os.path.join(PROJECT_DIR, "home"))

# now you can use home
from home import view

Also relative imports in python2 and python3 works different.

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Press Release: Wiley, Inc. [February 27, 2019]
Atypon acquires Authorea and Manuscripts and signals its plans for open science
February 25, 2019 -- Santa Clara, CA. 25, 2019. Atypon has announced today its acquisition of two authoring platforms – Authorea and Manuscripts – enabling the company to provide free HTML-first authoring and collaboration tools for researchers. Already used by over 200,000 researchers across the globe, these tools enable researchers to write, cite, collaborate, host data, and publish.
"We were incredibly impressed with the teams at Authorea and Manuscripts, and how they quickly developed innovative solutions to the challenges their founders faced in their own research careers," said Atypon's Chairman, Georgios Papadopoulos. "We share a vision to help researchers be successful – to provide them with tools that simplify their communications and help with organizing so they can spend more of their time progressing science and their careers."
"Authorea's mission has always been to accelerate scientific discovery," said Alberto Pepe, a UCLA-trained information scientist and co-founder of Authorea. Manuscripts was also designed to re-imagine word processing for the modern scientist and is the creation of Matias Piipari, a University of Cambridge computational biologist PhD with a decade of experience building popular tools for researchers.
"Both Authorea and Manuscripts were founded out of common frustration with other writing tools that didn't fully take into account the needs of researchers in a web-first world. Our teams envisioned all the things that researchers wanted to do – easily collaborate with co-authors, pull citations, upload data, and submit to preprints and journals," added Pepe.
The coming months will see Atypon combining the best of Authorea and Manuscripts into a new, re-engineered, open-source authoring tool. The new product will enable a community of researchers and technologists at www.manuscripts.io to collaborate to create the next generation of scholarly authoring and document formatting solutions.
Atypon's new authoring product will help researchers automatically follow publishers' formatting guidelines, and offer publishers a modern web-first format and tools to integrate into JATS/XML- and PDF-based publishing pipelines.
The new product will be available for integration by all publishers, platforms, and other researcher tools.
"Publishing tools must be open to support a fundamental change toward the transparent, reproducible reporting of research," said Matias Piipari. "I am thrilled to be working with Alberto and the rest of the Atypon team to realize an open, collaborative environment fit for the future of reproducible science."
Matias Piipari will be attending this week's Researcher to Reader conference in London, Monday and Tuesday, February 25 - 26.
About Atypon
Atypon develops publishing technologies for getting mission-critical content into the hands of the people who need it most. Literatum, our online publishing and website development platform, delivers over 13,000 of the world's scholarly journal content to researchers and practitioners in every discipline and field, and helps publishers market and monetize every type of content that they distribute. Founded in 1996, Atypon is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, with over 400 staff in 10 offices and development hubs in the United States, Europe, and the Mideast..
Atypon has announced today its acquisition of two authoring platforms – Authorea and Manuscripts – enabling the company to provide free HTML-first authoring and collaboration tools for researchers. Already used by over 200,000 researchers across the globe, these tools enable researchers to write, cite, collaborate, host data, and publish.
Wiley, Inc.
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Columbia World Projects Partners With State Health Departments to Survey Thousands of Women on Health Issues After Birth
Columbia World Projects (CWP) announced on Monday that it will partner with six states and New York City to conduct a first-of-its-kind, multi-state survey of women who gave birth in 2020. The survey will assess women's health outcomes, overall well-being and experience of care, as well as health care access, barriers, quality and costs in the year after birth.
The data gathered through the survey will be used to help advocacy organizations, governments and medical professional organizations develop recommendations for improvements to health and social policy – and the Medicaid program in particular – that have the potential to meaningfully reduce postpartum morbidity and mortality in the United States.
"One third of maternal deaths occur from one week to one year after birth. There is significant state and federal policy momentum to develop policies and programs to reduce maternal morbidity in the 'fourth trimester,' but little data is available to help policymakers prioritize these investments. This survey is designed to fill this gap and promote evidence-based approaches to improving postpartum health," Jamie Daw, Assistant Professor, said.
The survey — the Postpartum Assessment of Women Survey (PAWS) – was designed by an interdisciplinary team of Columbia researchers from three schools: Heidi L. Allen , MSW, PhD (School of Social Work); Jamie Daw, PhD (Mailman School of Public Health); and Kristen Underhill, JD, DPhil (Columbia Law School). The team first began working together when they developed a proposal for Columbia World Projects, which solicited proposals for interdisciplinary maternal health projects in late 2018. PAWS will be distributed in Kansas, Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Utah and New York City, whose health departments are working closely with the project team to design and disseminate the survey.
In response to the current pandemic, the survey will also include questions on how COVID-19 has impacted health, health care access, financial security and family support for women and families after birth. This will be the first large-scale, multi-state survey to examine the impact of the pandemic on postpartum women and children in the first year of life.
The opportunity to participate in PAWS will be offered to women in the participating states and New York City who take part in the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS), an annual survey that has been used since 1987 to collect data on maternal and child health indicators. PAWS is expected to reach a representative sample of at least 10,000 women.
The survey is one part of Leveraging Policy to Improve Maternal Health in the Fourth Trimester, a CWP project that was proposed at CWP's Maternal Health Forum to use Medicaid policy as a tool to avert pregnancy-related mortality and health problems after birth. Medicaid covers nearly half of all births in the United States, yet many low-income women lose access to Medicaid coverage after birth, and even postpartum women who stay enrolled may not have access to the services and support they need. In the second phase of this project, the research team would partner with interested state Medicaid programs to implement policy changes that respond directly to the gaps and barriers identified in the PAWS survey and to conduct a study of the effects of implemented reforms. Building on lessons learned from this pilot, the project team would engage with other states and federal actors to encourage broader Medicaid policy change. By pursuing changes at the policy-level, this project has the potential to significantly reduce population-level maternal mortality and morbidity in the United States.
"We are pleased to work with Columbia researchers and faculty from multiple disciplines who are putting into effect our goal of using Columbia research to better people's lives," Nicholas Lemann, the director of Columbia World Projects, said. "The results of this survey will provide crucial new information that has the potential to affect vulnerable women across the country for years to come."
(Update: December 4, 2020: One of the states that PAWS was initially planned to be distributed in, Montana, will no longer take part in the survey. This announcement has been updated accordingly.)


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Q: PostgreSQL and word games In a word game similar to Ruzzle or Letterpress, where users have to construct words out of a given set of letters:

I keep my dictionary in a simple SQL table:
create table good_words (
        word varchar(16) primary key
);

Since the game duration is very short I do not want to check every entered word by calling a PHP script, which would look that word up in the good_words table.
Instead I'd like to download all possible words by one PHP script call before the round starts - since all letters are known.
My question is: if there is a nice SQLish way to find such words?
I.e. I could run a longer-taking script once to add a column to good_words table, which would have same letters as in the word columnt, but sorted alphabetically... But I still can't think of a way to match for it given a set of letters.
And doing the word matching inside of a PHP script (vs. inside the database) would probably take too long (because of bandwidth: would have to fetch every row from the database to the PHP script).
Any suggestions or insights please?
Using postgresql-8.4.13 with CentOS Linux 6.3.
UPDATE:
Other ideas I have:

*

*Create a constantly running script (cronjob or daemon) which would prefill an SQL table with precompiled letters board and possible words - but still feels like a waste of bandwidth and CPU, I would prefer to solve this inside the database

*Add integer columns a, b, ... , z and whenever I store a word into good_words, store the letter occurences there. I wonder if it is possible to create an insert trigger in Pl/PgSQL for that?

A: Nice question, I upvoted.
What you're up to is a list of all possible permutations of the given letters of a given length. As described in the PostgreSQL wiki, you can create a function and call it like this (matches highlighted letters in your screenshot):
SELECT * FROM permute('{E,R,O,M}'::text[]);

Now, to query the good_words use something like:
SELECT gw.word, gw.stamp
  FROM good_words gw
  JOIN permute('{E,R,O,M}'::text[]) s(w) ON gw.word=array_to_string(s.w, '');

A: This could be a start, except that it doesn't check if we have enough letters, only if he have the right letters.
SELECT word from
(select word,generate_series(0,length(word)) as s from good_words) as q
WHERE substring(word,s,1) IN ('t','h','e','l','e','t','t','e','r','s')
GROUP BY word
HAVING count(*)>=length(word);

http://sqlfiddle.com/#!1/2e3a2/3
EDIT:
This query select only the valid words though it seems a bit redundant. It's not perfect but certainly proves it can be done.
WITH words AS
(SELECT word, substring(word,s,1) as sub from
(select word,generate_series(1,length(word)) as s from good_words) as q
WHERE substring(word,s,1) IN ('t','e','s','e','r','e','r','o','r','e','m','a','s','d','s','s'))

SELECT w.word FROM
(
SELECT word,words.sub,count(DISTINCT s) as cnt FROM
(SELECT s, substring(array_to_string(l, ''),s,1) as sub FROM
(SELECT l, generate_subscripts(l,1) as s FROM
 (SELECT ARRAY['t','e','s','e','r','e','r','o','r','e','m','a','s','d','s','s'] as l)
 as q)
as q) as let JOIN
words ON let.sub=words.sub
GROUP BY words.word,words.sub) as let
JOIN
(select word,sub,count(*) as cnt from words
 GROUP BY word, sub)
as w ON let.word=w.word AND let.sub=w.sub AND let.cnt>=w.cnt
GROUP BY w.word
HAVING sum(w.cnt)=length(w.word);

Fiddle with all possible 3+ letters words (485) for that image: http://sqlfiddle.com/#!1/2fc66/1
Fiddle with 699 words out of which 485 are correct: http://sqlfiddle.com/#!1/4f42e/1
Edit 2:
We can use array operators like so to get a list of words that contain the letters we want:
SELECT word as sub from
(select word,generate_series(1,length(word)) as s from good_words) as q
GROUP BY word
HAVING array_agg(substring(word,s,1)) <@ ARRAY['t','e','s','e','r','e','r','o','r','e','m','a','s','d','s','s'];

So we can use it to narrow down the list of words we need to check.
WITH words AS
(SELECT word, substring(word,s,1) as sub from
(select word,generate_series(1,length(word)) as s from
(
  SELECT word from
(select word,generate_series(1,length(word)) as s from good_words) as q
GROUP BY word
HAVING array_agg(substring(word,s,1)) <@ ARRAY['t','e','s','e','r','e','r','o','r','e','m','a','s','d','s','s']
)as q) as q)
SELECT DISTINCT w.word FROM
(
SELECT word,words.sub,count(DISTINCT s) as cnt FROM
(SELECT s, substring(array_to_string(l, ''),s,1) as sub FROM
(SELECT l, generate_subscripts(l,1) as s FROM
 (SELECT ARRAY['t','e','s','e','r','e','r','o','r','e','m','a','s','d','s','s'] as l)
 as q)
as q) as let JOIN
words ON let.sub=words.sub
GROUP BY words.word,words.sub) as let
JOIN
(select word,sub,count(*) as cnt from words
 GROUP BY word, sub)
as w ON let.word=w.word AND let.sub=w.sub AND let.cnt>=w.cnt
GROUP BY w.word
HAVING sum(w.cnt)=length(w.word) ORDER BY w.word;

http://sqlfiddle.com/#!1/4f42e/44
We can use GIN indexes to work on arrays so we probably could create a table that would store the arrays of letters and make words point to it (act, cat and tact would all point to array [a,c,t]) so probably that would speed things up but that's up for testing.

A: Create a table that has entries (id, char), be n the number of characters you are querying for.
select id, count(char) AS count from chartable where (char = x or char = y or char = z ...) and count = n group by id;

OR (for partial matching)
select id, count(char) AS count from chartable where (char = x or char = y or char = z ...) group by id order by count;

The result of that query has all the word-id's that fit the specifications. Cache the result in a HashSet and simple do a lookup whenever a word is entered.

A: Does not work in 8.4. Probably 9.1+ only. SQL Fidlle
select word
from (
    select unnest(string_to_array(word, null)) c, word from good_words
    intersect all
    select unnest(string_to_array('TESTREROREMASDSS', null)) c, word from good_words
) s
group by word
having
    array_agg(c order by c) =
    (select array_agg(c order by c) from unnest(string_to_array(word, null)) a(c))

A: You can add the column with sorterd letters formatted like '%a%c%t%'. Then use query:
 select * from table where 'abcttx' like sorted_letters

to find words that can be built from letters 'abcttx'. I don't know about performance, but simplicity probably can't be beaten :)

A: Here is a query that finds the answers that can be found by walking through adjacent fields.
with recursive
input as (select '{{"t","e","s","e"},{"r","e","r","o"},{"r","e","m","a"},{"s","d","s","s"}}'::text[] as inp),
dxdy as(select * from (values(-1,-1),(-1,0),(-1,1),(0,1),(0,-1),(1,-1),(1,0),(1,1)) as v(dx, dy)),
start_position as(select * from generate_series(1,4) x, generate_series(1,4) y),
work as(select x,y,inp[y][x] as word from start_position, input
union
select w.x + dx, w.y + dy, w.word || inp[w.y+dy][w.x+dx]
   from dxdy cross join input cross join work w
   inner join good_words gw on gw.word like w.word || '%'
)
select distinct word from work
where exists(select * from good_words gw where gw.word = work.word)

(other answers don't take this into account).
Sql fiddle link: http://sqlfiddle.com/#!1/013cc/14 (notice You need an index with varchar_pattern_ops for the query to be reasonably fast).

A: My own solution is to create an insert trigger, which writes letter frequencies into an array column:
create table good_words (
        word varchar(16) primary key,
        letters integer[26]
);

create or replace function count_letters() returns trigger as $body$
    declare
        alphabet varchar[];
        i integer;
    begin

        alphabet := regexp_split_to_array('abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz', '');
        new.word := lower(new.word);

        for i in 1 .. array_length(alphabet, 1)
        loop
                -- raise notice '%: %', i, alphabet[i];
                new.letters[i] := length(new.word) - length(replace(new.word, alphabet[i], ''));
        end loop;
        return new;
    end;
$body$ language plpgsql;

create trigger count_letters
    before insert on good_words
    for each row execute procedure count_letters();

Then I generate similar array for the random board string tesereroremasdss
and compare both arrays using the array contains operator @>
Any new ideas or improvements are always welcome!


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Four HK films withdrawn from consideration for awards, several companies stated they will not participate
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