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Brief History of the Locality
St. Mary's Dunstable,
Fr Kieran Magovern CM
Prehistoric burial mounds and earthworks on the chalk hills around Dunstable bear witness to its importance since earliest times. The town sits in a gap through the Chiltern Hills on the site of a small Roman settlement called Durocobrivis, which was established at crossroads formed by the Roman Watling Street and the prehistoric Icknield Way.
The site was abandoned in Saxon times but it was here that Henry I founded an Augustinian priory in 1131, built a palace and established a new market town. Dunstable became a place of considerable importance, hosting regular royal visits and jousting tournaments. It was at the priory in the 16th century, that the annulment of Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon was pronounced, followed by the dissolution of the priory itself soon afterwards. Part of the original priory church, with its fine Norman nave and magnificent west front, survives as the town's C of E parish church.
Dunstable picked itself up from the ruins of the Reformation and again became a busy town with the advent of stagecoach travel. Several coaching inns remain from this prosperous period, which itself declined with the coming of the railway age and the consequent shift of the straw-plait and hat making industries from Dunstable to Luton with its main line railway station.
Once again Dunstable rode out its misfortunes and, at the turn of the century, began to welcome new industries including printing and engineering and, most notably, the motor trade. Today, many companies with household names have premises on the town's modern industrial estates.
St. Mary's Parish
Brief history of the three Churches
In 1927 there were about 60 practising Catholics in Dunstable and a committee was formed to petition the Bishop of Northampton to have Mass said there. At that time Dunstable was in the care of Father O'Connor of Luton and the majority of the Dunstable Catholics had to take a train at 8:06 am on Sunday mornings to attend Mass.
The Bishop gave the green light for a Mass centre to be opened and he invited Spanish Vincentians who had a house in Potters Bar to take charge of the venture. The first Mass centre was a house in Regent Street which lasted for a few months until the present property in West Street was purchased (it had been a rectory) in November 1927. Two of the rooms of the old rectory were converted into an oratory, which served the Dunstable Catholics until 1936 when the "Old Church", which is now part of the Parish Social Centre, was opened.
Spanish Vincentians
In 1957 the Spanish Vincentians handed over the parish to their confreres of the Irish Province and Maurice Regis O'Neill C.M. was appointed Parish Priest. Dunstable was developing as a centre for employment, particularly in the motor industry and, the 1936 building was not big enough to accommodate the growing number of Catholics. In 1961 work was begun on the site of the present Church. The foundation stone was laid on 29th April 1962 and St. Mary's Church formally blessed and opened by Bishop Leo T. Parker, Bishop of Northampton on 15th March 1964. The local newspaper of the following week described the event,which was attended by representatives of the civic and ecclesiastical life of the area as "a great day despite the snow".
The Church cost £100,000. On the day it was blessed £60,000 had already been raised by the parishioners. In another newspaper report the cost of the Church was put at £85,000. Perhaps the additional £15,000 was the cost of the presbytery.The building is 100 feet in diameter and 40 feet high; there is a slender spire on the roof 35 feet high.The capacity of the building is 850 seated although the report of the opening said the 1,200 people were packed into it for the occasion.
St. Vincent's Church
The second church of the parish St. Vincent's is situated in Houghton Regis . The village was expanded greatly in the 1960's as part of the London over-spill and has since continued to grow as a centre of population. Amongst Catholics there is a strong sense of community. This is due to the natural camaraderie of the first inhabitants who came from close-knit London communities such as the East End and Paddington. The first resident priests and their associates, the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, further developed this spirit. Another factor was the rudimentary Mass centres that preceded the purpose built church, school and social centre of the late 1970's.
St. Elizabeth's Church
The third church in the parish is St. Elizabeth's Toddington. This is a community of about 60 regular Mass goers. The little chapel is a converted stable, part of a property bequeathed to the parish by a wealthy convert, by the name of Miss Elizabeth Hopwood. There is a tangible sense of ownership in this village community and a great loyalty to their little church.There are two Social Centres in the Parish; one at St. Mary's the other at St. Vincent's.


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Banking For God,The Mob And The CIA
Martin A. Lee
Often, the CIA and a government like the Vatican will interact in major ways through one person. Such is the case with Michele Sindona. Sindona rose from peasant roots in Sicily to become one of the most influential bankers in the western world. At the height of his power, Sindona lorded over a financial empire that stretched from Rome to Hollywood and included half the largest banks in Switzerland. He con-trolled hundreds of corporations and counted among his part-ners such influential allies as David Kennedy, treasury secretary under Richard Nixon, and Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, presi-dent of the Vatican bank. (Marcinkus is currently dodging Italian police, who wish to question him regarding his role in the collapse of Banco Ambrosiano, Italy's largest private bank.)
Described by a former colleague as "a snake charmer," Sindona had a knack for making the right connections. In the 1950s he befriended Giovanni Montini, then archbishop of Milan, whose esteem for Sindona was cinched when the banker do-nated $2.4 million to the church for an old people's home. (Luigi DiFonzo, in his recently released book, St. Peter's Banker, suggests that the money which Sindona raised in a single day was provided by a CIA operative stationed in Milan.) Some years later, after Montini had become pope, he brought on Sindona to manage the Vatican's immense financial portfolio.
One of the world's greatest fiscal powers, this sovereign mini-state of 109 acres had investments in every sector of the Italian economy, as well as abroad. But what appealed to Sindona most of all about the Vatican was the excessive secrecy associated with its multi-billion-dollar banking arm, the Institute per le Opere di Religione (IOR). Because the Vatican is not subject to Italy's stringent currency regulations, the IOR is able to move huge sums throughout the in-ternational money market, while eluding auditors and the like. In effect, it operates in a fiscal twilight zone, im-mune to outside interference, in a manner similar to an off-shore bank.
"God's banker," as Sin-dona was known because of his close association with the Vatican, proffered his services to a number of other influential clients. He was a top financier for the international Mafia, laundering drug profits for the Gambino brothers and their Sicilian counterparts. At the same time, he functioned as a financial conduit for numerous CIA operations, passing funds, for example, to the Greek colonels before they seized power in 1967. He later channeled millions of CIA dollars to centrist and right-wing political parties in Italy, including the ruling Christian Democrats.
During his heyday as a CIA operative, Sindona was also paymaster for Propaganda Due (P-2), the most secretive cell in Italian freemasonry, led by Grand Master Licio Gelli, a die-hard Mussolini fascist. Gelli and his piduisti. as P-2 members were called, have been implicated in a series of financial and political scandals that rocked Italy in recent years, including a wave of
spectacular bombing attacks by right-wing terrorists that culminated in the 1980 Bologna train station massacre, in which 80 people were killed and 160 injured.
Sindona and Gelli were also involved in several foiled coup plots against the Italian government in the 1970s. It was during that time that Sindona's luck began to sour. Franklin National Bank, his major American acquisition, collapsed in 1974, triggering a chain reaction of foreclosures that continued until Sindona's entire empire lay in a shambles. The Vatican bank, a silent partner in many of his business schemes, took a ferocious beating. Sources inside the Vatican estimate that as much as S200 million was lost as a result of il crac Sindona (the collapse of the Sindona empire).
In August 1979, shortly before he was due to stand trial in New York in connection with the sacking of Franklin National Bank, Sindona mysteriously disappeared. Word circulated that he had been kidnaped by a group calling itself the Proletarian Committee for Better Justice. Sindona later admitted to the FBI that he had masterminded hi&'own kidnaping with the help of American crime boss John Gambino and other "Sicilian pa-triots." During his 11 weeks underground, Sindona flew to Eu-rope and slipped across the border into Italy.
While in Italy, Sindona reportedly gathered documents that were damaging to almost everyone with whom he had done business. His files contained the names of more than 500 prominent Italian industrialists and politicians — even Vatican officials who had used his banks to move fortunes out of the country. He also collected records of his machinations with American businessmen and, most significantly, memoranda pertaining to his relationship with the CIA. Sindona planned to use this information to persuade authorities in Italy and the United States to modify some of the charges pending against him.
The feisty Sicilian reappeared in New York in Octo-ber 1979, confident of a victory in the courts. But his hopes were dashed when Arch-bishop Marcinkus and two other Vatican officials, after stating their intention to do so, declined to testify as char-acter witnesses.
In March 1980, Sindona was convicted on 68 counts of fraud, misappropriation of bank funds and perjury. Having survived a suicide attempt made two days before he was to be sentenced, Sindona is currently serving a 25-year sentence in a U.S. federal prison in upstate New York. In addition. Sindona faces charges
in Italy for banking violations, fraud, drug trafficking and murder, and has been indicted in Sicily along with members of the Gambino Mafia clan for trafficking heroin from Sicily to America. Sindona recently wrote a 31-page letter to President Reagan asking that his case be reopened. The letter was hand-delivered to Reagan's personal attorney by David Kennedy. White House spokespeople have refused to disclose whether Reagan has responded.	— M.A.L.
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New paper opens the door to the study of a new class of materials
Author: William G. Gilroy
A new paper by a team of researchers led by Karel Matous, College of Engineering Associate Professor of Computational Mechanics in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, describes how an accurate statistical description of heterogeneous particulate materials, which is used within statistical micromechanics theories, governs the overall thermo-mechanical properties. This detailed statistical description was computed using a novel adaptive interpolation/integration scheme on the nation's largest parallel supercomputers. Quantifying the morphology of many-body systems has applications in many scientific fields at a variety of length scales from molecular configurations up to structural composites and celestial bodies.
"For centuries, great minds like Kepler, Maxwell and Einstein have investigated the statistical characterization of many-body systems and the implications of small-scale structures on the macroscopic transport and mechanical properties," Matous said. "For the first time, we predicted the properties of granular Platonic solids (crystalline) packs and discovered a significant shape effect in their overall thermo-mechanical behavior. Based on our work, a large class of materials with arbitrary inclusions can now be easily studied."
The research is part of the Matous group's data-driven (image-based) multi-scale modeling strategy, where computations are guided by micro-structural experimental data.
"In my research, I study heterogeneous and multifunctional materials in extreme environments by computational and experimental means," Matous said. "These materials are essential in our daily lives and are utilized in bioengineering, the automotive and aerospace industries, micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) and other applications. Heterogeneous multifunctional materials fill several pivotal roles, including structural support, self-healing capability, power generation and storage, stress mitigation and bio-filtration, just to name a few.
"These seemingly simple and elegant material functions are governed by a plethora of physics, mechanics and chemistry that test our understanding of microstructure-statistics-property relations and our capacity to tune properties at will. Many of these materials can be better understood if higher-order statistical information is retained in their well-resolved multi-scale analysis. My goal is to advance detailed understanding of mechanics and materials science through developing microstructure-statistics-property relations that can aid the development of new materials."
Matous notes that the next step in this line of work is to understand the effect of material interfaces and anisotropy (directionally dependent material behavior).
"Extending these models and accounting for interface properties and their behavior is the challenge," he said. "Also many materials are anisotropic and quantifying a higher-order anisotropic description is still an open question. Moreover, linking this work with image-based characterization techniques, such as microcomputer tomography that has become a popular method for obtaining a description of real microstructures, to analyze real material systems is a natural next step."
The paper appeared as the cover article in the Proceedings of the Royal Society A.
Contact: Karel Matous, 574-631-1376, kmatous@nd.edu
Originally published by William G. Gilroy at news.nd.edu on April 17, 2015.


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The family of a women's rights activist from Uganda has filed a more than $270 million wrongful death and personal injury claim against the National Park Service after she was decapitated by an unsecured gate at Utah's Arches National Park
By THOMAS PEIPERT Associated Press
DENVER — The family of a women's rights activist from Uganda has filed a more than $270 million wrongful death and personal injury claim against the National Park Service after she was decapitated by an unsecured gate at Utah's Arches National Park.
Newlyweds Esther "Essie" Nakajjigo, 25, and Ludovic "Ludo" Michaud, 26, were driving to get ice cream during a camping trip June 13 when a metal gate blew closed in strong winds and sliced through the side of their car "like a hot knife through butter," according to the administrative claim, which was filed in October. The gate narrowly missed Michaud, who is originally from Paris but now lives in Denver.
"We just don't want this to ever happen again," Michaud said in an interview Thursday.
He is seeking a little more than $240 million in damages, while Nakajjigo's parents are seeking $30 million.
"For want of an $8.00 basic padlock, our world lost an extraordinary warrior for good; a young woman influencer who was destined to become our society's future Princess Diana, Philanthropist Melinda Gates or Oprah Winfrey," according to the claim, which is a precursor to a formal lawsuit.
In an email to The Associated Press, National Park Service spokeswoman Vanessa Lacayo expressed sympathy for Nakajjigo's family, friends and those whose lives she touched but did not address the wrongful death claim.
Attorney Deborah Chang, who filed the claim on behalf of Michaud, as well as Nakajjigo's parents, wrote that the National Park Service has for years used entrance and exit gates made of metal poles with "spear-like sharp ends," and they were known to swing into roadways when left unsecured.
Employees "knew or should have known that winds strong enough to carve stone are certainly strong enough to blow an unrestrained metal pipe gate into the path of an oncoming vehicle," wrote Chang, who plans to file a formal lawsuit if the claim is rejected..
The National Park Service and Arches National Park are accused of not securing the gate, which was installed to swing in the wrong direction and was being held open by a "flimsy metal tab" that was "worn down and rounded," according to the claim.
Michaud's attorneys also said the federal government was aware of the dangers, citing a 1980 accident in which a man was impaled by an unsecured gate as he rode in the back of a pickup in California's Stanislaus National Forest.
Nakajjigo was born in Kampala, Uganda, and used her university tuition money to start a nonprofit community health care center when she was 17, providing free reproductive health services to girls and young women, according to a biography included in the claim.
The United Nations Population Fund gave her a Woman Achiever Award when she was 17, and she was named Uganda's Ambassador for Women and Girls at the ceremony. She received numerous other humanitarian awards and created a popular reality television series aimed at empowering young mothers.
Nakajjigo was offered a full scholarship to the Watson Institute in Boulder, Colorado, and started a social entrepreneurship program in early 2019. She and Michaud were married in March, and the two traveled to Arches to celebrate the one-year anniversary of when they first met on a dating app.
"The most important thing for me is to try continuing what she's done," Michaud said. "She's got quite a few projects started, and we need to make sure those projects survive after her. … A lot of people just want to continue that because that's what she would have wanted from us."
This story has been updated to correct Michaud's age.
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"The expression on his face as he turned was priceless. Paternal condescension melted into shock as a yodeling teenage wyvern launched itself at his head.
Yodeling teenage wyvern? Now, that's an interesting image. Sounds like a fun story. Happy reading!
I'm trying to picture what a teenage yodeling wyvern looks like… either way this teaser makes me smile. Cool pick! My teasers this week are from Banned Books.
Interesting teaser! I'll have to check this one out on goodreads! I hope your enjoying it!
Aaw. I bet he's cute. I'm picturing baby dragons all over him! LOL Is his mind connected to this one? My favorite dragon stories are The Dragonriders of Pern. I've read that series so many times. Might dust them off and reread them again soon.
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Another Black Hole
By Brooks Jackson
A secretive, Republican-leaning group has spent an estimated $3 million on a TV ad making the false claim that government spending is "not creating jobs." The ad first appeared Sept. 7 and was still running nearly a month later. The ad shows a man in a business suit digging an ever-deeper hole — a visual metaphor for the nation's ever-expanding debt. It could also be a metaphor for Public Notice, the sponsor of the ad and yet another group whose finances are also something of a black hole.
Public Notice was formed this year by a former press spokeswoman for several Republicans. The group has spent $3 million so far on the ad, which has been running on national networks and national cable outlets, according to the Campaign Media Analysis Group, a unit of Kantar Media. But where the money comes from, and how much more the group intends to spend, is a mystery. "We do not discuss our organization's finances," the group's executive director, Gretchen Hamel, told us in a telephone interview.
The ad itself is mostly factual — with one key exception.
It says: "We're 13 trillion in debt," which is an understatement. The total is currently above $13.6 trillion, counting both the debt held by the public and all the money that the government owes to itself, including the Social Security trust fund.
It says that the debt is "almost the size of the nation's economy," which is close enough. The nation's economy, as measured by gross domestic product, is projected to be $14.8 trillion this year, and $15.3 trillion next year, according to the most recent economic forecast by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
The ad says Washington's spending is "unsustainable," a judgment that can hardly be disputed, given that the federal government was spending more than $3 for every $2 that it took in during the fiscal year that just ended, according to CBO's most recent monthly budget review. (Final figures for the fiscal year are still being tabulated.)
Where the ad goes wrong is its claim that spending "is not creating jobs," a false assertion echoed in several Republican campaign commercials. As we noted in our Sept. 27 article, "Did the Stimulus Create Jobs?", the stimulus package increased employment by between 1.4 million and 3.3 million, according to CBO's estimate. Some independent economists put the total even higher.
The group attempts to back up its claim by citing the fact that the total number of jobs is lower and the unemployment rate is higher now than before the stimulus spending began. That's true enough, but proves nothing about how much worse things would have been without the stimulus spending. It's accurate to say that government spending hasn't created enough jobs to offset those that have been lost, but simply wrong to claim that it hasn't created any.
A Financial Black Hole
Hamel would say nothing about who gives to her organization, or even whether or not it accepts corporate funding. The group says on its websites that it is organized as a Limited Liability Company with tax-exempt status under section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code. That leaves it legally free to accept such funds, without disclosing its donors publicly.
Hamel says of Public Notice, "[We] are not a 'political group.' We are an education advocacy group." Her ad, however, calls for viewers to "find out how together we can hold Congress accountable." Not that there's anything wrong with being a political group.
Before forming Public Notice, Hamel had a long history of working for Republicans. She was a press assistant for former GOP Rep. J.C. Watts of Oklahoma, then press secretary to GOP Rep. John Carter of Texas and later for the House Republican Conference. She was deputy assistant U.S. trade representative during the final years of the Bush administration.
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The first reason for delayed weight loss is the exposure to endocrine disruptors. What this is referring to is the utilization of many products containing plastic. One way to help with this is to limit your exposure to plastic products. In the end, you will greatly rebalance your hormones that have been altered by the exposure to endocrine disruptors.
The second possible reason for delayed weight loss is that the person is already grossly overweight and the prospect of dieting seems as if it is too much to bear.
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If you're a Fantasy reader, CaladriusDreams, a mystery wrapped in a fantasy adventure, is worth a look.
Calli, is an orphan abandoned by fate to a life on the street where she is always just one bread crust away from starving – until she encounters the King's Guard, Master Arcturus Sheridan. Her chance meeting soon immerses her in a world of nobility, privilege, and power that is as dangerous as it is beguiling. Author Erin Ann McCarter weaves a tale of magic that explores Calli's struggle toward self-discovery as she seeks to uncover the secrets that underlie her disturbing dreams.
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If you have an interest in STEM, you'll want to check out Explore Comets and Asteroids! With 25 Great Projects by Anita Yasuda with illustrations by Bryan Stone.
Eighty-eight colorful, fact-filled pages provide a thorough overview of the subject and offer young scientists multiple opportunities for hands-on activities.
Six well-organized chapters are enriched with maps, diagrams, photographs and illustrations. Words to Know, Good Science Practices, Keyword Prompts, Primary Source connections, QR codes, and small notes inviting readers to investigate, consider and discuss topics create a rich addition to the text.
A glossary of terms is followed by a section titled Resources includes Metric Conversions, Books, Websites, and a QR glossary for links to additional information.
For ages 7-10. Recommended as a fine addition to home and school library collections.
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The large format of the double-page spreads gives illustrator Ng-Benitez plenty of space to play and the simple, but colorful artwork is in keeping with the text.
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A portion of the proceeds from the book are donated to the Amboseli Trust for Elephants www.elephant trust.org.
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Johns Hopkins University, Department of Computer Science
Position ID: JHU-CS-PDLL [#10594]
Position Title: PD_LangmeadLab
Position Location: Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States [map]
Subject Area: Computational Genomics
*** The account for Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University has expired, and no new applications will be accepted. ***
Applications are invited for a computational postdoctoral fellow to drive a research program on search engines for genomic data. The Langmead Lab has developed tools (Rail-RNA,Snaptron) and resources (recount2) that altogether constitute a powerful search engine for public RNA sequencing data. The fellow will take these efforts to the next level and apply them to new data types and scientific questions.
The fellow should have experience in areas relevant to the lab's agenda, e.g. (a) efficient software for analyzing high-throughput biological data, especially sequencing data, (b) scalable software for analyzing many datasets at once, and (c) indexing, sketching and other techniques for making large datasets — raw or summarized — easy and efficient to query.
Recent publications from lab members can be viewed at www.langmead-lab.org/publications/. There will be opportunities to collaborate with the excellent biomedical researchers at JHU, as well as opportunities for teaching and mentoring.
Ideal applicants will have
• A Ph.D. in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, or related field
• Strong programming skills in relevant languages and frameworks such as C/C++, Python,Hadoop and Spark
• Experience analyzing sequencing data
• Published papers in English
• Excellent communication skills
The Langmead lab has a track record of developing usable, high-impact software tools for studying big genomic datasets. Projects of current and former lab members include Bowtie, Bowtie 2, Crossbow, Myrna and Rail-RNA, which together have been cited over 20,000 times.
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Recalls cost a company $10 million on average in brand damage and lost sales.
Picture this: a manufacturer has issued a recall on its hamburger meat. Employees at a grocery store are scrambling to clear the shelves of contaminated products. But which packages of meat are contaminated, and which are still safe? It would take too much time to find out now. The reputation of the store could be destroyed if contaminated products aren't recalled quickly. Time to pull every package from the shelves, just to be safe.
This approach, while it certainly saves lives, is inefficient and wasteful. Recalls cost a company $10 million on average in brand damage and lost sales. With proper food safety technology, food can be tracked in a manner that allows manufacturers to easily identify contaminated products. Lives are still saved, but they are saved more quickly and with less effort. RFID is one food safety solution that will keep consumers safe and save businesses money.
RFID, or Radio Frequency Identification, is a data collection method that sends and receives information between tags and readers using low-power radio waves. RFID is more efficient than traditional identification methods, such as barcode scanning, because it can scan hundreds of tags at once.
Passive, ultra-frequency tags, or RAIN RFID, are the most cost-effective and commonly used tags. They require a powered reader to reflect and transmit their signal.
Active, Wi-Fi-based tags provide real-time location information by using their own internal power supply to relay signals to standard wireless access points. These tags have a much greater read range than passive RAIN tags.
The downside to Wi-Fi-based tags is that they are expensive. Thankfully, there is a cost-effective alternative. Bluetooth low-energy (BLE) tags collect the same real-time information as Wi-Fi tags, but they are even easier to implement. While Wi-Fi tags require new infrastructure and several wireless access points, BLEs only need a connection to a Bluetooth-enabled device, such as a smartphone, to transmit signals.
Different types of tags have different uses. Passive tags are best for tracking large volumes of low-cost items, while active tags are ideal for tracking high-value, low-volume assets. Hybrid RFID systems, however, can be used for both low-cost/high-volume and high-cost/low-volume assets.
RFID can collect and utilize specific product information in compliance with regulations such as Food Safety Management Act (FSMA). It tracks when products were produced, which lines they were produced on, which machines were used, and more.
In addition, RFID can monitor temperature, humidity, and motion, allowing manufacturers to more easily trace food safety issues to specific products, change expiration dates, and pull specific products from shelves if needed. In the event of a recall, RFID technology allows manufacturers to quickly identify and pull just the affected products from shelves, instead of pulling all products.
RFID technology provides the traceability needed to monitor and identify contaminated products. Combined with other methods such as barcode scanning, RFID is a promising food safety solution that will minimize recalls, maintain consumer trust, and save companies.


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Elizabeth Robins Pennell (February 21, 1855 – February 7, 1936) was an American writer who, for most of her adult life, made her home in London. A recent researcher summed her up as "an adventurous, accomplished, self-assured, well-known columnist, biographer, cookbook collector, and art critic"; in addition, she wrote travelogues, mainly of European cycling voyages, and memoirs, centred on her London salon. Her biographies included the first in almost a century of the proto-feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, one of her uncle the folklorist Charles Godfrey Leland, and one of her friend the painter Whistler. In recent years, her art criticism has come under scrutiny, and her food criticism has been reprinted.

Early life
She grew up in Philadelphia. Her mother died when she was very young, and she was sent away to a convent school from the ages of 8 to 17. When she returned to her father's home, he had remarried, and she was bored with the demands and restrictions of being a proper Catholic young lady. She wanted to work, and, with the encouragement of her uncle, the writer and folklorist Charles Godfrey Leland, she took up writing as a career. She started with articles in periodicals such as Atlantic Monthly, and through this work she met a young Quaker artist named Joseph Pennell, who had also had to face down parental disapproval to pursue his creative calling. This began a fruitful collaboration between writer and illustrator.

First book, marriage, move to London

Her first book was the first full-length biography of Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–97) since the hastily published Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by her widower William Godwin. Pennell's biography drew on three main sources: Godwin's Memoirs; a London publisher named Charles Kegan Paul, who had written a sketch about the husband and wife a few years previously; and a curator at the British Library, Richard Garnett. It was published in 1884 by the Roberts Brothers of Boston, as one of the first in their Famous Women series, and also in London by the Walter Scott Publishing Company.

In June that year, Elizabeth Robins married Joseph Pennell. The couple accepted a travel writing commission from The Century Magazine and set off for Europe, making several cycling journeys, in 1884 from London to Canterbury and then in 1885 through France. Her uncle had travelled widely in Europe and settled in London, and so did the Pennells, basing themselves in the British capital for more than thirty years, with frequent visits to the Continent. They made a good working team, producing many articles and books together, and supporting each other in their work. For many years they opened their home on Thursday evenings as a literary and artistic salon; some of the people who enjoyed their hospitality included: "critics Sir Edmund Gosse and William Archer; artists Aubrey Beardsley and James McNeill Whistler; authors Henry James, Max Beerbohm, Oscar Wilde, and George Bernard Shaw; and publishers John Lane and William E. Henley."  Pennell wrote of these gatherings in her memoirs, Our House and the People in It (1910), Our House and London Out of Our Windows (1912), and Nights: Rome & Venice in the Aesthetic Eighties, London & Paris in the Fighting Nineties (1916).

Her works and their appraisal

Art criticism
Pennell's main work was as an art and, later, a food critic, writing for periodicals including the Daily Chronicle and the Pall Mall Gazette. Scholar Meaghan Clarke ties "real-life women art journalists" such as Pennell to the literary figures and hacks that populate George Gissing's  New Grub Street, as well as to the concept of the New Woman. "Like journalism and, one might argue, because of journalism, the London art world was undergoing an intensive popularization during the 1880s and 1890s." Keeping up (as Clarke puts it) "a peripatetic pace in search of copy", Pennell went to Paris in May for the art salons, and regularly visited the London galleries (from Cork Street and Bond Street in the fashionable West End to philanthropic art projects in the slums of the East End) to review the exhibitions.  She wrote critically of Walter Besant's People's Palace at Mile End (similar in spirit to Samuel and Henrietta Barnett's St Jude's at Whitechapel).

Kimberly Morse Jones writes that "Pennell's criticism constitutes a vital component of a wider movement in Victorian criticism that came to be known as the New Art Criticism", listing Alfred Lys Baldry, D.S. MacColl, George Moore, R.A.M. Stevenson, Charles Whibley and Frederick Wedmore as fellow contributors to this movement.

Food criticism
Pennell's place in the literary history of cooking and eating has recently been reappraised, as she "paved the way for food writers such as Elizabeth David, M. F. K. Fisher, and Jane Grigson," according to Jacqueline Block Williams.

Pennell was a regular contributor to a column in the Pall Mall Gazette, entitled "The Wares of Autolycus". (The reference is to a character in Shakespeare's A Winter's Tale.) She  commented that it was "daily written by women and I daresay believed by us to be the most entertaining array of unconsidered trifles that any Autolycus had ever offered to any eager world"; she compiled her culinary essays as The Feasts of Autolycus: the Diary of a Greedy Woman (1896). This compilation was reprinted in 2000 as The Delights of Delicate Eating, and Pennell appears as one of the "forgotten female aesthetes" that Shaeffer evaluates in her book of that title, one who "aimed to reconfigure meals as high art, employing the language of aestheticism to turn eating into an act of intellectual appreciation". Clarke holds that Pennell demonstrated a "continuity" between "her thoughts on other types of taste".

Cookbook collecting
To enable her to write these light but erudite columns, Pennell bought cookbooks to use as reference material. At one point she owned more than 1000 volumes, including a rare first edition of Hannah Glasse, which led to her becoming, in the view of culinary historian Cynthia D. Bertelsen, "one of the most well-known cookbook collectors in the world". Pennell compiled a bibliography of her culinary library, which appeared first in articles for The Atlantic and then in a book entitled My Cookery Books, focussing on C17 and C18 English writers. Much of this collection eventually went to the Rare Book and Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress, where curator Leonard N. Beck gave it a professional evaluation, pairing her collection with that of food chemist Katherine Bitting See the Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection. The title, Two Loaf-Givers, refers to the Old English etymology of "lady"; a digital version is available.

Biographies
Following her success with Mary Wollstonecraft, Pennell wrote other biographies, producing in 1906 the first one of her uncle, Charles Leland, who had written, or compiled, Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches (1899), a book very influential in the development of the Neopagan religion of Wicca. The Pennells were friends and correspondents of the painter James Abbott McNeill Whistler, and they wrote a lengthy biography of him in 1911. (Her fellow art critic Lady Colin Campbell, whose famous portrait by Giovanni Boldini Pennell had praised, was also close to Whistler.) Pennell also wrote a biography, after his death in 1928, of her husband.

Cycle tourism

The final string to her bow was as a cyclist.  She praised cycling in general, and the ease with which it enabled city dwellers to escape to the countryside, for its fresh air and views. She claimed that "there is no more healthful or more stimulating form of exercise; there is no physical pleasure greater than that of being borne along, at a good pace, over a hard, smooth road by your own exertions". She disparaged racing (for men but especially for women), preferring long unpressured travel, and wondering if she had inadvertently "broken the record as a touring wheel-woman".

She started off cycling in the 1870s, while she still lived in Philadelphia. On moving to London, she and her husband exchanged their Coventry Rotary tandem tricycle for a Humber model, going on to experiment with a single tricycle, a tandem bicycle, and finally a single bicycle with a step-through ("dropped") frame.

The first journey that she turned into a book was A Canterbury Pilgrimage, a homage to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, as a gentle introduction to cycling in England. Over the next few years, the pair took several trips together, including another literary pilgrimage, this time on the trail of Laurence Sterne's 1765 travel novel A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy. On a later leg of this 1885 journey they "wheeled" a tandem tricycle from Florence to Rome, attracting more attention than she was comfortable with, as possibly the first female rider that the  Italians had ever seen. In 1886, now each on safety bicycles, they journeyed to Eastern Europe. This was at a key time in the history of the bicycle, and, of course, in the history of women's rights as well, and they were both intertwined, in the figure of the New Woman. Suffragists and social activists such as Susan B. Anthony and Frances Willard recognised the transformative power of the bicycle. By the time the Pennells had gone Over the Alps on a Bicycle (1898), Annie Londonderry had already become the first woman to bicycle around the world. There was a ready audience for Robins Pennell's books, and the last-mentioned was chosen as a book of the month.

Later life
The Pennells moved back to the United States towards the end of World War I, settling in New York City.  After her husband's death, she moved from Brooklyn to Manhattan, dying there in February 1936. Their books, especially her significant cookbook collection (reduced to 433) and a 300-strong collection on fine printing and bibliography, were bequeathed to the Library of Congress. Her papers and those of her husband are held by university archives.

Pennell often made her contributions under pen names such as "N.N." (No Name), "A.U." (Author Unknown) and "P.E.R." (her initials jumbled up).

Publications

Life of Mary Wollstonecraft (Roberts Brothers, 1884, part of the "Famous Women" series)
A Canterbury Pilgrimage (Seeley & Co., 1885)
An Italian Pilgrimage (Seeley & Co., 1887) with Joseph Pennell.
Our Sentimental Journey through France and Italy (1888) with Joseph Pennell.
Our Journey to the Hebrides (with Joseph Pennell) (1889)
The Stream of Pleasure: a Narrative of a Journey on the Thames from Oxford to London (with Joseph Pennell) (1891)
To Gipsyland (The Century Co., 1893)
Tantallon Castle (1895) (see Tantallon Castle
London's Underground Railways(1895)
The Feasts of Autolycus: the Diary of a Greedy Woman (1896). A compilation of the culinary essays she first published in the Pall Mall Gazette. Re-issued 1901 as The Delights of Delicate Eating. (Also, A Guide for the Greedy, by a Greedy Woman: being a new and revised edition of "The Feasts of Autolycus".) Reprinted in 2000 with an introduction by Jacqueline Block Williams.
Around London by Bicycle (1897)
Over the Alps on a Bicycle (1898) with Joseph Pennell
 Lithography and Lithographers (1898) with Joseph Pennell (see also 1915)
My Cookery Books (1903). From the Collections at the Library of Congress
Charles Godfrey Leland: a Biography (Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1906)
French Cathedrals, Monasteries and Abbeys, and Sacred Sites of France (New York, The Century Co.) 1909
Our House and the People in It (Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1910) (Also Our House and London Out of Our Windows 1912.)
The Life of James McNeill Whistler (J. B. Lippincott company, 1911) with Joseph Pennell.
Our Philadelphia (1914) with Joseph Pennell.
Lithography and Lithographers (1915) with Joseph Pennell 'Not merely a new edition. The book is new though based upon the old!--(Preface) (see also 1898).
Nights: Rome & Venice in the Aesthetic Eighties, London & Paris in the Fighting Nineties (J. B. Lippincott Company, 1916)
The Lovers (W. Heinemann, 1917)
The Whistler Journal (J. B. Lippincott Company, 1921)
 Italy's Garden of Eden (1927)
The Art of Whistler (1928)
The Life and Letters of Joseph Pennell (1929)
Whistler the Friend (1930)
(anthologized in) American Food Writing: an Anthology with Classic Recipes, ed. Molly O'Neill (Library of America, 2007)

References

External links

 Finding aid to the Pennell family papers Ms. Coll. 50 at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries
 Joseph and Elizabeth R. Pennell's papers at the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin
 Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection at the Library of Congress

Further reading
Schaffer, Talia. The Forgotten Female Aesthetes: Literary Culture in Late-Victorian England. University of Virginia Press, 2008.
 Morse Jones, Kimberly, Elizabeth Robins Pennell: Nineteenth-Century Pioneer of Modern Art Criticism. Ashgate, 2015.

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As the name Diesel Particulate Filter (DPF) suggests it is a filter in the exhaust system that at some point in your vehicles life will at great expense require replacing. On most vehicles the DPF will have a shelf life of around 100,000 miles until the build-up of ash from the regeneration processes becomes the blocking contaminant, but this can be greatly reduced by a few factors.
Short journeys will be the most common cause of failure because regeneration targets will not be reached, in contrast motorway driving in high gears using low engine revs means that on some vehicles exhaust gas temperatures will not reach a high enough level for the DPF to carry out a passive regulation, in both cases to burn off the soot accumulation.
The function of the Exhaust Gas Recirculation (EGR) valve also needs to be working correctly for the DPF to operate effectively. Lastly all vehicles that have a DPF fitted should use a low ash content engine oil to prevent an accelerated build-up of ash matter.
The common practise of tuning companies and garages offering DPF deletes has been illegal since 2014, the link below to the official government PDF document which highlights the diesel particulate filter (DPF) function and operation, MoT regulations and the construction and use regulations.
Our DPF cleaning method has been proven to reduce soot levels to a minimum (due to failed regenerations because of driving style), clean a blocked DPF so it can be forced to regenerate with a diagnostic scan tool and, if carried out as part of your vehicles regular maintenance schedule, it can also help the build-up of ash accumulation thus extending the life of your DPF indefinitely and saving many thousands of pounds.
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A DPF (Diesel Particulate Filter) is a device fitted to the exhaust system of modern diesel vehicles to reduce emissions and meet European emission standards. It traps Soot (Particulate Matter - PM) from the exhaust gasses while letting the gasses flow through the system.
The main reason for a DPF is to reduce particulate matter entering the atmosphere.
DPFs have been in common use in cars and light commercial vehicles since 2003 in preparation for Euro 4 regs. Euro 5 (2009) made it compulsory for diesel cars and light commercial vehicles to have a DPF fitted.


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Wildlife Protection And Legal Recourse
This article mainly focuses on the wildlife in India and the available legal provisions to protect and conserve the wildlife. India is a country with rich and diverse forms of flora and fauna which makes it a biodiversity hotspot in the world. As human induced activities increased and development started taking place on a large scale, the wildlife and the ecosystems began to be affected by it. This called for some measures by the government to protect the wildlife and their habitat with the help of stringent legal provisions and conservation strategies. The Article highlights on the importance of conservation of wildlife and the problems faced in implementing these conservation measures with a reference to various forms of threats faced by these wild animals and plants.
The Article further goes on to describe the various legal provisions and Acts enforced and enacted in India in consonance with the international standards towards protecting and conserving the wildlife and biodiversity of the country. This Article also highlights various problems and challenges in implementing these Acts and their reasons and also provides possible solutions for effective implementation of these legal provisions so as to maintain a balance of the environment and life forms on the earth.
Wildlife protection act is made to protect animals based on their threat of survival in wild. Its categorised animals under I-IV schedules. Schedule I and II animals under more threat and prioritise for conservation, schedule III is for animals under moderate challenge of survival in wild and IV enlists the game animals which are under very less threat in wild. It extends to the whole of India, except the State of Jammu and Kashmir which had its own wildlife act.
The Act provides for the protection of wild animals, birds and plants and matters connected with them, with a view to ensuring the ecological and environmental security of India.
Extends to the whole of India, except the State of Jammu and Kashmir which has its own wildlife act
It provides for a prohibition on the use of animal traps except under certain circumstances
It provides for the protection of hunting rights of the Scheduled Tribes in Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Has provisions for the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
It has six schedules which give varying degrees of protection
Species listed in Schedule I and part II of Schedule II get absolute protection — offenses under these are prescribed the highest penalties
Species listed in Schedule III and Schedule IV are also protected, but the penalties are much lower
Schedule V includes the animals which may be hunted
The plants in Schedule VI are prohibited from cultivation and planting.
India is a party to five major international conventions related to wildlife conservation, viz., Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), Coalition Against Wildlife Trafficking (CAWT), International Whaling Commission (IWC), United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation—World Heritage Committee (UNESCO- WHC), and the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS). The Ministry of Environment and Forests is the nodal agency for these conventions
To govern wildlife conservation and protection of endangered species, the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 was adopted by all states excluding Jammu and Kashmir (which has its own Act). The Act prohibits trade in rare and endangered species.
It has six schedules which give varying degrees of protection.
Schedule 1 and part 2 of Schedule 2: Provide absolute protection – offences under these are prescribed the highest penalties.
Schedule 3 and Schedule 4: This are also protected, but the penalties are much lower.
Schedule 5: It includes the animals which may be hunted.
Schedule 6: The specified endemic plants in schedule 6 are prohibited from cultivation and planting.
Government at central level provides financial assistance to states for
strengthening management and protection of infrastructure of national parks and sanctuaries
protection of wildlife and control of poaching and illegal trade in wildlife products
captive breeding programmes for endangered species of wildlife
wildlife education and interpretation
development of zoos
conservation of rhinos in Assam
protection of tiger, elephant, etc
We have following laws relating to wildlife protection:
Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972: This prohibits hunting, provides protection to wildlife
Indian Forest Act, 1927: and their State counterparts: these laws stipulate 3 kind of forests: reserve forests, village forests and protected forests out of which laws relating to reserve forests are very stringent.
Forest Conservation Act, 1980: This is to keep a tab on rapid deforestation. The Supreme Court has banned the release of forestland for non-forest activities without prior approval of Centre.
Environment Protection Act, 1986: This deals with creation and coordination of various authorities. It was established after Bhopal Tragedy to implement decisions of United Nation Conference of Human Environment.
Biological Diversity Act, 2002: It was enacted by the Parliament to enforce Convention on Biological Diversity to which India is a signatory.
National Wildlife Action Plan, 2017–2031: It relates to the protected wildlife areas and bans certain activities in protected areas and wildlife corridors. It also deals with rehabilitation of threatened species.
National Forest Policy: This is the policy framed by Ministry of Environment and Forests. The latest draft NFP, 2016 has been placed in public domain for suggestions. The latest NFP, 2016 seeks to replace NFP, 1988. A major point in the new NFP is a provision for green tax for financing ecological balance and address forestry issues.
The Wildlife (Protection) Act 1972
The Wildlife (Protection) Amendment the Wildlife (Protection) Amendment Bill 2002 proposes…
To provide that captive animals and wild To provide that captive animals and wild animals included in Schedule I and part II animals included in Schedule I and part II of Schedule II of the Wildlife Act and their of Schedule II of the Wildlife Act and their parts and products can be acquired only parts and products can be acquired only by way of inheritance by way of inheritance.
Sec 40: Every person in possession or custody of Sec 40: Every person in possession or custody of any captive animal specified in Schedule I or any captive animal specified in Schedule I or part II of Schedule II is required to declare this part II of Schedule II is required to declare this to the Chief Wildlife Warden to the Chief Wildlife Wardeni.
2-A: No person except one with a certificate A: No person except one with a certificate of ownership can keep, acquire , keep in of ownership can keep, acquire , keep in control etc. any captive animal specified in control etc. any captive animal specified in Schedule I or part II of Schedule II except by Schedule I or part II of Schedule II except by Inheritance.
2-B: Such inheritance to be declared within B: Such inheritance to be declared within ninety days to CWLW ninety days to CWLW.
Sec 42: Certificate of ownership Sec 42: Certificate of ownership- to be granted only after ensuring that the granted only after ensuring that the applicant has adequate facilities for applicant has adequate facilities for housing, maintenance and upkeep of housing, maintenance, and upkeep of the animal the animal
Sec 43: No person who has with him a Sec 43: No person who has with him a
captive animal with a certificate of captive animal with a certificate of ownership shall transfer by way of sale ownership shall transfer by way of sale or offer for sale or any other commercial or offer for sale or any other commercial consideration, any captive animal consideration, any captive animal
Sec 51-Penalties
Offence related to animal of Schedule I or Offence related to animal of Schedule I or Part II of Schedule II Part II of Schedule II- Minimum 3 yrs. Minimum 3 yrs.
Imprisonment up to 7 yrs. AND fine not 7 yrs. AND fine not
less than 10,000/ less than 10,000/-
On second and subsequent offence, On second and subsequent offence,
Minimum 3 yrs. Imprisonment Minimum 3 yrs. Imprisonment up to 7 yrs.
Minimum fine 25,000 years minimum fine 25,000 years
Hunting in a National Park or Sanctuary or alteration of boundaries: alteration of boundaries:
Minimum 3 yrs. Imprisonment Minimum 3 yrs. Imprisonment up to 7 yrs. AND 7 yrs. AND fine not less than 10,000/ fine not less than 10,000/-
On second and subsequent offence, minimum 3 On second and subsequent offence, minimum 3 yrs. Imprisonment yrs. Imprisonment up to 7 yrs. AND fine 25,000 7 yrs. AND fine 25,000 years
An Act to provide for the protection of wild animals, birds and plants and for matters animals, birds and plants and for matters connected therewith or ancillary or connected therewith or ancillary or incidental thereto with a view to ensuring incidental thereto with a view to ensuring the ecological and environmental security the ecological and environmental security of the country.
The Wildlife (Protection) Act 1972 extends to the whole of India except extends to the whole of India except Jammu & Kashmir Jammu & Kashmir
Various species classified in Schedules I Various species classified in Schedules I to VI
Species in Schedule I can be hunted only Species in Schedule I can be hunted only in very special conditions in very special conditions if they are a if they are a threat to human life threat to human life
Species in Schedule II can be hunted Species in Schedule II can be hunted if they are a threat to human life, or they are a threat to human life or property
Trade of Species in Schedule I or Part II of Trade of Species in Schedule I or Part II of Schedule II invites very stringent Schedule II invites very stringent punishment
Species in Schedule VI are specified Species in Schedule VI are specified plants whose possession, collection, sale plants whose possession, collection, sale etc. is regulated by Chapter III etc. is regulated by Chapter III-A
Species in Schedule V are Vermin which Species in Schedule V are Vermin which can be hunted freely can be hunted freely
•Common crow Common crow
•Fruit bats Fruit bats
•Mice
•Rats
Sec 2: Definitions
(5) Captive animal means any animal specified in Schedule I, II, III or IV which is specified in Schedule I, II, III or IV which is captured or kept or bred in captivity captured or kept or bred in captivity.
Sec 2 (16) Hunting Sec 2 (16) Hunting Includes:
Killing or poisoning of any wild or captive animal Killing or poisoning of any wild or captive animal or any attempt to do so any attempt to do so
Capturing, coursing, snaring, trapping, driving, or Capturing, coursing, snaring, trapping, driving, or baiting any wild or captive animal and every baiting any wild or captive animal and every attempt to do so.
Injuring or destroying or taking any part of the Injuring or destroying or taking any part of the body of such animal, or damaging the eggs or body of such animal, or damaging the eggs or nests of such birds or reptiles nests of such birds or reptiles
History of Wildlife Protection Legislation in India
The first such law was passed by the British Indian Government in 1887 called the Wild Birds Protection Act, 1887. The law sought to prohibit the possession and sale of specified wild birds that were either killed or captured during a breeding session.
A second law was enacted in 1912 called the Wild Birds and Animals Protection Act. This was amended in 1935 when the Wild Birds and Animals Protection (Amendment) Act 1935 was passed.
During the British Raj, wildlife protection was not accorded a priority. It was only in 1960 that the issue of protection of wildlife and the prevention of certain species from becoming extinct came into the fore.
Need for the Wildlife Protection Act
Wildlife is a part of 'forests' and this was a state subject until the Parliament passed this law in 1972. Now it is Concurrent List. Reasons for a nationwide law in the domain of environment particularly wildlife include the following:
India is a treasure-trove of varied flora and fauna. Many species were seeing a rapid decline in numbers. For instance, it was mentioned by Edward Pritchard Gee (A naturalist), that at the turn of the 20th century, India was home to close to 40000 tigers. But a census in 1972 showed this number drastically reduced to about 1827.
A drastic decrease in the flora and fauna can cause ecological imbalance, which affects many aspects of climate and the ecosystem.
The most recent Act passed during the British era in this regard was the Wild Birds and Animals Protection, 1935. This needed to be upgraded as the punishments awarded to poachers and traders of wildlife products were disproportionate to the huge financial benefits that accrue to them.
There were only five national parks in India prior to the enactment of this Act.
Protected Areas Under the Wildlife Protection Act
There are five types of protected areas as provided under the Act. They are described below.
1. Sanctuaries: "Sanctuary is a place of refuge where injured, abandoned, and abused wildlife is allowed to live in peace in their natural environment without any human intervention."
They are naturally occurring areas where endangered species are protected from poaching, hunting, and predation.
Here, animals are not bred for commercial exploitation.
The species are protected from any sort of disturbance.
Animals are not allowed to be captured or killed inside the sanctuaries.
A wildlife sanctuary is declared by the State government by a Notification. Boundaries can be altered by a Resolution of the State Legislature.
Human activities such as timber harvesting, collecting minor forest products, and private ownership rights are permitted as long as they do not interfere with the animals' well-being. Limited human activity is permitted.
They are open to the general public. But people are not allowed unescorted. There are restrictions as to who can enter and/or reside within the limits of the sanctuary. Only public servants (and his/her family), persons who own immovable property inside, etc. are allowed. People using the highways which pass through sanctuaries are also allowed inside.
Boundaries of sanctuaries are not generally fixed and defined.
Biologists and researchers are permitted inside so that they can study the area and its inhabitants.
The Chief Wildlife Warden (who is the authority to control, manage and maintain all sanctuaries) may grant permission to persons for entry or residence in the sanctuary for the study of wildlife, scientific research, photography, the transaction of any lawful business with persons residing inside, and tourism.
Sanctuaries can be upgraded to the status of a 'National Park'.
Examples: Indian Wild Ass Sanctuary (Rann of Kutch, Gujarat); Vedanthangal Bird Sanctuary in Tamil Nadu (oldest bird sanctuary in India); Dandeli Wildlife Sanctuary (Karnataka).
2.National Parks: National Parks are the areas that are set by the government to conserve the natural environment.
A national park has more restrictions as compared to a wildlife sanctuary.
National parks can be declared by the State government by Notification. No alteration of the boundaries of a national park shall be made except on a resolution passed by the State Legislature.
The main objective of a national park is to protect the natural environment of the area and biodiversity conservation.
The landscape, fauna, and flora are present in their natural state in national parks.
Their boundaries are fixed and defined.
Here, no human activity is allowed.
Grazing of livestock and private tenurial rights are not permitted here.
Species mentioned in the Schedules of the Wildlife Act are not allowed to be hunted or captured.
No person shall destroy, remove, or exploit any wildlife from a National Park or destroy or damage the habitat of any wild animal or deprive any wild animal of its habitat within a national park.
They cannot be downgraded to the status of a 'sanctuary'.
Examples: Bandipur National Park in Karnataka; Hemis National Park in Jammu & Kashmir; Kaziranga National Park in Assam. See more on List of National Parks in India.
3. Conservation Reserves: The State government may declare an area (particularly those adjacent to sanctuaries or parks) as conservation reserves after consulting with local communities.
4. Community Reserves: The State government may declare any private or community land as a community reserve after consultation with the local community or an individual who has volunteered to conserve the wildlife.
5. Tiger Reserves: These areas are reserved for the protection and conservation of tigers in India. They are declared on the recommendations of the National Tiger Conservation Authority.
Wildlife conservation includes all human efforts to preserve wild animals from extinction. It involves the protection and wise management of wild species of their environment. Some species have become extinct due to natural activities. The progress of man throughout has been beneficial for the human race, but it is the wildlife that has suffered through the years. Inventions of sophisticated weapons, industrialization, urbanisation, and even increasing human population have been some of the major causes for dwindling of our rich resources. Hunting, clearing of forests, drawing of swamps, and damming of rivers for irrigation and industry – this is what we appraise of man's progress.
These activities have vastly reduced the natural habitats of our wildlife and many species are endangered or nearly extinct. Extinction is a 'biological reality' for no species has as yet existed for more than a few million years without evolving into something different, or dying out completely. Success in evolution is measured in terms of survival and is failure by extinction. Once a species is extinct because of natural causes or human activities, it is gone forever. It is believed that each individual wild creature has a right to survive without human interference, just as each human being has the right to survive.
Q. 1) According to The Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, Which of The Following Animals Cannot Be Hunted by Any Person Except Under Some Provisions Provided by Law?
Ans – Garial, Indian wild ass and wild buffalo.
Q. 2) When Was the Indian Board for Wildlife Constituted?
Ans– The Indian Board for Wildlife was constituted in 1952. The main purpose of the board was to advise the Government on the means of conservation and protection of wildlife, construction of national parks, sanctuaries and zoological gardens as well as promoting public awareness regarding conservation of wildlife.
Q. 3) Which of The Following Is A Step Taken by The Government to Protect the Wildlife?
Ans- The Government of India took various steps to the wildlife. The major among them is establishing of various projects in order to protect the wildlife. Some of the projects are Project Tiger, Project Rhino, Project Great Indian Bustard and many more.
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Ending a long-running trial, a federal judge ruled that POM Wonderful's advertising that likens pomegranate juice to an anti-cancer drug is misleading. POM's ads grossly over-exaggerated the effect of their product to reduce the risk of cancer, heart disease, and erectile dysfunction, without substantial scientific evidence. Some ads went as far as portraying POM as a superhero or life support (see above). POM managed to put a positive spin on the ruling by reciting the FDA and FTC's standard rules, which they should have been following in the first place, and noting that their ads are not subject to pre-approval by the FDA. In practice, this means that POM can put out new misleading ads until the FDA and FTC take them back to court. [New York Times] Update: Marion Nestle shares her thoughts on POM's advertising.
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Over the next three days, the Supreme Court will be hearing arguments for and against the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (commonly referred to as ACA, also called "Obamacare"). The most controversial part of ACA is the individual mandate, which would require all Americans to have health insurance starting in 2014 (with some exemptions for financial or religious reasons). Many believe the mandate is unconstitutional, but ACA could theoretically remain intact without it (although many health policy experts believe the mandate is the key to the functionality of many other pieces of the legislation). The Supreme Court will also hear arguments regarding the hundreds of other provisions included in ACA, including expansions of state Medicaid programs and tax credits for small employers.
Confused? Check out the following links to track the case.
Kaiser Health News has a pretty good overview of the basics here.
New research* from Harvard links red meat consumption to higher risk of death and cardiovascular disease. The prospective research study, in which participants were followed over a 25 year period, assessed intake of processed and unprocessed red meat and its effects on health. Fear not, meat eaters – the participants at increased risk of death were those eating at least one serving of red meat every single day. Not surprisingly, these same participants were more likely to have unhealthy diets overall.
Update: The Susan G. Komen Foundation has reversed its decision and will continue to allow Planned Parenthood to receive grant funding! Of the reversal, they stated, "amending our criteria will ensure that politics has no place in our grant process…We do not want our mission marred or affected by politics – anyone's politics." Read the Komen statement here.


We follow a quasi-Agile development process, wherein the Dev and QA are separate teams. Also, when the Dev team completes all the tickets in the Sprint, the build is then released to QA. As per our current practice, the Dev team only enter their efforts as Story Points, but we are now moving to include the QA tasks too into the Sprint.
How will the Sprint Burndown or Release Burndown Charts look like, when we know that there will be a gap between when Dev mark their task as Done and when QA mark their task as Done, biut both of these are done at different times.
One approach would be to have the release burndown charts reflecting true "Done-Done" with sizing based on the overall effort & complexity of a given story or work item, but then have the Dev and QA teams size their effort separately such that sprint burndown charts would still be useful for showing their individual team's progress.
This pattern is not optimal - too many opportunities for finger-pointing and delays which could be avoided with true end-to-end delivery happening within the same team.
Thanks for the inputs. Let me try out by having separate Sprints for Dev & QA and also need to check how to relate these Sprints into the Release Burndown Chart..
You may want to consider QC as having their own sprint. That way, you can measure each function's sprints independently. You can even have the development and QC sprints overlap.
It's still not ideal because development is not done until QC says it's done. You are literally stretching your stories over longer periods.
Don't forget that you lose any chance for defects found by QC to be put back in the same build. You don't have a choice but to prioritize the defects, along with your product backlog, for the next iteration.
You are right, by saying that we are stretching the story and until QA/QC says done, the user story is not done. That's exactly how we operate today, whenever QA/QC reports an issue, we triage it and if the PO wants the ticket to be fixed, it is pushed into the next Sprint, else it is left in the Backlog.
From a burndown chart perspective, the user story will stretch until the QA/QC says it is done; even though the implementation has completed much before QA says it is done. Is this understanding correct?
It depends on what you mean by implementation, Robert. I would like to think that QC is completed before you actually release software to the client.
By "implementation", i mean that developer has completed his coding of the feature/bug.. Yes, as a process once QA completes their validation and if there aren't any critical/major issues, then we go ahead with a release process, wherein the developer lead/QA Lead/Engineering Manager/Project Manager approve the deliverables for release to the market..
Normally, the product owner, usually not one of the roles you listed, approves a build for market release.
Can any share the sprint Burndown charts templates ??
The problem is the defintion of Done I understood you are using. Is not about tasks. Is about product ready to be delivered.


How Can I Afford Treatment for a Drug Addiction as a College Student?
Contributor: Erica Smith, MA, NCC of Life Center of Galax.
Life as a college student can be rough in many respects. For many individuals, finances can be a particular point of struggle during this time. So, when a college student finds him or herself battling an addiction, the thought of getting treatment can seem like a daunting, unaffordable option. But it does not have to be.
Great strides have been made within various insurance companies, as well as within the composition of the Affordable Care Act, to ensure that individuals are able to receive the help they need when they are struggling with mental health concerns and substance abuse issues. As part of the efforts of the Affordable Care Act, coverage for mental healthcare and chemical dependency treatment are now supposed to be on an even playing field with traditional medical healthcare. This means that those individuals who are struggling with substance use disorders or other types of mental illness should have access to the same levels of care that they would receive if they were suffering from a medical concern.
There are a number of different options for health insurance coverage available to college students. First of all, many individuals can remain covered by their parents' health insurance plans until they reach the age of 26. Additionally, many colleges and universities offer health insurance plans to their students. Another option is through Health Insurance Marketplace, which is where people can compare government healthcare coverage offered through the Affordable Care Act. When health insurance is obtained through any of these outlets, college students should then have access to receiving behavioral healthcare treatment, including treatment for substance abuse.
Treatment centers that provide care for addictions will work closely with insurance companies to get authorization for treatment. In other words, when a college student arrives at a treatment center in need of care for chemical dependency, a staff member at that particular treatment center should contact the student's insurance company, verify his or her benefits, and then provide all of the information necessary to receive approval and authorization for treatment to begin. In speaking with the insurance company, the staff member at the treatment center should also verify what level of care will be covered by insurance, what specific services within that level of care will be covered, and the length of time that that coverage will last. If, for example, the insurance company authorizes 5 days of inpatient treatment, but then the student ends up needing to spend an additional 3 days in treatment, the treatment center staff should again contact the insurance company to advocate for the student and get more time added onto his or her coverage. Essentially all communication with the insurance company should be handled by the staff at the treatment center so that the student can instead place his or her sole focus on his or her recovery.
If a college student needs treatment for a drug or alcohol addiction, yet does not have health insurance, there are many treatment centers that will work with him or her in regards to setting up a payment plan. In doing so, a student will be able to receive the treatment he or she needs without having to worry about covering the full cost of treatment up front. Such circumstances will vary depending on the particular treatment center, but inquiries can be made to find out the specific cost and payback requirements by contacting the admissions department at any treatment center.
While it may seem like addiction treatment is an unaffordable expense that would be best left ignored, this is simply not the case. The effects that can arise in an individual's life when treatment is not sought can be far-reaching, long-lasting, and truly devastating. Not only does substance abuse put the physical health of individuals at risk, but it can also impact their mental health, their social interactions, their academic standings, their occupational abilities, and their overall wellbeing. For these reasons and more, seeking treatment for an addiction is imperative, and finding a treatment center that will work within one's budget or within one's health insurance limitations is not an impossible feat.
Have you entered treatment for addiction as a college student? What resources were used to pay for your treatment, what advice do you have to share?
"How Can I Afford Treatment for a Drug Addiction as a College Student?" was written by Life Center of Galax clinical team member, Erica Smith, MA, NCC. Erica has several years of experience working in the treatment field as a clinical therapist and has her Master's degree in Clinical Community Counseling from the American School of Professional Psychology at Argosy University.
Located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Southwest Virginia, Life Center of Galax (http://galax.crchealth.com) has been providing life-changing addiction treatment services since 1973. The center is a national leader in the effort to help adult men and women who are struggling with substance abuse and addiction, as well as dual diagnosis concerns. Life Center of Galax offers both inpatient/residential and outpatient treatment programs, with specialized residential treatment tracks that are designed to provide truly unique and individualized treatment to each person who seeks care at this world-class center.


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Review – The Goddamned #5 (Image Comics)
Posted on November 23, 2016 in Image Reviews
Writer: Jason Aaron
Art: R.M. Guéra, Giulia Brusco
Release Date: 23rd November 2016
After an almost six-month delay, the final issue in the first arc of Jason Aaron and RM Guéra's The Goddamned is here, and while it's undoubtedly tough for a series to keep any sense of momentum going after such a long hiatus, I'm happy to report that the first arc's conclusion is more than worth the wait.
When we last saw Cain, he had experienced something of an epiphany, deciding that he no longer wanted to die following the realisation that he finally has something worth fighting for – or killing for, as it happens. Unfortunately, his change of heart may have come a little too late as an attack by the damned on Noah's ark sees things degenerate into a maelstrom of blood, mud and ravenous animals in fairly rapid fashion.
For the bulk of this issue, Aaron wisely steps back just a little, letting Guéra take the wheel in truly spectacular fashion. The creators have made no secret of the reasoning behind the frequent delays to the series, with Guéra holding his hand up and stating that he wanted to make sure everything was 'just right' from a visual point of view before releasing this issue. Well, that sense of perfectionism certainly pays off here, with one of the most visceral, violent and visually dynamic issues of the Serbian artist's career – which isn't a claim I make lightly, given his stellar portfolio of previous work.
Once again, Giulia Brusco deserves to be singled out for additional praise, with her intentionally murky colours helping to bring the shit and blood-stained world that Aaron and Guéra have created to life. The pages almost feel dirty as the chaos unfolds and the bodies start to pile up, and at the same time everything remains clear and detailed throughout, with the wonderful use of pale blues and purples – along with occasional flashes of crimson – never swallowing things up entirely.
Okay, so this may feel like a bit of a sprint finish after a relatively sedate pace to the arc so far, but all the storyline seeds Aaron had previously planted bear fruit here, with Cain's change of heart giving the story an extra layer of pathos as his deeply flawed humanity finally shines through. It's far from a happy ending however, as Aaron takes one last opportunity to twist the knife – literally – in the final pages, providing an unapologetic "fuck you" to both Cain and the world he inhabits.
Ultimately then, the worst complaint that can be levelled at The Goddamned to this point is the release schedule, which has admittedly made it a tough series to stay fully engaged with. Thankfully however, as I mentioned before, Aaron and Guéra most definitely stick the landing of this first arc perfectly, setting things up for what should be a drastically changed Cain when the second volume arrives in 2017.
As I mentioned in one of my earlier reviews, this is definitely not your grandma's bible story, but over the last five issues, The Goddamned has also gradually evolved into something far more interesting than simply an ultra-violent religious adaptation. Highly recommended.
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Lenny Kravitz is a remarkably talented musician, record producer and actor popularly recognized as Nurse John in the movie Precious which earned him a Black Reel Award as well as a Boston Society of Film Critics Award.
Lenny's career was officially launched in the late 80's with the release of the album Let Love Rule.
By 1998, be ventured into the movie industry portraying the voice of a new-born baby in The Rugrats Movie.
Musically, he has attained one of the most recognition of his career through his Grammy Award-winning single titled American Woman. This was not the only song that won him a Grammy Award as other of his singles such as Dig in, Fly Away and Again gave him such high recognition.
His acting career was boosted in 2013 with his roles in the famous movies The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and The Butler.
Lenny is straight. In 1987, he tied the knot with the well-known American actress Lisa Bonet but unfortunately, their union fell apart within 6 years.
Lenny grew up exposed to fame as his mother was the famous actress Roxie Roker.
His father Sy Kravitz was NBC News producer and ex-Green Beret.
As a result of his marriage to Lisa, Lenny has a daughter named Zoë Kravitz who also walked in his career path and is currently a successful actress, singer and model.
Lenny is a Christian who remains devoted to his faith. Proclaiming his faith, he has a tattoo which states that his heart belongs to Jesus Christ.
Lenny was introduced to the piano by the legendary pianist, Duke Ellington.
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Yuri Shtern – Life Story
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Jun 30, 2016 | In Memoriam |
יורי שטרן Yuri Shtern 1949-2007
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1949-1966 Yuri Shtern was born in Moscow in 1949, and spent most of his childhood in central...
University Studies and Zionist Activism
1966-1981 Yuri excelled in high school and upon graduation, he was accepted at Moscow University's Faculty of Economics and Cybernetics. Over the next decade, he completed his BA and MA degrees and at age 29, he received his ...
First Years in Israel
1981–1995 Upon arrival in Israel, the Shtern family moved into the absorption center in Mevasseret Zion, outside Jerusalem, together with other families who had been part of the group of aliya activists in Russia. For the first...
Activities for Soviet Jewry
1985-1989 Soviet Jewry Education and Information Center By 1985, Yuri's work with his friends in the Soviet immigration group, which had continued unabated, became his sole focus. Believing he was lucky to flee the Soviet...
1989-1995 In 1989, Yuri Shtern approached the Federation of the Israeli Chambers of Commerce with...
Knesset Activities
1996 – 2007 Yuri's move into political life was not an obvious transition because he was, in fact, not a politician. But his sense of mission and his understanding that this was indeed a natural progression tipped the scales in...
The Christian Allies Caucus
On January 5, 2004, MK Dr. Yuri Shtern established the Knesset Christian Allies Caucus (KCAC), comprised of 14 members of Knesset. Its goal: to build a direct line of communication, cooperation and coordination between the...
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Q: Sharepoint Custom Upload Field and attachments? I developed a custom sharepoint field that uploads a file in a specific document library and stores the url of the file after saqving it as the value of the field.
the problem is that the uploaded file is stored twice one in the library as I want and the other as an attachment with the item in the list that has this field.
how can I avoid savig the file as an attachment ?
thank you
Edit: Here's the Code:
public override void UpdateFieldValueInItem()
        {

            string name="";

            if(fileUploader.PostedFile.FileName!="")
            {
            //method to store the posted file in a certain library
            string x= UploadFile(this.Web, fileUploader.PostedFile.FileName,fileUploader.FileName,out name);

            //Stores The URL and the name of the file
            SPFieldUrlValue urlValue = new SPFieldUrlValue() {
                Description=name,
                Url=x
            };

            this.Value = urlValue;
            this.ItemFieldValue = urlValue;
            }
}

UploadFile method
string UploadFile(SPWeb web,string path,string fileName,out string name)
        {
            UploadField uf = (UploadField)base.Field;

            SPList docsList = web.Lists[uf.StoreList];
            SPFolder folder = web.GetFolder(docsList.RootFolder.UniqueId);
            byte[] contents = File.ReadAllBytes(path);

            SPFile file= folder.Files.Add(folder.Url + "/" + fileName, contents);
            //folder.Update();
            SPListItem item = docsList.Items[file.UniqueId];

            name = item["Name"].ToString();
            return getItemURL(item);

        }

A: From the code I can see that, you are uploading to the library, but just ensure that there is no post back happening.
Again, I would suggest, you to create the link manually.
It is mostly of the form
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US Federal Reserve chairman, Jerome Powell.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Tuesday that the global economy is recovering strongly for the first time in a decade, but the central bank needs to remain alert to any emerging risks to financial stability.
He said the Fed is seeking to normalise its policies in a way that will extend the recovery and bolster its goals of achieving stable inflation and maximum employment.
Powell took the oath of office the first time on February 5 when he succeeded Janet Yellen as Fed chairman. The Fed released a brief pre-recorded video message at that time in which Powell pledged to remain "vigilant" to any emerging economic risks.
Powell is certain to face questions on how the Fed plans to deal with the market turmoil when he delivers the central bank's semi-annual monetary report to Congress on February 28.