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Q: Using 2 buttons in same ASP.NET MVC Form In general, is it possible to have two different buttons within the same form that post to different controller actions in ASP.NET MVC?
I am essentially trying to have two input (type="button") tags in the same form, but I want them to perform different controller actions.  I would like to do this in a few cases because I think it provides a good aesthetic to be able to click buttons as opposed to hyperlinks.  Is there a way to do this or should I design it differently?

A: Not really possible without using Javascript.  With Javascript you'd just have to define different click handlers that invoked the proper action.
 $(function() {
      $('#button1').click( function() {
          $(form).attr( 'action', '<% Url.Action( "action1" ) %>' )
                 .submit();
          return false; // prevent default submission
      });
      $('#button2').click( function() {
           $(form).attr( 'action', '<% Url.Action( "action2" ) %>' )
                 .submit();
          return false; // prevent default submission
      });
});

A: Some thoughts about handling this in the browser:

*

*You can use links which are styled to look like buttons. This is easy to do, either with images or by putting the link in a block element with borders.

*You can use two buttons which don't directly submit; they instead call a javascript function that sets the form action before submitting.

A: If all you want is something like OK & Cancel buttons, then have a look at this post by David Findley.
I'm using this method on my Edit view, where I have an Edit button and a Delete button. The delete button only requires the Id of the item. In the code below you can see that I've named my attribute "AcceptFormValueAttribute". This is method good for me, because my Delete [Get] action just shows a message asking for confirmation, so needs the redirect.
    [ActionName("Edit")]
    [AcceptFormValue(Name = "Action", Value = "Delete")]
    [AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post)]
    [ValidateAntiForgeryToken]
    public ActionResult EditDelete(int? id)
    {
        return RedirectToAction("Delete", new { id = id });
    }

A: This has nothing to do with ASP.NET MVC but with html. The only way I see how you could do this is by modifying the action attribute of the form tag using javascript on submission of the form by checking which button was pressed.

A: Well there are a few ways you could handle this. Assuming you aren't sending data with the button click I'd go with option 3. If data must be included then consider option 1 with some sort of temporary data store (like TempData).

*

*One form posts to one controller
action on submit and the controller
action checks which button was
clicked and then dispatches a
RedirectToAction(). (Not great)

*Multiple forms on one page post to multiple controller actions (Better)

*Inside or outside a form create an input type="button" and give it an onclick handler
that redirects the user to a controller action (Best)

A: Haven't tried this, but given the ID of the clicked button does get sent VIA http POST, you could probably do something like:
<input type="submit" name="GO" ID="GO" value="GO BUTTON" />
<input type="submit" name="STOP" ID="STOP" value="STOP BUTTON" />

Then on the mvc end, just have two methods, one with a go parameter, one with a stop parameter.

A: Method #1
How about using two different forms wrapping the buttons, then using CSS to position one of them so that it appears (visually) to be inside the "main" form?
A really quick example:

<fieldset id="CombinedForm">

<form ... action="Method1">
  ...form stuff here...
  <input id="Button1" type="submit" value="Do something">
</form>

<form ... action="Method2">
  ...form stuff here...
  <input id="Button2" type="submit" value="Do something else">
</form>

</fieldset>

...Then using CSS as follows:

#CombinedForm {
  position: relative;
  padding-bottom: 2em; /* leave space for buttons */
}

#Button1, #Button2 {
  position: absolute;
  bottom: 0;
}

#Button1 {
  left: 0;
}

#Button2 {
  right: 0;
}

The result should be that you have a fieldset or div which looks like a form, having two actual HTML forms inside it, and two buttons which are positioned within the parent box, yet submitting to different locations.
Method #2
Another method occurs: have both buttons in the same form, pointing to one controller action, that then decides (based on the value of the button clicked) which action to redirect to.

A: Its not Javascript required...
how about this

public ActionResult DoSomething()
  {
       // Some business logic
       TempData["PostedFormValues"] = Request.Form;
       if (Request.Form("ButtonA") != null)
       {
          return RedirectToAction("ActionA", RouteData.Values);
       }
       return RedirectToAction("ActionB", RouteData.Values);
  }

A: I think that I can suggest more simple one.
For example you have two buttons : ButtonA,ButtonB  and want to perform different
action on each one.
Simplest solution is : just use BeginForm statement:
@using ( Html.BeginForm("ButtonA" , "Home") )
{
        <input type="submit" value="ButtonA"/>
}

@using ( Html.BeginForm("ButtonB" , "Home") )
{
        <input type="submit" value="ButtonB" />
}

You must also declare ButtonA,ButtonB actions in your Home controller :
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult ButtonA()
{ . . . }

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult ButtonB()
{ . . . }


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From intern to AD, Florida's Jeremy Foley retires as the standard bearer for contemporary athletic directors
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By Andy Staples
The message was a couple of days old by the time I played it. I hadn't been answering my phone that week in December 2006 unless the call related to funeral arrangements. My mother had died a few days earlier after a fight with cancer, and I didn't want to talk to anyone. But the voicemails had piled up, so I pressed play. All were from longtime friends and relatives—except one.
"Hi, Andy, this is Jeremy Foley…"
At the time, I covered Florida sports for The Tampa Tribune. Florida's athletic director had called me plenty for work-related reasons. We had a good working relationship. He didn't always like what I wrote, but I tried to be fair, and he appreciated that. He was always willing to answer questions—even difficult ones—and I didn't realize how much I appreciated that until a few years later when I began dealing with other athletic directors who seemed scared to talk.
Foley was known to place the occasional phone call to a reporter to yell about something he didn't like, but I knew this wasn't one of those calls. Foley had heard about my mom's death, so he called. I don't remember exactly what he said, but it felt reassuring. He had lost his mom in 1992 and soaked in the same stew of frustration, anger and sadness.
Less than three years later, I wasn't answering the phone for a much happier reason. My wife and I were celebrating the birth of our first child. When I cycled through the voicemails, there was another one from Jeremy Foley offering congratulations.
Foley didn't have to make those calls, but he made them anyway. He didn't have to learn the name and personal history of every employee and intern in Florida's athletic department, but he did it anyway. Foley also didn't have to fire winning baseball, gymnastics and tennis coaches, but he did it anyway and wound up winning bigger. That's how Foley handled his business during a 25-year run as Florida's athletic director that he has decided will end on Oct. 1.
In the process, Foley helped change the way everyone in major college athletics handled their business. Hired as the athletic director at a time when the job typically went to an ex-coach, Foley was a CEO who understood every facet of the athletic department because he'd worked at most of the jobs in the department. The Gators' success on the field and on the balance sheet made him the model for the ADs who came later. Monday, Foley announced his retirement. During his tenure, Florida's teams have won 27 national titles and 130 SEC titles. Not bad for a guy who only found the school because he really, really needed an internship.
Foley's tenure will be remembered as the time Florida established itself as a national power in nearly every sport it offered. He presided over the majority of Steve Spurrier's tenure in The Swamp. He brought Billy Donovan to Florida, and Donovan brought two basketball national championships. Foley will be forever dinged for hiring Ron Zook and Will Muschamp, but he also hired Urban Meyer, who brought Florida its second and third football national titles.
Foley arrived in Gainesville in 1976 to intern in Florida's ticket office. Florida ticket office manager Hardee McAlhaney had requested an intern from Ohio University's sports management graduate school, and the Bobcats sent him the only student in the program who hadn't secured the internship necessary to complete his master's degree.
When McAlhaney picked up the 23-year-old Foley at the airport, Foley had come from home in New Hampshire, where he had been working a landscaping job. Foley had dressed for winter and landed in the sticky Florida summer. One of Foley's first tasks was to enter a room McAlhaney called "The Vault" and double-check every paper ticket for the upcoming football season against a master list. "He probably did ticket checks for a month," McAlhaney said in a 2006 interview. By the end of Foley's six-month internship, McAlhaney had taken a new job and Foley was hired to replace him. "I was happy as hell," Foley said. "I was making $11,000. I had a full-time job, and I was working in sports. I was thrilled at the opportunity."
Forty years later, Foley has made the most of that opportunity. He hasn't always been popular. The Zook hire launched the cottage industry of Fire[InsertCoach'sName].com sites. The Muschamp era had some donors ready to revolt. His decisions to fire winning coaches such as Andy Lopez (baseball), Judi Markell (gymnastics), Ian Duvenhage (men's tennis) and Pat McMahon (baseball, again) were locally controversial at the time, but those programs won bigger after each move.
Foley's last high-profile hire, football coach Jim McElwain, was criticized at the time, but those criticisms vanished when McElwain led the Gators to the SEC East title in his first season. Foley always demanded success from his coaches, and national titles in soccer and gymnastics meant as much to him as titles in football and men's basketball. "He was the first who said, 'Look, you're going to win in golf. You're going to win in tennis. I'll pay you, but you're going to win,'" former LSU baseball coach and athletic director Skip Bertman said 10 years ago. "And by God, they won every year."
Foley has most recently faced criticism for Florida's football facilities, which for years lagged behind their SEC counterparts. The Gators finally opened an indoor practice facility last year, but McElwain is pushing for a dedicated football building that more resembles the ones at other SEC schools. For years, Foley resisted building the indoor facility. Perhaps it was because the guy who occupied the office next door until 2001 made fun of the "big schools" that had them and kept right on winning games until he left for the NFL. Or perhaps it was because Foley didn't want to carry the same debt as the programs that went on building sprees. Former Florida president Bernie Machen loved that Foley kept the debt low and always kept cash in reserve, but that became an issue in an age when recruits expect waterfalls in the training room.
In many ways, Foley's athletic department still runs much as it did when the Gators were building up in the 1990s. The next AD likely will reorganize it to function better in the 21st century, but if that AD is smart, he or she will keep many of the policies that made Foley's run so successful. Pay well, but demand success. Care about every employee. Remember that the personal touches matter. Answer questions—even the tough ones.
No matter who gets the job, they'll be replacing the man who provided the model for the modern athletic director.
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T. rex didn't need proper arms thanks to its neck
Life 15 April 2014
By Sarah Spickernell
T. Rex – rubbish at arm-wrestling
(Image: Ugurhan Betin/Getty)
Tyrannosaurus rex was the most terrifying animal that ever lived, apart from its silly little arms, which were no use for anything. Now it seems this giant predator did not need proper arms, because its head and neck were so powerful.
Tyrannosaurs, the family of big predatory dinosaurs that includes T. rex, had necks that were similar to those of modern birds. So by studying how birds feed, Eric Snively of the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse and his colleagues were able to reconstruct how T. rex went about making a kill.
"We looked at a number of raptors and documented their behaviour," says Snively. "There is a strong possibility that the tyrannosaurs behaved in the same way."
Snively placed electrodes on the skin of a dozen birds from 10 different species, ranging from domestic chickens to bald eagles. That allowed him to identify the precise muscle movements underlying each stage of feeding.
Shake and snap
Snively found that the birds often raised their heads and fixed their vision on the prey before lowering their heads to attack. T. rex had most of the same muscles, suggesting it could perform the same movements. That would also include raising its head, thrusting it upwards and pulling back with its legs once it has taken a bite.
Many of the birds also shook their necks, and the main muscle involved was found in the necks of tyrannosaurs. "The shaking motion is the same as when a dog shakes off water," says Snively. "We think that the dinosaur would have used this motion to dislodge meat from a carcass."
Their powerful necks could explain why tyrannosaurs had such small arms, says Snively. "Tyrannosaurs didn't need big arms to hunt, because their powerful bites and hyper-bulldog necks did the job," he says. "From the shoulders forward, T. rex was like a whole killer whale: just bite, shake and twist."
Tyrannosaur necks are also similar to crocodile necks. "We can think of them as striking like a bird, and shake-feeding like a crocodile," says Snively.
The results are promising, says David Hone of Queen Mary University of London. "We need to be careful not to overly rely on these as analogies, but in at least some ways, some animals like tyrannosaurs that are relatively distant from birds are still very bird-like."
Journal reference: Journal of Zoology, DOI: 10.1111/jzo.12109
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E has started to put together sentences, and it's super fun. Recent ones include "I see a ball!" and "The turkey went away!" Except when he says it, it sounds more like "Dah-dee wah huh-way!" It takes a large part of my day to interpret all of his words and thoughts. I'm not always right, and if anyone else is around we get a lot of second guessing. Yes, I know that turkey sounds like daddy, but I guarantee you that he's saying turkey.
We've learned the hard way that breath holding spells can be genetic. Yup, little G likes to hold his breath and turn purple when he's upset. So. Much. Fun. (Or not). Luckily he hasn't passed out yet, and luckily E wasn't this early when his started, otherwise we definitely would have ended up frantic in an ER. Instead you might just see Tom jump out of his car in the Starbucks drive through so he can go frantically blow in G's face until he starts breathing again.
I don't know why, but E is really obsessed with school buses lately. He found the one book we have (that I don't even remember reading to him in the past year) that has a school bus on exactly one page. He requests the book, specifically that page, over and over. We also have a few school buses that pass our house in the morning. The other day I managed to catch two of them quick enough for E to watch them go by. Unfortunately this leads to him looking out the window at all hours, looking for his bus. And leads Tom and I to be on super watch in the mornings to try and catch them for him.
It reminds me of when I was in elementary school and my mom used to watch out the window in her bedroom for when my bus was coming. She'd see it turn the corner down the road and call out to me, and then I'd run out the house and down the driveway, just making it to the bottom in time to get picked up.
E has moved on from "uh oh" as his favorite phrase, to "Oh no!" It's used similarly, but is a bit more dramatic and involves a shocked expression with his hands on his cheeks. Which is especially funny when the thing he's shocked about is something he did purposefully. (World's biggest ham here…). I've also managed to teach him to say "Alright" like Matthew McConaughey, which causes me to break out giggling every. single. time.
As for me and Tom? I swear the best thing you can do for a marriage is paternity leave. I'm not talking that 2 week nonsense in the beginning - that's just basic survival. I'm talking weeks long, solo leave while the other parent is back at work. Because you can never understand the weirdness of sitting at home and realizing that you don't go to work anymore, and all you do is keep the baby alive, unless you've done it. You'll never understand the unpredictability of your days or hours, or how you can have the most hectic 20 minutes that feel like hours, or the most calm hours that feels like minutes, all in the same day, unless you've experienced it. The same goes for how weird it is to be at work like everything is normal, but you have a new person living in your house and you're not there to watch them. Sure you can talk and explain all you want, but the best way to feel empathy for someone is to experience what they do. It's only been two weeks, but I already feel like Tom and I are speaking the same language again.


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Liver and Gallbladder Disorders /
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Overview of the Liver and Gallbladder
Gallbladder and Biliary Tract
Effects of Aging on the Liver
Cholestasis is reduction or stoppage of the flow of bile, the digestive fluid produced by the liver. It can be caused by disorders of the liver, bile duct, or pancreas. Which of the following is a key symptom that is almost always present in people with cholestasis?
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The wedge-shaped liver is the largest—and, in some ways, the most complex—organ in the body. It serves as the body's chemical factory, performing many vital functions, from regulating the levels of chemicals in the body to producing substances that make blood clot (clotting factors) during bleeding. (See also Overview of the Liver and Gallbladder.)
The liver manufactures about half of the body's cholesterol. The rest comes from food. Most of the cholesterol made by the liver is used to make bile, a greenish yellow, thick, sticky fluid that aids in digestion. Cholesterol is also needed to make certain hormones, including estrogen, testosterone, and the adrenal hormones, and is a vital component of every cell membrane. The liver manufactures other substances, including proteins needed by the body for its functions. For example, clotting factors are proteins needed to stop bleeding. Albumin is a protein needed to maintain fluid pressure in the bloodstream.
Sugars are stored in the liver as glycogen and then broken down and released into the bloodstream as glucose when needed—for example, during sleep when a person spends many hours without eating and sugar levels in the blood become too low.
The liver also breaks down harmful or toxic substances (toxins) absorbed from the intestine or manufactured elsewhere in the body and then excretes them as harmless by-products into the bile or blood. By-products excreted into bile enter the intestine, then leave the body in stool. By-products excreted into blood are filtered out by the kidneys, then leave the body in urine. The liver also chemically alters (metabolizes) drugs (see Drug Metabolism), often making them inactive or easier to excrete from the body.
The liver receives blood directly from the intestines, as well as from the heart, as do all other organs. Blood from the intestines contains nearly everything absorbed by the intestines, including nutrients, drugs, and sometimes toxins. This blood flows through tiny capillaries in the intestinal wall into the portal vein, which enters the liver. The blood then flows through a latticework of tiny channels inside the liver, where digested nutrients and toxins are processed.
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Does anybody want to go on a cruise September 30?
Are you talking a week-long trip to Mexico, a weekend trip to the Carribbean, or a sunset dinner cruise?
Carnival Destiny, four nights out of Miami. Departs on Thursday, in Key West Friday, Cozumel Saturday until 10:00 PM. Sunday at sea, and return to Miami on Monday morning. Bring the baby.
Not much response to that! Would it be better if the cruise was February 5, 2011? We are booked on the Norwegian Epic. Entertainment is by the Blue Man Group. The itinerary includes Roatan Honduras, Costa Maya Mexico, and Cozumel.
That same cruise Martha and John King are hosting for $550-710 per person can be bought online for $369-569. Wonder where the extra $181 p/p is going? Maybe it counts as a bi-annual flight review.
From sunny Playa Yaraguanal, Holguin Province.


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Modelling agriculture in the Republic of Ireland: Agenda 2000 impacts. Paper presented at the Agricultural Economics Society in Belfast, Irish Republic, 26-29 March, 1999
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Modelling agriculture in the Re ic of Ireland: Agenda 2000 impacts Paper presented at the Agricultural Economics Society in Belfast, Irish Re ic, 26-29 March, 1999: 27 pp.
Despite the strong growth of the Irish economy in recent years, the agriculture and food sectors in Ireland are still of considerable importance relative to the sector in other EU countries. Ireland's reliance on third markets, and the importance of the livestock sector as a whole have meant that difficulties facing EU agriculture have been particularly acute. Results of a simulation of the March 1998 Agenda 2000 proposals are presented.
Towards an econometric model of the Irish agricultural sector. Paper presented at the Irish Economics Association Annual Meeting in Westport, Irish Republic, 23-25 April, 1999. Towards an econometric model of the Irish agricultural sector Paper presented at the Irish Economics Association Annual Meeting in Westport, Irish Re ic, 23-25 April, 1999: 30 pp., 1999
Agriculture and the environment: the proceedings of a conference on the integration of EC environmental objectives with agricultural policy, held in the Royal Dublin Society, Irish Republic from March 9-11, 1994. Agriculture and the environment: the proceedings of a conference on the integration of EC environmental objectives with agricultural policy, held in the Royal Dublin Society, Irish Re ic from March 9-11, 1994: ii + 136 pp., 1994
A new approach to the economics of grading. Paper read to Agricultural Economics Society of Ireland, 1st March, 1974. A new approach to the economics of grading Paper read to Agricultural Economics Society of Ireland, 1st March, 1974: 26, 1974
Irish Botanists' Meeting, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK, March 29-31, 1999. Biology & Environment 100B(1): 41-67, 2000
Proceedings Outlook 2000. Medium term analysis for the agri-food sector, Royal Dublin Society, Dublin, Irish Republic, 22nd March 2000. Proceedings Outlook 2000 Medium term analysis for the agri food sector, Royal Dublin Society, Dublin, Irish Re ic, 22nd March 2000: v + 80 pp., 2000
Effects of liberalization in the agricultural and food sectors on employment: contributions to the joint conference of the Swiss Society for Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Sociology and the Austrian Agricultural Economics Society in Rorschach on Bodensee on 25th and 26th March 1999. Auswirkungen der Liberalisierung im Agrar und Errnahrungssektor auf die Beschaftigung Beitrage der gemeinsamen Tagung der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft fur Agrarwirtschaft und Agrarsoziologie und der osterreichischen Gesellschaft fur Agrarokonomie in Rorschach am Bodensee, 25 und 26 Marz 1999: 224 pp., 1999
The agricultural and food sector in a society on its way to sustainability. Meeting of the Swiss Society for Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology (SGA) and the Institute for Agricultural Economics ETH Zurich, 23 March 2000, Switzerland. Agrarwirtschaft und Agrarsoziologie ( 2): 117 pp., 2000
Is '1992' really important for Irish agriculture and food? Paper presented at the TEAGASC-AFDA Conference, The challenge of 1992 for the rural economy, held on September 28, 1988, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Irish Republic. Is ' 1992' really important for Irish agriculture and food? Paper presented at the TEAGASC AFDA Conference, The challenge of 1992 for the rural economy, held on September 28, 1988, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Irish Re ic:, 1988
Meeting of the British Society for Rheumatology, Heberden Round held jointly with the Irish Society for Rheumatology and Society for Irish and American Rheumatologists, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK, September 11-12, 1997. British Journal of Rheumatology 36(SUPPL 2): 3-44, 1997
The role of economics in the planning of appropriate agricultural mechanization for Tanzania. Paper presented to the Agricultural Economics Society of Tanzania Conference, Morogoro 10-11 December, 1981. The role of economics in the planning of appropriate agricultural mechanization for Tanzania Paper presented to the Agricultural Economics Society of Tanzania Conference, Morogoro 10-11 December, 1981: 9, 1981
Effects of liberalization in the agriculture and food sector on employment - 1999 joint conference of the Austrian Agricultural Economics Association (OGA) and the Swiss Society for Agricultural Economics and Sociology (SGA) at Rorschach on Bodensee. Monatsberichte uber die Osterreichische Landwirtschaft 46(4): 258-260, 1999
Summer Meeting of the Nutrition Society, Cork, Irish Republic, 27-30 June, 2000. Proceedings of the Nutrition Society 60(2): 161-289, 2001
Indirect tax harmonisation and 1992: implications for the agricultural sector. Paper presented at the TEAGASC-AFDA Conference, The challenge of 1992 for the rural economy, held on September 28, 1988, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Irish Republic. Indirect tax harmonisation and 1992: implications for the agricultural sector Paper presented at the TEAGASC AFDA Conference, The challenge of 1992 for the rural economy, held on September 28, 1988, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Irish Re ic:, 1988
Agricultural Economics Society of Ireland conference, February 2000. Proceedings of the Agricultural Economics Society of Ireland, 1999-2000: 224 pp., 2004
Biodiversity - a natural national resource. Selected papers from a workshop of the Environmental Sciences Association of Ireland, Dublin, Irish Republic, 10-11 November 2000. Biology and Environment: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Section B 102B(3): 119-195, 2002


Democrats and Republicans don't see eye to eye very often, but they can safely agree on one point: welfare doesn't work. We must redesign this entire system. In the most prosperous nation in the world, it is ludicrous that children are growing up in the kind of deprivation we normally associate with developing countries.
DEBATE: Is a Basic Income Better Than Welfare?
As we spend so much time debating who's right about whether robots will take most of our jobs and whether there'll be a need for a basic income, other arguments for such a policy get "crowded out" of the discussion.


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Peter Amollo (P. A.) Odhiambo, MBBS, MMed (Surg), FRCS (Edin), FCS (ECSA), FACC, is a Kenyan consultant thoracic and cardiovascular surgeon. He is Kenya's first cardiothoracic surgeon and a professor of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery at the University of Nairobi. He is a founder and former chairman of the Kenya Cardiac Society, and a former president of the Pan African Society of Cardiology (PASCAR). Odhiambo is the chairman of the Kenya Tobacco Control Board. He is also the founder and editor of Medicom, the African Journal of Hospital Medicine.

Biography

In 1986, Odhiambo was given an award for an outstanding contribution in medicine by the Giant Federation of Kenya, and in 1993 he received another award from PASCAR for his distinguished service to cardiology in Africa. He was the tenth dean of Nairobi University's Faculty, now School of Medicine, serving from 1992 to 1996. During his tenure, he successfully steered the faculty towards cost-sharing through its most difficult period for both staff and students. In 2012,  he was given the Mater Hospital Recognition Award, followed, in 2013, by the SSK award for Outstanding Role in Medical Education and Teaching. He conceptualized and then chaired the University of Nairobi Teaching Hospital Project. He has written two books: Tobacco Versus Health and Making Sense of Cessation of Tobacco.

Odhiambo has campaigned widely against substance use and is at the forefront in the fight for the liberation of tobacco farmers in East Africa. He has steered the Kenya Tobacco Control Board to a successful level enabling the board be legally institutionalized. He has also played a key role in ensuring that the legal mandate of the board is within the laid down legal framework as per the Tobacco Control Act of 2007, thus the Board has all the necessary instruments to operate legally. In 2008, Odhiambo won a World No Tobacco Day Award from the World Health Organization for his accomplishments in the area of tobacco control. In 2016, the Tobacco Control Board of Kenya won a WHO World No Tobacco Day Award. He worked tirelessly behind the scenes to create awareness on the dangers of shisha (hookah), and was instrumental in the Kenya government's decision to ban shisha in the country.

He is involved in many community projects in his home village of Kanyaluo, found in Rachuonyo District in Western Kenya's Homa Bay County. He is a founder member and chairman of the Karachuonyo Development Society.

In 1998, Odhiambo's son, James Ocholla Odhiambo "Jordan", was gunned down by Kenyan policemen, for no cause, on his way home from the Nairobi Campus of the United States International University, where he was a student. The tragedy, which exposed corruption in the Kenya Police at that time, received wide media coverage and was a major source of motivation for Odhiambo's interest in, and consequent campaigns toward, the efficiency and effectiveness of the Kenya Police.

Odhiambo was educated at the Calcutta Medical College, Nairobi University, the University of Edinburgh, and McGill University. He resides in Nairobi with his family.

See also
 Luo people of Kenya and Tanzania

References
 Kimathi, Benson:The Death of Innocents, Daily Nation Saturday Magazine, 13-19 Jan 2001;
 Mayoyo, Patrick: Over 400,000 pupils are drug abusers, Daily Nation Wednesday, 25 June 2003;
 Odhiambo, Peter A.: Defence of Tobacco Won't Work, East African Standard, Saturday, 26 June 2004.
 Odhiambo, Peter A: The Truth about Tobacco and the Economy in Kenya, National Tobacco-Free Initiative,
 Orr, David: 'Hoax' AIDS Cure Makes a Fortune for Kenyan Coterie The Independent, London, 3 June 1996.
 Otieno-Onyando, John: How Tobacco Debate has shaped Economic Thought, Opinion, Kenya Times, 21 December 2006.
 World Health Organization: Kenya Commemorates World No-Tobacco Day, Country Press Releases, WHO Afro, 31 May 2006.

External links
 Kenya Cardiac Society
 Pan African Society of Cardiology
 Surgical Society of Kenya
 World No Tobacco Day 2008

Living people
Kenyan scientists
Kenyan surgeons
Medical educators
Year of birth missing (living people)
Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata alumni
University of Nairobi alumni
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
McGill University alumni

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If you missed our last update you can click here to catch up!
Whilst I didn't hit my book goal by the end of this year, I did pick up momentum over the Summer after throwing a few graphic novels and some fantastic YA books into my 'read' pile for 2015. I also managed to tick Hollow Pike, Armada, and The Night Circus off my books I vowed to read list for the year. They were the three I was most excited to read and they certainly didn't let me down!
I have read two of my 2015 vowed to read books, Ready Player One (Ernest Cline), and Life After Life (Kate Atkinson), of which both I loved. I definitely still want to read Unwind, but I think that my other two choices North and South and On the Road, might be a bit too 'heavy' for my current reading tastes, and may put them on the back burner for now.
A few months ago I realised that 48 was going to be unfeasible this year, so I changed to 45, which I have achieved. I've read 3 of the 5 books I vowed to read, The Wicked Shall Rise, Crown of Midnight, and Let's Get Lost. Landline is the next one my list, so that's another from the Vow to Read list. I have read quite a few good books this year, and quite a few rubbish ones. But that's life in the reading world!
Since our last update, the fifth and final title on my 'vowed' to read' list - Marissa Meyer's Winter - was released so I managed to just squeeze it in before the end of the year! I'm pleased to say that I really enjoyed all of my five choices for 2015 and I'm looking forward to picking out my 2016 list.
I've more than doubled my original goal so I'm very happy with my reading for 2015. My surprise favourite was Sharp Teeth by Toby Barlow - I've never read verse poetry before but it's definitely something I'll explore more.
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"I'll gamble all night. I sleep during the day," said Stephen Paddock, who gambled upwards of a million a nigtht and lived mostly at casino hotels for free.
A 97-page deposition obtained by CNN reveals details about the life of Stephen Paddock, the murderer behind the deadliest mass shooting in American history. In the documents, Paddock is revealed to have been a high-stakes gambler with a paranoiac and miserly streak.
The document comes by way of a 2013 deposition pertaining to a civil lawsuit against the Cosmopolitan Hotel, where he slipped and fell on a walkway in 2011. It may be the most comprehensive collection of information available on Paddock.
The deposition reveals that Paddock had no known mental health issues but had been perscribed Valium for "anxiousness."
"He's like on retainer, I call it, I guess," Paddock had said of the doctor who perscribed him the drugs. "It means I pay a fee yearly ... I have good access to him."
Paddock was also revealed to be somewhat of a drifter, living largely at hotel casinos, where he lived for free (an amenity provided to certain gamblers) about "95% of the time." He did not drink much according to his own testimony, but was often provided with free liquor by the hotels. He did not like to tip the waitresses who brought him drinks.
Paddock had described himself as one of the "biggest video poker players in the world ... I'll gamble all night. I sleep during the day ... I do not do sun." He said he had gambled upwards of $1 million each night.
Also revealed in the deposition is some basic biographical information on Paddock: he had been "raised mostly in California," and had worked as both an IRS agent and a real estate investor. The source of his wealth is unclear.
Throughout the deposition, Paddock's tone could be interpreted as arrogant or confrontational. When a lawyer commented that the millions he had gambled away each night was "a lot of money," Paddock replied: "No, it's not."


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Adventure Pay-Grounds
Paul Hocker
Essay12 December 2017
Children's play in London is increasingly stratified by wealth.
Shockingly, around 300,000 children in the capital won't play out today. Space for play is threatened by encroaching development and the dominance of traffic. Freedom to play is stifled by distorted perceptions of risk and fear. Time for play is eroded by the competing demands of homework, scheduled activities and digital entertainment. Budgets for play workers and play spaces are shrinking. Meanwhile, the need is great: 24 per cent of children in London live in an overcrowded home, 23 per cent are overweight or obese, 10 per cent suffer mental ill health, and one in seven won't visit a local green space in a given year.
And the root of the problem? Money. First, in this age of austerity, funding for play from local authorities has dwindled since the golden age when the Brown government injected millions into play through council initiatives. Grant funders, such as the Big Lottery and Children in Need, continue to fund play projects, but the competition for funding has never been so intense. Small charities gamble many hours of valuable staff time on making detailed applications, often only to get rejected for an idea that even five years ago would have got the green light.
Borough-level play associations, the grassroots charities that create play opportunities for children who need them, are either shrinking or disappearing altogether. Where once our database listed play officers in most of the capital's councils, they are now all but gone. London Play itself is struggling to overcome a widening funding gap that has resulted in reduced staff hours: when we were established twenty years ago, we received core funding from London Councils, the body representing the capital's 33 local authorities. This funding was abruptly cut in 2012. Many charities disappeared; others, like ours, developed a range of funding streams. But survival cannot be guaranteed – and without advocacy for play or resistance against cuts to free provision, there is a danger that childhood in the capital could come to be characterised by screens, obesity and poor mental health. A 21st-century London childhood is in danger of becoming simply a dull grey bridge to adulthood.
With no adult workforce left to create free play opportunities, and an economic and political system that no longer sees a need to provide it, it is the private sector that is increasingly picking up the slack – but at a price.
Which brings us to the second problem with money: play is one of the treats in nature's bag of tricks designed to keep the human race functioning. Water keeps us hydrated, food gives us the energy to survive, and play makes learning about ourselves and the world a pleasure rather than a chore. It aces formal education, as learning from play evolves according to the child's own interests, rather than being a one-size-must-fit-all imposition characterised by testing, with its inevitable failures, and an ever-changing, prescriptive curriculum. But, just as water is sold in bottles, and food is sold fast, in cartons (or slow, with Michelin stars attached), play in London is fast becoming a purchasable item.
A recent example of a much-loved London adventure playground serves as a bellwether, indicating the woeful direction in which outdoor play is heading. Wandsworth, a borough that prides itself on having one of the lowest council tax bills in the country, was until recently home to three adventure playgrounds dating back to the 1960s.
At this point, it is worth distinguishing adventure playgrounds from municipal park playgrounds. Adventure playgrounds were established 80 years ago, when the idea of junk playgrounds (as they were known then) was imported from Denmark, sprouting up over here on bombsites and other scraps of land.
The characteristics of adventure playgrounds include:
Evolving play structures.
Children's ideas and designs are the dominant creative influence.
Playworkers are present to service the children's play ideas.
They are free to use.
Adventure playgrounds offer children an exciting, creative space in which to test themselves, exercise in their own way, extend their social networks, and learn to recognise and manage risk. They are a hothouse for child development, creating confident, ambitious adults at ease with the world and themselves. And that's no exaggeration: adventure and play are exactly what children need beyond the school gates.
The Wandsworth playgrounds were located in and around social housing, pockets of deprivation within a very wealthy borough. For the children living on those estates, these were precious communal gardens of fun, filled with exciting, evolving structures and, most importantly perhaps, staffed by play professionals who brought the playgrounds to life and created a safe, familiar space for the children to learn and enjoy themselves.
One particular playground, Battersea Park, had stood on its site in the park for 40 years. In 2011, the council decided to put in place a charge to enter the playground and got as far as constructing a tollbooth. When local people reversed this iniquity through a legal challenge, with the support of the then MP for Tooting, Sadiq Khan (who described the proposed charge as a "tax on fun"), the council changed tack and decided the playground and the borough's two other adventure play sites had had their day. All three were to be closed and their structures destroyed, in an act of vandalism upon children's culture. It was calculated that it would have cost the price of a loaf of bread each year on council tax bills to fund the retention of the borough's three adventure playgrounds.
Despite organised opposition, including a council meeting at which tearful children pleaded for a reprieve for their playgrounds, the bulldozers went in during the winter of 2013 and levelled the site. The playworkers were made redundant. A smaller playground was bought from a catalogue and erected. This was not the wonderful labyrinth of wooden walkways, slides and towers the children had had previously, but a rigid tubular metal and moulded plastic ensemble of mediocrity. In terms of play value, this was a poor substitute and, as a consequence, Battersea Park was a less welcoming, joyful place.
The spirit of adventure play was not, however, altogether lost to the park. The council leased the space above the dull new playground to a business that specialises in aerial adventure. In the words of the council spin machine, the new facilities provided "additional adventure and challenge". The council was less forthcoming about the entry price, which came in at £20 a child per session. A picture soon emerged of local kids making do with run-of-the-mill play equipment while above, peers from affluent families enjoyed themselves on ropes and wires. Wandsworth Council had created a two-tier play park.
Other councils, including Camden, Brent and Lambeth, have also recently closed adventure playgrounds. It seems that we are entering the age of adventure pay-grounds – and it's not just happening in London.
"Couple turn corner of their Yorkshire farm into massive adventure playground"
That was the headline I read in the Yorkshire Post recently. How great, I thought, a couple giving up a bit of their land for kids to experiment with junk, get messy and build stuff, and all without a profit margin in sight. Well, not quite. Further reading revealed this was a destination playground that charged a steep entry fee – great for those families that could afford to drive there to pay for play. But, with more than a quarter of UK children living in poverty, many can only press their noses against the entrance gate to watch their wealthier counterparts enjoying their Pay-ground.
Play lets children connect their dreams and ideas to reality. But reality has to cooperate. Today's adult decision makers, those with the agency to channel funding in one direction or another, need to take play seriously and resist policies that deny children one of their essential needs – the surprise and delight of everyday play.
The importance of play is enshrined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. But when it comes to the UK, you'd be hard pressed to detect government enthusiasm for actions that support children's right to play. Without commitment – and, crucially, funding – we will see a generation of future Londoners losing out on the basic requirements of childhood. It's not too late: but it is urgent. Childhood is a small window in the human lifespan, in which play is the dominant developmental process. That window needs to be opened wide so that every London child has a childhood fit to equip them for the future. Our great city depends upon that.
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További fontos rendezők: Kira Muratova, Larysa Shepitko, Szerhij Bondarcsuk, Leonyid Bykov, Jurij Illienko, Leonyid Oszika, Vjacseszlav Krisztofovics, Roman Balajan, Szergij Maszlobojcsikov, Ihor Podolcsak és Maryna Vroda.

Számos ukrán származású színész ért el nemzetközi hírnevet és kritikai sikereket, köztük Vira Kholodna, Bohdan Stupka, Szergej Makovetszkij, Mike Mazurki, Natalie Wood, Danny Kaye, Jack Palance, Milla Jovovich, Olga Kurilenko és Mila Kunis. Ukrajnából érkező bevándorlók voltak Serge Gainsbourg, Leonard Nimoy, Vera Farmiga és Taissa Farmiga szülei, Steven Spielberg, Dustin Hoffman, Sylvester Stallone, Kirk Douglas, Leonardo DiCaprio, Winona Ryder, Whoopi Goldberg, Edward Dmytryk, Lenny Kravitz és Zoë Kravitz, David Copperfield illuzionista és Bill Tytla animátor nagyszülei.

A fontos és sikeres produkciók története ellenére az ipart gyakran jellemezte az identitásáról, valamint az orosz és európai befolyás mértékéről szóló vita. Az ukrán producerek nemzetközi koprodukciókban vesznek részt, míg az ukrán színészek, rendezők és a stáb rendszeresen szerepelnek orosz (és korábban szovjet) filmekben. A sikeres filmek ukrán embereken, történeteken vagy eseményeken alapulnak, köztük a Patyomkin páncélos, az Ember a felvevőgéppel és a Minden meg van világítva.

Az Ukrán Állami Filmügynökség tulajdonosa a Olekszandr Dovzsenko Nemzeti Filmközpont, egy filmmásoló laboratórium és archívum, és részt vesz az Odesszai Nemzetközi Filmfesztivál lebonyolításában. Egy másik fesztivál, a kijevi Molodist az egyetlen, az Ukrán Állami Filmügynökség által akkreditált nemzetközi filmfesztivál Ukrajnában. A versenyprogramba a világ minden tájáról érkeznek diákfilmek, első rövidfilmek és első teljes játékfilmek. A fesztivál minden év októberében kerül megrendezésre.

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The sight of this was outrageous to some folks. It makes one wonder if this was part of a movie set or a decoration of some kind. It surely couldn't be real could it? Released back in 2016, this intriguing video, seems to show what resembles an alien UFO spacecraft…being driven down the highway on back of a flatbed semi-truck.
Many conspiracy theorists among others, couldn't believe this when it spread across the internet. The disc-shaped object, is cocked in a 45 degree angle. It nearly hits one bridge seen during the video.
From what is understood, this main highway road leads towards the infamous Rosewell, New Mexico location. It is here, where a famous crash took place back in 1947. Later, The Roswell Army Air Field announced they recovered a "flying disc".
A disclosure statement was given saying it was just a weather balloon. Many people think otherwise. Not only were extraterrestrial occupants seen but many think some sort of cover-up happened to keep things away from the general public. Back in the 1990's, the US military released their comments regarding the incident.
In the 1990's, the US military published two reports disclosing the true nature of the crashed object: a nuclear test surveillance balloon from Project Mogul. Nevertheless, the Roswell incident continues to be of interest in popular media, and conspiracy theories surrounding the event persist. Roswell has been described as "the world's most famous, most exhaustively investigated, and most thoroughly debunked UFO claim".
While it's quite possible that this object was a part of a vessel or silo cap, many think it was something more entertainment related. Everything surrounding Roswell, continues to be of interest to the media and conspiracy theorists alike.
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Tanker je transportna ladja, ki je namenjena transportu tekočin preko morja. Največkrat tankerji prevažajo surovo nafto iz držav proizvodnjic nafte do držav potrošnic. Največji tankerji se imenujejo supertankerji. Poznamo več tipov tankerjev vključno z naftnimi tankerji, kemičnimi tankerji in nosilce plina. Tanki prav tako prenašajo rastlinska olja, melaso ali vino. V vojni mornarici ZDA se tankerje uporablja predvsem za napolnitev ladij z gorivom ali pa uporabijo tako kot večina mornaric preskrbovalne tankerje.

Klasifikacija tankerjev

Leta 1954 je Shell Oil uveljavil (AFRA) sistem klasifikacije za tankerje različne velikosti.
Sprva so bile kategorije: splošni (ang. General Purpose) do nosilnosti 25.000 ton, srednji 25.000–45.000 ton  in veliki nad 45.000 ton nosilnosti. Sprva se je za nosilnost – DWT (ang. Deadweight tonnage) uporabljalo dolge tone (long tons) - 1016 kg, danes se večinoma uporablja metrske tone (1000 kg). Nosilnost je sicer tovorna zmogljivost ladje in vsebuje težo tovora, težo goriva za motorje in druge stvari, ki se jih natovori na ladjo.

V sedemdesetih so postali tankerji dosti večji, zato so uvedli nove razrede.

10,000–24,999: Splošni tanker (General Purpose tanker)
25,000–54,999: Srednji tanker (Medium Range tanker)
55,000–79,999: Long Range 1 (LR1)
80,000–159,999: Long Range 2 (LR2)
160,000–319,999: Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC)
320,000–549,999: Ultra Large Crude Carrier (ULCC)

Okrog 380 tankerjev je med 279.000 in 320.000 ton nosilnosti (VLCC velikosti), in so najbolj popularni. Samo 7 tankerjev je večjih. Okrog 90 jih je med 220.000 in 279.000 tonami nosilnosti

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Five Cities Win Innovation Award in Guangzhou
Sponsored: The winning projects include a landfill turned verdant park, a market empowering female purveyors, a holistic urban food policy, and planning efforts that engage the community and align with SDGs.
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The Jinkou landfill and adjacent Zhanggong Dyke has been reclaimed as an urban park that's now a popular wedding venue. (Credit: City of Wuhan)
Asia's largest garbage dump once smoldered with trash fires and belched so much methane across Wuhan that nearby residents could not open their windows. Now, the reclaimed trash heap is a green oasis so verdant it has become a popular wedding venue; and the Chinese city of 11 million hosted an international garden expo on the site.
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That remarkable transformation was honored on Friday alongside four other cities in a gala ceremony at the fourth edition of the Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation.
"Wuhan's project gives us all hope for the future," said Celia Wade-Brown, former mayor of Wellington, New Zealand, who chaired the seven-member jury. "They've taken a toxic urban environment and turned it into a flagship park."
Wuhan's $690-million restoration of the Jinkou landfill and adjacent Zhanggong Dyke improved air and water quality for 400,000 residents. On a smaller scale, Mezitli, Turkey, population 250,000, received an award for establishing nine markets reserved for 612 women who sell citrus, tomatoes, dried fruits, homemade jams, pastas, spices, and sweets typical of the Mediterranean city, but who have trouble getting a foot in the door in male-dominated traditional markets.
"Our choices included a diversity of issues, geography, and scale," Wade-Brown said. "All municipalities, whatever their size, can make a demonstrable difference in the lives of their citizens."
Mezitli won an award for starting nine women-only markets for purveyors who have trouble getting a foot in the door for what, in Turkey, is a male-dominated field. (Credit: City of Mezitli)
The Guangzhou Award was established in 2012 to encourage global cities to learn from each other and collaborate directly to solve problems. The City of Guangzhou works with United Cities and Local Governments, an international network of cities, and Metropolis, the world association of major metropolises, to identify the most innovative practices taking place in city halls around the world.
"The 15 cities presented for this year's Guangzhou Award are positive stories of hope that show we can begin to solve the major challenges facing humanity in an increasingly urbanizing world," said Nicholas You, Executive Director of the Guangzhou Institute for Urban Innovation.
The Guangzhou Awards also emphasize how municipalities can adapt global agendas such as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and New Urban Agenda for sustainable cities to the work of local government.
New York City took the prize for Global Vision, Urban Action, an adapted sustainability plan that maps the city's OneNYC Plan onto the goals and targets of the SDGs. In July, New York became the first city in the world to submit a report to the United Nations on its progress thus far toward the global goals.
The planning process was also at the center of Guadalajara's winning entry, which was given to the Metropolitan Planning Institute. One of Latin America's only cities thinking at the metropolitan level, the institute coordinates land use planning for a nine-municipality region of 5 million centered around Mexico's second-largest city. To produce its latest metropolitan plan, the institute engaged in a four-month public outreach effort called Ruta 2042 that solicited input from more than 3,000 people.
Guadalajara won for its Ruta 2042 project, to solicit community input for the city's planning process. (Credit: City of Guadalajara)
Finally, Milan built on the legacy of the food-focused World Expo it hosted in 2015 and adopted an innovative urban food policy that addresses the entire food chain from farm to table to scraps. The policy bolsters nearby agricultural producers by, for example, mandating that school canteens source ingredients locally and rebating restaurants' food waste tax by 20% if they donate excess to charity.
Each winning city won $20,000. The winners were selected from 15 shortlisted cities. The other cities in contention for the award were eThekwini (Durban), South Africa; Kazan, Russia; Repentigny, Canada; Salvador, Brazil; Santa Ana, Cosa Rica; Santa Fe, Argentina; Surabaya, Indonesia; Sydney, Australia; Utrecht, Netherlands, and Yiwu, China.
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More than 50 people gathered together for our first Neighbourhood Assembly on March 21st. The Peter-McGill community has been working together since 2013 to bring a community centre to life on the former Montreal Children's Hospital site, but no consultation had been held since 2017. We were overdue for an update!
After an introduction from Ron Rayside on the current developments in the Peter-McGill neighbourhood, our My Peter-McGill project manager, Maryse Chapdelaine, gave an overview of the Children's Square development, and finally Marie-Ève Auclair from the Ville-Marie borough, shared the latest information regarding teh future Peter-McGill Centre.
We could like to thank the Canadian Centre for Architechture for letting us host the event in the beautiful Maison Shaughnessy. Over the course of the evening, residents, students, elected officials and representatives of local organisations all mingled and chatted, not only to imagine the future Peter-McGill centre, but also to dream about the future Peter-McGill neighbourhood. As well as round table discussions, participants could share their ideas and desires for the neighbourhood on a giant neighbourhood map.
We are planning to organise other events like this one to discuss local issues and the future of our neighbourhood. Do you have subjects or themes in mind that you'd like to see discussed at a future Neighbourhood Assembly? Share them with us!


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This Column is posted four or more (depending on eclipses, second New Moons, etc.) a Month. It includes the Moon Phase and Date, of course, but also the magical uses for those moons, what they symbolize and how one may better use them. Sometimes a spell or ritual is included or a bit about the Goddess we may invoke or pay respects to.
On July 26th, 2016, the night shall bring forth the Last Quarter Moon, otherwise known as the Waning Moon.
June 19th, 2016 brings forth a Full Moon. The Full Moon is a Mother Moon and as we all know, it is a powerful moon. Think of a woman who is pregnant. Her moods are heightened and they seem to affect all those around her. That being said, it should come to no surprise that the effects of a Full Moon and it's influence can be felt three days before it comes and three days after.
On July 11th, 2016, the night sky will gift us with a First Quarter Moon that is also known as the Waxing and Maiden Moon.
This means, this is a time to invoke growth and new things. Focus on bringing forth positive blessings into in your life, like luck and love.


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The long history of how Jesus came to resemble a white European
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Painting depicting transfiguration of Jesus, a story in the New Testament when Jesus becomes radiant upon a mountain. Artist Raphael /Collections Hallwyl Museum, CC BY-SA
Anna Swartwood House, University of South Carolina
The portrayal of Jesus as a white, European man has come under renewed scrutiny during this period of introspection over the legacy of racism in society.
As protesters called for the removal of Confederate statues in the U.S., activist Shaun King went further, suggesting that murals and artwork depicting "white Jesus" should "come down."
His concerns about the depiction of Christ and how it is used to uphold notions of white supremacy are not isolated. Prominent scholars and the archbishop of Canterbury have called to reconsider Jesus' portrayal as a white man.
As a European Renaissance art historian, I study the evolving image of Jesus Christ from A.D. 1350 to 1600. Some of the best-known depictions of Christ, from Leonardo da Vinci's "Last Supper" to Michelangelo's "Last Judgment" in the Sistine Chapel, were produced during this period.
But the all-time most-reproduced image of Jesus comes from another period. It is Warner Sallman's light-eyed, light-haired "Head of Christ" from 1940. Sallman, a former commercial artist who created art for advertising campaigns, successfully marketed this picture worldwide.
Sallman's 'Head of Christ'
Through Sallman's partnerships with two Christian publishing companies, one Protestant and one Catholic, the Head of Christ came to be included on everything from prayer cards to stained glass, faux oil paintings, calendars, hymnals and night lights.
Sallman's painting culminates a long tradition of white Europeans creating and disseminating pictures of Christ made in their own image.
In search of the holy face
The historical Jesus likely had the brown eyes and skin of other first-century Jews from Galilee, a region in biblical Israel. But no one knows exactly what Jesus looked like. There are no known images of Jesus from his lifetime, and while the Old Testament Kings Saul and David are explicitly called tall and handsome in the Bible, there is little indication of Jesus' appearance in the Old or New Testaments.
'The Good Shepherd.' Joseph Wilpert
Even these texts are contradictory: The Old Testament prophet Isaiah reads that the coming savior "had no beauty or majesty," while the Book of Psalms claims he was "fairer than the children of men," the word "fair" referring to physical beauty.
The earliest images of Jesus Christ emerged in the first through third centuries A.D., amidst concerns about idolatry. They were less about capturing the actual appearance of Christ than about clarifying his role as a ruler or as a savior.
To clearly indicate these roles, early Christian artists often relied on syncretism, meaning they combined visual formats from other cultures.
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Probably the most popular syncretic image is Christ as the Good Shepherd, a beardless, youthful figure based on pagan representations of Orpheus, Hermes and Apollo.
In other common depictions, Christ wears the toga or other attributes of the emperor. The theologian Richard Viladesau argues that the mature bearded Christ, with long hair in the "Syrian" style, combines characteristics of the Greek god Zeus and the Old Testament figure Samson, among others.
Christ as self-portraitist
The first portraits of Christ, in the sense of authoritative likenesses, were believed to be self-portraits: the miraculous "image not made by human hands," or acheiropoietos.
Acheiropoietos. Tretiakov Gallery, Moscow
This belief originated in the seventh century A.D., based on a legend that Christ healed King Abgar of Edessa in modern-day Urfa, Turkey, through a miraculous image of his face, now known as the Mandylion.
A similar legend adopted by Western Christianity between the 11th and 14th centuries recounts how, before his death by crucifixion, Christ left an impression of his face on the veil of Saint Veronica, an image known as the volto santo, or "Holy Face."
Christ crowned with thorns. Artist Antonello da Messina. The Friedsam Collection, Bequest of Michael Friedsam, 1931, Metropolitan Museum, New York
These two images, along with other similar relics, have formed the basis of iconic traditions about the "true image" of Christ.
From the perspective of art history, these artifacts reinforced an already standardized image of a bearded Christ with shoulder-length, dark hair.
In the Renaissance, European artists began to combine the icon and the portrait, making Christ in their own likeness. This happened for a variety of reasons, from identifying with the human suffering of Christ to commenting on one's own creative power.
Albrecht Dürer. Albrecht Dürer/Alte Pinakothek Collections
The 15th-century Sicilian painter Antonello da Messina, for example, painted small pictures of the suffering Christ formatted exactly like his portraits of regular people, with the subject positioned between a fictive parapet and a plain black background and signed "Antonello da Messina painted me."
The 16th-century German artist Albrecht Dürer blurred the line between the holy face and his own image in a famous self-portrait of 1500. In this, he posed frontally like an icon, with his beard and luxuriant shoulder-length hair recalling Christ's. The "AD" monogram could stand equally for "Albrecht Dürer" or "Anno Domini" – "in the year of our Lord."
This phenomenon was not restricted to Europe: There are 16th- and 17th-century pictures of Jesus with, for example, Ethiopian and Indian features.
In Europe, however, the image of a light-skinned European Christ began to influence other parts of the world through European trade and colonization.
'Adoration of the Magi.' Artist Andrea Mantegna. The J. Paul Getty Museum
The Italian painter Andrea Mantegna's "Adoration of the Magi" from A.D. 1505 features three distinct magi, who, according to one contemporary tradition, came from Africa, the Middle East and Asia. They present expensive objects of porcelain, agate and brass that would have been prized imports from China and the Persian and Ottoman empires.
But Jesus' light skin and blues eyes suggest that he is not Middle Eastern but European-born. And the faux-Hebrew script embroidered on Mary's cuffs and hemline belie a complicated relationship to the Judaism of the Holy Family.
In Mantegna's Italy, anti-Semitic myths were already prevalent among the majority Christian population, with Jewish people often segregated to their own quarters of major cities.
Artists tried to distance Jesus and his parents from their Jewishness. Even seemingly small attributes like pierced ears – earrings were associated with Jewish women, their removal with a conversion to Christianity – could represent a transition toward the Christianity represented by Jesus.
Much later, anti-Semitic forces in Europe including the Nazis would attempt to divorce Jesus totally from his Judaism in favor of an Aryan stereotype.
White Jesus abroad
As Europeans colonized increasingly farther-flung lands, they brought a European Jesus with them. Jesuit missionaries established painting schools that taught new converts Christian art in a European mode.
A small altarpiece made in the school of Giovanni Niccolò, the Italian Jesuit who founded the "Seminary of Painters" in Kumamoto, Japan, around 1590, combines a traditional Japanese gilt and mother-of-pearl shrine with a painting of a distinctly white, European Madonna and Child.
Nicolas Correa's 'The Mystic Betrothal of Saint Rose of Lima.' Museo Nacional de Arte
In colonial Latin America – called "New Spain" by European colonists – images of a white Jesus reinforced a caste system where white, Christian Europeans occupied the top tier, while those with darker skin from perceived intermixing with native populations ranked considerably lower.
Artist Nicolas Correa's 1695 painting of Saint Rose of Lima, the first Catholic saint born in "New Spain," shows her metaphorical marriage to a blond, light-skinned Christ.
Legacies of likeness
Scholar Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey argue that in the centuries after European colonization of the Americas, the image of a white Christ associated him with the logic of empire and could be used to justify the oppression of Native and African Americans.
In a multiracial but unequal America, there was a disproportionate representation of a white Jesus in the media. It wasn't only Warner Sallman's Head of Christ that was depicted widely; a large proportion of actors who have played Jesus on television and film have been white with blue eyes.
Pictures of Jesus historically have served many purposes, from symbolically presenting his power to depicting his actual likeness. But representation matters, and viewers need to understand the complicated history of the images of Christ they consume.
Anna Swartwood House, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of South Carolina
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I pick my battles when it comes to making things totally from scratch. I'm a busy-ish person who appreciates efficiency. I love making fresh nut milk or creamer, growing vegetables from seed, or practicing my skills with homemade bread, but canning is something that kinda puts me on edge. Something about the steamy heat and the sanitizing and the jars everywhere. The quality of preserved produce you can find in nicer grocery stores is pretty spectacular nowadays too.
I've been using Muir Glen Organic tomatoes for years, and if you've been following along here, you know that my devotion to the fire-roasted ones is do or die. We're lucky to live so close to an American border crossing (and the best grocery store eveeer–Wegman's!) because I stock those tomatoes up by the case in my basement. When Muir Glen invited me to come check out their farm, compost, and canning facility (and the outdoor fire roaster!!) in California last Fall, my excitement was off the charts.
Notes: This stew has very few ingredients, so it's ideal to use good quality preserved tomatoes and fresh spices. I made this during the day for the purpose of photographing/sharing it here, but when I reheated it for dinner, I added about 1 cup of chopped Swiss chard for an extra hit of greens.
In a deep cast iron skillet or a small soup pot, heat the olive oil over medium heat. Once the oil is lightly shimmering, add the onions to the pan. Cook and stir the onions until translucent and quite soft, about 5-6 minutes. You want the onions to be quietly sizzling while they cook, so lower the heat if necessary.
Add the spice blend to the skillet and stir. Once the spices are quite fragrant and fully integrated with the onions, add the tomato paste, mashing it with the back of your spoon into the spices and oil. Add the garlic and chickpeas and stir the mixture for 30 seconds.
Add the balsamic vinegar and tomatoes to the pan and stir, using the back of your spoon to scrape up any brown bits that may have formed on the bottom of the pan. Add the coconut milk to the skillet and season the stew with salt and pepper.
Bring the stew to a boil, and then lower the heat to a light simmer. Cook the stew for about 10-15 minutes, or until the flavours have melded to your liking. Garnish the top of the stew with the chopped parsley/cilantro. Serve stew hot with polenta, brown rice or any other accompaniment you like.
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It's definitely a Winter warmer kinda dish :) Thanks Katrina!
You use all of the spice blend for this recipe!
I have their roasted tomatoes in the pantry – my boyfriend bought a can!
Your boyfriend is a good man for buying those ;) Hope you get around to trying it!
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Hi Dana, you could use the same amount of cooked green or French lentils or navy beans. Even some lightly blanched cauliflower florets would be delicious in place of the chickpeas.
I would just like to commend you on this recipe. I made it last night! It was the most amazing vegan dish I have ever had in my life. I have recently become vegan, and I don't know why I didn't become vegan sooner! The flavors of this meal just ooze in your taste buds and your nostril buds HEHE. I made GMO free Polenta to compliment the Chickpeas, and it is divine! I will definitely be making this again! Thank you!
Just a question though – I could not find any jarred tomatoes :-(. So I had to buy cans. Would it be wise and would it taste the same buying organic tomatoes and dicing them up myself?
Sorry this reply is so late! I use THIS slow cooker method from The Kitchn every single time.
I've made this today and I loved it. It is so so conforting! And the creamyness of the millet polenta is wonderful!
On the printable version on Google Docs (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzAXj5jW8FEyq5lPAi2McbE4MDBngL9VT8mx2y_aLVs/edit?usp=sharing), the garlic is missing from the ingredients list.
Thank you for this! Fixed it up.
I just wanted to share with you that this is one of the recipes on regular rotation around here. I love that it heats up well, so I can take the leftovers to work for lunch. To go with the stew, I make basmati coconut rice by using the rest of the can of coconut milk that is leftover from making the stew. It adds an extra depth of amazing-ness to this dish.


Michael and Nicole Colovos, the hip duo behind the denim label Habitual, are now designing the cult brand with sharp, grown-up, neutral-toned clothes that pay homage to—but don't try to mimic—Lang's minimalism.
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The brand's newly launched clothing line is equally obvious in its appeal: Look for cashmere hoodies lined with cotton, wool houndstooth trousers, and a wad duck-hunting jacket with a leather pouch sewn into the back.
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When Joe Haller and Ian Hannula started Nice Collective in 1996, their ambitious plans included a record label and club night. But it's the clothes—distressed, trim-fitting army jackets, canvas pants, cashmere sweaters, and graphic T-shirts—that have been championed by rock stars like Chris Martin, Trent Reznor, the members of U2, and Gavin Rossdale (pictured, right), winning the duo a cult following well beyond their San Francisco home base.
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Ian: We wanted to re-create that excitement of hearing an amazing song for the first time—that sense of belonging to something.
Clothes by Band of Outsiders.
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I am always interested in the unique challenges within any vertical; they provide tremendous insight into your windows of opportunity when it comes to conversations about where technology can help those organizations. When CIO Insight offered its take on The Top 10 Priorities for State CIOs, I had to check it out.
I would argue that a well-versed solution provider can find an opening to a long-term services contract through any of those 10 doors, with the most obvious being cloud, mobility, security, BDR and cost control. The trick, of course, is understanding the unique challenges in this vertical.
Let's talk about cloud, as an example. According to this article, state government CIOs are struggling to find the best fit for cloud in their environment – it could be a platform empowering customer service that will ultimately increase employee productivity due to a reduction in service calls; it could be a mission-critical app that lets all its departments share data for faster resolution of issues for its constituents. The question is how can you gain the inside track on where and what they need?
My best advice is to get in the trenches and ask questions. If you already have a state government customer, take them to lunch and ask about their challenges in terms of cloud. Where do they have pain points and what do they think could resolve those issues? Then, do some research to find out if there are purpose-built solutions for that particular issue, or, perhaps you can you find a software developer to help you create one.
Getting involved means asking for their opinion, and listening. You can also follow state government associations (some even offer "guest memberships"), such as the National Governors Association or the Government Finance Officers Association. For more ideas about sources of information, check out the International City/Country Management Association website. However you approach it, the only way you can take advantage of the challenges within any particular vertical is to be knowledgeable about both the problems and potential solutions, so get to work!


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The Oct. 24 editorial "Unraveling a peril," about garment-factory safety in Bangladesh, rightly pointed out that boycotting the retailers that use Bangladeshi factories means abandoning a $22 billion sector that supports nearly 4 million people.
This industry serves as a critical pathway out of poverty for millions of workers, 80 percent of whom are women, and fuels Bangladesh's economic growth. That is why the Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety, a coalition of 26 U.S. brands, has undertaken a massive effort to improve safety and support workers in these factories rather than moving operations elsewhere.
The alliance has inspected all 587 factories from which our members source their products, fully or partially closing 19 factories deemed unsafe. We have trained more than 1 million workers in fire safety and compensated workers displaced by factory repairs. Our members have made more than $100 million in low-cost capital available to fund remediation, and the hard work of improving factories is now underway.
The government of Bangladesh, global businesses and civil society must remain steadfast in the commitment to see this mission accomplished. The worst thing we could do is abandon the Bangladesh garment industry when our opportunity to deliver lasting change has never been greater.
The writer, a former U.S. representative from California, is the chair of the board of directors of the Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety.


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CNN Case Moves Forward In Federal Court
While Judge Orinda Evans didn't outright declare the network "fake news," she did rule the network was guilty of a "series of false and defamatory news reports" concerning Davide Carbone, the former CEO of St. Mary's Medical Center.
"The Court finds these allegations sufficient to establish that CNN was acting recklessly with regard to the accuracy of its report, i.e., with 'actual malice," the court's decision read, released Feb. 15th.
CNN hoped to get the $30 million case dismissed, but that's not going to happen. The judge found that CNN manipulated data and "reported" with bias. For a broadcast station, such a ruling would likely prompt an FCC license revocation, but as CNN is not broadcast over airwaves, the FCC has no jurisdiction here.
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