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Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
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6th President of Finland
August 4, 1944 – March 8, 1946
Risto Ryti
Juho Kusti Paasikivi
June 4, 1867, Askainen
January 28, 1951, Lausanne, Switzerland
Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (June 4, 1867 – January 28, 1951) was the Commander-in-Chief of Finland's Defense Forces, Marshal of Finland, an astute politician, humanitarian and a successful military commander. He was the sixth President of Finland (1944–1946). He began his military career in the Imperial Russian army, becoming the leader of Finnish government forces in the civil war of 1918, and Commander in Chief during the Second World War. He advocated for a close alliance with the West, and opposed both German National Socialism, and Soviet Communism.
1 Ancestry and early life
2 An officer in the Imperial Russian Army
3 From Civil-War victor to Head of State
3.1 Between the Wars
3.2 Commander-in-Chief
3.3 The Hitler visit
3.4 Assessment of Mannerheim's leadership
4 End of the war and a brief presidency
5 Later life and legacy
Mannerheim is given much of the credit for successfully steering the nation's course between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II, at a time when Finland faced the superior military power of the Soviet Union alone with only Nazi Germany offering its assistance against repeated Soviet military aggression.
Ancestry and early life
Mannerheim's great-grandfather, Carl Erik Mannerheim (1759-1837), had held a number of offices in Finland's civil service, including membership in the Senate. In 1825, he was promoted to the rank of Count (in Finnish Kreivi, in Swedish Greve). Mannerheim's grandfather, Count Carl Gustaf Mannerheim (1797-1854), was a renowned entomologist, and served as President of the Viipuri Court of Appeals. Mannerheim's father, Count Carl Robert (1835-1914), was a poet, writer and businessman. His businesses were not successful, and he eventually became bankrupt. He later moved to Paris and lived the life of an artist. Mannerheim's mother, Hedvig Charlotta (Hélène) von Julin (1842-1881), was the daughter of the wealthy Johan Jacob von Julin, who owned the Fiskars ironworks and village.
C.G.E. Mannerheim was born in the family home of Louhisaari Manor in Askainen. As the third child of the family he inherited the title of Baron (in Finnish Vapaaherra, in Swedish Friherre; the eldest son inherited the title of Count). Louhisaari manor had to be sold in 1880, to cover the debts of Count Carl Robert, and the following year his wife died, leaving their seven children to be split up and brought up by relatives in Finland and Sweden. Mannerheim's maternal uncle, Albert von Julin, became his guardian.
Mannerheim began his formal schooling in Helsinki Private Lyceum (1874-1879), then in Hamina (1881-1882), followed by the school of the Finnish Cadet Corps in Hamina in 1882, at the age of 15. He was later expelled for breaches of discipline in 1886. He then returned to the Helsinki Private Lyceum, passing his university entrance examinations in June 1887. Immediately after that he left for Saint Petersburg, where he was accepted into the Nicholas Cavalry School. At that time Finland was a Grand Duchy in personal union with Russia. He graduated in 1889, was promoted to the rank of Cornet, and was posted with the 15th Alexandria Dragoon Regiment in Poland while waiting for a position to become available with the Chevalier Guards.
An officer in the Imperial Russian Army
Eventually, in January 1891, Mannerheim was transferred to serve in the Chevalier Guards in St. Petersburg. His family arranged for him to be married to Anastasie Arapova (1872-1936), the daughter of the Russian Major-General Nikolai Arapov, largely for economic reasons. They had two daughters, Anastasie (1893-1977) and Sophie (1895-1963). The marriage ended in an unofficial separation in 1902, and in a formal divorce in 1919.
Mannerheim served in the Imperial Chevalier Guard until 1904. He specialized as an expert on horses, his lifelong interest, buying stud stallions and special duty horses for the army. In 1903, he was put in charge of a display squadron and became a member of the equestrian training board of the cavalry regiments. In October 1904, Mannerheim was transferred to the 52nd Nezhin Dragoon Regiment in Manchuria, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He fought in the Russo-Japanese War and was promoted to Colonel for his bravery in the battle of Mukden.
On returning from the war, Mannerheim spent time in Finland and Sweden (1905-1906). He led an expedition to China, traveling mostly on horseback, from Tashkent to Kashgar from July to October 1906, with the French scientist Paul Pelliot. Shortly thereafter, he led a separate expedition into China until the autumn of 1908. He met with the Dalai Lama during his journey. The expedition had strategic purposes, in addition to anthropological, political as well because these areas in northern China were a potential point of crisis between Russia, China and even the United Kingdom.
In World War I, Mannerheim served as a cavalry commander at the Austro-Hungarian and Romanian fronts, distinguishing himself in combat. In December 1914, he was awarded one of the highest honors of Imperial Russia, the Sword of St. George soon followed by the Cross of St. George, 4th class. In April 1917, Mannerheim had been promoted to Lieutenant General, however, he fell out of favor with the new Bolshevik government, who regarded him as one of the officers who did not support the revolution. Mannerheim became a determined opponent of Communism. In September he was relieved of his duties, while on sick leave after falling from his horse. He began planning retirement to civilian life and a return to Finland, arriving there in December 1917.
From Civil-War victor to Head of State
In January 1918, the Senate of the newly independent Finland, under its chairman Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, appointed Mannerheim as Commander-in-Chief of Finland's almost nonexistent army, which was then not much more than a number of locally set up White Guards. His mission was the defense of the Government during the Civil War in Finland. He established his headquarters in Seinäjoki and began to disarm the remaining Russian garrisons and their 42,500 troops. During the ensuing Civil War (or War of Liberty, as it was known among the "Whites"), Mannerheim was promoted to General of Cavalry (Ratsuväenkenraali) in March 1918.
After the White victory over the Reds, Mannerheim resigned as Commander-in-Chief, dismayed at the increasing German influence in Finnish military and political affairs. He feared the reaction of the Allies to the seemingly pro-German policies of the Finnish government during the last months of World War I. Seeking to distance himself from the current Finnish government, Mannerheim left Finland in June 1918 to visit relatives in Sweden. He was, thus, out of the country during the last, fateful period of the civil war, a time of mass deaths as a result of disease and starvation in prison camps and of lengthy trials. During the war, he had already tried to stop the "White terror" and had opposed the mass imprisonment of "Reds."
In Sweden, Mannerheim held discussions with Allied diplomats in Stockholm, stating his opposition to the Finnish government's pro-German policy, and his support for the Allies. In October 1918, he was sent to Britain and France, on behalf of the Finnish government, to attempt to gain recognition of Finland's independence by Britain and the United States. In December, he was summoned back to Finland from Paris after being elected as Protector of the State or Regent (Valtionhoitaja; Riksföreståndare). Some monarchists even wanted to make him King of Finland.
Mannerheim secured recognition of the independent Finland from the United Kingdom and U.S. He also requested and received food aid from overseas to avoid famine. Although he was an ardent anti-Bolshevik, he eventually refused an alliance with Russian White generals because they would not have recognized Finnish independence. In July 1919, after he had confirmed the new republican constitution, Mannerheim stood as a candidate in the first presidential election, supported by the National Coalition Party and the Swedish People's Party. He lost the election in the Parliament to Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg and retreated from public life.
Between the Wars
In the interwar years, Mannerheim held no public office. This was largely due to the fact that he was seen by many politicians as a controversial figure due to his outspoken opposition to the Bolsheviks, his desire for Finnish intervention on the side of the Whites during the Russian Civil War, and the antipathy felt against him by the Finnish socialists, who saw him as the "bourgeois White General." During the interwar years, Mannerheim's pursuits were mainly humanitarian. He supported the Finnish Red Cross and founded the Foundation.
In 1929, he refused the right-wing radicals' plea to become a de facto military dictator, although he did express some support for the aims of the right-wing anti-communist and semi-fascist Lapua Movement. After President Pehr Evind Svinhufvud was elected 1931, he appointed Mannerheim as chairman of Finland's Defense Council. At the same time Mannerheim received the written promise that in the event of a war, he would become the Commander-in-Chief (Svinhufvud's successor Kyösti Kallio renewed this promise in 1937). In 1933, he received the title and rank of Field Marshal (sotamarsalkka, fältmarskalk). By this time, Mannerheim had become regarded by the public, including many socialists, as less of a "White General," and was seen as a truly national figure. This feeling was further enhanced by his many public statements of the time, urging reconciliation between those who had fought on opposing sides in the civil war, and the need to focus on national unity and defense.
Mannerheim supported Finland's military industry and sought (in vain) to establish a military defense union with Sweden. However, rearming and reorganizing the Finnish army did not occur as swiftly or as well as he hoped for. He constructed a line of defense, called the "Mannerheim Line" across the Southeastern frontier, in Karelia. He had many disagreements with various Cabinets, and signed numerous letters of resignation.
Commander-in-Chief
When negotiations with the Soviet Union failed in 1939, Mannerheim, on October 17th, again withdrew his resignation, thereby, again, accepting the position as Commander-in-Chief of the Finnish army in case of war. He reorganized his headquarters in Mikkeli. He officially became the Commander-in-Chief after the Soviet attack on November 30.
Mannerheim himself spent most of the Winter War and Continuation War, two wars against Soviet aggression, in his Mikkeli headquarters but made many visits to the front. Between the wars, he held on to the authority as Commander-in-Chief, which according to the letter of the law should have gone back to the presidents (Kyösti Kallio and Risto Ryti) after the Moscow Peace, March 12, 1940.
In the Continuation War, Mannerheim kept relations with Nazi Germany's government as formal as possible and successfully opposed their proposals for a treaty of alliance. Mannerheim also firmly refused to let his troops contribute to the Siege of Leningrad.
On Mannerheim's 75th birthday on June 4, 1942, the government granted him the unique title of Marshal of Finland (Suomen Marsalkka in Finnish, Marskalken av Finland in Swedish). He was the first and only person to receive the title. A surprise visit by Adolf Hitler in honor of Mannerheim's birthday was much less pleasing to him and caused some embarrassment.
The Hitler visit
Discussion with Adolf Hitler and Risto Ryti. Mannerheim is to Hitler's left (center of the photo).
Adolf Hitler had decided to visit Finland on June 4, 1942, ostensibly to congratulate Mannerheim on his 75th birthday. Mannerheim did not want to meet Hitler, either in his Headquarters at Mikkeli, nor in Helsinki, as it would have seemed more like an official state visit. The meeting took place at a railway siding near the airfield at Immola, in south-eastern Finland, and was arranged in secrecy.
From the airfield, Hitler, accompanied by President Ryti, was driven to where Mannerheim was waiting at a railroad siding. When Hitler saw the Marshal, he ran toward him. "An officer doesn't run," Mannerheim is said to have remarked to the officers accompanying him. "Only corporals do that."
After a congratulatory speech from Hitler, and following an awkward meal, at the conclusion of which Mannerheim lit a large cigar fully knowing that his guest could not abide cigar smoke, Hitler returned to Germany, having spent only around five hours in Finland. He had reportedly intended to ask the Finns to step up their military operations against the Soviets, but the uneasy encounter with Mannerheim appears to have deterred him from making any specific demands.
During the visit, an engineer of the Finnish broadcasting company YLE, Thor Damen, recorded Hitler and Mannerheim in a private conversation, something which had to be done secretly as Hitler never allowed recordings of him off-guard. Today, the recording is the only known recording of Hitler not speaking in an official tone. In the recording, Hitler admits to underestimating the Soviet Union's ability to conduct war (some English transcripts exist).
Assessment of Mannerheim's leadership
Mannerheim's wartime record as the Finnish Commander-in-Chief is not easy to assess. At the time, and even to this day, Mannerheim's immense prestige made criticism of his conduct of war almost tantamount to treason (especially as the criticism often came from Soviet sources and Finnish communists).
As a military commander, Mannerheim was generally very successful. Under his leadership the Finnish Defense Forces fought a generally successful war that in the end saved Finland from Soviet occupation. Mannerheim took great care not to waste the lives of his soldiers, and avoided unnecessary risks. Perhaps his greatest shortcoming was his unwillingness to delegate. While he had a number of very able subordinates, foremost among them was Lieutenant General Aksel Airo, Mannerheim insisted that all the department heads in the Finnish General Headquarters report directly to him, leaving Chief of General Staff General of Infantry Erik Heinrichs with little to do. Indeed, Mannerheim said that he did not want to be "one man's prisoner." Mannerheim overwhelmed himself with work, and as a result coordination between the different departments in the General Headquarters suffered. It has been suggested that one reason why the Soviet offensive in Karelian Isthmus, in June 1944, took Finns by surprise, was that Mannerheim was unable to see the forest for the trees. There was no other authority, save Mannerheim, who could collect all the intelligence and turn it into operational directives.
On the other hand, it can be argued that Mannerheim excelled in politics. Even though he was a soldier, and as such not supposed to take part in politics, Mannerheim could not help but be a highly political figure. A vital question during the war was when to make peace with the Soviet Union. Too early would mean that Nazi Germany would be in a position to retaliate. Too late risked a Soviet occupation of Finland. As soon as 1942, it became increasingly clear that Germany would not necessarily vanquish the Soviet Union. Mannerheim was kept, as it were, in reserve, in order to potentially take the leadership of the nation and lead it to peace. Mannerheim played this role very skillfully. He had a clear vision how Finland should conduct its war in the sensitive situation when the war's ultimate end was unclear. He knew how to treat the Germans to secure as much military support as possible without involving Finland in any binding treaties. For example, during the build-up for the Continuation War in 1941, Mannerheim was offered the command of all German forces on Finnish soil. While such an arrangement could have made progressing the war simpler, Mannerheim recognized that Hitler would not give Finns a free hand in directing this part of the German offensive. Mannerheim wanted, at all costs, to avoid a situation where he would be forced to take directives or orders from Berlin, so he refused the offer.
End of the war and a brief presidency
In June 1944, to ensure German support at a time when a major Soviet offensive was threatening Finland, Mannerheim thought it necessary for Finland to agree to the pact German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop demanded. But even then Mannerheim managed to distance himself from the pact and it fell to the Finnish President Risto Ryti to sign the pact that came to be known as the Ryti-Ribbentrop Agreement. Mannerheim's policy reached its logical conclusion when the agreement was revoked by the resignation of President Ryti in July 1944. Mannerheim succeeded him as President.
At the moment when Germany was deemed sufficiently weakened, and the USSR's summer offensive was fought to a standstill (thanks to the June agreement with the Germans), Finland's leaders saw a chance to reach a peace with the Soviet Union. It became clear that Mannerheim was the only figure with sufficient prestige, both internationally and domestically, to extricate Finland from the war. He enjoyed the confidence of a large majority of the Finnish people, and was effectively the only statesman with the authority necessary to guide Finland in the transition from war to peace.
At first, attempts were made to persuade Mannerheim to become Prime Minister, but he rejected these proposals on account of his age and lack of knowledge of the detailed techniques of government. It was then suggested that he should become Head of State, with him being elected by Parliament as Regent after Ryti resigned. The use of the title of Regent would have reflected the exceptional circumstances of his election. Mannerheim and Ryti both agreed to this proposal, and Ryti resigned as President on July 29, giving as his reasons the state of his health and the necessity of combining civil and military authority in one person at that key moment. Mannerheim then decided that he wished to be elected as President to avoid any misconceptions about his taking office. Due to the difficult precarious conditions, general elections could not be held, and therefore it was the Parliament which elected Mannerheim as President of the Republic on August 4, 1944. He took the oath of office later that day.
The dangerous state that Finland found itself in at that moment was reflected in Mannerheim's inaugural speech before the Finnish Parliament:
Mr. Speaker, I wish to express my heartfelt thanks for the kind words that you spoke about me. Honorable members of parliament, in accepting—for the second time—at this difficult moment of national destiny, the duties of the head of state, I am so deeply aware of the responsibilities placed upon me. Great are the difficulties that we will have to overcome in order to safeguard our future. Foremost in my mind at this moment is the army of Finland, now in its fifth year of battle. Trusting in the Almighty, I hope and I believe that, supported by parliament and the government, a unanimous people behind us, we will succeed in preserving our independence and the existence of our nation.
A month after he took office, the Continuation War was concluded on harsh terms, but ultimately far less harsh than those imposed on the other states bordering the Soviet Union. Finland retained its sovereignty, parliamentary democracy, and market economy. The territorial losses were considerable, especially due to the amounts of Karelian refugees that needed to be housed, and the war reparations were heavy. Finland also had to fight the Lapland War against the withdrawing German troops, who fought a scorched-earth war in the north, and at the same time demobilized her army. It was widely agreed that only Mannerheim could have guided Finland through these difficult times, when the Finnish people had to come to terms with the severe terms of the armistice implemented by a Soviet-dominated Allied Control Commission, and the task of post-war reconstruction.
Mannerheim's term as President was a difficult period for him. Although he was elected for a full six-year term, he was in his late seventies, and had accepted the office reluctantly after being urged to do so by various politicians. The situation was exacerbated by his frequent periods of ill-health, and the pressure of the demands of the Allied Control Commission, and the war responsibility trials. He was fearful throughout most of his presidency that the commission would request that he himself be tried as one of the "war guilty," but this never came about.
Despite his criticisms of some of the demands of the Control Commission, Mannerheim worked hard to carry out Finland's armistice obligations. He also emphasized the necessity of further work on reconstruction in Finland after the war.
Mannerheim was troubled by recurring health problems during 1945, and was absent on medical leave from his duties as President from November of that year until February 1946. He spent six weeks during that time in Portugal on a break to restore his health. After the announcement of the verdicts in the war trials had been announced in January, Mannerheim decided to resign. He concluded that he had accomplished the duties he had been elected to carry out. The war had been ended, the armistice obligations were being carried out, and the war trials ended.
Mannerheim resigned as President on March 4, 1946, giving as his reasons his declining health and his view that the tasks he had been elected to carry out had been accomplished. Even the Finnish communists, his enemies in 1918, recognized his peacemaking efforts and his role in maintaining the unity of the country during a difficult period. He was succeeded by the conservative and Russophile Prime Minister, Juho Kusti Paasikivi.
Later life and legacy
After his resignation, Mannerheim bought Kirkniemi Manor in Lohja, intending to spend his retirement there. But in June 1946, he had a life-saving operation carried out on a perforated ulcer, and in October of that year he was diagnosed with a duodenal ulcer. In early 1947, it was recommended that he should travel to the Val-Mont sanatorium in Montreux, Switzerland, to recuperate and write his memoirs. Mannerheim's goal in writing his memoirs was to show, mostly to the West, what difficult situation Finland was in during the wars, and that fighting along side Germany against the Soviets was not her own choice, but the only option available to a small country fighting a superior opponent who could at any time attack and turn Finland into another occupied country.
Grave of Carl Gustav Emil Mannerheim.
Val-Mont was to be Mannerheim's main place of residence for the remaining years of his life, although he regularly returned to stay in Finland, and also visited Sweden, France, and Italy.
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim died on January 28 (Finnish time, January 27 local time), 1951 in the Cantonal hospital in Lausanne, Switzerland. He was buried on February 4, 1951, in the Hietaniemi cemetery in Helsinki in a state funeral with full military honors, and today retains respect as one of Finland's greatest statesmen.
Mannerheim's birthday, the fourth of June, is celebrated as the Flag Day of the Finnish Defense Forces. This decision was made by the Finnish Government on the occasion of his 75th birthday in 1942, when he was also granted the title of Marshal of Finland. Flag Day is celebrated with a national parade, and rewards and promotions for members of the Defense Forces.
Preceded by:
Risto Ryti President of Finland
1944–1946 Succeeded by:
Lewenhaupt, Count Eric, and Mannerheim, Carl Gustaf Emil The Memoirs of Marshal Mannerheim. Dutton, 1953.
Screen, J.E.O. Mannerheim: The Years of Preparation. Univ of British Columbia Press, 1993. ISBN 978-0900966224.
Screen, J.E.O. Mannerheim: The Finnish Years. Hurst & Co Ltd., 2001. ISBN 978-1850655732.
Jägerskiöld, Stig Axel Fridolf. Mannerheim: Marshal of Finland. University of Minnesota Press, 1987. ISBN 978-0816615278.
Trotter, William R. A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940. Algonquin Books, 2000. ISBN 978-1565122499.
All links retrieved January 11, 2017.
Mannerheim, "Carl Gustav Emil 1867 – 1951", Mannerheim.
"Mannerheim League for Child Welfare", Mannerheimin Lastensuojeluliitto (in English).
"Home Page", Mannerheim Museum (in English).
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History of "Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim"
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Q: How to trigger a "flyout, dialog, app bar or other inline element" if the phone receives a notification while the app is closed? I'm working on a Windows Phone app that will receive push notifications and needs to show critical alerts to the user. As far as I can see there are 3 types of push notification:

Raw Notification - Raw notifications are used when your application is actually running on the device.  This allows you to
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Toast Notification – This message will be received regardless of whether your application is running or not, but popping toast messages
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These each have different behaviours, but none lend themselves to critical notifications, where the user can be actively alerted to critical information.
Having read Guidelines for toast notifications on MSDN, it suggests

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So the question is, how can I trigger a "flyout, dialog, app bar or other inline element" if my app is closed and the phone receives a critical notification.

A: long story short: you can't enforce that your app opens on an incoming pns
But I think you've got the toast scenario wrong. A toast can be used to notify the user, if he taps it the app opens and you might react to that by the navigation uri (e.g.: ?fromToast=true).
If you receive a toast notification while your app is open the toast won't show. Toast Notifications only get displayed when your app isn't open. But you can react to an incoming toast notification (there's an event for that) to implement an behavior of your way (e.g.: flyout, msgbox, ...).
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Today kicked off the 2014 South-by-Southwest Festival (#SXSW) in Austin, TX, running until March 16 and featuring dozens of sessions, concerts, video, and fireside chats in music, film and interactive segments. I'll be involved in an interactive session on Tuesday called "The Digital Health Bubble – Is It About to Burst?" This panel includes Marc Monseau (@MDMonseau) who is a pioneer in health and social media (building J&J's early leadership in social health online); Marco Smit (@MrHealth20) who leads Health 2.0 Advisors and is a veteran strategist in several health/tech companies; and, Robert Stern, Founder/CEO of @PointofCare, a health IT platform that enables population health management. (For more on me, visit my website here).
We four will debate the question at hand, which is quite appropriate at SXSW as the digital health category is fast-growing at this manic meeting. Health has its own Twitter hashtag at SXSW – #SXSH. Sessions in health cover the gamut, from self-quantification (e.g., "I Sing the Body Digital" with Ivo Stivoric of Jawbone, one of the early innovators at BodyMedia); big data and analytics ("Hacking Your Life for Better Health" featuring Michele Polz of Sanofi and Fred Trotter, my personal health-data guru), wellness and fitness ("Gamified Healthcare: Can Nike Fuel Save Lives?"), and the key role of design ("Healing Healthcare with UX Design," featuring Abbe Don now with athenahealth and ex-IDEO).
I mention these sessions because these are all people who regularly inspire me in my work, and in my health. If one is mindful at SXSH, it can be a very fruitful experience both professionally and personally. But it can be challenging given the huge footprint and manic rhythmic vibe of the meeting.
Digital health has grown so quickly at South-by that some folks think it may need its own dedicated space and time slot. John Nosta asked in Forbes, "Has digital health found a home at SXSW?"
I'll let you know what I experience over the next few days. Stay tuned to my tweets @healthythinker, follow the #SXSH hashtag, and if you're in Austin on Tuesday morning ready for a great start to your morning, come hear our debate!
Health Populi's Hot Points: When I begin to speak on Tuesday, I'll set the landscape through my health economist lens, talking about the drive toward The Triple Aim: the Holy Grail of driving population health, enhancing the patient experience, and reducing per capita health costs.
Here's one of my slides: it illustrates something our Institute for the Future team learned through a meta-analysis of clinical research into what exactly creates "health." We did this research as part of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 2020 Forecast. The bottom-line: healthcare system "inputs" contribute only about 10% of health; the lion's share comes from lifestyle behaviors, followed by genes, social relationships, and the environment.
This is a useful thinkertoy as we hear about the New-New Things, like Google Glass applications and sensor-laden bras, and what they can do to contribute to health and The Triple Aim. Tools that empower us, seamlessly and even invisibly, to nudge good decisions every day, will help people – consumers, patients, and caregivers – co-create health with the health system.


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Martinez Not Arsed Over Transfer Speculation
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Roberto Martinez reckons Everton should not fear losing Romelu Lukaku this summer because Farhad Moshiri's investment means "financially we can compete against anyone in world football".
Martinez: "It's not unsettling at all because that should be the aspiration of everyone here, wanting to be the best you can and be in the best competition.
"We have that at Everton. We want to be competing to win titles. We've been in one semi-final, now we're in another. We want a good momentum and players need to be part of it. We need ambitious players who can carry our expectations.
"We shouldn't be afraid about losing players because financially we can compete against anyone in world football. Things have changed radically in that respect. In the last six windows we have become stronger and have made a more talented squad. That's what we are going to carry on doing. We will speak about individual situations at the end of the season but we should not fear losing anyone because we can compete financially against anyone. To play for Everton should be an honour and a privilege."
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Seddon Park is part of H3 alongside FMG Stadium Waikato and Claudelands – so working for our organisation offers plenty of diversity and excitement.
Our teams include venue operations, turf management, production and technical services, functions and events management, business development and marketing, administration, front-of-house staffing and venue presentation.
We're often on the hunt for people who are passionate about delivering exceptional service and world class events. If this sounds like you, contact us or register for job alerts via the Hamilton City Council Careers website.


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Norwegian to cut transatlantic flights due to 737 Max
14 Aug 2019 10:05 am | Molly Dyson | 0 Comments
Low-cost carrier Norwegian says it will cease flying between Ireland and North America from 15 September, partially due to the grounding of the Boeing 737 Max.
The airline is in the midst of a project to return to profitability following a period of growth and said the routes are "no longer commercially viable" considering the 737 Max aircraft remains grounded following two fatal crashes.
Norwegian flew from Ireland to New York Stewart International, Hamilton near Toronto and Providence, Rhode Island, using the 737 Max.
The airline had already threatened to bill Boeing for any costs incurred by the aircraft's grounding – costs which could put a huge amount of pressure on the carrier after it posted a loss of nearly £133 million for the first quarter of the year.
Co-founder Bjorn Kjos stepped down as CEO of Norwegian last month, with deputy chief executive Geir Karlsen temporarily filling the role until a replacement is found.
Commenting on the decision to cut transatlantic routes, Matthew Wood, SVP of long-haul commercial at Norwegian, said: "We take a strict approach to route management and constantly evaluate route performance to ensure we meet customer demand. Compounded by the global grounding of the 737 Max and the continued uncertainty of its return to service, this has led us to make the decision to discontinue all six routes from Dublin, Cork and Shannon to the US and Canada from 15 September 2019."
Wood said passengers booked onto the Ireland flights after 15 September will be offered the choice of rerouting onto other Norwegian services or requesting a full refund.
He added the airline will continue flying from Dublin to Oslo, Stockholm and Copenhagen as normal.
"We are proactively engaging with our pilots and cabin crew at our Dublin base, including their respective unions, to ensure that redundancies remain a last resort," Wood explained. "Our 80 Dublin-based administrative staff at Norwegian Air International and Norwegian Group's asset company, Arctic Aviation Assets, will not be affected by the route closures.
"We would like to thank Dublin, Cork and Shannon airports in addition to New York Stewart, Providence and Hamilton airports, tourism partners and our colleagues and customers for supporting Norwegian's transatlantic expansion from Ireland since 2017."
Norwegian is the second carrier to announce major operational changes because of problems with the 737 Max. Last month, Ryanair said it would have to make up to 900 job cuts and potentially close bases due to a delay in deliveries of the troubled aircraft.
Boeing predicts mid-2020 737 Max return to service
Muilenburg gets pay-out as Boeing Max lay-offs announced
American Airlines settles 737 Max compensation with Boeing


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The Clackamas Community College Women's Softball Team has built a tradition of success on and off the field. The Cougars have captured nine Northwest Athletic Conference titles, six second-place finishes and enjoyed nine Southern Region championship titles in the last 30 years. The Lady Cougars have also been to the playoffs 27 of the last 30 years and eight of the last 14 NWAC Championship games!
Placing second at 2014 championship tournament
Placing third at 2015 championship tournament
Placing fourth at 2016 championship tournament
If you're interested in playing Cougar softball, contact Coach Jessica Buel at 503-594-3602 or jessicab@clackamas.edu
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Jessica Buel
Coach Buel has led the Cougars to eight consecutive post-season appearances, finishing no lower than seventh place at the NWAC Championship tournament. Her 2007 and 2014 teams finished runner-up while the 2012 team went 38-11 and won the school its ninth NWAC Softball Championship.
Buel was named the 2010 Southern Region Coach of the Year, 2012 NWAC Coach of the Year and the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) NWAC Coach of the Year in 2010.
She starred for the Cougars during the 1999-2000 seasons in centerfield, helping her teams to a combined 63-16 record, a Southern Region Championship and a third- and fourth-place finish during the 1999 and 2000 NWAACC tournaments.
She was twice honored as a First Team Southern Region All-Star and earned NFCA NWAC All-American in 2000. Prior to college, she was a standout at Sprague High School in Salem where she was the Valley League Player of the Year in 1998. Her outstanding play at CCC led her to signing at Western Oregon University for the 2001-02 seasons.
At WOU, she earned all-league honors and also broke the school's single season record for stolen bases. After graduating WOU with her communications degree, Buel was the head coach at Central High School in Independence. She coached there from 2003 to 2005 and led the program to a top 10 ranking her final season. The following season she turned her skills to her alma mater at WOU, where she was appointed as outfield coach and also specialized in fine-tuning the hitting skills of the team's left-handed slappers.
She earned a master's degree in health education from WOU and currently teaches health and PE classes at CCC. Buel and her husband, Kacy, have a daughter, Brooklyn.
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Vu Hoang Tran (born 1975; Vietnamese name: Trần Hoàng Vũ) is a Vietnamese American writer. His debut novel, Dragonfish, was released in 2015.

Life
Vu Tran was born in Saigon in 1975, and grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He graduated from the University of Tulsa with an MA, from the Iowa Writers' Workshop with an MFA, and from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas as a Glenn Schaeffer Fellow in Fiction with a PhD.

His work has appeared in the Southern Review, Glimmer Train Stories, Harvard Review, Fence Magazine, Michigan Quarterly Review, Nimrod, Interim, and Antioch Review.

He currently teaches creative writing at the University of Chicago.

Awards
 2011 Finalist Award – Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature
 2009 Whiting Award
 2004 Lawrence Foundation Prize from the Michigan Quarterly Review
 2003 Short-Story Award for New Writers from Glimmer Train Stories

Works

Books
 Dragonfish (W. W. Norton, 2015)

Anthologies

References

21st-century American novelists
21st-century Vietnamese writers
American writers of Vietnamese descent
People from Ho Chi Minh City
Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni
University of Tulsa alumni
University of Nevada, Las Vegas alumni
University of Nevada, Las Vegas faculty
Vietnamese emigrants to the United States
1975 births
Living people
21st-century American short story writers


' [Birth Mother] First Mother Forum: What's wrong with stepfather adoption?
What's wrong with stepfather adoption?
Three generations are sitting at the end of a table. A man in his forties, his grandmother, and his father. Son and father are the spitting image of each other--and both look like Grandma. The subject of legal costs came up. The son says that at his company, he paid six dollars a month for a legal insurance policy that would cover simple legal matters, and so he asked if that would cover the cost of "fixing" his birth certificate since his it did not have his father's name on it--but the name of the man who was married briefly to his mother and "adopted" him. "In future generations they will be able to trace the family, but they they'll come to me and take a left turn," he said, matter-of-factly but obviously frustrated.
Ears perked up. Why wasn't his father's name on his birth certificate? Because his father, following a divorce, had agreed decades earlier to let his son be adopted by his stepfather. The man went on to say that to get his real dad's name back on his birth certificate--and "dad" is now totally involved in his son's and new granddaughter's life--his father had to go through the long process of "adopting" his son. He mentioned that simply filing an affidavit attesting to the reality of the situation as not enough. He added that there was even talk of a home study--the whole works--to see if his biological father was a "fit" parent. The man with the other man's name on his birth certificate said he gave up at that point.
What about his adoptive father? FMF asked. He shrugged. His was gone from his life when his mother divorced. Wouldn't a DNA test--given that the father is in his 60s, the son in his 40s, all parties agreed this is what they wanted the legal record to show--might somehow be enough to "prove" paternity. Nobody knows.
Stepparent adoptions, usually stepfather adoptions, are often loving and generous acts of goodwill. The natural father has left the home, the mother has re-married, and the natural father may have little contact with the children--and he does not pay support or show up when he is scheduled to take the kids for an outing. A stepfather who is involved in their lives with the legal ties of adoption is frequently better than such an absent father. Beyond the emotional support it implies, adoption offers a legal promise of financial support, may be necessary for insurance coverage, and strengthens inheritance rights.
Their motivations vary, but most are relieved to not have to make those monthly payments, to her, that despised ex-wife. They are free to go as they please. They can shed that nagging, guilty feeling that they should call or visit. Fathers may feel they are doing their child a favor by not interfering in his or her life. The stepfather is someone who likes domestic life and dotes on the child. If the father is truly gone, and a child is the only one in the home with a different name, the child may prefer to change his or her last name to "dad's."
Fathers don't think about--because no one points it out to them--how the child will feel about their father signing a paper and opting out of his responsibilities and legal connection to him or her. Not all men who seek to adopt their wives' children have good intentions. Sometimes it is just to keep the biological father away from his wife, a sort of primal, male territorial reaction. Sometimes it is because the new husband wants to control the child, "I'm your father now! Forget that other jerk." Some stepfathers later regret taking another man's child. "I only did it to please her," one man said. "And now I'm stuck with support. I hope she can find another sucker."
The children, like other adopted children, may fantasize about the father they do not know. They may stare at men they see in malls who look sort of like themselves, wondering if they should approach them. The children may hope their fathers show up some day and save them from whatever catastrophe they are going through. In cases when the children were old enough to remember their father, their sense of loss may be even greater. Before the adoption, they may not have seen their father often, but they stare out the window, hoping he will come and visit. Then one day, they get the devastating news: he signed away his legal paternity. He is unlikely to ever come.
Fathers that we have known don't forget. They get on with their lives but there's always a tug at their hearts, a trickle of guilt. What feels like a freedom today may feel like a loss one day. Like first mothers, these men often exchange immediate benefits for long-term pain.
A man married at 18 because his girl friend was pregnant. He left for another state soon after his son was born. Within a few years, both he and his ex had remarried. He resented having to make support payments for the son he did not know when he and his new family needed the money. He gladly signed the paper giving up his paternal rights to the boy's stepfather. His son was now in his forties. What had happened to him, his father wondered? Should he look for him? Would that hurt his wife and the children he had raised? Would the son even want to know him? Probably not, the father concluded. Better for his son to think of him as non-existent. The father was unaware that his son might want to meet him, might want to learn his heritage, might want to know why his father signed away his legal rights and claim of paternity.
Another father we know discovered he was gay after he married and had a son. After his former wife re-married, and he and his partner got together, he said he thought it would be better if I just cut out: "My son probably wouldn't want a gay father anyway--so I let his stepfather adopt him. And I hate to admit it, part of the reason was that Harry [his partner] and I had decided to open a bread and breakfast in London. We were short of cash and I was behind in the support payments." He looked down.
"When my son was in his 20's, he came to visit. He'd never gotten along with his adoptive father, and he asked if he could change his last name back to mine. I told him 'no,' it wouldn't be fair to the man who raised him. I didn't see much of my son after that." This father thought he was being noble, altruistic to insist his son keep his adoptive name. He didn't know the hurt his son must have felt.
Fathers like these men are invisible in the adoption community. They have never connected with or even heard of Concerned United Birthparents or American Adoption Congress, or any other adoption organization. They have no support groups. They're decades behind in their understanding of adoption. For the most part, they assume their children are all right, unaware of what it might mean to their children to know their father has thought of them over the years. There's no tearful TV reunion shows, magazine spreads, not even a Birth Father Day. They don't write memoirs. They don't even talk much about their lost children, and when they do, they get little sympathy.
*According to the Children's Bureau of the US Department of Health and Human Services, there were 63,094 non-public, non-intercountry adoptions, in 2008, the last year for which it has posted data. If the national rate for stepparent adoption are about the same as the rate in Oregon, about 28,000 of these were stepparent adoptions which is about twice the number of infant adoptions, 14,000 to 15,000 per year.
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Great post. Every word written here is true. Fathers.....DO seek out your children if you allowed stepfather adoption to happen. If you are thinking of allowing the stepfather to adopt your child, please think twice.
This is another situation where I can state a personal example, involving a cousin of mine. But there is so much more to his story that it is not appropriate to post here. The fact that his stepfather adopted him (and later divorced his mother) caused serious problems in his life. He also has the legal problem of his OBC being sealed, and an ABC issued when the stepfather adopted him. But there is much more to the story, which I will post another time.
Again, great , thought provoking post.
There's pressure on the mother to do this, beyond just her new husband. When I married my first husband I already had a child from a former relationship. I went on to have two more sons with my husband. When my oldest was about to start kindergarten many people told me it would be hard on him having a different last name than the rest of his family. I could see that point. He didn't have his father's last name anyway, he had my maiden name. Still, as an adoptee myself, I didn't want to do that to him. We wound up having his last name legally changed, but my husband never adopted him.
This is a seldom covered aspect of adoption most do not think about. And is often met with the most positive thoughts and outlook. I was raised by my stepdad. He's my dad. He's family. When he first married my mother, it had been discussed with me and my brother about him adopting us. We had contact with our father, though sporadic, and had a continued solid relationship with our father's side of the family. We were also only 7 yrs old and 5 yrs old and the burden of the request was on us. "Would you want Ed to be your legal dad?" Our first thought was how this would hurt our father's feelings and that side of the family. We didn't want it. Our father was in and out of our lives through our entire childhood, mostly due to his utter lack of desire to be a parent. The man my mother married filled those shoes willingly. He saw his own childhood in us. He was also a child of divorce with a father who only was a father when convenient and stepfather who filled those shoes, but was unkind to him. He did not want to be either one of those men. He was our Dad in every sense of the word, just never legally.
I'm truly on the fence with step parent adoptions because I've seen the ones that were done for the wrong reasons. Caveman efforts to mark the territory and keep the interloper away. Vindictive actions by scorned women to cut the fathers out. I'm not sure of my mother's intentions in those moments almost 30 yrs ago. They hadn't been married long. Perhaps her reasons then were vindictive or perhaps my "Dad" wanted to spare my brother and I the heartache that he went through. We may have been too young to have the burden of the request on our shoulders, but I am glad they did.
I had no issue having a different last name than my mother. I had no issue seeing her husband as my dad, even if there was no legal paper making him such. He was the man who walked me down the aisle at my wedding and he is THE Grandpa to my daughter. We have a Dad/daughter relationship that didn't need a legal seal of approval or the legal severing of my relationship to my father and his side of the family, which I am still close with.
So I guess the point here is that step parent adoptions are not always necessary, no matter how good of a reason you think you have. Our case may have been one of those cases where dad adopting us would have been a good thing, but in the grand scheme of it all, would it have been necessary? He's our Dad. Nothing changes that. But we also have our father still.
Dorkzilla: I had a similar situation in my own family. My brother was never formally adopted by my father, but he totally filled the role of Dad to my brothers, one of whom was not his legal son, and me. When my brother was able to do so without his biological father's permission (who refused to let him change his name at 18 when he joined the Navy), he legally changed his name so that is it the same as the one he used growing up--and is the same as mine. But his birth certificate continues to be a real record of his birth.
That is not always the case, though. My first husband and I were in the process of working on a stepparent adoption for my daughter, who is now an adult, when her birth father finally responded to one of the contact attempts is been making for the five years of her life. BF said he didn't want to pay child support, but no adoption. He wanted to meet his daughter. So he met her, spent just enough time with her for her to bond with him, then moved out of state. Over the next 10 years, he invited her out to visit once every year or two - just enough to keep her on his "string". Never recognized birthdays or Christmas. When my first husband and I divorced when she was 8, the Court of course said that she was all mine, but my ex loved her as his own (he was at the hospital when she was born, in fact), so we set up our own visitation schedule to maintain that bond. When my daughter hit her mid-teens, she refused to have anything further to do with BF - her own decision, we always encouraged her to spend time with him, etc., but by then she felt that he wasn't really interested in having a parental relationship with her. While she has been allowed to make her own decisions about it and maintains contact with those she feels a family bond with, she now wishes that we had pushed harder to try and get the adoption through so that her dad would be, legally speaking, her dad. She doesn't like that she can't list him as next of kin at work, or that if he's in the hospital (he had a lot of medical issues), she's not technically considered "family" even though he considers her the closest family he has (he has no other children and is currently unmarried) along with his brother and sister. I think a lot of people think that once you're an adult, whether that stepparent adoption happened or not doesn't matter because the relationship is there, but if that were true, then no one would be fighting for gay marriage.
She can still adopt him! Most states allow adult adoption!
It's all very well and good to say that a better man stepped up but for anyone thinking that, I'd just like to point out that adopting your partner's child doesn't cure what the ex did. This guy still has flashbacks of what his father did to him. He won't even refer to him as a father--calls him "sperm donor" instead. The "sperm donor" passed away close to a decade ago according to Social Security records, so it's not like my daughter has to worry about him now. Adoption took care of none of that--it would have all happened in the fullness of time anyway.
Sorry, but part of why step fathers adopt their new wive's kids is partly the mother's fault. So many women, pissed off at their child's father push them to do so for revenge, or to flaunt in their face someone else is better than you. Women also do this because in a new relationship the guy adopting her kids is romantic-a romantic faucet of the relationship to her. Maybe a lot of women should start thinking about their children more than themselves and ask them what THEY want first.
I agree exs are in such a hurry to eliminate the other parent. Would they like that no way but most mom's are dealing with THEIR issues.
I guess I am one of the few who truly does not wish to have their "Father" seek them out. He tripped in and out of our lives for so many early years, always leaving a fresh mark of grief and heartache behind. Broken promises, calls never made, support payments "in the mail" but somehow lost along the way. His refusal to allow my 'StepDad' to legally adopt me (and my sister) was sustained only by cruelty. Only when his new wife demanded he break ties completely and free himself from what tiny bit of financial connection he sporadically maintained to us, did he agree to the adoption. His decisions were always fueled by greed and money.
In our case StepParent adoption was a blessing, especially because our 'StepDad' had a child by a previous marriage who lived with us. Legally we became what we already were: his children.
Granted I had limited access to my "father" so perhaps that has aided in diminishing my desire to trace that branch of the family tree; I shudder a bit when I see others making sweeping statements encouraging all fathers to seek out their tossed aside offspring with the expectation of open arms.
I'm an adult adoptee and my husband adopted my oldest son. I really struggled with the decision of step-parent adoption because of my own issues with adoption. In the end I came to the conclusion that my child shouldn't suffer because of my issues so I allowed the adoption. The biggest reason I wanted my husband to adopt my son was to protect my son in case something were to happen to me before he turned 18. His biological father loves him but a combination of mental illness, criminal activity, and lifestyle choices made being with him and unsafe situation for my son. All of these factors were reflected in our custody agreement but in the case of my death he would have sole custody unless my son were to actually be harmed after that.
We have a similar situation in our family. My brother in law adopted his step-son and at least part of the thinking is it would protect the child if something happened to my sister in law. The father was and is not in the picture at all. They have 2 other children. If something happened to her, my sister in law wanted to make sure her son would remain with his siblings and the only father he knows. But the post is very interesting and something I honestly had not thought a lot about.
I would like to adopt my stepdaughter but not because I need a piece of paper showing ownership. Her mother is mentally ill and if anything were to happen to my husband I would have a custody battle on my hands. Interestingly enough, not with her mother but with my MIL who has been fighting us. If it came to a legal battle between my MIL and her biological mother, my MIL would win and she's Satan incarnate. My state allows for children of stepparent adoptions to not have their OBC changed.


For all of us focused on online gambling and the various casinos and games, our concern is how Apple Pay will improve online gambling. For the near future it might not be as significant as we want or expect. Since Apple Pay is currently only offered in the United States only these online players will be able to benefit. While that may seem to be okay for the moment, most of us realize that the U.S. has strict rules and regulations about online gambling, while the credit card companies have their restrictions as well. Apple Pay seems to be more focused on the U.S. consumer market and making purchases at stores a one touch exercise. The current situation is nothing significant for online gamblers, but as we know with Apple there will be something of importance down the road.
For now we will have not just another payment method, but a company that not only improves but revolutionizes technology and trends. Although when playing online we do not swipe our phone or card, butwe do use a payment method such as PayPal who acts as a go-between with the online casinos and our credit/debit cards. With Visa, MasterCard, American Express and many large banks already associated with Apple Pay as well as most online casinos, this seems to be the next step in payment options. So the big question ishow soon will Apple Pay become involved in the online casino industry and more specifically for the mobile devices?
In a previous article I wrote about the two main operating systems for mobile devices, Apples's IOS and Google's Android . Not so much of an overall comparison, then as an analysis of how online mobile gambling will work with these two systems. Without getting into too much detail, my conclusion focused on the formatting of online slots to mobile devices and how they will perform with the 2 systems. All things being equal, I felt that because Android operates on various size devices as well as 5 large manufacturers, that their biggest problem would be fragmentation. How do you create online slot software that will function consistently for each device without diminishing the experience with subpar graphics and ill-fitted screens?
I felt that since IOS was only used for Apple devices and there were limited screen sizes, that the go-to system or device would be Apple. Because of the difficulties in formatting and other issues, it would be a lot cheaper and more efficient for these companies to work with Apple. Now this is not to say that the software developers will not create games for Android, it's just that Apple will prove to be the better bet while the Android system will prove more challenging.
Now with Apple's IOS being the better choice, one can assume that there will be a unified payment system with the online casinos and video slot Apps, and Apple Pay . While I'm no techy (obviously), I'm certain that Apple Pay and the video slot games designed for IOS will create a seamless payment and gambling system. In the world of mobile devices anything can happen and it can be futile to predict the future, but with the introduction of Apple Pay, the industry will nonetheless get quite interesting.


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A: As far as I am able to tell your code is fine. I tested with a local site running on VVV and populated with WP dummy content.
To test I created the custom field exactly as you described, with the possible exception being that I set the radio button value/label pairs up as:
yes : Yes
no : No

I set the default value as no.
I used a plugin called "Custom Field Bulk Editor" to bulk assign values to existing posts, then set up an archive.php using (mostly) your code and everything worked as expected.
$qcatid = get_queried_object();

$args2       = array(
  'post_type'      => 'post',
  'post_status'    => 'publish',
  'orderby'        => 'date',
  'cat'            => $qcatid->cat_ID,
  'posts_per_page' => -1,
  'meta_query'     => array(
    array(
      'key'   => 'feature_in_slider_carousel',
      'value' => 'Yes'
    )
  )
);

$mycat_query = null;
$mycat_query = new WP_Query($args2);

if ($mycat_query->have_posts()) :
  echo '
';

  while ($mycat_query->have_posts()) : $mycat_query->the_post();

    echo '
' . get_the_title() . '
';

  endwhile;
  wp_reset_postdata();
  echo '
';
endif;

It's worth noting that this also worked without meta_query :
$args2 = array(
  'post_type'      => 'post',
  'post_status'    => 'publish',
  'orderby'        => 'date',
  'cat'            => $qcatid->cat_ID,
  'posts_per_page' => -1,
  'meta_key'       => 'feature_in_slider_carousel',
  'meta_value'     => 'Yes'
);

Visiting category archive pages in both cases only returned posts marked yes, and from the appropriate category.
I've run into problems with ACF label/values in the past after having done some sort of edit to them, like changing foo : Bar to foo : Bat. When this has happened in the past I've found that deleting and re-creating the field with a different name has got things working for me.
Sorry I couldn't be of more help.


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Chinese President Xi arrives in Dhaka
Dhaka – Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Dhaka Friday on a 22-hour visit to hold talks with Bangladeshi leaders for boosting trade and economic cooperation between the two countries, officials said.
President Abdul Hamid greeted his Chinese counterpart at Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka. The 63-year old Chinese leader was given red carpet reception and guard of honour after he arrived in Dhaka.
China and Bangladesh are poised to sign more than two dozens of agreements for cooperation in the areas of trade, investment, power and energy, infrastructure development and agriculture among others during Xi's stay in Dhaka.
The Chinese leader, will leave for Indian state of Goa on Saturday to attend BRICS (Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa) Summit. He came from Cambodia
Dhaka considers Xi's visit as a milestone in relations between the two countries since they established diplomatic ties in 1975. This is the first visit by a Chinese president in Bangladesh in the last 30 years.
"It (the visit) will set in a historic new journey through opening up a new horizon in the two countries' economic relations," Foreign minister Abul Hassan Mahmud Ali said.
The then president Li Xiannian visited Bangladesh in March of 1986.
The Memorandum of Understanding and agreement between China and Bangladesh will be signed after the official talks. Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will lead her country in the talks to be held at Prime Minister's Office.
Xi, who visited Bangladesh as vice president in June 2010, said in an article published in Bangladeshi newspapers that China always regarded Bangladesh as its true friend and partner for development.
"I believe with the joint efforts of our two peoples, China-Bangladesh cooperation will bear even more golden fruits," Xi said.
The main city streets of the capital have been decorated with colorful lights and flags of Bangladesh and China alongside the portraits of Xi Jinping and Hasina.
Parliamentary Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury and former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia will call on the Chinese President at Le Méridien Dhaka.
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In an attempt to "clarify" his remarks during yesterday's summit with Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump made a brief closed-door address to a handful of Republican members of Congress amid mounting criticism from allies and foes alike about his failure to publicly condemn Russian election meddling.
The president said that after reviewing the clip of the summit press conference, he decided he needed to clarify and did so by saying that has "full faith" in US intelligence agencies, while noting that he also entered the Putin meeting with conviction that engagement is better than hostility, that dialog with Russia is very important and that Helsinki was his "most successful visit" yet and that he is working hard with US allies.
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SodaStream factory shows Palestinian Bedouins' plight
The BDS movement will continue its campaign against the Israeli company as it opens a new factory in Bedouin area.
by Kate Shuttleworth
SodaStream moved its factory from an illegal settlement in the occupied West Bank to a Palestinian Bedouin village colonised by Israel in the Negev [Getty]
Rahat, Al-Hazeel - SodaStream, the Israeli company that has drawn criticism for operating in the occupied West Bank, will be ending its operations there and is opening a new factory in southern Israel.
The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS) - which uses economic pressure in its pursuit to end the Israeli occupation - has targeted SodaStream, which produces home soda-making machines, for its factory's location in Mishor Adumim, an illegal Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank.
Standing in a plush meeting room in the new SodaStream factory, CEO Daniel Birnbaum refuted criticism of the company. "There's no scandal," Birnbaum told members of the media. "It's a legitimate factory [in the West Bank]. We're not breaking any international law, but in the meantime we decided to build a new factory here in the Negev."
He said the company had moved to the new factory as it was "cost effective", but admitted BDS had played some role in the move, though he claims it was "minimal".
OPINION: Game changer: 10 years of BDS
Birnbaum added that SodaStream's presence should have been encouraged in the occupied West Bank. He has referred to the West Bank factory as "an island of peace" where Israelis and Palestinians worked "in harmony".
The West Bank factory officially closed last week, resulting in 470 Palestinian workers losing their jobs. The BDS movement claims the decision is a direct result of its pressure.
"This closure is a clear-cut BDS victory against an odiously complicit Israeli company," said Omar Barghouti, a Palestinian human rights activist and co-founder of the BDS movement. Barghouti added that the movement had succeeded in pressuring major retailers across North America and Europe, including Macy's in the US and John Lewis in the UK, to stop stocking SodaStream products. He said SodaStream also closed its flagship store in Brighton in the UK as a result of regular protests. Soros Fund Management, an investment management firm founded by billionaire investor George Soros, sold its stake in the company last year.
"After pressure from Soros' partners in the region and the world, they dropped SodaStream and promised, in private letters so far, to issue guidelines similar to those adopted by the EU to prevent any investment into companies that sustain the Israeli occupation and settlements in particular," Barghouti told the media last year.
Soros Fund Management did not respond to Al Jazeera's requests for comment.
UpFront - Debating the Israel boycott
But this new factory, too, is proving to be controversial. BDS activists say it is located on land that the Israeli government confiscated from Bedouins in the 1950s. The factory is surrounded by 34 Bedouin villages, which are unrecognised by the Israeli government and are threatened with eviction, but no final date of eviction has been set as the Israeli government's plans have been put on hold.
SodaStream sought to transfer all Palestinian workers to the new Israeli plant, but most were unable to do so because of the very long commute from the occupied West Bank and the difficulty obtaining work permits from the Israeli government, which regularly prevents Palestinians in the West Bank free movement across its checkpoints.
Israel granted the company 130 work permits, but only 37 of the Palestinian staff from the West Bank factory were able to meet the security requirements, which exclude single people and those aged 22 and younger.
Those 37 staff travel up to four hours each day to work in the new factory. Tahsin Hanadi, 38, is the only woman among the group: "I leave home at 4:30am each day and I am home at 8:30pm," she said, detailing a 16-hour ordeal that involves crossing an Israeli checkpoint and going through security checks. She was not angry about the factory's move, but admitted it was harder for her to travel so far each day for work.
Thirty-seven Palestinians travel up to four hours each day to work in the new SodaStream factory, built on the ruins of a Bedouin village [Kate Shuttleworth/Al Jazeera]
The Israeli argument that boycotting the colonies [Jewish settlements] will hurt poor Palestinian workers is disingenuous and intended to divert attention from the illegality of all Israeli colonies in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Omar Barghouti, BDS movement leader
Palestinian Taqsim Mohsin, 27, said he travelled to the factory each day from Abu Dis, a neighbourhood in East Jerusalem that was separated from the city when Israel built its illegal separation wall. He travels three-and-a-half hours a day and works 12 hours.
"BDS is hurting us; many of us can't get work in the West Bank and wages are so low. We need this work," Mohsin told Al Jazeera.
But Barghouti disagreed that BDS is to blame, and said high unemployment in the occupied West Bank was a direct result of settlement activity and the separation wall: "Israel's occupation has left hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in dire conditions of poverty. After losing their agricultural lands to settlements, thousands of Palestinians were compelled to work in Israeli projects, including in settlements to subsist," Barghouti told Al Jazeera.
"The Israeli argument that boycotting the colonies [Jewish settlements] will hurt poor Palestinian workers is disingenuous and intended to divert attention from the illegality of all Israeli colonies in the occupied Palestinian territories."
SodaStream's new $90m factory near Rahat, of which the Israeli government contributed $20m according to Birnbaum, was built in a new industrial zone touted by the Israeli government as a solution to sky-high unemployment rates among the Bedouin in the Negev. Forty-seven percent of Bedouin men are unemployed, and 87 percent of women are also unemployed, according to official Israeli government figures.
Human rights lawyer and PhD student Rawia abu Rabia said the origins of high levels of unemployment among Bedouin women began when Israel forced people off their lands: "Forcing women off their lands deprived them of their traditional roles ... and left them with no options - no training and often no education."
She said many Bedouin women simply had not attended school until recently.
Rahat was established by the Israeli government in 1971 as a planned urban township for Bedouins. This came after the government seized the territory, originally known as al-Hazeel, by evicting Bedouins, who previously led a nomadic lifestyle, from their homes. Many of the Bedouins were forced by the Israelis out of the Negev and became refugees inside what is today the occupied West Bank.
Rahat, like the Bedouin villages surrounding it, has some of the poorest living conditions in Israel.
Atiyeh al-A'sam, head of the regional council for the unrecognised Bedouin villages, said that while industrial zones providing employment were important, so was ensuring that Bedouins maintain and develop their agricultural skills.
He said Israel had been discouraging this, by restricting grazing and forcing Bedouins to keep livestock on tiny pockets of land. Industrial parks, like Idan Hanegev, where SodaStream is now located, were not the solution, A'sam told Al Jazeera.
Lawyer and Bedouin community leader Atwa al-Hag Abou Anzeh told a group of journalists that he was critical of the industrial zone, because of the Bedouins' forced removal from their homes to a more urban centre in Rahat: "It was clear when Rahat was established [that] the state wanted to concentrate us in one place and take our land.
Their attempts to help with employment are insults to our intelligence, and you cannot create a partnership like the industrial zone between rich and poor. You must provide the poor with the right conditions to leave the circle of poverty," he argued.
OPINION: I support the Israeli boycott - but which one?
Meanwhile, Barghouti said moving the factory inside Israel would not alleviate pressure from the BDS movement: "The BDS campaign against SodaStream will continue, as the company is moving to a location where it is directly colluding in the ethnic cleansing of Bedouin Palestinian citizens of Israel in the Naqab [Negev]. SodaStream's move is part of the Israeli government's plans to steal the traditional lands of Bedouin Palestinian communities in the Naqab, forcibly displacing them and concentrating them in 'urban' areas."
But Birnbaum defended the new factory's location. "There was nothing here when we laid the cornerstone a few years ago," he said. "This was just desert. No one lived here, there was no water - nothing."
But historian and director of the Negev office of Adalah, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, Thabet Abu Rass confirmed to Al Jazeera that the land on which the industrial park had been built had been confiscated from the Bedouin by Israel in the 1950s. According to Abu Rass, 70,000 Bedouin citizens were living in 34 villages that predated the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948: "The state of Israel considers the villages unrecognised and the inhabitants trespassers on state land."
"Bedouin [Palestinians] are the most vulnerable community in Israel, and for over 60 years the indigenous Bedouins have faced a state policy of displacement, home demolitions and dispossession of ancestral land."


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