How to create an effective women's caucus?
As individuals without the support of a caucus women are often forced to focus on their party agendas rather than lobby for women at large. However, women's caucuses around the world have had a notable impact on empowering women members of parliament to stand up for gender equality. How can we start a caucus?
First of all, have a breakfast meeting. It is better for the eldest woman, or the longest serving woman can invite the other women for the breakfast or tea. Then just chat about anything. Then, choose your leader as unofficially as possible. Do not make a paper protocol or something that will make the relationship stiff. Vote on the woman who entered newly in politics. Old politicians have old disagreements. Fresh new face will help the women. Be very nice to each other. If someone's arguing over something, just joke and say to each other nice words. Human relationship is very important. Each time, find small reasons to be together for a cup of tea: birthday, passing an important legislation, returning from a trip, returning from recession and breaks etc.
Expert: Sonja Lokar I would like to share with you the experiences of three best women caucuses, formed in the Balkans from 2002 till today. The first case is from Macedonia. Women's Parliamentary Club of the Republic of Macedonia has been formed in 2003 and it was a great success till the conservative government was formed in 2006, when its ability to lead well focused joint actions in favor of women human rights gradually diminished. The second case is from Kosova, were Women's Caucus of the Assembly of Kosovo is very strong and active for more than a decade, and the last one is Women's parliamentarian Network from Serbia, established in February 2013.In all three cases the initiative to form such a caucus has come not from the women in the parliament but from the women NGOs with strong support of international actors with gender equality mandate - such as UNW, UNDP, CoE, OSCE, Stability Pact for SEE, NDI.... It was of crucial importance that the women parliamentarians were getting strong support from civil society feminist movement for their work within their political parties much before they were elected as MPs.
These three caucuses were formed in strong connection with the years long successful advocacy and lobbying of nation wide cross -cross women's coalitions for the enactment of legal electoral quotas.The most difficult thing for the Women MPs is how to maintain their double loyalty - the loyalty to their many times strongly opposing political parties and the loyalty to the women's cause. The number of the issues they can work together is very small (political representation of women, equal pay, violence against women, reproductive health - exemption is abortion issue, reduction of poverty between women) but can be effective if they solve this main problem.
When political tensions are too great to enable normal functioning of the parliament, women's caucus can not function if it was created in more tolerant political atmosphere (the case of Macedonia), but it can serve as an excellent tool to appease tensions, if it is formed in the moment when a new majority takes power, and the caucus did not exist before (the case of Serbia). Nothing can be done if there is not enough dedication, courage, wisdom and sincere will to change the status of women in the country for the better in at least one highly positioned woman MP coming from major opposing parliamentary parties.
To see more, you can look into the web pages and Facebook of these caucuses, for Kosovo, look especially for Teuta Sahatqqija. This is a presentation about the formation of a women parliamentarians network in Serbia.


I have been looking around for some new gear to maybe test out, and I stumbled onto this, sorry if it has already been discussed, I don't get on here as often as I once did. In years past at other forums, I had a thread where I put some of my synthetic (Polarguard) clothing to the test a couple of different times, wanting to test 2 things: how did the insulation do when wet, after I soaked it- and also would the WPB Pertex Endurance shell really breath and allow it to dry out? So I poured some water onto the inner shell in my sink, squeezed it out and went for a 30 minute fast hike at about freezing and with some rain(on one of the tests anyway). I felt that I had great results, with most of the jacket not only keeping me warm on the hike, but being bone dry by the time I got home(as opposed to my jeans which remained wet for hours). I also had a thread called Wet Wiggy's where some guy soaked a Wiggy's bag and slept in it. He did fine, but the temps were quite a bit warmer than the bags rating(though still plenty cold), so it might not have been the most conclusive test.
But now there is this! And it is insane! He is just torture testing one of his sleeping bags(they also make quilts and pods for hammocks), a 20F bag tested in the low 30s. But it is crazy! He so totally soaks this bag, far more than I did my jacket! I thought the results were extremely interesting! He also mentioned plans to test their treated down gear, I'm going to go see if I can find that!


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Alqur (, also Romanized as Alqūr and Alghūr) is a village in Alqurat Rural District, in the Central District of Birjand County, South Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 64, in 38 families.

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Populated places in Birjand County

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Şefika Kutluer studied at the Ankara State Conservatory and graduated with honors and awards in 1979. She became a flute member of the Presidential Symphony Orchestra and continued to study for her soloist career in Vienna and Rome. Kutluer taught at the Ankara Conservatory for several years. She has played Turkish composers' music many times throughout the world and introduced Turkish music and rhythm globally in classical music formation, protecting the music's character. She has also introduced the great Turkish mystic philosophers Mevlana and Yunus Emre explaining their philosophy. After winning several international competitions and launching her truly international career as a soloist, Kutluer was awarded the Presidential Medal in Turkey in 1985 and became a "State Artist" in 1998. She has performed several concert tours and joined many International Music Festivals in Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Holland, Spain, Belgium, USA, Cuba, Singapore, Israel, Slovakia, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Estonia, Sweden, Macedonia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Serbia & Montenegro, TRN Cyprus, Tunisia, United Kingdom, Mexico, Azerbaijan, China and Japan, receiving very favorable reviews. Sefika Kutluer, known as the "Magic Flute", has also performed on various international TV and radio channels, in Austria (ORF), England (BBC), Switzerland (RTL), Germany (TRT-INT), Rotterdam (Rijnmond), Bratislava, Kiev, Minsk, Vilnius, Moscow, Beijing, Tokyo, Washington D.C. (WGMS), Chicago (WNIB/WNIZ) and New York. She has made CD recordings with several famous conductors and orchestras as well and received awards for them.


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There are many people who are looking at food trends of the past couple of years. It is no secret that the amount of vegetarian and vegan diet based individuals have greatly increased over the past years. It continues to happen as more and more people are siding with these people. Now, there are restaurant owners who are trying to take advantage of this. By offering vegan, or vegetarian, options on your menu, you are appealing to a large demographic.
There has been a large increase in the amount of people who refrain from eating meat.
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By appealing to all kinds of potential customers, you can make a lot of money in the food business.


After rebounding from the group of downside fibo-levels twice, the EUR/USD pair started a new ascending correction. The closest target is the retracement of 38.2% at 1.0820. It's highly likely that after completing the local correction, the market may resume its growth.
At the H1 chart, the target of the local correction is the retracement of 50%. If the pair rebounds from this level upwards, the market may resume its growth and reach a new local high.
In case of the EUR/GBP pair, the current correction is getting higher. Possibly, during the next several days bulls may try to reach the retracement of 50% at 0.8610, which is confirmed by intraday fibo-levels.
As we can see at the H1 chart, yesterday the pair rebounded the correctional retracement of 38.2% and resumed its growth. On Wednesday, the price may break the local high and then continue growing towards the group of upside retracements.


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Bernard Fox may refer to:

 Bernard Fox (actor) (1927–2016), British film and television actor
 Bernard Fox (Irish republican) (born c. 1951), former member of the Army Council of the Provisional Irish Republican Army
 Bernard Fox (figure skater) (1916–1998), American figure skater


On the back of ludicrous allegations of EVM tampering/hacking, the Election Commission chose to check random vote counts after the recently concluded Gujarat Elections. As reported, the Election Commission officials claimed that random vote counts in 1 booth each in 182 seats of the state and their corresponding VVPAT paper trail proved to be a 100% match, which means that there was no discrepancy in what button the voter had pressed and what the EVM consequently registered in its system.
The crux of the argument is that "Old data" was existing on some of the EVMs, which after extrapolating, could have impacted 6 booths per constituency, and as a result, 11400 votes per seat. The argument further says that the average victory margin is generally 5000-6000 votes, so the entire result could change because of this old data.
Besides, as announced earlier, VVPAT slips were taken into consideration during Monday's counting at 10 booths across seven constituencies as the presiding officers of these booths had failed to wipe out the votes from the EVMs during the mock poll ahead of the voting on December 9 and 14.
In addition, four such new cases had emerged during Monday's counting at Vagra, Dwarka, Ankleshwar and Bhavnagar- Rural seats, Swain said.
"There was a mismatch of some votes on one booth each of these four seats. This occurred because the Returning Officer must have made the same mistake but it could not be detected earlier. So we took into account VVPAT slips for these booths during the counting and resolved the issue," he said.
The first two paras have been deliberately omitted by Janta Ka Reporter. The full picture reveals that the "old data" which remained on some of the EVMs was actually the "Mock Poll" data. The Election Commission (EC) had earlier ordered repolling in six booths, where first phase polling was held on 9 December as the presiding officers of these booths had forgotten to wipe out the mock drill poll results necessitating the re-election.
Before we move ahead, we need to understand the concept of a "mock-poll". Mock polls are conducted on the election day to test the efficacy of the EVMs and VVPATs. An hour before the actual polling begins, a mock poll is conducted where around 50 votes are cast at every polling station by the presiding officer in presence of the polling agents. Polling agents are the authorized representatives of all the candidates at a particular booth. Thus, each booth has polling agents from all the contestant parties/individuals.
The polling agents of all parties are involved so that each of them can individually verify that the EVM and VVPAT are working fine. For example, if an EVM is "hacked" by BJP, the Congress poling agent will immediately detect that the EVM is not functioning properly during thr mock poll, and file a complaint. Hence, the mock poll acts as a test, and is done for each and every EVM. After the mock poll, the presiding officer ascertains the result in the control unit of the EVM, counts the VVPAT paper slips and confirms that the results tally for each candidate.
Once this is done, the EVM data is deleted and the VVPATs are emptied to let the polling agents verify the empty VVPAT drop boxes. The mock poll slips are stamped on the back with inscription "MOCK POLL SLIP" and sealed in a thick black paper envelop. Now, the EVM count is back at zero, for normal polling to begin.
Coming back to the case of the four booths, Mr Swain had stated that there was a mismatch at these booths, probably because the returning officers did not wipe out the mock poll data. It appears that in case of 14 booths (10 earlier and 4 now), out of total 50,128 booths, the officials failed to delete the data.
How was the mismatch in these 14 booths noticed? Because all polling booths maintain manual records of total votes polled. That's how we get regular update of polling percentage on voting day, as polling officers keep sending this data regularly to ECI. This data is in fact cross-checked every few hours, i.e. EVM total is matched with manual count, and the tallied data is sent for reporting percentage.
This final count of polling is recorded on Form 17C. During counting, this total for each booth as per Form 17C is matched with total shown in EVM for that booth, and EVM data is accepted only when this data matches. The Form 17C also has a provision to account for mock polling data which was deleted from the EVM. Hence if there were errors in other booths, those would have been noticed by counting officials and authorized counting agents of candidates.
Janata Ka Reporter has wrongly assumed that 4 booths out of 182 booths had errors, and then used this to show that the error rate is 2% for entire state. This it totally wrong, 182 booths didn't have any error. And 14 different (not 4) booths had errors in the entire state, so there is no case for expanding anything by 2% to get the figure of 1102 booths with possible mismatch. 14 is the final number of booths where mismatch was detected.
Even in such booths, the mismatch can be expected to be of around 50 votes, which were polled during mock-polling. Janta Ka Reporter claimed that these votes could be as many as 11400 per seat. Thus using half-cooked data, a half-baked analysis has been presented by Janta Ka Reporter.


Long thought to have been lost to the ages, the three fabled Loch Blades were recently discovered in the submerged ruins of an Aldvarian tomb, just off the southern shore of Golden Crown Isle in Barrow Loch.
The three Loch Blades (Terror, Wisdom, and Honour) are as mysterious as they are powerful. Sages have long argued over the origins of these legendary swords, with many among the learned convinced that they are not of this world.
The most widely accepted legend involving the three blades states that there were once three shrines, each on a different island in Barrow Loch (Golden Crown Isle, Iron Crown Isle, and Silver Crown Isle), in which the swords were kept as objects of worship.
Before the shrines fell into ruin, the three blades were removed and hidden somewhere within the frigid depths of the loch.
The recent recovery of the three swords lends at least some credence to the legend.


Burmese Labor Minister Maung Myint has accused police in Thailand of extorting money from Burmese workers. In an interview with The Bangkok Post, the Burmese minister said he had heard that migrant workers, including those with legal documentation, are routinely arrested and forced to pay between 500 and 1,000 baht (US $16-32). He added that the practice "is not good for the relations between the two countries" and said that he had raised the issue with his Thai counterpart. According to Maung Myint, 1.5 million of the estimated 2 million Burmese nationals believed to be working in Thailand hold passports.


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GCSC KNL | Prof. Vitaly Chernetsky (University of Kansas, USA): "My Own Private Ukraine: Utopia and Queer Futurity in Dark Times" This event is a cooperation between GCSC/RCSC, GiZo & the Chair for East and West Slavic Literatures at JLU https://www.uni-giessen.de/en/faculties/ggkgcsc/events/semesteroverview/wise2022_23/keynote-lectures/KNL_Chernetsky https://www.uni-giessen.de/@@site-logo/logo.png
GCSC KNL | Prof. Vitaly Chernetsky (University of Kansas, USA): "My Own Private Ukraine: Utopia and Queer Futurity in Dark Times"
This event is a cooperation between GCSC/RCSC, GiZo & the Chair for East and West Slavic Literatures at JLU
https://www.uni-giessen.de/en/faculties/ggkgcsc/events/semesteroverview/wise2022_23/keynote-lectures/KNL_Chernetsky
Jan 24, 2023 from 06:00 to 08:00 (Europe/Berlin / UTC100)
GCSC (MFR) & Online (BBB)
Dr. Jens Kugele
Engaging with the thought of queer theorists José Esteban Muñoz, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Michael Snedicker, as well as Ukrainian feminist literary scholar Solomia Pavlychko, this talk explores the expressions of queer desire and utopian hope in Ukrainian literature and film, seeking sources for perseverance and optimism in the dark times of the current war. From the pioneering articulations of queerness in the texts of Olha Kobylians'ka and Ahatanhel Kryms'kyi in the 1890s through the late-modernist explorations by V. Domontovych and Emma Andiievs'ka and developing further in the work of contemporary authors in prose, poetry, and film, it seeks to uncover and trace a persistent utopian impulse that survived and regrew despite the lengthy history of repression, violence, and trauma.
// Prof. Vitaly Chernetsky (The University of Kansas, USA) is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Kansas. A native of Ukraine, he began his university education at Moscow State University, and continued it at Duke University, arriving in the US as an exchange student in the fall of 1989. He received his MA (1993) and PhD (1996) in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to coming to KU in 2013, he taught at Columbia, Northeastern, and Miami University (Ohio), and has held research fellowships at Cornell and Harvard.
Chernetsky's profile as an educator and researcher combines comprehensive and wide-ranging work on Ukrainian, Russian, and other Slavic literatures and cultures with a variety of cross-disciplinary engagements, most notably with film, gender and LGBTQ+ studies, Jewish studies, translation studies, and diaspora/migration studies. Throughout his academic career, he has striven to help bridge the relative isolation in which Ukrainian studies—and even more broadly, Slavic/East European/Eurasian studies—often find themselves within the humanities and the social sciences. He has consistently sought to bring Ukraine and the broader East European/Eurasian region and its cultural riches to the forefront of global attention, and to help global socio-cultural developments illuminate the evolution, current state, and promise of Ukraine and the broader region and their cultures and societies.
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Chicago Lyric's "mariachi opera" offers thin musical salsa
Renata (Cecilia Duarte) and Laurentino (Octavio Moreno) with violinists of Mariachi Vargas in the background at Lyric Opera's "Cruzar la Cara de la Luna." Photo: Todd Rosenberg
Under the aegis of general director Anthony Freud, the Lyric Opera of Chicago has been making a concerted effort to draw new audiences to Wacker Drive by broadening the mission of the venerable Chicago company. Such initiatives include operatic comedy collaborations with Second City, and the now-entrenched post-season mounting of Broadway musicals (Oklahoma! opens May 4).
Sunday afternoon brought the latest such project, with Cruzar la Cara de la Luna, presented by the company's Lyric Unlimited initiative.
This "mariachi opera" was the brainchild of Freud during his tenure as general director of Houston Grand Opera. Captivated by a mariachi band performance, the British opera administrator said he was "astonished by both the power of the music and the quality of the music-making" and developed his idea "of creating the world's first mariachi opera." The resulting commissioned work, Cruzar la Cara de la Luna, premiered at Houston Grand Opera in 2010 as part of the Mexican bicentennial celebrations.
Clearly, a major motivation for the Houston commission was reaching out to the city's significant Mexican population, as it is with this Chicago debut. Freud states that he wants the Lyric Unlimited program "to provide a broad, deep, relevant cultural service that will allow us to be of value to the entire community of greater Chicago."
In terms of community outreach, Sunday afternoon's performance of Cruzar la Cara de la Luna (To Cross the Face of the Moon) was clearly a success. The event attracted many audience members new to the Civic Opera House from the city's Latin communities who were engaged by the performance, laughing at the humorous lines and enjoying the music and the generational story of a Mexican-American family's search for its identity.
But even with a fine cast and lively playing by the Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan, on an artistic level, Cruzar la Cara de la Luna is awfully thin salsa. Despite the attempt to hype the work as a "mariachi opera," it is in no way an opera. It's not even a mariachi musical, since even that would suggest some deeper musical expression than the work contains.
Instead, what if offers is a sentimental telenovela-style story interspersed with mariachi songs and instrumental numbers. I'll leave it to others better versed in mariachi to judge the quality of the music in terms of the genre. Yet while lively and attractive, the music by Jose "Pepe" Martinez (lyrics by Martinez and director/librettist Leonard Foglia) feels padded even at just 75 minutes. The music offers either a rhythmically upbeat mariachi or a sentimental Latin pop idiom, neither of which begins to approach the expressive depth or stylistic variety of the finest musical theater, let alone the complexity of opera. Even in the slight story's key dramatic moments, whenever the music stops for a number it's as if someone dropped a quarter into the cantina jukebox, so jarring and often banal is the music that comes out.
No complaints about the performance or the cast which was superb throughout. Martinez's Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan provided spirited, rhythmically vital playing with their 13-member onstage band of trumpets, violins and guitars.
All the singers were amplified, which lent a fitful tinny quality to the singing. Octavio Moreno was the standout as Laurentino, singing with a robust baritone and shifting easily from the elder paterfamilias to the younger man in the story's constant and sometimes confusing flashbacks (the surtitles running consistently ahead of the action didn't help). As his Americanized son, Mark, Brian Shircliffe showed a warm and refined baritone in his framing song with guitar. As Laurentin's lost love Renata, Cecilia Duarte sang sensitively in her solo moments if with a raw edge on high notes. David Guzman demonstrated a plangent tenor, and Brittany Wheeler, Vanessa Cerda-Alonzo, Saul Avalos, Juan Mejia and Angel Osorio effectively rounded out the cast.
In the last month Lyric Opera has presented a rotten opera (Andre Previn's A Streetcar Named Desire) as a vehicle for its creative consultant Renee Fleming and a feather-weight mariachi piece, with upcoming performances of a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical and another comedy night with Second City.
Against this schedule and the safety-first lineup of standard opera repertoire slated for next season, it's hard to avoid the question as to whether in its efforts to make itself more "relevant" to "the entire community of greater Chicago," Lyric Opera is, in fact, making itself less relevant as a major American opera company.
Cruzar la Cara de la Luna will be repeated April 19 and 20 at the Benito Juarez Community Academy in Pilsen and April 21 at the Genesee Theatre in Waukegan. lyricopera.org; 312-827-5998.


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4 to transitioning their entire sector to a sustainable origin and ensure a supportive policy environment. How will the Sustainable Coffee Challenge lead to additional and more ambitious commitments? By centralizing data surrounding participant commitments and monitoring progress against a common framework, the Challenge will be able to share lessons learned, demonstrate where additional investment will have the greatest impact and encourage participants to focus new commitments on actions that are having measurable results against sustainability goals. How will you know when coffee has become the first sustainable product? Based on the common North Star outcomes we have set forth, the sector will be better able to track results and know if the Challenge s collective commitments, actions and investments are resulting in prosperity and well-being of farmers, forest soil and water conservation and a sustained supply of coffee. While there are still trade-offs among these 3 elements, we know that we are not yet there. When they are all tracking in a positive direction we know we are on course. When producers are able to prosper and meet demand for coffee while conserving forests, freshwater and other natural resources, we will know that we have arrived. How do you envision that the Challenge will capture the diversity of investments made in the sector? The portal will combine a bottom up approach that catalogues and tracks the numerous commitments, investments and actions being taken by actors form across the sectors towards a common set of North Star outcomes, we establish a framework that allows for a variety of pathways and approaches. Any investment or commitment that can demonstrate progress against these outcomes is contributing to sustainability within the sector.
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Charcots første antarktisekspedition var en fransk ekspedition til Antarktis mellem 1903 og 1905 ledet af den franske læge og opdagelsesrejsende Jean-Baptiste Charcot. Ekspeditionen planlagde at lede efter den savnede svenske antarktisekspedition under ledelse af Otto Nordenskjöld, men da denne ekspedition blev reddet af den argentinske korvet "Uruguay", blev den vigtigste opgave for Charcots ekspedition at kortlægge vestkysten af Den antarktiske halvø.

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Charcot havde gennemført ekspeditioner til Arktis, og planlagde endnu en rejse til nord, da det i foråret 1903 blev kendt, at en svensk ekspedition var savnet efter at have overvintret i Antarktis. Dermed ændrede han planerne for at forsøge at komme til undsætning.

Han mødte store problemer med at skaffe de nødvendige midler og finansierede en stor del af ekspeditionen med sin personlige formue. Han var imidlertid godt bemidlet efter at have arvet 400.000 guldfranc og et maleri af Fragonard fra sin fader, den berømte neurolog Jean-Martin Charcot.

Ekspeditionsskib
Ekspeditionsskibet "Français" var en tremastet skonnert, bygget i St Malo i 1903 af François Gautier. Størstedelen af Charcots formue gik til bygning af skibet og at udruste det med laboratorieudstyr.

Personel
Ekspeditionen bestod af en gruppe på seks videnskabsmænd samt en skibsbesætning på 14 mand. Ud over lederen, bakteriologen Charcot, bestod den videnskabelige stab af løjtnant André Matha som næstkommanderende med ansvar for hydrografi og navigation, fenrik Joseph J. Rey (meteorologi og oceanografi), Dr. Ernest Gourdon (geologi og glaciologi), naturforskeren J. Turquet og fotografen P. Pleneau. Ernest Cholet førte ekspeditionsskibet "Français".

Ekspedition

"Français" afsejlede fra Le Havre den 15. august 1903. Blot få minutter efter, at de havde forladt kajen, røg imidlertid en trosse og dræbte et af besætningsmedlemmerne. Denne ulykkelige hændelse forsinkede ekspeditionen i tolv dage.

Den belgiske polarudforsker Adrien de Gerlache fulgte ekspeditionen til Buenos Aires. de Gerlache havde erfaring fra Antarktis som leder af Belgica-ekspeditionen 1897–99, hvor også de senere kendte polfarere Roald Amundsen og Frederick Cook havde deltaget. I Buenos Aires fik Charcot at vide, at Nordenskjölds ekspedition var blevet fundet af en argentinsk redningsaktion med korvetten "Uruguay". Han bestemte sig da for at udforske vestkysten af Antarktishalvøen. Han undgik bevidst Rosshavet for at undgå en mulig konflikt med englænderne, som under ledelse af Robert Falcon Scott var i færd med at gennømføre en stor national ekspedition i området. Dette fik senere Scott til at omtale Charcot som "the Gentleman of the Pole".

De foretog en grov kortlægning af den sydvestlige kyst af Anvers Island i 1904, og den 19. februar opdagede de Port Lockroy på Wiencke Island. Ekspeditionen overvintrede i en beskyttet bugt på nordsiden Booth Island, som de navngav Port Charcot, hvor de opstillede flere hytter. I løbet af vinteren blev der foretaget flere ture med hundeslæder til nærliggende øer.

Ekspeditionen kortlagde vestsiden af Det antarktiske arkipelag og udforskede kyststrækningen syd over til Adelaide Island. Denne blev navngivet Loubetkysten efter den franske præsident, Émile Loubet. De observerede også Hugo Island og Alexander Island længere mod syd. Argentine Islands blev opdaget og navngivet i taknemmelighed for de argentinske myndigheders velvilje i forbindelse med ekspeditionen. I løbet af ekspeditionen blev der gennemført et omfattende videnskabeligt program.

Den 15. januar 1905 ramte "Français" et skær og sprang læk. Til trods for ihærdige forsøg på at tætne hullet og kontinuerlig pumpning, fortsatte skibet med at tage vand ind. En midlertidig reparation i Port Lockroy satte dem i stand til at sejle til Ildlandet og videre til Buenos Aires, hvor Charcot solgte "Français" til de argentinske myndigheder.

Hjemrejse og efterspil
Charcot vendte hjem til Frankrig, hvor han blev modtaget som en helt. Hans kone, Jeanne Hugo, barnebarn af forfatteren Victor Hugo, var imidlertid ikke lige så glad for hans ekspedition og krævede skilsmisse, fordi han havde forladt hende.

Charcot gennemførte en ny ekspedition til Antarktishalvøen i perioden 1908–10.

Noter

Litteratur
 Charcot, Jean-Baptiste (1998) Le "Français" au pôle Sud, Editions de l'Aube.
 Kahn, Serge (2008) Jean-Baptiste Charcot explorateur des mers, navigateur des pôles, Glénat.

Eksterne henvisninger
 Bilder fra ekspedisjonen Musée d'ethnographie de Bordeaux 2
 Jean-Baptiste Charcot – "Français". French Antarctic Expedition 1903–1905 Cool Antarctica
 Jean-Baptiste Charcot 1867–1936 South-pole.com

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If this counts for anything, on this day, two years ago, I published an article on 'How to avoid blogging burnout.' It was a complete recount of my own burnout. I was exhausted! And angry!
You know, I have been blogging for a long time now. It's been a long time, baby. I must confess, I made some mistakes and I think these slowed down some of my successes. You can read this post on mistakes to avoid as a new blogger. I can tell you, right here, one mistake to avoid- blogging solo. Don't ever blog solo. Have blogger friends, network, connect, truly connect with other bloggers.
Inasmuch as blogging can be fun, yes, blogging is actually fun, some of your blogging tasks are time consuming, boring and stressful. If you don't have a hang of how to never hit rock bottom in your blogging journey, you can be so exhausted to the point of no interest. I mean, like totally leave your blog. For some people, it's as bad as quitting all together.
Actually, if blogging has called you, you will always get back in here. *smiles* Blogging is a force! This is a platform where you share what matters to you – your stories, your knowledge, a piece of you, your passion, all without restraints, just how you like it. It's your own space on the internet. You definitely are going to be back but let's see, are you currently burned out? You've not blogged in months, I hope not years tho'. But you are just not up for all of it anymore, or at least, for now.
Sometimes, you need to remind yourself of why you started and why you want to continue. Now, on your blogging journey, you are going to meet many bloggers who blog about different things, you are going to stumble on so many blogs that have content similar to yours. Gradually, there is usually a tendency to want to do more, be more, write like some other blogger or take on their blogging styles.
In essence, you lose touch of yourself, why you started, your true message and your blogging goals overall. I must say here that it is very easy to compare and be lost in comparism as a blogger. You want your blog header to look a little like this, you want your content to be tailored towards that.


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The Council of Ministers of Spain approved new macro-economic indicators of growth and job creation in the country for the years 2016 and 2017, which were revised for increase. According to government forecasts, this year's GDP of Spain will grow by 2.9%, and during the next 2017 – by 2.3%. Meanwhile, unemployment will be reduced by one million people, and its level will drop to 16.6% by the end of next year, which would be the lowest rate since 2008. These forecasts will follow a sequence of four years of economic growth and creation employment in Spain, and also the Spanish economy will be able to generate the capacity for the sixth consecutive year for foreign financing in 2017.
According to the government in functions, the new macroeconomic situation in Spain shows that real GDP will maintain an average growth rate of 2.6% between the current and next years, despite the actual uncertainties in the international situation. This figure is higher than the average in the area of the single currency euro which was provided by the international organizations (1.6% and 1.5% for two years) and it will be achieved even though the outlook for global growth has been revised for decrease to 3.1% and 3.5%, respectively, even with the best prospects for development.
In 2016, the Spanish government estimates that the Spanish economy will grow two tenths more than initially expected (from 2.7% to 2.9%) due to the increased contribution of domestic demand and a smaller decline in external demand. The variation is one-tenth in both cases: up to 3.2 points and to -0.3, respectively. Both private consumption and exports indicators were revised for increase, while in the case of investments, the review has been made towards reducing by two tenths to 5.4%.
In 2017, however, the Spanish Government considers that the GDP will grow by one tenth less than expected in April this year, i.e. only by 2.3%. This reduction will be due to the lower contribution of domestic demand, particularly of investments in construction and equipment, which despite this still will grow by 4.2% next year.
It is also noteworthy that the Spanish economy in 2017 will reach four years of economic growth and job creation, and therefore, the executive body of the country hopes to maintain the positive balance of the external accounts around 1.7% of GDP in 2016 and around 1.5% next year.
In addition, labor market forecasts have also been greatly improved during the past two years, according to the overall positive evolution of the Spanish economy. In terms of the EPA (Employment Survey), it is expected that the number of workers in Spain will reach 18.993.000 people by the end of 2017, the highest rate since the third quarter of 2009, and the unemployment rate in Spain will be reduced to 3.777.000 people, the lowest rate since the fourth quarter of 2008.
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30 years already!
30 years, where to start? Born with Hervé Niquet in the late 1980s, Le Concert Spirituel first appeared on stage in 1987. Who would have imagined the rest of the story?
Today, Le Concert Spirituel is a choir and orchestra led by a dancing conductor. We never try to count the number of rediscoveries made by Hervé Niquet over the years, the most brilliant one will undoubtedly be Joseph Bodin de Boismortier who will have punctuated the history of the ensemble. Betting on crazy ideas such as raising the Mass to 40 voices of Striggio, touring the Requiem of Pierre Bouteiller, or collaborating with Corinne and Gilles Benizio (alias Shirley and Dino), these are all the facets of Le Concert Spirituel that make its richness.
"No one would have bet on it. Yet the public is fond of these discoveries. I'm lucky to meet music-loving, passionate and courageous producers who invite us and our crazy ideas!" Hervé Niquet
30 years, you can't do it alone. There is this loyal and passionate troupe, with confirmed talents and younger ones. The unconditional and precious support of personalities met like Jean and Nicole Bru (today by the Fondation Bru), as well as a few years ago the Fondation BNP Paribas and since 2014 Mécénat Musical Société Générale and the SMA Group; without forgetting the Ministry of Culture and the City of Paris which follow our adventure. The richness of our projects was also born from meetings and partnerships with halls, festivals, artists, institutions, musicologists, labels, etc. And finally, our enthusiasm comes in large part from the support of the public, which pushes us to always innovate.
You have to search in the discography of Le Concert Spirituel to realise all the work accomplished. There are our hits: Handel's Water Music & Fireworks (and soon his Messiah with Alpha Classics), Purcell's King Arthur or Vivaldi's Gloria and Magnificat; our darlings: Te Deum with 8 voices from Charpentier or Marin Marais' Sémélé; our little nuggets: Callirhoe of Destouches or the Boismortier's Sonates pour basses.
"If we want to live, we must be committed and at the highest level. Harmony is the most complicated to achieve, but success comes at this moment, after an hour of work in which we reach a perfect major accord." Hervé Niquet
We celebrated our 15th birthday with Handel's Water Music & Fireworks, then 25 years with Striggio's Mass for 40 Voices, and our 30th birthday was the occasion to present to our audience Orazio Benevolo (already scattered in some of the our programmes) through the polychorality of monumental baroque. It will also be the occasion to celebrate them with us during the October tour of "Un Opéra Imaginaire", a new baroque madness!
We hope to live this adventure with you for a long time to come. So, the next 30 years are going to be great!
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New statistics and studies done by the United Nations (UN) Population Division has estimated that by 2100, the population will hit 11 billion, which might significantly affect the quality of life on our planet. Overpopulation is already an issue taken into study by many and has been said to be the main cause of numerous problems.
However, our current 7.3 billion might just be nothing in comparison to what is to come by the turn of the century. In only 35 years, the population is set to reach 9.7 billion and then to climb over the 11.2 billion mark by 2100, which will unfortunately aggravate already existing problems across the globe.
Pollution and food scarcity might be two very serious issues which we now have to somehow combat and accommodate to before the future brings an even more damaging consequence to humanity.
According to John Wilmoth, director of the UN Population Division, damaging factors such as lack of resources, unemployment, poverty, crime and political unrest should be taken into consideration.
It seems that Asia will maintain its title of 'most populated continent', by going from the current 4.4 billion people to 5.3 billion in 2050 and then to steadily lower back to 4.9 billion. Still, it will be a considerable increase to an already overpopulated continent that is streaked with issues, such as poverty and disease due to poor conditions and crowded communities.
Among all, however, it seems that Africa will see the most significant increase. Currently standing at 1.2 billion, the African continent might see a rise in population that could range between 3.4 billion and 5.6 billion by 2100 due to the rising to high levels of fertility and the near stop in the rate of fertility decline.
In fact, Africa's most populous country, Nigeria, will go from a population of 182 million to a whopping 752 million by 2100, which is the biggest increase any region will see in the next eighty five years. It's estimated that even if the fertility rate take a steep fall, the African country will still see its population doubled at the very least.
The United States is set to expand as well, though in a very small increment when compared against others, with a rise from the current 322 million people to 450 million by 2100. However, it has also been observed that the average age will go from 38 years old to 44.7 years old, which means that the U.S. population is steadily aging. The support ratio will fall, which implies that a need for better pension plans should be considered early on.
Measures might have to be taken across the entire world to prevent overpopulation to an alarming degree, because there's only so much our planet can take.


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Tub was a unit of capacity or of weight used in Britain and elsewhere.

British unit for butter and cheese
British laws for the sale of goods defined a tub of butter as a receptacle of a size which could contain 84 pounds of butter.

Definition

1 tub of butter or cheese = 84 pounds

Conversion

1 tub = 1.5 Firkin (1 Firkin = 56 lbs)

Metric equivalent
1 tub =

Other commodities
The Oxford English Dictionary has quotations illustrating other values of a "tub" as a unit:
Tea (1706): "about 60 pounds"
"Camphire" (1706): "from 56 to 86 pounds"
Vermilion (1706): "3 to 4 hundred weight" (i.e. 336-448 pounds)
Camphor (1858): "130 Dutch lbs"

In Newfoundland, Canada, a tub of coal was defined as 100 pounds, while a tub of herrings was 16 Imperial gallons and a tub of salt was 18 Imperial gallons.

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I am what I call a willing nomad. I travel a lot. I think it averages out at three flights a week since I began modelling full-time. I daren't think how many miles that is. I do distinguish between travelling for work and holidays. With modelling, it's often a case of flying in and going straight on set, with little time to enjoy the place. Given the way I react on any shoot when the bikinis come out, I am not the model they jet off to Barbados or Ibiza. In fact, I've never even been to Ibiza. Why would I go on holiday to rave?


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What is the real range of an electric car? Tesla helps us find the answer.
By Sebastian Anthony on December 31, 2014 at 8:45 am
The last few years have been very kind to electric cars, mostly thanks to the ice-breaking carried out by the Toyota Prius hybrid, and then the runaway success of Tesla's Model S. The next few years, with the imminent arrival of new models from Tesla and innovative new models and ranges from heavy-hitters like BMW, will undoubtedly cement the EV as the Next Big Thing in automotive tech. Despite their surge in popularity, however, one question has never really been answered properly: What exactly is the range of an electric vehicle? Is it really 350 miles as Tesla claims, or is that some kind of miraculous edge-case that can only be obtained if you're coasting down hill with the windows closed on a sunny day?
Thanks to some detailed figures from Tesla, we may finally have an answer.
The real driving range of an electric car
A battery, whether it's a lithium-ion battery in your smartphone or an alkali AA battery in your TV remote control, has a maximum amount of energy that it can hold. In the case of your smartphone, that figure is probably around 10 watt-hours (Wh) — in the case of a Tesla Model S, it could be up to 85 kilowatt-hours (kWh). This listed capacity is only obtainable under perfect conditions, however: Operating temperature, age, and other factors can significantly reduce the battery's capacity and efficiency.
The watt-hours rating of a battery is its maximum energy capacity under perfect conditions. (Here, a Samsung Galaxy S3 with a 7.98 Wh battery, via Anandtech.)
The other big factor when discussing the range of any vehicle, be it gas, diesel, or electric, is efficiency. Using larger tires with a higher rolling resistance can increase energy consumption by a few percent. Likewise, the increased drag from opening your windows can hit your battery life (or fuel tank) for a few percentage points as well. Another big hit is heating and air conditioning: For electric vehicles, HVAC can reduce your range by more than 10%.
Perhaps most importantly, though, is the speed at which you drive: Wind resistance (drag) is proportional to the square of your velocity, and so a speed increase of just a few miles per hour results in a massive increase in drag, especially at higher speeds. For example, Tesla quotes a range of 408 miles for the Model S 85D if you stick to 45 mph on the highway — or just 269 miles if you do 75 mph.
The range of the Tesla Model S
Most of this data comes directly from Tesla, which recently published details for the four versions of the Model S: the 60, the 85, the 85D, and the P85D. As you can see in the graphs below, despite the published EPA range of 265 miles for the 85 kWh battery pack, the actual range will vary a lot depending on how you drive the car.
This second image zooms in on the slight differences between the single-motor Model S 85, and the dual-motor 85D and P85D. As you can see, the dual-motor 85D is more efficient across the board, most likely due to clever use of the new front-mounted motor — with two motors to play with, the on-board computer can throttle back the power-hungry rear motor when it isn't needed, significantly reducing power consumption.
In addition to these graphs, Tesla has also released a detailed range tool that lets prospective buyers find out the real range that they'll get while driving a Model S. The tool lets you choose your average driving speed and the outside temperature — and then you can toggle various features (windows, HVAC, etc.) to see what battery range you'll get.
Tesla, of course, isn't much like other car companies — but hopefully, as other companies get into the EV business in a big way, they will take a leaf out of Tesla's approach to transparency. Range anxiety is still seen as one of the larger issues limiting the adoption of electric vehicles — but with clear, human-readable data provided by the car companies, clever feedback from the cars themselves, and of course lots more Supercharger stations, I think that rather entrenched anxiety can be relieved.
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Former Miss America Leanza Cornett dies at the age of 49
Leanza Cornett was crowned Miss America in 1993. She is 49 years old this year. A family spokesperson told CBS News affiliate WJAX-TV that Connet died on Wednesday. The cause of death was not given, but the station reported that the native of Jacksonville was the mother of two children and suffered brain injuries after falling earlier this month.
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The Miss America organization confirmed the death of Connet in a statement.
The statement read: "Leanza has a bright and beautiful spirit, and her smile is contagious. We know that she means a lot to many people, including everyone." "We are shocked by the sudden loss of the Miss America family. We I am deeply sorry for the loss of her family and close friends."
Leanza Cornett was crowned Miss America in 1993.
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According to WJAX reports, Cornett was crowned Miss Florida in 1992. He sang on the Christian music group "Regional Code" in the early 1990s. She also played Ariel in the "Little Mermaid Show" at MGM Studios in Disney World and served as an Internet TV broadcaster.
When she fell on October 12, a family spokesperson told WJAX that the injury "needed a decompression craniectomy" to "treat the swelling of the brain and control bleeding."
Friend Elizabeth Tobin Kurtz told WJAX that Cornett used his platform to become an AIDS awareness advocate in the 1990s. Kurz said that people often see Connet wearing a red ribbon, which is a common sign of AIDS support.
Kurz said: "If you look at some of her yellow pageant dresses, you will find that she is wearing a red ribbon to increase her popularity." "Leanza has worked tirelessly to raise awareness, reduce stigma and spread love."
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The detail is that the web site was made as a Wordpress style blog, with some pages especially for this BLOG with scroll bar to be with very large size. And I've been studying about "Fluid".
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How can I apply the tutorial on a website made in wordpress?
The link is this application -- note the tab "Blog" and see the scroll bars.
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Similarly, several celebrities who had earned admirers all over the world lost their lives when they were pretty young. Unfortunately, like many child stars, he fell onto some hard times, including an arrest for drug.
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Skye mccole bartusiak, probably best remembered as mel gibson's young daughter in "the patriot", died at age 21 in 2014 of an accidental drug overdose.
Child artist who died young. As the young "home alone" hero kevin mcallister, macaulay culkin became a hollywood darling. But the most famous wonder of india is the entertainment industry called the bollywood whose name is enough to tell about the never ending charisma of the famous personalities. Welcome to the world of internationally renowned artist, akiane kramarik.
Beginning his career as a child model, brandis moved on to acting in commercials and subsequently won television and film roles. He became the common man's. Born august 23, 1970, died october 31, 1993, age 23.
Debuting in bollywood as a child artist, vinod mehra has been among the actors who died young. Older brother to joaquin phoenix, river phoenix was a teen idol whose roles ranged from the troubled chris chambers in stand by me to young indy in indiana jones and the last crusade. He died from a drug overdose outside the famous viper room in west hollywood in 1993.
Bobbi kristina brown, the only child of the late singing superstar whitney houston, died nearly six months after having been found unresponsive on jan. Didn't make 40, died too young. Isadora duncan tragically died too young when the scarf she was wearing caught around the rear axle of her open car and broke her neck.
India has many famous jewels to be proud of. One among the handsome men in the film industry, mehra has also been a producer and a director and worked in bollywood for close to two decades. Dana hill (born dana lynne goetz;
He appeared on hit singles with ja rule, such as murda 4 life with memphis bleek and various songs with ja rule and other members of murder inc. Approximately 50 years later, his son charlie chaplin jr. He is one of the noted indian celebrities who died young comparatively.
Disney child star lee thompson young died in 2013 at age 29. Hendrix was known for being a rock and blues legend with his most recognised tracks being a all along the watchtower, purple haze and voodoo child.death of jimi hendrix, on september 18 1970, hendrix was found unresponsive in an apartment in london, england.he died at 27 years old from asphyxia while intoxicated with barbiturates and. Died from a blood clot in the lungs.
Many child actors find themselves struggling. The term child actor or child actress is generally applied to a child acting on stage or in motion pictures or television, but also to an adult who began their acting career as a child. The actress died due to some heart complications at the age of 36.
The infamous '27 club' sends shivers down the spines of several people even today. The popular film star died too young in a car crash in his porsche 550 spyder. Child actor who died young.
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To avoid confusion, the latter is also called a former child actor.closely associated is teenage actor or teen actor, an actor who reached popularity as a teenager. He dropped out of high school, only to be encouraged later by his former high school. When modigliani died from a bout of tubercular meningitis at age 35, his lover and muse, painter jeanne hébuterne, killed herself and their unborn child the following day by jumping from their apartment window.
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He was 26 years old. His very first child, norman, passed away merely three days after he was born. He is famous for pascal's theorem and many other contributions in mathematics.
Without a doubt gary coleman was the child tv star of the late 1970s and early 1980s. 22 songs that were written for the artist's child. Her work was displayed publicly in a group exhibition shortly after she turned two.
Family matters star michelle thomas (who portrayed myra monkhouse on the tv sitcom) died in 1998 at age 30. However, till then, she had worked enough and given enough classic movies to the country to be remembered for the rest of her life. He passed away at the age of 45 of a heart attack.
Ramel leroy gill, better known by his stage name black child, is an american rapper and actor from queens, new york city.he is best known as being an associate of ja rule, irv gotti, cadillac tah, chris gotti and the murder inc records crew. Billed along with janis joplin and jimi hendrix as members of the 27 club, who all died at age 27 in 1970 or 1971 (rolling stones guitarist brian jones, who died in 1969 at that age, is also often mentioned as a member). While an apparent suicide note was found by his girlfriend, detectives.
The '27 club' refers to celebrities who died at the age of 27, just when they were at the peaks of their respective careers. In 1942, she had appeared in 'basant' as a child artist, and nothing had stopped her since then. Sadly, he was not particularly successful in his lifetime, but earned his fame posthumously, as many great artists unfortunately do.
Top 10 bollywood celebrities who died young. She began to paint when she was only nine months old. He wrote his first proof, on a wall with a piece of coal, at the age of 11 years, and a theorem by the age of 16 years.
And eula hayes, but was raised by his grandparents, mr. Born on 9 january 2007, aelita andre is an australian abstract artist known for her surrealist painting style and her young age. Celebrities who died too young.
Jimi hendrix was american singer born in washington 1942. At the height of her career in 1985, the young actress started showing symptoms of a lingering. 31, 2015, in a bathtub at her town house in.
Musicians who died too young facts. Anton yelchin, who started as a child actor in films such as "hearts in atlantis" and then went. Famous people who died young aged 17;
Santana was shot in the head and killed as he and his best friend, former child actor brandon quintin adams were in a car leaving another man's home in the crenshaw district of los angeles on nov.
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After years of relentless municipal work and advocacy, the province has introduced draft legislation that will, if passed, deal with two key advocacy priorities.
It will provide double hatter firefighters with more legislative protection than they currently have. Secondly, it will 'rebalance' fire arbitration in several ways. The Ontario government has listened and is taking action that will help our communities.
The province has provided, through this bill, a set of legislative protections that we are hopeful will allow double hatters to continue to serve their communities as dedicated volunteers. The legislation will better enable smaller communities to have these well-trained firefighters within their fire services.
Ontario's municipal governments, communities, the double hatters and many from the front lines of the fire services loudly applaud this provincial action. The rest of North America protects double hatter firefighters and now Ontario will too.
It is our expectation that proposed amendments to the Fire Protection and Prevention Act will provide Ontario's municipal governments with a better platform to advance their interests at arbitration. The proposed legislation provides new interest arbitration criteria that will allow a municipal government to advance arguments about its fiscal health. By moving to a single arbitrator model, which parallels the police IA model, the proposed legislation also signals the clear possibility for more timely decisions.
To be clear, AMO has asked for and received through this legislation, the opportunity for municipal employers to make new arguments at the bargaining table and at interest arbitration. This means that as a sector, there is an opportunity to make a case for a more balanced interest arbitration process for fire services. It will not, nor should it, determine or guarantee arbitration outcomes.
Municipal employers will very much still need to provide well-researched arguments, including local and regional economic and comparator evidence, to make a compelling case on municipal fiscal capacity to arbitrators. These proposed changes should arguably generate meaningful bargaining – a by-product municipal governments welcome, rather than an express ticket to interest arbitration where municipalities have been repeatedly disappointed. Interest arbitration should be a last resort for both parties.
AMO will review this legislation in detail and start to identify any potential amendments for clarity for presentation to the Legislative Committee who will reviewing this bill shortly.
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Abortions down 40% in Mexico City
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The zocalo (central plaza) of Mexico City (Photo from CNN)
Abortion clinics in Mexico City are reporting decreases in abortion by as much as 40% due to the coronavirus lockdown.
The Mexican daily El Universal reported June 7 that measures implemented by the government to stop the spread of the coronavirus have prevented pregnant women from getting to abortion facilities.
The article laments the delay of imported contraceptives and abortion pills, as well as the situation of women from outside Mexico City, who have not been able to travel to the Mexican capital to get abortions.
Abortion on demand through 12 weeks gestation has been legal in Mexico City since 2007. However, abortion is restricted in other parts of the country to varying limited circumstances, such as rape, incest, danger to the life of the mother, fetal non-viability or deformity.
Alison González, spokeswoman for Pasos por la Vida (Steps for Life), which organizes the March for Life in Mexico City every year, said that it is "incredible that given the times we're living in there are institutions that only think about abortion."
Speaking with ACI Prensa, Catholic News Agency's Spanish-language news partner, González said that "some international organizations exert pressure to introduce this type of procedure instead of promoting public policies in all countries to end the true causes of abortion."
"For example, this is what ought to be promoted: access to education–because at least in Mexico it's insufficient, low quality and not equal for everyone–having comprehensive maternity insurance for all pregnant women, and job opportunities for women," she stressed.
Also needed, she said, are "access to childcare services, poverty reduction, vouchers for early childhood products, support programs for pregnant women, and housing plans for women in vulnerable situations."
Instituting these policies, she said, would lower abortion rates by offering real solutions for women, rather than "ideologies or impositions that come from abroad," González said.
"Women must be protected, accompanied and supported so that they can experience integral personal development within their family," she said.
María Lourdes Varela, director of 40 Days for Life in Ibero-America, criticized "the strong push for abortion at home during the pandemic."
"We're asking people not to see children as the enemy," she said. "If there are more babies, they should be welcomed as they are human beings who deserve the same rights and opportunities as we do."
The above comes from a June 11 story on Catholic News Agency.
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Not so much fire coming out of the dragon in Mexico City, but it certainly is breathing heavily in California.


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Citizens in Fayetteville, Arkansas Protect Curb Sort Recycling from Single Stream Recycling
by Neil Seldman	| Date: 3 Mar 2017 | posted in: waste - recycling, Waste to Wealth | 0
Hats off to Louise G. Mann, of Waste Reduction Resources and a network of Fayetteville, AR concerned citizens. On Tuesday, Feb. 21 Fayetteville City Council approved a resolution to move ahead with composting at commercial establishments, as well as recycling of construction & demolition waste.
Thanks to Mann and vocal citizens, the City Council put on hold a switch from residential (and limited business) curb sort collection to single stream collection of recyclables. The latter approach would centralize control over recycling in the Northwest Arkansas region by requiring materials to be collected in single compartment trucks. Sorting of the mixed recyclables would be done at a regional facility.
The switch could mean individual community loss of control over recycling with a single stream contractor making such demands as excluding certain items from the collection process. Jobs in each city and access to markets could also be sacrificed. The quality of materials recovered would also be sacrificed. There would be capital expense for new trucks, new carts and the regional facility,
The City Council action put on hold the single stream recommendation from a consultant who had been hired to justify it. Local activists are continuing to encourage the council to keep Fayetteville recycling clean and marketable, by enhancing and improving the traditional curb sort program.
Mann states: "About Single Stream, the council has put it on hold for the immediate future. It is still very much on the table. I will continue to release information about single stream. And I am seeking out of state legal counsel as I want to raise the single stream discussion to a higher level."
Mann has spent more than sixteen months and almost $15,000 hosting Trash Class, speaking at public meetings, creating and running ads in local and on line publications, as well as writing monthly letters to the editor of the regional newspaper. The Container Recycling Institute and ILSR provided insight and data to citizens, who in turn presented counter arguments to single stream recycling to the City Council. Mann's legal council provided the city attorney with a draft resolution that the city tweaked and adopted.
Mann's goal is to see communities nation-wide reclaim and clean up their recycling programs. Mann concludes, "Allowing a garbage hauling company total control of your recyclable resources is like allowing a moving company to tell you which items you will be allowed to remove from your home, where they will go, and in what shape they will arrive."
According to Cullet Comparisons, a recent study by the Container Recycling Institute:
Fayetteville has one of the highest per capita glass recovery rates in the country. Ripple Glass of Kansas City is able to process it and send it to Owens Corning to be made into fiberglass insulation creating jobs and added value to the local economy.
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Farella Braun + Martel Represents First Solar in Significant Solar Farm Acquisition
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SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 9, 2009: Farella Braun + Martel represented Topaz Solar Farms LLC, a subsidiary of First Solar, Inc., in its acquisition of the Carrizo Solar Energy Farm, a planned solar project by Ausra, Inc. in San Luis Obispo County, Calif. The deal enhances First Solar's Topaz Solar Farm project development assets, including land options, on the Carrizo Plain. This acquisition will help First Solar secure regulatory approval for its nearby 550-megawatt, 4,200-acre solar farm called the Topaz Solar Farm project.
"The acquisition of the project assets of the Carrizo Solar Energy Farm, including the land options, will help First Solar secure the County's approval for the Topaz Solar Farm," said David Stoll, a partner at Farella Braun + Martel. "The acquisition provides First Solar with more prime land to work with for its Topaz Solar Farm and reduces the overall development impact on the County."
As a result of this deal, First Solar will be able to offer a reconfigured Topaz Solar Farm site plan for consideration with reduced impacts on issues of concern, such as preserving farmland, water usage and wildlife.
Farella's involvement in the Topaz Solar Farm project dates back to its origins with OptiSolar, which sold its project portfolio to First Solar in March. The firm's legal team for First Solar's Carrizo Plain acquisition included Corporate Partners David Stoll and Philip Peters, Corporate Associates Ryan Lowther and Philip Milestone, Environmental Law Partners David Lazerwitz and John Gregory, and Real Estate Senior Associate Karen Jue.
Farella Braun + Martel represents clients throughout the United States and abroad in sophisticated business transactions and high-stakes commercial, civil and criminal litigation. Founded in 1962, the firm is headquartered in San Francisco and maintains an office in the Napa Valley focused on the wine industry. Farella Braun + Martel lawyers are known for their imaginative legal solutions, dynamism and intellectual creativity. With an unwavering service ethic and interdisciplinary team approach, the firm is committed to advancing clients' objectives in the most effective, coordinated and efficient manner. Farella Braun + Martel is a green business. http://www.fbm.com//
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There are many powerful sativa-dominant strains in the market. However, if you are looking for something tasty and strong, you should consider trying Strawberry Cough—a world-famous strain with mysterious origins.
Despite the strain's name, Strawberry Cough is very smooth. Strawberry Cough is a famous sativa-dominant strain that wins the stoners' hearts from the first taste. One of the strain's parents is from the North America. The other parent is, unfortunately, unknown. The plant's mysterious genetics make this Strawberry strain even more alluring as countless people have tried to determine the lineage of this marijuana celebrity.
The buds of this plant are a little smaller than usual marijuana buds. The color is a beautiful bright green that is mixed with red hues of hairs. The appearance suites the Strawberry name perfectly.
Unexpectedly, the smoke of this strain is rather smooth. Strawberry Cough is also very flavorful. Opening the bag with these buds, you immediately smell strawberries. The aroma is intoxicating. The smell will only increase when you put the buds in a grinder and make a few turns.
Its fruity flavor is also mouthwatering. The strain tastes sweet as all strawberries do. Inhaling the smoke, you can feel even more berries. The flavor is also a little skunky, which, combined with sweet berries, captures your senses and sends your mind to a hot summer day full of sun, fun, and fruit.
Many people still believe the old stereotype that marijuana relaxes our bodies, and we become locked to a couch. In fact, there are more ways that cannabis can affect us.
Sativa strains and savita-dominant hybrids affect us in a completely different way—these strains often give us the lacking energy and make us active. Some people specifically look for the uplifting strains.
Strawberry Cough is among those strains that do not make a lazy couch-potato out of you. After smoking this cannabis representative, you will be on the move. You may suddenly want to clean your apartment, go for a run, or simply get out of the house. Strawberry Cough motivates you and gives you the confidence to solve all your problems. It brings more fun into your life. Besides, the strain's high is euphoric and smooth.
This strain is perfect for daytime use. If you consume Strawberry in the evening, it will keep you up till late in the night.
The best way to unleash the most useful effects of Strawberry Cough is to consume the strain as a remedy against social anxiety. The strain helps you be more active, confident, talkative, and friendly. In addition, the plant is a good way to eliminate pain—it can help with everything from a headache to chronic pains. Unfortunately, Strawberry Cough cannot help you with insomnia and other sleep disorders. However, stress and depression will quickly fade away. The strain can make you more balanced and calm in stressful situations.
In general, Strawberry Cough is a good strain to start your day with. It is tasty, smooth, and potent—what else do you need from a famous sativa strain?