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It isn't just me that thinks pandas are stupid and should be left on an ice floe.
By Randomguy,
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Springwatch
Don't stop panda extinction, says Chris Packham
00:00, 22 SEPTEMBER 2009
BY MIRROR.CO.UK
TV wildlife expert Chris Packham has controversially called for giant pandas to be allowed to die out – with tigers next.
Chris, host of BBC2's Springwatch, believes the millions spent preserving pandas could be put to better use elsewhere.
He argued: "Here's a species that of its own accord has gone down an evolutionary cul-de-sac. It's not a strong species.
"Unfortunately it's big and cute and it's a symbol of the World Wildlife Fund – and we pour millions of pounds into panda conservation. I reckon we should pull the plug. Let them go with a degree of dignity."
The cash should instead go on saving biodiversity hotspots, he argued.
Chris, 48, claimed breeding threatened species in captivity then releasing them into the wild was "nonsense" – and said tigers would die out within two decades.
He told the Radio Times: "Animals are invariably becoming extinct because there's no secure habitat for them.
"Where are you going to release them? I don't think tigers are going to last another 15 years. How can you conserve an animal that's worth more dead than alive? You can't."
Giant pandas are found only in China. There are around 1,600 in the wild with around 180 more being reared in captivity.
They are dying out because their natural habitat is being destroyed.
Fellow wildlife expert David Bellamy last night backed Chris and said: "I agree completely. When I was a WWF trustee I begged them to buy big chunks of the land in which these animals live, not just go on spending millions on rearing pandas in captivity.
"You can't release them back into the wild if there is no wild left and we shouldn't rear animals just to put them into cages.
Not Red Pandas
Location: Rick's Café American
Having been privileged to have seen both red pandas and giant pandas, sorry - it's just you.
Location: Here, Now
...if we leave them on ice floes, will they gradually evolve into Polar bears, and then become extinct because of climate change and the loss of sea ice ?
http://infinitylabs.net/2006/06/17/giant-robotic-pandas-solution-to-extinction/
We have robot pandas now. Problem. Fixed.
Edited June 26, 2015 by Allen


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Tools for Tomorrow event features artists Karen and Tony Barone
Suzanne Fromkin
Tools for Tomorrow (TFT) will present "A Conversation on Art, Love and Life With Karen and Tony Barone" at The Ritz-Carlton, Rancho Mirage on Oct. 22 from 4 to 7 p.m. The cocktail reception on the terrace will be transformed by a spectacular installation of Barone sculptures, with music by international acoustic band Faults of Andreas and a silent auction offering Swarovski crystal jewelry, purses and men's luxury accessories.
Following the reception, the Barones will be interviewed by radio personalities Jimi Fitz and Wendy Jane in the ballroom. The event will benefit TFT's arts literacy program in Coachella Valley elementary schools.
The Barones work side-by-side on their large-scale sculptures and paintings. Their interview at The Ritz-Carlton will cover their career, beginning with high-level success in Chicago and continuing to a New York City loft, then to a horse farm in eastern Tennessee. Later they headed west and became a powerful art presence in a massive canal-side studio in Venice Beach. Their last move took them to Rancho Mirage, where they are known for their witty, larger-than-life public art, such as the Dalmatian puppy sculptures "R. Hero," the swooping 50-foot sculptural "Forks" at Acqua California Bistro at The River in Rancho Mirage, and their installation of six huge rabbits on Highway 111 in Palm Desert.
Seeking a way for art patrons to safely enjoy their work during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Barones inspired tech guru Jon Orlin to create a smart phone app called "The Karen and Tony Barone Coachella Valley Art Tour," which provides a free map of their sculptures in 21 valley locations, including Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs, the Palm Springs Library, the Children's Discovery Museum in Rancho Mirage, Town Center Way in Palm Desert, El Paseo in Palm Desert and Terra Lago Fire Station in Indio, among others. (Visit baroneart.glideapp.io to get the map.)
"Families and individuals can drive to each piece at their leisure," Karen said. "Art feeds the soul, and these fun sculptures are the best elixir for these unique times."
The Barones believe that art is a powerful force for good, and philanthropy is interwoven into their projects. They have long been advocates of private sector support and the funding of art in public places. The married duo enlist private sector entities to support artworks gifted to children's museums and hospitals, animal shelters and fire stations as part of their ArtAdoption program. They have successfully implemented this concept throughout the Coachella Valley and around the world.
"An ultimate goal for us as artists is to share our creativity while spreading as much enjoyment and happiness as possible," said Tony.
The Barones have received many philanthropy awards, including the Barbara Sinatra Distinguished Citizen (2017), Desert Arc's Champions of Change (2019) and Palm Springs Unified School District's Shiny Apple Award (2013). In addition, each year they create TFT's Vision for the Future Award sculpture.
Tools for Tomorrow's chair for the event Claire Smith said: "We are so grateful to Karen and Tony Barone for their support of TFT's free after-school program of art, creative writing, music and drama in elementary schools throughout the valley. Also, we are grateful to our wine sponsors Linda and Manny Rider for underwriting the bubbly Oct. 22."
Don't miss a story! Sign up for the Desert Scene / Giving newsletter. Don't miss the annual Paint El Paseo Pink Breast Cancer Awareness Walk Inland Empire Black Equity Fund accepting applications for grants Red Cross offers free tips for National Preparedness Month Loving All Animals is what Diane and Travis Medley love to do
To become a sponsor or to buy $125 tickets for "A Conversation on Art, Love and Life with Karen and Tony Barone," visit toolsfortomorrow.org or call (760) 601-3954.
Retired from the fashion industry, Suzanne Fromkin serves on the Tools for Tomorrow Board and is publicity chair for the Artists Council. She is an avid art and theater lover.

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'Irregularities' or cracks?: Why Sound Transit is repairing light rail tracks
(Sound Transit)
Sound Transit calls it "irregularities in the rails." Others might say they're cracks in the tracks that people have been traveling over the past couple weeks.
The transit agency discovered cracks in the 9-year-old rails on Sept. 20, The Seattle Times reports. The cracks occur on a northbound stretch between the Rainier and Tukwila stations, over a portion of I-5. As a result, trains have been ordered to slow down to below 10 mph as they enter South Seattle.
RELATED: Narrowing down light rail options in Seattle
Sound Transit Spokesperson Kimberly Reason told the Times that the tracks are safe. The Times notes that Sound Transit did not notify riders for two weeks about the issue, even though the trains were slowing down to below 10 mph. When it did announce Tuesday that a disruption was expected for repairs this weekend, it referred to the cracks as "irregularities."
During a routine inspection, Sound Transit maintenance crews discovered irregularities in the rails just south of Rainier Beach Station, where light rail trains cross Interstate 5 near Boeing Access Road. Crews will be staging equipment and other preparatory work in the area prior to the start of repairs.
Crews are looking into how and why the cracks developed in the first place. They are reportedly appearing on rail heads along the tracks.
Sound Transit will run the trains on a single track between Rainier Beach and Tukwila stations starting at 9 p.m. Friday. Starting at 5 a.m., all directions will be shut down entirely through Sunday morning when single track service will resume. Full service will begin Monday at 5 a.m.
Riders are advised to use King County Metro bus route 97 to get around the gap.


I keep mistyping their name as "Intimate Painting". It's a Freudian slip, really. Dusk is the third Ultimate Painting, a well-oiled psychedelic folk machine made up from Jack Cooper and James Hoare . Both come from severely underrated bands, Mazes and Veronica Falls. What first brought me into their world is how their writing styles melted together. Ultimate Painting had enough distorted moments to jolt you from your zoning out, but then you could float back into a beanbag, letting the relaxing atmosphere soothe you. Green Lanes, out last year, was a meditative affair. I'd be lying if I didn't accept that 'The Ocean' had this magical feeling of longing and that's why I got hooked on that one. What Green Lanes accomplished was syncing Cooper and Hoare's writing styles.
Now comes Dusk, out tomorrow on Trouble in Mind records. It's the perfect name for the album, as the feelings of sunsets do come across. There's an inherent sadness in Ultimate Painting's work, but it doesn't feel like it stems from depression. It's that sadness attached to reflection, to that self-assessment you do when something is finished. End of a day. End of a season. End of year. Something has changed and with the good and bad that change bring, there's a certain unnamed feeling creeping by. That feeling is evoked by Dusk.
'Portrait of Jason' in particular fits this description. Relaxed pace, minimalist arrangements, and enough atmosphere to terraform an old barren planet. The inclusion of a Rhodes in several tracks, like 'Lead the way', enriches the atmosphere. A bit of gospel? Perhaps, it's a grand old instrument and letting it shine like it does in this track gives the band its own sound. This sound, developed by this constant release schedule, is now fully evolved and it makes Dusk a highlight in their career: the point where they have gelled perfectly and with a solid foundation, can continue building upon.
Where will they go after this? I'm not too worried, I asked myself the very same question after Green Lanes. With just a hint of distortion (that little riff in 'I can't run anymore'), Dusk feels comfortable in a quiet realm. A green flash, the last gasp of the day, indicates the sun is now long gone. A star will pop here and there and if you drive long enough, you might hear their music fading in, slowly overtaking whatever was on your stereo. Maybe it'll be the thoughtful 'Silhouette Shimmering'. Maybe it'll be the 60s-friendly 'Who is your next target?' Whichever is, let it flow, let it blast and simmer in this music.
Ultimate Painting Website. Facebook. Twitter.
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Articles Tagged with: lost love
Long Distance, a short story by Joan Spilman
Under : excepts from short story collection, fiction, general fiction, short story, Uncategorized, Women's fiction
Laura is wearing a black jumpsuit.
Six months after he is gone and here comes the insurance money. His life was worth three hundred thousand big ones and she gets it all. She parks a new white Beamer in the drive, puts thick blue carpet on her mother's floor downstairs, and flies off to Hawaii. She loved Frank, she really loved Frank, but oh, that awful wreck, that awful coma.
The men in Hawaii are all younger than she and dark-skinned. Deep, like mahogany, and they slide smoothly on the dance floor, swaying. Dot is fair and burns herself so badly on the first day that she can't dance. She can only sit at the bar, the wellspring of a thousand Friday nights pumping in her veins. She orders another drink, something tropical. Under the bartender's light, it is a pinkish-orangy color, but in front of her, it looks red. She leaves Hawaii depressed and gets off the plane woozy.
The niece meets her at the airport. "It's Grandma," she says, and when Dot doesn't respond, she adds, "Your mother."
Laura is a plump girl, but her waist is thin. She's wearing a black jumpsuit with lots of pockets, zippers, and snaps; around her middle a narrow olive belt is looped twice. The outfit has a military effect. Dot decides she isn't wearing it right; she needs bracelets, a necklace, and chiffon scarf knotted around her waist. Yes, a scarf, pink or maybe aqua. This way she looks too mannish.
"We tried to call you at the motel Tuesday night, but you weren't in," Laura continues. "She had really sharp pains in her stomach, so we took her to the hospital. It was awful."
Tuesday night, yesterday night, her last night in Hawaii. She closes her eyes, feeling Laura's hand on her arm and sees those boys, with girls this time. She wouldn't have minded being back in the motel room when the phone rang.
"Thanks for trying," she says, and the niece appears relieved.
Dot wants to go home, but she goes straight to the hospital. Lying in a hospital bed, her mother, a fat woman, doesn't seem so enormous.
"How was the trip?" Dot's mother's name is Dorothy, and her teeth are out.
"Fine," Dot tells her. "I enjoyed it."
"Did you meet any nice people?"
She knows when her mother says nice people she means eligible men, and that makes her so angry she throws her mother a dirty look. Nothing gets by Dorothy. She knows, even though Dot has said she will never remarry, that when she went to Hawaii, she was man hunting. Her mother's face reddens, and for a moment she seems on the verge of tears. Dot reserves that look for busybodies and salesmen, any kind of salesmen. And Dot blushes, too, angry that she's given herself away, that she's upset a sick woman. Mother and daughter are staring out the window when the orderly arrives.
"How are we today?" he asks. Neither of them answers.
The orderly pierces her mother's flesh with a long, skinny needle, sucking up her blood. Rusty syrup, Dot thinks, and her stomach growls.
When the orderly leaves, her mothers asks, "Have you eaten?"
Dot shakes her head.
"Go, then. Go."
Back at the house, she takes a shower. In one way or another, she's lived at home all her life. After she married, she and Frank lived upstairs and her mother downstairs. It is a big house, lots of room. They both worked, and her mother took care of the children. Now, the boy is in the service, and the girl lives in Seattle. Frank Jr. is her favorite; the girl she could never understand. She feels guilty that she didn't give them any of the money; she feels guilty about her mother. She will have to call her children and tell them. Instead, she calls Laura because she wants somebody to talk to. She offers to take her to Lazelo's and buy her a steak. Laura says that's okay, she will buy her own steak, but Dot insists because she knows Laura really would . Laura is a good kid.
They meet in the parking lot. Laura is still wearing her jumpsuit, only now she has a red belt around it. Dot is annoyed. She thinks red and black together look like something a Communist would wear. She wonders if Laura knows what she's doing. But then Laura is often sloppy. Maybe she will slim down once she gets to Alaska, freeze some of her fat off. As they enter the restaurant, Dot wonders how she manages to keep her waist.
"How about a drink?"
Laura says okay. Since the lounge is crowded, they sit at the bar. Laura orders a Chablis, Dot gets a martini.
'I bet it seems cold after Hawaii," Laura says.
"In a way."
Laura runs her fingers up and down the stem of her glass, and slowly her eyes fill with tears. "I'm just sick about Grandma. I mean, I know she's old and she's got to die sometime, but she's my grandmother and she's always been there."
Laura waits, expecting sympathy, counting on the common bond of the dying woman between them. Dot fiddles with her lighter. When it doesn't work, she gets a little box of matches from the bartender and strikes one. The smell of the sulfur causes Laura's tears to flow.
"You don't think it's . . ."
"Cancer of the colon," Dot says quickly and takes a draw.
She knows her mother is dying. There was something other than embarrassment in the flush on her face, something pushing from the inside. Dot remembers the day Ruth got her going out in the side yard. Her sister Ruth has a way of upsetting their mother more than anyone Dot knows. It is as if Ruth were the parent and her mother the child, so eagerly does Dorothy want Ruth's approval. Dot has never wanted Ruth's approval. She knows that Ruth has always been jealous of her nice house and her naturally curly hair, which makes her look years younger. When Dot got the insurance money, Ruth was livid.
"Well, I guess you don't have anything to worry about."
The three of them were sitting in folding chairs in the side yard. They'd been talking about Florida oranges, but as soon as Ruth said this, Dot knew where the conversation was headed.
"Oh, I don't know," Dot said casually, not wanting to upset their mother. "I don't guess so."
"No, sir," Ruth continued. "Not with all of Frank's money, and then all of this when . . ."
"Ruth!" Dorothy interrupted.
Their mother's face was blood red. Even the creases in her cheeks were on fire — lines as dark as birthmarks spread across her face threatening to break her apart. Couldn't Ruth see? Dot thought of the blood that came out of her today. Yes, her mother is dying, but she doesn't want to admit it to the niece yet.
"I'm not like you are, Mother," Ruth had pushed ahead, oblivious. "I wouldn't leave Laura nothing if she wasn't good to me. When I die I'm not going to leave a dime to anybody that's not good to me."
There was a deep silence before her mother cried out, "And who's not good to me? Who am I going to leave something to that's not good to me?"
Dot flips a long ash in the glass tray. "There's nothing to cry about, Laura," she tells her. "She'll be all right." She looks at Laura's still full glass. "What is it with you?"
"It's in the diet," the man beside her interrupts — not drunk, just friendly. "Refined sugar, additives. They foul up your blood. Life is in the blood."
"Could be," Laura agrees, reflectively. "When you think about it, it makes sense."
Dot finishes her drink. The man talking to Laura is her age, maybe older.
"Do you know this girl is going to Alaska?" she interjects.
Laura jumps.
The man looks at her, then at Dot, interested. "You don't say."
"That's why I brought her here tonight, to talk her out of it. Imagine, Alaska!" Dot reaches over and grabs him by the arm. "Tell her not to go to Alaska!
The man orders another round of drinks.
"You won't be happy up there," he says. "My ex-wife was always wanting to run around. She wanted to go out west. Now, she's got leukemia."
"I'm sorry to hear that," Laura says.
When the drinks come, Dot takes hers and goes to a table. In a few minutes, Laura joins her.
"Ready to eat now?" asks Laura, as if nothing had happened.
Dot pretends to frown, but inwardly she is pleased. This is what she likes about Laura: she takes things so matter-of-factly. She is simple to be around, much simpler than, for example, her own daughter. She could never go out like this with Carolyn. The last time she tried, about five years ago, Carolyn kept saying, "Oh, Mom!" until Dot thought she would scream. Carolyn is a blonde and Dot was a blonde then, too, and every time someone told them they looked like sisters, Carolyn would say, "Oh, Mom!" Dot thought it undignified. She lights another cigarette, knowing Laura won't mind if she smokes.
"The nerve of some men," she says, exhaling. "They think you'll fall for anything because you're alone. Did you hear that line about his wife?"
Laura starts to say something, but the waitress comes to take their orders.
"And bring another round of drinks," Dot calls after her, eyeing Laura through the veil of her smoke. Although they've already ordered, she is still reading the menu.
"The honey-glazed chicken sounds good," she says.
"Undoubtedly."
Laura is such a simple girl, she thinks, just look at the way she wears her jumpsuit. It looks like a designer, no, it is a designer. Laura is an only child, and her parents are constantly buying her things. And then there is the boyfriend in Alaska. She hears he has money, too. Everything out there is inflated.
"So it's all set?" asks Dot.
"On, no! We're just engaged."
"And Ruth. . . did you say your mother liked him?"
"Mom likes him a lot. Dad, he–"
"Well, that's good," Dot jokes. "At least this way she won't cut you out of her will."
"Her will?? Who, Mom? Oh, good heavens." Laura shrugs, then raises her eyes to meet Dot's. "I'm not worried about it. Anyway, you can't count on that kind of thing."
The waitress brings them their drinks.
"Don't forget to take the menus," Dot tells her.
"May I have one of your cigarettes?" Laura is an occasional smoker.
Dot wants to talk but she is annoyed by Laura's plumpness, her good clear skin, the way her hair curls around her forehead, and her voice comes out in a tone other than what she'd expected.
"Are you really going to Alaska?"
Laura takes a draw off her cigarette, then gently rolls the ash on the edge of the ashtray. She is so smooth that Dot wonders if she ever thinks. Does she think about her weight problem, for instance, or what her boyfriend might be doing right this very minute?
"I guess so," she says, finally. "Mom said I should fly out there first and see if I liked it."
Dot takes another drink and thinks of her sister. The gin, combined with the thought of Ruth, makes her stomach burn. Ruth is just like their mother, quiet except when it comes to her daughter. Ruth has always meddled in Laura's life, and Laura doesn't seem to mind it. Their mother was like that. She had strong opinions on the raising of children, and Ruth always agreed. In the house all day long with Frank gone off on the railroad, Dot could never do anything right. She started working when Carolyn, the youngest, was six months old. Now, thinking of Ruth's advice to her daughter, Dot feels a closeness to the girl that she'd never have imagined.
She will never see the light.
Ruth is out to trick her daughter. She's probably read up on Alaska in the Encyclopedia Britannica they bought for Laura as a child and knows all about the lousy weather. She knows when it's worst, and that's when she'll send her daughter there. Because of her mother's deviousness, Laura will meet with dark and cold and continuous snow flurries. She will never see the light. She will sit around in an igloo or an igloo shaped lodge until she goes crazy, and then she will come home. If he really loves her, the boyfriend will follow and they'll have a church wedding that all the relatives can attend. They'll buy a trailer and put it on the back of Ruth's lot. Dot suspects Ruth is planning to give them free utilities.
She wants to warn Laura, but she doesn't know where to begin so she lights up a cigarette.
"It's five hundred dollars one way," the girl says. "And three different lay-overs."
"What if you don't like Alaska?"
Laura starts to answer, but their food comes.
"Who gets the baked potato?" asks the waitress.
"I do," Laura says.
"Steak and salad?"
Dot nods.
"What if you don't like Alaska?" she asks again.
"I don't know." Laura sprinkles salt and pepper over her sour cream. "I guess I'll come home."
"But don't you love him?" Dot leans forward, her voice too loud, but she doesn't care. "I thought you said you loved, uh . . ."
"I thought you said you loved Jerry."
"I do," says Laura, through her food. "With all my heart."
"Well, then, don't let anyone talk you out of Alaska. If you love him, you'll go there and stay. If you love him and don't go, you'll regret it the rest of your life. Go to Alaska. Don't have a life like mine."
"Don't talk sad, Aunt Dot. When you talk sad, it makes me feel blue."
"I'd like to be young again." Dot saws a chunk of meat from the bone and dabs it in its own juice. "Not ridiculously young, but somewhere in my thirties. I always thought the thirties were a good age. I'd like to be thirty-three years old again. Thirty-three." she chews on her steak. "The same age as Jesus Christ."
Laura looks alarmed. "You led a good life, Aunt Dot. You've done nothing to be ashamed of."
Every time he'd come to town, we'd go dancing.
"Married to a wimp. My mother lived with us. I gave her all those years that should have been for me, years when I should have been doing something. All my husband ever wanted was to sit around and read the newspapers. And sex, he wanted that, too." She pushes aside her plate and lights a cigarette. "There was a man once, a Lebanese. That's when Frank was living downtown. We were still married, but you know how things are sometimes. Anyway, this guy and I had sort of a love affair. His name was William Ray. He was a traveling man, sold office supplies, fax machines, copiers, you know. Every time he'd come into town we'd go dancing. He was handsome and dark. I had blonde hair then, do you remember when–"
"We were a couple. Nobody on the floor but us. This went on for, oh, I don't know how long. He even begged me to go with him once or twice. But in the end, do you know what he did? He came to see my mother! At my house! Can you believe that? He wanted her to tell me he was going away. What a spineless scum. And then he had the nerve to say I was stealing his manhood."
Dot stops to take a drink. She rubs the untouched cigarette out on her plate.
"Jerry has a really good job out there," Laura says carefully. "He says I wouldn't have to work until I wanted to."
"If you don't go, you'll always regret it." Dot traces the rim of her glass and looks at Laura's Chablis. Her own drink is gone.
"Go ahead," Laura says.
An orchestrated version of a country-western hit comes over the stereo system. The man at the bar leaves.
"Well, there goes another one," says Dot, raising Laura's glass in a salute. "But that's okay. At my age, you can't be too careful."
"That's right, Aunt Dot."
"Hey, what's all this Aunt Dot business?"
Laura smiles.
"I tell you, a lot of these divorced men are just looking for a place to stay. They want a woman with an empty house, so they can move in with her."
Dot mumbles this last, and Laura doesn't hear her. Laura loosens her belt a notch and sighs, "Whew!"
"I tell you what I'd do if I had a jumpsuit like that. I'd put a chiffon scarf around it. I'd," Dot pauses and then decides she doesn't care, "lose some weight and put a pink chiffon scarf around it. Then I'd get some long earrings and a necklace and a couple of bracelets, too. All silver. Silver attracts the light."
"Oh, I know," Laura rolls her eyes. "But it's hard for me to reduce. Maybe once I get to Alaska."
Dot wants to pinch her, but instead she closes her eyes. If she had Laura's jumpsuit, she'd buy as much silver as she could afford, and money would be no problem. She'd buy tons of silver and unsnap the first three buttons . . . . Dot imagines herself on the dance floor. At first she is alone, spinning slowly just for the feel of it. Then the tropical boys join her, but she won't let them touch her. She high kicks in their faces, only inches from their chins; she shimmies by, soundless in her silver, weaving away, waving them away; at a distance, she sees William Ray and still farther, Frank. Poor Frank. Because he is dead, he can't join the dancing. He must sit, her mother and Ruth on either bandaged side, marking time. It is no hallucination. She feels the blood pouring through her veins, in her throat, her wrists, all her pulse points. Her belt slips loose at the waist. Yes, she would dance. She would dance in a blaze of undulating fire, and sweep herself up in it, sweep herself up in it high.
"You'd better go," she says thickly, turning up the glass until she sees light through the bottom, knowing she will never be this transparent again. "You'd better go just as fast as you can."


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Beatson Institute appoints Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow
Dr Julia Cordero has been announced as one of five new Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship appointments made by the Royal Society. Dr Cordero will take up her new post at the Beatson Institute for Cancer Research at the start of October.
The Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship scheme supports outstanding scientists and engineers at an early stage of their career. It is designed to help successful candidates progress to permanent academic positions across the UK. It is aimed specifically at researchers who require a flexible working pattern and is particularly popular with female scientists.
Dr Julia Cordero will be examining the regulation of stem cell function during tissue homeostasis and transformation.
For further information or to arrange an interview with Dr Julia Cordero please contact the Royal Society press office.
Chloe McIvor
The Royal Society, London
E-mail: chloe.mcivor@royalsociety.org
The Royal Society is a self-governing Fellowship of many of the world's most distinguished scientists drawn from all areas of science, engineering, and medicine. The Society's fundamental purpose, as it has been since its foundation in 1660, is to recognise, promote, and support excellence in science and to encourage the development and use of science for the benefit of humanity.
The Society's strategic priorities emphasise its commitment to the highest quality science, to curiosity-driven research, and to the development and use of science for the benefit of society. These priorities are:
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P.S. the message to the users can sound like this:
''Hi! Your user page category has been changed to '''Category:Hitchhikers in ...''' because from now on this will be a standart categorization for hitchhikers on HitchWiki.org (see [[Category talk:Hitchhikers|this discussion here]] for the reasons of doing so). If for some reason you don't want to be categorized in this way, please just revert it to a previously standart '''Category:Hitchhikers'''. Thanx for understanding, -signature-''
Hi! Your user page category has been changed to '''Category:Hitchhikers in (your country)''' because from now on this will be a standard categorization for hitchhikers on hitchwiki.org (see [[Category talk:Hitchhikers|this discussion here]] for the reasons of doing so). If for some reason you don't want to be categorized in this way, feel free just revert it to a previously standard '''Category:Hitchhikers'''. We hope you don't mind.
Happy hitching,
The hitchwiki team
--[[User:Sigurdas|Sigurdas]] 06:20, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
:: Alex, both things might be handy for you to know, but as per arguments above, people (will) disagree with categorizing ourselves along our 'nationality'. -[[User:Robino|Robino]] 09:44, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
: Good. I agree with going forward like this, but I would like to have a closer look at the draft text you propose to add in a talk page (meaning almost everyone will receive an e-mail) later this week [[User:Robino|Robino]] 09:39, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
::Yeah, for me that sounds like a good idea. It might also remember old users, that hitchwiki still exists ;) But please proof-read the text, everyone --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:17, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
Why country categorization
Maybe we should first ask ourselves why we want to put everyone in little boxes. You are black hitchhiker, I am white hitchhiker, you are a Jewish hitchhiker, I am an atheist hitchhiker, you are a vegan hitchhiker, I am a meat eating hitchhiker...
I am a hitchhiker and it doesn't matter a flying, excusez-le-mot, f*** where I come from, what my religion is, or what I eat!
Ever thought about the fact that some people might not want anyone other than their closest and most trusted friends to know where they come from? Prino 14:29, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
One thing I want to make clear here: NOBODY is trying to reflect your nationality (even though you yourself in your profile almost obviously make clear that you are most certainly Dutch) by creating a category that is simply meant to unite those from the same country. Categories like Dutch hitchhikers and Hitchhikers in the Netherlands (or Hitchikers from the Netherlands) are two (three) very different things. Actually, if you ask me personally about the nationality issue, I think it is a bit of a prejudice that people so radically hang on the "One world - one nation" idea (and state that they're "citizens of the world") - ok, I respect that, but it really becomes a disturbing thing with no real ground for such a fanatical impulsiveness for example here when only for the pure comfort of systematized users who might be curious (like me, for instance) who else is a hitch-hiker in the region they live in we try to create a category without a slightest intention to depict user's "sacred" nationality. Please, Robert, think about it. And say Augustas "Hi" from me. ;) --Sigurdas 05:04, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
Country categorization: how
Should we perhaps also create categories for hitch-hikers from different countries, e.g. Hitchhikers from Germany? Analogue to en:wikipedia/Category:Explorers_by_nationality. It is a good tool to unite hitch-hikers from the same country, under the same category.--Sigurdas 17:59, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
Yeah, sounds good. But do we want Hitchhikers from Germany or Hitchhikers living in Germany? The second one might be more accurate if someone moves to another country. --MrTweek 19:08, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
Following the Wikipedia's patterns it is more convenient to have e.g. Hitchhikers from Germany - even if a person does not live there anymore, he/she is still considered to be from Germany. In such a case it wouldn't be wrong to apply two Hitchhikers from... categories to one user: the first one reflecting where the user comes from, and another - of his/her current location.
If we all agree on these new categories, I can create them and edit users' pages accordingly.--Sigurdas 19:16, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
Hmm, then again, if someone lives in a country for a long time, he can also say he is from there. Alright, so feel free to start :) --MrTweek 20:04, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
Definitely agree with this proposition. Hitchhikers from a certain region in terms of hitchhikers who are based in a certain region. It is not about what your passport says but where you're at/ based. Besides, I know hitchhikers with four nationalities. And where are you from anyway? Robino 23:20, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
Yeah, it might be confusing, but whatever, just start it, that's how the wiki work ;) Somehow, someday it will sort itself with all those categories ;) --Platschi 20:08, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
Ok, I will do that. And I do not think we should emphasize the user's nationality but rather focus on the location he/she is from or where he/she resides at the moment - there is quite a significant difference between categories like Hitchhikers from Germany and German hitchhikers. And so I guess most of users will end up having 1 or 2 categories Hitchhiker from.... For example, I am half Russian half Lithuanian Polish born in Lithuania and living in Sweden - this means that I would get two categories Hitchhikers from Lithuania and Hitchhikers from Sweden but not the categories Hitchhikers from Poland and Hitchhikers from Russia since I am neither from there nor living there. If we were to depict the users' national identity it would be correct to apply categories Russian hitchhikers and Polish hitchhikers (+Lithuanian hitchhikers) though (in my case) but since nationality is of little importance for HitchWiki + it can be more puzzling to depict everyone's national identities fully and correctly we should rather abandon such a practice. --Sigurdas 05:56, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
Ok, it's done. ;) --Sigurdas 09:49, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
Great work :) --MrTweek 10:30, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
Nice :) Maybe also a category for people without a base and who are traveling at the moment? We know quite a few... Permanent travelers would maybe be a good one. I do like the undefined one also though ;) Robino 11:38, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
After another thought I really think instead of "from country x", it should be "based in country x". I am Dutch, and from the Netherlands but really, if I would define it myself, I am based in the Netherlands. It might be a minor thing to others but for me this is quite important as being "from a country" really associates you with the country you were born, and not were you are based. Like that we can also add the cat. "no permanent base". This would give a lot more justice to how most of us travel. --Robino 11:44, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
Well, I see very little use of changing everything to "Based in..." - that would exclude places where a hitchhiker comes from if he or she does not live there anymore. "Hitchhikers from..." is more universal and at the same time unquestionably more precise when compared to category "Hitchhikers" since it depicts certain country(ies) (of residence and/or birth). In addition, I didn't really get why "Based in..." is so different from "Hitchhikers from" in terms of national belonging from your point of view... huh? ;) Sigurdas 01:26, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
Ok, let me be clear. I like the categorisation, it is nice to have an overview of the people who live close to me. But, I feel pretty insulted with this category and I think there might be some more contributors and hitchhikers. Hitchwiki is quite a special community with specific ideas about stuff. For istance, I almost never tell people I am from the Netherlands, but I am based here. I don't want to repeat my arguments really, but the from country x is confusing since we try to do two things here, one describe the nationality of people (Fuck nationality!!!) and two to describe where people currently live. The from category is therefore very confusing. Also I disagree with how you moved so quickly with this without waiting and consulting for other people to respond. Please rethink you action and think what others might think of it, also for future things you might do. Please remember we are no wikipedia and also, just like with hitchhiking, patience is a good gift, even more so when you start changing people's profiles. Robino 14:03, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
I see now your point. Ok, I suggest less puzzling category Hitchhikers in.... Regarding changing users profile, it would be almost impossible to get or to follow the answers of all users (to ask everyone if one agrees with this or that...), so I really think if we all agree on given category I can then apply it to members, and those who don't like it can always delete it later on.--Sigurdas 19:17, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
About "no permanent base" hitchhikers category: yeah, maybe. In such a case we could introduce Nomads category... hm?--Sigurdas 01:26, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
Almost all of us define ourselves as nomads so that woudln't work either, although it is a nice suggestion. I still prefer hitchhikers without a permanent basem, or something similar Robino 14:03, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
"Almost all of us define ourselves as nomads". ?????? 99% of hitchhikers are not, obviously depending on definition of what is... Perhaps among active editors, how about readers of this Wiki. Or yeah, maybe the occasional hitcher, who uses wiki to know something more about hh, does not read this. --Fverhart 19:45, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
Yes, you're right, I was exaggerating here. --Robino 19:49, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
So, since there is some negative response (not huge, but still...) regarding current categorization, I propose this:
1. To rename all Hitchhikers from... categories to Hitchhikers in... - in this way the nationality of the hitcher will be left "sacred".
2. To change users page categories accordingly AND on their talk pages explain politely why we did this, link to this discussion, and say that if they don't like it they can always undo made edits and come back to our common category Hitchhikers.
So basically I can predict that most users will be categorized by countries of their current location (not by nationality), and probably very few who would decide for some reason to stick to the main Hitchhikers category - personally I think it is not such a big deal - freedom of choice is more important. If we all agree on this, I volunteer to do all this. With a respectful promise that I won't touch Prino's page at all. ;) --Sigurdas 05:04, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi! Your user page category has been changed to Category:Hitchhikers in (your country) because from now on this will be a standard categorization for hitchhikers on hitchwiki.org (see this discussion here for the reasons of doing so). If for some reason you don't want to be categorized in this way, feel free just revert it to a previously standard Category:Hitchhikers. We hope you don't mind.
--Sigurdas 06:20, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
Why can't we have both? With the if-then thing it would be possible to enter both things, isn't it? So people fill in for the from which nationality they have and in the in thing where they currently live their life... I think both things are useful to know and might come handy some day... --Alex 07:05, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
Alex, both things might be handy for you to know, but as per arguments above, people (will) disagree with categorizing ourselves along our 'nationality'. -Robino 09:44, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
Good. I agree with going forward like this, but I would like to have a closer look at the draft text you propose to add in a talk page (meaning almost everyone will receive an e-mail) later this week Robino 09:39, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
Yeah, for me that sounds like a good idea. It might also remember old users, that hitchwiki still exists ;) But please proof-read the text, everyone --MrTweek 10:17, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
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The context for our funeral ministry is changing fast. Funerals remain a vital area of pastoral care and mission opportunity, as part of our cure of souls. At the same time, greater expectations on the part of families, coupled with the recent rise of civil and humanist celebrants mean that we face new challenges.
Against this background, a series of meetings has been held across the diocese during the autumn of 2012, in which bishops and other clergy have met local funeral directors to discuss ways in which we can work together more effectively. Funeral directors recognize that in general, Anglican parishes offer a good service to bereaved families. But we all must recognize that there is always room for improvement. This note aims to set out some guidelines for best practice on issues which have been raised in these discussions.
Funeral directors are under pressure from families to arrange service times quickly. Sometimes this is because families are scattered across the country or even abroad, and travel arrangements need to be made. Parish clergy are very busy, but responding promptly to contact from funeral directors is vital.
Every parish must have a clear point of contact. This will usually be the parish priest, or perhaps the church office where one exists, but it could be a volunteer in the parish. An answerphone able to receive messages is absolutely essential, and messages must be answered the same day or early the following day.
If messages cannot be answered in this timescale, a clear message should be left on the answerphone with an alternative number to ring.
If a parish priest is going to be away on holiday, funeral directors should be given clear instructions about who to contact during that period.
It is being made clear to funeral directors that when arranging a Church of England funeral they must approach the parish in the first instance (rather than, for example, approaching retired clergy direct).
Once the initial contact has been made with the funeral director, contact with the bereaved family should follow promptly. Leaving a family waiting for days before making contact is poor pastoral practice.
Increasingly, families approach arranging a funeral with the assumption that they should have significant choice in what happens at the service. Civil and humanist celebrants offer bespoke services, and there is sometimes a perception that church services are inflexible by comparison. This is unfortunate, because Common Worship offers a large degree of flexibility. Clergy are therefore encouraged to take as flexible an approach as their conscience will allow, within the framework of Common Worship.
Different clergy will take different views about the range of styles of music they are prepared to countenance at church funerals, and this is understood. Funeral directors soon get to know the policies different clergy adopt. Sometimes, however, families will have made choices from the outset, and suggesting changes can be a pastorally sensitive issue. Where a church service is followed by a committal at the crematorium, it might be possible to suggest that it would be easier to accommodate some musical items at the crematorium.
Clergy and Readers should familiarize themselves with the flexibility Common Worship offers and be prepared to make use of it.
Families are increasingly asking for PowerPoint facilities, for example to show pictures of the deceased person's life. Where churches have such facilities and the wherewithal to use them effectively and reliably, this can be a creative and helpful addition.
Parishes will be aware of important changes which have been made to funeral fees recently:
From 1 January 2012, this diocese has come into line with national guidance, such that retired clergy may retain 80% of the ministry fee, with the remaining 20% being payable to the DBF;
From 1 January 2013, the status of all parochial fees in the Church of England has changed, so that the ministerial element is now the property of the DBF. In addition, there is renewed emphasis on transparency so that it is clear what the basic fees cover, and so that families are not hit with hidden extra charges.
Against this background, the way fees are handled by parishes requires particular care. PCCs are acting as agent for the DBF in respect of the DBF's portion of the fees. Separately, funeral directors have expressed unease about paying fees in cash. They have also queried the practice some churches follow of requesting separate payments to different individuals for different elements of the fee (organist, verger, minister etc), because this causes difficulty in terms of financial accountability, and it might possibly create an employment contract between an individual and the Funeral Director. Parishes are therefore asked to implement the following procedures, which reflect the practice already in place in many parishes:
There should be an adequate paper trail so that there is transparency and clarity. This might include an e-mail acknowledgement of a funeral booking. Some churches send Funeral Directors a confirmatory invoice, and this can be a helpful way of ensuring clarity for all concerned.
All fees in respect of a funeral service should be paid in one cheque (or by a BACS payment) from the funeral director to the PCC.
The parish should then divide the fee between the relevant parties (PCC, DBF, retired priest where applicable, organist, verger etc). These payments should be made by cheque (or BACS transfer) if possible. If cash is to be used, you must follow the Charity Commission guidance on handling cash payments (www.charity-commission.gov.uk/publications/cc8.aspx, para D6).
Please note that charging for 'extras' is not permitted unless they are genuinely optional and agreed in advance by those arranging the funeral. Examples include organist, choir, bell-ringers, flowers, printing of service papers (if done by the church), verger, special heating.
In setting fees, parishes need to follow the current Fees Table and also the Guide to Church of England Parochial Fees, published in October 2012 and available on the Church of England website. This provides further guidance on what can constitute an 'extra'.
In exceptional cases, such as financial hardship, it is possible to waive a fee. If it is felt that there is a genuine case, please speak to your archdeacon or to the diocesan secretary for authorisation. There is to be no charge for the funeral of a child of 16 years or under.
Collections and donations
Families often ask if a collection might be taken at the funeral for a particular charitable cause, perhaps relating to the care the deceased person received during illness. Some churches have in the past refused to allow this, on the grounds that any offerings made in church should be for church funds. Such a response is highly questionable pastorally and missionally.
Where families ask that donations might be made to a particular charity, the church should facilitate this by inviting the funeral director to provide a clearly-labelled plate or box for such donations. The funeral director should then normally be responsible for the handling of these donations after the service.
It is of course also true that even where donations are requested for another cause, mourners might still wish to make an offering to the work of the church. So alongside the plate or box for the charity, a clearly-labelled place for donations to the church can be provided.
Funeral directors recognize that the church can offer continuing pastoral care of the bereaved, whereas civil celebrants do not. This is a very important part of the service we provide for people at their point of need.
Wherever possible, a follow-up visit after the service should be offered.
Families should appear in the church's intercessions.
Families should be put in touch as appropriate with whatever bereavement support network the parish is able to provide.
Families should be invited to any periodic services for the bereaved, All Souls Tide services, etc.
Diocese of Chester, January 2013
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By Marcella De Simone | March 09, 2003 at 07:00 PM | Originally published on National Underwriter Life & Health Magazine
The Phoenix Companies Inc., Hartford, unveiled recently The Business of Wealth, a marketing and support program for advisors working with successful business owners.
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Those services include helping to provide employee benefits, offering retirement plans, and developing a family office or foundation, he says.
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The program also provides information, direction and tools to support advisors efforts. That includes a guide that integrates practice management issues with the needs of high net-worth business owners.
The guide outlines needs at three different phases of ownership and the skills, strategies and resources advisors should have to serve this market.
At the first phase, strategies include attracting and retaining employees, funding personal retirement plans and basic estate planning.
At the second phase the focus is on advisors helping their clients formulate plans for effective business transition, which can be particularly daunting for family business owners.
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by kleurvision | Jun 14, 2013 | Blog, Business, Marketing, Social Media, Trends
Social media giant Facebook has recently mentioned that they will start to introduce the use of hashtags. The allows users to participate in trending conversations such as world events, television shows, and sporting events in real time. Twitter first popularized the hashtag, but now, social networks like Instagram, Pinterest, and Tumblr use it to categorize pictures, posts, and comments. The introduction of the hashtag on Facebook was only inevitable, as they saw the potential in the amount of people who use hashtags on a regular basis through other social platforms and then followed suit. To be honest, people already use hashtags on Facebook – so why not actually implement feeds for each topic?
Facebook claims that the induction of hashtags is merely for connecting people on Facebook with their friends about what's taking place all over the world. But in reality, Facebook is introducing hashtags for their own benefit.
The new Facebook?
Hashtags allow advertisers to deliver targeted messages to large groups of audiences. For example, a company such as Nike or Adidas could advertise to individuals participating in the #NBAFinals feed. You can almost guarantee a high interaction rate from these advertisements because individuals are practically telling marketers and advertisers alike, what they want to see. Does this bring a stoppage to advertisements in your Newsfeed? Probably not – but now advertisers can properly segment audiences and deliver relevant advertisements to them.
An official Facebook blog post stated this: "During primetime television alone, there are between 88 and 100 million Americans engaged on Facebook – roughly a Super Bowl-sized audience every single night." That is a tremendous sized audience to target specifically, no wonder why Facebook is helping advertisers by segmenting their users through hashtags.
With the introduction on the hashtag, users can now:
• Search for a specific hashtag from your search bar. For example, #NBAFinals.
• Click on hashtags that originate on other services, such as Instagram.
• Compose posts directly from the hashtag feed and search results.
But why is Facebook REALLY doing this?
CEO Mark Zuckerberg and investors are not happy with Facebook's current positioning in the stock market. Earlier on Tuesday, Zuckerberg faced some harsh comments from investors at Facebooks first shareholders meeting. Zuckerberg then went on to comment to USA Today:
"We understand that a lot of people are disappointed in the performance of the stock, and we really are, too,".
Zuckerberg and investors alike are hoping that this can spark some sort of increase in stock price. Targeted audiences allow for targeted messages, which in turn produce a larger revenue stream for the publicly offered company. It's hard to say if hashtags will be the solution, but Facebook also had this to say: "we will be rolling out a series of features that surface some of the interesting discussions people are having about public events, people, and topics. As a first step, we are beginning to roll out hashtags on Facebook."
So expect many new things to come in the future. What do you guys think? Any ideas with what Facebook will roll out next? And also, for those who were wondering; you CAN control the audience for your posts, including those with hashtags.
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Professor Chris Palmstrom, one of the world's leading researchers of electronic materials, joined the ECE faculty at UCSB in the Fall of '07. Born in Norway, Palmstrom received his PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Leeds (England) in 1979. After five years of research on semiconductor materials and contact techonologies at Cornell, he joined Bellcore in 1985. There, he did groundbreaking research on semiconductor surfaces, semiconductor doping, polymer/polymer diffusion and the molecular beam epitaxial growth of metal/semiconductor heterostructures. In 1994, Dr.Palmstrom went to the University of Minnesota, where he soon became a leading researcher in several fields, including new spintronic materials that combine the functions of electronic and magnetic manipulation and storage on information. Professor Palmstrom fits well into UCSB's research programs where he has significant collaborations with Professors Gossard, Brown, Rodwell, Stemmer, and Van de Walle.
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Auburn University's Southeastern Raptor Center will release an adult bald eagle Saturday, Nov. 10, at Mt. Cheaha State Park in Delta, Alabama. The release is open to the public and will take place at 10 a.m. on the back deck of the park restaurant.
This eagle was found at Anniston/Calhoun County Regional Airport, grounded and unable to fly. It was taken to the Alabama Wildlife Center in Pelham, Alabama, and was transferred on June 27 to the Southeastern Raptor Center, where it received a thorough medical examination.
Radiographs showed the eagle had a fractured coracoid in its left shoulder. After several weeks of healing and rehabilitation, the eagle is now fully recovered and has regained full flight capabilities.
Details about the case, including care of the eagle, are available on the raptor center website. A map to the release site is available online.
Auburn University's Southeastern Raptor Center will release an adult bald eagle Saturday, Nov. 10, at Mt. Cheaha State Park. Pictured is a 2016 eagle release.


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Lebanese protesters back in streets following brief lull
Lebanese protesters returned to the streets Tuesday following a brief weekslong lull, blocking several roads around the capital, Beirut, and other areas of the country. The renewed rallies were held against a ruling elite who protesters say have failed to address the economy's downward spiral.
Protesters burned tires and blocked three main highways leading to the capital from the south, east and north, bringing traffic to a standstill. School and university students took part in some of the protests and hundreds marched down main highways, raising Lebanese flags and blasting rallying songs through loudspeakers.
The protesters returned to the streets after several weeks of relative calm, following the designation of Hassan Diab as prime minister in mid-December. But he has so far failed to form an emergency government amid political divisions and jockeying for power. The lull was also partly due to the holidays followed by soaring regional tensions between the U.S. and Iran that eclipsed the protesters in Lebanon and Iraq demanding sweeping political change.


There's an old saying that goes, "feed a cold, starve a fever." The idea behind the saying is that food makes it more difficult for the body to fight off a fever, but that food can help a person recover more quickly from the common cold. This saying dates back hundreds of years and has become outdated as science has revealed better ways to approach cold and fever remedies.
This article explains why "feed a cold, starve a fever" is not a good approach to caring for a sick child and why modern medicine advises against these practices. It will also provide information about healthy food for fever and cold symptoms in children.
According to history, "feed a cold, starve a fever" dates back to the 1500s, when a man named John Withals described in a book how food affects these illnesses. His idea was that fasting can remedy fever, but that eating food helps the body generate warmth to overcome a cold. But modern medical science says that this old belief is misguided because good nutrition is essential in boosting the immune system to fight any illness.
The simple answer to should you starve a fever in children is no. Forcing a child to fast is not safe or effective in reducing a fever, and kids with fevers should be encouraged to eat if they are hungry. Additionally, fluids are very important and something that is not addressed in the old saying. Kids need to drink lots of fluids to stay hydrated and replace lost electrolytes when they have fevers.
Should You Feed a Cold?
This part of the old saying has some truth to it, as healthy foods can help the body naturally fight off sickness. However, it is now known that colds result from viruses and not a low body temperature that needs to be warmed up with hot food. Chicken noodle soup isn't a magical cure, but soups are a great way to get more fluids in the body during sickness and prevent dehydration.
Starving a child is never a good cure for any illness, and some foods are definitely better for sick kids than others. Make sure to add more antioxidant-rich foods into a sick child's diet with fresh fruits and vegetables, such as blueberries, cranberries, and kidney beans. Foods rich in beta carotene are also good for children with colds and fevers, including broccoli, carrots, cantaloupe, apricots, tomatoes, and watermelon. Meanwhile, citrus fruits contain high amounts of vitamin C, popsicles can soothe sore throats, and hot tea can help clear up congested sinuses.
Children may not feel much like eating when they are sick with a fever or cold, but it's important to encourage healthy eating during all stages of illness' progression. By using over-the-counter remedies like PediaCare and practicing well-balanced nutrition, kids can feel better and get back on their feet again within just a few days.


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On 25th January a number of children from Classes 3 and 4 travelled to Birmingham with Mrs Tithecott to sing at the Young Voices concert. Parents and relatives who were able to attend thoroughly enjoyed the event. Well done children.


SAN FRANCISCO -- Facebook has removed 783 pages, groups and accounts tied to an Iranian disinformation operation that targeted dozens of countries, including Pakistan and Afghanistan.
The "inauthentic behaviour" included 262 pages, 356 accounts and 3 groups on Facebook, and 162 accounts on Instagram, Facebook announced (January 31).
The pages were part of a campaign to promote Iranian interests in various countries by creating fake Facebook or Instagram identities, said Nathaniel Gleicher, head of cybersecurity policy at Facebook.
Those operating the accounts and pages "typically represented themselves as locals, often using fake accounts, and posted news stories on current events", he said, adding that the owners also attempted to conceal their identities.
"We can prove that this is content emanating from Iran; controlled by actors in Iran, and most of the content is reposted from Iran state media," Gleicher told reporters.
"We are not in position to directly assert who the actor is in this case," he said.
One of the pages had about two million followers, one of the groups had about 1,600 members and one of the Instagram accounts had more than 254,000 followers, Facebook said in a statement.
"This activity was directed from Iran, in some cases repurposing Iranian state media content, and engaged in co-ordinated inauthentic behaviour targeting people across the world, although more heavily in the Middle East and South Asia," Gleicher said in the statement.
The countries affected included Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Libya, Mexico, Morocco, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, South Africa, Spain, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, the United States and Yemen.
Some of the activity dates back to 2010, Facebook said.
Facebook's investigation into the abusive content presents yet more evidence of Iran's support for Taliban militants and other attempts at interference in Afghanistan.
One example presented by Facebook showed fake news claiming that the Taliban rescued survivors of a "snow collapse" in Afghanistan.
The post describes the Taliban in a heroic light, saving people's lives, while in reality the Taliban has killed hundreds of civilians in Afghanistan in their bloody war with the Afghan government.
The Taliban has continued the war with material support and weapons from Iran, a reality Tehran finally acknowledged late last year.
Ali Shamkhani, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, confirmed that Iranian officials met with the Afghan Taliban in December.
"The Afghan government has been informed of the communications and talks carried out with the Taliban, and this process will continue," he said December 26, according to Iran's Tasnim news agency.
No details on where the talks took place were given by Tasnim, an outlet considered close to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Iran, which shares an almost 600-mile-long border with Afghanistan, has been stepping up its interference amid the renewed diplomatic efforts aimed at ending the 17-year-long conflict.
On December 9, Afghan security forces discovered an arms cache in an operation outside Ghazni that included Iranian-made weapons.
"Iran is 100% involved in the recent events that created insecurity in Ghazni," Ghazni provincial police chief Ghulam Daud Tarakhil told Salaam Times at the time. "All these activities are clear indications of Iran's blatant interference in Afghanistan's internal affairs."
The weapons "show that Iran is working to expand the scope of the war in Afghanistan", said Aminullah Shariq, former governor of Paktika Province.
The Facebook revelation is not the first time Iran has been shown Iran has been shown to distribute propaganda that aims to influence global public opinion.
In a special report late last year, Reuters identified more than 70 websites that push Iranian propaganda to 15 countries, including three disinformation websites in Pakistan and four in Afghanistan.
"The sites underline how political actors worldwide are increasingly circulating distorted or false information online to influence public opinion," the November 30 report said.
The sites offered a mixture of news and were designed to resemble regular news and media outlets.
Iran has been exploiting modern communications technology to pursue "a policy of media inundation to spread its ideas in indirect ways by distorting and manipulating facts", said Mazen Zaki, director of the new media department at Egypt's Ibn al-Waleed Centre for Studies and Field Research.
In addition to spreading rumours, he said, these media outlets have been disseminating disinformation about the IRGC, sharing news of false victories to glorify the group.
Iran's propaganda attempts in Pakistan -- considered by officials to be "cyber terrorism" -- have prompted alarm as well as efforts to thwart a suspected Iranian strategy of fomenting insecurity and sectarianism.
In one case, a website called Another Western Dawn that was identified by Reuters duped a Pakistani official into issuing a nuclear threat against Israel.
In 2016, the website ran a false story that prompted then Pakistani Defence Minister Khawaja Asif to warn via Twitter that Pakistan had the nuclear arsenal to destroy Israel. He discovered the hoax was part of an Iranian operation only when Reuters contacted him.
"It was a learning experience," said Asif, who left the government in 2018. "But one can understand that these sorts of things happen, because fake news has become something huge. It's something that anyone is capable of now, which is very dangerous."
"We have adopted a very comprehensive and provident strategy for handling cyber terrorism in the country," a senior Islamabad-based intelligence official posted in the cyber security division at the Ministry of Defence told Pakistan Forward December 18 on the condition of anonymity.
"The teams working in our cyber security division are linked with the main Smart Verification and Alert System, and the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority is also providing technical assistance to these teams."
"Over the past two years, we have blocked hundreds of anti-Pakistan websites and have taken action against thousands of social media accounts," he said. "All efforts are made to counter Iranian propaganda, and our social media surveillance teams are closely monitoring all relevant platforms."
WELL DONE 'FACEBOOK' detecting and plugging the Iranian committal of cyber-crimes in response to the Iranian Fake Accounts and the spread of hate-creating strategies unleashed by the cyber-terrorist criminals of Iran. We in Pakistan are grateful to our experts in countering this malicious activities against Pakistan, the world and against humanity at large. Let Iran look into its own fault-line than flinging the blame to the world outside.
Facebook, please, keep it up for the safety and security of the people living all over globe but do not punish the genuine users.
Pakistani security forces raided the foundation's compound twice and arrested at least four members on suspicion of links to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Tehran's ongoing recruitment of Pakistani Shia to fight in Syria.


Renewable natural gas and diesel is produced by capturing methane emissions from waste products, and either turning it into a useful fuel, or burning it on-site to generate electricity. This technology can be useful in urban environments, at wastewater treatment plants or landfill, or in rural environments at agriculture or livestock operations. It has several clear benefits: creating a domestic source of energy, reducing local grid demand, and converting methane into a less impactful greenhouse gas (CO2). However, these projects are highly expensive, require advanced systems and a trained staff to manage them, and often don't pay-back for several years. This webinar will examine some successful case studies for new renewable fuel operations, as well as successful financing mechanisms to get these operations underway.
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LONDON — It's little more than a month since the FTSE 100 set a new five-year record of 6,534 points on March 12. Yet after a few weeks of bearishness and some commentators even predicting a fall back below 6,000, that seems half a lifetime ago. Today the index of top U.K. shares is struggling to lift itself out of this week's mire, and up just 0.33% to 2,265 points by 10:10 a.m. EDT.
But companies from the various FTSE indexes are breaking new ground. Here are three reaching new highs today.
AstraZeneca plc (LON:AZN) shares perked up again today, putting on another 1.4% to reach a 52-week high of 3,383 pence, though at the time of writing the price has fallen back a little. This latest boost comes ahead of a first-quarter update due next week, with hopes high that new chief Pascal Soriot can return the drugs giant to winning ways.
Profit fell last year, and there's a drop in earnings per share forecast for 2013, but the shares are on a forward price-to-earnings ratio of a little less than 10, and there's a dividend yield in excess of 5% expected.
Telecom plus PLC (LON:TEP) has been a huge success in recent years, with its shares up more than 70% over the past 12 months alone — and they have four-bagged over the past three years. Today the price hit yet another 52-week high of 1,205 pence and is now down just a few pennies from that peak.
It's no real surprise that such an impressive growth share should be highly valued, and current expectations for the year to March suggest a P/E of more than 30 — and it will take two more years for forecasts to bring that down to 23. That seems pricey to me, but I've been wrong about Telecom Plus before, and the rise has gone on long after I had expected it to falter.
Homebuilding is still in the ascendency, with Barratt Developments Plc (LON:BDEV) shares pushing new highs almost daily. Today the price hit 297 pence for its latest 52-week high and is just 2 pence below that at the time of writing. Overall, the Barratt price has more than doubled in the past 12 months.
The valuation is pretty high now, with forecasts indicating a forward P/E of 21, and there's not much dividend to speak of just yet. But Barratt shares are valued with a view to medium- to long-term expectations for the housing market, which are looking reasonably good.
The article 3 FTSE Shares Hitting New Highs originally appeared on Fool.com.
Alan Oscroft has no position in any stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has no position in any of the stocks mentioned.
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Paul Singer's Republican Women Fundraiser Has The Right Goal & The Wrong Reasons
By Melissah Yang
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November's midterms are barely over, but Republican women in Congress already have one major player in their fundraising corner for 2016. Billionaire Paul Singer, a big-time Republican donor capable of raising massive funds, will co-host a fundraiser for five Republican women in Congress at the end of March, CNN reports. Now, any event that raises money and awareness for female politicians is great. But the event description sounds a bit... off. Judging by the invitation, I can't help but wonder if the lunch is just designed to increase female representation on Capitol Hill, or if there might be another political angle in mind.
The "Winning Women 2016" luncheon, co-hosted by Singer adviser Annie Dickerson and investor Charles Schwab, will be held for five of 28 Republican Congresswomen — Sens. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Reps. Elise Stefanik of New York, Martha McSally of Arizona, and Barbara Comstock of Virginia. According to CNN, the invitation for the event asks donors to contribute up to $5,400 per candidate. It also reads,
In Congress, GOP women comprise only 6 percent of members compared to the Democrats' 14 percent. We can and must do better. Re-electing these women to office is an important beginning.
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Currently, 20 women serve in the Senate and 84 women in the House of Representatives, according to the Center for American Women and Politics. The midterm elections in November actually marked the first time in history that more than 100 women were elected to Congress. The 2014 elections also brought in a lot of other historic firsts. Stefanik, at the age of 30, became the youngest woman ever to be elected to Congress. Mia Love of Utah became the first black Republican woman to be elected into Congress. Joni Ernst, the Iowa junior senator who gave the (widely panned) GOP response to President Obama's State of the Union address in January, was actually the first woman from her state to be put into Congress — ever. Snaps for Joni, bread shoes and all.
There is undoubtedly a huge lack of female representation in Congress. Despite the latest record-setting cohort, women actually take up less than 25 percent of both Houses' 535 spots. The fundraiser invitation, however, doesn't sound as if its goal is to boost these numbers across the board. Instead, the event description focuses on directly pitting Republican and Democratic women against each other as if they're all competing for the same handful of seats.
With the historic midterms behind us, I can't wait to see what will happen in the 2016 elections. But there must be a better way to set new records without getting female candidates to edge each other out.
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600 Year Old Buddha Emerges in Japanese Reservoir
January 16, 2017 by Kate Ferguson
A Buddha statue has been slowly emerging from a reservoir in east China's Jiangxi Province as renovation work in the area has resulted in a lowering of the water level. What's incredible about the finding is that the statue is thought to be about 600 years old.
The Buddha was first spotted by a local villager, and the finding could soon reveal a lot more. They have also discovered the base of a temple, leading researchers to believe that they might start to uncover more findings from an ancient town called Xiaoshi.
Archeologists have confirmed the authenticity of the statue. Xu Changqing, who is director of the Research Institute of Archaeology of Jiangxi province spoke out about the finding.
"A preliminary study of the statue suggests it was probably built during early Ming Dynasty, maybe even earlier as the Yuan Dynasty."
The statue was submerged in 1960 when the Hongmen reservoir was built, which was before there was heritage protection in place.
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