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The value of nursing is almost inestimable. According to the World Health Organization, nurses and midwives make up nearly half of the global health workforce, with around 20 million nurses and 2 million midwives worldwide. The World Health Assembly, the governing body of the WHO, has designated 2020 as the Year of the Nurse and the Midwife to advance nurses' and midwives' vital position in transforming health care around the world.
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"Nurses and midwives are the backbone of every health system. In 2020 we're calling on all countries to invest in nurses and midwives as part of their commitment to health for all," says Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General.
"It is clear that nursing is the largest component of the health care workforce, and without nursing there would be little health care," says Demetrius J. Porche, DNS, PhD, PCC, ANEF, FACHE, FAANP, FAAN, Dean of the LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing.
To support the efforts to raise the profile of nursing and midwifery, faculty members at the School of Nursing will author a series of peer-reviewed whitepapers on the important roles of nurses and midwives. Whitepaper topics will include: the role of the nurse and nurse practitioner; how the School of Nursing has contributed to community and health care; how the School of Nursing is helping boost the nursing workforce; and how nursing contributes to health care.
"It is clear that nursing is the largest component of the health care workforce, and without nursing there would be little health care."
Demetrius Porche, DNS, PHD, PCC, ANEF, FACHE, FAANP, FAAN
"As a leader and pacesetter, we have decided to author these whitepapers as a means to educate the public on nursing's role in the health care system, create public awareness of the many roles nurses engage in within health care, serve as a recruitment strategy for the profession and highlight the contributions of the School of Nursing," Dr. Porche says.
Raising the Profile of Nursing
Along with the important scholarship focus of the whitepapers, the School of Nursing continues to help raise the profile of nursing by recruiting potential students from diverse backgrounds and demographics.
"Patients deserve to be served by health care workers who represent them, individuals that they can connect with and who understand their needs," says Souad Salloum, Nurse Recruiter in the school's Office of Student Services. "In our nursing school, you see students from a range of ages and backgrounds, men and women, all there because they have desires for a health care career that makes a difference to people."
"I believe we play a critical role in improving the health care environment when we have students from diverse backgrounds graduating from our program and joining the workforce," she adds. "We are not only improving our communities by graduating qualified people, but also improving the health care systems that serve our patients."
Because the School of Nursing is highly involved in local communities, residents already experience the value that nursing brings to individuals and communities.
"Our nursing students are always out in the community working with shelter homes, nursing homes and other local organizations via clinical rotations and service projects," Salloum explains. "We also collaborate with the LSU Health Sciences Schools on community initiatives. In addition, students in our BSN program take a Community Health Nursing course that allows them to work on health issues that face local communities such as obesity, hygiene, poor nutrition, smoking and much more."
"Our nursing students are always out in the community working with shelter homes, nursing homes and other local organizations via clinical rotations and service projects."
Souad Salloum, Nurse Recruiter
School of Nursing students are also active in student organizations that have made some important health impacts recently. Right after the collapse of the Hard Rock Hotel construction site in New Orleans in the fall, the Student Nurses Association (SNA) organized an urgent blood drive and was able to collect 92 units of blood. "This is just one example of how our students are passionate and contribute to improve our communities," Salloum says.
Empowering Nurses
Because nurses make up a majority of the health care workforce, and their skill is needed more than ever before, the School of Nursing is uniquely positioned to positively impact health on a large scale and empower the nurses who make this impact happen.
"We are excited that the strong focus placed on the nurse and midwife via this notable designation by the WHO will not only draw attention to the important role nurses play in health care, but will also raise the profile of nurses within health care systems and the community," Dr. Porche says. "We are excited to do our part in showcasing these roles and ensure that nurses are supported and prepared to meet the health care needs of the community, nation and world."
As a major health crisis plays out around the globe, we are reminded that nurses, the largest sector of health care workers in every country, play a pivotal part in the frontline work that makes a difference to patients. Similarly, we are also reminded that nurses play an important role in health policy, research and the crucial activities of preventing and containing widespread disease.
Saluting Extraordinary Faculty and Students
Since 1999, the DAISY Award recognition program has honored nurses and nursing students for the above-and-beyond work they do in the classroom, in the health care facility and at the bedside. LSU Health School of Nursing remains well represented in the recognition program.
Mission, DAISY Awards, Faculty Winners, Student Winners
Excellence is a continuous journey. We're proud of our reputation for leadership in nursing education and remain dedicated to staying the course.
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There are onSave which is pre-insert entity and postFlush which contains both insert and update entity.
How to only get post-insert entity(s) via Hibernate Interceptor?

A: Since you mentioned Hibernate Interceptors - you may be able to identify inserts in say for example onFlushDirty(...) if the previous state has null id, provided you are not manually assigning id's but generating them.

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More than dozen hurt in blast at Beechcraft plant in Kansas
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — More than a dozen people were injured Friday when a nitrogen line ruptured at the Beechcraft aircraft manufacturing facility in Wichita, Kansas, causing part of the building to collapse, authorities said.
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Advisory Board for Ethnic Relations
The Government has appointed the Advisory Board for Ethnic Relations for the next four-year term from 11 February 2016 to 10 February 2020.
The Advisory Board works under the auspices of the Ministry of Justice.
It engages in dialogue with immigrants, ethnic, cultural and religious minorities, public authorities, political parties and NGOs. Through cooperation and discussion, the aim is to build trust and an open Finland.
The Board brings together migration experts from national, regional and local levels ranging from public officials to civil society representatives.
It also forms a network of experts on migration, integration and equality which promotes dialogue between different population groups.
Besides the national Advisory Board, there are seven regional advisory boards for ethnic relations
The work of the regional advisory boards is coordinated by the Centres for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment according to the division below:
Advisory Board for Ethnic Relations in Southern Finland (Uusimaa, Häme and Southeast Finland)
Advisory Board for Ethnic Relations in Pirkanmaa and Central Finland
Advisory Board for Ethnic Relations in Western Finland (Varsinais-Suomi and Satakunta)
Advisory Board for Ethnic Relations in Eastern Finland (Pohjois-Savo, North Karelia and Etelä-Savo)
Advisory Board for Ethnic Relations in Ostrobothnia (Ostrobothnia and South Ostrobothnia)
Advisory Board for Ethnic Relations in Northern Finland (North Ostrobothnia and Kainuu)
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HAZLETON, Iowa (KCRG) - The City of Hazleton said water has been restored to residents following a water main break, but the boil advisory is still in place.
City officials said there was a water main and sewer break Sunday night in the same area. They did not provide a location.
The sewer break caused a backup in some residents' homes.
The boil advisory will stay in place until water test results are acceptable.
On Monday, the city filed a claim with an insurance adjuster who will reach out to residents who had damage to their homes.
Hazleton is Buchanan County, south of Oelwein.


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Serena Gets A Scare Against Halep
Written By: Joe McDonald
This was Serena Williams' scare of the tournament.
Before she faced No. 5 seed Simona Halep in the Quarterfinals, the No. 1 seed hadn't dropped a set.
Tonight, she had the worst one of the tournament, but won in three, 6-2 4-6 6-3.
"I feel great. I'm glad I got tested," Williams said. "The best part of it is I feel like — I mean, I think her level really picked up in the second, but I had some opportunities that I didn't take. So what I gather from that is I really could have played better in that second set and maybe had an opportunity to win in straights.
"I think if anything, that's the biggest silver lining I take."
We will put that in the Silver Linings Playbook, but frankly, it was Serena who lost the second set on her own accord. With a score of 25-4 in unforced errors, it's easy to see why Halep won the set.
"I think it was a good match," Serena said. "I played well. I could play better in those moments when I had chances. But I think the level was pretty high.
"I'm okay with the way that I was fighting till the end. It's something normal now for me, so it's a good thing. She played really well. She is the best player, so her serve was huge today."
Say what you want about Serena, she is still the best player out there. At 34, when most tennis professionals retire, she is still winning.
Right now, it will take a perfect game from Karolina Pliskova tomorrow or Caroline Wozniacki or Angelique Kerber on Saturday to beat her.
And frankly, she will have to beat herself too. Williams will have to be off her game for any of those women to have a chance at taking a set, let alone winning.
But take heart. Serena's shoulder isn't the greatest, which may be the reason why she had a bad second set.
"I'm not at 100%, but I'm okay," she said. "Nothing to complain too much about."
It will be interesting to see what happens tomorrow night as she takes on Pliskova. You may think this could be a massacre, but that's why they play the matches, right?
Serena also will have a scouting report, since Venus Williams went out on Monday to the Czech player.
"I haven't even gotten that far yet, actually," Serena said. "I'm still trying to just get over this match. I'll definitely — I will more than likely — I'm sure she will tell me something, but I'll be there. I'll be ready tomorrow."
Bet on it that she is.
Joe McDonald
Joe McDonald is the founder and former publisher of NY Sports Day. After selling to i15Media in 2020, he serves as the Editor-in-Chief and responsible for the editorial side of the publication. In the past, Joe was the managing editor of NY Sportscene magazine and assistant editor of Mets Inside Pitch. He has covered the Mets since 2004.


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National Conversation on Sport: 'Sport can grow our communities and economies'
The businesses of finance and sport have always been intertwined for Martin Gilbert, one of Scotland's leading figures in the world of fund management. But, in the wake of a pandemic, his insight to both has convinced him that the Scottish Government and business community have a unique potential to use sport to achieve key goals over the next decade.
By Angus Wright
Thursday, 20th May 2021, 4:02 pm
Former Scottish rugby Gavin Hastings, Aberdeen Asset Management chief executive Martin Gilbert with Ireland's Rory McIlroy make their way to the 15th
Gilbert stood down as chairman of Aberdeen Standard Investments last autumn after co-founding Aberdeen Asset Management in 1983 and building it into one of the world's leading independent asset managers through a combination of organic growth and strategic acquisitions. He oversaw its merger with Standard Life PLC in 2017, creating the UK's largest asset management firm, and the second biggest in Europe.
Prior to starting that journey he was a pupil at Robert Gordon's College in the northern city, having been born in Malaysia before his family returned to Scotland. There he came under the tutelage of Charlie Raeburn, a PE teacher and enthusiastic sports coach who sought to instil in all of his pupils a love of sport. With Gilbert, he certainly succeeded, as he would play hockey, cricket, football and golf as a youngster, and keep sport a close part of both business and personal life from that point on.
His passion for sport is perhaps most obvious in the support Aberdeen Asset and ASI have given to a wide range of sports organisation and events, notably the Scottish Open men's and women's golf tournaments. But as important has been largely unseen support of sport and other projects helping to bring people together across a vast range of communities.
"Sport has a value that many people don't see, and even many of those involved in sport don't actually appreciate, to grow and strengthen communities and economies," said Gilbert. "This is something recognised globally by the major companies.
"People will see the company flags or hospitality at major sport events, and that sponsorship helps sport and economies in many ways, but where sport is even more important is at the community level. We're talking every kind of sport activity here - dancing, gymnastics, the tumble tots rugby fun for toddlers to walking sports for older people. Real social inclusion.
"That kind of activity is crucial to a community's health but also to economic health, locally and nationally, and in Scotland right now we're not making the most of that. Many businesses don't realise where they can help, but also where they can benefit and grow as a result of investing in our communities. On the flip side, there is real potential for us and the new government now, after what we've been through, to use sport differently to help Scotland not only to recover from the pandemic but really grow as a dynamic, cohesive and healthy nation."
Gilbert has returned the enthusiasm Raeburn showed him at school in Aberdeen by helping his former teacher to create the Observatory for Sport in Scotland, the first research think tank in Scotland dedicated to pulling together the research and evidence to help inform government and all involved in any form of sport to be more strategic and sustainable in their development of activity. He is now helping to engage business leaders across the world in supporting the OSS vision of shaping a society where activity is available to all ages and abilities, free or at low cost, in their community.
"When Charlie came to me with the idea I thought it was fantastic to be honest," said Gilbert. "He explained how the most active countries in the world had moved in the past 20 years to address the challenges of inactivity, obesity and wider health and economic impacts. Key to that was scientific research and evidence to underpin policy changes. So, with the help of another of Charlie's friends, Lord Campbell, we set about filling that void in Scotland.
"I have been delighted to see the OSS grow in the last five years. We have had great board trustees and our first director Marie McQuade did a terrific job before handing over to our CEO David Ferguson, the former sports journalist, who has taken it to another level. With Geoff Aberdein now the board chairman, former Scotland women's coach Shelley Kerr on the board, some pretty experienced business people involved and over 30 researchers from across the world, it has grown into an exciting organisation.
"The focus for us now is to help the new Scottish Government and Sportscotland, but also health, education and economic partners, to create real cohesion to shape a brighter, healthier Scotland, and for me that also requires the support of Scotland's business community."
The OSS launched a manifesto ahead of the recent Scottish elections that called on the new Scottish Government to support a 'National Conversation on Sport's Role in Society', and we have supported that at the Scotsman, as did all the political parties. SNP Minister for Education Fulton MacGregor insisted that the 'National Conversation' should shape the destination of new funding of £100m pledged by the SNP in their manifesto for sport in the new parliament term with a key focus on the significant drop-out of children from sport from age 11.
Gilbert insists that wider engagement in 2021-22 by the government and the OSS has the potential to significantly increase that sum through business support locally and nationally. This, he said, would put community activity onto a firmer footing, ease tensions across local authorities around community facility closures and relieve pressure on the government agency Sportscotland seeking, impossibly, to fill all the holes itself. Ultimately, this would reduce pressure on Scotland's health and care system, and save billions of pounds spent on acute care in the mid to long-term.
The obvious question is perhaps 'why' or 'how' Scotland's businesses would or could support sport when a large part of the sector is simply trying to work out how to survive as budgets tighten post-pandemic.
"But that is my point, exactly," continues Gilbert. "Businesses need their communities now more than ever and communities need their businesses. What are businesses needing now and in the next few years? Strong, healthy and intelligent workforces, people fit enough to cope with the pressures we will face growing back out of the pandemic. The people key to that are in our communities, and are needed by every level of business from the local shop to big companies and the government itself."
At the OSS conference in 2019, delegates heard from the then Chief Medical Officer, Catherine Calderwood. She spoke about better support for Scotland's NHS staff, which employs around 150,000 people, to help them to have healthier lifestyles with time to enjoy sport and recreation, as the impact on Scotland's population as a whole would be significant. Police Scotland and other public services have similar issues with mental health, stress and sickness at worrying levels.
Gilbert said: "We have been asking people to do more and more with less time off, less time to recover and less time to take part in sport and recreation.
"What's more, we have turned sport into an activity only for those with money. We have lost a lot of the free sport we had as kids in local parks, and a lot of extra-curricular school sport in state schools particularly, and it's moved into facilities. And there, reducing local authority budgets have squeezed facilities so hard that they are now inaccessible to large parts of our communities, despite the best efforts of those running the facilities and services.
"Scottish business can help to change that by being part of what we, at the OSS, are asking the new government to create - a multi-stakeholder strategic forum."
The OSS is advocating a national forum that pulls key partners, including business, into a cohesive plan, but also local forums that brings all the key partners together in each region - from health to education, local authority to leisure trust and the third sector, and private business - to use sport activity more strategically and sustainably.
Gilbert adds: "Forums looking at sport have tended to exclude Scottish business - yes, we get pulled in when they are looking for a sponsor - but the private sector should be a key part of our recovery plan nationally and locally.
"And, to answer your question of 'why', the benefits for businesses who get involved with the OSS will be significant too, both in helping to strengthen the health and wellbeing of the Scottish workforce, but also in strengthening every community, its cohesion, the ability of people to find work, stay in work and contribute to society, and our connection to communities. Those are the key benefits we are looking at and we need government and businesses in Scotland to be all on the same page. There is much in the truism: 'Scotland's health is Scotland's wealth'."
Interview with Martin GilbertImproving the economy, driving fresh confidence in Scottish business and improving the nation's health and wellbeing are clear priorities for the foreseeable future, and Gilbert insists that enabling all of the population to enjoy simple activity every week will go further to achieving those objectives than many realise.
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DOS Games in Windows XP
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Support for old software is not a high priority anymore and is fading fast. This is bad news for gamers who want to play those old DOS (and even Windows) games that do not run on modern hardware and operating systems.
One solution is to find old hardware to run those old games on. This is the ideal solution from a compatibility standpoint, but has its own drawbacks like extra physical hardware, electricity, space, cost, and so on. Another solution is to use hardware emulation software that tricks the old software into thinking that it is running on the hardware that the emulator tells it. This is less compatible, but has advantages like price and convenience.
Emulators like DOSBox, VMWare, Virtual PC, Parallels, QEMU, and the like are a great way to go in a lot of cases. But, for really intensive games like FPSes, you will probably want to run them natively to get better performance.
The three biggest obstacles in running old software on modern computers natively are CPU, sound, and audio.
Old software was not designed to run on modern CPUs which are often too fast, and also have multi-threaded/core functions. Worse, modern systems are moving to a model that old software developers could not even conceive of in those days. There are programs that can slow a system down (usually by running the CPU in a controlled, but infinite loop) so that the old program gets fewer CPU cycles, but a much better solution is to use an emulator.
Audio in a program running natively has been handled for the most part by VDMSound. It has not been updated in a long time, but most class-gamers will attest that it works for most purposes. Emulators work well too, but they do not usually offer as wide a variety of sound cards.
Video has had its share of hacks as well. Ken Silverman—they guy who created the Build engine which powered games like Duke Nukem 3D—released a couple of tools (NOCLI and NOLFB) that will modify old apps so that they can run in XP without locking up. However, even with those, most graphics programs (eg games) will usually freeze in XP on startup and display only the first frame. The way to fix this is to install the Full Screen Video Driver For Console which comes with Windows XP but is not installed by default:
Open the Control Panel
Run the Add Hardware applet, click Next, wait
Select Yes…already connected
Scroll down and select Add a new hardware device
Select …manually…(Advanced)
Select Show All Deviced
Select Microsoft Corporation for Manufacturer and Full screen video driver for console for Model
That's it. Now graphical DOS software should run properly in Windows. You can still use NOLFB and NOCLI if needed. Windows 2000 could not only run graphical DOS software full-screen, but it could even run them in a window, which XP cannot do. That was a great feature that is missed. Windows Vista has changed quite a bit that a lot of even XP softare will not run in it. It's adoption has been pretty slow, so we'll just have to see what gamers come up with for it, although it may very well be the case that XP is the last OS for classic-gamers: future classic-gamers will probably have to run emulators that hopefully will be much better.


I performed stories from The Marvelous Imagination of Katie Addams over the weekend. I'm still not sure what to call it– but I knew that "author talk" was not going to turn a lot of heads.
Though I didn't refer to the cards, I brought them along; there's nothing worse than drawing a blank on what story you planned to tell next!
It was a wonderful event! The stories flowed. I didn't get stuck on specific words– a real concern since I never wrote down my oral stories but always worked them up aloud. It was fun to see where embellishments came in that don't exist in the book.
Three times as many people showed up as the library expected, including a guy I've seen there many times but have never spoken to. He turned out to be a Pillar Listener– his face lit up, he was so engaged and, unlike my dear Midwesterners, he showed it! Whenever I was wondering if people were really with me, if my crazy outfit was too over-the-top, I panned over to him and got an infusion of creative affirmation.
Afterward, my friend Jeff Niesen gave me this! The slightly Tim Burtonish version of me (!!) and some of the characters from the stories.
Click your heels. Make your wishes. Try something new. Tell stories you love.
Wishing you some sparkle and color in your day!


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Why you should join the Genders and Sexualities Alliance (GSA)
Sophia Stupen, A&E Editor|September 21, 2021
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The rainbow flag has been used as a symbol for the LGBTQ+ community since 1978.
Home. Something everyone wants to have, but sometimes can't. For some, it's because their parents aren't always around. For others, they've been displaced from their old one and are longing to find a new home. For me, it's because of my gender and sexuality.
I know, you thought I'd have something more exciting like a death or maybe an addiction. Nope. Instead it's my parents, specifically my mother, being unaccepting. Ever since I can remember, I knew I wasn't the same as the other girls. I thought it was just me being insecure but I later came to realize it was actually because I like girls too, and then later on that I'm not one. Of course I won't fit in! When I was in seventh grade, I came out to my mother as bisexual. She told me "You're not gay! You can't make that decision until you're an adult!" From that day on, our relationship has deteriorated. I've decide not to come out to her as non-binary from the way she talks about my other trans friends.
Unfortunately, a lot of other kids are in the same situation as I am. They feel unsafe at home and can't open up to their parents about their true selves. That's why one of my close friends Orion (he/they) and I, along with the help of our sponsor Mrs. Quick (she/her) and a couple other students formed the Genders and Sexualities Alliance, or Rainbow Club as we like to call it. Our goal is to create that safe space for queer and trans teens at PHS. We want everyone to feel accepted and heard. I was just informed that I am a part of the Equity Committee so that may help amplify our often silenced voices. We also want to try to educate the general public about queer issues and history. LGBTQ+ history is very rarely taught in schools and as a queer person, I don't feel represented at all. I hope with the creation of this club we are able to really start to change people's perspectives on us.
By joining the GSA, you are letting us know that you support and stand with your queer peers and friends. You are also adding another voice to the choir and making our message of love, acceptance, and equality heard. We meet on Fridays at 3:30 in room 210. Feel free to pop by and say hi! Come whenever you can, there's no requirements on the amount of days you have to be there. If you have any questions, email me at [email protected].
Sophia Stupen, A&E Editor
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Porsche cautiously joins the car makers' quest for autonomous driving
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Posted by Petra Wiesmayer | Feb 26, 2019 | Tags: autonomous driving, Porsche, Startup Autobahn, VW
With regard to autonomous driving, apart from independent parking of cars, little has been heard so far from Porsche, in contrast to compatriots BMW, Volkswagen and Mercedes. However, the Stuttgart based company has now announced that it will also carry out a test project as part of the "Startup Autobahn" innovation platform, which should be ready by mid-2019. The team presented its plans at the Startup Autobahn "Expo Day" in Stuttgart's Wagenhallen.
Under the motto "Per Tablet zur Hebbühne", Porsche will be testing autonomous cars in its own workshop. In cooperation with the Berlin startup Kopernikus Automotive, which specialises in technology for autonomous cars, the car manufacturer is building a special test field on the company premises in Ludwigsburg. The aim of the project is to allow vehicles to drive completely autonomously from the parking lot to the lifting platform and back again. Employees must manoeuvre the cars to the correct position in the workshop using a tablet.
AI technology must orient the vehicle and learn to recognise objects independently © Porsche
"Autonomous driving will revolutionize our traffic in a few years' time. But we can already make use of the technological possibilities to make work processes even more effective and efficient", says Alexander Haas, project manager for Automatic Driving in the Porsche workshop.
One million simulated test kilometres
In preparation for the project, the test site, including the workshop environment, was first converted into a virtual version before the first car entered the workshop independently. In the virtual world, an artificial neural network is trained to drive more than a million virtual test kilometres and 'learns' based on real data. "Our team must experience the use of autonomous driving in the test environment. We want to learn from the feedback," says Thomas Eckert, head of Product Influencing Aftersales.
Caution is key during the test. Despite the built-in AI technology, which ensures that vehicles find the right path independently and recognise objects in their path and drive around them instead of against them, there will also be a human driver on board for safety reasons. In addition, a speed limit of 7 km/h will be introduced.
The goal is to let vehicles drive autonomously from their parking lot to the lift and back again © Porsche[/caption]
Startup Autobahn
Since 2017, Porsche has been a partner of Europe's largest innovation platform Startup Autobahn, which aims to bring innovative startups from all over the world with their ideas to Stuttgart. Several companies have joined forces for this purpose: In addition to Porsche, Daimler, the University of Stuttgart, Arena 2036, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, DXC Technology, ZF Friedrichshafen and BASF are also involved.
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New Research Results: Optimal pH for Cannabis
Features - Nutrient Matters - North Carolina State University
Nutrient Matters is a recurring series focusing on plant nutrition by university researchers.
Brian Whipker, James T. Smith, Paul Cockson, and Hunter Landis
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The recommended substrate pH for cannabis (Cannabis sativa) varies widely. A recommended substrate pH of 6.0 to 6.5 often is cited as the standard. However, we have observed pH ranges between 4.0 and 5.0 or greater than 7.0 during our visits to commercial greenhouses growing cannabis.
Our observations from those greenhouses indicated that plants grown at acidic (lower) pH appear to have normal growth and lack the symptomology of lower leaf blackening or bronzing typically seen with other greenhouse species at lower pH levels. In crops grown at higher pH, only in rare instances did we observe interveinal chlorosis of the upper (youngest) leaves (a common symptom of greenhouse crops grown at high pH). These observations suggest that cannabis is not prone to iron deficiencies when the substrate pH nears 7.0.
Returning to our labs at North Carolina State University (NCSU), we began our work to understand the underlying factors affecting pH in substrates and how those fluctuations impact the Cannabis sativa plant in order to determine the optimal pH range for cannabis.
This is what we discovered.
pH on the Range
Substrate pH is important to plant nutrition because it directly impacts plant nutrient availability.
Substrate pH levels below 5.0 result in increased micronutrient availability that can lead to iron (Fe) toxicity or manganese (Mn) toxicity, or both. Symptoms of Fe toxicity and Mn toxicity may appear as black speckling on older leaves (observed with zinnias or gerbera) or as bronzing (observed with marigolds or seed geraniums). While some crops display low pH symptoms on lower leaves, others may only display low pH through stunted growth, as is the case with poinsettias.
In our initial experiments at NCSU, we did not observe symptomology of lower leaf blackening or bronzing on Cannabis sativa plants, only stunted growth. These preliminary results suggested that cannabis can regulate micronutrient uptake under low substrate pH conditions similar to a poinsettia.
When the substrate pH becomes too high, many species develop interveinal chlorosis (yellowing) on the youngest leaves. This is a common situation that occurs with many greenhouse-grown species (such as petunias) when the elevated pH makes micronutrients, such as Fe, unavailable to the plant, even if adequate levels are provided in the fertilizer.
We did not observe symptomology of interveinal chlorosis in cannabis plants grown at pH 7.0 in our initial experiments at NCSU, either. Iron uptake can also be hindered by over-irrigation, cold substrate temperatures or root disease such as Pythium. In other experiments at NCSU, we did observe the development of interveinal chlorosis on plants with a pH of 7.8. This observation provides more refinement of the upper pH limit and would suggest that the pH should be lower than 7.5.
The preliminary results of NCSU's research imply that vegetative stock plants of cannabis have a wide substrate pH range in which the plants will optimally grow. That range appears to be as wide as pH 5.0 to 7.0. Based on experience with other species, a narrower range of 5.5 to 6.5 may be more appropriate to target, as this will allow growers to more easily adjust as pH approaches the ends of the targeted range.
For growers, utilizing these pH values in a monitoring system such as the PourThru method implies that the safe pH zone to target would be a narrower 5.8 to 6.2. If pH drops below 5.8 or above 6.2, corrective procedures should begin to adjust the pH back into the 5.8 to 6.2 range.
(Note: These values are for plants grown in greenhouse conditions with a soilless substrate (growing medium). Optimal ranges for field-based growing conditions typically would move up the lower and the upper range by 0.5 pH units to 6.2 to 6.7—as field soils latch on to more nutrients than a soilless substrate such as peat or coir, and risk of nutrient lock-up is lessened.)
How to Correct pH
Again, when the pH drifts into unwanted territory, adjustments must be made. Below are standard corrective procedures used to modify substrate pH for plants grown in soilless substrates in greenhouses and adapted for cannabis.
1. Low Substrate pH Correction When Fe toxicity and Mn toxicity become a problem, raise substrate pH to the recommended pH range. Corrective procedures to raise low pH levels are listed on p. 52 (Table 1). Switching to an alkaline fertilizer when substrate pH is nearing the lower limit will help stabilize the pH.
Flowable Lime
To make small adjustments of roughly 0.5 pH units, mix 1 to 2 quarts of flowable lime per 100 gallons of water. If using an injector, avoid using higher concentrations of flowable lime as it will damage it. If higher rates are needed, then split your applications to avoid damaging your injector. To avoid leaf burn, it is best to rinse the foliage after treatment if any flowable lime comes in contact with the leaves.
For more stubborn low-pH problems, use a hydrated lime mixture. Mix 1 pound of hydrated lime in 3 to 5 gallons of warm water. Mix it twice and let it settle after each mixing. Once the sediment collects in the bottom of the container, pour the liquid through your injector system set at a 1:15 ratio. This product is corrosive, so rinse the foliage as soon as possible to avoid leaf burn, and avoid skin contact.
Potassium Bicarbonate (KHCO3)
Potassium bicarbonate should be handled with care. It can throw off your substrate chemistry as it provides 993 ppm of potassium (K) in mixtures of 2 pounds per 100 gallons of water. Rinse the foliage immediately after application via injectors and leach heavily the following day with a complete fertilizer to reduce substrate electrical conductivity (EC) and restore nutrient balance. The 2-pounds rate will increase the substrate pH by roughly 0.8 pH units. Rates greater than 2 pounds per 100 gallons of water can cause phytotoxicity.
As always, remember to recheck your substrate pH to determine if reapplications are needed.
2. High Substrate pH Correction The target pH for cannabis is between 5.8 and 6.2. Higher pH values may result in Fe deficiency and create interveinal chlorosis on upper leaves. Check the substrate pH to determine if it is too high. Be careful when lowering the substrate pH, as low pH can be more problematic and difficult to manage.
Cannabis plant growth is less vigorous at low substrate pH levels.
Acid-Based Fertilizer
If the substrate pH is beginning to increase, consider switching to an acidic-based fertilizer. These ammoniacal nitrogen (N)-based fertilizers are naturally acidic, and plant nitrogen uptake will help moderate the substrate pH over a week or two.
Acid Water Drench
Some growers use this intermediate correction when pH levels are not excessively high and a quick lowering of substrate pH is desired. Sulfuric acid is recommended to acidify irrigation water to a pH 4.0 to 4.5. Apply this acid water as a substrate drench, providing 5 percent to 10 percent excessive leaching of the substrate. Rinse the foliage to avoid phytotoxicity. Results should be visible within five days. Retest the substrate pH and repeat if needed.
Iron Drench
If the levels are excessively high, then a Fe chelate application can be made to the substrate.
Iron-EDDHA can be mixed at a ratio of 5 ounces per 100 gallons of water.
Iron-DTPA can be mixed at a ratio of 5 ounces per 100 gallons of water.
Iron sulfate can be mixed at a ratio of 4 ounces to 8 ounces per 100 gallons of water.
Apply the iron as a substrate drench with enough volume to leach the pot, and rinse the foliage immediately after application.
Based on grower observations and initial experiments at NCSU, it is possible to grow cannabis with a wider soilless substrate pH range than most other species. Cannabis plants do not appear prone to develop leaf symptomology when substrate pH is too low or too high compared to the current general greenhouse standards—only plant stunting occurs at sub-optimal conditions.
Therefore, based on research and experience with other species, a wider range of 5.5 to 6.5 may be used. When adapting these values to a monitoring system, the recommended pH zone to target would be 5.8 to 6.2. By monitoring the substrate pH over time, one can assure that plants are within the optimal range.
Brian Whipker, Turner Smith and Paul Cockson are from Department of Horticultural Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, N.C. Hunter Landis is from North Carolina Dept. of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Raleigh, N.C.
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In early August, Wisconsin health officials urged people in the Badger State to refrain from using vape products. A mysterious illness had stricken 11 teens and young adults who were hospitalized with severe lung disease.
At the time, Wisconsin's health department had little information about why these young people were experiencing "unexplained breathing problems." Less than a week later, reports of new illnesses popped up in neighboring Illinois and Minnesota and as far away as California, according to an Aug. 14 New York Times article.
During the next two months, health officials attributed hundreds of new cases, including dozens of deaths, to e-cigarette use and vape products containing THC. As of press time, Oct. 28, that number had ballooned to 1,604 lung injury cases and 34 deaths across 49 states (all except Alaska); Washington, D.C.; and one U.S. territory, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
While many theories exist about why people are getting sick, no single cause has been verified by government agencies. Meanwhile, licensed manufacturers of cannabis products and state-legal retailers are grappling with a host of supply chain, quality and safety issues on a scale not previously experienced in the nascent industry.
The Cannabis Business Times staff has covered the issue closely since it was first considered a public health threat. Here, we recap some of this coverage, including the impact on the industry, how it's responded to the crisis and what cannabis growers, producers and retailers can expect in the future.
What Do We Know So Far?
The earliest theories on the cause of vape illnesses focused on the use of vitamin E acetate in illicit-market products. Vitamin E acetate is a preservative often found in nutritional supplements or beauty products. The New York State Health Department cited the chemical when calling out the flood of unregulated cannabis products that have hit streets around the Northeast, Midwest and beyond.
While most major news media outlets have picked up the department's advisory on vitamin E acetate (including Cannabis Business Times), the actual public understanding of oil vaporization and degradation is a bit murkier.
Dr. Arup Sen, CEO of Infusion Biosciences, a biotech company focused on discovering and commercializing cannabis technologies, said in a September interview with CBT that legally manufactured vape products could contain substances that may pose risks, as well.
"Given the shockingly low bioactivities reported for THC and CBD preparations of the present day, I would not be surprised if we find compounds in the current preparations that are 100 to 1,000 times more potent than THC or CBD," he said. "In fact, synthetic molecules similar to THC have been reported to be more than 2,000 times more potent in a number of cell culture assays that determine biochemical effects at the cellular level."
Sen said he wasn't "convinced that anyone really knows what vitamin E acetate preparation is being used and what impurities there might be."
Not much information exists about the impact of heating primary substances in vape products and the minor components in cannabis liquids used in the vape pens, including propylene glycol, a common thinning agent in vape pens of all types. "Very little is known about the interaction between the materials used to make the cartridges and compounds present in vape liquids at high temperatures," Sen said.
Of course, cannabinoids are far from the only chemical compounds found in the oil that cannabis consumers and patients are vaping. Much of the industry conversation has turned to terpenes—both organic and synthetic—and their role in the safety of these products.
"Terpenes can be dangerous," said Dr. Robert Strongin, chemistry professor at Portland State University. "Their use should be limited." He noted that his research shows terpenes degrade more rapidly during vaping than THC and that adding relatively large concentrations of terpenes to relatively pure cannabinoid distillates is not recommended based on his research team's findings.
Mojave Richmond and Robert C. Clarke, CBT columnists and co-founders of BioAgronomics Group, said, "Not all terpenes are good terpenes." Richmond added, "We should tread lightly when it comes to adding large quantities of what are essentially solvents into cannabis products."
In early October, a new theory emerged related to the possible cause of the vaping illnesses. Following a recent report from Mayo Clinic researchers in the New England Journal of Medicine, scientists at Colorado Green Lab, a cannabis product development and consulting company in Denver, had begun publishing a blog series hypothesizing that the illness (referred to as vaping-associated pulmonary injury, or VAPI, or more recently named by the CDC: e-cigarette, or vaping, product use associated lung injury (EVALI), is due to metal fume exposure.
The Mayo Clinic researchers noted that VAPI lung micrograph images of patients from Illinois and Wisconsin appear to more closely resemble chemical burns.
"The underlying cause is now believed to be chemical exposure, and not an infectious disease," Colorado Green Lab co-owners Frank Conrad and Cindy Blair wrote. "The VAPI syndrome is strongly correlated with the use of black-market THC vape cartridges, but the CDC has yet to conclusively identify a vaping product, or additive common to all cases."
The lab posited that the exposure is due to cadmium in silver solder used in "lower-end vape pens" commonly found on the illicit market. Producers of these products use silver solder because it's a low-cost material, the lab contends. But cadmium is highly toxic.
However, Conrad and Blair stressed that the CDC had not confirmed any correlation between specific causes and effects in the VAPI matter. "The full range of findings is conflicting, and no clear pattern has emerged regarding the source or cause of the illness," they wrote.
Still, the hypothesis is noteworthy—especially when considered in the broader industry conversation already taking chemical constituents of cannabis oil into account (like vitamin E acetate, which remains at the center of the discourse).
Industry Impact and Risk Avoidance
The illnesses have sent a ripple effect throughout the industry, which faces increased scrutiny from regulators and the general public. On Sept. 26, Medicine Man announced that it was pulling cannabis vape cartridges containing propylene glycol or vitamin E acetate from its shelves. The dispensary business operates four adult-use storefronts and one medical cannabis location in Colorado.
The uncertainty around vaping has industry veterans offering words of caution to their peers and consumers as the crisis continues to unfold. "The devil is always in the details, and safety must come first," Richmond told CBT in September. "Anytime we add new ingredients of varying quantities into the beaker we risk an explosion in the lab. So, let's not use consumers and patients as guinea pigs and take a step backward before we tarnish cannabis' reputation as a safe, beneficial, medicinal plant that has been an integral part of the human experience."
In the same CBT article, Nick Jack, chief retail officer of Denver dispensary Diego Pellicer - Colorado, said consumers should stick with legal products only sold by licensed cannabis retailers.
"I would hope that the recent series of unfortunate events will persuade [illicit] market users to purchase products—if they're available to them—that go through regulatory testing and compliance procedures that have been put into place in the legal cannabis market, rather than purchasing a product from unverified and unregulated sources," he said.
States also are mobilizing. Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker announced at the end of September that the state would become the first to enact a temporary ban on all online and retail sales of nicotine and cannabis vaping products and devices through Jan. 25, 2020.
Other states have focused on flavors. In an effort to immediately decrease interest for underage and casual consumers, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown rolled out a plan to ban all non-cannabis derived flavoring agents in both the nicotine and cannabis markets. Her office has stated that exemptions for additives like botanical derivatives that can prove inhalation safety will be considered in the future.
New rules in Colorado propose a ban on polyethylene glycol (PEG), vitamin E acetate and medium chain triglycerides (MCT oil) in cannabis concentrates or products meant to be inhaled. These additives are generally used as thinning agents to cut THC oil, rendering it able to be vaporized. As of press time, the State Licensing Authority had not yet signed off on the proposal; if it does, the new rules will go into effect Jan. 1, 2020.
Emergency rules adopted by the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board in October require that cannabis licensees "disclose all compounds, including but not limited to ingredients, solvents, additives, preservatives, thickening agents, terpenes and other substances used to produce or added to marijuana concentrates for inhalation or marijuana-infused extracts for inhalation at any point during production and processing, regardless of source and origin." The board also worked with "industry representatives and marijuana licensees" to develop vaping risk warning signs that will be posted at retailers selling vapor products that contain THC.
Ben Bodamer, an attorney in Dickinson Wright's cannabis practice group, advises cannabis companies to examine their supply chains to ensure their products are safe and compliant. He noted that class-action lawsuits have emerged in the cannabis space, and it helps to identify and address weak spots in a business's interactions with third-party vendors or other partners.
"First of all, we don't really know enough to know the kinds of claims that will emerge," Bodamer said. "I know that the plaintiff's bar is creative, but they're also attentive. And in this context, they're going to be following the results of ongoing investigations at the state level and at the federal level. And to the extent that [those] investigations reveal specific sources, and if those specific sources have been supplying product to individual companies, if that supply chain is in any way illegal, … I think the ease with which the plaintiff's bar could bring claims would go up significantly."
Getting out in front of the national news narrative with public statements on social media is one thing; showing proof of Good Manufacturing Practices or other standards and certifications will make a clear statement to the consumer base—and to public officials and private attorneys interested in parsing businesses' tangential roles to a story with an expansive reach.
"You're going to see scrutiny and the emergence of good actors versus bad actors from a supply chain standpoint," Bodamer said. "It's incumbent on good actors to point out their best practices, but it's also incumbent on people to not be bad actors."
Jonathan Katz is managing editor for Cannabis Business Times and Cannabis Dispensary.
Eric Sandy is the digital editor for Cannabis Business Times and Cannabis Dispensary.
Melissa Schiller is the assistant digital editor for Cannabis Business Times and Cannabis Dispensary.
Andrea Sparr-Jaswa is science editor for Cannabis Business Times and Cannabis Dispensary.
Vaping-Related Lung Illness
Massachusetts Cannabis Commissioner: Vaping Bans Could do More Harm Than Good
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"Simplicity is tempting. … But failing to consider potential unintended negative consequences of such a ban, specifically if the harms may outweigh the benefits, does a disservice to the people whose lives are at stake."
^ In an Oct. 7 op-ed in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commissioner Shaleen Title and physician, lawyer and research fellow at Harvard Medical School Michael S. Sinha argued that vaping bans would not stop the recent illness outbreak, as those bans only drive patients and consumers to the illicit market. Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer
"The mayor is calling for an immediate investigation and will lead an effort to add additional safeguards to the licensing process."
^ Mary Lynne Vellinga, spokesperson for Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg, said the city's top elected official will be reviewing the city's cannabis licensing process following the revelation that Andrey Kukushkin, a Ukrainian-born man indicted in a campaign-finance scheme along with two associates of President Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, is an officer in a Sacramento cannabis dispensary controlled by a local businessman with a considerable share of the city's cannabis business. Source: Sacramento Bee
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"This is likely just a temporary delay until we know which of the incurable neurodegenerative conditions are appropriate to be included on the list."
^ Texas State Rep. Stephanie Klick (R-Fort Worth), who spearheaded the legislation last session to expand the state's Compassionate Use Act, told reporters that the removal of the dispensary licensing application tool from the Department of Public Safety website was likely a "temporary delay." Currently, Texas has three licensed cannabis operators. Source: Texas Tribune
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87% of Illicit-Market Vape Products in California Test Positive for Vitamin E Acetate
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The Kryptonian language distinguishes between three different types of possession. These are listed in order of scope from broadest to narrowest, and are each outlined below.
Alienable - objects, clothing, structures, vehicles, pets, jobs, friends, representatives, etc.
Inalienable - thoughts, ideas, dreams, body parts, names, qualities, etc.


Why is it1 when the weather forecast suggests 'lousy' it's lousy and when it suggests 'fine' it tends more often to the lousy? Or perhaps these are the premature April showers. The most I'm getting from the hallway barometer, of course, is veränderlich. Well, it would say that, wouldn't it? Nor do I have the comfort of "House of Cards" to fall back on as I gorged on the final three episodes yesterday.
Generally speaking, I can resist everything except temptation. And tea. Plus this, which seems to be an attempt to get people to try the digital-only insomniacs' sidekick channel that seems bent on recycling the Light Programme and Home Service comedy and drama material of the unlamented 1950s and 1960s. Good luck with that.
Furthermore, in an admittedly long (perhaps even too long) book, the reader has no trouble following the author's line of thought; indeed, the Baedeker Dworkin offers in the first chapter more than enables the patient reader to follow the orderly pattern of his intricate argumentation. And while his insistence on tying all loose ends together in accordance with his grand design might come across as an almost dogmatic commitment to a single idea — some might call it stubborn single-mindedness — the result is an undeniably brilliant, challenging, and often quite convincing philosophical treatise.
... (and when did pictures or charts become infographics?) here that purports to show how a book is born made me smile more than once. [Pause] And it was an ex-Cheers screenwriter called Rob Long who asked: "Who among us has not gazed at a painting of Jackson Pollock's and thought 'What a piece of crap'?"
Furthermore, my guru tells me (sheepishly?) it managed to download some files that his preferred "get_iplayer" command line magic spell failed to retrieve.
I do sometimes wonder how the BBC manages to find — and then let — so many micro-cephalic provincial bigots vomit their poisonous prejudices over the airwaves during the phone-in programmes I so assiduously avoid (except in the three or four minutes prior to something I actually want to hear).
As I listen to a three-hour MP3 of the "Bob Harris Sunday" show at 128Kbps (169MB) including, at 73 minutes in, some live music from 'The Willows', I've been pottering around down here, tidying up somewhat, and stumbling across a reminder to "go paperless" for news and such stuff from the IBM Pensions mob. Guess what I've just discovered? Unless the UK guvmint is telling me porkie pies then, in a mere 42 months from now — assuming I haven't shuffled off the mortal coil2 and joined the Choir Invisible by then — my so-called State Pension should start paying me a quite handy £5,587-40 (before tax, no doubt) per year.
The rain is pouring down outside. Time for an evening meal, methinks. Whispering Bob has just reminded us that next week is the 'official' 40th anniversary of Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon", which I originally had on vinyl (didn't everybody?) and played to Christa in the Old Windsor vicarage early in our 'acquaintance'. I didn't buy it on CD until September 1984.
I've just tried the "iPlayer" network capability of my Freeview HD box for the first time since having upgraded the speed of my broadband and, technically, there's nowt wrong with the quality of the signal. But (having tried two separate 'Horizon' episodes on asteroids and on creativity inside the brain) I just can't bring myself to watch the tripe. It depressingly manages the paradox of being simultaneously frenetic (lots of silly irrelevant music, visuals and visual gimmicks) and glacially-paced (in terms of meaningful information delivery).
I think that's it for tonight. It's 23:50 and I'm tired.
2 My ideas of what exactly a "mortal coil" is have changed over the years. But I've so far resisted the temptation to investigate.


There has been discussions and news items before about dogs getting into traplines and it seems some of the public just aren't getting the message about the danger.
A Kelowna man is warning pet owners to be careful near a popular recreation trail after his dog, Boss, was caught in a snare trap on Friday.
"I was shoeshoeing on High Rim trail off Highway 97 near Goudie Road when my Rottweiler took off, then I heard him yelp. I ran over the top of a snowbank and found him with this cable around his neck," says Dustin Pearson.
"I got him free, and he didn't require any medical attention," Pearson added, but he's concerned about what might have happened to a smaller pet.
"It's clearly illegal, and the area is used by lots of families to go sledding and walk their pets. It is close, it's not like your deep in the woods somewhere."
Pearson has tried to find the trapper who is baiting the traps with dead animals apparently to try attract wolves and coyotes. He has also attempted to reach the conservation service.
"I have a pretty big dog. I would hate to see what would happen to a small animal – they would suffocate or freeze, it would be a horrible death," said Pearson.
"I took down three traps, but I want people to be aware this is out there. A kennel club comes up here for nature hikes with people's daycare dogs. It could be a really bad situation if something isn't done."
There are legal traplines so it is imperative that people look after their dogs on any property - especially when that property doesn't belong to them.
Thank you for posting that. I was just about to do that myself. If in fact the traps were set legally it is the person who interfered with them that is at fault here.It is an offence to interfere with a legally set trap. The person who did this may be subject to prosecution.This is someone's livelihood.
Illegal to interfere with a trapline, and illegal to let your dog run loose in a wildlife area. There's only one criminal in this story, and it isn't the trapper. City slickers stay home.
Everything is perfectly legal with that snare set on a Registered trapline. It is a set for lynx which die in under a minute in a legal locking snare. One reason we use this type of set is if a domestic dog is caught they can easily be released unharmed. The previous posters have covered it well relative to dogs running at large and not interfering with a legally set trap. That person may expect a fine for taking down the other three sets as he indicated he did. He need not look for the Co's as they will be looking for him.
It must be fun to allow your dog to run at large where it wants in the bush harassing wildlife. Why else would it run in and out of the bush off the trail?
trapp wrote: Why else would it run in and out of the bush off the trail?
In the snippet the OP posted, it is saying that the traps set were illegal?
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They are legal. I know the trapper and I know the set up.
trapp wrote: Everything is perfectly legal with that snare set on a Registered trapline. It is a set for lynx which die in under a minute in a legal locking snare. One reason we use this type of set is if a domestic dog is caught they can easily be released unharmed. The previous posters have covered it well relative to dogs running at large and not interfering with a legally set trap. That person may expect a fine for taking down the other three sets as he indicated he did. He need not look for the Co's as they will be looking for him.
Trapp when you capture a lynx who is interested in the animal? Is there a market for the hide or is it done more for nuisance control?
Wonder what would have happened if that Rotty had run across a smaller dog while in hunting mode running through the bush? Just saying.
Yes they are a fur bearer and we sell them into the fur trade for garments and trim. Some may be sold privately for taxidermy purposes.
Just got to be aware , and not whine.
I used to snare rabbits as a kid , makes great stew.
I'm waiting patiently for the CO to show up at his door with a warrant. People need to know that all areas of the province that are crown land are divided Into traplines. You can't just take it upon yourself to decide that his set was illegal.A few penalties against wannabe enforcers should make the public sit up and pay attention.
Harassing wildlife as opposed to snaring innocent wildlife and have them choke to death...SMH. IMO snares should be banned.
No it is not basically a trophy thing. For over 50 years Part of my living has been off the trapline and there is still a viable fur market. Many trappers in the North still depend on some furbearers as a food source and every year we save lynx and beaver meat for game clubs for their banquests. What gives you the right to harvest wildlife and not me? Just as people can use non biodegradable fake fur for clothing you could get your meat from Costco. I'll bet you do not utilize the hide from your game? Let me tell you this though. When I loose my right to trap the antis are coming for you. You need to support all forms of wildlife use, hunting trapping and fishing. We have been at the forefront of the anti movement for many years and now hunters are starting to feel the crunch also. You also need to educate yourself on humane harvesting techniques we now use in BC and all of Canada for that matter.


Behind a curtain in a corner of the intensive care unit in Dohuk's emergency hospital, six-year-old Ferhad lay motionless on a bed yesterday, his head shrouded in bandages. He did not stir as his older brother, Amin, leant across and wiped his body with a flannel.
"I am afraid he is a hopeless case," said Abdullah Ibrahim, the chief trauma surgeon, holding up an x-ray. "A large piece of shrapnel has destroyed his brain. All we can do now is provide a quiet place for him to die."
After this week's suicide attacks on Yezidi Kurds in the Sinjar district west of Mosul, Dr Ibrahim has been on duty for 36 hours. The hospital received more than 100 victims. He has faced, he said, some of the most horrific injuries he has encountered as a doctor. And as he made his rounds, it was clear just how many women and children had been caught by the deadliest atrocity in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
"We used to be 17 million people, and now we are just 1.7 million," said a Yezidi father as Dr Ibrahim checked the notes of his seven-year-old son. The boy had got off "relatively lightly"... with cuts to his face and a broken femur. "They hit us because we are true Kurds," the father said, "and they won't stop until we are all wiped out." His wife lay in the next bed. She would pull through, said Dr Ibrahim, but she had lost the child she was bearing. "Will they add my lost baby to the death toll?" she asked.
Aside from the physical damage it wrought, the coordinated bombing attack by suspected al-Qaida operatives revived fears among the Yezidi community, one of the region's oldest ethno-religious groups, of annihilation at the hands of their religious enemies - in this case, Sunni extremists. Along with other religious minorities in Iraq who initially rejoiced at the toppling of the Ba'athist regime, Yezidi Kurds say the subsequent chaos and political paralysis has left them as vulne0rable as before.
"The attack came as no surprise to us," Prince Tahseen Sayid Ali, the temporal leader of the Yezidis, told the Guardian in his headquarters in Sheikhan, about 40 miles north-east of Mosul. Last April, the community came under the international spotlight when a Yezidi girl married a Muslim boy and was reported to have converted to Islam. She was promptly stoned to death by a mob in her hometown of Bazan. The murder was caught on a mobile phone camera and distributed on the internet. Yezidi leaders condemned the killing, but the damage was done. In response, gunmen pulled 23 Yezidi workers off a bus near Mosul and shot them dead. Hundreds of Yezidi students at Mosul university have since either fled or moved to universities inside the Kurdish autonomous area. For the past month, said Prince Tahseen, Yezidi leaders in Sinjar had been complaining of threats by Islamists. They said the militants, holed up among local Sunni Arab settlements along the Syrian border, had effectively blockaded Yezidi towns, preventing delivery of foodstuffs and fuel.
"The Islamic terrorists had made it very clear that they wanted to see rivers of Yezidi blood," said Prince Tahseen. But no one, least of all the US army, which is nominally in control of the region, was listening. "I'm sure it will happen again unless we take steps to protect ourselves," he said. "We are a peaceful people. We don't have force of arms. The only protection is for all the Yezidis is to be part of the Kurdish self-rule zone. But whether the Arabs allow us to vote on it as the constitution says we should, is another question."
In past centuries, the Yezidi tribes had been very powerful, covering large areas of Kurdistan. But waves of persecution, particularly under the Ottomans, has meant there are only isolated groups left in Iraq: in the foothills of Kurdish mountains and further south-west in the vicinity of Jebel Sinjar. Their numbers, thought to be only a few hundred thousand, had already dwindled by the 2003 US invasion. As part of his Arabi-sation campaign, Saddam uprooted Yezidis from their ancestral lands in Sinjar, herding many of them into new "collective towns" which were little more than large concentration camps.
But the Yezidis who live to the east of Mosul have fared better. There lies the town of Sheikhan, where the prince holds court, and their main religious centre at Lalish, in a steep, wooded valley punctuated with ribbed white conical towers that mark the positions of Yezidi shrines and tombs. These areas abut the Kurd's autonomous region, the most tranquil part of Iraq. Several Yezidis hold positions in the Kurdish administration and sit in the regional parliament. They are trying to convince their brethren in the Sinjar area to join them, by voting in a referendum planned for the end of the year. A recent survey suggested that 80% of Yezidis may opt to join the Kurdistan regional government if given guarantees of religious and communal freedom.
"If we are all united inside the Kurdistan federal region, then we can have better protection and also have a better chance of asking for our rights," said Prince Tahseen. That may be one main reason why they were attacked, he says.
There was no doubting the galvanising effects that the attack has had. Prince Tahseen, whose royal line is said to date back some 500 years, and his spiritual counterpart - the Yezidi's equivalent of the Pope -Baba Sheikh Khorto Haji Ismael, convened a gathering of tribal leaders in Sheikhan yesterday to plot a response. It included money and political support and a determination to bring Yezidis inside the Kurdish ruled areas for safety. After the meeting the men and their entourage left in a long convoy for Sinjar.


The North Face Frontier is a freeride event within the Winter Games NZ calendar and is a Freeride World Qualifier with both 2* and 4* events providing top big mountain skiers and snowboarders with the opportunity to gain valuable FWT points. We welcome competitors to The Remarkables Ski Field in Queenstown, NZ for a weather window of competition from the 1 – 6 September 2019. More details on this year's competition will be posted as we near the event and for the latest news follow us on our Facebook Page.
Congratulations to Jess Hotter and Blake Marshall for qualifying for the Freeride World Tour 2020 this weekend!
After the last OPEN FACES Freeride Series event in Obergurgl-Hochgurgl this Saturday was cancelled, after the first riders dropped, due to difficult and dangerous snow conditions. Jess won the series with 7500 points and a massive margin of 2780 points to second-placed Eva Battolla.
Blake finished a mere 250 points off leader Carl Renvall, giving an amazing performance throughout the season.


DENVER (AP) -- Denver native Kyle Freeland wears the affection for his city on his right arm: Tattoos of the area code (303), the elevation (5,280) and a silhouette of the Rocky Mountains.
Since it's the team he grew up rooting for, Freeland takes immense satisfaction in the Rockies' recent run of success. The homegrown hurler hopes to deliver something else this season along the way to what would be a third straight postseason appearance: Colorado's first NL West title. The left-hander will try to begin the season on the right foot as the opening day starter Thursday in Miami.
''You start getting addicted to that feeling. You want more. You want to get deeper into the playoffs,'' Freeland said .
Given his heavy workload - a career-high 202 1/3 innings - he really didn't start throwing until January. Other than that, he kept his offseason routine pretty much the same.
As for having his name mentioned alongside the likes of New York's Jacob deGrom, Washington's Max Scherzer and Philly's Aaron Nola - the trio who finished ahead of him in last year's NL Cy Young vote - now that was humbling.
About those tattoos along his right arm - simply his pride showing through.


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The Fellowship of the Bellows
Funding Through Fun ~ by British Expats
The idea of collecting 'Funds through Fun' for assisting the War Effort was conceived at a meeting of 4 members of the British/Anglo-Argentine Community in a Buenos Aires Bar. The RAF was chosen as the Beneficiary because at that time almost all the volunteers from Argentina had enrolled in the RAF; with Losses already having been suffered it was an emotive matter in the Local Community.
Over 600 Argentine Volunteers served with both the RAF and the RCAF, mostly in the 164 Argentine-British RAF Squadron, whose shield bore the Sun from the Flag of Argentina and the motto, "Determined We Fly" (Firmes Volamos)
The Hurlingham Club of Argentina is a famous Golf & Polo Club in Hurlingham, Buenos Aires Province. It is named after the Hurlingham Club in London and was set up in 1888 by the local Anglo-Argentine Community. The Town of Hurlingham & Hurlingham Partido grew up around the Club, taking its name. The Club covers 73 hectares and has an 18-hole Golf Course, 5 Polo Fields, Stables for 300 horses, Schools of Polo, horse riding & pony riding, 18 Tennis Courts including 6 Grass Courts, a Cricket Pitch, 2 Swimming Pools, 3 Paddle Tennis Courts and an indoor complex with a Gym, Squash Court & Dressing Rooms. The Clubhouse also had elegant Function Rooms, Restaurant & Bars, plus Hotel Rooms available to Members. Hurlingham was the 1st place in Argentina where Polo was played and the Argentine Polo Association was founded at the Club in 1922. Argentina has subsequently become a dominant power in International Polo and the Club hosts a major Polo Tournament each year, the Campeonato Abierto de Hurlingham.
The English Club Avenida 25 de Mayo in downtown Buenos Aries with its wood-panelled rooms and fusty atmosphere was a reminder of Britain's once-strong links with the South American Country. Now the Club has closed, the Library & Billiard Room have been rented to a University and Argentine Students swot where British Ancients once dozed away the hot Buenos Aires afternoons. To the dismay of the 10,000-strong English Community – what is left of the 56,000 Expatriate Britons of the 1940's.
Within a short time they publicised the concept and called an open meeting at the 'English Club' in Buenos Aires on 14th October 1940 and the ideas were outlined from behind a curtain in order to preserve their anonymity. The meeting appointed them as a Committee of 'Servants', and the 'Fellowship of the Bellows' (for More Air Force) took off.
The 'Servants' consisted of the High Wind (what he says blows), who gathered around him:
Secretaries – The Whirlwinds (always in a flap);
Cashier – Receiver of Windfalls;
Treasurer – Keeper of the Windbag;
Lady Member – The Windlass (very easy on the air).
The concept spread and from the start employed British humour, advertising copy-writing skills, with plays on words (puns). The pressing need at that time was for More Air Force, so clearly Bellows were needed to increase the Air Force; 1,000s of Bellows to Raise The Wind.
The Funds raised were sent to the Ministry of Aircraft Production. The initiative proved to be outstandingly successful and within a very short time many other Countries including Brazil set up their own similar 'Fellowships'. The rules they devised were –
(a) the Servants must remain anonymous;
(b) various levels of 'Fellow' were created, and promotion was based on payment of one's selected contribution multiplied by the number of confirmed Enemy Aircraft destroyed during the previous month, as published by the UK Air Ministry;
(c) the appeal must be within the reach of everyone, with a joining fee of 1 Argentine Peso (then about £1/16th), and each 'fellow' setting their own level of pledged contribution, with a minimum of 1 cent (about £1/1600th) – Office Boy & Boss would, therefore, progress at the same speed, having paid up their selected rate of contribution for each Plane destroyed;
(d) anyone missing a monthly payment ('Blow in') could make up their arrears when they had the funds to do so, and promotion would then be achieved;
(e) it must be couched in a humorous vein ('Funds through Fun').
Enrolment was effected by payment of the joining fee at which point one ceased being a 'Snuff' ('infinitely worse than being a cross-eyed toad with athletes foot') and became a Fellow with the rank of Puff (Soplito) and given a badge of a particular colour, depicting a Bellows, to wear in his buttonhole or brooch on her blouse. The Fellow then paid his pledged amount for each enemy 'plane brought down during the month. Setting the minimum so low was a masterstroke, which would enable much more potential 'Snuffs' to become Fellows.
Upon joining one was issued with an Official Booklet which contained: one's name and Fellowship Number for accounting purposes; information on how the Fellowship worked; how to make the salute for greeting 'Fellow Bellows' (upward spiral motion of 1st finger of right hand depicting an eddy of wind); Tear-out Slips for handing in with contributions so that it could be recorded by the Servants (receipts were given); a Chart on the back page for monitoring one's own progress towards promotion.
The Fellows were encouraged to continue to contribute because after 1,000 Planes had been certified by the Air Ministry and paid for, the Fellow was promoted from Puff (Soplito) to Gust (Rafaga) and given another distinctive Badge. Thus the quest for Funds through Fun went on; with 2,500 Planes down and paid for, the Gust became a Gale (Vendaval); 5,000 Planes created a Hurricane (Huracan), 6,500 a Tornado and 8,000 a Typhoon (Tifon). With each promotion, a further distinctive Badge was issued. 10,000 'Planes downed and paid for entitled Fellows to obtain the Honour: The Order of the Bellows and were given their Wings; wings were added to a special Badge depicting a Bellows. It was a further masterstroke that the incentive of promotion encouraged continuing monthly payments. The Fellowship of the Bellows spread with such enthusiasm and speed that the Initial Target of £100,000 was reached and submitted to the Air Ministry, so the Servants of the Bellows quickly created new and still more exalted Ranks of promotion at each additional 2,000 'Plane mark, each with its Winged Badge, in order to keep up the momentum (Airspeed).
Badges of the Fellowship of the Bellows:- from publicity booklet in Spanish. On 30 December 1940 Time Magazine published an article entitled 'Whiffs, Puffs & Snuffs' relating to the Fellowship. The Servants were horrified that their names were "leaked" in the Article, obliging them thereafter to categorically deny their involvement, in accordance with their principle of anonymity.
The 1st Bellows plane took to the Air labelled Bellows Argentina No.1 in March 1941 after only 4½ months. 28th of June 1941 she was delivered to 39MU at Colerne. On the 16th of the following month she moved to the Starveall Farm disposal, on the 20th of September she joined 263 Squadron at Charmy Down, 6 days later she was moved to 137 Squadron who were also at the same Airfield. On the 7th of January 1942, she suffered an accident at Coltishall in which her Pilot Jack Maddocks was injured. She was then sent to Westlands for repair afterwards she went to 18 MU (Maintenance Unit) at Dumfries and on the 18th of July 1942 she joined 263 Squadron at Angleey and P7062 carried L-HE code. In February 1943 she crashed near Chisledon, Wiltshire. Her Pilot Frank Hicks was killed.
'Plane after 'plane was added, and in July 1942, 263 Squadron took delivery of 20 Westland Whirlwind Fighters and the Squadron adopted the nickname "Fellowship of the Bellows".
Whirlwind Mark I, P7116 HE-F Bellows Argentina No. 2, flown by the Officer Commanding 263 Squadron RAF Based at Colerne, Wiltshire, on the snow-covered Airfield at Charmy Down, Somerset. The Westland Whirlwind was the 1st cannon-armed Fighter for the RAF, 1st flown in October 1938 and at the production Stage by 1940. It was a Twin-Engined Heavy Fighter (also able to function as a Fighter-Bomber with 500-lb (230 kg) Bombload). With 4 x 20mm Hispano cannon in the Nose, it was more powerful than an 8-gunned Fighter like the Spitfire or Hurricane. It was Fast, matching the current Spitfire's maximum speed but performed best at low Altitude and was used for Convoy Escort and against Small Targets in the Channel and Northern France. Only 114 were produced (compared with over 20,000 Spitfires).
P7102 P-SF 'Comrades in Arms', a presentation Aircraft, paid for by Sir Samuel Ellis of Cambridge, New Zealand
Westland Whirlwind
The Contributions (Blow-ins) were collected by an appointed "Airpocket" in every Town & Village and passed on to the Cashier (Receiver of Windfalls) who then took them to the Bank where the Treasurer (Keeper of the Windbag) saw that the Funds were sent to the Ministry of Aircraft Production – by Airmail of course. The Fellowship spread from Argentina very rapidly to the neighbouring Countries of Uruguay, Chile, Peru, Bolivia & Brazil where it was taken up most enthusiastically resulting in the creation of Squadron 193, the "Brazilian Squadron". It spread further to Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Mexico, Curaçao, Aruba, Jamaica, Cuba, Nicaragua, Falkland Islands, Guatemala, El Salvador and even to Hong Kong. Contributions generally went towards Aircraft Production.
Four Squadrons of Aircraft were donated 263 Squadron in April 1941, followed by 137 Squadron in 1942, then 193 Squadron in 1943 and lastly 692 Squadron in 1944.
On November 10th 1944 another Bellows Squadron (692) was formally presented to Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris at RAF Graveley from Funds raised by the Fellowship Worldwide.
Bomber Command's, Air Chief Marshal Arthur Harris is joined by Air Vice-Marshal Don Bennett (right) at a Ceremony held at Graveley to mark the Squadron's ties with the Anglo-Argentinian Fellowship of the Bellows.
The Ceremonial 'Bellows' Mascot handover to Bennett was done on behalf of the Fellowship by the 'Windlass', who by this time were in UK serving in the RNVR & WAAF.
Hanging from the wall in the office of No 692 Squadron's Commanding Officer during the last war was a pair of Bellows. A peculiar ornament to be decorating a CO's office, one would say, at any time. Around those Bellows hung an interesting story. They were presented to the squadron to mark the occasion of a visit by members of the Fellowship of the Bellows, a movement created in Buenos Aires with the object of raising money for the purchase of Aircraft for the RAF No.692 was adopted by the Fellowship in 1944 shortly after the Squadron came into being. The 692 Squadron was formed at Graveley, Huntingdonshire, on 1st January 1944. It was equipped with Mosquito Light bombers and became part of the Force of Fast, High-flying Night Raiders – the Light Night Striking Force of No 8 (PFF) Group. The Light Night Striking Force made a name for itself with its regular journeys to Berlin, hitting the German Capital again and again with 4,000lb. "Cookie" Bombs.
Squadron 692 consisted of 31 Mosquito bombers. The handover was done on behalf of the Fellowship by the High Wind and the Windlass, who by this time were in UK serving in the RNVR & WAAF. When the Fellowship of the Bellows was wound up the total amount collected was Pesos 9,542,734.58 (approx. £600,000) of which Argentina was responsible for Pesos 3,140,000.00 (approx. £200,000). This had been sent to the Ministry of Aircraft Production through the British Patriotic Fund. In addition, Pesos 747,228.60 (approx. £50,000) was sent to the RAF Benevolent Fund, and Pesos 16,298 (approx. £1,000) was used to assist Argentine Scholars abroad.
The total number of Servants was estimated to be over 200,000 including 56,000 in Argentina and 35,000 in Uruguay. On 7th September 1945, the 'Fellowships of the Bellows' blew themselves out at a mammoth 'Deflation Party' at the Plaza Hotel, Buenos Aires attended by more than 1000 'Fellow Bellows', including specially selected young ladies to represent each of the many Latin American Countries that had raised Funds in this way. Nearly 10 million Pesos (approx. £600,000) had been raised at a time when a Spitfire cost £5,000. The Founders of the Fellowship of the Bellows maintained their Anonymity throughout their lives and eschewed any Publicity.
However, the identity of the Principals can now (in 2014) formally be made Public. The High Wind was E A (Bill) Rumboll, who was with Ernst Berg & Cia (Advertising Agency) and also worked for British Intelligence in Buenos Aires until he had to flee to Britain when his cover was blown. Then in the latter part of the War, operating out of London, he ran the Escape Routes through Spain to enable British Servicemen to reach Gibraltar and return to Britain. Some RAF Crew, who had escaped capture, returned via this route and saw active service again within 24 hours of reaching Britain. The Whirlwinds (Secretaries) were George Ward & Alan Murray of London & South America Investment Trust. The Receiver of Windfalls (Cashier) was Colin Shearer and the Keeper of the Windbag (Treasurer) was George Collins.
EA (Bill) Rumboll in his British Naval Uniform (Inset)
The Library of Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon contains more than 80 items relating to the Fellowship of the Bellows comprising Letters, Membership Documents & Photographs. Copies of much original material (including a Montage of Badges) was given to the Library of the Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon in January 1999, in the name of the Servants of the Bellows. Copies are kept by J W E Rumboll (2nd son of E A (Bill) Rumboll (1910-1978), the High Wind), who made the decision that the Identity of the Servants of the Bellows should be confirmed as above.


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This cross stitch design consists of 3 Holly Jolly Fairies. They can be stitched together or individually as Christmas ornaments. Each design measures 40w by 60h maximum and uses DMC, Kreinik #4 braid and Mill Hill beads.


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Boats for rowing or use with electric engine in near by lakes.
Heavy spin fishing set for pike - Custum built rods on bushido blanks, baitcasting reels with braided line, Suitable lures.
Ligth spin fishing set for Perch, Walleye, Trout etc. – Spinning rod - 40-gram, Open spinning reel with both braided line and mono. Suitable lures.
Pike fly-fishing set from Vision.
Salmon fly-fishing set from Vision.
Our salmon is early running and hits the river mouth in May. They reach the actual fishing stretches in late May, or beginning of June. First the alfa fish is coming; often passing 20lbs is size.
Come and fish the untouched waters of Swedish Lapland, with its wide variety of waters in astonishing environments. We have big lakes and the wild Råne river that holds a good population of big pike.
In the woodlands you find a wide range of trout fishing locations, from small creeks, to wild rivers and small dark lakes to great clearwater lakes.
Emanuel Swärd, Palle Andersson and Mats Ole Herz re the guides in Sörbyn Lodge. Their experiences include together 40 years of fly fishing, a lover of predator fishing an the current world record holder of perch.


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Current Affairs One-Liner: 12th May 2021
BJ Watling: He is New Zealand's Cricket Player and has announced his retirement from International Cricket.
Assam has become the first Indian state to adopt Online Flood Reporting System. The Chief Secretary of Assam, Jishnu Barua launched the real-time digital Flood Reporting and Information Management System (FRIMS), which is developed by Assam State Disaster Management Agency (ASDMA) and UNICEF.
Folk Dance Forms of Assam: Bihu dance, Bagurumba, Bhortal Dance, Jhumur dance
Bajaj Finance has received approval from RBI to perform Prepaid Payment Business. RBI has given approval to Bajaj Finance for the issuance and operation of semi-closed Prepaid Payment Instruments with perpetual validity.
HQ of Bajaj Finance: Pune
Important Days and Themes:12th May 2021: International Nurses Day
Theme for 2021: 'Nurses: A Voice to Lead- A Vision for Future Healthcare'
Books and Authors: Title of Book: Life in the Clock Tower Valley
Author: Shakoor Rather
Awards and Recognition: Dr Tahera Qutbuddin: She is the 1st Indian to win the 15th Sheikh Zayed Book Award which is considered to be the Arab World Nobel Prize. She is a Professor of Arabic Literature at the University of Chicago. She has won the award for her book titled 'Arabic Oration-Art and Function'.
Anupam Kher: He has won the Best Actor Award for his performance in a short film named 'Happy Birthday' at New York City International Film Festival. The film also won the 'Best Short Film Award' at the event.
IIT Madras partnered with MPFI
DOGE-1 Mission to the Moon
Federal Bank collaborated with UAE's Mashreq Bank
Navies of India & Indonesia Conducted 'PASSEX'
Appointments on 12th May 2021
Q.1 When is International Nurses Day marked?
a. 19th May
b. 24th June
c. 12th May
d. 3rd June
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GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- The Palestinian People's Party said in a statement Saturday that it opposes Hamas' attempts to change the penal code in the Gaza Strip.
Citing comments from the secretary of the Palestinian Legislative Council in Gaza and the chief of the council's legal committee, the PPP said that Hamas-affiliated lawyers were preparing to replace the 1936 penal code with a new one.
"Hamas and its parliamentarian bloc do not have the right to pass such a law in the name of the Palestinian parliament," the PPP statement said, adding that changing the penal code in Gaza would further divide Fatah and Hamas.