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Author : Jordan B. Peterson
Political Correctness Gone Mad written by Jordan B. Peterson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11 with categories.
Author : Rudyard Griffiths
Publisher: House of Anansi
Political Correctness written by Rudyard Griffiths and has been published by House of Anansi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-06 with Political Science categories.
The twenty-second Munk Debate pits acclaimed journalist, professor, and ordained minister Michael Eric Dyson and New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg against renowned actor and writer Stephen Fry and University of Toronto professor and author Jordan Peterson to debate the implications of political correctness and freedom of speech. Is political correctness an enemy of free speech, open debate, and the free exchange of ideas? Or, by confronting head-on the dominant power relationships and social norms that exclude marginalized groups are we creating a more equitable and just society? For some the argument is clear. Political correctness is stifling the free and open debate that fuels our democracy. It is also needlessly dividing one group from another and promoting social conflict. Others insist that creating public spaces and norms that give voice to previously marginalized groups broadens the scope of free speech. The drive towards inclusion over exclusion is essential to creating healthy, diverse societies in an era of rapid social change.
Author : Michael Eric Dyson
Publisher: Munk Debates
Political Correctness written by Michael Eric Dyson and has been published by Munk Debates this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-02 with Philosophy categories.
"You're telling me I'm being sensitive, and students looking for safe spaces that they're being hypersensitive. If you're white, this country is one giant safe space." -- Michael Eric Dyson Is political correctness an enemy of free speech, open debate, and the free exchange of ideas? Or, by confronting head-on the dominant power relationships and social norms that exclude marginalized groups are we creating a more equitable and just society? For some the argument is clear. Political correctness is stifling the free and open debate that fuels our democracy. It is also needlessly dividing one group from another and promoting social conflict. Others insist that creating public spaces and norms that give voice to previously marginalized groups broadens the scope of free speech. The drive towards inclusion over exclusion is essential to creating healthy, diverse societies in an era of rapid social change. The twenty-second semi-annual Munk Debate, held on May 18, 2018, pits acclaimed journalist, professor, and ordained minister Michael Eric Dyson and New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg against renowned actor and writer Stephen Fry and University of Toronto professor and author Jordan Peterson to debate the implications of political correctness and freedom of speech.
Media And The Politics Of Offence
Author : Anne Graefer
Media And The Politics Of Offence written by Anne Graefer and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-03 with Social Science categories.
This book explores different forms of mediated offence in the context of Trump's America, Brexit Britain, and the rise of far-right movements across the globe. In this political landscape, the so-called 'right to offend' is often seen as a legitimate weapon against a 'political correctness gone mad' that stifles 'free speech'. Against the backdrop of these current developments, this book aims to generate a productive dialogue among scholars working in a variety of intellectual disciplines, geographical locations and methodological traditions. The contributors share a concern about the complex and ambiguous nature of offence as well as about the different ways in which this so-called 'negative affect' comes to matter in our everyday and socio-political lives. Through a series of instructive case studies of recent media provocations, the authors illustrate how being offended is more than an individual feeling and is, instead, closely tied to political structures and power relations.
Political Correctness And Higher Education
Author : John Lea
Political Correctness And Higher Education written by John Lea and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Education categories.
How many times have you heard the phrase: `it's all political correctness gone mad!' Do you ever wonder whether colleges and universities are really awash with trivial concerns about the use of language or whether they are actually trying to address serious concerns about discrimination and harassment? Have you ever wanted to get to the bottom of what all the fuss is about? This book is the first major study of political correctness in post compulsory education to be published in the UK. For readers in the UK unfamiliar with the nature of the controversies in US college campuses this book offers a comprehensive assessment of the key themes, including who and what was behind key campaigns. For readers in the US unfamiliar with how this cultural export has faired in the UK this book looks at the significant similarities and differences in the ways that the phrase has been used in both societies. Apart from addressing the roots of political correctness the book seeks to show how the phrase has helped to complicate the traditional boundaries between those on the political Left and those on the political Right. The book also demonstrates in clear terms how the phrase is integral to understanding key themes in cultural theory, such as postmodernism and identity politics. This book is intended to be of interest to a number of readers: Teachers working in colleges and universities; Teacher educators and student teachers working on programmes of initial teacher education; Students studying undergraduate programmes in comparative politics and/or sociology and cultural studies Finally, the book will seek to capture the reflections of prominent academics and educationalists bon both sides of the Atlantic, who have worked in environments where the phrase has impinged on aspects of their work over the last twenty five years. If you think that `political correctness' simply amounts to what jokes you are allowed to tell in a classroom, hopefully this book will challenge you to think again.
The Genesis Of Political Correctness
Author : Michael William
The Genesis Of Political Correctness written by Michael William and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-25 with categories.
'The contempt for ordinary people and for patriotism that the politically correct have is unconcealed. They have successfully infiltrated ... public institutions from where they can enforce their creed on everyone else. Importantly, they further get access to public monies ... the consequences are far reaching.'In the West, political correctness is the ascendant ideology since the rise of the so-called New Left in the 1960s. It has infiltrated the public sector and its devotees have gained access to legislative powers of enforcement and, importantly, public monies.Dissent is not tolerated. Dissenters, even children, are persecuted. Minorities are deemed victims and as being oppressed, while the majority are deemed the oppressors. A hatred of the West is aggressively promoted. Terrorism is excused.Free Speech is not allowed. Only politically correct views are tolerated. The media present propaganda instead of the truth.Human Rights are corrupted into being a vehicle for political correctness with lots of fees for its advocates.Sex attacks on women and even children by immigrants are covered up, if not tolerated.Democracy is undermined as bureaucrats and international organizations highjack the powers of the nation state. The interests and opinions of ordinary people are ignored.Economies are plundered. High taxes are imposed. In Europe, the interests of the EU take priority over national prosperity. The 'chauvinism of prosperity' is condemned.Race War Politics is aggressively promoted. White people are deemed racist, unless they advocate political correctness, and a repopulation policy of mass immigration is enforced against the express wishes and interests of the host nation.The zealotry and conflict political correctness brings is the product of its communist heritage, going as far back as the Communist Manifesto of 1848. It has been rightly described as 'cultural Marxism'.'Like vampires, communists lurk in dark places away from the sunlight of public awareness. For them to succeed, it is important that their activities are not recognised until it is too late. So they crawl about various government, charity, and other public organizations, feeding off ordinary peoples' monies.'
The Politically Correct Bible
Author : Robert M. Price
Publisher: eBookIt.com
The Politically Correct Bible written by Robert M. Price and has been published by eBookIt.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-14 with Bibles categories.
Liberal Protestants have produced a whole raft of "inclusive language" Bibles. But these scriptures don't come near to making the Bible acceptable to the leftist sensibilities of Liberal Christians. What would the Bible have to be like if it were to suit Liberals? How drastically would it have to be rewritten? And how ridiculous would the result look? Maybe like this.


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Lufthansa now also on the Apple Watch
New app for the Apple Watch – personalized flight information and boarding passes available to passengers on their wrist watch.
Use your watch as a boarding card and have your essential flight information displayed on your wrist – Lufthansa is now offering this innovation to its guests with an app developed especially for the new Apple Watch. It serves as an ideal travel companion, providing passengers with all their essential flight information, which they can access from 24 hours before their flight during the various stages of their journey with Lufthansa. The new app on the Apple Watch connects to the conventional Lufthansa app on iPhones and iPads via Bluetooth. Following the sales launch, it can now be downloaded for free from the App Store at any time. Jens Bischof, member of the Lufthansa German Airlines Board Product, Marketing & Sales and Chief Commercial Officer says: "The importance of mobile applications is continuing to grow rapidly. As a leading airline, we want to continuously expand our prime position – not just on board our flights and on the ground, but also in the area of mobile applications and digital services. Our goal is to provide our customers with information and services in real time at all virtual touch points, thereby further to make their travel experience more comfortable. With this new app, our passengers will always be able to see the most important details about their flight – without having to take their smartphone out of their bag." The new Apple Watch app uses technology that integrates all the flight-related data and displays it clearly for the user to see. It reminds passengers of their flight the day before their departure, provides continuous updates about the status of the flight and displays the boarding time, terminal, gate and seat number. Just like a timer, it enables passengers to see – down to the very minute – how long is left until their scheduled boarding time. The graphics have been designed especially for the display on the Apple Watch. These functions will initially only be available to Miles & More participants who are logged in to the Lufthansa app for iPhones or iPads. For passengers who do not have a Miles & More card, these functions will be available at a later date. All passengers will also be able to display boarding cards saved in Passbook on their Apple Watch and use it for boarding. In addition, the watch will tell passengers what the current weather is at their destination. As with the existing apps, a large number of Lufthansa customers were asked for their ideas and opinions for the development of this new service. The 'app age' began at Lufthansa back in 2009 with a range of different applications for all the main operating systems. Since then, Lufthansa's apps have received numerous awards. Lufthansa was also the first airline to develop and launch the mobile boarding card, which has enabled paper-free boarding since 2008. Today, more than 50 per cent of Lufthansa passengers check in with an online or mobile boarding card. Notes for editor: Images of the new Lufthansa app are available at the following link in the Lufthansa mediabase. Deutsche Lufthansa AG Media Relations Lufthansa Group

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Journalist; Prime Minister of New Zealand
John Ballance was a native Ulsterman who emigrated in his twenties to New Zealand where he eventually became successful in the newspaper world and even more successful in politics, serving two years as Prime Minister in which office he was both popular and widely respected.
Ballance was born at Ballypitmave, near Glenavy in County Antrim, to a tenant farmer father, Samuel Ballance, an Anglican (Church of Ireland, the established church) described as having "evangelical tendencies" and a mother from a Quaker background. He was educated at the local national school and at a small private school in Belfast, Wilson's Academy. His father was active politically, so that John was exposed to politics at an early age, and took an interest himself, even to the point of helping write his father's speeches, but whereas Samuel was a conservative, John would later display far more his mother's liberal sympathies. As eldest son he could have inherited the family farm but instead he moved to Belfast where he was apprenticed in an ironmongery firm and in 1857 he moved to Birmingham, England, where he was able to hear such notables as John Bright, the Liberal MP and prominent Quaker; Michael Faraday, the famous scientist; and Joseph Chamberlain, the prominent Liberal politician and statesman. He also met Fanny Taylor, whom he married in 1863.
Ballance worked as a travelling salesman but also attended evening classes at the Birmingham and Midland Institute (a pioneer establishment of adult scientific and technical education one of whose Presidents was Charles Dickens, and which displays a blue plaque to a famous student), studying politics, biography and history. His wife did not enjoy good health and partly for this reason they decided to emigrate to New Zealand: she had a brother resident there, at Wanganui, on North Island (around 100 miles along the coast from Wellington).
At first Ballance made his living as a jewellery salesman on Taupo Quay, but he evinced neither inclination nor, seemingly, aptitude for this and soon switched to the world of journalism, in 1867 setting up the Evening Herald in partnership with a local printer. This enterprise suited Ballance far better and he managed and edited the Herald (renamed the Wanganui Herald in 1876) and its weekly edition, the Weekly Herald (later the Yeoman) with no little success. (A possible historical family echo might be seen in the title Yeoman, as Ballance's paternal grandfather had been a yeoman – essentially a pro-government militiaman - in the 1798 rebellion in Ireland.) He also experienced bereavement as his wife deceased in March 1868 at the age of just 24.
This was the time of what were then called the Maori Wars. Ballance's attitude in this regard might seem ambiguous, as he and his newspaper were opposed to compulsory military service – Ballance was issued with a call-up notice which he refused, being sentenced to a night in custody – though he raised a unit of cavalry with which he fought seemingly with valour during the "Second Maori War" and was without doubt behind the penning of scathing editorials regarding the performance of government forces against the indigenous/Maori population.
The latent politician in Ballance came to the surface in the 1870s. In 1872 he applied to stand in a parliamentary by-election for the seat of Egmont, but withdrew before the vote. In 1875 he was elected for Rangitikei, on a ticket of abolition of the provincial system and in favour of state education. He increased his majority at the general election of 1876. At first he attached himself to the government of Conservative Prime Minister Atkinson but soon switched to the Liberal George Grey's government in which he served initially as Commissioner of Customs, Commissioner of Stamp Duties and Minister of Education, then from January 1878 as Colonial Treasurer, that is, Minister of Finance, a post of considerable importance for a comparatively youthful politician. In this office he introduced some tariff reforms and a land tax, but he resigned in 1879. Absent from the legislature for several years, he produced publications outlining his views on land nationalisation and "free thought" (he was a keen secularist).
Back in parliament from 1884 (he was returned for Wanganui by a large majority) he was minister responsible for lands and immigration, native affairs, and defence portfolios. He sought with some success to reconcile the conflicting aspirations of New Zealanders of European origin ("Pākehā" in Maori) and the indigenous Maori people: on the one hand he had a reasonably enlightened policy attempting to protect Maori land from private sale and he reduced the numbers of armed constabulary in sensitive areas hoping to alleviate tension between Maori and European populations. He also visited Maori throughout the North Island and made an effort to acquire some proficiency in their language. However, he failed to reverse his predecessor's policy of reducing expenditure on native affairs, and his Native Land Administration Act 1886 did little to restore to the Maori their desired control over lands.
In 1889 he was leader of the opposition and in 1891 became Prime Minister. He proved a tough premier who knew his own mind, though initially he was frustrated by the Legislative Council, or upper house of parliament, which had been to an extent packed by his predecessor. However, Ballance's premiership saw definite steps in the direction of the primacy of ministers over the upper house. He also took an interest in female suffrage, perhaps influenced by his second wife, Ellen, who amongst other things was Vice-President of the Women's Progressive Society.
Ballance died in office on 27 April 1893, was given a state funeral and buried at Wanganui three days later. His birthplace, at modern-day 118a Lisburn Road, Glenavy, Co. Antrim, has been restored by the Ulster New Zealand (UNZ) Trust. The Trust was presented on February 18, 2014 with a Maori dictionary which had been used by Ballance.
Born: 27 March 1839
Richard Froggatt
Acknowledgements:
Professor Sir Peter Froggatt
Te Ara Dictionary of New Zealand Biography; Dictionary of Irish Biography; www.newzealandwars.co.nz; www.ballance.utvinternet.com; News Letter, February 19, 2014
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Md. lawmakers make moves toward ensuring voting rights for incarcerated people
Hannah Cechini,
MARYLAND – Local lawmakers and voting rights activists are working to make sure that Maryland's formerly and currently incarcerated individuals can make their votes count. "Our elections should not leave any voter behind. Yet, we're having to introduce this bill because there is a particular population of eligible and incarcerated individuals that are shut out of voting," said Delegate Jheanelle Wilkins.
The Value My Vote Act has bipartisan support in Maryland's House and Senate. It would require the State Board of Elections to provide information about eligible inmates' rights as voters. It would also require election information and resources to be provided to inmates during election years. Bill advocates say during the 2020 general election, it was near impossible to ensure that incarcerated people who still had their right to vote could exercise that right. "We need to know how many of these individuals actually received these forms, how many were able to get them back in, how long is it taking for mail to go in and out of these facilities, and so forth," said Executive Director of Common Cause Maryland Joanne Antoine.
The bill would also require correctional facilities to give those being released a voter registration application and information on their right to vote. That's something that advocates say could set formerly incarcerated people for a brighter future by making sure their voices are heard. "When are we going to value, not only the voice of formerly incarcerated people, but when are we are going to value formerly incarcerated and incarcerated people period?" said founder of Life After Release Qiana Johnson.
Another part of this bill is simply raising awareness about voting rights. Del. Wilkins says there's a big misconception among the general public that once you're put behind bars, you lose your right to vote all together. But she says that's not the whole truth. "Many of them are pre-trial and awaiting their case, or are serving for a misdemeanor and have the right to vote. But they have limited access to be able to vote," said Del. Wilkins.
The ACLU of Maryland says this bill could also play an important part in elevating marginalized communities. "This is about ensuring the political power of black and brown people is protected. This is about ensuring that communities who experience elevated levels of policing are not silenced as a consequence of those policing efforts," said Public Policy Director Caylin Young.
47ABC did reach out to the State Board of Elections and Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services. They did not respond for comment. Thursday, the Senate's Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs and Judiciary Committees will hold a hearing on the bill at 11 a.m.
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Jokes…… not really a concept that DC understands most of the time. There are things that he finds funny when he is watching a movie or reading a book and physical comedy, of course is very funny to him – but to tell a joke and understand why it is funny is not always in his realm of understanding. He is very literal and jokes are oftentimes very abstract. Not to say that he does not spend a good part of his time laughing – he does. I rarely know what he is laughing at and he, for the most part can not explain just what is so funny. It is just the things that are going on in his head.
As I am sitting here listening to him laugh at a scene from "The Big Comfy Couch" on YouTube – the same scene over and over and over again – and I am reminded of a time that he not only surprised me but his teachers as well.
For the two years after "Graduation" DC attended a transition program through the school system at a local college.
I was visiting the school for a class event, one Friday afternoon and his teacher, "Mr. Disney" (as DC calls him) excitedly came over to me and asked "Did you help him with his jokes today?" Not knowing what he was talking about, I said "No, what jokes?" One of the IA's ("Para's" to some of you) chimed in to tell me that he had told 3 jokes for "Funny Friday" that morning.
Mr. Disney went on to tell me that every Friday is "Funny Friday" and all of the students tell their favorite jokes at the morning meeting.
I don't know how long (or if ever) it will take before anyone will understand that HE IS NOT GOING TO COME HOME AND TELL ME THESE THINGS! If someone else does not tell me, I am not going to know. If I had known about "Funny Friday" I would have helped him with some jokes, but unfortunately I was never told.
They proceeded to tell me the jokes he told that morning. He told them properly complete with a bow and…. they were actually funny – real jokes!
He told honest – to – goodness JOKES! After years of "Monster", he actually told, not one joke, but three and UNDERSTOOD why they were funny!
Later, I ran into the Interim Dean of Health Sciences, of the college who couldn't wait to tell me about the three jokes that DC shared that morning. Everyone was very impressed, to say the least!
Still I had no idea where he found these jokes.
About a week later, "Mr. Disney" finally got DC to tell him where he found his material.
After asking him all week, DC went to the computer, typed "Disney jokes" in the search engine and found a web-site full of Disney jokes.
He memorized them and had them ready for "Funny Friday"!
He was able to figure out on his own that "Monster" wasn't cutting it for "Funny Friday" and he needed better jokes. He went about finding them himself, remembered them and had them ready for Friday!
"Monster" ?? Still his favorite joke.


Hydraulic and Water Resources Engineering program aspires to be a centre of excellence in the field of Water Resources in Africa and competitive in the world by 2020.
Hydraulic and Water Resources Engineering program has a mission of offering relevant and quality education and training; conducting demand driven research and rendering accessible community services.
Student who have successfully completed the ten plus two (10+2) years preparatory and have passed the entrance exam could apply for admission to the Hydraulic and Water Resource Engineering department. Applicant will be admitted to the department on competitive basis after they join Institute of Technology based on their entrance exam results, interests and merit. No incentives are set for international students. International students satisfying the entry requirements will be admitted to the program if they can produce financial statement to support their study through various means. The Program will normally operate on a semester basis, sixteen weeks each semester, from September of one year through to June of the following year. Each year, a flexible academic calendar shall be prepared for the regular and other non-conventional programs (extension, in service, summer, etc...) by the Office of the Registrar, in consultation with the Academic Vice President and Deans of Institutes, and should be approved by the respective academic commissions and the senate.
The revised undergraduate B.Sc. study programme "Hydraulic and Water Resources Engineering" in total consists of 10 semesters or five years. The first semester is designed as students attend the common courses. The student in the period of the 2nd to the 7th semester is exposed to the so called "Basic Hydraulic and Water Resources Engineering Studies", in which the student shall gain all fundamental mathematical, basic Engineering as well as basic field specific skills and abilities being relevant for Hydraulic and Water Resources Engineers. At the end of the 7th semester a "Holistic Examination" is scheduled, in which the student shall proof his/her ability to address and solve more complex and practice relevant problems by combined application of a number of skills and abilities he has gained while attending the above mentioned Basic Hydraulic and Water Resources Engineering studies (2nd to 7th semester).
Upon successful pass of the holistic exam the student then enters the mandatory, full semester internship in the 8th semester.
Following the successful completion of the internship, the student will pursue one semester (semester 9) of so called "Project Studies", in which he/she shall gain advanced project related skills and abilities. The 10th and final semester is apart from some elective courses for specialization nearly exclusively dedicated to the elaboration of the B.Sc. thesis.
Students must take and pass all the required courses to satisfy the requirements for graduation. The total number of credits required for graduation with Bachelor of Science in Hydraulic and water Resources Engineering (B.Sc.) is 196Cr Hr. or a minimum of 300 ECTS and maximum of 310 ECTS.


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March 06, 2016: The Wall Street Journal: Mind & Matter: "Rigorous research shows that plants do indeed possess something resembling the defensive physiological response of humans. ... Now we have discovered that, in pursuit of their goals, plants can also count. ... Flytraps have rules: three or more hair deflections activate the genes that make dissolving enzymes; five or more activate nutrient uptake. ... So, flytraps have taken the first baby steps towards brains. ... The last shared common ancestor of animals and flytraps was some single-cell organism. Thus, incredibly, flytraps have independently evolved rudimentary nervous systems."
February 27, 2016: The Wall Street Journal: Frank Wilczek wrote an interesting article, titled "A Light Show of Thought", where he asks "Why is it so hard to accept, intuitively, that life and matter can emerge from matter?" He goes on to say that: "we have little or no immediate experience of how physical systems represent information."
And he adds: "Our brains store and manipulate information in patterns of electrical activation. Most neurobiologists accept that those patterns are the physical embodiment of mind". Now, could it be that plants, and in particular, trees, with their billions of chemical connections and reactions in their modular bodies may also have some form of consciousness?
March 29, 2016: The New York Times: Learning Curve: Plants Either Remember or Forget - According to Joanna Klein, in 2014 researchers at the Universe of Florence in Italy decided to see if they could train a plant to change behavior. They "chose Mimosa pudica (touch-me-not), which curls up in response to physical stimulation. Test plants in their pots were dropped onto foam from a height of about six inches to elicit the fliching response. After repeated exposure with no major harm, the plants no longer recoiled. Even after a month left alone, the plants "remembered" the falls weren't harmful and ignored them." But a review at the Australian National University last month suggested that the plants could be learning to forget, when it turns out that the threat does no harm. "Forgetting has a purpose: it allows the plants to save energy."
April 5, 2016: TechTimes.com: Danish scientists have recently anounced that they found a way to convert plants' biomass into fuel by applying "reverse photosynthesis". This is very exciting, due to the sheer volume of plants on Earth. Plants represent over 90% of all the planet's biomass and, being clean and renewable, this could mean a major step towards sustainable development. "There are many indications that bacteria and fungi actually reverse photosynthesis to access nutrients and sugar in plants."
April 19, 2016: Discovery News: Protecting the Environment by Eating Less Meat - Their recent article describes how studies show that if humans eat less meat this will mean less conversion of forests to croplands and that the area demand for agriculture would be drastically reduced. The researchers argue that human activities are responsible for reducing forests by 1/3 up to 50 percent. 2/3 is due to converting forests to pasture and 1/3 to coversion to croplands.
May 10, 2016: BBC News: State of the World's Plants - This is the title of a very interesting report just published by KEW - Royal Botanic Gardens, where they announce the first time a complete inventory of vascular plants have been compiled. There are about 391,000 vascular plants on Earth, and about 370,000 are angiosperms, or flowering plants. The study excludes algae, mosses, liverworts and hornworts. The scientists have dissected the data-bases of The International Plant Names Index, the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families and The Plant List in order to provide a broad vision and comprehensive assessment of the current state of world's plants. Here is the link for the full report:
https://stateoftheworldsplants.com/
May 17, 2016: The New York Times: Genetically Modified Crops Are Safe - According to a comprehensive new analysis by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, GMOs or genetically modified organisms are safe to eat and do not harm the environment. New techniques using genome-editing are blurring the distinction between genetic engineering and conventional plant breeding. A previous report, released in 2010, found that genetic engineering had provided environmental and economical benefits to farmers. The latest report has found no evidence that GMO crops had contributed to an increase of cancer, obesity, diabetes, kidney disease, autism, celiac disease or food allergies. It also says there is no safety reason to label such foods, though it may be justified for the consumers' right to know.
August 13, 2016: The Economist: Cheating Death.
Or, anti-senescence at work.This provocative article highlights a few ways that humans are playing God or Tithonus to be. Bio-renovation or upgrading tissues using stem cells or growing organs from scratch are such techniques being developed, still in its infancy, but that could very well be widely used in not a very distant future. It's long known that longetivity run in certain families, which suggests that particular varieties of genes seem to prolong life. Modern gene-editing might one day be used to extend life by tweaking DNA of some people. But the ethical implications are very serious. Who gets it first?
April 25, 2016: BBC NEWS: Rise in CO2 Has "Greened" Planet Earth - A new study was published in the journal Nature Climate Change by 32 authors from 24 institutions and 8 countries showing that after 33 years of record taking the planet got greener by 25% to 50% on Earth's vegetation covered lands. This is slowing the pace of climate change, as the plants are drawing more CO2 from the atmosphere. But the lead author, Prof. Ranga Myeni, from Boston University, still claims that the positives may be outweighed by the negatives. To say that fertilization will diminish overt time does not change the equation. The increased uptake of CO2 was not properly accounted for by the IPCC - the International Panel on Climate Change published some time ago. The projected CO2 levels were too high, now it is known, implying that the global temperatures projected were also too high.The main contributing factor to the additional improvement is that plants are using extra CO2 generated by humans to fertilize their own growth.


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La reserva de biosfera Bañados del Este, también conocida como reserva de biosfera Bañados del Este y Franja Costera, es un área protegida instituida por la UNESCO en el año 1976, situada en el centro-este de Sudamérica, específicamente en el oriente de Uruguay. Más del 90 % de la superficie de la reserva son tierras privadas.

Historia y características

Esta reserva de la biosfera fue reconocida por la Unesco en junio de 1976 como parte del Programa sobre el Hombre y la Biosfera (MaB) al ser una región geográfica representativa de diferentes hábitats del planeta y en la cual los recursos naturales son explotados bajo una forma que respeta el concepto de desarrollo sostenible. Cubre tanto ecosistemas terrestres como marítimos de la región este de Uruguay.

 Diseños del siglo XX

Originalmente contaba con 200 000 ha las que estaban encerradas en el departamento de Rocha. En el año 1997 fue ampliada notablemente, basándose en el concepto de cuenca hidrográfica. De este modo, se desarrollaba en los departamentos de Treinta y Tres y Rocha así como también en sectores de los de Cerro Largo, Lavalleja y Maldonado.

Hidrográficamente incluía arroyos de pendiente atlántica y otros correspondientes a la cuenca de la laguna Merín, desde la divisoria de aguas conformada por la cuchilla Grande. Su superficie total comprendía así unas 3 850 000 hectáreas. El límite oriental era la línea fronteriza entre Brasil y Uruguay; el límite austral era la isla de Lobos, frente a Punta del Este; el límite occidental era Illescas; finalmente, el límite norte era Aceguá.

En su interior se localizaban 32 localidades de más de 500 habitantes, siendo las más pobladas: Melo, Treinta y Tres, Rocha y Río Branco.

 Diseños del siglo XXI

Una nueva delimitación, aprobada en el año 2004, redujo la superficie a 1 250 000 ha, con una población humana de alrededor de 70 000 habitantes. Aún mantiene áreas en los departamentos nombrados salvo en el de Lavalleja. El 3,7 % del territorio protegido está constituido por espejos de lagunas mientras que el 4,2 % está cubierto por aguas oceánicas. Aún no se ha aprobado una zonificación interna formal, es decir, definir cuáles son las áreas núcleo, tampón y transición, de acuerdo a los criterios UNESCO – MAB.

Dentro de la misma se encuentra tanto campos privados como áreas protegidas por el estado uruguayo, en la forma de parques nacionales, paisajes protegidos y áreas protegidas con recursos manejados. Esta enorme área constituye más que una reserva, un laboratorio social, al mixturar la protección de la naturaleza con el desarrollo económico sustentable.

El sector de litoral marítimo posee varias áreas protegidas reunidas en el parque nacional de Islas Costeras, el cual es administrado por el Ministerio de Ganadería, Agricultura y Pesca de Uruguay a través de la Dirección General de Recursos Naturales Renovables y de la Dirección Nacional de Recursos Acuáticos. Otras áreas protegidas se encuentran bajo la órbita de Sistema Nacional de Áreas Protegidas de Uruguay (SNAP), por ejemplo la Quebrada de los Cuervos, parque nacional de reserva de fauna y flora de San Miguel, el Cerro Verde e islas de la Coronilla, el parque nacional Cabo Polonio, la laguna de Rocha, el área protegida Laguna Garzón, etc.

Aspectos geográficos
 Clima

El clima de la reserva es templado con tendencia subtropical. La temperatura media anual es de 16 °C. En razón de la proximidad del océano y su efecto morigerador, la amplitud térmica anual y diaria es moderada. Los acumulados anuales de precipitación se sitúan entre 1123 y 1293 mm, sin una clara preponderancia estacional.

 Geología

La reserva se localiza en el borde suroriental del escudo cristalino. Los cursos fluviales nacen en sierras y lomadas de baja altitud, relieves caracterizados por elevaciones que no superan los 250 msnm. Desembocan en la llanura costera de la laguna Merín, en una zona que sufrió procesos de hundimiento, lo que facilitó la acumulación de sedimentos, en el orden de miles de metros de profundidad. Más hacia el este el hundimiento fue mayor, concluyendo en una profunda fosa tectónica, la cual es denominada Fosa de la Laguna Merín.
Las transgresiones marinas determinaron alteraciones del borde litoral atlántico, donde en algunas zonas los cordones dunícolas han efectuado algunos avances.

 Edafología

La reserva presenta variadas formas del paisaje y suelo.
 Sierras. Las serranías, de los tipos cristalinas y gondwánicas, constituyen el 33 % del área total de la reserva, representando sus porciones de mayores altitudes. Presentan suelo rocoso desnudo o superficial y un uso mayormente pecuario, si bien ha avanzado sobre ellas la forestación comercial con especies exóticas.
 Colinas y valles. Cubren el 13 % de la superficie total de la reserva. Las colinas se posicionan entre las lomadas y las sierras, mientras que los valles se distribuyen de manera dispersa, siendo sus suelos de elevada fertilidad y muy profundos.
 Lomadas sedimentarias. Abarcan el 6 % de la reserva. Sus suaves ondulaciones se localizan entre las colinas y las llanuras altas.
 Lomadas y colinas gondwánicas. Representan el 4 % de la reserva. Sus suelos son los de mayor aptitud agrícola de la región.
 Llanuras altas y medias. Cubren el 14 % de la superficie de la reserva. Son terrenos planos pero no inundables, empleados en explotaciones pastoriles-arroceras.
 Llanuras bajas. Constituyen el 17 % del total del área protegida. Son zonas que se cubren de agua, ya sea de manera estacional o permanente. Las internas, las perilacunares y las que marginan a los ríos son las que más problemas hídricos poseen, sin embargo la mitad aproximadamente fueron canalizadas y destinadas al cultivo de arroz. Otras llanuras bajas poseen suelos mal drenados y se inundan por desbordes de cuerpos permanentes, siendo explotadas principalmente para pastoreo de ganado.
 Costa atlántica. El litoral marino ocupa el 13 % de la superficie total de la reserva; posee lomas, planicies costeras, dunas y playas de arena o rocas e islas costeras.

 Hidrografía

La reserva posee numerosos cursos fluviales marginados por selva en galería, destacando los ríos Olimar, Cebollatí, Tacuarí, San Luis y Yaguarón y los arroyos Yerbal Grande, Yerbal Chico, Yerbalito, Cañada Grande, Zapata, Sarandí, etc.

Paralelo al borde costero atlántico se localiza un rosario de grandes cuerpos lacunares, los cuales poseen elevada biodiversidad, son las lagunas litorales de José Ignacio, Garzón, Rocha y Castillos; algunas son de agua dulce y otras son salobres al estar conectadas con el mar.

Patrimonio biológico

Flora

La reserva posee un ecosistema dominante, dada la superficie que ocupa, que es la pradera, en la cual dominan las especies de ciclo estival. Además presenta numerosos tipos de comunidades hidrófilas y ecosistemas fisonómicamente caracterizados por árboles, como bosques psamófilos, palmares, bosques ribereños y bosques xerófilos, y por matorrales, como el serrano y el psamófilo.

Entre los ecosistemas más representativos se encuentra el palmar de butiá (Butia odorata), el cual cubre unas 70 000 ha.
Esta palmera está amenazada ya que sus ejemplares juveniles no soportan el pastoreo del ganado, por lo que la especie se ve impedida de realizar la indispensable sucesión de edades, observándose sólo ejemplares centenarios ya que la mayor parte de los palmares de la reserva está en manos de productores agropecuarios.

Fauna

Entre las especies faunísticas destacan algunos endemismos, por ejemplo el venado de campo de los Ajos (Ozotoceros bezoarticus uruguayensis).

Con respecto a las aves, mantiene buenas poblaciones de algunas especies en retroceso numérico como la monjita dominicana (Xolmis dominicanus) y el tordo amarillo o dragón (Xanthopsar flavus).

Buena parte de los bañados de Rocha son extensamente cultivados con arroz; si bien este agroecosistema es un ambiente artificial, es muy adecuado para la alimentación, nidificación y conservación de multitud de especies de aves acuáticas con abundancia de individuos, destacando los chorlos y playeros.

Véase también
 Anexo:Red Mundial de Reservas de la Biosfera
 Reserva de la biosfera transfronteriza

Referencias

Áreas protegidas de Uruguay
Costa de Rocha
Bañados

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Jake Loosararian bets on himself — and Gecko Robotics
By Jayne Gest on April 24, 2020
Pittsburgh Early-stage
Jake Loosararian spent three years bootstrapping Gecko Robotics after he built his first wall-climbing robot for inspecting industrial infrastructure. Then, in 2015, a large energy company wanted to acquire the startup he founded.
Although he only had $300 to his name, Loosararian turned down the offer. Instead, he accepted a chance to go through a three-month program at the prestigious startup accelerator Y Combinator in California.
"I poured my life savings into a company that wasn't successful yet, but showed a lot of great promise," he says. "I realized that I went through all this pain to get to a place where I could grow Gecko to a big company."
Loosararian still believed in the concept of mining physical data to predict when things will break. That's why he decided to bet big and go with YC.
Today, Gecko Robotics Inc. employs more than 100 people through three offices, operating its robots as a service for 80 customers that include household names like Exxon, Chevron and Duke Energy. The company also has raised $50 million in venture funding from contributors like Founders Fund and Drive Capital, and expects to double in size in 2020.
We spoke to the CEO about his experience with investors as he and his team build and scale the company.
How close were you taking the acquisition offer in 2013?
I definitely considered it, but after talking to my family and co-founder Troy Demmer, I stuck to the principles of why I started the company.
Kevin Hale, of Y Combinator, helped Troy and I see what the business could become. At the time, it wasn't serving a multihundred-billion-dollar industry. It was a lot smaller. That's the trademark of really good investors — they help entrepreneurs see what their business could be and not just poke holes in it. There are a lot of holes poked in most people's pitches, but very few investors can actually see potential.
Did working with the high-profile Y Combinator make a big difference in terms of connecting with investors?
It was a game changer. I would definitely recommend entrepreneurs go through that program. It's beneficial for so many reasons, including teaching you how to build a great business and exposing you to great seed investors.
One of the killers for startups is just how much time they spend on fundraising. Our seed fundraising took about two weeks. Our Series A took about five or six weeks and our Series B took about four weeks. It typically requires four to six months to raise rounds. We were able to accelerate that and get back to actually building the company really quickly.
How do you make sure you're working with the right investors?
In conversations that I had with different partners, I was asking, 'Can I connect with this person on a human level?' A lot of times, it's super transactional between entrepreneurs and investors, and that's not what I wanted. They're going to be on my team. I want a relationship and not a transaction.
You want to work with people who help generate great ideas and not just nod their heads at good ideas. I looked for contrarian ways of thinking about things. Founders Fund, Peter Thiel's fund, is known for their contrarian bets and ways of thinking.
With Drive Capital, the venture capital firm was founded by two Sequoia partners who decided to leave the Bay Area and start a venture fund in the middle of Ohio, which is not exactly the traditional way to create a venture fund. They did it and have raised, I think, over $1 billion in capital. It's impressive. It catches my attention when investors can be brave when they're asking their entrepreneurs to be brave.
What's your advice for other early stage companies?
I was fortunate to have amazing people around me who are extremely generous with their time to a very undeserving young entrepreneur.
You have to put yourself in a position to get that advice, and a lot of times that comes in the form of just asking. Don't be an a-hole about it. Being somebody that people want to help is important — the classic Dale Carnegie stuff because, again, people are people.
So, continue to ask questions to people who would be able to help provide perspective. They've been there before. And then ask them to give you names of three or four people that they think would be good in whatever area you're trying to learn. Really try to learn fast.
Speed is important, but also be good at filtering. It's good to get a lot of information, but if you just take what everyone says as truth and don't apply it to your situation with your own context, then you're not being entrepreneurial. You're not figuring things out for yourself. You're trying to copy and paste, and that's not what entrepreneurship is about.
What is your sense — understanding that everything is very fluid — of how the rest of the year will shape up for your company?
Now more than ever, our customers are looking for safe solutions that reduce the number of people on site. The industries that we serve, such as oil and gas, power and manufacturing, have been operating without normally scheduled maintenance turnarounds.
This means that, without solutions like what Gecko provides, we will start to see more and more accidents at these facilities. We have already begun to see a spike in incidents. This will begin to affect us all soon. Therefore, we expect an increase in demand starting toward the middle to end of Q2.


Just a sad situation all around. I hope the victims find some peace this long after the terribly brutal trauma this caused.
The story of Kim Fowley sexually abusing a young, intoxicated woman in a hotel room after a Runaways show is grim and horrifying. I would like to say it has knocked many readers into a stunned silence – but in these days, it instead seems to have ignited a firestorm. I personally need more time with the story to say all that I want to say. But I know that the Internet waits for no one (and is woefully unavailable where I am currently living!), so here are some of my current thoughts.


Antique black and white nautical chart of part of Indonesia, showing the Sunda Strait between Sumatra and Java. This chart was published in 1878 by the British Admiralty. Includes seven small inset map and also includes the city of Batavia, or Djakarta, now Jakarta. Very good antique condition, tightly rolled with some minor wear at edges. approx. 37.75 x 40 inches.
Antique uncolored chart of part of Papua New Guinea, specifically New Ireland, by Bellin, c. 1750. This map shows the south-western coast of New Ireland from Cape Saint George. At top are seven recognition profiles of nearby locations. Good condition with folds as issued and some minor foxing/spotting and toning. Approx. 8 x 12.5 inches to the neatline.
Set of two Antique Nautical Charts of Australia from 1888 by the British Admiralty, includes Flinders Island, Wilson Promontory, King Island, Refuge Cove, Barren Island and Farneaux Group. Together the two sheets show the navigational information for the areas near the Bass Strait. All measurements are in fathoms. All bearings are magnetic. East sheet is in Very good overall antique condition with minor spotting. West sheet is in very good condition with some discoloration at the center. Each sheet is approx. 38.5 x 26 inches.


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We are aiming to bring creative design into your pet's life. Our Astral blankets are individually block printed on soft flannel fabric. Pom Pom fringed and in a range of custom colours, the Astral blanket is the ideal retreat after a big day. Arriving to your door with a small surprise.
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Cerebral Palsy is a group of conditions that are characterized by chronic disorders of movement or postures. Cerebral Palsy (CP) varies in type, location and severity of impairment.
The condition of CP Patients from poor families is heart rendering. The parents are either ignorant about the implications of CP or even if they are aware, too poor to afford the treatment which involves visiting several hospitals and institutions because a hospital/institution may offer just one or two services. Most parents find this experience physically taxing and emotionally draining.
The financial burden adds to their stress and lack of any viable alternative compels many parents to give up, with devastating consequences for the child, who is then condemned to a life of neglect.
RCFC is among the few institutions in the country providing comprehensive multi-disciplinary care within a single campus.


Whether you're sending your children to elementary school or you're going back to college for an advanced degree, education at any level brings with it some enticing tax incentives, as well as plans for making the most of your finances when it comes to academia.
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Q: In clause query on Python (pymysql and mysql.connector) I want to use this query:
select x from y where z in ("a", "b", "c")

I have pymysql and mysql.connector for MySQL with Python.
This works with pymysql:
args = ["a", "b", "c"]
db = cur.execute('select x from y where z in %s',(tuple(args),))

But it doesn't work with mysql.connector. It gives me error like 'MySQLConverter' object has no attribute '_tuple_to_mysql'.
pymysql has a great solution, but I couldn't realize that on mysql.connector. Can you help me please?

A: how about
db = cur.execute('select x from y where z in (%s,%s,%s)',tuple(args))

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Home / Kemira announces change in R&D and Technology management
Kemira announces change in R&D and Technology management
HELSINKI, Oct. 14, 2010 (Press Release) -Kemira Oyj's Executive Vice President of R&D and Technology Johan Grön will leave the company and take up the position as the Chief Technology Officer of the Fluid and Motion Control group at the ITT Corporation in New York, US. ITT Corporation is a global US based high-technology engineering and manufacturing company with revenue of approximately USD 11 billion and a staff of around 40,000 people.
Johan Grön will continue his work at Kemira until the successor has been appointed or latest until February 2011. Johan Grön has worked as the EVP of R&D and Technology since 2008. Before that he was the Vice President of R&D in Kemira's Paper segment in 2005-2008.
"I want to thank Johan for the excellent co-operation and his work for developing Kemira's R&D function. Johan has had a very important role in making Kemira into one of the leading water chemistry companies and building the Center of Water Efficiency Excellence together with VTT. On behalf of Kemira I would like to wish Johan great success in his new position ", says Kemira's President and CEO Harri Kerminen.
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If a file is in the same input format and field layout as a file that you have previously loaded into matchIT, you don't have to go through the Setup Wizard again. The field layout is stored in the Main File that you used previously and the Input Options specify the Input Format and what processing you want to do on Import.
To import a file into matchIT without using the Setup Wizard, first open the Main File that you used previously, or create a copy of this file's layout by using the Copy Main File Layout option from the Tools menu. Next, select Import Records from the Import menu. matchIT then prompts you to Restore Standard Parameters or change the Input Options if necessary (via the Change Basic Parameters button) e.g. if the last file you Imported was Comma Delimited but this file is Fixed Width, or if you want to postcode or proper case this file and the last file wasn't.
If you want to dedupe the file at a different matching level from the last file you deduped e.g. Individual last time but Family level this time, select Restore Standard Parameters and select the appropriate matching level – do this before you change options via the Change Basic Parameters button. This restores not only the matching level (in Matching Options) but also the matching weights (and the default match keys). Finally, select the input file (the source file) that you want to load into matchIT.
If there are records in the Main File from a previous run, matchIT wipes the file clean before it loads in the new data.


In honor of today's passing of novelist Harper Lee ("To Kill A Mockingbird"), I'm posting a recent review I wrote of her second novel, the much-debated Mockingbird sequel "Go Set A Watchman."
If you've cherished To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee's Go Set A Watchman will probably be a curious, challenging, and possibly unsatisfying experience. Mockingbird, both the book and the film, has, of course, claimed such an iconic niche in the public psyche that this related volume is at an immediate disadvantage. Yet Watchman also surprises with its own course and, I found, lingered in my mind long after I completed it.
At first Watchman seems to meander with its story line, perhaps like small-town life in the heat of summer. The protagonist, Jean Louise, returns to Maycomb Junction, Georgia, her hometown, for an annual visit to her beloved father, Atticus, who has aged considerably since he first appeared in Mockingbird as the single father of two young children. Soon enough Maycomb's cast of characters appears, each of study of tradition, ritual, and quirkiness. There's an early suggestion that race relations will dominate this story, but the start of the incident seems much-delayed. In the meantime, the flashbacks of childhood reminiscences sometimes seem almost irrelevant. Jean Louise's close relationship with her older brother and her flirtation with her childhood friend and perhaps future husband set the scene further.
Once Jean Louise is exposed to the reality of how her family, especially her father, experiences and accommodates the questions of race, she is thrown into a tailspin. What surprises and troubles the story is the turn from attitudes about race to a young woman's coming of age. How does she live with an idyllic childhood and romanticized relationships and how does she set herself free to find her own way as an adult? The turnabout is intriguing, but Jean Louise's conclusions about race in 1950s South seem unresolved. The author does present the question of how much understanding and patience are required for something as complicated as a way of life tied to racial disparities and, frequently, outright racism.
Although Watchman might have been better told with greater focus and story development, it is an intriguing story that is ultimately as nuanced and complicated as Southern racial traditions and way of life.


A "mandatory minimum" of 96 hours in the county jail to a maximum sentence of one year.
Note: The judge can impose some additional penalties on a third time DUI in California such as attendance at AA meetings or alcohol treatment program, community service, or attendance at a victim "impact" meeting.
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The Crowdfunding Scene in India : Still a Long Way to Go.
India first woke up to the potential of Crowdfunding, with the huge success of the super-hit Kannada language film, "Lucia". Made by a struggling filmmaker called Pawan Kumar, using innovative crowdfunding techniques on Facebook and Twitter, Lucia made hefty profits, making $550,000 in the box office, surpassing by far the $100,000 spent on it. But, more than the excellent box office collections, and the prestigious awards won by its filmmakers, Lucia will always be remembered for being India's very first online Crowdfunding success.
Crowdfunding has always been a part of India's rich heritage. It may be argued that every major temple built in India over the past two thousand years has been financed through money contributed by scores of devotees. Every mass based, popular festival or event in India, is made possible only because of financial support from the local people – businessmen, shopkeepers, housewives, factory workers and so on. What is different about the new Crowdfunding wave is that the process has gone online – to social media (Facebook, Twitter), or through several new Crowdfunding websites, such as Wishberry.in, Catapooolt.com, Start51.com, Fundlined, and a half a dozen more, many of whom are members of the new National Crowdfunding Association of India.


Jason works as an Engineering Supervisor at J.C. Blair, and was involved with building the heart catheterization lab in 2017. Little did he know that he would be the first patient. Click the video and learn more about Jason's story and our heart catheterization lab that has now performed oave 1000 procedures.
A heart or cardiac catheterization is a minimally invasive, outpatient procedure that allows a cardiologist to effectively diagnose, and often treat, heart problems in patients who are suspected of having a blockage or other issues witin the arteries.
The cardiologist will insert a plastic tube called an introducer sheath into the left or right groin (femoral artery) or the left or right wrist. A guidewire and a catheter are gently inserted through the sheath then threaded through the arteries to the heart while the doctor watches on the imaging monitor. Blood vessels have no pain nerves so you won't feel them moving through the artery. Catheters and wires will be removed and replaced several times to reach each coronary artery. X-ray dye will be injected through the catheter into the coronary arteries and x-ray images will be taken. You may feel a warm sensation when the dye circulates through your body. Several images (angiograms) are taken of each artery. the angiograms will show the amount of narrowing in the artery and the exact location. Also, pressures within the heart chambers will be measured. You may be asked to "take a deep breath and hold it." You may also be asked to turn your head from side to side.
In most cases the doctor will review the angiograms then discuss the results with you and your family soon after the procedure is completed.
Includes: Coronary stents, peripheral angiograms, vascular angioplasty and stents, pacemaker, and defibrillation implantation.
A congestive heart failure clinic and a pacemaker/impantable cardioverter defibrillator clinic is also a part of the new J.C. Blair Cardiac Care Center.
To contact J.C. Blair's Cardiac Care Center, call 814.643.8478.
On Friday, January 6, 2017, the construction crew from Alexander Building Construction Company began preparations for building the new heart catheterization lab. The contractor, along with JPT Architects and J.C. Blair staff members met to discuss the project which included a new and expanded endoscopy suite as well as a new cath lab. The cath lab was built out of the current endo suite and OR #4, while the endo suite was built in existing office and storage space off the corridor near the single elevator. The endo suite was temporarily moved to OR #3 until the end of March, when the new endo suite opened. The cath lab was completed in May, with our first patient, Jason McClure requiring an emergency catheterization on May 31, 2017.
A Ribbon Cutting and Tours were held on May 30, 2017 from 4 - 6 pm, with J.C. Blair cardiologists, cardiac cath staff, board members and administration cutting the ribbon to officially open the cath lab the next day.
Led by Cardiac Care Center Medical Director Hany Shanoudy, M.D., and Cath Lab Medical Director Michael Sabatini, M.D., J.C Blair's team of cardiologists includes board certified, specialized cardiologists. To learn more go to our physician directory.


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Q: Why is my while loop not iterating through completely? So this is my code below, the goal is for this program is to check to see if the letters of the second string can be found in the first string. However I found the problem that i isn't, increasing in value. So the loop is only going through once. So this program ends at the first letter that it finds and returns true. How do I get i to increase so that it's iterating through every character of the string?
function mutation(arr) {
  var str = arr[1];
  str = str.toLowerCase().split("");
  var i = 0;
  while (i < arr.length) {
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      //return  arr[i].indexOf(str[i], i);
      return true;
    } else {
      return false;
    }
    i++;
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function mutation(arr) {
  var str = arr[1];
  str = str.toLowerCase().split("");
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  for (var i=0; i < str.length; i++) {
    // if the letter was not found exit immediately
    if (arr[0].indexOf(str[i]) == -1) return false;
  }
  // since it didn't exit before, all the letters must have been found.
  return true;
}

A: function mutation(arr) {
  var base = arr[0],
      str = arr[1].toLowerCase().split(''),
      i = 0,
      match = true;
  while (i < str.length) {
    // if any target letter is not in base, return false
    if(base.indexOf(str[i]) === -1){
        return false;
    }
  }
  // otherwise they were all in, so return true
  return true;
}
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A: Totally different technique.
This function replaces, in the second string, all letters from the first string with empty space.  If the length is zero all letters were found.
function mutation(arr) {
  return arr[1].replace(new RegExp("[" + arr[0] + "]", "g"), "").length == 0;
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Anti-smoking campaigners today denounced plans by the pub industry to ban smoking at the bar in more than a third of UK pubs and bars as "utterly inadequate".
The pressure group Ash (Action on Smoking and Health) claimed the move by five of the UK's leading pub companies was merely an attempt to stave off legislation to ban smoking in the workplace.
The pub chains Enterprise Inns, Mitchells & Butlers, Punch Pub Company, Scottish & Newcastle Pub Enterprises and the Spirit Group, which together run around 22,000 outlets, today pledged to ban smoking at the bar by the end of next year and make 80% of pub space non-smoking within five years.
But Deborah Arnott, the director of Ash, said: "This is a last desperate throw of the dice by the biggest players in the pub trade.
"They spin their plans as a smoke-free initiative, but they are nothing of the kind. They will still leave their non-smoking customers gasping. They will fail to protect pub workers from the grim toll of death and disease caused by breathing in other people's smoke.
"Finally, this proposal would leave more than half the country's pubs unaffected. This utterly inadequate proposal won't provide even the flimsiest fig leaf to cover the government's shame if it now ducks the challenge of ending smoking in the workplace."
The five pub chains' new smoking policy also states a minimum of 50% of restaurant or dining areas within pubs should be non-smoking by December 2005 and that they will develop smoke-free venues where "appropriate and practical".
Rob Hayward, the chief executive of the British Beer & Pub Association, which announced the policy, said: "Pubs want to provide staff and customers with great work and social environments.
"Clearly, with the number of non-smokers on the increase, companies want to reflect that in the way they run their pubs. We want to see better choice for non-smokers.
"At the same time we believe in freedom of choice and a policy that will still allow smokers to enjoy a night out with their friends in the pub."
· There has been a huge drop in cigarette sales in Ireland since the introduction of the workplace smoking ban, it emerged today.
Smokers in the Republic are expected to buy 500 million fewer cigarettes this year if the decline continues in the wake of a ban in pubs and clubs, new figures showed today. The state's tobacco market shrank by 7.5% in the first six months of the year, according to the country's largest cigarette manufacturer, Gallaher.
If the trend of declining sales continues, tax returns from tobacco will fall by 81 million euros this year (£55m). The department of finance had only forecast a drop in tobacco tax income of around 70 million euros (£46m).


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New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Rudimental tease the British four-piece's third studio album 'Toast To Our Differences' with a new tune presenting a smooth, bubbling groove 'Scared Of Love' featuring Ray BLK and Stefflon Don. Bursting with classic house flavors, the track lands as a peak-time, feel good jam, elevated by Ray BLK's glistening vocal hooks and Stefflon Don's sharp, rapid-fire verses, spotlighting just how bold, diverse and expansive the Rudimental sound has become. Having already debuted three singles from the new album 'Toast To Our Differences' so far- smash hit UK #1 'These Days' ft. Jess Glynne, Macklemore & Dan Caplen, the biggest-selling record of 2018 in the UK, 'Let Me Live' (prod. with Major Lazer) ft. Anne Marie & Mr. Eazi and 'Walk Alone' ft. Tom Walker - 'Scared Of Love' sees Rudimental pair up with Ray BLK and Stefflon Don on a record for the first time.
Written as an emphatic celebration of difference and a coming together of cultures, styles and sounds, 'Toast To Our Differences' is the product of the band's past three years of work and boasts an extraordinary list of collaborators - see full track list below. Tom Walker turns in a stunning vocal on catchy, wholesome ballad, 'Walk Alone', emerging vocalists like Maleek Berry and RAYE come together on the sparkling '1x1' and rising singer-songwriter Dan Caplen shines on #1 smash, 'These Days', alongside Jess Glynne and Macklemore. 'Let Me Live' also features vocals from Ladysmith Black Mambazo, an incomparable x5 time GRAMMY-winning South African male choral group, and hotly-tipped soul singer, Yebba, who has been heavily co-signed by global stars like Ed Sheeran and Sam Smith. Tour de force rapper Stefflon Don and BBC Sound Poll winner Ray BLK make waves on the powerful 'Scared Of Love', Rita Ora excels on the sleek, shimmering 'Summer Love' and enigmatic rapper Kojey Radical and Kabaka Pyramid spar on 'No Pain', further showcasing the breadth and diversity of talent Rudimental showcase right across 'Toast To Our Differences'. Further features on the album include (in alphabetical order); Chronixx, Eli Ingram, Hak Baker, Maverick Sabre, OLIVIA, Protoje, Shungudzo, Kevin Garrett & Raphaella.
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Almost two years exactly since Prince Harry and Meghan Markle left their UK-based royal duties behind and high-tailed it to the sunny enclave of Montecito, California, the couple are reportedly looking to move. The couple's mansion, in which the family of four spent their first Christmas holidays all together just last month, was purchased for nearly $15 million in August 2020. But in spite of the sprawling grounds and 16 bathrooms (!), a source says the couple want to sell.
An insider, speaking with the Daily Mail, explained that the Sussexes want to raise their family in a house they're more fond of than their current one. But that doesn't necessarily mean leaving Montecito altogether, where they count Oprah and Kate Perry as neighbors. "They want to stay in the neighborhood or nearby, but they aren't over the moon about the house or the location," the source told the publication.
While the source didn't offer more insight into the reasons for the planned move, Harry and Meghan initially cited as a reason for going stateside the urge to create more privacy for their children. The news of their current home, their neighbors, and even Archie's school are all well-publicized at this point, so additional privacy may very well be a driving force behind the change.
Should the couple's mansion go on sale in the near future, it boasts some serious amenities. The Chateau of Riven Rock, as the estate was (somewhat pretentiously) named by its previous owner, businessman Sergey Grishin, comes with a tennis court, a swimming pool, a movie theater, a gym, a wine cellar, and a pub games room—in addition to a separate guest house.
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That all quickly fades away, when you wake up one morning to a winter wonderland. A view that immediately makes you want to go and explore.
My journey lead me to Bairds Creek Nature Preserve in Green Bay, WI. It is a 500 acre preserve. A stop that I had not ventured to explore in winter.
There is something relaxing and familiar to the sound your boots make when walking through fresh snow.
I carved the first path through the fresh snow this morning.
At one point, I stopped and just looked at the snow that was enveloping the world in a cozy comforter of bleached down. For a brief moment, I stood still; allowing my senses to acknowledge the beauty that surrounded me.
That was until two cross country skiers broke the silence. I stood and watched them ski off into the distance, only their tracks remained.
At some point, winter will end. Until then, I will stop complaining about the cold and look toward the beauty. For every season, there is a reason.
This large herd of deer in the winter wonderland also reminds me nature is amazing!
Nature has a way of reminding you to stop looking for the "bad" around you, and to start looking for the good that surrounds you. If you open your eyes to the good, it will find you you.


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Great Lakes Projects Get Funding Increases Under New LawA project that will boost Great Lakes shipping in a crucial bottleneck and another intended to protect the lakes from invasive carp will get big funding increases under the Biden administration's infrastructure package, officials said Thursday.
Michigan House Votes To Increase Funding For School Resource Officers After Oxford High School Shooting
By Sara Powers December 3, 2021 at 10:31 am
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LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan House passed a $368.5 million public safety and police funding plan Thursday for fiscal year 2021-2022, increased from its $80 million plan proposed in May.
One area that got more funding is school resource officers, who work either full-time or part-time in schools with the aim of ensuring students, teachers and staff's safety.
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The sponsor of the spending plan bill, Republican Rep. Mike Mueller issued a statement Thursday citing the Oxford High School shooting as the reason for the increase to $50 million in funding. Four students were killed Tuesday and several others were wounded in the shooting at the school in Oxford Township.
Lawmakers from both parties cited longtime underfunding of first responders, while Republicans cited a growing negative public opinion of law enforcement.
"Those who protect us are not necessarily given the honor and respect they deserve," Republican Rep. Bryan Posthumus said. "Our communities cannot thrive without the protection provided by law enforcement officers. Their steadfast commitment to the people of this state should be matched by the steadfast support of this state."
The plan passed with bipartisan support 97-3 and will now head to the state Senate for approval.
The spending plan includes over $80 million to recruit and retain officers with bonuses and marketing, including $57.5 million designated to entice out-of-state officers through "Move to Michigan" incentives.
New officers and first responders could be offered up to $5,000 in signing bonuses under the spending plan. Current officers and first responders could be offered up to $5,000 in retention bonuses.
Other funding includes $40 million from federal COVID-19 relief money to offer scholarships of up to $20,000 per recruit to attend police academy and up to $4,000 stipends to recruits while they're attending.
Other investments include funding for body camera programs and reimbursing officers who took time off to quarantine due to the pandemic, in an effort to bolster the recruitment of first responders and increase effectiveness.
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I got out to class last night. My first time at Uptown Dance Studio, which has the benefit of being close to me, but doesn't have the warmth that Esquina Tango does. Still. I needed to dance. I sat watching West Coast Swing, killing time before my class started, when I heard Gardel on the other side of the curtain. I don't even remember which song - I couldn't hear it that well (the huge dance floor is separated into "rooms" by curtains) - but it was Gardel.
I relaxed. I hadn't danced a single step and I was already feeling better.
Of course once we all got started in our beginner class with Monica, I was so relieved I'd made it out. I left feeling like I could cope with everything so much better. If I can dance, I can weather anything (in my case even the weather - more hail this morning!) Thank you to everyone who encouraged me to go. Tango keeps me in the moment, keeps me from always trying to think ahead, keeps me connected.


We can send gifts to Denmark for you here at Gifts International. All of the presents we offer can be sent straight to the recipient's door, and will arrive beautifully packaged, which is sure to impress.
Depending on the occasion, we have birthday, anniversary, and new baby gifts that might interest you. Or, you can handpick your presents from our wide ranges of spirit and wine gifts.
If you would like to go all out and spoil your friend, family member, or client, why not treat them to one of our hampers? We stock everything from chocolate to smoked salmon hampers, which gives you plenty of freedom to choose one that's perfect for the recipient.
Take the hassle out of treating your loved ones who are overseas by using our Denmark delivery service. All you have to do is choose a present and let us know which address you would like us to send it to. Then, we'll handle the rest. Send a gift to Denmark today.
Standard Denmark delivery starts at £19.99 and this will take up to 4 working days. Express delivery starts at £42.99 and takes up to 2 working days. You can track the delivery and your order will be insured.
Unfortunately, we're unable to send helium balloons to Denmark via express air delivery, but these can be shipped on a standard service, which is by road.
What can I send to Denmark?
Any of our gifts can be sent to Denmark — this includes everything from our international hampers to our fresh bouquets of flowers, which are delivered via a local florist. This gives you plenty of freedom to choose the right gifts for the job. You won't be charged any customs fees for your order.


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In conjunction with the Center for Public Integrity, USA Today published an in-depth look at auto product defects and car dealers' support of legislation to keep them from having to pay for those defects.
In the past five years, versions of auto dealers' copycat bill have been introduced in at least 11 states – California, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Virginia. So far only Tennessee and Pennsylvania have adopted them, but Massachusetts, Missouri, New Jersey and New York still have measures under consideration.
This story was produced as part of a collaboration between USA Today, the Arizona Republic and the Center for Public Integrity. More than 30 reporters across the country were involved in the two-year investigation, which identified copycat bills in every state. The team used a unique data-analysis engine built on hundreds of cloud computers to compare millions of words of legislation provided by LegiScan.
Founded in 1989 by veteran journalist Charles Lewis, the Center for Public Integrity is one of the oldest and largest nonprofit news organizations in the country. Its Pulitzer Prize-winning newsroom is composed of reporters, editors and data journalists who dig deep and deliver national and international investigative journalism of enduring significance.
This investigative piece looks at the efforts of car dealers to evade responsibility in selling defective vehicles, with copycat legislation in numerous states.
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Staying away from the family for studies, work or for certain personal reasons is always hard. To help families reunite, Australia have various kind of parent visa. The parent visa can be for a temporary or a permanent, depending upon the financial support sponsor can provide. Parent visas are one of high-demand visa and the Department is in the process to start a new visa for a short period without the need of huge financial bond of support from the sponsor.
your parents meet health and character requirements.


Myth: A pregnant woman should get rid of their cat.
WRONG! I've actually had a human doctor give this advice to a client of mine. This kind of advice drives me crazy. It shows a complete lack of understanding of the disease called Toxoplasmosis. Unfortunately, I have found out over the years that many human doctors have not had adequate training in Zoonotic diseases (those which are transmissible from animals to humans).
Toxoplasmosis is caused by a parasite which can be dangerous to a developing fetus in a human being. The most common way that a human is infected with Toxoplasmosis is through the consumption of rare or raw meat. Although it is true that a cat could potentially transmit Toxoplasmosis to a human, a whole series of specific events would have to occur that are actually quite rare.
Cats get a bad rap because they are the only species the Toxoplasmosis organism uses as an intermediate host. Usually what happens is the cat eats infected raw meat and the organism undergoes development within the cat and for a brief period (about 2 weeks). The organism can then be shed in the feces of the cat.
1) The woman would have to be in her first trimester.
2) The cat would have to be fed raw infected meat during this time.
3) The cat would then shed Toxoplasmosis for approximately 2 weeks of its entire life. Then they never shed the organism again (unless reinfected).
4) The woman would have to eat or ingest the infected cat's feces (possibly by cleaning the cat litter box).
So, you can see that you might have better odds of winning the lottery than having your developing baby get Toxoplasmosis from a cat.
What should a woman do if pregnant?
1) Do not consume rare or raw meats.
2) Don't feed your cat rare or raw meats.
3) Let someone else clean out the litter box during your first trimester.
4) Avoid gardening or wear gloves when gardening, in case cats have been defecating in the garden.
5) Relax, enjoy your pregnancy, and for heaven's sake~ don't get rid of your cat!