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December 14th Luncheon Speaker- Sandi Wright
Our speaker for our December 14th luncheon at Tiny's will be Sandi Wright. She will talk about how to write and illustrate successful children's storybooks.
Sandi is an award-winning children's book author, former president of the Santa Fe Opera Guild, co-founder of the nation's first camp for brain-damaged kids, a 30-year art instructor for public, private, and college institutions, and director of two art schools. She divides her time between writing, painting, and her art therapy practice.
She will also discuss marketing techniques for those attending who are not interested in writing books for kids.
Highlights of NMBA's Progress Serving Book Creators in the Land of Enchantment (Richard Polese)
Approaching the 25th Anniversary of NMBA, Richard Polese was asked to share our history and progress through the years at the November 9 Networking Luncheon. Richard served as President, then Executive Director during our first decade. He is now our Historian and keeper of archives.
Pouring though Libro Book News of those times, he discovered that many of our current programs and services began during the earliest years. As well, Barbara Beasley Murphy and Elaine Coleman held early NMBA Board offices (treasurer, secretary) and both continue to be active with NMBA today.
We started as the Rocky Mountain Book Publishers Association (RMBPA), a gathering of publishers in Northern New Mexico and up through Denver. Then came the respected Guadalajara Book Fair in 1994, with New Mexico chosen as its "Guest Country." They needed a solid "national" book nonprofit, so we gathered in Santa Fe and became the New Mexico Book Association. RMBPA continued as a partner and later became Publishers Association of the West (PubWest), now centered in Oregon.
Richard was surprised to find that our Second Friday Networking Luncheons began in April 1995, and continue to this day. Membership has been $50 annually from the start. Libro Book News first appeared in April 1995. Libro's first masthead sported our distinctive Zia Sun symbol, with unfolding book pages taking the place of sun rays. That very year we cosponsored the Border Book Festival in Mesilla and were in the aisle at the American Book Sellers Association Convention in Chicago. The ABA Convention later became BookExpo America. Your NMBA reps have been a bookselling presence in several national and regional shows since.
NMBA published three comprehensive editions of New Mexico's Book World from 1997 through 2006. They described publishers, booksellers, distributors, libraries, and printers, as well as editors and designers serving in our state. Did you know that writing and publishing have been a strong element in New Mexico's story for over four centuries? The first was Gaspar de Villagra's "Historia de la Nueva Mexico." It appeared in 1598 and remains in print today from UNM Press.
Our Book-in-Hand Honor was first presented in 1998 to the Collected Works Bookstore and staff. Richard Harris became NMBA President in 2000 and served for years. He is honored today in the Harris Award program that supplies standout Southwestern classics to deserving schools and libraries.
In 2002 NMBA helped Cadelora Versace produce Southwest Bookviews, a fine regional book review journal. That same year we landed at Tiny's Restaurant for the first time. We've gathered there for our popular monthly Networking Luncheons nearly every month since, thanks to the generous welcome by owner J. R. Palermo and his staff.
In 2004 Cinny Green and Maureen Burdock took the helm of Libro, we had a table at BookExpo again in Chicago, and our first FlashNews appeared in every NMBA member's inbox. That same year NMBA gained a large office and meeting space on Santa Fe's Second Street. We had many happy beginnings in those first years and most continue to serve to this day.
Richard will share the lively second half of our history at NMBA's Winter Fiesta in January.
OUR AUTHORS PITCH IN SELLING TO LIBRARIANS
By Richard Polese, Coordinator
TEN NMBA AUTHORS turned up to introduce their titles and yours to the state's librarians for three days as October leapt into November at the NMLA Annual Conference. Sales will be reported soon to members whose titles were seen and sold there at our tables in Albuquerque's Marriott Pyramid Hotel.
Janet and Erin Brennan, Patricia Brown, Jared Gann, David Froebel, Laurie McDonald, Larry Kemp, Roberta Parry, Barbara Jean Ruther, and Sandi Wright all came aboard — giving us a great presence during all three days. You see here most of us in this view of our place provided by Sandi. (Let me know if you were left out!)
Our location in the main hall was less than ideal, but we innovated to help draw library people to us as they went in and out of the conference sessions.
We learned that next year the annual gathering of New Mexico's librarians will move to the Albuquerque Hotel in Old Town. It will be joined there by the annual meeting of the widespread Mountains and Plains Library Association.
GET INVOLVED- NMBA IN SEARCH OF OFFICERS
Now is the time to get involved! The board is hard at work with the planning of not only regular annual events but also new opportunities. We're currently looking for members who would be interested in joining the board as Secretary or Treasurer. Let us know if you're interested. Contact Sandi Wright for details: (505) 473-3003, sandi@sandi-wright.com


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Sometimes a big focus during Advent and Christmas is what we're doing or how much we have.
And I think we all know there is something much more really going on.
But what is the deeper purpose in Christmas? And where do I fit in? What is my purpose? We need to allow ourselves to ask these questions. Who am I? Why am I here? These are good questions to ask.
When we think about the purpose of Christmas, it is so easy to complicate things and to forget that it actually all began with just a little baby in a simple manger.
In the same way, when we don't ask these big questions about our lives we tend to overcomplicate things and become distracted from our true purpose.
Tomorrow we'll hear from Joe, and how asking big questions has helped him discover his purpose in life.
Doing and having are natural, normal, and necessary aspects of our daily lives. Especially during Advent and Christmas, the challenge is to do and have in accord with our essential purpose. Until we discover our essential purpose, nothing makes sense, and our busyness leads us into lives of quiet desperation.
To go deeper into this topic, check out Part 1, Chapter 4 ("Too Busy Doing What?") and Chapter 5 ("Quiet Desperation") in Matthew Kelly's book The Rhythm of Life.
There is a meaning and purpose to your life.
Consider where you find meaning. How did you discover your purpose?
Jesus, help me to focus less on doing and having and more on who I am and who I am supposed to become.


The Uruguayan Executive Power (EP) announced that "funeral honors of Secretary of State" will be paid to former Minister of National Defense Jorge Menendez, who died Thursday at 68 years of age due to pancreatic and liver cancer.
Menéndez was forced to resign this month after it was revealed that the Army had omitted the statements of an ex-military offender during the dictatorship (1973-1985).
Before delivering his letter of resignation, on April 1, Menéndez was on medical leave due to his illness.
The law establishes that the funeral honors are for the death of incumbent ministers, president of the Supreme Court of Justice, member of legislative power, presidents, vice-presidents or citizens who have held these last two positions.
However, the EP ruled that the honors to Menéndez should also be carried out, particularly the provisions of article four of the regulations.
Said article establishes that the EP is responsible for the payment of burial expenses.
The information on the death of Menéndez was disseminated by the general secretary of the Socialist Party (PS), Gonzalo Civila, through a tweet.
"They inform us that our beloved compañero Jorge Menéndez died, he went fighting for democracy and against impunity, worthy and courageous, and in his memory we will not rest until there is truth and there is justice," says the message from Civila.
According to local media, Menéndez died in the same place where he was born, Durazno (center), where he remained in a residential hospital and will be veiled tomorrow morning when the burial takes place in the cemetery of the city.
Jorge Menéndez was born in Durazno, department he represented in the Chamber of Deputies during the period 2005-2010. In Parliament, he chaired the National Defense Commission and formed the Special Commission for Research, Science and Technology, both of the lower house.
In the first presidency of Tabaré Vázquez, was summoned in 2008 to occupy for a year the undersecretary of National Defense. In 2011, he returned to it, called by President José Mujica, and remained until 2016, when he became the portfolio's owner.


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Ascending the hallowed hilltop upon which Santa Fe Opera roosts is a treasured journey — even for the initiated. The massive parking lot is sprinkled with "tailgaters," their fold-out picnic tables draped in linen, wine bottles atilt in ice buckets. It's the first visual hint of a wonderful evening in store.
Outdoor "lobbies" that encircle the core theater provide high-quality people-watching.
On Saturday night, for obvious reasons, dandies mixed in the crowd, in florid fashion.
It was a major event, the world premiere, at Santa Fe Opera, of composer Thomas Morrison's "Oscar," with librettist and Wilde scholar John Cox contributing text.
The two-act work focuses on the social and psychological undoing of the great Irish-born poet, essayist and playwright Oscar Wilde.
"Oscar" tells of Wilde's conviction and devastating two-year imprisonment for "gross indecency," as it were, lewd conduct (yet another euphemism for homosexuality). Its creation is timely, as our nation, so late in the day, dismantles the vestiges of systemic discrimination against gay men and women.
The opera, unfortunately, eschews a real dramatic arc, and opts for an easier path, that of political correctness. Rather than infuse messy real life into this telling of a shameful chapter of cultural history — basically the train wreck that occurred when the gay culture had its 'outing' in sexually sublimated Victorian England — "Oscar" instead offers the dull beatification of Saint Oscar.
The witty and robust Wilde, who could dish it out as well as he could take it, is portrayed by countertenor David Daniels as a martyr, a discriminated minority, a full-blown victim in his own persecution. Stripped of native zeal or even the odd bon mot, for which he was notorious, Wilde is left to shuffle through a series of sad scenarios toward his doom. There is no rage; there is no outrage. I think this sells short not only Oscar Wilde, but the audience.
"Oscar" gets off to a very weak start in a prologue that depicts the writer unsuccessfully trying to check into a series of hotels. He's repeatedly refused lodging, accused of being a miscreant. (Swap victims, what if he were black? Jewish? … it's not a very original scenario.)
Why couldn't the opera, instead, draw on Wilde's reality, which is that he was at the height of his powers and his success, with "The Importance of Being Earnest" selling out in London's West End, when things went so wrong for him?
The audience could feel the heat of Wilde's public humiliation, his being yanked from a high perch, the extreme heinousness of this treatment befalling a member of the cultural elite.
Instead, we're left to fill in the blanks on our own as to what's at stake for the opera's lead character. A guiding force pops off and on the stage, a deus ex machina in the form of a visiting character, the poet Walt Whitman (the two men met and parried during Wilde's impressionable U.S. tour in 1882). The white-bearded Whitman acts as a kind of narrator to frame and contextualize.
Another choice in "Oscar"'s dramaturgy has Wilde's young lover, Lord Alfred Douglas ("Bosie"), presented not as a full-fledged character engaging with Oscar via opera, but as a phantasm, a (muted) dancer, Reed Luplau, twirling and twiddling 'round Daniels in Sean Curran's middle-brow choreography.
Neither device really worked for me, but … nice try?
"Oscar"'s second half exceeds its more prosaic first, which is set in the children's nursery of a Victorian home. As the swelling proceedings increasingly point toward Oscar's canonization, David Korins's set design matures, kicking in its own disturbing element, particularly the cast-iron and grey despair of the prison set-piece.
The opera's most effective scene is a minor one. The jailed Wilde, in collapse, dish with two fellow inmates and a guard in the prison infirmary — about books. That this simple exchange (book talk!) offers the evening its long stretch of real-time drama, as well as its greatest humanity and even information, is a problem for the opera.
I did not find Daniels, the ennobled recitalist, compelling as Wilde. As the evening bore on, a gap opened between images of Wilde garbed in marvelous eccentric clothes, peering, often searingly, with one eyebrow raised, into cameras, and Daniels's stolid presence. The unusual lead-role casting of a countertenor, while an interesting political choice (the high register forces the audience to grapple with something "different"), I found intrusive — and a barrier to identifying with the character.
Morrison's often lovely neo-romantic score, actually the point of the evening which I do not mean to give short shrift, was beautifully and energetically drawn out by conductor Evan Rogister.
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Rodney Punt Jul 31,2013 2:41 pm
Caroline Kennedy, your comment above is hilarious. If you are still in Santa Fe, drop me an e-mail. My wife Ruth and I could love to have a giggle at this incident in the nose-bleed section of the SFO. BTW, Debra's take on the opera is almost a mirror of my own review (or mine of hers). Here it is: http://www.laopus.com/2013/07/santa-fe-opera-premieres-oscar-missing.html
Cheers, Rodney
Caroline Kennedy Jul 29,2013 7:51 pm
At first our little group, which was so excited to be at the Santa Fe Opera house for the evening, thought perhaps the restraint of the sets and the costumes, and the lack of beautiful arias, pagentry, and Wilde's witticisms was intentional, even artistic perhaps. But once one of us had the nerve to say "I really don't like this at all," we all chimed in and ended up having a merry time pointing out just why we were all so disappointed. At some point during Act 1, there was a dull thud, and a few moments later a gurney came to fetch the ailing opera goer who had fallen over in the Standing Room Only section, apparently bored to death. That was the only drama for the evening, and we hope that poor person was revived so he/she can attend a much better opera in the future.

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Finally! A federal government understanding the reality of Islamic doctrine and practice…
It is about time. And Trump is going to get an earful from the Islamic-pandering and Islamo-ignorant media and other Muslim apologists who defend the indefensible.
General Michael Flynn was appointed to the position of National Security Advisor. He is the replacement for Susan Rice. Rice and James Clapper (synonymous with the Johnny Carson/Jack Webb "Copper Clapper Caper" routine) the now resigned Director of National Intelligence, both made a mockery of the relationship between Islamic Jihad, ISIS and Islam claiming that neither Jihad nor ISIS have anything to do with Islam. Ha ha ha ha ha – LOL, ROTFLOL.
While never a copper, Clapper foisted his pro-Islamic caper on the American people for way too long. Susan Rice was no better. Thank goodness clueless Clapper called it quits. And thank goodness we now have someone knowledgeable of and not beholden to Islam.
In fact, General Flynn is such a great appointment (happy days are here again!!!) that he is getting slandered by the ignorant, Muslim-pandering press.
Here are the contents of a page full of Google searches of "Michael Flynn on Islam":
Trump's National Security Adviser Has Called Islam 'a Cancer'
ABC News  - 2 hours ago
"I am pleased that Lieutenant General Michael Flynn will be by my side as we work to defeat radical Islamic terrorism, navigate geopolitical ...
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New York Times  - 18 hours ago
Trump's national security adviser is anti-Islam, open to torture, and wants to jail Hillary Clinton
Quartz  - 5 hours ago
Trump Picks Michael Flynn, Harsh Critic of Islam ... - New York Magazine
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9 hours ago - Michael T. Flynn — a man who has previously called Islam "a cancer" and declared that he is "at war" with the religion. The appointment was ...
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19 hours ago - Trump's choice of Flynn is unsurprising given the anti-Muslim aura that surrounded the president-elect during his campaign.
All these media smears of Flynn are good news. It means Trump's appointment for National Security Advisor "gets it" about Islam.
But just like the left's slander of Trump's choice of Steve Bannon, the media see fit to smear Flynn with labels of "extreme anti-Muslim", "anti-Islam extremist" and related derogatory terms. This is almost enough to cause one to believe that either the media has been infiltrated by a bunch of Muslims, or by a tribe of '60's drug-addled journalists trained by liberal professors who have themselves been brainwashed by Saudi-controlled Middle East Studies programs that whitewash Islam.
By the way, there is nothing "harsh" about telling the truth about Islam and then wanting to do something about it.
News sites without a "Comments" section…
…are like condescending professorial demigods
Bloomberg, the Washington Post, New York Times, and a number of other mostly liberal establishment news sites do not provide an opportunity for reader comments. I find this both frustrating and elitist – it is very paternal of them.
This one-way communication may be an old news reporting tradition, but it is outmoded and in many ways disingenuous. It presumes the reporter, the editor or the owner of the publication is totally unbiased which they most definitely are NOT.
A case in point, Bloomberg explaining the rise of "populism" in their leftist, biased way…
But it's [populism] also played a starring role in the rise of demagogues and therefore some of the ugliest episodes in human history.
Republican Donald Trump's electoral-college victory over Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton last week was an unprecedented triumph of populism in the U.S.—one that leveraged feelings of victimization by a shrinking white majority who blame lost opportunity on U.S. President Barack Obama, the political establishment, wealthier urbanites, and immigration.
Notice the juxtaposition between "…ugliest episodes in human history…" and the following paragraph about Trump's election. Notice use of the words "victimization by a shrinking white majority" and the innuendo of "racism."
This all deserves comment and rebuttal because those statement are loaded with bull crap. But no. Bloomberg doesn't allow reader comment because they want to be a little demigod, the "all knowing wise college professor." How dare we comment on their "final word."
I find myself increasingly ignoring even reading news articles, which are mostly biased propaganda pieces anyway, from news sites that do not provide for reader comments.
Isn't it a coincidence that the great majority of these news sites are "mainstream media" sites, also known as liberal, elitist, establishment and old school.
My greatest wish for these sites is that they wither and die. I'll help where I can.
All knowing mainstream media
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Government leeches in big cities and communist intellectuals in college towns give Clinton early lead…
8:00 pm election night:
This is depressing.
Mainstream America, where most of us are productive, hard working, honest, independent, and conservative occupy 90% of the land mass of the nation.
Look at the county electoral maps across the nation. It is dotted with blue spots comprised of liberal college towns and dense urban centers dominated by those who suck off the government whether by welfare recipients or by big business insiders.
That is what Donald Trump was up against and what gives Hillary Clinton the green light to destroy the rest of this nation.
How counties across the nation voted. Red = Trump
8:30 pm: Florida is looking good with 2 Florida Trump counties left to report.
8:45 pm election night: Wow! Trump might win Ohio.
8:55: But NYT predicts Clinton wins the election.
9:15: NYT projects 279 to 259 electoral votes in favor of Clinton
9:30: NYT flipped to favor Trump to win the election; so volatile!
9:40: Trump "very likely" to win Florida, North Carolina and Ohio. Nationwide, NYT flips back and forth between Clinton and Trump.
9:45: Wow. Trump may take Michigan.
10:00: NYT claims Trump edges Clinton
3:00am: My brother calls me at 3am to announce Trump's victory speech!
Comey does it again! We should now be absolutely convinced the system is rigged…
If we had our doubts whether or not FBI Director Comey was in the bag last July when he first absolved Hillary of all wrong doing, there should be absolutely no doubt remaining now.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3911032/FBI-announces-not-change-decision-regarding-Hillary-Clinton-s-emails.html
After a five day review of 650,000 Hillary emails on Anthony Weiner's laptop, and new evidence that at least 5 foreign nations hacked into Hillary's ill-conceived attempt to maintain separate servers, Comey and the FBI once again gives her a pass.
I now feel free to go 120 mph in a school zone without any repercussions whatsoever. Thank you FBI Director Comey for my new found freedom to do anything I damn well please. And I'm sure you have also given the green light to a few million more formerly law abiding folks to flaunt the law in ways yet unimaginable. In fact, there is a million times the danger to our national security and public safety with what Clinton did compared to speeding in school zones.
And no, Comey, I do not buy into your newly sanctioned "Two-Tier Legal System."
Those who vote for Hillary…
People who persist in their vote for Hillary…
Don't believe or don't care that she is a perpetual liar
Don't believe or don't care that she was a key factor in the death of dedicated US officials in Benghazi
Don't believe or don't care that she is a key official in the Clinton Foundation's influence peddling for profit schemes at the expense of US foreign policy and national security.
Don't believe or don't care that her closest confidant and advisor, Huma Abedin, has close ties with Islamist individuals and organizations working to impose Islam in the US and worldwide.
Don't believe or don't care that she is a 30-year career politician who is good at fuzzy platitudes and bad at implementing anything.
Don't care or prefers the success and prosperity of foreign nations, cultures, and ideologies are prioritized over US interests, workers and prosperity.
Don't believe or don't care that she irresponsibly handles classified documents so carelessly that anyone else would be denied a security clearance – and then lies about it.
Do these people hate this country, its history, its capitalism, its traditional values SO MUCH that they are willing to vote for someone like this?
I guess the answer is "yes." That being the case, our country will be in perpetual decline and conflict until we experience a true, full-blown 2nd revolutionary war. A nation divided against itself cannot stand. We have half of our population "divided against itself." I don't know if this is due to indifference, ignorance, selfish desire for government to do things for them that they should be doing for themselves, or complicities in a corrupt system for their own profit and power. Perhaps all of the above.
Time will tell, and probably not much time will be required.
Hillary's most trusted advisor: Islamist undercover…
Innocent-looking young lady Huma Abedin, Hillary's right-hand trusted and loyal aid, advisor, confidant and Muslim. Who is she really? Is she one of the alleged millions of "benign" Muslims?
Who Huma is makes the Clinton's pay-for-play-policy-for-profit, Hillary's email debacle, and her habitual lying pale by comparison.
It's ok to me if Hillary chooses to sell her own soul for money. But it is not ok to me when she chooses to sell out others, and our country.
Before anyone defends Huma and her daughter-like closeness to Hillary, please spend a few minutes on this video…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRu3U-nwyhw
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FROM: Kruthikaa Lakshmanan – 19. November 2020
The infrastructure of a toilet is not enough to encourage people to develop sanitary practices. It can be challenging to achieve long-term behavioral change in the appropriate use of latrines. We need innovative approaches to achieve lasting results. One of such approaches is RANAS, which addresses a set of psychological factors influencing human behavior.
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«The JIKURA project is different from those we've seen before. Their only condition is that decisions are taken in a participatory and consensual way. Representatives from all the villages are present in the municipal meetings to discuss the issues and how to overcome them»
Kelessabali Doumbia, Mayor of Faradièlé
In periodic meetings, the costs, planned actions, progress and difficulties encountered in the program are reported and discussed. This is driven by the development organization and the municipality along with the representatives from the community. The focus is on addressing the root causes of a lack of WASH services, rather than coming up with quick band-aid solutions.
Changing the behaviors with the RANAS approach
Helvetas provides support only for a period of time, after which eventually the municipalities and the community sustain the change by themselves. In this short time, advisors help train the local leaders to propel the change they want to see in their community. But we all know from personal experience how difficult it is to change behaviors. What should change is the behavior with which we approach the activity.
Behavior can be better understood using the RANAS or Risks, Attitudes, Norms, Abilities, and Self-regulation approach. Imagine if schools provided a clean space for girls and boys and a hand-washing tap located outside to wash their hands before eating lunch. This would encourage students to eat with clean hands. Given that more students practice this, it further invites the reluctant few to join the practice, following the norm of desired social behavior.
It is not enough to provide the infrastructure, if people are not invited to use it: this is where a more personal strategy to modify the behavior comes into play.
With the RANAS approach, project teams can identify the principal factors that underlie hygiene behavior and use this to think of communication messages and strategies towards a change of behavior. For example, knowing that soap will help kill germs in the hand is not enough to actually use one before you eat. The question that should be asked is why an individual or a community is not able to follow through on the habit to use soap to wash their hands. Using surveys, the inhabitants of the community are asked questions regarding five different factors. Responses provide information on what motivates people's behavior. The five categories of questions involve:
Risk factor – Do you think you'll get sick if you do not wash your hands with soap? What is the worst possible scenario if you do not?
Attitude factor – Do you like washing your hands with soap? If not, why?
Norm factor – How much do people around you approve of your practice to wash your hands with soap?
Ability factor – Do you have soap and clean water to wash your hands?
Self-regulation factor – Do you have a plan to wash your hands if you do not have soap tomorrow?
The answers provided by the community are entered into a computer program (e.g. Excel), analyzed, distinguishing between those who implement the handwashing and those who don't. Then, for each factor, the results are compared between doers and non-doers. If there is no difference, that means that all have the same perception of the factor. But if there is a difference, that factor is key for a change in behavior.
«Once the blocking factor is identified, we choose different interventions that will specifically address this factor. For example, we directed plays that were enacted by the people to show respect and appreciation for people who did wash their hands.»
Fatoumata Kone, JIKURA advisor
An inhabitant of Faradièlé explains that they simply hung a picture of the village chief washing hands in front of their house. Just looking every day at the picture of a respected and important person prompted everyone to do the same. The women are proud that their children are now washing their hands and vow to ensure that soap and water will always be available to do so.
Investment in just constructing toilets or enforcing a plan of action does not provide sustainable results. Instead, providing a helping hand to the ones that take control of their destiny and work towards securing the future of their children, goes a long way in improving communities for the better.
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Biotechnology vs. Health Sciences
Biotechnology vs. Health Sciences: A Side-by-Side Comparison
Antibiotics have been instrumental to saving lives since they were discovered nearly a century ago. However, many bacteria are becoming resistant to antibiotics due to overuse. Thanks to years of extensive research, biotechnology scientists have recently developed new antibiotics to treat resistant strains of bacteria. Incredibly, the new treatment does not appear to trigger antibiotic resistance, even when used in large doses. This advancement was discovered by isolating a toxin in a form of staph bacteria. Now, a patent has been issued for this antibiotic.
Health science professionals, researchers, and medical entrepreneurs are instrumental as new drugs move through clinical trials and into the market. In other words, biotechnology and health sciences work hand in hand to help people live longer and healthier lives.
Biotechnology is the study of biology specifically to create new products. Research on cells and organisms have brought about innovative products that improve everyday life, such as new vaccines, disease resistant crops, and efficient biofuels.Health sciences, by contrast, is the study of science as it relates to the human and animal health—both the research and the application of scientific findings to improve health.
While these fields overlap, there are significant differences. Health sciences limits its scope to well-being. Clinical and non-clinical roles address all aspects of medicine to improve the healthcare industry and deliver quality care to patients.
However, health is only one aspect of biotechnology. Globally, there is an impending resource crisis and biotechnology is addressing it at every level including medical improvements, fuel advancements, and crop developments.
Below you will find a side-by-side comparison of the study of biotechnology and health sciences, including how research findings are applied, what the subfields are, and the respective career outlooks.
Biotechnology is the study of biology specifically to make or develop new products. Careful application of research on cells, organisms, and biological processes net groundbreaking results that advance health and technological development. Scientists have improved crops, developed vaccines, and created new fuels all through the study of biotechnology.While it has been studied for over 6,000 years in a variety of applications, it has only emerged as a distinct scientific field in the 1970s.
Much of the research stems from the study of naturally-evolved lifeforms and deriving new applications from the studies. Other research focuses on modification of existing life forms to create new technologies. There is significant overlap between biotechnology, biology, biochemistry, and molecular genetics. Health sciences is the study of science as it relates to human and animal health. It is a broad field that encompasses basic sciences, clinical research, math, and sometimes even sports studies.
The field is generally divided into two areas. First is the study and research of health sciences. Second is the application of the research to cure diseases, increase overall health, and better understand how animals and humans function.
With an ever-changing world, new applications for biotechnology are constantly emerging. Many of the advancements are targeted to mitigate the resource challenges in the 21st century.
The Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) has identified three ways that biotechnology can be a benefit. First, it can heal our world through the reduction of infectious disease, allowing for treatments tailored to individuals and combating illnesses in the developing world. New vaccines, antibiotics, and research techniques can save the lives of millions of children in poverty-stricken nations.
Biotechnology also can fuel our world through the study and development of new and more efficient fuels. It can help us reduce the use of fuel through groundbreaking research into improving and streamlining manufacturing processes. The use of biofuels can cut greenhouse emissions significantly.
Lastly, BIO states that biotechnology can feed the world through innovations in farming. With the help of scientists, farmers can increase crop yields, use fewer pesticides, and grow more resilient crops. Scientists are also able to produce foods without certain allergens and increase the nutritional profile to combat vitamin and nutritional deficiencies. Health science is a wide field of study and the applications are equally extensive. Overall, the goal is to improve healthcare through research and the application of the conclusions of the research.
Scientists in the health sciences study diseases, mental health, nutrition, and many other fields. Research methodologies are carefully followed to control for placebo effects and other influencing factors. The Mayo Clinic comprises over 90 doctoral and 400 clinical staff dedicated to improving patient health through medical research. Their current areas of focus include cancer, gastrointestinal diseases, neurology, musculoskeletal disorders, and others. The staff at the clinic also conduct leading-edge methodology research.
Once the research has been published, professionals working in the clinical side of health sciences apply the conclusions to patient care to treat diseases and improve outcomes. Everyday best practices used by doctors, nurses, clinical assistants, veterinarians, and paramedics are all based on research produced in this field. Professionals applying treatments have often obtained a health sciences degree prior to certification or pursuing an advanced degree.
Public health services, healthcare management, and healthcare information technology are non-clinical applications of health sciences careers. These roles support and complement clinical and research positions to improve patient outcomes.
Graduates of a biotechnology program will find a wide array of fields in biological sciences available to them:
Biological engineering techniques are applied to animals in the animal biotechnology field. These animals are used for pharmaceutical, agricultural, and industrial purposes. They can be designed to be resistant to certain diseases or even synthesize targeted proteins.
In environmental biotechnology researchers address environmental problems. The removal of pollutants and creation of renewable energy are two of the myriad of applications.
Using biotechnology to create biologic therapeutics is part of the field of applied immunology. Researchers have developed new vaccines, antibiotics, and diagnostics.
The objective of food chemistry is to enhance and safely use existing and new materials in food production. Many of those materials are biologic such as biopolymers, lipids, and biofilms.
Biopolymer scientists look at naturally occurring polymers, such as starch in corn, and find new applications for them. Plant-based plastic has been an everyday application of this field.
Bioinformatics is the combination of computers and biotechnology. Software is utilized to understand, evaluate, and study complex biologic data.
Within health sciences there are numerous subfields all focused on the study of animal and human health:
The study and treatment of mental and emotional disorders happens in the field of mental health.
Medicine encompasses all of the branches diagnosing, treating, and preventing diseases. This subfield includes a wide variety of health care practices and practitioners of all levels of education.
Creating healthy communities through research and treatment is the science and art of public health.
Health administration programs aim to create organizations that effectively manage healthcare systems.
Veterinary sciences is the study, treatment, diagnosis, and prevention of diseases in all types of animals, from farm livestock to zoo animals and pets.
Educational Preparation and Career Outlook
Numerous degrees in biotechnology are available all across the country and they vary in specific requirements and specializations. Often, courses in regulation and business are required to supplement the science courses.
Concentrations in this field include microbial biotechnology, forestry sciences, and animal biotechnology. Most courses include extensive lab time in addition to lectures.
Careers in the field of biotechnology are as varied as the applications. Graduates with a biotechnology degree can pursue roles as microbiologists, agricultural engineers, food scientists, epidemiologists, lab technicians, or biochemists. Jobs in biotechnology can be found on Indeed, LinkedIn, Science Careers, and BioSpace. While health science degrees vary from institution to institution, students who pursue degrees in health sciences will generally be required to take foundational courses in mathematics, sociology, and writing. Students will also take extensive courses in biology and chemistry. Electives can include specialized studies in ethics, business, law, and anatomy and physiology.
Concentrations are as varied as the field itself. There are clinical concentrations such as anesthesia technology, radiation therapy, substance abuse, and aging health. Non-clinical concentrations include healthcare management, health information technology, and public health.
Employment growth in careers in the health sciences has had steady increase for more than a decade. According to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, over 1.9 million jobs are expected to be created between 2018 and 2028 at a faster pace than any other industry.
With a bachelor's degree, job opportunities include medical or health services manager, claims reviewer, medical sales representative, medical laboratory technician, and community health specialist. Many people who earn degrees in health sciences do so in preparation for graduate studies to pursue careers such as an occupational therapist, pharmacist, dentist, doctor, or audiologist. Jobs in health sciences can be found on Indeed, LinkedIn, Heath eCareers, and Glassdoor.
1 Online Bachelor's Degree Completion Programs in Health Sciences
2 Online Bachelor's in Health Science Programs
1 Biotechnology vs. Bioenterprise
3 MHA vs. Master's in Public Health Programs
4 MHA vs. Master's in Health Sciences Programs
10 Biotechnology and Bioenterprise Professors to Know
Modern biology and biotechnology are used in cell and gene therapy, manufacturing pharmaceuticals, developing biomaterials, and processing fuels such as ethanol. Additionally, they contribute to research on cancer, infectious disease, and environmental factors.
A Day in the Life of a Hospital Administrator
The day-to-day life of a hospital administrator varies according to the specific environment in which one works. The administrator of a small rural hospital will have a considerably different experience than one who works for a large network.
A Day in the Life of a Hospital CEO – An Interview with Dr. David Pate
Being the chief executive officer of a hospital means being part business leader and part politician, requiring a blend of diplomacy, advocacy, business management, and financial sense. And the stakes of this role aren't just profit and loss, but life and death.
Aesthetic Center & Plastic Surgery Clinic Manager – A Day in the Life
This is a profession that's part sexy and part technical. It's about the human perception of self, but sometimes it's also about aesthetic enhancements. One minute you could be talking tummy-tucks, and the next you could be outlining treatments that can give a burn victim their smile back.
Behavioral Health Director – A Day in the Life
Typical tasks like optimizing budgets and managing staff may seem like the work of a corporate director, but in behavioral health, the product is something practically invaluable: treatment that empowers people to live their lives in a peaceful and self-sufficient manner.


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Highbury Primary School
Our School Trust
Service pupil premium
School Performance-Results 2019
Test and Trace - How does it work?
Returning to school in September
Citizenship Award
Reading and phonic resources
Curriculum subject information
Early Reading and Writing
Curriculum photo gallery
School SEND information report
Portsmouth Local offer
Inclusion and SEND policy
To be an inclusive, safe and caring community where each member is equally valued and nurtured to develop their potential.
To achieve academic excellence by ensuring each pupil performs to the best of their ability.
To work together as a team with parents and carers within the community to promote respect and responsibility for the benefit of all.
Our motto is:
"Valued as Individuals, inspired and Nurtured as Learners"
Our vision and motto is at the heart of what we do.
We feel that this is best achieved through our core values of:
You will see very quickly how these values are embedded in the school community. .
Staff are also committed to working in partnership with parents and carers. We hope you and your children feel very welcome and included at Highbury Primary. The office staff are always more than happy to help you. Parents are encouraged to help in school, support on school trips, actively support morning activities in Year R and KS1 and read as often as you can with your child. Fun activities, assemblies, fundraising events and community fairs are always more successful when parents are involved and feel included.
Starting a new school can be a worrying time but please be rest assured that all the staff are fantastic and are here to help. We are committed to strong teamwork and making your child's first experience rewarding, successful, memorable, challenging and of course a very happy one.
We look forward to working with you and your child and making this a successful and happy time in their lives.
If there is anything further you wish to know please do not hesitate to get in touch.
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Naraste do 4 metra visine. Kora je svijetlosiva, raspucana uzdužno i pomalo ljuskava na višim stablima.

Sinonimi

Izvori

Plumerieae
Flora Queenslanda

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Through a combination of federal and provincial support, the City of Kamloops completed a $13.5 million project to upgrade the energy efficiency of its Canada Games Aquatic Centre. The project started with a need to replace the centre's critical ageing infrastructure. But – thanks to provincial and federal funding – it turned into an opportunity to simultaneously improve the environmental performance of the building. Bolstered by more than $1.1 million from the provincial government through the CleanBC Communities Fund and $1.37 million from the federal government, the city was able to install a heat-recovery system that uses the heat that evaporates off the pool to warm the new air entering the building. This reduces the centre's reliance on natural gas and lowers its greenhouse gas emissions – taking Kamloops one important step closer to meeting its climate goals.
A fully-electric vehicle has replaced a gas-guzzling security van in the Coquitlam School District's fleet, thanks to funding provided through the CleanBC Go Electric program. Emissions from the fleet are one of the main contributors to the School District's carbon footprint and the van – the most-used vehicle in the fleet – was a major source of those emissions. Driven more than 200 kilometres each day and using 7,700 litres of gas each year, it produced more than 18,300 kilograms of greenhouse gases annually. The new electric vehicle runs completely on B.C.'s clean electricity, charges quickly and efficiently, and can travel 260 kilometres on a single charge.


I have one html site on a windows server that I would like to move to WordPress on a linux server. I need to preserve the urls to maintain established SEO.
Do you have any guidance on how to do it. I'll want to preserve the domain name. So, I wonder about the proper sequence to migrate and how to get it all done right.
Not so easy, you would need to obviously copy and paste the content into pages created in wordpress, The folders in the static pages if you have them could be recreated using categories in wordpress and set permalinks to post type this would alllow the url structure to remain intact.
Obviously during development you would be reaching the server (linux) via ip address, once finished just update the a record of the domain and point it at the new server.
So you would use WP categories to simulate the folder structure? Is that the only way to do it?
The site has travel references with folders named by location. Are you saying to create a category for each location name? Would this imply using posts for content within categories?
What if I want to use pages? Each of the locations has a 3-10 html page microsite.
Couldn't I get similar results using multisite, with the sub-blog named the same as the location folders in the old site?
I'll rate you when the thread is complete. Please don't ask ahead of time.


New books, bought in the US and at Cultures Maison Festival.
Books by Dominique Goblet + Kai Pfeiffer, Chiara Lammens, Cesar Brun, Dunja Jankovic, Olivier Schrauwen, Miranda July, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Jack Teagle, Pascal Girard and some Dover publicatons.
Last weekend was the opening of the Bries exhibition at the Cultures Maison festival.
You can still visit it until the 21th of september. And you should!
With works by Dieter vdo, Wide Vercnocke, Brecht Vandenbroucke, Olivier Schrauwen, Piet et Jan Pollet, Kai Pfeiffer, Dominique Goblet, Céline Hudréaux and myself.


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package org.mindinformatics.gwt.domeo.plugins.persistence.annotopia.model;

import java.util.Date;

import org.mindinformatics.gwt.framework.src.Utils;

import com.google.gwt.core.client.JavaScriptObject;

/**
 * @author Paolo Ciccarese <paolo.ciccarese@gmail.com>
 */
public class JsAnnotationProvenance extends JavaScriptObject {

	protected JsAnnotationProvenance() {}

	public final native String getId() /*-{ return this['@id'];  }-*/;
	public final native String getType() /*-{ return this['@type']; }-*/;

	public final native String getAnnotatedAt() /*-{
		return this.annotatedAt;
	}-*/;
	public final Date getFormattedAnnotatedAt() {
		return Utils.fullfmt2.parse(getAnnotatedAt().trim());
	}
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		return this.annotatedBy;
	}-*/;
	public final native boolean isAnnotatedByString() /*-{
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	}-*/;
	public final native boolean isAnnotatedByObject() /*-{
		return this.annotatedBy.constructor === Object;
	}-*/;
	public final native JsAnnotopiaAgent getAnnotatedByAsObject() /*-{
		return this.annotatedBy;
	}-*/;

	public final native Object getCreatedWith() /*-{
		return this.createdWith;
	}-*/;
	public final native boolean isCreatedWithString() /*-{
		return this.createdWith.constructor === String;
	}-*/;
	public final native String getCreatedWithAsString() /*-{
		return this.createdWith;
	}-*/;
	public final native boolean isCreatedWithObject() /*-{
		return this.createdWith.constructor === Object;
	}-*/;
	public final native JsAnnotopiaAgent getCreatedWithAsObject() /*-{
		return this.createdWith;
	}-*/;

	public final native String getLastSavedOn() /*-{
		return this.lastUpdateOn;
	}-*/;

	public final native JsAnnotopiaAgent getLastSavedBy() /*-{
		return this.lastSavedBy;
	}-*/;
	public final native boolean isLastSavedByString() /*-{
		return this.lastSavedBy.constructor === String;
	}-*/;
	public final native String getLastSavedByAsString() /*-{
		return this.lastSavedBy;
	}-*/;
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	}-*/;
	public final native String getCreatedOn() /*-{
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	public final Date getFormattedLastSavedOn() {
		return Utils.fullfmt2.parse(getLastSavedOn());
	}

	public final native String getVersionNumber() /*-{
		return this.versionNumber;
	}-*/;
	public final native String getPreviousVersion() /*-{
		return this.previousVersion;
	}-*/;
}


The season of Growth is upon us, and creatures celebrate the blessings of the Mother of All. You won't need to be a Tunare worshipper to join in this quick little celebration, however!
The third annual Beast'r Eggstravaganza will run on the live servers from 12:01 am Pacific on April 19, 2019 until 11:59 pm Pacific on April 25, 2019. (I told you it would be quick!). The Fallen Gate TLE server will also have the event running, while the new Kaladim TLE server will not.
I am going to cover the new-this year points first, then I will go into details from the overall event.
These items will be for sale on "Beast'r Eggschanger" NPCs in Qeynos Province District (Elddar Grove area), Freeport, Darklight Wood, Greater Faydark, Timorous Deep, and Frostfang Sea, but there's a catch. The Corrupted Witherlands Faun Plushie will only be sold on the "evil" side (Freeport, DLW, Timorous Deep), and the Witherlands Faun Plushie will only be sold on the "good" side (Qeynos, GFay, Frostfang). This doesn't stop a good aligned person from going to Timorous and buying the corrupted one, or an evil alt from hitting up Frostfang Sea, for example. It just means you'll be doing a little traveling if you want the full set.
**As mentioned above, the Witherlands Faun Plushie will only be available on the Qeynos, Greater Faydark and Frostfang Sea vendors, and the Corrupt Witherlands Faun Plushie will only be available on the Freeport, Darklight Woods and Timorous Deep vendors.
While asking a guard for "Beast" worked in the past to sometimes chase down the loose eggs, it will have even more mixed results this year. Not only will they point to the nearest loose egg, but if someone has out one of the egg fluff pets or the new Mischievous Beastie familiar from the Anchorage quests you will end up pointed to them if they are closer. Asking them for "Eggschanger", however, will help you find the vendor if you're in one of the six above-listed zones.
There is one new 9-piece collection this year. As has happened with several other events, you will need to visit multiple locations in order to obtain all the collection pieces. Reward for the collection is a Large Beast'r Egg Basket.
Want a closer look at those baskets and the sizing on the fauns? Ocarinah has you covered in her 2019 Beast'r House Item Preview. Thanks ma'am!
Having a hard time keeping track of which alts still need eggs for the achievements, or who hasn't finished the collection? Casdoe from Maj'Dul has put together a quick little quest tracker for this event in both XLS format and in pdf format. Thanks!
The basic premise of this little event is that there are beast'r eggs hopping around the cities and starter areas in Norrath, and you get to try to hunt them down and grab them. If you manage to grab one, you get an heiroom fluff pet "gem" (scroll) of the egg. There are also"Beast'r Eggschanger" NPCs in Qeynos Province District (Elddar Grove area), Freeport, Darklight Wood, Greater Faydark, Timorous Deep, and Frostfang Sea. This NPC will let you trade in the heirloom fluff pet gem for a housepet version. They also, starting in 2019, have a few new buyables, as mentioned at the top of the page.
Want a closer look at these eggs? Ocarinah put together a preview video in 2018 for us.


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package dev.kkorolyov.sqlob;

import dev.kkorolyov.simplefuncs.function.ThrowingRunnable;
import dev.kkorolyov.sqlob.logging.Logger;
import dev.kkorolyov.sqlob.request.CreateRequest;
import dev.kkorolyov.sqlob.request.Request;
import dev.kkorolyov.sqlob.result.Result;
import dev.kkorolyov.sqlob.util.UncheckedSqlException;

import javax.sql.DataSource;
import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.Set;

import static dev.kkorolyov.sqlob.util.UncheckedSqlException.wrapSqlException;

/**
 * Executes {@link Request}s using the current {@link Connection} of the associated {@link DataSource}.
 */
public class Session implements AutoCloseable {
	private static final Logger LOG = Logger.getLogger(Session.class.getName());

	private final DataSource dataSource;
	private Connection connection;

	private int bufferCounter = 0;

	private final Set<Class<?>> prepared = new HashSet<>();

	/**
	 * Constructs a new session.
	 * @param dataSource datasource to SQL database
	 */
	public Session(DataSource dataSource) {
		this.dataSource = dataSource;
	}

	/**
	 * Executes a request using an available connection and returns its result.
	 * Because a session is auto-closeable but infinitely reusable,
	 * this method should be called with the session instance in a try-with-resources block to group related transactions and avoid unhandled commit failures.
	 * <pre>
	 *   Session session = new Session(ds);
	 *   try (session) {
	 *     session.execute(new InsertRequest(...));
	 *     session.execute(new DeleteRequest(...));
	 *   } catch (UncheckedSqlException e) {
	 *     session.rollback();
	 *   }
	 * </pre>
	 * @param request database request to execute
	 * @param <T> request target type
	 * @return result containing all changed records
	 * @throws UncheckedSqlException if a SQL issue occurs
	 */
	public <T> Result<T> execute(Request<T> request) {
		try (ExecutionContext context = startTransaction()) {
			if (!prepared.contains(request.getType())) {
				create(request.getType()).execute(context);
				prepared.add(request.getType());
			}
			Result<T> result = request.execute(context);

			endTransaction();

			return result;
		}
	}
	private ExecutionContext startTransaction() {
		if (connection == null) {
			connection = wrapSqlException(() -> {
				Connection conn = dataSource.getConnection();
				conn.setAutoCommit(false);
				return conn;
			});
		}
		return new ExecutionContext(connection);
	}
	private void endTransaction() {
		bufferCounter++;
	}

	/**
	 * Rolls back the current transaction.
	 * @throws UncheckedSqlException if a SQL issue occurs
	 */
	public void rollback() {
		if (connection != null) {
			wrapSqlException((ThrowingRunnable<SQLException>) connection::rollback);

			LOG.info("Rolled back {} transactions", bufferCounter);

			bufferCounter = 0;
		}
	}

	/**
	 * Commits buffered transactions and resets the buffer counter.
	 * @throws UncheckedSqlException if a SQL issue occurs
	 */
	@Override
	public void close() {
		if (connection != null) {
			wrapSqlException(() -> {
				connection.commit();
				connection.close();
				connection = null;

				LOG.info("Committed {} transactions", bufferCounter);

				bufferCounter = 0;
			});
		}
	}

	@Override
	public String toString() {
		return "Session{" +
				"dataSource=" + dataSource +
				", connection=" + connection +
				", bufferCounter=" + bufferCounter +
				", prepared=" + prepared +
				'}';
	}

	<T> CreateRequest<T> create(Class<T> c) {
		return new CreateRequest<>(c);
	}
}


Hayley's Paper Garden: The 12 Days of Christmas!
Life has been just NUTS lately and as you can see I have not been in blog land since October 20th! This is my longest stretch away from crafting is YEARS!!! Well I am hoping to get back to blogging for fun as life starts to settle down going into the new year.
Here is a project I created this week for our challenge over at Addicted to Stamps and More... It is a colouring page for my children to colour and I am going to frame it and use it as a Christmas decoration in our home!
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A beautiful cluster of clear mid to dark brown Elestial Smoky Quartz crystal points. Intergrown among and inside the Smoky Quartz crystals are jet black Aegerine crystals. Elestial Quartz is unlike any other form of Quartz in that it grows in multiple layers with many terminations. Some consider Elestials 'ugly' but I think this is part of their teaching, that beauty is more than skin deep. This Smoky Quartz is just as nature made it and has not been heated to darken it. It comes from Malawi.
Size is 3in/7.8cm long and 1.2in/3.2cm wide. Weight is 80g.


Here's the list of this year's Guggenheim Fellowship winners in Photography, drawn from a full page ad in this morning's New York Times. The entire list of current fellows will ultimately be found on the foundation website (here). Plenty of familiar names this year.


Produced in 1989-1991, BMW Z1 series has 6 cylinder – inline engine that is four stroke and front mounted. With a bore and stroke ration of 3.3 inches and 2 inches the BMW Z1 series can reach 170 horsepower at 5800 rpm while the torque reaches 218 NM just in 4800 rpm. The compression ratio is kept well in 8.8 to 1. The fuel tank capacity of BMW Z1 series is 57 liters with electronic fuel injection feeding system. The valve train of the BMW Z1 series I SOHC toothbelt with water cooling system. The gear box is 5 speed manual rear wheel drive with axle ratio of 3.64:1, which is one of its own kind and first time introduced and better known as Z-Axle. McPherson axle, coil springs and stabilizing bars are used in the front suspension of BMW Z1 series while its rear suspension includes lower training diagonal rod arms, topping wishbones, coils springs as well as stabilizing bar. The car braking system used in BMW Z! series is disc brake with ABS and power assisted. The power steering is rack and pinion based. The highest speed of the car is 220 Km/H, while testing it reached 62 mph in 9 seconds and with the aid of performance chips this can reach to 250Km/H at shorter time. You would need some ten litres of fuel to run over hundred miles. All these salient features makes the car a great one. This is the reason as more than the half of entire production of this series were ordered even before BMW was thinking to set a production line. Offcourse this is a success milestone for BMW. The success for BMW greatly stood on its suspension capabilites which were geared for better driving experience and pleasant riding. A car's suspension system is the collection of series of smaller elements, parts, kits, accessories and equipments. In case someone wishing to replace the suspension system he must ensure that all that elements of the suspension system, i.e; Tie bars, Tie rods, Tie rod ends, Trailing arms,Beam axles, Control arms, Idler arms, Kingpins, Panhard rods, Pinions,Stabilizer bars and links, Steering arms, Steering boxes, Steering column assemblies, Steering racks, Steering shafts, Steering wheels, Struts, Stub axles, Suspension links and bolts, Pitman arms,Power steering assemblies and components,Rack ends,Shock absorbers,Spindles,Springs,Air springs,Coil springs,Leaf and parabolic leaf springs,Rubber springs and Spiral springs are right from their original maker or atleast performs at same level. Unless you get the original suspension or something that performs equally to the original you cannot stay clam and cool. Our collection of BMW Z1 series suspensions is the right place visiting which and buying from it can give you complete relief for conversion and replacement worrries. We get them from their actual maker, we clear their excess stocks and offer the same to you at unbeatable prices. We are the best and supply the best. Check it yourself.


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What Are Treaties and How Do They Apply to You?
by MPLMargarita October 29, 2021
The first week of November marks Treaties Recognition Week which honours the importance of treaty rights and relationships. All settlers in Canada have a responsibility to learn more about treaty rights and relationships, because treaty obligations not only apply to the past, but also to the present and the future.
What Are Treaties?
Treaties are agreements between Indigenous Nations and the Crown on the responsibilities and rights of both parties. There are 46 treaties in Ontario and 70 treaties across Canada which outline the sharing of the Land and resources between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people.
What Treaties Are Not
We often understand treaties as documents with the colonial justice system and ideas of ownership in mind. However, this understanding erases Indigenous treaty rights. To better understand treaties, it is important to remember that:
Treaties ARE NOT historical documents - While most treaties were signed from 1701-1923, they are not historical documents. Treaties are ongoing living agreements that continue to change and be renegotiated. Each treaty was meant to endure "as long as the sun shines."
Treaties ARE NOT for Indigenous Nations and the Canadian government only - Treaty obligations apply to ancestors of settlers and anyone who has recently made Canada their home. So if you live on treaty land, many of the responsibilities apply to you as well.
Treaties DO NOT cover all of Canada - Many Indigenous Nations never signed treaties, meaning that settlers currently live on unceded Indigenous Land. For example, almost all of British Columbia is currently on unceded Indigenous territories.
Benefits enjoyed by treaties ARE NOT equal - Many treaty obligations have never been maintained by the government. Some members of Indigenous Nations receive only $5 in treaty payments every two years, while settlers enjoy the countless benefits of living in Canada.
Treaties Covering Markham
The Southwest of Markham is covered by Treaty 13 (1895), while the rest of Markham is covered by the Williams Treaties which were signed in 1923. Although the treaties covering Markham were signed only 100 years ago, European settlements on Indigenous Lands were established as early as 1792. Indigenous Nations represented by the Williams Treaties include: Mississaugas of Alderville, Curve Lake First Nation, Hiawatha First Nation, Scugog Island First Nation, Chippewas of Beausoleil First Nation, Georgina Island First Nation, and the Rama First Nation.
When the Williams Treaties were first signed, Indigenous Nations did not receive proper compensation and their harvesting rights were unjustly denied. In 2018, federal and provincial governments issued an apology for the negative impacts of the treaties, reinstating pre-Confederation harvesting rights and additional reserve lands. Learn more about the Williams Treaties here.
Did You Know that You Have a Responsibility?
The Canadian Citizenship Oath now includes Indigenous Treaty Rights:
"I swear (or affirm) that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second, Queen of Canada, Her Heirs and Successors, and that I will faithfully observe the laws of Canada, including the Constitution, which recognizes and affirms the Aboriginal and treaty rights of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples, and fulfil my duties as a Canadian citizen."
If you live in Canada, you have a responsibility to learn more about treaties. To get started, ask yourself: How have I benefited from treaties? Which treaties cover the Land I live on? How have treaty relationships been broken? Here's how you can continue your learning journey:
To find out whose Land you are on and to learn more about the specific treaties, visit Native Land or Whose Land.
Unlearn colonial definitions of treaties by listening to Indigenous Voices on Treaties.
Attend upcoming Living Library Events.
Take University of Toronto's Understanding Indigenous Perspectives: We Are All Treaty People
Read books about treaties
Treaties Recognition Week
List created by mradzevich
Treaties Recognition Week first began in 2016 and takes place from November 1-7. It is meant to show the continued relevance of treaties in our lives. Want to learn more about our collective treaty rights and obligations? Check out the book suggestions below.
Teaching Children the Importance of Treaties
Treaties are agreements between Indigenous Nations and the Canadian government (the Crown). Treaties include responsibilities of both parties to share the Land. This list will help you talk to your children about the importance of Treaties and how they affect us today.
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