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Q: How to add triples to a jena Query Suppose I have some jena query object :
String query = "SELECT * WHERE{ ?s <some_uri> ?o ...etc. }";
Query q = QueryFactory.create(query, Syntax.syntaxARQ);

How would one go about getting information about the jena query object and adding in triples to it iteratively in an effective manner?  For example, suppose I wanted to add in the triples
?o dcterms:title "TheBestTitle".
?o dcterms:date ?date.

to the query, and perhaps more.
Is there some way to add in these triples to the query, or do some magic to create a new query object which looks like the original with those triples added in? Assume that I may need to grab information from the original version of the query as well (for example, List resultVars = q.getResultVars();).
Some leads I have are to use the AlgebraGenerator and Op Classes provided by the Jena API, but I can't seem to find any reasonable use cases in a context such as this.
Thanks!

A: http://jena.apache.org/documentation/query/manipulating_sparql_using_arq.html

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*Construct an algebra expression and convert to a query (OpAsQuery)

*The Query object, which is the cleaned up parsed struture, can be manipulated (Query.getQueryPattern)

*Do it by string manipulation before parsing.


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Birth: Richard I (1157)
Submitted by Ludwig von Rege... on September 8, 2015 - 11:40pm
Were the world all mine,
From the sea to the Rhine,
I'd give it all
If so be the King of England
lay in my arms.
Richard "the Lionheart" was the fourth child of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, but he would rise through the ranks to become King of England, Duke of Normandy etc. Though raised in England, he spent almost all of his adult life elsewhere: perhaps he didn't like the place, or perhaps other lands just provided more people to kill. A military leader from the age of 16, Richard fought his father, the French, the Greeks, the Moslems, and then the French some more. His campaign in the Holy Land, in particular, demonstrated his abilities as a leader of men. His capture by Leopold of Austria on the way home demonstrated his ability to really annoy people.
Leopold handed Richard to the Emperor Heinrich VI, who demanded a king's ransom (fancy that!) for his release. Whilst Richard's mother, Eleanor, worked to raise the money; his brother, John, and his rival, Philip Augustus offered Heinrich half a king's ransom to keep Richard in prison. But Heinrich took Richard's money and let him go, precipitating Philip's famous message to John: "Look to yourself, the devil's loose."
While Heinrich used the money to fund his invasion of Sicily, Richard forgave John and went back to killing Frenchmen. Richard's failure to produce an heir has lead to speculation that he might have been homosexual. Whilst much of his separation from his wife was due to necessity, noted marriage counsellor Pope Celestine III still felt the need to tell Richard to spend more time with her. He certainly seemed to like hanging out with solidiers. In any case, when he died, he died in his mother's arms.
In Runciman's estimation, "he was a bad son, a bad husband, and a bad king, but a gallant and splendid soldier." Despite being firmly rooted in history, today Richard is almost as much a figure of legend.
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There are four villages that surround the parish, Meopham Green, Culverstone Green, Hook Green and Harvel. Meopham Fencing is situated in the heart of the village near to the cricket green and windmill.


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'Interfaith' Under Occupation is Normalization, Not Solidarity!
Recently a firestorm has taken the US based Palestine solidarity movement because of the Shalom Hartman Institute's Muslim Leadership Initiative(MLI), as a second group of young American Muslim participants finished a two week fully sponsored visit to participate in an 'interfaith' program. The controversy is connected to Palestinian's civil society call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions that is directed at Israel and the participant's decision to join the fully funded program in complete disregard to Palestinians plea for global solidarity on its basis.
Indeed, by accepting a sponsored trip from Hartman, a well-established Zionist outfit in Israel involved in military educational officer training projects and government contracts to specifically counter the BDS movement, the participants crossed the global picket line and violated Palestine's civil society call for solidarity. The BDS movement is a Palestine's civil society non-violent grassroots initiative and a detailed call for specific steps and actions in solidarity with Palestinians living under Occupation. The BDS movement is founded upon an ethical and voluntary participation in an effort to effectuate a change in global political, economic and diplomatic support extended to Israel. Palestinian civil society seeks local and global solidarity that is reflected in words and deeds.
Based on Hartman's own website the description for MLI's goal, "is to enable emerging religious and intellectual leaders—including university chaplains, journalists, academics, and cultural figures—to understand the meaning of Israel in Judaism and in contemporary Jewish life." Hartman's MLI program involves bringing a group of young American Muslim leaders to participate in a fully paid and guided trip in Occupied Palestine for a purported' interfaith-based' curriculum and engagement.
The controversy has many layers to it including Hartman's funding from Russell Berrie Foundation and Koret Foundation, a source of support for many Islamophobic organizations in the U.S. as well as the institute's direct links to the Israeli military and officer training programs.
Hartman's MLI project needs to be understood within the broader Israeli strategy to improve their globally damaged image after the wholesale slaughter of civilians in Gaza, counter the success of BDS on college campuses and prevent it from taking hold further in the US. Indeed, Hartman's MLI project aims at shaping emergent American Muslim leadership perspective on Israel and Zionism while peeling away layers of support to the Palestinian cause within the confines of American-Muslim communities.
Fatwa Does Not Sanction Hartman's MLI Program!
One important argument used by some participants in this program or defending the initiative revolves around the presence of a fatwa (a single juristic opinion) permitting visitation of Palestine and by extension, according to some participants, would lend support to such fully funded program with Shalom Hartman.
Before examining and responding to the cited Fatwa and in terms of established normative Islamic legal opinions, Muslim scholars are in agreement on the desirability of travelling to Jerusalem for performing legal acts of worship there: like prayers, supplication, remembrance of God, recitation of the Qur'an and staying in Al-Aqsa mosque for a fixed period of time for the purpose of worship. However, this normative practice is supposed to be undertaken while the city is free and not under occupation.
A recent fatwa has been issued in a conference titled, "Road to Jerusalem" held in Amman under the auspices of the Jordanian government that explicitly called on Muslims to visit Jerusalem to support the Palestinian economy and society living under occupation. The conference was organized and hosted by Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad, the King's cousin and adviser on Jerusalem affairs with the main agenda focused on issuing this fatwa to permit visiting Jerusalem and Palestine as a follow-up or in conjunction with performing Hajj.
It is important to situate the conference and the broader Jordanian efforts post the Jordan-Israel Peace Treaty in the area of normalization and constructing an Arab bridge for Israel into the Arab and Muslim worlds. This bridge was far stronger than the one constructed through the Camp David Agreement with Egypt and was given a major push by the introduction of the Palestinian Authority and the signing of the already failed Oslo Agreement. For anyone observing the Palestinian struggle these are not new revelations rather are part and parcel of understanding this role played by various Arab and Muslim actors in the region and the facilitation provided to Israel in the region. For more details on the subject read my earlier article in Turkey Agenda.
The conference fatwa needs to be located within the broader regional strategy and normalizing Israel's role in the newly formed alliances post Iraq invasion and events of the Arab Spring. Even before the fatwa was articulated, a number of prominent Muslim scholars took the unprecedented step of visiting Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa under Jordanian and PA facilitation with total coordination and pre-approval of the Israeli authorities.Number of articles were written in response to Egypt's Mufti visit to Al-Aqsa and some put the context of the debate, incorrectly if I may say, into the on-going conflict with the Brotherhood Movement. Indeed, having translated and documented every fatwa issued in relations to Palestine I can say for certain that the body of Fatwas from Al-Azhar and the office of the Egyptian Mufti on the issue of visits goes back 50 years and not a function of recent events or response to the Brotherhood Movement.
As the recent Fatwa, a number of questions arise as to the nature of the Fatwa, the rationale behind it, the scope, and expressed limitations? The fatwa's intent, as described by the conference, is to permit Muslims visits in order to help in "defending Islamic and Christian holy sites" and to stand up against "Israeli violations in Jerusalem." In the context of the conference, the rationale for the Fatwa was to help support and defend Palestinians under Occupation by allowing Muslims to visit, interact and spend their money in Palestinian owned business and establishments, in essence to help them stay steadfast in resisting the constant ethnic cleansing.
Certainly, this fatwa is the first of its kind and it did depart from existing body of Islamic juristic opinions on Occupied Palestine extending from the initial opinions during the Crusades all the way up the to the current Zionist occupation period. Even this carefully crafted conference with handpicked scholars could not overcome the body of legal opinions restricting extending any type of support to the Occupying power by engaging in normalization efforts. One can point to the contradictions in the limits imposed considering Jordan, Egypt, and Gulf States have open relations with Israel itself; however Islamic legal determination should not be confused or contingent upon actions or opinions of any single or combinations of Arab or Muslim nation states.
While some will raise the obvious arguments that such legal opinions are difficult to govern under contemporary circumstances and the heavy participation of nation-state actors who are facilitating political and economic normalization. Another argument is located in the notion that as American Muslims we are not party or included in these perspectives because we live outside Muslim majority countries and have 'our' own jurisprudence and should not be confined by what is developed outside. These are legitimate and rich arguments and I would not purport to dismiss them altogether but MLI participants introduced the Fatwa from the Muslim world to support their actions while at the same time excluding the sections in the same opinion than runs contrary to their stated action and decision to participate in the funded program.
Some participants in the MLI program have cited the Fatwa as a rationale for participation in the program. However, and setting aside debates about how the Fatwa was arrived at in the first place and if the Fatwa is accepted as granting the permission to visit then the expressed limitations would preclude and make the MLI Israeli paid-for and hosted visits a prohibited matter.
Indeed, no scholar, past or present, including those who permitted visiting Palestine and Jerusalem in the cited Fatwa has accepted an opinion or action that a person visits the occupied area while funded by the occupying power. The body of legal opinions on this prohibition is unified and comprehensive without opposition. Certainly, Hartman's MLI project is an interfaith initiative in name only and in reality is a political program instrumentalizing religion in support of Zionism, settler colonialism and Apartheid.
The BDS movement does call for people to visit and come to Palestine in solidarity with the Palestinians. Come to Palestine and be a witness to the injustices taking place. Visit Palestine, stay, spend time and money with the Palestinians as an individual or group act of resistance and support for the oppressed people as many have been doing and will do in the future. The issues is not a matter of visiting Palestine but undertaking a visit sponsored and funded by the occupying power: This is an unethical and immoral political act that is hurtful to the Palestinians in Palestine and in the diaspora!
If Shalom Hartman Institute and Israel's leadership want to have an interfaith dialogue then let them allow all the Palestinians' Muslims and Christians expelled in 1948 and 1967 back for an open-ended dialogue on the meaning of thou shall not steal someone else's property!


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This is Pooja and her adoptive father. She is named after the Pooja Express, one of the fast trains that travels on these tracks. She was found on the rail tracks as a newborn baby who had been flushed down the train toilet. As a baby girlm she was not wanted. She somehow survived, and this man and his wife took her on, despite the fact that they could not afford her. ASHA has helped them financially and she's growing up as a bright, friendly girl.


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The reality of capitalism: GM makes $11.8 billion in profits while closing plants, eliminating 14,000 jobs
General Motors made $11.8 billion in profits in 2018, according to a company statement released yesterday. This included $10.8 billion in North American earnings last year and a 9.5 percent profit margin in the final quarter. These giant profits were announced as GM accelerates it plans to shut five factories in the US and Canada and destroy more than 14,000 jobs.
GM's corporate board initiated the jobs massacre two days before the release of the profit report, which showed an eight percent decline over last year's profits. The aim is to reassure Wall Street that GM will not bow to popular outrage over the plant closings and mass layoffs.
On Monday, the first of 4,000 engineers, technicians, managers and other white-collar workers, including 1,300 workers at the GM Tech Center in the Detroit suburb of Warren, were laid off and escorted out of their work locations. The half-century old Lordstown, Ohio assembly plant is scheduled to be closed next month. The Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly Plant is to be closed on June 1, and the Oshawa, Ontario plant is slated to be shut down by the fourth quarter of 2019. The company also plans to close transmission plants in Baltimore and Warren by April 1 and August 1, respectively.
In 1979, during the first Chrysler bankruptcy, the corporations and the United Auto Workers (UAW) claimed that huge wage and benefit concessions were needed to restore profitability and "save" the auto industry. After three decades of endless givebacks, the UAW made the same claims as it collaborated with the Obama administration to slash wages during the 2009 restructuring of GM and Chrysler.
Now, even as the auto companies are flush with cash, the corporations are demanding even more sacrifices from workers and handing over billions more to Wall Street.
Since 2015, GM has squandered $10.6 billion on stock buybacks to boost the value of the company's shares, more than double the $4.5 billion GM is expected to save next year from the job cuts.
Billions more have been spent on dividend payments to wealthy shareholders. This means even greater personal fortunes for top GM investors like Warren Buffett, the world's third richest man (net worth $84.4 billion), whose Berkshire Hathaway owns 52.4 million GM shares, and Laurence Fink (net worth $1.1 billion), whose BlackRock investment firm controls 79 million GM shares.
In a conference call Wednesday, GM CEO Mary Barra told representatives from Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Citibank, Barclays, Deutsche Bank and other investment firms that company executives would "continue to deliver on our commitments that we made to you, our owners" to "create value in the short-term and long-term for our shareholders."
Workers in the US, Canada, Korea and Brazil are thrown onto the streets, their communities are destroyed, and the profits they have produced are handed over to the financial aristocracy that lords over society.
Workers are being given an object lesson in the nature of capitalism. While the working class produces all of society's wealth, the product of its labor is owned by the ruling class, which funnels vast sums into the hands of super-rich minority, while workers are condemned to poverty, servitude and social misery.
Predictably, no one on the investors' call raised any objections to the devastation that would be wrought by the plant closings and mass layoffs. One analyst from Swiss-based UBS, however, did express concern about the "enormous push-back" against the plant closings. He asked Barra, "How much of the $4.5 billion in savings is at risk if the unions don't allow the closings or concessions?"
The GM CEO quickly reassured him, saying, "I don't see any risks." She made it clear that the UAW had already signed off on closing what she said were underutilized plants. While the status of the plants would be finalized in negotiations with the UAW for a new labor agreement this summer, she said, "it's a transition we have to go through" and "problem solve with the UAW."
Far from fighting the plant closings, the UAW and the Unifor union in Canada have actively supported the decimation of autoworkers' jobs and living standards. A substantial portion of the wages and benefits stolen from workers has found its way into the bank accounts and investment portfolios of the union executives themselves. When GM announced the plant closings in November, the value of GM shares controlled by the UAW increased by more than $200 million.
Facing the growing militancy of workers, the unions, discredited by decades of betrayals and bribery, are blaming the plant closings on Mexican workers for supposedly stealing the jobs of US and Canadian workers, echoing the nationalist rantings of the Trump administration.
This lie has been exploded by the courageous and ongoing struggle of Mexican workers in the "maquiladora" sweatshops in Matamoros. The workers have waged a three-week battle after rebelling against the unions, forming independent strike committees and calling popular assemblies to fight for improved wages and conditions.
Free from the stranglehold of the unions, these workers marched to the US border at Brownsville, Texas and appealed to their American brothers and sisters to join the fight against the global corporations. The struggle has now spread to grocery store workers, public employees and other sections of workers in Matamoros, with business publications warning about the spreading "contagion" of the class struggle.
The reemergence of the class struggle and political radicalization of the working class has struck fear in the hearts of the ruling class. Terrified that the growth of working class struggle will acquire a conscious, anti-capitalist perspective, President Trump declared in his State of the Union adress on Tuesday night: "We are alarmed by new calls to adopt socialism in our country." His warning received the approval of the assembled representatives of the ruling class, Democratic and Republican, who hoped their clapping hands might stop the wave of working class anger spreading throughout the country and internationally.
The answer to GM's job massacre is the demonstration on Saturday, February 9 called by the Steering Committee of the Coalition of Rank-and-File Committees and the WSWS Autoworker Newsletter to mobilize working class opposition to GM's plant closings and mass layoffs. The march will oppose the supposed "right" of GM to shut down these plants.
The demonstration is not an appeal to GM and its corporate executives, beholden to Wall Street, but a call for workers to express their independent strength and determination to fight. It is also not an appeal to the UAW, the cheap-labor contractor and industrial police force, but is based on the call for auto workers and other workers to form independent rank-and-file committees to organize and unify their struggles.
The demonstration will demand a halt to all plant closures, the abolition of the two-tier wage and benefit system, the transformation of all temporary workers into full-timers, and the rehiring of all laid-off and victimized workers. In opposition to the shop floor dictatorship of corporate management, it will fight for industrial democracy, workers' control of production and the transformation of GM, Ford and the other auto giants into public enterprises, democratically controlled and collectively owned by the working class.
This program is a critical part of the socialist transformation of the world economy, to make social need and equality, not the accumulation of grotesque levels of personal wealth, the guiding principle of economic, political and social life.
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Do you ever look at all those little applesauce, fruit or yogurt cups piling up in your recycle bin and wonder if you could do something with them? Of course you do! You know they look like they'd be perfect for something, but what?
How about a tactile matching game?
I got the idea after pinning Cindy O'Connell's Shell Matching Game and a friend on Pinterest suggested using plastic lids instead of shells. We didn't have a bunch of lids but boy do we have applesauce cups!
Collect small plastic snack cups and hold on to them until you have at least 10 or 12. We used applesauce cups, but small fruit cup, yogurt or baby food cups would work just as well. Just make sure they are all the same size and shape so they all feel the same.
If you're using an opaque cup (like a white yogurt cup) then you won't need to make any modifications. If you're using clear cups, then you may want to glue a cupcake baking cup inside each one to hide the contents from sighted players. This will even the playing field and allow your visually impaired child to play along with sighted peers and siblings.
We also cut a small circle from cardstock and glued that onto the bottom of each cup to create a nice high-contrast foundation for our items. You can choose colors that you know your child will be able to see or that will make your objects stand out better.
The next part is the most fun... find objects to glue to the bottom of each cup. Look for varying textures and make sure you create two of each so you can match them up when you play your game later. Here are some objects that work well: cotton balls, tissue paper, mylar, shells, small stones, uncooked pasta or popcorn, paperclips, small gift bows, string, buttons, bottle caps, play-doh etc etc. Bumpy objects (like sea shells) may stick better with hot glue.
After all the glue dries, place your cups upside down on a cookie sheet. Each player takes turn choosing two cups to see if they've found a match. If not, the cups go back on the board. When you find a match, you get to keep your cups and go again. The player with the most cups at the end of the game wins. It's the classic Memory game, but with a tactile twist!
Matching may be difficult for some kids and that's OK! You could start by just exploring the cups and feeling what's inside each one. How does it feel? Is it bumpy or smooth? What do you think it is?
For kids learning braille, why not play a braille matching game? Instead of glueing objects to the bottom of your cups, you could braille letters or words on cardstock and place them in the cups. Can you match the braille letters?
Or how about playing with numbers? You could glue something easy to count, like dried beans, to the bottom of the cups in different numbers. Have your child count how many beans are in the cups and sort them by number.
You could also play with shapes (make half the cups with circular items and half with square) and see if your child can sort the shapes into piles.
Ivan picked up a cup and smelled it and that gave me the idea to make a scented version of this game. All you need to do is glue a cotton ball onto the bottom of each cup and then place one drop of a scented oil or extract on each ball. Instead of trying to match objects by touch you could try to match cotton balls by smell!
How ever you play, you can use this game as a way to encourage your child to touch, explore and think about their environment!


Gionee M6S Plus (black) When you look at Gionee M6S Plus specifications sheet, you will be amazed at the huge 6GB RAM alongside the mind blowing 128GB Internal Memory on one of the versions while the other version packs 64GB internal memory.
The M6S Plus is a 6-inch Phablet with OnCell AMOLED and another layer of Gorilla Glass protection. It is powered by 64-bit Octa-core 1.95 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 653 chipset.
"This is just similar with the Gionee M2017 that packs Android 6.0.1 marshmallow. In terms of storage of 128GB internal memory ROM and a 6GB RAM. Measurement is: 155.2×77.6×10.65mm and it weighs 230g, it packs a beastly 7000mah of battery".
The Gionee M6s Plus, runs Android 6.0 Marshmallow plus Amigo UI 3.5 which is Gionee's custom user interface. In terms of design and body build, we have a metal body here while the phone comes in three color options such as Grey, Black, and Gold.
In the photography department, the handset packs 12-megapixel rear camera with LED flash while in the front, it has 8-megapixel shooter with soft LED flash for taking brighter selfies at night and in low light areas. The front cam can also be used for video calling and chatting.
Connectivity options includes but not limited to GPS, WiFi, Hotspot, microUSB v2.0, USB-On-the-Go while the supported sensors are Fingerprint scanner, light sensor, gravity sensor, electronic compass, compass, gyro and proximity sensor. Below are the rest of Gionee M6S Specs.
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Attorney General Slade Gorton
MOTOR VEHICLES ‑- LICENSES ‑- MINIBUSES ‑- STATUS OF THE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE MINIBUSES
RCW 46.20.440, which requires an additional examination and special license endorsement for operators of certain motor vehicles, does not apply to the drivers of minibuses, accommodating twelve to twenty passengers, which are operated by The Evergreen State College and used for various academically-related field trips.
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Honorable Dean Clabaugh
Administrative Vice President
Olympia, Washington 98505 Cite as: AGLO 1974 No. 90
By letter previously acknowledged you have requested the opinion of this office regarding the applicability of RCW 46.20.440 to the operation of certain minibuses by employees of The Evergreen State College. We paraphrase your question as follows:
Does RCW 46.20.440, which requires an additional examination and special license endorsement for operators of certain motor vehicles, apply to the drivers of minibuses, accommodating twelve to twenty passengers, which are operated by The Evergreen State College and used for various academically-related field trips?
We answer your question in the negative for the reasons set forth in our analysis.
RCW 46.20.440 provides that in order to drive certain types of motor vehicles found by the director of the department of motor vehicles to require special operating skills, a person must pass a qualifying examination and obtain a special endorsement on his regular driver's license. As identified in the statute, those vehicles are as follows:
". . . any motor-truck, truck-tractor, school bus, private carrier bus, auto stage or for-hire vehicle as defined by RCW 46.04.310, 46.04.650, 46.04.521, 46.04.050, 46.04.190 and 46.04.416 respectively, found by the director to require special operating skills as hereafter provided, . . ."
Our reason for answering your question in the negative is that, in our opinion, the vehicles described in your letter do not come within any of these statutory definitions.
First, RCW 46.04.310 defines "motor truck" to mean:
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". . . any motor vehicle designed or used for the transportation of commodities, merchandise, produce, freight, or animals."
Here, the vehicles in question are used by The Evergreen State College to transport college students and faculty on academically-related trips. Therefore, this definition is inapplicable.
Next, RCW 46.04.650 defines "truck-tractor" to mean:
". . . any motor truck designed and used primarily for drawing a semitrailer and not constructed to carry a load thereon other than a part of the weight of such semitrailer and load so drawn." (Emphasis supplied.)
As the vehicles in question do not fall under the definition of "motor truck," it is therefore impossible for them to fall under this definition of a "truck-tractor."
Thirdly, the term "school bus" is defined in RCW 46.04.521 to mean:
". . . every motor vehicle used regularly to transport children to and from school or in connection with school activities, which is subject to the requirements set forth in the most recent edition of 'Specifications for School Buses' published by the state superintendent of public instruction, but does not include buses operated by common carriers in urban transportation of school children."
However, under RCW 28A.03.030 the powers and duties of the state superintendent of public instruction are limited to ". . . matters pertaining to the public schools of the state," and RCW 28A.01.055 defines this term to mean:
". . . the common schools as referred to in Article IX of the state Constitution and those schools and institutions of learning having a curriculum below the college or university level as now or may be established by law and maintained at public expense."
The superintendent of public instruction thus has no control over college and university vehicles. Therefore, those vehicles are not ". . . subject to the . . . most recent edition of [his] 'Specifications for School Buses' . . ." from which it follows that they do not constitute "school buses" as above defined.
Next, RCW 46.04.416 defines the term "private carrier bus" to mean:
". . . every motor vehicle designed for the purpose of carrying passengers (having a seating capacity for eleven or more persons) used regularly to transport persons in furtherance of any organized agricultural, religious or charitable purpose. Such term does not include buses operated by common carriers under a franchise granted by any city or town or the Washington pulic utilities commission." (Emphasis supplied.)
However, it is our understanding that the vehicles here in question are used solely to transport students and faculty members on academically, educationally-related field trips ‑ and not for "any organized agricultural, religious or charitable purpose." The use of these vehicles by The Evergreen State College is confined to educational purposes. Therefore, it is apparent that they do not fall within the definitional structure of a "private carrier bus" as above defined.
The next term referred to in RCW 46.20.440, supra, is that of "auto stage." This term is defined by RCW 46.04.050 to mean:
". . . any motor vehicle used for the purpose of carrying passengers together with incidental baggage and freight or either, on a regular schedule of time and rates: Provided, That no motor vehicle shall be considered to be an auto stage where substantially the entire route traveled by such vehicle is within the corporate limits of any city or town or the corporate limits of any adjoining cities or towns." (Emphasis supplied.)
You have advised us, however, that the vehicles here in question are not operated on a regular schedule of time and rates. Instead, they are used by the college on an unscheduled basis to transport students and faculty members on academically-related trips. It therefore follows that [[Orig. Op. Page 4]] they do not fall within this definition of an "auto stage."
Finally, RCW 46.20.440 refers to the term "for hire vehicle" which is defined in RCW 46.04.190 to mean:
". . . any motor vehicle other than an auto stage used for the transportation of persons for compensation." (Emphasis supplied.)
However, in AGO 1968 No. 37 [[to Harold R. Koch, Prosecuting Attorney, Thurston County on December 19, 1968]], a copy of which you will find enclosed, we advised that:
". . . in order to be operating a motor vehicle 'for compensation' . . . it is necessary that a person's operation of a vehicle (of the type to which the statute applies) be a distinct employment duty for which compensation is paid, and not a mere incidental or occasional part of his job."
In essence, that opinion held that in order for a person to be operating a motor vehicle "for compensation," within the purview of RCW 46.20.440, supra, (which at that time only required the special endorsement on a driver's license if a person were driving "for compensation"), it was necessary that the operation of such a vehicle be a distinct employment duty for which compensation was paid. Here, we understand that no additional compensation in the form of salary or other inducements is paid to the drivers of the vehicles in question when used on the academically-related trips you have described. Consequently, it is apparent that these vehicles do not constitute "for hire vehicles."
In summary, and for the foregoing reasons, we thus conclude that RCW 46.20.440, supra, is inapplicable to the operation by The Evergreen State College of such minibuses as are used by the college to transport students and faculty members on academically and educationally-related field trips. Therefore, there is no necessity for the drivers of those vehicles to obtain the special endorsement to their drivers' licenses which is required by that statute.
We trust that the foregoing will be of assistance to you.
SLADE GORTON
JOHN H. LUDWICK
Assistant Attorney General
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Thesis: Twilight Sleep and its Contributions in Shaping Perceptions of Childbirth
This thesis explores the impact of Twilight Sleep on women and physicians and their perceptions of childbirth. Twilight Sleep empowered women to take on a more active role in shaping the medical care they received rather than accepting childbirth as a natural event associated with physical and mental trauma and high risk of mortality. For doctors, the debate regarding Twilight Sleep's safety and efficacy affirmed a ubiquitous notion that childbirth ought to be seen as a pathological rather than natural event.
Subject: Theories
Birth without Violence (1975), by Frederick Leboyer
In Birth without Violence (1975), French obstetrician Frederick Leboyer describes in poetic form the possible perceptions and feelings of embryos and fetuses before, during, and after birth. His work has helped to promote a gentler and more sensitive birthing method with the goal of easing the newborn's transition from the womb to the outside world. Leboyer's birthing method influenced later birth techniques such as water birth and unassisted childbirth.
"Effects of Social Support During Parturition on Maternal and Infant Morbidity" (1986), by Marshall Klaus, John Kennell, Steven Robertson, and Roberto Sosa
"Elective Induction of Labor" (1955), by Edward Bishop
In 1955, obstetrician Edward Bishop, a physician specializing in childbirth, published the article "Elective Induction of Labor," in which he proposed the best conditions for pregnant women to elect to induce, or begin, labor. Elective induction of labor requires an obstetrician to administer a drug to help a pregnant woman to start her contractions, and to rupture the fluid-filled sac surrounding the fetus called the amniotic sac.
"Pelvic Scoring for Elective Induction" (1964), by Edward Bishop
In the 1964 article, "Pelvic Scoring for Elective Induction," obstetrician Edward Bishop describes his method to determine whether a doctor should induce labor, or artificially start the birthing process, in a pregnant woman. Aside from medical emergencies, a woman can elect to induce labor to choose when she gives birth and have a shorter than normal labor. The 1964 publication followed an earlier article by Bishop, also about elective induction.
DONA International (1992– )
In 1992, five maternal-infant health researchers founded Doulas of North America, later renamed DONA International to train certified birth attendants called doulas to provide care to pregnant women both before and after the birthing process. Annie Kennedy, John Kennell, Marshall Klaus, Phyllis Klaus, and Penny Simkin used the term doula, derived from the Greek word for woman servant, to describe a female birthing aide who provides non-medical emotional and physical support to laboring pregnant women.
Subject: Organizations
The Business of Being Born (2008)
In 2008, Barranca Productions released a documentary called The Business of Being Born, detailing the topic of childbirth. Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein produced and directed the documentary. The documentary explores pregnancy related healthcare in the US, including the history of midwives and obstetrics. The film also discusses potential consequences of medicalized childbirth common in the twenty-first century. The Business of Being Born provides viewers with information about home-births, midwives, and the positive and negative aspects of going to the hospital for childbirth.
Subject: Outreach
"Pelvic Organ Prolapse" (2007), by John E. Jelovsek, Christopher Maher, and Matthew D. Barber
In 2007, physicians John Jelovsek, Christopher Maher, and Matthew Barber published, "Pelvic Organ Prolapse," in The Lancet. In their article, Jelovsek and colleagues provided an overview of pelvic organ prolapse in women and described the epidemiology, risk factors, symptoms, and management of the condition. Pelvic organ prolapse occurs when a woman's pelvic floor is weakened or damaged from stress or trauma such as vaginal childbirth.
Subject: Publications, Disorders
Evaluation of the Newborn Infant--Second Report (1958), by Virginia Apgar et al.
Virginia Apgar and colleagues wrote "Evaluation of the Newborn Infant—Second Report" in 1958. This article explained that Apgar's system for evaluating infants' condition after birth accurately predicted the health of infants. Apgar had developed the scoring system in 1953 to provide a simple method for determining if an infant needed medical attention after birth.
James Young Simpson (1811–1870)
James Young Simpson was one of the first obstetricians to administer anesthesia during childbirth in nineteenth century Scotland. Before his work in the 1800s, physicians had few ways to reduce the pain of childbirth. Simpson experimented with the use of ether and chloroform, both gaseous chemicals, to temporarily relieve pain. He found that those chemicals both successfully inhibited the pain women felt during childbirth and pain during other surgeries. Patients under the influence of chloroform fell asleep and were unaware of the intense pain of childbirth.
"Levator Trauma is Associated with Pelvic Organ Prolapse" (2008), by Hans P. Dietz and Judy M. Simpson
Hans Peter Dietz and Judy Simpson published, "Levator Trauma is Associated with Pelvic Organ Prolapse," in the journal BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology in 2008. In their article, Dietz and Simpson estimated the risk of pelvic organ prolapse in women who attained injuries to the pelvic levator muscles. The levator muscles, also known as the levator ani, are a major muscle group that comprise the pelvic floor. Along with other muscles, the pelvic floor supports organs in a woman's pelvis, such as the bladder, uterus, and rectum.
During the mid-twentieth century, Virginia Apgar worked as an obstetrical anesthesiologist and gave drugs to women that reduced their pain during childbirth in the US. In 1953, Apgar created a scoring system, called the Apgar score, that uses five measurements, including heart rate and breathing rate. The Apgar score evaluates newborn infants and determines who needs immediate medical attention. Apgar's work helped decrease infant mortality rates. As of 2020, hospitals around the world use the Apgar score.
"'Doing the Month': Confinement and Convalescence of Chinese Women After Childbirth" (1978), by Barbara L.K. Pillsbury
In 1978 Social Science and Medicine published Barbara L.K. Pillsbury's article, 'Doing the Month': Confinement and Convalescence of Chinese Women After Childbirth, which summarized the results of Pillsbury's study on Chinese childbirth customs. Pillsbury, a professor of cultural anthropology at San Diego State University in San Diego, California, conducted over eighty interviews with people in Taiwan and China, including civilians, herbalists, and physicians over a four-month period in 1975.
Twilight Sleep
Twilight Sleep (Dammerschlaf) was a form
of childbirth first used in the early twentieth century in Germany in
which drugs caused women in labor to enter a state of sleep prior to
giving birth and awake from childbirth with no recollection of the
procedure. Prior to the early twentieth century, childbirth was
performed at home and women did not have anesthetics to alleviate the
pain of childbirth. In 1906, obstetricians Bernhardt Kronig and Karl
Gauss developed the twilight sleep method in 1906 to relieve the pain of
"The Prophylactic Forceps Operation" (1920), by Joseph Bolivar DeLee
In 1920, Joseph Bolivar DeLee published the article, "The Prophylactic Forceps Operation," in which he describes how physicians can manually remove a neonate from a laboring woman's vagina with the use of sedating drugs and forceps. The procedure, according to DeLee, resulted in decreased rates of complications and mortality for both the woman and neonate. DeLee claimed the procedure could reduce damage to the woman such as prolapse, or when internal pelvic organs push down and sometimes protrude from the vagina, and fatal infant brain bleeding.
Subject: Publications, Processes
"The Association between Depressive Symptoms and Social Support in Taiwanese Women During the Month" (2004), by Shu-Shya Heh et al.
In 2004, Shu-Shya Heh, Lindsey Coombes, and Helen Bartlett studied the association between Chinese postpartum (post-childbirth) practices and postpartum depression in Taiwanese women. The researchers surveyed Taiwanese women about the social support they received after giving birth and then evaluated the depression rates in the same women. Heh and her colleagues focused on the month following childbirth, which according to traditional Chinese medicine, is an important period that warrants a set of specialized practices to aid the woman's recovery.
Subject: Experiments
William Smellie (1697–1763)
William Smellie helped to incorporate scientific medicine into the process of childbirth in eighteenth century Britain. As a male physician practicing in childbirth and female reproductive health (man-midwife), Smellie developed and taught procedures to treat breech fetuses, which occur when a fetus fails to rotate its head towards the birth canal during delivery. Throughout his career, Smellie compiled a wealth of information about female anatomy in his writings. He modified medical technology such as the obstetrical forceps, an instrument used to maneuver the fetus during childbirth.
The Use of Morphine and Scopolamine to Induce Twilight Sleep
In 1907, researchers Bernhardt Kronig and Carl Gauss combined the drugs morphine and scopolamine to induce twilight sleep in women during childbirth. Physicians in the early twentieth century in Germany used twilight sleep, Dammerschlaf, to cause women to enter a state of consciousness in which they felt no pain and did not remember giving birth. Twilight sleep was associated with increased use of forceps during delivery, prolonged labor, and increased risk of infant suffocation.
Subject: Processes
"Chapter Two: Minimum Initial Services Package (MISP)" in Reproductive Health in Refugee Situations: An Inter-agency Field Manual (1999), by the Inter-Agency Working Group on Reproductive Health in Crises
In 1999, the Inter-agency Working Group on Reproductive Health in Crises, hereafter the IAWG, wrote the Minimum Initial Services Package, hereafter MISP, which is the second chapter in Reproductive Health in Refugee Situations: An Inter-agency Field Manual. The IAWG wrote MISP for governments and agencies, who respond to humanitarian crises, as a guide for the provision of reproductive health services at the beginning of a humanitarian crises.
"The Standardization of Terminology of Female Pelvic Organ Prolapse and Pelvic Floor Dysfunction" (1996), Richard C. Bump, Anders Mattiasson, Kari Bø, Linda P. Brubaker, John O.L. DeLancey, Peter Klarskov, Bob L. Shull, Anthony R.B. Smith
In 1996, a team of researchers associated with the International Continence Society published "The Standardization of Terminology of Female Pelvic Organ Prolapse and Pelvic Floor Dysfunction" in American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Pelvic organ prolapse is characterized by the descent of the pelvic organs into the lower portion of the pelvis and is often caused by a weakening of the muscles and ligaments that normally hold the organs in place.
John Chassar Moir (1900–1977)
John Chassar Moir lived in Scotland during the twentieth century and helped develop techniques to improve the health of pregnant women. Moir helped to discover compounds that doctors could administer to women after childbirth to prevent life-threatening blood loss. Those compounds included the ergot alkaloid called ergometrine, also called ergonovine, and d-lysergic acid beta-propanolamide. Moir tested ergometrine in postpartum patients and documented that it helped prevent or manage postpartum hemorrhage in women.
Subject: People, Reproduction, Disorders
Jesse Bennett (1769–1842)
Jesse Bennett, sometimes spelled Bennet, practiced medicine in the US during the late eighteenth century and performed one of the first successful cesarean operations, later called cesarean sections, in 1794. Following complications during his wife's childbirth, Bennett made an incision through her lower abdomen and uterus to deliver their infant. Bennett's biographers report that his operation was the first cesarean section where both the pregnant woman and the infant survived.
Virginia Apgar worked as an obstetrical anesthesiologist, administering drugs that reduce women's pain during childbirth, in the US in the mid-twentieth century. In 1953, Apgar created a scoring system using five easily assessable measurements, including heart rate and breathing rate, to evaluate whether or not infants would benefit from medical attention immediately after birth. Apgar's system showed that infants who were previously set aside as too sick to survive, despite low Apgar scores, could recover with immediate medical attention.


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Claire Nelson knows the importance of the Commonweath Games for netball
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Scotland first entered a netball team in the Commonwealth Games in 2014. SNS Group
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21st Jul 2022
Netball Scotland chief executive Claire Nelson believes the Commonwealth Games will be a catalyst for continuing growth in the sport north of the border.
The netball tournament starts on July 29 with the Scottish Thistles' first game coming the following day against the Australian Diamonds, ranked number one in the world and the 2018 Commonwealth Games runners-up.
Jamaica, South Africa, Wales and Barbados are also in Group A and Nelson believes the exposure given to the matches can further energise the sport in Scotland.
Nelson, who is also CEO of Strathclyde Sirens, Scotland's only professional netball team, told the PA news agency about the importance of Birmingham.
She said: "Multi-sport games are so critical for 'minority sports' because it allows people to consume sport that maybe they haven't seen before or they have not seen live.
"If you reflect on that gold-medal winning match for England, by one goal in the dying seconds in the Gold Coast Games in 2018 which became BBC Sports Personality Greatest Sporting Moment of the Year – it is an exciting and fast game.
"And so for us to get exposure like that of what our sport looks like live, it feeds into everything we are doing, our desire to host more international events and also the Sirens and what that the Superleague season looks like.
"We want people, men, women, boys, girls, however you identify, to back netball, not because it is a women's sport, because it is an exciting, live experience, indoor and affordable.
"So getting a 10-day competition with every single game being covered is a really critical opportunity and we will look to leverage that the best we can, not just for visibility and fans but also for people wanting to participate.
"We have programmes for everyone of all ages. There has never been more opportunity to play, engage, watch, enjoy and experience our sport. This visibility is absolutely critical and we are going to make the most of it."
Scotland first fielded a netball team in the Commonwealth Games in 2014 in Glasgow and Nelson, driven and enthusiastic, is confident that all the right pieces are in place to make a mark in this competition.
She described the 2014 event as a "game changer" and added: "Getting that exposure allowed us to invest into the performance pathway, bring on new coaches and professionalise the programme.
"In 2014 and 2018, we have never quite finished where we would have liked to in a Games so post-2019 we made some changes. We brought in Karen Atkinson as our performance director, we recruited Tamsin Greenway as our national coach and she in turn recruited Sara Francis-Bayman as assistant coach.
"They are three of the most successful, most respected and most brilliant coaches in world netball. They have won medals as athletes with England, they have won Superleagues, they have coached teams to win.
"They have created a programme to allow Scotland to perform on the world stage.
"Of course the pandemic has bit and so we had two years without match play. On the whole these guys haven't had the chance to test themselves but when I look at the players we have, the system we have, and the coaches we have I am really excited to see how this team is going to perform in Birmingham.
"We have a lot of hard work ahead, they are going up against the best so it is not going to be easy but I have real confidence in my coaches and players."
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I initially started working with Khoi Vinh, one of the most brilliant designers I know, a few years ago when we collaborated on a premium WordPress theme called Basic Maths. At the time, he was new to WordPress and was using Expression Engine to power his uber-popular blog. A few years later after seeing how malleable WordPress was, he asked me to help him reimagine his blog using WordPress as the backbone, and there was no way I could turn it down.
Khoi led the design while I did all of the WordPress development on the site. There are tons of nuggets of smart design and slick interaction techniques used throughout the site that you are simply better off seeing for yourself.
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AllBurgundy.com
Naturel, a visual artist specializing in digital illustrations and prints, is a close friend of mine whom I've known for over 15 years. Watching his most recent work go from a simple idea posted on Instagram to almost breaking the Internet a few times has been incredible to watch. When he reached out to me about needing a site to sell his work online, I was more than excited to help him bring it to life.
His pieces sell out within hours so we needed a system that could keep up with inventory and streamline shipments. Shopify was the most straightforward solution for this so starting with some design direction from Naturel, I designed and developed a solution that elegantly shows off his work and offers a simple yet intuitive payment interaction for visitors.
Wink Relay Microsite
After working with the Normal earphones team, I was contacted by their partner company, Quirky, to work on a full-screen microsite for a new product called Wink Relay—a smart device that connects and regulates your home appliances. They were announcing it in just two weeks, so after meeting with the team in person to discuss specifics and review their design, I immediately started to build it.
Using HTML, jQuery and LESS, I quickly delivered a dynamic, fast loading, responsive experience, that effectively promoted their new product—and on time. Unfortunately, the campaign ended in 2014 and is no longer live.
Nrml Earphones
As a proud music nerd, I was really excited to work with a brand that is pushing the envelope of earphone design. Each pair of Nrml earphones are one-of-a-kind and 3d-printed to fit the unique shape of your ear.
The Nrml team provided a design that combined high-res product shots with a focus on product details and specs. This was a frontend-only build so I was tasked with taking their design and turning it into a functional and responsive HTML/JS/CSS site.
NY Media Center by IFP
For this project, I had the pleasure of working on-site with the good folks at AREA17, hand-in-hand with their design lead and back-end developers. The NY Media Center is an "incubator" of sorts that provides artists, innovators and entrepreneurs with resources to help them take their ideas to the next level.
The project itself was pretty large as it combines two separate CMSes and exists on two separate servers. I led the front-end development and built the WordPress portions of the CMS development.
GE Link Bulbs
GE Link bulbs are part of a series of innovative product ideas produced by Quirky for GE. These futuristic light bulbs can be scheduled to turn on and off via your mobile phone and they're also super energy-efficient. I worked with Quirky to build a microsite to showcase the bulbs and all of their great features.
This was another front-end development only project where the design direction was provided by Quirky designers. I used a custom front-end framework to implement various common features and streamline the development process.
Partners & Spade
Partners & Spade is a really awesome brand agency based in New York. I had been aware of their work and their brand for a while when Tom Ran, of The Scout online magazine first brought the project to my attention, so I was very excited to take this one on.
I worked directly with Anthony Sperduti, the co-founder of the brand, and his design team to showcase the amazing work that P&S produces. They also wanted to be able to maintain the site on their own which made WordPress an easy choice for the backend. The site also features a built in storefront solution that they use to sell rare products.
Outside of some of the visual and interactive work that I do, I also produce music. The Stuyvesants is a collaborative instrumental hip-hop project that I started with my long time friend, art director, and music enthusiast Darien Birks. What started out as a Friday night, after-work routine of listening to old records and getting inspired to make new music turned into a five-album journey that continues to grow and reach people far beyond our expectations.
Besides producing the music for this project, I also have a hand in creating the record cover art. I built the site using a combination of WordPress, the SoundCloud API, and an integration of Sellfy to manage sales.
Listen for free here: thestuyvesants.com.


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iOS 8 Will Have a New Instructional App Called Tips
By Mario Aguilar on at
The newest build of iOS 8 just hit developers, and it includes, TADA, a new Apple app called Tips, which will help new users navigate the basics of Apple's mobile OS.
The screen shot above comes to us from 9To5Mac, which reports the details of Apple's newest app. As the name implies, Tips will be full of helpful "did you know" like suggestions and mini tutorials on iOS 8 features. For example, the app will help everyone who fires up iOS and needs a quick guide to Siri. The screens also imply that there will be new weekly tips to squeezing more out of your iPhone or iPad.
Tips is noteworthy mostly because Apple doesn't add new apps to its pre-installed suite very often, so you have to believe it was created out of some kind of very urgent need. It might be a bit much to say that Apple, which prides itself on the simplicity of its user experience, is admitting that users might need a little tour of iOS' guided features. It's actually more amazing that iOS has got by without much in the way of instructions for so long. [9to5Mac]
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If you were ever looking for the truth...look no further. In April 2015, Funko will release the Pop! Television: The X-Files figures. It will feature four figures from the classic science fiction television series: Fox Mulder, Dana Scully, The Cigarette Smoking Man, and Alien.
The 12th installment in the Keiko series by Fools Paradise is their 2nd exclusive with Mintyfresh. The Jango Keiko - Mintyfresh Exclusive is a 12-inch tall polystone resin figure. It's limited to a run of only 100 pieces and can be pre-ordered for €199.95 (around $251). While it's a pre-order, the figure is estimated to arrive in December 2014 (though I might not bet your Christmas gifts on it getting to you for the big day).


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Economic case will sway Remain vote
Embassy Network | 16th February 2017
The decision to remain or leave the EU will come down to the silent majority's assessment of the economic risks, the Financial Secretary to the Treasury David Gauke MP told an AERL meeting hosted by the Swiss Embassy.
The impact of BREXIT on bread-and-butter issues such as jobs and living standards were more likely to resonate with the British public than idealistic issues such as the EU's role in peace and stability on the continent.
A "disciplined, focused and consistent" message about the economic risks of leaving was more likely to "sway the undecided" to the Remain side, he told diplomats.
"If people are complaining in May or June that the Remain campaign is a bit boring I wouldn't worry too much. Boring can be good," said the Minister, who was involved in the campaign strategy that won the Conservatives the election in 2015.
Comparing the EU vote to the Scottish referendum, he said the silent "'small c' conservatives" had turned out to vote because they were worried about the uncertainty.
"I think there is a group of voters who are not enthusiasts for the European project and who do worry about levels of immigration and define themselves as Eurosceptics but who, when it comes down to it, will look at the economic argument and say leaving is too much of a risk."
Taking on the economic arguments of the Leave campaign was also essential, said Gauke, who accused them of misleading the public by claiming they could negotiate access to the single market without agreeing to free movement or paying into the EU budget.
"No country has that arrangement. The idea that you can get every single negotiating demand is frankly misleading the British people as to the strength of the British negotiating position and the likelihood of reaching any such deal. That just is not going to happen," he said.
Even if access to the single market was shelved and Britain decided to negotiate a free-trade deal with the EU in the transition period, there would be challenges, argued Gauke. "A two-year period in terms of trade negotiations is very short. If you are the party in any negotiation with a deadline, you are the one that is essentially in the weaker position."
Photo: The Financial Secretary to the Treasury David Gauke MP


The area of the bad credit home mortgage loan can be quite a tricky one if you enter into it for the wrong reasons or if you have not calculated your figures properly. If you have had some credit difficulties in the past than the very first thing that you need to do is assess how these problems occurred in the first place and make sure that you've put measures in place to make sure that these types of difficulties do not arise again.
It was once said that the definition of madness is to continue to do the same thing and expect different results. If you have not fixed the spending habits which allowed your credit rating to suffer in the first place than a bad credit mortgage style product is a really bad idea. Ideally, it would be much better scenario to spend a little time and money on fixing your credit rating before continuing. Once you can fall into the prime mortgage candidate category then your potential for borrowing in a far more financially efficient way increases significantly. This applies both in terms of the interest rate that she will be able to get from borrowers and also in regard to the terms and conditions that they will make available to you as well. In an ideal world no person with the put themselves on the additional pressure of having to live with the terms and conditions and the higher expense in terms of repayment of a subprime mortgage product.
Unfortunately this is simply not the case for everybody and if you find yourself in a situation where you can take your credit in the short term in terms of your racing but you'll have fixed your spending then perhaps a bad credit or subprime mortgage is an option. More so than probably any other area of the finance industry research is absolutely the key here in terms of securing a deal that you will be able to make the repayments on over an extended period of time.
When that time has arrived to acquire a mortgage, harnessing the power of the net in terms of helping you do your research is a great idea but it's extremely important to understand that a lot of the information you will encounter will have originally come from one of the mortgage loan providers. As a result, you will need to check that your information is 100% accurate by cross referencing it with other sources of data.
Any good or bad points on your credit report will be the largest factor at play when it comes to trying to negotiate the best possible terms and conditions and the cheapest rate with the mortgage loan provider. If it's ever happened that you have run into some difficulties pertaining to your credit rating then before you apply for a mortgage would be the ideal time to put right any outstanding difficulties with your credit report.
Before applying for mortgage it's completely fundamental to make absolutely sure that your budget is correct. When the length of your mortgages is taken into account, it's centrally important that your calculations are sustainable over a long period of time.
Your choice of mortgage product is very important if only for the fact that it is something that will stay with you over an extended period of time.
One particular aspect that it would not be a good idea to take too much notice of is the headline numbers in financial product marketing as these figures are not going to reveal the whole story. 0ne thing is for sure, that we've all seen those adverts where your headline is so much bigger than any of the other elements in the advert. There is a basic point here that you should really take on board. The company that put out the ad is absolutely not going to be just giving away their profit margins for no good reason and one thing you can be sure of is that if you look closely you will be able to figure out where they will garner that supposed free lunch and you, as the consumer, are going to be the source of that cash!
When the time has arrived to look into this particular subject matter, like any other financially based product, it will probably be the case that the financial language that is normally used by any of the financial companies may sometimes be extremely tricky to decipher but it's extremely crucial that you persevere because it is very crucial that you possess a solid understanding because in the end this will allow you to have an even playing field when the need arises to do business with any single institution or broker.
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UFOs, UAPs — whatever they're called, the US needs to know what they are
This appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
A few years ago, it would have drawn jokes and scorn. But given the continuing mystery over what, exactly, U.S. military pilots are seeing in the skies, a congressional proposal to create an "Anomaly Surveillance and Resolution Office" — an office to investigate what used to be called UFOs — makes sense.
This is no laughing matter. In 2017, The New York Times reported that the U.S. military was gathering data from pilots who had reported unexplained encounters during their flights. Recently released video of some of those encounters defies conventional explanation — objects moving at speeds and in ways that don't conform with current aviation technological capabilities. And unlike most of the wack-a-doodle stuff from UFO culture, the Pentagon confirms those videos are real.
It's not to say these are little green men. This could be Russian or Chinese or North Korean technology being taken out for a test-drive under the noses of American military pilots to gauge U.S. reaction. Among the most startling aspects of the Pentagon's recent new openness on this topic is its acknowledgment that this isn't one or two or a half-dozen unexplained encounters. It's happening with relative frequency, often in restricted airspace.
The acronym UFO — unidentified flying object — was a military creation from the 1950s but has since then been so thoroughly commandeered by pop culture that the military has ditched it and now uses a new acronym: UAP, for "unidentified aerial phenomena."
The Pentagon this summer issued a report on UAP sightings that raised more questions than it answered. It found no solid evidence that the still-unexplained sightings were from global adversaries — or something else — but it encouraged political leaders to begin taking the issue more seriously than they traditionally have.
Not so long ago, it would have sounded like science fiction, but today it makes perfect sense that Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., is proposing creation of the Anomaly Surveillance and Resolution Office, dedicated to investigating these sightings as they occur. Gillibrand has introduced an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act establishing the office.
The idea has wide bipartisan support — a rarity these days, and an indication of how seriously this once-snicker-inducing topic is now being taken in Washington.
The Day editorial board meets regularly with political, business and community leaders and convenes weekly to formulate editorial viewpoints. It is composed of President and Publisher Tim Dwyer, Managing Editor Izaskun E. Larrañeta, staff writer Erica Moser and retired deputy managing editor Lisa McGinley. However, only the publisher and editorial page editor are responsible for developing the editorial opinions. The board operates independently from the Day newsroom.
Still to do in East Lyme: Acknowledge the problem of racism
The resolution would be useless as an idealistic statement sitting on a shelf, but as a blueprint applied to policymaking and budget development, its fairness principles should underlie decisions in the same way as cost and need and long-term value.
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Thank you for taking the time to look at my boards and your interest in a custom board. It would be good to hear from you, so please feel free to call or visit. My current lead on a custom board is up to four months, but that will depend on the shape chosen and will be less for a shape that I have already used.


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Q: How to add a vertical line between two columns in Bootstrap 4 I have two div columns. I want to display a line between them on the screen.

A: Try this, I hope it'll help you out. Thanks

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Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.

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It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout.

A: You can use the following solution using the border-right from utility classes of Bootstrap 4. But there are no breakpoint classes available on the border utilities. So the border is always visible:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.3.1/css/bootstrap.min.css" integrity="sha384-ggOyR0iXCbMQv3Xipma34MD+dH/1fQ784/j6cY/iJTQUOhcWr7x9JvoRxT2MZw1T" crossorigin="anonymous">

Column A

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In case you only want to show the border on a specific breakpoint you can use something like the following (border is only visible on breakpoint md and higher):

.border-right.border-md {
  border-right-width:0!important;
}

@media (min-width: 768px) {
  .border-right.border-md {
    border-right-width:1px!important;
  }
}
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Column A

Column B

You can also add some custom SCSS code to the Bootstrap SCSS to add the breakpoints to the borders too: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/23892

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A lot of people think tending a garden is totally beyond them, but that's true only for people who don't do their research. With the right knowledge, anyone can be a great gardener. Explore this article to find some helpful tips that can take you to master status in your garden.
Think about starting plants in pots, and then placing the seedlings in the garden later. Once the plant is hardy enough, plant it in your garden. In addition, you can shorten the intervals between your plantings. When you remove your mature plants, the next batch of seedlings should be ready.
For the best results, select the right kind of soil. You may need to alter the kind of soil you use based on the types of plants you intend to grow. It is also possible to create individual areas with one specific soil type.
Plants will respond with maximum growth if they have the amount of CO2 they require. If the level of CO2 is extremely high, your plants will grow much better. A greenhouse has the best levels available. The levels need to be kept high for optimum greenery growth.
You can use boiling water to get rid of weeds naturally. Water is cheaper than chemical herbicides, and less hazardous to humans and soil. Pour boiling water over the weeds to kill them, but make sure not to pour the water over any plants you don't want to kill. Boiling water kills weeds by destroying their roots. Weeds won't be able to survive, never mind grow, with damaged weeds.
The best gardens will evolve from original seeds rather than transplanted items. As a green-friendly gardener, you always want to use seeds to start your new plot. It is common for commercial plants to be packaged in plastic that is not commonly recycled, and therefore, it is better to use seeds or purchase plantings only from merchants who make use of organic packaging.
Being a novice gardener, you should ensure that you follow the directions carefully for tool and chemical use. If you don't do this, you could cause unnecessary skin irritations, which are very painful. Keep your health intact and follow the directions to the letter.
Think about planting evergreen plants that will produce berries in the backyard. Your yard will then have bright spots of color all year round, which is especially cheerful in the winter when all of your other flora is bare or colorless. A few of the most vivid plants in winter are American Holly, Winterberry, Snowberry and Cranberrybush.
One particular plant should be the focal point of your garden. A solid focal point will draw peoples attention to your garden, leaving them to admire your unique design. Frequently, it will be a plant that's very different from others in the neighborhood.
Heather can be planted to attract useful insects. Heather will attract bees early in the spring as well as other beneficial insects. Undisturbed shrubs, such as beds of heather, are probably home to a number of beneficial insects like spiders and ground beetles. Because of this, you should put on a pair of gloves when it's time to prune the heather.
Gardening isn't hard to do if you understand what to do and how to use the tools you have. When you have the correct information, horticulture can be both easy and fun. The tips we have provided are a great place to start on your path to becoming an expert gardener.
The initial stages of learning are sometimes the most important. You should be able to start making some concrete plans thanks to the tips you just read. Use what you learned in this article, and you will do great.


A coalition of philanthropists has announced they are donating more than $30 million in a drive to combat Alzheimer's disease.
Bill Gates and Leonard Lauder are among those who have joined forces to launch the Diagnostic Accelerator, a tool that develops biomarkers that could lead to the early detection of the disease.
The Diagnostics Accelerator brings together initial commitments worth more than $30 million from partners including Bill Gates, Leonard Lauder, the Dolby family, the Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation, and others, who are committed to bringing the funding, focus, resources and urgency required.
Dr Howard Fillit, founding executive director and chief science officer of the ADDF, said, "Biomarkers can show whether someone is suffering from a disease, and also how the body responds to a treatment for that disease.
He also noted that one of the goals of Diagnostics Accelerator is to develop novel drugs for new targets, such as inflammation and epigenetics.
ADDF supports an area that is underfunded because research and development is risky. Most projects in the preclinical drug discovery and early-stage clinical trials are not far enough along in the drug development pipeline to attract financial support from the pharmaceutical industry or other major partners.
ADDF absorbs this risk and bridges the funding gap, enabling scientists to pursue groundbreaking ideas that might lead to a cure for Alzheimer's disease, which affects more than 44 million people and is currently the only top 10 cause of death that cannot be prevented, cured or slowed down.
The foundation is the only charity whose sole aim is to find medication to treat Alzheimer's.


I was feeling quite anxious this week and it left me uninspired and glum. Well, for the first time in a long while there was actual sunshine that lasted all day that beckoned me to leave my home office and take a much needed stroll on Fifth avenue to take in some fresh air and clear the mind.
My first stop was the Henri Bendel store and boy, am I glad I made it my first stop. I found myself mesmerized by the different merchandise displays, but the best yet, was meeting so many friendly creative people that were full of life and truly love what they do which I needed to see and be surrounded by this week*. Chatting with them and looking at their amazingly beautiful creations reinvigorated my creative mind (in addition to a little shopping which didn't hurt either). It's a feeling that can't be gained by just surfing the worldwide WEB. Being a people person, I thrive on meeting and speaking with other creative minds face-to-face which not even Pinterest can ever replace. Besides, one of my goals for this year is to spend more time outdoors instead of being glued to my home office desk in front of the computer screen all day. Taking a walk outside in the natural environment (depending on the environment that is...) releases brain chemicals that calm, sooth away stress, and provide an emotional relief. So if you have an opportunity to spend some time outdoors this weekend after perhaps being couped up in an office, by all means do it! Refresh the mind. Take time to smell the flowers of spring and become inspired and then find yourself heading back home with the impetus to tackle the spring cleaning list that's been sitting there all this time.
*These are the moments that make life worthwhile...worthy of documenting for the low days. Inspiration is all around us. We just have to be present to receive every bit of it with open arms and gratitude. Happy weekend!