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Course For Bloodborne Pathogens provides access to the Bloodborne Pathogens Training Class, which may be recommended or required in the state of California for employees who are occupationally exposed to blood or other potentially infectious materials (OPIM). Many employers make certain that their workers receive regular training that covers all elements of the Bloodborne Pathogens Standard. This training is generally made available on initial assignment, at least annually thereafter, and when new or modified tasks or procedures affect a worker's occupational exposure.
This online Bloodborne Pathogens Training Class provides meaningful content intended to educate students on bloodborne pathogens and diseases, methods used to control occupational exposure, hepatitis B vaccine, and medical evaluation and post-exposure follow-up procedures. This course has been designed to present topics relevant to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) training requirement as stated in OSHA's Bloodborne Pathogens Standard, Title 29 of the Code of Federal Regulations at 29 CFR 1910.1030.Start now for only $15 Is this class acceptable in your county? Click to find out!
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Afghanistan visa
Ireland citizens need visa for travelling to Afghanistan as tourist. COVID travel advice is country is Open for travel. The stay is usually short with a period of 30 days and visa expires in 90 days. Applicant is required to be present when applying for visa and a total of 7 documents are required. You can also find useful tips from fellow travellers.
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Tourist Visa is issued to foreign nationals who intend to visit Afghanistan individually or with a group for visiting natural beauties, tourist and historic places.Tourist Visa can be extended only once by the Ministry of Interior Affairs upon the approval of the Afghan Tourism Department.
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Welcome to Barnegat Lighthouse State Park! The 32 acre park is located on the northern tip of Long Beach Island New Jersey and is considered an important bird area due to the many variations of water fowl which may be found.
The main focal point of the 32 acre state park is the Barnegat Lighthouse which you can climb to see outstanding views of the surrounding Barnegat Bay, Atlantic Ocean and massive development which is found south of the park on Long Beach Island New Jersey.
As special as "Old Barney" is (another name for the lighthouse), what is found growing near it may be even more special. Looking down from the lighthouse you will see a brief patch of woods next to the parking lot for the state park. This patch of woods consists of a plant community known as a Maritime Forest or also known as a dune woodland. This woodland is about the only forested area remaining on Long Beach Island.
From the map above you can easily tell that the parking lot for the state park is bigger than the small remnant maritime forest.
Maritime Forests are found generally beyond the reach of heavy salt spray in moister and protected hollows found behind primary sand dunes. Nonetheless enough salt spray still reaches the maritime forest and can severely stunt growth of the plant community by drying plant tissue. Salt killed sections of the plant then fall off in the wind which makes the plant appear to be pruned.
The maritime forest is dominated by:
- Black Cherry
- Sassafras
- Pitch Pine
- Red Maple
- Virginia Creeper
- Beach Plum
- American Beach Grass
- Beach Heather
- Bayberry
- Shadbush
- Hackberry
- Eastern Red Cedar
- American Holly
Migrant bird species take advantage of this incredibly rare and important remnant maritime forest. Migrant birds you might see include the below among other species:
You can explore this living museum by hiking a .02 mile interpretive (my personal favorite type!) loop trail which branches off near the visitor center. Check out some pictures of the trail below!
This special woodland may be small but should not be overlooked. Be sure to check it out if you are on Long Beach Island!
Click below to see a list of plants found in Barnegat Lighthouse State Park!
Barnegat Lighthouse State Park Flora
Check out the latest bird sightings here!
Barnegat Lighthouse State Park is situated on the northern tip of Long Beach Island in Ocean County. The park can be reached by taking the Garden State Parkway to exit 63. From Route 72 east, turn left onto Long Beach Blvd. and then left onto Broadway. The park entrance is on the right.
Feel free to Comment with any Questions, Memories or Suggestions! Thank you and have fun exploring!
Check out Plant Communities of New Jersey.
NJ's geology, topography and soil, climate, plant-plant and plant-animal relationships, and the human impact on the environment are all discussed in great detail. Twelve plant habitats are described and the authors were good enough to put in examples of where to visit!
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Green Lantern won over a skeptical crowd with hot new footage of superhero space opera action last night. And now you can see for yourself!
Warner Bros. uploaded four minutes of new scenes, a condensed and edited version of what we saw yesterday. Does it wow you as much as it did the crowds at the Moscone Center? Also, we've got some screencaps below.
Watch the footage in HD over at Apple. Meanwhile, here are some quick and dirty screencaps. Click to enlarge:
Hal Jordan surrounded by alien Green Lanterns. To his right is Tomar-Re, to his left is M'Dahna, plus one other alien GL that I don't recognize off the top of my head.
More alien Green Lanterns. I see Isamot Kol and what looks like Salakk.
Morro, Kilowog, Boodikka and maybe Bzzd?
The rocky fellow is Hannu, and I'm blanking out on who the other folks are right now. Suggestions?
They all turn and look at us, giving us a better view.
Everybody shoots his/her/its power ring skywards.
A nice aerial view of some of those alien lanterns.
A pretty good look at Parallax in action.
Hal Jordan's machine gun.
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Storm delays metro buses Tuesday
Some bus routes canceled
Treacherous road conditions Tuesday morning forces Kansas City's Area Transportation Authority to offer minimal bus service.
ATA officials encouraged customers to stay home.
The following routes will not be in operation Tuesday:
15X Truman Road Express
28X Blue Ridge Express
37XX N. Broadway Express
38X Meadowbrook Express
51X Ward Parkway Express
69X Liberty Express
471X Red Bridge Express
170 Blue Springs Express
152 Lee's Summit/Raytown Express
How to get current information:
Customers can also track their buses using our live bus-tracking tool, WebWatch. There is also amobile-friendly bus tracker is available at http://itsab.us/tracker.
Metro bus customers can contact the Regional Call Center at 816-221-0660. Regular hours for the Call Center are from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. weekdays. However, the Call Center opened this morning at 5 a.m.
Johnson County Transit and Unified Government Transit announced they would not operate at all on Tuesday. Inde-Bus in Independence will also have a delay in service on Tuesday.


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More than any sporting event this side of Air Bud, the Super Bowl is where we go for cinematic, overproduced sports theater. CBS will have 62 cameras on hand, bringing sweeping panoramas, close-ups, high-definition snot-rockets—everything you could want from a staged drama, except live and unscripted. There's even a gun in the first act. Let's treat the game like the narrative factory it is and get caught up.
The Elders
Jack and Jackie Harbaugh:
Jack is a former player—one year for the AFC's New York Titans in 1961—and coach, most notably at Western Michigan ('82-'86), and Western Kentucky ('89-'12). The pair met as freshmen at Bowling Green in 1957, married in 1961, had John in 1962, and Jim in 1963. They spoke expansively at a media day press conference this week covering basically everything that's ever happened to them. Surprise, it's a family of football coaches, so the answers were mostly about football, but Jack did reveal enough to suggest that his sons' manic, wordy intensity is genetic:
• Jack Harbaugh On His Sons: "They Have No Weaknesses. They're Just Like Their Mother. They're Stealth."
Leading Men
Jim Harbaugh: Younger than his brother by 15 months and crazier by half, Jim is a former University of Michigan and NFL quarterback, a Heisman trophy finalist in 1987, a Pro Bowl selection in 1995 with the Colts, three-year coach of the Stanford Cardinals, and a one-time star of Saved by the Bell, opposite Screech. He once backed up Ryan Leaf, and was Marques Tuiasosopo's quarterbacks coach with the Raiders. A fiery weirdo who, in the grand tradition of NFL head coaches, will be touted by the media as flawless and, more dubiously, fully human, if he wins the Super Bowl. Co-owns an IndyCar team.
• Gay Lip Readers All Over America Are Upset With Jim Harbaugh
• Jim Harbaugh Knows What The Kids Like
• Jim Harbaugh Is A Crazy Person
• Jim Harbaugh Is A Crazy Person, Part II
• Jim Harbaugh Hates Rookies
• Jim Harbaugh Put All Of His Players' High School Photos Above Their Lockers
• "Find The Asshole, That's Where That Knuckle Goes": A Young Jim Harbaugh On How To Play Quarterback
• Jim Harbaugh: The Sexier Harbaugh
John Harbaugh: The type of Harbaugh that will deign to wear a suit to a mid-week Super Bowl ceremony and smile every once in a while. Considered law school after college, but decided to coach under his father at Western Michigan. John was a special teams coach for the Eagles for nine years, then briefly defensive backs coach before getting his first head coaching job with Baltimore. He was chosen over Rex Ryan, and both of them were only in the running because Jason Garrett had already passed on the offer. When it happened, a local columnist wondered, "Who in blazes in John Harbaugh?" The AP noted that at that point in the process, "The only other viable candidate for the job was New York Jets offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer." Who in blazes is Brian Schottenheimer?
• John Harbaugh Likes When His Team Throws A Few Punches
• John Harbaugh Explained Losing To The Seahawks By Saying "Football" Nine Times In 30 Seconds
• John Harbaugh Explained An Upset Over The Jets By Asking, "Where Is The Philosopher Of This Age?"
• John Harbaugh Pissed Off Todd Haley During A Preseason Game
Colin Kaepernick: As of week 9, a test of obscure college football knowledge; as of week 10, the savior of the San Francisco 49ers and challenger for most exciting quarterback in the league. When he's on the field.
• 49ers Backup Colin Kaepernick Opened Up The Playbook And Shot Down The Bears Last Night
• Who Is This Hack Who Wrote About Colin Kaepernick's Tattoos, And Why Is He Such A Racist Dicktroll?
• Colin Kaepernick Wrote A Letter To Himself In Fourth Grade Predicting That He'd Become A Pro Football Player
• Rick Reilly's Column About Colin Kaepernick Is The Smarmiest Story Of Super Bowl Week
Patrick Willis: Consensus excellent linebacker and cool guy. His Wikipedia page contains this passage:
Born in Bruceton, Tennessee, Willis grew up in abject poverty and had to take care of his younger siblings. By the age of 10, he worked full-time on cotton fields. He left his home, a double-wide in a trailer park just outside of Bruceton, with his two brothers and sister as a 17-year old, when his alcoholic father turned increasingly violent. The siblings moved in with Willis' high school basketball coach.
Mike Singletary, who knows his linebackers, once called Willis the next Ray Lewis (in terms of talent and impact, not the likelihood that he becomes an ESPN pundit).
• Patrick Willis Listens To Phil Collins
• Patrick Willis Doesn't Know—Or Care—Who Matt Millen Is
Torrey Smith: Maybe the best reciever for a franchise used to dropped passes, Smith is outperforming the higher profile and far better compensated Anquan Boldin in some important facets of the game (catching bombs, in particular, the lifeblood of the Baltimore offense). Soldiered on despite the death of his little brother hours before a Sunday Night Football game this season.
• The Ravens' Torrey Smith, In The Safest Place Imaginable, Ran For His Life When The Earthquake Hit
• Torrey Smith Wants You To Know He Wasn't Tim Tebow When He Was In College
• Torrey Smith's Brother Died In A Motorcycle Crash/Torrey Smith Makes Diving Touchdown Catch
Brendon Ayanbadejo: Gay rights advocate (before it was cool), noted Patriots troll, and the guy given the unenviable task of backing up Ray Lewis.
• How NFL Players Found Their Voice On The Marriage-Equality Issue
• Brendon Ayanbadejo Is Already Chirping About The Patriots' "Gimmick" Offense
Ray Lewis: Could we possibly say anything about Ray Lewis that we haven't already? Tune in after the Super Bowl to find out! Until then, click the links below to read about the most hated man in football, and then see the comments below those posts to read about the most loved man in football.
• Here's A Picture Of Ray Lewis Hanging In Effigy Near Pittsburgh
• Ray Lewis Is A Complicated Problem Who Played Football With Simple Greatness
• Bonnie Bernstein Explains Ray Lewis's Crimes With An Unfortunate Parable About Middle Schoolers Smoking
• Once The Ravens Season Is Over, Ray Lewis Will Be Bristol Bound
• Ray Lewis Thinks Those PED Allegations Are A "Trick Of The Devil"
• Ray Lewis Would Prefer You Stop Asking Questions About His Murder Case, Because "This Is God's Time"
• How Two Newspapers Wound Up Staging The Same Sob Story About The Ray Lewis Murder Case
• Wes Welker's Wife Took To Facebook To Say Some Unkind Things About Ray Lewis
• The Hater's Guide To Ray Lewis
Chris Culliver: Became famous this week for disliking gay people, which he now doesn't anymore, so he's obscure again. Before he goes, here are some second graders correcting his spelling.
• 49ers Cornerback Chris Culliver Is Not Cool With Gay People
• Chris Culliver Was Asked Almost 100 Questions Today About His Anti-Gay Teammate Comments
Joe Flacco: Is it possible to be an unlovable oaf? Flacco is sometimes goofy and sometimes an endearingly bold passer, but there are few who wear the confidence necessary to be an NFL quarterback more awkwardly. Be honest: If the Ravens win, will watching Joe Flacco hoist the trophy warm your heart? Didn't think so. Rarely is an underdog story—he went to Delaware, or something—so unmoving.
• Joe Flacco Wants A Little Recognition For Not Having Achieved Anything Noteworthy Yet
• The Ever-Inflating Joe Flacco: "I Think I'm The Best"
• Joe Flacco, The Big-Armed Oaf Who Saved Baltimore
• Joe Flacco's Father Summed Him Up Pretty Perfectly
• 2014 Super Bowl Host Committee Wonders Why Joe Flacco Dissed His Home State Of New Jersey
Michael Crabtree: Hey, the 49ers have a player acquitted on criminal charges as well. Crabtree's questioning for sexual assault two weeks ago wasn't nearly the distraction many thought it would be—no details were released, Crabtree said he was "disappointed" by the allegations, and everyone moved on—unless you're rooting against the 49ers, in which case you can yell about it all you want.
• OK, Just How Did Michael Crabtree Slip To No. 10 In The Draft? (He Is, Evidently, A Dick)
• Michael Crabtree's Adviser Has Quite The Shady History
• Is Michael Crabtree The Devil? Michael Rosenberg Thinks So
• San Francisco Police Investigating 49ers Wide Receiver Michael Crabtree For Alleged Sexual Assault
Roger Goddell: Roger Goodell hovers over this game like a persistent fart wafting around a dinner party. He's hated by the locals, was a constant presence during the bye-week media festivities, and, as a sleazy lobbyist for a dangerous and corrupt organization, he's basically the Wayne LaPierre of the NFL. Ray Lewis may be a grandstanding God-squadder minimizing his own role in a double murder, but Goodell is a large-scale malcontent, carrying water for obstructionist approaches to concussion research and waving his stick around, as New Orleans knows, in increasingly imprecise circles. Hopefully they'll cut to him picking his nose in a skybox.
• On Further Review, Roger Goodell Fucked Up This NFL Season From End To End
• Deadspin On Roger Goodell: Everything We've Had To Say About The NFL's Dictatorial Commissioner
Tragic Figure
Alex Smith: During last year's playoffs, Alex Smith was tossing game-winning touchdowns and finally playing like the number one pick that he is. Now, he's a living cautionary tale, a walking rejoinder to the oft-repeated myth that a player won't lose his spot because of an injury, and, because the injury was a concussion, a reminder that the NFL's health crisis is forever just off to the side, literally. The worst part, though, is that nobody cares: His replacement is more fun than he is, the 49ers are better off without him, and the media is waving off the guilt from forgetting about a guy who's career was half-buried by a head injury by noting that, hey—he might just have a shot at a one-year contract to be a game-manager for a team in dire straits. Seven completions shy of the all-time leader board, Smith got dumped for a guy who could lap him in a 40-yard dash. It "sucks," and you could hardly blame him for sticking his leg out and tripping a certain tattooed 49ers quarterback. If he could get his leg out fast enough.
Bit Players
Terrell Suggs, wily vet, right about Skip Bayless, alleged spousal abuser, newly married...NaVorro Bowman, perhaps the best player on the vaunted 49ers defense, but he doesn't have a dance, so he only gets one line...Michael Oher, Sandra Bullock's son...Bernard Pollard, who eschewed pants and makes a living injuring Patriots ... Matt Birk, an aging, white, ivy-league educated millionaire with a retrograde stance on gay marriage. GOP 2016?...David Akers, the least reliable kicker in football, and a runner-up to Alex Smith for most anguished player on the sidelines...Ray Rice, underused but excited running back, as likely as anyone to break through the intimidating Niners defense...Greg Roman, Niners' offensive coodinator and the breakout assistant coach of this year's playoffs ... Jay Harbaugh, Jim's son, who's interning for John...The Smiths, Justin and Aldon, two key cogs in the San Francisco defense, one a large old veteran lineman, the other a quick blitzing linebacker voted the team's MVP by his coaches.
Greek Chorus
Jim Nantz and Phil Simms: In a recent feature in Capital New York about Phil Simms, the discourse around the announcer was summed up thusly: "To his fans, Simms is smart and infectiously enthusiastic. To his critics, he's a strident know-it-all." We respectfully disagree: His critics think he's "like a robot someone threw a glass of water on." Add that to Jim Nantz's weird tradition fetish and love of pomp and you could write the script for this duo within a "FOOTbaalll" of accuracy.
• Phil Simms Just Gets Worse And Worse
• Here's Every Instance Of Phil Simms Saying The Word Football In A Single Broadcast
• Jim Nantz Is Getting Married At Pebble Beach Today
Jim Nantz Divorce Trial Gets Its Own Sad Play-By-Play
New Orleans: The most debaucherous and tempting Super Bowl location since, oh, 2010 in Miami has the added benefit of being a city united against Roger Goodell. It is the biggest football pageant of the year, in a city recently accustomed to postseason football, and even more recently robbed of a season's worth of success during the crest of a franchise talent boom because of a shady bounty system and a disproportionate and overly broad censure from Goodell. New Orelans has responded with typical panache—what other city is appearing in a headline with the words "giant vagina float"?—and unreserved vitriol. There will be fans of both teams in the house, but hopefully enough New Orelans natives are in the Superdome tonight to audibly boo Goodell during the trophy ceremony. The post-game festivities should be fun too.
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Laurelea has 'Cool Runnings' moment before world record win
CYCLING: When Grafton cyclist Laurelea Moss lined up to compete in the 2000m individual pursuit at the World Track Masters Championships, she fell off her bike.
After she recovered from the spill, she went on to set a new world record. It was one of two records she set during the championships in England earlier this month - the other on her way to winning gold in the flying 200m sprint.
Moss finished the event with four individual gold medals and a team bronze.
Her achievements are even more incredible considering she was only introduced to track cycling last year and trains by pedalling her track bike down a bumpy dirt road in South Grafton.
"If the girls knew what I was training on, well it's basically like the movie Cool Runnings," she said.
"It's been an amazing trajectory from borrowing a track bike to the world stage."
Prior to competing in track racing, Moss was a star road cyclist, who has travelled around Australia with the Holden women's road cycling team, so the art of competitive racing wasn't entirely new.
But the velodrome is a different beast altogether.
"In the 2000m individual pursuit it was a gate start, where they count down and it releases you," she said.
"I have had so few gate starts that I got up in the qualifier and literally fell off my bike.
"We had to restart because there was an incident, and then I got back on the bike and did a world-best time.
"People just didn't know quite what to think."
Moss said she was "absolutely stoked" with her results, which was all she hoped for and more.
"I actually went over there very greedily wanting four gold medals, which is basically unheard of," she said.
"The bronze is just a bonus. There were a couple of girls who needed an extra team member and I was it."
The 37-year-old returned to Grafton on Sunday after taking some extra time to see England's sights.
Moss's run of achievements continued yesterday when she was named as a finalist in the Women's Masters Track Cyclist of the Year award, which will be presented at the Cycling Australia Awards on November 18.
Her world-best times should be ratified in coming weeks.
Asked what was next, Moss said it was a little early for her to have formulated her next goal but knows there's still room to improve.
"There's a few people around me saying if you are doing this now, with these training conditions, you could be aiming for open worlds or the next Olympics," she said.
"I might not get that far but do I see myself going to the world masters next year? Yes for sure, I absolutely love it."


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For dedicated music fans, sleep is apparently going to be optional during Lollapalooza weekend Aug. 2-4, with 37 pre- and after-shows at 14 venues over five nights.
The series of concerts announced Tuesday will complement the annual three-day festival in Grant Park. Though none of the six Lollapalooza headliners is playing these satellite shows, a number of rising stars from the festival will be doing double duty, including Flux Pavilion on Aug. 2 and Kendrick Lamar on Aug. 3, both at the Aragon; Jessie Ware at Lincoln Hall on Aug. 2; the Lumineers at the Vic on Aug. 2; Hot Chip at the Vic on Aug. 1; and Chance the Rapper at Reggies on Aug. 2.
Here's a complete list of the Lollapalooza after-parties (tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday at http://do312.com/lollaaftershows).
July 31: Imagine Dragons, Icona Pop, Brick + Mortar, Kellen & Me in Special Olympics benefit at Metro; Thievery Corporation at House of Blues; Timeflies, Keys N Krates at Vic; Smith Westerns at Lincoln Hall.
Aug. 1: Lana Del Rey at House of Blues; Hot Chip, Bear Mountain at Vic; Atlas Genius, San Cisco at Schubas; Father John Misty, Night Moves at Lincoln Hall; Hiatus Kaiyote at Subterranean; Wild Nothing at Empty Bottle.
Aug. 2: Eric Church, Frontier Ruckus at Metro; Local Natives, Wake Owl at House of Blues; the Mowgli's, the Bright Light Social Hour at Double Door; the Lumineers at the Vic; Foals, Drowners at Park West; Little Green Cars, the Dunwells at Schubas; Jessie Ware at Lincoln Hall; Flux Pavilion, Dillon Francis, RVSB at Aragon; SBTRKT, Disclosure at the Mid; the Neighbourhood, Family of the Year at Subterranean; Death Grips at Bottom Lounge; Heartless Bastards, Houndmouth at City Winery; Chance the Rapper, BJ the Chicago Kid at Reggies.
Aug. 3: Band Of Horses, Reignwolf at Metro; Two Door Cinema Club, MS MR at House of Blues; Ghost B.C., Skeltonwitch at Double Door; Matt & Kim, Robert DeLong at Vic; Frightened Rabbit, Wild Belle at Park West; Skaters, the Orwells at Schubas; Haim, St. Lucia at Lincoln Hall; Kendrick Lamar, Baauer, BJ the Chicago Kid at Aragon; Dada Life, Nathan Scott, Gus Karas at the Mid; Baroness, the Royal Thunder at Subterranean; DIIV at Empty Bottle.
Aug. 4: Palma Violets, Wild Cub at Schubas; Alt-J, Guards at Lincoln Hall; Wavves, E.T. Habit at Empty Bottle.
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- Hot Chip (music group)
- Kendrick Lamar
- Flux Pavilion (music group)
- Hybrid Vehicles
- Special Olympics
- Dada Life (music group)
- Wild Nothing (music group)
- Local Natives (music group)
- Frightened Rabbit (music group)
- Wavves (music group)
- Foals (music group)
- SBTRKT (music group)
- Two Door Cinema Club (music group)
- Smith Westerns (music group)
- Keys N Krates (music group)
- Eric Church
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LONDON – Two journalists for The Sun newspaper were charged Friday with allegedly paying public officials for information about psychiatric patients and a member of the royal family, British authorities said.
The charges are the latest in a series of bribery-related allegations against journalists at the bestselling tabloid, which named a new editor Friday.
The paper said editor Dominic Mohan will leave the paper and serve as an adviser to company chief Rupert Murdoch, with former Scottish Sun editor David Dinsmore stepping into the top position at The Sun.
The Sun's Jamie Pyatt and John Edwards were charged along with Robert Neave, a former health care assistant at the Broadmoor high-security psychiatric hospital, with conspiring together "and with public officials known" to commit misconduct in a public office, prosecutors said.
The unidentified alleged conspirators include public officials employed at Broadmoor, employees of two separate police forces and British army officials, prosecutors said. They allege that over nearly nine years, The Sun paid more than 30,000 pounds ($46,500) to public officials, including Neave, for information including details of the health and activities of Broadmoor patients, information about a royal family member's work and facts about police investigations.
The charges are being brought as part of Operation Elveden, an investigation into allegations that newspapers were paying police and other officials for information.
The inquiry is running alongside investigations into phone and computer hacking sparked by the discovery that reporters at Murdoch's now-closed News of the World tabloid regularly intercepted voicemails.
More than 30 people have been charged in the scandal, including journalists, police officers and former executives at Murdoch's newspapers.
Half-a-dozen senior current and former reporters from The Sun have found themselves facing charges. The Sun didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
Pyatt, Edwards and Neave will appear at a London court on July 18.


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These saws are the best for breaking down sheet goods, if that's one of your shop chores. But you'll need to dig into the features to make your purchase decision.
By Glen D. Huey
Pages: 50-53
From the April 2009 issue #175
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Since DeWalt and Makita entered the United States plunge-cut saw market with Festool, the three have received immense interest and discussion. How are the saws different? Are the results of a crosscut or rip cut any cleaner than those made at a table saw? What features are common or unique on plunge-cut saws? I scrutinized a DeWalt DWS520, a Festool TS55 and a Makita SP6000 to see which, if any, of the saws stand out.
If you're looking for vast differences in the cuts produced by the various plunge-cut saws, I'm afraid you're going to be disappointed. I used each saw to cut plywood and hardwood, both with and across the grain, and for slicing samples of melamine. There is a small amount of tear-out (mostly across the grain as you might expect), but nothing significant. In fact, I compared those cuts with cuts made in the same materials at a table saw and again, the differences are minimal.
From the April 2009 issue #175
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Billions of years of evolution have resulted in a tremendous degree of diversity in nature. Species are out there that can produce unknown compounds that have enabled them to adapt and survive all sorts of aggressions in their environment. In the framework of the AGIR project carried out in collaboration with the Charles Viollette Institute (Lille, France) to implement an innovative strategy for the discovery of new antimicrobials, DEINOVE's goal is to unearth the unexploited potential of rare microorganisms that might produce new antibiotic or antifungal compounds.
An integrated platform dedicated to discovering new antibiotics
A unique collection of rare bacterial strains
DEINOVE collects bacterial strains around the globe from hostile or challenging environments, such as caves or hot springs. These extreme conditions and/or competition between species selects robust organisms that produce original compounds still to be uncovered. To date, DEINOVE has isolated over 6'000 strains, and aims to expand its library with 10'000 additional bacterial strains within the next 5 years, by external collaborations or collection in specific environments conducive to antibiotic production.
Once collected from the environment, new bacterial strains need to be identified and grown in laboratory conditions for any downstream application. Earth samples first undergo a metagenomic analysis by high-throughput DNA sequencing, which identifies the species present, and guides the selection of specific strains. With a proven expertise in handling rare microorganisms, and in collaboration with specialist environmental microbiologists, the samples are cultivated under a variety of original growth conditions to expand and isolate the strains of interest.
Unlocking the potential of nature
Bacterial strains from DEINOVE's collection undergo a thorough screening process to identify new antibiotic or antifungal activities. For each strain, several extracts are produced in parallel and under different extraction conditions to cover as much as possible the panel of compounds produced by the microorganism. A state-of-the-art robot enables the production of up to 150 samples a week to produce large-volume, completely standardized samples. Different dilutions of these high-content extracts are then used in highly sensitive in vitro screens for antimicrobial activity.
Once an activity has been detected, a combination of analytics and bioinformatics is used to identify the antibiotic structure responsible, as well as the genetic and metabolic pathways that are involved in its biosynthesis. To improve production of the compound, these pathways are optimised by genetically engineering the bacteria. Genetic engineering may also be used to modify the structure of the molecule and obtain a molecule with optimal performances. This involves the use of a custom-made computer-aided design software, jointly developed by DEINOVE and CAD4Bio, that performs in silico genetic engineering design and operates a robot to direct large-scale DNA cloning and strain construction. Subsequent screening then identifies the bacteria with the optimal genetic constructs for the production of the novel antimicrobial compound, a step that can be achieved up to a pre-industrial scale within the fermentation facilities of DEINOVE.
Together, the technology platforms at DEINOVE work towards the identification of new antimicrobial compounds, from the collection of rare microorganism to the development of new cultivating, screening and optimization methods.


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Of the three mobile network operators in the Netherlands, only T-Mobile sells the iPhone. And only T-Mobile has a large part of its customer base irate from lack of 3G data access, dropped calls, and calls going directly to voicemail even with full 3G coverage.
So no, such problems aren't limited just to AT&T. And as with AT&T, the problems are worst in the largest and most tech-savvy cities. Those problems are now so bad that T-Mobile is offering a little cashback for affected users.
3G problems
iPhone users have complained about T-Mobile's data performance for some time, but recently the problem seems to have spun out of control. Not only is 3G data service slow, but voice service is also suffering in certain locations on 3G phones—not just the iPhone.
Turning off 3G magically makes the voice problems disappear, but it doesn't really help with the data slowness because T-Mobile doesn't have EDGE 2.75G service. Instead, it has GPRS, which can just about manage to beat 56Kbps dial-up on a good day.
Earlier, T-Mobile said it was working on the congestion in its 3G network by adding new base stations, something that would take until the end of the year. However, now the problems are supposed to be mostly fixed in "one or two weeks" by doubling the capacity of existing base stations in affected locations, though the longer-term plan to increase the number of base stations continues.
In the meantime, Dutch T-Mobile users who document their issues on the "coverage questions" page on the carrier's website can expect a refund of two months' worth of data usage. However, the iPhone plans, which start at €30 per month, don't explicitly list data charges. Reportedly, the cashback will amount to €30 for iPhone users. It's also unclear what happens to 3G users who don't have a data plan.
Ironically, T-Mobile almost got fined for leaving 3G frequencies unused late last year. There are currently three mobile network operators in the Netherlands: KPN, Vodafone, and T-Mobile. There used to be five, but KPN took over Telfort and T-Mobile picked up Orange. After those deals, KPN and T-Mobile left Telfort's and Orange's 3G frequencies unused, contrary to the obligations set out by the government. KPN chose to return Telfort's 3G frequencies to the government, but T-Mobile put Orange's into token use in order to hang on to them while escaping fines. Quite likely, the current efforts to double the 3G capacity in congested locations make use of these frequencies, although no spokesperson would ever dream of boring the public with such details.
Problems ahead
The question is, how long will the new and improved T-Mobile 3G network last? Dutch Railways is rolling out free WiFi access in its intercity trains, using T-Mobile's 3G network for backhaul. That's a potential audience of 150,000 free WiFi users by the end of the year. And the Dutch just love using anything that's free to its fullest. (Belgians joke that copper wire was invented by two people who spotted a penny on an Amsterdam street at the same time.)
The iPad will soon arrive in the low country, along with a newer iPhone with new data-intensive features such as video chat. For a while now, the mobile industry has been struggling with increased data use by smartphone users, but with "unlimited" plans the increase in use doesn't lead to an increase in revenue, so expensive network upgrades directly impact the bottom line (and not in a good way). In this light, AT&T's move away from unlimited mobile data makes a lot of sense. Then again, users hate volume-based pricing for Internet access.


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Uncyclopedia:Anniversaries/January 21
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January 21: National Dirty Sanchez Your Dad's Coffee Day, Day of Tribulation
- 1000 BC - Vikings land on an inhospitable island they call Niv Iaerssei; this event later forms the backbone of The Saga of Rigaatoni Pennesson.
- 1592 - Elmunsucío Sánchez Columbus discovers Atlantis, but loses map and thus it is lost for all eternity.
- 1654 - John Morrisey drinks too much coffee and gets a vision of a gigantic coffee empire, with himself riding on a male star deer.
- 1781 - Benedict Arnold, tired of being called "Eggs Benedict" by George Washington, sells out to the British. He later begins a travelling show, called Hey Arnold!
- 1850 - Millard Fillmore installs the White House's first bathtub.
- 1915 - First Kiwanis Club Meeting. To this day they still can't figure out what their purpose is, but constantly argue over who has the better wife.
- 1991 - First ever "Yo-Mama Joke" is told. Violent bitch-slaps shortly follow.
- 1996 - Former Pink Floyd frontman Syd Barrett climbs the Empire State Building; some blonde chick knocks him off.
- 2000 - Aaron Copland conquers the Martians ... Historians vote "Best day ... Ever"
- 2008 - Tom Hanks falls off a bridge; there is much rejoicing.
- 2013 - Bob Barker dies from a Viagra overdose.
- 2036 - Tracy Morgan wins gold medal in Olympic Stand-up. Adam Sandler comes in third.


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Saturday, April 5, 2014
Join #WW1archives on June 10, 2014
Twitter event on June 10, 2014
In 2014 International Archives Day (June 9) falls on Whit Monday or Pentecost Monday. Most archives are closed that day. So we decided to organize the annual Twitter event on Tuesday, June 10.
World War I – 1914-2014
The German archivist Thomas Wolf from SIWI-archives came up with a good idea: let's pay attention to the beginning of the First World War or The Great War, that began 100 years ago in 1914.
The Great War in archives
We ask all archives and other heritage organizations to search their collections for documents related to the First World War 1914-1918. Even countries that were neutral during the Great War, can perhaps find some records about, for instance, aid to refugees, or military or financial support to soldiers, families, countries in need.
Subjects to look for and tweet about
Archival documents, records, newspapers, pictures, drawings, postcards, paintings, etc. about:
- Soldiers
- Families and loved ones of soldiers
- Battlefields
- Refugees
- Aid / Support
- Governments
- Weapons
- Mobilisation
- Diseases
- War cemeteries
- History before, during, after 1914-1918, all related to the First World War
Join @AskArchivists and @FollowAnArchive on #WW1archives Day on Twitter, June 10, 2014.
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Caring people behind Torrington Animal Control's adoption success
Torrington >> It is the people behind the Torrington Animal Control Facility that make it so successful.
Without Animal Control Officer, Caitlin Nield, and Assistant Control Officer, Debbie Gath, who man the premises on a daily basis, the pound would be little more than a small building connected to long, narrow kennels on the edge of Torrington.
It is the people, and the Torrington Police Department, who makes the facility run. They are responsible for getting nearly every animal that comes to them adopted, and it's all because of their love of animals.
Nield has worked as the full time Animal Control Officer for the past year and a half. Gath became the Assistant Animal Control Officer at the end of last summer.
The job of an Animal Control Officer is not easy, but Nield and Gath say they do it because they love it.
"I've been doing it since I was six years old. I lived in a neighborhood and my mother came home and opened the garage door and I had all the neighborhood dogs in there feeding them cold meat because it was pouring out," said Gath. "I love animals. I'm more comfortable with dogs than I am with cats but I'm learning."
Nield said she can't imagine doing anything else with her life.
Gath and Nield's passion is evident in how they treat the animals at the pound and the people who come looking for a new family pet.
Elena and Darren Sileo can attest to Gath's dedication to placing animals in good homes. They said Gath went above and beyond when they were interested in adopting a three year old pitbull named Mr. Biggs.
"I've never seen someone with so much dedication to a job," said Elena Sileo. "You would want someone like that for every job."
The Sileos already had a young pitbull named Sid Vicious when they were thinking about expanding their family. They ventured to the pound, located on Bogue Road, and fell in love with Biggs, a pitbull who had been at the pound for 199 days. Gath said that's a very long time for a dog to stay at the pound.
"I told her to get him adopted within 200 days," said Nield with a laugh, "and on day 199, he was."
"She [Gath] had no fear," said Elena Sileo. "She would walk right up to the dogs. We trusted her judgement to pick the right one."
Elena Sileo said that Gath knew the history of every dog in the pound, which made her feel much more comfortable about adopting.
Biggs seemed to be the right dog, but the trouble was that Biggs came from a neglectful home and Sid was a little rough around the edges. The Sileos were concerned that the two dogs wouldn't get along.
Gath allowed the Sileos to bring Sid down to the pound to get the two dogs acclimated to each other. Over several weeks, Gath and the Sileos would introduce the dogs with their leashes on. They would walk them and then eventually let them play together.
"It didn't go as well as we hoped at first," Darren Sileo said of introducing the dogs, "but she was patient with us. She spent her own time to help us."
"If she didn't let us come down, I would have said that this wasn't working," said Elena Sileo. "We would have gone somewhere else."
The Sileos and Gath stuck with it and eventually the two dogs started to get along.
"They love each other now," said Elena Sileo.
Gath said they encourage pet owners to bring their dogs to the pound because she wants to make sure the animals get along before they are adopted.
"We don't want them to adopt a dog and then return them," said Gath. "We encourage them to bring their dogs to see how they act."
It is a system that worked for the Sileos and for many others because Nield said she doesn't think they have ever had a dog returned.
Gath said they do home and vet checks on anyone looking to adopt an animal from the pound. A lot of the time these animals are strays or come from neglectful or abusive situations, so it's important to make sure they are a good fit.
"She wants to place the animals in good homes," Darren Sileo said of Gath.
Gath said that the pound tries to avoid euthanization. Their goal is to see every animal adopted.
"We try not to euthanize anything, so we try to get everything adopted unless it's unadoptable, which sometimes, unfortunately that happens if they're mean or sick, but we've adopted almost every animal so far," said Gath. "There were at least 12 dogs in the last few months that we adopted out. Most of them were pitbulls."
Gath and Nield said the majority of dogs that come through the pound are pitbulls.
"I think people get them more for the fascination and then when they start getting past the puppy stage, they require attention," said Gath. "People forget that you have to get a dog that fits your lifestyle. Dogs always get bigger and they're expensive. You have to give them time and love just like anything else."
Gath said the majority of the dogs who come to the pound are strays. In that case, an animal has to stay at the pound for ten days to give the owner an opportunity to come for the animal. If they don't, then they are up for adoption, said Gath. Nield and Gath are never able to predict which animals will move quickly.
Gath said just as a matter of space, they don't like to keep animals too long. The pound can only hold 14 dogs at a time. Gath and Nield would prefer to see animals go off to good homes instead of staying in the pound.
Gath said the most important thing is reminding people that the pound is still there. She said people seem to forget they exist, and then they will stumble upon them. Gath wants to remind people that the pound is a resource for both people looking to adopt an animal and looking to get rid of one.
Gath said a lot of people leave their animals behind when they move. She encouraged anyone who can no longer care for their pet to come to the pound.
"We're here because we love animals," said Gath. "I always say we're the new dog pound because we try to help out people and work with them, and we try to get every dog adopted."
Reach Kate Hartman at 860-489-3121, ext. 343.


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Relieving symptoms of colds, hay fever, and allergies such as headache, sinus pain, nasal and sinus congestion, sneezing, watery eyes, runny nose, fever, and itching of the nose or throat. It may also be used for other conditions as determined by your doctor.
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About the ProductNamed after the local term of the material, the Kawayan collection features the perennial Bamboo. Showcasing its natural beauty, the distinctive nodes and natural color are retained, at the same time showing its strength and versatility in is structural and aesthetic functions. Rattan, Maple or Oak. Available in Dark Brown
The BrandMore about this Brand
Kenneth Cobonpue has always gravitated towards the natural. While completing his Industrial Design degree at Pratt Institute in New York in the late 80s, he apprenticed for a leather and wood workshop near Florence Italy. He also studied furniture marketing and production in Reutlingen Germany. It wasn't until 1996 that he returned home to the Philippines to manage Interior Craft of the Islands Inc; a company founded by his mother in 1972.
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I got this fortune in my fortune cookie today: "Work on improving your exercise routine." Umm, this is not a "fortune."
Every week we go to this really great Chinese place by our house—there's lots of Chinese restaurants here, but this is the fancy one, by the Walmart. I really like their food and the owners are super sweet. Good times!
Except this week, I got this batshitcrazy "fortune" in my cookie. "Work on improving your exercise routine." UH OK BITCHY FORTUNE COOKIE THAT IS PROBABLY MY MOTHER. My exercise routine is fine, thank you very much. Yesterday, the wine bottle opener fell under the couch and I had to yell for 20 minutes to get my boyfriend to come get it. Do you know how many calories that burned? Like 80 billion. So there you go.


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Fertility, Class, and Gender in Britain 1860–1940
Fertility, Class, and Gender in Britain 1860–1940 [1]
Simon Szreter's remarkable and very important book argues, in effect, that coincidence has deceived the historians of family sexuality in the period 1860 - 1960. The birth-rate per family in England and Wales declined ever more steeply in this hundred yea r period, and it declined with roughly the same timing and speed in most other European countries. Historians would dearly love the whole story to be one unitary phenomenon, and indeed this is how it is normally understood. Now Simon Szreter has come alon g, admonishing the historians that their cherished unitary fertility decline is riddled with coincidence. The appearance of one effect linking bedrooms of 1860 with those of 1960, and English bedrooms with those in Finland and Spain, is illusory, accordin g to Szreter. If he is right, he has completely rewritten this tract of English social history, and also created a model for enquiry into the subject which will be influential for years to come.
I have somewhat exaggerated the degree of belief, among historians, in a unitary fertility decline. For a long time it was indeed supposed that around 1860 married couples had started doing most of the things to prevent conception which they do for tha t purpose nowadays. More recently historians have come to doubt if late 19th-century birth-control was in fact achieved by barrier methods. They have also performed close studies of particular groups which suggest that there was great diversity within the courtship and bedroom practices (including those affecting fertility) in English society at any one time.
As Szreter complains, such developments in the historians' thinking should have shaken the whole theoretical edifice of a pan-European homogenous fertility decline to its foundations, but they have not. We now recognize that pre-20th-century birth-cont rol was not a matter of modern-minded couples taking advantage of newly available rubbergoods and chemicals, but we still assume that the greater part of the fertility decline (at least from around the beginning of this century down to our present) was such a phenomenon. The continuing attractiveness of this story has much to do with its relevance to the world's currently developing countries, and the power of the international agencies concerned.
In fact our whole mistaken picture of a monolithic uptake of birth-control across modern Europe goes back to a very celebrated early official attempt to demonstrate that there had been a steady and beneficial diffusion of such techniques through Englis h society. The census of 1911 is often called the 'fertility census', because the census-forms contained special additional questions. Households had to report on how many children had so far been born into unions. Over the next decade or so Dr T.H.C. St evenson, superintendent of statistics at the General Register Office, worked on the answers to these special questions, seeking to analyse the figures according to a particular categorisation of English social classes. This class scheme was to prove momen tous beyond anything Stevenson could have foreseen: for him at the time its relation to fertility was simply a very pleasing confirmation of what he had already believed about the nation's sex-life.
Stevenson's scheme was nothing less than the five-tier, one-dimensional, occupation-based division of classes which remains, in essence, orthodox and official in the present day, eighty years later. Stevenson's version went as follows: I Professional, II Intermediate, III Skilled Manual, IV Intermediate, V Unskilled Manual. There have been lots of complaints from historians over the years about the inadequacy of this list, but with slight revisions it remains ascendant. Stevenson's emphasis on occupati on and skills had at first been a response to the agenda set by eugenicists, whose hereditarian theories were being increasingly resisted, according to Szreter, by a 'confident, revitalized and more comprehensive environmentalist analysis' in institutions of social policy such as the GRO. The eugenicists said that low skills and high fertility were linked, leading to 'race suicide'. Given his environmentalist views, Stevenson may have been dismayed when he saw that the linkage predicted by the eugenicists in fact held. But he also saw an alternative line of argument, which accepted the linkage but overtrumped the hereditarian explanation with an impeccably environmentalist one. Birth-control was the key. It was 'diffusing' slowly from the educated and pro sperous in a gradient through the less educated and poorer ranks.
Szreter's very detailed and densely expounded account of these events in Whitehall around the years of the Great War takes up just a third of his extraordinarily wide-ranging book. He goes on to tackle the much deeper questions which the operations of the fertility census of 1911 so clearly raise. The ideology informing the census would be a matter of very restricted historiographical interest if Stevenson's claims about a spreading culture of birth-control had been correct. Still, a less tigerish and ambitious historian than Szreter might have been content to let the matter rest there. That is not Szreter's style. He asks head-on, 'Was Stevenson right?'
Szreter is confident that Stevenson was wrong, even on his own showing. The argument involved here is somewhat elaborate. Stevenson, and demographers ever since, have held that true birth-control - in the sense of full sexual relations between partners performed with the deliberate adjunct of devices and substances believed to prevent conception - will most clearly show up in the statistics in the 'stopping' rather than 'spacing' of births. Large numbers of couples will be detectable as at first produc ing children at something like the biologically maximum rate - and then producing no more. Stevenson claimed that stopping behaviour was discernible as 'diffusing' in the English social classes across time. The published data of 1911 do not permit Szreter to check this claim for couples who through ageing or death had finished having families by this date (the larger category), but he is able to perform the neat trick of checking it for the smaller category of younger couples who were still producing chil dren. We can work out if this group, at least, was 'spacing' or 'stopping'.
They were spacing. They do not exhibit the hallmark of birth-control required by Stevenson. There is an obvious way to rescue Stevenson at this point, in his own despite. Why can't spacing be a token of artefactually controlled conception, just as much as stopping? Szreter does not rest his case only on a refutation of Stevenson, on his own terms. He agrees that spacing of births could in principle be the result of birth-control. But he has drawn a further and more profound observation from the publish ed tables of the 1911 census. This is that low fertility achieved by spacing correlates with late marriage. Couples of child-bearing age who were conceiving rather infrequently were also likely to have postponed getting married.
This is probably the most important single result to emerge from Szreter's research, and it paves the way for his own general theory of family sexuality in the years around and after 1911, which occupies the final third of his book. It was, according t o Szreter, a 'culture of abstinence', influential right through to Philip Larkin's 1963 ('Sexual intercourse began'), which mainly drove down the fertility of England and Wales. On this account, diffusionism is out of the window. There was no wisdom about obtaining and using certain devices and substances which needed to percolate down from the privileged to the less privileged. Moreover, the thinking which impelled couples to resort to birth-control via 'abstinence' was, according to Szreter, one which w ouldn't yield a simple correlation with social rank. Couples took steps to reduce numbers of conceptions in response to the 'perceived relative cost' of childbearing. This pivotal concept in Szreter's whole argument is developed by him with great subtlety to suggest how fertility-control will crop up in a much more complicated, sporadic pattern than that predicted by Stevenson's diffusionism.
The 'perceived relative cost' of having a child may be a 'cost' in the purest economic sense, that is, whether a child will earn or lose its parents money, but also a 'cost' in a more rarefied sense: how much prestige attaches to fatherhood, for instan ce. This approach to the analysis of fertility is not novel. It is a respectable theory in modern demography, and has been applied previously to the 19th-century data. Szreter is pioneering in the way he has put the perceived relative costs approach to wo rk in detail right across English society, while exploiting the full range of the powerful notion of 'costs'.
I have invoked Larkin's 1963, and it may appear that what Szreter has done in this book is simply to provide academic support for a familiar modern cliché about English sexual culture in the 20th century, namely that sexual ignorance and repression was widespread until about twenty years after the outbreak of World-War II. This cliché coexists with an older chronological model, which locates the end of repression around 1900. It is still orthodox to call repressive sexual attitudes 'Victorian', even whe n they are detected in the 1950s. Szreter's book is not an annexe to the new view, or at least is not conceived by him to be such. To start with, he insists that his 'culture of abstinence' was not driven by negative feelings about sex, such as guilt, fea r, or disgust. As I have explained, for him abstinence was the English way of adjusting fertility in response to the perceived relative costs of having children.
Secondly, he seeks to erase the Victorian/20th century divide more thoroughly than is ever envisaged in the popular demonizing accounts of 20th-century sexuality before P.J. Proby and Christine Keeler. His book may be thought of as an 'anti-1911' text in three respects. As well as debunking '1911', in the narrow sense of the fertility census, on ideological and statistical grounds, Szreter would also like to draw a radical corollary from the fallaciousness of Stevenson which has been somewhat shunned. Szreter wants to insist that the Stevensonian account is a fantasy, about past, present and future in 1911. He is convincing on how investigations which appeared to confirm Stevenson - most notably the Royal Commission on Population of 1944-9 - fa iled to pick up the true extent of English couples' resort to mere refraining from intercourse and coitus interruptus. Nothing at all happened in 1911, according to Szreter. The failure of historians who should know better to face this thought is p erhaps linked to the continuing general prestige of the 'modern' moment represented by the pre-Great War years. This is when Cubism, Dada, Relativity and Quantum Theory, The Rite of Spring, Sons and Lovers, and so on, all happened. We can't quite shake off the conviction that there was a revolution in sexuality too.
It is important to grasp what Szreter means by 'abstinence'. He thinks of it as closely affiliated to marriage-postponement, as I have mentioned. He also thinks of it as essentially the same kind of behaviour as coitus interruptus, the la tter being a compromise arrived at by couples when an intention to abstain was not found achievable: 'couples in British society who engaged in a regime of coitus interruptus were involved in essentially the same "game" of sexual self-restraint as those p ractising the various forms of conscious abstinence'. This is an unorthodox and arresting way to see the matter, but surprisingly persuasive.
Couples do not have to be all that abstinent, in order to achieve a useful reduction in fertility. We perhaps tend to think of coital frequency as involving a threshold, as far as the chances of conception go. We assume that some sex is just as likely to produce a conception as a lot of sex. This is a fallacy. The relation between quantity of sex and conceiving is continuous. Even if you only manage to restrict yourself to sex once a week you will still manage to postpone conception by eight months fro m when it could be expected if you have sex four times a week. If you can bring the rate down to once a fortnight you are buying eighteen conception-free months.
So in many respects Szreter's 'abstinence' fits readily into his whole account. It was not an obsessive, overly stringent, or even completely binding sexual regime. It is feasible that it survived for about a century, not coming into collision either w ith militant sexual rigour as represented by the Social Purity movement, or with sexual emancipation as represented by Bloomsbury an its heirs. It is perhaps feasible that it was deployed to achieve reduced fertility when the perceived relative costs of c hildren made this desirable. But there must be doubts about this crucial point of convergence in Szreter's whole structure of argument. Will you be abstemious in sex, even in the qualified way outlined by Szreter, simply to achieve fertility-contro l? Does there not need also to be cultural encouragement from a climate of antagonism to sex?
I quote Szreter discussing why 'a culture of sexual disinclination' was not a prerequisite for his 'culture of abstinence': "the balance of the demographic and cultural evidence appears to point to the greater importance of deliberate, negotiated birth regulation as a positive motive, albeit one that was mediated through a culture of anti-sexuality". There is something fudging about the last clause. What is it to 'negotiate' sexual abstinence 'through' anti-sexuality ? Either couples agreed to refrain from doing something they both liked because they didn't want too many children, or they felt (perhaps mutually and explicitly, perhaps not) that sex was a bit repugnant. Szreter's combination of the two kinds of behaviour does not seem workable. One cannot imagine a contribution from 'anti-sexuality' which would not exclude or at least inhibit 'negotiation'.
This important awkwardness in Szreter's argument is, it must be said, a result of one of the most impressive and exciting features of his whole procedure. This is a book of astonishingly wide compass in the variety of information it contrives to bring together. It ranges from the technicalities of population statistics through to an up-to-date and comprehensive review of the literature on the qualitative aspects of English sexuality in the 19th and 20th centuries (with an important piece of civil servi ce history thrown in for good measure). I can think of no book which goes so far to break down the formidable barriers between the various approaches to the history of family sexuality. Here is a trained statistician who is also completely versed in the n on-quantitative literature, and eager to bring the two into connection.
Szreter could simply have ducked the problem of how late 19th-century 'anti-sexuality' bears on his picture of abstinence 'negotiated' between partners in the interests of an affordable number of conceptions. He could have quietly skipped over the Soci al Purity movement and the associated literature, but this would have been foreign to his voracious, embracing style. This is a militant book, but also very generous-minded for the way in which so many co-workers in the field, some of them writing in a ve ry different vein, are warmly cited and accommodated in its argument. In such a catholic atmosphere one must be struck by inutility of Michel Foucault, whose History of Sexuality is not once cited. I am sure this is not a mischievous omissi on, but simply the fault of the vacuousness of that celebrated but little-read book.


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Elizabeth City State University faces $5M shortfall
The head of the University of North Carolina system says Elizabeth City State University faces a shortfall of $5 million.
The Daily Advance of Elizabeth City reported that UNC President Tom Ross blamed the shortfall on reduced enrollment and state budget cuts.
Ross warned faculty and staff Tuesday that "hard decisions" are ahead, pointing out the biggest expense is personnel. No specific cuts or layoffs were announced.
Interim chancellor Charles Becton reported enrollment for the fall semester is just over 2,400 students. School officials had hoped for 2,500.
The school also had hoped the projected shortfall would be around $3.5 million.
The school has cut pay for a number of faculty members.
The school also has also increased instructors' workloads and class sizes.


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Siemens National Team Grand Prize Winner (2009), US Computing Olympiad Finalist (2009), Mathcounts National Champion (2007), US Mathematics Olympiad Qualifier (2007-2010), USNCO and USABO Semifinalist (2010)
When I was very little, my two favorite activities included counting on my fingers over and over again and playing with a little four-function calculator that my parents gave to me, namely by adding one over and over. I especially loved getting puzzle books and doing the logic puzzles.
In fifth grade, I was seriously considering that I take orchestra in middle school, but by a stroke of good fortune, I attended a "Family Math Night" at my elementary school where I learned of a contest math class that I could take. I quickly enrolled in it and was exposed to competition math early. I was very enthusiastic and learned all sorts of tricks and concepts from my coach and my peers. Most motivating to me was a brilliant eighth grader who had made Mathcounts Nationals the year before and was absolutely amazing at all the competitions we went to throughout the year. His talent encouraged me to work really hard, yet I still amazed myself when I made Nationals during my first year. I really enjoyed math then, so I kept practicing. Luckily, my efforts still paid off when I finally won the Mathcounts National Competition in my eighth grade year, and I gained a lot of confidence in myself.
Eventually high school came, and I was exposed to many opportunities other than math. During freshmen year, I also got involved in other activities like orchestra, tennis, and programming games.
It was the summer after freshmen year when I became interested in physics. I was browsing through some physics problems from a local contest and, not knowing anything about the subject, began pondering a simple question about a ball bouncing off a wall. I then had a random urge to learn as much physics as I could. The urge persisted throughout my sophomore year as I excitedly learned from my physics teacher and my dad while reading on my own as well. This even sparked my interest in other subjects such as chemistry and algorithms. By the end of that year, I was pretty happy with becoming a Semifinalist in the Physics Olympiad.
This year, I did not take a physics class in high school, but I started spending a lot of time studying physics and becoming comfortable with applying the principles and formulas that I had learned. Again, my dad helped me a lot by providing me with challenging problems, textbooks, and other resources. Even though I did work hard this year, I was still thrilled to be invited to the team.
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(CNN) -- Fighting has prompted thousands of people in the southern part of Sudan's Darfur region to seek security and shelter at a refugee camp in the northern part of the war-torn area, according to the United Nations.
A member of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) stands guard near the Sudan-Chad border in 2007.
The U.N.'s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported that fighting in Muhajeria and Shearia between Sudanese government forces, and the rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), drove over 15,000 people north to the Zam Zam camp.
The water supply to the camp is becoming strained with displaced people arriving there every day, OCHA said Wednesday.
The government of Sudan has waged a brutal counter-insurgency against militias for the past six years, a war that some international critics have characterized as genocide.
An estimated 300,000 people in the western Sudanese region have been killed through combat, disease or malnutrition, according to the United Nations. An additional 2.7 million people have been forced to flee their homes because of fighting among rebels, government forces and the violent Janjaweed militias.
Fighting continues in the region despite the JEM and local government signing a "goodwill and confidence-building" agreement earlier in February, according to the U.N.
The U.N.-African Union allied peacekeeping mission (UNAMID) will begin building a new community police center near Zam Zam in the next two weeks, the U.N. announced Saturday.
The violence in Darfur erupted in 2003 after rebels began an uprising against the Sudanese government. To counter the rebels, Sudanese authorities armed and cooperated with Arab militias that went from village to village in Darfur, killing, torturing and raping residents there, according to the United Nations, Western governments and human rights organizations. The militias targeted civilian members of tribes from which the rebels drew strength.
Last year, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir was charged with genocide by the International Criminal Court for the government's campaign of violence in Darfur.
Under pressure to end the fighting, Al-Bashir in November agreed to an immediate and unconditional cease-fire in Darfur. But the rebel Justice and Equality Movement was not included in the case-fire talks.
CNN's Katy Byron contributed to this report.
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The Left wants a Health Care System like Britain's NHS despite the NHS having Crippling Deficits
Week in Review
Obamacare is not going well. The say it is. But it isn't. The White House can all of a sudden give us a number like 8 million enrollees when they said earlier they couldn't tell until the insurance companies tell them. And the other big question is this. Are these enrollees? Including all people who enrolled whether they paid or not? Or are these only the people who paid? Or are most of these people enrolling in Medicaid? Those who won't ever pay? If that 8 million aren't paying customers Obamacare is doomed.
So the financial foundation of Obamacare is likely very perilous. Where the sick and poor are probably signing up more than the healthy with money. And the delay of the employer mandate to sometime after the midterm election takes a bad financial foundation and makes it worse. For they can't keep delaying the funding parts until after elections. Because someone has to pay for all of the subsidies. As well as the high cost of the old and sick. Which alone may bankrupt Obamacare (see Labour considers raising national insurance to fix £30bn NHS 'black hole' by Toby Helm posted 4/19/2014 on the guardian).
Radical plans to increase national insurance contributions to plug a looming £30bn a year "black hole" in NHS funding and pay the spiralling costs of care for the elderly are being examined by Labour's policy review.
The Observer has learnt that the idea is among options being considered to ensure NHS and care costs can be met under a future Labour government, without it having to impose crippling cuts on other services in successive budgets.
Senior party figures have confirmed that a scheme advanced by the former Labour minister Frank Field – under which funds from increased NI would be paid into a sealed-off fund for health and care costs – is being examined, though no decisions have been taken.
Recent figures based on data from NHS England and the Nuffield Trust and produced by the Commons library suggest that NHS costs alone will go from £95bn a year now to more than £130bn a year by 2020.
Some have suggested that they designed Obamacare to fail. So they can get what they really want. Single-payer. Or national health care. Like they have in Britain with their National Health Service (NHS). Which is running an enormous deficit. Based on the above numbers it currently is 31.6% (£30bn/£95bn). Which is just unsustainable. But this is what an aging population will do. When you have more people leaving the workforce consuming health care benefits paid for by fewer people entering the workforce. Which should be a huge warning for the United States. Because they have an aging population, too.
At the current exchange rate that £30 billion comes to $50.37 billion. Is this what the US can expect? No. Because they have five-times the population Britain has. So their deficit will be approximately five-times as big. Or $251.85 billion. That's a quarter of a trillion dollar shortfall PER YEAR. At least. And $2.52 trillion over a decade. So unless the Americans can somehow make their people less sick so they won't consume health care resources the deficit alone for Obamacare will be more than twice the original CBO projection for the total cost over 10 years. Which means the Americans will have to do what the British must do. Increase taxes. Charge for some health care services in addition to these higher taxes. Or impose crippling cuts to services. Hello rationing. And longer wait times.
This is the absolute worst time to impose a single-payer/national health care system. Just as the baby boom generation fills our health care system in their retirement. It might have worked if we had kept having babies the way we did before birth control and abortion slashed the birthrate. But we didn't. And now we have a baby bust generation stuck footing the bill for a baby boom generation. Fewer paying for more. And the only way to make that work is with confiscatory tax rates. Or death panels. Because you have to raise revenue. Or cut costs. There is just no other option. Or people can work longer, pay out of pocket for routine, expected expenses and buy real insurance to protect themselves from catastrophic, unexpected medical expenses. Which is actually another option. And probably the only one that will work.
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yes, that's okay, the xml can also be empty or contain only one single plugin for example- If I don't put any <image> and <preview> in the xml of krPano, is it ok ?
yes, just load only the plugin in the first xml/scene and then intro.swf was done, make a loadpano/loadscene() call from there to load the pano with other plugins,- is it possible to load only intro.swf after krpano.swf and wait for a loadpano() command to load other krpano plugins ?
krpano can only consider the loading of the "intro.swf" file itself,- if the intro.swf loads other files (swf, flv, mp3, jpg), is it consider by krPano for the "finished loading", or krPano considers only the size of intro.swf ?
Tuesday, July 7th 2009, 1:20pm
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- If I don't put any <image> and <preview> in the xml of krPano, is it ok ?
yes, that's okay, the xml can also be empty or contain only one single plugin for example
Saturday, July 18th 2009, 1:25pm
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onhover="showtext([b][i]Fermer l'aide[/b][/i], INFOSTYLE);"
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onhover="showtext([b][i]Fermer l[sq]aide[/b][/i], INFOSTYLE);"
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onhover="showtext('[b][i]Fermer l[sq]aide[/b][/i]', INFOSTYLE);"
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Tuesday, August 4th 2009, 1:04pm
refreshrate parameter for animated images (swf hotspots) can be 0-60, default is "auto" - this will automatically detect the frame rate for swf movies (for videos it's recommended to use the videoplayer plugin)
Wednesday, August 5th 2009, 11:04pm
Hi,It is possible to have different framerate in a flash application ?
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Tuesday, August 25th 2009, 11:10am
Hi,I have tried the video-plugin. I get a "glitch" every time the flv repeats. Is it possible to fix that so it will be a seamless experience?
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Tuesday, August 25th 2009, 11:30am
can you provide an example?No. I mean a video-glitch :-)
I have a short film where the last frame is matching the first one and I hoped the loop shouldn't be noticed.
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QuotedUpdate - 2009-06-15:
fixed looktohotspot() - wrong caluclation of the hotspot center on wrapped point coordniates
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<plugin name="combobox" url="plugins/combobox.swf" align="leftbottom" x="20" y="80" keep="true" /> <!-- scene/pano sf03 Room of hotel the TANGERINE lighting is included --> <scene name="scene_sf03" <action name="combobox:lighting ON"> loadpano(1.xml,null,KEEPALL,BLEND(2)); </action> <action name="combobox:lighting OFF"> loadpano(2.xml,null,KEEPALL,BLEND(2)); </action </scene>
Wednesday, September 2nd 2009, 10:31am
thanks, you're right, the current editor plugin was not up to date, so it doesn't show this new parameter,There seems to be an issue with "textstyle.fadetime" not working correctly?
While trying to track it down I noticed that you can have a "fadetime" param in your XML for a <textstyle>, but when viewing the XML in the EDITOR that param does not appear. Nor does it show up when you copy the XML to the clipboard and put it in a new document.
do you have an not working example?on some of my imported QTVR files, looktohotspot() moves in the wrong direction. On others it operates correctly.