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BERWICK, Maine — To raise awareness about World Spay Day, Peg Wheeler has set up a six-day fund-raising effort to help support Berwick's stray animals that she takes in at Red Barn.
World Spay Day is an international event organized by the Humane Society. Recognized each year on Feb. 25, the goal is to "save the lives of companion animals, feral and stray cats, and street dogs who might otherwise be put down in a shelter or killed on the street."
Wheeler, a licensed veterinary technician and the owner of Berwick Animal Shelter located at Red Barn Professional Pet Services, is running a six-day fundraiser to gather donations to help get more of Berwick's stray cats spayed and neutered.
In Berwick, the number of stray and feral cats not neutered continues to rise each year, Wheeler said. Last year alone, she said the need increased more than 200 percent.
Last summer, the Berwick Police Department seized 40 cats from one residence. Wheeler said that situation resulted from two cats and their offspring left free to breed over a period of less than two years.
Wheeler took in all of those cats and had them spayed or neutered at a cost of thousands of dollars. The community came to her aid, offering donations of supplies and money. But, she said, "the cats keep coming and funds run short."
She is expecting another overwhelming need for donations once "kitten season" hits this summer.
Just last week, a cat died at Red Barn that was brought in from downtown Berwick over the summer. Wheeler said the cat had been abandoned after having several litters. Roaming the streets unspayed, the cat continued having litters of kittens and struggled to find food.
"A concerned resident brought her to us and less than 24 hours later she had yet another litter," Wheeler said. The kittens have since all been adopted, but the mother cat's recovery was slow after getting spayed and she was diagnosed last week with an untreatable large mass in her kidney.
"Sadly, she had to be euthanized," Wheeler said. "She is the worst case example of an animal that lives a very unfair, painful existence because she was not neutered."
Wheeler asks that donations be made in the cat's memory "to prevent similar sad stories."
Donations can be made at www.redbarnpps.com or on their GoFundMe page from Feb. 23 until Feb. 28 at www.gofundme.com/6ygb6w.
Wheeler added that personal visits, donations of towels, blankets, food, litter or cash are also always welcome.
Low-income York County residents can have their cat(s) spayed or neutered for only $10 during the month of February at the Animal Welfare Society in Kennebunk. Appointments, which are limited, can be set up by calling the AWS at (207) 985-3244.
For more information visit animalwelfaresociety.org/services/spay-and-neuter.


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Brighton News
Artist Alzora Zarumba from the state of Washington held a workshop on flamingos, Nov. 11-14 at the home of Linda Grice in South English. Donna Guy, with daughter Deb Greiner, both of Brighton, and several of Donna's art class students attended the workshop.
Chapter AQ, P.E.O., met at the home of Nancy Anderson on Nov. 19. Sixteen members were present. Ruth Ann Stacy gave the program on friendship quilts. Their next meeting will be a Christmas social on Dec. 3 at the home of Louise Frakes.
The Krony Krew Bridge Club met on Nov. 20 at the home of Kathryn Dickinson. Shirley Schooley, Kathryn Dickinson and Phyllis Scheeler were the winners. Their next meeting will be Dec. 4. The place will be decided later.
Rita Berry of Bates City, Mo., surprised her mother, Winifred Fritz, by arriving on Nov. 15. She returned home on Nov. 21.
Bridget Hollingsworth of Fairfield and her aunt Rita Berry attended the Iowa basketball game on Nov. 17.
Providing the evening meal Nov. 17 at the home of Winifred Fritz were her children: Mary Stecker with friend Joel, Jane and Virgil Symmonds, and Greg and Deb Fritz, all of Fairfield; and Tony Fritz of Brighton with friend Lynn of North Liberty. J.D. Hollingsworth, Mary's son, of Packwood, was also present.
Joe Fritz with Julia and Sophia enjoyed the evening meal of Nov. 19 at the home of his mother, Winifred Fritz, along with Rita Berry.
Caryl Smith of Brighton was visited Nov. 20 by friend Ed Mineart of Muscatine.


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Presented by Edward G. Boehne, President
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Berks County Chamber of Commerce
Reading, PA
March 5, 1999
The economic news has sounded quite rosy recently. The national unemployment rate has fallen to its lowest level in almost 30 years. Consumer confidence has remained very high and housing activity has remained very strong. And the stock market has been simply extraordinary.
Indeed, the news has been so rosy that people sometimes seem to forget our economic picture contains several not-so-rosy parts. The most obvious one is that slumping foreign economies have certainly hurt some sectors in the U.S. Just a year ago the big story was that recessions in many Asian nations would lead to a sharp drop in U.S. exports. Indeed, agriculture and manufacturing suffered the most from the decline in our export markets. And even though other parts of our economy grew very rapidly last year, they did not prevent the agriculture and manufacturing sectors from experiencing the pain of the downturn in foreign economic activity.
Not only did demand for U.S. exports decline, but a rise in the value of the dollar made imported goods less expensive for U.S. buyers. This made imported manufactured goods more competitive within the U.S., and that, too, reduced demand for U.S.-made products. Last years drop in demand for U.S. manufactured goods resulted in an associated decline in manufacturing jobs in the U.S.
This region certainly felt the impact of the slump in foreign economies and the rise in the value of the dollar in foreign exchange markets, because manufacturing makes up a large share of this areas economic base. Manufacturing in the Berks County region declined in the second half of last year, in concert with the overall weakness in national manufacturing activity. Nationwide, jobs declined in manufacturing in nine of the past ten months, for a cumulative loss of about 285,000 jobs. In relative terms, manufacturing job losses were even more severe in the Reading area than they were at the state and national levels. And although nonmanufacturing jobs increased in Berks County, the increases were not sufficient to overcome the losses in manufacturing, so total employment fell slightly last year.
Consequently, for the first time since 1993, the Reading area economy underperformed the states. Another sign of the slower job market in this region is the areas unemployment rate, which rose from 4.0 percent in the first half of last year to about 4.5 percent in the second half. But Readings unemployment rate is still quite low and is close to the national average.
Although manufacturing has been the weakest sector of our economy, we may now be seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. In the Philadelphia Feds Business Outlook Survey, which is a survey of our Districts manufacturers, respondents are reporting that activity is picking up in the region. Our index of current activity has risen for two months in a row, after slumping last fall. So the outlook for some recovery in manufacturing in this region is better now than it was just six months ago.
Another positive factor for this regions outlook is construction activity. Nationally, housing activity has been very strong, and homebuilding also continues at a high level in Berks County. Nonresidential construction contracts in the region are also up. This strong pace of construction will support the regions economy in the coming year, although it doesnt offer much near-term relief from the pressure on roads and other infrastructure that the county has been wrestling with in recent years.
A big question in the outlook for the coming year is whether we will experience more shocks from abroad. This year many of the Asian economies will be recovering, while others will shrink less rapidly than they did last year. Consequently, we can expect that our exports to Asia wont fall as much this year.
But our overall exports may be adversely affected this year from a different part of the world this time from weakness in Brazil and other Latin American nations. Certainly recessions in Latin America would not be good news for U.S. exporters, but the severity of the impact on the U.S. depends in large part on the extent to which problems in Brazil spread to other countries. By itself, Brazil or even Brazil and the rest of South America would not have as large an impact on the U.S. as last years downturn in Asia. But if weakness in South America were to spread to Mexico, one of our major trading partners, the impact on the U.S. would be much more significant.
We must also remain alert to continuing problems in countries like Russia and Japan. Unpleasant surprises in financial markets both here and abroad could throw our economy off track. Last year, capital flight from emerging markets spread financial turmoil from Asia to Eastern Europe, and then to Latin America. Especially after Russia defaulted on its debt, we saw a widespread flight to quality, a heightened aversion to risk, and a dramatic increase in preference for the most liquid assets, which disrupted U.S. financial markets as well as those abroad.
It was in response to this turmoil, and the associated increased downside risk to the U.S. economy, that the Fed reduced short-term interest rates in several steps last fall. Those actions helped calm markets, and now financial markets are functioning more normally. But considering the degree of uncertainty we face about the health of foreign economies and financial markets, the possibility of a similar shock occurring again cant be ruled out. A sharp financial market correction could suddenly and significantly change consumer and business attitudes. This is why I believe monetary policy must remain particularly alert and flexible this year.
But I dont want to leave you with the impression that all the risks to the economy this year are on the downside. Recent U.S. economic growth has been remarkably strong, despite the weakness of our exports. Our economy has been growing for eight straight years, making this expansion the second longest of the century. Output and employment have grown robustly for the past three years, bringing the unemployment rate down to a 29-year low. Even areas of the country that have tended to have persistently high unemployment for decades have benefited from this very long expansion. And the job market will remain tight this year, so pressures on compensation should continue to be a major challenge for businesses.
Having strong growth and low unemployment is terrific as long as it is sustainable. What we dont want is for strong growth to cross over into a boom, because we know that booms are followed by busts. There is enough uncertainty about this years economic outlook that we cannot rule out the possibility that the economy could overheat this year.
My own view, however, is that our economy will continue to grow this year and that inflation will remain under control. I dont expect output and employment to grow as strongly as last year, nor do I expect inflation to be quite as low. Putting foreign and domestic factors together, I come to the conclusion that this year the economy will grow at a more moderate pace than last year. I expect moderation in the growth of almost all sectors, including autos, housing, equipment spending, and consumer spending. Last years strong gains in consumer spending reflected sizable employment gains, rising incomes, and another year of strong stock market performance that led consumers to increase their spending at the expense of their personal saving rate. Now that the saving rate has fallen to about zero, consumers are unlikely to increase their spending as rapidly as they did last year.
Despite strong economic growth in recent years, inflation has been low. Consumer prices rose less than two percent in each of the past two years, and average consumer price inflation during this expansion is as low as during the long expansion of the 1960s. Inflation should stay in check this year, although it will be slightly higher than last year as oil and other import prices rise after falling last year. That may not precisely be price stability, but its still the lowest sustained inflation we have seen in 30 years.
I think the historical evidence shows that long-run economic growth is maximized by maintaining an environment in which there is so little inflation that expectations of future inflation have little or no influence on the decisions made by households and businesses. That pretty much describes the U.S. today. It is an important reason why I am basically optimistic about our economys prospects.
The economys favorable performance in recent years reflects to a large extent the fact that we have been following good economic policies. Monetary policy has brought inflation down to levels we have not seen since the early 1960s, and that has provided a financial environment that has helped sustain the expansion. Fiscal policy has constrained growth in federal spending and produced the first budget surplus in nearly 30 years, which has meant that more of our national saving is available to finance productive investment. Regulatory policy has fostered competition that has led to greater efficiency and innovation. Trade policy has focused on opening markets abroad rather than closing our markets. And that has given U.S. companies new opportunities to export while giving U.S. consumers the benefits of a variety of foreign goods.
Because our economic policies are basically sound, I am generally optimistic about the economic outlook. Looking to the year ahead, I dont know what adjustments to monetary policy, if any, will be needed to help keep the economy on a trend of sustainable growth and benign inflation. The U.S. economy is too complex and dynamic to be guided by pat formulas, and monetary policy is but one influence among many that impact it. Like you in your businesses, we in the Federal Reserve need to stay alert, be as forward-looking as possible, and act accordingly to help keep our economy on a long-run path of prosperity.
One thing we are doing to stay on that path of prosperity is ensuring that the banking system is prepared for the year 2000 (or Y2K). This year began with many news stories about potential problems with computer systems when the year 2000 arrives. So-called Y2K problems will receive even more attention as we move through the year. Many of the scarier stories being told about Y2K involve the banking and financial system. The impression one gets from these stories is that the financial industry is the one most likely to suffer from Y2K problems. In fact, the financial industry is doing one of the best jobs to ensure that the arrival of the year 2000 is a manageable event. Let me briefly explain what the Federal Reserve and banks are doing to prepare.
We at the Federal Reserve have tested, updated, and re-tested our own major systems and made sure they will work in the year 2000. Now we are working to test the interaction of our automated systems with those of banks not just the large banks, but community banks as well. Our objective is for banks to have tested with us, or to be scheduled to test with us, by the end of March. Bank regulators have been raising the heat on banks about preparing for the year 2000 for more than a year now. Regulators are also pushing banks to make sure that their business customers are ready for Y2K.
You should also know that the Federal Reserve is working closely with foreign bank supervisors and others to encourage Y2K readiness worldwide. We are working to encourage public disclosure and transparency of Y2K preparations in all countries, so that companies can better evaluate their ability to conduct operations in various parts of the world when the year 2000 arrives.
We are also preparing for the possibility that some individuals may decide to hold extra cash during the century rollover. Some consumers may be concerned that other payment methods may not work well around the turn of the year, and we want to be prepared to meet larger-than-normal demands for cash. So we plan to increase our inventory of currency by a large amount, just in case. And we will make sure our cash operations are staffed around the turn of the year so that banks can obtain currency on a timely basis. For that matter, we will have a lot of staff from many of our departments available around the turn of the year, just to handle any unusual developments in the payments system. And we will be prepared to lend funds to financial institutions under appropriate circumstances.
Y2K testing, some people complain, is a pain in the neck and is costly. But the alternative NOT testing and then learning there is a problem on January 1, 2000 would be even MORE costly to both banks and businesses. There are, for instance, issues of legal liability that go beyond simple customer complaints.
Beyond the technical side of fixing the century date change problem lies the issue of educating the public and the media about what the true situation is rather than letting anxiety build through a lack of knowledge. It is going to be important for bankers and business leaders to build up confidence within their communities about their ability to solve Y2K operational problems. Confidence is at the heart of our economic and financial system. If the public loses confidence in our ability to handle the century date change, the whole business community will lose. You can expect media attention about this issue to intensify as the year progresses. It would be wise for bankers and business leaders to be prepared to answer reporters questions about Y2K preparedness honestly and reassuringly. No one can guarantee a perfect rollover into the millennium, but through Y2K preparedness the financial and business communities can do their part to maintain confidence in our economy and keep glitches should they occur manageable.
In conclusion, we are completing the eighth year of this economic expansion, which is now the second longest of this century. I believe the expansion will continue throughout 1999 and into 2000, thereby making this the longest expansion of modern times. And I expect this will occur while inflation remains low.
Nevertheless, the economy faces both downside and upside risks. The Federal Reserve will need to be especially alert this year to changing developments domestic and global and act accordingly to help keep the economy on a path of sustainable prosperity.


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Elizabeth Olsen Describes 'Messed Up' Scarlet Witch in 'Avengers 2'
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Leading up to the release of Spike Lee's Oldboy remake we had the opportunity to chat with star Elizabeth Olsen about her at-the-time potential involvement in Marvel's The Avengers: Age of Ultron. While not officially cast in the film at the time, Olsen had been answering questions about the character she was reportedly in talks to play (Scarlet Witch) for quite some time, becoming increasingly more open about details and her research, leading up to this week's unsurprising official announcement.
We we can finally legitimately confirm that Elizabeth Olsen will be playing Scarlet Witch in The Avengers 2 with Aaron Taylor-Johnson playing her bother, Quicksilver. Olsen's career began just two years ago and immediately skyrocketed with critical acclaim for roles in indie hits including Martha Marcy May Marlene.
Beginning this week with the release of Oldboy, and more so next year with a lead role in Godzilla (funny enough, alongside Aaron Taylor-Johnson), Olsen is quickly becoming a household name like her older twin sisters were years ago. Following these two high profile remakes comes a sequel to the biggest superhero movie of all-time and Olsen couldn't be more excited, spending plenty of time reading up on Marvel Comics to learn the many stories involving her characters.
When chatting with Screen Rant, Olsen teased some of the more intriguing elements regarding Scarlet Witch's superpowers and more recently, in an interview with Moviefone she explained that she met up with Avengers 2 writer/director Joss Whedon again recently to discuss the part.
I hung out with Mr. Whedon recently. I'm really excited about this movie. I'm so excited about Scarlet Witch. I have had so much fun reading all about her and I am like learning new words that I had to look up on Wikipedia. I'm really enjoying it.
Introducing Scarlet Witch raises several interesting challenges for Marvel Studios. On the business side of things, the mutant origins of the character and her brother Quicksilver – and perhaps their abilities and real names – are owned by Twentieth Century Fox who hold the film rights to all things X-Men. So right off the bat we know the characters will not be the same as their source material counterparts.
The other challenge is with regards to Scarlet Witch's powers, which could potentially make her the most powerful member of Earth's Mightiest Heroes, but also the most problematic from a storytelling standpoint. Quicksilver's powers are rather simple in comparison – he's extremely fast. Scarlet Witch on the other hand, is more "magical" in that she can alter probabilities and effectively change reality. In the major Marvel Comics crossover event House of M she actually erased the mutant gene from most of the world when she lost her temper.
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Captain America: The Winter Soldier on April 4, 2014, Guardians of the Galaxy on August 1, 2014, The Avengers: Age of Ultron on May 1, 2015, Ant-Man on July 31, 2015, and unannounced films for May 6 2016, July 8 2016 and May 5 2017.
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At least a few key characteristics and potential plot points will be kept from Scarlet Witch's history in the books, at least it seems that way from Olsen's description of the character:
"I just love Scarlet Witch. I love her. It's so funny because I'm often talking about all these psychologically damaged people, but when you talk about Scarlet Witch… She is a messed up lady. She has got more sh*t to deal with than anybody else I know. I'm excited to figure out what's appropriate to use for her, because there's so much material from all of these decades, and we're going to tell this one story. So to be able to choose what you're going to bring into it from all of this abundance, it's really fun."
Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver have a troubled history, switching sides from "hero" to "villain" by association (their father is X-Men villain Magneto) on multiple occasions. If the character is "messed up" in in the film, we're curious how she and her bro meet The Avengers, why they sign up, and what their connections are with the new origins of Ultron. Joss Whedon is introducing the pair for very specific story reasons and while we know Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver don't necessarily agree with what The Avengers do, there are some very interesting story implications of an unpredictable, super-powered and potentially psychologically damaged character like Scarlet Witch – especially considering her odd relationships.
Ultron, a sentient AI, created another android character named Vision in the comics – the husband of Scarlet Witch and another Avenger. In the Ultimate Marvel Comics stories of The Avengers, it's Ultron who actually kills Scarlet Witch (who in this version has an overly loving relationship with her brother) so there are definitely some dark times ahead, as Whedon has suggested in the past when saying "awful" things will happen to the team.
Let us know in the comments what you'd like to see from Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch's costumes, powers and relationships in the Marvel Cinematic Universe!
The Avengers: Age of Ultron is written and directed by Joss Whedon, starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Cobie Smulders, Elizabeth Olsen, James Spader, Jeremy Renner, Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey Jr., Samuel L. Jackson, and Scarlett Johansson.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier on April 4, 2014, Guardians of the Galaxy on August 1, 2014, The Avengers: Age of Ultron on May 1, 2015, Ant-Man on July 31, 2015, and unannounced films for May 6 2016, July 8 2016 and May 5 2017.
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Legal Question in Military Law in California
If I did nude modeling and the company that took the photos have the rights to the photos, can i be held responsible for the subject in which they market the photos; for example, if there is no military affiliation in gthe photos but they create a story stating that i am in the military, can be charged with bringing discredit upon the military organization?
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You need to read the USMCJ military regulations to determine the kind of conduct that is a discredit to the military and some examples. From that information you should be able to make an educated guess as to whether your photos if referred to in a written and published article would bring discredit to the military. Next time, when doing a photo shoot, make surebefore you sign the release to get a legal review of same; if the person who is doing the photo shoot doesn't want to you to obtain a legal review of the release, then you don't want to do the photo shoot.
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Berlanty Azzam, the 22-year-old Palestinian student who petitioned the High Court to allow her to return to the West Bank city of Bethlehem in order to finish university, will not be able to do so, a three-judge panel ruled Wednesday.
Azzam was expelled from the West Bank after a routine examination of her identification papers at an IDF checkpoint in late October, revealed that she was listed as a resident of Gaza. The army said that she had resided in the West Bank illegally while misleading authorities.
The court said that while it was regrettable that Azzam would be unable to complete her degree, which is just three credits away, it could not dismiss the fact the she had resided in the West Bank illegally for four years.
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Furthermore, the court ruled she was in breach of the pass given to her at the time, to cross between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, since it clearly stipulated she was allowed to enter the West Bank for religious purposes only.
At the time, said the judges, Azzam did not have a student pass, "Leaving the court no choice but to rule that she stayed in the West Bank illegally. Her schooling is not a sufficient reason for this court to rule in favor of her return."
The court also noted that any other reason may be perceived as biased towards other Gazans, citing two recent cases in which petitions for student passes were denied.
Azzam told Ynet that she was disappointed by the decision. "I have to leave Gaza. You can't live here and the court's decision proves it.
"I'm very disappointed. I thought the High Court would be more reasonable, more humane, but I guess they don't care." Azzam added she would seek other ways to finish her degree. "That's my main concern right now. After that I'm leaving Gaza once and for all."
Gisha, the center for freedom of movement, who represented Azzam, said they could not find a reasonable explanation for the court's decision.
"There is real cause for concern when the court insists on preventing a promising young student, with no history of security problems, from finishing her education," said Gisha Spokesperson Attorney Keren Tamir.
"I don't know why Israel wants to prevent Palestinian students from attending Palestinian universities. This is in clear violation of their rights and we regret that the court decided to side with the State."
Daniel Edelson contributed to this report
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WASHINGTON, May 20 (UPI) -- The U.S. government has an obligation to put pressure on Myanmar President Thein Sein to address national security, Human Rights Watch said.
Thein Sein arrived Monday in the United States for a two-day visit to meet with U.S. President Barack Obama. Myanmar's government has received international recognition for democratic initiatives that began with general elections in 2010.
Human Rights Watch said many of Myanmar's security challenges remained sidelined, however. Asia director John Sifton said 2012 was a "devastating" year for the minority population in Myanmar, known also as Burma.
"President Obama should insist on steps to prevent further outbreaks of violence. He must also make it clear that there are consequences if the Burmese government fails to implement its previous human rights pledges," he said in a statement.
The organization said several security pledges made by Myanmar's government in recent months have faltered. There are around 120,000 people displaced by various conflicts in Myanmar and more than 140,000 minority Muslims are housed in closed camps for displaced people.
"There are negative consequences for rights when diplomatic rewards continue even as reforms stall," Sifton said.
The International Crisis Group was criticized this year for rewarding Thein Sein for political reforms.


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My most challenging project? I would have to say the Martabe Project, in Indonesia. Adapting to Indonesian suppliers and culture was challenging because it was different from ours, but at the same time very rewarding. I had the opportunity to visit both Jakarta and Surabaya to meet with suppliers and our joint efforts really paid off.


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In some areas in the Oceanic Pacific Islands, food and water can also carry diseases like hepatitis A. Practise safe food and water precautions while travelling in the Oceanic Pacific Islands. Remember: Boil it, cook it, peel it, or leave it!
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- Travellers' diarrhea is the most common illness affecting travellers. It is spread from eating or drinking contaminated food or water.
- Risk of developing travellers' diarrhea increases when travelling in regions with poor standards of hygiene and sanitation. Practise safe food and water precautions.
- The most important treatment for travellers' diarrhea is rehydration (drinking lots of fluids). Carry oral rehydration salts when travelling.
Insects and Illness
In some areas in the Oceanic Pacific Islands, certain insects carry and spread diseases like chikungunya, dengue fever, Japanese encephalitis, lymphatic filariasis, malaria and Zika virus.
Travellers are advised to take precautions against bites.
There is currently an outbreak of chikungunya in this country. Chikungunya is a viral disease spread through the bite of an infected mosquito that typically causes fever and pain in the joints. Protect yourself from mosquito bites, particularly around sunrise and sunset. There is no vaccine available for chikungunya.
Dengue fever
- Dengue fever occurs in this country. Dengue fever is a viral disease that can cause severe flu-like symptoms. In some cases it leads to dengue haemorrhagic fever, which can be fatal.
- The risk of dengue is higher during the daytime, particularly at sunrise and sunset.
- Protect yourself from mosquito bites. There is no vaccine or medication that protects against dengue fever.
Zika virus infection
Zika virus infection is a risk in this country. Recent or ongoing cases of Zika virus have been reported in this country.
Travel recommendations:
All travellers should protect themselves from mosquito bites day and night.
Zika virus infection during pregnancy can cause serious birth defects such as abnormally small heads (microcephaly). Zika virus can also be sexually transmitted.
Travellers who are pregnant or planning a pregnancy:
- Should avoid travel to this country
- If travel cannot be avoided follow strict mosquito bite prevention measures.
- Talk to your health care professional about the risk of Zika infection in pregnancy.
- Use condoms or avoid having sex for the duration of the pregnancy, if you are pregnant and your partner has travelled to this country.
- Female travellers: wait at least 2 months after returning from this country before trying to conceive (get pregnant) to ensure that any possible Zika virus infection has cleared your body.
- Male travellers: wait 6 months after returning from this country before trying to conceive. Use condoms or avoid having sex during that time.
See travel health notice: Zika virus: Advice for travellers
There is no risk of malaria in this country.
Animals and Illness
Travellers are cautioned to avoid contact with animals, including dogs, monkeys, snakes, rodents, birds, and bats. Certain infections found in the Oceanic Pacific Islands, like rabies, can be shared between humans and animals.
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Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV are spread through blood and bodily fluids; practise safer sex.
Tuberculosis is an infection caused by bacteria and usually affects the lungs.
For most travellers the risk of tuberculosis is low.
Travellers who may be at high risk while travelling in regions with risk of tuberculosis should discuss pre- and post-travel options with a health care provider.
High-risk travellers include those visiting or working in prisons, refugee camps, homeless shelters, or hospitals, or travellers visiting friends and relatives.
Medical services and facilities
Medical facilities are very limited throughout the country. The local hospital located in Koror provides standard medical care, including surgery. It contains a modern hyperbaric chamber with a certified operator; however, access to it may be limited and is likely expensive. Serious medical conditions may require evacuation, which is generally prompt and efficient. Patients are often evacuated to a medical facility in Manila, Philippines.
Keep in Mind...
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Laws & culture
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Illegal activities
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LGBTQ2 travellers
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More information and advice for LGBTQ2 travellers abroad
An International Driving Permit is recommended.
Dual citizenship
Dual citizenship is not legally recognized in Palau.
If local authorities consider you a citizen of Palau, they may refuse to grant you access to Canadian consular services. This will prevent us from providing you with those services.
Learn more about travel as a dual citizen.
Dress conservatively, and respect religious and social traditions to avoid offending local sensitivities.
The currency is the U.S. dollar (USD). Major credit cards are accepted at most hotels and tourist facilities. U.S. dollar traveller's cheques are widely accepted. Automated banking machines (ABMs) are available.
Natural disasters and climate
Natural disasters & climate
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Emergency services
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Consular assistance
There is no resident Canadian government office in Palau. You can obtain consular assistance and further information from the Embassy of Australia in Pohnpei, Micronesia, under the Canada-Australia Consular Services Sharing Agreement.
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Lions Club to meet
The Nesquehoning Lions Club will meet on Tuesday, Dec. 4 at 6:30 p.m. at Lengyel's. The district governor will be visiting and all Lions are encouraged to attend.
Woman's club dinner
The Nesquehoning Woman's Club will hold its Christmas dinner at DiMaggio's Restaurant in Tamaqua on Monday, Dec. 3 at 6:30 p.m. Dinner will be served at 7 p.m.
A brief meeting will be conducted by President Carol Zickler.
First Congregational Church
Morning Worship will be held at First Congregational Church, Coaldale, at 9 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 2. Sunday School for all ages will follow at 10 a.m.
Services and activities for the next week are as follows:
The nursing home ministry group will visit St. Luke's Miners, Coaldale, at 11 a.m. and MapleShade, Nesquehoning, at 1:30 p.m., both on Wednesday, Dec. 5.
Also on Dec. 5, Kids Klub and Bible Study will both be held at 6 p.m., with choir rehearsal at 7 p.m.
On Sunday, Dec. 9, Morning Worship will be conducted at 9 a.m. followed by Sunday School at 10 a.m.
The church board will meet at 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 10.
The Children's and Youth Christmas program will be held during Morning Worship at 9 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 16.
Those who contributed food and money as Harvest Home gifts for the needy were thanked. Also thanked were donors to the Samaritan's Purse Project. The church sent 38 boxes of toys to children around the world.


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Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan No.ЗРУ-365 of 20 January 2014 introduced a number of amendments to the legislation regulating activities of foreign investors in Uzbekistan, including Tax Code, Law on foreign investments, Law on guarantees and protection of foreign investors' rights, Law on customs tariff and others. We have summarized the most notable amendments below.
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Vanessa Bryant Hates Khloe Kardashian
Kobe Bryant's wife Vanessa is not a fan of Lamar Odom's wife Khloe Kardashian or the entire Kardashian family. Tension between the two Laker wives came to a head during the recent NBA finals. According to In Touch Weekly, "Kobe Bryant's wife, Vanessa, "hates" Khloe and her entire family, whom she sees as attention-grabbing fame-seekers." Vanessa has frozen out Khloe from Laker wives events and even refuses to sit near her at games. She is reported to have said, "Khloe is a fake wife." Apparently the feeling is mutual and Khloe doesn't want anything to do with Vanessa. Me-ow! [In Touch]
Daniel Radcliffe Thinks Justin Bieber is a Girl
Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe must have been living under a rock as he has just become aware of Canadian singing sensation Justin Bieber. He told MTV News, "I only heard Justin Bieber for the first time, like, two weeks ago. I genuinely thought it was a woman singing. I'd never heard it before." Radcliffe said he been busy shooting the final Harry Potter film and that Bieber-fever has not yet spread across the pond to the U.K. [Hollywood Crush]
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John Moore with the Smith County Sheriff's Office says an argument between several people led to the stabbing Monday night in the 10,000 block of West Lakshore Dr. off Hwy 31 in Smith County.
Around 7 p.m., a Smith County deputy was dispatched to a disturbance at the residence. The deputy responding to the call determined that 29-year-old Jermaine Lamar Benson had arrived home and was allegedly intoxicated when a verbal altercation began between Benson and his wife. The altercation turned violent when Benson allegedly began assaulting his wife.
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Manchester City ease to 3-0 win over Stoke
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Post match interview: Roberto Mancini.
GIF: Pablo Zabaleta puts Manchester City ahead v Stoke.
GIF: Edin Dzeko's Happy New Year message that got the City striker booked.
GIFs: Sergio Aguero goal v Stoke.
Watch the Manchester City squad arrive for the clash with Stoke.
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Picture: FAIL! Man City give David Hasselhoff a shirt with his name spelled incorrectly.
Picture: Edin Dzeko gets booked for a Happy New Year t-shirt.
James Milner interview post Stoke win (interrupted by Patrick Vieira – LOLZ ish).
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Planning board finds fireworks store proposal does not meet performance standardsContinues final vote on application of one month
Searsport — The Searsport Planning Board voted unanimously that a temporary storage container included in the site plan for a proposed fireworks business on Route 1 does not meet the town's performance standards.
Applicant Robert Gordon told the Planning Board at its April 14 meeting a temporary storage container would be brought on to the property at 173 West Main St. The state fire marshall allows a container filled with fireworks to be held for up to 90 days before it must be emptied. Gordon said he planned to have the container present for shorter periods of time to restock his shelves during busy times of year for the fireworks industry, like the weeks leading up to Fourth of July.
Planning board vice-chair Keith Ritchie said the fact that the container was not required to have a sprinkler system, while the main store is required to install sprinklers was his concern. Planning board member Lee-Ann Horowitz said she was concerned about the lack of screening for the storage container.
Gordon suggested he could install a fence to screen views of the storage container from neighboring properties.
The board also decided to continue a vote on whether the fireworks store would effect property values for one month in order to give abutting property owners time to have a professional assessor determine if the retail store would have a negative effect.
Gordon said he did not think the proposed store would have a negative effect, saying the current lot is vacant and any store moving in would actually increase property values. However, several abutters disagreed saying they believed the store would hurt property values.
"You can't say it won't [affect property values], just like I can't say it will," abutting property owner Roland LaReau said, "but common sense dictates this much change will have an effect."
Other property owners questioned why more landscaping of the property couldn't be done. Gordon explained state law prohibits planting anything flammable within 30 feet of a fireworks store.
Abutting property owner George Kimmerly said the lack of landscaping and the presence of the storage container would have a negative impact on the "scenic value" of the area, which is one of the town's standards for judging an application.
"This is an insult to me and to all my neighbors," Kimmerly said. "We don't want this here."
The audience, which included about 20 people, applauded for Kimmerly's comments.
Planning board member Mark Bradstreet said he did not think the application was allowed in the residential zone it was proposed to be located in. The zone allows for retail stores, but lists examples of the types of stores, like books stores, that are acceptable. Bradstreet said the intent of the zone was to limit the type of stores allowed to those listed.
Planning board member George Kerper said, as the town learned in other contentious planning board decisions, that the intent of the rules isn't what matters, but how it is officially written. Kerper said he feared the town would open itself up for a lawsuit if it denied the application because of the current zoning.
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IPM 001 is a Phase I trial that assessed the feasibility of using a silicone elastomer vaginal ring to deliver dapivirine as a microbicide.
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There is something very appealing about the peeled-back look of the Lavabo Skin. It is as though some kind of muscleman got mad and took his rage out on the bathroom tiles.
Designed by Daniele Lago, the Lavabo Skin sink debuted during this year's Milano Design Week. Unique and dramatic, it probably stole the show. When I look at the Lavabo Skin sink, I think of a public washroom; however, it would be perfect for a very modern home as well. Guests would go gaga over this bathroom fixture that looks weightless.
Covered in mosaic, the Lavabo Skin sink's aesthetic remains untouched and raw. It is available in a range of LAGO colorways to suit almost any taste.
Sink-Toilet Hybrids
Rotisserie Bathtubs
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Vince Vaughn recently spoke with the British edition of GQ magazine, where he speaks plainly about his views on liberty in America.
The interview began by discussing Vaughn's role in "assembly-line comedies," however it was the next three topics of conversation that got the media buzzing.
On the American government:
"Edward Snowden is a hero. I like what he did. My idea of treason is that you sell secrets to the enemy. He gave information to the American people. Snowden didn't take information for money or dogmas. Governments claim to write endless laws to protect us, a law for this, a law for that, but are they working? I don't think so. The consequences are that there is a staggering loss of freedom for the individual. I look at the drug wars and they are absolutely f***ing ridiculous. There is a black market and the prisons are overcrowded and it's not preventing drug use. There's a corruption that goes all the way to the top."
On the American right to own a gun:
"I support people having a gun in public full stop, not just in your home. We don't have the right to bear arms because of burglars; we have the right to bear arms to resist the supreme power of a corrupt and abusive government. It's not about duck hunting; it's about the ability of the individual. It's the same reason we have freedom of speech. It's well known that the greatest defence against an intruder is the sound of a gun hammer being pulled back. All these gun shootings that have gone down in America since 1950, only one or maybe two have happened in non-gun-free zones. Take mass shootings. They've only happened in places that don't allow guns. These people are sick in the head and are going to kill innocent people. They are looking to slaughter defenceless human beings. They do not want confrontation. In all of our schools it is illegal to have guns on campus, so again and again these guys go and shoot up these f***ing schools because they know there are no guns there. They are monsters killing six-year-olds."
On whether guns should be allowed in schools:
"Of course. You think the politicians that run my country and your country don't have guns in the schools their kids go to? They do. And we should be allowed the same rights. Banning guns is like banning forks in an attempt to stop making people fat. Taking away guns, taking away drugs, the booze, it won't rid the world of criminality."
In an interview with Playboy last February, Vaughn described himself as "libertarian." No matter what, he not only "shatters the status quo-supporting the Hollywood paradigm, but he obliterates the Left/Right paradigm as well," as those at True Activist put it.
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Agorist, Matt. True Activist. Jun 3, 2015. (http://www.trueactivist.com/snowdens-a-hero-drug-wars-a-failure-guns-arent-for-hunting-vince-vaughn-tells-it-like-it-is/)
Heaf, Jonathan. GQ. 2015. (http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/entertainment/articles/2015-05/29/vince-vaughn-covers-july-issue-british-gq)
Zuckerman, Esther. Time. Jun 1, 2015. (http://time.com/3903412/vince-vaughn-guns-true-detective/)


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day 58: beet-en
I hate to dislike food. I want to like everything. If there is something out there I don't like I'll try to come up with a way to prepare it so that I'd be willing to eat it again and again.
In the past I have successfully converted myself from a hater to a lover of many different types of foods.
As I kid I loved vegetables but I wouldn't touch lettuce and the smell of a salad totally turned me off. This was probably because, at home, our salads were made with white vinegar (an "ingredient" that I've since relegated to the cleaning closet) . Now I eat salads all the time, always with homemade dressing, and I love them!
I never used to like eating apples raw (it was a texture thing) but I somehow did a 180 and now I eat an apple almost daily.
I used to turn up my nose at Brussels sprouts but now I know that if I roast them in a bit of brown butter I am in veggie heaven!
…and there are so many weird and crazy foods that I have always had a taste for, like baccalà, or raw liver with spices.
So why the hell can't I like beets?
They have everything that I want in a food: they're a root vegetable (I otherwise haven't met a root vegetable I didn't like), they're high in sugar, they're versatile, they're nutrient dense (1/3 of your RDI of folate in just 1 cup!), and high in fibre. What's not to love? … oh yeah. The taste. That terrible taste that some may eloquently call "earthy" but I would call "dirty".
I've tried eating them so many ways. I've tried them in boiled, pickled, raw, roasted, juiced, and in smoothies.
On the weekend I found golden beets at Zehrs and said to myself "These. I'm going to like these." and I promptly brought tossed them in my cart. This week I cooked them up and, naturally, I did not like them. So I think it's time to throw in the towel and concede defeat to the dirty beet.
If you do happen to like beets, here's a recipe to try:
Beets with Quinoa and Steamed Greens
- 4 small golden beets
- 2 medium red beets
- Beet greens
- 1/2 of a large red onion, sliced
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 2 tbsp maple syrup
- 4 c. cooked quinoa
- Salt and pepper to taste
- toasted sesame seeds
Preheat oven to 425F
Remove the greens from the beets and reserve. Peel and cube the beets.
Put beets and sliced onion into a baking dish and toss with 1tbsp of olive oil, the maple syrup, salt and pepper. Roast uncovered in the oven for 30-40 minutes or until beets are tender.
While the beets roast, wash the beet greens and place them in a large pot with about 1" of water at the bottom. Bring the water to a boil and steam the greens until wilted. Drain and add the remainder of the oil. Season with salt and pepper.
Serve beets and greens over a bed of warm, cooked quinoa. Top with sesame seeds and enjoy (or not, depending on your palate for beets)


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April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month and we're showing you how to protect yourself in the event of an attack.
David Stacy with Octagon MMA and Krav Maga in Greensboro showed us four moves you can use if ever faced in a dangerous situation. He also told us why it's so important to familiarize yourself with these techniques. He says one assault happens every two minutes in the United States, and one in six women will be involved in an attempted or completed sexual assault.
Here are some tips he shared:
"1) If something feels wrong, listen. Women's intuition is real. If you are unsure, it's better to take extra precaution.
2) Practice self-protection first, and self-defense for when that fails.
3) Fight back. The statistics are in your favor. Don't make it easy. Make them unwilling or unable to continue fighting.
4) Train. You have car insurance, home insurance, dental insurance, etc. What you know as life insurance is actually death insurance. Training is your real life insurance."
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South American farmers have a word of advice for their counterparts in the North who are troubled by corn rootworms—and that word is "taiuia." This plant, like squash and cucumbers, is a member of the curcurbit family. But it contains a powerful feeding stimulant that could help farmers control rootworms using less insecticide.
Brazilian farmers have already shared their secret about its powerful root—which looks like an oversized cassava—with Agricultural Research Service scientists. By coincidence, two different farmers told two different ARS scientists about taiuia in the early 1990s.
ARS biologist Willie Cabrera Walsh remembers asking one farmer why he was placing plastic containers with slices of a root that looked somewhat like cassava in his field. The farmer explained they were pieces of taiuia laced with insecticide. The roots lured the corn rootworm adults, and the poison delivered a mortal blow.
Cabrera Walsh works for ARS' South American Biological Control Laboratory in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Many pests that plague North American farmers came from other parts of the world, so having international laboratories to study foreign pests makes sense. Often, natural predators from the homeland can become U.S. control agents.
Entomologist Robert F. Schroder also learned about taiuia from a Brazilian corn grower. Schroder, who is with the ARS Insect Biological Control Laboratory in Beltsville, Maryland, was in Passo Fundo, Brazil, collecting corn rootworm biological controls with entomologist Dirceu Gassen, who is with EMBRAPA, the Brazilian Institute of Agricultural Research.
"We had been using a small, hand-held aspirator to collect the insects. It was a very exhausting process and not very effective," says Schroder. "Gassen introduced me to a man known as farmer Louis, who pulled up this root that had corn rootworms all over it. We didn't know at the time what it was."
During the rest of the trip, Schroder and Gassen had no trouble collecting samples. They just put slices of the root out where they saw a few of the insects and returned later to collect thousands of them.
Schroder and Cabrera Walsh have been collaborating on their studies of taiuia's potential. Cabrera Walsh sends taiuia samples to Schroder, who assays the extracts and determines their usefulness in controlling corn rootworm adults.
Cabrera Walsh devised a corn rootworm taste test. He put out samples of artificial diets of corn, soybeans, and taiuia. Then, he set loose a group of corn rootworms, allowing them to pick their favorite. What happened next amazed him.
"All the insects crowded around the taiuia," he says. "They wouldn't stop eating, and they wouldn't touch the other samples until the taiuia was gone."
Cabrera Walsh also did a literature search on the plant. He found Brazilian scientist Iniberto Hamerschmidt first reported taiuia's alluring powers in 1985. Hamerschmidt wrote that farmers in Brazil's Curitiba area had been using the plant as a lure since 1979.
Other ARS laboratories are evaluating wild buffalo gourd as a lure, and Schroder had been working with cucurbitacins from mutant watermelons. [See "Corn Rootworms Get Juiced," Agricultural Research, May 1998, p. 11.] But Schroder's lab tests suggest that taiuia is best for luring the southern corn rootworm, one of the many species of this pest complex.
Adult corn rootworms are actually beetles that feed on the corn's silk tassels. The immature larval stage feeds on corn roots. Throughout its life cycle, the pest costs U.S. farmers around a billion dollars each year in crop losses and overhead expense. They've also been known to attack soybeans, squash, melons, and other crops.
About 50 percent of all insecticides applied on row crops in the United States are used against this pest—that's about 20 million pounds a year. And many of the chemicals used to control corn rootworms will soon be banned because of environmental concerns.
Part of the problem with current controls is that it is hard for insecticides to reach the pests, since they lay their eggs in the soil and the larvae feed underground.
But with taiuia as bait, it might be possible to cut the amount of insecticide needed to control the pest. Or farmers might use taiuia to boost the killing power of less effective but environmentally safe pesticides, because taiuia spurs insects to eat more of the toxin.
Why do these pests love taiuia? It's all a part of evolutionary chess. Taiuia, over time, developed higher and higher levels of a number of incredibly bitter compounds called cucurbitacins to keep bugs away. Most plant feeders couldn't stand the taste.
Corn rootworm adults, however, munch away on taiuia. How is that possible? It seems they somehow developed a craving for cucurbitacins, which they store in their own fatty tissues, making them very bitter. This protects the rootworms from predators. In fact, their colorful body markings may be part of this defense.
"Birds are very sensitive to color patterns," explains Cabrera Walsh. "They have to make the mistake of eating a corn rootworm only once. They vomit it up and never eat one again."
Taiuia stores cucurbitacins in its bright-red berries and fat, potato-brown roots that can weigh as much as 25 pounds. Adult beetles feed on the berries, which helps free up the plant's seeds. In that way, the beetle has made an evolutionary bargain with what could have been a bitter enemy.
Since corn rootworms don't shy away from plants that carry cucurbitacins, their once beneficial craving could now become their chief liability. And there's a bonus: Since taiuia repels beneficial insects, they won't be poisoned accidentally when it's used as bait.
The next question is whether taiuia can be grown in the United States as a crop. It would do best in the southern half of the country, where growing conditions are warmer and generally more like temperate or subtropical South America.
Taiuia berries could be harvested instead of having to kill the plant to harvest the cucurbitacins in its root. Cabrera Walsh says taiuia's agronomic potential would have to be analyzed, perhaps with the help of an industry partner.
And of course, as with any new plant introduction, USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service would have to certify that taiuia poses no threat to native plant species or wildlife.
Lacking that certification, enterprising South Americans could grow the plant as a crop and ship the cucurbitacin extract in a liquid or powder form to U.S. companies that could then use the material to produce new corn rootworm control products. "With all the good it's doing for South American farmers, it seems a shame taiuia can't also benefit people in the United States and Canada," says Cabrera Walsh. —By Jill Lee, Agricultural Research Service Information Staff.
This research is part of Crop and Commodity Pest Biology, Control, and Quarantine, an ARS National Program that is described on the World Wide Web at http://www.nps.ars.usda.gov/programs/cppvs.htm.
Guillermo Cabrera Walsh is with the USDA-ARS South American Biological Control Laboratory, U.S. Embassy Buenos Aires, Argentina, Unit 4325 APO AA 34034-0001; phone 54 11 4662-0999 or 54 11 4452-4838, fax 54 11 4452-1882 (Dial 104 after the greeting message).
Robert F. Schroder is with the USDA-ARS Insect Biocontrol Laboratory, Bldg. 306, Rm. 322, 10300 Baltimore Ave., Beltsville, MD 20705-2350; phone (301) 504-8369, fax (301) 504-8190.
"TAIUIA—Corn Rootworms Just Can't Get Enough" was published in the April 1999 issue of Agricultural Research magazine.


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Hi all,
I'd like to remove the "PAGES" section in the Blog page right sidebar, but I can't get to do it. I've been unable to find where I should make this change. Could you please help me? Thanks a lot!
Edit Appearance > Widget. I think you can find that on the "Displayed Everywhere" widget area.
Hi Ismael,
The "Displayed everywhere" area is empty. I remember I removed its content time ago. Any other place to look into? Thanks,
SOLVED! The problem was that the "Sidebar Blog" widget area was also empty. I suppose in this case some "standard" content is diplayed. Thanks again fr your help!
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CARACAS, Sept 18 (Reuters) - A Venezuelan cartoonist said she was fired from her newspaper for a caricature that used the late socialist leader Hugo Chavez's signature to satirize the state of healthcare.
"I was informed of my sacking from El Universal over this caricature and my awkward attitude over graphic satire," veteran cartoonist Rayma Suprani said via Twitter late on Wednesday.
There was no confirmation from the newspaper.
The cartoon, which ran on El Universal's editorial page on Wednesday, showed a normal-looking electrocardiogram under the heading "health" with another one merging Chavez's signature into a flat-lining heartbeat line under a title "health in Venezuela."
The cartoon touched on two hugely sensitive subjects in Venezuela: the legacy of Chavez, the former president who ruled for 14 years before his death from cancer in 2013, and the socialist government's management of the health system.
Supporters say Chavez transformed healthcare for the poor via popular programs like 'Barrio Adentro' (Inside the Neighborhood) which set up a network of small health clinics staffed by Cuban medics that offered free treatment.
Opposition supporters often acknowledge welfare advances under Chavez, but say they were patchy, and are highly critical of shortages of medicine and equipment due to Venezuela's economic crisis.
One opposition leader, Henrique Capriles, paid public tribute to Rayma after the caricature affair and used it to take a jab at Chavez's successor President Nicolas Maduro.
"You have masses of talent and the admiration of thousands - just what those in power lack," he said on Twitter.
El Universal's traditionally virulent anti-government line has softened under new ownership this year, though critical stories and opinions still appear.
El Universal representatives were unavailable for comment on Thursday. One newspaper employee, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the cartoonist was fired because her work had increasingly annoyed her bosses. (Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe)


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varindia 12:54 26 Sep 2011
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Lady Gaga in Brit Awards treble
US singer Lady Gaga did the treble at the 2010 Brit Awards, picking up the International Breakthrough Act, the International Female Artist and the International Album awards.
Cat Deeley presented the breakthrough act gong to the singer, who appeared to tear-up in an emotional thank-you speech.
She said: "Thank you so, so much. I love my fans. Thank you my fans in the UK, thank you."
The US star also performed at the star-studded show, and was introduced by host Peter Kay as "New York's answer to Sue Pollard".
The outlandish singer donned a huge white wig and mask as she played a low-key version of Telephone on the piano, saying: "This is for Alexander McQueen."
The slow number by Gaga, a massive fan of the designer who recently died, was quickly replaced by a thumping disco beat, as dressed in a hardly-there lace outfit she sang Dance In the Dark.
Jonathan Ross, dressed in a curious mix of a bowler hat and denim, said he had been "pimped" by Dizzee Rascal to present the International Female Artist award.
Lady Gaga looked shocked but thrilled when she heard she had won a second gong.
She walked elegantly up on to the stage, carrying a cup and saucer, to collect her trophy and told the crowd: "I'm so honoured to have these awards."
As she picked up the album gong for The Fame, she could not hold back her tears, and said it was the award that meant the most, because of all the hard work she had put into making the record.
Main winners
- British male solo artist: Dizzee Rascal
- International male solo artist: Jay-Z
- British group: Kasabian
- International female solo artist: Lady GaGa
- British female solo artist: Lily Allen
- British single: JLS for Beat Again
- The MasterCard British Album: Florence And The Machine for Lungs


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Global Consumer Insurance Survey 2012
Asia-Pacific: seeing growth despite key challenges
Consumers are conducting more research online and seeking providers with strong brand value.
The Asia-Pacific region offers substantial growth opportunities to both life and non-life insurers, especially in emerging markets. Yet, the region's diversity, in terms of market dynamics, distribution channels, culture and customer preferences, present key challenges.
In this survey of customers in Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, China, Indonesia and South Korea, several consistent themes emerged that present reasons for optimism. For instance, consumer confidence in the industry is less affected by the recession than their confidence in other financial markets.
Additionally, consumers are conducting more research online, seeking providers with strong brand value, transparent and comprehensible product information, and superior customer service.
Select regional findings include:
Life and pensions
- Among the 21% of customers dissatisfied with purchased products, poor information and their changing needs were cited as key factors.
- Although 59% of consumers did little or no research before purchasing, 73% intend to in the future.
- When researching products, 52% of consumers consult family and friends first.
- The preferred means of contact is the telephone (32%), followed by in person interactions (24%).
Non-life insurance
- Online sources are used by 39% of consumers for research, higher than in Europe (32%) and the Americas (23%).
- A poor claims experience would compel 16% of consumers to switch providers and 40% to likely switch.
- Nearly half of consumers (46%) would buy multiple products from a single provider if this was convenient or offered greater value.
- A majority of consumers (69%) from emerging economies and 51% from developed economies would pay more for products from a financially stable brand.
We hope this research proves useful in shaping your customer strategies and moving your business forward.


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Grace and Glory Conference 2012 - Session TWO
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Grace and Glory Conference 2012 Saturday morning
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