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Trump rudely called Arianna Huffington “a dog.”
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED:
It’s true, he did. But news commentators did not point out that previously Arianna Huffington herself repeatedly referred to news bloggers as dogs. That was her compliment for her many unpaid writers. And she had disparaged a top NBC journalist by calling him a dog. She also insulted in print other individuals as pigs. Nearly nobody cared that Huffington labeled individuals as dogs and pigs. Her online newspaper ridiculed and demonized Trump for years before he finally called her a dog. This word is often used by many people to describe various kinds of journalists. Other critics too had called Huffington a dog. Even a prominent admirer called her the toughest dog of all. She was flattered by the comparison and published it.
In April 2015, Trump used Twitter to criticize Arianna Huffington, editor of the Huffington Post. He asked: “Why is it necessary to comment on [her] looks? Because she is a dog who wrongfully comments on me.”
Clearly—one should not insult people by calling them dogs.
This insult would be particularly sexist if Trump used it only on women; if he did not insult some men for their looks and did not call them dogs too. Yet Trump used the insult “dog” more often for men. For example:
- Trump wrote: “Mitt Romney had his chance to beat a failed president but he choked like a dog.” (June 2016)
- Trump wrote that Ted Cruz “lies like a dog— over and over again!” (February 2016)
- Trump complained that National Review writer Brent Bozell “came to my office begging for money like a dog.” (January 2016)
- Trump criticized NBC journalist Chuck Todd, by writing that “sleepy eyes @chucktodd will be fired like a dog.” (July 2015)
- Trump said Glenn Beck “got fired like a dog” by Fox News, and that “he is irrelevant.” (December 2015)
- Trump griped: “why is it necessary to comment on @ariannahuff looks? Because she is a dog who wrongfully comments on me.” (April 2015)
- Trump chastised rapper Mac Miller: “You ungrateful dog!” (January 2013).
- Trump complained that medical doctors “are a bunch of money-grubbing dogs.” (in a book of 2004)
There are more examples too. It is to Trump’s credit that he used the very same generic word, dog, when referring to Huffington, rather than using the widely despised five-letter word that refers to a female dog. That could have been the end of him.
Likewise, Trump also criticized many men for their looks. To give just one example, he described one loudmouth employee as: “a short, fat, bald-headed guy with thick glasses and hands like Jell-O.”
As with Trump’s insult to Huffington, he called rapper Mac Miller a dog only after Miller had insulted him. Miller’s song of 2011, titled “Donald Trump” sold more than a million copies. But then Miller heard that Trump was running for President, so Miller called him a “dick,” a “motherfucker,” and a “fucking douchebag.” So then Trump called him a dog.
Anyhow, Trump blamed Arianna Huffington for what she published about him. Her newspaper had ridiculed Trump countless many times, with condescending words such as “moody,” “crabby,” “misery,” “mad,” “bluster,” “bad temper,” and that was just in one editorial, in 2012.
On March 18, 2015, before Trump announced he’d run for President, another Huffington Post editor wrote: “We do not plan to take it even a little bit seriously.” They promised that their editorial position would never change. Because, for Trump to win, “most of the planet’s population would have to be dead, or unconscious, or raptured, or kidnapped…”
Raptured! That is, only if all the good people on Earth were swept up to God’s heaven would Trump have a chance of becoming President of the United States. The Huffington editor summed it up: “Trump running a presidential campaign is, in short, not a thing that you will need to expend even one scintilla of concern over, ever.”
They were utterly wrong. Political commentators are often stunningly incompetent when they try to make predictions. Millions of people did become very concerned about Trump during the election, and more so when he won.
Only after Huffington’s online newspaper had ridiculed and attacked Trump incessantly, did Trump finally call Arianna Huffington “a dog.”
So, he used this insult on men more often than women. And he insulted her because her online newspaper mocked and insulted him constantly. But there’s another issue. Arianna Huffington herself also criticized another journalist as a dog, and she insulted several men as pigs.
In a book of 2003, Arianna described some men as pigs. For example:
- Arianna Huffington described John Rigas as a “Family Pig.”
- She called Dennis Kozlowski the “Boss Pig.”
- She described Jack Grubman in a “Portrait of a Pig.”
- She called Albert Dunlap the “Pink-Slip Pig.”
- She called Samuel Waksal a “Doctor Pig.”
Etc. Maybe you agree with her that some of these men are pigs, for whatever reason. But the point is that Arianna Huffington insulted people she dislikes. (Is that ok? Since she did it, could Trump do it too?) For example, she disparaged the Competitive Enterprise Institute, writing:
- “I’m well aware of the attack dog nature of the CEI.”
She also insulted some individuals by calling them dogs:
- Arianna Huffington called Richard Perle “the frothing pit bull of the Bush administration’s dogs of war.”
She first wrote this in 2003, and repeated it in 2004 and 2007. Likewise, when she mocked at length the prominent NBC journalist Tim Russert, for not being aggressive with an interviewee, she called him a dog:
- Arianna Huffington complained: “returning to form, Bulldog Russert just gives up.”
Likewise, by mid 2015, Huffington had earned Trump’s dislike so he called her a dog. The media then jumped to assume the worst: that he called her a dog because she’s a woman. But actually, the word dog is a common way to refer to various kinds of journalists:
- Reporters who hide politicians’ personal indiscretions are criticized as “lapdog journalists.”
- Mass media journalists who protect dominant political institutions are called “guard-dogs.”
- Journalists who expose government waste and illegal activities are known as “watchdog journalists.”
- Reporters who persistently chase a celebrity or a story are known as “press hounds.”
- Reporters who find evasive people or who track the scent of a difficult story are praised as “bloodhounds.”
- The adverb doggedly and the adjective dogged are often used for reporters.
- Some aggressive news commentators are described as “attack dogs.” In 2007, the veteran CBS news anchor Dan Rather complained that journalists were becoming attack dogs and lapdogs instead of watchdogs.
- News commentators claim to be able to hear unspoken racist messages known as “dog-whistles.”
- Arianna Huffington herself repeatedly praised bloggers (or “new media journalists”) as “pit bulls.”
She said that when something matters to bloggers “they chomp down hard and refuse to let go. They’re the true pit bulls of reporting. The only way to get them off a story is to cut off their heads (and even then you’ll need to pry their jaws open).”
Imagine if Trump had said that! News commentators would have claimed that Trump had literally proposed to assassinate reporters. They would have been seriously outraged.
Anyhow, Arianna Huffington wrote that in 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, etc. Similarly, I think Trump’s insult for Huffington refers to that same kind of journalists: online pit bulls, or more generally, “attack dogs.”
Trump was not alone in his criticism. For example, in 2011 Peter C. Glover of American Thinker criticized the Huffington Post as a “hard-left media attack dog.” In 2008, John Barnhart of Free Republic wrote: “Arianna Huffington is not only a self-indulgent liberal attack dog…”
She was even compared to a dog by one of her prominent admirers. In February 2016, Professor Jeff Jarvis of Medium.com riffed on Arianna’s claim that bloggers are pit bulls. Jarvis wrote:
Bloggers, on the other hand, are attack dogs. When they sink their teeth into the ankle of a bad guy, they don’t let go. That is what we still need today: Arianna as alpha dog in a pack of bloodhounds that will stay on the trail of every Donald Trump lie and utterance of demagoguery…
Jarvis told Arianna that her reporters are “not the same as you and your Rolodex dogging issues and idiots.”
I appreciate all you are doing. But these liars, misogynists, miscreants, fools, and assholes still need more dogs on their trail. No tougher dog than you!
Nobody complained that Professor Jarvis described Arianna Huffington as a dog. I don’t know of anyone who complained that she repeatedly called Richard Perle and Tim Russert dogs.
Such words are very common in journalism and politics. Like other news commentators, Huffington claims to hear unspoken racist messages known as dog-whistles, even by Trump.
Politico disparaged MSNBC’s news commentator Chris Matthews as a “highly opinionated attack dog.” Other writers also call him a dog. Next, many news outlets referred to Carly Fiorina as an attack dog, including The New York Times, Forbes, Salon, The Guardian, NPR, NBC, National Review, and The Boston Globe. Likewise, The Telegraph and Newsweek referred to Bill Clinton as an attack dog. Etc.
Yet people were offended that Trump once called Arianna Huffington a dog for publishing false statements about him.
To put things into perspective, we should remember that dog is not even a gross insult. Dogs are Americans’ most loved animals. Even with Trump some words that he used as insults, he also used sometimes as compliments. Being an “an absolute animal” can meant that you’re a great businessman. Being a “junkyard dog” meant that you’re a good fighter. Being “top dog” was also good. To “work like a dog” was good too, according to Trump. Etc.
But before ending, we should note that Arianna Huffington was not entirely undeserving of criticism.
In 1973, she attacked the Women’s Liberation movement and compared it with Nazism. She said that Women’s Lib “would transform only the lives of women with strong lesbian tendencies.” She added: “The frenetic extremism of Women’s Lib seeks not to emancipate women, but to destroy society.”
Imagine if Trump had said that, ever.
In 1978, Huffington denounced Social Security and proposed that all government welfare programs should be eliminated.
In 1981 and 1987, Arianna Huffington published books that plagiarized material from other authors’ works. Lydia Gasman, a professor at the University of Virginia, called Arianna Huffington an “intellectual kleptomaniac” and told Vanity Fair that “What she did was steal twenty years of my work.”
In 1994, Arianna Huffington claimed to volunteer for a nonprofit organization that cared for homeless and abused children in Santa Barbara. But the director of the organization, Lilliana Hensel said that it was a lie: “No, she has never volunteered here…. She’s never given a penny to us and never worked with the children… It’s using needy children in a needy situation for political gain, and it’s really disgusting.”
In 1994, Vanity Fair reported that Arianna Huffington had servants who quit because they were treated “like slaves,” they said. She diverted one of her female employees, a researcher, to do menial tasks. The employee cried many times and said “Arianna was so cruel—mean and nasty to everyone in the house.” Finally the employee quit and considered making “a T-shirt that said, I quit the bitch.”
In 1995, Arianna Huffington argued that immigration to the US should be reduced: “Until we get rid of multi-culturalism, we cannot afford to have the high levels of present immigration.” She complained that “illegal immigrants” who are on welfare reduce the services available to citizens, and specified: “I’m talking about the fact that an illegal, pregnant woman can walk into any California doctor and get all the services paid for free. Yes, I am talking about that.”
In 2005, Arianna Huffington founded the Huffington Post, claiming that it would serve as a platform for “citizen journalists” to write articles. But most of these workers were unpaid.
Meanwhile, her website generated millions of dollars in ads revenues. The Guardian criticized the Huffington Post as the “grand master” of “blurring the line between advertising and editorial. … via sponsoring schemes.”
Huffington Post nominated writer Mayhill Fowler for two Pulitzer Prizes, yet paid her nothing for her years of work. Finally, Fowler quit, and complained about Arianna Huffington: “I cannot help but feel that, at the end of the day, as I thought I was proving myself to her to be worthy of journalism, she on her part was milking me for everything she could get before letting me go.”
After six years of benefitting from the labors of unpaid “citizen journalists” and “pit bulls,” Arianna Huffington sold the Huffington Post to AOL in 2011, for $315 million. She remained as President and Editor-in-Chief, and received $21 million for herself, while her unpaid bloggers received nothing. It triggered a backlash from writers who accused her of having exploited their free labor.
Journalist Chris Hedges denounced Arianna: “Those who take advantage of workers, whatever their outward ideological veneer, to make profits of that magnitude are charter members of the exploitative class.”
An L.A. Times columnist accused Huffington’s website of committing “many of the worst abuses of the old economy’s industrial capitalism — the sweatshop, the speedup and piecework; huge profits for the owners; desperation, drudgery and exploitation for the workers.” The reporter noted that much of the content in Huffington Post is “stolen,” plagiarized from other news media.
Not only did Arianna benefit from the labors of unpaid bloggers, her Huffington Post even sold unpaid internships in auctions, for as much as $14,400.
Consequently, the SHAME project denounced Arianna Huffington in their efforts to “Shame the Hacks Who Abuse the Media,” charging her for “consistent patterns of labor exploitation, strategic plagiarism, deception and hucksterism.”
SHAME wrote: “The Huffington Post has done some excellent investigative journalism, but violates basic journalism ethics by allowing corporate propaganda, lobbyists for dictators, bankers and quacks to share the same space with reporters.”
Arianna Huffington also used casual phrases that nobody seemed to mind. But if they had been uttered by Donald Trump, they would draw analysis, critiques, and disgust. For example, Arianna exulted: “One of my favorite sayings is ‘100 per cent is a breeze, 99 per cent is a bitch.’” She also remarked: “Payback is a bitch-slap.”
And payback is what Trump received. He paid for calling her a dog.
Nearly all articles in the Huffington Post about Donald Trump attacked him, endless many. Also, to treat him as a ridiculous joke, all articles about Trump were placed in the “Entertainment” section of the website, instead of in “Politics.” And if that was not enough, Arianna herself penned an “Editor’s Note” that was appended to every article about Trump in the Huffington Post:
“Editor’s note: Donald Trump is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist, birther and bully who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims — 1.6 billion members of an entire religion — from entering the U.S.”
The Huffington Post published articles detailing Trump’s transgressions.
A list of his misogynist remarks noted that Trump criticized a journalist by writing this on her photo: “The Face of a Dog!” It was an example of “the most outrageous” things that Trump had said about women.
Alberto A. Martinez is a professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin.
Next, Chapter 8: “The Face of a Dog!” No, not really.


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The three Solarize programs will kick off with workshops the first week of June, where residents and business owners can learn about the program. Locations and dates will be announced shortly. » Continue Reading.
Financial and technical assistance that has helped homeowners and businesses in New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont switch to high-efficiency wood pellet heating is now available to Adirondack homeowners and businesses through the Adirondack Model Neighborhood Wood Heat Initiative. » Continue Reading.
Negotiations over the NYS budget for fiscal year 2015-16 were messy and dominated by arguments over ethics reforms and education funding, but the final plan contained much-needed investments in clean water, wilderness, wildlife and communities of the Adirondack Park.
Foremost is a three-year, $200-million capital program to repair wastewater treatment and drinking water facilities. Under the program, the state would set aside $50 million this year and $75 million in each of the next two fiscal years to pay for matching grants to communities for up to 60 percent of upgrades for local drinking water and wastewater treatment facilities. » Continue Reading.
It’s official – 2014 was the hottest year on record. And most everyone I talk to is concerned about the threat that global warming and climate change, with their potentially devastating and possibly permanent consequences, pose to the lives and livelihoods of our children and grandchildren.
Scientists tell us that sea levels and water temperatures are rising, imperiling coastal populations, as well as regional environments and economies; that sea ice is being lost and glaciers receding at unprecedented rates or disappearing altogether; that seasons and plant and animal ranges are shifting and habitat vanishing, threatening to drive entire species of animals to extinction; that weather patterns are becoming more erratic and less predictable; and that worldwide, the number, intensity, and resilience of violent tropical storms is increasing. They warn that other potential future effects of global climate change include more frequent wildfires, more severe heat waves, sustained periods of drought in certain regions, and unprecedented winter weather conditions in others; all of which jeopardize fresh water supplies, wildlife, and in some instances, indigenous people and their ways of life. » Continue Reading.
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Essex County Officials have asked NYSEG to request more crews in addition to the 30 trucks already on the job. NYSEG Representatives have stated that they have, and there are 25-30 more crew on their way… and that the New York State Emergency Management Office and the Governor’s Office have been continuously advised of power outages.
– Jay Supervisor Randy Douglas in an e-mail residents December 11th.
The “Beep-Beep” woke me up. Then again “Beep-Beep.” I knew what that meant. It was the notification mechanism on our smoke detectors designed to send a warning signal indicating no electric power. This did not surprise me since a snowstorm had been predicted. It was still dark this Wednesday morning. I went back to sleep, unconcerned, having weathered many power-outages before. » Continue Reading.
Paul Smith’s College is installing a state-of-the-art wood-pellet boiler system, which will heat its three academic buildings.
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Organizers of the Adirondack Common Ground Alliance (CGA) have released an updated Blueprint for the Blue Line, a set of legislative priorities for the Adirondack Park for 2015 and beyond.
For the last seven years, CGA has brought together a diverse collection of stakeholders to foster a dialogue and seek collaborative solutions for complex problems Adirondack communities face. The updated Blueprint, crafted using feedback from a legislative poll of CGA participants, calls for increased infrastructure funding and restoration of operational budgets for state agencies that serve the Adirondacks, as well as policy actions that support renewable energy, smart growth, and more. » Continue Reading.
Protect the Adirondacks sent a questionnaire to each of the three candidates running for Congress in New York’s 21st Congressional District, which includes the Adirondack Park and northern New York, about their positions on climate change issues.
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At the New Hampshire University Organic Dairy Research Farm in Lee, even the heat for the wash water is organic and locally-sourced.
The heat comes from the farm’s composting facility, a building that looks like an eight-bay garage but actually contains cutting-edge composting technology, as well as a whole lot of rotting stuff.
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Last week I discussed the general concept of electric cars in the Adirondacks and the possible types of electric car one might choose. I suggested that a pure electric car – that is, one with no gas engine backup – would not yet be practical in the park because the odds that one would use up their range and be potentially stranded are too high. But an electric car with gas backup is completely workable – and considerably better in terms of fossil fuel use than a hybrid.
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The Tesla pulls silently into the driveway and sidles next to the charging station. With the ease of charging a cell phone, the car is plugged in and its owners make their way into The Wild Center. The Center’s new charging station is a first step to making the Tri-Lakes region of the Adirondacks (Tupper Lake, Saranac Lake, and Lake Placid) electric-car friendly.
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Every major car maker is producing or has plans for electric vehicles, some of which can get the equivalent of 119 miles per gallon and have an annual fuel cost of $500. Federal tax credits are currently available for electric vehicles. » Continue Reading.
Participants will gather near the mouth of the Saranac River at 3 pm, walking out on a pedestrian bridge about 50 feet from the Canadian Pacific railroad bridge, and gathering in canoes and kayaks below the bridges.
The demonstration is part of a week-long action by citizens and groups across North America opposing the escalation of crude-by-rail shipping. The Plattsburgh event is being spearheaded by Center for Biological Diversity and People for Positive Action. » Continue Reading.
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The House Ethics Committee yesterday defeated a Democratic resolution that would have condemned remarks made by Republican Rep. Rob Schaaf of St. Joseph as “as “deeply offensive to the people of Missouri and the members of the House of Representatives.”
While debating an unsuccessful Democratic attempt to eliminate or reduce premiums for families in the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, Schaaf last month pointed out a portrait of President Abraham Lincoln.
“He fought against making a person toil under penalty for the benefit of someone else who could toil for themselves,” Schaaf said. He then added that Democrats wanted government to pay the children’s insurance premiums families now are paying.
“That is slavery. When you take somebody who could do it and expect somebody else to do it, that is slavery,” Schaaf said in the March debate. “That man on the wall tried to end it in our country, and they want to bring it back.”
The Democratric-leaning Web site FiredupMissouri.com posted an audio recording of Schaaf’s remarks.
Schaaf later defended his comments in an April letter to the St. Joseph News-Press, writing that “taxpayers are being enslaved” by expanding government programs to cover those who can afford to pay for services themselves.
House Democrats earlier this month filed a formal remonstrance objecting to Schaaf’s remarks in the debate and newspaper letter. The resolution was rejected 6-4 by the House Ethics Committee, with Rep. Chris Kelly, D-Columbia, joining five Republicans in opposition.


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Health and wellness as well as Injustices in Individuals of Shade.
Regardless of being a crucial part of human life, health is usually an ignored topic. This short article checks out exactly how health as well as inequities influence the lives of people of shade. It explores just how biomedical and social aspects influence health and wellness and just how wellness inequality exists between teams. It also explores just how health and injustices influence life span.
Amongst the many biomedical elements of health care, a brand-new craze is the intro of holistic clinical versions. Numerous clients discover that standard biomedical care does not use adequate remedies. A holistic medical version, on the other hand, tries to include both the client and also the medical professional in an effort to enhance health and wellness
Elements of wellness as well as condition is a quarterly journal stemming from the University of Economics and Advancement in Lublin, Poland. It is committed to the preventional and also medicinal facets of medicine. The publication publishes initial study, evaluation documents and other materials. It is a very ingenious journal.
The magazine also features an interactive knowing approach to learning. Trainees will certainly utilize a socio-ecological framework to comprehend the intricacies of neighborhood wellness. They will certainly find out the requisite social science and clinical terms via an interdisciplinary method. The publication additionally boasts of being the initial health and wellness sciences journal published in Poland.
Social factors of health and wellness.
Frequently referred to as “social determinants of health,” the term explains conditions that affect the wellness of individuals, areas, and populaces. These conditions consist of social, financial, as well as social elements, along with political and community functions. These variables are likewise influenced by social policies.
In addition to affecting health and wellness results straight, social components of health and wellness can influence wellness inequalities indirectly. As an example, absence of access to a food store with healthy and balanced foods lowers life expectancy and also enhances the threat of health and wellness conditions. The lack of a proper transport system can additionally boost the threat of injury or illness.
Social factors of health are also a vital part of value-based treatment efforts. They are driving the demand for healthcare organizations to reinforce their systems as well as decrease health inequities.
Life span among individuals of color
Despite recent advancements, life span amongst people of shade remains to lag behind that of white people. This is an outcome of continuous racial wellness differences, which are rooted in place-based troubles and architectural racism.
One means to comprehend these distinctions is to look at life span. Throughout the turn of the twentieth century, white individuals had a life expectancy of 48 years, while black individuals had a life span of 68 years. In 2020, life span amongst people of color has actually gone down also better.
Scientists at the Centers for Illness Control as well as Prevention (CDC) researched nationwide fatality data with June 2020, and utilized that data to estimate life span amongst people of color. They likewise evaluated fads for every age groups. They found that racial differences in life expectancy developed in a different way in poorer parts of the nation.
Various variables influence the health and wellness of tribal cultures. Geographical area, ecology, language as well as society are several of the elements that can impact the health of tribal people. It is essential to understand determinants of healthcare-seeking actions. This will profit all stakeholders.
For example, a current study aimed to recognize the healthcare-seeking actions of tribal people in India. The research study was a cross-sectional study made to gauge the relevance of numerous health-related concepts. The purpose was to recognize factors that would aid to recognize the acceptability of modern-day health care services amongst tribal people.
There are several elements that influence health care-seeking habits amongst tribal individuals. Nonetheless, a large research would help to recognize the elements that most significantly influence health-care-seeking habits among tribal people.
Throughout the COVID-19 episode, the general public health response has actually highlighted the requirement for a nationally collaborated emergency situation feedback system. But there are likewise problems of equity and also inequality that need to be resolved, and also these are not always restricted to the health care system.
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected neighborhoods throughout the globe. It has actually disproportionately impacted minority communities, immigrant communities, as well as low-income areas. While a number of public health authorities have looked for to pathologize and draw attention to these variations, there has been little development in attending to the source of these differences.
As an example, while the CARES Act provided $175 billion to protect access to ICU solutions, the funding did not focus on the highest possible demand for disease treatment. The financing was additionally based upon health center earnings streams prior to COVID-19.
Inequities in health
Historically marginalized populations have actually dealt with many kinds of injustice. This consists of earnings, education, housing, employment, and health and wellness Because of this, the quality of life of these populaces has been considerably affected.
Studies have actually connected discrimination to increased rates of suicide, bad sleep, as well as higher high blood pressure. However, research studies have not always changed our understanding completely to disentangle the converging structural obstacles.
Health inequities are preventable. By dealing with health inequities, we can boost wellness outcomes, boost the individual experience, as well as minimize healthcare costs. We can also address the underlying root causes of injustices.
Throughout Canada, health and wellness inequities have been recorded in social, economic, and demographic factors. These factors are influenced by race, sex, socioeconomic condition (SES), and place. The size of these inequalities can be analyzed through the Health and wellness Inequalities Data Tool, a collection of statistics from Stats Canada and also the Canadian Institute for Health And Wellness Details.
Actions of health and wellness.
Across the USA, almost 90 percent of people are now registered with health insurance. These strategies determine several indications of the wellness of their participants. These metrics are made use of for a range of purposes, including tracking expense, assessing the performance of an intervention, and also predicting the future requirement for sources. These steps are also made use of to monitor progress towards certain goals.
Among the most crucial indications of adult populace wellness is high blood pressure. Normally, the action is calculated per 100,000 individuals. This number is after that scaled to the size of the population. It is also thought about an indication of heart muscular tissue function. dr jacono rhinoplasty reviews
Other essential indications include patterns of alcohol usage, tobacco use, diet, as well as physical activity. These patterns represent about 40% of all deaths in the United States.

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Fingerprint Liveness detection using probabality density function
Introduction: Presently, the fingerprint is the most commonly used biometric identifier in authentication systems. It was responsible for more than 50% of the biometric revenue in 2009 . According to Roberts , one way to overtake the security of those systems is providing to the sensor a fake physical biometric. Thus, an efficient technique for spoof detection [3,4] is an essential requirement for any fingerprint based system in operation. Moon et al.  proposed a wavelet analysis of the fingertip surface texture. This approach relies on the fact that commonly used materials in spoof fingerprints consist of large organic molecules which tend to agglomerate at the moment that the forgery is created. As a consequence, asperities are introduced to the surface of the fake fingerprints. In this method, the surface coarseness is modelled as Gaussian white noise added to the image. Moon et al.  achieved significant results for images captured in a high resolution fingerprint scanner (∼1000 dpi). For economic reasons, most of the commercialised scanners nowadays generate images of lower resolution (typically, 500 dpi). In fact, the databases used in the second edition of the Fingerprint Liveness Detection Competition (LivDet), in 2011, comprise only fingerprint images of 500 dpi .


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The "Mare of Easttown" star said her curly style in the film was "impossible to maintain" because they were filming near water most of the time.
Viewers embraced her unglamorous character — and so did she.
The actress shared during The Hollywood Reporter’s roundtable that she's been "obsessed" with cleaning every nook and cranny in her home during the pandemic.
The Oscar-winning actress also speaks out about her regrets working with Woody Allen and Roman Polanski.
Kate Winslet says she was bullied by the press after being propelled to stardom at the age of 21 when she starred in James Cameron’s blockbuster Titanic. “I went into self-protective mode right away [after Titanic came out],” Winslet said on Marc Maron’s podcast WTF. “It was like night and day from one day to […]
A handful of films have emerged from the Toronto and Venice film festivals and are positioned to make a run at Hollywood's biggest prize.
“It’s unbelievable to me now how those men were held in such high regard," Winslet said in a new interview.
This year’s TIFF is poised to shake off the doldrums of a movie-less summer with films that should reignite interest in the art and magic of cinematic storytelling. Here's our curated guide to the titles that demand your attention.
The "Contagion" cast, including Matt Damon and Laurence Fishburne, are spreading medically accurate information about coronavirus in PSAs.
Sleep next to Taylor Swift, Jim Parsons, Gaga courtesy of Booking.com.
"...Being far from home just seemed ... I didn’t even read it," said Gwyneth Paltrow about "Shakespeare in Love." "I was just like ... 'I’m having a really hard time.'"
EXCLUSIVE: Kate Winslet, Diane Keaton and Mia Wasikowska have been to set to star in Blackbird, an English-language remake of Bille August’s 2014 Danish-language pic Silent Heart. The Millennium Films pic will be directed by Notting Hill and My Cousin Rachel helmer Roger Michell and penned by the original movie’s screenwriter Christian Torpe. Shooting in set to start in August in London. The drama centers on a a terminally ill mother who brings her family together for one…
Kate Winslet took an opportunity after being honored at the London Film Critics' Circle Awards to express her "bitter regrets" about working with certain men in the movie business.
Kate Winslet cruised onto "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert," where they talked about the upcoming 20th anniversary of the titanic blockbuster, "Titanic." She showed how she could have saved Jack.
At a time when many stars are embroiled in controversy, Twitter users are offering up tiny anecdotes about celebs performing some small acts of kindness.
British actress Lysette Anthony wrote an essay for the Sunday Times alleging that Weinstein not only raped her 15 years ago but terrorized her for years afterward, sexually harassing her and attempting to force her into sexual situations. Smith shared that she was so traumatized by the attack that she didn’t tell her husband about it until news of Weinstein’s misdeeds blanketed the press.
In 2009, Kate Winslet won an Oscar for her role in The Reader. Out of the 19 people she thanked by name in her acceptance speech, Harvey Weinstein, who was one of the film's producers, was not among them. In a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times, Winslet says this omission was deliberate. “I remember being told. ‘Make sure you thank Harvey if you win,'" she recounts.
Justin Timberlake, Juno Temple, and Jim Belushi also star in Oscar-winning filmmaker's period piece.

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Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote, who has expressed an interest in buying Arsenal, has told the BBC that he would be in a better position to buy the team as soon as the refinery he is building in Ondo State is completed and begins production.
The businessman also said that Gunners needs new ownership and direction if they are to progress in the Premier League.
Dangote, 58, is Africa’s richest man according to Forbes, and is worth a reported $15.7bn which puts him 67th on the list of the world’s richest people.
The businessman was linked with an approach to buy a stake in the club in 2010, before he pulled out, but now believes that the building of an oil refinery in Nigeria will give him the funds to return with a new offer.
Dangote is worth more than the two majority owners Stan Kroenke and Alisher Usmanov.
“When we get this refinery on track, I will have enough time and enough resources to pay what they are asking for,” he told BBC Hausa.
“There were a couple of us who were rushing to buy (in 2011), and we thought with the prices then, the people who were interested in selling were trying to go for a kill,” Dangote added.
“We backtracked, because we were very busy doing other things, especially our industrialisation.”
The Gunners have a history of selling star players like Robin van Persie (£25m to Man Utd in 2012) and Cesc Fabregas (to Barcelona in 2011 for £35m), while they also moved on Emmanuel Adebayor, Gael Clichy and Samir Nasri to title rivals Man City for over £50m in recent years.
“They are doing well, but they need another strategic direction,” Dangote said. “They need more direction than the current situation, where they just develop players and sell them.”
Kroenke is the Gunners’ majority shareholder with 66.64 percent of the club’s parent company Arsenal Holdings plc, while Russian — Uzbek Usmanov owns 29.11 percent. The remainder of the 62,217 shares are held by minority shareholders. read more here
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Border Patrol shuts down checkpoints in NM to deal with migrants
March 26, 2019 08:55 AM
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.- The U.S. Border Patrol has shut down highway immigration checkpoints in the El Paso sector, which serves the entire state of New Mexico.
A Border Patrol spokesperson said resources are being diverted to “process and ensure appropriate care” for people who crossed into the U.S. illegally.
The closure is expected to be temporary.
The El Paso sector has been overwhelmed with the number of people seeking asylum. Last week, two large groups were apprehended within minutes of each other in El Paso. Several large groups have also been taken into custody in southern New Mexico in recent weeks.
Meanwhile, U.S. Rep. Xochitl Torres Small said, “The closure of five Border Patrol checkpoints in New Mexico further highlights the lack of resources allocated to our rural stretches of the border. This is why I introduced bipartisan legislation to address the needs of Border Patrol in rural areas, starting with hiring and retention.”
As KOB previously reported, Torres Small recently filed legislation to help hire and retain Border Patrol agents in rural communities like those in southern New Mexico.
“In the short term, though, we need to prioritize and redirect resources to the areas in the most need to help protect the safety of families, agents, and communities," said Torres Small.
According to CBP, in FY2018 agents seized more than 41,000 pounds of marijuana, 6,366 pounds of meth and 405 pounds of heroin at these types of checkpoints nationwide.
Updated: March 26, 2019 08:55 AM
Created: March 25, 2019 08:41 PM
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New York, NY, January 12, 2021 — As high-income countries begin to roll out COVID-19 vaccination campaigns, there are increased concerns that billions of people will not receive the vaccine, putting the global community at risk of prolonging this pandemic and its devastating knock-on effects.
Shortages in supply of COVID-19 vaccines, coupled with vaccine nationalism, means the vast majority of people in conflict and crisis-affected contexts – and in low-income and many middle-income countries – will not be able to access a COVID-19 vaccine in 2021, and possibly for multiple years ahead. COVAX – the global initiative to ensure rapid and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines for all countries, regardless of income – currently expects the vaccines to reach at most 20% of populations across low and lower-middle income contexts, with the reality likely much lower.
The pandemic and its aftershocks, however, will not end until everyone is accounted for and able to be vaccinated. This requires equitable vaccine distribution across both high and low-income countries, including for refugees and internally displaced people, the number of which exceeded 80 million in 2020, resulting in a tremendous amount of people who lack international protections and adequate access to health systems. As many of these populations can be mobile, additional risks of COVID-19 spread will occur unless they are included in vaccination efforts.
Other concerns exist around the cold storage currently required for many of the COVID-19 vaccines. This demands investments to strengthen health systems and supply chains to ensure doses can effectively reach places affected by conflict or in areas lacking electricity or specialized equipment.
Mesfin Teklu Tessema, senior health director for the International Rescue Committee, said:
“To ensure no one is left behind, investments must be made immediately to strengthen health systems. This includes shoring up supply chains, allocating sustainable and adequate financing, and empowering frontline and community health workers, who can deliver care directly to those in need within their local settings. To do this, we urge high-income countries to increase their investments to both the COVAX facility and broader humanitarian assistance that remains every bit as essential, especially given the severity of COVID-19’s secondary impacts.
We also encourage high-income governments to share COVID-19-related technology, know-how and intellectual property, so that other countries can manufacture these life-saving vaccines through their own facilities. As a global public good, COVID-19 vaccines should be made affordable for low-income countries and distributed in an equitable manner that prioritizes frontline health workers and high-risk populations, inclusive of refugees and displaced communities. Lastly, strengthening the supply side and availability of vaccines must occur alongside efforts to build demand for vaccines. Any campaign must aim to create trust and involve local communities in planning processes.”
While the global community prepares for equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, there is also an urgent need to ensure these efforts are not done at the expense of continued investment in basic routine immunizations. There is a real threat of vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks like measles because of COVID-19-related disruptions to routine immunization. This is especially true in fragile and conflict-affected contexts which account for 44% of all children who miss out on access to basic vaccines.
To address this, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) recently joined forces with Gavi, the vaccine alliance, in a partnership aimed at delivering vaccines to the most vulnerable within the Horn of Africa and the Sahel, regions prone to diverse crises from food insecurity and disease outbreak to conflict. Coupled with its engagement in the COVAX Facility and continued efforts to strengthen health systems, the IRC aims to ensure an end to vaccine-preventable diseases and death in fragile contexts — including from COVID-19.

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There is a Rural Affairs Forum for each Government Office region outside London. Regional Rural Affairs Forums were established following the publication of the Rural White Paper in 2000. The Rural Strategy 2004 announced a strengthening of the link between Ministers and rural areas by developing a closer relationship with Rural Affairs Forums and their Chairs. Rural Affairs Forums now provide the prime communication mechanism between organisations and agencies that are responsible for the development and delivery of rural policy.
The East Midlands Rural Affairs Forum (EMRAF)
The East Midlands Rural Affairs Forum (EMRAF) provides a forum for sharing information on issues and initiatives affecting rural areas. EMRAFís role is to champion rural interests in the region by identifying issues of concern, giving views on new regional proposals and consultations and promoting the development of regional initiatives with the aim to improve the quality of life in the regionís rural areas.
Since itís launch in 2002, EMRAF has developed into a network of over 68 organisations from the public, private and voluntary sector. The Forum has an independent Chair, who meets with the Minster for Rural Affairs several times a year. The operation of the Forum is overseen by the Operations Group and the role of the co-ordination of EMRAF activities and delivery is facilitated by the Regional Director of Rural Community Action East Midlands.
The Regional Director delivers the activities of EMRAF and itís 4 Subgroups: Quality Services Accessible to All, A Thriving Rural Economy, Sustainable & Inclusive Communities Incorporating Housing and A High Quality Environment. A Communications Officer provides effective communication tools for EMRAF and its members and provides secretarial support to the Operations Group. The full forum meet 4 times a year (one of the meetings being the EMRAF Annual Conference) to endorse and initiate actions.


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The Research Group IKB-Dürnast exists since 1.9.1998. The following
instituts are working there together (alphabetical order):
Chairman: Prof. Dr. H.
Vice-Chairman: Prof. Dr.
Coordination: Josef Böck
In this project four main goals are pursued:
Goal 1: Development and realisation of a concept for a plant production
information system with a central data base, a goal-directed data structure
and the definition of the data contents and interfaces to the activities
of data acquisition and task management (short: information system).
Goal 2: Development of an automated spatial data recording system for required
working time, operating recources, yields, parameters of soil management,
and for internal machine regulation and measured variables with the algorithms
for recording and processing as well as information transfer into the central
data base with the required routines for editing and refining (short:
Goal 3: Recording of plant growth, N-intake and available water and N in
the soil with non-contact measuring methods in the field with various remote
sensing methods with derivation of reference values for the online-control
of the N-requirement (short: plant growth).
Goal 4: Economic valuation of spatially variable management with a
cost accounting system on the farm-, field- and sub-field-level (short:
In a second phase of the project starting in the summer 2001 among other
things ecological effects of precision farming will be analysed.
The practical research is done at the
Station for Farm Management Dürnast, which is located near to
(Mode D)- satellite image (RGB: NIR, Pan, Blue; taken at the 25.06.98) scaled
above a relief model. The Dürnaster fields are marked in yellow (blue
color: mostly streets, houses; read color: mostly plants with high biomass;
green color: mostly non guarded soils or plants with low biomass; black color:
Generally the DFG put
up money for the IKB-Dürnast project. The technical equipment for recording
and storing spatial data was financed by the Director of Dürnast,
Dr. Alois Heißenhuber (Chair
of agricultural economics and farm management).

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Salisbury: Early learning is essential for all kids
As an individual highly invested in early childhood education, I have witnessed the impact an instructionally rich learning environment can have on preschool students’ development. Research supports the view that high-quality preschool programs require resources and educational experiences that stimulate children’s curiosity and love of learning. A high-quality pre-K classroom – where teachers have access to materials and activities to support their interactions with children – helps to advance students’ cognitive, social and emotional skills.
The impact of the early learning environment is especially relevant for at-risk pre-school children. At home, many underserved children do not engage in the interactions - conversations and play - that help build vocabulary and the pathways that shape the brain’s ability to organize information. A Stanford University study showed income-based disparities in children’s vocabularies by 18 months of age. By 2 years, children from lower-income households fell six months behind children in higher-income homes with regard to how quickly they process language.
Though they face great odds to succeed, at-risk pre-K children are more likely to do well when they have access to quality resources. Recent research co-authored by Nobel laureate James Heckman shows that investing in quality early childhood programs can deliver a 13 percent per year return on investment - a net, long-term benefit of more than $700,000 for every disadvantaged child served. That benefit comes via reduced need for special education and grade repetition, higher wages, increased high school graduation rates and even reduced crime.
When classrooms have the resources they need, teachers are better equipped to inspire a lifelong love of learning. However, funding is often limited, and teachers across the country are reaching into their own pockets to purchase education materials that cash-strapped schools can’t provide.
A recent study by the National Head Start Association revealed that 88 percent of Head Start teachers spent up to $500 on school supplies out of their own pockets last year, and 10 percent spent more than $1,000. Many schools, especially those in low-income areas, just don’t have enough resources.
To enhance early childhood education, PNC recently announced a $5 million grant to the online charity DonorsChoose.org. The new initiative helps teachers obtain additional classroom resources, such as books, art and school supplies, as well as field trips to child-friendly museums and other institutions.
Now you can donate to help fulfill local pre-K teacher requests, including Head Start requests, and PNC will match those project donations made within our service area, subject to some restrictions and a maximum dollar amount.
On the initiative’s first day, PNC fully funded $504,000 in projects that will help improve the learning environments in preschool classrooms throughout the 22 states and Washington, D.C. where PNC has a significant presence. In Ingham County alone, the funding provided $8,423 to meet local teacher requests on day one. In addition, PNC provided every Mid-Michigan employee who volunteered in early childhood education in 2016 a $50 gift card to contribute to a preschool teacher project for a total of $14,950.
Our investment to help teachers build a foundation for high-quality learning was made as part of PNC Grow Up Great®, a $350 million, bilingual multi-year school readiness initiative for children from birth to age 5.
I ask everyone in Mid-Michigan to join me as an advocate for quality early education. I urge you to visit DonorsChoose.org and consider supporting a project in your community. Let’s work together to ensure that local preschool children receive a quality education and the opportunity to achieve to the best of their ability.
Tim Salisbury is PNC’s regional president for Mid-Michigan.


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By SILUMESI MALUMO
MINISTRY of Finance and the Bank of Zambia must review requirements for the K10 billion stimulus package so that it directly benefits ordinary Zambians especially those in rural areas, former Minister of Finance Katele Kalumba has said.
The package, Dr Kalumba noted, should benefit those who have been critically affected by Covid-19
He said in an interview that people were still in dark on how they could access the facility.
Dr Kalumba said that people were eager to apply for the facility but there was no proper explanation in the public domain how the funds could be acquired.
He noted that South Africa had a similar programme and Government had ensured that ordinary people accessed it which could also be the case in Zambia.
“I think the central bank and the Ministry of Finance that are handling this process have not done things in the way they are supposed to be done.
“Today if you ask people who have been seriously hit by this Covid-19 especially in rural part of Zambia they have no clue what procedure should be used to access the facility. I think people need to be guided on how they can go about it,” Dr Kalumba said.
He said the central bank and the Ministry of Finance must step up and ensure that things were done in right manner.
Dr Kalumba said if people accessed the facility, they would enhance their business and contribute massively to the Gross Demotic Product (GDP).
“Since January our GDP has only grown by 0.2 percent compared to last year which stood at 4.3 percent and in 2018 it was 6 percent in same period meaning that the income has continued to go down.
“So it is up to the authorities to take charge and ensure that right things are done which will help to grow the economy. The facility if well harnessed will bring about economic growth,” Dr Kalumba said.

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A new trailer has been released for Marvel Avengers Assemble shortly after the film received a new title.
The spectacular clip shows Iron Man, Captain America, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Hawkeye and Black Widow in combat as the ultimate superhero team.
One of the most ambitious film concepts in recent years, the film "assembles" an all-star cast including Robert Downey Jr, Scarlet Johanssen, Jeremy Renner, Samuel L Jackson and Chris Evans and is written by Buffy the Vampire creator Joss Whedon.
The team of heroes are drawn together to fight the threat of Norse god Loki and an unknown alien species, although plot details remain sketchy.
The film was recently retitled for UK audiences, being given the new name Marvel Avangers Assemble, supposedly to avoid confusion with the previous Avengers film starring Uma Thurman and Ralph Fiennes.
Marvel Avengers Assemble is due to be released in April.


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SYDNEY, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Australian job advertisements edged lower in July as coronavirus lockdowns cooled demand for labour, though the decline was surprisingly modest given that Sydney was closed for the entire month.
Monday's figures from Australia and New Zealand Banking Group showed total job ads fell 0.5% in July from June, when they climbed 1.5% to the highest since 2008.
At 206,819, ads were still up 94% on a year earlier when the labour market was recovering from a national pandemic lockdown which had shut many industries for a month. "This reinforces our expectation that the impact of New South Wales’s extended lockdown on employment and the unemployment rate will be limited; hours worked and underemployment will again bear the brunt," said ANZ senior economist Catherine Birch.
"Many businesses are 'hoarding' labour to avoid the costs and delays of rehiring once restrictions ease, particularly given reported difficulty finding labour and the record high job vacancy rate," she added.
The jobless rate had fallen by much more than expected this year to reach 4.9% in June, but economists suspected it could rise in July and August as the lockdowns bite.
That would be a setback for the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) which is seeking to drive unemployment down to 4% or even lower in the hope of finally lifting wages growth after years of tepid gains.
The central bank holds its August policy meeting on Tuesday amid speculation it may delay a planned tapering of its bond buying programme due to the economic impact of the lockdowns. (Reporting by Wayne Cole; Editing by Kim Coghill)


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Weekly Food: Greens & Quinoa Pie and Yakisoba
This is probably obvious by now, but I don’t eat meat. My wife eats meat, but not at home because I don’t cook it and she won’t cook it (it’s a level of cutting-board consciousness that I don’t think either of us is up for). People often inquire about how we get along, but as you can see, we manage. Sara spent some time as a vegetarian and doesn’t miss it most of the time.
Still, there are times when even I wonder if I’m pushing it.
“Honey, this week, for dinner, I’m going to make a pie with quinoa, kale, and an entire head of Romaine lettuce”
“Sounds good,” she replies without flinching.
That, my friends, is trust.
The recipe was Myra Kornfeld’s Greens and Quinoa Pie from the most recent issue of Vegetarian Times (sorry, the recipe link won’t be up until next month). I substituted kale for chicory (because, seriously, where would I find chicory in Minnesota right now) more than doubled the amount of cheese it called for (because, seriously, I live in Minnesota), and served it with roasted carrots. The verdict: pretty good. The flavor is subdued, which is to say, I’m not raving about it, but I’d make it again.
To balance out the possibility of disaster, our second meal was something I knew we’d both love: Yakisoba inspired by this recipe in the New York Times.
I omitted the pork & cabbage in favor of broccoli, baby bok choy, shredded carrots, and mock duck. Also, I doubled the sauce (using tamarind paste in place of 1/2 of the ketchup) and used 24oz of noodles which, in case you were wondering, is almost more than will fit in my wok. Verdict: noodley goodness.
Time: 2.5 hours
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Micah 5: 1-5
A Promised Ruler Will Come From Bethlehem
5 Jerusalem, you are being attacked.
So bring your troops together.
Our enemies have surrounded us.
They want to slap the face of Israel’s ruler.
2 The Lord says,
“Bethlehem Ephrathah, you might not be
an important town in the nation of Judah.
But out of you will come for me
a ruler over Israel.
His family line goes back
to the early years of your nation.
It goes all the way back
to days of long ago.”
3 The Lord will hand over his people to their enemies.
That will last until the pregnant woman bears her promised son.
Then the rest of his relatives in Judah
will return to their land.
4 That promised son will stand firm
and be a shepherd for his flock.
The Lord will give him the strength to do it.
The Lord his God will give him
the authority to rule.
His people will live safely.
His greatness will reach
from one end of the earth to the other.
5 And he will be our peace
when the Assyrians attack our land.
They will march through our forts.
But we will raise up against them many shepherds.
We’ll send out against them
as many commanders as we need to.
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To complete this discussion post I chose to use some of the principles from the SPJ Code of Ethics.
Avoid undercover or other surreptitious methods of gathering information unless traditional, open methods will not yield information vital to the public– Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics, 2014.
So often media outlets publish stories based on administration sources, aides, or some other jargon describing insiders who were somehow talked to the press on condition of anonymity.
By not properly identifying sources, media organizations are less credible in their capacity to shape policy through mutually informing the public of government positions, and informing civic officials of public opinion (Graber & Dunaway, 2015).
Recognize a special obligation to serve as watchdogs over public affairs and government. Seek to ensure that the publicâ€™s business is conducted in the open, and that public records are open to all. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. — Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics, 2014.
I think the reporters that cover the federal government do an excellent job in promoting transparency. Through aggressive questioning dutiful journalists publish up-to-the-minute reports on hot topics and scandals.
Through transparent reporting and covering issues of the day, media organizations are fully able to execute their role by informing the public of government positions, and allowing public officials platforms from which to discuss their positions (Graber & Dunaway, 2015).
Label advocacy and commentary (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. . — Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics, 2014.
Distinguishing advocacy from commentary is continuously blurred on cable news. Depending on the network, the bias is clear. In some cases, the host will allow one guest to finish an argument while silencing the other if the second individual does not agree with the host’s thoughts on an issue.
By disguising opinion as news, journalists and their media organization employers deceive the public regarding the nature of government positions. The news outlets can also mask or distort issues the public deems important in favor of political ideology (Graber & Dunaway, 2015).
– Joel Seppala
Graber, D., Dunaway, J. (2015). Mass Media and American Politics, Ninth Ed. Sage Publications, Inc:Â Thousand Oaks, California.
Society of Professional Journalists. (2014, September 6). SPJ Code of Ethics. Retrieved October 18, 2017 from https://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp.


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Biscotti cookies are a very tasty treat to eat and can be made quite healthy using this almond loaded gluten free biscotti recipe. This simple recipe will take very little effort or time and produce a delicious snack that can be eaten at any time. One easy tip in this gluten free biscotti recipe is to use whole almonds rather than toasted almonds. You will bake the biscotti twice, which will eliminate the need to toast the almonds.
Ingredients used in this gluten free biscotti recipe:
- 8 oz. or 2 cups Whole almonds
- 1 cup Yellow cornmeal
- 1 cup Cornstarch
- ½ tsp. Ground cinnamon
- Baking soda ½ tsp
- 1 large egg
- ½ cup Sugar
- ¼ cup Honey
- 2 tbsp. Vegetable oil or melted butter
- 1 tsp. Vanilla extract
- The first step in this gluten free biscotti recipe is to preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Ground 1 cup of almonds with a food processor and combine them with the rest of the whole almonds, cinnamon, cornmeal, cornstarch and baking soda in a large mixing bowl.
- In a separate bowl begin whisking an egg until it's foaming. Add the sugar, honey, butter, vanilla and continue to whisk thoroughly.
- In this step of the gluten free biscotti recipe, you will need to make your dough. Add the dry ingredient mixture from your first bowl into the egg mixture that you just completed. Stir until a stiff dough is formed.
- Spread the dough into your 9 inch square pan, and bake for 30 minutes in the preheated oven.
- Remove the pan from the oven and let the biscotti cool for 5 minutes. After the 5 minute period, you need to remove the biscotti from the pan and let it cool entirely. You must let it cool completely in this step of the gluten free biscotti recipe or the almonds will have a tough time toasting on the second bake.
- After cooling you need to cut into 3 x 9 inch strips, and slice each strip every ½ inch. Place the strips on your baking pan and back one more time for 15 minutes.
- The final step in this gluten free biscotti recipe is to remove the pan from the oven. Allow the biscotti to be completely cool after removing from the oven. After cooling you can package them in an air tight container to keep them fresh.


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THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE -
xxxxxAs we have seen, the capture of Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks in 1453 (H6), some 150 years after their modest beginnings under their founder Osman I, was but a prelude to greater territorial expansion. Mehmed II, the “Roman Caesar” as he called himself, made further conquests in 1468 (E4), and at his death in 1481 the Ottomans were indeed on route to becoming a world empire. A vast area comprising Anatolia and the Balkans, wedged between the Aegean and Black Seas, was now in their hands. A power-
xxxxxSelim I came to power in 1512 following a period of civil strife. Having eliminated all internal opposition, he turned his attention to a potential threat, the Safavid dynasty in Iran, led by its founder Shah Ismail I. In 1514 he first subdued the Turkish Kizilbash (Red Heads), fervent followers of this dynasty, and then turned upon Ismail himself, defeating him decisively at the Battle of Chaldiran, on the eastern side of the Euphrates (arrowed on map). The battle was hard fought, but the 70,000 Safavids, carrying only spears and arrows, were no match for an Ottoman force of 120,000 men who were highly trained and armed with muskets.
xxxxxThis overwhelming victory did not, in fact, lead to the occupation of Iran itself, but it gave Selim full control of the Kurdish and Turkmen principalities within Anatolia. Furthermore, it gave him the confidence to take on the Mamluk rulers of Egypt and Syria, a neighbour whom Mehmed II, you might recall, had considered too powerful to tackle. In 1516 he advanced into Syria and defeated the Mamluk forces at the Battle of Marj Dabiq, north of Aleppo. In the following year the Mamluks, having regrouped in Egypt, he followed up this success with another resounding victory, this time at the Battle of Raydaniyah, near Cairo in 1517. In less than six months his campaign had brought Egypt, Syria, Palestine, and the Lebanon under Ottoman rule. In addition, before leaving Cairo he was presented with the keys to the holy city of Mecca, a symbol of office which made him the acknowledged leader of the Islamic world.
xxxxxThe defeat of the Mamluks more than doubled the size of the Ottoman Empire but, as we shall see (1526), it was the reign of his son, Suleyman “the Magnificent” which was to bring the empire to the pinnacle of its power and prestige.
xxxxxAs we have seen, the capture of Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks in 1453 (H6) was but a step towards further expansion. Mehmed II made further conquests in 1468 (E4), and at his death in 1481 the empire covered most of Anatolia and the Balkans. When Selim I came to power in 1512 he attacked the Safavid dynasty, defeating their leader at the Battle of Chaldiran in 1514. He then rounded on the Mamluks, gaining victories over them in Syria, at the Battle of Marj Dabiq, and then in Egypt at the Battle of Raydaniyah, near Cairo, in 1517. By then he was recognised as the leader of the Islamic world, holding sway over Egypt, Syria, Palestine and the Lebanon. As we shall see (1526), his successor, Suleyman “the Magnificent” was to bring the Empire to the height of its power.
Selim I: c1550, artist unknown – private collection. Map (Ottoman Empire): licensed under Creative Commons – selimfirst.wikispaces.com/wiki/changes.


Chanel is set to show its 2023-24 Métiers d’Art collection, this year in Manchester, United Kingdom.
The collection showcases and brings together a plethora of artisans who have mastered their craft, and have always been a core influence to the global fashion industry. Chanel started the Métiers d’Art collection in 2002 and debuted each collection in a city around the world which has influenced the brand.
From Dakar in 2022 to Dallas in 2013, the annual collection has truly been around the world. This year, Chanel is headed to the UK, and to its heart of rave culture and much of the country’s fashion—Manchester.
The fashion house has not announced a specific venue yet, but will show the collection on December 7.


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A car parking system is essentially an intricate mechanical device which increases area within a vehicle parking center. Most auto parking systems are powered by either hydraulic or electric pumps which relocate vehicles into a dealt with storage placement, generally in a garage. Parking systems are normally found at the front of parking garages and also usually come geared up with security attributes to reduce the danger of injuries. The vehicle parking system is mainly split right into 3 primary kinds. The initial kind is the automatic system which simply moves cars from one area to an additional after they have been parked. The 2nd type is the semi-automatic system which is controlled by a push button on the dashboard. The 3rd type is the fully automated system which is automatically run by the chauffeur as well as uses a computerized control system. Parking systems can be categorized right into two significant groups, specifically, mechanical and also digital. Mechanical car parking systems are based upon the concept of gravity by which a vehicle is pushed upwards and also can be run by either a pump or a bar mechanism. Electronic parking systems operate a motor which can be run manually or an electric motor drive system. The expense of running a mechanical car parking system relies on the power called for to move the autos. The hydraulic pumps utilized in mechanical systems call for power. The electric motors made use of in the mechanical systems need an additional electric motor to transform them on as well as off, in addition to a battery to keep the power they produce. The price of these systems depends primarily on the size of the setup. Mechanical systems can be set up in big parking lot while electrical systems need to be mounted in little parking lot. It is always suggested to speak with an auto parking designer before setting up any type of mechanical equipment. Electronic car parking systems need an electric motor drive system or a collection of electric motor drives, which are linked with each other by means of a central control gadget. The system has a battery and also a transmitter or receiver which is attached to an LCD screen. The digital control system is linked to the driver’s seat of the car, which is mounted in an automobile garage. The very best method to figure out the suitability of any kind of car parking system is by speaking with an auto parking designer that is experienced in the sector. Some of the primary kinds of car park systems offered consist of automated, semi-automatic and also completely automated systems. The semi-automatic systems might call for hand-operated intervention while the fully automated systems are completely automatic as well as can be managed by a remote signal from a main station.
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Developers are proposing 24-unit apartment building on Central Avenue in the City of Peekskill.
The proposal, which was presented during Monday night’s Common Council Workshop, would have an underground parking with enough spaces to accommodate 25 vehicles. The building would be located across from Zeph’s Restaurant.
Herman Poritzky, the developer of the project, is requesting a special permit for the project since it exists in the city’s waterfront district.
“They’re targeting the train station, obviously people that are commuting and, literally, it’s two blocks from our downtown,” Anthony Ruggiero, the city’s director of planning said. “I think it would be a nice little development.”
Ed Gemmola, the architect for the project, said the building would be a little under 18,000 square feet and be four stories in the front, including the parking lot. The rear of the building would be two stories above grade.
There would be six studio apartments, three one-bedroom apartments with a den, 11 one bedroom apartments and four two-bedroom apartments. The building could have space for house exercise & laundry rooms along with a play area.
Rents would be anywhere in the range of $1,300 to $1,800.
Even though there are only 25 spots for 24 apartments, Gemmola said there is on-street parking on Central Avenue to accommodate guests and the building is within 500 feet of the municipal lot next to the police station.
The developer is required to provide 37 parking spaces under normal circumstances, but Gemmola said he is seeking a waiver for the 12 additional spaces required.
This is the third iteration of the project to come before the Common Council, with the developer submitting proposal in 2004, 2008 and 2009.
“The project definitely changed over the years,” Gemmollo said. “It’s financeable. Apartments area a hot item wherever you go in terms of living.”
Ruggiero said Monday's presentation is the start of the Council's special permitting process for the project and the planning commission still needed to do its review.