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Day 2: Venice
We spent the majority of our morning and early afternoon in St. Mark's Square because there is so much to see. We started at St. Mark's Basilica, which is free to enter, but you could be stuck waiting over an hour to get in. It's worth the €2 to purchase "skip the line" tickets before your visit. We bought ours that morning and had no problem reserving a convenient time. Once you've sufficiently ogled the intricate mosaics of the basilica, take the stairs up to the St. Mark's Museum (€5), which gives you access to the rooftop balcony and impressive views of St. Mark's Square and the Grand Canal. Make note: all places of worship that you may visit in Italy require modest dress. This means knees and shoulders must be covered for both men and women. Most of the major tourist sites offer complimentary paper scarves if you show up in short shorts or a midriff, but plan to cover up just in case.
Our next stop was Doge's Palace (Palazzo Ducale), which we had already purchased tickets for as a part of our City Pass. The palace is huge and ornate and was once the religious and government center of Venice, as well as the home of the doge (duke). Most interesting to me was the Bridge of Sighs, the bridge connecting the palace to the (no longer in use) prison. Legend has it that prisoners would sigh as they stole their final glimpse of freedom before entering the prison.


States Apply Brake To Hefty Traffic Penalties Under New Motor Vehicle Act, Refuse To Implement
After Gujarat announced a drastic reduction in the penalties for traffic violations, as steep as ₹1,000 from ₹10,000, more states have come forward and decided to slash the penalties, and some also refuse to implement the hefty fines.
Some states claim it would overburden people while others said it would lead to corruption.
Ministry Defends Act, Calls It Necessary
However, speaking to India Today TV, Nitin Gadkari, Minister for Road Transport & Highways of India, said that the high penalties under the amendment have gone through many debates and it was passed after careful recommendations with all stakeholders.
Urging compliance with the law, the minister said if people didn’t break the law, they wouldn’t be fined. He also said that media coverage on fines had helped, and people could be seen in large numbers outside RTO offices to get driving licences.
“Over 30 per cent driving licences were bogus earlier, which is now changing. All this could lead to a lesser number of deaths due to accidents,” he said, urging people should take the law seriously.
Driving when physically or mentally unfit, racing, overspeeding, driving an unregistered vehicle and overloading of passengers are some of the provisions for which states have the power to revise the penalty.
After Gujarat, Other States Also Follow Suit
As per data obtained from the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, 1.47 lakh people died due to road accidents in 2017; the scenario remains the same in 2019. Despite the data, states such as West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Punjab, Jharkhand and Maharashtra refuse to impose hefty fines to encourage road discipline.
States like Punjab, Karnataka, Kerala, Goa, Jharkhand and Dehradun are also planning a revision of the penalties.
Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee referred to the penalities as ‘too steep’ and claims that they would overburden people in her state. “We are not implementing the amended Motor Vehicle Act right now because our government officials think that if we implement it, then it will be a huge burden on the people. It is very harsh,” Banerjee told reporters.
Rajasthan government also said that it would not be implementing an “impractical law” pointing at the hefty fines. “We cannot stop the Central Motor Vehicle, the Central Government. We have the right to change the compounding amount,” State transport minister Pratap Singh Khachariyawas said.
State Transport Minister of Maharashtra, Diwakar Raote has written to Gadkari stating that the fines are “way beyond the limits” of ordinary people. “We have asked the Central government to lessen the fine. Till the time we get a reply, we will wait and not implement the new fines. Once we get the reply and it is negative, we will decide our future action,” Raote said.
Gujarat Slashed Fines To Half
This comes a day after the Gujarat government revised the fines under the new Act and became the first state to change penalties and reduce in by almost 90 per cent in some instances.
Under the new norms, Gujarat commuters will have to pay just Rs 500 on days they get caught for not wearing helmets. Those who are caught driving without a licence will have to pay Rs 2,000 for two-wheelers and Rs 3,000 for vehicles under the new rule.
Inspired by the move, Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa on Wednesday said that it would follow the model adopted by Gujarat government that proposes to reduce the fines for traffic violations by half.
Penalty provisions under the law came into effect on 1 September. However, states can revise fines for more than two dozen provisions that are compoundable, whereas the penalties for non-compoundable offences where the nature of the offence is severe can not be altered.


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I’ve seen a few “behind the scenes” clips in which you can hear a lot of background noise not pertinent with the shooting. Recently on many sites there’s a clip of a sex scene; you can hear the director talking, giving instructions, while (quite distorted) music is played. I’m involved in audio production and I’m wondering how you can cancel all that stuff. I can understand the (high quality) music is added in post production, but what about the acting? Are the actors going to do a complete dubbing?
I agree with @Catija: ADR is very common with action, drama, and musicals because it is far easier (and less expensive) to rerecord the dialog in a recording booth than it is to get dozens to hundreds of people, who are near the shot, to be absolutely silent or to remove the sound in post production.
The only genre which avoids ADR is comedies because the timing is very important and hard to reproduce in ADR.
In a sound booth it is far easier for an actor to nail the vocal cadences to sell an emotional state or reaction and can be done in fewer takes which cost less. On a sound stage, there are layer upon layer of distractions and acoustic compromises starting with all the people watching, and ending with the set being too warm or too cold.
Many shots where there is no specific dialogue will be shot "MOS" - without sound running.
MOS is a standard filmmaking jargon abbreviation, used in production reports to indicate an associated film segment has no synchronous audio track. It stands for "motor only sync" or "motor only shot".
Omitting sound recording from a particular shot can save time and relieve the film crew of certain requirements, such as remaining silent during a take, and thus MOS takes are common on film shoots, most obviously when the subjects of the take are not speaking or otherwise generating useful sound.
If it's a sex scene, mouths are not likely on camera (if any dialogue is even occurring), so they will often do the dialogue in post or "ADR".
Automated dialogue replacement (ADR) is the process of re-recording dialogue by the original actor after the filming process to improve audio quality or reflect dialogue changes (also known as "looping" or a "looping session"). ADR is also used to change original lines recorded on set to clarify context, improve diction or timing, or to replace an accented vocal performance. In the UK, it is also called "post-synchronisation" or "post-sync".
It's also possible that the specific shots being captured that you saw were close-ups, details, or other shots that are more about the framing of the shot and the action in it.
If they were recording sound, I'd bet the director wasn't talking at the same time as dialogue was being said. A sound designer will be able to remove the part of the scene where the director is talking (assuming there's not too much other stuff like music in the background) and replace that with "room tone", which is generally 1 minute of "silence" recorded by the sound recorder so that the sound designer can use it as a base noise for the space.
In filmmaking and television production presence (or room tone) is the "silence" recorded at a location or space when no dialogue is spoken. This term is often confused with ambiance.
Every location has a distinct presence created by the position of the microphone in relation to the space boundaries. A microphone placed in two different locations of the same room will produce two different presences. This is because of the unique spatial relationship between the microphone and boundaries such as walls, ceiling, floor and other objects in the room.
Presence is recorded during the production stage of filmmaking. It is used to help create the film sound track, where presence may be intercut with dialogue to smooth out any sound edit points. The sound track "going dead" would be perceived by the audience not as silence, but as a failure of the sound system.
For interior sets some effort will be made to exclude extraneous background noise and sound recording equipment will be set of to focus on dialogue, for example by using boom mics just out of shot.
Even then most of the incidental sounds on the actual movie soundtrack will be added in post production by foley artists or samples. Indeed a huge amount of ingenuity goes into producing authentic sound effects. In modern production this may also include a huge amount of digital processing to layer and modify effects.
On exterior location this may not be possible and in some cases whole scenes may be redubbed with ADR which may even involve changing lines. For obvious reasons this is easier with long shot than close ups.
It is also possible to remove or mask any unwanted background noise with sound effects, score or digital/analogue filtering.

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CG Tuts has posted a video tutorial set created by Laurens Corijn for building your own hot rod using the 3D application of your choice. You can watch the intro video for the second part of the tutorial series below. If you want to see the rest of the tutorials they can be found here.
Creating a Hot Rod for Games
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Chandigarh, December 21
Government Medical College and Hospital in Chandigarh’s Sector 32 announced to take various measure to increase the Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RTPCR) testing for Covid-19.
The testing has been made mandatory for all patients kept in emergency wards, who are in either in observation or admitted.
“It should also be mandatorily done in all patients admitted through OPDs, on admission. However, the current practice of Negative RAT test for admission/procedures will continue. Patients coming to OPDs with flu like symptoms should be asked to get the RTPCR test done. They should be sent to screening OPD for the same. However, such patients should be provided all necessary OPD treatment after taking due precautions, “stated an order by the Medial Superintendent.
All health care workers have also been asked to take precautionary measures and wear face masks, practice frequent hand washing/sanitization and maintain social distance.
“All HODs and others are requested to instruct the faculty/staff to implement these instructions with immediate effect,” added the order.

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Following the disastrous few months for Samsung, it is pretty important that their new flagship products are something special and ideally won't explode. Samsung seems to have pulled all the stops out by creating a beautiful pair of phones using what they call infinity displays, which is a near bezel-free display.
The S8 has a 5.8” screen and the S8+ has a 6.2” and Both run at what Samsung calls Quad HD+ resolution, otherwise known as 2,960 x 1,440, since these screens are longer than normal.
The US Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus will feature one of Qualcomm's octa-core Snapdragon 835 chipsets, along with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage. Versions available elsewhere will have one of Samsung's octa-core Exynos chips in lieu of Qualcomm's.
Both devices also have 12-megapixel, dual pixel rear cameras with an f/1.7 aperture. The S8s have an improved front-facing camera: an 8-megapixel sensor with autofocus and the ability to shoot wide-angle selfies.
Both the S8 and the S8 Plus still have headphone jacks, along with microSD card, and they are still water and dust resistant. It is good to see Samsung listening to consumers and keeping these features.
The S8's fingerprint sensors are on the back, to the right of the camera, which is a bit of a shame, but I guess they needed to make space for the massive screen.
All the phones will come with AKG earbuds which are claimed to be worth $99. Even if they are not really, they are bound to be better than your standard earbuds.
You'll be able to pre-order the phones in the US starting tomorrow, March 30th, with an official launch coming on April 21st. Early adopters will be treated to a free Gear VR.
It is believed the UK launch price will be £689 and £779 respectively.


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Biography of Jojoba Mansell
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My poetry is usually written in minutes and I upload the first draft as I feel this better captures my mood. This gives my poetry a personal meaning to me but probably reads clumsily to others.
I write because I enjoy it, if you enjoy reading it that's a bonus.
If you like you can now follow me on twitter, @jojobamansell
A big thank you to all those who have supported me by purchasing my work on amazon kindle.
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- The Sunshine Within
- Hard Choices
- A Monster in my toilet (A poem for child...
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- My T-Rex (A Poem For Children)
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A path is laid out ahead,
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A decision filled with dread,
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A game full of chance,
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To find true romance,
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cooling tower for the food industry
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TECAUMA offers a cooling tower or freezing tower for the food industry (bread, croissants...). The products are conveyed continuously, within a cooling time of 20 to 45 minutes, for a temperature going from +100°C down to -30°C. The structure as well as the conveyor belts are made of stainless steel.

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No one is more obsessed with Kim Kardashian than Kim Kardashian, but Miley Cyrus might come in a close second place.
Ever since the nude Kim Kardashian Paper pics hit the web, Miley has been having a Photoshop field day the now-famous images.
First, Miley superimposed a baby face on naked Kim, and the result was as terrifying as it sounds.
As with most things on Miley's Instagram page, we're really not sure what to make of this latest effort.
Is Miley paying tribute to Kim, or is she trying a point about the absurdity of the Internet losing it's collective mind at the sight of shiny butt?
Either way, it's not every day you see the weirdness of Miley combined with the giant-bootiness of Kim, so we guess we approve.
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Academic self-efficacy in Bachelor-level nursing students: Development and validation of a new instrument
An available strategy to counteract academic failure is the development and implementation of student academic self-efficacy; however, to date, there are no instruments measuring it. The aim of this study was to develop and psychometrically test an academic nurse self-efficacy scale.
A longitudinal study design was used in accordance with Consensus-based Standards for the Selection of health status Measurement Instruments guidelines.
A convenience sample of 1,129 nursing students attending the first year of the course were involved. The data collection began in 2014 and went on for three years. Data were collected at the beginning of the first (T0), at the end of the first (T1), at the end of the second (T2) and at the end of the third (T3) year. The academic nurse self-efficacy scale was evaluated for content and face validity, for construct validity with explorative, confirmative factor analysis and hypothesis testing and for reliability. The standard error and the smallest detectable difference were also evaluated.
Scree plot analysis suggested a four-factor solution and confirmative factor analysis model reached a good fit. We verified the first hypothesis, partially the second and not the third. The dimensions show a Cronbach's α 0.72-0.83. The smallest detectable difference was 26%.
The academic nurse self-efficacy scale had good validity and reliability and should be considered for nursing students. Impact: These findings may have an impact on universities, mainly in nursing degree programmes because nurse educators can identify nursing students with low academic self-efficacy and help them in their academic duties. Indirectly, academic self-efficacy monitoring can be used for evaluating the effect of different teaching strategies or mentorship support over time.


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This pendant is of pure preciousness! It's made of sterling silver and a gorgeous pear cut amethyst that's tailor-made to take your style to the next level. Slip it on—you won't regret it!
This pendant does not come with the chain shown. Please feel free to contact us, we will help you find the perfect chain for your style and budget!
Metal: Sterling Silver
Gem: Amethyst 11.40 Carats
Gem Measurements: 11.5 x 24.1 mm, Pear Cut
Measurements: 14 x 33 mm, with bail
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Voltage and Continuity Tester
The METRAVOLT VT 1500 is a 2-pole voltage tester with digital display combined with an integrated continuity, phase and phase sequence tester. It permits safe detection and measurement of AC and DC voltages within a range of 0 to 1000 V AC / 1500 V DC at frequencies of up to 2 kHz. Resistance within a range of 0 to 999 kΩ can also be measured with the integrated continuity tester. Voltage and resistance values appear in digital format at the LCD. LEDs and red display illumination also indicate dangerous contact voltage and phase sequence.


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SRUC Barony Campus is set within a working 260 hectare estate, which is situated in the rolling landscape of Dumfries and Galloway in South West Scotland.
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Two student farmers at SRUC Aberdeen have been recognised by the Royal Northern Agricultural Society (RNAS).
Former Animal Care students from Scotland’s Rural College are flying high in their new careers after completing courses at the Elmwood campus in Fife.
Students from SRUC’s Oatridge campus will take part in an interactive beef demonstration at AgriScot later this month.
Scotland’s Rural College officially opened the doors to new £350,000 Animal Care and Gamekeeping facilities at its Elmwood campus today (8 November 2019).
A postgraduate student at Scotland’s Rural College has won a prize for her research looking at the effects of climate change on European grassland yields.
Address: SRUC Barony Campus, Parkgate, Dumfries DG1 3NE
Telephone: 01387 860251

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Tamara is wonderful! She took extra good care of our sweet 12 yr old Boxer and sent us videos and photos each day. There is a lot to be said for having a caring, nurturing person care for our pet; rather than the typical boarding accommodations at most kennels. Thank you Tamara for taking such good care of Chance for us!
Tamara was excellent to work with and she sent updated pictures each day. Our dog had a wonderful stay with Tamara and we would definitely choose her again to watch our dog. Thanks!
My dog loved his daytime at Tamara’s home. He played with another dog and was super happy when we picked him up.
Tamara followed my instructions on feeding and sent me pictures throughout the day :-)
Will definitely use Tamara’s service anytime and recommend her as a responsible pet sitter
Love having a furry friend around!
I will love and treat your dog like it is my own! I am very active and I love having a furry friend to tag along for a walk/run in the parks or to take along for a joy ride in my car.
I grew up with Border Collies and am comfortable with most dogs. To get my dog fix, I have taken care of friends dogs in my home for years. Since I ...

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Biratnagar City FC clinched an important three points in Nepal Super League on Monday as they defeated FC Chitwan 2-0 at Dasharath stadium.
Pedro Manzi scored the opener in 73rd minute and Santosh Tamang doubled the lead in 89th minute. Clear win meant Biratnagar City FC have moved atop with seven points.
Biratnagar City FC have moved second with seven points.
Dhangadhi FC are in second position of league standing with inferior goal difference. FC Chitwan are rock bottom with just two points from four matches.
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Now you can easily prepare a pot of nutritious and delicious soup to ease the family’s fatigue and illness. This is a pot of love and care that rejuvenates the family with an energy born of nature!
Easy to cook. Only 3 steps is all you need!
It’s available in Emperor Chicken Herbs & Spices (帝皇鸡香料), Herbal Chicken Soup (药材鸡汤), Traditional Herbal Broth (肉骨茶), White Pepper (白胡椒汤). Try out all of them!
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When Patrick McCarthy established Melbourne’s award-winning independent company, Mutation Theatre, back in 2008, it was more or less a one-man show. He wrote and performed Howard Arkley and Suburbia, portraying the troubled artist in a piece that Art Monthly magazine described as “an absorbing melee of malevolence, humour and spiritual bliss”.
Five years on and the 23-year-old artistic director has pulled together something of an ensemble. Mutation’s latest piece, Love Me Tender, by in-demand Australian playwright Tom Holloway, opens at Theatre Works on February 20, with two cast members – James Tresise and Matthew Epps – joining the troupe for the fourth time.
“I like the idea of building an ensemble, whether it’s actors or designers or whatever,” McCarthy reveals. “It makes people feel comfortable and safe in order to take risks and really challenge each other.”
McCarthy favours a free-flowing, collaborative style, with an emphasis on improvisation. “Even in things that are more scripted, there’s certainly a freedom and room for everyone to play,” he says. “We enjoy that rigorous and also quite fun process in the rehearsal room.
“We have a couple of great new actors in Love Me Tender, Nick Pelomis and Sarah Ogden. They bring a real energy.”
McCarthy – who picked up his collaborative approach from some of his favourite filmmakers, including Paul Thomas Anderson and Wes Anderson – tackles wildly different plays with the ever-evolving Mutation. So Blue, So Calm, written and directed by McCarthy and presented at the 2011 Melbourne Fringe Festival, was a dreamy, light-hearted affair. So he followed it up with Liberate Yourself From My Vice-Like Grip!!!, a darkly violent, claustrophobic piece, formed from intense improvisational periods, at 2012’s Next Wave Festival.
Suffice to say, McCarthy relished the change of tone. “It was really locking four guys in a room to see what would happen, and you end up in all kinds of weird spaces,” he laughs.
Next Wave was an inspirational period for the company, interacting with a huge range of artistic disciplines, from dancers to musicians, visual artists and curators. “You get opened to a whole lot of different perspectives and talk about each other’s work. That was a wonderful experience. It also clarified why we liked theatre and helped us think about the design elements of theatre in a more holistic way.”
Even in independent theatre, McCarthy believes that companies can get a little too comfortable, doing the same stuff over and over. He hopes to avoid that temptation with Mutation.
It was their double-header at the 2010 Fringe – an adaptation of illustrator and author Shaun Tan’s The Arrival and Katy Warner’s These Are The Isolate – that really got Mutation noticed. The latter was re-mounted for a return season at Theatre Works, having scooped that venue’s inaugural Fringe award.
McCarthy is looking forward to returning to the Acland Street venue with Love Me Tender. A re-imagining of an ancient Greek play that draws on the aftermath of the Black Saturday fires, McCarthy couldn’t wait to tackle Holloway’s piece after watching Red Stitch’s performance of Red Sky Morning, then catching And No More Shall We Part.
“It’s the kind of writing I love to see,” he says. “Innovative and experimental, but fundamentally Australian, fresh and honest. When I got my hands on Love Me Tender two years ago, I knew I had to do this.”
He was drawn to its “incredibly tight, architectural” script and intrigued by Holloway’s refusal to attribute lines to characters. “It’s very open to interpretation. You could do 10 different productions of this play and they’d all be completely different.”
While he says you wouldn’t want to get too insular, he worries Australia doesn’t have enough faith in home-grown theatre. “We’re constantly looking to Europe and America to measure ourselves against that, but people like Back to Back Theatre and Chamber Made Opera are touring the world, being raved about. We’re as good as anyone.”
With any luck, Love Me Tender will strike a chord with the home crowd. “Hopefully the audience gets to see something really alive, that’s made for this moment. It’s a play about us.”
Love Me Tender is showing at Theatre Works, St Kilda, from February 20 to March 2.

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Los Angeles buys them for $85,000 apiece. Detroit pays $84,000. Closer to home, a major New York hospital system spends less than $80,000.
But the New York City Fire Department has them all beat, spending more $133,000 each for custom-made ambulances -- all 480 of them. At $65 million, the department's new contract to replace its front-line fleet over five years is the largest and most costly municipal ambulance purchase in United States history, according to industry executives.
The five-year contract was approved in June and the new ambulances have begun to roll in.
At a time when budget cuts are closing firehouses, curbing daily ambulance runs and delaying construction of new emergency medical stations, the pricey ambulance purchases raise this question: What is New York getting for its money that other big cities are not?
Some of the answers are found in a thick set of specifications, drawn up by city fire and purchasing officials. Manufacturers say it is the most detailed and restrictive list of specs out there, dictating everything from the placement of the tailpipe to the vehicle's warranty. Fire Department officials say it ensures that New York gets a high-quality product.Continue reading the main story
Critics, however, say some requirements needlessly drive up costs and scare away competition, with bidding limited to those manufacturers willing to take on the risk and cost of retooling assembly lines to accommodate New York's desires for things like specialized interior cabinet doors or reinforced step wells. Some of the requirements are there at the insistence of the municipal labor unions.
Further limiting the bidding is the ''aggravation factor'' of dealing with New York's procurement bureaucracy, which frequently pays late.
A result has been that one ambulance manufacturer, Horton Emergency Vehicles of Ohio, has emerged the winning bidder time and again, fueling talk that the city favors that company. That talk has the effect of further tamping down competition.
''Everybody knows that New York buys Horton ambulances,'' said Battalion Chief Don Frazeur, who oversees the vehicle fleet for the Los Angeles Fire Department. ''All the other companies drool over that contract, but it's so proprietary they feel they don't have a shot to get it.''
Although more than a half-dozen manufacturers can build the quantity of customized ambulances sought by New York, only two, Horton and American LaFrance of South Carolina, submitted bids this year. Horton's price per vehicle beat American LaFrance, whose bid was about $150,000 each.
A third company, Wheeled Coach Industries of Florida, the world's largest ambulance manufacturer, took a close look at the specifications and decided not to bid. In a letter to the city, Wheeled Coach's president, Robert L. Collins, said some of New York's terms were ''completely unreasonable and unheard of in this industry.''
''Overall,'' Mr. Collins wrote, ''it is New York City's taxpayers that will pay the premium. In a time of severe budget constraints, why isn't New York seeking better value rather than greater surety?''
New York City officials reject suggestions that they are spending too much or favor a specific manufacturer. They say they are seeking the vehicles that can best withstand a brutal working environment, are user-friendly for city employees and can be built quickly.
''You get what you pay for,'' said Assistant Fire Commissioner James Basile, who oversees the vehicle fleet. ''I can comfortably say that we get 10 years out of these vehicles. There are no other roads like there are in New York City, and the vehicles we buy have to be able to withstand that.''
Commissioner Basile said that, besides being sturdy, New York's ambulances are designed to make life easier for the mechanics who work on them and the emergency medical technicians who ride in them. He is proud of the demanding specifications, like two green indicator lights on the outside of an ambulance that let you know when its battery has been left on.
The lights were Commissioner Basile's idea.
''It's simple things like that, no one else has,'' he said. ''Who knows how much we save each year by not having batteries going dead?''
Determining why New York's ambulances cost more is difficult, in part because the companies that bid to build them do not break out expenses for individual items. (Several company executives estimated that the cost of adding the green indicator lights, a relatively small item, could add $50,000 to $70,000 to New York's total contract price.)
Comparing contracts also can be tricky. New York's $133,000 contract price includes a two-way radio system.
Los Angeles' contract price of $85,000 per vehicle does not include radios, which, when added, bring the total price to about $111,000 -- still below New York's. Detroit's $84,000 contract price includes a partial radio system. San Francisco's $98,000 ambulances come with a complete system.
The North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, which operates one of the largest hospital-based ambulance fleets in the country and responds to emergencies in parts of New York City, pays less than $80,000 for ambulances without radios. When radios and other equipment are added, the cost tops $100,000, said Brian O'Neill, the health system's vice president for emergency services.
Mr. O'Neill said the ambulances he buys are built with a van chassis, as opposed to the more expensive pickup truck chassis favored by the Fire Department, which says the cab's extended nose better protects occupants in a crash.
Other fire departments argue that the van design reduces the likelihood of collisions because its flattened nose allows for greater field of vision and a tighter turning radius.
That debate is moot in New York City, however. The firefighters' union has made it clear that it favors the truck design, which some company executives say could add as much as $1 million to the city's total contract price.
''When I buy ambulances, I don't have to deal with the union,'' Mr. O'Neill said. ''If their union makes something a safety issue, then you can't fight it.''
New York fire officials said that in addition to promoting safety, their specifications had the practical benefit of ensuring that every ambulance is built exactly the same way, making spare parts interchangeable. But they insist they are not wedded to Horton, which has been building ambulances for New York since at least the early 1980's.
''Over 20 years, we have evolved a spec that works for us,'' said Anthony DeMaio, the assistant deputy director of fleet services. ''Anyone has the opportunity to build it for us -- as long as it is to that spec.''
When other companies tried to build ambulances for New York City in recent years, they did not get far.
In 1998, the city postponed plans to buy 400 ambulances after accusations from potential bidders that the specifications favored Horton. For example, one competitor said the Fire Department's vehicle design required rounded corner posts and Y-shaped braces made by Horton but not by other companies.
After the city revised its specifications and put the contract out to bid again in 1999, another company, McCoy Miller of Indiana, won with a low bid of $110,000 per vehicle. But the department soon complained that McCoy Miller was struggling to meet its production schedule, and that some vehicles were of poor quality. The company tried to mitigate those concerns by offering a $10,000 discount on each vehicle, but the city canceled the contract.
To pick up the slack left by the cancellation, the Fire Department awarded emergency no-bid contracts for 50 ambulances each to Horton and Wheeled Coach. However, Wheeled Coach backed out after the department found problems with a prototype ambulance it produced and refused to relax what the company considered insignificant yet time-consuming design requirements.
For instance, the department decided it wanted colored wiring instead of black, and a single exhaust tailpipe instead of two, Wheeled Coach said in a letter to the city. Specifications for double doors on a rear storage compartment were changed to a single door, and detailed requirements were added for the type of threaded fastener to be used to mount the vehicle's warning lights.
''The specifications do not describe warning light mounting,'' the company said in its letter, and ''this adds additional material and cost.''
A spokesman for Wheeled Coach declined to comment on the company's dealings with New York City.
Horton dismissed the complaints as sour grapes. David Lamon, Horton's vice president for sales and marketing, said New York's specifications did not favor his company, and that any advantage Horton may have comes from its long history of building ambulances for the department.
''We have more of an understanding of the demands of their system, what their problems are, what their needs are,'' Mr. Lamon said. Still, ''they are a very difficult contract for us to do because it is so different.''
Mr. DeMaio said Wheeled Coach was a chronic complainer that ''wants to build the vehicles its way, and not our way.'' Other fire departments, including Los Angeles', say they have found Wheeled Coach cooperative and willing to accommodate their specifications.
''Wheeled Coach is like buying a Chevrolet,'' said Chief Frazeur, the Los Angeles battalion leader. ''There are some more expensive cars out there, while others might not get you back and forth in as much comfort. It's hard to contrast quality and value, but there's a middle ground there somewhere.''
Correction: October 23, 2003, Thursday An article on Tuesday about the custom-made ambulances purchased by the New York City Fire Department misidentified the union that has a hand in shaping the bid specifications. It is the one representing emergency medical technicians, not firefighters.Continue reading the main story


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How much should you make to afford rent in California? How to check by ZIP code
It's expensive to live in California and a new report found exactly how much people need to make to afford to rent in the state, broken down by ZIP codes.
In California, the "fair market rent" for a two-bedroom apartment is $2,028. That's according to a new report by the National Low Income Housing Coalition. In order to afford the rent and utilities without paying more than 30% of income on housing, a household must earn $6,700 a month or $81,113 a year. It breaks down to an hourly wage of $39.01.
That's the second highest housing wage in the country, according to the report. California is just behind Hawaii, where a household must earn $40 an hour.
How much do you need to make in California to afford rent?
California's minimum wage is $15, which means a minimum wage worker would need to work 83 hours a week to afford a modest one-bedroom rental home at a "fair market rent," the survey said.
When it comes to two-bedroom rentals, the most expensive areas to live in include San Francisco at the top with a $61.50 housing wage, according to the report. Santa Cruz comes in second at $60.35. The Sacramento region does not make the top five for most expensive housing wages, but according to the report a renter needs to make $29.67 to afford to rent a two-bedroom.
"It doesn't mean you literally have to make $60 an hour to get a place to live. It means if you don't make that much you're spending such a large portion of your income on housing that the rest of your financial life is put under tremendous strain," Don Lane the Housing Santa Cruz County Chair told KCRA 3's sister station KSBW on Thursday.
How much do residents need to make to afford a two-bedroom in the greater Sacramento area?
- Yolo: $32.38
- Vallejo-Fairfield: $32.25
- Sacramento-Roseville: $29.67
- Stockton-Lodi: $25.10
- Modesto: $24.04
- Yuba City: $22.56
See how much you need to make for rental housing by ZIP code and county.
Racial gap in wages and rental cost
The report found that the gap between wages and housing costs is largest for people of color and particularly women of color.
"The disparities are the result of historic and continuing racist housing policies that have led to people of color facing disproportionate challenges accessing decent and affordable homes," the report said.
It said Black and Latino workers earn about $6 less than white workers.
"As rental prices rise, evictions resume, and COVID-19 policy measures expire, low-income renters will face insurmountable hardships finding and maintaining affordable housing without significant congressional action," the report said.
The National Low Income Housing Coalition is now calling on the government to expand affordable and safe housing.

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Employment Practice Liability Insurance provides protection for an organization or its employees from claims relating to wrongful employment practices by its executives, partners, principals, employees, and if necessary, independent contractors. Some cannabis business owners do not realize that they could be held liable for a situation in which one of their managers makes an inappropriate comment overheard by another employee.
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If your insured’s company hires or fires employees, deals with promotions and demotions, modifies compensation packages, issues statements to employees, or manages employee benefits, obtaining EPLI coverage is a must.
Although only a small share of employment claims are related to claims brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), recent statistics show how frequently these issues occur.
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Manama: Kuwaiti diplomats have denied media reports that Kuwait would supplant Saudi Arabia at the United Nations Security Council.
Riyadh last week said that it rejected its rotating Security Council seat hours after winning it, saying that the council was incapable of ending wars and resolving conflicts in the Middle East.
Reports said that Kuwait was next on the list of Asian countries to take the two-year membership on January 1.
However, Kuwaiti daily Al Kuwaitya on Sunday reported that “diplomatic sources denied the claims that Kuwait had accepted to take the Security Council seat.”
The daily did not identify the sources.
The Saudi position was backed by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), an alliance that brings together Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
In a statement released on Saturday, the GCC “commended the call by Saudi Arabia for reforming the Security Council and empowering it to effectively and practically to carry out its duties and to assume its responsibilities towards maintaining international peace and security, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.”
GCC Secretary General Abdul Lateef Al Zayani stressed “the significance of the Saudi call to achieve fundamental reforms in the Security Council that will support its role as a United Nations body responsible for all the consequences of the main issues of global peace and security, particularly that our world today is in dire need of the role and international legitimacy of the Security Council amid political and security turmoil.”
Al Zayani attributed the Saudi decision to turn down the rotating seat to the ineptitude of the Security Council to carry out its duties to render its responsibilities, particularly towards Arab issues.
“The rejection is based on Saudi Arabia’s keenness on regional stability and its historic interest in Arab issues and concerns and as well as in international matters and global stability,” he said.
“The position of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia reflects its commitment to international legitimacy and a sincere desire to activate the role of the Security Council and the various organs and institutions of the United Nations in order to respond to global calls in this regard, and make the world more cooperative, stable and secure,” Al Zayani said.
Arab League Secretary General Nabeel Al Arabi said that he backed the Saudi position and expressed hope that it would “stimulate the efforts that have been exerted for years to reform and enhance the Security Council.”
“We do stress the significance of the Saudi statement on the inaptitude of the Security Council to solve several vital issues, such as the Palestinian issue, to put an end to the humanitarian tragedy in Syria and to rid the Middle East of the weapons of mass destruction,” he said.
“The Security Council needs a comprehensive reform that includes determining the scope of the use or the threat to use the veto by its five permanent members,” he said.
In Doha, Khalid Al Attiya, the Qatari foreign minister, reportedly expressed his support in a tweet to his Saudi counterpart.
“My dear brother Prince Saud Al Faisal: When you get upset, you confuse the world. Thank you,” he posted on the microblog.


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Extending Health Insurance Coverage To The Informal Sector: Lessons From A Private Micro Health Insurance Scheme In Lagos, Nigeria
Published 2018 · Medicine
BACKGROUND As a growing number of low- and middle-income countries commit to achieving universal health coverage, one key challenge is how to extend coverage to informal sector workers. Micro health insurance (MHI) provides a potential model to finance health services for this population. This study presents lessons from a pilot study of a mandatory MHI plan offered by a private insurance company and distributed through a microfinance bank to urban, informal sector workers in Lagos, Nigeria. METHODS Study methods included a survey of microfinance clients, key informant interviews, and a review of administrative records. RESULTS Demographic, health care seeking, and willingness-to-pay data suggested that microfinance clients, particularly women, could benefit from a comprehensive MHI plan that improved access to health care and reduced out-of-pocket spending on health services. However, administrative data revealed declining enrollment, and key informant interviews further suggested low use of the health insurance plan. Key implementation challenges, including changes to mandatory enrollment requirements, insufficient client education and marketing, misaligned incentives, and weak back-office systems, undermined enrollment and use of the plan. CONCLUSIONS Mandatory MHI plans, intended to mitigate adverse selection and facilitate private insurers' entry into new markets, present challenges for covering informal sector workers, including when distributed through agents such as a microfinance bank. Properly aligning the incentives of the insurer and the agent are critical to effectively distribute and service insurance. Further, an urban environment presents unique challenges for distributing MHI, addressing client perceptions of health insurance, and meeting their health care needs.


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The Secret of Killimooin
‘The Secret of Killimooin’ by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Eileen Soper. Published by Basil Blackwell. April 1956. UK reprint edition.
The book is in very good + condition with no marks and a name written on the inside cover page.
The dust wrapper is in good + condition and is not price clipped. There is loss to the top/base of the spine and all corners and the top of the rear cover.
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- I visit it by day, I visit it at nightfall. I always stand by the lamentation drum!
- I really think that the drums are as poetic and romantic as any instrument.
- It's not like I don't know I'm playing loud. I mean, that's drumming. If you want polite, go listen to the MJQ. If you want soft, listen to Sérgio Mendes. See, that's part of the ethic and whole world of drumming: drums are meant to be loud. It's like telling a piccolo player, "Don't play high" or telling a trumpet player, "Don't be so brassy" or telling a bass player, "Don't play so low." Volume, physicality, and aggressiveness are part of what drumming is all about.
- Tony Williams, as quoted in "Tony Williams: A Master's Perspective" by Bill Milkowski, Modern Drummer (July 1992), p. 75


Solebury's singer/songwriter Lily Mae is busy writing songs and performing around the region. See what's coming up and go see her.
Recently, Lily has played at The Tea Lounge and The Green Point Gallery in New York City and locally at Going Bananas in Richboro, she's been on the radio in an interview with WDVR "Tempus" talk show host John Cole and on January 4, Lily was WXPN radio’s artist pick of the day.
More gigs are on the horizon:
Tuesday, February 26 at the Sellersville Theater, opening for singer/songwriter Ben Taylor
Sunday, April 14 - Lily will be on the radio as a guest on the Folk Show with Gene Shay, which airs every Sunday night from 8 to 11pm on WPXN.
Lily recently released her debut CD of original songs titled “Early Days,” which is now available on iTunes. She is also slated to be interviewed for the popular UK folk magazine/website, “For Folk’s Sake.”
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Corner Magnet Heart Happy
It's the little things! This Corner Magnet features bright colors, fun artwork and the sweet sentiment, "You Make My Heart Happy". Display it on a refrigerator, locker or on a table using the built-in easel. It makes the perfect gift for your friends and family!


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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Pregnant women with gum disease may be more likely to develop gestational diabetes than those with healthy gums, researchers have found.
Gestational diabetes arises during pregnancy and usually resolves after the baby is born, but it can raise a woman’s risk of developing type 2 diabetes later on. It can also contribute to problems during pregnancy and delivery, including maternal high blood pressure and a larger-than-normal baby, which may necessitate a cesarean section.
The new findings, published in the Journal of Dental Research, suggest that gum disease may be a treatable risk factor for gestational diabetes.
Among pregnant women researchers followed, the 8 percent who developed gestational diabetes had higher levels of gum-disease-causing bacteria and inflammation.
Gum disease can trigger an inflammatory response not only in the gums, but throughout the body. It’s possible that such inflammation may exacerbate any pregnancy-related impairment in blood sugar control, contributing to gestational diabetes in some women, the researchers speculate.
Past studies have also linked gum disease to a higher risk of premature birth, with one theory being that systemic inflammation is involved.
Of the 265 women in the study, 83 percent were Hispanic, a group that is at higher-than-average risk of both gestational diabetes and type 2 diabetes. The women who developed gestational diabetes were also significantly more likely to be heavier before they became pregnant, have had gestational diabetes before, and higher C reactive protein levels, a marker for inflammation and cardiovascular disease.
“In addition to its potential role in preterm delivery, evidence that gum disease may also contribute to gestational diabetes suggests that women should see a dentist if they plan to get pregnant, and after becoming pregnant,” Dr. Ananda P. Dasanayake, the lead researcher on the study, said in a statement.
“Treating gum disease during pregnancy has been shown to be safe and effective in improving women’s oral health and minimizing potential risks,” added Dasanayake, a professor at the New York University College of Dentistry.
Future studies, Dasanayake noted, should investigate the link between gum disease and gestational diabetes in other high-risk groups, such as Asian and Native American women.
SOURCE: Journal of Dental Research, April 2008.


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Chitranna Rice Recipe by Tarla Dalal
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Chitranna is a very popular South Indian recipe, which is considered very auspicious and made on festival days as an offering to God. People don’t mind standing in long queues to get their share of Chitranna prasad at temples. Owing to the ease of making it and the convenience of being a one-dish meal, Chitranna Rice is a popular choice for packed lunches too.
Recipe Description for Chitranna Rice ( South Indian Recipes )
- Heat the oil in a deep non-stick pan, add the mustard seeds, urad dal, chana dal and raw peanuts and sauté on a medium flame for 2 minutes.
- Add the dry red chillies and onions and saute on a medium flame for 1 minute.
- Add the turmeric powder, asafetida and coconut and sauté on a medium flame for 1 minute.
- Add the rice, lemon juice and salt, mix gently and cook on a medium flame for 2 minutes, while stirring occasionally.
- Switch off the flame, finally add the coriander and mix well.
- Serve hot.
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You’re Breaking Up
The last time I saw you
we were almost naked
and breaking up though
could we have known either, then?
Only the phone with its curls
and nonface would give us enough
courage to say to a mouthpiece: it’s over.
And even then you would hold
the line, say Wait. Please. And I could hear
you getting high, wanting to ease out
and hang on. And how I would keep
us too, talking us back
into that room where again,
I had been trying on you
to get over him. That blue
room with its corduroy walls,
where we were slipping and playing
Todd Rundgren and you were whispering—
maybe begging—think of me—as your hand
made its way down my hips to my thighs
and how, for just this once, I would lie
back for you, even when you knew
I would never let you in. And how we shared
beer from a dark bottle, and how later
I took you close enough that you began
to sing, even after Todd had long given up:
seeing you, seeing you.
And after, how we faced the ceiling,
hanging the possibility of sex
like paper stars, glittering
and just out of reach.
And how neither of us ever hung up,
falling asleep over the wires, waking
in the morning, the receiver somehow still
and dead on the pillow next to each of us.
He led me up the stairs,
my unsure hand in his,
Z, from Peru, who seemed
overwhelmed by all of it: my drunk
older brother, our English, this forbidden
high school Christmas party.
I was thirteen, on my second Fuzzy Navel,
sweet peach and orange swirled
in a plastic cup. I sat on the edge
of the bed, feigned sophistication,
pretended in my staggering Spanish:
Guapo. Beso. Muy bueno.
He sat down beside me, held
my hand, asked me, broken,
Rubia, I think your heart
is oro, like this? touching
my blonde hair just barely.
I wanted anything to happen
in his accent, his jagged unknown
words, the soft way he looked at me
so unlike American boys. I leaned
closer and he stood, searching
the bookshelf. I asked him how to say
orange and peach and drunk, laughing.
He found a book, opened it, pointed
to Peru, his mountains, the blurs
of green and ruins, guiding my hands
over this landscape, his home.
As he talked, I felt my head spin,
his hand on my back to steady me.
He set down my cup, showing me coffee trees,
Corpus Christi costumes, the totora boats
drying upward to the sky, the salt collectors
in the Sacred Valley, sand. I felt the clock
of the room wind tight against me, remembered
how to say Tengo fiebre, no,
¿Tengo hambre?, no, ¿Tengo enferma?
Estas enferma? He asked so close
and sensing, lifted me from
the bed, got me to the bathroom,
rubbed my back, held my hair.
The word for peach: melocotón.
The word for orange: naranja.
The word for drunk idiot: You
must not call yourself that.
How I leaned against him, the truth:
Everything has happen and nothing
has happen, mi rubia.
And that too, was something.
Perhaps it was everything.
Passing Hugo Boss
And then there was the longing,
the sudden negative space, silent
as yearn, as filament wrapped
through me, and I pass a shirt,
a department store display, folded
perfectly, some fingers edging seams
over cardboard, laying it out crisp,
at angle, the white poplin, the small
blue stripes, his exact color of blue.
I know the designer before I see the name.
I know, in that sudden rush of charge
it is the shirt, the one he bought weeks ago,
in his transformation. I know
it irrevocably, my body speaking to me
in its thunder. Feel it now, how I am
walking past, in regular, expected space,
how in one glance they line up within me,
these pins, spines, rachis of feathers,
vibrating, oscillating, villi moving
with the charge of every bolt, and in the singe
from my brain to the fired marble behind
my pubic bone, the whole forest blazes,
contained under my skin.
I want to stop, to touch the shirt, but I never lose
my stride, or the fruit that breaks within me,
the splitting from seed, this pain swirled
into the color of pleasure, this ache that wraps down
into fist, protection, but also wide
in inflorescence, every last raging gem
shattering outward. Oh God, my God, it is why
we say it, because there is no way
to tell this, what do we call it: longing,
missing, yearning, there is no way for bodies
to take this noise and sharpness, implosion
and reckless breaking and bring it to word
or image. How did I know it was the shirt,
you will ask. Do you even need confirmation?
It was because my body knew it,
just as the feeling spiked in me every
time the moment before I ran into him, every hair
standing on toes, knowing the strike of lightning,
imminent. There was no swerving or stopping,
no hands held up in protection, only the swift
shot of voltage, the tingling heat left
in the bowl of my body, and me, still walking,
stepping forward, no one around me knowing
that I’d been touched, zapped, my body carrying
the joules of wavelength, this parallel, him wearing
this very poplin right now, on his first night out
since the divorce. And he is looking into the bottom
of his wine glass and he thinks, maybe, he sees
my face looking back from the surface,
and without conscious awareness, he reaches up,
touches the mole on his neck, the small circle
of darkness that I would kiss, saying:
this is my mark, my space on your body,
and this is where I will be no matter how he travels,
no matter what storm opens above, what fierce light
grabs us from the sky, fuses us, glass under the sand,
this fulgurite spreading, hidden under the beach for miles.
Julie Bloemeke is a native of Toledo, Ohio. Her first full-length poetry collection is Slide to Unlock (Sibling Rivalry Press 2020). She received her M.F.A. from the Bennington Writing Seminars, and an M.A. from the University of South Carolina, where she was chosen as a Ramsaur Fellow and studied with James Dickey. Currently in Atlanta, Georgia, she has served as a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and has also been in residency at the Bowers House Literary Center. Her poems have been widely anthologized and appeared in numerous literary journals, including Gulf Coast, Prairie Schooner, Poet Lore, Chautauqua Literary Journal, Palooka Magazine, South Dakota Review, and Bridge Eight Literary Magazine. Her ekphrastic work has been published and showcased in collaborations with the Toledo Museum of Art and Phoenix Museum of Art. A freelance writer, editor, and guest lecturer, her interviews have recently appeared in AWP’s Writer’s Chronicle and Poetry International. Slide to Unlock was a finalist and semi-finalist for multiple book prizes, including the May Swenson Poetry Prize in 2016.
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In June 2014, the Government of Pakistan commenced a military security operation in North Waziristan Agency targeting non-state armed actors. The operations prompted large scale displacement of people within the country and to neighbouring Afghanistan.
CERF in Action - Rapid Response
CERF allocates $17.6 million in Pakistan
10 October 2011: The Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) has allocated US$17.6 million to provide water, food, shelter and healthcare to thousands of families devastated by floods in Pakistan.
CERF provides US$9.9 million for flood-affected people in Pakistan
25 October 2012: According to Government estimates, almost 5 million people have been affected by the 2012 flooding in southern Pakistan.


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Words: Matt Draper
After Wolf Parade’s 2005 breakout success, “Apologies to Queen Mary,” it seemed that every Gen-Y’er with an Internet connection had christened the furry Canadian quintet as ones that would make something “big” …. they were right.
But, rather than a clawed attacking of singles and activity, Wolf Parade instead let us nurse our wounds slowly as the years passed until 2008. They definitely toured, but it seemed most of the three-year gap was spent focusing on Spencer Krug’s and Dan Boeckner’s side-project endeavors. For the prolific Krug, there was Sunset Rubdown (two releases a year in ’06 and ’09 respectively to note) Swan Lake, Frog Eyes and after teaming up with his wife Alexei Perry, Dan Boeckner formed Handsome Furs, a project that yielded listeners two longplayers.
Named for the Vancouver, BC World’s Fair that birthed a monorail and large sports arena, the greatest asset to the band’s current “Expo 86” release is in its sheer vigorous new-to-form kick-start. Though the record was quickly done—the band started songwriting in November ’09 and mixed in late February/March—it plays out as a nimble release most of all the way through, never seeming to hint at being something rushed.
As a whole, “Expo” is much better than 2008’s “At Mount Zoomer,” an album that seemed to encompass the dissolving, scattered-punch of the side-projected efforts of Krug and Boeckner with the “we’re-now-being-called-a-big-time-indie-band-but-don’t-want-to-deliver-just-exactly-what-you-want” sort of thing (they evidently told Sub Pop there were to be “no singles” for the “Zoomer” release).
Knowing the importance of the dreaded sophomore album, “Expo” plays with a force opposite that of “Zoomer” in that the band’s third album’s songs are notable for the sheer, single-making characteristic they ultimately seem to possess. There’s a radiant, jabbing fullness and the record’s first handful of songs from “Cloud Shadow on the Mountain” up through “Little Golden Age,” are some of the most athletic, gratifying and pulsating tunes the band have ever written.
As always, the jittered poetic musings of both Krug and Boeckner (at times hard to notice the difference) are heavily sprinkled throughout these 11 tracks. “Palm Road” has a lovable, squelchy, synth-backed infection that references “drowning fish” and a slow-ending apocalypse whereas “What Did My Lover Say? (It Always Had To Go This Way)” Krug muses in his signature nasally croon over chugging keys and noodling guitars how he’s “got a friend [that’s] a genius, but that “nobody listens to him, or flatly with “Yulia” and a title that very well could have been conceived after a mispronunciation of “Julia” and few too many.
Standout “Little Golden Age” starts at a roll similar in that to best buds Arcade Fire (“Expo 86” was produced by Grammy-nominated musician and former Arcade Fire member– drummer on “Funeral”– Howard Bilerman) but plays out into a nostalgic tale of “being in the bedroom singing radio songs,” or sitting in the “parking lot stoned” as “cassettes wore out.”
An obvious sonic change lands at the band’s differing use of keyboards and synthesizers. Besides the more contemporary icy club sound coming from “Ghost Pressure,” there’s an even soaking of key players like The Cars’ Greg Hawkes meeting a heavy Gary Numan/Tubeway Army influence on tracks like “Two Men In New Tuxedos” and “Oh You, Old Thing.”
Once the playful “Cave-O-Sapien” starts to wind Wolf Parade’s third album to its close, you notice just how appetizing the last 55 minutes have been. “Expo 86” comes out as more of a glowing, weighted listen as anything they’ve previously done.
Being said, a known critical complaint for “Expo 86” is on its length. Some have called it flat out “excessive,” and on casual listen, I can easily see how this can be understandable, especially for those still praising the herky-jerk days of “You Are a Runner and I Am My Father’s Son.”
It’s a lot of album, but for someone that’s just a casual fan, after five solid playbacks, I wasn’t the least bit bored or dissatisfied with any large part of it. I still don’t know fully why I’m backing “Expo 86” though. Maybe it’s cause I slept on “Zoomer” and that I’ve been getting a lot of LP’s that fall under the 30-minute-mark, but what I am honestly thinking is that it has a lot to do with the fact that I’m just plain liking the feeling of having infectious, no-brainer indie rock on in the background every once in a while.


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The O’odua Nationalist Coalition (ONAC) has called on Yoruba people to prepare for their own sovereign nation.
ONAC said its call was in reaction to the threat by northern groups as well as “pain and misery on the Yoruba people due to distort of the development plan of the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo for the South West”.
ONAC consists 18 groups including Oodua Peoples Congress, (OPC), Oodua Liberation Movement, (OLM), Oodua Republic Coalition, (ORC), Yoruba Revolutionary Congress, (YORC), Oodua Muslim-Christian Dialogue Group, (OMDG), Yoruba Students Nationalist Front, (YOSNF), Oodua Hunters Union, (OHUN) among others.
A statement on behalf of the coalition signed by Micheal Popoola, Oluwole Suleiman and Mrs Aduke Fadahunsi, and made available to DAILY POST on Sunday called on Yoruba people in the territories of the Hausa-Fulani North to be guided by a strong sense of history and the fact that they will not be spared by those who claim to be their hosts.
“We advise them to begin to make alternative plans for the inevitable upheaval being promoted by the Fulani oligarchy.
‘North has always been the aggressor because of the region’s loss of power and the unhidden desire to make Nigeria the irreversible extension of the Fulani emirate.
“What we see is violent conflict of civilisations which can only be resolved when each region go her own way.
“In the bid to keep Nigeria as one country, millions of people have been killed and the lives of children wasted, the future pauperized and the potentials of Yoruba young men and women bottled or chained with fetters of iron.
“Today, we make the historic declaration that Yoruba people are ready for our own Oduduwa Republic. We have watched events these past days. The cloud is getting thicker.
“The poisonous rain appear ready to fall. It is time for the Yoruba people to be ready to defend our homeland from being seized by local imperial elements and their collaborators.
“We assert Yoruba self-determination and sovereignty. We shall work for it. We will actualize it,” ONAC said in the statement.
The group stated further called “on Yoruba people all over the world to prepare for a sovereign nation for the people of the South West. We are over 50 million and far more than the population of 140 countries in the world.”
“Yoruba will be the third biggest nation in Africa and about the 28th biggest nation in the world. We are big and knowledgeable enough to be a sovereign nation. We assert the Yoruba self-determination without any further delay.”
ONAC said with the position of Northern youths asking Igbo to quit the North, the outright demand for Arewa sovereignty by the Northern Elders Forum, (NEF), and the legitimate demand for Biafra by Igbo, the call for a Niger-Delta Republic “It is time for the Yoruba people to stand for Oodua Republic without any further delay.”
“Yoruba people this time will not support any attack on Self determination.We shall mobilise the masses and prevent Yoruba people from being used for any attack on the long suffering indigenous peoples of the South East and the South- South”
ONAC said the quit notice was not against the Igbo alone but also against the Yoruba since “Igbo is not written on the forehead of residents in the North.”
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Shoppers heading to Macy’s Union Square for Black Friday sales the day after Thanksgiving may encounter a picket line of store employees who are contemplating a strike over what they term unaffordable health insurance and inadequate wages.
The timing, of course, is no coincidence.
“This is an opportune time to get Macy’s attention,” said John Nunes, president of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 5, which represents 650 sales associates at the Union Square store, 90% of whom voted to authorize a strike. The union will decide soon if and when to call a strike. “We’re doing it to try to maximize our leverage,” he said.
Even if it’s business as usual on Friday, the union could still call a strike later in the busy holiday season. Bay Area shoppers are known for not crossing picket lines, according to Nunes and labor experts. Macy’s Union Square has several other unionized cohorts, including janitors, tailors, truck drivers, warehouse personnel and operating engineers, who would not work during a strike, Nunes said.
Macy’s said in a written statement that its San Francisco store will remain open throughout the holiday season, including Black Friday.
“We believe that even in this challenging environment, Macy’s offers a great work environment with fair pay and good benefits,” spokeswoman Andrea Schwartz wrote in an email. “Macy’s understands that no one wins in a strike — not our colleagues, not our customers, and not our community.”
The potential strike comes as the labor movement is finding a more favorable climate in America with awareness of income inequality on the rise.
Even as the number of unionized employees continues to shrink, public support for unions is at its highest in decades. A recent Gallup poll showed that 64% of Americans approve of labor unions, the highest percentage since 1999.
Workers are also cognizant of recent high-profile labor actions that led to big gains for workers, both nationally and locally, said Ken Jacobs, chair of the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education.
In the Bay Area, those include this year’s Oakland teachers strike and last year’s Marriott hotel workers strike. In both cases, workers won higher pay, lighter workloads and other concessions. At Kaiser Permanente, a planned strike by 85,000 workers, including 67,000 in California, was averted in September by a new contract that raised wages, protected retirement benefits and increased workforce training.
The landscape is auspicious for unions in other ways. “We have a strong economy with a tight labor market, which puts workers in a stronger position to make some gains,” Jacobs said.
At the same time, the surging economy means the cost of living has gone up significantly, especially in San Francisco, making it harder for working families to make ends meet. Nunes said many San Francisco Macy’s workers, who make around $20 an hour, have marathon commutes from locations where they can afford to live, some as far away as the San Joaquin Valley.
All those labor conditions are reflected in another potential strike at Northern California Safeways. The same union, UFCW Local 5, represents 12,000 West Coast Safeway workers at 190 stores from Monterey County to the Oregon border. It, along with Local 648, which represents San Francisco Safeway workers, are now conducting a strike-authorization vote, although results won’t be counted until Dec. 13.
Safeway, owned by Albertsons of Boise, Idaho, recently reached an agreement with workers at its Central California and inland Northern California stores that averted a potential labor action.
“Our goal is to reach an agreement with (UFCW Local 5) without a strike or any form of a labor dispute, just as we recently did with the other major union in Northern California, UFCW Local 8,” said spokeswoman Wendy Gutshall in an email.
For Macy’s, the potential strike follows wrenching cost-cutting as shoppers switch to online shopping, discount chains and specialty shops. The nation’s largest department store has laid off thousands of workers across the country and closed about 100 stores. In San Francisco in just the past couple of years, it closed and sold its Stonestown Galleria location and the Men’s Store in Union Square. It is also shrinking its flagship store by selling the I. Magnin building, which forms part of the complex overlooking Union Square. Nunes said Local 5 represented 1,400 workers across four stores a couple of years ago; it now has fewer than half that number.
“The department store format has been contracting for a long time but that’s dramatically accelerated in the past couple of years,” said Kirthi Kalyanam, director of the Retail Management Institute at Santa Clara University.
Even if the potential strike hurts the Union Square store’s sales, he doesn’t think that’s enough to significantly affect Macy’s bottom line, he said, adding, “but it is a bit of a PR problem.”
Cynthia Cohen, a strategy consultant for consumer businesses, said the mere threat of overshadowing Black Friday might be enough to extract some concessions from Macy’s, even as the day itself has lost luster in the age of e-commerce.
“The more the union makes a big deal out of this, the more people will go online to get deals,” she said.
Carolyn Said is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: firstname.lastname@example.org Twitter: @csaid

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An adventurous vicar took on a mammoth 80-mile walk across Spain to raise money for a memorial in Woodley to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.
The Reverend Eddie Marquez from the St John the Evangelist Church in Church Road, Woodley, completed the famous Camino de Santiago pilgrimage after four days of walking through the wilderness.
The 54-year-old, who moved to Woodley from Bucklebury in March 2008, walked around 20 miles each day through the Spanish hills while carrying food and water on his back.
And the challenge has already raised several hundred pounds, which will be spent on a memorial window in the church to commemorate 60 years of the Queen’s reign next year.
Rev Marquez, who is originally from Peru, said: “It was a lovely experience. I started in Lugo and I was part of what they call the Primitive Walk.
“That is the difficult one because that is in a very rural area and the roads are less walked.
“After that we had the French walk which is still hard but there are many people who do that walk and they have made it more even.”
Rev Marquez followed the paths of thousands of other pilgrims who have walked the route over the centuries stopping only for food and to rest at shelters along the way.
He said: “Along the road you find places you can stop to have a bite to eat or a drink. They have special places like youth hostels where you can pay five Euros to stay the night.
“Then at 10pm they close everything and turn the lights off because you have to go to sleep to get ready for the next morning. By 8am that place has to be vacated and some people leave at 5am or 6am.”
Rev Marquez emptied his clothes and sleeping bag from his rucksack for the last leg of the trek walking from 4.30am to midday to reach Santiago de Compostela in time for the pilgrim’s service.
He said: “When I reached Santiago I had an incredible sense of achievement and joy especially when I saw other pilgrims come through. It was just great.
“The week was just the best because the temperatures were just right and the weather was wonderful.
“And knowing people were backing me up in England was great too.”
Parishioners in Woodley have been keeping their fingers crossed for the vicar and donating to the jubilee fund with nearly £200 being collected in one service.
The church committee decided to install a memorial window for the queen’s jubilee after finding a commemorative window in the church in memory of Queen Victoria.
Rev Marquez said: “The 60th anniversary does not come along very often so we wanted something to be there for future generations.
“I’m really looking forward to finding out the total of how much has been raised.”
Sponsors are still being collected at the church and people can donate by contacting Rev Marquez on 0118 969 7956.

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Workshop on 'A Digital Commons: Governance of Smart Mobility Data'
25 - 26 Jul 2019
Reiner Lemoine Institute & EUREF-Campus
With the rapid development of smart cities, concerns about data ownership are growing. Through a myriad of stakeholders, such as local office bodies, sharing providers or established companies, the volume of collected data is growing, but little of it is directed towards socially enhancing applications: private entities aim for profits, and public agencies lack efficacy in managing data. Concurrently, the 'open source' and 'open data' movements are gaining more ground and have succeeded in offering a technologically and legally workable 'open' technological framework for big data whereby a wider, safer, and more accountable data integration is increasingly possible. However, only with strong public policy and transparent governance a management of the digital commons can be achieved.
So far, there is only little research on how to provide adequate governance principles and infrastructures for managing data integration and establishing their usage for the public good. Such a governance infrastructure is necessary to enable more data-driven support of public-oriented initiatives while safeguarding individual and collective security. This challenge is crystallized in cities where mobility-as-a-service entities, public agencies, and providers of volunteered geographic information all add to myriad qualities of big data. Big data has originally been conceptualized as a common good enabling for instance commons-based peer knowledge production for local initiative. Understanding data as a common good therefore makes the case for the existence of a collective stake to be governed, as opposed to leaving the resource vulnerable to expanded access by competing users and motives.
In the framework of an international workshop, AGYA members together with external experts from various disciplines like engineering, energy studies and economics, information and communication technology, philosophy and political science, aim at initiating a discussion on how to reconfigure the roles needed to govern the current data processes and relationships with a focus on the common good, and how to integrate them with current discussions on urban commons. Successful governance of big data will bridge the gap between user control (e.g. decentralized payment with block chain technologies) and data availability for public policies (e.g. data donations by users to municipalities to improve transport planning with urban computing), especially in upcoming smart cities.
The workshop on 'A Digital Commons: Governance of Smart Mobility Data' will take place in Berlin, Germany from 25 – 26 July 2019 and is a project of the AGYA Working Group Innovation.
Date, Time & Venue
25 – 26 July 2019, all day,
Reiner Lemoine Institute, Rudower Chaussee 12, 12489 Berlin, Germany
EUREF-Campus Berlin, EUREF-Campus 13, 10829 Berlin, Germany
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The participation is reserved to AGYA members and invited speakers.


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