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Fox News Sunday selected Victoria Toensing and Joseph diGenova, attorneys who represented witnesses at a Republican-led hearing on the attacks at a U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya, for its "power players of the week," an unfortunate choice given that both individuals misled Fox News and its viewers about allegations of threats and intimidation against their clients and about efforts by the administration to prevent their clients from testifying.
Though Fox News Sunday aired certain aspects of Toensing and diGenova's biographies, the segment neglected to mention that the two have a history of poor professional conduct, including criticism from a Democratic congressman for inappropriate behavior and actions while they worked as congressional investigators due to their constant media appearances attacking President Clinton. They were also accused of having a conflict of interest for representing a Republican committee chairman under Justice Department investigation while simultaneously serving as special counsel to the committee in a separate investigation. More recently, Toensing pushed the false claim that outed CIA agent Valerie Plame had not been covert, in addition to other falsehoods.
On April 29, Fox's Special Report aired video of Toensing claiming that people who wanted to testify on Benghazi "have been threatened," which Fox & Friends aired the following morning. Toensing was also cited by Special Report on April 29 in reporting the allegations that "the Obama administration is trying to intimidate potential whistleblowers into silence" and that possible witnesses were having their careers threatened. And a May 6 FoxNews.com article by Fox Washington correspondents James Rosen and Chad Pergram sourced a claim that a witness named Mark Thompson "has been subjected to threats and intimidation by as-yet-unnamed superiors at State, in advance of his cooperation with Congress" to diGenova, who was representing Thompson.
But testimony by the witnesses at a GOP-led hearing on May 8 and subsequent interviews of their attorneys on Fox News revealed that Toensing and diGenova misled the network by claiming that their clients had suffered threats, intimidation, and orders to keep quiet. When asked on Fox's Your World on May 9 about claims that Thompson had been threatened, diGenova replied that Thompson "actually hasn't said that," and explained that his client "didn't feel intimidated."
Gregory Hicks, another witness at the hearing -- represented by Toensing -- explained under questioning that he had not been told not to speak to congressional investigators, only that he was required to have a State Department attorney present while doing so. Hicks also explained that, in contrast to claims that the administration tried to silence him, he was interviewed twice by the State Department's independent Accountability Review Board that was created to investigate the Benghazi attacks. Hicks' testimony further contradicted Toensing's April 29 claim to Special Report that careers were being threatened when he explained that "the overriding factor" in his determination to not return to his post in Libya was to remain with his family in the United States.
A Wall Street Journal article highlighted Republican complaints that references to Al Qaeda and related terrorist organizations were removed from unclassified talking points on the Benghazi, Libya, attack on a U.S. diplomatic facility but failed to note that those references were removed to avoid compromising a criminal investigation and tipping off those terrorist organizations.
In a May 14 article about the Obama administration's release of more than 100 pages of emails showing the editing process behind unclassified talking points about the Benghazi attacks, the Journal channeled Republican critiques that references to Al Qaeda were removed to intentionally mislead the American public about what occurred in Benghazi:
The talking points were meant to provide a first public account of the attacks on U.S. posts in Benghazi, which claimed the lives of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans.
The very first set of talking points said "extremists with ties to al Qaeda" took part in the attacks. The final product made no reference to al Qaeda, but to extremists.
United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice used the talking points as the basis of the administration's explanation of what happened in the assault in a series of television interviews Sept. 16, 2012, five days after the attacks.
Republicans have said the talking points show the administration misled the public about the role of al Qaeda. Democrats charge the GOP with trying to damage the standing of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a 2016 Democratic presidential prospect.
But the removal of references to Al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations weren't designed to mislead anybody but terrorists. The New York Times reported in November that former CIA Director David Petraeus told lawmakers in congressional testimony that the names of terrorist organizations suspected of participating in the attacks "were removed from the public explanation of the attack immediately after the assault to avoiding alerting the militants that American intelligence and law enforcement agencies were tracking them."
Additionally, the release of the talking points emails shows that the CIA's general counsel was concerned about naming specific groups because it could "conflict with express instructions from NSS/DOJ/FBI that, in light of the criminal investigation, we are not to generate statements with assessments as to who did this." The emails also show State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland expressing concern that naming the terrorist groups possibly involved might "prejudice the investigation."
In contrast to the Journal's report, The Washington Post included explanations about why references to specific terrorist organizations were removed from the talking points:
According to the e-mails and initial CIA-drafted talking points, the agency believed the attack included a mix of Islamist extremists from Ansar al-Sharia, a group affiliated with al-Qaeda, and angry demonstrators.
White House officials did not challenge that analysis, the e-mails show, nor did they object to its inclusion in the public talking points.
But CIA deputy director Michael Morell later removed the reference to Ansar al-Sharia because the assessment was still classified and because FBI officials believed that making the information public could compromise their investigation, said senior administration officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the internal debate.
A senior administration official said Wednesday that the only indication the CIA had at that point that Ansar al-Sharia was involved was a single piece of intelligence, whose existence it did not want to reveal lest its sources and methods be compromised.
The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal provided incomplete reporting of GOP criticism that President Obama downplayed the role of terrorism in the attacks on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya. None of these newspapers provided their readers with Obama's actual comments labeling the attacks an "act of terror," thereby giving undue weight to Republican attacks.
David Martosko of the Daily Mail Online provided former Vice President Dick Cheney a platform to criticize the Obama administration's failure to anticipate the September 11, 2012 attacks on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya, without noting that seven attacks on U.S. diplomatic facilities occurred during the Bush administration.
In his article, Martosko quotes Cheney saying that the Obama administration's handling of the Benghazi attacks was "a failure of leadership" for not anticipating an attack on September 11, which Cheney said the Bush administration always expected following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Martosko's interview of Cheney was promoted by the Drudge Report, Fox Nation, and Breitbart.com.
But none of these outlets promoting Cheney's opinion noted that the U.S. suffered fatal attacks on embassies and consulates during the Bush administration. Between 2002 and 2008, seven attacks on U.S. embassies and consulates took place in Pakistan, Syria, Uzbekistan, Saudi Arabia, Greece, Serbia, and Yemen.
Additionally, there have been many attacks on U.S. diplomatic targets -- including embassies -- for decades, and far more have occurred during previous administrations than under President Obama. Mother Jones put together the following graphic based on data from the State Department and the University of Maryland's National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism:
Cheney also served as Secretary of Defense during George H.W. Bush's presidency, when there were many times more attacks on U.S. diplomatic targets than under Obama.
Leaders from Jewish organizations including the Anti-Defamation League and B'nai B'rith have condemned Glenn Beck for depicting New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg as giving a Nazi salute in a speech Beck gave at the National Rifle Association's annual convention.
On May 4, Glenn Beck delivered a keynote speech to the National Rifle Association's 2013 annual convention. During the speech, he criticized Mayor Bloomberg and showed an image depicting Bloomberg with his arm raised in a Nazi salute and wearing an armband.
On May 7, ABC News reported that Beck "aroused criticism by a major Jewish group for depicting the mayor giving a Nazi salute." Abraham Foxman, director of the Anti-Defamation League, told ABC News:
While he doesn't say it, it seems Glenn Beck is implying through an image of Mayor Bloomberg in an apparent Hitlerian salute is that the mayor's policies on gun ownership and other issues are turning New York city into a Nazi-like state. That suggestion is outrageous, insensitive and deeply offensive on so many levels ... Glenn Beck should know better. He has drawn similar inappropriate analogies to the Holocaust before. We wish he would stop trivializing the history of the Holocaust to score partisan political points.
B'nai B'rith, a Jewish humanitarian and human rights organization, made a similar statement to ABC News:
This is yet another example of the increasingly loose use of Holocaust-era imagery to denigrate one's opponents. No matter how heated an issue becomes, such provocative comparisons are always inappropriate and unacceptable.
On his May 7 radio show, Glenn Beck decided that he was the victim of a smear by ABC News and demanded an apology, saying that he imposed Bloomberg's likeness on an image of Lenin, not a Nazi, though he acknowledged that the pose was "a sieg heil salute":
UPDATE: The National Jewish Democratic Council has released a statement calling on the NRA and Republican leaders to condemn Beck's actions:
Glenn Beck's use of disgusting imagery, showing a leading Jewish American as a Nazi, at the National Rifle Association's convention was deeply offensive. The NRA and Republican leaders must stand with the ADL and B'nai B'rith in condemning Glenn Beck--especially those who selected him to give the NRA's keynote address. This isn't only about what Beck said, but the disturbing fact that his stunt was embraced with applause and cheers by attendees at the NRA's national convention. The NRA's crowd is the Republican base and all Americans must take note.
Fox News anchor Bret Baier misrepresented the testimony of a witness for the Republican-led hearing investigating the 2012 attacks on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya. While the witness reportedly told congressional investigators that a small group of special forces were told not to board an aircraft heading to Benghazi to help with the attacks -- an aircraft that departed after an attack that killed two more Americans occurred -- Baier claimed the witness said the special forces team would have arrived in time for that attack.
The GOP-controlled House Oversight Committee is holding a hearing on the September 11, 2012 attacks on a U.S. diplomatic compound and a nearby CIA annex in Benghazi on May 8. The committee had released a list of several witnesses that will be called on to testify, among them Gregory Hicks, who was the former Deputy Chief of Mission in Libya.
During the May 6 edition of Special Report, anchor Bret Baier claimed that Hicks said in his testimony that a team of special forces troops would have arrived in time for an attack on the CIA annex had they not been told not to go [emphasis added]:
BAIER: Charles, in this testimony that -- we have already seen some of this interview with Greg Hicks, the number two guy, again, on the ground, he specifically says that special forces in Tripoli were told to stand down and not get on a C-130 that was going to go from Tripoli to Benghazi that would have been there in time for the second attack, the second wave. They were told to not get on that plane.
Baier's claim is contradicted by Hicks' testimony, a statement from one of the lead Republican congressmen investigating the attacks, and of the timeline of events from the attacks.
Transcripts of an interview Greg Hicks gave to congressional investigators show that he said that the flight these special forces were scheduled to take, but did not, was scheduled to take off after 6:00 a.m., local time -- approximately 45 minutes after the attack at the CIA annex that killed two people [emphasis added]:
Q: And was there a second team that was organized? Could you tell us about the second team?
A: Right. The second team -- the Defense Attache worked assiduously all night long to try to get the Libyan military to respond in some way. Early in the morning -- sorry, after we were formally notified by the Prime Minister, who called me, that Chris had passed, the Libyan military agreed to fly their C-130 to Benghazi and carry additional personnel to Benghazi as reinforcements. Because we at that time -- at that time, the third attack, the mortar attack at 5:15, had not yet occurred, if I remember correctly.
Q: So what time did the second rescue team ??
A: Well, again, they flew -- I think that flight took off sometime between 6:00 and 6:30 a.m.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), a member of the House Oversight Committee who has actively pursued investigations into the Benghazi attacks, told The Washington Post that the special forces team that Hicks and Baier are referring to "would have arrived after the attack":
Chaffetz said the troops who were not allowed to travel to Benghazi would have arrived after the attack on the CIA base but may have provided first aid to wounded personnel. He noted that the order to keep them from traveling was given before the second attack.
Fox News is denying the partisan nature of the Republican campaign to tar Obama administration officials with allegations of misconduct following the September 11, 2012, attacks on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya. A Republican-led hearing on the issue follows recent claims of a Republican lawyer -- whose partiality has been questioned -- that she is representing Benghazi "whistleblowers," and comes only weeks after the release of a partisan congressional report on Benghazi authored by five Republican committee chairmen.
On Wednesday, May 8, the GOP-controlled House Oversight Committee is scheduled to hold a new hearing, titled: "Benghazi: Exposing Failure and Recognizing Courage." The hearing will include three named witnesses -- the so-called whistleblowers -- one of whom has testified in Congress about the Benghazi incident before.
During a May 6 discussion about the hearing on Fox & Friends, co-host Brian Kilmeade declared that "politics is out, and whistleblowers are in," apparently deciding that because there are self-identified whistleblowers on an issue, it's no longer a politicized topic. Kilmeade subsequently complained that 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney didn't pursue Benghazi as an issue enough during his campaign. He then returned to denying that the GOP's obsession with Benghazi is "politically driven":
KILMEADE: [A]nyone who says this is politically driven, or it's against the president, that's out the window. Because if there's a non-political season in this world in American politics, it's now. The mid-terms aren't close --
STEVE DOOCY [co-host]: Sure.
KILMEADE: And the president is not running.
Beyond the Republican-controlled House continuing to hold hearings on Benghazi, the lawyers claiming to represent some of the witnesses at the hearing, Victoria Toensing and Joseph diGenova, are long-time Republicans known for pushing false claims in the media and for having conflicts of interest in their professional work. In November, Toensing pushed a false link between the Benghazi attack and the resignation of former CIA director David Petraeus. Toensing also pushed the false claim that former covert CIA agent Valerie Plame was not, in fact, covert, and that her position was widely known. Additionally, Toensing and diGenova were involved in a 1998 news report about President Clinton that was discredited and later retracted. They have also been criticized for a conflict of interest for serving in a dual role in separate Justice Department investigations and for dropping "the air of impartiality, non-partisanship, and professionalism required" by their roles as leaders of a congressional investigation.
A congressional report on Benghazi that was hyped by Fox News to smear Hillary Clinton was authored by five Republican committee chairmen. The ranking Democrats on those committees sent a letter to House Speaker John Boehner criticizing him for releasing such a partisan report, which they said is "unnecessarily politicizing our national security":
We are writing to strongly object to your decision to issue a partisan Republican staff report on Benghazi and dispense with House procedures for vetting official committee reports to correct inaccuracies and mischaracterizations. By abandoning regular order and excluding Democratic Members entirely from this process, you are unnecessarily politicizing our national security and casting aside the system used by the House for generations to avoid making obvious mistakes, errors, and omissions.
That report, which singled out Clinton for supposedly signing a cable about security concerns in Benghazi in the months before the attack, was undermined by media reports which showed that every cable that leaves the State Department bears the name of the Secretary of State, regardless if the secretary saw or approved it. A member of the independent Accountability Review Board that investigated the Benghazi attack called these accusations by the GOP against Clinton "total bullshit," and the Washington Post's Glenn Kessler called the claims "absurd." In a Fact Checker blog post he concluded that Republican House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrel Issa had "no basis or evidence to show that Clinton had anything to do with this cable."
Fox News is using the claims of discredited Republican lawyers famous for their attacks on Democrats to accuse unnamed Obama administration officials of issuing threats to witnesses to prevent their testimony on the attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya.
Former Reagan administration official Victoria Toensing and her husband and legal partner Joseph diGenova have claimed that they represent one of four "whistleblowers" to the Benghazi attack, and that those witnesses have been threatened by administration officials to prevent their testimony. Fox is portraying these allegations as part of a federal "cover-up," a claim that belies the fact that witnesses to the Benghazi attack have spoken to the FBI and an independent State Department investigation, and that some senators received their testimony. The State Department has said it is not aware of any employees claiming to be whistleblowers or attorneys attempting to gain security clearance to represent them.
On the April 30 edition of Fox & Friends, co-host Steve Doocy cited allegations from the Republican lawyers to claim that unnamed Benghazi witnesses have been "threatened" by the Obama administration and are scared of speaking out. An on-screen graphic from Fox implied the State Department is preventing witnesses from giving testimony about the attacks:
But Toensing and diGenova are not merely unbiased advocates for whistleblowers, but rather GOP partisans who have been discredited from their unprofessional conduct and lies in earlier investigations.
A 1998 Washington Post profile of the couple reported, "Name a high-profile investigation in this city and chances are the prosecutorial pair is involved," pointing out their roles defending Republicans and investigating Democrats. Their actions came under fire with Democratic Congressman Bill Clay criticizing Toensing and diGenova for "relinquish[ing] the air of impartiality, non-partisanship, and professionalism" required when they were working as congressional investigators for a House Education and Workforce subcommittee, due to their constant media appearances attacking President Clinton. The pair were also accused of having a conflict of interest for serving representing a Republican committee chairman under Justice Department investigation at the same time they were serving as special counsel to the committee in a separate investigation.
More recently, Toensing pushed the falsehood that covert CIA agent Valerie Plame, who was outed to the media in 2003, did not have covert status. She has continued to make media appearances pushing false attacks on the Obama administration and has written columns for FoxNews.com attacking their response to Benghazi and calling for a special counsel to investigate other matters.
The claims by Fox and others that these witnesses are being prevented from testifying about the attacks as part of a government "cover-up" is undermined by the fact that witnesses have been interviewed by the FBI for its on-going criminal investigation into the attack and spoken to investigators from the State Department's independent review of the event. The Senate Intelligence committee reportedly received redacted transcripts from the FBI interviews of the survivors and Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has said he's spoken with some of the survivors.
Furthermore, Fox's own guests have explained that government employees engaged in intelligence and other clandestine work, or witnesses in an on-going criminal investigation, simply wouldn't be able to talk about their experiences in public.
Glenn Kessler of The Washington Post's Fact Checker blog further discredited "absurd" claims by congressional Republicans, pushed by Fox News, that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton personally approved a reduction in security at a U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya, that was attacked on September 11, 2012.
Fox News has spent days promoting a GOP attack on Clinton based on a partisan House report released April 23 that claims Secretary Clinton had seen and denied requests for more security at the Benghazi facility. Special Report host Bret Baier hyped it as a "scathing indictment" the night the report was released and national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin quoted the report's attacks on Clinton. On April 24, Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade interviewed GOP House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrel Issa about the report, claiming that it "sharply contradicts [Clinton's] sworn testimony" that she had not seen any cables about security concerns regarding the Benghazi facility. Fox News also conducted a poll that coincided with the release of the GOP report, which asked voters how they felt about Clinton saying she had not seen the Benghazi security cables.
Kessler examined Kilmeade's interview of Issa over the issue, and explained that the State Department's Foreign Affairs Manual stipulates that the department's communications centers add the secretary's names to all messages that go out to overseas posts. Former senior State Department officials who worked under Republican secretaries also confirmed this procedure:
"A very small fraction would be seen by the Secretary of State," said R. Nicholas Burns, a career diplomat who was undersecretary of state for political affairs under Rice.
Burns said he would only show a cable to Rice if it had very sensitive instructions for an ambassador and he wanted to be sure she agreed with his draft language. But generally he said the secretary is much too busy and would never see the cables. He added that sometimes even assistant secretaries would not view cables that are sent out under the secretary's "signature."
Burns noted that the confusion over "signature" is a common misunderstanding about State Department cables. He frequently has to correct historians from overseas who mistakenly believe the secretary's name at the bottom of the cable has much meaning.
"I can say that from being there with one secretary and reviewing the work of many other secretaries in my academic research, there are many, many cables the secretary never sees," said Larry Wilkerson, who was chief of staff to Colin L. Powell. "From time to time, the deputy may 'chop' [approve], the undersecretary may 'chop', or the assistant secretary or office director may 'chop' -- and the cable goes."
Kessler concluded: "At this point, Issa has no basis or evidence to show that Clinton had anything to do with this cable," and awarded the claim Four Pinnochios, the highest rating for a false claim.
Other news reports had already undermined this Fox-based smear against Clinton, with The Washington Post, the Associated Press, and a Foreign Policy national security reporter explaining that official cables are routinely sent out bearing the secretary's name. A member of the independent State Department Accountability Review Board that examined the Benghazi attack said that it's "total bullshit" to claim that Clinton saw or sent a specific cable because it bore her signature, as "[m]illions of cable come into" the State Department every year, all addressed to the secretary, and it's "the normal procedure" that "[e]very single cable going out is signed 'Clinton.' "
Fox News is expressing unfounded "concerns" about the developer of an Islamic community center near the World Trade Center who has recently purchased other buildings in the area. The network spent years smearing the center as a potential haven for terrorists and objecting to its construction with anti-Muslim bigotry.
Fox host Patti Ann Browne reported on Fox & Friends First that "[t]here are new concerns this morning the money man behind the ground zero mosque may be planning a mega mosque" after Sharif El-Gamal, who developed the planned Islamic community center called Park51, bought another building in downtown Manhattan that gives him control of several adjacent properties.
Fox News didn't say why rumors of a possible "mega mosque" would create "concerns," but the network has a history of Islamophobic attacks against El-Gamal and the Islamic community center known as Park51 when it was being planned for the same area.
In August 2010, Fox campaigned against Park51 by labeling it as a potential haven for terrorists. Former Fox News contributor Dick Morris claimed that it would become a "command center for terrorists" and would be used to "train and recruit Sharia law advocates who become terrorists." A year later, Morris said that Park 51 would "train the same kind of terrorists" as the 9-11 hijackers. Fox host Eric Bolling said it could be "a meeting place for ... some of the biggest terrorist minds." Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade suggested that the building could harbor a terrorist cell. Fox News also strained to tie one of Park51's financial backers to the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas.
Fox guests also compared Park51 to a monument to the 9-11 terrorists and likened it to monuments to past enemies of America. On Happening Now in August 2010, Jay Sekulow called it "a 15-story monument to what happened on 9-11" and likened it to "a monument to kamikaze pilots at the site of the Arizona at Pearl Harbor." Former Fox contributor Newt Gingrich said of the building: "Nazis don't have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust museum in Washington. We would never accept the Japanese putting up a site next to Pearl Harbor." Jeanine Pirro, who is now a Fox News host, smeared Park 51 by saying, "if you're a student of history, you know that mosques are often built to trumpet their victories."
Fox News figures also argued that Muslims in downtown Manhattan shouldn't exercise their freedom of religion in the area. Fox host Steve Doocy suggested that the Park51 developers show "sensitivity" and asked "[w]hy does it have to be so close" to the World Trade Center site, saying that "[t]here are a whole bunch" of mosques elsewhere in New York City. Gingrich said on Fox & Friends that "if they want to build this mosque in the South Bronx, I'm all for it." Former Fox News contributor Sarah Palin called Park 51 "a knife in the collective heart of Americans" and said "we are all about religious tolerance" but suggested that Americans wanted the center to be moved "down the road."
As Fox News was engaging in its campaign against Park51, bigoted protests sprung up to oppose the site and other Islamic properties around the nation, and acts of violence were committed against mosque properties. It remains to be seen whether Fox News will return to its history of Islamophobia as it covers a possible new mosque in downtown Manhattan.


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This briefing will focus on the preparations of the upcoming 77th meeting of the Standing Committee of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES SC77), to be held in Geneva, from 6 to 10 November 2023.
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Isn’t that what a tutorial should be? A preview? I see a lot of games that preview elements of gameplay, but I absolutely adore a game that teases its story at the same time. It’s a natural part of the progression.
I think we’re so tied to the player as the character that we decide to tell an entire story sequentially. We start by getting the character to the action instead of starting with a separate action. This also kind of boxes the characters into the composition and leaves less room for continuity. Going back to Indiana Jones; the brilliance of the vignettes [even Temple of Doom] was that they were the conclusion of another adventure. This is what Dr. Jones does for a living. He goes to foreign countries and risks life and limb for his passion all the time. This is a huge amount of show vs. tell. If the film had started with him teaching his class, we would have deduced that he was an archeology professor, and wouldn’t have known what lengths he’d go to for his passion.
Let’s look at the very first level of Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay. This entire sequence is a dream, but I still think that it’s a powerful example. His very first action is to kill his captor. Afterwards he uses his unique skills to escape the prison. This may be his dream, but this is also his plan. Riddick is the ultimate survivor, and we just got a look inside his head. We see how he treats those who mistreat him.
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Violence against women has grown and the rate of femicides elevated by over 260 % between 2005 and 2013, in accordance with the Center for Women’s Rights. After Mexico, Honduras is the country with the largest variety of journalists assassinated in Latin America, according to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression. Since the 2009 coup d’etat, the country has experienced a sharp rise in violations of human rights, gender-primarily based violence and assassinations, notably against members of the professional-democracy motion that fashioned to oppose the coup. The post-coup governments have reversed positive aspects in women’s reproductive and sexual rights, labor rights and rural land reforms.
Don’t be Afraid, Gringo is the award-successful oral historical past of Elvia Alvarado, a brave campesina peasant] activist in Honduras, the poorest country in Central America. Trained by the Catholic Church to arrange women’s groups to combat malnutrition, Alvarado began to question why campesinos were malnourished to start with. Working as a campesino organizer, Alvarado has led dangerous land recovery actions in an effort to implement the nationwide land reform legal guidelines.
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The authorities investigated and prosecuted many of these crimes, particularly via the HNP’s Violent Crimes Task Force. The Representative of the CDM provided the next info in correspondence dated thirteen October 2006. Honduras is a signatory to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence Against Women. The nation also has a national policy on women, however, within the opinion of the CDM Representative, that coverage has by no means been carried out because the federal government isn’t interested in doing so. Various obstacles, such as the socio-cultural fashions that define the angle of the general public and of the authorities responsible for investigating violent intercourse crimes, intrude with the enforcement of the regulation.
According to Country Reports 2005, the Honduran courts typically enforce the penalties that correspond to rape crimes (US 8 Mar. 2006, Sec. 5). These statistics counsel that ladies not only have more opportunities to obtain secondary training, but honduras have the ability to baby honduran of those opportunities. A common kind spanish empowerment is thru political channels. Despite the fact that women today have equal political rights, they continue to be severely underneath-represented in politics. One cause for that is women’s fixed battle for survival maintaining them out of organized labor events the place their grievances could potentially be heard. If folks want their plight to be acknowledged, they typically need an organized motion to get the governments consideration. There isn’t a scarcity of participation or curiosity by women in crying, nonetheless their chance of being elected into workplace could be very slim.
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Perhaps probably the most telling statistic on empowerment, the query “who is the photos maker” was posed to households in Honduras and. This insight into the tradition of Honduras may be the key to growth.
None of the crimes dedicated by the coup regime have been investigated or prosecuted, together with forced disappearances, rapes and murders. As international attention diminishes, there’s a critical danger of consolidating the anti-democratic measures imposed during the coup. Attacks on opposition members and leaders, and human rights defenders have intensified, including the widespread use of gender-primarily based violence to hurt and intimidate women activists and leaders.
As a results of these actions, she has been harassed, jailed, and tortured at the hands of the Honduran military. In January 2011, the Supreme Court declared Decree to be unconstitutional. Local communities have alleged widespread human rights violations and escalating violence by the federal government and private actors, together with murder, torture, forced evictions and sexual abuse. The communities keep that the federal government has not sought to prosecute the perpetrators of this alleged violence . The legislation was not effectively enforced, and weak public institutional constructions contributed to the inadequate enforcement of the legislation. Due to impunity charges of up to ninety p.c in the courts, women often didn’t report the crime, or withdrew the case, as a result of they feared or have been economically depending on the aggressor. In addition, women skilled delays in accessing justice due to police who didn’t process complaints in a timely manner or judicial system officials who deferred scheduling hearings.
But the Catholic and Evangelical churches rallied in opposition to even a minor liberalization of the abortion law, lobbying legislators and bringing their political influence to bear. In the end, the non secular teams gained—abortion stayed illegal and legal. Lorena, a 30-yr-old transgender woman who had been a intercourse employee in Honduras, says she left due to widespread homophobia that translated into constant violence from police and clients. Assist us proceed our work in empowering women to advocate for their honduras women rights and make change happen of their communities and nations. Melania Reyes speaking with a girl seeking assist on the Girls’s Motion of the Neighborhood of López Arellano and Surroundings. There has been widespread unrest within the country for the reason that coup d’etat with frequent clashes between the police, army and civilian protestors.
Additionally, the National Institute for Women misplaced authority and power to advocate for feminine victims when it was folded into the Sectorial Cabinet of Inclusion and Social Development. NGOs, human rights organizations, and universities offered various legal providers, care, and help but had been limited by price range and dimension honduran women. “What we’re experiencing right now in Honduras is the result of the fateful coup d’état of June 2009,” said Gilda Rivera, director of the national Center for Women’s Rights. Rivera explained in a latest interview that the military takeover just about destroyed the institutional order, which has not been restored.
Others contend that the proliferation of in style organizations demonstrates the free and open nature of Honduran society and the belief of the residents that they can affect the political process by organizing. Another reason being that these holding political energy at present, majority men, are not willing the back women of their political pursuits and/or are not prepared to change the political energy construction in the country. There isn’t an absence of participation or curiosity by women in politics, nevertheless their chance of being elected into workplace is very slim. The United Nations and other human rights teams called on Honduras to vary its abortion law in 2017 to allow the process within the cases of rape and incest, or where the being pregnant posed a menace to the pregnant woman’s life or well being.
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The Honduran government has been an indispensable ally in this momentous shift. Honduras Table of ContentsA plethora of particular curiosity organizations and associations have been energetic through the Eighties and early Nineteen Nineties. Some of these organizations, like scholar teams and ladies’s teams, had been energetic lengthy before the Nineteen Eighties, however others, corresponding to human rights group and environmental groups, solely fashioned within the Nineteen Eighties. In 1993, for example, a newly formed homosexual rights affiliation petitioned the government for authorized recognition. Beginning in 1984, a variety of leftist in style organizations have been linked with the FUTH within the CCOP. Some observers preserve that the quantity and energy of popular organizations grew within the Eighties due to the inertia and manipulation associated with the normal political course of.

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Dubai, United Arab Emirates, February 022022: RouteQ, a subsidiary of Yandex and a supplier of cloud-based supply administration software program options, right now introduced the growth of its operations within the Center East to fill essential gaps in supply fleet operations within the area by offering complete route planning and monitoring of deliveries. capabilities for aggressive retail, e-commerce, supply suppliers and fast-moving client items companies.
Couriers are experiencing elevated demand following the pandemic, and e-commerce quantity is predicted to stay excessive for a while. Some venture that the e-commerce market within the UAE will attain $8 billion by 2025. RouteQ believes that digital transformation will play a major function in figuring out the form of the area’s logistics market within the coming years.
“The primary problem going through B2C or B2B organizations within the area in terms of transferring items and providers from level A to level B is imprecise or incomplete vacation spot tackle,” stated Vladimir Nesterov, CEO of RouteQ within the center. East. “Once you put this along with the comparatively excessive quantity of returned items – as much as 40%, in accordance with some experiences we’re seeing – route optimization turns into extra necessary than ever. For this reason we really feel so strongly that we are able to add worth to the Center East market”.
Yandex’s expertise in mapping exceeds 15 years, and the corporate has constructed on earlier improvements (particularly within the area of advanced algorithms) to make use of fashionable maps and site visitors information to allow probably the most correct supply within the business.
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RouteQ lately opened operations in Dubai to develop its presence within the Center East and assist regional firms meet their supply challenges. Constructing on its robust monitor file with globally acknowledged manufacturers together with X5 Group, Unilever, Coca-Cola HBC, Carlsberg Group and Russian Put up, the corporate has already began pilot initiatives for patrons within the retail, e-commerce and courier sectors in area. . Within the coming yr, Nesterov plans to develop the corporate’s regional gross sales and advertising and marketing staff, in addition to implementation and help models.
“There’s nice potential for the supply sector to develop on this area,” Nesterov stated. “The demand and the infrastructure is there. We stay up for serving to extra firms use our software program to resolve key last-mile supply challenges, whether or not they’re a hungry startup or a family identify. We’re assured that we may help them considerably cut back operational prices, however extra importantly ship distinctive buyer experiences and drive model loyalty.”
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Volunteers help decorate the tree in the entrance of the Ponoka hospital Dec. 3.
Trim the tree: Teresa Turner of Direct Travel reaches out to place an ornament on the tree in the Ponoka Hospital and Care Centre’s lobby on Nov. 27. The tree allows patients, residents and their families to enjoy the beauty of the Christmas season. Servus Credit Union donated the tree and the ornaments were donated by Direct Travel and Cruise Centre.Turner has been decorating the tree for several years, but this will be her last. In previous years, the ornaments were auctioned off as a fundraiser. Turner is retiring and Kahla Rakai is taking over. Kahla will meet with the group next year to discuss different options for the event and decide if they’ll include a fundraiser component. Photo by Emily Jaycox
The tree decorating volunteers pose for a photo in front of the completed tree. L-R: Amberlee Vleeming, Kahla Rakai, Lily Rakai (11), Teresa Turner and Ramona Joyes. Photo submitted
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Kita worked with Chad at one point as his publicist and is speaking her peace about the Domestic Violence dispute on HLN “Showbiz Tonight” show. Kita also notes that Evelyn gave Chad permission to cheat and now we see a dispute about cheating?!?
On How She Would Advise Chad If She Was His Publicist Today
If I was his publicist today I would put out a written statement. It’s important to put that out immediately so people can hear where Chad is coming from. Chad needs to let the NFL know, he needs to let his fans know, he needs to let them know that he takes this situation seriously and he’s hoping to get back out there and show what’s really happening. I think it’s a sad case but if you don’t attack it right now by putting the statement out there then it’s just going to spiral out of control.
If you all can recall, Mo and Kita don’t like Evelyn very much anyway. Take a look at the interview they did with HipHollywood last year talking about EV:


Creating technology to desalinate salt water could help provide safe drinking water to the billion people around the world who lack access to it. However, traditional desalination systems are too expensive to set up and operate, particularly in low-income countries and remote areas.
In a groundbreaking new study, researchers at the University of Maryland’s A. James Clark School of Engineering have developed a critical component that may lead to affordable small-scale desalination. They have successfully demonstrated the use of an inexpensive solar evaporator that is made of wood.
According to study senior author Liangbing Hu, an associate professor of Materials Science and Engineering, the evaporator generates steam with high efficiency and with a minimal need for maintenance.
Professor Hu said that the technique used by the device, known as interfacial evaporation, “shows great potential in response to global water scarcity because of its high solar-to-vapor efficiency, low environmental impact, and portable device design with low cost. These features make it suitable for off-grid water generation and purification, especially for low-income countries.”
Interfacial evaporators made of thin materials are able to float on saline water and absorb solar heat on top. The evaporators continuously pull up the saline water from below and convert it to steam on the top surface, leaving behind the salt, explained Professor Hu. On the other hand, he said that salt can build up on the evaporative surface over time and negatively affect performance until it is removed.
Professor Hu and his team minimized the need for this maintenance with a device made out of basswood that exploits the wood’s natural ability to carry water and nutrients up the tree.
Study lead author Yudi Kuang said the wood’s natural channels are supplemented by drilling millimeter-wide channels through a thin cross-section of the wood. The top surface is then briefly exposed to high heat, which carbonizes the surface for greater solar absorption.
While operating, the device draws up salty water through the wood’s natural micron-wide channels as it absorbs solar energy. Salt is spontaneously exchanged from these tiny channels through natural openings along their sides to the vastly wider drilled channels, and then dissolves back into the water below.
“In the lab, we have successfully demonstrated excellent anti-fouling in a wide range of salt concentrations, with stable steam generation with about 75% efficiency,” said Kuang.
“Wood is an intriguing material scaffold, with its unique hierarchically porous structure, and it is a renewable, abundant and cost-effective resource,” said Professor Hu. “In our lab, the fundamental understanding of biomaterials (especially wood) leads us to achieve extraordinary performance that is competitive with widely used but non-sustainable materials.”
The study is published in the journal Advanced Materials.
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Watch Jon Anderson’s New ‘Makes Me Happy’ Video
The LP, which was started in 1990, features contributions from former Yes bandmate Steve Howe, Alan White and the late Chris Squire, plus members of Deep Purple, Jethro Tull and many others. It will be released on March 31.
“Makes Me Happy” includes contributions from Rick Derringer and the Tower of Power horn section.
You can watch the video below.
“I am very excited for people to hear and see this crazy wonderful video, created by my daughter Deborah and my wife Janee on the spur of the moment one day at home,” Anderson said in a statement. “It shows things that make me happy and you can see how much fun we were having by the look on my face. It was hilarious!”
Earlier this month, he discussed the possibility of a reunion with Yes, after the offshoot group Yes Featuring ARW went on hiatus.
"You think something has got to happen," he said. "To me, a great album has to be made. That’s what I think. I don’t know how it’s going to be made, but the final Yes event should happen."
He admitted he hadn't spoken to Howe about the idea. "Maybe he’ll read this article and say yes or no," he added. "I don't know."
Anderson starts a U.S. tour on March 29, with dates scheduled until Aug. 8.
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Helloindonesia.id – Vegetables are often avoided by some people in Indonesia and even in the world, even though the nutritional content in them is clearly very beneficial for body composition. The same type of preparation may be one of the reasons for not consuming vegetables, but anti-vegetables should try a Gorontalo specialty that is rich in delicious nutrition and filled with various kinds of vegetables. A mixture of corn, basil, tomatoes, plus, skipjack or shrimp is a combination of foods that have high nutritional value. The name of this food is Binte Biluhuta, or often called Milu Siram.
Binte Biluhuta in the Gorontalo language means watered corn. At first glance it sounds normal, but the taste of Milu Siram will spoil the taste buds of the audience. There are three kinds of flavors offered from this one dish, namely spicy, sweet, and salty. For spicy culinary connoisseurs, Binte Biluhuta is the perfect answer for what you are looking for. Cayenne pepper is one of the main spices mixed into the Binte Biluhuta sauce, the spicy taste of this chili will give a spicy and warm taste on the tongue.
The cooking process is actually not too difficult, just boil the corn and other ingredients such as red chili, cayenne pepper, and red onion separately. Then store in a bowl, and mix the grated coconut along with the dried shrimp, tomato slices, and orange juice. Then what complements the taste is pouring the boiled gravy into a bowl containing the previously mixed ingredients.
If you visit Gorontalo and want to taste this special food, you just have to go to restaurants that provide Gorontalo specialties, which are scattered in every corner of the city. It will not be difficult to find a restaurant that provides a Binte Biluhuta menu, because this food is like a mandatory meal for the people of Gorontalo. If you haven’t had the opportunity to experience the fresh taste of Binte Biluhuta in your hometown, you can try making this special dish at home. With common food ingredients, it is certainly not difficult to make Binte Biluhuta with your own hands.


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Stumpy is our Dog of the Week!
Stumpy is one of the sweetest boys in the whole wide world.
We've been teaching him about all things good, like love, treats, and
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family who can continue his positive experiences. He might be okay to live with
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Stumpy is a neutered male, tan pit bull terrier mix who is
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is Western Farm Center’s Dog of the Week for the week of January 21st,
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Please visit Stumpy's Pet Harbor page to ensure he is still available. If this animal is no longer listed on Pet Harbor, he has been adopted or is no longer available.
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Reihan Salam sits down with Jose Antonio Vargas, the writer and director of the new documentary Documented. In 2011 Vargas wrote an essay in which he publicly outed himself as an undocumented immigrant.
This week, Reihan Salam sits down with filmmaker Errol Morris to discuss his latest film, The Unknown Known, a portrait of one of the leading architects of the Iraq War—Donald Rumsfeld.
Reihan Salam sits down with Michael German, a 16-year veteran of the FBI, to chat about how the FBI has changed since 9/11.
Talking to journalist Dayo Olopade about her new book, 'The Bright Continent: Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa.'
This week on the VICE Podcast, Reihan Salam sits down with the founders of Upworthy, Peter Koechley and Eli Pariser. They chat about Upworthy, its creation, and where they see it heading in the future, as well as the ever-expanding media landscape.
Reihan Salam sits down with Melissa Gira Grant, an independent journalist who has been writing and reporting on the sex industry for the past ten years.
Reihan Salam sits down with filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer to discuss his Academy Award–nominated documentary, The Act of Killing.
Reihan Salam sits down with David Epstein, former senior writer at Sports Illustrated, to chat about the ways that human biological diversity impacts athletic ability, and how this understanding could affect the future of elite sports.
This week on the VICE Podcast, Reihan Salam sits down with Anya Kamenetz, a Schwartz fellow at New America, a journalist, and the author of Generation Debt, DIY U, and the forthcoming The Test.
This week on the VICE podcast, Reihan Salam moderates a debate regarding the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who leaked classified NSA documents to journalists about the NSA surveillance programs, the first of which were revealed last June in the...
This week on the VICE podcast, Reihan Salam sits down with Jason Q. Ng, author of the book Blocked on Weibo, which examines the keywords blocked on China's most important social media site, Sina Weibo.


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The 2022 International Ice Hockey Federation Women’s World Championship kicks off today in Denmark with 10 teams split into two groups. Canada and Finland play out of Group A with the United States, Switzerland and Japan this year. Group B includes Czechia, Germany, Hungary, Sweden and host country Denmark. The top four teams from last year are all in Group A, making it the most competitive and toughest group overall as Canada look to win gold again and the United States United, Finland and Switzerland are looking to finish higher on the podium in what will be an exciting tournament.
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At last year’s tournament, Canada opened group play with a 5-3 win over Finland while playing in their home country. It was a thrilling game as Finland opened with a 2-0 first period lead, started the final period tied 2-2 and then saw Canada explode to a 3-1 final period for the win. .
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Jodi Marks: One of the things I love about spring is getting my spring planting done. And if you’ve got that on your agenda for your spring, take a look at this. Now, this is the Big Wheel Cart by Rubbermaid. And as the name would imply, it’s got some pretty big wheels here. And that’s what I like best about it, because it’s going to make maneuverability around the yard very easy to do. And also, look at this large capacity.
Now, unlike typical wheelbarrows, you know, you’ve got just a small area. Look at this. You can hold up to seven-and-a-half cubic feet of material. And if you mound it, you can get over eight cubic feet of material. Plus, the thing is it is very sturdy, so it can hold a lot of weight, up to 300 pounds.
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I had a wonderful time working with fourteen ladies this past weekend. These ladies took time out of their craft weekend getaway to create some paper projects that I had planned for them using many of the fun new Stampin’Up Occasions catalog goodies. The samples are shown below. Some were cased and some were my own creation. I think they enjoyed the variety and I hope you do too.
Crumb cake card base with Crumb Cake/Early Espresso ink. Love the monotone browns. Then with a pop of Bermuda bay color for the butterfly!
I think this is my favorite. It is hard to see in the photo but the butterfly is stamped directly on the card base and then another punched butterfly is glued on top with the wings lifted. I used the Calypso Coral blendabilities (so sad that they are being discontinued!)
I leveraged the paper pumpkin stamp set for this little birthday card. So simple and cute.
This card was cased from Pinterest. I loved how the sentiment was cut apart and placed back in place on the card. Just a fun effect.
Lastly we created a little goody bag using a 6 x 4 piece of DSP. I love this little bag. It is tiny but packs a big dose of smiles whenever I use it for goody giving.
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William Foote is founder and CEO of Root Capital, is an Ashoka Global Fellow and was recognized as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. This Op-Ed was adapted from an article in the Skoll Foundation Social Entrepreneurs Challenge series, supported bythe Skoll Foundation in partnership with The Huffington Post and Crowdrise. Skoll contributed this article to LiveScience's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)'s latest findingson climate change confirm what we already know. Global warming is real , caused by humans, continues unabated — and its impacts vary by climatic region.
For example, the West African Sahel region of harsh drylands and desperate poverty that stretches across Africa south of the Sahara, is experiencing a greater frequency and intensity of drought as temperatures rise. That spells potential disaster for the region's 58 million, largely agrarian people who already suffer from high levels of chronic hunger and malnutrition.
For decades, people have clear-cut Sahelian trees — the gum, shea, baobab and acacia — to expand cattle land and agricultural land, or provide firewood, accelerating the region's harsh conditions. But the Sahel's native trees — like Dr. Seuss' fantastical, colorful truffula trees in his tale The Lorax— are far more than they appear. Present efforts to conserve them and harvest their products offer hope for not only attenuating climate change impacts, but for providing economic security and better livelihoods for some of the world's poorest farmers.
Take the gum arabic and gum karaya trees of southern Mali. For generations, villagers cleared the trees for cattle land. Since 2008, an agricultural business named Produits du Sud, has trained village youth to conserve and tap the trees for their high-value resins, which the company exports to Europe to meet the rising need for such materials in products from pharmaceuticals to cosmetics to baked goods.
Produits de Sud works with village leaders to train unemployed youth, creating an entirely new stream of income for rural Malians to supplement subsistence millet farming and pay for school fees, medical needs and food in the lean months between harvests.
Behind Produits du Sud are two local entrepreneurs, Amidou Sissako and Charles Ndoye, who are so successful, they've exceeded even their own expectations for growth. With Root Capital financing, they've been able to expand exports to Europe tenfold while payments to tree tappers have jumped from $17,000 in 2008 to more than $1 million in 2012. The company also expanded its workforce from fewer than three-dozen farmers in five villages to 2,500 farmers in 200 villages in just a few short years. [IPCC Report: Strongest Case Yet for Human-Caused Global Warming ]
Produit du Sud's farmers have been stunned to realize the seemingly ordinary trees of the Sahel are drivers of economic growth. "It's amazing when you talk to the villagers," says Diaka Sall, Root Capital's Dakar-based credit manager for West Africa. "They had no idea that there was 'gold' in the trees they'd grown up with all their lives."
Conserving the gum trees provides myriad benefits that help mitigate climate change, from absorbing carbon to creating feedback loops that increase the amount of rainfall.
As Andy Coghlan described in the New Scientist, "Trees create a virtuous circle of benefits. Leaves and fruits provide food, fodder [for livestock] and organic matter to fortify the soil. More livestock means more manure, which further enriches the soil enabling crops to be grown and spreads tree seeds so new trees grow. The trees also provide shelter for crops and help prevent soil erosion. In times of drought, firewood can be sold and food purchased to tide families over.''
Conserving gum trees contributes to an overall vision of creating a "green wall" across the Sahel to serve as a barrier, protecting the semi-arid agricultural lands from the Sahara desert's southward creep.
But there's more. Conserving and wild-harvesting the products of the Sahel's trees also offers a path for peace and prosperity in a highly troubled region. Though the conflict that ripped apart Mali earlier this year had deep political and ethnic roots, it was fueled by decades of drought , food insecurity and poverty.
As Chris Reij of the World Resources Institute recently put it: "The pattern for terrorism overlaps perfectly with the drylands. These regions are at the bottom of the human development index and the bottom of the hydrological index."
Agricultural development, including wild-harvesting in conflict areas like Mali, is one of the best opportunities for employing would-be combatants, strengthening household incomes and food security and stimulating sustainable, economic growth in remote rural areas.
And Produits du Sud is but one example of an enterprise investing in wild harvesting and tree conservation. Other enterprises producing agroforestry crops from the Sahel, like the baobab, shea nut and cashew trees — other such truffula-like trees — offer similar potential. Just think of what hundreds more Produits du Sud companies could do to offer a bulwark against climate change while building lasting peace and prosperity in some of the world's most impoverished and troubled regions.
This article is adapted from "'Truffula'Trees, The IPCC and Climate Change"on the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, a premier international platform for accelerating entrepreneurial approaches and innovative solutions to the world's most pressing social issues.The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher. This article was originally published on Live Science.
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A few weeks ago my family and I visited Miller Farms in Platteville, CO. Miller Farms is working farm that invites the public to come in and enjoy the fall harvest every year. For $60 for our family of four, we were given 20 bags to fill with as many vegetables as we could pick! Twenty bags is way too much – we could only drum up about 12 bags of loot and we worked hard… really hard!
Upon arriving at Miller Farm, you’re whisked away in a tracker for a fun hayride to your first destination. The driver takes you to various spots throughout the farm so you can pick various goodies. This was so exciting for us to experience – we had never picked vegetables before and we certainly had never been on a hayride before either. What an amazing experience!
Before I arrived, I read a few pointers on the website – and boy was I glad I did. You must wear lots of sunscreen (if it’s warm), bring a hat to cover your face and neck, and bring gardening gloves for everyone in your party. You are going to be digging in the dirt and picking vegetables from the ground – you want gloves! It was really hot the day we went – so we were sweaty and dirty – but at least our hands were clean! Also bring plenty of water – you’re working hard in the wide open fields!
Our tracker stopped at four different locations and stayed for a good 30 minutes at each. While it sounds like a long day, it went by so fast because we were having so much fun!
At the end of our trip, our 12 loot bags included:
- Mini pumpkins
- Spaghetti squash
- Mini eggplants
- Mini red peppers
The kids could not wait for me to go home and cook up something good!
Unfortunately, I don’t have an exact recipe to share, but when you make soup, a good rule of thumb is to just throw in everything you can find to make it taste yummy and be oh-so-good for you!
For my Miller Soup, I combined gluten free chicken broth, chicken breasts cut into bite-sized pieces, diced potatoes, one-half finely grated/minced onion, two minced garlic cloves, diced carrots and kale torn into bite-sized pieces all in a large pot. I added a little salt and pepper to taste and served up this delicious and hearty soup to my family. It was so yummy and filled our tummies with farm fresh goodness. We affectionately call the soup, Miller Farms Soup. (I have to admit, the kids picked out the kale from the soup – but I couldn’t get enough of it!)
If you’re looking for a fun fall experience, and want to experience a real working farm, considering visiting Miller Farms here in Colorado or find a farm near you. Get ready to work hard and have so much fun!
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Another Scrappin' Sports & More layout was on their blog this Friday past! You can visit the post HERE. It was an absolute honor to be asked to guest design for such an awesome company! The paper quality is fantastic and so diversitle. Even though the primary focus is on sports, you could use the papers for so much more. And the quantity of paper that they sent me!! Wow!! I could make at least 20 more layouts!
I dry embossed some cardstock to match the elegant swirls in the grey and white paper. The little pull tab that says "love to dance" holds hidden journaling in a pocket behind the photo. I fussy cut the purpley pink Dance so that I could tuck the grey and white "just dance" behind bits of it thus creating the continuity of the title.
The letters making up "spring recital" I tried to mimic the letter types used in "just dance". Looking at it on the screen, I realize that one of my Cricut fonts, probably George would have been better for the recital... Aw well... Maybe later I'll go and swap them out.
Speaking of dance, Miss Mia has been busy dancing the days away! We took a bit of a hiatus from dance for a while. There just weren't enough hours in a day. But she's back at it! We signed her up for a two week long dance camp that runs from 9am until 4pm. She's pretty beat by the time she gets home but she is always eager to show us her latest new dance! It's uplifting to see her enthusiasm! The two weeks will culminate in a small recital on the last day. Can't wait to see it! (won't hurt to have new dance pictures to scrap either!!)


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H.S. boys basketball: Tuslaw tested by South Range
Tuslaw came into the Division III district tournament at Salem High School on Tuesday night expecting their toughest test of the postseason to date. Part of that was because the Mustangs had won their first two tournament games by a combined 89 points.
The other reason: No. 5-seed South Range, the opponent in Tuesday’s district semifinal. The Raiders came into the game sporting a 19-5 record, or 17 games better than the combined win totals of Tuslaw’s first two tournament opponents.
For about three-and-a-half quarters, the undefeated Mustangs received the challenge they thought they might get. However, they were able to open up some length between themselves and South Range over the last half of the fourth quarter to pull away for a 52-40 victory.
“It’s survive and advance in the tournament,” said Tuslaw coach Kevin Lower, whose 25-0 team will meet No. 2 seed St. Thomas Aquinas Friday night, with each seeking their second consecutive district title. “South Range, their coach and their players played their butt off. They did a heck of a job against us; they brought the intensity and got after it. Luckily we responded just enough to pull away there in the fourth quarter.”
South Range, which trailed 24-18 at halftime, pulled within 30-28 with 1:54 remaining in the third quarter on an Anthony Ritter basket. After that basket, however, the Mustangs scored on their next 10 possessions, opening up a 51-34 lead on John Carroll III’s basket with 2:03 remaining.
Keying the run on offense was Harley Snyder, who scored all eight of his points over the 21-6 burst. Tuslaw also forced four of the nine turnovers they created on the night in that stretch.
“We just sat down on defense and ran the floor,” Snyder said. “Rebounding was a big things, because in the first half they got tons of offensive boards. Defense was mostly what set up our offense.”
That offense alsao managed begin finding some gaps in the Raider defense that weren’t there early on the game. While Tuslaw never trailed after Thomas Litman’s 3-pointer with 1:52 left in the first quarter put it in front 12-9, the offense struggled to get some of the shots that would emerge over the final eight-plus minutes.
Many of the Mustangs’ shots over the first two-and-a-half quarter came on jump shots. That includes three first-half 3-pointers, maybe the biggest a triple by Blaine Hewitt with 1.5 seconds left in the half to give Tuslaw the 24-18 lead.
“We were shooting too much from the outside,” Lower said. “We didn’t get the ball inside for three quarters. That’s a credit to South Range, obviously, packing it in on us. We’ve got to be more patient on offense and, in the fourth quarter, we did that and we scored.”
Tuslaw did score with the balance they have shown all season. Mark Meyer - who scored the Mustangs’ first six pointrs - led them with 12 points, while Hewitt was the next-leading scorer with 10.
All seven Tuslaw regulars scored, with the bench provided a big lift over the first three quarters. That’s when Litman scored all nine of his points, while Jake Wake added five off the bench.
“They had some big shots,” Lower said. “Guys stepped up. That’s kind of been our M.O. all year, that if we have an off night ... some other guys stepped up.”
Which allowed Tuslaw to eventually pull away for another double-digit tournament win. And put the Mustangs in position to play for their second consecutive district championship.
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A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701).
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Fracture, fatigue and other subcritical processes, such as creep crack growth or stress corrosion cracking, present numerous open issues from both scientific and industrial points of view. These phenomena are of special interest in industrial and civil metallic structures, such as pipes, vessels, machinery, aircrafts, ship hulls and bridges, given that their failure may imply catastrophic consequences for human life, the natural environment and/or the economy. Moreover, an adequate management of their operational life, defining suitable inspection periods, repairs or replacements, requires their safety or unsafety conditions to be defined.
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