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There are many efforts made to promote better nutrition in Africa, with the hope that it will improve health concerns ranging from chronic malnutrition that causes mental and physical impairment, to non-communicable diseases to cancer. However the focus of these efforts is often very narrow and addresses the symptoms rather than the cause. They do not look at the underlying problems in industrial farming and the widespread use of chemicals to grow food and then to process them.
AFSA has recently published a mini Barefoot Guide on Nutrition entitled: Surviving Covid-19: the neglected remedy. This presents an agroecological approach to nutrition, which celebrates the many traditional cuisines across the continent, all of which provide the basis for good nutrition. It also recognises the importance of diversity both in how food is grown and what is eaten and links the health of the soil to the health of the stomach, helping us to understand that a diversity of microbes is the basis to good health in both areas.
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The President of the French Republic's decision to dissolve the National
Assembly and to call early legislative elections in May-June 1997 has
prompted numerous reactions from the unions, which fear the beginning of a
shift towards liberal economic policies.
On 2 April 1997 it became public that during the ongoing collective
bargaining at the German automobile company, Volkswagen, management had made
a proposal to create a new "internal temporary employment agency"
(Zeitarbeitsgesellschaft). Depending on the incoming orders, the agency's
newly hired employees would be set to work at the different Volkswagen
plants. Volkswagen proposed to pay the new temporary employees under the
terms and conditions of the current branch-level collective agreement in the
In April 1997, the Norwegian Supreme Court found the Government not guilty of
abusing compulsory arbitration in order to stop industrial conflict. The
Federation of Offshore Workers' Trade Unions (OFS), which brought the
domestic lawsuit against the Government, lost on all counts.
An international comparison of labour disputes from 1986 to 1995 by /Labour
Market Trends/ (April 1997) highlights that the UK had the fourth-lowest
strike rate of the 22 member countries of the Organisation for Economic
Cooperation and Development (OECD) in 1995. Only Austria, Switzerland and
Germany had a lower level of strikes than the UK. The UK strike rate has been
below the OECD average since 1986 and below the EU average since 1990.
Between 1991 and 1995 the average rate in the UK was 24 working days lost per
1,000 workers - an 82% fall over the previous five-year period. But the UK's
rise in the international "league table" of two places since 1994 took place
despite an increase in the strike rate itself.
In the framework of negotiations for the two-year National General Collective
Agreement covering the years 1996 and 1997, the GSEE (Greek General
Confederation of Labour) trade union confederation placed on the agenda of
discussions with the employers its demand for the reduction of weekly working
hours to 35 without a reduction in pay. The negotiations led to the creation
of a working party of technical experts from both sides of industry to study
the issue and its effects on employment and competitiveness.
New legislation proposed by the Portuguese Government on the regulation of
part-time work is currently under discussion amongst the social partners. The
most important points include the definition of part-time work, the
requirement that part-timers should have employment contracts in writing and
pro rata minimum pay.
An Intergovernmental Conference is the method used by the Member States of
the European Union (EU) to agree on basic changes to the Treaties which
govern the workings of the Union. Changes to the Treaties are not carried out
within the framework of the EU itself, but by direct negotiations between the
governments of the Member States within the context of the IGC. The current
IGC is the sixth in the history of European integration.
The cases have been hailed as a major victory for all National Health Service
(NHS) staff by the Manufacturing, Science and Finance (MSF) trade union,
which represented the workers involved in their cases. The union's national
secretary, Roger Kline said that the: "case is a momentous one. It has
implications for women staff throughout the NHS and other industries. It is a
landmark decision and is the biggest single breakthrough on equal pay for
women for many years."
As part of the European Year against Racism, a collective agreement signed in
the temporary work sector in Belgium has laid down a "Code of Best Practice"
on the prevention of racial discrimination against foreign temporary workers.
We review the agreement, signed in May 1996, and its background.
In the Netherlands, there has been a long struggle over how responsibilities
for administering social security should be divided between social partners
and the government. The Dutch social security administration has been
reorganised - most recently from March 1997 - under pressure of criticism
about organisations in which the social partners play a dominant role.
Financing the social security system has become a structural problem in the
relations between the Government and the social partners. This has become
especially manifest in conflicts concerning the level at which social
security contributions should be set.
This series reports on developments in minimum wage rates across the EU, including how they are set and how they have developed over time in nominal and real terms. The series explores where there are statutory minimum wages or collectively agreed minimum wages in the Member States, as well as minimum wage coverage rates by gender.
Eurofound’s work on COVID-19 examines the far-reaching socioeconomic implications of the pandemic across Europe as they continue to impact living and working conditions. A key element of the research is the e-survey, conducted in three rounds – in April and July 2020 and in March 2021. This is complemented by the inclusion of research into the ongoing effects of the pandemic in much of Eurofound’s other areas of work.
The European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS) launched in 1990 and is carried out every five years, with the latest edition in 2015. It provides an overview of trends in working conditions and quality of employment for the last 30 years. It covers issues such as employment status, working time duration and organisation, work organisation, learning and training, physical and psychosocial risk factors, health and safety, work–life balance, worker participation, earnings and financial security, work and health, and most recently also the future of work.
The European Restructuring Monitor has reported on the employment impact of large-scale business restructuring since 2002. This series includes its restructuring-related databases (events, support instruments and legislation) as well as case studies and publications.
Eurofound’s Flagship report series 'Challenges and prospects in the EU' comprise research reports that contain the key results of multiannual research activities and incorporate findings from different related research projects. Flagship reports are the major output of each of Eurofound’s strategic areas of intervention and have as their objective to contribute to current policy debates.
Eurofound’s European Company Survey (ECS) maps and analyses company policies and practices which can have an impact on smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, as well as the development of social dialogue in companies. This series consists of outputs from the ECS 2019, the fourth edition of the survey. The survey was first carried out in 2004–2005 as the European Survey on Working Time and Work-Life Balance.
Eurofound's representativness studies are designed to allow the European Commission to identify the ‘management and labour’ whom it must consult under article 154 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU). This series consists of studies of the representativeness of employer and worker organisations in various sectors.
This series reports on and updates latest information on the involvement of national social partners in policymaking. The series analyses the involvement of national social partners in the implementation of policy reforms within the framework of social dialogue practices, including their involvement in elaborating the National Reform Programmes (NRPs).
This series reports on the new forms of employment emerging across Europe that are driven by societal, economic and technological developments and are different from traditional standard or non-standard employment in a number of ways. This series explores what characterises these new employment forms and what implications they have for working conditions and the labour market.
The European Company Survey (ECS) is carried out every four to five years since its inception in 2004–2005, with the latest edition in 2019. The survey is designed to provide information on workplace practices to develop and evaluate socioeconomic policy in the EU. It covers issues around work organisation, working time arrangements and work–life balance, flexibility, workplace innovation, employee involvement, human resource management, social dialogue, and most recently also skills use, skills strategies and digitalisation.
This joint publication with the European Environment Agency (EEA) presents the findings from complementary research carried out simultaneously by both agencies on the socioeconomic impacts of climate policies and measures. While Eurofound focuses particularly on the distributional effects of these policies based on the experiences of Member States, the EEA analyses scientific research about the monetary and non-monetary social impacts of climate mitigation policies and its outcome in terms of inequalities.
This study provides information allowing for an assessment of the representativeness of the actors involved in the European sectoral social dialogue committee for the audiovisual sector. Their relative representativeness legitimises their right to be consulted, their role and effective participation in the European sectoral social dialogue and their capacity to negotiate agreements. The aim of this Eurofound study on representativeness is to identify the relevant national and European social partner organisations in the audiovisual sector in the EU Member States.
This report examines the phenomenon of overtime in the EU, providing a comparative description of how it is regulated in EU Member States. It also assesses how contentious the issue can be and investigates the reasons behind the various disputes and debates. Finally, the report attempts to quantify and characterise the share of overtime for which workers are not paid or compensated. The analysis is based on information collected in EU Member States by the Network of Eurofound Correspondents.
This policy brief uses the data from the European Company Survey 2019 to examine the workplace practices of export-oriented companies and to analyse how these practices relate to outcomes. It also examines why these companies choose the workplace practices they adopt.
This report addresses the main developments in statutory and collectively agreed working time regulation in 2019 and 2020. It covers several aspects of the duration of working time in the EU, such as information on maximum numbers of working days and weeks, normal working weeks and paid annual leave across the countries and within selected sectors. The report focuses on the education, health, transport, retail and public administration sectors, and provides accounts of major developments in working time regulation as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Building on Eurofound’s previous research on youth, this report examines the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on young people, in particular their economic and social situation, with a focus on employment. It will also estimate how the NEET population – young people not in employment, education or training – has changed in size and composition over the last decade, and how the current crisis might affect this.
This study provides information allowing for an assessment of the representativeness of the actors involved in the European sectoral social dialogue committee for the live performance sector. Their relative representativeness legitimises their right to be consulted, their role and effective participation in the European sectoral social dialogue and their capacity to negotiate agreements. The aim of this Eurofound study on representativeness is to identify the relevant national and European social partner organisations in the live performance sector in the EU Member States.
The European Jobs Monitor tracks changes in employment structure and contributes to the debate about whether European labour markets are polarising or upgrading. The European Jobs Monitor report in 2021 looks in particular at two dimensions of change in labour supply – increased female participation and population/workforce ageing – to show how they can contribute to an understanding of recent changes in employment structure.
This report analyses and compares the industrial relations landscape in a number of sectors and activities that form a public service cluster. The report draws on Eurofound’s recent representativeness studies investigating the following sectors: education, human health, central government administration and local and regional government sector (including social services).
This report explores the impact of the use of digital technologies on work organisation and job quality, as well as the role of social dialogue and employee involvement in the digitisation process. The three technologies analysed are the Internet of Things, 3D printing, and virtual and augmented reality. The report draws on the views of experts and policy stakeholders and includes insights from 10 case studies of European establishments that have deployed one or more of the three digital technologies.

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Property prices to tumble $60,000 by 2020
House prices have been falling sharply, but the market is a long way from rock bottom. Experts have tipped a huge tumble is expected by 2020.
Ahead of today’s interest rates decisions, all sides are tipping house prices in Sydney are heading for another $60,000 slide by 2020, with Melbourne hot on its heels with a $50,000 fall of its own.
Those figures are the expected outcome of a further 8 per cent fall in prices, according to Finder’s RBA Cash Rate Survey.
While the median for Sydney house prices currently sits at $930,000, a forecasted 6.21 per cent decline would take the new median to $872,242 — a drop of almost $60,000.
CoreLogic figures, released today, show houses prices in Sydney have already experienced an annual 10.6 per cent decline, followed by Melbourne at 9.8 per cent.
Prices in Sydney are now back to where they were in 2016. Melbourne is back to August 2017.
Only Hobart, Canberra, and Adelaide have escaped the gravitational pull of tighter lending standards, and a general sense that the music has stopped, but even these cities have seen prices flat or even begin to fall in the last quarter.
As house prices rise, so does consumer spending in what’s known as the wealth effect. But a similar thing is true on the downward slope, with the latest ABS consumer spending figures weak.
This is leading Market Economics economist Stephen Koukoulas to suggest the Reserve Bank will drop the official cash rate on Tuesday.
We do know the economy is weakening, we just saw the CoreLogic numbers,” Mr Koukoulas said.
“Another price fall, we do know that that has an impact on consumer spending.”
He said even if the RBA didn’t cut rates tomorrow, the question was more when rather than if.
“How weak will the economy have to be before they go?” he said.
“If we look at the GDP numbers, the last two quarters were very weak last year.”
LOWER RATES WON’T RESTART THE BOOM
Mr Koukoulas told News.com.au he thought that even if the RBA was to cut rates, it wouldn’t bring back the boom that saw house prices see price changes of 10-20 per cent a year.
“A rate cut will do more to help cash flows, there’s a more entrenched softening in housing,” he said.
“If we did see that housing was all of a sudden was increasing then the RBA should hike rates.”
But REA chief economist Nerida Conisbee said past experience showed any rate cut was associated with a spike in people looking to buy.
“We won’t see the housing bubble rekindled, but we will see activity increase,” Ms Conisbee said.
“The correlation between rates and clicks (by buyers on REA’s website) is very high and we know that people looking for housing respond very positively for a rate cut.”
AMP Capital chief economist and head of investment strategy Shane Oliver told News.com.au a rate cut was unlikely to push up prices.
“I would suspect that it wouldn’t inflate a property boom anything like it did back in 2011,” Mr Oliver said.
“Household debt is much higher so you may not see the same boost the last two times rates were cut.”
Mr Oliver recently revised his earlier prediction of a 20 per cent fall to a 25 per cent fall.
REA uses different measures of house prices than CoreLogic. They show price declines, but not as marked as CoreLogic.
Ms Conisbee said it was clear prices had a way to go, but that things were “looking more positive now than they were six months ago”. She said the direction of the market depended on the outcome of the election.
CoreLogic’s head of research Tim Lawless said any rate cut was unlikely to flow on into increased borrowing, given the higher rates many borrowers were assessed on.
“Even though you can get a mortgage at around 4 per cent or even lower, lenders will still assess affordability at 7 per cent or higher,” Mr Lawless said.
“It’s a major obstacle for many borrowers, as well as raising a deposit.”
Mr Lawless said the fall in Sydney and Melbourne had been steeper than had been expected and areas once considered safe were starting to feel the pinch.
“Adelaide has turned a corner, showing negative movements over the last three months Hobart and Canberra have slowed down, that’s the effect of tighter credit,” he said.
“The higher end of the marketplace is showing a higher fall in values rather than the affordable end.”
NEW PRICE BOOM GOOD FOR NO ONE
Many experts are in agreement that returning to a period of extreme price jumps would be bad for Australia, but that price falls had their cost too.
“It’s the change that matters, that rise in prices helped support the economy, people felt wealthier rather than the change,” Mr Koukoulas said.
“It’s more significant than that, people who did borrow at the top or who adjusted their spending patterns because their house was $1 million but now worth $875,000 it does impact sentiment.”
Ms Conisbee said stability in the market is what we need.
The message that gets reported is that strong growth is good and declines are bad and there’s always winners and losers in both situations,” she said.
“It’s in no one’s interest when it surges ahead 10 per cent per annum.”

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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
OFFICE OF INFORMATION AND TECHNOLOGY
Personal Pronoun Initiative
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is championing inclusivity by allowing personal pronouns in digital display names. Led by Assistant Secretary for Information and Technology and Chief Information Officer (CIO) Kurt DelBene, this initiative aims to create a respectful and inclusive environment for VA employees.
In collaboration with VA Secretary Denis McDonough's vision for a more inclusive government, the VA Office of Information and Technology (OIT) established the Personal Pronoun team. They developed a user-friendly process for adding personal pronouns to digital display names.
Over 23,500 staff members and contractors have embraced this opportunity to include personal pronouns in their displays. This initiative showcases VA's commitment to diversity and inclusion, setting them apart as a federal agency.
By fostering an expectation of inclusivity, VA reduces the burden on individuals and cultivates a supportive environment for the LGBTQ+ community. These achievements have a profound impact on VA employees and the public alike. With over 13,000 LGBTQ+ employees at VA, the organization's alignment with inclusive policies enhances job satisfaction, productivity, and morale.
Through this initiative, VA serves as a role model for other federal agencies, showcasing how technology can foster an inclusive culture. By embracing diverse perspectives and talents, VA enhances the experiences of its employees and ensures that the more than 5.42 million Veterans receiving health and benefits from VA are treated with openness and respect.
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The Florida Public Service Commission will consider a contentious proposal today that would set the rates that BellSouth Corp. charges its competitors for access to its local telephone network.
A coalition of alternative phone companies, which use BellSouth equipment to connect to their customers, opposes the plan, saying the rates are so high that they effectively prohibit competition. "In order to promote competition you need to have good, reasonable wholesale rates," said Brian Sulmonetti, director of public policy for MCI Worldcom. "Unfortunately, the Public Service Commission staff's recommendations don't offer that."
Since BellSouth owns most of the phone lines and telecommunications switching equipment in its service areas, alternative companies usually have to tap into the network to reach their customers.
The PSC staff spent more than a year reviewing BellSouth's rates. Since Congress passed legislation in 1996 aimed at opening local phone service to competition, state regulators around the country have grappled with formulas that balance the financial interests of the incumbent regional phone companies with their would-be competitors.
Sulmonetti said the PSC's proposal is higher than rate structures recently adopted by other states. He said the PSC staff report gives BellSouth about 85 percent of what it proposed.
"The staff adopted most of BellSouth's rate models," he said. "We needed them to go a lot closer to the rates we suggested for competition to work."
MCI petitioned the PSC to conduct a rate review in late 1998. It argues that some of the basic fees the state allows BellSouth to charge -- from digital subscriber line connection costs to residential access charges -- are too high.PSC spokesman Jarett Roy said the staff reviewed BellSouth's costs and tried to propose rates that covered them. The recommendation contains 632 pages of analysis.
"The main thought in this process was proposing rates that are based on cost," Roy said. "It's a very complex, highly technical issue."
BellSouth spokesman Spero Canton on Tuesday deferred to a company statement on the proposal that praised the PSC for conducting an "exhaustive review."
"Though the [PSC] staff didn't agree with BellSouth on all the issues, we recognize that they made a great effort to consider both sides," the statement said.
The alternative phone companies say that in many cases the rates are so high that they couldn't compete with BellSouth on many services -- including high-speed Internet digital subscriber lines.
John Kerkorian, regional vice president of legal and regulatory affairs with Mpower Communications Corp., said his company pays BellSouth $44 to connect a digital subscriber line customer in Georgia, but the PSC recommends a connection fee of $149 in Florida.
"I have no idea why the PSC staff is recommending what it's recommending," he said.


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In April 2015, VerdErg was awarded co-funding through round one of the Energy Catalyst programme to further explore and evaluate the potential and technical feasibility of VETT for tidal applications.
This grant, set up by the UK’s innovation agency, Innovate UK, the Engineering and Physical SciencesResearch Council (EPSRC) and the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), was aimed at accelerating innovation in the energy sector by supporting projects that could deliver solutions to the energy ‘trilemma’ of reducing emissions, improving security of supply and reducing cost.
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VerdErg was able to respond to these challenges through a twelve month feasibility study aimed at applying the basic principles of the already developed onshore uni-directional run-of-river technology to bi-directional tidal applications.
To do this, over 50 designs were identified from the component level up to full assemblies and their hydrodynamic performance created and evaluated using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD).
In addition, the buildability of the most promising full assemblies was evaluated to ensure they were feasible and cost effective. This approach allowed the research team to achieve performance improvements and optimisations through extensive hydrodynamic performance analysis of the models created.
This work was conducted in collaboration with Arup’s Advanced Technology and Research team and Brent Measurement Technology and numerous stimulating design workshops were held to discuss model outputs and potential design iterations.
Three promising full assemblies will now be taken forward for development and prototyping. This is a great milestone for VETT as this bi-directional design will have the potential to transform the tidal hydropower sector and vastly contribute to diversity of energy sources in the UK and beyond.

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The global textile industry is significant and presents great business potential, particularly for emerging nations. On the other hand, because of their erratic and quick expansion, these industrial clusters are to blame for the adverse environmental impacts. Different chemicals, salts, and dyes are all mixed together in wastewater resulting from the textile printing business. This causes it to be brightly colored, have an alkaline pH, and have substantially lower levels of dissolved oxygen, all of which have an impact on the surrounding environment. The study collects wastewater from the textile industry at each stage of the process and analyses it to identify its parameters. These parameters include pH (Analytical value is 6.6 to 13.1), BOD (Analytical Value is 432 to 1840mg/l), COD (Analytical Value is 635 to 4459 mg/l), Total Dissolved Solids – TDS (Analytical Value is 6530 to 21989 mg/l ), TSS (Analytical Value is 275 to 1189), and Ammonium Nitrogen (Analytical Value is 34.2 to 49.4 ), Since these are all baseline variables, the natural ecological system is deteriorating. This allows for the deduction of the state authorities’ final alleviation standards for the ensuing treatment process.
Textile Industries, Wastewater, Physicochemical Parameters, Deteriorate, Natural Ecological System
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Recently, the data model in stream data environment has massive, continuous, and infinity properties. However the stream data processing like query process or data analysis is conducted using a limited capacity of disk or memory. In these environment, the traditional frequent pattern discovery on transaction database can be performed because it is difficult to manage the information continuously whether a continuous stream data is the frequent item or not. In this paper, we propose the method which we are able to predict the frequent items using the regression model on continuous stream data environment. We can use as a prediction model on indefinite items by constructing the regression model on stream data. We will show that the proposed method is able to be efficiently used on stream data environment through a variety of experiments.
Stream Data;Frequent Item;Regression Models;Prediction
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This intervention concerns the Support Project for the Institutional Capacity Building of the Justice Sector. It is expected to strengthen the judicial system in Guinea-Bissau and improve access to justice, particularly for women and the poor. The project aims to promote national ownership, stability, rule of law, public security and the reintegration of ex-combatants. The project is articulated around the following components: (i) support for the updating of the needs assessment for institutional and human capacity building of the justice system, and (ii) support for the development and implementation of a national programme for strengthening the institutional and human capacity of the justice system (main structures, auxiliaries to justice, NGOs active in access to justice and local communities); and (iii) coordination and monitoring-evaluation of the project.
PARCI-SJ aims to contribute to the strengthening of institutional and human capacities as well as to the modernisation of the justice sector in Guinea Bissau. Specifically, the project aims to support (i) the updating of the needs assessment for institutional and human capacity building of the justice system, and (ii) the elaboration and implementation of a national programme for the reinforcement of the intentional and human capacities of the justice system including the main structures, the auxiliaries of justice, the NGOs active in the access to justice and the local communities.
The direct beneficiaries targeted by the project are essentially the main structures of the judicial system, the auxiliaries of justice, the NGOs active in access to justice as well as the local communities in the 8 regions of the country including the autonomous sector of Bissau. Within the framework of PARCI-SJ, 4735 people will benefit from training, including 300 civil servants from the justice sector, 35 agents from the access to justice centres (CAJ), 400 members of civil society and 4000 people from local communities.
Fragile States Facility
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A quarter-dollar coin from the United States that was produced in 1964 or later weights 5.670 grammes, or 0.200 ounces. Since the quarter’s initial release in 1796, its weight has changed a little bit.
The first quarters were created in accordance with the Mint Act’s standards in 1792 and weighed 6.74 grammes (0.24 ounces). These coins were released between 1796 and 1838. The coins that came after them were altered to contain more silver and ranged in weight from 6.68 to 6.22 grammes, or 0.23 to 0.22 ounces. Weighting 6.25 grammes or 0.22 ounces, quarters struck between 1892 and 1964 include a range of designs and metal compositions.

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Selective immigration enforcement
The Obama administration's dubious claims of enforcing immigration laws come under renewed fire in a report showing selective enforcement against illegal aliens, even those convicted of crimes.
Agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement last year charged only about 195,000 illegals of the 722,000 facing deportation, according to the report by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS). Even worse, ICE freed 68,000 illegals convicted of crimes, amounting to a third of criminal aliens encountered, according to CIS.
In what amounts to prosecutory discretion, ICE officers are instructed to release illegals who are parents or caregivers or who claim to be students, writes Jessica M. Vaughan for CIS. And convictions for certain state crimes are ignored if the administration is opposed to the state law or believes it's too harsh, according to the report.
Political considerations, family relationships and “other factors not related to public safety” also reportedly are weighed. So, “the law” is what the Obama administration says it is.
“The preponderance of the evidence demonstrates that immigration enforcement in America has collapsed,” writes Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala.
At issue isn't a lack of resources — not when President Obama consistently seeks to cut ICE's budget, according to The Heritage Foundation. It's a flagrant, continuing and inexcusable disregard for the law.


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A Brief History of Lyme Disease
Lyme disease has only been known for a relatively short time. The first ever case was recorded in 1975 in the United States in Lyme, Connecticut. Lyme is a bacterial infection spread through the bites of some ticks. The bacterium causing it is called Borrelia burgdorferi.
Lyme disease is a multisystemic illness: it has a long and diverse list of possible symptoms, and it can affect several tissues and organs. Its most distinctive sign is a bull’s eye-shaped rash that usually develops at the site of the tick bite within days or weeks. However, the rash is only seen in about 70–80% of patients.
How To Treat Lyme Disease
Early diagnosis is crucial. The sooner Lyme disease is diagnosed, the better the treatment outcome. However, the first symptoms are flu-like and often very mild in people with healthy immune systems. Therefore, the infection can be very difficult to recognise and diagnose in the absence of a rash.
In its initial stages, Lyme disease can usually be quickly and effectively treated with a course of oral antibiotics. If it remains undiagnosed for a long time, more severe symptoms may develop several months or even years later, such as arthritis, neurological disorders, heart disease and meningitis (inflammation of the protective membranes surrounding the brain).
Symptoms affecting the nervous system include facial paralysis, memory impairment, difficulty concentrating, and pain or numbness in the limbs. Severe headaches and visual disturbances also tend to occur if the illness is allowed to progress. Some patients also experience depression, anxiety and panic attacks.
Since the symptoms of Lyme disease can mimic other conditions, it’s often misdiagnosed as chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and other psychiatric conditions.
There are some laboratory tests available to check for the presence of Borrelia burgdorferi in the blood. However, the results are often inaccurate in the early stages of infection, and false negative results are extremely common. Therefore, doctors normally diagnose Lyme disease by taking multiple factors into account, such as any physical signs, symptoms and the patient’s history of tick bites.
The Difference Between Acute and Chronic Lyme Disease
When Lyme-causing bacteria first enter the body through the infecting tick bite, the immune system recognises them as harmful and starts fighting them. People with strong immune function may not notice any symptoms at this stage.
If the illness isn’t diagnosed and treated early on, the bacteria can live inside the patient’s cells for a long time without causing any serious symptoms. They can travel to many different tissues and organs in the body while remaining unnoticed.
However, symptoms do eventually surface in most cases. When the immune system weakens due to another medical condition, stress or environmental factors, the bacteria can proliferate unhindered. This is when chronic Lyme disease occurs as a result of a widespread infection.
Once the immune system has been disrupted, it will continue to dysfunction as the bacteria flourish. Severe symptoms begin to develop during this chronic phase, which may even last a lifetime.
The Health Benefits of Colostrum
If you've heard of colostrum before, you might be wondering, exactly what is colostrum? And is colostrum vegan? Well, the answer to the latter is no – bovine colostrum is a milky fluid secreted by cows during the first few days after giving birth, before regular milk appears. Its purpose is to promote growth and establish a robust immune system in the newborn. It’s rich in important proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals and disease-fighting antibodies. The concentration of antibodies in bovine colostrum is up to 100 times higher than in normal cow's milk.
Human mothers also produce colostrum shortly after giving birth. Not only is it essential for the development of babies, but it has also been found to have significant health benefits during adulthood.
Due to its very similar chemical composition to human colostrum, bovine colostrum has been the subject of extensive research, which has found that it contains certain nutrients absent from any other dairy products. These findings have established colostrum as a popular dietary supplement.
Can Colostrum Treat Lyme Disease?
The vast majority of medical professionals agree that antibiotic therapy is the only effective treatment for Lyme disease. Colostrum shouldn’t be considered as a substitute for antibiotics, but it may be used as a form of complementary therapy while taking the prescribed drugs.
Colostrum can help boost the body’s natural defences and support the effects of the antibiotics. As a result, pathogens maybe destroyed more quickly and efficiently. Once the infection has cleared up, colostrum may also help reduce any remaining inflammation and bring the immune system back to its natural balance.
There’s some evidence that dietary supplements containing bovine colostrum may also have some other benefits that can contribute to the recovery process of Lyme patients. These include reducing allergies by curbing an overactive immune system, improving intestinal hyperpermeability (leaky gut), and boosting muscle strength and stamina by aiding the natural repair mechanisms of damaged muscles, ligaments, tendons and nerves.
However, despite evidence of the health benefits of colostrum, it is still subject to intense research. Studies and clinical trials related to humans still need to be performed to evaluate its beneficial impact. So far, information available on positive effects is only available from single patients and individual cases rather than scientific studies.

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New Times: What was the best part about doing the solo tour?
Colin Meloy: It was just great to play because it was smaller audiences. It seemed like, in each city, it was your normal Decemberists audience boiled down to the core 150, 200 people. It was a lot of fun in that respect -- the audience was, you know, really easy to win over. And everybody who was there knew all the songs, and inevitably [it] turned into this big sing-along thing. It was lots of fun for that reason. We're very lucky to have won over such sweet people.
NT: "Engine Driver" reminds me of an R.E.M. song at the beginning, and I heard that you did a snippet of [1984's] "Seven Chinese Brothers" at a solo show. Are you a big R.E.M. fan?
Meloy: I was weaned on music at a time when that was -- when everybody was trying to sound like R.E.M. all the time. Which seems to be a bygone era. You longingly look back and wish that everybody tried to sound like R.E.M. these days, rather than trying to sound like Franz Ferdinand. These things come and go. But yeah, R.E.M. will always be a big part of what I do.
NT: When people come up and talk to you at shows, what do they usually tell you about your music or themselves?
Meloy: Incredibly, a lot of people come up to me and say they were meant for the stage as well. I think we have a lot of, you know, drama fags that come out to the shows -- which is inevitable, because I was one of them myself. And by saying drama fags, I mean it in the most endearing way possible.

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May 8, 2020
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Results of a new survey of Oregon health care providers strongly suggest that immunizations in the state may have dropped dramatically due to the COVID-19 crisis.
Oregon Health Authority released the survey results this week. They show that changes to immunization practices many clinics put in place in response to the pandemic, as well as concerns among parents of young children, may have caused a "sharp reduction" in routine immunization of children and adults over the last two months.
The survey results are similar to those the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported today in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. CDC researchers observed a "notable decrease in orders" for non-influenza childhood vaccines and measles vaccines since the March 13 declaration of a national emergency due to COVID-19.
The results of the OHA survey can be found on the OHA immunization website.
The vaccines are funded by the federal Vaccines for Children (VFC) program, which provides vaccines at no cost to children who might not otherwise be vaccinated because of inability to pay. CDC buys vaccines at a discount and distributes them to grantees including OHA and some local health departments, which in turn distribute them at no charge to private physicians’ offices and public health clinics registered as VFC providers.
Officials with the Oregon Immunization Program, based at OHA, surveyed clinics that participate in VFC on April 18 and 29 after learning of concerns about clinic experience and operation changes due to the pandemic. The survey results found that among clinics that routinely provide immunizations to infants and children:
- 95% reported changing their immunization practices.
- 65% reduced or limited well-child visits, with 5% cancelling all well-child visits.
- 50% reported cancelling or rescheduling immunizations that were due for older children and adolescents.
- 81% reported difficulty maintaining staffing.
In addition, 58% of VFC clinics indicated they had a plan for contacting families of children with missed immunizations and catching them up, while 36% reported that they were still thinking about it. In open-ended responses, clinics frequently expressed a need for assistance in getting children to return for missed immunizations.
The survey was initiated after OHA officials noticed rapid declines in Oregon VFC vaccine orders; initial drops in weekly immunizations captured by Oregon’s ALERT IIS vaccination database; and reports from health care providers that parents stopped bringing their children in to clinics during the COVID-19 pandemic, and that providers were having difficulty maintaining clinic operations due to financial and staffing issues.
"There’s certainly been a lot of fear about COVID-19, and these survey results show us that this fear dramatically affected our ability to get children vaccinated," said Paul Cieslak, M.D., medical director for immunizations and communicable diseases at OHA. "It tells us we have a lot of work to do to get Oregon children back on schedule for getting protected from vaccine-preventable diseases."
Stay informed about COVID-19:
Oregon response: The Oregon Health Authority leads the state response.
United States response: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention leads the U.S. response.
Global response: The World Health Organization guides the global response.


Ergotron Neo-Flex LCD Arm Review
Been looking into organizing our workspace to enhance productivity. With computer being an indispensable tool, our desks are predominantly occupied by computer related hardware, like monitors, keyboards, mouses, tablets, etc. More often than not, I found myself frustrated with having little room to fit any paperwork that I still have to work with.
For myself, I have been reducing my computer footprint by switching from a PC to an iMac. I used to have a tower, then a couple monitors, a Microsoft Natural 4000 keyboard, and a Logitech MX Revolution mouse. They all take a significant amount of room on and off my desk. Since I switch to an iMac, I was able to reduce the number of monitors to one. I just find switching between applications in OSX a lot smoother and more visual with Expose. The Apple Wireless Keyboard and the Magic Mouse enable me to free up more desk space and be more “wire free”.
For my wife, she is still using a Windows notebook and she uses a second monitor. So I bought her a Ergotron Neo-Flex LCD Arm to free up some desk space.
It came in a box that protects very well.
It is also easy to unpack.
It came with an instruction manual, a 75mm to 100mm VESA mounting adaptor (black rectangular plate in photo), a desk mount adaptor if you need like to install it through a hole you happen to have on your desk, some simple tools and some screws for securing your monitor to the arm.
Before using the monitor arm, my wife’s desk looks like this. So let’s see how the monitor arm can help.
First, I have the monitor arm mounted to the left side of her notebook. I tested the range of reach the arm has to find the optimum mounting location.
Then I mounted the adapter plate to the arm. Notice that this version of the arm does not have any lever for tightening the joints. They are either free rotating or secured by screws. The middle hinge has a button style release that, when depressed, allows you to change the angle of inclination of the arm at the front.
I am very happy with the finish of the arm. It is nicely spray painted. The joints got copper washers which are tough and yet provide the right amount of grip when tightened.
Testing the height adjustment by tilting up the arm through the middle joint. In my opinion, there is a design flaw of this arm. When the arm is raised up, the mounting plate cannot be rotated along the middle of the plate and an axis that is vertically perpendicular to the desk surface. This can be a problem if you like to have the monitor raised up but want it to be placed as close to the wall behind the monitor as possible. Even with the arm raised to the highest angle, the monitor is still tilting forward from the middle joint by a few inches.
Now with a 20″ monitor mounted on it. It frees up the space required for the monitor stand that came with the monitor. Also, the arm provides some cable management clips that secure the power and video cable along the arm.
Testing an alternative position. This is for people who don’t have a lot of space to spread out a computer setup.
You can also lower the monitor as much as a few inches away from the desk surface.
And finally, here is what the arm looks like behind the monitor. We also had it stretched out entirely and the arm is totally capable of supporting the weight of the monitor without any problem. Just for reference, the monitor is a DELL 2007WFP LCD panel. It is 11 lb/5.0 Kg in weight. According to the specifications, the LCD arm can support a monitor of up to 8.16 Kg in weight.
It has been a few weeks since my wife started using the monitor arm. Once installed, you don’t think much about it. It is out of the way and it works as advertised. The monitor arm actually makes it a lot easier for her to share her monitor with me as she can rotate it and bring it forward very easily. When I am done looking at her screen, she can easily push it back to where it belongs. The fact that we don’t even think much of it is a very good sign as it has become so easy to use that it is just part of the workspace, as oppose to something that you have to think about when you use it.
We bought it when it was on sale at NCIX. We saved about $10 from the regular price, that kinds of covers the sales tax here.
I would recommend it if you like to save some desk space, need some simple cable management for your monitor, and find that you often need to share your monitor with someone and your current monitor stand makes it difficult to do so.
I just messed up bying another lcd arm (Multibrackets, desk mounted) and was wondering which one to step up to/upgrade to, now I know this one will work for me.
The one I got first couldn’t get a 24″ monitor closer to the desk than 16,5 cm (6,5 inches), which is ridiculous!
The Ergotron looks much better in that aspect.
Thanks for the nice review, and especially the pictures!
We have been using it for over a year and it is still as solid as when we first got it. I am also interested in the LX Desk Mount. When it is on sale, it costs $120 + Taxes here.
Just a quick update: I actually ended up with the Ergotron LX-model, it’s brilliant. There’s no going back now :)
Woot Woot! :)


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With Survey2Connect, you get the flexibility to manage source data and make changes to it.
Add Source Data in a new Dashboard
You can add Source data while creating a new dashboard. The steps to doing so are as follows:
1. Go to the Dashboard section of the account
2. Click on New Dashboard
3. Select the Library where you would wish to save your dashboard. Next, enter the name for the Dashboard
4. Select the survey for which you would be creating the source. You can either import data from a file or a survey from your library.
5. In the window, you would be shown all the available data. This includes all the questions and their answer choices. There is also metadata available. Select the questions and metadata you would want to add to your source. Click Done after you have selected the data.
6. On the source page, you can add more variables and data sources. Variables are representations of your survey data. You can move them up and down the order. You can also group them.
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At the UFC Fight Night 69 weigh-ins, all 22 fighters taking part in Saturday's UFC Fight Night 69 fights will step on the scale Friday, and we'll have the live video here at MMAFighting.com.
In the main event, Joanna Jedrzejczyk and Jessica Penne will have to make the strawweight limit of 115 pounds.
The UFC Fight Night 69 weigh-in takes place at 10 a.m. ET, and the video is above.
The UFC Fight Night 69 weigh-in results are below.
Main card (UFC Fight Pass at 3 p.m. ET)
Joanna Jedrzejczyk (114) vs. Jessica Penne (114)
Dennis Siver (145) vs. Tatsuya Kawajiri (146)
Peter Sobotta (171) vs. Steve Kennedy (170)
Nick Hein (155) vs. Lukasz Sajewski (155)
Undercard (UFC Fight Pass at 12 p.m. ET)
Makwan Amirkhani (145) vs. Masio Fullen (145)
Mairbek Taisumov (155) vs. Alan Patrick (154)
Alan Omer (146) vs. Arnold Allen (144)
Niklas Backstrom (146) vs. Noad Lahat (145)
Scott Askham (185) vs. Antonio dos Santos (185)
Piotr Hallman (154) vs. Magomed Mustafaev (155)
Taylor Lapilus (135) vs. Ulka Sasaki (135)


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Sheriff urges residents to register for emergency notification system
Last month, as multiple law enforcement agencies combed through an area in northeast Phelps for two suspects wanted for questioning in regards to a vehicle chase that began in Geneva, the Ontario County Sheriff's Office kept residents in the area informed about what was happening by phone.
The sheriff's office didn't call each resident individually — instead, it used an emergency notification system to reach out to them all in one step, said Sheriff Philip Povero.
For several years, the sheriff's office has used a tool to notify residents of emergency situations, he said. Through the system provided by Hyper-Reach, the sheriff's office can choose an address, address range or geographical area and send a message to everyone in that area at a rate of 10,000 phone numbers per hour. Residents receive a call with the message about the particular situation.
During the search in Phelps on June 16 and 17, Povero said, the system was used to notify residents to stay in their homes and also informed them when the search was suspended after the investigation indicated that the two suspects may have left the area.
The system was also used in March during a nearly 12-hour standoff between Victor resident Ryan Whidden and law enforcement at Whidden's Ketchum Street home, Povero said.
“It's been very successful,” he said. “It's proven to be a valuable tool in residential notification of serious or critical events.”
In situations such as a missing person, Povero said, the tool is “priceless.”
A couple years ago, when a senior citizen residing in the village of Phelps wandered from a home, a message was sent out through the one such system, and neighbors assisted in the search, Povero said. The person was located and was unharmed, he said.
The system has also been used to locate a lost child in Eastview Mall by sending out a message to each of the stores, as well as to notify residents of a water main break.
But, Povero said, cell phone numbers are not included in the system's database, which uses landline, wired telephone numbers provided by the telephone companies that serve the county. Also not included in the database are Text Telephones (TTY) — also known as Telecommunications Devices for the Deaf (TDD) — as well as digital (VoIP) phones and services such as magicJack.
“Today, with cell phone technology, so many people are abandoning their hardline phones,” Povero said. “... The number of cell phones is increasing on a daily basis.”
Povero urged residents whose telephone numbers are not included in the database to register on the county's website.
“If there is an emergency in your neighborhood, I'm confident you'll want to know about it, so that you can plan accordingly,” he said.


Trump has nominated retired Gens. James Mattis to be his secretary of defense and John Kelly to head Homeland Security. That puts the number of former generals on a par with former doctors, Tom Price for Health and Human Services and Ben Carson for Housing and Urban Development.
If Trump chooses former Gen. David Petraeus to become his secretary of state, the number of former brass would spike to three. Trump also has chosen three attorneys for his cabinet -- would-be Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Labor Secretary Andrew Puzder and Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt. I have heard no complaints about the number of attorneys.
Attorney and Afghan vet Tom Umberg told me he would add Trump's national security adviser pick Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn because of the access he will have. That method would bring the total to three.
So why is this a media story? One reason is that Trump's military picks are recent retirees. Congress has to pass waivers to allow former brass to serve as civilians in government before a seven-year waiting period expires. Also, during the contentious 2016 campaign, Trump frequently dismissed Obama's generals as underwhelming.
Don't underestimate anti-military sentiments. Democratic activist Jamal Simmons tweeted there is "something wrong" with putting generals in charge of foreign policy. Actually, Trump has named recent generals to head the Pentagon and homeland security, not foreign policy. While this country has a proud tradition of civilian control over the military, there is much to be said for giving military veterans a place at the table when Washington considers sending U.S. troops in harm's way.
"America is in no danger of becoming a Central-American-like junta," observed Texas Public Policy Foundation head Chuck De Vore, an Army Reserve veteran and former foreign affairs aide in the Reagan administration. "Civilians vastly under-appreciate what it takes to be a senior general, three and four star, in today's military," he added. You have to know how to manage large bureaucracies, inspire troops and put the right people in the right place at the right time.
Before Bill Clinton won the White House, a lack of military service counted against would-be presidents. Clinton, who benefited from a draft deferment, at least picked Vietnam vet Al Gore as his running mate. When George W. Bush ran, Democrats complained that he only served as pilot in the Air National Guard and that Bush running mate Dick Cheney enjoyed five draft deferments. That is, by the way, the same number of deferments that kept Obama veep Joe Biden out of service.
Obama is the first post-Vietnam service age executive in the bunch. The older Trump received four student draft deferments, and another for bone spurs in his heels.
With the U.S. military involved in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen and Africa, Americans should want officials who know the sacrifices made by those who serve and their families. Kelly's son Robert paid the ultimate price in Afghanistan in 2010. This summer, Trump got in a Twitter war with Khazr Khan, whose speech to the Democratic National Convention highlighted the price Muslims in the military have paid in defense of this country. (Khan's son was killed by a car bomb in Iraq in 2004.)
When in reference to Khan, ABC News' George Stephanopoulous asked Trump what sacrifices he made for America, the billionaire answered, "I think I've made a lot of sacrifices. I work very, very hard. I've created thousands and thousands of jobs, tens of thousands of jobs, built great structures. I've had tremendous success. I think I've done a lot." One advantage in picking former military, Umberg noted, is that "they would never make the mistake of equating the loss of a son or daughter with working long hours building buildings."


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Horwin CR6 is coming soon in Nepal.
Pioneer World Wide, the authorized distributor of Horwin electric products in Nepal, is planning to make its way into the market.
The company will break into the Nepali EV segment with three models: Horwin CR6, Horwin SK3, and Horwin EK1.
Designed especially for the European market, these products have helped Horwin has successfully expanded into Europe, Asia, and South America.
We will talk about Horwin CR6 in this article.
Horwin CR6 is a full-fledged electric retro motorcycle. It gets a perfect balance between style, performance, and features.
It is still too early to guess its price. Nevertheless, the Horwin CR6 price in Nepal will be around Rs. 7 Lakhs.
With that kind of pricing, it will be one of the most expensive electric bikes right now.
Before going into additional detail, let’s take a quick look at the Horwin CR6 in Nepal along with its key specifications.
Horwin CR6 Specifications
- Motor: 5.3 kW FOC
- Battery: 4 kWh (72V53Ah)
- Peak Power: 6.2 kW
- Peak Torque: 260 Nm
- Battery Type: Lithium Ion
- Range: 151 Km
- Top Speed: 95 Kmph
- Charging Time: 3-4 hours (Supports Fast Charging)
- Tyres: Tubeless
- Tyres Size: Disc
- 100/80-17 in Front
- 120/80-17 in Rear
- Tubeless Tyres: Yes
- Braking Type: Standard
- Suspension: USD Forks and Monoshock
- Seat Height: 870 mm
- Ground Clearance: 165 mm
- Weight: 107 Kg
- Colors: Black, White, Green, and Blue
Horwin CR6 Price in Nepal: TBA
Horwin CR6 Overview
Horwin CR6 is an electric bike at the heart. However, it proudly includes retro elements as well.
The front section comes with a circular Headlamp with a unique DRL.
The same circular theme continues on its mirror as well as its analog-digital meter. Interestingly enough, the Rear lamp is also circular which is integrated into the tyre hugger.
The entire light system is LEDs.
Moreover, the side profile displays the sculpted elements at the Fuel Tank and Side Panels. It gets a single-piece seat for a single rider along with a chromed grab rail.
Additionally, Horwin CR6 is available in four different colors: Black, White, Green, and Blue.
Horwin CR6 is powered by a 5.3kW FOC Motor. It generates a max power of 6.2kW and a max torque of 260Nm.
Moreover, it can reach a top speed of 95Kmph.
It is supported by a 72V53Ah Panasonic Lithium-Ion Battery. It can charge from 20-100% in just three hours, with a claimed range of 151Km.
CR6 battery gets 360-degree protection with its state-of-the-art Battery Management System (BMS). It should protect the battery against issues like Overload, Deep Discharge, Overheating, Short Circuit, and more.
USD Fork and Monoshock handle the suspension duties.
The dimensions are 2040mm in length, 770mm in width, and 1120mm in height. Moreover, the wheelbase sits at 1395mm.
Horwin CR6 gets a 165mm ground clearance. And, the kerb weight is 107kg without the battery.
The tyres are 100/80-section at the front and 120/80-section at the rear.
Additionally, it gets perforated Dual Disc braking with CBS as standard. Furthermore, the seat height is 870mm.
Horwin CR6 Features
Here is a quick list of features in the new Horwin CR6 in Nepal.
Horwin CR6 Features Highlight
- 5.3kW FOC Motor
- 72V53Ah Panasonic Lithium-Ion Battery
- Retro Inspired Styling
- Aluminium-Magnesium Alloy Frame
- Developed for Europe
- Full LED Lighting System
- 360-degree Protection with Battery Management System
- Classical Analog-Digital Meter
- Perforated Dual Disc Braking
- Combined Braking System
- Remote Key
- 17-degree Slope Climb
- Anti-Theft System
Horwin CR6 Price in Nepal and Availability
It should be noted that the Horwin CR6 hasn’t yet officially arrived in Nepal. It will make its debut after Dashain. Nevertheless, Horwin CR6 price in Nepal will be around Rs. 7 Lakhs.
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Horwin Nepal is currently busy building the Horwin showroom at Naxal. Hence, the showroom opening will likely coincide with the launch of its newest product.
Among them, the Yatri Project One shines as a more reasonable offering. More importantly, it is made in Nepal. Nevertheless, the Horwin CR6 claims a much better range than the Yatri Project One.
However, it is still too early to call for judgment.
We will wait until Horwin CR6 gets its official launch in the Nepali market.
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The APR Program is one of the oldest farmland protection programs in the country, and is complemented by two other land protection tools – the State’s conservation tax credit and its Community Preservation Act (CPA). Even with these tools, just a little over 14 percent of the State’s land in farms is permanently protected.
Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) is a zoning tool used successfully in other parts of the country that would be a valuable addition to the Massachusetts toolbox. Although there are some municipalities that allow for TDRs, few are using it to its full potential.
Two aspects of the APR program limit its ability to protect land important for food production – the per-acre price cap, and the five-acre acreage minimum. The per-acre price cap has made APR projects especially challenging in the eastern half of the Commonwealth, especially in communities without the CPA to augment APR funding. The five-acre threshold is a barrier to preserving the type of small parcels valuable to startup farm enterprises or serving urban markets.
State funding for the APR program has declined in recent years; increased State support for the program will become increasingly important to make up for declining dollars through the federal Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP), whose rules also make protection of certain types of farmland problematic. Increasing State resources for land protection through the CPA and the conservation tax credit will also help to leverage municipal and private resources for farmland protection. Additionally, other State and federal programs should be explored for permanent protection of open space for community farms and gardens.
Lack of reliable statewide data around farmland trends prevents the development and tracking of meaningful targets around farmland retention, protection, and access. A formal State farmland action plan is being recommended to improve State data collection around farmland and establish formal farmland protection goals and benchmarks, providing a better roadmap for State investments in farmland protection in the future.
Recommendation 2.1: Develop a formal State farmland action plan to: (1) determine the resources needed to improve State data collection around farmland trends; (2) establish a statewide baseline of land in active agricultural production, or the process for doing so with improved data collection, and a system for tracking acres of farmland in production over time; (3) set measurable goals and benchmarks related to farmland protection, retention, and access; and (4) recommend State program spending levels to meet those goals and benchmarks. The plan should consider the regional land use plans that have been undertaken by various regional planning agencies, and any available assessments, modelling or scenario planning that predicts future land use patterns, needs or threats. The plan should review rates of farmland loss and conversion determine the percentage of eligible acres currently enrolled in Chapter 61A, and identify threats to the Commonwealth’s farmland base, including conversion of farmland to solar development and threats to agricultural productivity as a result of climate change. The plan should identify areas of agricultural importance and areas with potential suitability for future food production, including those in urban areas, and include an inventory of farmland owned by the State, counties, and municipalities (such as correctional facilities, former State hospital lands, and other underutilized State-owned lands), and public utilities, identifying parcels that are currently in agricultural use or suitable for agricultural use based on an assessment of soils and other land characteristics. The plan should set measurable goals related to farmland resources in the Commonwealth and recommend a means for measuring progress against those goals. The plan should be formally adopted by the Commonwealth, and used to guide State policies and investments related to public infrastructure, agricultural infrastructure, climate change mitigation and adaptation, farmland protection, and farmland mitigation.
Action 2.1.1: Establish a legislatively-appointed task force to develop a State farmland action plan, and provide necessary funding for its development. Members of the task force should include representatives of State agencies, farm and conservation organizations, University of Massachusetts, and other academic institutions with expertise in agricultural land data analysis, modeling, and mapping, regional planning agencies, and USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS).
Recommendation 2.2: Increase the use of TDRs as a farmland protection tool.
Action 2.2.1: Create a statewide TDR credit bank and seek startup funding to get it established.
Action 2.2.2: Clarify through statute that municipalities may develop regional TDR programs, as has been suggested in versions of State zoning reform legislation.
Action 2.2.3: Update the TDR model in the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EOEEA) toolkit and provide interested communities with technical assistance on how to implement TDR in their town or municipality.
Recommendation 2.3: Increase the pace of farmland protection through the APR Program, including small, productive farmland parcels, especially in eastern Massachusetts and those on the edges of population centers.
Action 2.3.1: Fully expend existing bond authorizations provided for the APR Program in the 2008 and 2014 Environmental Bond by 2018, and establish an annual bond cap that allows maximum leveraging of federal farmland protection funds. Increase funding for the APR Program in the next Environmental Bond consistent with goals set in the proposed farmland action plan. See Recommendation 2.1.
Action 2.3.2: Create dedicated APR funding specifically for projects not eligible for NRCS’ Agricultural Land Easement (ALE) program.
Action 2.3.3: Increase the APR program’s current per-acre cap.
Action 2.3.4: Task the Agricultural Lands Preservation Committee (ALPC) with reviewing current APR program policies related to housing, farm infrastructure, the 5 percent impervious surface limit, and limits on renewable energy production if sited away from productive agricultural lands, and recommending changes as appropriate.
Action 2.3.5: Work with USDA-NRCS to include in the proposed State farmland action plan any elements needed to enable the Plan to be used as an alternative pathway for ALE program eligibility. See Recommendation 2.1.
Action 2.3.6: Allow pre-acquisitions of farmland through the ALE and APR program.
Action 2.3.7: Eliminate the requirement that land be in active agricultural use for 2 years to be eligible for the APR program.
Action 2.3.8: Support revisions to the CPA that will provide additional funding to the Trust. Encourage communities to adopt the CPA, which provides funding streams for open space protection (including agricultural land) and affordable housing, as well as recreation and historic preservation.
Action 2.3.9: Provide technical assistance to town community preservation committees, agricultural commissions, and land trusts about how CPA funds can be used to support farmland protection, as well as affordable housing associated with farmland.
Action 2.3.10: Increase the State conservation tax credit, currently at $2 million annually, to $5 million annually, and improve its use with the APR Program.
Recommendation 2.4: Evaluate and consider the elimination of State capital gains tax on the sale of APRs.
Recommendation 2.5: Improve dialogue and information sharing among and between farm and conservation organizations, the ALPC, and State and federal agencies about farmland protection issues and challenges.
Action 2.5.1: Task MDAR and the ALPC with convening an annual forum to evaluate progress through the APR Program and to invite stakeholder input on APR program policies.
Action 2.5.2: Establish a coalition of agriculture, conservation, forestry, and smart growth organizations to work together and with the ALPC and State and federal agencies to identify and take action on common issues and priorities around farmland protection.
 According to the 2012 Census of Agriculture, Massachusetts had 523,517 acres of land in farms in 2012, and as of June 22, 2015, the Commonwealth had protected 74,122 acres of farmland (71,796 acres with APR), or a little over 14% of all farmland.

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Chemically synthesized dicarba H2 relaxin analogues retain strong RXFP1 receptor activity but show an unexpected loss of in vitro serum stability
Peptides and proteins are now acknowledged as viable alternatives to small molecules as potential therapeutic agents. A primary limitation to their more widespread acceptance is their generally short in vivo half-lives due to serum enzyme susceptibility and rapid renal clearance. Numerous chemical approaches to address this concern have been undertaken in recent years. The replacement of disulfide bonds with non-reducible elements has been demonstrated to be one effective means by eliminating the deleterious effect of serum reductases. In particular, substitution with dicarba bonds via ring closure metathesis has been increasingly applied to many bioactive cystine-rich peptides. We used this approach for the replacement of the A-chain intramolecular disulfide bond of human relaxin 2 (H2 relaxin), an insulin-like peptide that has important regulatory roles in cardiovascular and connective tissue homeostasis that has led to successful Phase IIIa clinical trials for the treatment of acute heart failure. Use of efficient solid phase synthesis of the two peptide chains was followed by on-resin ring closure metathesis and formation of the dicarba bond within the A-chain and then by off-resin combination with the B-chain via sequential directed inter-chain disulfide bond formation. After purification and comprehensive chemical characterization, the two isomeric synthetic H2 relaxin analogues were shown to retain near-equipotent RXFP1 receptor binding and activation propensity. Unexpectedly, the in vitro serum stability of the analogues was greatly reduced compared with the native peptide. Circular dichroism spectroscopy studies showed subtle differences in the secondary structures between dicarba analogues and H2 relaxin suggesting that, although the overall fold is retained, it may be destabilized which could account for rapid degradation of dicarba analogues in serum. Caution is therefore recommended when using ring closure metathesis as a general approach to enhance peptide stability.

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"God Moves in a Mysterious Way": Public Discourse on Providence and the Battle of Gettysburg
This study of public reaction to the Battle of Gettysburg in the context of the wider experience of the American Civil War focuses on the view of Providence in history and war. To that end, this study primarily utilizes documents which were part of the public discourse during the war. This includes two major groups of writings: newspaper editorials and articles and published sermons. This allows a view of the intersecting of religion with the secular world as well as patriotism within in the religious community. Collections from both the Union and the Confederacy have been accessed in an attempt to provide a balanced picture of the wartime public religious discourse. Published sermons have been selected for two reasons. First, they make up the vast majority of the historical record which we have today. Second, published sermons had the ability to reach a wider audience than one congregation on one specific Sunday morning. It is important to note that published sermons generally reflect a specific socio-economic and political group. Only pastors who had access to a publishing house, or who had members with such connections, would have been able to publish their sermons to would have been asked to publish their sermons. This would suggest that pastors whose sermons were published were not of the lower economic classes. Further, since most of these published sermons were requested by groups, they likely represent views held by a wider section of the surrounding society. This fact contributes to their import as evidence of the tide of religious discussion on each side, but also limits any dissenting voices. Thus, this study is interested in the commonly expressed religious views of each side, but does not examine in depth questions of the totality of such views.
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""God Moves in a Mysterious Way": Public Discourse on Providence and the Battle of Gettysburg,"
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“There is infant formula available. At the same time, we are absolutely mindful of how challenging this is,” a White House senior administration official told reporters Monday night. She suggested that families consider switching formula brands and advised them not to make their own formula at home or water down formula.
Pelosi said the biggest issues with the formula shortage include determining where shortages are and distributing the supply evenly. Congress is looking at partnering with private sector facilities to help move supply, and DeLauro’s bill could help speed that process, Pelosi said. The $28 million emergency supplemental could also help the FDA quickly inspect baby formula production plants abroad.
Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and Rep. Robert C. Scott, D-Va., are working on another baby formula bill that would target shortages in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, or WIC. About half of babies in the United States access formula through WIC. The Department of Agriculture recently extended flexibilities in formula brands that WIC recipients can purchase, and Stabenow and Scott’s bill would make those flexibilities permanent.
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The House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will hold a hearing May 25 on the formula shortage, Chairman Frank Pallone Jr., D-N.J., said. FDA Commissioner Robert Califf is set to attend, as are representatives from the baby food companies Abbott, Gerber and Reckitt.
The House Appropriations Committee will hold two hearings over the coming week to examine the shortage of infant formula.
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