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Active travel advocates ask who has the freedom to use the roads
On February 18, around 2,000 people came to Oxford to protest for freedom and against traffic filters.
There also seemed to be slogans about climate change denial, anti-vaccination, anti-Semitism and racism, but we’ll leave that to others. What interests us here is their perspective on “freedom”.
As the American JB Finch said in 1882, “Your right to wave your arm ends where my right not to be hit on the nose begins,” and as we examine it, their view of freedom is selfish and destructive .
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First, consider the traffic. Much of it is not there. The freedom to drive creates traffic jams every day, and so people lose their freedom of movement and get stuck in queues of their own making.
These people exercising their ‘freedom’ are also taking the liberty of people in the 32% of Oxford households who do not have cars and others who do not drive.
Due to increased traffic, bus services around the city have slowed to 8-10mph, slower than a bike. As this increases costs, bus companies have had to reduce some services.
Two-thirds of Britons find the roads too dangerous for cycling, depriving them of the freedom to choose modes of transport free from high fuel, service and environmental costs. Children have lost the freedom of independent travel that I enjoyed in the traffic light 70’s and early 80’s. In many places it is even difficult to cross the street.
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For some, the loss of freedom is even more serious.
In 2020, Ella Kissi-Debrah became the first person to list air pollution as a cause on her death certificate. She died at the age of nine.
Her mother is now committed to reducing air pollution.
The way cars make us less active contributes to one in six deaths, 100,000 a year across the UK, linked to physical inactivity.
And in the 10 years to 2021 we have seen 17,000 road casualties in Oxfordshire with 258 fatalities.
I’m not saying everyone should stop driving, but there is a balance here and we need to be aware of the costs and harms and the benefits that people get from it.
So what to do if more people want to drive than there is space?
The current “laissez-faire” approach only works for people with time to burn and really messes things up for buses and the small fraction of people who rely on cars.
Instead, you may be wondering if it isn’t better to give priority to certain users (e.g. disabled people who rely on cars, buses that use space efficiently) and then split the remaining road with a tax allowance, so that traffic can flow.
READ AGAIN: Let cyclists ride through college parks, activist says
By reducing traffic overall, it would be more appealing to walk, use a wheelchair or cycle – all of which cause less congestion and damage. Just like traffic lights at a crossroads, such an approach brings about a fairer balance of freedoms by imposing restrictions. You may have already recognized it as the traffic filter plan for Oxford.
So when you hear someone talk about freedom, ask yourself… ‘Is this true freedom that takes nothing away from anyone?’ Like cycling down a quiet lane or across town – you don’t use up resources, you don’t cause delays.
Or is it a selfish conception of freedom that prioritizes personal comfort over the loss of freedom for others?
To enable children to experience the freedom of cycling in a safe environment before our roads are fully developed,
Oxford, like many other cities, hosts ‘Kidical Mass’ events where a mass of cyclists, including experienced trip leaders, create a safe place for children to cycle. Cyclox and partner organizations are hosting Kidical Mass events on March 26, May 7 and September 24, 2023 – details at www.cyclox.org, we look forward to seeing you there.
This story was written by Andy Ffrench who joined the team over 20 years ago and now covers community news across Oxfordshire.
Contact him by email: [email protected]
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According to The Mirror, Jurgen Klopp is keen to revamp his goalkeeping department this summer and, with Simon Mignolet’s departure imminent, the former Borussia Dortmund boss sees Southampton’s Alex McCarthy as the ideal deputy to Alisson.
Should the 29-year-old shot-stopper trade St Mary’s for Anfield, he will become the seventh player to do since 2014, with the Reds having raided the south coast club for their best talent on a regular basis in the past five years.
Former Crystal Palace man McCarthy was a standout performer in a Saints side that disappointed under Mark Hughes but was replaced by Angus Gunn in February, with Ralph Hasenhuttl making a number of big changes as he looked to turn Southampton’s season around.
Southampton fans! Would you want Adam Lallana back at St. Mary’s this summer? One fan has his say in the video below…
McCarthy might not be the key first team player that Sadio Mane, Dejan Lovren or Adam Lallana were, but the prospect of yet another squad member joining Liverpool has riled some Saints fans, while others seem to think it might make sense – you can check out the best of their reaction to the reports on Twitter below…
Liverpool can have Alex McCarthy for £10/£12 million if they want. He doesn’t want to sit on our bench so he can go and sit on theirs if he wants. Still a very competent goalkeeper.
— Ewan Campbell (@EwanCampbell1NI) June 16, 2019
I had a suspicion McCarthy might go and even if it makes sense financially I’d be sad to see it happen. Especially if it’s to Liverpool!
— Laney1980 (@Laney19801) June 17, 2019
It would hardly be a shock now would it?
— I Think Therefore Ian (@ohblox) June 16, 2019
Liverpool are interested in a Southampton player – and you regard that as a “shock”?
You’re pretty easily shocked
— Tim Nazium (@mytihot) June 16, 2019
so liverpool, matty targett? Alex McCarthy? take em we will throw in Charlie Austin for a sweetener! ? #SaintsFC
— Coutinhojr30 (@coutinhojr30) June 17, 2019
— Stuart (@Sidlaw100) June 17, 2019
Normal service is resumed then!
— Kevin Pearce (@KevPearce9) June 16, 2019
For a player who deserves to be playing buy we aren’t picking?
He’s the reason we stayed up!
Let him go, hope he goes and wins the league.
— Knells (@BenKnells) June 16, 2019

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Somehow, Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora looked at Mookie Betts' MVP season and saw room for improvement.
Not the .346 batting average that was the highest in the major leagues. Not the career-high 32 homers, either.
But Betts drove in just 80 runs last year while spending almost all of his time as the leadoff hitter for the Red Sox. That seemed like a missed opportunity, so Cora is planning to bat Betts second this season and move Andrew Benintendi to leadoff.
"If you play 162 games, you're going to come up 162 at-bats with nobody on," Cora said.
Betts tied for the major-league lead with 129 runs scored, but he had the fewest at-bats with runners on base in baseball (among batters with at least 600 plate appearances). He is expected to get more batting behind Benintendi, whose .366 on-base percentage was third on the team behind Betts (.438) and J.D. Martinez (.402).
It's one of the few changes Cora has planned for a team that won a franchise-record 108 games in his first season and its fourth World Series since 2004.
Here are some other things to look for from the defending champions:
In-depth news coverage of the Greater Boston Area.
After going 86 years without a championship, the Red Sox have won four this century. But they haven't won back-to-back World Series since 1915-16.
Cora isn't pretending there's any other goal.
"One thing about repeating," he said, dismissing popular theories of a championship "hangover" that prevents back-to-back winners. "I think it's who you have in the clubhouse and what they want to do."
The last major league team to win two (or more) World Series in a row was the 1998-2000 New York Yankees. But Cora notes that since then, several other teams have come close enough to debunk the notion that there's some sort of hex.
The Phillies made it back to the Series after winning it all in 2008, the Giants won three times in five years and the Los Angeles Dodgers have won back-to-back NL pennants.
"We do believe we're going to do it," Cora said. "We've got a good team."
The biggest offseason departure is closer Craig Kimbrel, who remained unsigned in this offseason's curious free agent market after turning down Boston's $17.9 million offer.
Kimbrel saved 42 games and struck out 96 batters in 62 innings last year. He had six saves but also a 5.91 ERA during the postseason, and Cora went to starter Chris Sale to close out the Game 5 clincher of the World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Reliable setup man Joe Kelly has signed with the Dodgers.
In their place, the Red Sox are auditioning Matt Barnes, Heath Hembree, Ryan Brasier and Tyler Thornburg. (Another option, knuckleballer Steven Wright, has been suspended for 80 games after testing positive for human growth hormone). None has impressed this spring.
Cora has said he might use more than one pitcher in the role, depending on matchups.
The Red Sox have won three straight AL East titles, and they have done it with virtually the same roster.
Last year, they signed J.D. Martinez during spring training, and then added Steve Pearce and Nathan Eovaldi midseason. Pearce, who was the World Series MVP, and Eovaldi, who pitched six innings of relief in the 18-inning Game 3, were both re-signed this offseason.
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Top prospect Michael Chavis hit four homers in 11 spring training games but already has been optioned to Triple-A. Bobby Dalbec, who also plays first and third base, could get the call if the team needs help at one of the infield corners.
The Red Sox open the regular season at Seattle on March 28 and then complete their West Coast swing in Oakland and Arizona before returning to Boston to raise their championship flag at Fenway Park on April 9 against the Toronto Blue Jays.


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A late goal from Nolberto Solano saved Newcastle’s blushes in a 1-1 draw at Carlisle.
Sam Allardyce was without Michael Owen for the pre-season friendly at Brunton Park after the England striker suffered a minor thigh injury in training this week.
But new signings David Rozehnal, Joey Barton and Geremi all featured in a strong Magpies team.
It was the Coca-Cola League One side, however, who took the lead after a goalless first half, as Danny Livesey headed past the stranded Steve Harper from a 56th-minute corner.
But in the final minute Solano collected the ball from a flick-on and crashed past Kieran Westwood to level.


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Shakespeare would seriously laugh so hard if he found out how seriously people take his works. Like, he would probably cry from laughing so hard if you told him that his plays were considered high-brow literature. “It’s all dick jokes and sword fights,” he’d say, “do they seriously tell my dick jokes to schoolchildren? And the kids aren’t allowed to laugh? Do the teachers know they’re telling dick jokes? Oh my god that’s fucking hilarious. Wait until I tell Anne.”
A woman was left gobsmacked when she learned the gold ring she stumbled across in a field was 2,000 years old.
#THERE ARE LITERALLY THREE MOVIES AND A HUGE-ASS BOOK EXPLAINING WHY KEEPING IT IS A BAD IDEA
"…it felt like a gift from the underworld," Lundin told The Local. "It was my magnificent ring. I didn’t want to give it up."

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Sandra Bernhard is a force to be reckoned with. Well known for her outrageous sense of humor, this famous comedian, singer, and actress has made a name for herself in the industry. Today marks her 57th birthday, and she sure has a lot to celebrate. With groundbreaking appearances as the first openly gay women on the sitcom Roseanne, and other substantial debuts on shows like The L Word, and Will & Grace, Bernhard sure knows how to push the limits, and succeeds in doing so. Recently she released her music album titled What Ever it Takes. Today, she enjoys doing what she does best, and that is being funny.
Check out some videos of her performances after the jump…
Bernhard’s stand up
Bernhard on Roseanne
Bernhard singing song off new album

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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Three days after Browns starting center Nick Harris was likely lost for the season to a right knee injury, rookie center Dawson Deaton was carted off the Browns practice field with a season-ending torn ACL.
Day 13 of training camp proved to be an unlucky day for Deaton, who had moved up to backup center behind Ethan Pocic when Harris went down on the second play of Friday night’s 24-13 victory over the Jaguars in the first preseason game.
Deaton is the fourth Browns offensive player to be lost for the season this camp, including two that were possibly headed for the practice squad in Deaton and undrafted rookie receiver Isaiah Weston (torn ACL and torn meniscus). The other was Pro Bowl returner Jakeem Grant, who suffered a season-ending ruptured Achilles tendon last week.
With Deaton carted off early on in practice, backup guards Hjalte Froholdt and Michael Dunn took some snaps at center. As for replacing Harris, the Browns are confident in Ethan Pocic and have no current plans to bring back JC Tretter, who’s still a free agent.
The Browns will undoubtedly keep their eyes open for offensive line depth in the coming roster cuts.
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SONOMA VALLEY -- F. Korbel & Bros., which makes the Kenwood and Korbel brands, today said it has called off its previously announced sale of the 550,000-case-a-year Kenwood Vineyards brand and winery to New York-based Banfi Vintners.
In late March, F. Korbel announced it was in negotiations to sell Kenwood to Banfi to focus resources on the Korbel brand of methode champenoise sparkling wine plus brandy. The decision to sell came after several months of strategic review, according to F. Korbel. The company will continue to own and operate the winery.
A spokeswoman declined to comment further, citing confidentiality agreements.
Gary Heck, owner and president of F. Korbel, acquired Kenwood in 1999, when it was a 300,000-case-a-year brand. Kenwood Vineyards started in 1970.

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Filming is well and truly underway for new superhero movie Birds of Prey – and Harley Quinn is having such a good time that she’s serving up margaritas on set!
Margot Robbie was spotted getting into character in Los Angeles yesterday.
Clutching a tray of cocktails, the Australian actress had donned black striped cut-off denim shorts and a multi-coloured jacket made from plastic streamers as she transformed into her DC Comics alter-ego for the new superhero movie.
With her hair tied back in Harley’s signature bunches, she was seen handing out margaritas to her co-stars as the cameras rolled.
Margot, who recently re-located to California with her British director husband Tom Ackerley, has been busy filming the 2016 Suicide Squad sequel.
Earlier in the day, Margot drove a vintage car as she shot another scene with a co-star in tow. She was also pictured filming ‘explosive’ scenes as she jumped from a moving vehicle earlier in the month.
Birds of Prey sees Harley team up with other female superheroes to save a young girl from the clutches of an evil crime lord.
Following on from the first Suicide Squad, which saw the likes of The Joker and Harley Quinn get into all sorts of world-ending trouble, the new movie will be a ‘total reboot’ of the original, producer Peter Safran recently revealed.
‘It’s everything you would hope from a James Gunn script and I think that says a lot and that promises a lot and I know that we will deliver a lot,’ he told JoBlo. The film is set for release in 2020.
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Glamour World Glow Fair 40 Sunscreen Lotion 100 ml
Method of use:
Apply generously on face & exposed parts of the body before going outdoors. Reapply every two hours.
Protects Skin from Sun’s harmful rays, premature aging, hyper pigmentation and sunburns with broad spectrum protection. Imparts a healthy glow.

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Instant Validator NOTE: Thank You Thunderstone From all of us at WebTv! Heres how to make a instant F key Validator, React's code; 1) goto your file manager 2)create a page with NOTHING on it (just a file name) 3)save it at the file 4)view that blank page 5)save that page now in your favorites 6)re-edit the page and put this script on it and nothing else and very first thing!!!
7)now go assign that to a F key shortcut and you have a instant validator. (note, yes I know the +" is off the ending of the code, its the only way it works!!!) The old way was the script below; If the document referrer works for you use that one if the history previous doesnt for the upgraded plus, I needed the history one!!!
Cut and Paste Workstation Heres How to Make A Cut and Paste F key shortcut; by me; Simplified instructions revised by MiMir, to make the C&P shortcut easier to explain; he couldn't get it to work at geocities yet, but works great at tripod anyway; 1. Go to your account at Tripod and create a new page called clips.html (or whatever.html) 2. After "saving" the page with some basic html in it.... go back to the Housekeeper and "Edit" this page again NOTE; make sure you go back to your housekeeper , dont skip this step by useing your back button...... 3. Edit the page again, While in the "edit" mode...."Save" it in Favorites and assign it to an F key 4. Hit "Use this html" to "save" it each time you add stuff The # of files you do this with is only limited by your number of F keys.... (or the next trick below of 32 favorites at the touch of a button) WHAT you do with this is only limited by your imagination ;-)
32 Favorites on a F key A expansion on the Idea above to have 32 at the touch of the F key shortcut, 1)create a new folder at webtv favorites 2)make a bunch of Cut and Paste files and save them them all in your new webtv favorites folder like above, in the directions. 3) rename them at webtv favorites each save or they will all be titled the same, to avoid confusion later, :-) 4) when done, save the webtv folder you just made in another folder, 5) now you have a folder inside of a folder, understand~?~ put that on a favorite Key and you can have a quick jump to 32 editor files for cut and paste or whatever if you want,
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'Street Fighter X Tekken'
Microsoft Xbox 360 (PS3)
ESRB rating: Teen
Review rating: 3.0 stars
When the popularity of fighting games peaked in the 90s, gamers became fans of either "Street Fighter" or "Tekken." Fighting games aren't so popular these days, but Capcom hopes to initiate a pugilistic renaissance with "Street Fighter X Tekken." Sadly, "Tekken" fans will be disappointed because this game is little more than "Street Fighter" featuring "Tekken" characters.
Why is that so bad, you ask? Well, the major difference (besides 2D vs. 3D) between the two series is the control scheme. I appreciate the intuitive controls for "Tekken" that assigns one button for each arm and one for each leg. This makes it easy to tell what moves will be performed and doesn't overwhelm the player with an overly complicated control scheme.
On the other hand ... err ... fist, "Street Fighter" uses three buttons for punches (light, medium, hard) and three for kicks. This control scheme requires memorization of each character's attacks instead of being able to rely on the same button to control the same appendage for every character. I also think the "Street Fighter" controls, which are used in this game, are too reliant on lightening-quick reflexes.
Other than the ability to juggle opponents in the air, the only "Tekken" influence is the tag-team ability that lets players choose two characters and then duke it out against two opponents. It's fun to perform cool combos where one character starts a string of moves while the second one finishes it or where both attack at the same time.
Capcom introduces a new "gem" system where players choose up to three combat-altering gems for each character. In theory, this allows more customization, but smart players will all use the same gems as soon as the most effective combination is discovered for each character. Even worse than the gem system, is the horrible online mode. Most of the audio is silent for every online match, and lag can turn any online fight into a frustrating, slow-motion affair where some button inputs are completely missed.
In the end, "Street Fighter X Tekken" is its own worst enemy.

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Posted by Christopher Roof at 02:50:19 PM on April 13, 2010
“Green Day Rocks Broadway” kicks off at 7 p.m. Featured will be exclusive interviews with Green Day members and the show’s cast and crew, along with rehearsal footage.
The show will be repeated at midnight Saturday on MTV2, 5 p.m. Saturday on mtvU and 1 p.m. Monday on MTV Hits.
“American Idiot,” which debuts at the St. James Theatre on April 20, follows the journey of a new generation of young Americans as they strive to find meaning in a post 9/11 world. The musical includes every song from the acclaimed album, as well as several songs from the Green Day’s Grammy-winning new release, “21st Century Breakdown.”
Green Day isn’t in the show, a 19-member cast led by Tony Award winner John Gallagher Jr. (“Spring Awakening”), will perform the songs, including “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” and “Wake Me Up When September Ends.”
Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong and the band collaborated with the acclaimed creative team led by Michael Mayer (“Spring Awakening”), two-time Tony Award-winning composer and orchestrator Tom Kitt (“Next to Normal”) and Olivier Award-winning choreographer Steven Hoggett (“Black Watch”).
For more on the show, go to www.AmericanIdiotOnBroadway.com.
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JOHN J. MOSER has been around long enough to have seen the original Ramones in a small club in New Jersey, U2 from the fourth row of a theater and Bob Dylan's born-again tours. But he also has the number for All-American Rejects' Nick Wheeler on his cell phone, wrote the first story ever done on Jack's Mannequin and hung out in Wiz Khalifa's hotel room.
JODI DUCKETT: As The Morning Call's assistant features editor responsible for entertainment, she spends a lot of time surveying the music landscape and sizing up the Valley's festivals and club scene. She's no expert, but enjoys it all — especially artists who resonated in her younger years, such as Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Tracy Chapman, Santana and Joni Mitchell.
KATHY LAUER-WILLIAMS enjoys all types of music, from roots rock and folk to classical and opera. Music has been a constant backdrop to her life since she first sat on the steps listening to her mother’s Broadway LPs when she was 2. Since becoming a mother herself, she has become well-versed on the growing genre of kindie rock and, with her son in tow, can boast she has seen a majority of the current kid’s performers from Dan Zanes to They Might Be Giants.
STEPHANIE SIGAFOOS: A Jersey native raised in Northeast PA, she was reared in a house littered with 8-tracks, 45s and cassette tapes of The Beatles, Elvis, Meatloaf and Billy Joel. She also grew up on the sounds of Reba McEntire, Garth Brooks and Tim McGraw and can be found traversing the countryside in search of the sounds of a steel guitar. A fan of today's 'new country,' she digs mainstream/country-pop crossovers like Lady Antebellum and Sugarland and other artists that illustrate the genre's diversity.

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I love gummy candies. And, as you may already know, I really enjoyed designing, and now making, dice that resemble food.
Gummy sharks don't get the love that they should in my opinion, so consider this my personal campaign to change that.
This set is a transparent dark blue layer on an opaque white layer to mimic the candy as closely as possible (only the D4 is counterintuitive to that, but I might try correcting that in the sets you receive.) The sets you receive will also not have floating white in the blue as seen in the pictures below.
All sets are handmade by me using epoxy resin and come in a standard set of 7 polyhedral dice. All sets will have cosmetic variances and will be available inked or uninked. This set will be inked in silver. They will be sanded and polished and packed safely in a nice hinged metal tin.
The set in these pictures is unsanded, unpolished and uninked.
Each set is handmade by me personally and may be subject to small painting or surface imperfections (although I inspect and quality test every set for appearance and function before sale).
As these are the first sets I am selling, they are being sold at a much lower price than I intend to sell them later. By purchasing this set, you are helping me refine my process for dice making. As such, your dice may have some cosmetic and surface issues, while they may not be perfect (and I will try to make them perfect) they will be perfectly playable.
IMPORTANT: This is all new to me, so I cannot guarantee shipping times. This is part of the process you are helping me figure out and I thank you for that. I will be getting these done as quickly as I can, but every set is going to be made to order and will take time to cure, sand, polish and ink.


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A three-year-old Australian girl held in al-Hawl camp in Syria will likely lose her fingers to frostbite, unable to be properly treated during a brutal winter in the squalid camp.
Amirah is one of 47 Australian children being detained in the sprawling detention camp for the family members of Islamic State fighters, as the north-east of Syria endures a bitterly cold winter.
The temperature has fallen consistently below zero this winter, snow has blanketed the camp, and many of the mattresses inside the tents where families live have become soaked with water and cannot be dried. There is a shortage of warm, dry clothes.
The blackened fingers on Amirah’s left hand (pictured above in December) have worsened since, and doctors believe it is likely they cannot be saved. She also suffers from pain in her kneecaps, and is suffering malnutrition.
Amirah’s five-month-old brother Yahya, who was born in the camp, is also malnourished. An older brother died before the family reached the camp.
Amirah’s mother is Melbourne woman Kirstie Rosse-Emile. Her father is Nabil Kadmiry, a former Isis fighter who had his Australian citizenship stripped last October. It is understood he also holds Moroccan citizenship. He is currently being held in a Kurdish jail.
Other Australian children in the camp are reported to be suffering developmental disorders, diarrhoea, seizures, rickets and asthma.
Across al-Hawl, where up to 70,000 women and children are guarded by Kurdish forces, conditions have grown steadily worse over winter. Food runs short, violence, including murder, is common, children die regularly from illness, and others have been injured when tents catch fire.
Many observers have raised concern it is acting as an incubator for extremism and, if left to languish, a potential site of resurgence for Isis.
Currently, there are 19 Australian women and 47 Australian children held in the al-Hawl camp. The Australian government is aware of their identities and the bona fides of their Australian citizenship or right to claim that citizenship.
They are family members of former foreign fighters who have been captured or killed. None of the Australian women in the camp have been charged as being combatants, and many were coerced, forced or tricked into travelling to Syria.
The youngest child in the Australian group is less than two months old, born on 30 November last year.
Were the children and their mothers able to get to an Australian embassy or consulate, the Australian government would be legally obliged to provide them travel documents to return home.
The families held in the camp have consistently pleaded with Australia to assist with their repatriation: the women in the camp have said they would submit to monitoring, such as control orders, if they were returned.
But the Australian government has consistently refused to repatriate its citizens, despite the urgings of Kurdish forces running the camp, its ally America, and other countries such as the UK, German, Denmark and France repatriating their citizens.
A small group of Australian orphans has been repatriated to Australia, but no family members with adults have been brought back since the Australians were taken to the camp a year ago.
The home affairs minister, Peter Dutton, has said the government was not prepared to risk other Australian lives in any repatriation effort. He said some of the Australians in the camp were “hardcore” and “have the potential and capacity to come back here and cause a mass casualty event”.
“So I don’t think it should come as a surprise when we say we’re not going to send our soldiers to rescue people of this nature.”
On Sunday, Nine newspapers reported that Australian federal police had raided homes in Sydney and Melbourne of family members of those held in al-Hawl camp. It is the latest in a series of raids over months, which observers say is an attempted to gather evidence against anyone they believe may be planning to return to Australia.
The government has already stripped 17 dual nationals of Australian citizenship, preventing their return.
Save the Children’s director of international programs and policy, Mat Tinkler, told the Guardian it was “eminently possible” to repatriate citizens out of al-Hawl, as demonstrated by the steady flow of foreign women and children out of the camp. Kurdish forces have been taking foreign citizens to and across the Iraqi border, without the involvement of third country troops or diplomatic staff.
“It is eminently possible to repatriate these families, there is no practical barrier to it, all that is needed at the moment is the political will to do so,” Tinkler said.
He said the Australian families in al-Hawl were “just hanging on”.
“It’s really drastic there are the moment, it’s down to -3C in that part of Syria. We have seen a little girl who will likely lose her fingers because of frostbite, we see shrapnel wounds, we see mental health issues. It’s our very real concern an Australian child will die in that camp.”
Tinkler said every day spent in the camp was doing children harm.
“This is one of the worst places in the world to be a child. And Australia has an obligation to these women and children – these are Australian citizens at the end of the day. It’s no use Australia trying to disown them – there is no capacity for Turkish or Kurdish authorities to deal with these people. Australia needs to put trust in its own criminal justice system, in its social services, to be able to bring these people home and reintegrate them into Australian society.”
A recent report by an independent commission to the powerful United Nations Human Rights Council – of which Australia is a member – said nations around the world should repatriate their children from camps in Syria and should stop stripping citizenship from nationals caught up in the war.
The unflinching report details the indignities and punishments inflicted upon children during the Syrian conflict, including murder, torture, rape, arbitrary imprisonment, denial of food and water and of medicine, and forced conscription to fight.
It said counties of origin should “take immediate steps for the simplified registration of their nationals born in Syria with the ultimate aim to repatriate them and their caregivers as soon as possible”.
“Countries of origin should also refrain from stripping parents of their nationality in light of the impact on children.”
The report said “mothers should be repatriated along with their children to ensure adherence with the best interests of the child principle.”
Kamalle Dabboussy, whose daughter and three grandchildren are in the camp, said it was entirely predictable that children would suffer illness and injury in al-Hawl camp.
“The conditions are getting worse, and what we’ve said would happen is happening. There will be more injuries, more illness, and an Australian child may die.”

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President Donald Trump said on Monday that China is ready to come back to the negotiating table and the two countries will start talking very seriously.Politicsread more
The escalating trade war between Washington and Beijing dominated discussions at the G-7 gathering in France.Politicsread more
The latest round of tariff announcements in the last few days means that by the end of the year, essentially all Chinese goods exported to the U.S. will be subject to duties.China Economyread more
Futures fell after Trump said the U.S. will raise tariffs on more than $500 billion worth of Chinese imports, increasing trade tensions.Marketsread more
As Washington and Beijing continue to up the ante in their protracted trade fight, the potential of a recession in the U.S. is now "the biggest concern," according to Standard...US Economyread more
Tensions stemming from the U.S.-China trade war escalated sharply over the last few days, with much happening as Asian markets were shut down for the weekend.China Economyread more
Clouding the G-7 gathering, which represents the world's major industrial economies, are the tit-for-tat tariffs between Washington and Beijing.Politicsread more
Neither the U.S. nor China wants to be seen as the party that derailed trade talks, says William Reinsch of Center for Strategic and International Studies.World Economyread more
China said Friday it will be resuming 25% duties on U.S. autos, and a further 5% on auto parts and components.Asia Marketsread more
World leaders, environmental groups and celebrities have publicly decried the vast swaths of forest being destroyed by the fires.World Newsread more
Education Minister Ong Ye Kung says the Singapore government has been preparing for the challenge of an aging workforce "for the past 20 years."Employmentread more
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SINGAPORE, May 16 (Reuters) - Shanghai aluminum futures prices on Thursday hit their highest since October 2018 on worries over supply shortage, following a refinery shutdown in China - the world's top aluminum maker.
Xinfa Group, one of China's biggest aluminum smelters, is closing all production lines on its 2.8-million-tonne-per-year alumina refinery in Shanxi for an unidentified period, amid an environmental dispute, causing alumina prices to spike. <SMM-ALM-NCHN>
The most active aluminum contract on the Shanghai Futures Exchange rose as much as 0.5% to 14,395 yuan ($2,092.69) a tonne in early Asian trading hours. It ended up 0.4%, marking the fifth straight session of gains.
Alumina is a substance used to make aluminum.
"Alumina price has increased a lot this week and likely to remain high, which gives support to the aluminum price. Mid-term demand will still be a key factor worth-monitoring," said analyst Jackie Wang of metals consultants CRU based in China.
While all Shanghai metals rose following an overnight rally in London, sentiment on the London Metal Exchange was cautious for most metals after China released weaker-than-expected retail sales and industrial output data for April.
The figures for April largely pointed to a loss of momentum, after surprisingly upbeat March readings had raised hopes the economy was slowly getting back onto a firmer footing and would require less policy support.
An expected U.S. decision to delay imposing tariffs on imported cars and parts helped sentiment.
* Three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange was almost unchanged at $6,083 a tonne, as of 0729 GMT, while aluminum edged up 0.2% and nickel was trading 0.5% lower.
* Shanghai copper rose 0.4% to 47,790 yuan a tonne, nickel was up 1.2%, zinc advanced 1.3%, lead increased 2% and tin edged 0.5% higher.
* ALUNORTE: A Brazilian court lifted one of two production embargoes on Norsk Hydro's Alunorte, the world's top alumina refinery, but output remains curtailed at 50% capacity as the remaining embargo still remains.
* CODELCO: State miner Codelco, the world's top copper producer, said on Wednesday it has agreed on a new labor contract with the union of supervisors at its small Salvador mine in northern Chile.
* U.S. COPPER: The U.S. Interior Department on Wednesday renewed two long-mothballed leases in Minnesota, a key step in opening up the area to copper mining despite heavy opposition from local and conservation groups.
* MEXICO: Mexico is close to resolving its dispute with the United States over steel and aluminum tariffs without quotas but hopes Canada can reach a similar agreement before completing it, a senior Mexican official said on Wednesday.
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Japanese carmaker Toyota is facing a fine of more than $16 million for failing to promptly notify US authorities about safety defects in its cars.
US regulators say they have evidence Toyota knew of problems with sticky accelerator pedals four months before they began the biggest ever vehicle recall.
The US transportation secretary, Ray LaHood, says Toyota knowingly hid the dangerous defect and did nothing to protect American drivers and their families.
Mr LaHood is calling for the maximum $US16.4 million ($17.7 million) fine against Toyota.
“We now have proof that Toyota failed to live up to its legal obligations,” Mr LaHood said.
“Worse yet, they knowingly hid a dangerous defect for months from US officials and did not take action to protect millions of drivers and their families. For those reasons, we are seeking the maximum penalty possible under current laws.”
It is the largest civil fine against an automaker ever sought by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
The sudden acceleration of Toyota vehicles has allegedly been tied to 51 road deaths in the US.
Toyota has two weeks to agree to pay the fine, or contest it. If the two parties cannot agree a settlement they could go to court.


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1. (C/NF) FCO Georgia Task Force Director (and South Caucuses Office Director) Louise Savile predicted a tough diplomatic struggle ahead to return the situation in Georgia to the status quo ante August 6. As an example, she cited part of an August 13 telephone exchange between FM Miliband and Russian FM Lavrov. While Lavrov confirmed the Russian pledge to cease fire as long as its own troops are not attacked, he also responded negatively to Miliband's suggestions that more international monitors, possibly OSCE since it already had a mandate, be sent to Ossetia and Abkhazia. Lavrov said that if any more monitors were sent in, their mandate should be to monitor Georgian troops within Georgia itself to prevent any further incursions into Ossetian or Abkhazian territory.
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Today I found out that the feds smuggled more than 1,100 invading illegal minors into the state of Georgia, where I choose to make my home. Governor Nathan Deal (R-GA) is royally pissed, as he (like so many other governors) was not notified of the alien dump.
He communicated his concerns to the President in a letter, excerpts of which are below:
“This came as a complete shock to me as the Governor of this state…I’m sure it will also shock the local communities around the state where these individuals currently reside.”In
“It is unconscionable that your administration failed to pick up the phone, email or send a letter to my office to inform us that these children were being sent to our communities”.
“These are communities that must provide support to these children and families as they wait the appropriate adjudication of their immigration status.”
If the Obama administration issued an executive order mandating that every household in the U.S. was required to take in at least 2 immigrants and be responsible for their housing, food and education, do you think this complacent American public would turn off the boob tube and take notice?
Yet, that scenario might as well be taking place, as Obama considers granting refugee status to the alien children that came from Central America. That faux “status” means they would be “entitled” to all of the social services granted to US citizens. In fact, Obama is now considering screening kids for refugee status in Honduras, so they will not have to make the dangerous trek North! What is the difference between someone breaking into your house and someone breaking into your country?
Why is it always the American taxpayer that is required to bear the burden of all of the world’s ills? And if we refuse, we are not only called everything but a child of God, but now we may also face being sued by the ACLU! Sound crazy? Think again. The city of Escondido, CA now faces exactly that predicament after its city council refused to allow a 96 bed facility to house illegal alien children.
The American citizen is no longer allowed to have a say in this country, and the value of citizenship has been reduced solely to the amount that can be confiscated from the taxpayer. Those who have broken the law to come here are now entitled to more rights and benefits than those who can legitimately call this country their home.
If we saw a multitude of ships full of al Qaeda jihadists sailing toward America’s coastlines, do you think people would pay attention? I would hope so, but we are experiencing no less an invasion of our southern border. What will it take for people to wake up…American children bringing home diseases from schools that have been forced to educate these illegal kids? Mexican gang members threatening the safety of our families? A cyber attack on our electrical grid by Chinese nationalists? A dirty bomb brought in by Muslim terrorists and detonated in one of our cities? What the HELL is it going to take for people to put down their smart phones and turn off their favorite television shows and pay attention to the destruction of our beautiful country?!
It is time to get in the faces of our representatives in DC and tell them that there will be hell to pay in November if they do not do something to stop this. We are running out of time. Barack Obama’s mission to “fundamentally transform” America is almost complete.
As an aside, I recently wrote about my interview with filmmaker Chris Burgard who just returned from the border where he has been documenting the chaos. He is trying to put together a film of the footage called Back to the Border, but he needs help to do that. Think of it as an investment. Knowledge is power and the citizens of these United States desperately need to know what is happening to our country. Burgard’s goal is to raise $1 million to produce this movie. If a film about Kermit Gosnell can be crowd-funded to the tune of over $2.25 million, then surely we can raise half that much for Back to the Border. If you cannot donate, please share with as many people as possible. Do it “for the children”…the American children.
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Herewith we ascertain a change in the strict German position which was summarized into a short and firm “no economic concessions to Greeks”. German Chancellor Angela Merkel now pleads to an extension of Greek debt maturities and rejects restructuring of Greek debt. It looks as if the express visit by US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner in Berlin did indeed assisted the Germans to take a step back and facilitate the situation. Of course, we will wait and see what will happen on Friday during the €UROGROUP meeting in Brussels.
Angela Merkel said all these important things in an interview to be published by German newspaper Bild, Dow Jones (via smartmoney in English) reported.
A bailout program for Greece set up in May 2010 is scheduled to run out in 2013.
However, Merkel rejected a restructuring of Greek debt, telling the newspaper “no instruments” for that were available. “But in case of an insolvenz after 2013 private creditors should be called upon.”
The German Chancellor also said further aid for euro-zone countries needs to be linked to strict conditions and that Germany will veto future bailouts if prerequisites for aid aren’t given.
Any future bailout also needs to be decided upon by all euro-zone countries, Merkel is quoted as saying.
Euro-zone government leaders meet in Brussels Friday to debate stricter rules on budget discipline, a strengthening of a temporary fund to bailout troubled euro-zone members, and details for a future permanent rescue fund.
Here you can read the German Version of the Dow Jones news wire.
However before applouding, we should wait and see what Angela Merkel will put in the middle of the negotiation table.
Bloomberg reports of Merkel’s first bite:
“German Chancellor Angela Merkel told lawmakers she would back lower interest rates for emergency loans if Greece agrees to sell state assets and Ireland backs a common corporate tax base in the euro region.”
Unfortunately Greeks consider state assets as items of national pride…. So Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou is correct to claim “the negotiation is difficult”. Does he have any other idea on how to come up with at least 50 billion euros until 2015? Citizens’ pockets and wallets are empty.


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Well, I took on Valley Wood in May, and I confess that when I bought it I didn’t really have any idea of how I was actually going to manage and improve it. But after a few months of hard-working weekends down there, I think I have a basic plan for it, which is turning out to be surprisingly sustainable, both financially and environmentally.
Valley Wood is a mixed woodland of conifers (mainly Noble Fir and Scots Pine) and all manner of deciduous broadleaved trees.
As it is long neglected, there is a fair quantity of dead trees in the wood – some lying on the forest floor, some hung up in other trees, and some still standing. A fair proportion of the standing dead trees are conifers.
The dead trees lying on the forest floor tend to be rotten, but this is good as they provide habitats for all kinds of life. They can happily be left to decay where they are.
Hung up trees and standing dead trees are potentially a hazard as they can fall over or down, and removing them frees up empty space in the woodland where new broadleaved trees can be encouraged. Dead standing trees are fortunately also ready-seasoned firewood with a very low water content, so can be harvested and burned almost immediately after only a short period of air drying. This is a massive benefit in financial terms, especially with the winter not too far away, as it removes the need for a firewood ‘production line’ where normally logs must be seasoned for at least one year before they can be transported and burned. Driving a van full of water-ridden logs which would burn poorly at the end of the journey would make no sense at all – but with this plan, there is a huge quantity of ready-seasoned firewood and harvesting it will open up the woodland to recolonisation by broadleaves.
It costs me about half a tank of diesel to visit the woodland, but I reckon the financial cost is only what I would have spent at home on a normal weekend, going out for a meal and some drinks on a Friday or Saturday. And as my living costs at the wood are negligible, I count it as cost neutral really. Similarly with the cost of the woodland itself – although I’m paying interest on the money borrowed, land tends to appreciate in value so I’m not making a loss on the land.
I reckon I can fit about a cubic metre of firewood in my van, which at home I normally pay about £80 for during the winter months – during summer my solar hot water system provides all of my hot water for bathing and washing up.
So as long as I come back with a van load of logs every time I visit, I’m £80 in profit – or another way of looking at it is that the sun is also heating my home for free in the winter as well as the summer, in the form of stored sunlight (firewood). This means that my only overhead as far as fuel goes is electricity, which I’m estimating at maybe £250 a year at current prices.
Not bad for a Victorian terrace.
The woodland has other harvestable products – ferns which can be sold for gardens, living Christmas trees, and maybe in time mushrooms if I get around to setting up some mushroom logs.
But quite apart from all of this, there is the sheer recreational value of the woodland, and as a destination for Transition camping expeditions and the like. But there is a lot of work to be done first – camping and communal areas to be hacked out of the mountainside, shelters to be built and the like.
A few weeks back, I received the documents from the Land Registry showing the ownership of Valley Wood going back to just after the Second World War. They show a long history of the woodland being bought from local or national government, and then being sold back again some time later.
As it doesn’t seem as though any kind of harvesting or management of the trees has taken place, my thought is that private owners have repeatedly tried to find a way of commercially exploiting the woodland, but have not succeeded due to the difficult terrain. The woodland is on a steeply sloping hillside, which makes mechanised timber extraction difficult and expensive, and extraction by horses and hand is not normally used for commercial operations. So the woodland has remained as it is, wild and neglected.
I am hoping that what Valley Wood actually needs is a different approach to management – a Permaculture approach which will maximise the efficient production of usable resources from the wood, whilst simultaneously meeting regeneration and biodiversity objectives.
The huge quantities of invasive rhododendron on site could potentially provide a firewood source for those staying in the woodland, to avoid the need to use the “good” firewood being extracted for domestic use. This would meet the goal of rhododendron control and a return of the forest ecosystem whilst providing warmth for those staying on-site.
The many apparent problems of the woodland can increasingly be seen as unique features, even beneficial in some respects. Instead of spending thousands of pounds (which I don’t have) on track improvement and tree clearance for artificial campsite creation, my expenditure on tools is as follows:-
Chainsaw (the only mechanised tool in use in Valley Wood)
Billhook (for clearing tracks and trimming trees)
Log tongs (for manipulating large logs)
Folding pruning saw
Forestry winch (for hauling the log trolley up steep inclines, bringing down hung-up trees and moving large rocks)
All of which total I reckon about £500. So at £80 profit per trip in firewood, that’s about 6 trips before the equipment has paid for itself. Pretty good economics, sustainably speaking! Plus of course, this very light touch approach to woodland management is infinitely better in terms of resources used and environmental impact.
Very interesting, the way Valley Wood is developing. And the taste of my first woodland blackberries and raspberries on my last trip was a whole other world of experience in itself! 🙂


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This is the perfect time of the year to release a zombie-themed DLC. After all is Halloween, isn’t it? The DLC in question is the one of United Front Games’ Sleeping Dogs. I still can’t believe how underestimated was this title. Not by the press, mind you. But by the players themselves. Inexplicable thing given the great game that is Sleeping Dogs; one of the waves of fresh air of this year.
Anyway, the good news is that this new IP was not left to itself by its developer and publisher and on the 30th of October “Nightmare in North Point” will hit our online services of choice. Our protagonist Wei Shen will face a new undead menace, under the clothes of a late gang member that comes back as a zombie; bringing with him also some vampires and occult creatures from the chinese tradition. Certainly a change from his role as an undercover cop in the triad. Prepare yourself for some more zombified kung-fu action.


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I made a loaf of Sally Lunn and it was delicious! It was the first loaf of "normal-looking" bread I made from scratch! It actually rised right and looked pretty. I used Betty Crocker's recipe.
Sally Lunn - 1 1/2 Pound Recipe
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California Legislature OKs pension changes
SACRAMENTO (KABC) -- Pension reform for the state's public employees is about to become a reality after final passage Friday.
The California Legislature approved Governor Jerry Brown's package of pension reforms Friday. The main pension bill, AB340, passed 49-8 in the Assembly and 38-1 in the state Senate.
The bill was approved on the final day of the legislative session.
Some Republican lawmakers complained the process was rushed and preferred to delay a vote until the drafting mistakes were fixed. But several GOP lawmakers voted for it while saying the Legislature also needs to do much more to address an unfunded public pension liability of nearly $165 million.
The legislation will increase the retirement age for new employees, cap the annual payout $132,000, eliminate numerous abuses of the system and require workers who are not contributing half of their retirement costs to pay more.
Brown said he supports the legislation even though it falls short of the 12-point reform proposal he offered last October.
Lawmakers voted even as companion legislation was hustled up to make key fixes in the hastily written bill, which was taken up on the final day of the legislative session.
Some Republican lawmakers complained the process was rushed and preferred to delay a vote until the drafting mistakes were fixed. But several GOP lawmakers voted for it while saying the Legislature also needs to do much more to address an unfunded public pension liability of nearly $165 billion.
Brown announced the pension package this week, 10 months after he released a more comprehensive reform proposal that would have gone much further than the approach approved Friday.
Underlying the negotiations was staunch opposition from public employee labor unions who are supporting Brown's November ballot proposal to temporarily raise sales taxes and taxes on high-income earners.
While some union leaders expressed dismay over the final bill, Democrats appeased their labor allies by removing some of the most important elements of Brown's original proposal, such as instituting a hybrid pension plan that would have included a 401(k)-style savings vehicle.
The package fell short of Brown's original proposal. In addition to the lack of a 401(k)-style plan that would make public employees bear some of the investment risk, as private-sector workers do, nothing was done to reduce skyrocketing retiree health care costs.
And the union-dominated board that oversees operations of the California Public Employees' Retirement System, the nation's largest public pension fund, will not face reforms or independent oversight of its decisions, as Brown had sought.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Students aren’t the only ones receiving report cards.
Many hospitals earn grades, too. But according to a study by University researchers, surgical safety remains constant across similar hospitals, whether or not the hospital received report cards.
The study’s authors considered the 263 hospitals evaluated by the American College of Surgeons’ National Surgical Quality Improvement Program report card. The group found that the hospitals participating in the evaluation program not experience improvement over time compared to hospitals not receiving report cards.
The study’s lead author, Nicholas Osborne, a vascular surgeon at the University of Michigan Health System’s Cardiovascular Center, said he was interested in finding whether or not there was a benefit to participating in a program such as ACS-NSQIP.
“What you can take from the study is that hospital quality has gone up across the board during the time period that we looked at,” Osborne said. “All hospitals improved but that improvement wasn’t more so in hospitals that are in NSQIP.”
NSQIP was developed by the Department of Veterans Affairs during the 1990s to evaluate surgical practice in VA hospitals. Private hospitals eventually expressed interest in adopting the program, which in 1999 was piloted at several private institutions, including the University.
The study’s authors said the lack of relative improvement could be due to the failure of institution’s to use the report cards to change surgical procedures.
“This is a good example of why we need to look at the data,” Osborne said. “I think the future of quality improvement will be affected by this study because it encourages hospitals to participate in not only a data report, but to participate in a quality collaborative.”
Public hospitals in the state of Michigan previously participated in both ACS-NSQIP and a regional collaborative called the Michigan Surgical Quality Collaborative. In 2012, the state pulled out of ACS-NSQIP, and hospitals its hospitals now only participate in MSQC.
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Justin Dimick, chief of the UMHS division of minimally invasive surgery and senior author of the study, said the MSQC allows Michigan hospitals to excel beyond those using ACS-NSQIP, making it one of the safest states to have surgery.
“Michigan does a really nice job at analysis and issuing report cards,” Dimick said. “Without a tutor, or lesson plan, you can’t get improvement. Michigan does things differently through a collaboratively quality improvement program, where we do measure outcomes. We then build on top of that a structure where the surgeons meet four times a year to help implement them locally.”
Andrew Ryan, associate professor in the School of Public Health and co-author of the study, said designing and implementing interventions is most important in the process of improving surgical quality. He added that this study can motivate hospitals to actually implement measures based on their report cards.
“The fact that it didn’t achieve its objective means to me that we need to keep searching and come up with new ways to measure important patient outcomes,” Ryan said. “We can’t be complacent about thinking that we’ve solved our quality problems, and that we have the answers. We have seen decline in adverse events, so improvement is happening, but the question is how do we design and implement interventions that are going to improve quality of care?”


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Distance from Liechtenstein to Syria
Distance from Liechtenstein to Syria is 2,808 kilometers. This air travel distance is equal to 1,745 miles.
The air travel (bird fly) shortest distance between Liechtenstein and Syria is 2,808 km= 1,745 miles.
If you travel with an airplane (which has average speed of 560 miles) from Liechtenstein to Syria, It takes 3.12 hours to arrive.
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9° 33´ 19.3320'' E
Liechtenstein Distances to Countries
|Distance from Micronesia to Liechtenstein||13,259 km|
|Distance from Liechtenstein to Uruguay||10,998 km|
|Distance from Jamaica to Liechtenstein||8,309 km|
|GPS Coordinates||34° 48´ 7.4520'' N |
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Syria Distances to Countries
|Distance from Switzerland to Syria||2,888 km|
|Distance from Isle of Man to Syria||3,982 km|
|Distance from Syria to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines||10,075 km|

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On May 21st, the SharePoint Conference North America will kick off in Las Vegas, NV. This year the event will include over 160 sessions for IT Pros, Developers, and Business Users focused on helping you make the most out of your investments in OneDrive, SharePoint and Office 365.
This conference is a premier opportunity to hear experts from Microsoft and around the world share their experience and knowledge about a variety of topics such as cloud services, best practices & real-world project insights.
The session content will cover products including SharePoint, OneDrive, Yammer, Microsoft Teams, Office 365, and more. Whether you are an IT Professional, IT Manager, Architect, Developer, Business User, or Project Manager, SharePoint Conference North America will give you the tools, knowledge, and skills you need to get the most value from your SharePoint and related technologies investments and projects.
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In this all-day session, we will walk you through the key areas you need to know to help you and your organization to not just adopt OneDrive but to drive usage and adoption to enable collaboration and teamwork within your organization. We will cover key topics like how to best plan, deploy, manage and secure OneDrive, how leveraging new features like Flow can help to transform business, why designing a change management plan is key to driving adoption within your organization. We will even hear from an expert who will show us how he got the US Department Of Defense to embrace collaboration with OneDrive, SharePoint, and Exchange.
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OneDrive- An Overview From The Microsoft Product Team
In 2017, we released over 100 new features and functionality to OneDrive. In this session, we will cover the new and upcoming features as well as understand the investments we are making today and how this new functionality can affect you. We will demo the latest features for Windows, Mac, Web, iOS, and Android as well as sharing our upcoming feature roadmap.
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Every day, millions of people rely on OneDrive and SharePoint to share documents, pictures, and countless other kinds of digital content. We've listened to your feedback and worked to create a refreshed experience to help you be even more productive. Our goal is to create an experience across web and mobile that makes finding what's important to you easier while keeping you better up to date with what is going on with your files. In this session, we will discuss not just the new and upcoming user experiences in OneDrive but get a first look at new ideas the team has as well as an opportunity to provide your feedback on usability and direction.
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Trying to find help on onboarding or adopting our online services? Then come learn how Microsoft FastTrack can help you on your OneDrive and Sharepoint online journey ' at no additional cost. This session will overview FastTrack services your organization can take advantage of along with the latest and greatest publicly available content. Also, hear from your peers on how their FastTrack engagements have led to successful end user adoption
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This your chance to hear directly from OneDrive product experts in an unscripted, conversational format. Bring your questions and get answers from this panel of experts that includes representatives from across the engineering team that cover the spectrum of end user, IT Pro, admin and developer capabilities, both on-prem or in the cloud. Bring your tough questions and hear them answered live on stage, as top experts discuss the issues that matter to you.
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OneDrive and SharePoint Online provide a rich set of solutions for working with external users. This session provides an insider's look at the sharing model for OneDrive and SharePoint, with explanations of all the external sharing options available and when to use them. Learn how we're making sharing easier for senders and recipients while providing even more ways for administrators to customize sharing to fit their organizations.
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Accra, Jan. 10, GNA- The Inspector General of Police, Nana Owusu-Nsaih on Monday said the Police Administration has embarked upon various projects that would enhance the performance and image of the Service, some of which he said were the expansion of regional and district offices as well the headquarters.
He said that the construction of staff quarters and offices at both regional and district levels of the Service would be one of the top priorities on the list of their agenda for the year and appealed to all stakeholders to assist the Service to enhance its performance. Mr Owusu-Nsaih was speaking to the Media after he had taken delivery of 554 bags of cement and 573 pieces of iron rods from the UNICEF to assist in the construction of a secretariat for the Women and Juvenal Unit of the Service.
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text: Over-population, economic woes, political rebellions—19th century China was nearly as rough as the west. So when news of the Gold Rush reached China’s shores, many men decided America was truly their land of opportunity. Lung Hay was among the many thousands who left his wife with the promise of returning rich, only to arrive in California to find menial labor in ramshackle mining towns. Despite the harsh realities, Lung Hay learned how to speak English and, more importantly, read cowboys’ minds. Which is probably why the only ones he trusts are Tom Harte and Print Ritter.


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The third quarter volume of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was up by 2.7 percent on the third quarter of 2005. Exports remained the main driving force behind economic growth. The third quarter of 2006 had a working day less than the third quarter of 2005.
After correction for calendar and seasonal effects, GDP volume was up by 0.7 percent on the second quarter of 2006. This quarter-on-quarter growth rate is about the same as that of the first six months of the year.
Households spent 2.2 percent more than the year before. The increase in spending on durable consumer goods remained high, but was less exuberant than in the first six months of 2006. The volume of government consumption was 1.4 percent higher than the year before.
The volume of exports of goods and services was up by 5.8 percent. This rise in exports was slightly smaller than in the first half of 2006, but slightly larger than the 2005 average. The slightly slower growth of exports was visible at the re-exports, the exports of Dutch manufactured products and the export of services. Re-exports were still growing substantially. Imports grew slightly more than exports.
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My husband and I got home from our honeymoon a week ago, and picked up our puppy two days ago. Louie is an 8-week old black lab. We absolutely adore him and have already made progress with him, but new issues seem to pop up all the time. Here are some issues we could use some advice on:
1. Our cat. Claudia is about 9 months old, and has ruled the roost here since we adopted her in November. She's a very loving, affectionate, and trusting cat, but she's definitely not that way with Louie. He wants to play with her and be best friends, but she's still very standoffish. What are some good ways to facilitate their relationship without alienating the cat?
2. Pooping. We are having a lot of success with peeing outside. We take him out at least once an hour, take him to his special spot, and praise him and give him a treat when he pees. He's definitely learning and enjoying the routine. Unfortunately, we haven't really had the same success with pooping. He has pooped twice in his crate and made a HUGE mess jumping around in it, and he has also pooped a few times on the kitchen floor. We caught him last night just a few minutes after he finished dinner. He squatted and started pooping and we ran over and took him outside. We must have scared him, because then he wouldn't poop outside. We took him to his spot, then went for a walk around the block, and then back to his spot. No luck. We set the alarm to take him out a few times over the night. He peed each time, but didn't poop. When my husband got up early this morning to take him out, he had pooped again! Help!!!
3. Biting. Louie is investigating everything with his mouth, including us. His bites aren't hard or malicious, but they're not appropriate behavior for an adult dog. We want to nip the habit in the bud so he doesn't think it's ok. Advice?
I am also a new owner of 9 week black lab female. I've had her for 1 week now, first few days were exhausting, but we seem to have a routine and she is doing very well.
As far as the cat goes, i have a 3 yr old cat, she is very playful and such, but not to sure about the pup yet. she is very curious with her.... there has been hissing and growling and has swatted at Shelby a few times. I think in time they will get along, just like if you were to bring another cat into the home, it takes some adjusting.
With the pooping issues, Shelby has to go almost immediately after eating, the other day i thought it was safe for me to brush my teeth while she was eating, by the time i got done with that she already pooped. How much space in the crate, i put Shelby in a smaller crate after a few days, because she was pooping in the larger one. they like the smaller space. she has only had one accident since i changed her, but that was my fault, i was gone longer than expected, therefore she pooped.
that's my advice, but like i said i 'm new at this too, hopefully the others will respond too. Good luck! post a pic when you have a chance.
congratulations and welcome..stick around and post some pics!
I forgot to mention the after meal poop to you on the phone the other day. We found with Otis that at first (until he was 6 months old or so) he pooped RIGHT after eating. Like, he finished his last kibble, we snapped his leash on him immediately and took him out to poop, which he did right away. Another thing you can do to facilitate the outside poop is to have some play with him outside when you know he's due for a poop. Movement always helps speed things along, so maybe take him out, have him run back and forth between you and R for a couple minutes, then take him to his spot and give him an opportunity to do his thing.
How many times a day is he getting fed?
Otis - the most trusting dog on Earth.
We feed him once a day, around dinner time. We'd eventually like to time it so that we're all eating at the same time in order to avoid begging opportunities. Obviously we learned last night that we should eat first and then feed him. Our rice and beans got cold and gummy when we had to jump up from the table to take him out!
We jumped into crate training too quickly on the first night with disastrous results (yelping all night and spreading poop all over the crate). We slowed down and he's taking to it now. He became attached to a blanket (sorry Aunt Jeanne, it's your homemade quilt), so I moved it into the crate and left the door open. With no other comfortable place to sleep in the kitchen, he soon made his way over to the crate for a nap. Since then he's taken several naps in the crate. Last night we left him in the kitchen with the crate open, and he chose to sleep in it. Today we left the house for an hour and kept him in the crate with the door closed. He didn't mind! Tonight we are going to try the door closed.
I can't figure out how to post pictures. Help!
Oh, one more question. How many treats can he have over the course of the day? We were giving him a small puppy biscuit every time he peed outside, but then he had a poop blowout in the middle of the day. Now we're just using one or two pieces of Puppy Chow as a reward. With that in mind, how much food should he have in the evening?
He's a little young to be eating only once a day, and I bet that's where your night-time poopalanches are coming from. I would break up his rations into 3 servings - breakfast, lunch, and dinner. We still feed Otis twice a day rather than just one large meal.
As for the amount of food he gets, it depends on what you're feeding him, how big you expect him to get eventually, and what the breeder recommends. And for treats, it really depends on what your philosophy on treat giving is. At this point in his life, a few (only a few) extra calories won't hurt him. Generally for everyday treat giving we just give Otis a few pieces of his kibble, which we withhold from his meal. So no extra calories, it just feels like it to him. On days when we're trying to teach a new trick, or working on an old behavior that he's gotten rusty on, we use Science Diet jerky treats. They're easy to break up into little, little pieces so he feels like he's getting a lot of treats even though he's really only getting one.
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oh. Good to know!
We are feeding him Purina Puppy Chow. I have a feeling he's going to be pretty big. And...his breeder did not advise us as to how much to give him. They only told us Purina Beneful seems to reduce dog odor. So, what do you think? How much for each mini-meal?
Good luck with the new puppy. We have 2 here as well.
First thing, as already mentioned. A pup should be on a 3 meal a day plan. They have tiny tummies so they need to eat frequently. They will poop more often but it can be planned a bit more. 1/2 c a meal is a good place to start, mine are up to 1 cup a meal at 12 weeks now.
Purina Puppy Chow or Beneful are not the best foods. Lots of fillers. Could also be contributing to the poo problem. Spend some time in the food forum and you'll pick up some suggestions of better quality food to feed your pup.
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The award for Getting Up Every Two Hours to Take Louie Out goes to....Kathleen and Ray!!!!!

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