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''All that
is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing'' -
Vol XI No 1
tendency sometimes to protect perpetrators for the sake of
peace...doesn't help society. Impunity should not be allowed to
stand. - Kofi Annan on Waki report
Save the Children releases new report on ending
newborn deaths as well as ensuring every baby
survives. It is a crucial report which puts the
spotlight on maternal and child health picture
throughout the world. The report is not only
critical of health delivery systems, but offers
a way out for governments that have fared badly
on the scales as Save the Children reveals that
Million Babies Die Globally on the First Day of
Their Life".
The Children's Advocacy
group, Save the Children has issued
a report
that clearly puts the spotlight on why, for
example, Africa has scored so badly with
specific examples that should guide governments
on how best they should go about saving the
lives of mothers as well as the newborn on a
continent beset by many problems.
In a statement issued by
Save the Children, the organisation notes
"The new report,
"Ending Newborn Deaths," shows one
half of first day deaths around the world could
be prevented if the mother and baby had access
to free health care and a skilled midwife. The
children's aid agency says the deaths happen
because of premature birth and complications
during birth, such as prolonged labour, pre-eclampsia
and infection, which can be avoided if quality
health experts are present. The research also
found an additional 1.2 million babies are
stillborn each year, their heartbeats stopping
during labour because of childbirth
complications, maternal infections and
In a bid to save millions of
newborn lives, Save the Children has
called on world leaders to commit in 2014 to a
blueprint for change – The Five Point Newborn
Promise – which focuses on training and
equipping enough skilled health workers to make
sure no baby is born without proper help, and
removing fees for all pregnancy and birth
The world has made amazing progress in reducing
child mortality during the past decade – nearly
halved from 12 million to 6.6 million – thanks
to global political action on immunisation,
treatment of pneumonia, diarrhoea, and malaria,
family planning and nutrition. But this progress
could stall without urgent action to tackle
scandalously high numbers of newborns dying.
This report warns that newborn deaths now
account for nearly half of all under-five
Carolyn Miles, President and CEO of Save the
Children, said: "The first day of a child's life
is the most dangerous, and too many mothers give
birth alone on the floor of their home or in the
bush without any life-saving help. We hear
horror stories of mothers walking for hours
during labour to find trained help, all too
often ending in tragedy.
"It's criminal that many of these deaths could
be averted simply if there was someone on hand
to make sure the birth took place safely and who
knew what to do in a crisis."
Each year, 40 million women give birth without
trained help.
In a part of
the report titled -
"Ten countries with the highest rates of
first-day deaths and stillbirths during labour"
Sierra Leone has been ranked near the
top of this group after Pakistan and Nigeria - a
clear indication that more needs to be done in
this direction by backing words and intentions
with real action on the ground. Statistics from
some countries are disappointing as pointed out
in a couple of examples -
Ethiopia, only 10 percent of births have skilled
help whereas in some areas of rural Afghanistan
there is just one midwife for 10,000 people. In
countries such as the Democratic Republic of
Congo (DRC) or the Central African Republic
(CAR), some mothers have to pay for emergency
maternal care, often costing as much as their
monthly food bill.
There have even been reports of mothers being
kept under jail-like conditions for months until
they have been able to pay for their emergency
caesarean. Carolyn Miles added: "These new
statistics reveal – for the first time ever –
the true scale of the newborn crisis. The
solutions are well-known but need greater
political will to give babies a fighting chance
of reaching their second day of life. Without
targeted action now, progress made in cutting
child mortality through vaccines and tackling
malnutrition will stall." Save the Children is
calling on world leaders, philanthropists and
the private sector to meet and commit to the
Five Point Newborn Promise in 2014:
These range
from issuing a defining and accountable
declaration to end all preventable newborn
mortality, saving 2 million newborn lives a year
and stopping the 1.2 million stillbirths during
labour to paying for the training, equipping and
the support of health workers as well as
removing user fees for all maternal, newborn and
child health services, including emergency
obstetric care.
In Sierra
Leone's country report was this -
As Sierra Leone emerged from civil war,
health outcomes were atrocious and coverage
of health services was extremely low. In
2008, the neonatal mortality rate was the
fourth highest in the world, with 49 babies
in every 1,000 dying within their first
month of life. That year, just one in four
of the poorest mothers had skilled
attendance during birth.
As Sierra Leone emerged from civil war,
health outcomes were atrocious and coverage
of health services was extremely low. In
2008, the neonatal mortality rate was the
fourth highest in the world, with 49 babies
in every 1,000 dying within their first
month of life. That year, just one in four
of the poorest mothers had skilled
attendance during birth.
A crucial step towards better maternal
and child health outcomes has been the Free
Health Care Initiative (FHCI), launched in
April 2010 to remove user fees for pregnant
and lactating women, and children under
five. This was led by the President, Ernest
Koroma, who acknowledged the scale of the
crisis and thus made maternal and child
health a key priority. The FHCI has been
implemented with increased public financing
and wider system reforms to strengthen the
quality of care provided, by increasing the
numbers of health workers and improving the
drug supply.
In 2014, Sierra Leone will finalise and
implement its Every Newborn Plan, which must
be closely situated within the health sector
plan to ensure an integrated approach is
taken to scale up coverage of essential
services. A focus on newborns, within the
consolidation of the FHCI, has huge
potential to accelerate progress on child
survival in Sierra Leone.
We were
impressed to hear today's BBC radio report from
Freetown, Sierra Leone's capital that things
appear to be improving as narrated by the BBC's
Umaru Fofana when he visited the Ola During
Children's Hospital where mothers says they were
not being charged or harassed for fees and other
needed support services. We hope that this was
not a show for the BBC reporter and that the
same could now be said of the many health
delivery systems in the country, thereby making
it unnecessary for those who have the right
connections to fly overseas for care and
delivery of their babies.
We hope that
it was not just a show - given reports that the
present Health Minister was rude to medical
staff who did not jump up and start cleaning the
floor because one Mr Tony Blair was to make a
visit and hence the need to give the impression
that Connaught Hospital has always been spick
and span as you would find in any hospital in
the so-called developed countries.
So why should
the Health Minister get so jittery because of
the Tony Blair visit? If she wants to be
believed that she is on top of her job, she has
the right to take upon herself spot visits,
unannounced to see the situation for herself and
thus would get a true picture of what obtains.
But back to
the Ola During Hospital - this was the
observation contained in the recent Audit Report
and we do hope that all the points raised have
been addressed.
8.24.3. Review of the Free Health Care System
The following were observed:
It was therefore recommended that the responsible officers at the Ministry of
Health and Sanitation should ensure that the other health centres were equipped
to handle referred cases in order to avoid the clustering of patients. In
addition, the Ministry of Health and Sanitation were urged to put mechanisms in
place to address the chronic shortage of doctors at the Hospital. Furthermore,
it further recommended that the relevant authorities should put mechanisms in
place for the procurement of more oxygen cylinders, so as to ameliorate the
Then we saw this too in that Audit 2012
Even though several recommendations had been made in the past for the
Hospital Management to institute written guidelines regarding the management of
medical waste, no such action was taken. It was also noted with dismay that in
some instances medical waste (Including sharp object and used needles) were not
separated from the general waste that was eventually transported to a general
dumping site. Furthermore, there was a garbage dumping spot closer to the
Hospital premises designated for the transfer of rubbish, even though, the
Hospital through the Freetown City Council, was paying the Freetown Waste
Management Company, a total amount of Le 3,000,000 per month for the clearing
and transfer of rubbish to the general dumping site. In order to prevent the
spread of communicable diseases and to mitigate the risk associated with medical
waste, it was recommended that the Hospital Management should make every effort
to develop an internal Medical Waste Management Policy. Such a policy would
address issues relating to the identification of the various forms of waste, the
storage, transporting and the risks associated with medical waste which would
will have the benefit of ensuring that all the concerned parties
were aware of the cause of action to take when dealing with waste.
for the mother country?
The right
choice is Kevin McPhilips Travel
Herald 2002


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New Findings Link Guatemala's ex-VP to Zetas Drug Cartel
The US request last week to extradite Guatemala's former vice president Roxana Baldetti on drug trafficking charges has led to new revelations about her deep links to the Zetas Mexican drug cartel, Insight Crime reported Friday.
February for cocaine trafficking, but has denied any wrongdoing.Baldetti was indicted in
She is accused of accepting "money and gifts from drug traffickers during her electoral campaign for vice president in 2011, in exchange for the promise of using her influence as vice president to allow drug traffickers to operate with impunity in Guatemala," according to the extradition document.
The US extradition request claims that several individuals testified to meetings between Baldetti and members of the Zetas, during which she agreed to receive money from the drug trafficking organization.
An individual referred to as Witness 1 paid Baldetti more than US$ 250,000 between 2011 and 2012 as part of an agreement that she would allow the cartel to move cocaine across Guatemala, according to the document.
Witness 1 also said that Baldetti used her position to help the Zetas remove an individual from a rival Mexican cartel, La Tribuna reported.
The former vice president's connection to drug traffickers was suspected well before the February 2017 release of the US indictment, especially her ties to Marllory Chacon Rossell, one of the most powerful narcotics traffickers who surrendered to Americans in 2014.
Baldetti is incarcerated in Guatemala for different corruption cases but has not yet faced a drug-related charge from Guatemalan authorities.

subset: commoncrawl


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Facebook is designed to keep your attention, not inform you with an unbiased view of the truth.
If you follow people who think like you, that will affect your social media feed. If you block people who infuriate you, that will also affect your social media feed. I hope FB develops a way that lets responsible users flag trolls, stalkers, doxxers, etc., in order to limit the damage their posts do. But if you are more likely to be annoyed by someone whose ideology differs from yours, then the end result of blocking someone will be to make your social bubble smaller. I don't claim that my own FB feed is neutral — of course it reflects my interests. But I also check news.google.com, which aggregates news from multiple sources (including international).
A visit to Blue Feed, Red Feed illustrates how the world (or at least the world as mediated through social media) can look very different to people who prefer their social media to be one color over another.
To demonstrate how reality may differ for different Facebook users, The Wall Street Journal created two feeds, one "blue" and the other "red." If a source appears in the red feed, a majority of the articles shared from the source were classified as "very conservatively aligned" in a large 2015 Facebook study. For the blue feed, a majority of each source's articles aligned "very liberal." These aren't intended to resemble actual individual news feeds. Instead, they are rare side-by-side looks at real conversations from different perspectives.
Source: Blue Feed, Red Feed – WSJ.com


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Illinois state and federal law prohibits an employer from retaliating and discharging an employee for engaging in protected activity. The following are some examples of protected activity: employee complains to the employer about violating a state law, opposes discrimination and harassment in the workplace, the employee brings a complaint to OSHA regarding a safety violation in the workplace, or the employee files a workers compensation claim.
A successful plaintiff may recover damages for back pay, front pay, and compensatory damages.


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County Executive John R. Leopold today announced the appointment of Pam Jordan as the new Director of the Department of Aging and Disabilities upon the retirement of Dr. Carol Baker.
"Pam Jordan is the perfect person to take over the department that serves our seniors and people with disabilities because of her passion for helping people and her support of my priority interest in assisting individuals with disabilities," County Executive Leopold said. "I wish Dr. Baker the best in her retirement. It was very important to keep the department moving forward without skipping a beat, and Ms. Jordan is uniquely qualified to accomplish that goal."
Jordan has over 30 years of experience in advisory and public policy positions in several Anne Arundel County Departments, including the County Executive's Office. A media communications professional with expertise in daily and emergency management communications, Pam began her career with Anne Arundel County Government in 1979 as a high school student at South River High School and went on to earn a bachelor's of science degree in marketing from the University of Maryland while employed by the County.
Jordan recently served as the Americans with Disabilities Act Coordinator and disability policy advisor to the County Executive.
Jordan and her daughter Caroline, a student at Anne Arundel Community College, live in Glen Burnie and enjoy raising their rescue pets.
The appointment is effective October 1.


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A season many thought would culminate with Gary Bettman handing the most coveted trophy in all of sports to Pens' captain Sidney Crosby for the second time in five years instead ended with a whimper Friday night. The Boston Bruins turned what was supposed to be an epic Eastern Conference Final into a swift, four game sweep, surrendering only two tallies along the way. Not two markers from Crosby, not two at the hands of fellow former scoring champion, Evgeni Malkin; no, the Bruins gave up two tallies to the entire Pittsburgh squad.
And, so, for a second straight season, a largely healthy Penguin club that had been heavily favored to bring home the franchise's fourth Stanley Cup came up short. As a result, Ray Shero will face many difficult decisions as his club approaches what very well may be an offseason full of transition. Indeed, from free agents and contract extensions to issues between the pipes with a supposed franchise goaltender to the coaching controversy that may or may not have its roots solely based in the media, Shero will have his hands full this summer.
Blessed with the ability to point out transactions that should take place without having to face the ramifications directly related to the moves, we take a look at some actions Shero might want to consider (free of charge, to boot!)
Free Agents and Contract Extensions
Entering the summer, the Penguins have a substantial list of potential free agents, headlined by Pascal Dupuis and trade deadline acquisitions Jarome Iginla and Brenden Morrow. What's more, Evgeni Malkin and Kris Letang are both up for contract extensions and it may prove difficult to keep both in Pittsburgh for the long-term.
Ownership has reportedly instructed Shero to resign Malkin at all costs and, given the fact that Malkin appears quite content in Pittsburgh, the extension isn't likely to be much of an issue (where it leaves the Penguins in terms of cap space is a different story). As a result, Shero should turn his immediate attention to finding out what it will take to retain:
Pascal Dupuis
Originally a throw in of the blockbuster deal that brought Marian Hossa to Pittsburgh in 2008, Dupuis has aged like a fine wine (or scotch, depending on your preference) with the Penguins. Originally a bottom six forward, the versatile winger now flanks Crosby on the club's top line; furthermore, he kills penalties, hits, can absolutely fly and, oh yeah, he finished 15th in the league in goals this year (20). In a nutshell, he does everything for the Pens short of logging time on the power play…and his play has set him up for a huge raise.
Coming off a two year deal that paid Dupuis $1.5 million each campaign, Pascal could reportedly command $5 million per season on the open market according to Mike Colligan, NHL Analyst at Forbes.com. That being said, Dupuis is a family man that appears happy to be a member of his current club. In addition to having a family that comes across as comfortable and content to live in the Pittsburgh community, Dupuis seems to recognize the perks that come with playing for such a talented squad. As a result, it's up to Shero to sell "Duper" on resigning with the Penguins at a rate fair to both parties before the Penguins' most coveted free agent is poached away on the open market. Otherwise, all that talk about "finding a winger for Sid" will suddenly become a real necessity.
Evgeni Malkin
With Pascal Dupuis (hopefully) resigned, Shero can turn his attention to Malkin's extension. With ownership instructing the G.M. to get a long-term deal done, it would be in Shero's best interest to get this done as quickly as possible so as to both satisfy his bosses and ensure Malkin feels like a priority for the club. What's more, it will give Ray a better unerstanding of how much cap room he has to potentially resign Letang and build the rest of his club for next season and beyond. As mentioned above, this seems to be more of a formality than anything. The only question is, what shape will the eventual deal leave the club in with regards to the salary cap?
And the Rest
With Shero's two biggest priorities (with regards to signing players anyway) taken care of, he will be free to begin shaping the rest of his roster. It's hard to imagine the Penguins will bring back aging star, Jarome Iginla, after he struggled to fit into Dan Bylsma's system. But what about depth players like Craig Adams, Matt Cooke and Tyler Kennedy? What about defensemen Mark Eaton and Douglas Murray? Much of it may depend on whether or not Shero retains Bylsma (more on that later) and his up-tempo system that so many newcomers struggle to adjust to. Regardless of what he decides, though, Shero faces some tough decisions in the coming months.
Problems With Penguins Goaltending
First off, let's get one thing straight. Tomas Vokoun turned out to be everything Shero could have wanted and more when the G.M. brought the veteran goaltender to Pittsburgh. After a solid regular season, Vokoun rescued a floundering Pittsburgh club that, following Marc-Andre Fleury's now yearly playoff implosion, appeared to be in danger of succumbing, once again, to a lesser opponent in the first round. Can you imagine the backlash had the Pens lost to the Islanders?! Luckily for Pittsburgh fans though (and likely their entire management department, coaching staff and a fair number of their players), Vokoun rode in on his white horse, carried the club past New York and Ottawa and was virtually the only player to show up for much of the conference final.
That being said, at 36 and entering the last year of his deal, Vokoun isn't the goaltender of the future. And given how this year's postseason played out, neither is Marc-Andre Fleury. While the club does have two promising prospects in Eric Hartzell and Jeff Zatkoff, there's no guarantee either will pan out at the next level, a potential reality that Shero must consider.
So this is where the G.M. needs to be careful. The simplest solution would obviously be to buy Fleury out. His $5 million salary would no longer count against the cap and Pittsburgh suddenly has more room to, say, sign Letang to a long-term deal. But what if neither Hartzell nor Zatcoff can make the jump to the show? What do the Pens do post-Vokoun?
No, in the long-term, Shero needs more confidence in his crease. The Stanley Cup window won't be open forever in the Sidney Crosby/Evgeni Malkin era and it won't be open at all if the Penguins don't have someone they can count on in net. Which is precisely the reason Shero needs to call Dean Lombardi in Los Angeles about Jonathan Bernier.
At 24, Bernier is both ready to spread his wings as more than just a backup to Jonathan Quick and an asset the Kings simply need to move. And, quite frankly, the timing couldn't be better for Pittsburgh. With Vokoun entering the last year of his deal, the two can split next season in the Pittsburgh net as Bernier adjusts to becoming the franchise's goaltender of the future. The possibility has tremendous upside and it's time for Shero to find out what it'll cost.
Even if the deal would have to include Kris Letang, it's worth considering. Because, while Norris Trophy candidates don't grow on trees, it's not like the Pens don't have a plethora of puck moving defensemen in their system. What's more, Shero isn't going to let Letang just walk in free agency for nothing so, should the G.M. sense a deal with Kris isn't doable, he'll be looking to move the smooth-skating blue liner in a heartbeat, just as he did with Jordan Staal.
From there, Shero has options with Fleury. He could still buy the struggling goaltender out, providing the Penguins with cap room to improve the depth of their newly depleted blue line or, given the fact that there won't be many blue chip defenseman free agents available this summer, Fleury could be shipped to a club in need of help in net (Toronto comes to mind). Either way, the Penguins come out ahead in the long-run.
What About Dan Bylsma?
This may prove to be Shero's most difficult decision of the offseason. After all, Bylsma has enjoyed a tremendous amount of success in a relatively short time in Pittsburgh. "Disco Dan" captured a Stanley Cup title roughly four months into his NHL coaching career, won the Jack Adams Award as coach of the year two seasons later and, this past April, became the fastest NHL bench boss ever to compile 200 wins.
For all of the accolades, however, Bylsma has experienced little postseason success since that Stanley Cup run. In fact, since those 2009 playoffs, Bylsma's Penguins have managed just a 20-21 record in the only season that really matters. That's simply not going to cut for an organization that expects to compete for a championship every year. What's more, his reluctance to make adjustments within a series or when something isn't working can be mind boggling. Why, for example, did it take so long for Bylsma to move Jarome Iginla off of Malkin's left wing when it was so clear that the future Hall of Famer wasn't comfortable there? Furthermore, if he wanted to get the most out of "Iggy" on the power play, why did the coach consistently send Jarome to the side of the net, an area he found relatively fruitless, rather than deploy him to the left point, where he has successfully fired bombs from for the bulk of his illustrious career? Why wasn't Paul Martin, by far the Penguins best defender in the Boston series, given more of an opportunity on a stagnant power play that never found the Boston net? Wouldn't it make sense to change something up? The look? The personnel? Anything!
And, so, Shero must weigh his options carefully. On the one hand, he has a coach who has never had a team that didn't enter the postseason with home ice advantage in at least the first round, a coach who possesses a Stanley Cup ring and a coach who's system plays to the strengths (usually) of the squad Shero has built. But on the other hand, he has a coach that is below .500 in the postseason since bringing the franchise back to glory in his rookie season, a coach who has lost two game 7's on home ice in the last four years and a coach who's stubborness and unwillingness to adjust on the fly can cause enormous problems for his club when things aren't going right.
That being the case, what is Shero to do? Maybe it is time for a change; maybe Dan's time is running out in Western Pennsylvania. If that's true, though, is there someone out there better suited for this job? Sure, there are some big names on the market – John Tortorella, Lindy Ruff and Alain Vigneault are all available – but are any off them more suited for the job than Bylsma? Vigneault was run out of Vancouver because he couldn't get the job done in the playoffs as the club struggled with a goaltending controversy (sound familiar?), Ruff enjoyed an enormously successful stay as coach of the Buffalo Sabres but only made one Stanley Cup Final appearance and "Torts", well let's just say his system isn't likely to mesh with this Penguins club.
If Shero wanted to promote from within, he could always look to catch lightning in a bottle for a second time by promoting John Hynes from AHL affiliate Wilkes-Barre/Scranton. Or, he could take a more subtle approach and simply replace Bylsma's assistants, Todd Reirden and Tony Granato. That would at least shake things up enough to get the coach and players' attention.
Whatever Shero decides the best option(s) is/are, make no mistake, change is coming to Pittsburgh. The failures of the past four years demand it.


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Burns is the master of creepy comics, from his early work on characters like Big Baby and El Borbah for RAW and others in the 1980s through his masterpiece, Black Hole, which appeared in parts throughout the '90s. But his slow pace does mean that we only see a Burns ending every other Presidential administration, at best -- Black Hole took him a decade to complete, though the end product is worth every minute of that.
So it's no surprise to find ourselves in the middle of another dark, unsettling Burns story in The Hive. It's the middle book
of his current trilogy -- each of them a European-style album of around
50 pages of story, deliberately evoking Tintin in format as well as in a few visual ways -- following 2010's X'ed Out, and to be completed, in another year or so, by a final book. The Hive begins in the middle and ends in the middle, as the center of a trilogy always must, serving to deepen and complicate rather than to explain or complete. And that's assuming that expecting a clear explanation from Burns at all is a reasonable thing to do.
Our young hero, Doug, continues his unsettling adventures in two worlds -- the "real" one of which may be entirely in flashbacks, the fantastic one of which may be entirely in his head, or both or neither -- where he is nearly as confused and uneasy as the reader is. In the realistic world, Doug looks like a normal young man of his era -- probably the middle days of punk, in the late 1970s or early 1980s -- with a girlfriend, Sarah, who is drifting away from him as they both try to continue their art and it becomes clearer that she has more ambition and focus and talent than he does. Not unrelatedly, she also has more problems than Doug does, including a nasty ex. In the fantastic world, Doug has a simpler face -- one which echoes the mask he used for his art in his own world -- and a simpler existence, toiling in the titular Hive for the foul-mouthed lizard men, cleaning and fetching and doing other menial tasks.
The two worlds are linked mostly by Doug's face, and by his relationship with the women in the two worlds -- Sarah, who may be pregnant, and the "breeders" of the Hive, who are something less defined so far but more unsettling than just pregnant. So the body horror of Black Hole is back, though the focus on women's bodies could feel just a bit regressive here -- Doug is a naif, almost an innocent, rather than one of the participants of Black Hole, and all of the lurking unpleasantness is caught up in women's sexuality and reproduction.
Still, we don't have the whole picture yet, and it's not at all clear if we're seeing scenes in anything like the order they happened -- there's plenty of room and time to learn more about Doug, and to have him turn out to be more or less than he seems to be. And there's no one who does horror in comics form like Burns: he's the master of the lurking dread, the uneasy suspicion, and the creepy implication. We may well have the end of this story to look forward to in 2014, so lets leave those questions open, and see how Burns ends this all.
Book-A-Day 2014 Introduction and Index
Wednesday, January 01, 2014
Book-A-Day 2014 #1: The Hive by Charles Burns
Your Hornswoggler is Andrew Wheeler Released into the wild 1/01/2014 12:00:00 PM
Recurring Motifs: Book-A-Day, Comics, Reviews


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The Office of Undergraduate Admissions will not be able to provide overnight housing during Quaker Days to all the admitted students who have requested it.
Quaker Days – set to take place this Wednesday and Thursday – serve as an opportunity for students admitted to Penn through regular decision to spend some time on campus, where they attend special events and visit classes.
According an email from Vice Dean and Director of Marketing and Communications Kathryn Bezella, 1,245 admitted students registered to attend at least some portion of the scheduled Quaker Days event. Of them, 896 students requested overnight housing during their stay on campus.
Yet, Bezella added that only 848 spots will be available for visiting students during Quaker Days, leaving some students without a place to stay on campus.
To compensate for the expected batch of hosts who could potentially cancel or get ill, as of the morning of April 16, the Office of Undergraduate Admissions is still looking for another 100 students to host over Quaker Days, according to Bezella. Quaker Days begins on April 18.
Bezella noted that, while it is a yearly struggle to find enough student hosts, this year's Quaker Days registration saw a jump of 242 admitted students.
This increase in the number of students attending Quaker Days occurred even as the total number of accepted students remained about the same as years past.
Bezella said some students who requested housing were told that they would have to find their own arrangements for the visit.
"We are working on exploring other options and there are discounts associated with Penn for many area hotels," Bezella wrote in an email. "But we realize that the experience of a hotel accommodation won't be as compelling to a prospective student as getting a sense of the student experience here with a host, and we are also sensitive to the costs associated with hotel stay."
Bezella added that the Office of Undergraduate Admissions has been working since February to recruit hosts, sending emails to students, meeting with student groups to convey the importance of hosting, and sending Admissions staff to recruit student hosts outside the Quad, Hill House, and New College House.
Engineering freshman Claire Pince said she was not originally keen on hosting but decided to after receiving several of the emails from Penn.
"After the third round of emails asking us to host, I thought 'might as well,'" Pince said. "I was hosted when I came to Quaker Days, I had fun, and it helped me decide to come to Penn. So I thought 'Why not host?'"
College freshman Reagan Bracknell said that she decided to host during Quaker Days immediately after attending them herself as an admitted student.
"I know that for me, it was a really formative experience in my decision," Bracknell said. "Penn is a really special place, and Quaker Days is definitely a deciding factor for many students."
College junior Joy Sun was eager to register as a host for Quaker Days and was disappointed to learn that, despite the shortage in overnight housing availability, she was rejected as a host due to her living space's designation as "gender-neutral."
According to official Admissions policies, the Quaker Days planning committee "can only match an admitted student over 18 who opts into staying in a gender-neutral room into those spaces," according to Bezella.
Despite her inability to host admitted students this year, Sun expressed support for the idea that Penn students hold some sort of responsibility to host admitted students.
"I understand the reasons against hosting but I also understand that the commitment is super low," she said. "There really is not much you have to do as a host besides showing some Penn pride – but even if without it, you'd be fine too."


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"Jill is a triple threat with her first-hand experience in the news industry, federal government, and public relations world. You will be fascinated to learn the behind-the-scenes details of these closely watched entities." – Gretchen Carlson
"Jill's inside information is literature that will train the next Thomas Jeffersons, Benjamin Franklins and Alexander Hamiltons. With her experience, information, and insight, Jill ensures a successful campaign and political career." – Aaron Berlin, prosecutor and candidate for district court judge in Forsyth County
"Jill's book is must read for anyone wanting to know how the dots are connected with politics and the media. With the evolving political climate, Jill has found new ground to plow." – United States Congressman Richard Hudson (NC-8)
"As an elected official for over 20 years and a lifelong activist in the Republican Party, I wanted to share my support for Jill's Executive Director position for the Forsyth County Republican Party. I know that a number of counties have reached out to try and duplicate some of the great things that have been performed by our executive director position–including Wake County.
One example of improvement I've seen with Jill, is our ability to reach voters with her Facebook lives.Numerous people in the business community have expressed how they have been impressed with the level of professionalism in our party over the past year. We need all of the help we can get to be successful in the upcoming elections.
I stand behind Jill Osborn 100%." – State Representative Debra Conrad (NC)
"You can buy knowledge but you cannot teach wisdom. Jill's wisdom helped me win my election and continued to help me while serving continuous terms as Mayor." – Former Mayor Nick Nelson, youngest Mayor to serve Clemmons, N.C.
"In The Ping Effect, Jill Osborn demonstrates that if we take time to ask questions, people will share their story. Those stories are filled with challenge, comfort, inspiration, and vision." – Dr. Gary Chapman, Author and New York Times Bestseller of The Five Love Languages
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Ladies of Halloween
Got a lot of work done tonight/day, but I'm too tired to post everything right now. Y oY
Even if I wasn't too sleepy my eyes went blurry hours ago. X0
Here are some appetizers in the meanwhile. ^ o^
Full pics to be revealed later tonight!
Got a couple fun merch items figured out shirt wise.
If u got any additional ideas on ways to monetize this work I'd be very glad to hear it.
If its especially good ill even award temporary patron ranks. ^ o^
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I'm all done for the day, back at the base, driving my car out the garage. There's a lady out there, and she's blowing bubbles and spinning in a circle, bubbles all around her, on the sidewalk by an empty 545. From a distance she looked 10, perhaps 12 years old. I kept looking and maybe she was 12, maybe she was 60. I couldn't tell. Rolling down the window as I got closer, and oh! She is about 60, but the thought flashes- how could that be? She's blowing bubbles! I say loudly, "that's beautiful!" In the moment right before yelling I wondered if I should even say anything- maybe she wouldn't hear me? Or wouldn't get that I was talking to her? Or think it was weird I would yell out at her from my car- but no. She smiles back saying, "Thank you!" As if, you know, people yell friendly things across the street at each other all the time. In my rear-view I see her out there, still twirling in a sea of gently floating bubbles, glinting in the fading light- she still looks about 12. It's warm outside, as I head for the highway overpass. Orange sunlight passing underneath.
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Thank you for your interest in the AWS Partner Summit Sydney 2020. We sincerely appreciate your interest and we are thrilled with the response from our partners.
Our top priority is the wellbeing of our partners, customers and employees. After a careful review of the current situation with COVID-19 and listening to the guidance provided by the local authorities, Amazon Web Services regrets to announce that we have made the decision to cancel the AWS Partner Summit Sydney 2020, which was scheduled for Monday 30 March 2020 at the International Convention Centre, Sydney.
We would like to ask you for your understanding and apologise for any inconvenience caused. We are currently looking at all options for a follow-up event and will communicate those details as soon as they are available.
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Tokiwaso was demolished more than 30 years ago
The apartment where the godfather of Manga, Osamu Tezuka, spent his youth, will be rebuilt in Tokyo's Toshima Ward.
The apartment, known as Tokiwaso, will be reproduced to in replica form, with its outside representing what it looked like at the time. The inside of the house will showcase reproduced handwritten drawings and other documents from that era.
Tokyo's central ward city administrator intends on opening the apartment-style museum in March 2020. The attraction is hoped to be the centre of Japanese manga culture, appealing to domestic and foreign fans and tourists.
The revamped Tokiwaso will be situated in Minami-Nagasaki Hanasaki Parkm which is a three minute walk away from where the original apartment stood. The committee, which will be led by Manga artist Machiko Satonaka, will be established on 26 July and will include people involved in the original Tokiwaso as well as locals. The committee are expected to create a plan within the current fiscal year, with construction hoping to begin in fiscal 2018.
Yukio Takano, the head of Toshima Ward, is very excited about the project,
"Manga is the starting point of anime, and Tokiwa-so was the starting point of manga. I would like the new apartment to be a place for young people to learn about Japanese manga culture. I hope each one of the manga artists' rooms will be recreated along with the atmosphere of their lives."
The project will cost the Toshima government between 200 million yen and 300 million yen and will occupy 220sq meteres of the park and 420 sq meters floor space.
A number of Manga artists lived in Tokiwaso in the 1950s, including Tezuka, Shotaro Ishinomori and Fujio Akatsuka. It was demolished in 1982, but is still a landmark visited by fans today.


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6 Things You Need To Know About The New iPhone 7
8 September 2016, 11:32 | Updated: 8 May 2017, 17:09
Do you smell that? It's the fresh scent of new iPhone season. After months of rumors, "leaks", and speculation, Apple's annual September announcements have come and gone.
In case you missed it, here's everything you need to know about the iPhone 7 and Apple's other plans.
iPhone 7 and 7 Plus
- The rumors were true. Apple is ditching the headphone jack and is looking bravely toward a wireless future.
- If you want to keep things purely Apple, you'll likely be opting for the pricey (and perhaps problematic) airpods. But don't fret there are plenty of ways to get your music on the iPhone 7 besides the airpods.
- The new iPhone 7 is water resistant, armed with longer battery life, and a better camera. Apple have also ditched the 16 gb option for the iPhone 7. All phones start at 32 gb.
- The iPhone 7 will be available in 5 colours.
- Retail price for a 32gb iPhone 7 starts at $649 (£599)
- They're out for shipment starting September 16th
Although it's a brave new world of no headphone jacks, younger users don't seem to be overly impressed with this decision.
THERES NO HEADPHONE JACK ON THE IPHONE 7, RIP TO "Hey pass me the Aux cord"— NATHAN TRISKA (@Nathan_Triska) September 8, 2016
So I was gonna get an iPhone 7 but since they're removing the headphone jack they can literally lick my anus— G H A S T L Y (@Ghastly) September 7, 2016
Some other cool stuff?
- Apple watch 2 is now made durable for swimmers and runners. The watch will discharge water through its speakers, an area where the first Apple watch fell down miserably.
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2012 Estate 1856 Cabernet Sauvignon "Tzabaco Rancho Vineyards"
Winery: Estate 1856
Vintage: 2012
Wine Name/Vineyard: "Tzabaco Rancho Vineyards"
Wine Category: Cabernet Sauvignon
Grape blend: 97% Cabernet Sauvignon & 3% Petit Verdot
Bottle size: 750 ml
Region: Sonoma County
State or country: CA
Price: $32
Cases produced: 85
KWG Score: 89 (based on 1 review)
Ken's Wine Rating: Very Good (89)
Review date: January 10, 2015
Wine Review: This opaque and midnight blue colored Cabernet Sauvignon from Sonoma County opens with a fragrant black currant and blackberry bouquet. On the palate, this wine is full bodied, slightly acidic and fruit forward. The flavor profile is a ripe boysenberry and black currant blend with notes of minerality and oak. I also detected hints of blueberry and cherry as well. The finish is dry and its fruit flavors and mild tannins fade away nicely. This fruity Cab would pair well with Charlie Palmer's Colorado lamb rack with fingerling Lyonnaise potatoes. Enjoy - Ken
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This week, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand will join French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris for consultations surrounding the Christchurch Call.
GNI members encourage Prime Minister Ardern, President Macron, and other governments participating in the Christchurch Call to undertake broader, more inclusive consultations with the diverse array of actors necessary for addressing cross-border and universal issues like those affecting digital rights. Furthermore, GNI underscores the importance of framing the call in international human rights language, pointing to rights-respecting recommendations from our November 2016 policy brief: "Extremist Content and the ICT Sector."
Read the full letter here or below.
Right Honorable Jacinda Ardern
Prime Minister of New Zealand
Honorable Emmanuel Macron
President of the French Republic
Dear Prime Minister Ardern and President Macron,
On behalf of our 62 globally diverse academic, civil society, company, and investor members, the Global Network Initiative (GNI) thanks you for the invitation to participate in the May 14 "Voices for Action" event in Paris. Although we still have not received the official text of the Christchurch Call, we nevertheless would like to take this opportunity to provide some suggestions ahead of these meetings, based on our experience fostering constructive engagement between policy makers and our globally diverse membership of information and communication technology (ICT) companies, human rights and media freedom organizations, academics, and investors.
Given the importance of the Christchurch Call and its potential ramifications for civil society, journalists, technology platforms, and internet users around the world, it is essential that this initiative be conducted in an open and inclusive manner. We have heard from many leading organizations that the late notice and the lack of an opportunity to participate in the shaping of the text of the Christchurch Call have presented serious barriers to their effective engagement. The unfortunate exclusion of civil society from the 15 May meetings between governments and companies further undermines confidence in this process.
As we recently recommended to the UN High Level Panel on Digital Cooperation, diversity and inclusion are key ingredients in meaningful engagement of participants, a core component of effective multi-stakeholder initiatives. For cross-border and universal issues, such as those in the digital realm, a truly diverse group makes fewer assumptions, increases the robustness of policy positions and advocacy strategies, and anticipates and minimizes otherwise unforeseen harms or challenges. Taking active steps to ensure that all participants have the opportunities, resources, and tools available to help them succeed within the cooperative initiative is essential to this approach.
The role of information and communication technology (ICT) companies in responding to alleged terrorist or extremist content has become one of the most challenging issues for freedom of expression and privacy online, as seen most recently with the horrific murders in Christchurch. In July 2015, GNI launched a policy dialogue to explore key questions and considerations concerning government efforts to restrict online content with the aim of protecting public safety, and to discuss the human rights implications of such government actions. As part of this multi-year dialogue, GNI convened a series of roundtable discussions, bringing together its academic, civil society, investor, and company participants with other experts and representatives from governments and international organizations.
Based on these roundtables and our engagements with the UN Counter Terrorism Committee and others, GNI developed a set of recommendations for governments and companies, set out in detail in our Extremist Content and the ICT Sector policy brief. They are inspired by the GNI Principles and Implementation Guidelines, and informed by relevant international human rights standards as laid out in the Joint Declaration on Freedom of Expression and countering violent extremism and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. We have appended the key recommendations from the policy brief to this letter.
Substantively, we want to underscore the importance of framing the Christchurch Call in international human rights language. Through ten years as an organization, GNI has found that shared respect for human rights provides a foundation upon which to build consensus among diverse and varied stakeholders. GNI, the only multi-stakeholder membership organization focused on the ICT sector, has used this approach to build trust and cooperation among diverse stakeholders, produce important research on topics of mutual interest, and advocate collectively for freedom of expression and privacy in countries across the world. GNI's approach is informed by the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, which articulate the obligations of both governments and companies to protect, respect, promote, and support human rights.
Human rights, such as freedom of expression, non-discrimination, and diversity of thought, represent the very values that terrorist ideologies attack and seek to suppress. It is therefore imperative that we take great care to ensure that our efforts to counter terrorism avoid infringing on those very rights. It is GNI is eager to coordinate with your governments on this initiative. Please direct future communications to [email protected].
Judith Lichtenberg
Executive Director
Global Network Initiative
Appendix: Recommendations from GNI's Extremist Content and the ICT Sector Policy Brief:
Recommendations for governments:
- Governments must protect and respect human rights when developing, implementing, and enforcing laws and policies meant to address extremist content online.
- Government legal demands to restrict content for the purpose of protecting public safety must be pursuant to the rule of law. They should respect and protect freedom of expression and privacy, and be directed at creators of content, rather than intermediaries, whenever possible.
- Governments must not impose liability—directly or indirectly—on intermediaries on the basis of content sent or created by third parties. Intermediaries must not be required to monitor third-party content that they host or transmit.
- Governments should not pressure companies to change their terms of service (TOS). Companies develop TOS in order to deliver user experiences that are appropriate for the nature or type of service, and the user community of the service.
- When governments refer content to companies for removal under companies' TOS, governments should guard against the risks that such referrals may set precedents for extra-judicial government censorship without adequate access to remedy, accountability, or transparency for users and the public. If governments make such referrals, they should be transparent about, and accountable for, such referrals.
- Laws and policies must distinguish between messages that aim to incite terrorist acts and those that discuss, debate or report on them.
- Journalists and media outlets must not be penalized for reporting or providing commentary about terrorist groups, or for informing the public about acts of terrorism.
- Governments must not compel speech or dissemination of speech by private actors as part of their efforts to protect national security or public order.
- Governments should not prohibit the use of encryption technologies, compel the weakening of security systems, nor seek to subvert digital security standards in other ways. Such technologies preserve speakers' abilities to communicate alternative messages.
- Governments must use formal legal process to send orders to remove content, rather than consumer-facing reporting tools, so that legal orders can be recorded as such.
- When Governments make requests to companies to remove content that allegedly violates TOS, outside of regular legal processes, governments must be transparent about and accountable for such referrals. Governments must not compel ICT companies to change how they develop and enforce their TOS.
Recommendations related to transparency:
- Governments should regularly and publicly report, at a minimum, the aggregate numbers of requests and/or legal orders made to companies to restrict content and the number of users impacted by these requests.
- Governments must not prohibit companies from disclosing, in any way, the number of requests and/or legal orders to restrict content that they receive, and how the company responded to the request.
- Governments must not prohibit companies from reporting on companies' own efforts to restrict extremist content.
- Companies should be transparent with their users when required by governments to remove or restrict content, unless prohibited by law.
Recommendations for companies:
- Require that governments follow established domestic legal processes when they make demands that restrict freedom of expression.
- Interpret government restrictions and demands, as well as the governmental authority's jurisdiction, so as to minimize the negative effect on freedom of expression.
- Seek clarification or modification from authorized officials when government restrictions appear overbroad, are not required by domestic law, or appear inconsistent with international human rights laws and standards on freedom of expression.


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Lodge Style House Plan with European Charm
This charming two-story Lodge style house plan features a spacious open-concept floor plan with a large outdoor living space that is sure to please. Upon entering the home there is a flexible den/guest room with closet and adjacent full bathroom. At the rear of the home is the spacious L shaped island kitchen with corner pantry. Just off the kitchen is the dining room and vaulted living room, complete with a built in fireplace and access to the impressive covered outdoor living space. The vaulted master suite lies just off the kitchen and features a large walk-in closet and bathroom with separate shower and soaking tub. Upstairs are two bedrooms and a full bathroom, perfect for teenagers or house guests.
This thoughtful floor plan combined with the gorgeous exterior make for a beautiful combination.
House Plan Features
- 3 Bathrooms
- 4 Bedrooms
- Beautiful Covered Outdoor Living
- Gourmet island kitchen
- Large vaulted family room.
- Main floor guest suite
- Soaking Tub
- Two car garage
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At the end of the sprin semester of 2016/2017, the Landscape Graduation Exhibition 2017 showed the work of nineteen graduate students. The exhibition was officially opened on July 5th, 2017, by Berno Strootman.Read More
The stars in the sky
On the 22nd of november the Landscape Architecture master students went on another of many adventures. This time, the path led to Holwerd, a historical village in Friesland on the coast of the dynamic and beautiful Wadden Sea and to the island on the other side, Ameland. Being the biggest tidal area of the world,…Read More
TU experimental garden
Last summer students of the Master track Landscape Architecture of the TU Delft could follow a summer course in the Tuinen Mien Ruys in Dedemsvaart, made possible by a generous subsidy of the NHBos Foundation. It was a hands-on workshop in a real life situation addressing the practical skill of planting design, a basic skill for any landscape…Read More
A study of Polders in Felt
In February 2013, MSc students of Landscape Architecture were taken to the Nieuwland Museum in Leystad for a three day workshop, led by an artist. Cora Jongsma, who has worked extensively with felt, introduced students to the fascinating similarities between two seemingly incongruent occurrences: the creation of felt from wool and the creation of polders.…Read More
Polder Garden
Last year Michael van der Meer, the director of the Science Centre and Rolf Hut from the Faculty of Civil Engineering asked us to design the 'smallest polder of the Netherlands' at the Campus of TU Delft. We invited 5 students (Lowin van der Burg, Marij Hoogland, Linda Nijhof, Emma Ottevanger and Cem Steenhorst) from…Read More
Cadavre Exquis
Surrealistic Games with Layered Landscapes Exhibition opening Rotterdam April 20th 2012 & Book presentation Dutch Architecture with Landscape Methods Vol.3 This week we will have the final review of an student research laboratory 'Design Analysis' that I have been teaching with Matthew Skjonsberg (West 8) since february this year at Rotterdamse Academie van Bouwkunst (RAvB).…Read More


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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Finger Lickin' Fifteen: A Stephanie Plum Novel (audio)
This was a nice departure from the usual formula of Stephanie being in a danger. The focus is switched to Lulu but Stephanie suffers from some collateral damage as a result of always being with Lulu. The killers are dumb as rocks so the whole book involves a chase right up to the very end. I also enjoyed the Ranger mystery. Stephanie isn't dumb. She is actually very smart and intuitive. She's just no good as a bounty hunter, but she's an excellent detective. I like that about her.
Stephanie and Morelli are on a break in this book and she hangs out with Ranger a whole lot. Which is nice because I like it when she is with Ranger. But if I was on a break from Morelli, you can bet I'd be sleeping with Ranger first chance I get because damn! That's a whole lot of sexy. But she's more cautious than me.
Labels: adult fiction, audio books, Janet Evanovich, mystery, reviews, Stephanie Plum
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I never saw Steph as cautious! Sounds like a fun installment. I stopped the series around 7 or 8... got a little bored with it, but maybe it's time to come back!ReplyDelete
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My mom loved this book! I agree with you about Ranger-I'd be all over him if I were on a break from Morelli.ReplyDelete
Miss Ramirez - Cautious as in men, not in life in generalReplyDelete
Buckeye Girl - I know, right?
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