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John Collins is new Nichols Bros CEO
John Collins, an expert in improving operations in project driven companies, has recently been named Chief Executive Officer of Nichols Bros. Boat Builders of Freeland, Washington. A veteran executive in the metals industry, Collins was most recently the president and CEO of Sustainable Solutions International, LLC, a Birmingham, Alabama based consulting firm specializing in improving competitiveness by implementing sustainable flow based, process-oriented operational and organizational strategies.
"The people at Nichols Bros know how to build great boats and they have been doing it for 45 years," Collins said. "We are making changes now that will help our skilled team continue their work with fewer hassles, less interference and fewer delays."
Since his arrival as CEO on October 1, Collins has implemented new systems to improve scheduling and yard control. Company management has been reorganized to combine traditional vertical organizational structures with cross-organizational responsibilities to improve the flow of materials and work.
"Nichols Bros is definitely back on its feet after it went through bankruptcy two years ago," Collins said. "The new systems we are putting into place will help us in the next phase of growing our business."
Collins earned an MBA with a Marketing emphasis at Georgia State University in 1972 and a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Management at Georgia Institute of Technology.
Collins replaces Len York, whose involvement with the yard was initially as an adviser to Ice Floe LLC which bought the shipbuilder's assets when it was in Chaper 11 bankruptcy. Although he has not announced his plans, York is considering several corporate turnaround offers.
Collins and his wife, Judy, have placed their house in Birmingham on the market and are in the process of house hunting on Whidbey Island. His past employment has included top executive positions at Alumax, one of the world's largest aluminum companies, which was acquired by Alcoa in 1998, and several companies in the metals fabrication sector.


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Citing a severe and chronic backlog, advocacy groups have filed a class-action lawsuit accusing the state of failing low-income and disabled Marylanders by regularly taking nearly a year to approve medical assistance applications.
The lawsuit, filed last week in Baltimore Circuit Court on behalf of nearly 10,000 disabled adults, seeks to force the Department of Human Resources to approve the Medicaid applications within 60 days, as required by state law. The advocates allege that nearly 46 percent of applications in 2012 were illegally delayed.
"As a result of the defendant's failures, low-income and medically-needy individuals with disabilities cannot obtain needed medical care and treatment and face serious, often life-threatening health risks," according to the lawsuit by the Public Justice Center, the Homeless Persons Representation Project and the National Center for Law and Economic Justice.


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This is a weekly summary of selected prime contracts recently awarded by the federal government to companies and other vendors in Maryland.
Maryland contracts
KCM Computer Consulting Inc. in Greenbelt won a $10,537,773 contract from the U.S. Customs Service to provide programming support services for the treasury enforcement communications systems.
The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore won a $7,916,391 contract from the National Institutes of Health for a study on women's aging.


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The number of people heading to the UK, less the number leaving, dropped significantly by 84,000 to 163,000 in the year to June, fuelled by a 17% fall in the number of students arriving from overseas.
The official figures were released as a group of influential MPs reacted angrily to the Government's refusal to remove foreign students from its migration target.
"The Government should listen, think again and change course," the Commons business, innovation and skills committee said.
Immigration fell from 589,000 to 515,000, its lowest since 2003, causing the drop in net migration, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.
Some 155,000 Britons left the UK last year, a similar number to the previous year but a "steady increase" since a low of 128,000 in 2010, the ONS said.
Study remains the most common reason for migrating to the UK, but the numbers fell to 197,000 from 239,000 the previous year.
The number of migrants coming to the UK from Poland and other new EU countries also fell, from 86,000 the previous year to 62,000 - the lowest level since they joined the EU in 2004.
The end of restrictions imposed by other EU countries on these citizens may have diverted some of them elsewhere, including Germany, the ONS said.
The change will add to the complications in predicting how many migrants from Bulgaria and Romania will head to the UK when work restrictions are lifted in January next year.
Prime Minister David Cameron and Theresa May, the Home Secretary, have pledged to cut net migration to the tens of thousands before the next election in 2015 and have brought in a series of measures to tackle abuse in the immigration system.
Analysts at the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford said Thursday's figures showed the Government was more than half way to achieving its goal.
But Dr Scott Blinder, the centre's acting director, warned that the further cuts which were needed were greater than those projected in the Government's own impact assessment for its policy changes.
He said: "This could still be a difficult task."
However, Mark Harper, the Immigration Minister, said: "Our tough reforms are having an impact in all the right places - we have tightened the routes where abuse was rife and overall numbers are down as a result.
"But sponsored student visa applications for our world-class university sector are up and the numbers of skilled people being sponsored by UK employers in sectors such as IT and science have also increased."
Sponsored visa applications rose 3% in the university sector, but fell 62%, 69% and 14% for further education, English language schools and independent schools respectively.
Sir Andrew Green, chairman of the pressure group Migration Watch UK, said the figures showed universities have been "crying wolf" over fears the Government's reforms were deterring genuine students.
"Not only is it clear evidence that the Government's policies are taking effect, but they're doing so in exactly the way they intended," Sir Andrew said.
"Visas for university students are up, but for colleges where all the abuse was thought to take place they're sharply down, so the universities have been crying wolf."
But the Institute for Public Policy Research warned that falls driven by fewer overseas students would not continue.
Sarah Mulley, the think-tank's associate director, said the decline "will only have a short term effect on net migration".
"Because most students stay in the UK only for a short time, reduced immigration now will mean reduced emigration in the future, which by 2015 could partially reverse the falls we are seeing today," she said.
She warned that "more drastic cuts to student numbers would be needed to make further progress towards the Government's target".
The fall in net migration was also driven by a significant decrease in the number of immigrants arriving from New Commonwealth countries, such as Botswana, Bangladesh, India and Pakistan, where previous studies have identified abuse.
Some 117,000 immigrants from New Commonwealth countries arrived in the UK in the year to June, down 30% or 51,000 from 168,000 in the previous year.


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SOURCE: Shift4 Corporation
June 20, 2013 19:42 ET
LAS VEGAS, NV--(Marketwired - Jun 20, 2013) - Shift4 Corporation, the world's largest independent payment gateway, is pleased to announce their Partner Spotlight series at HITEC, the hospitality industry's premier technology conference, June 24-27, in Minneapolis. RoomkeyPMS®, AutoClerk®, and It Just Works Software® (IJWS) will be joining Shift4 in their booth (#1007) this year to present their integrations with Shift4's DOLLARS ON THE NET®.
"We're excited to highlight the success stories of our partners and how we've worked together to truly improve the usability and security of hospitality payments solutions," said Shift4 VP of Business Development Bob Lowe. "The partners we'll feature during this event are at the forefront of payment security and I think attendees will be impressed to see the advances they've made in reducing the card-data environment, resulting in increased security and simplified PCI compliance."
RSI RoomkeyPMS is a cloud-based property management system (PMS) that uses Shift4's TrueTokenization® and i4Go® to drastically reduce a hotel's PCI scope. Since cardholder data (CHD) is tokenized at the point of entry, the hotel never processes, transmits, or stores any real CHD. Hoteliers can even choose to use an encrypted swipe device and enjoy the added security of point-to-point encryption (P2PE) in front of i4Go.
AutoClerk PMS integrates TrueTokenization, P2PE, i4Go, 4Res™, and 4Word® to make myHMS3® the first cloud-based PMS to provide hoteliers with a fully-hosted Web solution that keeps CHD entirely out of their hosting environment and reduces the hotel's own card-data environment to just the encrypted card reader.
"Usually, a cloud-based PMS has CHD coming in from a central reservation system, and therefore has PCI hot areas in the data center. But with 4Res, the hotel's data environment never stores, processes, or transmits CHD, and therefore should be out of PCI scope," Lowe said. "Another benefit of our partnership is that with our patent-pending, CHD-sharing technology 4Word in play, even a hotel without integrated payments can benefit from our tokenization and card-data security solutions."
IJWS uses Shift4's mobile P2PE to keep CHD out of a hotel's card-data environment, taking payment security to the next level. IJWS is leading the industry in mobile payments by allowing hotel clerks to check in their guests curbside using an iPad or Android tablet connected to the PMS -- and can even turn the guest's smart phone or loyalty card into their room key.
"Tradeshows are too often a venue used to just talk about hypothetical technologies. But we're bringing in our business partners to showcase how our solutions are already operating in the real world, today," Lowe said.
RoomKeyPMS, AutoClerk, and IJWS will present their solutions and host a Q&A in Shift4's booth (#1007) during HITEC. Presentations will begin at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., each day. RoomKeyPMS will join Shift4 on Tuesday, June 25, AutoClerk will be there on Wednesday, June 26, and IJWS will be featured on Thursday, June 27.
About Shift4
Founded in Las Vegas in 1994, Shift4 Corporation is the world's largest independent payment gateway, serving more than 24,000 clients in several industries, including Hospitality, Retail, Food & Beverage, Mail/Telephone Order, and e-Commerce. Boasting more than 350 POS/PMS integrations and maintaining absolute bank and processor neutrality, Shift4 is proudly merchant-centric, helping clients secure the best discount rates while providing industry-leading security, speed, and reliability. Recognized as a pioneer of tokenization, Shift4 has processed more than four billion tokenized transactions since it coined the term in 2005. Shift4's DOLLARS ON THE NET solution provides unparalleled pre- and post-settlement auditing capabilities, fraud protection, and drastically simplified PCI compliance. For more information, visit www.shift4.com.
About AutoClerk
Founded in the early eighties by Gary Gibb and his partner, Ed Bear, AutoClerk's service to the hospitality industry spans three decades and now enjoys a well-established nationwide presence. AutoClerk offers sophisticated group functionality, dynamic rate tiers, yield management, single inventory web-booking engine with real-time two-way interface, custom packages, and a tape chart with a very friendly and powerful drag and drop user interface. AutoClerk software has been audited for Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance since 2008. For more information, visit www.autoclerk.com.
About RSI Group
RSI Group is one of the world's first providers of cloud-based PMS software and related marketing and online support products and services to the global hospitality industry. The company's guest-centric, integrated processes provide a unified data view enabling its customers to better leverage online customer acquisition, and better manage and retain guests once acquired. The company's headquarters are located in Vancouver, Canada and its shares are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange Venture ("TSXV"). For more information, please visit www.roomkeypms.com.
About It Just Works Software
IJWS has been on the leading edge of hospitality self-service since 1997. Software developed by It Just Works has been released and installed all over the world in hotels, casinos, spas and golf courses, and is supported remotely from their head office in Canada. IJWS's complete solution includes iPad and Web check-in/check-out, online folios, self-service hotel kiosks, and guest e-marketing solutions for continued contact with a company's client base. For more information, please visit www.ijws.com.
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Outten Chrysler is a well established family dealership in Hamburg, PA. Serving Reading, Pottsvillle, Allentown and the Harrisburg area. The Outten Organization has dedicated over 39 years to maintaining the highest level of customer satisfaction and Outten Chrysler is no exception. Earning Chrysler Corporation's most prestigious recognition as a Customer First award winning dealership, we continually offer the most competent Service, largest inventory of parts and the best selection of new and pre-owned vehicles.
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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-271?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Jan Lehnardt updated COUCHDB-271: --------------------------------- Fix Version/s: (was: 1.2) 1.3 > preventing compaction from ruining the OS block cache > ----------------------------------------------------- > > Key: COUCHDB-271 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-271 > Project: CouchDB > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Database Core > Affects Versions: 0.8.1, 0.9 > Reporter: Jan Lehnardt > Fix For: 1.3 > > > Adam Kocolosk: > Hi, I've noticed that compacting large DBs pretty much kills any filesystem caching benefits for CouchDB. I believe the problem is that the OS (Linux 2.6.21 kernel in my case) is caching blocks from the .compact file, even though those blocks won't be read again until compaction has finished. In the meantime, the portion of the cache dedicated to the old DB file shrinks and performance really suffers. > I think a better mode of operation would be to advise/instruct the OS not to cache any portion of the .compact file until we're ready to replace the main DB. On Linux, specifying the POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED option to posix_fadvise() seems like the way to go: > http://linux.die.net/man/2/posix_fadvise > This link has a little more detail and a usage example: > http://insights.oetiker.ch/linux/fadvise.html > Of course, POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED isn't really available from inside the Erlang VM. Perhaps the simplest approach would be to have a helper process that we can spawn which calls that function (or its equivalent on a non-Linux OS) periodically during compaction? I'm not really sure, but I wanted to get this out on the list for discussion. Best, -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
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Net Monitor for Employees lets you see what everyone's doing - without leaving your desk. Monitor the activity of all the PCs in your company remotely. Plus you can share your screen with your employees PCs, making demos and presentations much easier.
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Here are major benefits of using this employee monitoring software:
-Installation and use of the application is very easy since all of the functions can be accessed with a few mouse clicks.
-You have complete control over what remote users are doing.
-This software provides you with a live picture of the remote computer screens.
- You can make the presentation by showing your live screen to students or presenting student screen to others.
- Application allows you to take over the remote computer by controlling its mouse and keyboard.
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Mon, 22 December 2014
The CtR crew is back for one last hilarious, informative show before 2015!
The race to world first may be over, but not all of the top 20 have crossed the finish line. The guys check in on the standings, and tell you how Blizzard may have screwed it all up for the competition in Highmaul.
Looking for Raid Wing 2 opened this week, named Arcane Sanctum, and features Tectus, Twin Ogron and Ko'ragh. LFR heroes are finding out that mechanics matter, and players are dying! So is this still "tourist mode," or are we seeing a step up in difficulty?
Blizzard announced several plans for patch 6.1 and beyond, like the new Blood Elf models, a Legendary follower for your garrison, a tab for heirloom items similar to pets and mounts, and being able to tweet from in-game.
But there were some surprises in that announcement, like Blizzard announcing that they will be overhauling the UI so that people will be able to follow the action in War Games skirmishes! Soon™, tournament organizers may be able to have a true spectator mode, which could mean future improvements for PvE as well!
Also, Blizzard announced that they are developing a way for players to purchase tradable game-time token with real dollars to see for gold. What does this mean for the economy of WoW, and does that mean we may be heading to a "pay to win" model?
Happy Winter Veil, and a Happy New Year from Convert to Raid. We'll see you next year!
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Mon, 15 December 2014
This week, Derevka joins Pat Krane and Koltrane to talk about all things World of Warcraft!
Mythic Highmaul released on Tuesday, and that means we got to see our favorite bleeding-edge teams take on the most difficult versions of the new raid encounters. And this year's competition has been exciting, with a real worldwide race to world first. The guys have the play by play and tell you why this is so interesting.
Wing 1 of Looking for Raid difficulty also released this week, and the crew has some insight as to how a few different new features to Warlords really make LFR (and raiding in general) probably the best it's ever been.
As World of Warcraft Lead Class Designer Kris Zierhut said in last week's interview, some classes and specs got some adjustment this week before the mythic race. What are the initial findings? Do classes feel balanced enough, or is there another round of changes in the works?
Plus, a highlight of some key hotfixes, Death Knights creation requirements to go away, your questions and so much more. This episode is high energy fun that all raiders should enjoy!
Direct download: ctr_165.mp3
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Mon, 8 December 2014
The CtR crew talks WoW with Blizzard's Lead Game Developer Ion (Watcher) Hazzikostas, and Lead Class Designer Kris Zierhut. Inside, the guys talk garrisons, classes, flying in Draenor, stats, and of course… RAIDING!
LFR and mythic raiding starts this week, and according to Hazzikostas, the team feels confident with the tuning of all the different difficulty levels. Both developers go further into tuning and what you can expect at different gear levels for your play style.
Expect another round of class balancing before mythic raiding kicks off on Tuesday, as there are some classes and specs that aren't performing as well as hoped. The guys get into some of the finer details, especially with those classes of some of our vocal community members. They also talk tanks and healers, secondary stats and more.
And the CtR guys learn some fun extra things too! After the Molten Core 40 man LFR, will there be another classic raid released in this format? Probably not. There is a chance that Gnomes could be seeing some new race/class combinations in the future, however. And they even talk toys, like Aviana's Feather!
There's tons of information inside. Enjoy!
Direct download: ctr_164.mp3
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Mon, 1 December 2014
It's been well over a year since our last new raid in WoW, and the CtR crew cannot wait until the Highmaul raid opens on Tuesday (Dec. 2)! So the guys have a special introduction to all of the new bosses and what you might be able to expect when you meet them for the first time.
Patch 6.0.3 landed this week, and there were a number of fixes and changes in Blizzard's first attempt for better class balance this expansion. The gang will go over some of the bigger spell changes and talk about how it might affect your play.
Also, more tips and tricks for your Garrisons, early WoD stats from MMO-Champion, the new Blood Elf character models, and more on another fun-filled episode!
Direct download: ctr_163.mp3
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Mon, 24 November 2014
The CtR crew is back for another look at the latest news for raiders in World of Warcraft!
Over the last week, the issues of the initial Warlords of Draenor launch have been addressed by Blizzard. Not only did J Allen Brack (Executive Producer and Vice President of Blizzard Entertainment) issue an apology, he topped it with five free days for the players that lived through it. Not only that, but in a press release Blizzard announced that World of Warcraft is back over 10 million subscribers — which may have been one of the big reasons behind the issues in the first place.
This week WoW celebrates its 10th Anniversary, and the players get a refresher of that Classic WoW taste. There's a new PvP zone for a limited time as players can relive their days of glory in Hillsbrad with Southshore vs. Tarren Mill, and something special for raiders.
Molten Core has been updated for level 100 players as a 40 man in Raid Finder difficulty. There are no new mechanics, but if you never raided this at level it could prove quite the challenge — especially considering it's in LFR. While the developers are now doing some nerfs to this content, the guys will give you tips and tricks for the uninitiated. This quick rundown just could save your life (and countless others), so listen up!
Direct download: ctr_162.mp3
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Mon, 17 November 2014
Warlords of Draenor released this week and players flooded through the dark portal into the new expansion. And, yes, there have been problems, including really long queues, DDOS attacks, downed servers and maintenance. But let's talk about the content!
The CtR crew will take you through their leveling experiences, giving you their take on quests, zones, bonus objectives, and surprises. Could this be the best expansion for leveling of all time? Plus, they talk about how players can gear up quickly after dinging level 100, which garrisons and outposts are most beneficial, and how raiders can more easily get ready for the release of the Highmaul raid.
Plus, the guys will recap Blizzcon — from the meet ups with friends to the lack of WoW news, Overwatch to the parties — reliving the fun of Anaheim. Get ready to have a blast on this week's show!
Direct download: ctr_161.mp3
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Tue, 4 November 2014
As you prepare for Blizzcon 2014, we've got you covered with some of our best music and bits from Blizzcons past. Enjoy!
Direct download: ctr_160.mp3
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 10:47am CDT
Sat, 25 October 2014
No, this isn't a full show, but there's a bunch of information we wanted to make sure that you had before heading to Blizzcon 2014!
T Shirts will be available through Sunday the 25th at http://converttoraid.com so we can ship it out to you before the show.
SMASH Bash! (Convert to Raid, The Converted, Tauren Think Tank, The Starting Zone, My Epic Heals and more!)
Friday, Nov. 7th
Hilton Ballroom
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Category:Video Games -- posted at: 11:13am CDT
Mon, 20 October 2014
This week, Treckie from the top raiding guild in the world, Method, joins Dairies and Pat Krane to talk about all of the new changes to Azeroth with the arrival of patch 6.0.2!
Inside, the guys talk about some of the more interesting changes this week, including class balance (and Blizzard hotfixes), bugs in game, the leveling experience, and more. Siege of Orgrimmar has seen a huge nerf for Mythic difficulties, with record boss kills… so maybe now is the time for your team to hit this new difficulty!
The add-on ElvUI was in the spotlight this week, as some code was discovered that could allow the developer to really change some players' game. The gang will tell you what happened and what you should do to make sure it's not affecting you.
Plus, we talk to Treckie about Blizzcon, and how Method plans to defeat Midwinter in the World of Warcraft Raiding Panel! He reveals all of his secrets (not really) on how he plans to take them down in this exhibition/competition.
Also, Blasted Lands and UBRS, soloing legacy raids, where to get your class guides, your questions, and T-Shirts... but only for a limited time!
Direct download: ctr_159.mp3
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 12:23pm CDT
Mon, 13 October 2014
This week, Pat Krane, Koltrane and Dairies welcome lead game designer Ion Hazzikostas and senior game designer Brian Holinka to the show! Inside, they'll discuss the upcoming changes for support classes, Ashran and PvP, raid encounters, class balance, and more.
This week Blizzard announced the raiding panel for Blizzcon. Ion Hazzikostas gives us the inside scoop on which teams will be playing in this exhibition and what encounters they'll be facing.
Also, the guys chat about garrisons and the end game, professions, crowd control changes and diminishing returns, the legendary ring for Warlords, and a ton of listener questions. It's all inside this very full episode of Convert to Raid!
Direct download: ctr_158.mp3
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We love Apple (AAPL). It's a great company and a beacon of innovation for the entire technology industry.
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In times of great crisis, it is only natural to wonder if there truly is a God watching over us. Many who believe are forced to ask why such a God would let these terrible things happen. Who is God that he can sit idly by as his people are slaughtered? But this man is no ordinary disciple. He doesn't doubt who God is, he knows. He has prayed to Him, worshipped Him, dedicated his life to Him. He does not doubt. Many men have come and gone claiming to be God, or sons of God, to prey on the believers for their own selfish gain, and this man has seen through them all. As he grieves for the loss of his home, he does not ask Who God is, or Why. Only one question rings through his mind, now:
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FAIRBANKS — "In a landscape as dramatic as its stories, Alaska Native people face staggering suicide rates, yet remain determined to heal and thrive."
So begins the description of "We Breathe Again," a documentary film in progress on Kickstarter.com, an Internet funding platform for creative projects.
"We Breathe Again," Heartbreak & Hope in Alaska, is a collaboration between Gwanzhii LLC, the Indigenous Leadership Institute and Crawl Walk Run, whose principals form a tight-knit team that began filming more than a year ago in several locations around the state.
To date, the project has been funded with a lot of volunteer hours by numerous people and a couple of individual donors.
The group is seeking a project goal of $15,000 on Kickstarter.com to help finance another six months of filming to create a feature-length film for television and the theater.
There are just a few days left for donors to contribute toward the project goal. It closes early Thursday morning, Alaska time.
Although Alaska has the highest suicide rate per capita in the nation, the film doesn't focus on statistics but portrays real people who have suffered, struggled and overcome hardships.
A local Native couple, Evon and Enei Begaye Peter, and New York filmmaker Marsh Chamberlain, who has family connections in Alaska, fortuitously met via friends in 2010 and began collaborating on the project.
Chamberlain was moved to focus on suicide talking to an Inupiaq cousin who visited him on the East Coast in 2007.
"He lost two childhood friends to suicide, which dramatically impacted his community and his life, and he talked about wanting to make a difference," Chamberlain said.
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A year later, he was involved in leadership development as a college student at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and made the decision "to be there with Native youth."
Today, at 36, the Gwich'in Athabascan holds university degrees, was Arctic Village chief for three years, is a father and family man, and has kept his commitment to serve young people, through healing workshops and camps around the state.
The purpose of the film, Evon explained, "is to raise awareness, provide inspiration and information on how to work through hard times and heal, and learn how to live a good life and bring an end to the cycles of violence and abuse."
The film will feature Alaska Natives telling their own stories in their own communities.
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"Microsoft Hates the Term "Free Software" or "Freedom", They Prefer to Use Open Source"
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The idea of these little devotionals is simple. I want to approach scripture with the understanding that God is speaking. I'm reading through the Bible and listening for God to ask me questions. I expect these questions to be fairly open-ended and plan to carry them in my mind throughout the day. I'll share these questions with you in the hope that you find them challenging and helpful.
Luke 1:26-38
26 In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, 27 to a virgin betrothed[a] to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. And the virgin's name was Mary. 28 And he came to her and said, "Greetings, O favored one, the Lord is with you!"[b] 29 But she was greatly troubled at the saying, and tried to discern what sort of greeting this might be. 30 And the angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. 31 And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus. 32 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David, 33 and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end."
34 And Mary said to the angel, "How will this be, since I am a virgin?"[c]
35 And the angel answered her, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born[d] will be called holy—the Son of God. 36 And behold, your relative Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son, and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren. 37 For nothing will be impossible with God." 38 And Mary said, "Behold, I am the servant[e] of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word." And the angel departed from her.
From this passage I hear God asking me:
Like Zechariah, Mary questions an angel's message.
Do you find this odd?
Mary thought her virginity would be a problem.
What did I have planned for her?
Was her virginity a problem for me?
"Nothing will be impossible with God." (v. 37)
What do I have planned for you?
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These are the people who spend more than $2.6 billion a year on gluten-free food at the supermarket. The ones who pass on cake and cookies at the office, think twice about pastry and pizza and bring their own food when you invite them over for dinner.
They have their reasons. Some believe they are gluten sensitive and say they feel better, physically and emotionally, when they don't eat it. Others, those with celiac disease, cannot consume even a tiny amount of gluten without pain or damage to their small intestines.
Estimates are that as many as 18 million Americans, 6 percent of the population, are gluten sensitive. But because there is no reliable, scientific test for the condition, many doctors remain skeptical, says Dr. Peter H.R. Green of the Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University. (Take his quiz on celiac disease here.)
"Many physicians would roll their eyes and say, 'God, another crazy person with food sensitivities,'" he says, but evidence is mounting that gluten sensitivity exists apart from celiac disease. He and other experts recommend first ruling out celiac disease and other forms of intestinal inflammation and then trying a gluten-free diet. Critics argue that people who jump on the gluten-free bandwagon without first consulting a doctor may be avoiding gluten unnecessarily, paying more for gluten-free food and wasting time and energy on monitoring their gluten intake.
On the other hand, an estimated 3 million Americans, about 1 percent of the population, do have celiac disease, an autoimmune disorder that leaves them more vulnerable to a variety of complications, including cancer. That's more than the number of people with epilepsy (2.7 million) or Parkinson's disease (1 million), according to the University of Chicago Celiac Disease Center.
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"I'd make him a dish of baked beans and put it on the table," she says.
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Despite their best efforts, Ward says the longest he's managed to "stay clean" (avoid eating gluten) is about eight months. He says he knows within five or six hours that he's been contaminated, and it can take five or six weeks to feel good again.
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"I've checked everything I put on my skin, and all my medications," she says. Her kitchen is divided between her gluten-free area and "glutopia," where her husband and grown children prepare their food. She says she's meticulous about keeping her kitchen and cooking utensils clean, and she hasn't let celiac disease keep her from baking. She's adapted and perfected some recipes -- the biscotti she baked at Christmas, for example -- and experimented with new ones.
"This is a good time and a good place" to live with celiac disease, she says. Portland offers an abundance of fresh, whole "real" food free of gluten.
"I love food, I love preparing food," Hatten says, but she thinks about celiac disease and its implications "all the time." She doesn't eat out in cafes and restaurants very often, and when she's invited to friends' homes she takes her own food.
"I want to say to them, 'Please don't be offended, I want to enjoy your company,'" she says. "This disease could shorten my life. This diagnosis has changed my world."
Dr. Lisa Shaver has heard that before. As manager of the Portland branch of the Gluten Intolerance Group, she's part of a national network that supports patients with gluten disorders. The Portland group meets on the second Saturday of each month at Legacy Emanuel Medical Center in North Portland.
"I guess I'm an optimist, a 'the-glass-is-half-full' kind of person," says the naturopath and acupuncturist who has been gluten-free for four years. She sees a gluten disorder as an opportunity to eat better, to shun processed food and focus on healthier choices. And, she adds, a diagnosis of celiac disease often comes as a relief to patients.
"The knowledge that there is a reason why people have been so ill is usually elating. These people aren't crazy, and they have found a reason for their symptoms," Shaver says. "And it's managed by diet, great news, not an onslaught of new medications."
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Thalassarche chrysostoma
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Thalassarche chrysostoma (Forster, 1785)
Common Name(s):
Diomedea chrysostoma ssp. chrysostoma Forster, 1785 — Collar et al. (1994)
Diomedea chrysostoma ssp. chrysostoma Forster, 1785 — Cramp and Simmons (1977-1994)
Diomedea chrysostoma ssp. chrysostoma Forster, 1785 — Turbott (1990)
Diomedea chrysostoma ssp. chrysostoma Forster, 1785 — Christidis and Boles (1994)
Diomedea chrysostoma ssp. chrysostoma Forster, 1785 — Stotz et al. (1996)
Diomedea chrysostoma ssp. chrysostoma Forster, 1785 — Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993)
Diomedea chrysostoma ssp. chrysostoma Forster, 1785 — Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993)
|Taxonomic Source(s):
|Cramp, S. and Simmons, K.E.L. (eds). 1977-1994. Handbook of the birds of Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The birds of the western Palearctic. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
|Identification information:
|81 cm. Small albatross with dark ashy-grey head, throat and upper neck. Blackish upper wings, mantle and tail. White rump. White crescent behind eye. Black bill with bright yellow upper and lower ridges, shading to pink-orange at tip. White underparts. White underwing with much black on leading edge, less on trailing edge. Immature has mostly black bill and head, nape darker than adult, indistinct white eye-crescent, virtually no white on underwing. Similar spp. Underwing pattern distinguishes it from Buller's Albatross T. bulleri (which has more yellow on bill), yellow-nosed species, and Shy Albatross T. cauta, Chatham Albatross T. eremita and Salvin's Albatross T. salvini. Immatures difficult.
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Endangered A4bd ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|BirdLife International
|Butchart, S. & Symes, A.
|Arata, J., Cooper, J., Croxall, J., Gales, R., Misiak, W., Phillips, R., Robertson, C., Ryan, P.G., Wolfaardt, A. & Xavier, J.
|Anderson, O., Butchart, S., Calvert, R., Moreno, R., Small, C., Sullivan, B., Symes, A.
This species is listed as Endangered as data from South Georgia (Georgias del Sur), which holds around half the global population, indicate a very rapid rate of decline of the world population over three generations (90 years), even if colonies lacking trend information are assumed to be stable. The major driver of declines is likely to be incidental mortality in longline fisheries.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
Thalassarche chrysostoma has a circumpolar distribution over cold subantarctic and Antarctic waters (ACAP 2009, Clay et al. 2016). It breeds on South Georgia (Georgias del Sur), Islas Diego Ramirez and Ildefonso (Chile), Prince Edward and Marion Islands (South Africa), Crozet Islands, Kerguelen Islands (French Southern Territories), Campbell Island (New Zealand) and Macquarie Island (Australia). The annual breeding population is c.95,000 pairs, equivalent to a total population of c.250,000 mature individuals in this biennial breeder (Croxall and Gales 1998, Brooke 2004). Approximately half the global population breeds on South Georgia (ACAP 2009). Its range at sea while breeding lies largely within or south of the Antarctic Polar Frontal Zone (Prince et al. 1998, Phillips et al. 2004). During the non-breeding season, birds range widely in subantarctic to Antarctic waters, and a proportion make one or more global circumnavigations, the fastest in just 46 days (Croxall et al. 2005, Clay et al. 2016). Birds banded in New Zealand have been recovered in Australian waters (G. Taylor in litt. 2008). At South Georgia, the population is estimated to have declined by 25% between 1977 and 2004 (Poncet et al. 2006; R. Phillips pers. comm. 2012) , and by 43% between 2004 and 2015 (Poncet et al. 2017), whereas at Campbell Island the population underwent major declines prior to 1997 but has apparently since stabilised (Sagar 2014). Population trends are unknown for Islas Ildefonso, Iles Kerguelen and Iles Crozet (representing around 14% of the global population), and increasing on Marion Island and Islas Diego Ramirez (ACAP 2016). Even if it is assumed that colonies without trend information have remained stable, the global population is assumed to be in rapid decline, given the trend at South Georgia.
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Antarctica; Argentina; Australia; Brazil; Chile; Falkland Islands (Malvinas); French Southern Territories; Heard Island and McDonald Islands; Namibia; New Zealand; Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha; South Africa; South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands; Uruguay
Vagrant:Angola; Panama
Present - origin uncertain:Bouvet Island; Peru
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|There are an estimated c.98,601 pairs breeding per year of this biennially breeding species, based on annual breeding population estimates of 47,674 pairs on South Georgia in 2004 (Poncet et al. 2006), 18,063 pairs in Chile in 2015 (Robertson et al. 2007, 2008, 2016), 7,900 pairs on Kerguelen in 1987 (Weimerskirch et al. 1988), 8,611 pairs on Campbell Island (Sagar 2014), 8,541 pairs on Marion Island in 2016 (ACAP unpubl. data), 5,940 on Crozet in 1982 (Jouventin et al. 1984), 1,506 pairs on Prince Edward Island in 2009 (Ryan et al. 2009) and 100 pairs on Macquarie Island in 2016 (ACAP unpubl. data). This is thought to be equivalent to at least 250,000 mature individuals (Croxall and Gales 1998, Brooke 2004).
Trend Justification: At South Georgia, the population is estimated to have declined by 25% between 1977 and 2004 (Poncet et al. 2006; R. Phillips pers. comm. 2012) , and by 43% between 2004 and 2015 (Poncet et al. 2017), which equates to a projected decline of 85% or even higher if declines continued at this rate over three generations. On Campbell Island, data from 2004 suggest that the population declined by over 75% between 1940 – 2004 (Moore 2004; Nel et al. 2002), which would equate to a 95% decline over three generations. However, recent unpublished information suggests that this population underwent a major decline until 1997 but has since stabilised (W. Misiak in litt. 2013). Population trends are unknown for Chile, Iles Kerguelen and Iles Crozet (representing around one third of the global population). Also, in contrast to South Georgia and Campbell Island, the population on Marion Island has reported a 1.2% annual population increase from 1988-2011 (ACAP 2012). Combining these data, even if the Chilean, Iles Kerguelen and Iles Crozet colonies are assumed to be stable, the data from South Georgia and Campbell Island result in a projected global population decline of 65.4% over three generations. Given the uncertainty around these estimates, particularly the likely future trends, and the long trend period, a decline of 50-79% over 90 years is provisionally estimated.
|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
Behaviour This species is a biennial breeder, although 5.4% and 1% of successful breeders on Marion Island and Bird Island (South Georgia) respectively, breed in the following season. Birds return to colonies between late September and early October, laying occurs in October and chicks hatch by December. Chicks fledge from April to May. Immatures return to breeding colonies at the earliest at three, but generally at six or seven years old. First breeding can be as early as seven years, but the average on Campbell Island is 13.5 years old and the modal age on South Georgia is 12 years old. Grey-headed Albatrosses feed by surface-seizing but can also dive to six metres (Huin and Prince 1997). Substantial segregation in foraging areas is apparent for male and female Grey-headed Albatrosses during incubation at South Georgia, with males travelling on average further than females (Phillips et al. 2004). At Iles Kerguelen, Campbell Island and South Georgia (Islas Georgias del Sur), the species is principally an oceanic forager, concentrating its foraging in the Antarctic Polar Frontal Zone, but in years of low food availability, chick-rearing birds from South Georgia (Islas Georgias del Sur) increase the proportion of time spent in Antarctic shelf-slope waters. Prey biogeography also indicates some neritic foraging around Iles Kerguelen and Campbell Island during chick rearing (ACAP 2009). At Marion Island, incubating birds foraged in the Sub-tropical Frontal Zone and the Subantarctic Zone in association with mesoscale eddies, whereas during chick-rearing, foraging was concentrated in the Subantarctic and Polar Frontal Zones to the south-west of the island, also in association with eddies (Nel et al. 2000, Nel et al. 2001). Habitat Breeding This species breeds on steep slopes or cliffs, that are generally covered with tussock-grass. Diet Diet varies with locality and year, mainly consisting of cephalopods and fish, but crustaceans, carrion and lampreys are locally important (Prince 1980, Cherel et al. 2002, Xavier et al. 2003, Arata et al. 2004). It actively scavenges longline baits.
|Terrestrial; Marine
|Continuing decline in area, extent and/or quality of habitat:
|Generation Length (years):
|Movement patterns:
|Full Migrant
|Congregatory (and dispersive)
|Major Threat(s):
|As this species generally forages over oceanic waters it is less likely to encounter longline fisheries targeting Patagonian toothfish Dissostichus eleginoides in shelf areas, although mortality of breeding birds is still recorded in these fisheries (ACAP 2009). In Australian waters, up to c.400 individuals (>80% juvenile) were killed annually in 1989-1995 by Japanese longliners (Gales et al. 1998). In the Indian Ocean, illegal or unregulated fishing for Patagonian toothfish killed an estimated 10,000-20,000 albatrosses (mainly this species) in 1997 and 1998 (CCAMLR 1997, CCAMLR 1998). At Campbell, the long-term decline, which began well before local longline fishery development, appears to be caused by environmental factors, possibly rising sea-surface temperatures resulting in food shortages, but longline fisheries beyond the New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) may also contribute (Waugh et al. 1999). The species is not caught on fishing vessels monitored by New Zealand observers within the EEZ (G. Taylor in litt. 2008). Outside of EEZs, due to its circumpolar distribution, T. chrysostoma is potentially vulnerable to Southern Ocean pelagic fisheries worldwide. The extensive use of the Subtropical Convergence and Sub-Antarctic Zones by incubating birds from Marion Island, especially females, bring them into contact with intense southern bluefin tuna Thunnus maccoyii longline fishing activity in international waters (40-45°) (ACAP 2009).
|Conservation Actions:
Conservation Actions Underway
CMS Appendix II and ACAP Annex 1. Population monitoring and foraging studies are being undertaken at South Georgia, Diego Ramirez, Marion, Macquarie and Campbell Islands. Macquarie and Campbell are World Heritage Sites and the Prince Edward Islands are a Special Nature Reserve. Conservation Actions Proposed
Continue existing monitoring and commence at poorly-known sites (Environment Australia 1999). Determine migration patterns in off seasons from other populations and overlap with fisheries, particularly those operating in the southern Indian Ocean. Promote adoption of best-practice mitigation measures in all fisheries within the species's range, particularly via intergovernmental mechanisms such as ACAP, CCAMLR and FAO.
|Amended reason:
|Edited: Assessment Rationale, Geographic Range, Population,Trend Justification, Habitats and Ecology and Research Needed. Added references and also added a new Contributor and Compiler.
|BirdLife International. 2017. Thalassarche chrysostoma (amended version of 2016 assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T22698398A112041443. . Downloaded on 17 August 2018.
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|Landscape History
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|TASC: Trans-national Database
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About me: I became an academic in 1996 after being awarded my PhD. Currently I'm at St John's College, University of Oxford, as Research Assistant to Dr Jack Langton, working on the history and geography of English and Welsh Forests. The research has been supported by a two-year Special Project grant by the Marc Fitch Fund, awarded in 2007, and by St John's College and the British Academy. I'm based in the St John's Research Centre, and am also a Senior Research Associate of Oxford University's School of Geography and the Environment. My monograph Saints in the Landscape, published in October 2007 by Tempus, is the first comprehensive overview of religious dedications and their cultural geography and history (my other major research interest), and follows an edited volume, Saints of Europe: Studies towards a survey of cults and culture (Donington, Shaun Tyas, 2003). With John Langton I edited Forests and Chases of England and Wales, c. 1500 to c. 1850: Towards a survey and analysis (Oxford, St John's College, 2005, distributed by Oxbow Books) and a companion volume is in press, Forests and Chases of Medieval England and Wales, c. 1000- c. 1500.
I was awarded my PhD at the University of Leicester, in the Department of (now Centre for) English Local History, where I subsequently held a Leverhulme Special Research Fellowship (1997-9). Between 2000 and 2003 I was Lecturer in English Topography, covering the teaching of Professor Harold Fox during his British Academy Readership, and I am now Honorary Visiting Fellow. I have taught on four MA courses at Leicester, Skills in English Local History, Landscape Studies, Humanities, and Medieval Studies (for the Centre for Medieval Research). I continue to teach medieval and regional studies for the BA Humanities programme, lecture on history and culture to the Catalan Studies element of the BA Modern Languages programme, and direct the Certificate course in Local History.
I am also a part-time tutor for the University of Cambridge and contributed to the Certificate course in Anglo-Saxon Studies. I have taught in the School of Historical Studies at Leicester for two undergraduate modules, Anglo-Saxon England (with Dr Jo Story) and The Vikings (Dr Kari Maund). In 1999 I was appointed Stott Fellow in the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, where I computerised and supplemented the Parochiale Wallicanum and assisted Professor John Koch in the preparation of an Atlas of Celtic Studies.
In 2003 I was awarded three additional research grants. The Aurelius Charitable Trust allowed me to extend the TASC project to cover the Archdeaconry of Berkshire; a month's Aufenhaltsforschung mit Stipendium (my second) enabled me to visit the Max-Planck-Institut fur Geschichte in Gottingen to complete a devotional geography of the Diocese of Munster; and the British Academy funded a three-year joint programme of research with scholars of the Georgian Academy of Sciences which began with a month's fieldwork. In 2004 I was awarded a two-week residency at the Geographical Information Science Center in the University of California at Berkeley.
My visit to Catalunya this year (2009/10) is the eleventh in a programme of research into Catalan saints and religious devotion which has been grant-aided by the Arts Faculty Research Board and School of Historical Studies at Leicester and is in association with the University of Barcelona, Department of Anthropology and the Catalan National Archives. Click on TASC in the menu box and also view data uploaded to Google Docs: Catalunya and its Saints.
I have recently completed my term as a committee member of the Society for Landscape Studies and am Reviews Editor and former Joint Editor of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society Transactions
A head for heights!: Abseiling to raise money for Oxford's Children's Hospital. In May 2010 I was elected an Oxford City Councillor. I support Christian Aid, Oxfam, Amnesty, UNA, and the European Movement.
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...Information about my work as a Leverhulme Special Research Fellow on the first part of an Electronic Atlas of Saints' Cults in England and Wales, and the collaborative project which led from it, the Trans-national Database and Atlas of Saints' Cults (TASC).
...Access to about 200 web-sites of practical use to students of religious culture past and present, and the medieval world , most having their own onward links. These linked sites include the Netserf Medieval Internet Connection, the ORB On-Line Reference Book for Medieval Studies, and many specialist sites, including that maintained by the Society of Bollandists, the Jesuit researchers who have been working on matters hagiographical since 1615. There are also links to library catalogues, worldwide holiday dates, translation services, etc.
...Saints at a Glance, a compilation of thumbnail sketches of more than a thousand saints commemorated in the Christian year, authored by Dr Carolyn Muessig with the help of fellow members of the Internet discussion list Medieval-Religion
...Discussion and images of the cult of Sant Magi de Brufaganya, a local saint of Catalunya, which demonstrates, in the range of its devotional apparatus and associations, religious and secular, something of the probable extent of our loss of knowledge about saints' cults in Britain.
...Seminar notes and resources for the study of Landscape History, and an introduction to Celtic Studies, including themes of religion.
The illustrations here: The cult of Britain's best-known early martyr, Alban, was promoted by Offa, king of Mercia, whose coin portrait appears above, right. The fifteenth-century illustration from the Register of Benefactors of the Monastery of St Albans, on the left, shows Offa holding the church of St Albans which he has endowed. The register is in the library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (CCCC Ms 7, p. 205).
Offa has figured a good deal in my work. He may well have given an important stimulus to the veneration in Britain of St Helena, for example, as well as devotion to more local saints, like St Ethelbert of East Anglia. He held meetings of the Mercian Council in south-east Leicestershire and his possible impact on the territory and landscape is only now becoming recognised.(Tony Brown's thoughts on field systems complement mine on administrative organisation.) He may even have had an influence on what emerges in later centuries as our system of forests. The Frankish forest laws were available for adaptation in the period when Offa was working hard at adopting Carolingian practices.
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Kenny won't bow to gay pressure on St Patrick's Day parade
THE country's leading gay rights organisation is calling on Taoiseach Enda Kenny to boycott the controversial New York St Patrick's Day parade.
Mayor of New York Bill de Blasio is not taking part in the parade due to the organisers' refusal to allow gay groups to display banners.
But Mr Kenny is still expected to march in what is regarded as the world's biggest St Patrick's Day parade.
He will visit Washington, New York and Boston. His schedule is not yet finalised, so it is not clear if he will be in New York on March 17. But Mr Kenny has no reservations about marching in the parade.
"As I understand this from the organisers of the New York parade, they allow anyone to walk in the parade.
"They don't allow them to carry individual banners. It is my intention to be there in New York," he said.
The Taoiseach said he hoped the mayor would attend the annual Irish reception on the morning of St Patrick's Day. He did not express a view on Mr de Blasio's reservations about the parade.
"You should ask the mayor that question. I don't speak for the mayor," he said.
The Taoiseach marched in the parade last year.
Mr Kenny pointed out Tanaiste Eamon Gilmore attended the parade himself in 2011, just weeks after the Government came to power.
Mr Gilmore said he was aware it was an issue and discussed it with gay rights groups in New York.
"They encouraged me to participate in it. Their view was this was an important Irish-American event, that the Irish Government should participate in it," he said.
He said the groups asked that the Government would support their own St Patrick's Day parade, so junior minister Kathleen Lynch attended in 2012.
However, the Gay and Lesbian Equality Network (GLEN) is calling on the Government not to take part in the New York parade.
GLEN director Tiernan Brady said: "Considering the lead shown by Bill de Blasio, we want them to follow that lead.
"This is about whether lesbian and gay Irish people and lesbian and gay Irish-Americans are entitled to celebrate St Patrick's Day with other people. This is an exclusion of a part of Irish-American society."
Meanwhile, a campaign has begun to give Rory O'Neill, aka drag queen Panti Bliss, a prominent role in the Dublin parade.
Campaigner Buzz O'Neill said: "What a fantastic positive message Ireland would send to the rest of the world if it could somehow accommodate Ireland's leading lady of drag."
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