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Ori was a dwarf of the House of Durin, and brother to Nori and Dori, a distant kinsman to Thorin Oakenshield.[1] He wore a grey hood, played the flute,[2] and wrote both well and quickly in large, bold hand using Tengwar.[3]
The Quest of Erebor
In Third Age 2941, Ori and his brothers were selected to accompany their King Thorin Oakenshield on the Quest of Erebor, in which they were assisted by the Hobbit Bilbo Baggins.
He later fought and survived the Battle of Five Armies, was given his share of the treasure by Dáin II Ironfoot, and settled in the mountain of Erebor.
Expedition to Moria
Forty-eight years later[4] Ori traveled with Balin, and Óin (also members of Thorin and Company) and a colony of Dwarves on a disastrous attempt to reclaim their ancient mansions of Khazad-dûm which were already occupied by the Goblins.[5]
At first they colony did well, but less than five years later Balin was killed, the Orc came down again and took the East-gate, and Óin's group he took west to West-gate was destroyed except for a few.
Ori retreated to the Chamber of Mazarbul where Balin's Tomb was laid. He wrote the last pages in the Book of Mazarbul before he and the last few remaining Dwarves perished during a final stand.[3]
During the War of the Ring, the Fellowship of the Ring journeyed through Moria and discovered the book that contained the records of the expedition written by Ori, as recognized by Gimli.[3]
Óri is a dwarf from the Norse mythology and the name means "Furious".
Portrayal in Adaptations
1968: The Hobbit (1968 radio series):
- Ori is played by Wilfrid Carter.
1977: The Hobbit (1977 film):
- Ori's voice is provided by Jack DeLeon.
1979: The Hobbit (1979 radio series):
- No actor is specified for the role of Ori.
1982: The Hobbit (1982 video game):
- Ori is omitted; Thorin is the only companion of the player, Bilbo Baggins.[6]
2003: The Hobbit (2003 video game):
- No actor is credited for the role of Ori.
2012-3: The Hobbit films:
- Ori will be played by Adam Brown.
2007: The Lord of the Rings Online:
- There are two dwarves that have the name Ori. Foreman Ori stands near the Silver Deep Mine in Thorin's Gate. There is also a Captain Ori that the player controls during a session play entitled "We Cannot Get Out".[7] Since the events of the game happen after T.A. 2994 and the session play is a backflash of the fight in the Twenty-First Hall that happened during T.A. 2994, Foreman Ori must be a character created specifically for the game, while Captain Ori is Turbine's adaptation of the Ori described in Tolkien's writings.
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix A, "Durin's Folk"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, "An Unexpected Party"
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, "The Bridge of Khazad-dûm"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix B, "The Third Age"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, "The Council of Elrond"
- ↑ ZX Computing, 8304 (April/May 1983), p. 76 (accessed 24 March 2011)
- ↑ LOTRO - We Cant Get Out Session play instance (video) at YouTube.com (accessed 27 May 2011)
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- Riesz Transform (1)
- Shearlets (1)
- additive Gaussian noise (1)
- convex optimization (1)
- denoising (1)
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Variational methods in imaging are nowadays developing towards a quite universal and exible tool, allowing for highly successful approaches on tasks like denoising, deblurring, inpainting, segmentation, super-resolution, disparity, and optical flow estimation. The overall structure of such approaches is of the form D(Ku) + alpha R(u) to min_u ; where the functional D is a data fidelity term also depending on some input data f and measuring the deviation of Ku from such and R is a regularization functional. Moreover K is a (often linear) forward operator modeling the dependence of data on an underlying image, and alpha is a positive regularization parameter. While D is often smooth and (strictly) convex, the current practice almost exclusively uses nonsmooth regularization functionals. The majority of successful techniques is using nonsmooth and convex functionals like the total variation and generalizations thereof, cf. [28, 31, 40], or l_1-norms of coeefficients arising from scalar products with some frame system, cf. [73] and references therein. The efficient solution of such variational problems in imaging demands for appropriate algorithms. Taking into account the specific structure as a sum of two very different terms to be minimized, splitting algorithms are a quite canonical choice. Consequently this field has revived the interest in techniques like operator splittings or augmented Lagrangians. In this chapter we shall provide an overview of methods currently developed and recent results as well as some computational studies providing a comparison of different methods and also illustrating their success in applications. We start with a very general viewpoint in the first sections, discussing basic notations, properties of proximal maps, firmly non-expansive and averaging operators, which form the basis of further convergence arguments. Then we proceed to a discussion of several state-of-the art algorithms and their (theoretical) convergence properties. After a section discussing issues related to the use of analogous iterative schemes for ill-posed problems, we present some practical convergence studies in numerical examples related to PET and spectral CT reconstruction.
The only quadrature operator of order two on \(L_2 (\mathbb{R}^2)\) which covaries with orthogonal transforms, in particular rotations is (up to the sign) the Riesz transform. This property was used for the construction of monogenic wavelets and curvelets. Recently, shearlets were applied for various signal processing tasks. Unfortunately, the Riesz transform does not correspond with the shear operation. In this paper we propose a novel quadrature operator called linearized Riesz transform which is related to the shear operator. We prove properties of this transform and analyze its performance versus the usual Riesz transform numerically. Furthermore, we demonstrate the relation between the corresponding optical filters. Based on the linearized Riesz transform we introduce finite discrete quasi-monogenic shearlets and prove that they form a tight frame. Numerical experiments show the good fit of the directional information given by the shearlets and the orientation ob- tained from the quasi-monogenic shearlet coefficients. Finally we provide experiments on the directional analysis of textures using our quasi-monogenic shearlets.
Recently convex optimization models were successfully applied for solving various problems in image analysis and restoration. In this paper, we are interested in relations between convex constrained optimization problems of the form \({\rm argmin} \{ \Phi(x)\) subject to \(\Psi(x) \le \tau \}\) and their penalized counterparts \({\rm argmin} \{\Phi(x) + \lambda \Psi(x)\}\). We recall general results on the topic by the help of an epigraphical projection. Then we deal with the special setting \(\Psi := \| L \cdot\|\) with \(L \in \mathbb{R}^{m,n}\) and \(\Phi := \varphi(H \cdot)\), where \(H \in \mathbb{R}^{n,n}\) and \(\varphi: \mathbb R^n \rightarrow \mathbb{R} \cup \{+\infty\} \) meet certain requirements which are often fulfilled in image processing models. In this case we prove by incorporating the dual problems that there exists a bijective function such that the solutions of the constrained problem coincide with those of the penalized problem if and only if \(\tau\) and \(\lambda\) are in the graph of this function. We illustrate the relation between \(\tau\) and \(\lambda\) for various problems arising in image processing. In particular, we point out the relation to the Pareto frontier for joint sparsity problems. We demonstrate the performance of the constrained model in restoration tasks of images corrupted by Poisson noise with the \(I\)-divergence as data fitting term \(\varphi\) and in inpainting models with the constrained nuclear norm. Such models can be useful if we have a priori knowledge on the image rather than on the noise level.
Minimization and Parameter Estimation for Seminorm Regularization Models with I-Divergence Constraints (2012)
This papers deals with the minimization of seminorms \(\|L\cdot\|\) on \(\mathbb R^n\) under the constraint of a bounded I-divergence \(D(b,H\cdot)\). The I-divergence is also known as Kullback-Leibler divergence and appears in many models in imaging science, in particular when dealing with Poisson data. Typically, \(H\) represents here, e.g., a linear blur operator and \(L\) is some discrete derivative operator. Our preference for the constrained approach over the corresponding penalized version is based on the fact that the I-divergence of data corrupted, e.g., by Poisson noise or multiplicative Gamma noise can be estimated by statistical methods. Our minimization technique rests upon relations between constrained and penalized convex problems and resembles the idea of Morozov's discrepancy principle. More precisely, we propose first-order primal-dual algorithms which reduce the problem to the solution of certain proximal minimization problems in each iteration step. The most interesting of these proximal minimization problems is an I-divergence constrained least squares problem. We solve this problem by connecting it to the corresponding I-divergence penalized least squares problem with an appropriately chosen regularization parameter. Therefore, our algorithm produces not only a sequence of vectors which converges to a minimizer of the constrained problem but also a sequence of parameters which convergences to a regularization parameter so that the penalized problem has the same solution as our constrained one. In other words, the solution of this penalized problem fulfills the I-divergence constraint. We provide the proofs which are necessary to understand our approach and demonstrate the performance of our algorithms for different image restoration examples.
This paper considers supervised multi-class image segmentation: from a labeled set of pixels in one image, we learn the segmentation and apply it to the rest of the image or to other similar images. We study approaches with p-Laplacians, (vector-valued) Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces (RKHSs) and combinations of both. In all approaches we construct segment membership vectors. In the p-Laplacian model the segment membership vectors have to fulfill a certain probability simplex constraint. Interestingly, we could prove that this is not really a constraint in the case p=2 but is automatically fulfilled. While the 2-Laplacian model gives a good general segmentation, the case of the 1-Laplacian tends to neglect smaller segments. The RKHS approach has the benefit of fast computation. This direction is motivated by image colorization, where a given dab of color is extended to a nearby region of similar features or to another image. The connection between colorization and multi-class segmentation is explored in this paper with an application to medical image segmentation. We further consider an improvement using a combined method. Each model is carefully considered with numerical experiments for validation, followed by medical image segmentation at the end.
Recently convex optimization models were successfully applied for solving various problems in image analysis and restoration. In this paper, we are interested in relations between convex constrained optimization problems of the form \(min\{\Phi(x)\) subject to \(\Psi(x)\le\tau\}\) and their non-constrained, penalized counterparts \(min\{\Phi(x)+\lambda\Psi(x)\}\). We start with general considerations of the topic and provide a novel proof which ensures that a solution of the constrained problem with given \(\tau\) is also a solution of the on-constrained problem for a certain \(\lambda\). Then we deal with the special setting that \(\Psi\) is a semi-norm and \(\Phi=\phi(Hx)\), where \(H\) is a linear, not necessarily invertible operator and \(\phi\) is essentially smooth and strictly convex. In this case we can prove via the dual problems that there exists a bijective function which maps \(\tau\) from a certain interval to \(\lambda\) such that the solutions of the constrained problem coincide with those of the non-constrained problem if and only if \(\tau\) and \(\lambda\) are in the graph of this function. We illustrate the relation between \(\tau\) and \(\lambda\) by various problems arising in image processing. In particular, we demonstrate the performance of the constrained model in restoration tasks of images corrupted by Poisson noise and in inpainting models with constrained nuclear norm. Such models can be useful if we have a priori knowledge on the image rather than on the noise level.
A standard approach for deducing a variational denoising method is the maximum a posteriori strategy. Here, the denoising result is chosen in such a way that it maximizes the conditional density function of the reconstruction given its observed noisy version. Unfortunately, this approach does not imply that the empirical distribution of the reconstructed noise components follows the statistics of the assumed noise model. In this paper, we propose to overcome this drawback by applying an additional transformation to the random vector modeling the noise. This transformation is then incorporated into the standard denoising approach and leads to a more sophisticated data fidelity term, which forces the removed noise components to have the desired statistical properties. The good properties of our new approach are demonstrated for additive Gaussian noise by numerical examples. Our method shows to be especially well suited for data containing high frequency structures, where other denoising methods which assume a certain smoothness of the signal cannot restore the small structures.
In recent years, convex optimization methods were successfully applied for various image processing tasks and a large number of first-order methods were designed to minimize the corresponding functionals. Interestingly, it was shown recently by Grewenig et al. that the simple idea of so-called "superstep cycles" leads to very efficient schemes for time-dependent (parabolic) image enhancement problems as well as for steady state (elliptic) image compression tasks. The "superstep cycles" approach is similar to the nonstationary (cyclic) Richardson method which has been around for over sixty years. In this paper, we investigate the incorporation of superstep cycles into the gradient descent reprojection method. We show for two problems in compressive sensing and image processing, namely the LASSO approach and the Rudin-Osher-Fatemi model that the resulting simple cyclic gradient descent reprojection algorithm can numerically compare with various state-of-the-art first-order algorithms. However, due to the nonlinear projection within the algorithm convergence proofs even under restrictive assumptions on the linear operators appear to be hard. We demonstrate the difficulties by studying the simplest case of a two-cycle algorithm in R^2 with projections onto the Euclidian ball.


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- Provenance
To 1909
Giovanni Dattari (circa 1858-1923), Cairo, Egypt, to 1909 [1]
From 1909 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Giovanni Dattari in 1909 [2]
From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
[1] See S.I. 189, Miscellaneous List, Egyptian Glass, pgs. 1 and 37, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. This piece is part of a collection of glass that was purchased en bloc and includes 1,388 specimens (for further purchase information, see the folder for F1909.332).
[2] See note 1.
[3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
- Previous Owner(s)
Charles Lang Freer 1854 - 1919
Giovanni Dattari (C.L. Freer source) 1858 - 1923
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Fragment, hexagonal, with a flat top. Lamellate disks of red and white in a thin brown matrix covering a core of mixed material.
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- Ancient Near Eastern Art
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By Ben Hirschler and Martinne Geller
KALUNDBORG, Denmark (Reuters) - Steam rises from pipes at a giant industrial complex on the edge of the Baltic Sea whose success is a testament to the world's diabetes and obesity epidemic.
Novo Nordisk's Kalundborg factory, 100 km west of Copenhagen, makes half the planet's insulin for diabetics, putting it on a list of global sites the United States sees as vital to its interests, according to a WikiLeaks cable in 2010.
Soaring diabetes rates, driven by increasing obesity, have fuelled profits at the Danish company for two decades.
But now the company wants to tackle obesity head on by launching a treatment specifically to help patients lose weight.
It would seem to be a no-brainer. Obesity rates suggest a booming market. Yet it is proving surprisingly difficult for both drugmakers and food companies to develop businesses directly addressing the problem.
In a global economic downturn, modestly effective weight-loss drugs and special diet foods are turning out to be a tough sell when a cheaper alternative is to eat less - or do nothing.
The first new prescription diet drugs to hit the U.S. market in more than a decade, from Vivus and Arena Pharmaceuticals, have registered disappointing sales and food companies' diet lines are struggling.
Switzerland's Nestle has all but given up on the diet business, agreeing to sell the bulk of its Jenny Craig weight-loss unit last week to U.S. private equity firm North Castle Partners.
And as Unilever reviews its portfolio of underperforming food assets, analysts say its Slim-Fast brand is one that could come up for sale. Bernstein Research estimates Slim-Fast had 2012 sales of 300 million euros ($402 million), 34 percent lower than when Unilever agreed to buy it in 2000 for $2.3 billion.
"The need for the services is increasing, unfortunately, but there are a lot of companies that have not done well," said Jon Canarick of North Castle, which also bought the firm behind the Atkins diet from its post-bankruptcy lenders in 2007. "I credit most of that to a combination of the economy and the influx of competition."
Weak economies have curbed demand for pricey, specialist dieting schemes just as competition has exploded from a host of electronic apps that count calories for free - and securing insurance reimbursement has been an uphill fight for new drugs that cost around $160-$200 a month in the United States.
Obesity prevalence has increased by more than 40 percent across the OECD industrialized countries and half of U.S. adults are now forecast to be obese by 2030 unless Americans change their ways.
The condition is a major risk factor for heart disease, certain cancers and diabetes, with the latter alone expected to kill more than 5 million people this year.
Lars Sorensen, Novo Nordisk's veteran chief executive, hopes the clear medical need will help his firm's move into obesity, although he acknowledges it will not be easy.
"It is going to be challenging. We need to convince employers and insurers in the United States, which is the biggest market, that this is a problem that can be addressed," he said in an interview.
"It's been very disappointing in terms of pharmaceutical interventions up to now, but I see that changing."
Certainly, the medical community is taking more notice.
The American Medical Association classified obesity as a disease for the first time this year, while new guidelines from the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association back more aggressive therapy.
Binge eating disorder, a related problem, has also entered the latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the reference book for psychiatry, opening a new opportunity for a drug from Shire.
Europe, however, is lagging behind in recognizing obesity and approving new drugs, according to Euan Woodward, executive director of the European Association for the Study of Obesity.
"The U.S. is way ahead. We haven't had the same discussion in Europe yet," he said.
Yet U.S.-approved diet drugs like Vivus' Qsymia and Arena's Belviq are being held back by cost and the modest weight loss they can offer, with safety problems linked to earlier products also making doctors cautious.
The popular fen-phen drug combination was taken off the market in 1997 for causing heart damage, while Sanofi's Acomplia was withdrawn in Europe in 2008 after being linked to suicidal thoughts - it never won U.S. approval - and Abbott's Meridia was pulled in 2010 on heart worries.
As a result, global sales of obesity drugs have halved in the last five years, and even though they are expected to climb again they will remain dwarfed by therapies to treat diabetes, as rates of type 2 disease - the kind linked to obesity - soar.
Consensus analysts forecasts suggest obesity drug sales may grow from $300 million to $3.8 billion by 2018, while the diabetes market, worth some $37 billion at present, will reach more than $57 billion, according to Thomson Reuters Pharma.
Novo Nordisk hopes a high dose of its injectable medicine liraglutide - the active ingredient in its diabetes treatment Victoza - will take pharmacological interventions to a new level, by mimicking the action of a natural hormone.
So far, though, clinical trials have underwhelmed analysts and Matthias Tschoep, head of the Institute for Diabetes and Obesity at the Helmholtz Zentrum in Munich, believes a truly effective medicine will need to combine the effects of multiple hormones to achieve reductions in body weight beyond the 5-10 percent seen with current drugs. That could be a long haul.
"We need to close the gap between existing drug treatments and a gastric bypass surgery, which makes you lose 35 percent of body weight," he said. "I firmly believe that within the next 10 to 20 years, we will have very efficient drugs."
The big problem for dieters and drug designers alike is the fact that human evolution makes it very hard for people to curb their appetite and cut calorie consumption.
A predisposition to gain weight is hard-wired, with animal experiments showing that consumption of sugary food triggers the brain to release dopamine, a neurotransmitter also linked to drug addiction.
Weight Watchers, the leading weight loss company in the United States, is finding the going increasingly tough. Revenue has been roughly flat or down during six of the last seven quarters and the outlook for the next four is even worse.
Last month, the company said that despite progress on cost-cutting, it expected full-year revenue to fall at a low double-digit percentage rate if recruitment trends failed to improve.
Weight Watchers is battling a declining membership base, growing membership at rivals, and the rise of cheap or free smartphone applications and activity monitors such as MyFitnessPal and the Jawbone UP wristband.
There are nearly 2,000 weight-loss apps now available on the iPhone, and Berlin-based market research firm research2guidance estimates that by 2015, 500 million people will be using mobile health applications which cost much less than the packaged meal plans sold by Jenny Craig, Nutrisystem and Medifast that usually cost hundreds of dollars a month in up-front purchases.
Analysts say the lion's share of the world's dieters use a "do-it-yourself" approach.
"Broccoli and lettuce are good competition for weight-loss shakes," said Imperial Capital analyst Mitchell Pinheiro. "Dieting is fickle to begin with and trends are fleeting. While the addressable market is enormous and continues to grow, how dieters choose to diet is not consistent and it's not sustainable."
Meanwhile, the retail market for meal replacement products such as Slim-Fast bars and Herbalife shakes, is estimated at $7.76 billion worldwide, according to data tracker Euromonitor, up from $5.51 billion in 2008.
In a very competitive market, Euromonitor analyst Ildiko Szalai sees the key to success as transcending the natural stigma and impermanence of dieting. She cited Kellogg's Special K cereal bars, protein shakes and diet plan, which has briskly moved in as Slim-Fast has retreated.
"They made it very successful, positioning the product as a lifestyle and not just something for six weeks so you lose weight," Szalai said. "You eat it forever."
(Ben Hirschler reported from Denmark and Martinne Geller from London; editing by Anna Willard)


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You have been hired by SportsFan, Inc. to design and develop a new software repository. The repository will allow for input, storage, and retrieval of information on current NBA and MLB players, including name (first and last), current team, position, and school.
You must create the software solution based on the following expectations:
1. Individual player information should be represented using classes.
2. All NBA players (and their corresponding information) stored within the system should be stored in one array of classes. All MLB players (and their corresponding information) should be stored in one array of classes. The maximum number of players that can be stored per league currently is 5.
3. Users should be able to enter information on a player not currently in the system, by providing all information on the player, then appropriately storing it. There should be no double entries for a player.
4. Users should be able to search for a player by first and last name. If the player is currently stored in the system, all player information should be output in the format
5. Users should be able to output all NBA and MLB players currently stored (including player info), if they choose.
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KABUL - A Georgian soldier serving for NATO in Afghanistan has gone missing, prompting a search and rescue operation, the military coalition said Saturday.
"I can confirm that the Georgian soldier, who was an ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) service member serving in southern Afghanistan, has gone missing for the last three days," Lieutenant Colonel Lester Carroll, an ISAF spokesman, told dpa.
He did not provide further details about the missing soldier's identity, but confirmed that a search operation was underway.
"We are doing our best to find him and bring him back," Carroll said.
Georgia has more than 1,500 soldiers in Afghanistan, most of whom are based in Helmand Province.
The Georgian Defence Ministry has confirmed that one of their soldiers in Afghanistan has disappeared.
A year ago, a British soldier went missing in Helmand and was later killed during an exchange of fire between insurgents and NATO forces.
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The iWatch. No-one knows much. It's an Apple product rumoured to be in development, made of curved glass designed to fit around the wrist.
It sounds cool in a Napoleon Dynamite sort of way; chic and geek in equal measure. Central to chatter on the subject is the pervasive question of whether it will actually be made; Apple's continued silence on the issue of the iWatch has driven various tech-bloggers giddy with the sweet smell of conspiracy.
What's more interesting is its direct link to Science Fiction. Watch out, it gets a bit nerdy from here on out. The device will apparently name and describe objects at which it is pointed. This is a tricorder, not a timepiece.
You could look at the iWatch as part of a slow trickle of technology conceived at the final frontiers of space-y genre lit. Similar examples abound. Another supposed Apple product in the pipeline – the iGlasses – purports to record what you see, edit out the bad stuff, and replay it, see Minority Report and the Matrix for more details. There's even a nifty working prototype of a hover-car flying about out there.
The fields of fantasy-technology and real-technology seem destined for cross-pollination. This piece takes the position that Science actually uses sci-fi to test out ideas, as a kind of virtual lab. Simpler is the notion that a few kids watch Star Wars and grow up into product developers with a burning desire to make a robot-hand that actually feels things.
Its interesting to think of sci-fi as 'the manual of the possible'. That the genre has a kind of mapping function – sketching the contours of the land, the limits of what we can think up – which then challenges us fill in the gaps with actual stuff. It's cool and it lends credibility to a big swathe of nerd culture that is too-easily overlooked.
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A 92-year-old World War II veteran describes how he shot and killed an intruder with single shot while defending his home in Verona, Ke. WLWT's Brian Hamrick reports.
A 92-year-old World War II veteran says he wasn't scared and was only protecting himself and his property when he shot to death an intruder who broke into his home.
Earl Jones, of Verona, Ky., had already been the target of three separate break-ins in August, deputies said, according to WLWT-TV. So when the Boone County farmer heard a bang in his basement early Monday morning, Jones was ready, quickly grabbing his loaded .22-caliber rifle from his bedroom.
When the intruder kicked open the door leading up from the basement, Jones fired a single shot.
"He kicked the door and as soon as he got inside, it was all over," Jones told WLWT-TV.
"I was hoping another one would come up – I aimed right for his heart," Jones, who served in the U.S. Army Air Forces from 1941 through 1946, told The Cincinnati Enquirer.
"Was I scared? Was I mad? Hell no," Jones told the Enquirer. "It was simple. That man was going to take my life. He was hunting me. I was protecting myself."
Jones then called 911. When Boone County deputies arrived, they found the basement door ajar but the intruder's body was gone.
A short time later Kenton County Police responded to a call of a man who had been shot and found a deceased man and two others in a 2001 Chevrolet Impala.
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The dead man was identified by the sheriff's office as Lloyd "Adam" Maxwell, 24 of Richmond, Ky.
The two people with him were brought back to Boone County and later admitted they were involved in the burglary, authorities said. Ryan Dalton, 22 and Donnie Inabnit, 20, both of Dry Ridge, Ky., were arrested and charged with second-degree burglary and tampering with physical evidence. Authorities said they removed Maxwell's body from Jones' home and drove away.
Jones was not injured and faces no charges at this point, WLWT reported.
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The volume is a model for looking at the complexity of racism in the academy and in the profession.
–Distinguished Professor and Chair Thomas C. Patterson
The AAA Commission on Race and Racism in Anthropology is pleased to announce publication of additional findings, Racism in the Academy: the new millennium.
The volume is freely available to all online. Its editors, commission members Audrey Smedley and Janis Faye Hutchinson, bring the anthropological lens to the academy, to more fully describe the lived experiences of racism (and sometimes sexism) in colleges and universities. We hope minorities–and majorities–will read the text and work towards the elimination of microaggressions, and strive for the transformation of the academy.
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This is a valuable collection of finely written, thought-provoking articles that can be used in classes from the introductory to the graduate level.


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This module addresses why weights are created and how they are calculated, the importance of weights in making estimates that are representative of the U.S. civilian non-institutionalized population, how to select the appropriate weight to use in your analysis, and how to correctly create subsets within your analysis population.
Overview: Weighting in NHANES I
Weights are created in NHANES I to account for complex survey design (including oversampling), survey non-response, and post-stratification. When a sample is weighted in NHANES I it is representative of the U.S. Census civilian non-institutionalized population. A sample weight is assigned to each sample person. It is a measure of the number of people in the population represented by that sample person.
- Key Concepts about Weighting in NHANES I
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Task 1: Selecting the Correct Weight
To produce estimates appropriately adjusted for survey non-response, it is important to check all of the variables in your analysis and select the weight of the smallest analysis subpopulation.
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In order to calculate the most accurate measure of the variance estimate, it is important to properly create subsets of your data to reflect the subpopulation of interest before using weights in your analyses.
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Laura Bellamy made 24 saves for her sixth shutout of the season Saturday (Gil Talbot).
SCHENECTADY, N.Y. – The No. 8 Harvard women's hockey team faced tough tests in a stingy Dutchwomen team and enthusiastic Union crowd, but made its first-period goal stand up as the Crimson (18-8-1, 15-4-1 ECAC) skated away from Messa Rink with a 1-0 win over Union (4-24-4, 2-16-2 ECAC) Saturday afternoon. Harvard goalie Laura Bellamy had a commanding performance in goal, stopping all 24 shots she faced on the afternoon.
The shutout is Bellamy's sixth this season, which stands tied for third for shutouts in a season in program history. The win is also Harvard's 15th shutout in 18 career games against the Dutchwomen. With the victory, and a 4-2 win by Rensselaer over Dartmouth, the Crimson clinched home ice for its quarterfinal series in the ECAC tournament, beginning in two weeks.
A tight first period saw each team get booked for a penalty, but neither squad was able to take advantage of a power play. Harvard goalie Laura Bellamy was sharp early, standing tall during a three-shot flurry with less than four minutes to play in the period, to keep the hosts off the board. With under a minute to play, Jillian Dempsey wrestled a puck from a Union defender a mid-ice and worked a pass to a charging Lyndsey Fry, who weaved into the Union zone and lifted a shot past Kate Gallagher for a 1-0 lead at 19:25.
Bellamy stayed solid through the second period as the Dutchwomen fired eight shots on net that the junior stopped. Harvard nearly had a second goal on a close-range attempt in the final two minutes of the period, but Gallagher met Dempsey's quick shot with her left blocker to keep the score 1-0. Harvard ended two periods of play with a 25-17 edge in shots.
The Dutchwomen kept up their intensity through the third period, firing seven more shots on goal that Bellamy was able to turn away. An offensive push on its final possession came dangerously close to producing the game-tying goal, but the Dutchwomen were unable to best Bellamy.
The Crimson returns to Cambridge for its final two games of the regular season. Harvard takes on Brown Friday night at 7 p.m., and closes the regular season against Yale Saturday at 4 p.m.


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Whenever the lineage of a new-born was doubted, they would offer a sacrifice to it [Hubal] and then shuffle the arrows and throw them. If the arrothe word "pure," the child would be declared legitimate and the tribe would accept him. If, however, the arrows showed the words "consociated alien," the child would be declared illegitimate and the tribe would reject him. The third arrow was for divination concerning the dead, while the fourth was for divination concerning marriage. The purpose of the three remaining arrows has not been explained.
Now in my childhood I have read about trial by fire in India.It does not mean that your wife is actually asked to go through fire just like Ram is believed to have asked Sita but a short cut form in which a woman who went to visit her female friend in Mumbai against the wishes of her husband was refused entry by her in laws and therefore the village elders had to subject her to it.She was told to open up her palms to the full,a leaf was placed and a red hot iron was placed on the leaf.Surprisingly they said nothing happened to her and therefore she was accepted back.Now I understand that there might have been some sort of scientific liquid placed either on her palms or on the leaf placed on her hands or on the red hot iron that must have prevented her palms from getting burnt.Similar things might have been existent in pre-Islamic Arabia as pagans in general are known to be quite innovative from what I have read at the old forum.


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Cantor loss kills immigration reform
Immigration reform is almost certainly dead on Capitol Hill this year.
Many top sources close to the issue privately acknowledged after House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's shocking defeat Tuesday night that the already uphill battle for immigration reform was dealt the knockout blow.
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Coming off President Barack Obama's re-election, immigration reform was seen as an issue both parties could deal with quickly. Democrats wanted to deliver on promises made to their Latino backers and Republicans wanted to get the issue off the table to avoid reliving the electoral demographic nightmare of 2012.
But House GOP leaders have long said they wouldn't bring up the Gang of Eight bill the Senate passed last year, and Cantor's embrace of even piecemeal proposals was derided by opponent Dave Brat and tea party activists as "amnesty" for undocumented immigrants.
Tuesday's result is also likely to raise pressure from the left on Obama to use executive authority to act on deportations. The White House said recently that Obama had asked for a delay of his administration's deportation review until the end of the summer – in an effort to give House Republicans space to act on a legislative overhaul.
Cantor's stunning loss means there's little Obama can expect from the Hill, where reform advocates were caught Tuesday night trying to figure out what's next.
( Also on POLITICO: Who is Dave Brat?)
"I don't know what this means. I'm very confused," Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.), who has been working behind the scenes to gain support for immigration reform, said of Cantor's defeat in a phone interview. "It clearly adds a lot of confusion and uncertainty and that's the last thing we need."
Diaz-Balart, his voice clearly indicating that he was in shock over Cantor's loss, had been increasingly optimistic on the chances of immigration reform this year. Now, he said he'll take the next few days talking to his colleagues and assessing how they feel on the issue.
Cantor had been hit from both the left and right on immigration. Many advocates increasingly viewed him as the key obstacle within the House Republican leadership – though Cantor's aides said the House majority leader supported fixing the immigration system, just through smaller-scale measures such as border security and legal status for young undocumented immigrants.
( Also on POLITICO: Eric Cantor loses)
Immigration advocates Tuesday night were heavily critical of how Cantor had positioned himself on the issue. He distributed mailers that proudly proclaimed he was stopping an effort from Democrats to push "amnesty to give illegal aliens a free ride" – a direct response to Brat's criticisms. Yet his camp stressed that he still supported immigration reform.
"Cantor misled his voters and they punished him," said Ali Noorani, the executive director of the National Immigration Forum. He added that it was too early to tell whether his group will change its advocacy tactics on immigration, saying: "We'll see how [Speaker John] Boehner reacts in the next couple of days."
Jim Wallis, the founder of the Christian group Sojourners that has lobbied House Republicans on immigration reform, said bluntly: "Eric Cantor was not an ally of immigration reform."
"At least as one person who is hoping and praying for immigration reform, I did not trust Eric Cantor to be on the right side," Wallis said. "Now that he is gone, I am more hopeful that John Boehner can follow his own head and his own heart and do the right thing."
( Also on POLITICO: 5 takeaways from Eric Cantor shocker)
Instead, advocates looked to the strategy employed by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). In the other major primary of the night involving immigration, Graham – a member of the Senate Gang of Eight who relentlessly advocated for an overhaul – sailed through his primary, getting more than the 50 percent he needed to avoid a runoff.
Advocates pointed that Graham's decisive victory should be what guides the influence of immigration in primaries – not Cantor's.
"Tonight's election shows the Republican Party has two paths it can take on immigration: The Graham path of showing leadership and solving a problem in a mainstream way, which leads to victory. Or the Cantor path of trying to play both sides, which is a path to defeat," Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said in a statement. "Cantor's defeat does not change the fundamental fact that Republicans will become a minority party if they don't address our broken immigration system."


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ANDERSON, S.C. – The No. 26 Georgia College women's tennis team (14-7) dropped the Anderson University Trojans with ease (9-5) Friday, 8-1.
The Bobcats found themselves ahead after doubles, 3-0. Kayla Barksdale (Augusta, Ga.) partnered with Bertille Lion (Lyon, France) playing out of the No. 1 spot defeating Avery Owens and Lauren Trumbull, 8-4. May Johnson (Sydney, Australia) and Michelle Lingner (Dunwoody, Ga.) played at two for the 'Cats and downed Camie Brunet and Julie Halbert, 8-2. Both pairs share the team lead with 12 doubles wins.
In third doubles, Lisa Setyon (Paris, France) and Kelly Edwards (Roswell, Ga.) edged out Anderson's Shelby Anderson and Emily Weiland 8-6.
Lion played out of the No. 1 spot and toppled Brunet in straight sets, 6-2, 7-5. Johnson had another strong outing downing Owens, 6-1, 6-0. Barksdale and Halbert squared off at the No. 3 spot but Barksdale got the better of that deal, 6-3, 6-2.
Kim Lochner (Neu-Isenburg, Germany) dropped GC's only match of the day, losing out to Trumbull, 6-1, 6-1. Setyon got her 16th win of the season downing Anderson, 6-2, 6-2 and Lingner finished off the day defeating Weiland, 7-5, 6-1.
Up next, the Bobcats will come home to play the University of West Georgia Sunday, April 10 for a 1 p.m. start.
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We've talked about the stabilizing process that's underway in the Midwestern farmland market in several recent issues of LandOwner newsletter. Now, new data released to LandOwner from Farm Credit Services of America (FCSAmerica) supports our view.
The Omaha-based lender is the largest ag real estate lender in its four-state service region, which covers Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wyoming. The association monitors ag real estate value trends through its semi-annual appraisal update of 65 benchmark farms located throughout its service area. Its appraisal team reviews thousands of completed farm real estate transactions in the process.
It's July 1 update shows the value of the 21 Iowa benchmark farms rose slightly more than 6% during the first half of 2013 compared to the 13.8% surge the last half of 2012. The 19 Nebraska benchmark farms show a 7% rise — down from 12.3% the last half of 2012. Those gains amount to about a one-percentage-point gain per month. In our view, that type of increase points to a market that is transitioning into a stabilizing market.
The 23 South Dakota benchmark farms report a 9.5% six-month gain. While down from the astonishing 17.6% burst seen last half of 2012, the 1.6%-per-month increase is too strong to be considered a market that is stabilizing.
The update shows a lift in the value of Wyoming farmland. The update lists a gain of 3.3% for the first half of 2013. That compares to no change in values during the last half of 2012. FCSAmerica says the rise in Wyoming is driven by increases in cropland values that offset slight declines in the value of ranchland in the state.
Additionally, the Iowa market seems to be in the same spot as it was a year earlier. Land values were stabilizing after posting a 6.2% rise the previous six months. But values surged as grain prices rocketed. That does not seem likely this year with soil moisture supplies re-charged. But this crop is not yet in the bin.
However, Nebraska is cooling, too. Its current rise of 7.1% is the first single-digit six-month rise since last half of 2010.
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NYMF's Next Broadway Sensation Songwriter Showcase- Josephine Spada sings 'When Lily Came'
Last Friday 5th October, Oscar® and Grammy® winning composer Stephen Schwartz hosted the first-ever Next Broadway Sensation Songwriter Showcase, co-produced by NYMF and The ASCAP Foundation.
In the video below, Josephine Spada sings 'When Lily Came.'
In the video below, Josephine Spada sings 'When Lily Came.'
The concert presented some of the hottest musical theater composers - who each accompanied one of our eight Next Broadway Sensation Finalists on a song hand-picked from their catalogue.
A great night was had by all, with numbers by John Bucchino (A Catered Affair), Adam Gwon (Ordinary Days), Ryan Scott Oliver (35MM), Michael Patrick Walker (Altar Boyz), Daniel Maté (The Trouble With Doug), and Michael Kooman & Christopher Dimond (Dani Girl).


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Welcome to the Town of Longboat Key Hurricane and Severe Weather Preparedness Webpage. We hope you find the information useful and informative!
Although a great deal of attention is paid to devastating impacts associated with hurricanes, residents should also be mindful that severe weather events occur year round in the form of winter storms, tropical storms, and lightning storms. These weather systems can also have damaging effects on our property and present life-threatening situations. We encourage our citizens and visitors to take an "all-hazards" approach in their personal and family preparedness planning.
The Town's website is designed to provide important links to informational resources to aid you in all aspects of preparedness. Please scroll through these pages for useful information on the following topics, as well as many others:
· how to strengthen your home to minimize damage,
· items you need to prepare your personal disaster supply kit,
· creating an evacuation plan (click here to begin yours now)
· enrolling for emergency notifications,
· how to register as a "person with special needs",
· providing for your pets,
· current hurricane or tropical storm information,
· as well as many other valuable links and information.
The Town of Longboat Key continues to enhance our ability to prepare for, respond to, and recover from tropical storm, hurricanes, and other severe weather. This preparedness includes employee training and education, contracted resources for services such as debris management, mutual aid agreements with other response agencies, and infrastructure improvements within our community. Each year we learn from others' experience in coping with the impact and recovery from damaging storms.
Additionally, we strive to provide information and tools that our citizens need to adequately prepare themselves, their homes, and property from the devastating effects of weather related disasters.
These pages contain helpful information to make preparations for an approaching storm as well as tips to assist you after the storm. Please print and save the information now, as you may not have power if a storm impacts our area.
During tropical storm or hurricane events, current information will be posted on this website to provide you with timely information regarding local storm conditions and anticipated risks.
Please don't hesitate to contact us if you need further information or have a suggestion on how to improve our site.
For hurricane information or questions, please call:
Sarasota County Call Center at (941) 861-5000Manatee County Call Center (941) 749-3500
(The 9-1-1 line is reserved forlife-threatening emergencies only).
Emergency public shelters do not allow smoking, guns, or alcohol. Pet owners are responsible for planning for their pet(s). Some shelters may be pet friendly, but you will need to verify that they accept pets before taking your pet with you to a shelter.


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Affected dogs experienced epistaxis, gingival bleeding, and petechiation. Platelet aggregation and release responses to all agonists, except thrombin, are markedly impaired. Clinical signs consist primarily of mucosal bleeding. Bleeding episodes may be mild to severe.
The genetic factor is continuously present, and will always be visible.
The turn-around-time of a test depends to a large extent on the logistics of sample transportation to the laboratory. After receiving the sample at the test location, you can normally expect the result within 10 working days. A longer delivery time applies to tests carried out by a Partner Lab.
This disease affects the composition of the blood, consequently influencing the coagulation of blood.
This DNA test is available for the following breeds: Landseer. Additional information is available in the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ).
For this DNA test we accept the following materials: Blood EDTA, Blood Heparin, Tissue, Swab, Semen. Please contact Dr. Van Haeringen Laboratorium if you wish to submit other material as listed.
An animal can be free and has in that situation two healthy alleles. When used in breeding this animal will not become ill due to the disease. It cannot spread the disease in the population.An animal can be carrier and has in that situation one healthy and one disease allele. When used in breeding 50 percent of the offspring will receive the disease allele. Carriers will not become ill.An animal can be affected and has in that situation two disease alleles. When used in breeding all offspring will also receive the disease allele. Affected will become ill.
This genetic factor is inherited in an autosomal, recessive, mode. This means, that the individual can be free of the disease (homozygote normal), affected (homozygous affected) or carrier (heterozygous). Carriers may spread the mutation in a population without showing symptoms themselves. Because of this, it is extremely important to identify carriers correctly to prevent spreading of a mutation.


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Veteran point guard Derek Fisher has signed a contract with the Dallas Mavericks after passing a physical on Thursday.
To make room on their 15-man roster, the Mavericks waived Troy Murphy, who had averaged 4.6 points and 3.5 rebounds in 14 games.
The 38-year-old Fisher was a free agent after playing last season with the Los Angeles Lakers and Oklahoma City.
Dallas (7-9) has lost three games in a row, and Darren Collison missed Wednesday night's 101-78 loss at Chicago with a sprained right middle finger.
Collison replaced Jason Kidd, the 39-year-old guard who was with Dallas the last four years, including its only NBA title two seasons ago. Kidd signed a free-agent deal with the Knicks last summer.


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Class-ic rock: Who says <I>School</I>'s no fun?
If you believe in rock and roll, clap your hands... to a triplet beat.
Feelgood movies should have a separate category in award competitions. Their "end justifies the means" philosophy means certain standards have to be jettisoned as long as one leaves the theater with an ear-to-ear grin.
In The School of Rock, for instance, one must overlook the "artistic license" of impossible (and invisible) soundproofing, a control freak principal who goes weeks without checking on the classroom of an eccentric substitute teacher, and an instantaneous mass wardrobe change for the Big Number.
One cannot overlook, and must therefore revel in, the performance of Jack Black, a shameless dynamo who is probably the closest thing to John Belushi in entertainment today– right down to the monogram. He carries on outrageously and often inventively, virtually demanding that you love him. If he can't wear you down (but I'll bet he can) you're going to have a hard time sitting through this movie.
Black plays Dewey Finn, a failed rock musician who poses as a substitute teacher to keep his best friend (Mike White as Ned) from throwing him out for non-payment of rent. Actually, it's Ned's girlfriend Patty (Sarah Silverman) who wants Dewey out. White (The Good Girl) also wrote the screenplay.
Dewey intercepts a phone call for Ned, who's a real substitute teacher, and takes the gig at Horace Green, "the best elementary school in the state," run by uptight Principal Rosalie Mullins (Joan Cusack). The kids, whose parents spend $15,000 a year to send them there, are the repressed creatures you'd expect– until Dewey gets his mojo working on them.
Having been dumped by his last band, and being too notorious to attract anybody to a new one, Dewey is frustrated in his desire to enter an upcoming Battle of the Bands. After hearing his students attempt "Concierto de Aranjuez" in music class, he gets a brainstorm: It's easier to form a rock band from 16 ten-year-olds than one 160-year-old.
Since he has already jettisoned the curriculum, Dewey only has to make an adjustment to the permanent recess he had instituted. From now on, the kids are going to study rock and roll – not only musicianship, but history and attitude as well. "Rock and roll is about stickin' it to the man," for instance.
He also has to instill self-esteem in a couple of kids– keyboardist Lawrence (Robert Tsai), who thinks he's not cool enough, and backup singer Tomika (Maryam Hassan), who thinks she's too fat. (He's not and she is, but that doesn't matter.)
Grade-grubbing ass-kisser Summer Hathaway (Miranda Cosgrove) becomes band manager. Freddy Jones (Kevin Alexander Clark) plays drums. Zack Mooneyham (Joey Gaydos) is on lead guitar. Katie (Rebecca Brown), a cellist, plays bass. Dewey, naturally, is lead vocalist and plays guitar. Others are roadies, groupies, security guards; and Billy (Brian Falduto) volunteers to be "band stylist." Send this boy to "Camp"!
A rare commercial venture for brilliant but independent director Richard Linklater, The School of Rock is a movie and a fantasy, but a delightful one in which the kids make amazing progress as individuals in their three weeks under Dewey's tutelage, and of course their responsiveness snaps him out of his terminal lethargy. By the end he can truly say what is a joke in the beginning: "I serve society by rocking."
And the Battle of the Bands takes place during school hours – add that to the "artistic license" list above – so the class can sneak out to participate.
Because Dewey is locked into a musical period from around the time he was born, the soundtrack is filled with "classic rock" that may inspire kids to get out their parents' old vinyl collections and start listening seriously. Expect some new reissue CDs to take advantage of this reawakened interest. The music industry will try anything but fair pricing to break out of their sales slump.
Without giving away the ending, it suggests a golden franchising opportunity. I'm sure someone already has the trademarks and legalities in order to launch it. For all Dewey's bitching about MTV having "ruined rock and roll" and calling his ex-bandmates "a bunch of wannabe corporate sellouts," you know this movie wasn't financed by hippies with "spare change" they collected on the street.
Yes, "School of Rock" rhymes with "rule of schlock," and you can feel your strings being pulled and your buttons being pushed; but see if it doesn't send you out smiling and believing, "One good rock show can change the world!"
Let's hope one good rock movie can do the same.


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It wasn't quite Lawrence Taylor meets Joe Theismann's leg, but Manchester United's Nani suffered a pretty gnarly leg injury during today's 3-1 loss to Liverpool.
Seems as if Liverpool's Jamie Carragher caught his opponent on the shin with a dangerous tackle right before halftime. Nani, who initially jumped up, was taken from the field on a stretcher. The photos and stories from the hours since show why.
There are more pictures at EPL Talk; there's also video at Videa (since most YouTube clips have been taken down).
Fears for Nani after horror injury [EuroSport]
Nani's Horrific Injury From Jamie Carragher's Tackle: Photos [EPL Talk]
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Retrospective environmental risk assessment of human pharmaceuticals in the Nordic countries 1997-2007 »
Series: Nordic Council of Ministers
Author(s): Morten Moe , Per Wiklund , and Andreas Woldegiorgis
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Publication Date: 01 June 2009
Keywords: Nordic, Norden, Baltic, Baltics, Consumption of Human Pharmaceuticals, Environmental Scientific, Growing Interest, Terms of Monitoring, Waste Water Treatment Plants, Environmental Risk Associated
New pharmaceutical substances and formulations are constantly being introduced and marketed in the world, targeting an increasing number of human receptors. Consequently, the consumption of human pharmaceuticals ha...
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More than a year into the crisis in Cox's Bazar, the number of Rohingya refugees has reached nearly one million, with young girls in Bangladesh refugee camps sold into forced labour accounting for the largest group of trafficking victims, reported the UN Migration Agency (IOM) on Tuesday.
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Girls Sold into Forced Labour Largest Group of Trafficking Victims Identified by IOM in Bangladesh Refugee Camps - Bangladesh
Young girls sold into forced labour are the largest group of trafficking victims identified by the UN Migration Agency (IOM) in Bangladesh's Rohingya refugee camps. IOM counter-trafficking experts warn that more than a year into a crisis that has seen the number of Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar soar to almost a million, more desperate families are sending their young daughters off into dangerous work situations because most households have no other way to earn money in the camps.
The border between Bangladesh and Myanmar is the site of the world's fastest growing refugee crisis. Over 620,000 Rohingya refugees from neighbouring Rakhine State in Myanmar have arrived in Cox's Bazar District in just three months. With more refugees arriving every day, settlements are overflowing.
Following a visit to Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar, where hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar have settled in makeshift camps, a United Nations envoy has called for enhanced measures to protect and assist victims of sexual violence among the displaced population.
Opening Remarks by UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, at the plenary session of the Five Days of Violence Prevention Conference at Johannesburg, South Africa
The international community must do more to end the inhumane practice of human trafficking and protect migrants and refugees - particularly young people, women and children - from those who attempt to exploit their opportunity for a better future, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, urging all nations to recognize their responsibility in combating the global scourge.


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Styles of Antique Furnishings
Antique furniture dealers are a great place to find furnishings or a great accent piece for your home. Antique furnishings can fit into any type of home or style aesthetic. Some may choose antique furnishings to match an older home or they may be used to accent a contemporary style structure. Antiques can often draw a deep historical connection for people when they realize the age of the pieces that they find at antique furniture dealers.


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NTL: Anytime, Anywhere Learning
Anytime, Anywhere learning starts with removing barriers that currently exist for some of our students by providing a device and internet access in and outside of school. This allows for the following learning and teaching advantages:
- Students can be independent and have ownership of time, place, path, and pace for learning.
- Students can advocate for their own learning, knowing all the tools are available anytime and anywhere.
- Students can have access to a variety of types and sources of information.
- Students can learn when and where they are ready, including expanding learning opportunities beyond the walls of the school.
- Teachers can plan for and use instructional tools when and where they are appropriate and helpful for learning and teaching.
- Flipped & hybrid instruction: Using time creatively to meet the needs of students.
- Access in school: Creating a wireless infrastructure at school that can accommodate use by all students.
- Access outside of school: Accessing the internet outside of the school space and time. The district works with families and community partners to eliminate the access gap.
- Online Learning: Fully online courses for our high school students, taught by Bloomington Public School teachers.