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NYPD Cop Breaks Black Man's Arm; He'd Complained to Internal Affairs About Harrasment
"I said 'why are you assaulting me?' and a White cop with Parkinson twisted my arm behind my back until it snapped. They arrested me but would not tell me what they arrested me for or why they break my arm,†he says. Three officers were involved in the incident.
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Jimmy Findley who owns Diamond Cuts Barber Shop on Rutland Road in Brooklyn is today walking with his arm in a sling courtesy of The New York Police Department (NYPD).
It will be another month before he can take off the sling. He says that he is just the latest of several Black business owners who have been harassed by a crew of police officers from Brooklyn's 71st Precinct known in the community as "The Quality of Life Squad."
This crew of officers is led by a Black officer named Parkinson. Over the last few years Parkinson has allegedly led forays into the Black businesses in the Flatbush area, examining licenses, looking in sinks and behind counters and questioning customers. Dr. Kuts Barbershop on Flatbush, Errol's Bakery on Hawthorne, Sassy Scissors Beauty Shop on Flatbush, and Jimmy's Barbershop on Rutland Road are just a few of the shops these cops have allegedly harassed. On more than one occasion when an owner or operator has protested they have found themselves beaten, arrested. or issued a summons.
Jimmy Findley says after he complained about repeated raids of his shop, which had yielded nothing, Parkinson and his Quality of Life Squad caught him on the street a couple of blocks from his shop and took retribution one day, towards the end of July. "I was carrying an empty cup of ice and they asked me for ID," Findley recalls, adding that he found the request confusing since Parkinson knew him well. "I said officer Parkinson what do you want my ID for?"
Findley says he was rewarded with a poke on the chest by a White officer. "I said 'why are you assaulting me?' and a White cop with Parkinson twisted my arm behind my back until it snapped. They arrested me but would not tell me what they arrested me for or why they break my arm," he says. Three officers were involved in the incident.
The arm was broken at the elbow; he can't outstretch the arm and he's in pain. Findley believes his question to Parkinson, on the face of it, certainly did not seem unreasonable. After all, why would officer Parkinson need his ID when he already knew his name? Parkinson and crew had already, in one visit to Findley's shop, given him a summons for having an empty alcohol bottle in his barbershop sink.
Findley says the judge threw the ridiculous summons out; but his name was still on it and other court documents available to Parkinson. On another occasion Parkinson and his crew had demanded to see Findley's Barber's license, he says; his name was also on that. Even if Parkinson didn't know Findley's name from those two documents, his name was on the subsequent formal complaint he made to NYPD Internal Affairs, regarding the harassment by Parkinson and crew. Didn't Parkinson know Findley's ID from those documents?
Officer Parkinson's subsequent actions show that he did, indeed, know Findley's name from that complaint. On the early morning of July 27, when Findley's wife came to the 71 precinct to obtain information about charges against him, officer Parkinson instead spoke about the complaints Findley had made to Internal Affairs. "I didn't ask you anything about that," Mrs. Findley recalls telling Parkinson.
Yet, from Parkinson's perspective, Findley had committed a double crime in that he had filed formal complaints against Parkinson to both State Senator Eric Adams, who himself is a former police officer, and the NYPD Internal Affairs regarding officer Parkinson's earlier incidents of alleged harassment.
It was only later in Court that Findley learned of the charges against him for the first time, he says. Apparently from the perspective of the "Quality of Life Squad," it's against the law to walk the streets with an open container that might possibly contain alcohol, even an empty open container of ice, such as the one Findley says he was carrying on the day of the incident. Findley says that the container charge was thrown out as soon as the Judge saw it. However, the police charged him with resisting arrest. Findley's Legal Aid Attorney obtained what he thought was a "dismissal" from the Judge, but in actuality it was an ACD, or Adjournment in Contemplation of Dismissal. It's supposed to mean that if the defendant doesn't get into trouble in the next six months the charge will be automatically dismissed. However, in Findley's case, with Parkinson and Crew apparently on the hunt for him, there is no telling what it really means in his case.
New York City Councilman Charles Barron, who represents Brooklyn's 42nd council district, weighed in on Findley's ordeal: "It is obvious and safe to say that a person should be able to walk down the street with a cup of ice in their own neighborhood. But it is for certain that no police stop for walking with an open container should ever end up with the police breaking a person's arm."
Jimmy Findley is a well respected member of the community who for years has operated a clean single-chair shop. Now he can't even cut hair to earn a living. Instead of improving the quality of life, the Quality of Life Squad has made one bread-winner unemployed. This is an example of the negative impact the Squad is having on the quality of life of Black People and Black-owned businesses in East Flatbush, Brooklyn.
Officers at the 71 precinct wouldn't provide information about the incident.
"Speaking Truth To Empower."
Editor's Note: Any reader who is in a position to help Jimmy Findley in any manner so he can cope with the sudden complete loss of income please send an email message to firstname.lastname@example.com Clearly, he won't be able to cut anybody's hair for some time
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I have been playing this map a few times now, but I do not understand how you go from one place to another.
I found this is the most unclear map I have played.
Can someone give me a trick to understand how you know that one region border another??

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Growing demand for plug-in hybrids could mean good news for electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturers over the next eight years, possibly enabling them to avert a battery oversupply, a new study says.
"We're seeing the emergence of the plug-in hybrid," David Alexander, author of Pike Research's new Electric Vehicles Batteries study, told Design News. "They have smaller battery packs, which make electric vehicles more affordable. So it's possible that they could absorb the (lithium-ion battery) excess over the next few years."
The new study projects a $22 billion worldwide market for lithium-ion EV batteries by 2020. Because battery-electric vehicles (BEVs, like the Nissan Leaf) use batteries that are, on average, 20 times the size of those in conventional hybrids (like the Prius), the market will depend heavily on the success of BEVs and other plug-in vehicles, Alexander told us. As such, the $22 billion market will be broken up into three components: $15.2 billion of it will be in battery-electrics; $5.2 in plug-in hybrids; and $1.5 billion in conventional hybrids.
It's not known, however, whether the $22 billion market will represent an oversupply or undersupply. Previous studies have suggested that a battery glut was imminent. One such study, from Lux Research in 2010, predicted that worldwide capacity of lithium-ion EV batteries would exceed demand by about 65 percent, as measured in GWh. Since that time, two lithium-ion battery manufacturers, A123 Systems and Ener1, have filed for bankruptcy protection.
The variable in the equation is the EV market, Alexander told us. "The problem is that the sales of electric vehicles haven't gone as well as many were expecting," he said. "That was a contributing factor to the problems at A123."
Pike based its $22 billion figure on the estimated costs of creating a lithium-ion battery pack. For a typical 25-kWh pack, approximately half of the cost is in the cells, and half is in pack components, such as cooling, electrical, and electronic systems. The research firm estimated that today's packs cost about $737/kWh, and that the cost will drop to about $447/kWh by 2020. "The OEMs would like to get the cost down to $300/kWh, so they can get the cost of the EV down," Alexander said.
A cost of $737/kWh represents a significant investment for automakers. At that figure, a 24-kWh battery in a typical electric car would cost more than $17,000. At the projected $447/kWh price, however, the battery would run closer to $10,000. In that sense, plug-in hybrids could provide a boost to the market because their smaller batteries (5 kWh to 7 kWh) would enable automakers to offer plug-ins for a price that might be more appealing to a large swath of consumers. Alexander cited the Toyota Prius PHV and the Chevy Volt as examples of plug-ins that are starting to generate consumer interest.
According to Alexander, it's possible that more battery manufacturers could be victims of a shakeout as the EV market struggles toward success. "The market will eventually settle down," he told us. "And the remaining battery manufacturers should be able to make a good business out of it."


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Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
Season 44 Episode 4409 | 54m 11s
Revel in an hour with New Orleans funk masters Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, with special guest Cyril Neville. Shorty lays down the grooves with highlights from his recent Voodoo Threauxdown tour.
Aired: 01/05/19
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HARVEST IS NOW: While we wine lovers may be pretty knowledgeable, to the point of being charmingly unbearable, about how the collecting and pressing of grapes works, and how all of that delightful juice eventually becomes a sophisticated wine, many of us can be a little hazy on the facts and figures behind harvest time. We equate it with the autumn, and with days growing shorter and night temperatures dropping and a particularly picturesque mist that may or may not hang over the grapes before dawn (in our daydreams there is always a good amount of mist). But harvest isn't solely an autumn thing, not at all. It isn't even an August-September deal, either, for Napa Valley's 2014 Harvest officially kicked off on the morning of July 30. "The first of Napa's sparkling wine producers began picking grapes around 6 a.m. on Wednesday, July 30, just two days earlier than the start of last year's grape wine harvest," reads the Napa Vintners site. It continues with this cheery news: "Although this past winter was one of the driest on record, Napa's vintners and growers are predicting an abundant, high-quality harvest for the third year in a row."
WANT TO FOLLOW THE GRAPE-GOOD ACTION? The site has plenty of photos up, and Vines of the vines, and peeks at the first clusters of grapes picked, and such harvesty doings. Want to head up for some of the early hubbub? There are events, events, and, yes, more events. Rutherford Hill has a merlot blending to-do on Saturday, Aug. 2 and Napa Cellars hosts a Rockin' Food Truck Party on Saturday, Aug. 9. Look for more flavorful doings with "harvest" in their names to be working their way up the calendar in the coming weeks.


text: Today was not a very good day, says Talgy, the photographer who works from a studio tucked into the hallway of a residential building close to my studio. It was not a good day because his mobile phone was stolen. "A man came into my studio," says Talgy, "to have his picture taken. Afterwards he asked if he could use my mobile for a moment. No problem, I said. Some other people walked into the store and the man who was using my telephone went outside and disappeared. I have his picture though'" and he holds up the portrait of the telephone thief. The man in the picture doesn't look like a thief at all. His father was also a photographer, and he points tothe black-and-white portrait hanging on the wall. It's a picture of an elegantly dressed man with dark-rimmed spectacles and shiny black wavy hair. I ask him about his daily routine and he says he opens up at 10 and closes at 9:30 at night. His favorite time of day would be early in the morning, when he arrives in his photo studio and has his first cigarette with a cup of hot coffee. But why don't you ask me what my favourite color is?


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Department of Primatology
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
phone: +49 (0)341 3550 - 200
fax: +49 (0)341 3550 - 299
Curriculum Vitae
|Laura Hagemann
|2014 -
|Ph.D. student, Department of Primatology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig. Thesis title: Genetic inference of ape population dynamics in Loango National Park, Gabon
|2007 - 2013
|Diploma Biologist, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany Specialization: Molecular Genetics, Anthropology, Zoology and Journalism Thesis title: Analysis of sequence evolution of sperm proteins: alternative methods on the example of AKAP3 within Primates Degree: very good
|Erasmus exchange student at the University of Copenhagen and the Technical University of Denmark
|1997 - 2006
|Thusnelda Gymnasium, Köln, Germany
|Pimlico State High School, Townsville, Queensland, Australia
Work and Field Experiences
|Volunteer work at the Endangered Primate Rescue Centre, Cuc Phuong National Park, Vietnam
|Laboratory assistant in the Department of Pharmaceutical Biology at the Institute of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
|Lab Intern at the Lizard Lab, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Working on lizard cognition and mating choice. Funded by the DAAD through RISE-worldwide program.
|2009 - 2011
|Laboratory assistant in the Biology Department at the Institute of Molecular Cell Biology, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
|Observation of porpoises in the Little Belt in Middelfart, Denmark
|Internship as research assistant at Chester Zoo, England: Working on the EAZA Research Strategy of Zoos and Aquaria (re-writing text, recommending edits, preparing a first draft of a German translation)
|Collection of fecal samples and observation of deer for a dissertation about deer ingestion at the zoo in Gera, Germany
|Animal care internship at an animal park (specialising in birds) in Eckenhagen, Germany
|Internship with Eco Project Ltd. on Tobago, Caribbean: Project planning and proposal writing for a marine biological and terrestrial research facility.
Teaching experience
|Teaching assistant in the laboratory course: 'Biochemistry/Molecular Biology', University Medical Centre Mainz
|2012 - 2013
|Teaching assistant in the laboratory course: 'Animal Physiology', Department of Biology, Institute of Zoology, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
|Teaching assistant in the laboratory course: 'Zoological exercises for beginners', Department of Biology, Institute of Zoology, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz


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Engineering and Computer Science Summer Camps
The Engineering and Computer Science Camps are designed to be fun and educational experiences for students. Our one week camps were created to provide students with a broad exposure to the variety of engineering disciplines -- aerospace, biomedical, civil & environmental, computer science, electrical, industrial, materials science and mechanical -- plus related topics in chemistry, physics, and/or math. Field trips to see engineering at area businesses and team projects supplement the classroom activities and hands-on experiences.
Entry to Engineering
A team of engineering professors and graduate and undergraduate students from all of UTA's engineering departments present material from all of UTA's engineering disciplines – aerospace, biomedical, civil, computer science, electrical, environmental, industrial, materials science, and mechanical.
There are also special presentations by professors in related fields such as physics and mathematics and instruction on technical writing and presentations.
Cost to attend this 5-day camp: $350.00 (Scholarships are available.) Dates: July 22-26, 2019
Apply for Entry to Engineering Camp
Summer Camp Teacher Interest Form - for teachers interested in helping
This one-week day camp will introduce middle school young women to the field of engineering by showing how engineering is connected to personal issues, social concerns, and community interests.
By conveying engineering concepts in a more personal, social and community-oriented context and introducing them to middle school girls, we will show how engineers connect, communicate, and improve the world. Campers will experience faculty presentations and lectures, lab tours, field trips, hands-on activities.
Cost to attend this 5-day camp: $350.00 (Scholarships are available.) Dates: July 29 - August 2
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Ornate Journal Company Paperblanks Celebrates 20 Years of Glamorizing Writing
There is a certain flair and – shall we say – glamor that comes with a Paperblanks journal. From covers using the relief printing method that incorporates patterns of golden and colorful floral blossoms and arabesques that transport the beholder back to 17th century Europe, to ones that mimic perfectly a 19th century Japanese lacquer box, the Canada-based journal company excels when it comes to the detailed artistry of its products.
Celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, Paperblanks is engaging its network of retailers and fans in various activities that support its belief "that the written word matters" and that the "blank books have a critical role to play in the art and continued practice of writing itself," as stated on its website. Celebratory activities have included hosting a special calligrapher signing event at The Library Shop at the New York Public Library in May. The company is also holding an online contest where fans can vote for the journal cover they like the most between August 1 and 15 on its Facebook page.
"Each Paperblanks' book is inspired by world art and culture, by traditional craft and practice, and by visionaries, rebels and artists across the ages," Andrea Sausedo Piotraszewski, Paperblanks' media relations officer, told The Christian Post via email.
Paperblanks carries two Christian-themed journal series: the Gutenberg Bible and the Lindau Gospels Collection.
"With our Gutenberg series, we reproduced facsimile versions of illuminated pages of the Gutenberg Bible," she explained. "The facsimiles were created by German artist Gisela Maschmann, who modeled her miniature paintings on a volume of Gutenberg's ecclesiastic masterwork housed in Berliner Staatsbibliothek. The collection is made up of two designs: Parabole and Genesis. "
The long process from inspiration to production usually takes at least six months, but can take up to a year or more, she noted.
While the journals are not marketed specifically to Christian consumers, they have been found in church bookstores, including at the famed Washington National Cathedral. The consistently top selling journal collections are Old Leathers, French Ornate and Lyon Florals.
Besides journals, Paperblanks also produces dayplanners and address books.


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Located in the South Loop neighborhood of downtown Chicago, 235 Van Buren is a residential tower designed to work as a transition between the more commercial developments to the north and the residential and mixed-use developments to the south. It is also a response to two site conditions. The first condition, to the north, is the densely infilled context of the Chicago "Loop." The second condition, to the south, is an open space created by a freeway and traffic interchange which also contains a small park.
Architects: Perkins + Will
Location: 235 Van Buren Chicago, Illinois, USA
Design Principal: Ralph Johnson
Managing Principal: Bridget Lesniak
Project Designer: Bryan Schabel
Project Architects: Robert Neper and Greg Tamborino
Project Team: Ricardo Escutia, Connie Perry, Alissa Piere, Tara Rejniak, Chris Wolf
Structural Engineer: Tylk Gustafson Reckers Wilson Andrews, LLC
MEP Engineer: Cosentini Associates, Inc.
Landscape Architect: Terra Engineering, Ltd.
General Contractor: Bovis Lend Lease
Client: CMK Development Corporation
Project Area: 740,000 sqf
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: James Steinkamp, Steinkamp Photography
The articulation of the two masses is distinctly different to respond to these two conditions. The southern glass façade and random balconies provide a large-scale backdrop to the open space created by a major traffic interchange. A ribbon of concrete frames the glass wall, undulating to define the penthouse units and providing a large-scale gesture to the expressway as well as the taller buildings to the north. The random balconies express the individuality of the units within, as well as provide a kinetic image from the freeway.The northern façade is a flush grid of rectangular openings with inset balconies. This gesture relates the building back to the historic Chicago Loop and the frame-expressed architecture of the "Chicago School."The overall mass of the building is broken down by dividing the tower into two slabs. This concept reduces the scale of the building, provides an urban space at the street corner which relates to the existing plaza on the opposite corner and pronounces the entry to the residences. Making the two slabs different heights also provides relief at the top of the building, enlivening it among the taller office towers in the vicinity.


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Gabirich necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 76 diseños de 15 diseñadores freelance.
We are launching a new company called The Brightside Group which is the umbrella corporation for novelty products designed to make you feel good....how to "look on the Bright Side"...
We need a logo to provide that feeling when you look at it.
The Brightside Group
We are looking for a logo that will appear inspiring, positive and happy. A logo that will lift your spirits.
It will be used on the website as well as on business cards and should be colorful without being garish, inspring without being schmatzy and artistic without being pretentious.
We don't want corny images such as a sun or lighbulb but something artsy and perhaps a little whimsical. Colors are important and we're leaning toward shades of pinks, purples, yellows and aquamarines ( not necessarily wed to those colors - and not too pale in color, please). The products will be skewed mostly toward females but will also have a male and a young adult audience.
We are open to different ideas - such as a separate logo art next to our name, or incorporate the art into the text (just text is OK as the logo, if done right).
- The name "The Brightside Group" must appear in the logo
- It should be colorful and dynamic- Must stand out from the crowd
- Skewed slightly female but also appropriate for males
- Must be memorable, inspiring and easily recognizable
- Check out the following sites for color and logo ideas that we like: http://www.webdesignerwall.com and
- Clip art
- Not too "busy" in design
- Unoriginal designs
- No more than 3 or 4 colors max
- Garish or wild designs
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.


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White Papers and Application Notes
A Multiphase Model to Analyze Transport Phenomena In Convective DryingS. Curcio, and M. Aversa
Department of Engineering Modelling, University of Calabria, Rende, Italy
In the modern food industry one of the most important problems to face is to preserve products from deterioration: a widely used solution is the convective foods drying. Drying is based on a simultaneous transfer of both heat and water that takes place when dry and warm air flows around a moist and cold food sample. The aim of the present work is the development a fundamental multiphase approach to account for the simultaneous presence of both liquid water and vapor within the sample undergoing drying. The transport equations referred to the food were coupled, by a proper set of boundary conditions, to momentum, heat and mass transfer equations referred to the drying air, thus obtaining a general model that did not rely on the specification of any heat and mass transfer coefficient at the food/air interfaces. The system of non-linear unsteady-state partial differential equations modeling the process has been solved by means of Finite Elements Method implemented by COMSOL Multiphysics 3.4.


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Latin American presidents and their often love affair with Twitter
BUENOS AIRES – Whenever Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez uses Twitter, controversy often follows. Although tweet discussions range in content and frequency, there's never a lack of debate.
Fernandez, who almost never gives interviews or takes questions from reporters, often uses her official Twitter account, https://twitter.com/CFKArgentina , which claims more than 2.2 million followers, to have a direct connection to the people.
There was that time when she sent more than 60 tweets in a single day after a wide protest by thousands of Argentines critical of her government. Or the many times she has attacked her political opponents and media outlets, accusing them of twisting the truth and defaming her.
Then, there are lighter Tweets: pictures with Pope Francis, a boxing champion, and her dogs. Or her recounting of casual conversations with Argentines on the road, the birth of her grandson, and even her musings over her favorite TV show.
"I'm a fan of the series Games of Thrones. I love it," Fernandez tweeted on April 28.
"When the DirecTV people came to see me to announce some investments I asked them if they could please get me season three ... I'm sure that tomorrow someone from the opposition will denounce me for asking and receiving gifts."
In a major departure from Fidel Castro's four-hour speeches, Twitter's 140 characters or less have become a leading communication tool for presidents throughout Latin America.
An example of this was seen recently when Bolivia's Evo Morales' plane was grounded in Vienna amid incorrect suspicions that National Security Agency leader Edward Snowden was on board. The region's leaders used Twitter to express their disapproval.
"All international immunities that protect heads of state have been violated for the empire's obsession," tweeted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, referring to the United States. Maduro's account, https://twitter.com/NicolasMaduro , has nearly 1.3 million followers.
Maduro has used Twitter to argue with former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe and Puerto Rican singer Ricky Martin. He often slams Venezuela's wealthy, makes grammatical errors, and fondly remembers his mentor and predecessor, the late Hugo Chavez.
For many Venezuelans, monitoring Twitter became a must after Chavez joined the social media platform in late April 2010, according to comScore, an internet monitoring site. Chavez's account still leads the pack of Latin American leaders with 4 million Twitter followers.
In a politically divided country like Venezuela, being able to influence the social media space is key. Almost one out of four Venezuelans in the country use Twitter regularly, comScore says.
Venezuelan officials "don't communicate first by television, radio or a speech, but through Twitter," said Javier Pereira, the El Nacional newspaper's website coordinator. "That has caused us to be alert, monitoring constantly."
Venezuela, along with Brazil and Argentina, ranks among the world's top 10 in the use of Twitter. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos told The Associated Press in an interview why he likes platform so much. With 2 million followers, http://twitter.com/JuanManSantos ranks third for Latin America leaders — dead or alive — after Chavez and Fernandez.
"I use it sometimes to send messages to clarify certain things, to communicate with the country," said Santos. "You sent out a tweet and immediately, if it's something important, it comes out in the media. Instead of making so many press conferences, you use Twitter."
Almost two-thirds of world leaders have joined the Twitterverse, according to an analysis last year of 264 government accounts in 125 countries that the public relations firm Burson-Marsteller described as the first-ever global study of world leaders using the platform.
The most-followed account of any world leader, https://www.twitter.com/BarackObama , which has more than 35 million followers. But Latin American leaders continue to gain ground a tweet a time. They have become more adept on the social network than their European counterparts and rank among the world's top 20 most-followed leaders.
Luis Velarde in Washington, D.C, Vicente Marquez in Caracas, Venezuela, Belen Bogado in Asuncion, Paraguay, Almudena Calatrava in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Luis Andres Henao in Santiago, Chile, contributed to this report.
Michael Warren is on Twitter at https://www.twitter.com/.mwarrenap


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That can't possibly be the schematic ! The one shown has 2 ICs on it, while the real shield has no active components at all.I forgot to mention that there is "SainSmart" stenciled on the reverse side. SainSmart has no schematic posted for their own board on their entire web site.
Thanks, I found this diagram when I first looked. But, I want a schematic diagram, not a layout diagram.Also, there's no up-to-date schematic diagram available for the Mega2560 board, either.Are the designers at Arduino sloppy, or just lazy ? There's no good excuse for not providing accurate documentation.
It's very unfortunate that the term "Arduino" is used both for a specific company name and also for generic module compatibility from any manufacturer.
My Mega2560 is marked "WWW.ARGUINO.CC" and "DESIGN IN ITALY".
My "Arduino Sensor Shield v5.0" has "SainSmart" stenciled on the reverse side, yet Arduino.cc sells an apparently identical shield with an identically-colored PCB. The shield is actually labeled "Ar dulno Sensor Shieldv5.0" [sic], misspellings and all. SainSmart says they are a "team" that is "bringing you the cool items from Pearl River Delta of China, the global manufacture powerhouse". WTH is "Pearl River Delta of China", anyway (This is a rhetorical question since SainSmart won't provide an answer.)
the Digilent ChipKit foray into an "Arduino-compatible" form factor does not feature a prominent disclosure re: a schematic or the components on the board


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Absolutely precious booties that are warm and cozy with soft fluffy padding on the interior. Easy to slip on and confidently secured with the lace fastening, these booties are the hug your baby's feet deserve. Donsje boots support baby and toddler feet with the comfortable freedom they need to develop naturally and safely in preparation for those long-awaited first steps.
Delivered in a beautiful gift-bag dangling a tiny bell, it is the perfect gift for yourself or your loved one.
Handmade & fairtrade with premium brushed nubuck leather. Anti-slip suede outsole (size: 0-6 & 6-12 months) / rubber flexible sole (size: 12-18 & 18-24 months).
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The Children's Commissioner is launching a two-year national inquiry into child sexual abuse within the family environment including forced marriages.
Maggie Atkinson (pictured), the Children's Commissioner for England, said: "Society is rightly horrified by child sexual abuse.
"Most of our children are raised in secure, loving homes but I am sure very many of us will be disturbed by how much abuse within the family environment goes unreported and how little is done to support the children who suffer.
"As adults we are morally and socially obliged to protect children from harm. As Children's Commissioner, I also have a legal responsibility to promote their right to protection."
Questions of how widespread the problem is, what must be done to support the victims and how it can be prevented are to be investigated as a new report reveals alarming gaps and glaring omissions in the key knowledge needed to tackle the problem.
It is to build on the newly published report - It's a Lonely Journey - ordered by the Children's Commissioner which examined 57,226 research studies into child sexual abuse.
There is "almost no direct reference" to the child's experiences, which would help prevent other victims, and worryingly little is known about the prevalence of long-term psychological and physical harm, the report found. There was also almost nothing about the economic cost this places on society.
The researchers from Middlesex University also found that most support networks for child sex abuse victims who suffered within a family circle were created to help adult survivors rather than children.
The report also notes: "Despite research indicating that disabled children are around three times more likely to be victims than non-disabled children, they receive even poorer responses from professionals than non-disabled peers.
"Black and minority ethnic children are under-represented in child protection referrals, do not access child protection services with the same frequency as white children, or (when they do) may receive a poorer quality of support from professionals."
Research that is focused on the convicted male offender was identified as among the "key gaps" in the current literature on child protection.
It was also noted that there is "little evaluation research" addressing interventions for victims so it is difficult to identify the scale, nature and effectiveness of current work while there is international evidence which suggests that child victims prefer tackling the problem through group approaches.
The report also found some evidence efforts to help which focused on the family and not the individual child were more effective in addressing long-term impacts.
Centralisation of local services in one venue to cut the number of interviews with many professionals in many different sites and ensuring that children are fully informed about processes and their rights are some of the approaches to aim for, it was suggested.
Deputy Children's Commissioner for England and inquiry chairwoman Sue Berelowitz argues that "substantial" numbers of children are falling through the net because this type of "appalling and deeply traumatising abuse" is not being recognised.
She said: "Some studies suggest as many as one in 20 children and young people experience sexual abuse, the majority of it perpetrated by people within the family or family circle. We know that at any one time, around 43,000 children have child protection plans, only around 5% of whom are on a plan for sexual abuse. These figures do not add up."
The Office of the Children's Commissioner has vowed that "the experiences and voices of children and young people will be at the heart of this inquiry, and driving all that we do."
Report author Dr Miranda Horvath said: "Child victim-survivors' voices and first-hand experiences were absent from the vast majority of the research we reviewed for this rapid evidence assessment.
"It is imperative that future research and the work of the inquiry brings these to the fore using ethical but innovative methods, with the well-being of the child at the centre. At the same time, we need to know more about programmes that are focused on preventing family-based child sexual abuse before it occurs, in order to take a preventative rather than reactive approach."


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Saturday, January 8, 2011
Sunday's Obituary - Raymond Rosbeck
PFC Raymond Rosbeck, 19, of Kewaskum, seriously wounded in action in Korea Feb. 5, has been returned to the United States and is at Percy Jones General Hospital, Battle Creek, Mich. A former employe of the Kewaskum Creamery, Raymond is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Rosbeck. He enlisted in the Army last June and went overseas last October."
I have a large number of newspaper clippings passed on to me from my Mother-in-law's side of the family, but sadly they don't tell me which Wisconsin newspaper they were taken from and many don't have complete dates on them. This first clipping had no date on it at all so I didn't realize until finding his obituary (below) in my collection, just how long he was hospitalized. I was able to reason that this first article must have been published around April 1951.
Cpl. Raymond Rosbeck, son of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Rosbeck of the town of Wayne, who since April 4, 1951, had been a patient at Percy Jones hospital, Battle Creek, Mich., died suddenly on Monday afternoon. Death was caused from injuries suffered in action near Chip(long), Korea, on Feb. 5, 1951, while serving with the 8th Cavalry Regiment. He was first treated in a hospital in Japan, and was then flown to the United States for further treatment. Cpl. Rosbeck was schedule to be released from the hospital on Sept. 11, and was awaiting arrangements for this transfer to Wood, Wis., when he was stricken.
He was born Nov. 20, 1931, at Milwaukee and came to the town of Wayne with his parents in 1938. Cpl. Rosbeck enlisted on June 5, 1950, and arrived in Korea in October. He was awarded the Purple heart in April of 1951.
Surviving are his parents, a sister, Margaret (Mrs. Wm. Brill) of Milwaukee; three brothers, Robert and Norbert at home, and Ralph of West Bend; a brother-in-law and a sister-in-law.
The body will be in state at the Miller funeral home in Kewaskum after 2 p.m. today (Thursday). Funeral services will be held Friday morning at 10 o'clock at St. Kilian Catholic church, st. Kilian, the Rev. John B Reichel officiating. Interment will be in the parish cemetery. Military rites at the grave will be in charge of Robert J. Romaine post of the American Legion, Kewaskum."
I makes me wonder what his injuries were. To be hospitalized for so long and so far from home and then to suddenly die of his injuries as he was preparing to be transferred closer to home had to have been particularly traumatic for his family.
I found in the "Korean War Casualties, 1950-1957" database an entry for Raymond that lists him as being "seriously wounded in action by missile".
To do list: Request the death certificate and military records for Raymond.
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