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2030 agenda for sustainable development
Centred on sustainable development and based on equality as an aim and as an ethical principle.
ECLAC: The Region Achieved Several Key Goals of the MDGs, the Starting Point for the 2030 Agenda
9 September 2015
The organization presents a report on the degree of compliance with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Latin America and the Caribbean.
MDG Success Springboard for New Sustainable Development Agenda: UN Report
6 July 2015
Latin America and the Caribbean continue to show impressive gains in many areas, although disparities exist between the sub-regions.
ECLACs Statistical Division is participating in the 24th Inter-agency and Expert Group Meeting on MDG Indicators
Geneva, 16-18 October, 2013
The main purpose of the meeting is to review the on-going and planned activities related to MDG monitoring by various UN agencies, and discuss the plans for the upcoming MDG reports.
Seventh Regional Seminar on the Millennium Development Goals "The Post-2015 development agenda and challenges for national statistical systems in Latin America and the Caribbean"
Santiago, Chile, ECLAC, 4-5 November, 2013
The seminar will be held in the framework of the seventh meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas and as part of the of the MDG statistical programme The main purpose of this seminar is to share and reflect with the directors and other staff members of the national statistical offices of the region, and with other statistical agencies participating in the meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas, on the progress made at the international and regional levels in designing the post-2015 development agenda and the main challenges in this connection.
President of the General Assembly's Special Event towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals
New York, 25 September 2013
Read the outcome document
UNAIDS has launched a new framework to accelerate action in reaching 15 million people with antiretroviral treatment by 2015
ABUJA, Nigeria /GENEVA, 13 July 2013
The framework, entitled Treatment 2015, offers countries and partners both practical and innovative ways to increase the number of people accessing antiretroviral medicines
Millennium Development Goals are within reach, but stronger efforts needed - UN report
Geneva, 1 July 2013
The Millennium Development Goals Report 2013 shows how the combined actions of governments, civil society and the private sector have made substantial progress in meeting many of the targets, while also pointing out which areas are falling behind and require immediate attention.
Schooling for Millions of Children Jeopardised by Reduction in Aid
10 June, 2013
Progress in reducing the number of children out of school has come to a virtual standstill just as international aid to basic education falls for the first time since 2002, according to a new paper released before a high-level discussion in New York on 11 June in support of the United Nations Secretary-General's Global Education First Initiative (GEFI).
Post-2015 development agenda an 'historic' opportunity to eradicate poverty - UN chief
30 May 2013
The world has an historic opportunity to eradicate extreme poverty and achieve sustainability and equality for all through the new post-2015 development agenda, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, launching a report that outlines a new framework to build on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Post-2015 development agenda must focus on equality - UN experts
21 May 2013
The experts called for the post-2015 agenda to include stand-alone goals to eliminating inequalities, a goal on the provision of social protection floors, and a double accountability mechanism to hold countries responsible for their commitments at a national and international level.
2.4 billion people will lack improved sanitation in 2015
Geneva/ New York, 13 May 2013
The report, entitled Progress on Sanitation and Drinking-Water 2013 Update, warns that, at the current rate of progress, the 2015 Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target of halving the proportion of the 1990 population without sanitation will be missed by eight per cent - or half a billion people.
UN's Ban urges accelerated action on health-related MDGs for women, children
6 May 2013
In a special event held by the United Nations' Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and titled Meeting the Challenges of the Health MDGs and Beyond.
FAO recognizes Nicaragua's efforts in the fight against hunger
Rome, 23 April 2013
Between 1990 and 2010, Nicaragua reduced the prevalence of undernourishment in the country from 55.1% to 20.1%, thus successfully meeting Millennium Development Goal 1, which is to halve the proportion of people suffering from hunger.
Historic Goals to End Extreme Poverty Endorsed by World Bank Governors
Washington, April 20, 2013
A new analysis of extreme poverty released by the World Bank earlier this week showed that there are still 1.2 billion people living in extreme poverty (21 percent of the developing world population in 2010) and despite recent impressive progress, Sub-Saharan Africa still accounts for more than one-third of the world's extreme poor.
High-Level Panel of eminent persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda is holding its fourth consultative meeting in Bali, Indonesia from 25 to 27 March 2013.
Bali, Indonesia, 27 March 2013
The discussions of the Panel in Bali focused on Partnership and Cooperation for Development, with a focus on strategies for implementation and opportunities to shape a global consensus on the new development agenda.
World Tuberculosis Day "Stop TB in My Lifetime".
24 March 2013
Progress towards global targets for reductions in TB cases and deaths in recent years has been impressive, but the global burden remains huge and significant challenges persist: in 2011, there were an estimated 8.7 million new cases of TB and 1.4 million people died from TB
Priorities for global development agenda shaped by unprecedented public outreach effort
New York, 21 March 2013
The consultations point to the need for a universal agenda to address challenges like environmental degradation, unemployment, and violence.
International Day of Forests
21 March, 2013
Forests and tree cover combat land degradation and desertification by stabilizing soils, reducing water and wind erosion and maintaining nutrient cycling in soils.
New metric to be launched on hunger and food insecurity
Rome, 13 March 2013
FAO's Voices of the Hungry project to be tested on a pilot basis
New UN survey 'My World' lets citizens vote on future development priorities
12 March 2013
Thousands of people from 189 countries have already voted during an initial roll-out period, and preliminary results show education is the issue that people think is most important for improving their lives. An honest and responsive government, health, water, sanitation and job and food security have also been considered major priorities.
Gender equality essential for women's economic participation - UN officials
6 March 2013
Senior United Nations officials today emphasized that women will not be able to fully participate in their countries' economic and political activities until gender equality is achieved, during an event focusing on how businesses can help empower women.
ECLAC will hold the Conference on Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: Follow-up to the development agenda beyond 2015 and Rio+20
Bógota, 5-9 of March 2013
The meeting will focus on development goals, global and regional governance and the discussion, from a regional perspective, of agreements adopted in order to inform the ongoing global processes.
Despite significant progress on development goals, many challenges remain - UN official
Bogotá, Colombia, 27 February 2013
2013 global conference "Making the MDGs work"
Economic development tops priorities for ECOSOC, says new President
13 February 2013
ECOSOC will focus its annual ministerial review in July in Geneva on the intersection of science, technology and innovation in promoting sustainable development and achieving the anti-poverty targets known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Food security and nutrition should top development agenda after 2015 - UN officials
13 February 2013
Opening the global consultation on hunger, food security and nutrition in the post-2015 development agenda, held in Rome on Monday, Mr. Graziano da Silva urged the international community to commit to the complete eradication of hunger in setting its development priorities beyond 2015.
Deputy UN chief outlines world body's 2013 priorities to US supporters
4 February 2013
In terms of development, UN is focusing on accelerating work towards achieving the anti-poverty targets known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by the 2015 deadline, he stated.
General Assembly creates group to work on sustainable development goals
22 January 2013
The SDGs seek to guide countries in achieving targeted outcomes within a specific time period, such as on universal access to sustainable energy and clean water for all, and will build on the anti-poverty targets known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) after their 2015 deadline.
FAO Food Price Index down 7 percent in 2012
Rome, 10 January 2013,
Declines for third month running in December
FEATURE: The UN General Assembly's Second Committee - economic and financial issues
New York, 28 December 2012
Sustainability and the post-2015 development agenda have become some of the main subjects permeating its work, as countries set out to prioritize the implementation of policies that not only promote economic prosperity and reduce poverty, but also protect the environment and foster inclusiveness and social equity in the long-term.
New report signals slowdown in the fight against malaria
Monrovia, Liberia/Geneva, 17 December 2012
The World malaria report 2012 indicates that international funding for malaria appears to have reached a plateau well below the level required to reach the health-related Millennium Development Goals and other internationally-agreed global malaria targets.
Global Burden of Disease 2010 study
13 December 2012
WHO welcomes the data gathering and methodological innovations of the Global Burden of Disease 2010 (GBD) which has relied on the contributions of many researchers and scientists, including some from WHO.
New UN report highlights value of indicators for transitioning to green economy
Geneva, 3 December 2012
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) today launched a new report that shows how indicators can measure progress towards a resource-efficient, green economy as well as inform policy decisions that support sustainable societies.
According to UN-Habitat estimates, between the year 2000 and 2010 a total 227 million people in developing countries have experienced significant improvements in living conditions.
Rabat, Morocco, 28 November, 2012
At International Conference: "Making Slums History; A Global Challenge for 2020", officials sought to develop specific recommendations and guidelines for slum improvement, sharing and broadening the scope of experiences as well as devising a strategy for revising the slum target of the Millennium Development Goals.
UNAIDS reports a more than 50% drop in new HIV infections across 25 countries as countries approach the 1000 day deadline to reach the Millennium Development Goals and the 2015 targets of the UN Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS
Geneva, 20 November 2012
In addition, the number of people with access to antiretroviral therapy increased by 63% in the last 24 months?AIDS-related deaths fell by more than 25% between 2005 and 2011 globally.
Boosting access to family planning is good for women and the economy - The State of World Population 2012
14 November 2012
Family planning delivers immeasurable rewards to women, families, and communities around the world. By enabling individuals to choose the number and spacing of their children, family planning has allowed women, and their children, to live healthier, longer lives.
High level group reaffirms commitment to develop framework to fight global poverty at the panel's second meeting in London.
London, 2 November 2012
The three-day meeting also allowed Panel members to gather input from international civil society, private sector representatives and global youth, answering Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's call for transparency and inclusiveness in its consultations.
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Abhi Shrivastava: recycler, dreamer, craftsman, creator, collector, outsider artist
A lot of people send me photos of their art. I always look at them carefully.
The quality varies, so does the experience of the artist. More often than not, the work comes from a professional with an exhibit coming up. I wish I could write about more of these shows.
But I get a good share of samples from artists just starting out, or from hobbyists, or from grandparents, or from pranksters (it's hard to tell, honestly) all hoping to share the creations with a wider audience. This work captivates me, even though the quality varies a great deal.
There's often something totally and completely pure about it because it arrives free from the filters of art dealers, museum curators, college professors or other critics, who, with considerable wisdom and great passion, act as the primary gatekeepers on what art gets seen.
These images come from people defining art on their own terms. They know what hangs in galleries and it's not necessarily what they do. No matter. They believe in it. They want you to see it. Often, you should.
Here's an example I like. It comes from Abhi Shrivastava, who lives in Aurora and works in IT. He sent 42 images and a fascinating letter about the sculptures of animals, people and supernatural objects he makes from found sticks, branches, cones and fossils. They are all gifts from Mother Nature waiting to be recycled into new things.
From his letter:
"To see her art that is surrounding us everywhere, we just need to expand our horizon of thinking and with a little imagination…"WOW" kicks in…everything is an art, a masterpiece, a unique craftsmanship, a free gift to mankind, a perfect harmony… An artist lives in everyone's heart….sooner you wake it up quicker you enjoy the life…..that is what Mother Nature tells us and would like to see…"
I fell for his charming overuse of ellipses, but also his story of scavenging for objects since the age of 5.
"I spent my childhood in the remote villages of India as my father was a forest officer. Spending time so close to the nature, wildlife and farming communities, made me an early admirer of this world that we know so little about….a world that is away from the cities….a world that is owned by people who don't desire much….a world where every living being lives in a complete harmony with its surroundings…a world where a natural rhythmic music is always everywhere…a self sustained world……"
I also fell for his imagination, which seems endless. Shrivastava looks at sticks and sees dragon tongues, turns bark into emu bodies, and converts dried seed pods into shields for fantasy warriors. Call it art, or craft or whatever; he's relentless and full of ideas.
And the winning desire to share the products of his pursuit with the world.
He writes:
"I want you to know that my intention is NOT AT ALL to sell or get any profit out of it, it is just that I want to share my work with the broader audience and get recognized. I am wondering if you could help me reach bigger audience by kindly considering an article in your newspaper if my work interests you."
Hmmm. I'm happy to post some of it on this blog, Abhi.
You can see more on his Facebook page. Hope you enjoy looking as much as I did.
Contact: rrinaldi@denverpost. Follow me on Twitter NOW: twitter.com/rayrinaldi (thanks).

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Talk:Richard Lenski
2012 identification and sequencing of mutations
I know this article has a very contentious history, but I thought I'd bring this to everyone's attention... I'm a physicist, not a micro-biologist, but it appears to answer many of the claims made against Prof. Lenski and his findings:
Abstract Evolutionary novelties have been important in the history of life, but their origins are usually difficult to examine in detail. We previously described the evolution of a novel trait, aerobic citrate utilization (Cit(+)), in an experimental population of Escherichia coli. Here we analyse genome sequences to investigate the history and genetic basis of this trait. At least three distinct clades coexisted for more than 10,000 generations before its emergence. The Cit(+) trait originated in one clade by a tandem duplication that captured an aerobically expressed promoter for the expression of a previously silent citrate transporter. The clades varied in their propensity to evolve this novel trait, although genotypes able to do so existed in all three clades, implying that multiple potentiating mutations arose during the population's history. Our findings illustrate the importance of promoter capture and altered gene regulation in mediating the exaptation events that often underlie evolutionary innovations.
Published in Sept. 2012, abstract and full text can be found here Fnarrow 00:05, 14 May 2013 (EDT)


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Many senior AOL (TWX) managers did not want to buy social-networking site Bebo, sources tell us. Among the concerns, they did not (and do not) believe Bebo will hit the revenue and profit targets used to justify the $850 million purchase price.
(AOL bought Bebo last week. After analyzing the combination, we and other analysts concluded that the acquisition did not make sense).
Among the Bebo concerns held by some AOL senior managers, our sources say, were the following:
- An inability for AOL to monetize more social-networking inventory. According to our sources, AOL's Advertising.com already cannot monetize all the MySpace (NWS) and Facebook inventory it has available.
Flattening traffic growth at Bebo, which contributes to a sense that AOL is buying it at the peak.
- A 3X difference between the revenue assumptions used to justify the deal to Time Warner's corporate team and the revenue assumptions some AOL senior managers thought were reasonable.
Belief that the Bebo founders would bolt the moment the check cleared.
According to our sources, the Bebo deal was championed within AOL primarily by AOL's COO Ron Grant (above right) and President Randy Falco (above left). Our sources believe that Ron, at least, was aware that several senior AOL managers were against the deal and that, as the deal progressed, these managers were intentionally kept out of the Bebo loop. Our sources believe that, under standard AOL operating procedure, these managers would have been asked to bless the Bebo financial projections before they were presented to Time Warner's M&A team for approval. Our sources say that such procedures were not followed in this case. (Kara Swisher reported a similar story last week).
Among those not consulted on the Bebo deal who would ordinarily have been, our sources say, include executives at:
- Advertising.com (responsible for monetizing Bebo).
- Platform A (ditto)
Userplane (community communications platform)
AOL spokesperson Tricia Primrose vigorously disputes that AOL's standard procedures were not followed on the Bebo transaction: "It is ludicrous to suggest that our CEO and COO went out of process on this deal," she said.
Our sources believe that, even at the Time Warner level, approval of the Bebo deal was not unanimous. They believe that AOL bought Bebo in part because management thinks that Bebo will make the AOL package (or parts of it) more attractive to a potential acquirer. In our opinion, this remains to be seen.
AOL COO Ron Grant, the primary quarterback of the Bebo deal, is not a popular executive within AOL. Rightly or wrongly, he is often blamed for bad decisions made at AOL's senior levels. Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes is reportedly loyal to Ron and backed him on the Bebo deal. One of our sources, however, referred to Bebo as "Ron's last stand."
See Also:
"AOL's Q1 Ad Revenue to Be Down"
Bebo Buy Silly, AOL Screwed
Analyzing AOL-Bebo, Impact on Microsoft-Yahoo


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Advocates of the new California top-two system for elections argue that one of its benefits is that it creates incentives for politicians of one party to talk to voters of the other.
Fair enough. The problem is the kind of talk being incentivized: personal attacks and cynical, dishonest rendering of your positions.
Here's how it's working, or more precisely, not working. Top two is supposed to create more moderate, compromising, independent politicians. The main way this dishonest reform works is that in heavily partisan districts, it can advance two members of the same party (the "top two") to the general election. The theory is that those two candidates of the same party, to win the election, will have to compete for the votes of independents and the other party.
U.S. & World
It's hard to measure this competition, but there is some of it.
Most of it is about personal attacks. Candidates that essentially agree with each other distinguish themselves by painting a negative picture of the opponent. That's turned a number of current legislative races into a bloodbath (see the Congressional race between Howard Berman and Brad Sherman, both Democrats in the San Fernando Valley) as a case study of this.
The dishonesty part is newer (it's actually so dishonest that its very name is a lie: the "top-two primary" is not a primary -- it actually eliminates primaries). So as we hit the home stretch of legislative contests before the November election, some candidates in these races are dishonestly and cynically pretending to be supportive of the other party.
The liberal blog Calitics noted a couple of examples recently, including Howard Berman's touting the endorsement of Republicans like John McCain. But the best example comes from an Assembly district in the Bay Area, where two Democrats are battling.
Writes Calitics of this contest between Assembyman Michael Allen and San Rafael City Councilmember Marc Levine:
"Allen beat Levine by 7 points in the primary, but over 20% of the vote went to a Republican as well. A couple of weeks ago, Levine was seen on news footage attending the opening of the Marin County Republican Party/Mitt Romney headquarters -- even though he's on his county's Democratic Central Committee -- and joined with their hardest-core partisans in rallying for Mitt Romney before the RNC Convention in Tampa."
One could argue that Levine's flexibility is a virtue, just as GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney's ability to change positions -- his own campaign advisor described his effort as an " Etch A Sketch" -- could be seen as a virtue. Or that this set of events is a virtue of the top-two system, in that Levine's lack of loyalty to his party and its ideal has been exposed by the new system.
I take a different view. It's hard enough to know what the intentions of politicians are, without a system that encourages them to be something they are not.
California would be better off with a system in which the contests were not over insults or a candidate's flexibility but over ideas to fix the state. The best way to do that would be a system that permits the two parties to offer competing ideas, and for Californians to choose which party they want to rule. But in California, we're moving away from that system.
Instead, we've embraced "Etch-A-Sketch" politics. Who says California can't embrace Romney?


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NY Mag weighed in on the V Magazine's Size Issue. Rather light on debate, its author seems to conflates a civil tone with holding an alternate viewpoint. There is the familiar chow chow of "What about the normal women?" However, in this case "normal" means sizes 4 – 10 and those of us existing outside these parameters are shit out of luck.
A London stylist states:
It's such an extreme response to the size-zero hoopla.
I think all women want to see images of healthy girls, not women who are emaciated. But, realistically I don't think many women aspire to be a size 18, either. I don't think using outsize models is really the way to change perceptions — it's just an extreme volt-face.
A pretty bold statement from someone too shy to give their name. On a seemingly unrelated note: my parents did in fact name me Snarky's, but I'll confess "Machine" is a stage name.
Anyway, back to the post currently in progress …
No, no, no, Anonymous Stylist, you've got it all wrong. They're selling carrots, not strings. It's the carrot does the enticing not the string it's attached to. And by carrots I mean wealth, health, romance and acceptance. String fixation is wonderful bonus. But make no mistake they're in the carrot business.
The author steps up to the mic:
Fast's show wouldn't have gotten the same publicity without those girls. And of course big can be beautiful — the industry has shown us that in many ways for years. But can average girls be beautiful, too? If designers used normal-size 6 or 8 girls in shows and magazines shot them for editorials, would it receive the same publicity? Or perhaps not, because the difference wouldn't be striking enough to warrant it?
Clearly the real victims here are the "hollywood chubby". Those unsung heroes of sizes 4 – 10, who are being dismissed courtesy of an industry that's really hot for exploration of the extremes at the moment.
Has this author not seen what size six looks like on a 5'2 person? Clearly, there is a warped perception of what those sizes look like on variety of bodies. All the hand wringing is a waste of effort though. Believe me, you put a 5'0 size stretch size ten hourglass shape next to a 5'9 model and the difference is going to be "striking".
Trust me, I've done the legwork.
Of course that's not what's going here. Framing the issue in this manner still vilifies fat bodies, but with a clever twist. Now fat bodies act in collusion with thin bodies to push all those "normal" sized bodies out on their "normal" sizes asses. Fat bodies given serious consideration in fashion editorials are still viewed as provocative and the editors are still accused of resorting to "gimmicks" – a valid criticism in some cases, but often works just as well as a distraction – so the likelihood of this author's nightmare vision of fat and thin rising up against the "normal" seems pretty ridiculous.
Do we need to see everything on the size spectrum? Of course, but I take issue with the notion that sizes in the so-called "normal" range lack representation. They are represented – hello, that's what the term "normal" implies based on its use here – and if this author feels otherwise, then perhaps a new label to describe them is in order. Of course not manufacturing a new class of "victims" from a group who enjoy a fair amount of privilege as it relates to size would probably be a better idea.


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Rebecca M.J. Pell
Was born Jan. 24
1807 died Jan. 29
Rebecca M.J. Pell
Was born Jan. 24
1807 died Jan. 29
Buried Smithland Cemetery, Smithland, Kentucky. Tombstone photographed 24 June 2009. Click on the tombstone for an enlarged view.
Rebecca M.J. Smart married Jesse Pell 13 Mar 1828 in Livingston County, Kentucky. They had two known children - Jane and Amanda.
According to the 1850 Livingston County census, Jesse Pell was born about 1807 in Kentucky. He died before 3 April 1854, when Craig S. Harris was appointed administrator of the estate of Jesse Pell.
Jesse Pell may very well be buried beside Rebecca. This tombstone looks as if it might have been taller at one time. There is a thin line of mortar around the stone where it connects to the base, which appears to be of concrete. The tombstone and base do not match.


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So a few weeks after the conference I've finally got around to posting photos, trying to finish my house by the end of this month has had me busy! Here are a bunch of photos from the conference. Our photographer for the event was Christopher Tack.
Two houses just arriving
Hanging out in Frank's tiny house
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SET 1: Rift, Guelah Papyrus, Foam, Sparkle, Stash, Bouncing Around the Room, It's Ice > Glide > Maze, Golgi Apparatus
SET 2: Runaway Jim -> My Friend, My Friend[1] -> Manteca -> My Friend, My Friend, Poor Heart > Weigh > Big Ball Jam > Ya Mar, You Enjoy Myself[2] -> Jam[3]
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Set 1: Llama, Guelah Papyrus, Rift, Stash, Reba, My Friend, My Friend[1], Uncle Pen, Sample in a Jar, I Didn't Know[2], David Bowie[3]
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Friday, November 06, 2009
Thinking about vaginal breech births
A point that was only touched on in the discussion after the showing was the disenfranchising and deskilling of midwives in breech births. It has become an obstetric consultant 'act', even though every midwife should be ready and competent in spontaneous breech births. Midwife Fiona Hallinan mentioned that Box Hill hospital is setting up consultant cover for breeches – it's all about defensive medicine. RWH refuses to support a woman's choice, and staff will bully her into compliance with their wishes to do an elective Caesar. I was told that this is because they can't be sure someone is competent at all times. And as Lionel Steinberg pointed out, an obstetrician goes against the current 'gold standard' at his own risk. The insurance will pay out for a baby's brain damage in an undiagnosed breech birth where the midwives haven't got a clue what to do, but won't support the obstetrician who goes against the rules.
The video 'A breech in the system' made the point that the woman was lucky that the obstetrician on call at the time was competent – had learnt about breeches in India and PNG. There was great rejoicing around that fact. It's tragic that an obstetrician needs to be given ownership of a spontaneous birth that a midwife could just as well have attended.
There was a lot of padding in 'A breech in the system'. Beautiful underwater footage, lots of Byron Bay alternative hocus pocus – none of which seemed to make any difference. ECV (external cephalic version) got some bad publicity, and it 'didn't work' either!
In the current climate of serious threat to all midwives' right to practise on our own authority, breech births are a bit of a distraction. This video is good in that it demonstrates spontaneous birth – something we need to value and hold on to.
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- Sif Dal said...
I found the documentary and the discussion afterwards very interesting. I was particularly interested in what was said about the intention of the woman giving birth, that as long as her intention was to birth vaginally, her success was likely to be much higher than that of a woman who was "open to all options" - i.e. open to having a pre-emptive c/section.
I was a little concerned about the idea that a doula or a birth assistant need to build a woman's confidence to enable her to birth a breech baby vaginally, but the "definition" of a doula in the documentary was quite confusing anyway - part midwife, part birth educator... Hmmm, besides putting undue pressure on a birth assist to be quasi-medico quasi-sensei, I would say this MISleads women into a false sense of security that they don't need to work with their own bodies or know what they want because their birth assistant will make all their decisions for them, protect them and advocate for them.
I find that a little disempowering to the birthing woman, as if she is a child who needs to be taught what to think and how to act, and needs someone to defer to - or even blame, if her birth doesn't run to her hearts desire (if she even knows what that is)...
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- Joy Johnston said...
I also noted that confusing statement in the film, that the doula is some sort of mix between midwife and childbirth educator. NO and NO!.
The research that supports the use of a doula was quite clear that this person has no professional responsiblity - no investment in clinical decision making. A birth 'helper' who coaches and cajoles and encourages a woman to do 'it' in a particular way is not being a doula.
[And, BTW, this is a very different issue from the midwife's duty of care, by definition, to 'promote normal birth'.]
Michel Odent says it well, in discussing the woman's need to be free in labour: "And when I see a labouring woman on the floor - about to go off to another planet - and nobody around except a midwife reading a newspaper, I am optimistic." [I might add, "or knitting"]
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- Joy Johnston said...
ps: the reference is 'Birth and Breastfeeding: rediscovering the needs of women in pregnancy and childbirth', Michel Odent 2007. Pub: Clairview. Page 27
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Bo Xilai scandal: Cambodia refuses to extradite French architect to China
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A French national detained in Cambodia, who has been linked to the scandal surrounding China's deposed politician Bo Xilai, will not be extradited, a minister said on Friday. Patrick Henri Devillers will, however, remain in custody.
REUTERS - The French architect linked to China's biggest political scandal in two decades and detained in Cambodia will not be extradited to any country, a minister said, adding another twist to a high-profile case already shrouded in mystery.
Cambodian Foreign Minister Hor Namhong gave no details on what grounds China had requested the arrest of Patrick Henri Devillers, whose whereabouts is unknown, but said he would remain in custody pending further investigation.
Devillers, 52, has lived in Cambodia for at least five years, according to friends. He had close business ties with the family of deposed Chinese politician Bo Xilai, but China's reason for seeking his arrest has not been made public.
"The Royal Government of Cambodia has already made decision to keep this French national in Cambodia, the decision was already made. Neither sending to France or China," Hor Namhong told reporters.
Asked why Devillers was detained, he said: "We don't know the reason, we are waiting for further investigation."
A spokeswoman for the French embassy in Phnom Penh declined to say whether France was seeking his extradition, or give any details on the status of Devillers.
Cambodia has kept an unusually tight lid on all information about his detention in a case that has highlighted the tight diplomatic relationship with China.
China is Cambodia's biggest political and economic ally and Beijing has boosted its influence in the impoverished country in recent years, pumping in hundreds of millions of dollars of aid, loans and investment.
Devillers is known to have been close to Bo's glamorous wife, Gu Kailai, who has been named as a suspect in last November's murder of British businessman Neil Heywood. The police case against Gu has not been made public.
Last week, the head of the discipline apparatus of China's Communist Party, He Guoqiang, visited Cambodia for three days. His position makes him one of the senior officials overseeing Bo's case.
Apart from the foreign minister, Cambodian officials, police and a government spokesman have refused comment or provided no details on Devillers since his arrest was confirmed on Tuesday. Several have referred journalists to other ministries and agencies, which have each denied responsibility for the case.
"He looked very sad"
Cambodia has an extradition treaty with China and police said on Wednesday that arrangement permitted the authorities to detain the Frenchman for up to 60 days while China gathered evidence to support its request for him to be handed over.
The status of the Frenchman is shrouded in mystery. The French embassy and several friends of Devillers have given no comment in the past two days and Cambodian authorities have not said where Devillers was being held.
Police had initially said he was being kept at an immigration detention facility, but officials there told Reuters no foreigners were being held. Reuters reporters also visited an Interior Ministry detention facility, where officials also denied holding him.
The events leading up to his arrest are also unclear. A friend of Devillers, Pierre Yves Clais, told Reuters on Wednesday that he was told by a friend that the Frenchman had gone for lunch on June 13 with two Chinese-speaking Cambodians, which he described as a "set-up".
However, Clais on Friday denied making the comment and said it was a misunderstanding.
Two security guards working close to Devillers in Phnom Penh witnessed his arrest, which they said took place about two weeks ago. A police van and a private car carrying two European men pulled up outside his house before taking him away.
"I saw five policemen arrest him. He was cooperative, but he looked very sad," Rith Makara, a security guard at the furniture store opposite the Frenchman's home, said on Thursday.
He and a next-door neighbour said Devillers lived alone and had not been seen since.
Sources familiar with Devillers when he lived in China last month said he entered Bo's inner circle while living in Dalian in the 1990s and the Frenchman received help from then-mayor Bo in chasing up an unpaid debt for architectural work.
Devillers and Gu gave the same residential address when they set up a British company in 2000 in the resort town of Bournemouth and an investment firm registered by Devillers in 2006 in Luxembourg listed the Beijing address of the Ang Dao Law Firm - a firm affiliated with Gu.
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I was wondering what the expansion series of the function
$$ f(x) = -\frac{1}{x^3} \cdot \frac{1}{\Gamma(x) \cdot \Gamma(-(\exp(\frac{2}{3}\pi\cdot i))x) \cdot \Gamma(-(\exp(\frac{4}{3}\pi \cdot i))x)} $$ is, at $x = 0$. I'm also interested in the method behind computing the series expansion.
You might think: "why don't you just paste this equation in wolframalpha and then see what the expansion series is?" Well, I did exactly that, but wolframalpha couldn't compute it! Does that mean the expansion series doesn't exist or is it more likely that it's just too 'hard' for the computational knowledge engine to find the series?
EDIT For more information: this function is function (27) at this page, when n=3. I offer my apologies for not stating the question well at first.


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Giant manta rays could be driven away from world-famous feeding site in five years because of disruption from tourist industry, warns leading marine biologist. Since being awarded MPA status in 2009 and receiving increased media interest, Hanifaru Bay in Baa Atoll has seen its tourism trade triple.
Despite its recent status as a Marine Protected Area (MPA), a popular tourist destination in the Maldives is facing a massive decline in wildlife and tourism unless proper management is put in place. Since being awarded MPA status in 2009 and receiving increased media interest, Hanifaru Bay in Baa Atoll has seen its tourism trade triple.
But Guy Stevens, director of the Maldives Manta Ray Project, warns that without proper management this 'cannot go on', and suggests that in just 'five years we will see a massive decline in the number of animals that will come to Hanifaru'. Stevens says the area is 'failing as a Marine Protected Area', with no management or enforcing of regulations; he says it hasn't been a priority for the Maldives government and is just a 'paper park'. He adds that pressure is now on the authorities to 'sort it out' before the start of the next manta ray season.
Although the main area is only the size of a football pitch, Hanifaru is a world-famous feeding site for up to 250 manta rays, which have an average wingspan of 3m.
Stevens explains the problem is the 'sheer volume of people in the water' - he has seen as many as 13 boats and almost 200 people there at one time, inhibiting the animals' ability to feed: 'They just physically cannot swim through the water to feed on the plankton... The contact from people, touching, bumping into the animals disturbs their feeding behaviour.'
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Maria Landa built her career with iron; the iron she holds in her hand and the iron will that has helped her triumph over tired stereotypes and steep odds.
Landa is CEO of a busy welding company on the outskirts of Peru's capital, Lima. She started on the path to becoming Peru's first-known woman welder at, of all places, an all-girls Catholic school where she was taught how to fix cars. The nuns who ran the school refused to accept the notion that auto-mechanics was for boys. Maria's interest in metal and machines was nurtured by her father and mother, who enrolled her in a free welding course for disadvantaged youth.
When Maria graduated from the welding course, she decided to start a business. There were hardly any welders on her side of town. She tried to get loans to start a business but was turned down.
"We were in a profession not held by women," Landa says. "Banks couldn't believe women would weld."
Unbowed, Landa kept searching until she found a $10,000 small business loan through a CARE microfinance program. Her business took off quickly. She paid off the loan in a year and hasn't looked back. Soon Santa Maria Industries was a growing metal work business so successful that Fortune and McKinsey & Company invited her to global seminars to talk about her business.
As impressive as Landa's business savvy is, even more remarkable is her generous determination to share the fruits of her success. When an 8.0 earthquake in August 2007 left 40,000 homeless in Pisco, Peru, Landa built more than 1,000 tents for homeless families and 100 large school tents so kids could have a place to learn while their schools were rebuilt.
"I have the physical abilities and mind to think and realize my dreams," she says. "We can make big things happen with a lot of little things."
Once when I was working, a father walked by with his children, and he stopped to tell them, 'Look at this woman. She can do it, and so can you!'
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Missing link found between X-ray and radio pulsars
Astronomers using ESA's Integral and XMM-Newton space observatories have caught a fast-spinning 'millisecond pulsar' in a crucial evolutionary phase for the first time, as it swings between emitting pulses of X-rays and radio waves.
Pulsars are spinning, magnetised neutron stars, the dead cores of massive stars that exploded as a dramatic supernova after having burned up their fuel. As they spin, they sweep out pulses of electromagnetic radiation hundreds of times per second, like beams from a lighthouse. This tells us that the spin period of the neutron stars can be as short as a few milliseconds.
Pulsars are classified according to how their emission is generated. For example, radio pulsars are powered by the rotation of their magnetic field, while X-ray pulsars are fuelled by the accretion of material siphoned off from a companion star.
Theory holds that initially slowly rotating neutron stars with a low-mass companion are spun up as matter accretes onto them from a surrounding disc fed by the companion. X-rays are emitted as the accreting material heats up as it falls onto the neutron star.
After a billion years or so, the rate of accretion drops and the pulsars are thought to switch on again as a radio-emitting millisecond pulsar.
There is thought to be an intermediate phase during which they swing back and forth between the two states several times, but until now, there has been no direct and conclusive evidence for this transitional phase.
Thanks to the combined forces of ESA's Integral and XMM-Newton space observatories, along with follow-up observations by NASA's Swift and Chandra satellites and by ground-based radio telescopes, scientists have finally caught a pulsar in the act of changing between the two evolutionary steps.
"The search is finally over: with our discovery of a millisecond pulsar that, within only a few weeks, switched from being accretion-powered and X-ray-bright to rotation-powered and bright in radio waves, we finally have the missing link in pulsar evolution," says Alessandro Papitto from the Institute of Space Sciences in Barcelona, Spain, who led the research published this week in Nature.
The object, identified as IGR J18245-2452, was first detected in X-rays on 28 March 2013 by Integral in the globular cluster M28, which lies in the constellation Sagittarius.
Observations by XMM-Newton determined the pulsar's spin period to be 3.9 milliseconds, meaning that it rotates on its axis more than 250 times every second, clearly identifying it as an X-ray-bright millisecond pulsar.
But comparing its spin period and other key characteristics with those of other known pulsars in M28 showed it matched perfectly those of another pulsar that had been observed in 2006 – but only at radio wavelengths.
"At that time, it appeared to be just another millisecond radio pulsar, but now here it was shining in X-rays – this is clearly no ordinary pulsar," adds Dr Papitto.
The astronomers kept monitoring the object with X-ray telescopes, but also started a series of radio observations, on the lookout for hints that it might change personalities again.
What the astronomers didn't expect was that the change in behaviour would happen within just a few weeks.
"We used to think the change would occur only once over the billion-year evolution of these systems, yet within a month, the neutron star swung back and forth between an X-ray and a radio pulsar state, showing the switch can be made even on extremely short timescales," says co-author Enrico Bozzo of the University of Geneva, Switzerland.
Despite occurring on a far quicker timescale than previously imagined, the characteristics of the transformation, which is thought to lie in the interplay between the pulsar's magnetic field and the pressure of material falling onto it from its low-mass companion star, still fits current theory.
When the inflow of material from the neighbouring star is more intense, the high density of matter shuts off the radio emission, and the pulsar is only visible through the X-rays emitted by the accreting matter as it heats up while falling onto the pulsar.
Conversely, when the accretion rate decreases, the magnetic field of the pulsar expands and pushes any remaining matter away from the pulsar, allowing the radio emission to switch back on.
Looking back through archival data for this particular pulsar, the astronomers have shown that these cycles may repeat on timescales of just a few years.
"The discovery of this transitional pulsar completes a decades-long quest for such an object and will help us to understand better the evolution of pulsars," says Erik Kuulkers, Integral Project Scientist at ESA.
"Although it took a long time to make this first detection, we believe that pulsars in such binary systems are fairly common, so we're looking forward to finding more," adds Norbert Schartel, XMM-Newton Project Scientist at ESA.
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The Burial Ground is on top of a rocky hill near the harbor.
General Glover's grave was easy to find and well marked
He was the brother to my 7x great grandfather, Daniel Glover (1735 - Abt 1790)
We didn't find a grave for Daniel. They were sons of Jonathan Glover and Tabitha Bacon.
John Glover is famous for saving George Washington's troops at the
battle of Brooklyn Heights by having his Marblehead men row the troops to safety
across the East River to Manhattan. He was also instrumental in the famous row
across the Delaware River on Christmas Eve.
Big hero with a modest grave.
The grave of General Glover's wife,
Hannah Gale (1733 - 1778)
daughter of John and Susannah Gale of Marblehead.
Abigail Burnham (1726 - 1787)
first wife of Jonathan Glover (1731- 1797)
daughter of Job Burnham and Hannah Martin of Scarboro, Maine
Jonathan was another brother to my ancestor, Daniel Glover
He was wealthy and owned a three story home "The Eagle House" in Marblehead.
He rode to church in a yellow coach with two black coachmen.
John Singleton Copely painted his portrait. He was a Colonel in the Marblehead Militia.
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Selig takes in final Opening Day as Commissioner
Former Brewers owner fittingly attends Atlanta-Milwaukee game at Miller Park
MILWAUKEE -- Bud Selig fittingly enough attended what will be his last Opening Day as the Commissioner of Major League Baseball at Miller Park.
It was Selig who led the effort to bring big league baseball back to Milwaukee after the Braves left for Atlanta after the 1965 season. And it was Selig who fought a long and often bitter political battle to get Miller Park built, thus securing the future of the franchise.
Selig has announced that he will retire in January 2015. Selig was asked Monday if he had a "different" sense about his final Opening Day as Commissioner. "A lot of people are asking me that question about 'different,' and I think maybe toward the end of this year things will be 'different,'" Selig said. "I'll take it now as it comes, as the year goes on."
In the same vein, the Commissioner also rejected the suggestion that his view of the day would be "bittersweet."
"I don't look at it as bittersweet," Selig said. "It's a decision I made. I've had this job now for 23 years. My [baseball] career started in 1964 so I've been at it for 50 years."
Selig said that bringing baseball back to Milwaukee in 1970 remained his proudest achievement.
"There were 5 1/2 years to get the team, and no matter what has happened to me in my career, that will always be my proudest accomplishment," Selig said. "The odds were really stacked against us, I mean really stacked against us. It was no secret that baseball did not want to come back here. Milwaukee County had sued them. The state of Wisconsin had sued them. But it worked out."
Selig, the former owner of the Brewers, was asked if after he retired as Commissioner he would go back to being a Brewers fan.
"Now, don't ask me that question," he said with a smile. "The only thing I can say to you is obviously when we went through the 5 1/2 years it took to get [a team] and you go through all the other things, it's natural to have an emotional attachment. Walking in here today and looking at people and how excited they were, this is just a great baseball town.
"This is just a great baseball town, a really great baseball town. I'm always happy to be here."
Asked what he was proudest of in his tenure as Commissioner, Selig replied: "The economic reformation of the game, the revenue sharing. Remember, when I took over, there was no such thing. The small and medium markets were really struggling. You didn't have to be an economics major to understand that. And so [now] you have competitive balance, and you couldn't have that under the old system. The game is not what it once was. It's better."
Selig made himself available for an informal news conference during the Brewers' 2-0 victory over, coincidentally, the Braves. Earlier in the day, Mark Attanasio, the principal owner of the Brewers, had said that he was one of a group that was attempting to get Selig to stay as the Commissioner beyond January 2015.
Selig said that was not going to happen.
"I'm going to retire, I'm going to teach, I'm going to write a book, I'm going to do all the things I said," Selig insisted.
Just before the session with reporters came to a close, Selig, without being asked about this topic, said: "And I'm very proud of the Badgers."
This was a reference to the University of Wisconsin men's basketball team advancing to the Final Four. Selig is an alumnus of UW.


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How close are we to the end of the credit cycle?
With corporate bonds likely to offer little more than their coupon return, is it time to short the asset class?
Investors in fixed income should bear in mind an observation from the veteran investor Howard Marks: "Rule number one: Most things will prove to be cyclical. Rule number two: Some of the greatest opportunities for gain and loss come when other people forget rule number one ."
History suggests that credit markets remain in the expansionary phase for several years before policy tightening feeds through to a deterioration in credit spreads. However, this cycle could be different.
Over the last couple of years, global credit spreads have compressed significantly making credit less attractive. Looking ahead, a strategic allocation to the credit risk premium is likely to generate little more than carry – that is, the coupon return obtained from simply holding the individual bonds.
If the spread between yields on corporate bonds and government bonds continues to grind tighter, credit is likely to offer an opportunity for flexible investors to benefit from this overvaluation. Our attention has, therefore, turned to the difficult task of assessing how close we are to the end of the current credit cycle and to answer the question: "Should we go short?"
To answer this question we need to understand the credit cycle and its current evolution. The greatest opportunities may come to those who can apply Howard Marks' insight to credit markets by realising that they are indeed cyclical.
We analysed US credit cycles from the early 1980s onwards and found that previous credit cycles lasted an average of nine years. To gain greater insight, we separated the credit cycle into three phases: downturn, repair/recovery and expansion. We can track these phases using credit spreads and other measures of economic and corporate health. If the past serves as a guide, then there could be another two years or more before the current cycle comes to its natural end.
Our qualitative and quantitative assessments show that the current credit cycle is in an expansion phase, where the economy is on a firmer footing and monetary policy is biased towards tightening. While there is no doubt that volatility is currently extremely low across financial markets, this is not unusual within credit for this phase of the cycle. Generally, stable credit spreads make this environment appear ideal for harvesting carry – but for how long will this be the case?
The interest rate cycle plays a pivotal role in the rotation between phases of the credit cycle. Based on the current pricing of interest rate markets, monetary policy is expected to begin to normalise from 2015. History suggests that credit markets remain in the expansionary phase for several years before policy tightening feeds through to a deterioration in credit spreads. However, this cycle could be different from past cycles, as we have had a prolonged period of low interest rates and an unprecedented amount of monetary stimulus by central banks, creating a market dynamic that has not previously been observed.
With this in mind, we think it is prudent to focus on those catalysts that could derail credit markets before the natural end of the current credit cycle. One such risk is that the Federal Reserve under-reacts to changes in the economy and is forced to act aggressively to regain control or the appearance of control.
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Hard drives are one of the most important components in a computer. They are the devices that store your information, pictures, music, movies and emails. While they are engineered extremely well, they do occasionally fail.
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Media Failures
A media failure happens if a drive is handled roughly causing the disk to be physically scratched. If this has happened, there may be ways to recover your data, however you should consider how much the data is worth to you, as this can cost quite a bit of money.
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The head failure happens when the read/write head (the arm in the hard drive) touches the platters (disk). Often times data will be permanently lost if this has occured.
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You may not even realize that your computer has a virus or spyware running on it. In fact, most malicious code writers don't want you to know you have a virus.
A good way to make sure you don't have a virus is have an antivirus program that is updating daily.
Avast! has a free antivirus for personal use and works well.
AVG also has a free antivirus for personal use and works just as well as Avast! in my opinion.
Windows Live One Care is another free antivirus and malware scanner from Microsoft.
There are antiviruses out there however which are very invasive and can slow your computer down. One has to make the assessment themselves whether they are happy with their computer's performance and safety when they choose an antivirus.
If you think you computer might be infected already, run a scan with your antivirus. It would be a good idea to check for malware also (many
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There are usually a lot of programs that start running as soon as you turn on your computer, but there's really only a couple that you need to run. One is your antivirus, and the other is Windows Search if you choose to have search indexing on your computer.
To check which programs are running when you boot your computer:
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For Windows Vista and 7
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This window will open
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Once you're finished, click Apply.
Windows will ask whether you want to restart your computer now or later. That is up to you, but the changes wont take effect until you reboot your computer.
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Put a check mark into the box by the line that says "Don't show this message or launch the System Configuration Utility when Windows starts"
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Many times, music, videos and the like can fill up hard drives so there's no room for our computers to work efficiently.
Go to Start and open My computer or Computer if you're using windows Vista or 7
Right click on the (C:) and click on Proporties.
A version of this window will open
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Start with Temporary Internet Files by opening Internet Explorer or whatever web browser you use and clicking on Tools > Internet Options > and then Delete which is in the section marked as Browsing History > then delete Temporary Internet Files
You can also go through your files and get rid of anything you might not be needing anymore, like old videos.
There is a fantastic program that tells you exactly what folders are using the most space called Tree Space Free. Feel free to install that and check where your drive space is being used up.
4. Defragment your drive
Windows Vista and 7 defrags your computer automatically, however if you're using Windows XP, this can be a real problem. To defrag, go to Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Defragmentor > Then click Defragment
You may have to run that several times, and it will take a very long time at first. Possibly hours, however if your computer is running sluggish,
you will notice a big difference once it's been defragged a few times.
This should be done regularily to keep your computer performing at it's best.
I hope you've found this article useful. Check back again for updates and more helpful tips!


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In LTP's circular display of the liturgical year, the key
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This year's art, by Cody Miller has portrayed Christ enthroned holding a scroll with the prophecy of Joel. In the four corners we see four great prophets who manifested that prophetic spirit in the pages of Sacred Scripture. Reading clockwise from the upper left, three prophets fron the Old Testament appear with their scrolls: Deborah (Judges 4-5), Isiah (shown with his wife and children), Ezekiel eating the scroll with the Word of God given to him by the winged creature, and the New Testament prophetess Anna tells everyone that the infant Jesus, presented in the Temple by is parents, is the redeemer of Israel.
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SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Two Sioux City residents have been accused of robbing and torturing a man at their apartment.
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