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Swiss tourist gang-raped in central India
A Swiss woman who was on a cycling trip in central India with her husband has been gang-raped by eight men, police said Saturday. The attack comes three months after the fatal gang-rape of a woman aboard a New Delhi bus outraged Indians.
Authorities detained and questioned 13 men in connection with the latest attack, which occurred Friday night as the couple camped out in a forest in Madhya Pradesh state after bicycling from the temple town of Orchha, local police officer R.K. Gurjar said.
The men beat the couple and gang-raped the woman, he said. They also stole the couple’s mobile phone, a laptop computer and 10,000 rupees ($185).
The woman, 39, was treated at a hospital in the nearby city of Gwalior, Gurjar said, adding that she and her husband apparently suffered no major injuries.
A photo showed the woman walking while being escorted by police to the hospital. Her face was concealed with a hood, a common practice in India, where law does not allow rape victims to be identified publicly to protect them from the stigma attached to rape in the conservative country.
Police detained 13 men and questioned them, Gurjar said. Six of the men were released after questioning. No other details were immediately available.
Indian television stations showed scores of police searching the forest where the attack occurred.
Swiss Foreign Ministry spokesman Tilman Renz described the case as “deeply disturbing” and said Swiss diplomats were assisting the couple.
The diplomats called on Indian authorities “to do everything to quickly find the perpetrators so that they can be held accountable,” Renz said in a statement.
Last month, the Swiss government issued a travel notice for India that included a warning about “increasing numbers of rapes and other sexual offenses” in the South Asian nation.
India has seen outrage and widespread protests against attacks on women since December’s fatal gang-rape of a young woman on a moving bus in New Delhi, the capital. The crime horrified Indians and set off nationwide protests about India’s treatment of women and spurred the government to hurry through a new package of laws to protect them.
One of six suspects in the December attack was found dead in a New Delhi jail this past week. Authorities said he hanged himself, but his family and lawyer insisted foul play was involved. A magistrate is investigating. Four other men and a juvenile remain on trial for the attack.
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Current Issues Japan
With the August 28 announcement by Prime Minister Abe of his intention to step down from his position within weeks, his record in a number of areas will inevitably face scrutiny and evaluation. Here, I lay out, in brief, my views on his government’s macroeconomic policies, which quickly became known as Abenomics. Like most governments, his had both successes and missed opportunities. But Japan clearly has changed as a result of his economic policies. And the debate around Abenomics anticipated issues that remain highly relevant in the current global policy debate.
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Where Mountains Once Stood: Coal Mining in the Appalachians
By KYLE CLENDINNING Published August 14, 2012 The Appalachian Region of the United States stands as one of the most scenic areas in North America. This 205,000 square mile region follows the Appalachian Mountains from southern New York to Northern Mississippi, including all of...
Mass Migration: The Untold Crisis of Climate Refugees
By ANAM SULTAN Published August 4, 2012 Climate change has been on the radar for years now (we have documentaries such as Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” to thank for that), yet there is a crucial element of this problem that remains largely ignored. Over the past few...
Rational Sustainability
By HYDER OWAINATI Published July 19, 2012 Environmentalism as a platform to innovation Stalwart supporters of the contemporary environmental movement are not driven solely by apprehensions of impending disasters or apocalyptic fears. Rather, many are cognizant of the fact...
Lake Chad Desertification: A Symptom of Global Climate Change
By EVELYN HARFORD Published: July 4, 2012 A disturbing environmental trend, desertification is occurring globally. However one striking example of this phenomenon is the disappearance of Lake Chad. It is located between the borders of Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria feeding...
Earth Reform’s 2012 Awareness Campaign
Earth Reform’s 2012 Awareness Campaign Sunday September 09, 2012 1pm to 4pm ~ doors open at 12 Metro Toronto Convention Centre 255 Front Street West Room 107 Are you tired of hearing about all the things that are...
No Shame In Shell’s Game
By CHRISTINE EBADI Published May 30, 2012 Despite recent efforts to stop the oil tycoon Shell from pursuing their drilling plans in the Alaskan Arctic this year, a U.S. appeals court ruled the go-ahead. With over a million signatures delivered to the White House this month by...
Anti-NATO protest: Veterans Returning War Medals
By CHRISTINE EBADI Published May 24, 2012 Veteran Aaron Hughes was one of the organizers of the anti-NATO protest in Chicago on May 20, 2012. 45 veterans returned their medals, tossing them as they marched together with thousands of anti-war protesters, towards the NATO...
Natural Gas Extraction: Is It Really a Clean Alternative?
By EVELYN HARFORD Published May 22, 2012 The process of Hydraulic Fracturing, more commonly known in the media, as fracking is the process by which oil and gas companies extract natural gas from reserves deep in the ground. The fracking process was invented by American oil and...
Climate Change and Conflict: The Implications for Sub-Saharan Africa
By KYLE CLENDINNING Published April 23, 2012 There is now widespread agreement that climate change will have a revolutionary impact on how populations interact with their environment. It has been projected that shifts in the earth’s climate may result in coastal erosion,...
Deforestation: A major threat to the destruction of our planet
By KARUN BADWAL Published April 21, 2012 Deforestation – a process by which forest areas are removed and the land is utilized for other uses including agriculture, industrialization, resources, or settlements – has stark implications on our environment in the near future....
By CHRISTINE EBADI Published: April 18, 2012 Recycling reduces greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming and climate change Our Waters Here’s a fact that many are unaware of… much of our waste ends up in oceans, harming birds, marine animals, and...
Water in an ever-changing Environment
By HYDER OWAINATI Published April 16, 2012 The threat imposed on the World’s Water Resources In more ways than one, the conditions of the world’s water resources represent the most significant ecological issue of the 21st century. Through the channels of...
Coal Power: An Expired Technology
By CHRISTINE EBADI Published: February 13, 2012 Does Our Health Come With A Price Tag? How Much Will We Pay? Why is the world so heavily dependent on coal-fired power plants for energy? It remains 29.6% of the world’s primary energy source, while generating 42% of the...
Climate Change Cause and Effect
By CHRISTINE EBADI Published: February 13 2012 Is The Demise of Humanity Going To Be Another Ice Age? An Introduction to Climate Change… What is Climate Change? Climate change is a substantial change in a regions average weather patterns including average temperature,...
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This chart shows Top 50 Movies of 2016.
A film, also called a movie, motion picture, theatrical film or photoplay, is a series of still images which, when shown on a screen, creates the illusion of moving images due to the phi phenomenon. This optical illusion causes the audience to perceive continuous motion between separate objects viewed rapidly in succession.
The process of filmmaking is both an art and an industry. A film is created by photographing actual scenes with a motion picture camera; by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques; by means of CGI and computer animation; or by a combination of some or all of these techniques and other visual effects.
Films were originally recorded onto plastic film through a photochemical process, and then shown through a movie projector onto a large screen. The adoption of CGI-based special effects led to the use of digital intermediates. Most contemporary films are now fully digital through the entire process of production, distribution, and exhibition from start to finish.
Films generate income from several revenue streams, including theatrical exhibition, home video, television broadcast rights and merchandising. However, theatrical box office earnings are the primary metric for trade publications in assessing the success of a film, mostly because of the availability of the data compared to sales figures for home video and broadcast rights, but also because of historical practice.
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No. of Reviews
1 98% Zootopia 220
2 95% The Jungle Book 260
3 98% Hell or High Water 171
4 98% Love & Friendship 155
5 94% Finding Dory 247
6 98% Hunt for the Wilderpeople 142
7 90% Captain America: Civil War 322
8 97% Kubo and the Two Strings 158
9 97% Sing Street 152
10 99% Don't Think Twice 98
11 98% Embrace Of The Serpent (El Abrazo De La Serpiente) 118
12 92% The Nice Guys 249
13 95% Eye In The Sky 175
14 91% The Witch 259
15 100% Only Yesterday 50
16 100% The Wailing (Goksung) 46
17 96% Weiner 136
18 90% 10 Cloverfield Lane 257
19 97% Little Men 78
20 96% Marguerite 92
21 98% April and the Extraordinary World (Avril et le monde truqué) 44
22 97% Cemetery of Splendor 67
23 97% Dark Horse 66
24 97% The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years 64
25 98% Aferim! 40
26 98% Almost Holy (Crocodile Gennadiy) 40
27 97% The Dark Horse 62
28 97% The Fits 62
29 97% Krisha 59
30 91% Green Room 190
31 95% Rams (Hrútar) 87
32 95% Tickled 84
33 95% De Palma 79
34 96% Gleason 49
35 90% The Lobster 188
36 96% La La Land 46
37 85% Hail, Caesar! 291
38 93% Our Little Sister (Umimachi Diary) 94
39 95% Nuts! 42
40 92% Southside With You 111
41 93% The Little Prince 85
42 93% Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World 83
43 90% A Bigger Splash 144
44 84% Deadpool 276
45 93% Life, Animated 61
46 93% The Innocents (Les innocentes) 58
47 87% Everybody Wants Some!! 189
48 88% Don't Breathe 161
49 93% Loving 43
50 93% The Last Man On The Moon 43
Top 50 Movies of 2016, RottenTomatoes, viewed 22nd September, 2016, <https://www.rottentomatoes.com/top/bestofrt/?year=2016>.
Top 50 Movies of 2016, ChartsBin.com, viewed 29th January, 2022, <http://chartsbin.com/view/41896>.
Global Culture Index for Watching Tv, Listening to Radio
Top 10 Movies Viewed
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Circle Pharma enters into an agreement with Pfizer to build screening library of macrocyclic peptides
CirclePharma, Inc., today announced that it will apply its computational design and synthetic chemistry platform to design and create a physical screening library of novel macrocyclicpeptides. Once completed, the library is initially expected to comprise several hundred macrocycles that will be designed to potentially disrupt bioactive conformations commonly found in protein-protein interactions known to drive disease processes, and will deploy backbone scaffolds screened in silica for intrinsic cell permeability characteristics. In addition, the design of the library will permit the simple creation of derivative libraries tailored to specific features of a therapeutic target class.
PfizerInc.(NYSE:PFE) has entered into an agreement with Circle under which Pfizer will provide support for the library build, and Circle has granted Pfizer non-exclusive rights to screen the library against certaintargets. The rights granted to Pfizer exclude specified targets for which Circle has reserved exclusive rights to screen the library.
“This physical library will complement Circle’s target-specific computational design toolkit,” said David J. Earp, J.D., Ph.D., Circle’s President and CEO. “We expect to use the library for our internal pipeline discovery work, and we will make it available to all of our collaboration partners in drug discovery.”
About Macrocyclic Peptides
Macrocyclic peptides have the potential to provide access to the large proportion of therapeutic targets (estimated at up to 80%) that are considered undruggable with conventional small molecule or biologic modalities. Inparticular, there is great interest in developing macrocycles to modulate protein-protein interactions, which play a role in almost all disease conditions, including cancer, fibrosis, inflammation and infection. However, the development of macrocyclic therapeutics has been limited to this point by the need for a greater understanding of how to design macrocycles with appropriate pharm acokinetics, cell permeability and oral bioavailability. As a result, most clinical-stage macro cyclic peptide drugs address extracellular protein targets because of the challenge of identifying cell permeable macrocycles. The ability to design potent macrocycles with intrinsic permeability is expected to give access to a large number of important therapeutic targets that have been out of reach to this point.
Founded by computational chemist Prof. Matthew Jacobson (UC San Francisco) and peptide chemist Prof. Scott Lokey (UC Santa Cruz), Circle Pharma is developing a new paradigm for macrocycle drug discovery. Circle’s technology facilitates the design and synthesis of intrinsically cell-permeable macrocycles that can address both intra- and extra-cellular therapeutic targets, and can be delivered by oral administration. Circle’s macrocycle development platform is applicable across a wide range of serious diseases; the company is initially focusing its internal development efforts on intracellular protein-protein interactions that are key drivers in cancer.
September 12, 2016, South San Francisco, CA
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VA Secretary-Designate Shinseki Promises To Address Delays In Disability Claims, Other Issues At Confirmation Hearing
Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary-nominee Eric Shinseki on Wednesday during a Senate confirmation hearing said that he would address delays in disability claims processed by the department and improve the delivery of services to veterans, the AP/Philadelphia Inquirer reports (Jalonick, AP/Philadelphia Inquirer, 1/15). During the hearing before the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Shinseki also said that he would address issues with the transfer of medical and other records from the Department of Defense to VA.
VA must become a "21st-century organization" that can meet the needs of veterans with a number of illnesses and injuries, he said, adding, "Asking [them] to take a number and wait or put up with records that are lost or take six months to adjudicate is not part of the culture I expect" (Scott Tyson, Washington Post, 1/15). Shinseki said, "The frustrating lack of timeliness, and the challenges of coordinating (the DOD's) and VA's systems, are some of the areas that must be addressed quickly" (AP/Philadelphia Inquirer, 1/15).
Shinseki also cited the need to improve efforts to identify and treat veterans who have returned from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with mild traumatic brain injury or psychological conditions, such as post-traumatic stress disorder, although he did not discuss specific details (Zoroya, USA Today, 1/15). In addition, he cited the need for improved access to health care for veterans who live in rural areas (Washington Post, 1/15). Shinseki added that he supports proposals to pass both the fiscal year 2010 and FY 2011 appropriations bills for VA next year (Johnson, CQ Today, 1/14).
'Priority 8' Veterans
Shinseki said that he would seek to restore access to the VA health care system for middle-income veterans who do not have service-related disabilities, USA Today reports (USA Today, 1/15). Under a 2003 regulation, "Priority 8" veterans -- those who do not have service-related disabilities and have annual incomes higher than about $30,000 -- cannot enroll in the system. The enrollment of Priority 8 veterans would more than double the total number of veterans in the system.
Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) asked Shinseki about his plans to enroll Priority 8 veterans in the system, adding, "To move twice as many people into the system is going to be more demanding on the taxpayers than I think some people realize." Shinseki said that he would have to study the issue and examine the effects on the VA budget before he could provide specific plans (CQ Today, 1/14).
According to the New York Times, the committee "showered" Shinseki with praise, and his confirmation "is all but certain" (Shanker, New York Times, 1/15). Committee Chair Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii) said that he expects the full Senate to vote on the Shinseki nomination by next Tuesday (AP/Philadelphia Inquirer, 1/15).
Veterans groups also expressed support for Shinseki. Bob Wallace, executive director of Veterans of Foreign Wars, said, "I think if he gets the right people around him, with his leadership ability and his years of experience and years of being honest and truthful -- I think it will be very good for the department." Paul Rieckhoff, executive director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, said, "He's got a lot of learning to do," adding, "He's got to really focus on bringing in those types of people who can break a bureaucracy down and really reorganize it" (USA Today, 1/15).
House Member Responds to EHR Software Glitches at VA
In related news, the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs ranking member Steve Buyer (R-Ind.) on Wednesday called for an explanation into the cause of software glitches in the electronic health records system at several VA health care facilities, the AP/San Francisco Chronicle reports. A recent Associated Press investigation found that such glitches exposed some veterans to medical errors, such as incorrect doses of medications or delays in needed treatments.
Buyer said, "I am deeply concerned about the consequences on patient care that could have resulted from this 'software glitch' and that mistakes were not disclosed to patients who were directly affected." He added, "I have asked for a forensic analysis of all pertinent records to determine if any veterans were harmed, and I would like to know who was responsible for the testing and authorized the release of the new application" (Yen, AP/San Francisco Chronicle, 1/15).
Broadcast Coverage
NPR's "All Things Considered" on Wednesday reported on the confirmation hearing for Shinseki. The segment includes comments from retired Army Gen. Bob Scales and Rieckhoff (Kelly, "All Things Considered," NPR, 1/15).
Reprinted with kind permission from kaisernetwork. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives, or sign up for email delivery at kaisernetwork/dailyreports/healthpolicy. The Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report is published for kaisernetwork, a free service of The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.
© 2009 Advisory Board Company and Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.
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Not Leaving the Qur'an Even During Jihaad!
"So, it is upon you to tend to the Qur'an - the pillar of the heart, the light of the chest, the remover of sadness. And this time period is the period of memorization of the Qur'an. I started in and benefited greatly from the days of training in 1969 (when fighting in Palestine). I benefited greatly from the memorization of the Qur'an, and it was the period of golden purity of the heart and spirit. So, it is easy for you to memorize here; very easy...yes. I had a large-print Mushaf, and during the time in which I would stand guard at night, I would repeat what I had memorized during the day. So, if I mispronounced a word, I opened it, and I would read it using the light of the Moon. As for now, I cannot even see using the light of the Sun, so, we ask Allah to strengthen our eyesight...
So, try to memorize five verses of the Qur'an everyday, and start with 'al-Anfal.' Everyday, after the morning prayer, make for yourself a sitting with the Noble Qur'an. Memorize five verses of 'al-Anfal,' and review the five verses from the previous day. You can memorize it in fifteen days: seventy-five verses, five verses each day...this should be very easy on you...
Our brother, Khalid Qablan - who was martyred two days ago in Khost, Abu al-Walid, from Riyad - was martyred on Friday, at 2:30 p.m. I visited his brothers after his martyrdom, not knowing that he had been martyred, and everyone who was around him said that everything about him indicated that he was preparing for the Hereafter. They said that he would choose to stand guard from midnight to 1:00 a.m., then he would stay up in prayer until the Fajr. He would make the adhan for Fajr, then pray. After that, he would begin his adhkar. He would fast every Monday and Thursday - continuously - and the White Days (13th, 14th, 15th day of each month), and the six days of Shawwal. They also said that on the night before Friday - and it was the final night of his life - he stood guard from midnight to 1:00 a.m., stayed up in prayer until the Fajr, made the adhan for Fajr, prayed, made his morning adhkar, then we moved to the location of the battle for that day. On the way there, he recited 'al-Kahf,' and increased in his invoking of peace and blessings upon the Prophet. When we arrived - his companion from Yemen narrates - "I asked him if he had finished his recitation of 'al-Kahf,' and he said: "Yes." Then, we started firing the mortar rounds, and the nineteenth shell exploded inside the mortar, and many pieces of shrapnel entered his body. He gasped only twice, then he submitted his soul to the Lord of the Worlds.""
['Fi at-Tarbiyah al-Jihadiyyah wal-Bina''; 2/40-42]
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Our Affair with the Qur’aan 19 Jul 2014
How to Seek Benefit in Your Recitation of Qur’an 15 Jan 2014
Question: I Can't Seem to Read Qur'aan 23 Feb 2013
A Serendipitous Treasure 17 Feb 2013
Becoming Companions of the Qur'an 31 Oct 2012
Warning From Abandoning the Qur'aan 26 Apr 2012
How To Benefit From the Qur'aan 25 Apr 2012
Running Away From the Qur'aan 25 Apr 2012
The ‘Return’ of the Qur’aan 25 Apr 2012
Some GREAT Benefits Acquired When Reciting the Quran 24 Apr 2012
"Each verse is like a date: the more you chew it..." 24 Apr 2012
Etiquette with the Word of Allah, the Noble Qur'an 24 Apr 2012
How Our Pious Predecessors Read the Qur’aan 28 Jan 2012
My Sister! Quench Your Spiritual Thirst by the Qur’aan 28 Mar 2011
Love for the Quran 23 Aug 2010
Adhere to the Qur'aan!! 16 Jul 2010
Living in the Shade of the Qur’an 31 Dec 2009
The Qur'aanic Path 22 Nov 2009
The Qur’aan, My Friend Behind Bars 22 Nov 2009
Have you Abandoned the Qur’aan? 22 Nov 2009
Nine Great Benefits of Reflecting Over the Qur'aan 22 Nov 2009
How Do You Benefit From the Qur'aan? 19 Nov 2009
Healing the Weak Eemaan (Faith) by the Qur'aan 19 Nov 2009
7 Tips for Improving your Relationship with the Qur'aan 19 Nov 2009
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Instead of Christmas cards this year we have devised our own Charity Advent Calendar - we will be making a donation each day to a charity close to our hearts
- 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14 - 15 - 16 - 17 - 18 - 19 - 20 - 21 - 22 - 23 - 24 -
Kicking off with a local one - Dandelion Time - restoring hope to young lives - the charity gives children and families time and space to love and trust again; time to heal from emotional trauma and abuse; time to rebuild confidence and strengthen relationships; and time to develop skills and aspirations for a brighter future
Microloan enables some of the world’s poorest people to work their own way out of poverty by providing training and microloans to help them start successful businesses to build independence and financial resilience.
The Pumping Marvellous Foundation (PMF) is the UK’s patient led Heart Failure charity. It was founded by a heart failure patient whose experiences whilst rehabilitating have shaped the Foundation’s goals and principles of a patient-centric charity focused on improved patient outcomes.
Kenward Trust help those affected by addiction, homelessness and crime. Their work spans from sessions in schools delivering early education and interventions, through to residential rehabilitation and providing support to those resettling back into the community.
Bendrigg Trust provides adventure residential courses for disabled & disadvantaged people throughout the UK. They provide a range of adventurous activities, led by highly qualified & experienced tutors, for all ages and abilities. They are constantly developing their equipment, grounds and facilities, to ensure that everyone can access everything they would like to.
SOS Children's Villages - With children's villages in some of the poorest countries in the world, SOS help every child grow up with the love and support of a family. They support children separated from their families or at risk of separation from them. They believe that children deserve more than just survival. They have a right to grow up in a safe and caring family. Their goal is to ensure that no child grows up alone.
We also make a regular donation to support twin boys in Lesotho and a girl in India
Orbis UK is an affiliate of Orbis International, a global charity that brings people together to fight avoidable blindness. With their network of partners they mentor, train and inspire local teams to fight blindness in their own communities. They believe that no one should live a life of unnecessary blindness, simply because of where they were born.
Caudwell Children is a national charity based in Staffordshire dedicated to improving the lives of disabled children and their familes, in the UK
Toilet and Tap twinning - Without proper toilets and clean water, people are trapped in a vicious cycle. Water and sanitation projects enable families to build a toilet, have access to clean water, and to learn about handwashing and other hygiene principles.
We currently have both a toilet twinned with one in Indonesia and tap a twinned with one in Ethiopia.
Greater Change - Fund a person’s path out of homelessness - together they help individuals to overcome homelessness by providing the help and support to people to achieve their "business plan" to financial security
Mercy Ships - Worldwide, 5 billion people lack access to safe, affordable, timely surgery. Many of them live in developing countries where healthcare infrastructure is limited or nonexistent, or where there’s a shortage of trained healthcare providers. Fortunately, more than 44% of the world’s population lives within 100 miles of a coast — which is why Mercy Ships uses modern hospital ships to bring world-class volunteer medical professionals directly to the places they’re needed most.
The Donkey Sanctuary Donkey Assisted Therapy - Working towards a world where donkeys and mules live free from suffering, and their contribution to humanity is fully valued, The Donkey Sanctuary runs a programme of donkey-assisted therapy for those suffering physical and mental disabilities
Tommy’s is committed to saving babies’ lives funding pioneering research and support for families through every part of the pregnancy journey. They offer a wide range of resources, tools and services for families who experience baby loss or premature birth. They are passionate about breaking the stigma that surrounds miscarriage, stillbirth, premature birth, termination for medical reasons and neonatal loss and share the stories of those who can sometimes feel silenced by society.
Live UTI Free - Recurrent UTIs affect millions of women, but the right information can lead to better testing and a permanent solution. Find the cause, find the cure.
Air Ambulance Kent Surrey Sussex is the organisation providing emergency medical services through the provision of a helicopter air ambulance covering the South East Coast Ambulance Service area.
Crisis at Christmas - Crisis UK - No one should be homeless and alone this Christmas - all donations go towards giving someone experiencing homelessness access to a safe place to stay, hot meals and a Christmas dinner; companionship from volunteer befrienders; year-round support including training and education
Period Poverty UK - working to provide sanitary pads to women and girls who can’t afford them or can’t access them, both in the UK and globally.
Migrant Help exists to protect people affected by displacement and exploitation, helping them thrive as individuals and recover from their trauma. They support those most in need and least likely to find support elsewhere, whilst aiming to bridge community gaps and bring services and support together.
The Gaia Foundation work to revive bio-cultural diversity, to regenerate healthy ecosystems and to strengthen community self-governance for climate change resilience. With a base in north London, they work all over the world and apply a holistic approach to addressing the root causes of our converging crises, triggered by the industrial growth society.
The StandOut Programme - People leaving prison need the best possible chance to rebuild their lives if they are to move out of the justice system for good. For many people, key to achieving that is long-term holistic support through a relationship based on trust. StandOut delivers intensive group programmes inside prison followed by 1:1 individually-tailored support after release for as long as required.
Hearing Dogs for Deaf People train dogs to alert deaf people to important and life-saving sounds they would otherwise miss – sounds that many people take for granted like the doorbell, alarm clock and even danger signals like the fire alarm. Being aware of these – thanks to a hearing dog – makes a real difference to deaf people’s lives, and can even save them.
So far we have sponsored Leo who is now qualified to help a deaf person and we are currently supporting Rico through his training.
The Motor Neurone Disease Association is the only national charity in England, Wales and Northern Ireland focussed on beating MND. We improve care and support for people with MND, their families and carers. We fund and promote research that leads to new understanding and treatments, and brings us closer to a cure for MND.
Cancer Support UK Christmas Bear Drop - A special festive initiative to deliver warmable cuddly bears to a child with cancer in hospital or a hospice this Christmas. So far over 1500 bears have been supplied to hospitals around the country
Today, we complete the calendar with our own personal choices:
Esme - One Woman at a Time envision a world without gender based violence, in particular FGM, forced marriage & honour violence. Their focus is to empower, uplift and present equal opportunities for women.
Kathy - Parenting Mental Health is run by parents for parents with children suffering from mental health issue. They understand how hard it is to parent a child with a mental health condition and work to help you to make sense of this time and give you the tools and support to get you and your family through it.
Rebecca - Greater Change supports homeless people who, with some funding, can make a long-term positive change. Michael F is currently selling the Big Issue and is seeking funding to help him set up his own business - Greater Change provides him with a much-needed platform to seek this support.
Deborah - Find your Feet - Working with families in remote areas of Asia and Africa to build a future free from poverty. The charity provides women with skills to start small businesses to enable them to support their family; trains communities in sustainable agricultural interventions and empowers tribal communities to stand up for their rights and fight social injustice.
Merry Christmas and a safe, prosperous, healthy and happy New Year to you all!
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Park51: The "Ground Zero Mosque"
By Howard Chua-Eoan
When the local community board in late May approved a proposal to establish an Islamic center amid the strip clubs and liquor stores of downtown Manhattan, the outrage did not come from offended Muslims. Instead, a litany of protests came from a variety of groups — some inspired by Tea Party ideology, others by still-tangible memories of the Sept. 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center a few blocks south of the proposed location of the center, and many by undisguised xenophobia. Though not actually at the site of the vanished twin towers, Park51 came to be known as the "Ground Zero Mosque," with its every financial and religious transaction scrutinized microscopically and sharp political divides emerging around it. In the process, it became the emblem of an ugly nationwide debate over the assimilation of Muslims into America and the limits of the so-called American melting pot.
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Typhoon Dujuan Kills 3 And Injures More Than In Taiwan
September 29, 2015 – Super-typhoon Dujuan has left three dead and injured 346 people in Taiwan, the country’s Central Emergency Operation Centre announced today.
Almost half a million people are still without electricity in Taiwan as the storm left a trail of destruction in the north of the island. It hit the Chinese coastal city of Putian on Tuesday morning, state news agency Xinhua said, but there were no immediate reports of damage.
Many of those injured in Taiwan were hit by flying debris or involved in traffic accidents, the Emergency Operation Centre said, putting the death toll at three and the number of injured at 346. Severe winds uprooted trees and smashed windows while heavy rains triggered multiple landslides.
More than 12,000 people have been evacuated and almost 3,000 are in temporary shelters, authorities said. Taiwan’s aboriginal mountain communities are particularly at risk during typhoons, often affected by flooding and mudslides. Landslides blocked the roads into the hot spring town of Wulai, in mountains just outside the capital Taipei.
It was the latest hit for Wulai which was severely damaged by flooding and landslides in August when Typhoon Soudelor hit, with some residents unable to return home for weeks.
Many shops and hotels were still rebuilding even as the latest typhoon struck. “The roads are blocked but residents aren’t in any immediate danger,” a spokesman for New Taipei City fire department told AFP.
Dujuan was categorised as a “super typhoon” by regional forecasters, taking residents by surprise as it sped up before making landfall late yesterday in the eastern county of Yilan. It was downgraded to a “moderate typhoon” by Taiwan’s Central Weather Bureau as it crossed the island.
“It’s expected the typhoon will continue to weaken and its radius to keep shrinking,” the weather bureau said. Schools and offices in Taiwan remain shut on Tuesday and the stock market is also closed.
At the peak of the storm two million homes were left without electricity – on Tuesday morning 498,458 were still without power. Towering waves crashed through windows at a seaside hotel in eastern Yilan while fierce winds also caused damage at Taipei’s famous 101 skyscraper.
In Hsinchu City, a crane fell from 20 storeys onto cars below but no one was injured, local reports said. Performances by US rock band Bon Jovi, due to take place in Taipei Monday and Tuesday, were cancelled.
China’s National Meteorological Center issued a red alert on Monday afternoon, Xinhua reported, adding that 320,000 people have been evacuated in the eastern province of Zhejiang.
Tens of thousands of boats were called back to shore in Zhejiang and neighbouring Fujian province while all flights at three airports in Fujian were cancelled, state media said.
The storm is weakening and is forecast to reach Jiangzi province later tonite, according to Xinhua.
Typhoon Soudelor caused at least eight deaths in Taiwan last month and killed 21 people in China.
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