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In addition, Gafkay donated $5,000 to Saginaw's Underground Railroad. She did so in December, before the settlement had gone through, in order to donate during an initiative when the sum could be tripled, said Christi Birchmeier, president and chief executive officer of the Underground Railroad.
"We're honored to be one of the two recipients," Birchmeier said. "It's going to continue to help us in our crucial work to empower women throughout Saginaw County that we're already doing. That money is going to go to good use."
Yamamoto, who now lives in Chicago, said she approached Gafkay with the idea for the unorthodox settlement.
"My goal was that some good had to come out of this situation, because it was so heartbreaking," Yamamoto said. "When I suggested this to my lawyer, she was really excited.
"This goes to the greater good," she continued. The defendants "can't really do things to make me whole and money doesn't really fix that. But if we could do something that helps lives of actual people then there is a return to wholeness. That was our vision -- we can make a better world together."
Yamamoto filed the suit in January 2017. Renaissance Public School Academy is a K-8 charter school located at 2792 S. Isabella Road in Mount Pleasant.
Yamamoto, an Asian American, was employed by Renaissance in August 2016 as a fifth-grade teacher. Yamamoto gave a speech on Nov. 9 -- the day after Election Day -- to about 100 middle school students regarding domestic violence and discrimination against women.
Her suit alleged that on Nov. 30, Principal Bergman told Yamamoto to leave the school and come back in two days "for a meeting to discuss 'diversity and tolerance' issues with her and the curriculum director," the suit stated. "Defendant Bergman spoke to Plaintiff before and indicated she couldn't keep Plaintiff 'safe' after Plaintiff spoke out on matters of public concern."
The suit went on to state Bergman told Yamamoto the community wasn't ready for her.
On Dec. 2, 2016, the school's Human Resources department contacted Yamamoto and told her there would be a meeting the following week, though she still did not know why she had been suspended. The meeting did not take place and on Dec. 7, Renaissance terminated Yamamoto's employment.
Yamamoto contended she was fired as an act of retaliation because of her speech, thus violating her First Amendment rights.
Her suit also argued that the school she worked at "maintained a policy and practice of refusing to employ or retain individuals of color."
"Defendants' actions in discharging Plaintiff from her employment because of or on the basis of her race or color abridges her right to equal protection of the laws in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution."
In a Feb. 12, 2017, interview published on the website of Mary Maynard, Yamamoto said she was the only teacher of color at Renaissance and that other teachers had asked her to speak on horror story writing prior to Election Day.
"I said that, on that particular day, I felt less safe than ever, because our country had just elected a president who had openly spoken out against women, people of color, the LGBTQ+ community, and other people he felt were different than him," Yamamoto told Maynard. "I told the students that I saw this as a call to arms to share our stories honestly in order to make a safe space. In the speech, I said, 'I will share with you my darkness so you feel safe to share your darkness with me, such that we can vanquish the darkness together.'"
Yamamoto went on to tell Maynard her speech had the desired effect of empowering students to advocate for themselves and others, as several students approached her about concerns in their lives. She passed the information on to the principal, she said.
Later that month, Principal Bergman and Renaissance's curriculum coordinator met with Yamamoto. Bergman told Yamamoto the community was not ready for her voice and she would be suited in a place like Chicago or New York, Yamamoto told Maynard.
Yamamoto maintained she was not given a reason for her suspension and eventual termination.
The lawsuit was officially dismissed on Feb. 14, 2018. In the settlement agreement, the defendants deny any and all claims of wrongdoing.
Carson Palmer showed Monday night he's far from the washed-out quarterback critics proclaimed him to be to open the season. The 34-year-old dropped dimes all over the field, when given time to throw.
The caveat was the Arizona Cardinals' downfall in a 28-17 loss to the Dallas Cowboys. Head coach Bruce Arians had a succinct response when asked where his team must improve: "Better blocking," he said, via the team's official website.
"We had guys open at times and just didn't get them because we couldn't throw the ball," Arians said.
Palmer finished the game 29-of-48 passing for 325 yards, two touchdowns and no interceptions. However, he was sacked six times by Cowboys defenders and hit a total of 11 times. Pro Football Focus charted Palmer under pressure on 23-of-55 dropbacks.
The Cardinals allowed Cowboys defensive lineman Demarcus Lawrence to destroy the game plan. The pass rusher stacked up three sacks, giving him the league lead with 6.5 on the season. Time and time again, Lawrence wrecked right tackle Jared Veldheer, who moved from left tackle to right tackle this season and has struggled.
"I need to block my guy," Veldheer said. "It doesn't matter where I am. My job is to block the guy."
A holding penalty on Veldheer early in the game wiped out a Cardinals TD that would have stretched the lead to 14-0. Instead, a missed field goal kept the Cowboys close and allowed Lawrence's presence to change the tilt of the field.
With a running game that is lost without David Johnson, the Cardinals offense must run through Palmer to move the ball. The veteran can't do much when he's on his back most of the game.
We are seeking an enthusiastic and well-qualified graduate, with a proven track record in boarding and pastoral care, to lead and develop boarding provision in our Middle School, years 9-11. Boarding at Mayfield has flourished over the past few years and the successful candidate will join a thriving community of UK and overseas pupils.
Accommodation is provided as this is a residential post. We offer excellent working conditions and an attractive salary package, on Mayfield’s own pay scale, which will reflect the qualifications and experience of the successful candidate. The School is committed to on-going professional development and this post offers the opportunity for further career advancement in due course.
Mayfield is a leading Catholic Independent boarding and day School for girls aged 11-18 situated in the East Sussex countryside, less than 50 miles from London and 40 minutes from Gatwick. The School has a tradition of academic achievement with impressive GCSE and A Level results, a vibrant and eclectic extra-curricular provision and an enviable reputation for pastoral care. All staff are expected to contribute to the extra-curricular programme.
New insights and a helpful 'decision-tree' style algorithm can help in the identification and management of type 1 and type 2 diabetes patients who are at an increased fracture risk.
Fragility fractures are a serious yet neglected complication of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes, with increased risk of fragility fractures in people with diabetes extending across the life span.
This is a concern as, globally, the prevalence of diabetes in adults is expected to increase from almost 425 million today, to approximately 629 million by 2045. At the same time, many clinicians who treat patients with diabetes are not aware of their patients' heightened risk of disabling and potentially life-threatening fractures.
Given this scenario, the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) Bone and Diabetes Working Group has published a new expert review that summarizes key research, highlights clinical issues, and provides a helpful 'decision-tree' style algorithm for the identification and management of diabetic patients at increased fracture risk.
"The link between diabetes and skeletal health is complex and the optimal approach to the management of bone health in patients with diabetes is not yet definitive and may change over time as findings of new clinical studies become available. This new review will inform clinicians about the current state of knowledge, and, importantly, the clear algorithm will facilitate the clinical assessment and management of fragility fracture risk in their patients according to current best practice."
The review outlines the clinical characteristics of bone fragility in adults with diabetes, and highlights recent studies that have evaluated bone mineral density (BMD), bone microstructure and material properties, biochemical markers, and fracture prediction (FRAX). It also looks at the impact of diabetes drugs on bone, as well as the efficacy of osteoporosis treatments in these patients.
The pathophysiology of bone fragility in diabetes is likely multifactorial.
FRAX and BMD T-score predict fracture risk in those with type 2 diabetes, but both require adjustment for diabetes to avoid underestimation of risk.
If a patient has indication for therapy based on criteria developed for non-diabetes patients, these patients should be treated with osteoporosis drugs. In the absence of established osteoporosis, these medications may be used, although with caution as the effects of these drugs in situations where bone fragility is mainly due to alterations in bone quality remain to be thoroughly evaluated.
Future studies should continue to evaluate the structural determinants (microstructure, material properties, etc.) of bone fragility and refine fracture prediction algorithms by including disease-specific determinants of fracture.
New trials will have to prospectively investigate the efficacy and safety of osteoporosis treatment in diabetics with and without low aBMD.
Fracture risk increases by about 30 percent after gastric bypass surgery, which is an effective method to reduce obesity, diabetes, and mortality.
Gout, a painful inflammatory arthritis, is not associated with an increased risk of fracture, revealed research.
More than three-quarters of the patients were observed to be exposed to one non-opiate drug associated with increased fracture risk in four months before the fracture.
During the Adobe Summit in Las Vegas, the Oscar winner opened up about fashion, social media and the horrible script that inspired her to launch Hello Sunshine.
About seven years back, Reese Witherspoon's agent brought her a script to consider. It had a starring role for an actress, but Witherspoon knew pretty quickly that it wasn't the right part for her.
"Well, I'm not going to do this piece of crap movie. This is terrible. It's misogynistic" was her reaction, she recalled from the stage during the Adobe Summit in Las Vegas last week. Her agent told her that every actress in town was after the role. “If every actress in Hollywood wants this part, I've got to do something about this. This is not good enough for me, and it's not good enough for my colleagues, either," she replied.
Witherspoon didn't have a production company at the time, but the experience inspired her to launch her now-prolific Hello Sunshine, a banner that she described as "disruptive." It's a word that was used many times during the Adobe Summit, held March 26-28, which hosted 16,000 people and served to connect entrepreneurs, content creators and more through seminars, panels and networking events. Keynote speakers included Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees and actress-producer Mindy Kaling.
"Why am I going to go to studios who don't make movies for women who, literally, if I bring them a script, would say, 'We already have one movie in production with a woman at the center. We don't want to have two this year,'" Witherspoon continued. "And I was like, 'I don't want their money.' So I self-funded for five years, and it created the autonomy I needed to be disruptive."
Her production company has produced features like Gone Girl and Wild and HBO's acclaimed series Big Little Lies. But her self-starting nature exists in many different ways. At the summit, Witherspoon mentioned how her fight for inclusivity occurs both inside and out of the industry. For example, channeling her iconic Legally Blonde character Elle Woods to launch her clothing line Draper James. “You have to wake up every day and think, ‘How can I do this for myself?'" she said. “And I thought: Well, hold on. I know how to market. I love fashion. I've been making clothes for different characters for 25 years. I'm actually a woman who actually has to wear the clothes. Why don't I do it myself?"
The fifth annual Chico Brewfest sponsored by Chico High Sports Boosters will be held from 4-8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 25, at the Chico Elks Lodge, 1705 Manzanita Ave., featuring more than 25 breweries.
The event features beer, wine, music and food presentations by local restaurants.
Tickets cost $50 each and can be purchased at Bidwell Perk or by contacting David Pollak at 774-1352 or by email at david.pollak@dbibeverage.com, and they may also be purchased online at www.chicosportsboosters.org.
Stay up-to-date with local sports coverage from the E-R sports staff, and share your thoughts too: Visit the Chico E-R Sports Facebook fan page. You can also share scores with us on Twitter with the hashtag #norcalscores.
BANGKOK, Jan 31 (Reuters) - Thailand’s Central Group, the country’s largest retailer, confirmed on Thursday in a statement that it will invest $200 million in a local entity of Singapore-based ride-hailing application Grab.
Central Group said it will “acquire a significant non-controlling stake” in the Thai entity.
The statement confirmed a Reuters report on Wednesday.
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Car Free? You Stuck to the Idea!
Welcome to our Tyee experiment in post-it-note public discussion.
Kaitlyn Braybrooke is The Tyee's social media whiz. You can reach her here.
Take note! Car free celebrants send their messages.
On Sunday, Car-Free Day in Vancouver, a few Tyee staff members and noble volunteers set up booths at Commercial Drive and Main Street, which were blocked off so pedestrians could roam freely. Commercial looked pretty empty in the morning as I tried in vain to tie our banner to a tree. By noon, amidst a cacophony of dueling band horns, roars from a nearby roller derby race, and energetic crowd chatter, I scanned the scene and felt awe-struck. In mere hours, the street had transformed itself into a sun-drenched, exuberant bazaar.
Car Free Day was certainly a success for Vancouver this year -- and so was our transportation themed Tyee Post-It Project.
For the festival, The Tyee wanted to get a sense of the 'word on the street' and provoke public participation from our two booths. We also wanted to take photographs of festival participants to showcase Tyee fans in our Flickr photo pool.
We decided to use a bright medium for festival-goers' feedback. We placed blank Post-Its and Sharpies on a sheet of butcher paper inscribed with the tantalizing question "If you had a sweet magic wand, how would you improve transportation in Vancouver?" And then we waited, digital cameras in hand.
By the end of the day, we had received 300 Post-It answers to our transportation question and 215 photographs of smiling participants holding up their ideas -- if we took a photo of you, check out our photo film below to see yourself in action or browse through our Tyee photo pool at this link on Flickr!
Geoff, our content manager, and I started out the day by attempting to hold down our overly animated banner while kind, like-minded organizations aided us from all sides, giving us string and other useful banner-harnessing tools. By the time the crowd and our awesome volunteers (a big thanks to Jessica, Vivian and Amanda) started to arrive we were perfectly situated and spent the day debating, discussing and shooting photos of merry Post-It holding revelers.
An amazing variety of transportation visions were represented, from the serious to the humorous to the fully ridiculous. Pragmatic visions were plentiful, ranging from "We need free transit in downtown areas" (reproduced in several forms throughout the day) to "A Car Free Day every Sunday" to "More buses NOW" to "change the collective view that we 'need' cars." Some people had more whimsical ideas. One Post-It declared "Let's have human sized hamster wheels for everyone" while another suggested "free rollerskates for those over fifty." Yet another preferred "human-sized pneumatic tubes."
On Main Street we tried the same thing. Calling out auctioneer-style from the side of the street, Michelle, Amelia and Shelley drew an amazing response from the crowd. The Taoist Tai Chi club meditative exercise demonstrations across the street added to the general ambience of good vibes felt by all!
Overall, the Main Street crowd was mixed in preference, with half wanting to improve the bus system and the other half mentioning improved bike facilities and car infrastructure changes. Practical ideas such as "treat employee parking as a taxable benefit" and "better late night buses" flourished, as well as suggestions to "provide lower car insurance for bus pass holders -- AND an annual bus pass" and "build more well-designed neighborhoods containing walkable amenities." Some participants had more extravagant ideas; one proposes we "put bike thieves in public stocks -- immediately!" while another chooses "electric conveyer belts instead of roads" and yet another says "teleportation for everyone -- why can't we all have wings?" Another wing-themed suggestion involved everyone "riding a unicorn," an idea which was seconded by several parties.
Overall, the most prevalent 'word on the street' at both locations was the desire to improve public transit. Most of you asked for buses to be more reliable, more plentiful, and cheap. As Rachel Marcuse, COPE's Executive Director, wrote on her Post-It note, "It's simple. I want more buses. Lots of buses."
Making public transit a free ride (paid for through taxes or some way other than fares) was the most popular concept of all. Several participants mentioned free-fare initiatives in Portland and Seattle and asking why Vancouver can't do something similar. It was certainly evident that transit in Vancouver is a hot topic of discussion and will continue to be in the near future.
We thank all of you who came by and shared your vision with us throughout the day. The variety and innovation we saw in your answers was truly awe-inspiring and showed us just how inventive Vancouver's residents can be.
For more thoughts and opinions regarding transit, check out our popular Tyee series "No Fares". These articles, written by Tyee Fellowship winner Dave Olsen and funded by our readers, make the case for free fares on public buses and show how that approach is working in other places.
Car sharing works. Hop in, Harper!
Managers listen to their gut — and that’s a big mistake.
In today’s world, it’s better to study technology and work on big problems, according to Vivek Wadhwa.
Early involuntary retirement could strike even you with your high five-figure salary, excellent work history and advanced degree.
Here’s what paying for college looked like before student loans existed, and what today’s students can learn.
Mental health is still one of the least understood areas of medicine. How could such an outwardly happy and successful man be struggling so badly?
Robin Williams was beloved by America, and yet he felt deeply alone. His apparent suicide was likely the culmination of a brutal daily battle with severe depression that he shared with millions.
On screen or on stage, he was the most vivacious, happy presence, but a debilitating mental illness like depression can eat away at your confidence from within. Gradually you can lose control of your thoughts.
If this cherished and celebrated star felt alone, imagine how isolated the average sufferer can become, locked in a struggle against depression with little support and only America’s broken health-care system to fall back on.
The rates of depression are climbing. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) state that 1 in 20 Americans over the age of 11 reported current depression in 2005-2006. According to this data, adults age 40-59 are more likely to experience depression (7.3 percent), as are females (6.7 percent). In 2012, an estimated 16 million, approximately 7 percent, of U.S. adults 18 or older suffered from at least one major depressive episode in the past year. It wasn’t too long ago that the Department of Veterans Affairs released data suggesting that every day, 22 veterans take their own lives, a rate of one suicide every 65 minutes. The numbers are egregious all around, and one can’t help but think that each and every death may have been preventable.
Depression can manifest in a number of forms—a sad mood, loss of interest in previously pleasurable activities, fluctuation in weight, psychomotor agitation or retardation, fatigue, inappropriate guilt, difficulty with concentration, as well as repeated thoughts of death. It is important to recognize that depression is more than just one, or even a few, “bad days” with these symptoms. The American Psychiatric Association states that five or more of the above symptoms must be present for a continuous period of at least two weeks. For now, forget the clinical definition of depression, and let’s take a step back to examine the bigger picture.
Williams had prior struggles with substance abuse, cocaine and alcohol, but was relatively open about his challenges and sought rehabilitation multiple times. Maybe each of these instances was a cry for help, almost certainly they were symptoms of a much deeper malaise. This coincidence of depression and substance abuse is not uncommon. Though a causal arrow is far from obvious, depression is associated with other negative health behaviors and consequences, including smoking and alcohol consumption as well as physical inactivity and sleep abnormalities. Evidence has demonstrated that those who carry a diagnosis of depression are four times as likely to develop a heart attack than those without a history of the illness. Though I doubt the two diseases are truly causative, the importance lies in the story behind the total health experience of a patient suffering from depression, including destructive lifestyle behaviors and neglect of physical well-being.
There are two major forms of depressive disorders—major depression, the type of depression described above, and persistent depressive disorder, which is a depressed mood that lasts for more than two years. Within these forms, the severity of depression can vary over time.
As our understanding of the personal and social toll of depression has evolved, so has our ability to treat it. Treatment for depression is highly individualized and tracks with severity of the disease. For mild to moderate depression, psychotherapy, which involves some form of structured conversation with a trained counselor, psychologist, or psychiatrist, and antidepressants have been shown to be effective.
The arsenal of drugs to treat depression has grown to include selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors, serotonin modulators, tricyclic antidepressants, and monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs). The common theme amongst these drugs is they all aim to restore or modify the balance of critical signaling molecules in the brain, called neurotransmitters. SSRIs are the most widely prescribed class of antidepressants.
One option for unresolved depression is electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). Though ECT conjures frightening images of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, this procedure, in which electric currents are passed through the brain, is definitively more sophisticated today and can be of great use to patients with medically-refractory depression. Though still under investigation, other drugs and treatments like deep brain stimulation and targeted radiation therapy, hold promise for patients with depression that does not respond to traditional treatment.
Patients often describe depression as truly painful and disabling, and I have seen it. Even with all the fancy brain scanners and monitoring devices we have today, we are still left without a tool to help understand or measure the pain felt by a person. One of the most complicated disease processes to date, mental health remains a black box that science and society is only now beginning to expose. As we move toward unraveling the mystery that is a brain and emotional health, we must remain vigilant in our compassion and never presume to know the depth of internal battles being waged in the minds of others.
The hill is also the location of several elementary, middle and high schools, including Kings College Budo.
Nsangi is a sub-county located on the tarmacked, all-weather Kampala - Masaka Highway. It is located approximately 20 kilometres west of Kampala by road. The exact population of Nsangi is not known as at February 2015.
The sub-county has 10 zones with not less than four villages in each zone. However, only the three zones of Nsangi, Buddo and Kyengera, are well known.
Mastula Namuddu, a land broker in the area says: "One of the most known activities in the area is mediating between land buyers and land owners. This has unfortunately opened doors to land fragmentation, which has caused a lot of conflict in the area."
Jane Kamya, a former woman councillor for Nsangi says the area is endowed with a number of tourist sites that make it one of the most important regions of Buganda.
The main tourism attraction is the Naggalabi Coronation site, the official coronation site for all Kings of Buganda Kingdom (Kabakas). It is believed that it is here that Buganda Kingdom was born during the 14th century.
The hill is also the location of several elementary, middle and high schools, including Kings College Budo, a prestigious mixed boarding high school, attended by Buganda's Kings starting with Captain Sir Daudi Chwa II , the 34th Kabaka of the Kingdom of Buganda, who reigned between 1987 and 1939.
Kamya says just like any other developing town, most of the roads in Nsangi are murram. She, however, adds that infrastructural development in the area has improved since many private schools have been constructed there. Nsangi Secondary School is the only government secondary school in the district.

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