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Some participants say Accelerate gives people courage and support whether they win or not.
At the first Accelerate competition in 2015, Matthew Fieldman pitched, and won for Cleveland Codes, his software bootcamp idea. The idea transformed into a full-fledged academy within Tri-C, helping low-income individuals gain the skills and connections for sustainable software careers each year.
Lee Chilcote, who also pitched a literary conference at the first Accelerate competition, wasn’t a winner. But he says the event gave him momentum to hold the conference later that year, in partnership with the Cleveland Public Library.
He went on to form a new nonprofit, Literary Cleveland, www.litcleveland.org, a program that has touched thousands of lives through workshops, readings, and other events focused on creating a stronger community of writers and readers in Cleveland.
“Accelerate gave us the kick in the pants to get going,” Chilcote said.
It has been a long time since a person as young as Candace Owens appeared on the political scene who is as brilliant, grounded, and quick-thinking as she is. She is the same age as Rep. Ocasio-Cortez! Let that sink in a minute.
Owens has about a hundred I.Q. points on the supremely ignorant Ocasio-Cortez. Owens's grace and class are the antithesis of Ocasio-Cortez's empty-headed, ditzy meanderings. Owens's videos are all worth watching, and her performance on Tuesday in front of the House Oversight Committee was spectacular. She put the Democrats on that committee to shame, especially Jerrold Nadler and Ted Lieu. Both of them tried their best to humiliate her, to use her as a prop in their latest narrative that Trump is responsible for a make-believe rise of white nationalism and white supremacy. The two of them are imbecilic at best. Their focus on "white nationalism" is nonsense, but that is all the Democrats have now: nonsense.
Owens's opening statement, for any conservative who watched it, was cause for a standing ovation. Miraculously, she has somehow escaped the mind-numbing indoctrination that has afflicted so many young people, especially those who ventured onto a college campus as students. She left the University of Rhode Island after her junior year — smart girl. She is the director of communications of Turning Point, USA, a young conservative group founded by Charlie Kirk, who is equally young and un-indoctrinated by tenured radicals. She is also the founder of Blexit, which encourages black Americans to leave the Democratic Party for its failure to do anything for black Americans but tell them they are victims of enduring racism — a lie at best, soul-killing abuse at worst. It is difficult to know if the Democrats take this movement seriously, but they should, for it has many, many adherents. The contrast between the nothing Obama did for American blacks over his eight years and what Trump has done for them in two is stunning. Those who are willing to admit that fact are leaving the Left.
In the hearing on Tuesday that was to be about hate groups, the intellectually challenged Ted Lieu of California tried to submarine Owens with a short excerpt from a recording of a talk Owens had given where she was asked about nationalism. Lieu clearly had no idea whom he was up against; Owens eviscerated him for the dirty trick and for assuming that black Americans are "stupid" and would not know to find the entirety of her answer to that question online. The odious Jerrold Nadler interrupted her to scold her for calling a member of the committee "stupid." She had not. Owens nicely pointed out that he had not been listening. He is as much of an ignoramus on this committee as he is on the Judiciary Committee, out of his depth.
Nadler and Lieu, like Schiff and Swalwell, are political bottom-feeders. They care not one bit about their constituents, the American people, facts, or the truth. All they know and feel is their hatred for President Trump, and that hatred has infected their brains. It has obliterated their ability to think critically.
Our left today has gone stark-raving mad. Leftists have no ideas. As usual, they want to raise taxes, punish those who have succeeded, and redistribute their wealth. They sell fear and victimology. They want to import millions of migrants from third-world nations to vote for them, illegally. They have done and continue to do terrible damage to this nation. And now they want to point us in the direction that Venezuela has gone: total destruction of a once civilized society. They are yet again trying to sell socialism to Americans! They really do think we are all stupid.
The lovely and quick-witted Ms. Owens is a dose of best medicine. She is optimism, hope, belief in America, and intellectual prowess all in one beautiful package. She is a gifted speaker and a natural leader. That she is on our side gives us old conservatives renewed faith in our youth. It is Trump's agenda, and how it has played out so far, that has invigorated Owens and given rise to her spectacular voice. She is a blessing on us all, our rose among thorns.
Although the snow forced cancellation of afternoon sessions, the two-day high school United Nations Conference which concluded yesterday at Moravian College was the best ever, according to one of the conference's organizers.
Brenda Ruggiero, president of Moravian's Student Society for International Relations, who has helped organize the conference for four years, said it gets better every year. "The students are coming more prepared," she said.
Three hundred students from 14 area high schools representing 51 countries participated in the conference, which included mock committee meetings, General Assembly and Security Council sessions.
Among the issues discussed were peaceful advancements of nuclear applications, apartheid in South Africa, famine in Africa, financing of economic development in underdeveloped countries, the Iran-Iraq war and international terrorism.
The conference was scheduled to run 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Thursday and yesterday, but the snow put a halt to the conference each day at noon.
In addition to Ruggiero, about 10 Moravian students helped out with the conference. The college students are currently on break between January session and spring term.
MOBILE, Ala. -- Germany met Mardi Gras Thursday night, as members of the AlabamaGermany Partnership gathered at the Battle House to salute the European country's investments in the state.
The non-profit group promotes cultural and business relations between Alabama and Germany, with individual and corporate members. It was created in 1989 in the wake of a Mercedes-Benz plant being located near Tuscaloosa. German companies employ more than 12,000 Alabamians directly.
About 250 members of the group, meeting in Mobile for the first time, took in the Mystic Stripers parade before sitting down for their annual dinner.
The partnership is marking another German business milestone in the state -- the $5 billion ThyssenKrupp AG plant that is building toward full operation in Calvert.
Executive Director Lauren Goodson, though, said the group doesn't want to skip over other large German operations in Mobile, including the Evonik Industries AG chemical plant in Theodore, the Berg Spiral Pipe Corp. plant in the Plateau neighborhood north of downtown, and BASF in McIntosh.
Thursday night, Alabama Development Office Director Seth Hammett recognized 10 German companies that created more than 2,000 jobs with expansions in 2010. Most of those jobs were created at the ThyssenKrupp steel complex.
"I want to thank each and every one of the companies for their trust in Alabama and for creating jobs for our citizens," Hammett said in a statement.
State schools Superintendent Joe Morton honored Muriel Hoequist, a teacher at the Alabama School of Math and Science, as the state's German teacher of the year.
"I want to congratulate Mrs. Hoequist for receiving the award and want to thank her for enriching the lives of her students by learning the foreign language, developing an interest in another country, and for widening the students' perspectives," Arndt Siepmann, the partnership's chair, said in a statement.
The group also honored the late Barbara Fischer, a University of Alabama German professor and founding board member of the partnership. She died in a car wreck in May.
Today, David Bronner, the head of the Retirement Systems of Alabama will give a speech to the group. Members will then travel to the ThyssenKrupp plant in Calvert, where they will participate in a panel on hiring and training employees, and take a tour of the steel complex.
NGO — Citizens Resource and Action Initiative (CRANTI) — submitted a memorandum to Governor O P Kohli, requesting him not to sign the Bill.
Through the booklet, the Congress has hit out at the BJP government, accusing it of doing injustice to people in areas like education, health, employment, agriculture, child welfare, among others in the four years since Narendra Modi became the prime minister.
In 2002, during a visit to Ahmedabad in the aftermath of the riots, the then prime minister Vajpayee had asked Modi, then the CM of Gujarat, to perform “Raj Dharma” at a joint press conference, marking a pivotal moment in the entire episode.
On Saturday, Leader of Opposition Paresh Dhanani had written a letter to CM Vijay Rupani, demanding convening of a special session of the Assembly.
Taking part in the BJP’s nationwide Loktantra Bachao Upvaas (Fast for Saving Democracy), Chief Minister Vijay Rupani joined state BJP leaders on their fast. Initially, he was scheduled to participate in a fasting event in Lal Darwaja area.
The Gujarat Assembly has issued an order restricting the number of unstarred questions an MLA can ask to three per week. Is that unusual?
The photos show the youth sitting on the chair of Speaker as well as on one of the chairs of the MLAs.
The order, which was issued on March 28, also states that an MLA cannot ask an “unstarred” question when the Assembly is in session and the three “unstarred” questions have to be submitted when the Assembly is not in session.
In a statement issued by Parliamentary Affairs ministers Bhupendrasinh Chudasama and Pradeepsinh Jadeja, they said that the Assembly has powers to frame rules for its functioning and is not answerable to any outside authority in following the same, and that it can act differently from the said rules at its discretion.
(Host) An increasing number of businesses in Vermont are going wireless. Wireless networks offer convenience and mobility by connecting computers without using cables. But experts say these systems can be a vulnerable target for computer hackers. Beginning today a small army of people will be prowling the streets trying to expose the weaknesses of wireless systems.
(Zind) It’s called a War Drive. The recruits are part of a loosely knit, worldwide group of computer professionals and interested hobbyists. They’re armed with laptop computers connected to an antenna mounted on their car. They drive around probing for access to wireless computer networks.
(Zind) War Drivers may seem like a high tech monkey wrench gang, but Flaherty says they’re not hackers. Their aim is to identify vulnerable systems, not break into them. He says by reporting to a central web site on how many weak systems are found, War Drivers raise awareness of the problem.
(Zind) According to the State police Computer Crimes Unit, hacking into wireless systems hasn’t been a problem in Vermont, as it has it other states.
What happens to used guitar strings? Some of them get turned into Relix bands, innovative bracelets made out of previously played guitar strings from acclaimed musicians such as Keith Richards, Jack Johnson, Ani DiFranco and John Mayer. Available through the “Wear Your Music Campaign,” each accessory’s profits benefit charities of the musician’s choice.
Her bad haircut matched her terrible temper.
A rage-filled woman apparently unhappy with her new hairdo attacked a salon with a sledgehammer, video of her bizarre rampage shows.
The petite client, clad in hot pink shorts and a black top, storms into the beauty salon with the heavy hammer and immediately starts smashing mirrors and cabinets before shouting at hairdressers.
No one in the near-empty salon tries to stop the woman during her destructive temper tantrum or appears to be concerned.
At one point, another client slowly gets out of her chair to let the weapon-wielding woman unleash her fury on the mirror in front of her.
Some online commenters have suggested the video was staged.
"Ok, I have to ask, why was this person already recording before the woman walked in with the sledgehammer?" one user wrote. "I'm guessing this was staged. People will do anything for views."
The footage, reportedly filmed at a salon in Southeast Asia, has been watched nearly 500,000 times since it was published about two weeks ago.
Campaigners behind plans to excavate St Piran's oratory at Perranporth in Cornwall say they desperately need more financial help.
The St Piran Project wants to uncover the ancient church, which is buried beneath the sands.
A bid to the Objective One programme recently for funding for the project was unsuccessful.
Thousands of people are set to march across the dunes to the oratory on Sunday to celebrate Cornwall's saint.
The ancient church on the dunes near Perranporth is believed to be one of the oldest sites of Christian worship in the British Isles.
The secretary of the St Piran Project, Eileen Carter, said the church was a vital part of Cornish heritage.
"The oratory is the centre of Cornish culture and heritage and we believe it should be reclaimed for the people of Cornwall.
"It is an icon and it's something we have to get excavated and cared for in the future."
The dunes march is the biggest event of the St Piran-tide calendar.
On Friday, hundreds of people marched through the centre of Truro to mark the actual saints day, but more people are expected on Sunday.
The procession will makes its way through the dunes, stopping at the Celtic Cross and the oratory.
Along the way a three-part play, illustrating the life of St Piran, will be performed.
Perran Beach is where St Piran is said to have come ashore in the sixth Century, having made the journey from Ireland in a currach.
Snapchat’s now allowing publishers to link their Discover channel’s content directly on Facebook and Twitter.
Demonstrated by Vox media today, links lead to a page with a QR code, which users can click through to open the app or scan if they are looking at it on desktop.
You could also take a screenshot of the QR code and use it as a reminder to open the post later on too.
The update comes not long after the ephemeral messaging service dropped the cost of its ads by $600,000 and started offering audience bundles to advertisers so the can target their posts at the right people.
Snapchat has come under scrutiny recently because of valuation and its value to brands, which up until the recent price cut were paying quite a large amount for advertising on the platform without any feedback or statistics available akin to Facebook or Twitter.
Allowing publishers to deep link to their channels and content outside the app is one way of pacifying the issue for the moment, as advertisers can look at the insights from the posts on Facebook and Twitter as an indicator of how much engagement was generated.
In the long term, it won’t serve as a substitution for Snapchat developing its own methods of giving advertisers feedback, but it should definitely help to keep the brands on side for now.
The Indian space agency will not test fly any living being on its two experimental flights before its actual human space mission planned in 2022, said a top official.
"We have no plans to test fly any living being like live animals in our two test flights before sending human beings into the space in our rocket," K. Sivan, Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), told IANS.
"There are systems that monitor and relay the various conditions inside the rocket. Based on the data received, any corrective action could be taken. There is no need to fly a living being to check the conditions inside the rocket while in space," Sivan added.
Space agencies would normally fly an animal first in an unmanned space mission to test the life support systems before putting a man inside a rocket to fly it.
As per ISRO's plans, the Indian astronaut will be flown 300-400 km above the earth.
There will be two test flights of India's heaviest rocket Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III (GSLV-Mk III) before an actual human being is put inside a rocket to travel up into the space.
Sivan had earlier told IANS that the first unmanned flight as part of a manned space mission will happen two years from now.
Sivan said ISRO was now trying to put a system in place for executing the human space mission. Everything related to the human space mission should be in a loop and hence a separate system is necessary, he said.
Sivan said the space agency had submitted a budget plan to the central government involving an outlay of Rs 9,000 crore for the proposed manned space mission.
According to Sivan, the funds sanction for the human space mission may not be a problem as the project was announced by the government.
In his Independence Day address, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that India will put an Indian in space by 2022 or earlier.
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The University of Northern Colorado never trailed, defeating Bradley 75-58 in a nonconference women’s basketball game on Thursday at Butler-Hancock Sports Pavilion.
Bears senior guard Whitley Cox scored 23 points, the most this season by a UNC player. It is the second time in three home games Cox has scored more than 20 points.
Northern Colorado (5-5) SHOT 47.9 percent from the field, including 47.4 percent from 3-point range. Bears junior guard Courtney Stoermer and freshman guard Victoria Timm added 12 points apiece.
Holyoke City Council President Kevin A. Jourdain announces candidacy for the Ward 6 council seat Dec. 9 at City Hall.
HOLYOKE -- Kevin A. Jourdain has been a city councilor for 22 years, board president for four years, member of every council committee and role-player in every major city project in that time, and now, he's trying something new.
Jourdain, 43, an at large councilor since he joined the City Council, recently had his nomination papers certified by the registrar of voters office to run for the Ward 6 council seat in the Nov. 3 election.
"For 22 years as a city councilor, I have had a unique opportunity to give back to the city I love. Very few positions in municipal government or civic life afford someone quite the same opportunity as being a city councilor to help others and genuinely improve the future direction of the city," Jourdain said.
Jourdain, of 18 Raymond Ave., announced his bid for the Ward 6 seat Dec. 9. That came a week after Todd A. McGee, who has been the Ward 6 councilor for nine years, said he won't run for reelection to the seat after his current term expires at the end of 2015. McGee, who has moved to George Street, has since said he is running for the Ward 7 council seat.
"Ward 6 deserves a councilor who can deliver for the ward and make sure it receives the resources it needs to have the best neighborhoods and infrastructure," Jourdain said.
"Ward 6 and the whole city deserves to have a councilor who has the education, experience and energy to build a budget, get common sense laws adopted and make sure that our city departments are accountable to the people they serve," he said.
Jourdain is employed as a lawyer and as director of managed care with the Sisters of Providence Health System.
Mark Riffenburg, of Ridgewood Avenue, former deputy treasurer here, also is running for the Ward 6 council seat.
Jourdain said that his experience in more than two decades on the City Council means he has reviewed 22 city budgets. He has helped build up the more than $12 million stabilization, or rainy day, fund. He also has been part of decisions that led to repairs of roads and sidewalks and construction of a new Police Station, two fire stations, a new library and a new Senior Center, he said.
"As a councilor, I make sure that our city does not spend more than it has coming in. I also make sure Holyoke's government is always on the side of our working families and seniors and that they are treated with respect," Jourdain said.
Jourdain has a law degree from the Massachusetts School of Law in Andover, a master's in business administration from Anna Maria College in Paxton and bachelor's in political science and economics from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.
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