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Six Classic Films From Rajshri DVD [6 Disc Pack]
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Hum Aapke Hain Koun...! Blu-ray Rs.539
Nadiya Ke Paar DVD [Platinum Series] Rs.99
Nadiya Ke Paar DVD Rs.99
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Rajshri Milestones: Chitchor / Hum Aapke Hain Koun...! / Dosti / Saaransh / Geet Gaata Chal / Nadiya Ke Paar DVD [6 Disc Pack] Rs.499
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6 Movie Set
Nadiya Ke Paar (1982)
Cast: Sachin, Sadhana Singh, Mitali, Inder Thakur, Savita Bajaj, Leela Mishra, Sheela David
Director: Govind Moonis
Music Director: Ravindra Jain
Ankhiyon Ke Jharokhon Se (1978)
Cast: Sachin, Ranjeeta, Madan Puri, Iftekhar, Urmila Bhatt, Rajendra Nath, Junior Mehmood, Harindranath Chatterjee, Murad, Birbal, Ritu Kamal, Ruby Mayer, Tun Tun
Geet Gaata Chal (1975)
Cast: Sachin, Sarika, Urmila Bhatt, Madan Puri, Padma Khanna, Manhar Desai, Minoo Mehtab, Agha, Dhumal, Junior Mehmood
Maine Pyar Kiya (1989)
Also Known As: Maine Pyaar Kiya
The Call of two young hearts smitten with love....!
Prem and Suman... He the son of a multimillionaire, Kishen... and She the daughter of an ordinary motor mechanic, Karan... run into each other and cultivate mutual liking which culminates into a CALL OF LOVE....! Losing themselves in the whirlwind of love-laden dreams they sing and dance.... happy like skylarks with hopes verging on fulfillment. Prem's mother has already accepted Suman as her prospective daughter-in-law...!
But social prejudice always comes in way of love. The mercenary multimillionaire Kishen not only injures the loving hearts, but also rudely insults Karan, his childhood friend. Love becomes hapless victim of class prejudice... Prem and Suman are thrown apart...!
The young lovers brave the hazards... struggle hard to overcome the onslaught of class hatred and succeed in realizing their dream of love...!
Cast: Salman Khan, Bhagyashree, Mohnish Behl, Alok Nath, Laxmikant Berde, Reema Lagoo, Ajit Vachani, Rajeev Verma, Pervin Dastur, Dilip Joshi, Raju Srivastava, Deep Dhillon, Huma Khan, Shreechand Makhija
Director: Sooraj Barjatya
Music Director: Raam-Laxman
Hum Aapke Hain Koun...! (1994)
Also Known As: Hum Aapke Hain Kaun
This is the story of Prem and Nisha. A top student, Prem is learning the ropes of business under his elder brother Rajesh and uncle Kailashnath, a big industrialist. In another town, Nisha is doing computers and is the darling of her elder sister Pooja and parents Prof. Choudhryand Kamladevi. Fate brings the two families together and this results in the fixing up of the betrothal of Rajesh and Pooja. This is when Prem meets Nisha and falls in love with this carefree girl, who just brushes past him, making his heart skip a beat again and again.
...And its marriage time for Prem's elder brother and Nisha's elder sister. A typical Indian marriage, which is full of gaiety and splendour, where youngsters have a great time with their pranks not sparing one another. Amongst all the rituals, fun and games comes a moment which changes the lives of Prem and Nisha, a physical touch, a close proximity which makes Nisha shy away in embarrassment a sensitive moment for which Prem tenders his apology to Nisha while parting. For the first time, Nisha's heart longs to belong...
With the coming of Pooja as the lady of the house, joy knows no bounds in Prem's family. Months pass by, Pooja conceives and Nisha is invited to come and stay with her sister and attend the traditional function before the child's delivery. Nisha's arrival is like a dream come for Prem. Nisha stays back till the birth of the child, taking over the household chores and becoming ver much a part of the family, In soft whispers, Prem & Nisha commit their love for each other and secretly dream of spending a life-time together ... when fate strikes a cruel blow in the sudden demise of Pooja.
Life comes to a standstill. The future of his motherless child worries Rajesh and causes his health to deteriorate. It is here that Nisha's father suggest that Nisha should get married to Rajesh and become the mother of Pooja's child. Love is at a test. The lovers decide to sacrifice their love for the sake of the family. Truly, what a way to love...!
Cast: Salman Khan, Madhuri Dixit, Renuka Shahane, Mohnish Behl, Anupam Kher, Reema Lagoo, Alok Nath, Bindu, Ajit Vachani, Satish Shah, Himani Shivpuri, Sahila Chaddha, Dinesh Hingoo, Babbanlal Yadav
Hum Saath-Saath Hain: We Stand United (1999)
Cast: Salman Khan, Karisma Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan, Tabu, Sonali Bendre, Mohnish Behl, Mahesh Thakur, Alok Nath, Reema Lagoo, Neelam, Satish Shah, Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Shakti Kapoor, Ajit Vachani, Himani Shivpuri, Dilip Dhawan, Shammi, Jayshree T, Kalpana Iyer, Huma Khan, Achyut Potdar, Kunika
Label: Moser Baer
Catalog No: DHIF 1732S-1737S
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B.Sc. LL.B (Hons.) Course - Gujarat National Law University (GNLU)
B.Sc. LL.B (Hons.)
Gujarat National Law University (GNLU) Gandhinagar
Sub Category: Law
About B.Sc. LL.B (Hons.) Course
Here are the details of B.Sc. LL.B (Hons.) Course including duration, Eligibility, Admission Criteria, Fees and Syllabus.
B.Sc. LL.B (Hons.) is Five year integrated course
Eligibility for Admission:- Successful clearance of Higher Secondary School/Intermediate Examination (10+2) or its equivalent examination with not less that 50% marks in aggregate (45% in case of SC/ST/OBC and Persons with Disability) subject to reservation at the University concerned. Candidate appearing in the qualifying examination can also appear provisionally. However they shall have to produce proof of having passed the qualifying exam before or at the time of counseling with detailed mark sheet.
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General Candidate:- Rs. 85,000/-
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Gujarat National Law University (GNLU) is the statutory university established by the Govt. of Gujarat National Law University Act, 2003.
The ethos of imparting education in Gujarat National Law University comprises of a mutual endeavor of the Faculty and the students who become part of our august family after clearing the hurdle of a rigorous and strenuous selection procedure. The cream of the country finds a place amidst us. The University has been in a process of striving for academic and professional excellence in the field of legal studies in the country. The University became functional from the year, 2004. Our teaching methodology and the student response to it can be safely summarized as being par excellence. Our student fraternity has won us laurels in the various spheres of national and international moot court competitions, paper presentations and the attendant Cultural activities. We strive for an all round and inter-disciplinary academic excellence in sync with the other National Law Schools of the country.
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Press Releases about new features and enhancements to infofree.com as well as company information.
New Email Function Improves Infofree.com’s CRM Tool
Posted on June 27, 2016 by Paolo
Infofree.com’s New CRM Email Function Makes Sending Emails Easier
OMAHA, NE–(Marketwired – June 27, 2016) – Infofree.com, the premier provider of unlimited sales leads and a free CRM, has added a new function to their CRM. Users are now able to pre-write and save email templates in the CRM. These templates can help make sending emails to multiple people much easier and more effective.
“Being able to reach out to multiple leads by sending saved email templates with just a few clicks makes the work of the user so much more efficient,” said Prajol Shakya, Software Developer for Infofree.com.
With the users being able to send up to 250 emails a day, this updated feature allows for a much smoother and faster emailing process and gives the user the ability to reach out to more customers. It cuts down the time needed to create multiple messages or similar messages to different individuals. The email function is included with any Infofree.com subscription.
Infofree.com subscribers are able to access the easy-to-use online database that provides sales leads, mailing lists, credit reports, background/criminal searches, and free CRM.
About Us: Infofree.com™ is a cloud-based, Software-As-A-Service (S-a-a-S) system that provides sales leads and mailing lists for a low monthly price. With Infofree.com’s system, you get unlimited sales leads, and the free CRM for a low monthly price. It also offers a mobile application with mapping features. Infofree.com’s triple-verified databases include 14 million businesses, 240 million consumers, and 26 million executives. Infofree.com was founded by Vin Gupta. Reach new homeowners, new movers, newlyweds, new businesses and much more at www.infofree.com.
Posted on April 21, 2015 by Paolo
Federal Judge Denies Infogroup®’s Request for Preliminary Injunction against DatabaseUSA, Infofree.com, and AtoZ Databases
Judge John Gerrard rules against Infogroup® on all counts of their request
Omaha, NE (Marketwired – April 17, 2015) – The full 33 page judgement can be read here: www.databaseusa.com/lawsuit.
On the issue of improperly acquiring information from Infogroup’s proprietary databases, Judge Gerrard said, “Information from at least some of Infogroup’s seed files has been found in other competitors’ data and on public search engines… But there must be some showing, and here there is not: to the extent that Infogroup’s motion is focused on ‘webscraping,’ such conduct is not unlawful under Nebraska law.”
Additionally, the judge also noted that “But DatabaseUSA’s evidence pokes some holes in that theory. The information in Infogroup’s database is not wholly unavailable to the world at large – to begin with, while some data may come from private sources or Infogroup’s own information-gathering, a substantial amount of the data is compiled from publicly-available sources… DatabaseUSA’s evidence also casts a substantial doubt on whether any of the individual employee defendants could have obtained the data at issue. Three of the five individual defendants were terminated by Infogroup before the November 2011 seed data was inserted into the Infogroup database. Another was not hired by DatabaseUSA until after the June 2013 audit that discovered the seed data. And none of the former Infogroup employees (with the presumable exception of Gupta, who was out the door by 2008) had the necessary access to Infogroup’s database to have perpetrated a heist.”
Also, on the issue of engaging in false advertising, Judge Gerrard stated, “Because the Court finds that DatabaseUSA’s use of the word ‘verified’ is neither literally false, nor misleading in context, and that no tendency to deceive or actual deception has been shown, the Court finds that Infogroup has not shown a likelihood of succeeding on its claim.”
On the issue of the relationship between Mr. Gupta and Infogroup having been falsely represented and confusing customers, Judge Gerrard said, “And in this case, Gupta’s identification of himself as the founder of Infogroup and its associated entities is accurate – and Gupta is entitled to accurately describe his experience in the industry when marketing his company’s products and services… Nor, the court finds, has Infogroup sufficiently demonstrated actual confusion on the part of consumers. Infogroup’s evidence of confused consumers is, again, anecdotal at best.
Finally, on the issue of the “60 Minutes” video, Judge Gerrard stated, “Infogroup also contends that the ‘60 Minutes’ references, and description of DatabaseUSA as having been creating databases ‘since 1972,’ somehow supports its false association claim. Filing 81 at 16-17. But neither the ‘60 Minutes’ excerpts, nor the slogan, make any direct reference to Infogroup.”
Click here for the press release.
Infofree.com™ is revolutionizing the sales lead and mailing list industry by providing unlimited search, select and view of over 14 million businesses, 250 million consumers and hundreds of other specialty databases for low, flat rates. Reach new homeowners, new movers, newlyweds, new businesses and much more at www.infofree.com.
DatabaseUSA.com provides high-quality, full service database and email marketing solutions to businesses and sales professionals. With over 200 years combined experience, the company is revolutionizing the way businesses find new prospects and grow their sales. DatabaseUSA.com proudly offers a 95% accurate, triple-verified database of mailing lists, email lists, and sales leads, as well as direct mail, database enhancements, and many other marketing and sales lead services.
AtoZdatabases, powered by DatabaseUSA.com, is a leading provider of job searches, reference, and marketing databases for public libraries, academic institutions, and government agencies across the United States.
Infofree.com Sales Leads Loved by Mortgage Broker
Posted on October 14, 2014 by Bob Smith
Infofree.com has received a positive review suggesting its mortgage leads are superior to those of competitor companies.
San Mateo, CA (October 9, 2014) – Infofree.com, the premier provider of sales leads and mailing lists, has received an outstanding review and recommendation from Tim Kepler, a Mortgage Advisor for Landmark Mortgage Group.
Kepler has been using Infofree.com’s sales leads since 2012. He continues to use the service for the great value and quantity of mortgage sales leads he’s found. Kepler has found the mortgage leads he needs to utilize a variety of marketing tools to grow his mortgage banking firm.
Kepler endorses Infofree.com’ sales leads at the affordable rate of only $49.95 per month. While he has used other systems in the past, he has found a better value, at only $49.95 per month, in his Infofree.com subscription.
“I have found that the value and the information and the ease of search with infofree was superior to other companies and other firms that I’ve worked with,” Kepler said of the tool.
Landmark Mortgage Group is a multi-purpose financial institution on the west coast. The mortgage banking firm focuses on providing mortgage financing for purpose and refinancing residential real estate. To learn more go to www.lmglending.com.
Kepler and his associates can find value in mortgage and real estate leads, as well as other sales leads and database lists from Infofree.com.
Infofree.com is a subscription-based service providing sales leads, mailing lists, business credit reports, background/criminal searches and a fee contact manager, CRM101. To access this quality information go to www.infofree.com.
About Us: Infofree.com™ is revolutionizing the sales lead and mailing list industry by providing search, select and view of over 15 million business records, 250 million consumers and hundreds of other specialty databases for a low, flat price. Reach new homeowners, new movers, newlyweds, new businesses and much more!
Vin Gupta’s InfoFree.com Reinvents CRM and Lead Gen Tools For Small Business
Posted on January 8, 2014 by Bob Smith
A Series of Forbes Insights Profiles of Thought Leaders Changing the Business Landscape: Vinod Gupta, Founder and CEO, InfoFree.com…
The content of this article was published on Forbes.com on January 8, 2014. You can read the original article here.
Legendary pioneer of database marketing and lead generation services, Vinod “Vin” Gupta is at it again. After creating his first start-up in 1972, taking it public in 1993 and then selling it in 2010, he’s out to disrupt the lead generation business once again with the introduction of InfoFree.com.
Launched in 2011 with no outside funding, Gupta’s InfoFree is a user friendly and inexpensive online resource that allows sales people and small sized businesses to market to their most relevant audiences by providing unlimited sales leads, mailing lists, business credit reports, e-mail lists, and other relevant databases that connect through a simple, but powerful CRM package for just $49.95 a month. InfoFree now has over 10,000 subscribers and 100,000 users through its freemium model.
“We built our CRM service ourselves. Our customers find CRM packages like Salesforce.com too complicated for their needs. I call it ‘CRM for Dummies’ with 3-4 simple but powerful functions. 90% of our customers didn’t use a CRM, so we asked them what they needed. We want to reach the least common denominator to develop the largest possible market. There are five million small businesses and 20 million sales people, that’s the size of the market we are going after.
We’re a self-service subscription model based in the Cloud,” says Gupta. “I remember meeting Marc Benioff at the Aspen Institute 10 years ago. He was telling me how he was going to revolutionize the CRM business and how he was changing the enterprise software model from licensing to recurring subscription revenue. It stuck with me,” continues Gupta.
Having risen to success, he lost all independence in the running of his previous business and faced both shareholder law suits and an SEC investigation, following which he sold in 2010. He plans to keep InfoFree private. “It’s run like a family company, which is the way I prefer it now. I’m no longer a prisoner to managing a board or investors. I spend my time helping customers. I just love being an entrepreneur. If you have a good product, at a great price and you’re proud of it–you just tell the truth. It’s not a hard sell. My goal is to have one million users paying $49.95 a month,” continues Gupta.
After receiving his bachelor’s degree in agriculture engineering IIT Kharagpur, Gupta immigrated to the United States to seek his higher education. He earned both a master’s in engineering and a master’s in business administration from the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. He built his start-up in the ’70’s after arriving in the US with nothing more than $58 in his pocket. He grew a database business from his garage with 4,800 yellow pages books and turned it into a multi-million dollar, NASDAQ-listed corporation. “The first time I was compiling Yellow Pages. I said I was creating a list. I didn’t know at the time that I was an entrepreneur,” says Gupta.
His first created “sales list” sent 5,000 pages of Yellow Pages contact information via a WATTS line. He then decided to sell the list to others. His first year in sales were $44,000 with a profit of over $22,000. “I thought I was a millionaire,” says Gupta. Over the years, Gupta grew the company from a stack of Yellow Pages in his garage, acquired 45 companies, and took the company public in 1993.
One might think time and great success would slow the irrepressible serial entrepreneur. At 67 years old, Gupta has done and seen it all, yet he remains a man in perpetual motion. “I’m one month older than my friend Bill Clinton,” says Gupta, who like the former President, continues to work and devote time and money to philanthropic activities. He is active in a number of charities, sits on the Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington, DC and endows a number of schools in his native India. He set up a business and law school at his alma mater—I.I.T. Kharagpur—by donating $8 million of his own money.
“Work keeps me happy. My dad said never stopped working. He’s 95 and is still working. To me, work is a holiday compared to growing up in a village in India, with no running water, no toilet and working for $40 a month. Just like my friend Warren Buffet says, ‘I tap dance to work every day’,” concludes Gupta.
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Your Sales Force is Impotent without Infofree.com Sales Leads
Posted on March 29, 2013 by Bob Smith
Your Sales Force is Impotent without Infofree.com Sales Leads: Now Only $449/Year
San Mateo, CA (January 02, 2013) – Infofree.com, the leading provider of unlimited sales leads and mailing lists for only $49.95 per month, has just announced that salespeople can now take advantage of its service for only $449 per year.
By using the right leads, salespeople can start 2013 off on the right foot. Infofree.com offers an expansive database of over 300 million leads, including 15 million businesses, 225 million consumers, 100 million homeowners, 25,000 new businesses per week, dozens of specialty selections, and hundreds more databases. In just 18 months, its 10,000 subscribers have saved nearly $90 million with its unlimited model.
A subscription to Infofree.com for only $449 per year includes:
Over 100 databases
Higher data quality than our competitors
Unlimited search, select, and view
Unlimited print and download of sales leads
Unlimited print and view of email addresses
What’s coming next for infofree.com in 2013:
150 million cell phone numbers
Free contact manager
See your prospects on a map
Receive alerts on customers and prospects
Expanded selections and criteria
“Light a fire underneath your sales force this year with Infofree.com sales leads. My former companies are household names among salespeople and small businesses, and now I am offering the same product at a much lower price,” says Vin Gupta.
To try Infofree, visit http://www.infofree.com or call 877-448-0101 for more information.
About Us: Infofree.com™ is revolutionizing the sales lead and mailing list industry by providing unlimited search, view, and download of over 15 million business records, 225 million consumers, and hundreds of other specialty databases for the low, flat price of only $49.95 per month or $449 per year. Reach new homeowners, new movers, newlyweds, new businesses, and more!
The Infofree.com content is compatible with the following platforms: Oracle CRM, Salesforce CRM, Microsoft CRM, Nutshell CRM, Goldmine CRM, Sage ACT! CRM, Highrise CRM, Zoho CRM, NetSuite CRM, SAP CRM, Constant Contact, RightNow Technologies, Responsys, Vertical Response, and Dun & Bradstreet.
Infofree.com Raises $10 Million in Series B Funding
Infofree.com Raises $10 Million in Series B Funding from Everest Group, LLC
San Mateo, CA (January 07, 2013) – Infofree.com, the leading provider of unlimited sales leads and mailing lists for the incredible price of only $49.95 per month, is excited to announce that it has just received $10 million in Series B funding from Everest Group LLC.
Everest Group is an international private equity firm whose philosophy centers on leveraging its team’s experience to build leading service companies. It is actively seeking new acquisitions and investment opportunities with companies that deal in business services, database, email, and S-a-a-S-based technologies.
Infofree.com was founded by and is under the leadership of industry pioneer Vin Gupta. He brings nearly 40 years of experience in building databases, creating sales leads, and helping salespeople and small businesses to his new company.
“This Series B funding will allow us to invest more into technology and branding so that we can continue to enhance our product for our subscribers,” says Gupta.
About Us: Infofree.com™ is revolutionizing the sales lead and mailing list industry by providing unlimited search, view, and download of over 12 million business records, 200 million consumers, and hundreds of other specialty databases for the low, flat price of only $49.95 per month. Reach new homeowners, new movers, newlyweds, new businesses, and more!
Cell Phone Numbers to be Added to Infofree.com Databases
150 Million Cell Phone Numbers to be Appended to Infofree.com Databases
San Mateo, CA (November 30, 2012) – Infofree.com, the leading provider of unlimited sales leads and mailing lists for the low, flat price of only $49.95 per month, is excited to announce that it will soon be adding 150 million much-anticipated cell phone numbers to its consumer database.
The presence of cell phones in the U.S. has climbed steadily in the past ten years, rendering landlines all but obsolete and changing the way that marketers reach out to their prospects. In fact, more than one-quarter of Americans do not own a home phone at all, making these customers even more difficult to reach. To stay ahead of the competitive marketing environment, small businesses and sales people should take advantage of these cell phone sales leads.
“Cell phones are quickly becoming the only way to contact your prospects. Now Infofree.com customers can access 150 million cell phone numbers alongside the rest of their sales leads for the same great price of only $49.95 per month,” says Vin Gupta, Founder of Infofree.com.
In the coming months, Infofree.com will be appending its cell phone file of 150 million numbers to its consumer database of over 225 million individuals. Also in the works are enhanced mapping functionalities and a customer contact manager.
$50 Million Saved Thanks to infofree.com Unlimited Sales Leads
Posted on September 11, 2012 by Bob Smith
infofree.com, a leading provider of unlimited sales leads, mailing lists, and business credit profiles for only $49.95 per month, has announced that its subscribers have saved over $50 million and downloaded more than 500 million sales leads since its launch 13 months ago.
The average cost of a sales lead in the industry is upwards of 10-20 cents per lead. infofree.com is revolutionizing the mailing list industry by providing unlimited search and download of sales leads from dozens of databases with over 14 million businesses and 225 million consumers. Users have the ability to narrow their list of prospects by hundreds of selects, and can even access weekly “hot” databases like new businesses, new homeowners, and newlyweds, all for one flat price.
“infofree is quickly becoming the finest sales tool in the business. For one flat price, get all the sales leads you need, no annual contract, a money back guarantee, and many new features in the works,” says founder Vin Gupta.
infofree.com will be available for iPhone, iPad, and other mobile devices coming soon.
Only $42.95 per month for unlimited sales leads, mailing lists, and business credit profiles. Visit infofree.com and use promo code PR41.
About infofree.com
For $49.95 per month, the service provides unlimited search and download of sales leads and mailing lists, as well as the unlimited view and print of business credit profiles and email lists of 12 million businesses, 200 million consumers and homeowners, and hundreds of other unique databases. Reach new homeowners, new movers, newlyweds, recently divorced consumers, and new businesses with real time downloading and unlimited search.
SellingPower® Magazine Reviews infofree Sales Leads & Mailing Lists
Posted on February 13, 2012 by Bob Smith
(San Mateo, CA)- infofree™, a leading provider of Unlimited Sales Leads, Mailing Lists, Business Credit Profiles and Email Lists for $49.95 per month, will be featured in the January issue of SellingPower® Magazine. In a section titled ‘A New Lead Deal’, the article highlights how the infofree product is beneficial to all sizes of businesses as well as the individual salesperson and entrepreneur.
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Families tell Parliament why bereaved relatives need legal aid at inquests
Lucy McKay
On Wednesday 7 March, families, lawyers and representatives from the charity, INQUEST, were questioned by MPs of the Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR). The inquiry session was part of an ongoing inquiry on attitudes to enforcement of human rights, of which the findings will be presented to government.
At the evidence session Deborah Coles, Executive Director of INQUEST, appeared alongside bereaved families who gave powerful testimonies about their experiences of the inquest process and the ‘inequality of arms’ they face in accessing legal support when state agencies are represented by teams of publicly funded legal experts.
Among the participating families were Connor Sparrowhawk’s mother, Sara Ryan and stepfather, Richard Huggins. Connor had autism, a learning disability and epilepsy. An inquest jury concluded that Connor’s death was contributed to by neglect.
At the inquest, Connor’s family battled to get answers from various bodies and individuals involved in Connor’s care. Each of these were granted funding for legal representation and among them were, the mental health trust, two doctors and two other members of healthcare.
Sara and Richard appeared alongside Joseph Phuong’s sister, Louise Rowland and her husband, Simon Rowland. Connor Sparrowhawk was 18 years old when he died on 4 July 2013. Joseph Phuong, a 32-year-old man, died in June 2015 following contact with the Metropolitan police and mental health services in West London.
Of the seven interested parties represented at the inquest, Joseph’s family was the only one required to apply for funding. Merry Varney, partner at Leigh Day Solicitors also gave evidence, speaking about the importance of legal advice and funding for families.
In hearing families’ testimonies, the Committee Chair, Harriet Harman MP said they offered a ‘searing exposition’ of the relentless struggles families face. These include an adversarial inquest experience, where families are pitted against a cabal of legal teams representing a plethora of state bodies.
The Rowland family recalled their inquest experience, in which they faced multiple legal teams representing, the Metropolitan Police, the London Ambulance Service, the London Borough of Richmond, Chelsea and Westminster, an NHS foundation trust, South West London and St George’s Mental Health Trust, and West London Mental Health Trust.
Simon Rowland highlighted the power imbalance between the ‘public bodies… which were all funded’ and the family, the ‘injured party which was expected to fund itself’.
‘What you think should have happened? This may help us.’ Lord Woolf asks the families.
‘At the basic level there should be funding for legal representation for the families…who are really the injured party, are expected to fund it themselves.” Simon Rowland responds. pic.twitter.com/jAShGcIQ9Q— Human Rights Ctte (@HumanRightsCtte) March 7, 2018
Both families talked about the lack of information they received following the death of a family member, with Richard Huggins explaining, “You are given a leaflet in the family room in the morning when your child dies and it presents this process as benign, helpful and supportive… None of that was true.’
Deborah Coles, spoke of INQUEST's wide-ranging work on state related deaths. She said: “[Families] want to know the truth. They want to know whether there have been any failings and why those occurred. They want some accountability. Most importantly, they do not want it to happen again.”
.@DebatINQUEST tells @HumanRightsCtte: Families want to know the truth but most importantly, they want to prevent future deaths. Inequality of arms is the single biggest obstacle to families getting answers.— INQUEST (@INQUEST_ORG) March 7, 2018
This outcome can only be guaranteed if families have "a legitimate right to play an effective and meaningful part in the investigation into their loved one’s death", said Deborah Coles.
Responding to these accounts, Harriet Harman MP said, "the state weights the system against you because those who are acting on behalf of the state have full-on legal representation from the word go in order to defend their position…” Meanwhile families “have nothing unless you happen to find people who are prepared to do it for free.” Ms Harman thanked INQUEST for our work with families over the years, "you’ve been a lifeline", she said.
INQUEST is calling for automatic non-means tested public funding for bereaved families at inquests following state-related deaths. This recommendation has been supported by the previous and current Chief Coroner and in two recent reviews by Dame Elish Angiolini and Bishop James Jones published in 2017. It has also been supported by the Bach Commission and the Harris review into Self Inflicted Deaths in Custody.
With momentum building, INQUEST will continue to push for families' right to automatic public funding at inquests, on a par with state bodies. Only this can ensure families' access to justice, and identify failings which can help save future lives.
This hearing was part of the ongoing Joint Committee on Human Rights inquiry, Human Rights: attitudes to enforcement.
INQUEST's written submission to the JCHR Inquiry
Transcript of the JCHR evidence session
Full recording of the JCHR evidence session
Sara Ryan's blog on giving evidence at the inquiry
Additional coverage from the Justice Gap
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41 dead in Pakistan political violence
Funerals were accompanied by gunfights between two ethnic groups.
by Zarar Khan, Associated Press, Posted: May 14, 2007
KARACHI, Pakistan - Rival ethnic groups fought gun battles in this hub of economic growth yesterday, an ominous turn in a political crisis that started with the ouster of Pakistan's top judge. The death toll from a weekend of fighting rose to at least 41.
Funeral processions were accompanied by gunfights between ethnic Pashtuns and Urdu-speaking supporters of a pro-government party. Gunmen fired on ambulances, killing at least one driver, and the bullet-riddled bodies of some victims were found tied and blindfolded.
The fighting in Karachi has marked a serious escalation in a crisis that began when President Pervez Musharraf suspended the independent-minded supreme court chief on March 9. It has raised the specter of a return to ethnic bloodshed in a port city of 15 million people that has been the center of Pakistan's fast-growing economy.
The government said it deployed 15,000 security personnel to Karachi, but there was no sign they intervened to stop the violence. Opposition parties blamed Musharraf and his supporters in the Mutahida Qaumi Movement party of starting the violence.
The Karachi-based MQM party draws its main support from the Mohajirs - Muslims who fled India after the partition of the subcontinent at independence from Britain in 1947. The party emerged in the 1980s when Mohajir resentment of Pashtun control of businesses and public transport boiled over into violence that killed hundreds.
Musharraf, a U.S. ally who took power in a 1999 coup, is a Mohajir, though he does not belong to the MQM.
Security forces failed to restore order in Karachi despite the deployment of armored personnel carriers and pickup trucks topped with machine guns.
In a northern district, firefighters battled flames spreading through a row of Pashtun-owned shops after a funeral procession for an MQM activist killed the day had passed.
Gunmen traded fire across a road dividing a Pashtun-dominated residential area from a mainly Urdu-speaking quarter in western Karachi.
Most of the victims of two days of violence appeared to be Pashtun, including, police and a doctor said, the bodies of two men found tied and blindfolded yesterday in an MQM stronghold.
Police also said they found the bullet-riddled body of an MQM activist.
Hospital officials said the death toll mounted to 41 with about 150 wounded.
Anwar Kazmi, an official for the Edhi charitable foundation, said its ambulance crews had been shot at six times over the weekend. In one incident, gunmen killed a driver and two patients at a roadblock.
The trouble in Karachi started when opposition leaders and the MQM called rival demonstrations Saturday to coincide with a visit by suspended Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry.
Musharraf accused Chaudhry of abusing his position, but opposition leaders said he wanted to sideline the judge before possible legal challenges to his pursuit of another eight-year term in a parliamentary vote this fall.
Zarar Khan, Associated Press
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Controversy Flares between Regulators Over Independent Collapse
“What did you know, and when did you know it?” Those famous questions from the Watergate era could well be applied to the growing controversy between the U.K.’s Financial Services Authority and France’s Commission de Contrôle des Assurances (CCA) over the financial condition of Independent Insurance, which was put into liquidation last month with a mountain of debt and at least £62 million ($86.8 million) in unrecorded claims.
Jacques Delmas-Marsalet, who heads the CCA, charged that the FSA had ignored warnings from French regulators about the shaky condition of Independent’s French subsidiaries late last year. A formal report in in January contained evidence that Independent was attempting to hide large losses in France.
Despite these warning the FSA took no action until shortly before Independent’s collapse. Similar charges have been made by several members of parliament, who have called for a full investigation of the way the agency handled audits of Independents accounts. It apparently relied on statements by the company’s own accountants, rather than conducting its own investigation.
ly defended his agency’s conduct, asserting that the French report had added nothing to regulators knowledge on independent’s condition, and faulting the CCA for breaching the unspoken rule that one regulatory body doesn’t openly criticize another.
The FSA knew of Independent’s under reserving problem as early as January, Davies indicated, and had instructed the company to take steps to increase its capitalization. The unreported claims, possible fraud and problems with three reinsurance agreements only surfaced after the company’s attempt to do this had failed, Davies stated.
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Best Snorkeling Spots in the U.S. Virgin Islands
These island reefs just offshore are home to eagle rays, lobsters, schooling fish and even seahorses.
By Brooke Morton
Buck Island is home to a marked snorkel trail that takes visitors through 704 protected acres, making it perfect for a day trip.Shutterstock
The U.S. Virgin Islands offer snorkelers a wide mix of underwater attractions. St. Croix alone delivers reefs, plus a pier where small critters have taken up residence among the sponges that cover the pilings. Choose St. Thomas for its amenity-packed beaches, and for dayboats that visit offshore reefs. St. John, the most undeveloped of the three islands, offers so much solitude on the beaches and reefs, where you can swim face to face with trumpetfish, schools of fish and sea turtles. These are the best sports for snorkeling in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Cow and Calf Rocks, St. Thomas
Reachable by boat, Cow and Calf Rocks is both a snorkel and a scuba diving site. Most vendors, such as Aqua Action Dive Center, will ferry guests the 45 minutes from the city of Charlotte Amalie to the site. We love the spot for the elkhorn coral, lobsters and occasional sea turtle sightings. Plus, one highlight of visiting a spot with divers is that they'll often hover and point out the harder-to-find critters deeper down, from eels to stingrays.
Shoys Beach, St. Croix
Find Shoys Beach on the east end of the island, less than 10 minutes by car from the town of Christiansted. Locals love the spot for the sea grape trees lining the shore and providing shade. Visitors like the easy access to reefs home to lobster, spotted moray eels, stingrays and more.
Coki Point Beach, St. Thomas
Coki Point Beach, found on the northeastern shore of St. Thomas, is a good pick for families who want amenities—such as beach chairs and umbrellas available for rent—along with their snorkeling. A sugar-sand bottom makes for easy entry, and in the water, snorkelers will likely encounter parrotfish, remoras, schools of blue tang fish and even shoals of squid.
Buck Island, St. Croix
The nation’s only underwater national monument, Buck Island gives guests the chance to guide themselves through a marked snorkel trail that winds through the 704 protected acres. Visiting the island does require booking a daytrip with a local snorkel tour company, so don’t expect solitude.
But, once the boat moors, you’re free to explore on your own. We love swimming a bit away from the boats to the southeast side of Buck—the side that faces St. Croix. There, you can encounter hawksbill turtles, needlefish and occasionally eagle rays.
Leinster Bay, St. John
Find Leinster Bay, aka Waterlemon Cay, tucked inside a cove along the north shore, located roughly 25 minutes by car from the town of Cruz Bay. Taxi drivers will take you to the spot, but because not many travelers take them up on the offer, it tends to be free from crowds—always a bonus in our book. In the water, you’ll likely see angelfish, trumpetfish and the odd barracuda passing by. Plus, out in the sea grass beds, you may spy a green sea turtle nibbling on the buffet.
Great Lameshur Bay, St. John
Those spending at least one night on island can trek to Great Lameshur Bay on the south side of St. John. This wide flat beach opens to a wide bay where you can easily pass an afternoon snorkeling amid bigger marine fauna, including eagle rays, nurse sharks and turtles, as well as all the reef fish that flit between the sponges and corals. Keep in mind that this outpost spot is far from amenities, so pack a picnic lunch, and bring water and reef-safe sunblock.
Frederiksted Pier, St. Croix
What was once the pier for the west side town of Frederiksted is now a favorite spot for snorkelers. Weave between the pilings to watch juvenile fish, crabs, shrimps and even seahorses seeking sanctuary among the red rope sponges and orange corralimorph coral. Keep an eye on the sandy bottom for flying gurnards, a fish whose pectoral fins open like wings to reveal stripes of turquoise. You may also find batfish, an odd-shaped fish that appears to walk across the bottom.
Jumbie Bay, St. John
Located 10 minutes by car from Cruz Bay, Jumbie Bay is the turn just before Trunk Bay. We love that this spot is still somewhat under the radar, as parking allows for just six cars at a time. Plus, the site offers a mix of crags and crevices among the limestone shoreline, and 100 feet offshore, so you can see a greater mix of sea life, from crabs and eels to schools of sergeant major and Creole wrasse fish.
Cane Bay, St. Croix
With a scuba shop located just across the street from this white sand beach, this north shore site is as easy as it gets for newer snorkelers who may have questions about mask fit or where to find the best critters. Scuba divers love the location for its quick access to a wall—that is, a reef that drops away sharply to the depths.
But you don’t need to go deep to spy tons of life, from lobster to Caribbean reef octopus. We love that you can enjoy sunning on the beach and snorkeling as much as you like, then pop across the street to the restaurant Eat at Cane Bay for a drink and Caribbean-spiced chicken wings, or stay for a fuller meal, such as the mahi tacos or the crispy fish reuben.
Salt Pond Bay, St. John
The wide bay that unfolds in front of Salt Pond, found off the island’s southern tip, is a healthy mix of marine life, from juvenile fish to sea turtles. We love that snorkelers need not swim too far from shore before cruising alongside bigger snapper, jacks and other big fish. Just remember that this site is one of the more remote beaches on island, so pack in any snacks, drinks and towels that you may need.
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TPG's $20 "prepayment" for extras lands it in hot water
By Ry Crozier on Dec 4, 2018 1:33PM
Court proceedings filed.
TPG is set to face federal court proceedings over a $20 “prepayment” it takes from customers to cover costs incurred - but not included - in telecommunications plans, such as overseas calls.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said it had filed suit against TPG alleging “misleading conduct” over the prepayment and other contract terms.
The ACCC alleged that TPG said the prepayment credit “could be used for excluded telecommunications services before the consumer cancelled their plan.”
“However, the prepayment operates as a non-refundable fee and TPG retains at least $10 of the prepayment when a customer cancels their plan,” the ACCC alleged.
“A reasonable consumer would expect that this $20 payment would be refunded if it was not used, but in fact it is non-refundable. It is unacceptable that TPG only disclose this forfeiture in fine print,” ACCC deputy chair Delia Rickard said in a statement.
The ACCC also raised concerns that when the prepayment balance dipped below $10, an automatic top-up was triggered “to return the prepayment balance to $20”.
“This means that customers can’t use at least $10 of the prepayment for telecommunications services when they cancel their plan, which is not disclosed,” the ACCC said.
“Since March 2013, the ACCC estimates that TPG is likely to have retained millions of dollars paid by consumers in prepayments that were forfeited,” Rickard said.
The ACCC said it is seeking undisclosed “penalties and compensation for consumers”.
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Terry McAulay joins NBC as Sunday night rules analyst
Terry McAulay is the latest referee to leave the field for the booth.
McAulay http://www.authenticbostonredsoxshops.com/Tyler-Thornburg-Jersey has joined NBC Sports and will serve as the http://www.chargersofficialauthenticonline.com/Michael-Schofield-Jersey rules analyst on Sunday Night Football, NBC announced this morning. McAulay will attend Sunday night NFL games and work in the booth during the action as well as appear on set in pregame and halftime, and on PFT Live on Monday mornings when there are big officiating controversies to discuss.
We know this much – the two sides have been in contact and the talks, according to general manager Thomas Dimitroff, have been productive. Coach Dan Womens Tyler Thornburg Jersey Quinn has also been in contact with Jones but said those conversations will remain private. And Matt Ryan says he’ll likely spend time with Jones during an off-site passing camp this summer. So that’s all positive. Finally, there’s a lot of time between now and the start of training camp, which is July 26. Stay patient and let’s see how it all shakes out.
Bevell didn’t land any of those jobs, however, and that leaves him without anything to do as a player or coach heading into a football season for the first time in more than two decades. Bevell does not expect that to remain the case beyond this year.
It’s always hard, Bevell said, via the Wisconsin State Journal. But we’ve done a lot of good things in the places I’ve been, so it was just one of those weird years. The next hiring cycle I’m going to be back.
Predicting which teams will be looking for offensive coaching help in June doesn’t make much sense, but there certainly will be openings around the league. Bevell’s experience with the Seahawks and Vikings — he was Michael Schofield Youth Jersey Minnesota’s coordinator for five seasons before going to Seattle — is good reason to expect he’ll be proven right about his return to a staff.
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Slap your friend joke
For a friend you want to bitch slap or anybody for this matter. Front hand or backhand, it’s your preference. You tell them if they want to hear a joke or if they have yet to hear it, the joke about a pimp and his THREE hoes. So it goes like this:
So their was a pimp walking down a block that he had THREE hoes working on. The THREE hoes were spread apart on the block. Each one of the THREE hoes had a corner of her own.
The pimp walks up to the first hoe and says “where’s my 150 dollars?”. The hoe then says “150? I only owe you 125 dollars”. The pimp then slaps her and tells her “bitch! Don’t correct me.” The hoe then gives the pimp all the money that she’s made.
The pimp now finds his way to his 2nd hoe and says “where’s my 175 dollars?”. The hoe says “175? I only owe you 150”. The pimp slaps the second hoe and tells her like he did the first “bitch! Don’t correct me.” He takes the money and moves on.
So now the pimp is at his THIRD hoe and yet again, demands his money. He tells the THIRD hoe “where’s my 200 dollars?” The hoe says “200 dollars? I only owe you 175.” Once again just like the others, he slaps his THIRD hoe and says “bitch! Don’t correct me”. Collects his money and keeps it moving.
So now the pimp finds his way to his 4th hoe……
Now if and when the person your telling the joke to says some thing like “but wait. I thought you said he only had 3 hoes” then this is where you slap the taste out of their mouth and tell them “bitch! Don’t correct me”
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Home / Software & Gaming / SNES Classic Star Fox 2 launch surprised devs too
SNES Classic Star Fox 2 launch surprised devs too
Matthew Wilson June 28, 2017 Software & Gaming
Earlier this week, Nintendo officially announced the SNES Classic, with an impressive games library to boot. The biggest surprise was that the previously unreleased Star Fox 2 would be included on the console. As it turns out, we aren’t the only ones who were surprised by this, developers who worked on the game didn’t see it coming either.
The SNES Classic is coming out in September with 21 preloaded games in total, covering a good range of classic franchises, some owned by Nintendo and some not. This release will mark the first time Star Fox 2 has been released, so Kotaku got in touch with some developers who worked on the project back in the day, with former team member, Dylan Cuthbert being just as surprised as the rest of us.
Talking about the announcement, Cuthbert said: “it made my day, it’s bloody awesome!”, before explaining why Star Fox 2 never saw the light of day in the first place. Apparently, it all came down to timing, as the launch of the Sega Saturn and original PlayStation had raised the bar for 3D graphics, so Star Fox 2’s retro form of 3D “just didn’t cut it anymore”.
However, nowadays, retro-style games have a strong following, so releasing Star Fox 2 isn’t going to result in the same level of scrutiny as it would have back then. If anything, fans are just going to be happy to finally get their hands on a piece of gaming history.
KitGuru Says: SNES Classic pre-orders are already selling out, so while Star Fox 2 might finally see the light of day this year, getting the console may prove difficult.
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“Shades of Gray” – #1 Amazon Bestseller
Honor and conviction clash with loyalty and love in this debut Civil War novel that pits brother against brother.
Winner of numerous literary awards and often compared to Gone with the Wind, Shades of Gray chronicles the clash of a Confederate officer with a Union spy as they defend their beliefs, their country and their honor.
Readers will discover the fine line between friends and enemies when the fates of two tenacious foes cross by the fates of war and their destinies become entwined forever.
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Hazardous Exposure
Legal Definition Under Georgia State Law
Hazardous exposure is exposure to any kind of hazardous chemical or substance, especially if it causes injury or some kind of medical condition. In some cases, the injury will be obvious immediately while in other cases of hazardous exposure they will only develop much later. Most hazardous exposure happens on the job.
Anyone who was exposed to a hazardous substance and suffered injury has a potential lawsuit against the company that allowed it to happen. However, since it’s most common in job sites where employees work around hazardous substances in the first place, it’s often an issue for the worker’s compensation system — which guarantees benefits to the injured worker. If this happened to you, you should speak to a worker’s compensation lawyer.
What Counts As Hazardous Exposure?
Hazardous exposure may occur through ingestion, inhaling a substance, skin contact, or getting a substance in the eye, among other methods. The most common causes are a spill, leakage from containers, or insufficient ventilation in the work area.
The substances involved may be:
Acidic or caustic
Carcinogenic (cancer-causing)
Poisonous or toxic if swallowed/inhaled
Irritants
Dangerous when inhaled, such as many types of dust
Or any other chemical that has detrimental health effects when humans are exposed to it
For substances with known health risks, OSHA has detailed regulations about how exposure is allowed. For many substances, there is a “safe limit” and exposure below that limit is considered acceptable. Exposure above that limit becomes unsafe and is illegal.
If in doubt, however, any contact with such substances can count as hazardous exposure if it causes harm. A lawyer can help you decide if you have a valid claim.
What Happens if I Suffered a Toxic Exposure at Work?
Employers have a legal duty to exercise care with the wellbeing of their employees/workers, as well as to follow all safety and health laws. Even if an employer didn’t actually break the law, however, they may still be liable if they were careless or didn’t have good oversight of how the substances were used. This can include providing insufficient safety equipment, or having lax standards for safety training and enforcement of safety rules.
But, if you were injured on the job, you may not have to prove liability at all. Workers compensation laws allow you to recover damages for most workplace injuries without a lawsuit (although it still helps to have a lawyer).
What if the Toxic Exposure Was Not Work-related?
Sometimes, pollution and chemical spills — whether accidental or intentional — cause damages that affect many more people than just the workers. The effects can be sudden or can take years to develop. If you believe this has happened to you or your community, you may have a major lawsuit with the potential to recover money for all of the victims.
No matter what kind of toxic exposure you suffered, the attorneys of John Foy & Associates are ready to help. We have over 20 years of experience taking on employers, big corporations, and even government departments when needed. Let us give you a FREE consultation. Call 404-400-4000, or complete the form to your free consultation today.
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MU certified as a "Bee Campus USA" affiliate
3 years 1 week 5 days ago Wednesday, January 04 2017 Jan 4, 2017 Wednesday, January 04, 2017 12:36:00 PM CST January 04, 2017 in Top Stories
By: Emma Rechenberg, KOMU 8 Reporter
COLUMBIA - MU recently joined the ranks of 16 recognized bee-friendly campuses across the U.S.
Bee City USA is a group of pollinator advocates that aim to raise awareness, enhance habitats and celebrate achievements of groups around the nation who protect bees.
The group also encourages college students to participate in these efforts by applying for the official Bee Campus USA designation.
MU student Megan Tyminski, who also works as a communications intern for Mizzou Botanic Garden, was in charge of spearheading MU’s application.
“We’re actually doing a lot of these things already as a University, so we might as well compile our accomplishments together and set a formal committee and apply to become one,” she said.
She said she was confident that MU’s sustainability efforts, environmental symposiums and guest speakers would distinguish the university throughout the process.
Tyminski said receiving the Bee Campus USA designation will be way to show the rest of campus just how invested she is in sustaining pollinator populations.
She said her interest in bees stemmed from observing their relationships with one another.
“I think they’re so altruistic and they’re considered a superorganism, so everything they do is for the good of the hive," Tyminski said. "They have a lot of challenges facing them right now with climate change and misconception.”
Tyminski said bees are not the only organisms facing difficulties.
“Birds, bats, bees and butterflies all could use our help right now, which is actually one of the main goals of Bee Campus USA,” she said. “They focus on a lot of different pollinators besides honey bees.
Mizzou Botanic Garden Director Pete Millier said people may not realize just how important pollinators are to their lifestyles.
“A third of our diet comes from plants that are pollinated and have to have some sort of insect interaction to pollinate them,” he said.
Without these pollinators, Millier told KOMU 8 News our diets would be impacted.
“We would probably have an even higher rate of obesity, diabetes and all those chronic sort of conditions that diet drives,” he said.
For those interested in helping the bees and other pollinating species, Tyminski said it possible to do so.
“Anyone can get involved and plant pollinator friendly plants which have nectar and pollen-rich resources for them,” she said.
Now that MU has the official Bee Campus USA recognition, Tyminski said she believes this will inspire more action.
“I think the recognition will push us to do more and encourage people to also collaborate with us for new ways to sustain pollinator populations,” she said.
More information about MU’s pollinator protection efforts can be found on the Mizzou Botanic Garden website.
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Overland Park to contract with private company for crossing guards
By: Cat Reid
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — For years, the Overland Park Police Department has managed the crossing guard program near schools in the city.
"If a crossing guard didn't make it at the time, there was a police officer there that helped them cross the street, and I loved that," Miri Baron, whose daughter goes to John Diemer Elementary, said.
The department, however, said the arrangement put a strain on resources.
"A lot of times officers were unable to respond to calls for service such as a non-injury accident because they were at the crosswalks," Overland Park Police Officer John Lacy explained.
As a result, the department decided to contract with All City Management, a private company that will hire and oversee crossing guards.
Baron found out about the change from a letter her daughter's crossing guard handed out on Tuesday.
"It said his job was being terminated," 12-year-old Alayna Baron said of the note.
The news was concerning for her mother, who appreciates the extensive background checks guards currently go through at the police department.
"I don't know this company. I don't know anything about them," she said.
Cpt. Ray Tisinger, who currently coordinates the crossing guard program, assured 41 Action News the company will abide by police standards when it comes to background checks.
He also said All City offered to hire all of the existing guards and keep them at their current post. In a letter to school superintendents, Overland Park Police Chief Francis Donchez said the "vast majority" of guards accepted the offer.
All City is offering a pay raise, but Tisinger said guards will not get the same benefits offered by the police department.
That was a deal breaker for Bill Mace, the crossing guard that ushers Baron and her daughter across 97th and Lamar every school day.
"I'm heartbroken he's not going to be there. I don't know if I'd let my daughter cross the street (alone) because I don't know who the next person will be," Baron said.
All City takes over on January 29, but the city has not yet finalized its contract with the company.
You can read the full letter from the Overland Park Police Department to school superintendents below:
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Colorfully Illustrated Broadside Concerning a Notable 19th-Century Libel Case in Salem, Massachusetts [Broadside]. [Temperence]. [Cheever, George Barrell (1807-1890)]. Deacon Giles's Distillery. New York: National Temperance Society and Publication House, [c. 1865-1867]. 2 pp. 14" x 10-1/4" broadsheet, 2 pp. text in three columns, 6-1/4" x 8-3/4" woodcut below headline. Moderate..... More
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Settle your Accounts or Lose Your Credit [Broadside]. [Maine]. Notice! Persons Having Accounts at This Store, Are Requested to Settle Them Before the First Day of January Next. North Harpswell, [ME], Nov. 13th, 1868. 9" x 12" broadside. Light browning, foxing and faint dampstaining, vertical and horizontal fold lines, one..... More
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A Mesoamerican bean accession, UI111, is available at the Data Store and for viewing in a genome browser. It can also be compared to other genomes through the Genome Context Viewer, e.g. in this region where the assembly has an inversion relative to the assembly for the Andean G19883 line (but is structurally consistent with corresponding soybean regions). The UI111 line is a pinto-type bean that has been used in numerous breeding projects and trait-mapping studies.
A new tool for whole-genome visualization of resequencing or SNP array data, Genotype Comparison Visualization Tool (GCViT), is available for chickpea and common bean. GCViT is useful for comparing two or more accessions, to visually identify regions of similarity and difference across the genome. It extracts information from a VCF file and compares between two or more lines within that VCF file. One can, for example, plot the differences between progeny and parents to identify which regions are inherited from which parents. See more information about GCViT here: a video tutorial, and at GitHub and SoyBase.
Several published GWAS datasets are available through a cross-species comparative viewer adapted from the Baxter Lab's ZBrowse. The viewer makes use of comparative genomic services provided by the Genome Context Viewer (GCV) and is intended to facilitate nomination of candidate genes through correlation of variation in orthologous genes with effects on corresponding phenotypes. An example for seed weight in cowpea and soybean based on published data from Lo et al. (2019) and curated data from Soybase is here. Further information about how to get started with ZBrowse is here (and in the interactive tour accessible via "Start tour" link on the main user interface).
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byanca November 11, 2019
Grammy-award winning rapper and investor Hakeem "Chamillionaire" Seriki announced Monday on "Squawk Alley" that he and hip hop artist E-40 will invest $100,000 in a minority or woman founded start-up company.
"Being an entrepreneur isn't easy, but it's even harder for minority and women led companies," Seriki said. "These people are solving new and unique problems and I think the only thing in their way is capital."
Seriki was an early Lyft investor and remains bullish on the stock, while holding investments in more than 40 start-up companies. He previously invested in Ring (acquired by Amazon), Cruise (acquired by GM) and Maker Studios (acquired by Disney).
But this competition comes as part of the investor-slash-rapper's larger push to bring awareness to a demographic of start-ups that he said have been historically underrepresented in the investment world.
Seriki highlighted the demographic divide in the venture capital landscape, citing a cultural trickle-down of funding from white male investors to white male led companies.
"When people say they can't find African-American startups to invest in, it just sounds a little crazy to me," Seriki said. "At one point I was getting 30 candidates a month, but when I said I only wanted to invest in women or minorities I started getting just two candidates a month."
Start-ups will submit their pitches on Convoz, a face-to-face social app launched by Seriki in 2016 to enhance public collaborative communication.
Pitches submitted via the app with be reviewed by Seriki, his team and Republic.co, an SEC-registered platform that makes investing accessible to non-accredited investors.
All start-up leaders from diverse backgrounds are encourage to apply, with one word of advice from the award-winning artist.
"We're not just talking about an idea. We're talking about a real company," Seriki said.
Seriki, E-40 and Republic.co will partner with "Shark Tank" investor Daymond John who will help the group narrow application to five finalists and choose a winner.
"I am so excited to be one of the judges in the $100,000 pitch competition," John said. "If you feel that you are ready to pitch and knock it out of the park, I can not wait."
The pitch competition will run from Nov. 11 to Dec. 6.
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Home Music L.A. Duo Tuxedo Brings the Funk—With Style
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Out on Tuesday, Jake One and Mayer Hawthorne’s new collaboration has yielded a funktastic album
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Funk duo Tuxedo, composed of Jake One and Mayer Hawthorne, lays the funk on thick, singing smooth peanut butter and jazz songs that will most definitely get you swaying. “The whole thing is about the groove—that was the number one concern,” says One about their self-titled debut album set to be released by Stones Throw Records on Tuesday. One, who has produced songs for such hip-hop royalty as Chance the Rapper and Kendrick Lamar, teamed up with Hawthorne, the Grammy-nominated soul singer, in the 2000s after trading mixtapes, and they’ve been accumulating collaborative tracks ever since. They released an EP over Soundcloud and their song, “Do It” was sampled by Pitbull in his song of the same name.
We talked with Tuxedo about all things funk; their history with it, its current renaissance, and Hawthorne’s spot-on childhood impersonation of Michael Jackson.
★ One and Hawthorne connected when they exchanged mixtapes. “I just remember when we exchanged those mixtapes, thinking to myself, ‘Holy Shit, I can’t believe there’s someone else in the world who cares about these songs, these particular records’,” Hawthorne says. “I was familiar with Jake’s work, but when he sent me those first couple of boogie tracks, I was like—I didn’t even believe it was him. I was definitely blown away by that.”
★ Not only does Tuxedo’s history stretch back, but the duo’s love of the funk classics—as well as the RnB—that shaped this album reaches back even further. “It’s just something I grew up on,” One says. “[Michael Jackson’s]The ‘Off the Wall’ album and stuff like that, it’s really the first music I can remember.”
★ “I remember doing my own Michael Jackson concerts in my bedroom for my family,” Hawthorne muses. “I had the white sparkly glove and everything. I was living that life. And then later, I was in a funk band, sort of like a jazz-funk trio in high school”.
★ Having longtime claims to funk, One and Hawthorne are one-part annoyed, one-part enthusiastic about the recent funk renaissance that has witnessed Daft Punk and Mark Ronson playing with the sound of the late ‘70s, early ‘80s. At one point, all the funk related activity got One’s goat. Rather than be excited about it, he says, “I more felt like damn they beat us to the punch.”
★ “It’s the only music to me that is really happy and makes you feel good—but it’s not soft. It’s really tricky to do that,” says One. “A great funk song is not cheesy and it’s not soft but it will bring joy. It’s just funny, you know. I don’t listen to other music that way. If you can achieve that feeling others are just going to follow. Something like [Bruno Mars’s] ‘Treasure,’ that song just feels good.”
★ For Tuxedo, the appeal of funk has nothing to do with the current moment. It’s just about returning to the groove that was always there. As Hawthorne says, “Funky music will always come back into style.”
Tuxedo is throwing a release party for new album at The Regent Theater on Wednesday at 8 p.m.
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Student Life at Make School -- Living the College Life
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One of the concerns that prospective Make School students frequently raise is whether they will be sacrificing "the college experience" by attending Make School. Sure, you'll get a focused education with no up-front tuition and you'll be surrounded by great instructors and bright students, but outside of the classroom, what is the student experience like?
Megan Dias is the Student Experience Lead at Make School (yep, we have someone dedicated full-time to your experience), and she helps ensure that the benefits of attending Make School don't begin and end in the classroom.
Megan says, "Our students spend two years on campus with us building projects and gaining cutting edge skills, but they're also making lasting friendships, connecting with mentors, getting inside looks at tech companies they want to work for, and getting all the benefits of living in San Francisco -- the tech capital of the world. It's truly a full college experience."
(Megan Dias, The Student Experience Lead at Make School)
Here are a few of the ways that Make School promotes a vibrant and student-driven campus life...
Dorm Life, Student Council, and Fungineering!
Our students live in dorms just a few minutes from Make School. You'll be grouped with one or two roommates, and you'll have a student Resident Assistant (RA) who helps ensure that everyone is happy, safe, and getting the emotional support that they need. In addition to amenities like common areas for studying and hanging out, the dorms also host monthly BBQs. Make School's dorms are the epitome of college life, but if any student prefers to set up their own housing arrangement, they're free to do so.
Every student has the opportunity to participate in Student Council -- a self-elected group of students who act as the liaison to the staff and instructors at Make School -- and we actively encourage students to get involved, creating a holistic college experience that works for them.
Megan notes, "A few things the Student Council did this year included organizing a trip to Six Flags, putting together a Pi Day celebration, and creating an 'end of the year' video for the students and staff. They also put on a 'Makesgiving' celebration for all the students and staff during the week of Thanksgiving and created a wall of thank you notes. It's always awesome to see our students actively involving themselves, enhancing their leadership skills, and promoting a sense of community at Make School."
As a student, you'll also have opportunities to get involved as a Student Ambassador, welcoming and giving tours to prospective students. Or you can be a Fungineer -- one of the students who plans monthly events for everyone, such as movie nights, game nights, and dinners. Smaller student groups also meet regularly for discussion, community building, and fun. Current student groups include Women in Tech, Hackathon, Video Games, and a Running/Hiking group. Megan points out, "Student groups vary every year, because we encourage each cohort to find their own shared interests and unique characteristics."
And of course, plenty of students self-organize activities like Taco Tuesdays, hangouts at Dolores Park, walks across the Golden Gate Bridge, and all sorts of other events with the new friends they make at Make School.
Coaching, Mentoring, and Preparing for What's Ahead
Make School is set up like a startup office, complete with open work spaces, conference rooms, a ping pong table, a kitchen, and bean bag chairs -- all the fixtures of a San Francisco tech company. A significant chunk of scheduled class time at Make School is focused on career-building -- you'll regularly practice interview skills, public speaking, presentation skills, and much more. But outside of required class objectives, students also have many opportunities to connect with people who can help them move their career forward.
Megan says, "We're consistently reaching out to the companies that we partner with to make new mentors available to the students. And if students want to connect with someone at a particular company, we do whatever we can to make that happen. If the student shows the initiative, we're always ready to help."
The staff and instructors also go out of their way to be available to students with regular office hours and one-on-one coaching sessions. In fact, each student is assigned to a coach for the entire school year. Students meet with their coach individually every week to discuss goals, challenges, successes, and new ideas.
In addition, quarterly field trips to the offices of major tech companies are a fixture of the Make School experience. In the past, our students have visited the offices of Yelp, Facebook, Tesla, Lever, and GitHub, among others.
(Telsa Factory Visit, 2018)
San Francisco - In the Heart of It
Make School students have the awesome benefit of living in the tech capital of the world. Getting around is simple with BART, Uber, Lyft, bikes, and walkable streets. Whether you want to spend a day in Golden Gate Park, have coffee with a tech executive that you admire, or attend one of countless tech meetups on every topic you can imagine, it's all at your fingertips in San Francisco. To learn more about Make School's student life, check out our Campus Life page, or send an email to megan.dias@makeschool.com.
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Malaysiakini NEWS
TM finally slashes prices for Streamyx, to also offer faster alternatives
Published: 2019-07-27 14:11:00+08:00 | Modified: 2019-07-27 14:50:46+08:00
Telekom Malaysia will finally slash prices for Streamyx users, almost a year after the first round of price cuts and speed upgrades for fibre users following the government's decision to enforce the Mandatory Standard on Access Pricing (MSAP).
In an announcement, TM said it will reduce the entry-level broadband package of up to 8Mbps to RM89 a month. Furthermore, existing users will enjoy the offer at RM69 a month.
At present, the 8Mbps package will cost consumers RM160 a month.
Last year, the implementation of the MSAP saw the prices of UniFi and other fibre services go down by between 30 to 50 percent as well as speed upgrades.
However, Streamyx users, which internet service is based on copper wire, vented their anger as they were left out and could not be upgraded to UniFi due to infrastructure constraints.
However, TM said apart from reducing the price for Streamyx users, it will be embarking on a network rollout beginning today so that Streamyx users will finally have alternatives.
"TM will address the copper network challenges via various technologies such as fibre, wireless and GigaWire in a network rollout which will involve a phased customer migration starting today until 2021.
"It is expected that 70 percent of these customers will be able to enjoy UniFi services by end of 2020," it said.
TM said it has submitted the plan to the Communications and Multimedia Ministry, which has nudged TM to address the angry complaints.
It said to date, 973,000 UniFi customers have been upgraded to higher speeds and the new plan is intended to address the remaining 934,000 Streamyx users.
TM Group chairperson Rosli Man said the company is committed to tackling the issue amongst its copper users.
"We are committed to resolving the Streamyx issues and believe the plan is the way forward to address not only the limitation of the copper broadband network but also to lay the foundation for a better internet experience for all existing and future customers nationwide.
"We look forward to a collaborative approach, working closely with the government, ministry and MCMC to effectively deliver high-speed broadband experience towards realising Malaysia's digital nation aspirations," he said in a statement.
MACC probing TM over alleged irregularities in P1 acquisition
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Lewis & Cooper Winners at the Tour-de-Yorkshire
Lewis & Cooper were top of the podium again at the Tour de Yorkshire with stage winners collecting delicious hamper treats to celebrate an amazing four days of cycling.
Lewis & Cooper Retail Director David Pears (centre) with Welcome to Yorkshire Chief Executive Sir Gary Verity (left) and Race Director Christian Prudhomme (right)
Hampers packed with food and drink from local Yorkshire producers were presented to the winners of all four men’s and two women’s stages at the hugely-successful event that drew record crowds at the roadside.
It’s the second year running that Lewis & Cooper have been selected as Official Hamper Supplier at the race, which has a worldwide live TV audience in countries as far apart as the USA, Japan, New Zealand and Colombia.
“It was an absolute privilege to showcase the very best of Yorkshire food and drink at such a prestigious event,” says Lewis & Cooper Retail Director David Pears.
“We’re delighted to give the winners a delicious souvenir of a tough but tremendous race in which I’m sure they built up an appetite!”
Retail Director David Pears pictured with British Rider Peter Williams of ONE Pro Cycling showing off the Lewis & Cooper Hamper
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Switch hitch
A FUNDING row over the running of Lime Street station could delay plans for its handover by more than a year.
It should have been transferred from First Northwestern to Network Rail last month.
But that might not be until December 2004, a Network Rail spokesman warned today.
However, regeneration chiefs at Liverpool Vision said the delay was not expected to affect their plans to create a European-style piazza gateway for Liverpool's main rail link.
The ECHO revealed in January talks had opened for FNW to surrender its lease to Network Rail.
But a Network Rail spokesman said: "It's going to happen, but not likely before December
2004. The delay is down to an issue between the Strategic Rail Author-ity and FNW."
Industry watchdog the Strategic Rai l Authority said its hands are tied until the two parties agree a deal.
"All the parties are positive over the transfer of Lime Street," said a spokesman.
"But any deal has to be cost neutral to the SRA. We don't think the delay will be as long as December next year."
A FNW spokeswoman said: "We're hoping to produce a revised proposal, but nothing we can put time lines on."
A Liverpool Vision spokesman said: "We are still interviewing design consultants and hope to complete that by the end of this year. We don't anticipate going on site until early 2005."
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Hickleys appoints new Managing Director
Hickleys, the long-established local motor trade and healthcare company, has announced the appointment of Robin Huish as Managing Director, taking over from Duncan Meikle who moves to the position of Chairman.
Commenting on the appointment, Duncan Meikle said, "Robin's career with Hickleys is a remarkable success story. He joined the Company 40 years ago as an apprentice auto-electrician but it was not long before his managerial talent was recognised."
"He has progressed through several key roles and was appointed to the board of directors twelve years ago. Most recently he has been responsible for the Company's Diagnostic, Garage Equipment and Technical Workshop Divisions. Robin has a wealth of knowledge and experience and brings a strong track record of leadership and management skills which will be invaluable in taking the business forward."
Robin Huish said, "This is a very proud day for me. Hickleys is very different now from when I first started; back then we were a company serving just local trade with electrical & diesel problems. Over the years we have grown to become one of the leading independent specialists in automotive diagnostic and garage equipment serving customers throughout the UK together with a growing international trade."
In 2014 the company celebrates it's 90th year of business and we have had a long tradition of adapting and succeeding in emerging markets; I look forward to continuing this tradition and leading the company to continued success."
Hickleys are probably best known for the supply of all types of diagnostic equipment where they are exclusive distributors for many leading brands including Advanced Diagnostics, Carman and Smokepro, plus UK distributors for many leading manufacturers such as Bosch, Brainbee, Delphi & Texa. This is in addition to their increasing national business in the supply and installation of Garage Equipment.
Robin continued "Our business is built on being able to offer "added value" and the more technical the problem the better, we have a team of highly skilled staff offering technical and product support and a team of engineers carrying out service, calibration and repair on all types of diagnostics and garage equipment. I believe another of our strengths is that we continually build our customer awareness, we advertise in the trade press heavily, have a vibrant website and can be seen at all the trade shows, in fact this year saw the launch of our own very successful trade show 'Simply Diagnostics'.
My roots are in our Auto electrical technical service department and here we carry out many bespoke electrical installations such as climate control, engine control, comfort and entertainment for specialized vehicles, emergency vehicles and Motorhomes. Another of our successful divisions is our diesel fuel injection shop where we have invested heavily in the latest Common rail diesel test benches from Bosch and Delphi. Diesel repair is another niche area where technical ability and service levels makes all the difference.
We employ a great team and it is due to them that each year we achieve growth in our chosen markets, I am determined and confident that this will continue into the future."
www.hickleys.com
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Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.. (6/4/18). "Press Release: New Consumables Improve Analytical Instrument Performance". San Diego, CA.
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Group Thermo Fisher (Group)
Organisation 2 ASMS (American Society for Mass Spectrometry)
Product ChromaCare reagents (flush solutions and UHPLC-MS ultrapure solvents)
Product 2 LC/MS (liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry)
Person Miller, Kelly (Thermo Fisher 201806 VP/General Manager Laboratory Analytical Reagents)
Person 2 Robillard, Lisa (Thermo Fisher 201605)
Thermo Scientific ChromaCare flush solutions and Thermo Scientific UHPLC-MS solvents reduce background noise and prevent protein precipitation for high-quality chromatograms
ASMS 2018 – Laboratories can minimize interference and maximize instrument uptime with a novel range of flush solutions for liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (LC-MS) systems and a new line of ultrapure solvents for ultra-high-performance LC-MS (UHPLC-MS) systems.
The Thermo Scientific product range now includes ChromaCare flush solutions and UHPLC-MS ultrapure solvents (acetonitrile, methanol, water and IPA). ChromaCare reagents are designed to reduce contaminants and prevent protein precipitation. New UHPLC-MS solvents are helping to raise the bar in instrument performance and to maximize productivity across pharmaceutical, biotech, clinical and academic laboratories. Thermo Fisher Scientific is showcasing these new products during the 66th American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) Conference, held June 3–7, in the Sapphire Ballroom ABEF at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront, San Diego.
"Keeping LC-MS instruments performing at the highest standards for optimal laboratory efficiency has been a common challenge for researchers," said Kelly Miller, vice president/general manager, laboratory analytical reagents, Thermo Fisher. "With that in mind, we've developed our new ChromaCare family of flush solutions for use with Thermo Scientific analytical instrumentation, eliminating the need for toxic chlorinated solvents that can degrade seals. When used alongside our new UHPLC-MS solvents, customers can maximize instrument uptime and accelerate their groundbreaking research."
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For more information on ChromaCare flush solutions and UHPLC-MS ultrapure solvents, please visit www.fishersci.com/ThermoSolventSolution.
About Thermo Fisher Scientific
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with revenues of more than $20 billion and approximately 70,000 employees globally. Our mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We help our customers accelerate life sciences research, solve complex analytical challenges, improve patient diagnostics, deliver medicines to market and increase laboratory productivity. Through our premier brands – Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific and Unity Lab Services – we offer an unmatched combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and comprehensive services. For more information, please visit www.thermofisher.com.
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High Modulus opens sales office in USA
31 October 2009 | Amanda Jacob
High Modulus has to date been servicing its customers in the USA from its head office in Auckland, New Zealand.
"While US naval architects and boatyards already make up a part of our customer base, we are interested in making new contacts, both in and out of the marine sector,” says High Modulus CEO, Paul Goddard. “The composites industry is growing, and as a company we need to position ourselves to get involved in a wider variety of projects. Our heritage is in marine, but we also have experience in other areas such as renewable energy, construction and transportation. Now is the time to make these market sectors aware of what our composites experience and expertise can bring to their projects.”
James Anderson will lead High Modulus' US sales initiative. He has served as a senior engineer, team leader and finite element analysis (FEA) specialist at the High Modulus head office in New Zealand head office for over three years.
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‘Blue Collar’ comedian Ron White returning to Easton’s State Theatre
By John J. Moser
The Morning Call |
Oct 15, 2019 | 7:00 AM
Ron White returning to Easton's State Theatre on Feb. 15. (Foxwoods / HANDOUT)
Comedian Ron White, best known for his Blue Collar Comedy tours and "Tater Salad" routines, will return to Easton’s State Theatre, it has been announced.
His show, at 7 p.m. Feb. 15, will mark the eighth time he has played the State Theatre stage.
Tickets, at $49-$59, go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday at the State Theatre box office at 453 Northampton St., at 800-999-STATE or at www.statetheatre.org. VIP packages also are available.
White rose to fame as the cigar-smoking, scotch-drinking member of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour.
In the past 15 years, he’s been nominated for three Grammy Awards, and all four of his albums hit No. 1 on Billboard's Comedy chart and sold a collective 14 million copies. His 2003 disc “Drunk in Public” sold gold. He’s frequently been among the Top 3-grossing stand-up comedians on tour in America.
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He’s appeared in films and television, seen most recently on the Showtime series "Roadies" in 2016.
White’s book “Ron ‘Tater Salad’ White: I Had the Right to Remain Silent … But I Didn’t Have the Ability” hit the New York Times Best Seller List.
Audience members at White’s shows might notice a change in the stage set up. While the ever-present cigar remains, White has decided to forego his signature scotch drink, in favor of a glass of tequila from his own company. Fans also can buy Number Juan Tequila by visiting www.TatersTequila.com.
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Investor's Business Daily Op-Ed: “EPA Regulations Are 'Jim Crow' Laws Of 21st Century”
Special Programs Climate & Energy
Written by Denise Robbins
Published 08/13/15 4:53 PM EDT
Investor's Business Daily published an Aug. 12 op-ed with the headline: “EPA Regulations Are 'Jim Crow' Laws Of 21st Century.” The op-ed, written by a senior fellow at the oil-funded Heartland Institute, attacked the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Clean Power Plan -- which places the first-ever federal limits on carbon pollution from power plants -- as harmful to minorities. To make his case, the author cited a National Black Chamber of Commerce study that relies on several thoroughly debunked studies and climate science denial. The op-ed also cited conservative author Deneen Borelli, who called the EPA climate plan “the green movement's new Jim Crow.”
From the op-ed:
EPA Regulations Are 'Jim Crow' Laws Of 21st Century
In announcing EPA's new so-called “Clean Power Plan” regulations, President Obama repeatedly told us that by restricting power plant emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), the plan would “cut carbon pollution.” But that repeated phrase “carbon pollution” reveals fundamental, disqualifying ignorance.
As a new report from the National Black Chamber of Commerce documents, EPA's new regulatory requirements will result in estimated job losses reaching 7 million for blacks and 12 million for Hispanics, with the poverty rate increasing by more than 23% for blacks and 26% for Hispanics.
That's because the rules will ultimately more than double the cost of natural gas and electricity, adding over $1 trillion to family and business energy bills.
“A lot of people on the lower end of the socioeconomic spectrum are going to die,” says Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.V. African-American author Dineen Borelli calls EPA's overregulation “the green movement's new Jim Crow.” National Black Chamber of Commerce President Harry Alford calls the EPA's regulatory overkill “a slap in the face to poor and minority families.”
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Returning to the past
Control is the anathema to modern-day politics and transparency, and it’s a wrong message to send
Saviour Balzan 6 January 2020, 7:10am
Valletta Cultural Agency Chairman Jason Micallef
If you are looking for some signs of where this country is heading, then the signs are not great.
Instead of embracing the positives of ‘Muscatian’ politics, some of the boys from the Labour block are calling for more of old Labour. Indeed, that vintage of old Labour which specialised in hitting out at opponents and critics as if they were enemies that had to be decimated at all costs.
The first sign was the refusal of the party to allow the leadership candidates to face each other on television out of the comfort zone of Labour channel One TV. I asked Daniel Micallef, the president of the Labour Party, to reconsider this decision, and his reply was standard. “The decision was taken, and the format of having individual interviews was the accepted norm.”
So, here we are; after having surpassed the mediocrity of the politics of Alfred Sant when he was Labour leader, we are back to the siege mentality that we knew.
The rules of engagement are no longer determined by the media but by the political parties. So here we are: it is not in the interest of the Labour Party to see how Robert Abela and Chris Fearne fare in a face-off. Instead it seems that any difference that could surface between the two should be controlled.
And we’re only talking about the next prime minister of our own country. Yet the cohort of people who will determine the person who will lead Malta and Gozo is squarely in the hands of the Labour membership, and so is a proper exchange of ideas in a debate now the prerogative of the Labour Party.
Control is the anathema to modern-day politics and transparency, and it’s a wrong message to send.
Much like the message sent by Jason Micallef, a former secretary-general from the Sant era who lost the 2008 election and was kept on board; his endemic habit to hit out at any sort of political adversary big or small, a relic of his old Labour days, who has hit the headlines again.
Jason Micallef represents the heart and soul of old Labour. Were it up to Keith Schembri, who took matters in his hand as Muscat’s man after he was elected Labour leader, Micallef would have been completely sidelined. That is why James Piscopo was brought in as Labour CEO and the secretary-general post, which was an elected post that carried much power, was abolished. In the end, Micallef was retained as chairman of Labour’s television but also given an important posting at the helm of Valletta 2018 and now the Valletta Cultural Agency.
Whatever his insistence to wade in politics in the most petty of situations, this does not justify his ballistic reaction to hit out at the artist Alexandra Alden, just because she happens to be a judge on X Factor Malta, which happens to be broadcast on TVM.
Again, this is the most rotten form of thinking: just because someone is talented enough to be picked to be a star on national broadcasting, should exempt them from having a political opinion… at least that is what Micallef seems to be suggesting.
To illustrate how retrograde this kind of thinking is, one only has to look at the politically keen landscape of artists in the United Kingdom, for example. Indeed, it would be challenging not to find one artist or singer there who does not say ‘fuck Boris’; countless of singers and bands openly supported British Labour during the Red Wedge tours of the 1980s; many more are politically active in song and in art.
And to extend this spirit of freedom of thought, so are journalists in the UK not berated for holding political opinions while presenting shows on the BBC, like for example, the conservative Andrew Neill… as long as their professionalism gives viewers the value they deserve.
This Maltese assumption of ours, that anyone who partakes of some sort of national fund or participates in settings directly financed by the State, must be politically neutral and devoid of opinion, is simply dumb-witted. We have to fight this by hitting out at those who want to take away our mental space or punch down on our freedom of speech.
And speaking of punching down… is a grown adult like Jason Micallef really going to pick on a non-controversial woman half his age?
Let’s be serious for once. Micallef is probably simply hitting out at Alden as a proxy for his obsessive prejudice towards the former Net TV boss Anton Attard, the producer of X Factor Malta.
But Micallef tends to forget his place – place which, given his role as Valletta ‘culture boss’, truly does not fit someone with such a wide mouth. If someone occupies this role they should be welcoming artistic liberation and criticism. Instead, Micallef feels free to flex his own political muscle despite being financed by the State! What a contradiction if there was ever one.
Alas, he happened to be one of the most vehement opponents for a debate between the two contenders on TV stations other than One TV.
Yet he is just the visible part of the problem. For the general feeling among Labour diehards is that the party has been deprived of their most precious leader – as if the goings-on in the corridors of Castille were catalysed by the dark forces of the PN!
Muscat’s downfall is his own doing, of the blindness to the problem of greed and arrogance festering next to him. Of course, he can be faulted for many things. His sternest opponents will at least concede that he never looked at people’s politics if they were read to serve the country.
So Chris Fearne and Robert Abela have a tall order. They not only have to ensure that they serve all the people, but more importantly guarantee that we do not revert to the situation we knew before 2013.
Because it has to be said, that if there was one success from the Muscat administration, it was that of treating everyone by giving them the same opportunities.
Jason Micallef knows this, so much so that his harshest words are always reserved for two of Muscat’s ‘beneficiaries’ – Anton Attard and Lou Bondì, two former PN functionaries who found the warmth of Labour’s largesse.
But the future lies with people who see beyond the hang-ups we all share. We need leaders who confront the current not swim with it. And those kinds of people do not grow on trees.
Saviour Balzan is the founder and co-owner of MaltaToday. He has reported on Maltese poli...
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On Tuesday morning, April 29, Samuel Silverstein of Bremerton was diving for geoduck off Green Point, Washington, with diving partner and owner of 40-foot F/V GOLD RUSH, Robert Mead. Silverstein and Mead were diving in about 60 feet of water, using 300-foot hoses attached to an air compressor on board, which was attended by two deck hands.
According to reports, Silverstein radioed from the bottom that he was having trouble and was coming up. When he surfaced, motioning to be picked up, the deck hands noted that his mask was “turned off.” Then Silverstein said he was going back down due to being tangled, after which he surfaced one more time. At that point, he was too far away for a quick pick-up by GOLD RUSH, so a deckhand requested assistance from nearby Department of Natural Resources vessel DAWN BREAKER. By then, Silverstein had disappeared under water again.
Robert Mead found Silverstein unconscious near the bottom and carried him to the surface, where the crew of DAWN BREAKER gave Silverstein CPR. He was taken as quickly as possible by vessel to Ediz Hook, then ambulanced to the medical center in Port Angeles, from where he was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. He was put on life support there.
So far, ideas of what went wrong include a combination of strong currents and possible air hose entanglement. An investigation is underway to determine exactly what happened. We pray that Mr. Silverstein will make a full recovery.
In a related story, back in July of 2012, David Scheinost was diving for water samples near Restoration Point, Washington, for the Department of Natural Resources. He was seen struggling at the surface, and he went back under before anyone could get to him in time to save his life. The Department of Natural Resources was levied a fine of $172,900 for 16 safety violations related to Scheinost’s death. Our law firm, Beard Stacey and Jacobsen, represented Mr. Scheinost’s family; we will continue to draw attention to the dangers of commercial diving and the urgent need for stricter and better enforced safety laws so that tragedies like these will not happen in the future.
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NASDAQ:PHUN - Phunware Stock Price, Forecast & News
Adding Phunware Inc
Beta29.11
Phunware Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides Multiscreen-as-a-Service (Maas) and Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) enterprise software platform for mobile devices. Its platform enables brands to engage, manage, and monetize their mobile application portfolios. The company offers Cloud-Based Mobile Software Development Kits (SDKs), which include location-based services, mobile engagement, content management, messaging, advertising, and analytics; and mobile application framework of pre-integrated iOS and Android software modules for building in-house or channel-based mobile application solutions. It also provides cloud-based vertical solutions of pre-integrated iOS and Android mobile application portfolios for healthcare, retail, media, real estate and hospitality, sports, aviation, and other sectors; and knowledge graph and data solutions which allows for real-time mobile audience targeting, reach, engagement, and monetization for 1:1 insights and interactions. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
Industry Data processing & preparation
SectorComputer and Technology
Current SymbolNASDAQ:PHUN
CIKN/A
Webhttp://www.phunware.com/
Annual SalesN/A
Price / SalesN/A
Employees148
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Phunware (NASDAQ:PHUN) Frequently Asked Questions
What is Phunware's stock symbol?
Phunware trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "PHUN."
How were Phunware's earnings last quarter?
Phunware Inc (NASDAQ:PHUN) issued its earnings results on Thursday, November, 14th. The company reported ($0.06) EPS for the quarter. The company had revenue of $5.64 million for the quarter. View Phunware's Earnings History.
Has Phunware been receiving favorable news coverage?
Media stories about PHUN stock have trended somewhat positive on Friday, InfoTrie reports. The research group identifies positive and negative press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Phunware earned a media sentiment score of 2.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media headlines about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near term. View News Stories for Phunware.
Are investors shorting Phunware?
Phunware saw a increase in short interest in the month of December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 1,570,000 shares, an increase of 10.6% from the December 15th total of 1,420,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 300,300 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 5.2 days. Approximately 5.6% of the company's stock are sold short. View Phunware's Current Options Chain.
Who are some of Phunware's key competitors?
Some companies that are related to Phunware include NantHealth (NH), FRONTEO (FTEO), Park City Group (PCYG), Akerna (KERN), Veritone (VERI), Renren (RENN), YayYo (YAYO), Innodata (INOD), Support.com (SPRT), ChinaCache International (CCIH), Data Storage (DTST), Net Element (NETE), DATATRAK International (DTRK), RESAAS Services (RSASF) and Marin Software (MRIN).
What other stocks do shareholders of Phunware own?
Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Phunware investors own include FuelCell Energy (FCEL), NIO (NIO), General Electric (GE), Analog Devices (ADI), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Cara Therapeutics (CARA), Casa Systems (CASA), Catalyst Pharmaceuticals (CPRX), Etsy (ETSY) and Nutanix (NTNX).
Who are Phunware's key executives?
Phunware's management team includes the folowing people:
Mr. Alan S. Knitowski, Co-Founder, CEO & Director (Age 48)
Mr. Luan Dang, Co-Founder & CTO (Age 47)
Mr. Matt Aune, Chief Financial Officer (Age 43)
Mr. Scott Kenyon, Exec. VP of Global Operations & Product
Mr. Randall Crowder, COO & Director (Age 38)
How do I buy shares of Phunware?
Shares of PHUN can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.
What is Phunware's stock price today?
One share of PHUN stock can currently be purchased for approximately $1.17.
How big of a company is Phunware?
Phunware has a market capitalization of $46.59 million. Phunware employs 148 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Phunware.
What is Phunware's official website?
The official website for Phunware is http://www.phunware.com/.
How can I contact Phunware?
Phunware's mailing address is 7800 SHOAL CREEK BLVD SUITE 230-S, AUSTIN X1, 78757. The company can be reached via phone at 512-693-4199 or via email at [email protected]
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NYSE:BTU - Peabody Energy Stock Price, Forecast & News
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-0.12 (-1.38 %)
Average Volume2.30 million shs
Market Capitalization$916.99 million
P/E Ratio2.72
Peabody Energy Corp. engages in the business of coal mining. It operates through the following segments: Powder River Basin Mining, Midwestern U.S. Mining, Western U.S. Mining, Seaborne Metallurgical Mining, Seaborne Thermal Mining, and Corporate and Other. The Powder River Basin Mining segment consists of its mines in Wyoming. The Midwestern U.S. Mining segment includes Illinois and Indiana mining operations. Read More…
Industry Bituminous coal & lignite - surface mining
SectorOils/Energy
Current SymbolNYSE:BTU
Webhttp://www.peabodyenergy.com/
Trailing P/E Ratio2.72
Cash Flow$9.74 per share
Price / Cash Flow0.88
Net Margins6.92%
Return on Equity6.72%
Outstanding Shares107,000,000
Market Cap$916.99 million
Next Earnings Date2/5/2020 (Confirmed)
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What is Peabody Energy's stock symbol?
Peabody Energy trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "BTU."
How often does Peabody Energy pay dividends? What is the dividend yield for Peabody Energy?
Peabody Energy announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, October 16th. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, October 30th will be paid a dividend of $0.145 per share on Friday, November 29th. This represents a $0.58 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 6.77%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, October 29th. View Peabody Energy's Dividend History.
How were Peabody Energy's earnings last quarter?
Peabody Energy Co. (NYSE:BTU) released its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, October, 29th. The coal producer reported ($0.81) earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of ($0.17) by $0.64. The coal producer earned $1.11 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.09 billion. Peabody Energy had a return on equity of 6.72% and a net margin of 6.92%. Peabody Energy's quarterly revenue was down 21.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted $0.63 earnings per share. View Peabody Energy's Earnings History.
When is Peabody Energy's next earnings date?
Peabody Energy is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, February 5th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Peabody Energy.
How can I listen to Peabody Energy's earnings call?
Peabody Energy will be holding an earnings conference call on Wednesday, February 5th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.
What price target have analysts set for BTU?
7 brokerages have issued 1 year price objectives for Peabody Energy's shares. Their forecasts range from $12.00 to $42.00. On average, they expect Peabody Energy's share price to reach $26.29 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 206.7% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Peabody Energy.
What is the consensus analysts' recommendation for Peabody Energy?
7 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Peabody Energy in the last year. There are currently 4 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Peabody Energy.
Has Peabody Energy been receiving favorable news coverage?
News coverage about BTU stock has trended somewhat positive recently, InfoTrie reports. The research firm rates the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Peabody Energy earned a media sentiment score of 2.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media coverage about the coal producer a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for Peabody Energy.
Are investors shorting Peabody Energy?
Peabody Energy saw a increase in short interest in December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 9,790,000 shares, an increase of 36.4% from the December 15th total of 7,180,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,630,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 6.0 days. Currently, 10.3% of the company's stock are sold short. View Peabody Energy's Current Options Chain.
Who are some of Peabody Energy's key competitors?
Some companies that are related to Peabody Energy include Alliance Resource Partners (ARLP), Arch Coal (ARCH), Natural Resource Partners (NRP), Contura Energy (CNTE), Rhino Resource Partners (RHNO), Cloud Peak Energy (CLDPQ), Westmoreland Resource Partners (WMLPQ) and Puda Coal (PUDA).
What other stocks do shareholders of Peabody Energy own?
Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Peabody Energy investors own include Peabody Energy (BTUUQ), AbbVie (ABBV), Alibaba Group (BABA), Micron Technology (MU), Replimune Group (REPL), General Electric (GE), AT&T (T), Canopy Growth (CGC), Chesapeake Energy (CHK) and Ford Motor (F).
Who are Peabody Energy's key executives?
Peabody Energy's management team includes the folowing people:
Glenn L. Kellow, President, Chief Executive Officer & Director
Amy B. Schwetz, CFO, Principal Accounting Officer & Executive VP
A. Verona Dorch, Secretary, Chief Legal Officer & Executive VP
Paul V. Richard, Chief Human Resources Officer & Senior VP
Charles F. Meintjes, Chief Commercial Officer & EVP-Corporate Services
Who are Peabody Energy's major shareholders?
Peabody Energy's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include FNY Investment Advisers LLC (0.02%) and Nisa Investment Advisors LLC (0.00%). Company insiders that own Peabody Energy stock include A Verona Dorch, Amy B Schwetz, Charles F Meintjes, George John Schuller Jr, Glenn L Kellow, International LP Elliott, Kemal Williamson, Marc E Hathhorn and Paul V Richard. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Peabody Energy.
Which institutional investors are selling Peabody Energy stock?
BTU stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Nisa Investment Advisors LLC. Company insiders that have sold Peabody Energy company stock in the last year include A Verona Dorch, Amy B Schwetz, Charles F Meintjes, George John Schuller Jr, Glenn L Kellow, Marc E Hathhorn and Paul V Richard. View Insider Buying and Selling for Peabody Energy.
Which institutional investors are buying Peabody Energy stock?
BTU stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including FNY Investment Advisers LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for Peabody Energy.
How do I buy shares of Peabody Energy?
Shares of BTU can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.
What is Peabody Energy's stock price today?
One share of BTU stock can currently be purchased for approximately $8.57.
How big of a company is Peabody Energy?
Peabody Energy has a market capitalization of $916.99 million and generates $5.58 billion in revenue each year. The coal producer earns $646.90 million in net income (profit) each year or $3.15 on an earnings per share basis. Peabody Energy employs 7,400 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Peabody Energy.
What is Peabody Energy's official website?
The official website for Peabody Energy is http://www.peabodyenergy.com/.
How can I contact Peabody Energy?
Peabody Energy's mailing address is 701 MARKET ST, ST LOUIS MO, 63101. The coal producer can be reached via phone at 314-342-3400 or via email at [email protected]
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LSH boosts Thames Valley team with experienced property manager
Simon Butler has joined the Lambert Smith Hampton Thames Valley property and asset management team from Carter Jonas.
Based in the firm’s Oxford office, he will be responsible for the management of a number of assets in the region for clients such as Rockspring, TIAA Henderson Real Estate, Wesleyan Financial Services, Oxford University and Mayfair Capital Property Unit Trust.
Simon explains why he wanted to join LSH: “I’m looking forward to being part of a lively, focused team and having input into the growth of the property and asset management department in the Thames Valley. I particularly wanted the opportunity to work for a recognised national firm which is clearly growing at a steady rate.”
Colin Theobald, director of property and asset management for LSH adds: “I am delighted to welcome Simon to the Thames Valley team at such an exciting time of growth and expansion in the region. Simon brings with him valued experience in our customer focused business. Drawing on this experience, Simon will be instrumental in maximising customer service levels, building relationships and identifying new opportunities for clients.”
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Vegan Doesn't Automatically Mean Healthy —Here's Why
By Chris Riotta
Across the globe, there is a movement of human beings placing themselves lower on the food chain. They're becoming vegan, and in doing so, they abstain from all animal products. Some say it's for animal rights activism, others for health and food safety concerns, and while there are a number of concerns to be dealt with within the meat industry, going green (food-wise, at least) doesn't immediately equate to perfect health.
That's because some vegetarian and vegan foods are just as unhealthy as foods containing animal byproducts, and some are even worse off. "Vegetarian simply means someone who does not consume animal protein, but does not indicate that this person is otherwise consuming a healthy, balanced diet," Shannon Kadlovski, a nutritionist, told Huffington Post Canada. "Processed soy such as tofu is high in estrogens, which can cause hormonal imbalances if consumed in excess ... [white pastas] are heavily processed, fiber-deficient and lead to spikes in blood sugar levels."
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A 2014 study in the journal Nutrients titled, "Comparison of Nutritional Quality of the Vegan, Vegetarian, Semi-Vegetarian, Pesco-Vegetarian and Omnivorous Diet" reveals that going vegan might not be the best possible choice for someone hoping to maintain a nutritionally balanced diet. According to that study, "The most restricted diet, i.e., the vegan diet, had the lowest total energy intake, better fat intake profile, lowest protein and highest dietary fiber intake in contrast to the omnivorous diet."
"Calcium intake was lowest for the vegans and below national dietary recommendations," the study continued. Still, Americans and people around the world are becoming more and more attracted to the vegan lifestyle. As the New York Times reported last year, its proponents have made the diet "glamorous, prosperous, sexy and epidermally beaming with health."
For some people hoping to lose weight or reach peak physical health, abstaining from certain foods might seem like a healthy first step, but it simply is not. "There is an emerging trend in the Free From lifestyler - that is the person who wants to cut something out of their diet for another reason - not because they're allergic to it, but because they feel better when they do it, and they think it might be healthier," food expert Tom Treverton told BBC last year, as Mic previously reported.
Going vegan doesn't automatically equate to perfect health, according to a growing body of scientific research. Boston Globe/Getty Images
Meanwhile, being healthy might not be about abstaining from certain food choices at all — instead, it might be about limiting those unhealthy foods and focusing instead on overall health. "I joke that a big juicy steak is my beauty secret, but seriously, I love red meat," Angelina Jolie was once famously quoted saying, according to Vegan.com. "I was a vegan for a long time, and it nearly killed me. I found I was not getting enough nutrition."
That isn't to say a well-balanced vegan diet won't help someone in the throes of dieting. In fact, there are a number of healthy and tasty vegan meals which provide substantial nutrients and protein. Still, most experts say transitioning toward a healthy lifestyle might not necessarily be about cutting everything you love out of your diet, but instead controlling portion sizes and focusing on moderation and exercise.
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House Passes Resolution Formalizing Impeachment Inquiry
By Brandon Carter • Oct 31, 2019
Updated at 1 p.m. ET
The House of Representatives voted Thursday 232-196 to pass a resolution formalizing its impeachment inquiry into President Trump. Just two Democrats voted no — Reps. Collin Peterson of Minnesota and Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey.
Amid the debate, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., called it a "sad day."
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Biodiversity and hope flourish at Palestine's first natural history museum
The museum's vision is of a sustainable community where humans and nature work and live together harmoniously
Dr Mazin Qumsiyeh standing in the botanical garden of the Palestine Museum of Natural History (MEE/Megan Giovannetti)
Megan Giovannetti
Bethlehem, occupied West Bank
Published date: 29 March 2019 09:55 UTC | Last update: 9 months 3 weeks ago
Dr Mazin Qumsiyeh is sitting under the spring sun in the garden of Palestine's first and only museum of natural history, proud of what surrounds him.
"Just like I create an environment where these plants grow, I create an environment where human beings can grow, flourish, succeed."
Qumsiyeh is a well-known scientist, speaker and widely syndicated writer with a large body of published work in genetics, as well as being a human rights advocate.
He teaches at the universities of Bethlehem and Birzeit and previously served on the faculties of the universities of Tennessee, Duke, and Yale in the US, where he lived for 24 years.
Dr Qumsiyeh shows a tour group of local children vegetables and herbs growing in an aquaponics system in the museum's greenhouse (MEE/Miriam Deprez)
For Qumsiyeh, who returned from the US to Bethlehem with wife Jesse in 2008, the study of natural diversity in Palestine and the environmental impact of the Israeli occupation are intimately linked.
Five years ago, Qumsiyeh and his wife planted the seed of the Palestine Museum of Natural History with their own savings. They also established a research centre, the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability, through Bethlehem University, and today the institute and the museum are the leading producers of scientific research on biodiversity in Palestine.
That's what we're looking for - a place of positive energy that's infectious in the community
- Dr Mazin Qumsiyeh
The museum's vision is of a sustainable community where humans and nature work and live together harmoniously. This goal is worked on in three ways: research, education, and conservation.
But the museum is more than just a research institute or a showroom full of interesting stones and taxidermy. "It's an oasis," says Mohammed Abu Sarhan, 23, the museum's lead biologist. "The environment here at the museum doesn't exist anywhere else in Palestine."
To many at the museum, like Abu Sarhan, it has changed lives.
"It's something that changes the way you think and the way you behave in the environment around you," Abu Sarhan says. "Not just to the natural environment but to the societal or political as well."
Qumsiyeh, author of Popular Resistance in Palestine: A History of Hope and Empowerment and several books on wildlife in the Holy Land, leaves a lasting impression on all his visitors.
Local schoolchildren come to learn about the global issue of climate change and leave empowered to change something in their local community. International travellers come to learn about the political situation in Palestine and leave with new knowledge about the struggle for environmental justice.
Most importantly, "people come here and they leave excited, energised," Qumsiyeh says.
"That's what we're looking for - a place of positive energy that's infectious in the community."
Fighting two fronts
The main goals of the museum and institute are to research, educate, and conserve the natural environment. In this pursuit, however, the effects of the Israeli military occupation cannot be ignored.
"The museum is in the middle of the occupation in Bethlehem," says Majid Douglas, an engineer from Nablus and a museum partner. "It cannot just be a project about protecting the environment because the environment is getting attacked by the Israelis."
The occupation's assault on the environment of historic Palestine comes in many forms, dating all the way back to even before the creation of the state of Israel.
The museum's biologist Mohammed Abu Sarhan helps to move the compost (MEE/Miriam Deprez)
"The introduction of invasive species, specifically in the pine trees," is one example Abu Sarhan gives in explaining how the beginning of the colonial project dramatically affected the environment. Europeans came and "planted [pine trees] over destroyed Palestinian land and the effect of this is catastrophic".
Qumsiyeh says that at the beginning of the creation of Israel, "the Zionist colonisers who came here, they did projects like draining the wetlands of the Hula reserve and that resulted in the disappearance of 119 different species".
The political situation deeply affects the environment in Palestine
- Mohammed Abu Sarhan, biologist
The continuation of the military occupation until today also has its own detrimental effect on the natural landscape of Palestine.
"Another major example is just across the way, the settlement of Har Homa," says Abu Sarhan, pointing out of the window to where one of the largest settlements in the West Bank is nestled on a hilltop just outside Bethlehem. "It used to be a forest just 20 years ago, but now you look and see it's a totally populated area."
The infrastructure of settlements has dramatically altered Palestine's natural landscape, but, as Qumsiyeh emphasises, "industrial settlements also dump their toxic waste, and both Palestine's native people and also the environment suffer from these colonial activities".
Local schoolchildren look at photos of birds indigenous to Palestine, one of the museum displays (MEE/Miriam Deprez)
Abu Sarhan points to the multiple scientific articles that the institute and the museum have published, reporting on the destruction of habitats by Israel, including the effects of toxic waste dumping.
"So yes," Abu Sarhan says. "The political situation deeply affects the environment in Palestine."
Reconnecting to the land
"Colonisers want the same thing," Qumsiyeh says. "They want the land, and they want to create a new reality without the people that come with the land."
Systemic land-grabs, the imposed permit regime, and "ghettoisation" of Palestinians into small urban enclaves known as "Area A" are just a few mechanisms that Qumsiyeh says Israel uses to physically separate Palestinians from the land.
Schoolgirls visiting the museum stand by the pond in the garden overlooking the Israeli settlement of Har Homa (MEE/Miriam Deprez)
But in so doing, Palestinians are being separated from their culture and history as well.
"Most of our work in the past was in agriculture," says Mohammed Najajrah, 26, a co-coordinator of a new cultural heritage project taken on by the museum, which focuses on collecting data and artefacts of Palestinian agrarian history.
"We don't have access to our lands, and the work on our lands costs us more than working on settlements," Najajrah tells MEE. "So most people [have] stopped working in agriculture."
Respect: respect for yourself, respect for others, respect for the environment
Najajrah says the museum will add a new exhibit to display traditional tools, old photos, and proverbs centred around farming.
"Israel is trying to have our Palestinian history disappear from our area and to create an Israeli history," Najajrah says.
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So the cultural heritage project is aimed at counteracting this degradation of historical knowledge. "We're taking people back to the land," Qumsiyeh says. "To reconnect as native people to the land [...] is a form of resistance."
Museum partner Douglas expresses the importance of showcasing the agricultural life of Palestinians before colonisation. Agriculture, "was our way of connecting with the world, and they separated us from it," he says.
"We need to show the world we had a normal life before the occupation. We aren't just a group of people that is occupied," Douglas says.
'To exist is to resist'
"Our job here is mental liberation," Qumsiyeh says. "Freedom from mental colonisation."
The motto of the museum is "Respect: respect for yourself, respect for others, respect for the environment." In that order, Qumsiyeh specifies. "I cannot respect nature or other people if I don't respect myself, if I don't feel empowered."
Co-founder of the Natural History Museum, Jesse Qumsiyeh checks on the chillies and other plants grown inside the museum greenhouse (MEE/Miriam Deprez)
The atmosphere that Qumsiyeh has created at the museum is a vehicle of self-empowerment for Palestinians and global citizens. "When your mind is free you can do many things," even under difficult circumstances, he says.
More than just producing research, "we are producing new realities," Qumsiyeh adds.
There are a bunch of obstacles, but sometimes they can be seen as opportunities
The key is creativity. "There are a bunch of obstacles," Abu Sarhan says, "but sometimes they can be seen as opportunities."
With limited physical space and access to natural resources - consequences of both the occupation and climate change - the push toward sustainability in Palestine becomes that much more relevant.
The garden at the museum utilises various modules to educate people on living self-sustainably, including hydroponic and aquaponic systems - methods of growing plants and fish together, without soil, by using mineral nutrient solutions in a water solvent; a biogas system - a system of creating gas from organic compost; and various methods of organic gardening.
"We brought some people from Gaza here," Qumsiyeh gives as an example, "and we trained them in aquaponics so they can go and raise their own fish and vegetables in a very limited space with very limited natural resources that are left for them."
The museum is also working on a community garden project, where 25 small plots of land have been carved out of the museum's garden to facilitate 25 families from refugee camps in Bethlehem.
Plots of land designated for the new community garden project (MEE/Megan Giovannetti)
"Through our work on cultural heritage, we see how much the people in the past worked together," Najajrah says, adding that this is one of the reasons for the garden.
The idea behind the community garden is to guide the new Palestinian generation back to their roots of working together and with the land.
More generally, museum projects such as the community garden simply promote a healthy, sustainable lifestyle. "You develop a positive attitude about life," by working in these areas, Qumsiyeh believes. "It provides a positive energy that otherwise people under colonisation and occupation feel a negative energy.
"When we are sitting out here in the open area [of the museum garden] and seeing all these flowers and butterflies flying around, this to me is the essence of saying, ‘No. I am a human being and this land is mine.'"
"Establishing the museum and being here in Bethlehem is actually one form of non-violent resistance," Abu Sarhan says proudly. "As they say: to exist is to resist."
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The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) of the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) has added Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. and 68 of its Chinese and global non-US affiliates (the Huawei Group) to the BIS Entity List.[i]
Additions to the BIS Entity List are decided by a multiagency End-User Review Committee (ERC), which is comprised of officials from the Departments of Commerce, Defense, State and Energy. The decision on May 21, 2019, to add the Huawei Group affiliates to the BIS Entity List stems from information made available by Commerce to the ERC that provides it with a reasonable basis to conclude that the Huawei Group is engaging in activities contrary to U.S. national security or foreign policy interests.[ii] This information includes activities set forth in the 13-point indictment filed in January 2019 by the U.S. Justice Department against Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., its affiliates, and Skycom, alleging they intentionally violated the U.S. Iranian Sanctions Program administered by the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).
Export License Requirement Imposed. Effective May 16, 2019, the BIS imposes an export license requirement for all "U.S. Items" exported, re-exported from a third-country, or transferred within the same country to a Huawei Group company (Huawei Group Transactions). "U.S. Items" means: (a) any physical commodities, software, or technology in the U.S. or of U.S. origin, (b) such items moving in-transit through the U.S. from one foreign country to another, (c) foreign items incorporating or bundled with U.S. Items,[iii] and (d) certain foreign-made items that are direct products of U.S. origin technology or software.[iv] The BIS presumption is that such export license applications for Huawei Group Transactions will be denied. Excluded from such export license requirements are U.S. Items en route aboard a carrier to a port of export or re-export by May 16, 2019 under actual orders.[v]
Temporary General License Issued. While the original BIS rule states that there are no exceptions to this export license requirement for Huawei Group Transactions, to facilitate U.S. and foreign businesses in making a transition, the BIS issued a temporary general license (Temporary General License), [vi] effective from May 20, 2019 through August 19, 2019, that authorizes:
Continued Operation of Existing Networks and Equipment: Authorized are Huawei Group Transactions necessary to maintain and support existing and currently fully operational networks and equipment (including software updates and patches) under binding contracts with a Huawei Group company that were in place on or before May 16, 2019.
Support to Existing Handsets: Authorized are Huawei Group Transactions necessary to provide service and support (including software updates or patches) to existing Huawei handsets available to the public on or before May 16, 2019.
Cybersecurity Research and Vulnerability Disclosure: Authorized are Huawei Group Transactions comprised of disclosures made to Huawei Group companies of specific information on security vulnerabilities in items owned, possessed or controlled by Huawei Group companies as part of ongoing security research critical to maintaining the integrity and reliability of existing and currently fully operational networks and equipment, as well as handsets.
Engagement as Necessary for Development of 5G Standards by a Duly Recognized Standards Body: Authorized are Huawei Group Transactions constituting engagement with the Huawei Group personnel on 5G Network standards development as part of a recognized international standards setting body.[vii]
Proper use of the Temporary General License authorizes a company to engage in those Huawei Group Transactions listed above without submitting a specific export license application to the BIS.[viii] All Huawei Group Transactions outside of those listed above remain subject to the export license requirement.
Certification Statement Required. Each exporter, re-exporter or in-country transferor must prepare and retain a certification statement prior to engaging in a Huawei Group Transaction in reliance upon the Temporary General License (Certification Statement). In order to rely upon the Temporary General License, the Certification Statement must specify how the proposed Huawei Group Transaction meets the scope of the Temporary General License.
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[i] On May 15, 2019, President Donald J. Trump also issued an Executive Order, declaring a national emergency with respect to threats against U.S. information and communications technology or services and delegating authority to Commerce to prohibit import transactions posing an unacceptable risk to such technologies located in the U.S. This is seen as a concerted action between the President and Commerce to address the perceived threat against the U.S. posed by the Huawei Group. For more information on this Presidential action, see https://www.millercanfield.com/resources-Executive-Order-May-2019.html.
[ii] The Commerce Secretary, Wilbur Ross, stated: "This action by the Commerce and the BIS, with the support of the U.S. President, places Huawei, a Chinese-owned company that is the largest telecommunications equipment producer in the world, on the BIS Entity List. This will prevent U.S. technology from being used by foreign-owned entities in ways that potentially undermine U.S. national security or foreign policy interests."
[iii] Subject to the De Minimis Rule described in § 734.4(c) or § 734.4(d) of the Export Administration Regulations (EAR).
[iv] See § 736.2(b)(3) of the EAR.
[v] Notwithstanding the exclusion from this specific licensing requirement, U.S. Items en route by May 16, 2019 remain otherwise subject to the EAR and other U.S. export controls and sanctions with the available license exceptions or No License Required (NLR) designation, if applicable.
[vi] See https://federalregister.gov/d/2019-10829.
[vii] Standards setting bodies recognized by the BIS include: IEEE – Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; IETF – Internet Engineering Task Force; ISO – International Organization for Standards; ITU – International Telecommunications Union; ETSI- European Telecommunications Standards Institute; 3GPP - 3rd Generation Partnership Project; TIA- Telecommunications Industry Association; and GSMA, a.k.a., GSM Association, Global System for Mobile Communications.
[viii] Despite proper use of the Temporary General License, these transactions remain otherwise subject to the EAR and other U.S. export controls and sanctions with the available license exceptions or NLR designation, if applicable.
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The Allure of a Wisconsin Supper Club
Ron Faiola May 22, 2018
Ron Faiola, Wisconsin’s foremost authority on these enduring institutions, explains the history and ongoing appeal of this culinary treasure.
The allure of a Wisconsin supper club is that each one is unique, and yet you know what to expect when you visit. However, a supper club can mean something different depending on which part of the country it’s in. Its beginnings are far from the Midwest, but it’s easy to see why Wisconsin claims supper club supremacy.
Legend has it that the first one was started by Milwaukee native Lawrence Frank in Beverly Hills, California, in the 1920s. Unfortunately, it’s not entirely true. While Frank was from Milwaukee, the restaurant he opened in L.A. was just a ham-and-eggs diner. The actual birthplace was in the Prohibition speakeasies in NYC that offered supper in a nightclub as a cover for the real business of serving illegal booze. By the late ’30s, the concept went nationwide via Hollywood movies and on radio in the 1940s with the Chesterfield Supper Club variety show.
Wisconsin’s supper clubs started as taverns, resorts and dancehalls where fried chicken and perch were served along with a beer. Eventually these places transformed their food and decor, and as a result, the classic menu we know and love came into being: Friday fish fry, Saturday prime rib, Sunday broasted chicken and ribs. Plus relish trays, cheese and crackers at the bar and the undisputed cocktail: a hand-muddled brandy old fashioned.
But it’s not only the food that draws people back. Plenty of nostalgia is served up with each visit: memories of dressing up for dinner and having your first kiddie cocktail, or going to a high school prom, a graduation, an anniversary or a birthday.
It also helps that every supper club is steeped in history, with stories of misfortune, serendipity and mischievous ghosts. It’s fun to imagine that the walls could talk or to go back in time when lobster was a couple bucks and drinks were a quarter. This type of restaurant feeds the soul like no other, and we’re fortunate to have many exceptional supper clubs scattered around the state.
Ron’s Picks: Five Great Supper Clubs
1 Buckhorn Supper Club
With a view of Lake Koshkonong, it’s my favorite for prime rib and homemade desserts. Make sure to attend one of their popular lobster boils starting in May.
2 Colony House
The spot for shrimp de Jonghe. The Friday fish fry pulls out the fin stops, with smelt, baby walleye and bluegill, as well as perch.
3 Copper Dock
Ask for a table near the windows facing charming Friess Lake and make a res early enough to watch the magical sunset. Daily all-you-can-eat specials include Friday fish fry, prime rib on Saturday and snow crab on Wednesday.
4 HobNob
A retro rendezvous since 1954. It’s hard to decide which sight is better – the window view of our Great Lake or the dining room that takes flamboyance to a Liberace level. Start with oysters Rockefeller followed by steak au poivre or broiled whitefish.
5 Jackson Grill
Steaks are the star at this cozy club in Burnham Park. Try the 16-ounce “saloon” steak with a grilled Portobello mushroom cap. Finish at the bar with a Jackson Grill snifter.
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Whither Go Libraries in the Digital Age?—Part 1
In a previous blog post, we asked whether bookstores will go the way of dinosaurs? The question is even more pressing for libraries, which face a brave new digital world...on top of state and local budget cuts.
First things first: how will libraries adapt to the growing e-book age? That question plagues both libraries and publishers as the trend to digital books shoots upward. More and more of us are turning to Kindles, Nooks, and tablets—we find a book and download it NOW! It feels so good.
But what happens when you download an e-book from the library? Do you have to stand in a virtual line for two weeks till it's your turn to download their single copy? If that's the case, bye-bye library...it's a straight shot to Amazon!
Libraries don't own e-books the same way they own book-books. They license them from publishers through distributors. So...how many times are libraries allowed by publishers to lend the same e-book (simultaneously and over time)? Only once...20 times...100...1,000 times?
Fortunately, libraries and publishers are working on a business model that will sustain them both. They may settle on a subscription fee...or a flat fee per e-book, but whatever the ultimate solution, it should allow both to survive and thrive. At least in the near term.
The long-term is murkier: are bricks & mortar libraries even necessary? If books are virtual, existing in some amorphous computing cloud, will we need never-ending rows of bookshelves? If research is done by computers, what role will reference librarians play? We can deal with those questions in another blog post. But for now, let's say that very smart people are putting their heads together on this issue, too.
The final question—budget cuts. I've got a four-letter response to that...but it's unprintable.
Here's the four-word response—change our tax system.
If we're worried about dumbing down the American mind, something's very wrong with our priorities when we reduce library funding. The world may be turning digital, but for now—and for some time in the future—libraries serve as the communal repository of knowledge...available to all comers.
See the follow-up articles: Whither Go Libraries in the Digital Age—Part 2 and Part 3.
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“It is my pleasure to welcome you to the website of EPSM, a small and dynamic group focusing on urban environmental issues and climate change in Malaysia. We feature our work and activities on the environment since we were formed in 1974.”
EPSM was founded at a public meeting held at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur on 11 January 1974 by a group of Malaysians concerned about protecting the environment. It is a membership-based national organization, run by an elected Executive Committee on an entirely voluntary, non-profit basis.
Gurmit Singh was born in Penang, on 3 November 1942. He is prominent student leader in the 1960s and 1970s, Gurmit is former secretary-general of the National Human Rights Society of Malaysia (Hakam). He got into environmental advocacy in 1974, long before caring about the environment became fashionable (though one may argue that, in Malaysia, the environment still isn’t getting the attention it deserves).
Gurmit served the Environmental Protection Society of Malaysia (EPSM) as president for two decades until 1994, but remains an adviser. He is currently chairperson of the Centre for Environment, Technology and Development Malaysia (Cetdem), a non-profit committed to “improving environmental quality through the appropriate use of technology and sustainable development”
EPSM has highlighted environmental problems through the mass media, made representation to government agencies, campaigned against polluters, undertaken surveys and studies, and contributed towards environmental education and awareness through talks, forums, seminars and its publication, Alam Sekitar.
Our record of campaigns include the following. Through networking and collaboration with both government and non-government bodies, we have contributed to various successful campaigns focusing on Endau-Rompin, Batu Caves, Tembeling National Park, Papan, Bakun Dam, the Societies Act Amendments and the Environment Impact Assesment. EPSM has also monitored the Environmental Quality Act 1974 and its subsequent regulation.
In terms of representation, EPSM is currently represented on a wide range of bodies including the Environmental Quality Council, National Habitat Committee, National Steering Committee on Local Agenda 21 and the Construction Industry Development Board’s Technical Committee for best Environmental Practices.
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Working in a cutting-edge, interdisciplinary field requires collaborative and innovative thinking from all members of the team. For Dr. Irene Herremans of the University of Calgary’s Haskayne School of Business, the combination of her research in environmental management and business analysis requires such an academic environment to not just work, but to thrive. So when she accepted two Mitacs Globalink students to study with her in summer 2012, it was vital that the students she hosted be the crème of the crop.
As part of the program, Mitacs took care of arranging housing and stipend details, making it simple to host international undergraduate students. As Fernanda Lorenzetti Alves and Hengxhi Ma, both from Brazil, started their first research project, their energy and dedication had a valuable impact right from the start.
Their initial challenge was to compile case studies of how global energy companies such as Enbridge and Petrobras integrate environmental and social initiatives into their business practices. The two students collaborated on project tasks, eventually presenting their case studies to their graduate student peers, and publishing them under Dr. Herremans and her colleague Cameron Welsh. The cases have been used extensively in case competitions and conference presentations.
Fernanda and Hengxhi were then tasked with gathering data in order to analyze what business resources and outside influences motivate reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, and comparing the practices between markets where such actions are and are not regulated by government. They collaborated with other graduate students in Dr. Herremans’ team and networked with Canadian energy company executives.
Dr. Herremans sees great benefit to the collaborations and connections she was able to foster through Mitacs Globalink.
“It was a great opportunity to bring students here to do some basic research while also internationalizing our university. The program helped to develop good research capabilities in students, but in turn the students also helped me with my research. They were always anxious to learn more, and their energy stimulated new ideas on the team.”
Furthermore, Dr. Herremans has maintained contact with her Globalink students and may just see them both in the near future. Hengxhi is currently in the process of applying to return to UCalgary for graduate school through the Globalink Graduate Fellowship, while Fernanda completed her undergraduate Honours project based on her Globalink case work and is now employed in Brazil.
In the meantime, Dr. Herremans is looking forward to applying to Globalink again with the hope of cultivating the same connection to another set of students, possibly from China, Mexico or India this time. “It’s hard to verbalize the intangibles of what made my experience with Mitacs Globalink so good. The payback has been enormous.”
Mitacs thanks the Government of Canada and Alberta Innovates for their support of the Globalink research internship in this story. Across Canada, the Globalink program also receives support from the Government of British Columbia, the Government of New Brunswick, the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, the Government of Nova Scotia, the Government of Ontario, the Government of Prince Edward Island, the Government of Quebec, the Government of Saskatchewan and Research Manitoba.
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330 NCAA All-Americans
28 National Championship Appearances
9 Conference Championships
4 Individual National Champions
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Hometown: Brighton, Mich.
High School: Brighton
Position: Fly, Sprint Free
Major: Computer Science and Economics
Collegiate Personal Bests
50-Free - 23.98
100-Free - 52.44
200-Free - 1:57.85
100-Back - 1:00.45
100-Fly - 59.61
2018-19: Honorable Mention All-American (200 Free Relay) ... NCAA Qualifier ... NEWMAC Champion (200 Free Relay, 400 Free Relay) ... CSCAA Scholar All-American ... NEWMAC Academic All-Conference ... NEWMAC Relay Team of the Week (Nov. 20, Dec. 3, Jan. 22, Feb. 4) ... at the NCAA Championship, finished 12th in the 200-free relay in 1:34.88 and swam in the prelims in the 400-free relay which finished 18th in 3:29.11 ... at the NEWMAC Championship, placed first in the 200-free relay in 1:34.65, first in the 400-free relay in 3:28.08, fifth in the 50-free in 24.33, sixth in the 100-free in 53.34, 11th in the 200-medley relay in 1:48.75 and 17th in the 100-back in 1:01.63 ... at the Winter Invitational, touched the wall first in the 200-free relay (1:36.04), first in the 200-medley relay (1:44.36), second in the 400-free relay (3:32.70), third in the 50-free (24.04), fifth in the 800-free relay (7:49.21), sixth in the 100-free (53.78), 12th in the 400-medley relay (4:04.57) and 24th in the 100-back (1:01.67) ... posted 14 top-3 finishes in regular season dual meets.
2017-18: All-American (200 Free Relay, 400 Medley Relay) … Honorable Mention All-American (400 Free Relay) … NCAA Qualifier … NEWMAC Champion (200 Free Relay, 400 Medley Relay) … NEWMAC Second Team All-Conference (400 free relay) … set the NEWMAC open record in the 200 free relay and the MIT program record in the 200 free relay at the 2018 NCAA Division III National Championship … also finished eighth with the 400 medley relay team (3:49.47) and 12th with the 400 free relay team (3:27.40) at Nationals … at the NEWMAC Championship, claimed the league title in the 200 free relay in 1:34.30 and the 400 medley relay in 3:48.64 … also placed second in the 400 free relay (3:27.80), third in the 50 free (24.25), fourth in the 100 free (52.44), 11th in the 800 free relay (7:43.17) and 14th in the 200 free (1:58.55) … at the MIT Winter Invitational, touched the wall first in the 200 free relay (1:34.30), first in the 400 free relay (3:29.79), first in the 400 medley relay (3:48.47), second in the 50 free (24.15), second in the 100 free (52.72), fourth in the 200 medley relay (1:46.73) and seventh in the 800 free relay (7:54.17) … during regular season dual meets, registered nine event wins including four in the 50 free which came against Springfield, WPI/Bowdoin, Boston College and Amherst.
2016-17: All-American (200 Free Relay) … NEWMAC Champion (200 Free Relay) … CSCAA Scholar All-American … aided the Engineers to their best finish in program history at the NCAA Division III Championship as MIT placed fifth with a team score of 165 points … at her first NCAA appearance, earned All-America honors with the 200 free relay team as the quartet finished fifth in 1:33.83 … at the NEWMAC Championship, claimed the league title in the 200 free relay in 1:34.36 and also finished third in the 50 free (24.24), fifth in the 100 free (53.00), eighth in the 100 fly (59.61) and 11th – first in the “B” final in both the 400 free relay (3:32.47) and the 400 medley relay (3:54.91) … at the MIT Winter Invitational, touched the wall first in the 200 free relay (1:34.40), second in the 400 medley relay (3:53.27), third in the 400 free relay (3:33.60), fourth in the 50 free (24.22) and the 200 medley relay (1:48.73), fifth in the 100 free (53.64), seventh in the 800 free relay (7:58.36) and tenth in the 200 free (1:57.85 – season best) … during regular season dual meets, registered 20 top-3 finishes in her respective events including three first place finishes with the 200 free relay which came against Springfield & Wellesley, WPI & Bowdoin and Williams.
Out of the Pool at MIT: Majoring is computer science and economics … R&D Intern at A123 Systems ... Software Intern at Amadeus.
High School: A 2016 graduate of Brighton High School … four-time varsity letterwinner in swimming and three-time varsity letterwinner downhill ski racing … named All-State three times and named All-County four-times … also competed for Club Wolverine … National Honor Society … Vice President of the National Honor Society … four-time member of the Honor Roll.
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Deanna Dikeman's pictures emphasize the phrase "meaning is found in the unremarkable." The pictures from her Relative Moments series depict lyrical, abstract domestic images and nostalgic, touching scenes of suburban home life. Dikeman uses her camera to scrutinize and commemorate the everyday moments and gestures of her parents (and occasionally others) within their Midwestern home. In this series, small, quiet moments take on new meaning. Rendered with a traditional documentary style, her pictures suggest life slowing down and everyday routine becoming a reminder of our own mortality.
Dikeman received a BS and an MS from Purdue University. She is currently an instructor at the University of Missouri and has worked as a freelance photographer since 1986. Her work is held in the collections of the Aaron Siskind Foundation, Princeton University; American Century Corporation; and the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson. Dikeman has shown her work at San Francisco Camerawork; the Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD; and the Society for Contemporary Photography Gallery, Kansas City, MO, among others. Dikeman currently lives and works in Columbia, MO.
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This online-only auction drew in bidders from across the U.S. and from around the world.
Auction Assets Group recently wrapped up its internet-only auction for The Watson Collection, and this auction of rare cars did not disappoint. The auction ran from August 28th through September 11th, and when the bidding closed, many cars had found a new home with the lots totaling $3,215,350 and 80% sales.
To show the excitement around these 37 amazing cars, a preview party for the auction drew in more than 350 guests, and the auction itself drew in people from across the U.S. and from around the world bidding on a wide variety of cars spanning from a 1924 Ford T-Bucket to an ultra-rare 2017 Mercedes-Maybach S650 Cabriolet. When all was said and done, the top bid from the auction was a flawless 1970 Hemi 'Cuda with just 86 miles on the odometer, which reached $593,000.
Other high-value cars that were auctioned off include the Maybach (one of 75 in the U.S. and just 40 miles on the odometer) that hammered for $213,000, a 2005 Ford GT with 616 miles that sold for $278,000 and a 1970 Plymouth Superbird with a 440 V8 and 21,000 actual miles at $198,000.
Not everything auctioned off was a six-figure car, though. There were plenty of affordable collector cars including the limited-production 2015 Alfa Romeo 4C Launch Edition that sold for $42,787, a cool 1953 MG TD that sold for $15,750 and a 1964 Ford Galaxie 500 police car that sold for $17,325. Not only was this Galaxie a working clone of one of the police cruisers from The Andy Griffith Show, it was also signed by the late Don Knotts, who played Sheriff Barney Fife.
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Aspendos Perge Side Tour - ANT6
Stop At: Aspendos Ruins and Theater, Aspendos, Serik Turkey
Aspendos: is famous for its best-preserved theater of antiquity built in the 2nd c. AD with a capacity of 15, 000 people. Still used today for performances and festivals, the theater’s galleries, stage decorations and acoustics all testify to its architect Xenon’s success. Next to the stage there is a small room which is used as a small museum where you can see some of the masks and clay tickets. Nearby stand the remains of a basilica, agora and one of the largest aqueducts in Anatolia. Here you can visit also the acropolis of the city with a great view of the river.
Stop At: Perge Ancient City, Aksu, Antalya 07110 Turkey
Perge: It was settled by the Hittites around 1500 B. C. Kestros (Aksu) river, which runs near acropolis, made Perge like a port because it was possible to navigate. An important trade route starting from Side run through Perge. It is also famous by the fact that when St. Paul started his journeys, he visited Perge in 46 A. D. and preached his first sermon here. That’s why it became an important city for the Christians during Byzantine period.
Stop At: Greek Amphitheater, Liman Cd, Side, Manavgat 07330 Turkey
Side: The furthest city in the east of historical Pamphylia. Situated on a peninsula about 1000 m long and 400 m. wide, it fulfilled its duty as a commercial port. Naturally, Side used to be one of the most important trade centers in the antiquity and now it is one of the most popular holiday resort in Turkey. According to Strabon the ancient geographer, side was first established in the 7 th cen. B. C. as a trade colony of the Aegean city Kyme near Izmir But the merchants took up the local language, Side tan the name “Side” meant pomegranate, the fruit symbolizing abundance and fertility. Like the other Pamphylian cities in general, Side was ruled by Lydia in the sixth cent. B. C. and Persia after 547 B. C. The coins minted in here prove that Side had at least an internal independence. Alexander the Great conquered Side in the first year of the great campaign on Asia in 334 B. C. and was introduced to Hellenistic culture.
Stop At: Kursunlu Waterfalls, Antalya Turkey
Kursunlu Waterfalls: The Kursunlu is a waterfall which is reduced to a mere trickle in the summer months. It is located 19 km from Antalya at the end of a 7 km road branching off to the north of the Antalya-Serik-Alanya highway at a point 12 km from Antalya. The waterfall is on one of the tributaries of the Aksu river and its situation in the midst of a pine forest is of quite exceptional beauty. The countryside around the water forms a lovely picnic and pleasure spot only twenty minutes from the centre of the city of Antalya.
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Entry/Admission - Aspendos Ruins and Theater
Entry/Admission - Perge Ancient City
Entry/Admission - Greek Amphitheater
Entry/Admission - Kursunlu Waterfalls
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News Release – Got an Idea for an Ed Tech Tool to Support Special Education? NewSchools Ignite Might Fund it!
By: Debbie Veney
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Announcing up to $1.5 million in new funding opportunities for ed tech entrepreneurs
(Oakland, CA, February 16, 2017) — NewSchools Venture Fund is excited to announce the launch of its next ed tech funding opportunity: the NewSchools Ignite Special Education Challenge. This challenge targets ed tech entrepreneurs with a product that supports Pre-Kindergarten through 12th grade students in special education. The opportunity will be open from February 16 till March 12.
NewSchools Ignite is a virtual ed tech accelerator that focuses on market gaps in education, and supports entrepreneurs interested in developing products that help schools and teachers tailor learning for students, and make the best use of instructional time and resources. While some segments of the ed tech market have grown rapidly in the last few years, other market segments are still lagging in innovation that meets critical student and teacher needs. Tools for students with disabilities is one of those areas, and is the focus of this current ed tech challenge.
“We always begin by listening to educators,” said Tonika Cheek Clayton, managing partner, NewSchools Venture Fund. “It seems intuitive that students with disabilities might need significant academic support, but we talked with experts and gained a much better understanding of the higher incidence of adverse outcomes for these students – such as significant gaps in student achievement when compared to their counterparts, and lower graduation and employment rates. More importantly, we learned how ed tech tools could help.”
To help inform the specifications of the NewSchools Ignite Special Education Challenge, the team at NewSchools conducted market research with approximately 40 educators, thought leaders and entrepreneurs. Market research showed ed tech tools have potential to address several critical areas of need for students with disabilities:
making rigorous academic content accessible to a wide range of students
encouraging increased communication and collaboration of diverse learners
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using data to empower students, families, and educators
For this challenge, the team is seeking a diverse set of entrepreneurs to create exceptional special education tools for students, with funding in the range of $50,000-$150,000. Funding will be accompanied by management assistance and collaboration within a community of practice of other organizations that receive funding in this challenge. Ventures will be notified by April 28. Interested entrepreneurs can apply at www.newschools.org/ignite/special-education-challenge.
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Humans are hardwired to feel others' pain
By Philip Cohen
Humans are hardwired to feel empathy, suggests a new imaging study showing that certain pain-processing regions of the brain light up when a loved-one is hurt.
But no one actually “feels” the physical pain of the ones they love. The UK researchers suggest that empathy is the result of our brain running a virtual simulation that represents only part of the other person’s experience.
“That’ s probably why empathy doesn’t feel like pain in your hand,” says Tania Singer, a neuroscientist at the University College London, who led the study. “It feels like when you anticipate your own pain. Your heart races, your emotions are engaged. It’s like a smaller copy of the overall experience.”
Previous imaging studies have measured the effect of viewing movies or still pictures portraying emotional actors. But Singer’s team was interested in empathy at its most abstract level.
“It’s like when you read a book and you cry about a character without ever seeing them,” she told New Scientist. “This is a symbolic empathy that as far as we know only humans are capable of.”
Stinging jolt
To hunt for this form of empathy, the researchers recruited 16 heterosexual couples who were romantically involved and assumed to be attuned to each others feelings. Each man and woman had electrodes attached to their right hand capable of delivering a mild, ticklish shock or a stinging, short jolt of pain.
Each woman then had her brain scanned by functional magnetic resonance imaging, while being able to view only the right hand of her beau sitting beside her. Unable to see her loved one’s face, her only clue to his state was conveyed symbolically by a set of lights indicating whether he was receiving a mild shock or a stinging jolt.
When the women were subjected to a strong shock, a whole series of brain regions lit up including those on the brain’s left side that physically mapped the pain to their hand. The regions of the brain – the anterior insula (AI) and the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) – involved in the emotional response to pain and other situations, also lit up.
But when their partners were zapped, regions physically mapping the pain were quiet while the AI and ACC and a few other regions lit up in the women’s brains. And the signals from those two areas were stronger in women who reported a greater degree of empathy, suggesting these regions mediate empathy.
Singer suspects that our brain’s ability to intuit the emotional response of others could have been strongly selected during evolution. “If I do something, it tells me will it make you smash me, will you kill me or will you like it? Being able to predict how others feel might have been necessary for human survival,” she says.
Journal reference: Science (vol 303, p 1157)
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Prestigious award opens doors to Asian market for Kāpiti Coast limoncello maker
Angie Skerrett
The company uses lemons sourced from Gisborne to produce the award-winning limoncello. Photo credit: Supplied
A Kāpiti Coast limoncello producer is hoping a win at a prestigious wine and spirit competition will help open doors in the lucrative Asian market.
Koakoa Limoncello was the only New Zealand limoncello to win a gold medal at the Hong Kong International Wine and Spirit Competition.
The company's Bond Store Kawakawa Gin also won a bronze medal.
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Chief Koakoa crafter Chris Barber, said the limoncello was the company's signature offering and the award paved the way to enter the Asian market in 2020.
"Our business has doubled in size over the last 12 months, and we're hoping to do the same next year. We would love to see our Koakoa Limoncello on shelves in Hong Kong and Singapore, and we'll be making the most of our gold medal to get there," he said.
Koakoa Limoncello and The Bond Store Gin recently gained the NZ Fernmark Accreditation, which is the official recognition of a product's connection to New Zealand.
Owners Chris Barber and Bec Kay celebrate the win. Photo credit: Supplied
Barber said having the Fernmark was important in markets like Asia where products of Kiwi origin are highly sought after.
"Asia is a key market for our export plans and carrying the Fernmark alongside the gold award will remove barriers that exporters without either would have. We're proud to be a 100 percent Kiwi company, using New Zealand products where we can, to build a family business we are proud of."
The company uses lemons sourced from Gisborne, and the kawakawa in the gin grows at the Barber's family farm in the Wairarapa.
Family and friends help hand zest the lemons, and both the limoncello and gin are produced on the Kāpiti Coast.
"We want to share our uniquely kiwi story, and our products with the world and are looking forward to doing that in 2020."
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Digital Book World 2018 Gathers the Wide World of Publishing
Amazon, Intel, Princeton University, Southwest Airlines, Simon & Schuster, Penguin Random House and Others Take the Stage at Publishing's Most Anticipated Event of the Year
Jun 11, 2018, 08:03 ET
NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 11, 2018 /CNW/ -- Digital Book World (DBW), taking place Oct. 2-4 in Nashville, Tenn. at the Music City Center, gathers publishers large and small, traditional and untraditional, and the technology companies which serve all of them.
The event is on pace to triple the previous year's attendance, while convening more than 70 exhibitors from around the world to showcase the products, services, ecosystems and tools modern publishers need to evolve.
"In a world where every company is a publisher, and every individual has the ability to deliver a print or digital book, uniting publishing insight with technological vision is fundamental to the advancement of storytelling," said Bradley Metrock, DBW 2018 executive producer and the CEO of Score Publishing. "When you have tech giants like Amazon and Intel on the same program as publishing stalwarts like Simon & Schuster and Penguin Random House, you end up with insights and guidance you won't find anywhere else."
Six breakout tracks – Data Book World, Education Book World, Legal Book World, Production Book World, Marketing Book World and New Media Book World – serve as mini-conferences within each area of publishing expertise. Organizations from Princeton University to Southwest Airlines will discuss their publishing operations, as part of these various tracks.
Walt Mossberg, who will deliver the keynote address, is widely credited with pioneering the modern, consumer-focused technology review and commentary. He is in the process of writing a book, about the combination of breakthrough technology and the people who brought it to us, which will capstone his career. This book will be published by St. Martin's Press in 2019.
"Humankind relies on storytelling, and technology and publishing now work together to deliver it," Mossberg commented. "I am very much looking forward to discussing this at Digital Book World."
Pamela Paul (New York Times Book Review editor) and Karen Wickre (former corporate communications for Google and Twitter) will provide highly-anticipated talks, while pre-conference workshops will cover podcasting, developing Alexa skills, and applications of blockchain in publishing.
Registration for Digital Book World 2018 is available at http://www.digitalbookworld.com. Follow Digital Book World on Twitter: @DigiBookWorld or via #DBW18.
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Scouts raise money for DeSarno family
Troop 97 collected donations at the ShopRite and in front of the Knights of Columbus in Sayreville
Scouts raise money for DeSarno family Troop 97 collected donations at the ShopRite and in front of the Knights of Columbus in Sayreville Check out this story on mycentraljersey.com: http://mycj.co/1BmDdkM
Pamela MacKenzie, @pammackenziemcj Published 2:22 p.m. ET Jan. 4, 2015 | Updated 1:46 p.m. ET Jan. 5, 2015
Matt Perkins and Ian Kelly manned a table at the Boy Scout Troop 97 fundraiser for the DeSarno/Klitzke family Saturday at Our Lady of Victory Knights of Columbus in Parlin.(Photo: PAMELA MacKENZIE/STAFF PHOTO)Buy Photo
On Saturday, Boy Scout Troop 97 collected monetary donations on behalf of the DeSarno/Klitzke family, a civic-minded family who lost everything in a predawn fire Dec. 29.
The scouts were stationed at the Our Lady of Victory Knits of Columbus hall on Washington Road and the ShopRite down the street.
Scouts and their leaders spoke of what Paul DeSarno, one of the troop's leaders, has done for the troop and how much they appreciate his service.
The DeSarno/Klitzke family faces a long recovery process, and there are several ways you can help them.
SAYREVILLE – For the Boy Scouts and leaders of Troop 97, their Saturday fund-raising event for the DeSarno/Klitzke family was more than just a public service; they were helping one of their own. They have been doing what they can for Paul DeSarno, one of the troop's leaders, since the early morning hours of the fire on Monday that destroyed the home, injuring all the family members. Paul DeSarno, a former councilman and public defender, and his son, Arthur, were treated and released on Monday at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. Son Henry, wife Kim Klitzke DeSarno, daughter, Shelby, and Kim's father, Max Klitzke, remained hospitalized Saturday at Robert Wood Johnson or St. Barnabas Burn Unit.
But the troop has been helping in many ways, lending Paul DeSarno a car getting Paul and Arthur clothing. The family was asleep at the time of the fire and escaped the flames in their pajamas, said Bob Abramski, the Scout Master, who has been with Troop 97 since he was a Boy Scout himself. He has known Paul DeSarno for many years and said Paul has been the chairman of the troop's leadership committee since 2009.
Other leaders of the troop joined Abramski and numerous Boy Scouts at the Knights of Columbus hall on Washington Road Saturday, collecting monetary donations for the family. A second contingent of the troop was collecting donations at the ShopRite in town.
"We are not collecting clothing or items like that. We have no place to store them. And they should be able to buy what they want when they're ready," Abramski said. "This is the beginning of a long process."
Why they turned out
Many of the scouts spoke about what DeSarno has meant to them and why they came out in the rain to help.
Matt Crowley and Branden McCoy said the two things they like most about scouting are camping with friends and "giving back like this." Crowley said it was especially meaningful to be helping the family of someone who has meant so much to him.
"He's not running the show, but he's always there when we need help," Crowley said.
When asked if there was any particular skill or activity that he'd learned from DeSarno, McCoy said there wasn't anything in particular, but "he's always there, like an advise giver."
Rich Perkins, a leader who has known Paul DeSarno for a decade, said one of the things he appreciates most about DeSarno is his sense of humor.
"He's totally a great guy," Perkins said.
Other leaders echoed that sentiment. Dave Biebel, another leader, said he's only known the DeSarnos a couple of years, though his wife had known them longer through her connection with the Girl Scouts.
"All around, he just helps out," Biebel said. "I got to know him on a trip the troop took to Gettysburg. Paul went to college there, and I grew up nearby in Carlisle, Pa. So we both knew the area well and got to know each other talking about it."
Some of the boys remember that trip as one of their most memorable. Ian Kelly and Matt Perkins, Rich's son, said DeSarno's tour of the battlegrounds made that Civil War battle come alive for them. They also said his sense of humor made them laugh a lot. Crowley and McCoy also said DeSarno was better than any tour guide and they enjoyed that trip very much.
Another leader, Pete Ferlita, who has been with Troop 97 for nine years, said that as leadership chairman, DeSarno has been responsible for planning most of the troop's trips, whether they be to Boy Scout camps on the East Coast or out west to Yellowstone National Park. He said that his family and the DeSarno family have become good friends outside of scouting because of scouting. The other leaders agreed this was true for them as well.
On Saturday, Boy Scout Troop 97 collected donations to benefit the DeSarno/Klitzke family after their devastating fire. The scouts were at Our Lady of Victory Knights of Columbus in the Parlin section of Sayreville, shown here, and the ShopRite down the street. (Photo: PAMELA MacKENZIE/STAFF PHOTO)
Ferlita's son, Kyle, was one of the Boy Scouts stationed down the street at ShopRite, along with Alexander Strika, Joseph McCoy Jr. and a couple of leaders, Joseph McCoy Sr. (father of Joe Jr. and Branden) and Charlie Catania, who grew up with Paul DeSarno in Edison. Other Scouts, including some Cub Scouts, were also collecting during the day. The boys were welcome to stay as long as they could. Many came for a few hours and left when they needed to meet other commitments. As shoppers dropped contributions into the boys' collection jars, McCoy Sr. and Catania spoke about DeSarno's many services to the troop and the community.
"He was very involved in long-term Sandy recovery," Catania said. "He helped people with filling out paperwork and I think he was active with the Sandy Relief Fund."
McCoy Sr. said DeSarno has a lot of grant writing on the troop's behalf, as well as planning the trips. "We have been able to do so much because of Paul getting us grants," McCoy said.
As Abramski said, there will be many more fundraisers to help this civic-minded family, who gave so much to the community and who lost everything in the Dec. 29 fire. On Tuesday, Jan. 6, there will be a fundraiser at the Texas Roadhouse on Route 9 in the Gateway Mall in Old Bridge, where a percentage of every meal served will go to helping the DeSarno Family.
Joe McCoy Sr., right, one of the leaders of Boy Scout Troop 97, speaks about the things Paul DeSarno has done for the troup while scouts collect donations for the DeSarno/Klitzke family Saturday at the ShopRite in Sayreville. (Photo: PAMELA MacKENZIE/STAFF PHOTO)
"It is open to the public, starting at 4 and it goes to 10 p.m.," said Jennifer Chipuzio, one of the managers. "We have employees who know the family, and it's a great chance for us to help out locally, which is something we like to do."
Troop 97 will be continuing its fundraising efforts. People can make checks payable to Boy Scouts of America Troop 97 or Knights of Columbus Council 2061 with "DeSarno Donation" in the memo and sent to the troop at Our Lady of Victory Knights of Columbus Council 20161, 775 Washington Road, in the Parlin (08859) section of Sayreville. Checks also can be sent to Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, with a DeSarno memo, at 90 Leonardine Ave., South River, NJ 08882.
If you want to help
On Jan. 6, there will be a fundraiser at the Texas Roadhouse on Route 9 in the Gateway Mall in Old Bridge, where a percentage of every meal served will go to helping the DeSarno Family.
You also can send payable to Boy Scouts of America Troop 97 or Knights of Columbus Council 2061 with "DeSarno Donation" in the memo and sent to the troop at Our Lady of Victory Knights of Columbus Council 20161, 775 Washington Road, in the Parlin (08859) section of Sayreville. Checks also can be sent payable to Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, with a DeSarno memo, at 90 Leonardine Ave., South River, NJ 08882.
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MANP > Learn > Resources > The Answer Center: Resources for Nonprofits > Directors and Officers Insurance (D&O)
Directors and Officers Insurance (D&O)
Directors and Officers Insurance, commonly called D&O Insurance, offers protection against a breach of “duty” by the directors and officers. Whether or not to carry this kind of coverage can be a complicated question. The following articles provide information to help nonprofits decide, and offer advice on finding coverage.
Nonprofit Directors and Officers Insurance: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Guidestar)
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Once Upon A Time, There Was A Spirit Sword Mountain Chapter 33
Since two years ago, Wang Lu knew that the Lady Boss was a person of her words. Once she said she would teach him, she wouldn't take it back.
After having their lunch under the tree, the Lady Boss packed up the bowls and chopsticks into the food box and then said, "Okay, let's get started."
"Start what?"
"Of course, it's training martial art! Since we can't start in the morning, we might as well start now. Think of this as a way to speed up your digestion. Come with me."
The Lady Boss turned around and walked along a rugged road slanted upward, seemingly without a certain destination. Wang Lu simply followed behind her in silence.
The two of them walked in tandem on the Misty Peak, traveling rapidly. Although the Lady Boss was carrying a bulky food box filled with fragile dishware, she didn't seem to be burdened by it. Moreover, the box didn't even shake, and there was no sound of colliding dishware, which showed her profound lightness Kung Fu.
As for Wang Lu, their difference in skill was far too much. Although he did long distance hiking everyday for two years and had superhuman endurance, but he was not a martial artist. His climbing movement was not natural. He even needed to use his four limbs in order for him to keep up with the Lady Boss.
After climbing for half an hour, they passed the grotesquely-shaped jagged rocks, went through the Peach Blossom Forest, and finally stopped in the middle of nowhere.
"Not bad, you can still keep up without losing your breath! No monkeys can climb better than you!"
Wang Lu clapped his hands on the mud. "As a mountain boy, my special skill in chasing away the wild monkey is certainly amazing."
"Your special skill is too tasteless! However, this also proves that you haven't wasted your two years, your foundation is very solid. That being the case, what we're going to do next is very simple. I will directly pass onto you a peerless skill. The only problem is, it's going to be a little exhausting."
Wang Lu laughed. "It doesn't matter, I can handle it. But, don't you think I am a bit late to start learning martial arts?"
The Lady Boss confidently patted her chest. "Don't compare me with those mediocre martial artists. Not to mention you're only fourteen now, even if you're forty, it's not going to be too late for you to start training with me!"
"Why do I feel your words seem familiar to me…?"
Wang Lu and the Lady Boss talked and laughed merrily at the beginning, but when the Lady Boss started getting serious and imparted him the outside martial art called "Divine Skill of Subduing the Dragon", Wang Lu almost gave up.
The Divine Skill of Subduing the Dragon was not a complicated skill. It has a total of sixteen sets, divided into thirty movements, but… the movement was difficult, even outright outrageous. The person who created this Kung Fu set must have had a great deal of hatred towards humanity because each movement was designed to be against the common sense—whether it was to turn the joint outward or to tear the ligament as a way to stretch the body. Wang Lu thought that the three words "Subduing the Dragon" probably meant that the dragon itself would be subdued halfway through the training if it tried to train this set.
Of course, although this Kung Fu set was anti-human, there were no shortage of peerless martial arts masters with anti-human Kung Fu set. The Lady Boss performed the whole sixteen set in a single stretch without missing a beat, which made Wang Lu highly suspect whether the girl ate any strange fruit while she was still a child, and thus causing all her limbs and joints to be freely moved and stretched at will in all directions.
"All right, those are all the complete sixteen sets of the Divine Skill of Subduing the Dragon, what do you think?" The Lady Boss laughed after she finished this set of anti-human skill. "How much can you remember?"
"Master, I have already forgotten half of it. Should I forget all of it to master this set? If so, please give another two minutes…" [1]
"The hell! Are you kidding me!"
"Because I don't want to add this anti-human set into my memory. Master, do you have a more reasonable Kung Fu set?"
Like an artist that was being denied its artistic attainment by an average person, Lady Boss went furious. "What does a kid like you know! Do you know how many people in the mortal world dreams of learning even just half of this Subduing the Dragon set? Go practice this set! Otherwise, you won't get any meal from me in the future!"
"Damn, threatening to cut the meal, that's a low blow, master, a low blow!"
Facing such a threat, Wang Lu finally got serious and began to practice the set.
Although his heart was a thousand times unwilling, when Wang Lu seriously began to train, his progress was surprisingly fast.
The Lady Boss had actually just demonstrated the complete set to him once, but every action and movement from that set had already been deeply engraved in his mind… Of course, this could be because those anti-human set of movements were too shocking.
But when Wang Lu easily completed the first three moves, even the Lady Boss was caught by surprise. "Not bad, you're actually this flexible."
Wang Lu feebly replied, "You're the flabby one!" [2]
"Hmm, since you can easily complete the first few moves, we can speed up your training. Let's combine the move with the breathing exercise. Okay, pay attention to my instruction…"
This time, the difficulty increased a lot. Although Wang Lu could smoothly execute those anti-human moves of the Divine Skill of Subduing the Dragon with his physical condition, but when the Lady Boss asked to combine it with the breathing routine, Wang Lu suddenly felt like he was being pressed by a huge mountain. The breathing routine seemed to have no rules whatsoever; sometimes it was fast, sometimes it was slow, and sometimes it was like a hailstorm, which nearly overwhelmed him. When it slowed, it was so drawn-out that he nearly suffocated. It was more like intentionally giving someone a hard time rather than a breathing exercise.
However, not long after, Wang Lu felt that there seemed to be a particular stream of energy which methodically flowed throughout various parts of his body according to the Lady Boss's breathing exercise instruction.
Whenever that stream of energy flew past a body part, the muscles in that area began to slightly shiver, expand and contract. Although the magnitude wasn't large, it covered all the muscles in his body, which when combined with the movements of the set, consumed immense physical exertion. Sweat poured out all over his body, and his heart beat like crazy.
Seeing his "streaming with sweat" condition, the Lady Boss expressed her admiration. "Wow, your body's response is really quick! Your ability to sense the stream of energy is really sharp! In the mortal world, you'll be a rare martial arts prodigy."
Wang Lu fought back his breathing discomfort and said, "Damn, even in the Immortal Cultivation World, with my Void Spirit Root, I am still a rare prodigy!"
"Yeah, yeah, a rare collection specimen…" The Lady Boss curled her lips. "Okay, since this exercise had made you, this wild monkey, tired like a dog, I think that's enough for today. Go back and take a rest. When your strength is restored, you can practice again. After you master this Divine Skill of Subduing the Dragon, I will teach you several more fighting methods. With your intelligence and talent, I believe that within a month, you can win a fight against Zhu Qin's gang members in a duel."
"What the! A month of hard training and I can only win a one-on-one fight against a minion? In the past two years, I had been left behind by so many people! Oh my dear Master, shouldn't you compensate for my loss of youth!"
That night, Wang Lu dragged his body back to the Non-Phase Peak and immediately fell asleep. Early the next morning, his whole body ached so much that he wished he could die right then.
However, when he remembered that he hadn't had his breakfast yet, Wang Lu forced himself to get up and hobbled to the living room. He then unflinchingly swept away the steamed bun, pickles, thin porridge and a slice of ham from the table.
After breakfast, he cleaned the dishes and pushed open his Master's door. Sure enough, drowning in alcohol, his Master, as always, slept like a dead dog. Her whole white dress was unexpectedly spotless, yet while sprawling on the bed, her sleeping posture caused a lot of her bare skin to reveal itself. Objectively, this Fifth Elder could be considered as a rare beauty… But of course, if one also considered her temperament and other factors, then she would suddenly become a repulsive monster.
In the Immortal Cultivator World, many young cultivators were enraptured by her beauty, but unfortunately, after two years, Wang Lu was already tired of looking at her bare skin. After casting her a glance to make sure that she was still alive, Wang Lu closed her door again, too lazy to continue looking at her "scenery". Because there was no schedule at the Teng Cloud Hall for today, he planned on spending his day training on the Non-Phase Peak. According to the Lady Boss, the more he persisted on training this Divine Skill of Subduing the Dragon despite the fatigue, the more he could achieve.
As for the place to practice, he could simply use the open space outside the wooden hut. Besides the one who slept like a dead dog inside the room, the other Elders provided their Successor Disciples a special training field. Some even provided their Successor Disciples with a realm!
After he stretched his body a bit, he then endured the pain on his limbs as if they were torn. Wang Lu began to move according to the Lady Boss's pointers from yesterday. One by one, he performed the full sixteen sets of the Divine Skill of Subduing the Dragon. Although he didn't combine it with the breathing routine, the set of moves itself was already a very good workout method.
After he had finished the complete set of moves, Wang Lu felt that the aching of his body had been reduced by several points. He couldn't help but acknowledge that this mortal world's martial art did work wonders. His obeisance to the Lady Boss yesterday was not in vain, especially when compared to his still-sleeping-inside-the-house-pretty-hot teacher!
While thinking, he continued to perform the complete set of moves from the beginning again and again. In any case, he didn't have any schedule for today.
However, while he was in the middle of doing this routine, a lazy groan of a woman came from the house, "Oh… My head… It hurts…"
"Haha, feeling hangover right? You big retard! You embezzled your poor disciple's subsidy to buy a few hundreds of spirit stones worth of wine daily, so you get what you deserve!"
However, the Fifth Elder was indeed the Fifth Elder; she only needed to meditate a bit, and all of her hangovers completely left her system.
"Yes, drink hard and sleep hard! Haha! Two days after this, I am going to get wasted again!"
As she spoke, the woman strode out of the house and immediately stopped in her track, dumbfounded, because she saw Wang Lu in the middle of performing the Subduing the Dragon moves.
"Huh, little Wang Lu, what are you doing?"
Wang Lu snappily replied, "The Hell! Can't you see I am in the middle of practicing martial art!"
"Martial art?" The Fifth Elder was puzzled. "What martial art? When did I teach you martial art?"
"Damn! You b*tch, you have the nerve to say this! You never taught me any Kung Fu in two years! Everyday, you only let me run and take that damn bath! Are you teaching your disciple or raising a pig!"
Fifth Elder was engrossed with his moves, so after observing him for a while, she tried to emulate his posture. But then, she couldn't help but doubt. "Why do I feel like this is a mortal world's martial art?"
Being watched like that made him feel uncomfortable, so Wang Lu simply stopped the routine and said, "Yes, it is. I run into an expert at the foot of the mountain. When that person knew that I have been living as a disciple in the Spirit Sword Sect for two years yet I can only run like a monkey, that person imparted me a peerless martial art out of sympathy."
The Fifth Elder could only gawk for quite a while, and then she stomped her feet in anger and said, "Expert my ass! Teaching a mortal world's martial art to a Successor Disciple of an Immortal Cultivation Sect? Who came up with this retarded idea? Little Wang Lu, you fool, why don't you consult with your great Master first before looking for a charlatan to teach you a mortal world's martial art? You, you ate too much food from that "Starry Sky" chef, so you've lost your mind!"
Wang Lu angrily replied, "I knew it! You f*cking knew what kind of food they serve at the Misty Peak cafeteria, yet you still gave me the long term meal ticket there! Anyway, regardless if that person is a charlatan or not, that person's Kung Fu is real! Rather than wasting my time with you like in the past two years, I might as well practice this peerless Kung Fu!"
The Fifth Elder was inexplicably surprised. "You, you actually compare me with this charlatan?"
"Do you think you're even on the same level as that person?"
Before Wang Lu could continue his taunt, his teacher angrily interrupted him.
"You who-have-eyes-but-fail-to-see-idiot! Do you really think I spent these two years being lazy and not caring for you?"
Wang Le sneered. "Then why don't Master swear a big heart devil oath? If you didn't make an all-out effort to educate and teach your disciple in the past two years, then from now on, you will give up drinking and all of your bad habits, and follow the life example of Disciplinary Elder Fang He!"
The Fifth Elder's beautiful face went pale. "Gi-give up drinking? Wh-who taught you this sinister oath!?"
"Hehe, are you afraid, Master? Feeling guilty?"
"Sh*t! I… forget how to do that kind of big heart devil oath, that's all."
"The hell! You have the nerve to came up with this sh*tty excuse! Do you have any shame at all!"
Being cornered by her beloved disciple, the Fifth Elder's face turned red in anger out of shame. "You! You talk so much! Simply because you question my way of teaching, right? That's simple, why don't you bring your fake master here and you'll see me kick that person's ass!"
Wang Lu seemed surprised. "Master, how could you say that! You're a dignified Jindan Stage Cultivator, how could a mere mortal world's martial artist fare against you?"
The Fifth Elder fumed. "Of course I am not going to use my cultivation skill against a mortal! We're going to have a fair fight!"
"Haha, what a beautiful plan Master! When the time comes, you will pretend to lose the fight. But actually, you'll use that opportunity to kick me out, so you can be free again…"
Before he finished his words, the Fifth Elder interrupted him again. This time, she couldn't think straight anymore. "If I lose, you can do whatever you want! I'll even be your meat toilet if that's what you want!"
"It's a deal!"
After a few minutes of self-reflection, Fifth Elder realized that she seemed to have fallen into his beloved disciple's trick.
However, how could a simple trick from a child who has yet to see the world amount to something? "Hmph, he wants to learn a mortal world's martial art, not realizing that he's receiving a great education from the Spirit Sword Mountain!"
"This is like having a beautiful woman sleep with him, but he just spends his time masturbating! I must teach this idiot disciple well after this!"
[1] This refers to the novel Heavenly Sword and Dragon Sabre from Jin Yong. When Zhang San Feng imparted the Tai Chi Sword to Zhang Wuji, the more he forgets the set movement, the more he master the set.
[2] Flexible and flabby sounds similar in Chinese.
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Trump loses appeal to block a House subpoena of his tax documents
An appeal to stop the House from subpoenaing Donald Trump's tax documents has been blocked.
Friday, October 11th 2019, 11:49 AM EDT
(CNN) — An appeal to stop the House from subpoenaing Donald Trump's tax documents has been blocked.
In a 2-1 ruling Friday, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld a lower court ruling saying the firm must turn over eight years of accounting records.
The President has lost all of his challenges so far that have been decided at the trial court level to stop House subpoenas, CNN reports.
ALSO READ: Florida men tied to Trump's lawyer and Ukraine investigation arrested
The appeals court broadly supported the House's power to subpoena information about Trump as it investigates him and considers laws in response, calling the subpoena "valid and enforceable."
"A congressional committee, as committees have done repeatedly over the past two centuries, issued an investigative subpoena, and the target of that subpoena, questioning the committee's legislative purpose, has asked a court to invalidate it," the majority opinion, written by Judge David Tatel and Judge Patricia Millett, states. "The fact that the subpoena in this case seeks information that concerns the President of the United States adds a twist, but not a surprising one."
Trump appointee Judge Neomi Rao dissented.
Though the court's decision was split, the case is widely considered to be a tough one for Trump, even with support from the Justice Department.
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Video Tom E. Curran Phil Perry Standings Schedule Stats
Missed Lombardis: Less-than-ringing endings by the Pats
Painful finishes
It really is the height of arrogance, ya know. Kicking rocks when some other team wins the Super Bowl because you know – down in your cells, you KNOW – that the Patriots shoulda won it. But there’s a lot of that this week.
People losing their brains because a Broncos team with one of the worst offenses in recent Super Bowl history will be holding a parade and visiting Obama.
This isn’t the first time people in New England have given region-wide side-eye to the team that wins the Lombardi. By my count, there are six seasons Under Bill in which woulda, coulda, shoulda applies. In each of those years, something – injuries, personnel decisions, single-game meltdowns – intervened and the Patriots had to watch someone else with their trophy. I started following the team in 1976. Buried my face in the shag rug and cried when Kenny Stabler scored to beat that team in the playoffs out in Oakland. It’s hard for me to fathom the level of entitlement that people feel now, after four Super Bowls, when I spent most of my pre-reporting days just hoping for a playoff appearance.
Knowing how it used to be probably informs my coverage and opinions now. I have a hard time getting my indignation to the same height that others can because I know what crappy, hopeless football looks like and I know that, probably within the decade, it will be back again.
By then, people will be begging to see the Patriots within a game of the Super Bowl, never mind watching the local entrant play in five straight.
Until that time comes, though, let’s unleash the laments about these good, old days and list the years when the Patriots absolutely, positively, hands-down should have won the Super Bowl.
Record and Seed
12-4, No. 4
How it ended
A 38-34 AFC Championship loss to the third-seeded Colts, who also finished 12-4 and were the higher seed thanks to a 27-20 Week 9 win over the Patriots.
Why it’s maddening
Because it was so, so, so preventable. Deion Branch wanted a new deal prior to 2006 – the final year of his rookie contract when he was going to make just more than $1 million. The Patriots made him a tepid offer and then – the way Branch saw it – folded their arms and wouldn’t talk anymore. So Branch held out and the Patriots shipped him to Seattle. Meanwhile, the team let David Givens walk in free agency where he latched on with the Titans.
The Patriots, as a result, opened 2006 with newcomers Reche Caldwell, Doug Gabriel, rookie Chad Jackson and 35-year-old Troy Brown at wideout. They were still able to start the season 6-1 but they showed vulnerability against good teams, losing 17-7 to Denver, 21-0 to Nick Saban’s Dolphins, 17-14 at Eric Mangini’s Jets and 27-20 at home to Indy on a night Brady threw no touchdowns and four picks. That loss – in which Marvin Harrison and Reggie Wayne combined for 14 catches and 235 yards receiving compared to Kevin Faulk and Troy Brown who led the Patriots with a combined 10 catches and 68 yards – ensured the Patriots would be on the road if they met the Colts in the playoffs. And they would. After breezing past the Jets, 37-16, the Patriots escaped San Diego with a stirring, almost-impossible, 24-21 win against the top-seeded, 14-2 Chargers. The Colts, meanwhile, took out the Chiefs then upset the second-seeded Ravens in Baltimore, 15-6 thanks to five Adam Vinatieri field goals. Vinatieri was also a newly-minted ex-Patriot.
So, after playing on the West Coast then returning home and the team battling a rash of illnesses, the Patriots had to go to Indy. Where they got up 21-3 with Peyton Manning playing like he always did – tiny in a big spot. And then the walls came down. Manning tracked the Patriots down in the second half. There was a garbage end-zone PI on Ellis Hobbs (the NFL later admitted there was no contact), Dallas Clark toasted linebacker Eric Alexander (a depth guy pressed into lead duty), and the Patriots didn’t pick up an easy third-and-4 with 2:30 left when Brady and Troy Brown couldn’t get on the same page. Manning then went 80 yards the other way and Joseph Addai scored with 1:02 left to make it 38-34. Brady got picked to seal it.
In the Super Bowl, the Colts went on to easily dispatch a truly pedestrian Chicago Bears team that the Patriots beat earlier in the year. You can look back now and say, “Well, Indy had to break through at some point with all that talent . . . ” but the truth is, they were still massive underachievers. They allowed 173 yards per game on the ground including giving up 375 in one game to the Chiefs late in the year. The return of injured safety Bob Sanders, the Defensive Player of the Year, changed things but the fact is, that was a very flawed Colts team. The Patriots were flawed as well with their lack of offensive personnel and the chickens came home to roost in their final game when Caldwell had a horrific couple of drops.
Why you can still be mad
I have no good answer for this one. I mean, I get not re-signing Givens -- he was hell-bent on getting paid, and did with a five-year, $24 million deal. But hardball with Branch, too? For what? The Patriots at the time were very concerned about precedents and letting players know that it was the team and not the talent that caused the success. He’d been a key part of two Super Bowl teams and was set to make $1 million in the final year of his deal. It just didn’t have to happen. You can still be mad.
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Bullying that targets GLBT students is on the rise. If you think there’s nothing you can do about it, please read on.
By Mary Ellen Flannery
No less than five kids killed themselves at the beginning of the school year last year. All were gay, or perceived to be, and had been kicked, beaten, shoved down stairways, taunted, and tormented by bullies.
Each left a devastated family, a shocked school community, and more than a few educators wondering: What can we do to prevent future deaths?
The answer: A lot.
More than 90 percent of GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender) kids say they’ve been harassed or bullied at school, according to survey by GLSEN: the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network. But, even worse, more than 30 percent say they’ve been called names or physically harmed while educators stood by—and did nothing.
Next year, when you walk into your own classroom or school-based office, consider what kind of teacher you’re going to be: the kind who idly listens to verbal harassment? Or the kind who posts a “safe space” sticker on your door and a “ThinkB4USpeak” poster on your classroom wall? When a kid comes to you and says, “I’m thinking of starting a club and wondering if you could like . . . maybe . . . ” will you offer your support or turn them away?
“You have to be the change you want to see in the world,” said Virginia teacher Jaim Foster, a member of the NEA cadre of trainers on GLBT issues. “Every day . . . I’m trying to be a reminder of human rights for everybody.”
And it’s not just a matter of moral obligation. It’s a matter of legal obligation: In late 2010, the U.S. Department of Education sent a letter to 15,000-plus schools and districts, reminding them that bullying against gay kids—or kids perceived to be gay —actually violates federal anti-discrimination laws. And it’s a matter of achievement as well: Kids who are bullied are much more likely to miss classes, do worse in school, and eventually drop out.
But just one supportive adult on a campus can change a kid’s world—and that could be you. According to GLSEN, gay kids who can’t point to a single adult get significantly worse grades, are twice as likely to miss school, and almost three times less likely to see college in their future.
When Connecticut teacher Kristie Schmidt hears her teens complain, “That’s so gay!” she quickly rejoins, “You’re not using that word correctly.” When they protest that they just meant something was lousy, she strikes again: You are insulting all gay people with your negative speech. “Do you know any gay people?” she asks.
Devon Bearden, the president of the gay-straight alliance at Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, told NEA Today last year about a teacher who clipped a newspaper story about the gay pride parade in their community and pinned it to her bulletin board. “That was just so cool,” she recollected.
The presence of a club like Bearden’s also makes a huge difference: Nearly half of gay high-school students say their school has a GSA, and those kids are about a third as likely to be threatened or injured at school, and less than half as likely to attempt suicide. Studies also show it doesn’t make a big difference if the GSA is large or small, loud or quiet—its mere presence makes a positive difference in the lives of students.
Bearden’s club advisor first turned them down, he told NEA Today. He just had so much work to do—another assignment? No thanks. But then he reconsidered. Everybody needs a place where they fit in, he said.
NEA’s Bully Free: It Starts With Me Campaign
Aims to identify caring adults in our schools and communities who will pledge to help bullied students. These caring adults agree to listen carefully to the bullied student who comes to them and take action to stop the bullying. NEA, in turn, provides those caring adults with the resources they need to provide solace and support, ask the right questions, and take action to help stop the bullying.
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Six Tips for Dealing with the Bullying of GLBT students
Any student may end up a target. All educators can help.
1. Take complaints seriously.
Please don’t dismiss bullying as “just teasing.” Listen to the student, and tell the student you will take the appropriate action. No allegation about bullying should be ignored because the charge seems improbable or because the behavior seems unlikely to recur or is perceived as a “harmless rite of passage.”
2. Report the alleged bullying.
Keep your principal informed of all the bullying cases of which you are aware of. And if the bullying seems to be based on the student’s race, ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation, immediately report the student’s complaint of bullying to the authority in your district designated for investigating such incidents (often it is the district’s Title IX grievance officer.) If you don’t know who that authority is, ask your principal. In all cases where a bullied student has come to you, follow up. Check back with the student to find out whether he or she has been informed by the school system of the steps it is taking.
3. Reassure, do not judge.
If a bullied student comes to you for help, reassure the student that you care about him or her and will do what you can. Do not, however, question the student about why he or she is being bullied. It is the behavior of the bully, the perpetrator, that matters. If a student volunteers information about his or her sexual orientation or other personal information, do not judge that student—the student’s safety and education should be your concern—and of course keep the information confidential.
4. Get the student the appropriate professional help.
If a student seems to be in emotional or psychological distress, offer to help the student get in touch with a counselor, social worker, or school psychologist right away; be supportive. But don’t give advice beyond your expertise. And if the student seems in imminent physical danger, alert the school administration immediately.
5. Stand up and speak out for students in need.
There is now a wealth of information on the Web about bullying and how to stop it. Share what you’ve learned with your colleagues, and in your staff meetings, advocate for bullied students. Become part of the solution.
6. Do something.
If in the hallway, stairwell, or your classroom—or some other school space—you witness a student being harassed and humiliated by another student, intervene—but get additional support if necessary. Everyone involved—the victim, the perpetrator, and the witnesses—needs to know this is unacceptable behavior. Research shows that creating a safe learning environment for all students requires the adults in the school working together.
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Pines Yacht Club expected to open today for public use
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(May 23, 2014) Entertainment is booked for this weekend at the new Ocean Pines Yacht Club, so its doors are expected to open Friday for the first time to the general public.
“We are about to open the doors to a facility the entire community can be proud to show off not only today but for many years go come,” according to the press release about the anticipated opening.
The OPA had obtained a special temporary occupancy permit for a wedding at the Yacht Club on Saturday, May 17, but a few small issues needed to be accomplished before opening for business. Those small items included permanent striping for the parking lot.
“It’s been challenge after challenge as with any major project,” Ocean Pines Manager Bob Thompson said during the May 12 meeting of the Food and Beverage Advisory Committee. “Hang in there with us, folks. We’re getting there.”
Plans called for a practice run for dinner earlier this week for 20 to 30 people who were to be invited to arrive at the same time and order off the menu. The special dinner was being held as a training exercise for the staff and was not open to the general public. The new executive chef, Tim Ulrich, had already cooked for the Worcester County Commissioners and had gotten rave reviews for his food, which was served at the Ocean Pines Country Club during a special meeting with the Ocean Pines board of directors.
The Country Club was also the site of training for the staff of more than 100 for the new Yacht Club.
The press release did not state an opening time, but said the band, “Tranzfusion,’ was booked to perform Friday, “Full Circle” was booked for Saturday and the “Tom Larsen Band’ was scheduled to perform Sunday.
The outside Tiki Bar might or might not be open this weekend. As of Tuesday afternoon, it was still missing its metal roof. A separate county permit for the Tiki Bar was needed and that had been taken care of.
This weekend’s opening of the Yacht Club has not been widely publicized because a “soft opening” is preferred and a crowd is expected anyway.
During that May 12 meeting of the Food and Beverage Advisory Committee, member Steve Lind suggested the installation of signs for people leaving the Yacht Club. Some people, who are new visitors to the Yacht Club, might tend to get confused about how to return to Ocean Parkway, the community’s main street.
“I see them driving around, 10 or 15 cars going in circles,” said Lind, who resides nearby.
Signs pointing to Ocean Parkway could help make their experience more pleasant and their first impressions better than getting lost on their way home, he said.
During that committee meeting, Food and Beverage Manager David McLaughlin said the Yacht Club kitchen would be open 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., but the bar would remain open later.
Committee members were expecting the new facility to be open at 11 a.m. today.
“I can’t wait,” Mary Whitcomb told McLaughlin. “I guess you’ll see us there at 11 o’clock.”
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Surf Therapy A Wave Of Relief For Returning Vets Hundreds of men and women are returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan with physical and emotional scars. Their problems range from traumatic brain injuries to the loss of body parts. Many face long, excruciating months of rehabilitation — and for some, their therapy leads them to the beaches of southern California. From member station KQED, Scott Shafer reports.
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Hundreds of men and women are returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan with physical and emotional scars. Their problems range from traumatic brain injuries to the loss of body parts. Many face long, excruciating months of rehabilitation — and for some, their therapy leads them to the beaches of southern California. From member station KQED, Scott Shafer reports.
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Thousands of men and women are returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan with problems ranging from traumatic brain injuries to the loss of limbs. For some, a day of therapy is a day at the beach. According to the Naval Medical Center in San Diego, surfing promotes physical and emotional well being for these wounded warriors.
From member station KQED, Scott Shafer has more.
SCOTT SHAFER: On a recent morning in a seaside parking lot in Del Mar, California, a few soldiers and Marines unpack their surfboards and slip into their wetsuits, anticipating the morning's first big wave.
Specialist JOE SERENO(ph) (United States Army): I'm going to get pounded today, man.
SHAFER: One of them is 21-year-old Army Specialist Joe Sereno.
Spc. SERENO: Waves are going to crush. It's going to be fun though.
SHAFER: Sereno and his buddies were seriously injured in Iraq. The Naval Medical Center is using surf lessons to help them recover. Before they head out to the ocean, a lifeguard tells them what to expect.
Unidentified Man #1: Should be pretty good. Looks clear. So, waves are good form, one to three feet. Looks fun. So, you guys should have a great day.
SHAFER: Fifty yards from the shore, Sereno is holding onto his surfboard, looking for the next big wave to catch.
Hey, how's it going?
Spc. SERENO: Chillin', dude.
SHAFER: How do you feel?
Spc. SERENO: Perfect. Hanging two.
SHAFER: Hanging two, rather than hanging 10, is Sereno's way of joking about his injuries. He lost all 10 of his toes along with both his legs in Iraq. At this moment, out here in the Pacific Ocean, Sereno leaves that disability far behind.
Spc. SERENO: The waves were riding very, very long, so I'm having a lot fun. Relaxing and catching some all the way in.
SHAFER: Standing on the beach, the boyish native of Palmdale, California recounts the day, two and a half years ago, when his truck hit a roadside bomb.
Spc. SERENO: I remember being in the truck, chest full of water and next thing I know, my hands are zipped tight to my back and my sergeant major is cutting my leg off with a machete.
SHAFER: Sereno lost both his legs above the knee. During months of therapy, he learned to walk again with two prosthetic limbs. As his rehabilitation progressed, his physical therapist asked if he was interested in learning to surf as part of his rehab.
Spc. SERENO: I've never surfed before I lost my legs. As soon as I got on the water on that surfboard, dude, that was it, and I fell in love with it.
SHAFER: Sereno likes the cardio workout he gets from surfing. All that paddling back and forth is aerobic exercise and it really helps his frame of mind.
Spc. SERENO: It's challenging, you know, to do things that normal people can do. And when I can get out there and do it, it's just, it boosts my ego. You know, it's like, yeah, I can do it, you know, and get stoked about it.
SHAFER: Sereno removes his custom-made legs before hitting the beach. Some of the surfers, missing an arm or just one leg, manage to get up and stand on the board out in the ocean. For Sereno, it's more about sitting up on the board and riding through the waves.
Betty Michalewicz, an exercise therapist from the Naval Medical Center puts it this way.
Ms. BETTY MICHALEWICZ (Exercise Therapist, Naval Medical Center): Surfing is way more than just standing up. It's about reading the waves. It's about maneuvering in the waves.
SHAFER: Michalewicz started this therapy program just over a year ago. She says a lot of amputees developed back pain. And surfing, because it builds up the back muscles, can help prevent that.
Not all the wounded surfers here are amputees. Marine Lance Corporal Elmer Ugarte was shot in the chest while on patrol in Iraq. Afterwards, he had trouble breathing and lost his core strength.
Lance Corporal ELMER UGARTE (United States Marine Corps): Things a normal Marine would have to do, I couldn't do. I had to get taught how to do all that again.
SHAFER: The 22-year-old San Diego native removes his shirt and reveals two scars: a massive one running down the middle of his stomach, the other on his chest. There were psychological scars, too. Like many returning soldiers and Marines, Ugarte suffered from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. He got help and says he's better now.
Lance Cpl. UGARTE: When you're out there you're pretty much relaxed. You're at peace. Your board is your sanctuary. And you're just waiting for that smooth ride to bring you in. And you paddle the hell back out before those problems catch up to you again.
SHAFER: Ugarte says surfing has helped build up his core strength again and the tranquility he finds in the sea helps heal his emotional wounds and ultimately will help get him back to active duty sooner.
As for Joe Sereno, he's a new dad. Laura Lee Sereno(ph) is just a month old. He already has big plans for her.
Spc. SERENO: I'm just looking forward to her growing up with me, you know. It's great. And…
SHAFER: Do you think you might take her out here one day?
Spc. SERENO: Oh, definitely, dude. I'm going to show that little girl how to surf - going to be a pro.
(Soundbite of laughter)
SHAFER: In fact, Sereno says, he might even want to become a surf instructor himself one day.
For NPR News, I'm Scott Shafer in San Diego.
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Our Oceans’ Last Chance: Protect the High Seas
A new United Nations treaty is bringing a once-in-a-generation chance to save our open oceans and all the life that depends on them.
January 16, 2019 Perrin Ireland
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International marine celebrities, like blue whales, dolphins, and oceanic white-tipped sharks, thrive in the open ocean that lies outside the boundaries of any country.
It's called the high seas.
It's almost two-thirds of our ocean. It provides 90 percent of the habitat available for oceanic life on earth. But only about one-half of 1 percent of the high seas are fully protected from fishing, mining, and other human pressures.
That's just not working.
So delegates and ocean advocates from over 100 nations met this past September at the United Nations to start negotiating a treaty that will expand conservation of the high seas. This treaty will be the first legally binding agreement for the high seas in over two decades.
Individual countries control what happens in the ocean within 200 miles of their shorelines. But beyond 200 miles, the high seas are a badly regulated commons. There's a patchwork of organizations managing these waters that don't collaborate. And it makes for big gaps in regulation across huge swaths of the ocean.
Because humans have polluted and depleted our coastal areas, we've had to move our ocean activities farther and farther from shore. This means that the massive high seas, once thought to be immune to harm, are now seriously threatened by overfishing, climate change, plastic and noise pollution, illegal dumping, shipping traffic, habitat loss, and seabed mining.
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Three billion people worldwide depend on oceans for their livelihood. But just like the ocean, many humans working on the high seas aren't sufficiently protected. Human trafficking, slave labor, and human rights abuses abound on the multinational, moving landscape of the high seas.
Things are pretty urgent. And this is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to protect the ocean and all life that depends on it, including us.
Marine Protected Areas shelter fragile and vulnerable ocean life from mining, drilling, fishing, and other damaging activity. They also boost abundance and healthier fish population that benefit people who depend on oceans for food and jobs.
But so far, fully safeguarded MPAs have been a near impossibility in international waters, and this needs to be addressed by the treaty. Scientists have also found that Marine Protected Areas are crucial to maintaining resilience in the face of rapid ocean warming and acidification from climate change.
The world's oceans absorb one-quarter of the excess carbon dioxide that humans produce and more than 90% of the excess heat from climate change. But we barely protect any of the ocean on paper—and less in practice.
If you care about your fellow earthlings or about stopping climate change, it's impossible to overstate the role oceans play in this fight. We just can't provide a climate-resilient ocean to the next generation nor resilient ocean economies without actively protecting the high seas.
Half the planet is at stake in this fight. But that also means that we have the chance to help shape the future of that half of the planet together.
Let's do it.
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Finance is one of the longest-standing challenges facing the cannabis industry. More specifically, mainstream financial institutions, including banks and credit companies, typically are hesitant to get involved with cannabis because it remains illegal at the federal level.
Without access to normal financial tools, much of the cannabis industry is forced to rely heavily on cash. And that leads to all sorts of other problems. Specifically, slower payments, heightened security concerns, and more.
Ultimately, this lack of access to financial services impacts the entire industry, from the backend supply chain to the end consumer.
But now, two tech companies have teamed up to launch a brand new platform that they say could revolutionize how the cannabis industry handles its finances.
Wayv, which has already rolled out an Amazon-like platform to facilitate the movement of products throughout the entire cannabis supply chain, has teamed up with Hypur. Together, they are launching a new platform called Wayv Payments, which goes live today.
Wayv Payments Aims to Revolutionize Cannabis Finance
Wayv and Hypur describe the new Payments platform as giving cannabis companies “credit card like” transactions. Essentially, brands can extend a line of credit to retailers, which Wayv auto debits on the due date.
At the same time, the Wayv Payments dashboard lets brands easily keep track of payments coming in and going out, due dates, and more. Additionally, it automatically calculates taxes and fess.
Importantly, the entire platform is focused on ensuring compliance every step of the way. In fact, compliance is fundamentally baked into all aspects of the Payments platform.
This level of compliance and transparency makes it possible for cannabis companies to transact digital payments like any other business.
“We integrate compliance into each of our solutions to where you can’t actually make a non-compliant action in any of these tools,” Keith McCarty, CEO of Wayv, told High Times. “This creates a huge comfort level for banks to support this and get on board with it.”
Ultimately, Wayv Payments gives the entire cannabis supply chain access to fast digital payments, just like any other industry. And this, Wayv and Hypur believe, has the ability to fundamentally change how the industry works.
“This is arguably the largest issue within the supply chain right now,” McCarty told High Times. “And at the end of the day, it has effects on consumers. If brands can’t get enough money flow coming back down they can’t reinvest in raw materials and infrastructure to keep up with demand.”
The Final Piece in the Puzzle
Wayv Payments is not the first product from Wayv. In fact, McCarty told High Times that this newest platform is the final piece in a much more comprehensive suite of solutions for the cannabis industry.
Earlier this year, Wayv launched its Dynamic Distribution platform. This technology transformed the cannabis supply chain into an Amazon-like, streamlined process.
Specifically, it facilitates orders between cannabis retailers and brands. Retailers can shop brands, select products, and place orders from an easy-to-use interface.
From there, products are shipped on a standard next-day turnaround using Wayv’s specialized logistics protocols.
McCarty said today’s rollout of Wayv Payments completes the circuit. Now, Wayv has a suite of technological solutions for moving products and money more efficiently than ever before.
For now, Wayv services are only available in California. But the company has built its technology for scalability. This could allow the company to roll out in other markets in the future.
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OSTI.GOV Technical Report: Radiation-induced Swelling and Microcracking in SiC Cladding for LWRs
Title: Radiation-induced Swelling and Microcracking in SiC Cladding for LWRs
After the Fukushima accident in 2011, SiC has attracted considerable attention as a potential material for fuel cladding that can offer increased accident tolerance in light water reactors (LWRs) compared to zircaloy cladding. Existing measurements on nuclear grade SiC/SiC composites made of high-purity, stoichiometric SiC have already shown very good radiation tolerance in various harsh environments. However, there are a number of challenges that need to be addressed before SiC composites can be successfully used in LWR technologies. One of them is irradiation-induced swelling, which can lead to development of significant stresses in the matrix, followed by microcracking and subsequent release of fission products. Models of irradiation-induced swelling had been largely empirical and therefore they cannot be used to predict the microstructural dependence of microcracking. Existing models are also limited by the lack of understanding of defects that form due to irradiation in the range of temperatures relevant to fuel cladding in LWRs (<1000°C). Many of the defects in this regime of temperature are too small to be detected with traditional transmission electron microscopy (TEM) techniques. In fact the defects observed in traditional TEM account only for 10-45% of the swelling measured in irradiated SiC. Here, we developed a multi-scalemore » simulation methodology combined with state of the art experimental imaging techniques based on aberration corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) to provide a scientific basis for predictive models of radiation swelling and microcracking in SiC. Specifically, we have developed a phase field fracture model that predicts microcrack initiation and growth in polycrystalline SiC. The model accounts for single crystal anisotropy, including anisotropy in the elastic constants and anisotropic surface energy. It also considers the reduced fracture strength of grain boundaries. The model was implemented using the MARMOT mesoscale nuclear materials tool. We have parameterized the model for SiC using molecular dynamics simulation results. The model has been verified using single crystal, bicrystal, and polycrystal examples. Swelling model has also been developed based on cluster dynamics simulations of defect evolution in SiC. We found that point defects and small defect clusters have a significant contribution to swelling. This finding is important because point defects and very small defect clusters are not visible in experiments (e.g., in TEM). Combined modeling and experiments can bring critical insights into how swelling depends on irradiation conditions and the microstructure. In situ nanoindentation tests and ex situ nanoindentation tests were performed on assynthesized 3C-SiC and 3C-SiC irradiated under different radiation conditions. Without radiation, bend contour movement and residual bend contours after indentation demonstrate some room temperature plastic flow and residual plastic deformation. Plastic deformation recovery is also observed on unirradiated samples during unloading. Radiation-induced embrittlement is demonstrated by differences in crack geometry in in situ tests, and is consistent with ex situ test results. Failure by single, straight, cracks indicates decreased fracture toughness due to irradiation in 3C-SiC. Future work includes coupling of the swelling and fracture models and development of a master equation that can be used in the BISON code.« less
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title = {Radiation-induced Swelling and Microcracking in SiC Cladding for LWRs},
author = {Szlufarska, Izabela and Voyles, Paul and Tonks, Michael},
abstractNote = {After the Fukushima accident in 2011, SiC has attracted considerable attention as a potential material for fuel cladding that can offer increased accident tolerance in light water reactors (LWRs) compared to zircaloy cladding. Existing measurements on nuclear grade SiC/SiC composites made of high-purity, stoichiometric SiC have already shown very good radiation tolerance in various harsh environments. However, there are a number of challenges that need to be addressed before SiC composites can be successfully used in LWR technologies. One of them is irradiation-induced swelling, which can lead to development of significant stresses in the matrix, followed by microcracking and subsequent release of fission products. Models of irradiation-induced swelling had been largely empirical and therefore they cannot be used to predict the microstructural dependence of microcracking. Existing models are also limited by the lack of understanding of defects that form due to irradiation in the range of temperatures relevant to fuel cladding in LWRs (<1000°C). Many of the defects in this regime of temperature are too small to be detected with traditional transmission electron microscopy (TEM) techniques. In fact the defects observed in traditional TEM account only for 10-45% of the swelling measured in irradiated SiC. Here, we developed a multi-scale simulation methodology combined with state of the art experimental imaging techniques based on aberration corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) to provide a scientific basis for predictive models of radiation swelling and microcracking in SiC. Specifically, we have developed a phase field fracture model that predicts microcrack initiation and growth in polycrystalline SiC. The model accounts for single crystal anisotropy, including anisotropy in the elastic constants and anisotropic surface energy. It also considers the reduced fracture strength of grain boundaries. The model was implemented using the MARMOT mesoscale nuclear materials tool. We have parameterized the model for SiC using molecular dynamics simulation results. The model has been verified using single crystal, bicrystal, and polycrystal examples. Swelling model has also been developed based on cluster dynamics simulations of defect evolution in SiC. We found that point defects and small defect clusters have a significant contribution to swelling. This finding is important because point defects and very small defect clusters are not visible in experiments (e.g., in TEM). Combined modeling and experiments can bring critical insights into how swelling depends on irradiation conditions and the microstructure. In situ nanoindentation tests and ex situ nanoindentation tests were performed on assynthesized 3C-SiC and 3C-SiC irradiated under different radiation conditions. Without radiation, bend contour movement and residual bend contours after indentation demonstrate some room temperature plastic flow and residual plastic deformation. Plastic deformation recovery is also observed on unirradiated samples during unloading. Radiation-induced embrittlement is demonstrated by differences in crack geometry in in situ tests, and is consistent with ex situ test results. Failure by single, straight, cracks indicates decreased fracture toughness due to irradiation in 3C-SiC. Future work includes coupling of the swelling and fracture models and development of a master equation that can be used in the BISON code.},
doi = {10.2172/1573893},
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DOI: 10.2172/1573893
Role of Defects in Swelling and Creep of Irradiated SiC
Technical Report Szlufarska, Izabela ; Voyles, Paul ; Sridharan, Kumar ; ...
Silicon carbide is a promising cladding material because of its high strength and relatively good corrosion resistance. However, SiC is brittle and therefore SiC-based components need to be carefully designed to avoid cracking and failure by fracture. In design of SiC-based composites for nuclear reactor applications it is essential to take into account how mechanical properties are affected by radiation and temperature, or in other words, what strains and stresses develop in this material due to environmental conditions. While thermal strains in SiC can be predicted using classical theories, radiation-induced strains are much less understood. In particular, it is criticalmore » to correctly account for radiation swelling and radiation creep, which contribute significantly to dimensional instability of SiC under radiation. Swelling typically increases logarithmically with radiation dose and saturates at relatively low doses (damage levels of a few dpa). Consequently, swelling-induced stresses are likely to develop within a few months of operation of a reactor. Radiation-induced volume swelling in SiC can be as high as 2%, which is significantly higher than the cracking strain of 0.1% in SiC. Swelling-induced strains will lead to enormous stresses and fracture, unless these stresses can be relaxed via some other mechanism. An effective way to achieve stress relaxation is via radiation creep. Although it has been hypothesized that both radiation swelling and radiation creep are driven by formation of defect clusters, existing models for swelling and creep in SiC are limited by the lack of understanding of specific defects that form due to radiation in the range of temperatures relevant to fuel cladding in light water reactors (LWRs) (<1000°C). For example, defects that can be detected with traditional transmission electron microscopy (TEM) techniques account only for 10-45% of the swelling measured in irradiated SiC. Here, we have undertaken an integrated experimental and modeling effort to discover the previously invisible defects in irradiated SiC and to determine the contributions of these defects to radiation swelling. Knowledge of the most stable defect structures and the rate controlling processes during defect evolution is essential for development of predictive models for swelling and creep as a function of temperature and radiation dose. This research has been enabled by state-of-the-art imaging techniques, such as the aberration corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) (FEI TITAN) closely coupled with multi-scale models of stable defect clusters and their evolution.« less
Fundamental Studies of Irradiation-Induced Modifications in Microstructural Evolution and Mechanical Properties of Advanced Alloys
Technical Report Stubbins, James ; Heuser, Brent ; Hosemann, Peter ; ...
This final technical report summarizes the research performed during October 2014 and December 2017, with a focus on investigating the radiation-induced microstructural and mechanical property modifications in optimized advanced alloys for sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR) structural applications. To accomplish these objectives, the radiation responses of several different advanced alloys, including austenitic steel Alloy 709 (A709) and 316H, and ferritic/ martensitic Fe–9Cr steels T91 and G92, were investigated using a combination of microstructure characterizations and nanoindentation measurements. Different types of irradiation, including ex situ bulk ion irradiation and in situ transmission electron microscopy (TEM) ion irradiation, were employed in this study.more » Radiation-induced dislocations, precipitates, and voids were characterized by TEM. Scanning transmission electron microscopy with energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (STEM-EDS) and/or atom probe tomography (APT) were used to study radiation-induced segregation and precipitation. Nanoindentation was used for hardness measurements to study irradiation hardening. Austenitic A709 and 316H was bulk-irradiated by 3.5 MeV Fe ++ ions to up to 150 peak dpa at 400, 500, and 600°. Compared to neutron-irradiated stainless steel (SS) 316, the Frank loop density of ion-irradiated A709 shows similar dose dependence at 400°, but very different temperature dependence. Due to the noticeable difference in the initial microstructure of A709 and 316H, no systematic comparison on the Frank loops in A709 vs 316H was made. It would be helpful that future ion irradiation study on 316 stainless steel could be conducted to directly compare the temperature dependence of Frank loop density in ion-irradiated 316 SS with that in neutron-irradiated 316 SS. In addition, future neutron irradiation on A709 at 400–600° at relative high dose (≥10 dpa) can be carried out to compare with ion-irradiated A709. The radiation-induced segregation (RIS) of Ni and Si was observed in both A709 and 316H in all irradiated conditions and was found at various sinks: line dislocations, dislocation loops, void surfaces, carbide-matrix interfaces, etc. Radiation also induced the formation of Ni,Si-rich precipitates. As suggested in a previous study on neutron-irradiated 316 stainless steel, one possible consequence of the significant RIS of Si is that the enrichment at defect sinks depletes the silicon in the matrix, which can lead to enhanced void nucleation rate. The enrichment of Ni and Si is accompanied by the depletion of Cr at defect sinks, which could also affect the corrosion resistance. Radiation-induced change in the orientation relationship of pre-existing MX precipitates was observed at 600°. It is believed that this change is associated with the network dislocations formed under irradiation. The underlying mechanism is still not well understood. This change could be a positive indication that the MX precipitates can survive high density network dislocations. It would be helpful if neutron irradiation at similar dose conditions could be carried out to verify that this effect is not unique for ion irradiation. Intragranular Cr-rich carbides with a core-shell structure, i.e. Cr-rich carbide core and Ni,Si-rich shell was found at 500° and 600° in the highest dose (150 peak dpa) specimens. Coarse voids (30 nm in diameter) were only commonly found at 500° in the 50 and 150 peak dpa specimens in regions less than 750 nm in depth. The highest swelling for A709 irradiated to 50 and 150 peak dpa at 500° is about 0.44% and 0.37%, respectively. Due to the choice of 100 degree temperature intervals, this study did not attempt to precisely identify peak void swelling conditions, merely the range of irradiation temperatures where this could be a concern. It is known high-dose ion irradiation can significantly suppress void nucleation. Future neutron irradiation in the 500–600° range (without considering the temperature shift) is needed to determine the onset of accelerated void swelling (possibly at lower dose).« less
Competing Effects Of Electronic And Nuclear Energy Loss On Microstructural Evolution In Ionic-covalent Materials
Journal Article Zhang, Yanwen ; Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN ; Varga, Tamas ; ... - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section B, Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms
Ever increasing energy needs have raised the demands for advanced fuels and cladding materials that withstand the extreme radiation environments with improved accident tolerance over a long period of time. Ceria (CeO2) is a well known ionic conductor that is isostructural with urania and plutonia-based nuclear fuels. In the context of nuclear fuels, immobilization and transmutation of actinides, CeO2 is a model system for radiation effect studies. Covalent silicon carbide (SiC) is a candidate for use as structural material in fusion, cladding material for fission reactors, and an inert matrix for the transmutation of plutonium and other radioactive actinides. Understandingmore » microstructural change of these ionic-covalent materials to irradiation is important for advanced nuclear energy systems. While displacements from nuclear energy loss may be the primary contribution to damage accumulation in a crystalline matrix and a driving force for the grain boundary evolution in nanostructured materials, local non-equilibrium disorder and excitation through electronic While displacements from nuclear energy loss may be the primary contribution to damage accumulation in a crystalline matrix and a driving force for the grain boundary evolution in nanostructured materials, local non-equilibrium disorder and excitation through electronic energy loss may, however, produce additional damage or anneal pre-existing defect. At intermediate transit energies where electronic and nuclear energy losses are both significant, synergistic, additive or competitive processes may evolve that affect the dynamic response of materials to irradiation. The response of crystalline and nanostructured CeO2 and SiC to ion irradiation are studied under different nuclear and electronic stopping powers to describe some general material response in this transit energy regime. Although fast radiation-induced grain growth in CeO2 is evident with no phase transformation, different fluence and dose dependence on the growth rate is observed under Si and Au irradiations. While grain shrinkage and amorphization are observed in the nano-engineered 3C SiC with a high-density of stacking faults embedded in nanosize columnar grains, significantly enhanced radiation resistance is attributed to stacking faults that promote efficient point defect annihilation. Moreover, competing effects of electronic and nuclear energy loss on the damage accumulation and annihilation are observed in crystalline 4H-SiC. Systematic experiments and simulation effort are needed to understand the competitive or synergistic effects. energy loss may, however, produce additional damage or anneal pre-existing defect. At intermediate transit energies where electronic and nuclear energy losses are both significant, synergistic, additive or competitive processes may evolve that affect the dynamic response of materials to irradiation. The response of crystalline and nanostructured CeO2 and SiC to ion irradiation are studied under different nuclear and electronic stopping powers to describe some general material response in this transit energy regime. Although fast radiation-induced grain growth in CeO2 is evident with no phase transformation, different fluence and dose dependence on the growth rate is observed under Si and Au irradiations. While grain shrinkage and amorphization are observed in the nano-engineered 3C SiC with a high-density of stacking faults embedded in nanosize columnar grains, significantly enhanced radiation resistance is attributed to stacking faults that promote efficient point defect annihilation. Moreover, competing effects of electronic and nuclear energy loss on the damage accumulation and annihilation are observed in crystalline 4H-SiC. Systematic experiments and simulation effort are needed to understand the competitive or synergistic effects.« less
DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2013.10.095
Microstructure and Property Evolution in Advanced Cladding and Duct Materials Under Long-Term and Elevated Temperature Irradiation: Modeling and Experimental Investigation
Technical Report Wirth, Brian ; Morgan, Dane ; Kaoumi, Djamel ; ...
The in-service degradation of reactor core materials is related to underlying changes in the irradiated microstructure. During reactor operation, structural components and cladding experience displacement of atoms by collisions with neutrons at temperatures at which the radiation-induced defects are mobile, leading to microstructure evolution under irradiation that can degrade material properties. At the doses and temperatures relevant to fast reactor operation, the microstructure evolves by dislocation loop formation and growth, microchemistry changes due to radiation-induced segregation, radiation-induced precipitation, destabilization of the existing precipitate structure, and in some cases, void formation and growth. These processes do not occur independently; rather, theirmore » evolution is highly interlinked. Radiationinduced segregation of Cr and existing chromium carbide coverage in irradiated alloy T91 track each other closely. The radiation-induced precipitation of Ni-Si precipitates and RIS of Ni and Si in alloys T91 and HCM12A are likely related. Neither the evolution of these processes nor their coupling is understood under the conditions required for materials performance in fast reactors (temperature range 300-600°C and doses beyond 200 dpa). Further, predictive modeling is not yet possible as models for microstructure evolution must be developed along with experiments to characterize these key processes and provide tools for extrapolation. To extend the range of operation of nuclear fuel cladding and structural materials in advanced nuclear energy and transmutation systems to that required for the fast reactor, the irradiation-induced evolution of the microstructure, microchemistry, and the associated mechanical properties at relevant temperatures and doses must be understood. Predictive modeling relies on an understanding of the physical processes and also on the development of microstructure and microchemical models to describe their evolution under irradiation. This project will focus on modeling microstructural and microchemical evolution of irradiated alloys by performing detailed modeling of such microstructure evolution processes coupled with well-designed in situ experiments that can provide validation and benchmarking to the computer codes. The broad scientific and technical objectives of this proposal are to evaluate the microstructure and microchemical evolution in advanced ferritic/martensitic and oxide dispersion strengthened (ODS) alloys for cladding and duct reactor materials under long-term and elevated temperature irradiation, leading to improved ability to model structural materials performance and lifetime. Specifically, we propose four research thrusts, namely Thrust 1: Identify the formation mechanism and evolution for dislocation loops with Burgers vector of a<100> and determine whether the defect microstructure (predominately dislocation loop/dislocation density) saturates at high dose. Thrust 2: Identify whether a threshold irradiation temperature or dose exists for the nucleation of growing voids that mark the beginning of irradiation-induced swelling, and begin to probe the limits of thermal stability of the tempered Martensitic structure under irradiation. Thrust 3: Evaluate the stability of nanometer sized Y- Ti-O based oxide dispersion strengthened (ODS) particles at high fluence/temperature. Thrust 4: Evaluate the extent to which precipitates form and/or dissolve as a function of irradiation temperature and dose, and how these changes are driven by radiation induced segregation and microchemical evolutions and determined by the initial microstructure.« less
(Project 14-6770) An Investigation to Establish Multiphysical Property Dataset of Nuclear Materials Based on in-situ Observations and Measurements
Technical Report Tomar, Vikas ; Haque, Aman ; Hattar, Khalid
In-core nuclear materials including fuel pins and cladding materials fail due to issues including corrosion, mechanical wear, and pellet cladding interaction. In most such scenario microstructure dependent and corrosioninduced chemistry dependent property changes significantly affect performance of cladding, pellet, and housing. Emphasis of this work was on replace conventional pellet-cladding material models with a new straingradient viscoplasticity model that is informed by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) based measurements and by nanomechanical Raman spectroscopy (NMRS) based measurements. The TEM measurements are quantitative in nature and therefore reveal stress-strain relations with simultaneous insights into mechanisms of deformation at nanoscale. The NMRS measurementsmore » reveal the similar information at mesoscale along with additional information on relating local microstructural stresses with applied stresses. The resulting information is used to fit constants in the strain gradient viscoplasticity model as well as to validate one. During TEM measurements, a micro-electro-mechanical system based setup was developed with mechanical actuation, sensing, heating, and electrical loading. Contrary to post-mortem analysis or qualitative visualization, this setup combines direct visualization of the mechanisms behind deformation with measurement of stress, strain, thermal and electrical properties. The unique research philosophy of visualizing the microstructure at high resolution while measuring the properties led to fundamental understanding in grain size and temperature effects on measured mechanical properties such as fracture toughness. A key contribution is the role of mechanical loading boundary conditions to deconvolute the insitu TEM based nanoscale and NMRS based mesoscale data to bulk behavior. First the literature based pellet cladding mechanical interaction model based on the work of Retel’s and Williamson’s in literature work to predict tempurature and stress distribution in cladding and pellet at normal operating condition was analyzed. Later the data was fitted to find constants for a viscoplastic strain gradient model. The developed model still needs to be refined and calibrated using various experimental results. That remains the focus of future work. Overall, a major thrust of the work was therefore on active control of the microstructure (grain size, defect density and types) exploiting the multi-physics coupling in materials. In particular, using experiments the synergy of current density, mechanical stress and temperature were studied to annihilate defects and recrystallize grains. The developed model is being examined for implementation in BISON. Multiple invited talks, international journal publications, and conference publications were performed by students supported on this work. Another output is support multiple PhD and masters thesis students who will be an important asset for future basic nuclear research. Future Work Recommendations: A nuclear reactor operates under significant variations of thermal loads due to energy cycling and mechanical loads due to constraint effects. Significant thermal and chemical diffusion takes place at the pallet-cladding level. While the proposed work established new experimental approach and new dataset for Zircaloy-4, the irradiation level was in the range of 1-2 dpa. Samples with higher dpa need to be examined. Therefore, a continual of support of the performed work is essential. Currently, these are the only experiments that can measure the produced data. The work also needs to be extended to different fuel types and cladding types such as SiC and FeCrAl based claddings. A combination of datasets for these materials can then be used to analyze accurately predict behavior of critical pellet cladding systems in accident scenario with high heat flux and high thermal loads. This is a BIG unknown as if now.« less
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Posted on 1st September 1993 Posted in Article, Press Release
Most bands can do little more than gamely chase fashion and look forward to the day when they catch up with it. But James are not most bands. For the best part of a decade, James have stood alone, ploughing their own furrow, individual and unique, innovative and original, letting fashion and popularity try to get hold of them.
James are a cult group whose cult includes potentially everyone. They have the broad emotive sweep of the major rock band, able to fill arenas and stadiums with anthemic songs of mass appeal. And yet they have the alternative perspective of the most independently minded; a scorn for the easy move and the slick cliche. What James offer and demand from their fans is honesty, spirit and a natural elation far beyond the confines of most contemporary rock. In the bet sense of the word James are a people’s band.
Amazingly for a group who are still growing, still developing, still climbing towards the optimum of their success. They formed in Manchester in 1983 when bassist Jim Glennie spotted singer Tim Booth dancing in his unique, whirling dervish style in a college bar. They quickly came to the attention of the enormously influential and unimpeachably cool Manchester label Factory Records. Their first two singles, “What’s The World” and “Hymn From A Village” immediately set them apart from nearly all their contemporaries. James had a sound all of their own; the angularity of the new wave married to an almost folkish tranquility. Then the band was singer Tim Booth, bassist Jim Glennie, guitarist Larry Gott and drummer Gavan Whelan. Plaudits were not slow in coming. James found themselves on every front cover in England and found champions in every quarter, most famously with Morrissey who professed a public love for the band and invited them to go on tour with The Smiths.
In 1985 James signed up with New York based Sire Records, beginning a three-year phase of their career that was, by turns, exhilarating and perplexing. The albums from this period, “Stutter” and “Strip mine” drew praise for their striking individualism. But, despite critical acclaim, these records never reached the audiences they deserved and James, frustrated, left the label in 1988. At the very point where it seemed that their career may have stalled, James discovered a new lease of life. Drummer Whelan left and in came a massive injection of new blood in the shape of drummer David Baynton-Power, keyboard player Mark Hunter, trumpeter Andy Diagram and violinist Saul Davies. Inevitably the James sound changed. It broadened, became more expansive and colourful.
It had long been recognised that James were one of the most compelling live acts around, their concerts characterised by improvisatory daring and adrenalin highs. In an effort to capture this excitement, the band financed their own live album, “One Man Clapping”, Phonogram snapped the band up and their next studio album “Gold Mother” was to prove the turning point. Here it seemed James had at least fully realised their potential with music of extreme originality, but mass popular appeal, passionate, infectious, all their own. The hit singles “Come Home” and “Sit Down” became centrepieces of their live shows, the latter the scene of nightly celebrations where thousands of people would commandeer the song for fifteen minutes at a time. Then and now, being in the middle of a James crowd is a goose-pimpling experience. 1992’s million selling “Seven’ consolidated their position as a major modern rock band, although by now there were only six following the amicable departure of Andy Diagram.
Their new album “Laid” – an album that confirms James’ international status and yet is a bold stride in a totally new direction. Since the release of “Seven”, James have performed a succession of acoustic tours, both alone and as invited guests of Neil Young, another of the band’s champions. “Playing acoustically is playing without a net” says Tim Booth. “You’re naked, you’re vulnerable, but it’s exhilarating. That experience is certainly reflected in the new record. It’s not an acoustic record, but it’s a stripped down sound. We were quite sure that we didn’t want it to be cluttered with overdubs. If anything it’s more subtle than “Seven”, The lyrics sometimes tackle bigger themes, but are often quite intense and personal in their scope.”
The album is produced by renaissance man Brian Eno, The partnership has been a long time in the making. “We wanted him to produce “Stutter”. but he said he was a bit busy and he’d call back in a couple of years. Well, one morning he did. He’d heard the demos and loved them. “Eno’s influence is evident in the delicate, shifting nature of the sound. “As a producer, he’s quite unlike anyone we’ve ever worked with. Very balanced, very focussed and extremely encouraging. He encouraged us to improvise and take chances. He’s never outwardly critical. He gets his own way inmore subtle ways. It was a very productive time. I came up with 34 completed lyrics in 6 weeks. We even managed to record a whole other double album of jamming type that will hopefully come out next year.”
On the new album the classic James trademarks remain. Powerfully compelling songs, the result of a kind of organic interplay between the band’s musical fluidity and Booth’s plaintive, yearning voice. “Sometimes” is a personal favourite, I like “Laid” because it’s daft and uplifting, and “Low Low Low” would make a perfect football chant.
The new James album is set to convince doubters and delight the converted. Reaction in Britain is already strong. They recently drew rave notices for their massive Finsbury Park show with Neil Young, “When you get that kind of encourage- ment,” says Tim. “that kind of support from people you’ve always respected like Neil Young and Brian Eno, it just vindicates what you’re doing. It really gives you the impetus to move forward.”
For James the move forward to a new level of success and acclaim begins here.
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The monuments of Ooty depict the colonial rule of English in India. John Sullivan was the first British to explore the charming place and Sullivan put the foundation of first ever bungalow of the region. Right from the miniature railways of Ooty to the churches and places, the architecture of the monuments are very English and Gothic styled. The place was mostly occupied by British during pre-independence periods. The constructions mostly look like English houses, narrow lanes which are beautified by imported English plantations.
Stone House in Ooty
Connemara Cottage or Stone house or Kal Bangla is oldest of all the concrete buildings of Ooty built by John Sullivan. The construction of the building started in 1822. The Bungalow has been altered from its original shape, but it still stands to be used by Government Arts College. A very old Oak tree stands in front of the building which is popularly known as Sullivan's oak. The building is British Style in architecture and has beautiful presence of antiques. The building also gains importance from the fact that Lord Macaulay resided here during 1934 to 1938.
Location - Stone House Area, Stone House, Ooty, Tamil Nadu 643001
Nilgiri Library in Ooty
This is more than 150 year old library that stands on the Commissioner’s Road. The Gothic architecture styled building can be a great place of interest for the book lovers. The library was founded to cater to the European readers but today it stands as one of best libraries of the country. The historical records indicate that the library came into operations in 1859. Now the library has a collection of over 25000 books and conducts several events to promote reading habits among children and adults.
Location - Upper Bazzar, Ooty, Tamil Nadu 643001
The Ootacamund Club
The Club was discovered in 1819 by the British. A visit to the club today takes one back into those older times with the sight of highly polished rosewood furniture, brass fittings. There is a large Ballroom that also holds tiger, leopard, bear skins, bison, sambhar deer heads and the hunting trophies donated by members. The club is domiciled in a building excellently finished and built by the then owner, Sir William Rumbold.
Location - Mettupalayam, Ooty, Tamil Nadu 643006
Government House of Ooty
In 1840 Governor Lord Elphinstone suggested the pattern of Government moving to Ooty for summer. Finally during Duke of Buckingham's time Ooty was chosen for Governors for Presidency in summers. The government House was chosen for the Presidency. The Government House or the Raj Bhavan still has ballroom, banqueting hall, drawing and reception rooms, 17 guest rooms and numerous offices spread over nearly 30,000 square feet. Also there are Gardens Lawns, Rosariums, green houses, lily ponds and more inside this building.
Location - Vannarapettai, Ooty (Ootacamund) (Udhagamandalam), Tamil Nadu
Fernhill Palace in Ooty
The Palace was a summer retreat to the Maharaja of Mysore, built in 1844 by Captain F. Cotton. There were ballrooms, highly ornamental ceiling indoor tennis lawn and suites to be used by Maharaja. From Capt. Cotton, the Bungalow changed many hands and often occupied by English elites. The palace covers an area of 50 acres surrounded by woods, lawns, gardens, tea gardens and valleys. The Palace is now a fine 4 star Hotel and worth a stay.
Location - Kundah House Road, Fern Hill , Ooty , Tamilnadu,643004
Arranmore Palace in Ooty
Arranmore Palace was built by Maharaja of Jodhpur and is also well known as Tamizhangam. The Palace is located in north of Ooty Lake and was served as a winter retreat by Maharaja. The Palace has some good display of crafts and style. The Ball room is paneled with rosewood. Arranmore was also used for the functioning of state assembly during 1959.
Location - Aruvankadu , Coonoor, Tamil Nadu
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By Rachael Schultz • Dec 9, 2019
You probably associate the little red fruit almost exclusively with Thanksgiving, but the nutritional value of cranberries earns them a spot in your fridge year-round. Cranberries are full of bioactive compounds with antioxidant properties.
But all cranberries are not created (or ingested) equal. The nutritional benefits from dried cranberries are quite different than from fresh ones, for example.
Here’s everything you need to know about what the health benefits of cranberries are, including if raw cranberries are really good for you.
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Cranberry Nutrition Facts
Fresh cranberries are almost 90% water, but the rest of their makeup is almost entirely nutrients like carbs and fiber. One cup is just 46 calories, with almost no fat or protein, but 12 grams of carbs, four grams of sugar, and nearly four grams of fiber.
The real power of the little berry lies in the fact that cranberries are a source of soluble fiber, vitamin C, manganese, and vitamin K says Monica Moreno, R.D.N., founder of Essence Nutrition in Miami.
Dried cranberry nutrition
Unfortunately, once you move away from fresh cranberries, the fruit loses most of its health benefits.
“Very little of the phytochemical profile of cranberries is retained in sauce or dried fruit,” says Monica Moreno, R.D.N., founder of Essence Nutrition in Miami. What’s more, dried cranberries are pretty much just sugar, so they can actually become a food to steer clear of very quickly depending on how much you’re eating.
The one upside: dried cranberries have a nice texture for culinary uses, Moreno adds.
Cranberry juice nutrition
Cranberry juice is definitely a crowd favorite for an easy cocktail or quick sugar boost, but it falls closer to the side of dried cranberries nutrition than that of fresh, Moreno says.
The juice goes through that same processing that pulls out a lot of the phytochemicals. However, juice may retain more vitamin C than the dried variety, and manufacturers often add back in what was lost during processing, she explains.
What Are the Health Benefits of Cranberries?
Generally researchers, including those from the University of the Aegean in Greece in a 2018 study analysis, agree that while the results are murky, taking cranberry supplements to help support urinary tract health is pretty safe.
Are Cranberries a Superfood?
It depends on who you ask. According to the actual dictionary, a superfood is anything rich in compounds that’s considered beneficial to a person’s health.
But most nutritionists and nutrition researchers, including Moreno, don’t adhere to the idea of superfoods: “All foods have nutritional merit,” Moreno says. “Berries in particular tend to be well-studied and famed for the health benefits that their vitamins, minerals, and phytochemicals may confer unto humans, but that doesn’t mean that other fruits lack nutritional power,” she points out.
The Best Ways to Eat Cranberries
Based on all this, you should definitely consider cranberries to be part of a healthy diet — but more importantly, you should be eating a variety of fruit regularly.
The USDA recommends adults get at least one to two cups of fruit per day. Moreno also recommends making a list of all the fruits you enjoy, and then aiming to have a serving of each one at least every other week. “You can then access and enjoy the unique nutrition benefits of all fruits over a matter of time,” she adds.
For cranberries, keep your serving size to 1 cup fresh, or 1/4 cup dried and unsweetened, or 1 cup unsweetened juice.
Just remember, you mostly want to eat fresh cranberries, which retain all the plant’s chemical goodness. However, they should be cooked beforehand, since raw cranberries are actually very hard on your digestive system, Moreno points out.
Ideally, you just boil them down which helps soften the fruit to pass more easily through your GI tract. Though it’s an extra step, this actually opens the door for a ton of ways to eat the fruit. Moreno says some of the best ways to enjoy boiled cranberries are added into oatmeal, into a smoothie, or as a dressing or sauce.
Resist the temptation to add sugar, though. “We’re accustomed to cranberries being sweet since the most common ways we consume them — dried, juice, or canned sauce — are loaded with sugar,” Moreno says. “But they’re actually quite tart naturally, so it may take some time to get accustomed to their natural taste.”
About Rachael Schultz
Rachael Schultz is a Colorado-based writer who focuses primarily on why our bodies and brains work the way they do, and how we can optimize both. Previously a staff editor at Shape, she writes regularly for a slew of national health and fitness publications, including Men's Health, Men's Journal, Women's Health, and Furthermore x Equinox. She’s most passionate about hiking, traveling, mindfulness, cooking, and really, really good coffee. Follow her on Instagram.
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For the first time in his career, California-based and Grammy-nominated artist Paul Psarras is releasing a Greek-language album — featuring songs recorded with top musicians from Greece.
“Polychronis” will release on Friday, June 21, and will be available on Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes and Amazon Music.
Psarras has offered Pappas Post readers an exclusive video preview of the album (see below).
The album also features Psarras’ debut English-language track “Black and Blue,” with a corresponding lyric video (see below).
In recording his album at Odeon Studios in Athens, Psarras collaborated with renowned producer Nikos Zervas, as well as many acclaimed musicians from Greece, such as soloist Manolis Karantinis.
Psarras was thrust into music and dance at an early age. Whether playing traditional Greek music with his twin brother or listening to family favorites such as Elvis, The Beatles or The Beach Boys, Psarras’ musical palette draws from a broad range of influences.
The California native began playing keyboard and guitar before the age of 6. He later took up the saxophone, oud, tzoura, saz and eventually classical guitar.
Psarras received two performance degrees from The San Francisco Conservatory. While at the Conservatory, he also collaborated with various world-renowned artists.
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He also recently received sponsorship from D’Addario Strings, the world’s leading manufacturer of fretted strings for electric, acoustic and classical guitar.
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New investment in the developer behind upcoming MMO Firefall will see the free-to-play shooter officially launch this year, according to an announcement from Red 5 Studios. The $23 million in additional funds arrive thanks to some help from both new and already established investors in the game.
2013 was a year of ups and downs for Red 5. It launched Firefall's open beta but also had to pull the game's PvP content and make changes to its workforce. But the new cash should make all the difference for Red 5's Firefall plans, according to acting CEO James Macauley.
“This additional round of funding will offer us the means to execute on our plan for successfully launching Firefall in 2014," Macauley says in a press release. “This is the year Firefall takes flight. The entire Red 5 tribe is focused on creating top quality content that will take Firefall to the next level and we are excited for this next stage of development.”
The deal sees new investor Shanghai Oriental Pearl Culture Development become a 20 percent shareholder in Red 5, with the studio remaining a subsidiary of game developer and operator The9 Limited. The new plan is for Firefall's PvP mode to be re-released later this year along with a narrative campaign introducing some new characters to the game, according to Red 5. For a bit more on the genre-bending shooter, check out our Firefall preview .
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Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2 announced, coming to PC this year
By Mat Paget 2017-01-15T18:26:28.14Z
The updated version adds two characters, new story content, and major improvements to the online mode.
Arc System Works' Guilty Gear Xrd is getting another updated version, and it's coming to PC. Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2 was announced at the Arc System Works Fighting Game Awards 2016, which like a lot of Guilty Gear game titles is a mouthful to say (via Gematsu).
During the event, it was revealed that characters Baiken and Answer will be added as playable characters in Rev 2. Baiken returns from previous Guilty Gear games, while Answer makes his playable debut—he appeared as a character in the Story Mode in previous instalments of Xrd. You can check them both out in the trailer at the top of this article.
General director Daisuke Ishiwatari and battle planner Kazutoshi Sekine detailed some of the content in Rev 2, discussing new balance adjusments and techniques for existing characters. There's going to be a new scenario added to the story mode, in addition to new episodes for characters Jam Kuradoberi, Raven, Kum Haehyun, Dizzy, Baiken, and Answer. Apparently, major improvements have been made to the online mode as well. On top of all that, more features will be announced in the future.
Rev 2 launches in arcades in spring 2017, but no release date for PC has been announced. Those who already own Guilty Gear Xrd Revelator will be able to upgrade to Rev 2 through the purchase of discounted DLC. Revelator is currently $50 USD on Steam, so it's possible Rev 2 will cost the same for first-time buyers.
We'll keep you updated as more information about Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2 is revealed.
Rev 2 is along the same lines as what Capcom does with its Street Fighter franchise. While Capcom will, at times, force players to buy an entire game to get new updates, it's nice to see Arc System Works giving existing owners a lower-priced option.
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It’s a beautiful country, and you don’t miss a thing at 15 km an hour!
What’s the craziest thing you’ve ever been dared to do? Maybe it was eating something gross on a trip to Thailand or walking up to complete stranger and making a fool of yourself. It could have involved an element of danger like abseiling or skydiving or even trying to outrun an out-of-shape security guard at a prominent sporting location – he probably just wanted to know what happened to your clothes.
What compels us to do this stuff and what’s the payoff? The rush of adrenaline? That killer Instagram post? The ever-so-manly scars we can tell our grandkids about: “Seriously kids, the shark was this big!”
What would motivate you to do something really ‘out there’: something that’s never been done before; something that cost you deeply?
Separated in age by just one year, Samuel and Connie were close as kids, weathering the normal bouts of sibling rivalry, occasional spats and shoe-throwing injuries (according to a forgiving – yet wisely wary – adult Sam).
Sam Johnson and his sister Connie
Everything changed when at age 11 Connie was diagnosed with a rare tumour on her left leg and prescribed an aggressive treatment program. Reflecting on this difficult time Sam, now a successful and prominent actor and TV personality known for his roles on shows like The Secret Life of Us and Rush says:
“As a single dad, it was a very difficult time for our father. Having one child at home and another in the Royal Children’s Hospital was incredibly tough.”
At 22, having beaten cancer as a child, Connie was preparing to become a mother with all the joy and sweet anticipation that goes along with this happy time. Overnight, jubilant expectation turned to devastation as she was diagnosed with a molar pregnancy, a condition where tissue that normally becomes a foetus instead becomes an abnormal growth in the uterus. Again with the support and love of her family and early detection, she overcame.
On Connie’s eldest son’s birthday 11 years later she was diagnosed with breast cancer: “They ‘treated to cure’, unsuccessfully, and around six months later she was diagnosed as terminal,” Sam told us. “When she was initially diagnosed it never occurred to me that she would not beat the cancer this time, just like the other times. I didn’t want her to go through treatment again, but I was confident of a good outcome. I had a sense that she could beat anything.”
So in the aftermath of this news, in a kitchen in Canberra, Sam asked his sister, “What do you want your legacy to be?” Expecting that maybe Connie might want to go skydiving or something, Sam muses “I really should have known better”. For Connie has a plan: a plan to save as many women as she can and maybe to change the life of a certain sibling. It was perfect … a DARE. A great big, crazy, impossible dare that became a promise:
“I dare you Sam, to set a Guinness World Record for most distance travelled on a unicycle AND raise a million dollars for breast cancer awareness.”
Ride a unicycle how far exactly? Well the current record holder at the time was a man by the name of Lars who managed 14,686.82 km across 48 states of America. 14,686.82 kilometres!
‘Love your Sister’ was born and so began two years of preparation for this awesome endeavour. With a determination that every cent raised would go to the Garvan Institute, Sam, Connie and a small group of volunteers began to plot a route that would see Sam and his unicycle traverse the vast nation of Australia in a over the course of twelve months raising money and awareness. They would need to recruit a support crew who would give a year of their life for no pay: a rag-tag bunch of slightly unhinged (in that good way) and exceedingly gifted men and women. There were relatives, mechanics, journalists, web designers, photographers – and of course Connie would be there in Sam’s heart.
For these two years Sam knocked on doors, made phone calls, raised enough money for food and fuel and sourced loans and donations of equipment for the trek.
Danny Green, Connie and Sam
Connie and the Love Your Sister ‘Boobmobile’ in Adelaide
When asked about the route Sam said:
“We were aiming for a figure eight around the mainland, followed by a lap of Tasmania. I wanted to do the easternmost and westernmost points, as well as highest and lowest. The Oodnadatta Track and going up through the middle of the country were personal goals for me as well. Those factors ultimately contributed to the route planning, along with factors like distance between towns (because you can only get so far on a unicycle in one day)!”
Then came the gruelling physical training and media spruiking that is so necessarily part of the endeavour to raise awareness.
So on a sunny February morning in 2013 Connie and Sam finished some early media commitments and with the ‘Boobmobile’ and support crew in tow, headed off to Federation Square in the heart of Melbourne for the big launch. Both are feeling a curious mixture of excitement, nerves and even sadness at the impending separation before them. After a blur of heartfelt speeches, drum bands and human tunnels the journey began with a drop down a ramp from the media stage to the road that stretched 15,000 km in front of Sam and the team he would rely on for the next 12 months.
Wasting no time the team headed northwest through the heart of Victoria at the stately pace of a single-wheeled, human-powered vehicle.
One month, some saddle sores and more than 1,500 km into the journey, the team arrived at the town of Marree in South Australia, the start of a gruelling stretch of road called the Oodnadatta Track. According to some prominent 4WD guides, over the ensuing 617 km you can expect corrugations, potholes, loose stones, sand patches and occasional bulldust. And the track is ‘probably only suitable for four wheel drives’. The track passes through a mixture of plains and undulating countryside, skirting at its southeastern end the vast expanse of Lake Eyre, largely following the route of explorer John McDouall Stuart and, later, the Old Ghan railway. For Sam this was one of the most physically demanding parts of the ride. He described this leg as a “sandy, corrugated, fly-blown nightmare, not suitable for unicyclists at all”.
Heading due north, the team made for Alice Springs and Uluru, a place with which Sam had unfinished business. “Visiting Uluru was on Connie’s list (of important places to visit on the trip) and mine. I needed to return the small rock I’d pinched on Grade 6 school camp. I didn’t know any better back then!”
Far from being just physically tough, Sam explains that beating the mental barriers was a daily task:
“It doesn’t matter what is wrong with me or how many kilometres I’ve unicycled today – whatever pain I’m in does not compare to Connie’s. It toughens you up a bit. Positive visualisations (like meeting Connie at the finish line) helped, but sometimes you’ve just got to get the goals down to the smallest thing you can to keep going. Things like, ‘I just have to get to that curve in the road, or the next rock, or whatever’.”
For the next eleven months and 13,500 kilometres, Sam and the LYS team would traverse the length and breadth of this vast and diverse continent stopping at countless townships to ‘do a dare’, raise some funds and spread their simple message: “Don’t fall into the booby-trap, be breast aware!” There would be rodeos, primary school fundraisers, and radio and television interviews, and for Sam each day, there was the road.
A shady gumtree-lined avenue
Now, more than a year after the team first set out, more than $1.5 million has been raised for breast cancer research.
When we asked Sam to share his personal highlight for the journey it was “… Uluru, swimming with dolphins, seeing the outback and meeting as many amazing Australians as I could. It’s a beautiful country, and you don’t miss a thing at 15 km an hour!”
But for Sam and Connie what started as a kitchen dare on steroids has became more than raising money, and so much more than a really long ride. It goes far deeper than just a brother’s love for his sister. There is a whole community of women suffering from breast cancer, who, with their families, daily struggle with pain, disappointment, invasive and costly treatment and in many cases dreadful loss. This epic journey, while being deeply personal for two siblings going through a terrible tragedy, is about the fight they all share.
“I hope they know that they’re not fighting this on their own, and that I’m fighting for them. Too many families have been devastated by this disease; it has to stop, and I won’t stop until there’s a cure.”
It’s a big country
Sam and the Port Hedland Bug Club
So what will Connie’s legacy be? Maybe daring: daring to look beyond the quagmire of a monumental personal loss, to live bigger than the problem and see to the possibility of making life better for someone else.
Daring to dream big – crazy big.
I am reminded of one of my favourite lyrics from Brooke Fraser’s Saving the World:
But while we’re waiting we could try saving the world,
or are we storing that up for a rainy day?
I’m anticipating the time when it’ll be my turn.
It could be fun to try.
I think that I’ll save the world …
Find out how you can get behind Love Your Sister.
The Walpole Wilderness Treetop walk was on Connie & Sam’s bucket list
Photos: © Love Your Sister
On Thursday, 8 September 2017, Connie Johnson died of cancer, just one day after she was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia in recognition of her work with cancer patients.
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Spanning Time: Before the American Civic Association, there was The American House
The American House was created on Aug. 1, 1921 to fill a need to bring education, training and opportunity to new residents and their families.
Spanning Time: Before the American Civic Association, there was The American House The American House was created on Aug. 1, 1921 to fill a need to bring education, training and opportunity to new residents and their families. Check out this story on pressconnects.com: https://www.pressconnects.com/story/news/local/2019/11/23/spanning-time-history-american-house/4269187002/
Gerald Smith, Special to the Press & Sun-Bulletin Published 8:00 p.m. ET Nov. 22, 2019
It was a wonderful idea proposed at the right time. Yet, the original concept would be lost to “progress” in only three years.
In the late 1910s and early 1920s, the Binghamton region was a magnet to thousands of new residents arriving to work in the hundreds of factories and businesses in the city.
Many of these new residents came from a variety of countries from around the globe. Many had only a rudimentary grasp of the English language, and came to forge out a new life working in the many cigar factories, the expanding Endicott Johnson shoe factories, Dunn-McCarthy Ansco and many other firms.
The converted home that became the American House in 1921. (Photo: Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo)
The First Ward of Binghamton became a melting pot of ethnicities — with languages and dialects from Europe and Asia being spoken in the homes, on the streets and in the workplaces. The children of these newcomers to American society were trying to assimilate into the culture and education system of the United States.
Civic leaders realized there was a real need — a need to bring together groups that had a common purpose to bring education, training and opportunity to those new residents and their families.
On Aug. 1, 1921, that vision to create such a center came to fruition. It was the dedication of the American House at the northeast corner of Clinton and Jarvis streets.
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The northeast corner of State and Hawley Streets in Binghamton, now a parking lot, as it looked about 1930. Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
Looking north on State Street in Binghamton from Court Street, about 1930. Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
Part 1 of a 1909 panorama of the north side of the Chenango River scene in Binghamton. Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
An unidentified woman drifts along the Susquehanna, about 1910. Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
An unidentified group in a boat on the Susquehanna River, about 1900. Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
Boaters enjoying a day of fishing on the Susquehanna River, about 1900. Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
Lee Martin’s Hydroplane on the Susquehanna River in 1913. Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
A family sailing aboard their boat, the Lyon, about 1900. Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
An aerial view of Chenango Street in Binghamton, about 1960. Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
An 1866 map of the Town of Barker. Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
The 1866 Broome County map. Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
The 2006 Broome County Bicentennial logo by Adam Lachmanski. Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
The Burr map of Broome County, 1829. Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
Unidentified boys trying to get the snow ball up the street, about 1980. Joseph Buemi Collection, Broome County Historical Society
Snow surrounds the fence at Roberson Mansion, about 1980. Joseph Buemi Collection, Broome County Historical Society
Winter does not spare Spring Forest Cemetery and the First Ward, about 1980. Joseph Buemi Collection, Broome County Historical Society
Winter creates a bizarre landscape in Binghamton, about 1980. Joseph Buemi Collection, Broome County Historical Society
Snow covers the First Ward in Binghamton, about 1980. Joseph Buemi Collection, Broome County Historical Society
A view of the Courthouse dome through lights, about 1980. Joseph Buemi Collection, Broome County Historical Society
A view from the Press Building roof toward the Security Mutual Building, about 1980. Joseph Buemi Collection, Broome County Historical Society
A closeup of the letters atop the Security Mutual Building, about 1980. Joseph Buemi Collection, Broome County Historical Society
“Split-Cone and Jet Contrails” at Government Plaza, 1984. Joseph Buemi Collection, Broome County Historical Society
Details of the top of St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church on Court Street, about 1980. Joseph Buemi Collection, Broome County Historical Society
A view of Johnson City with the Endicott Johnson factories in 1953. Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
An aerial view of Windsor, about 1966. Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
An aerial view of Vestal in September 1947. Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
An aerial view of the Nimmonsburg school area in the Town of Chenango in 1962. Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
A view of Binghamton from the Ansco Film plant, looking north, in 1941. Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
Alice Hayes performs with the Community Symphony Orchestra in June 1966. Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
The Melody Ramblers (l to r, Luke Corey, Irene Rice, Dick Hall, Cal Dietrick) at the WKOP studios in Binghamton about 1952. Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
The Susquetonics and the Question Marks stage a tug of war while in song in May 1964. Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
The Endicott Johnson Worker Chorus, clockwise from banjo player George McDonald, Fowler McKune, Jack Sedlock, William Scalise, William Beddoe, 1964. Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
Bob Grover and the Tune Twisters in August 1947. Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
Broome County Sheriff John Perhach (left) watches Ann Carey sit on Santa’s lap at the Wyoming Conference Home in 1969. Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
Deputy Edward Molnar (right) shows three junior deputies from St. Ann’s School a gas mask in November 1965. Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
Johnson City Traffic Officer Alfred Lamphere inspects the new 1963 Dodge wagon ambulance. Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
Inspector Howard Orcutt talks to Karen Kozlowski and Martha Moore at MacArthur Elementary School in 1968. Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
William Macan (left) and Raymond Redolphy, of the Endicott Fire Department, complete a course on radiological emergency operations in 1966. Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
Workers at McIntosh Engineering Laboratories in Binghamton in March 1952. Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
An interior view of the Platt and Wren Optical Co. at 163 Washington Street in Binghamton, about 1958. Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
A drill press operator at Universal Instruments in October 1947. Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
Workers at their sewing machines at the Beemer Products Corporation in March 1952. Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
Members of the Villeco family at the Villeco Cheese Factory, about 1945. Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
A view of Chenango Bridge looking east in March 1901, with the railroad on the hill. Joseph Noyes Collection, Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
The suspension bridge located near Hancock in 1899. Joseph Noyes Collection, Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
A view of the Noyes complex of factories in March 1902 along the Chenango River. Joseph Noyes Collection, Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
A view of the road probably along Quaker Lake, about 1920. Joseph Noyes Collection, Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
An 1899 view of Lily Lake in the Town of Fenton. Joseph Noyes Collection, Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
Exchange Street in the 1969s with the Capitol Theater on the far right. Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
The Rose/O’Neill Block at the corner of Court and State Streets in Binghamton in the 1930s. Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
An early 1900s view of the Phelps Bank and the Perry Block at Court and Chenango Streets. Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
A view down Chenango Street with the Arlington Hotel on the left, about 1910. Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
A 1960s view of the City National Bank on Court Street. Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
A 1960s view of Court and Chenango Streets in Binghamton. Slide Collection, Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
Upper Court Street and the Carroll’s Hamburgers sign in the 1960s slide view. Slide Collection, Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
Court and Water Streets in Binghamton in the 1960s. Slide Collection, Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
A view of Henry Street in the 1960s. Slide Collection, Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
The construction of Front Street and the I-81 corridor in the 1960s. Slide Collection, Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
A Binghamton music store in the early 1900s. Joseph Noyes Collection, Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
A family-run lunch counter in Binghamton in the early 1900s. Joseph Noyes Collection, Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
An early 1900s unidentified soda fountain and candy store in Binghamton. Joseph Noyes Collection, Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
An unidentified Binghamton furniture store in the early 1900s. Joseph Noyes Collection, Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
Getting a shave in a local Binghamton barber shop in October 1920. Joseph Noyes Collection, Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
St. Mary’s Catholic Church on Court Street , the second Catholic church in Binghamton, as it appeared about 1900. Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
The demolition of St. Mary’s orphanage in the 1960s to make way for the new high school. Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
An early view of the St. Mary’s Orphanage, about 1890. Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
An 1890s view of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church on Leroy Street. Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
Swat Sullivan bar on Vestal Avenue, an Irish watering hole for many generations. Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
The bandstand on the grounds of the Binghamton State Hospital, about 1890. Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
The patients enjoy a day out of the grounds of the Binghamton State Hospital, about 1890. Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
A postcard view of the road up to the Binghamton State Hospital, about 1890. Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
A view of the grounds showing a baseball game on the grounds of the Binghamton State Hospital, about 1890. Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
A postcard of the many buildings of the Binghamton State Hospital, about 1890. Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
The First Baptist Church in Port Dickinson, about 1920. Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
The CCC project to build the water area behind Port Dickinson Elementary School, about 1935. Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
An ad for the Chenango Valley Mills in Port Dickinson, about 1880. Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
An ad for Carman’s Grist Mill & Pickleworks, about 1880. Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
The early Port Dickinson school on Chenango Street, about 1870. Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
The original clubhouse of the Broome County Country Club, 1900. Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
A scorecard from the Binghamton Country Club, about 1920. Collection of Richard Donovan / Provided photo
A 1952 history of the Binghamton County Club. Richard Donovan / Provided photo
A scorecard from En-Joie Golf Club, about 1940. Collection of Richard Donovan / Provided photo
A postcard view of IBM Country Club, about 1940. Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo
The Protection Hose Company on Chenango Street, about 1900. Broome County Historical Society photo
A member of the Independent Hose Co. 5, about 1880. Broome County Historical Society photo
An unidentified member of Independent Hose Co. 5, about 1880. Broome County Historical Society photo
A horse-drawn engine races along Front Street, about 1870. Broome County Historical Society photo
Firemen’s Hall on Collier Street in Binghamton, replaced by the former City Hall, as it appeared about 1870. Broome County Historical Society photo
A 1960s view of Court Street with the completed Woolworth’s on the left. Provided
The basement of the new Woolworth’s store takes shape, about 1950. Broome County Historical Society
A 1930s view of the former Exchange Hotel on Court Street. Broome County Historical Society
The Exchange Hotel on the site of the future Woolworth’s in Binghamton, about 1880. Broome County Historical Society
The excavation for the new Woolworth’s in Binghamton, about 1950. Broome County Historical Society
Sisson Brothers & Weldon department store on Court Street, about 1910. Broome County Historical Society
J.E. Searles store on Washington Street in Binghamton, about 1890. Broome County Historical Society
Daniel E. Shaw’s grocery store on Main Street in Binghamton, about 1900. Broome County Historical Society
The W.B. Stoppard store, possibly in Cortland, about 1890. Broome County Historical Society
The Sweet & Payne store in Binghamton, about 1900. Broome County Historical Society
The property was owned by the Ansco Corp., but the site was occupied by an older home that the firm leased to be reused by multiple entities. Donations were gathered to refit the building. The interior was altered with the inclusion of showers and an upgraded kitchen.
The operation was put under the control of the Boys Club, but by the time of the dedication, the Binghamton Public Library opened up its first branch library operation. In addition, and under the control of the library, was the home of the Americanization League, which would sponsor English classes, sewing classes and other opportunities to assist the new arrivals to the area.
Within a few months of opening, the American House also became the location for an operation of the Girls Club. It was not unusual to find dozens upon dozens of schoolchildren hovering in the rooms of the American House after school. Programs aimed at both adults and children were numerous and well-attended.
Children attend the branch library at the American House in 1923. (Photo: File photo)
In fact, Library Director William Seward encouraged the donation of books published in foreign languages that would allow many of the immigrants the ability to read books in their native languages. Many of those books would remain part of the library’s collection into the 1980s — including some in Ruthenian spoken by many Carpatho Rusyns.
While it appears that the creation of the American House was a resounding success and met many of the needs of the new residents of the First Ward, its life was short-lived. Perhaps allowing to the march of progress, or the need for expansion of business, the American House was dealt a death knoll in early 1924.
The officials of Ansco, who owned that parcel and four other neighboring parcels, decided to sell that corner lot on Clinton and Jarvis streets. The clubs, Americanization League and library branch were given until April 1 of that year to vacate.
A local merchant had purchased the lot and planned to erect a new three-story building on the site. The library branch moved three times during the next 12 months before finally settling into the new Daniel Dickinson School, and the Boys and Girls Clubs were forced to find new locations.
The Daniel Dickinson School that later housed the library branch after 1924. (Photo: Broome County Historical Society / Provided photo)
But both would be instrumental to the children of the First Ward during the 1930s and the World War II years. The Americanization League stayed connected to the library as the First Ward branch moved. The books would later be relocated to the main library building.
The new building on that corner lot would eventually become an Atlantic and Pacific (A&P) grocery store, as well as many other tenants.
Although the American House was gone, its memory continued with many residents.
The needs of the new immigrants to the area would be taken up by other agencies, such as the American Civic Association, and classes at other area public libraries.
Gerald Smith is a former Broome County historian. Email him at historysmiths@stny.rr.com.
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A new World Bank report has found that by 2050 the worsening impacts of climate change in three densely populated regions of the world could see more than 140 million people move within their countries’ borders.
With concerted action, however, including global efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions and robust development planning at the country level – this worst-case scenario could be dramatically reduced, by as much as 80 percent, or 100 million people.
The report identifies “hotspots” of climate in- and out-migration. These include climate-vulnerable areas from which people are expected to move, and locations into which people will try to move to build new lives and livelihoods.
Humanity has always been on the move.
People move for many reasons – economic, social, and political. Now, climate change has emerged as a major driver of migration, propelling increasing numbers of people to move from vulnerable to more viable areas of their countries to build new lives.
The newly released World Bank report, Groundswell: Preparing for Internal Climate Migration, analyzes this recent phenomenon and projects forward to 2050. Focusing on three regions — Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Latin America – the report warns that unless urgent climate and development action is taken, these three regions could be dealing with a combined total of over 140 million internal climate migrants by 2050. These people will be pushed out by droughts, failing crops, rising sea levels, and storm surges.
But there is still a way out: with concerted action – including global efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions, combined with robust development planning at the country level –the number of people forced to move due to climate change could be reduced by as much as 80 percent – or 100 million people.
The report finds that countries can take action in three main areas:
1. Cut greenhouse gases now:
Strong global climate action is needed to meet the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting future temperature increase to less than 2°C by the end of this century. However, even at this level of warming, countries will be locked into a certain level of internal climate migration. Still higher levels of greenhouse gas emissions could lead to the severe disruption of livelihoods and ecosystems, further exacerbating the conditions for increased climate migration.
2. Embed climate migration in development planning:
There is an urgent need for countries to integrate climate migration into national development plans. Most regions have laws, policies, and strategies that are poorly equipped to deal with people moving from areas of increasing climate risk into areas that may already be heavily populated. To secure resilience and development prospects for everyone affected, action is needed at every phase of migration (before, during and after moving).
3. Invest now to improve data on the scale and scope of local climate migration:
More investment is needed to better understand and contextualize the scale, nature, and magnitude of climate change-induced migration. Evidence-based research, complemented by country-level modeling, is vital. In support of this, new data sources, including from satellite imagery and mobile phones, combined with advances in climate information, can help countries improve the quality of information about likely internal migration.
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Dungannon RIC Station & Barracks
Location Market Square, Dungannon
Map location exact or closely approximate
Year opened 1871
Year closed 1982
Century of Operation 1800-1899
Building Type Police Station and Barracks
Remarks This entry has several accompanying photographs. Please click 'View More Images' below to see them all
'The unusual design of the barracks has dominated the town skyline and puzzled visitors ever since it was built in 1871...Designed by architect James Higgens Owen, who was renowned for his daring and flamboyance, the building owes its castle-like appearance to his attempt to combine it as a defensive post and police barracks while incorporating elements of the Scottish Baronial style [but it is believed that] the plans were mixed up with those of a barracks that was supposed to be built in the Khyber Pass, which got in its stead a whitewashed, slate roofed, wooden-shuttered country police station with a fireplace...The four-storey listed building has a gabled tower, gabled wings with crow stepped gables, and a turret. It was closed in 1982 with the opening of the new police station in Dungannon in 1982... '
Mid-Ulster Mail, 'Battle to save iconic Dungannon landmark haunted by grisly ghost of the "Black Sergeant"', 17 June 2016
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Photo © National Library of Ireland, NLI Ref: L_CAB_02160
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Volcano to Highlight its Physiology Expansion Efforts at EuroPCR 2013
Volcano Corporation
21 May, 2013, 02:01 BST
SAN DIEGO, May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Volcano Corporation (NASDAQ: VOLC) a leading developer and manufacturer of precision guided therapy tools designed to enhance the diagnosis and treatment of coronary and peripheral vascular disease, today announced it will highlight its efforts to expand research and innovation surrounding its physiology technologies, including its Fractional Flow Reserve (FFR) and iFR® (Instant Wave-Free Ratio™)[1] technologies, via various clinical and educational presentations and events at EuroPCR 2013 in Paris.
"Volcano is committed to making clinical and technological advances that expand access to functional management," commented Michele Perrino, president of Europe, Middle East, Africa, and India Operations of Volcano. "Our focus at EuroPCR is to introduce our latest functional management technologies and clinical data, and demonstrate their potential to improve both patient care and the experience for our physician partners in Europe. Given our commitment to provide physicians with choice, we are excited to feature iFR®, our novel hyperemia-free software modality, and our Verrata™ Pressure Guide Wire, which upon regulatory clearance will be our fifth new guide wire in five years."[2]
Volcano will formally launch its iFR® modality and CORE® Integrated System, and display the Verrata™ Wire at the conference. Volcano will showcase its future and currently available physiology, imaging, and multi-modality systems products in the company's exhibit hall booth #M71.
Featured events for Volcano include four live case symposia demonstrating the benefits of incorporating both FFR and our iFR® modality in simple and complex cases, the presentation of the findings from the Adenosine Vasodilator Independent Stenosis Evaluation II (ADVISE II) study data at a hot line session, and over 10 scientific podium presentations featuring advanced physiology using Volcano products.
Wednesday, May 22, 10:50 – 11:30 a.m.
Complex bifurcation stenting: LIVE demonstration of emerging techniques
LIVE iFR® demonstration from Erasmus University Medical Center, Thorax Center – Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Theatre Bleu
Thursday, May 23, 9:45 - 11:45 a.m.
Adenosine Vasodilator Independent Stenosis Evaluation II (ADVISE II)
Hot Line - Evolving procedural strategies
Thursday, May 23, 4:45 – 6:45 p.m.
Physiological Stenosis Assessment with FFR and Instant Wave-Free Ratio: We Need Both!
Live case demonstrations (simple and multivessel disease) from St. Thomas' Hospital, London, followed by panel discussions
Theatre Bordeaux
Friday, May 24, 9:00 – 12:30 p.m.
Complex cardiovascular interventions and new techniques – Master LIVE demonstrations
Continuous LIVE FFR and iFR® demonstrations from Sunninghill and Sunward Park Hospitals, South Africa and St Thomas' Hospital – London, United Kingdom
Main Arena
Daily, 12:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Meet the iFR® Experts
Booth #M71
About Volcano Corporation
Volcano Corporation is revolutionizing the medical device industry with a broad suite of technologies that make imaging and therapy simpler, more informative and less invasive. Its products empower physicians around the world with a new generation of analytical tools that deliver more meaningful information - using sound and light as the guiding elements. Founded in cardiovascular care and expanding into other specialties, Volcano is changing the assumption about what is possible in improving patient outcomes by combining imaging and therapy together.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Any statements in this release that are not historical facts may be considered "forward-looking statements". Forward-looking statements are based on management's current expectations and are subject to risks and uncertainties which may cause Volcano's results to differ materially and adversely from the statements contained herein. Some of the potential risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ include the pace and extent of market adoption of the company's products and technologies; unexpected clinical trial results, including unexpected new clinical data and unexpected additional analysis of existing clinical data; unexpected regulatory actions or delays or government regulation generally; the company's ability to obtain or maintain patent or other proprietary intellectual property protection; competition in general; government, industry and general public pricing pressures; unexpected manufacturing issues; growth strategies; timing and achievement of product development milestones; outcome of ongoing litigation; the impact and benefits of market development; product introductions; unexpected new data, safety and technical issues; market conditions; and other risks inherent to medical device development and commercialization. These and additional risks and uncertainties are more fully described in Volcano's filings made with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our recent quarterly report on Form 10-Q. Undue reliance should not be placed on forward-looking statements which speak only as of the date they are made. Volcano undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements to reflect new information, events or circumstances after the date they are made, or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
[1]Our iFR® software modality is approved in CE mark countries.
[2] Verrata™ Pressure Guide Wire is 510(k) and CE mark pending, and is not currently commercially available for sale.
SOURCE Volcano Corporation
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Ongkili: RM515 Million To Boost Electricity Supply In Sabah Next Year
PENAMPANG, Dec 26 – The federal government has allocated RM515 million to strengthen and upgrade transmission and supply of electricity in Sabah, next year. Energy, Green Technology and Water Minister Datuk Seri Dr Maximus Ongkili said the allocation was part of the RM2.3 billion fund approved by the federal government for four
Terengganu MB Extends Condolences To Families Of Accident Victims
KUALA NERUS, Dec 26 – Terengganu Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Ahmad Razif Abd Rahman expressed his condolences to the families of the four people killed in a bus-lorry accident along the East-West Highway early Friday. He had instructed the relevant agencies and local leaders to extend assistance to the bus passengers and
Education Ministry To Find Best Mechanism To Solve Problem Of Unpaid Dues To Contractors
PEDU, Dec 26 – The Education Ministry will find the best mechanism to solve the problem of delays in paying its contractors in the future. Its minister Datuk Seri Mahdzir Khalid said the ministry would first like to discuss with the various parties to find out the weaknesses of the existing payment
Four Killed, 25 Injured In Bus-Lorry Accident On East-West Highway
JELI, Dec 25 – Four people were killed and 25 injured after an express bus and a trailer lorry collided at Km124 of the East-West Highway at Batu 14 here early today. The dead have been identified as Hasiah Osman, 57, and her son, Muhammad Amir Abdul Rahim, 16, of Kampung
Weak Earthquake Occurs In Ranau
KOTA KINABALU, Dec 25 – A weak earthquake, measuring 3.3 on the Richter scale, occurred about 11km west of Ranau, at 5.54pm Friday. According to the Malaysian Meteorological Department’s website, the epicentre was at 6 degrees north and 116.6 degrees east, and tremors were reportedly felt in Ranau district. However, the
PLUS/MHA: Smooth Traffic On All Major Highways As At 5PM
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 25 – Smooth traffic flow was reported on all major highways in the country as at 5 pm today. A spokesman for Plus Expressways (PLUS) Sdn Bhd’s traffic control centre said although the number of vehicles had increased from Port Dickson to Seremban, the traffic flow was smooth
Search Team Finds Body Of Boy Believed Attacked By Crocodile
KUCHING, Dec 25 – A search team found the body of a boy on Thursday after he was reported missing following a suspected crocodile attack in Kampung Bungin, Spaoh, Betong, about 300km from here on Tuesday. Sarawak Fire and Rescue operations assistant director Farhan Sufyan Borhan said the body of 11-year-old Fakhrul
Victim Of Chiang Mai Bus Tragedy In Stable Condition At HSNI
BATU PAHAT, Dec 25 – An injured passenger of the tour bus tragedy in Thailand who was currently undergoing treatment at the Sultanah Nora Ismail Hospital (HSNI) here since Wednesday, is reported to be recovering. State Health and Environment Committee chairman Datuk Ayub Rahmat said, Lee Siew Kim, 61, who was admitted
Sultan Of Terengganu Wants Muslims To Become Innovators Of Technology
KUALA TERENGGANU, Dec 25 – The Sultan of Terengganu, Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin urged Muslims to enhance their knowledge and become innovators of technology. He said without education and knowledge, Muslims cannot become leaders in life. He also said that the failure to acquire Islamic knowledge will make Muslims mere followers of
Mustapa: Briefing On TPPA Not Propaganda Exercise
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 25 – The Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) had been denied the claims that the briefing sessions which were conducted on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) was a mere to the propaganda exercise. Since the final TPPA text was made available in the public domain on
Smooth Traffic Flow On Major Highways As At 9am
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 25 – Smooth traffic flow has been reported on all major highways in the country as at 9am Friday despite a higher volume of vehicles on the road due to the public and school holidays. A spokesman of the Highway Traffic Control Centre at Plus Expressways Sdn Bhd
Najib: No Malaysian Will Be Neglected In March Towards Advanced Nation Status
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 25 – Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said on Thursday that there was no Malaysian will be left behind as the country progresses towards becoming an advanced nation. He said they will remain steadfast in upholding the freedom of religion as enshrined in our constitution. He said this
Terrified Christmas Shoppers Flee As Gunman Is Shot Dead In Busy Mall
CHARLOTTE, Dec 25 – One person was fatally shot by police responding to a fight inside a packed shopping centre in Charlotte, North Carolina. Officers working as off0duty security responded to a fight between two groups and a shot a person with a gun. It was crowded with shoppers on Christmas Eve,
Moody’s Affirms Axiata’s Baa2 Ratings; Outlook Stable
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 25 – Moody’s Investors Service has affirmed Axiata Group Bhd’s Baa2 issuer rating with a stable outlook after its recent acquisition in Nepal. Moody’s has also affirmed the Baa2 rating on the senior unsecured debt issued by Axiata SPV1 (Labuan) Ltd, as well as, the Baa2 rating on the
Solidarity The Theme Of Prophet Muhammad’s Birthday Celebration
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 25 – Prophet Muhammad’s Birthday was celebrated Thursday, for the second time this year, in the spirit of solidarity of Muslims in keeping with the theme ‘Solidarity, the Pulse of National Transformation’. The national-level celebration was held at the Malaysia Agro Exposition Park in Serdang near here, launched by
Penang MCA Youth Urged State Govt To Ensure The Basic Pedestrian Safety Is Prioritised
GEORGE TOWN, Dec 25 – Penang State Government wanted to turn Penang into the most livable city, but in fact of Penang had become the most uninhabitable State in Malaysia due to themost basicpedestrian safety has been exploited, said Penang Tanjung MCA Youth Chief Lim Swee Bok. He said the bicycle lane
ICA Foils Three Attempts To Smuggle Contraband Cigarettes
SINGAPORE, Dec 25 – Immigration & Checkpoints Authority officers arrested three Singaporean men for attempts to smuggle contraband cigarettes through the Jurong Port Main Gate in three separate cases. The contraband cigarettes were found concealed in various consignments, ICA said in a statement Thursday. It said a total of 4,098 cartons of cigarettes
Fine Weather Forecast For Morning Of Christmas
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 24 – The Meteorological Department has forecast fine weather nationwide on the morning of Christmas tomorrow and rain in the afternoon and evening. In a statement Thursday, the department said fine weather was forecast in the morning in most parts of the country except in some coastal areas
Plus: Increase In Traffic Flow On North-South Expressway As Of 6 PM
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 24 – The traffic flow on the North South Expressway (Plus) from both directions (North & South) has increased as of 6 pm Thursday. A Plus Expressway Sdn Bhd Traffic Control Centre spokesman said the number of vehicles had increased on the Seremban route heading to Senawang and
Chicken Sold At Low Prices In Dungun Have Halal Cert, Imported From China
KUALA TERENGGANU, Dec 24 – The Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Ministry (KPDNKK) confirmed that chicken sold in several places in the state including a supermarket in Dungun at a cheaper price were imported from China and had halal certification. The State Rural Development, Entrepreneurial, Cooperative and Consumerism Committee chairman Roslee
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Engineering Technology Classes Prepared 2015 Graduate to Work With Nuclear Submarines
Engineering Technology Classes Prepared 2015 Graduate to Work With Nuclear Submarines Friday, November 13, 2015
Pictured is Anderson at General Dynamics' shipyard
Oct. 10 when the Navy submarine 'Illinois' was
christened by First Lady Michelle Obama.
Meet Chad Anderson
Job title: Engineer I
Employer: General Dynamics Electric Boat
Degrees earned: B.S. in Electrical Engineering Technology, Point Park University, 2015; and A.S. in Electrical Maintenance Technology, Triangle Technical Institute, 2011
College activities: Tutor on campus helping students with math, science and engineering technology course work
Scholarships from Point Park: Transfer Presidential Scholarship
Hometown: Knox, Pa.
High school: Penn Foster High School
Now living in: Groton, Conn.
Hobbies/interests: Fishing, camping, video games and playing/conducting maintenance work on anything electrical
What factors made you choose Point Park?
Triangle Tech had a page on their website with schools, Point Park being one of them, that accepted their credits. I called Point Park and talked with Dr. Donald Keller, who discussed in great detail the classes available and the work involved. I also took a campus tour and spoke with the Financial Aid Office and found out I was eligible for the Transfer Presidential Scholarship since I earned a 4.0 G.P.A. at Triangle Tech. All these things led me to choose Point Park.
How did the Career Development Center help you land your engineering position?
The Career Development Center helped me create my resume and assisted me with how to organize and format it. They gave me information about websites to place my new resume on and where to search for job positions. Also, they told me about the WestPACS Job Fair (watch a video interview with Anderson about the job fair) and gave me a list of all the companies and organizations attending. I was given advice on what to do and what to take with me. It was at this job fair that I met with representatives from General Dynamics Electric Boat. I started my paperwork with the company right there at the booth.
How did our electrical engineering technology program prepare you?
The classes introduced me to a wide variety of topics in the engineering field. My job has me working on various systems so being versatile is a must. Working in a group environment on projects and lab assignments helped prepare me for working within my engineering group. The job assignments given to those in my group are peer reviewed by fellow engineers so being able to relay information back and forth and assist others is a highly-needed skill.
Writing lab reports for nearly every engineering technology class I took at Point Park helped prepare me for all the paperwork required for nuclear submarines. Every little thing gets recorded with reports, sometimes in multiple forms. In addition, the ability to analyze circuit drawings was a skill I learned over again and again in the engineering technology classes at Point Park. My job at Electric Boat has me looking at drawings and schematics for everything I do, which has been made easier with the techniques I learned in class. Some job tasks require quick responses. I work in installation and repair and having the ability to pull out a drawing and quickly analyze what could be wrong is something my group values.
What's one of your favorite Point Park memories?
My overall time spent tutoring all kinds of students, from engineering technology to dance and theatre majors, is a favorite memory. Working with the people in the tutoring department was one of the best experiences and memories one could ask for as a student.
What are your career goals?
My career goals are to advance within General Dynamics Electric Boat. Working on nuclear submarines from start to finish has been a dream job of mine. I am currently in the process of applying for admission to college to obtain my master's degree to help further myself within the company. I wish to retire from Electric Boat after a long and lucrative career.
Your final thoughts?
To all the soon-to-be engineers out there, start your job search as early as possible. It can take months to go through all the paperwork and interviews.
I would like to thank Dr. Keller for helping me to choose and get started at Point Park. His lesson plans were always quite detailed and informative.
Also, I would like to thank Dr. Johnson for being so helpful and supportive in all of his classes and for making the lesson plans straightforward and relevant to what one should expect in the real world. His Differential Equations class, although quite difficult, was always fun.
Lastly, I would like to thank Leslie Fronczak, adjunct faculty member in the Department of Natural Sciences and Engineering Technology and former coordinator of math and science tutoring, for providing such a great work environment along with all her support and help throughout all of my classes.
More About: Penn Foster High School, scholarships, success story, electrical engineering technology, engineering technology, Career Development Center, transfer, alumni, Internship and Job Fair
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The Brian Ferguson Interview
I talked with Rutgers University professor of anthropology R. Brian Ferguson about Steven Pinker, Napoleon Chagnon, Marvin Harris, anthropo...
Alt-right Quillette, equalitarianism & the White Citizens' Councils
(Excerpt reprinted from my personal blog from March 25, 2018)
Winegard doesn't use the term "egalitarianism" he uses the term "equalitarianism" with a QU in the article, entitled "Equalitarianism and Progressive Bias." Winegard writes:
Ben Winegard, David Geary, and I wrote a comment on a Behavioral and Brain Sciences’ article about political bias in 2015, in which we forwarded what we termed the “paranoid egalitarian meliorist” (PEM) model of progressive bias. I’ve come to believe that the name is inevitably and uncharitably pejorative (“paranoid” sounds bad even though it is descriptively neutral), so my colleagues and I have renamed it equalitarianism; however, I still think the basic model is accurate.
But Bo Winegard didn't invent the term equalitarianism. The term was used, with just as much contempt, by the mid-20th century segregationists of the southern United States. Carlton Putnam used it, cited in the book The Citizen’s Council: Organized Resistance to the Second Reconstruction by Neil R. McMillen
Setting forth his ethnological assumption in an influential and widely circulated book, Race and Reason (1961), Putnam asserted that one need not have advanced scientific training to dispute theories of racial equalitarianism: “Any man with two eyes in his head can observe a Negro settlement in the Congo… can compare this settlement with London or Pris, and can draw his own conclusions regarding relative levels of character and intelligence…” That so few informed Americans saw things so clearly was compelling proof to Putnam that the nation had been victimized by a “pseudo-scientific hoax” popularized by such early exponents of racial equipotentiality as Franz Boas and several subsequent generations of like-minded anthropologists more devoted to “the demo-goddess of Equalitarianism” than to “the Goddess of Truth.”
The term "equalitarian" pops up quite frequently in this book, which is a history of The Citizens' Councils:
The Citizens' Councils (also referred to as White Citizens' Councils) were an associated network of white supremacist, extreme right,[1] organizations in the United States, concentrated in the South. The first was formed on July 11, 1954.[2] After 1956, it was known as the Citizens' Councils of America. With about 60,000 members across the United States,[3] mostly in the South, the groups were founded primarily to oppose racial integration of schools, but they also opposed voter registration efforts and integration of public facilities during the 1950s and 1960s. Members used severe intimidation tactics including economic boycotts, firing people from jobs, propaganda, and violence against citizens and civil-rights activists.
By the 1970s, following passage of federal civil rights legislation in the mid-1960s and enforcement of constitutional rights by the federal government, the influence of the Councils had waned considerably yet remained an institutional basis for the majority of white residents in Mississippi. The successor organization to the White Citizens' Councils is the St. Louis-based Council of Conservative Citizens, founded in 1985[3] to continue collaborations between Ku Klux Klan and white supremacist political agendas in the United States. Republican politician and past Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott of Mississippi was a member[4] while North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms and Georgia Congressman Bob Barr were both strong supporters of the Council of Conservative Citizens; David Duke also spoke at a fund raising event, while Patrick Buchanan's campaign manager was linked to both Duke and the Council.[5]
In 1996, a Charleston, SC, drive-by shooting by Klan members of three African American males occurred after a Council rally; Dylann Roof, the perpetrator responsible for the murder of nine Emanuel AME church members in Charleston in 2015, espoused Council of Conservative Citizens rhetoric in a manifesto.[6]
Many of the modern proponents of hereditarianism and opponents of "equalitarianism" come from Southern states and work for colleges in the South. Bo Winegard seems to be practicing a slightly updated form of old-time Southern white racism.
Carlton Putnam wasn't considered a crazy racist radical, by the way, he was extremely respectable:
Carleton Putnam (December 19, 1901 – March 5, 1998) was an American businessman, biographer, writer, and segregationist. He graduated from Princeton University in 1924 and received a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from Columbia Law School in 1932. He founded Chicago & Southern Airlines in 1933, which in 1953 was merged with Delta Air Lines. He would later serve as chief executive officer of Delta Air Lines and hold a seat on its board of directors until his death.[1][2]
Here we see that Henry E. Garrett published "The Equalitarian Dogma" in the pages of Mankind Quarterly, the ultra-racist publication supported by The Pioneer Fund, which also financially supported many of the scientific racialists whose work was used in creating The Bell Curve. I've written about Mankind Quarterly before.
The article points to IQ testing as the justification of innate black inferiority and rages against communism - just as the hereditarians at Quillette do.
The Mankind Quarterly archives are provided via The Unz Review - not for some historical edification but because Unz Review is a racist web site and seeks to preserve the views of Mankind Quarterly, which also published work by Richard Lynn, an important source for The Bell Curve.
The White Citizens' Councils and the editors of Mankind Quarterly would be very proud indeed of people who fight against "equalitarianism" - people like Bo Winegard and Claire Lehmann.
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The Andy Ngo saga continues
The IDW and 1619
Charles Koch is still alive
Steven Pinker: "Jews, Genes and Intelligence"
The NYTimes 1619 Project and its critics
Quillette and the sleazy career of Andy Ngo
The Intellectual Dark Web and Gamergate
Theft and the African American failure to thrive
Quillette is hoaxed
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The Canonical Intellectual Dark Web List
Per Bari Weiss in her New York Times article Meet the Renegades of the Intellectual Dark Web, in alphabetical order:
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Tag: Italian Dessert
Pignoli Biscuits
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Tiramisù is the Italian dessert par excellence, the most famous and loved one! Although the origins of this famous dessert are not clear, because disputes between the regions of Veneto, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Piedmont and Tuscany, it is still a bedrock of Italian cuisine prepared from North to South.
Bocconotti Cookies
It is said that the Bocconotti are typical sweets from Abruzzo, in reality it is a recipe that many regions contend each other: in fact, there are also Calabrian Bocconotti, those from Salento, Molise, Basilicata and Puglia. We can say that the Bocconotti are widespread in different regions of Italy, the original recipes generally include
Ricotta And Nutella Crostata (Tart)
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Ricotta and Pears Cake
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Brave New World: A Sterile Society
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“Cleanliness is next to Fordliness”, was an attitude impressed upon the people of Aldous Huxley’s, Brave New World. A society free of disease and suffering was achieved through a technique of conditioning called hynopaedia. “Civilization is sterilization”, was a hynopaedic slogan used to achieve the ideal society. This idea was manifested through the anesthetizing people’s emotions, the sterilization of humans and the cleanliness of society.
The Brave New World sterilized people of emotions through the elimination of families and the promotion of soma. To eliminate close bonds between two people promiscuity was advocated. This was achieved through hynopaedia during childhood. Through this technique intimate relationships between people were eliminated. People of Brave New World did not know what a family was. At the mention of the words mother and father, during a tour of the London Hatchery, the students became silent and many began to blush. Soma was another devise used by citizens of Brave New World to let them escape and forget their emotions. It was a tranquilizer widely used in Brave New World. It allowed people to go into a trance whenever they wanted to escape their surroundings. This was shown when Lenina Crowne and Bernard Marx were visiting the reservation. During the Warden’s speech to the couple, Lenina Crowne swallowed half a gramme of soma to escape the boredom of the Warden’s speech. The soma allowed her to seemingly be paying attention when in reality she wasn’t listening or thinking of anything.
The attitude of civilization is sterilization was also achieved through the sterilization of the female population. Bokanovsky’s Process made it possible for the Brave New World to control the amount of fertile women in society. Even with the advancement of scientific technology human ovaries were still needed for the manufacturing of embryos. Fertile women were encouraged to undergo a hysterectomy. In return for selling their ovaries, women received six months pay. Around seventy percent of the women in Brave New World were infertile. These women were called freemartins. Freemartins were produced through injecting female embryos with a dose of a male sex-hormone.
The society of Brave New World believed civilization should be composed of clean and robust people. The nurses in the Neo-Pavlovian Conditioning Rooms were described as, “trousered and jacketed in the regulation white viscose-linen uniform, their hair aseptically hidden under white caps.” This image expressed how everything was done in a systematic and sterile way....
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Author: Yang Xianyi; Hong Sheng; Dai Naidei;
Language: Chinese & English
Publisher: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press
Series: Echo of Classics
The historical opera The Palace of Eternal Youth, written by Hong Sheng (1645-1704) in the 27th year of Emperor Kangxi's reign (1688), is one of the masterpieces of ancient Chinese opera.
It tells the love story of Li Longji (reigned 712-756), a Tang Dynasty emperor of China, and his concubine Yang Yuhuan. The story, based on historical facts, had been told for generations, and Hong Sheng presented anew in this superb, moving opera the love story between the emperor and his concubine who wished to be "two love-birds flying wing to wing, and on earth two trees with branches twined from spring to spring," using an artistic method of interlacing reality to dream. At the same time, the work also reflects the complicated contradictions and clashes within and outside the court, giving a historical picture of the joys and sorrows of the people and the rise and fall of the country at that time. It was welcomed as the most outstanding and influential among the operas based on this theme immediately after its publication, and was widely copied and performed.
The opera, consisting of 50 scenes, has been translated into English, Japanese and Russian. This edition is the translation by Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang.
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Google Assistant Skills Trail Alexa By 52K
Posted on February 19, 2019 February 19, 2019 6:23 am
When it comes to the competition for developer mindshare in voice apps, Amazon is well ahead of Google.
Amazon recently announced that the number of available voice skills for Alexa devices is now over 80,000, with 56,750 of those skills offered in the U.S. But new analysis from Voicebot reveals that Google is far behind with its own voice apps, called Google Assistant Actions, which come to 4,253 in the U.S. as of January 2019. That’s about 7.5 percent of the total Alexa skills for the same user base.
There is some positive news for Google: Its Assistant Actions have grown 2.5 times over the past year, compared to 2.2 times growth for Amazon Alexa skills.
The report also included the categories of voice apps popular on Google Assistant platforms, with three of the 18 categories — Education & Reference; Games & Fun; and Kids & Family — comprising over one-third of all Google Actions. The Education category came out on top with more than 15 percent of all Actions, while Games & Fun came in around 11 percent and Kids & Family was at 9 percent. Local and Weather were the least popular categories.
As for Alexa, Games & Trivia is the top category, accounting for 21 percent of all skills. Education came in second at around 14 percent.
“It is clear that the number of Google Actions is growing and that it is far less than total Alexa skills. An obvious question is whether it matters. If Amazon has a lot more skills but most are never used, the difference may be inconsequential,” observed Voicebot. “However, there is little evidence to suggest that Amazon has more lightly used skills than Google has lightly used Actions. What the Action and skill counts indicate today is developer participation in the platforms. Right now, the edge goes to Amazon. That edge was partially due to a two-year head start, but not entirely. About 26-months after Amazon Echo and Alexa were launched, Amazon had 5,191 skills developed by third-parties. Twenty-six months after Google Home and Assistant launched, Google has 4,253 Actions. This suggests that Google is lagging by about 22% for a comparable time period. With that said, competition is about today and few consumers will give Google a pass simply because it was late to market.”
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8 sustainable and eco-friendly European festivals you should visit
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Written by Clare Considine 20 March 2019
Party big, but leave a minimal environmental impact at these environmentally conscious music festivals this summer.
Just because they take place in fields and have a historically hippy rep, that doesn't mean that festivals are inherently eco-friendly. In fact, mini makeshift cities impose a shocking bounty of rubbish and greenhouse gasses on the planet – and that's not even mentioning the tonnes of ocean-annihilating glitter.
New festivals are emerging with a focus on big ideas for saving the planet, though, and already established events are re-thinking old habits. Here are some European festivals that are doing their bit to minimise their impact, while maximising their opportunity to educate the raving masses.
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1. Terraforma
Terraforma festival
Where: Villa Arconati, Milan, Italy | Map
When: July 5–7
Sustainability is Terraforma's very raison d'etre. A far cry from urinating in streams and throwing away rubbish, here festival goers actively take part in restoring the festival space they inhabit, with the option of working on the rebuilding of a historical Labyrinth gardens.
A waste-management programme looks set to become the benchmark that all others will follow, with an investigative report following each event. Work is carried out with local young architects to build a space made from sustainable materials. Alongside three days of workshops and lectures on a range of big ideas for the future generations, music includes DJ sets from Bambounou, DJ Stingray, and Mica Levi.
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Where: Archangelkade, Amsterdam, the Netherlands | Map
When: April 19–21
DGTL's goal is to become the world's first circular festival. At the heart of its manifesto lies its sustainable big three: reusable cups, a smart energy plan, and a meat-free menu. It sees the festival as an opportunity to learn, creating a mini-city within an abandoned shipyard in which forward-focussed eco-designs of the future can be tested out. The lineup is equally dynamic, with exciting dance music illuminati – including Honey Dijon, HAAi,Larry Heard, Bicep, and John Talabot – littering the bill.
3. Shambala
Where: Secret country estate, Northamptonshire, UK
When: August 22–25
Shambala's tagline is 'Adventures in utopia', and the whole experience is unabashed in its change-your-outlook goals. The entire festival is powered by 100 percent renewable energy, plus it has recently gone meat and fish free. Also, Recycling Exchanges mean they recycle at double the rate of an average festival. This year's lineup is still largely under wraps, but expect circus acts, drag bingo, a kids area, and an activist hub alongside a reliably left field musical offering.
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Where: Crickhowell, Brecon Beacons, UK | Map
The Settlement, the site of this firm festival favourite, is renowned for its naturally beauty – a perfect reminder that this land is worth saving. And Green Man is all about making sustainability work for you.
Its website reminds you that reusable stacking cups are 'brilliant for carrying five pints at once', cigarette butt pouches are provided, while nappies even get their own special bins. Its big plan for waste has a double benefit, with festival-goers encouraged to donate their unwanted food and camping equipment to a team from Help Refugees at the end of the festival. Imagine the sheer joy of not carrying your tent all the way home! Music comes courtesy of the likes ofFour Tet, A Certain Ratio, Father John Misty, and Sons of Kemet.
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Where: Lisbon, Portugal | Map
When: August 8–31
EDP is Europe's largest electricity provider, so there's a serious reputation on the line when it comes to proving green-minded credentials. The company do this each year by pledging to completely neutralise the carbon footprint of the event, including the travel of all artists. Star-studded summer soirees take place throughout the month of July in two lush outdoor locations just outside Lisbon. Take your pick from a stellar lineup, including The Roots, Tom Jonesand Kraftwerk.
6. Northside
Where: Aarhus, Denmark | Map
When: June 6–8
Since starting out in 2010, it's always been this progressive festival's goal to be 'the world’s most green and sustainable cultural event'. Similar to Terraforma, Northside aims to, as it puts it, Lead The Way. This means that after each festival, a report is produced considering ways that it can continue pushing boundaries in festival management for a green-hungry age. At the festival itself, Trash Talkers help you sort your rubbish into six sections, the food is 100 percent organic, and there are no car parks on site. Lineup announcements so far include Migos, Kaytranada, The Streets, New Order,andTame Impala.
7. Glastonbury
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Where: Worthy Farm, Somerset, UK | Map
When: June 26–30
When the cows make way for over 200,000 hedonists, sustainability at the largest greenfield festival in the world is equal parts important and hard to pull off. The Eavis family's efforts have become increasingly commendable over the years.
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8. We Love Green
Where: Le Bois de Vincennes, Paris, France | Map
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The partially paralyzed dog who was abandoned in Sylvan Lake, has a wheelchair and a Facebook page. Photo contributed
WATCH: Paralyzed dog, abandoned in Sylvan Lake, now has new wheels and Facebook page
Mamta Lulla
A partially paralyzed dog that was abandoned in Sylvan Lake, not only has a new home, but a YouTube and Facebook page.
In a recent video on Facebook, Angel, who was malnourished when abandoned in December, is seen running around in a wheelchair.
Paralyzed dog found abandoned in Sylvan Lake
At her new home, with Lisa and Jeff Dakus of the Redwater area of Alberta, Angel has also put on four pounds, but she still has a long way to go.
The dog was found and brought to the Central Alberta Humane Society by a Sylvan Lake bylaw officer after someone found her among matresses and debris outside an apartment building.
“(When the wheelchair arrived) she just took off, just like that. And a lot of dogs don’t. Some of them shut down when you put them in the chair, but not her, she took right off – gone,” said Lisa.
“Like ‘now I’m gone, I’m going to do what dogs do,’” the owner said with a chuckle.
Angel has spunk, is active, loves to cuddle and loves to be near people, the pooch owner explained, adding Angel’s best friend currently is Spirit – one of three cats in the house.
The pet parents have given the dog a social media presence so all those people who were part of the two-year-old lab-cross’s journey, and who donated about $9,000 to help the Central Alberta Humane Society for the pup’s medical expenses and the doggie wheelchair, can follow along.
“There were so many people in this tough economy who donated for her, who were eager to hear any update about her, so I thought I would create a Facebook page for people who were so kind,” she said.
The couple, who have had a 10-year-old paralyzed dog named Pooter for several years, also wanted to spread awareness about having a special needs dog.
“To show people just how wonderful paralyzed, or special needs pets can be, if they’re just given the chance,” said Lisa, 48. “Just to show people, ‘hey, don’t overlook these dogs,’ they need homes too.”
The pet owner said both Pooter, and now Angel, teach her every day about living life, not just existing.
“When Pooter was first paralyzed (several years ago), there were people who wondered out loud to us, why we didn’t put him down? But when you see them running in their chairs, or swimming in the lake, then there’s no question as to why,” she said, adding there is more care and patience required with special needs pets, but the reward is worth it.
Follow Angel’s adventures on Angel’s Home on Facebook or YouTube.
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Ironman to iron woman
Regence employee Jennifer Cram knows what it’s like to undertake a long fitness journey—twice.
Slow and steady wins the fitness race
When Jennifer was only 29, she began to worry she would develop a chronic disease. She was overweight, had low energy and felt like life was passing her by. Her new husband was a runner and she watched him from the sidelines, eager to join in.
She knew small goals were the smart way to go. “I started out by walking and going to the gym. I would have good weeks and then bad,” she admits. Then she joined a Couch to 5k program with a work acquaintance and that changed everything.
Twelve weeks of hard work later, she finished her first race. She then had an improved fitness level, a new friendship and the most critical component of all: confidence. “From there we kept setting our sights on bigger, more challenging things. My journey went from couch to 5K to 10K to running a half marathon and then to completing a half-Ironman: 1.2-mile swim, 56-mile bike ride and 13.1-mile run.” By the time she was 36, Jennifer had also become a certified spin and aquatics instructor at her gym.
How to conquer setbacks
In 2017, Jennifer’s fit lifestyle was challenged when she needed two surgeries that called for long recoveries. She was forced to spend months indoors and even became a bit depressed. “I realized that working out had become my outlet, my hobby and my social connection.” Then, after her doctors told her she was strong enough to start exercising, it took about a year before she felt like herself again, both emotionally and physically.
Her advice for getting back up when life hands you a hurdle or two? “Be kind to yourself. That is what I have struggled with the most. I was so hard on myself because I could not just go back to where I was. Also, celebrate the small successes, allow yourself to be frustrated and keep going.”
For Jennifer, being fearless means trying something new, even if you don’t know how to do it. “I literally did not know how to swim,” she says. “But I put my face in the water and learned. I wasn’t a runner, but I put one foot in front of the other. I didn’t bike, so I went out and bought one.” She says being fearless is all about putting yourself out there and allowing yourself to be awkward while you learn something new.
Whether you’re starting a fitness routine for the first time, like she did at 29, or recovering from major surgery, like she did more than 7 years later, Jennifer knows you can meet your goals if you just put your mind to it. “I feel such gratitude that I fought my way back and stayed on my journey,” she says, thinking back on the time after her surgeries. “I like to refer to it as how I went from Ironman to iron woman.”
Jennifer adds: “You are going to have setbacks, but you are also going to have success. Rinse and repeat!”
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Saint Death comes to Chicago
Santa Muerte Monday June 2, 2008 Religion News Blog
Inside a botanica in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood, she stands on the counter in all her glory: a smiling skeletal woman dressed in a long robe and veiled like a virgin.
In one hand the statue holds a globe, while the other clutches a scythe. She is known as Santa Muerte, Holy Death or Saint Death, but the people devoted to this religious icon are praying for a better life. They visit her at this storefront spiritual shop to ask for favors or seek protection, laying offerings of money, cigars and sweets at her bony feet.
Eduardo Ornelas, a spiritual adviser and owner of the Botanica San Miguel Arcangel, said he tells them the Roman Catholic Church does not recognize Santa Muerte. Even so, for many in the Mexican community she has emerged as representing a dark, less-traveled path ultimately connected to God.
‘People ask her for many things. Some want to be cured from an illness or are looking for a job or want protection of their business or family. You make a contract with Santa Muerte and devote yourself to her,’ said Ornelas, 33. ‘She is not a saint, but people see her that way. They have faith in her and are apparently seeing results.’
‘The thing about Santa Muerte that frightens people is that she gives and she can also take away,’ he said. ‘Leaving her is more complicated.’
For decades Santa Muerte has been present in the tough neighborhoods of Mexico City, where prostitutes and drug traffickers worshiped her mostly in secret. Last month, a group devoted to the icon made her over, giving the figure long, brown hair and a rose to hold in an attempt to change her image and win Mexican government recognition.
But as Mexican immigrants journey north, devotion to Santa Muerte has grown immensely in Chicago, Los Angeles, Tucson, Ariz., and other urban areas. In one of the more unusual religious phenomena to cross the border, statuettes, candles, charms and medallions of the skeletal figure are sold in supermarkets, dollar stores, malls and flea markets.
Often, Santa Muerte stands near statues of Catholic images of Jesus, the Virgin of Guadalupe, St. Peter or St. Lazarus. Moreover, followers are no longer limited to the lowest sectors of society. In the Chicago area, young people, housewives and grandmothers purchase the icon and speak openly about her power and their faith.
‘I respect her,’ said Brenda Alfaro, 25, who works in a Chicago store where Santa Muerte items are sold. ‘She represents death, and that’s something we are all going to face one day. She’s everywhere now, and it’s because of the faith people have in her. It’s almost like a new religion.’
In Mexico, the Catholic Church has spoken against Santa Muerte, saying she is linked to Satanism and is being used to mislead desperate people. Catholic priests leading large Mexican-American congregations in the Chicago area are confronting questions about Santa Muerte and what she represents.
Rev. Esequiel Sanchez, pastor of Mary, Queen of Heaven in Cicero, said parishioners have asked him to bless statues of Santa Muerte.
‘I’m concerned about it because it’s an aberration. It’s a misunderstanding of faith. It’s taking a Catholic concept of the holy death of Christ and personifying it with this skeletal figure,’ Sanchez said. ‘At the same time, I can understand why it’s growing. Many people, especially Mexican immigrants, are feeling that institutions are abandoning them and are grasping for spiritual help wherever they can.
‘When they come to me with Santa Muerte, I’m not interested in why they worship her. I’m more interested in how they got to that point.’
The exact origin of Santa Muerte, also known as Santisima Muerte, remains a mystery but likely predates Christianity, several researchers said.
John Thompson of the University of Arizona’s Southwest Center has found references dating to 18th Century Mexico. According to one account, indigenous people tied up a skeletal figure and threatened it with lashings if it didn’t perform miracles or grant their wishes. One source traces the legend to Veracruz, where a sorcerer claimed to have seen an image of death in his dreams. The apparition ordered him to create a likeness of her, promising all devotees a painless death. Other accounts from the 20th Century find Santa Muerte linked to love potions and used with prayers to attract a romantic interest.
Santa Muerte stems partly from a long-standing religious and cultural tradition in Mexico of seeing death as part of life, said Timothy Matovina, associate professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame. During Day of the Dead celebrations, for example, hundreds flock to cemeteries to sing and pray for friends and family who have died.
Children partake in the festivities by eating chocolate or candy-coated skulls.
Matovina also noted that the Aztecs were known to hold monthlong celebrations for the dead. Eventually, that indigenous tradition melded with the Catholic ritual of praying for souls in purgatory.
‘It’s not un-Catholic to pray for a holy death. So, in the mind of some Mexicans, Santa Muerte might be seen as very Catholic,’ he said.
Catholic priests in Chicago link her growth to increased immigration from the south of Mexico, lack of education in Catholic teachings and desperation born of anti-immigrant sentiment.
Rev. Matthew Foley, pastor of St. Agnes of Bohemia in Little Village, said the image has become more prominent in the last five years as more immigrants from southern Mexico came to the Chicago area.
‘We have more people coming from Veracruz, Guerrero and Michoacan,’ Foley said. ‘I believe indigenous religions are stronger in those southern parts in Mexico.’
Rev. Claudio Diaz, director of the Chicago archdiocese office for Hispanic Catholics, said he worries that the anti-immigrant sentiment growing across the nation is pushing some people to unlikely spiritual icons. He said the trend shows the need for religious education.
‘When faith is not strengthened, you look for other avenues to find courage,’ Diaz said. ‘We have a suffering community, so if their faith is not strengthened, if their faith is not fully formed, they might fall into these traps.’
Shops selling Santa Muerte statues supply the image in a variety of colors and styles. Though the one with the white robe is most popular, she is also sold wearing black, red, blue, green or gold. She is usually standing like the grim reaper but also is shown seated on a throne with wide-eyed owls or riding a horse.
To pray to her, many devotees use Catholic rituals known as novenas, nine-day prayers. Her followers say she loves to drink tequila and smoke cigars, so those offerings are often left at her feet. Some warn that Santa Muerte has an evil side. She is very jealous, so devotees are advised never to place Catholic saints near her or suffer the consequences.
James Griffith, also of the Southwest Center, has studied the icon and said it is believed worshipers must pay a price if she delivers a miracle. One Los Angeles follower told Griffith he prayed to Santa Muerte for a job. Later, when he found employment, his child became seriously ill.
‘You see her along the border towns,’ Griffith said. ‘Sometimes people stick lit cigarettes in her mouth or little liquor bottles at her feet. … I’m just not comfortable with it at all.’
Carlos Gonzalez, a baker who immigrated to Chicago from Michoacan, said his mother worshiped Santa Muerte but now fears her.
‘I have heard that if your husband leaves you, you pray to Santa Muerte to get him back,’ he said. ‘It seems like if the Catholic saints aren’t giving you what you need, people are turning to Santa Muerte. She’s not exactly the devil, but I feel like she walks down that same path.’
Ornelas disagrees that she is the devil, saying she is more like a fallen angel in purgatory trying to win back God’s favor, and that is the reason she grants so many miracles.
Some worshipers come to fear Santa Muerte and desire to break away. Ornelas said that to succeed he must perform three spiritual cleansings with holy water and the person must leave a statue in a Catholic Church.
Diaz, of the Chicago archdiocese, said concern over the skeletal icon has not yet reached the level of discussions among church leadership. Until then, priests like Foley said they will try preaching more about Santa Muerte and other images that he believes are preying on his people.
‘I already spoke about this in a sermon, and I’ll probably do it again,’ Foley said. ‘I asked them: Where are you putting your faith? In God? In Santa Muerte? They need to know Santa Muerte is not part of our faith.’
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Margaret Raminez
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Topics: Chicago, Santa Muerte
This post was last updated: Jun. 2, 2008
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