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You are here: Home / News / Final TA list near Final TA list near October 31, 2019 By Tracy F. Seelye, Express Editor HANSON — Interim Town Administrator Meredith Marini announced to Selectmen on Tuesday, Oct. 22 that MRI, the consulting group conducting the search for a new town administrator, has received 39 applications. Fourteen essay assignments were sent out to various candidates and MRI is currently scoring those returned essays. Following that phase, MRI will be conducting telephone interviews with candidates and expect to have a list of final candidates to the board by Oct. 31 or Nov. 1 and have asked how many candidates Selectmen want to see. With three finalists, the interviews may be completed in a single night, but a list of five or more would likely require two. “The recommendation was, once you have the interviews, you should make a decision quickly because these are good candidates and they are likely to be valued applicants in another community,” Marini said. Selectmen Chairman Laura FitzGerald-Kemmett said she would prefer a list of five names as three seemed insufficient from such a large pool. “We’re not talking about 39, 14 made the cut,” said Selectman Wes Blauss, noting only 14 were sent essay requests. Selectman Matt Dyer asked how many essays were returned. Marini said 13 seemed still in play, with 11 already returned and MRI saying they were waiting for two more. “I really don’t want to put a number on it,” said Selectman Jim Hickey said. “If they have three applicants that they feel we should interview and get it done in one night, then OK, but if they have seven people — which is probably too high of a number — but if they have seven people that they think we should talk to, then it’s seven.” Selectman Kenny Mitchell agreed. “I like where you guys are going with this unless they say, ‘We have 14 great candidates,’ then we’re going to have a problem,” FitzGerald-Kemmett said. The interviews will be conducted in a public meeting. MRI said they would be willing to work on consecutive days, including a Saturday, if the board wanted to interview more than three or bring two finalists back for a second interview before making a decision. “I don’t have a problem being here three nights in a row, on television, because this is one of the most important decisions we’ll make as a group,” Hickey said. MRI has offered to supply questions for the board to ask and will provide a list of questions they can’t ask. Selectmen also voted to send a letter to Tetra Tech, the licensed site professionals working on cleanup of the National Fireworks site and collecting public comment, requesting that a complete cleanup be done to background at no cost to local or state taxpayers because they are currently in negotiations with the responsible parties. Filed Under: More News Left, News

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ACCEPTING REPRODUCER REPAIRS FOR WAYNE, NJ SHOW DELIVERY! Post subject: ACCEPTING REPRODUCER REPAIRS FOR WAYNE, NJ SHOW DELIVERY! And you’ve had NO LUCK? PS: Arthur Fromme was an early 20th century baseball player. And his name made the rhyme work. HAHAHAH! Just got my orthophonic reproducer back from this guy. Outstanding work, rapid turnaround...and a real joy to listen to. And not just taken apart and "fixed" - it has been completely and thoroughly disassembled cleaned repaired strengthened upgraded reassembled and torture tested. I'll wager it may be better than it was when new. Skill like this is rare and transitory. Suggest you get all of your orthos done by him asap if your budget allows it. Yeah, this costs money - and it's worth every dang penny, because it's done right - and you'll get something that's good for the next 50 years or more. Why the asap? Because the last person who could do this level of work on Orthophonics has been dead for more than a decade; I was lucky enough to have most of mine done by him before his sad demise. I truly believed nobody would ever come close to replacing him. This current guy seems healthy enough and all, but why take any chances? He lives in a weird and very forested place, where, for example, it snows in residential districts. What if he slips on ice this winter and loses his motor skills through the resulting tragic paralysis? What if he loses one or more key fingers to frostbite and gangrene? What if he disregards the universal advice: "Put down that stick! You'll poke your eye out!" and pokes his eye out? Orthophonic repair attempts by those without depth perception, while undoubtedly hilarious to watch, can only end in tears. What if he just says "screw it!" and hangs it up?

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TALEN HORTON-TUCKER Markkanen leads surprising Jazz past Lakers, 130-116 Lauri Markkanen had 27 points and 12 rebounds, Jordan Clarkson added 20 points and the Utah Jazz continued their remarkable start to the season with a 130-116 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers. Patrick Beverley returning to Los Angeles with Lakers The Los Angeles Lakers have traded for guard Patrick Beverley. Lakers fire title-winning coach Frank Vogel after 3 seasons The Los Angeles Lakers have fired Frank Vogel. LeBron scores 38 in Ohio return, Lakers crush Cavs 131-120 LeBron James scored 38 points, notched another triple-double and sparked memories of his time in Cleveland, leading the Los Angeles Lakers to a 131-120 win over the Cavaliers. James scores 50, rallies Lakers past Wizards for 122-109 win LeBron James scored 50 points for the 15th time in his career and helped rally the Los Angeles Lakers in the second half to a 122-109 victory over the Washington Wizards. Clippers surge to 132-111 victory, season sweep of Lakers The Los Angeles Clippers completed a four-game season sweep of the Los Angeles Lakers with a 132-111 victory. Clippers edge Lakers 105-102 for 6th straight rivalry win Terance Mann had 19 points and 10 rebounds, Amir Coffey added 12 of his 14 in the fourth quarter and the Los Angeles Clippers returned from the All-Star break with a 105-102 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers. Thompson has season-high 33, Warriors edge Lakers 117-115 Klay Thompson scored 16 of his season-high 33 points in the fourth quarter, Stephen Curry made a clutch layup with 46 seconds remaining, and the Golden State Warriors held off the Los Angeles Lakers 117-115, spoiling another scoring milestone by LeBron James. Pacers roll past Lakers in 4th quarter for skid-stopping win The Indiana Pacers increased the pressure on Lakers coach Frank Vogel with a 111-104 victory over Los Angeles. Lakers' Frank Vogel shrugs off worries about job insecurity Lakers coach Frank Vogel is shrugging off widespread reports of his job insecurity. Morant's dazzling block lifts Grizzlies to 9th straight win The Memphis Grizzlies set a franchise record with their ninth straight win, getting 16 points and a breathtaking block from Ja Morant in a 127-119 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers. LeBron leads Lakers past Hawks 134-118 for 4th straight win The Los Angeles Lakers held off the Atlanta Hawks 134-118 for their first four-game winning streak of the season. Booker, Ayton push Suns past Lakers 108-90 Devin Booker continued to distance himself from a hamstring injury that cost him seven games, scoring 24 points with nine rebounds and seven assists as the Phoenix Suns earned a 108-90 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers. NBA has 'no plans' to pause season, Silver tells ESPN NBA Commissioner Adam Silver says there are no plans to pause the season, even as numbers of players entering the league’s health and safety protocols related to the coronavirus continues to rise. DeRozan leads Bulls over Lakers 115-110 in team's return DeMar DeRozan scored 38 points after missing two weeks in the NBA’s health and safety protocols to lead the Chicago Bulls to a 115-110 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers. Lakers' Anthony Davis out at least 4 weeks for sprained knee Lakers forward Anthony Davis will be out for at least four weeks after spraining a ligament in his left knee. Towns, Timberwolves cruise past short-handed Lakers 110-92 Karl-Anthony Towns and the Minnesota Timberwolves blew out the depleted Los Angeles Lakers for a second time this season with a 110-92 victory. Austin Reaves' 3 gives Lakers 107-104 win over Mavs in OT Rookie Austin Reaves swished a 3-pointer with 0.9 seconds left in overtime to give the Los Angeles Lakers a 107-104 victory over the Dallas Mavericks. LeBron scores 30, Lakers top Magic 106-94 for 5th win in 7 The Los Angeles Lakers rolled past the Orlando Magic 106-94 for their fifth victory in seven games. Knicks recover to beat Lakers team missing suspended James Evan Fournier scored 26 points, Immanuel Quickley had 12 of his 14 in the fourth quarter after New York had blown a 25-point lead, and the Knicks beat a Los Angeles Lakers team missing suspended star LeBron James 106-100. Antetokounmpo, Middleton help Bucks defeat Lakers 109-102 Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 47 points and Khris Middleton tied Milwaukee’s franchise record for career 3-pointers in the Bucks’ 109-102 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers on Wednesday. DeRozan, LaVine lead Bulls' 121-103 rout of LA; Davis tossed DeMar DeRozan scored a season-high 38 points and Zach LaVine added 26 in the Chicago Bulls’ 121-103 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers. Davis has 34 points and 15 rebounds, Lakers beat Spurs Anthony Davis had 34 points and 15 rebounds to help the Los Angeles Lakers beat the San Antonio Spurs 114-106 on Sunday. Butler out for Heat after spraining right ankle vs Lakers Jimmy Butler will miss the final three quarters of the Miami Heat’s game against the Los Angeles Lakers with a sprained right ankle. CP3 hits milestone, leads Suns past shaky Lakers, 115-105 Chris Paul scored his 20,000th career point on the way to 23 points and 14 assists, and Devin Booker added 22 points in the Phoenix Suns’ 115-105 victory over the winless Los Angeles Lakers. Curry, Warriors stun James, Lakers 121-114 in opener Stephen Curry had 21 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists for the Golden State Warriors, who rallied from 10 points down to stun Lebron James, Anthony Davis and the new-look Los Angeles Lakers 121-114 in a season opener. Oldies but goodies: The Lakers may be ones to catch in West The Western Conference has the best regular season team from last year in Utah. Anthony joins his friend LeBron with title the only goal Carmelo Anthony realized the time was finally right to join forces with his friend LeBron James. Together at last: Carmelo joins LeBron's Lakers to seek ring Carmelo Anthony and LeBron James have long wanted to be on the same team. After exit, Lakers hope to run it back with healthier team The Los Angeles Lakers simply need a rest after two NBA seasons that felt like one relentless grind only interrupted by a ring ceremony. Kuzma's late basket gives Lakers 3rd straight win Kyle Kuzma’s driving layup with 6.9 seconds remaining gave the short-handed Los Angeles Lakers a 124-122 victory over the Houston Rockets and kept the defending NBA champions' slim hopes of avoiding the play-in tournament alive. Horton-Tucker comes up big in OT as Lakers edge Knicks Talen Horton-Tucker made the go-ahead 3-pointer with 21.1 seconds remaining, and the Los Angeles Lakers improved their hopes of avoiding the play-in tournament and prevented the New York Knicks from clinching a postseason berth with a 101-99 victory. Clippers rout Lakers 118-94, move into No. 3 spot in West Paul George led seven players in double figures with 24 points and the Los Angeles Clippers routed a Lakers team minus LeBron James 118-94 to move into the No. 3 spot in the Western Conference playoff race. Davis scores 25 as short-handed Lakers defeat Nuggets 93-89 Anthony Davis scored 25 points and had key plays on both ends of the floor in the final minute as the short-handed Los Angeles Lakers snapped a three-game losing streak with a 93-89 victory over the Denver Nuggets. Jaylen Brown scores 40, Celtics beat Lakers 121-113 The Boston Celtics blew most of a 27-point lead in the fourth quarter before holding on for a 121-113 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers. Suns overcome Booker's ejection, hold off Lakers 114-104 Phoenix Suns forward Dario Saric, right, shoots as Los Angeles Lakers forward Jared Dudley defends during the first half of an NBA basketball game Tuesday, March 2, 2021, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)LOS ANGELES – Dario Šarić scored 10 of his 21 points in the fourth quarter, Mikal Bridges added 19 and the Phoenix Suns overcame Devin Booker's ejection for a 114-104 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday night. I feel it was a great road trip.”LeBron James scored 38 points for Los Angeles, which has lost five of seven with mounting injury problems. Dennis Schröder added 17 points, but the Lakers couldn't keep up without regulars Anthony Davis, Kyle Kuzma and Marc Gasol. “Our guys are giving great effort and great hustle and great fight. James scores 19 in 1,300th regular-season game in Lakers win (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles Lakers blew a 14-point, fourth-quarter lead in their first meeting against the Golden State Warriors. LeBron James scored 19 points in his 1,300th regular-season appearance as the Lakers routed the Warriors 117-91. He was one of six Los Angeles players to score in double figures in a game that was never in doubt. The Lakers were up 20 at the end of the first quarter and had a 73-44 lead at halftime. This is the first matchup between the teams this year after Los Angeles won all three games last season. LeBron leads Lakers past Thunder again in OT, 114-113 Los Angeles Lakers guard Talen Horton-Tucker (5) takes the ball from Oklahoma City Thunder forward Darius Bazley (7) during the third quarter of an NBA basketball game Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)LOS ANGELES – LeBron James hit the tying 3-pointer late in regulation and then broke up the Thunder's final possession in overtime to lead the Los Angeles Lakers to their sixth consecutive victory, 114-113 over Oklahoma City on Wednesday night. James had 25 points, seven assists and six rebounds for the defending NBA champions, who survived their third consecutive overtime game. OVERTIME FEATSThe Lakers became the seventh team in NBA history to win three consecutive overtime games. AdLos Angeles hadn't played three straight overtime games since 1991. LeBron's triple-double powers Lakers past Nuggets, 114-93 Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James, right, is defended by Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic (15) during the first half of an NBA basketball game Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021, in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Lakers superstar also knows there's no chance his presence won't be required in Atlanta next month — particularly not after his latest spectacular performance in a career that just keeps hitting new heights. Los Angeles finished on a 46-18 run, thoroughly clamping down on defense and cranking up its transition offense to win this rematch of the Western Conference finals in the bubble. Several Lakers said their superb second half was inspired by an aggressive halftime talking-to from coach Frank Vogel. “We were able to basically double their scoring in the second half, 68-35. With Davis out, Lakers fall to Pistons 107-92 Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James (23) looks to shoot as Detroit Pistons center Mason Plumlee (24) defends during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)DETROIT – Blake Griffin scored 23 points and the Detroit Pistons took advantage of Anthony Davis' absence Thursday night in a 107-92 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers. The defending champions have lost back-to-back games, the first losing streak of any kind for the Lakers since before last year's playoffs. Davis was out with a right quad contusion, and Los Angeles — which lost by a point at Philadelphia on Wednesday night — faded in the fourth quarter against the Pistons. Pistons: Detroit made all 13 of its free throws. They love LA: Spurs snap Lakers 4-game winning streak San Antonio Spurs forward LaMarcus Aldridge, left, defends against Los Angeles Lakers guard Talen Horton-Tucker during the second quarter of an NBA basketball game Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)LOS ANGELES – A trip to Los Angeles proved to be just what the San Antonio Spurs needed to snap out of an early-season slump. Two nights after beating the Clippers to snap a four-game losing streak, the Spurs picked up another win at Staples Center on Thursday, this time defeating the Los Angeles Lakers 118-109. LaMarcus Aldridge led San Antonio with a season-high 28 points and was one of five in double figures. LeBron James scored 27 points and Anthony Davis added 23 points and 10 rebounds for the Lakers, who had their four-game winning streak snapped.

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I was out for dinner with my girlfriend at one of my favourite locals – Pinotta – and I ordered a bottle off the list that I’ve been eager to try ever since having Tessa Brown as a guest on The Vincast. Here are my very impromptu impressions of the wine, which did open up lovely over the course of dinner. Have a listen back to the episode with Tess here, to hear all about Jeremy and her project in Beechworth.

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Video Game Movies Need To Succeed Like Comic Book Movies If there’s one thing interesting about the movie industry today, is that how comic book films are becoming so popular. Why do video game movies fail to achieve a similar kind of success then? Before comic books and video games became popular in the mainstream, you could say both mediums appealed only to “nerds”. Although comic books date back to the ’40s and video games in the ’70s, both mediums were mostly liked by only young males. Comic books gained popularity thanks to the movie and TV adaptations it received in the ’70s. The Incredible Hulk TV series starring Bill Bixby was a hit and is still liked by fans the world over. It wasn’t until the release of Superman in 1978 that comic books started to enter into mainstream popularity. In the ’80s, video games started to become more common thanks to Nintendo and Sega. Names like Sonic and Mario became household names that it was inevitable Hollywood films started to be based on several video games. Unlike Superman though, video games never received a critically and commercially successful film. If we take a look at the movies based on video games that have been released over the years, all of them have been received badly. Not only that but they’re not even successful at the Box Office either. Michael Bay’s Transformer films and the Twilight series are critically panned but at least they make a ton of money. Video game movies on the other hand fail at both ends. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is a perfect example. The budget for the film was $137 million but it only received just over $85 million at the Box Office. 2009’s Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li had a budget of $50 million but only recouped over $12 million back. This was a huge loss for the studio. Let’s not forget that both films were rated poorly by critics too! Compare this to many comic book movies we see today and they are all successful. The Avengers is praised by many and is now the third highest grossing film of all time taking in $1.5 billion off of a $220 million budget. Christopher Nolan’s Batman films are all critically acclaimed and made a ton of money as well. Both The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises has grossed over $1 billion at the Box Office. Video game movies need something like the first Superman movie or even a Dark Knight film to win them over with both critics and fans. If one video game movie is successful, hopefully this means more video game movies are made that are actually good. As of now, most of them are mediocre or average at best. Ubisoft seems to be heading in the right direction for its planned Splinter Cell and Assassin’s Creed films starring Tom Hardy and Michael Fassbender respectively. Do you think video game movies will ever become successful like comic book movies are today? Video Game Movies Previous article PlayStation Network To Resume Operation Saturday Morning, Claims Sony Next article Kojima Wanted Gray Fox As Main Star In Metal Gear Rising Damian Antony Seeto Game reviewer from New Zealand. Been writing since 2009 and have reviewed hundreds of different games over the years.

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What Lady Gaga Eats on Tour When you’re a music and fashion icon like Lady Gaga and you’re headlining a fashion-obsessed music festival like Coachella, the pressure to perform is on. Add to that the travel, and the heat, and a nation of trolls who think it’s OK to rag on a woman’s body just because she’s a celebrity, and, well, it seems to us regular folk that’s an awful lot to handle. With all that on her plate, we wondered what’s on her literal plate. So we went to the source—Gaga’s longtime friend and tour chef, Bo O’Connor—to find out how the star fuels up to deal with it all. We caught up with O’Connor, who served as the personal chef for Gaga on her last tour, at Buick Encore’s Backstage Classes and learned all about what she eats on the road. O’Connor’s approach to food is one we can totally get behind—and some of the advice is especially pertinent to all the fans braving it in the desert at Coachella this weekend. Let’s start with a little bit about you. How did you get into cooking? O’Connor: I’m self-taught, never went to culinary school. I was looking to do my own thing but then got the opportunity to tour with Lady Gaga before opening my restaurant, The Pomeroy in Queens. The menu at my restaurant today is very much me as a chef. It really showcases fresh produce, fresh vegetables, a lot of healthy options. So what would you say is your chef-losophy, then? [Laughs.] I see what you did there. For me, my philosophy is balance. I hear people say all the time, “Oh I never indulge,” or, “Oh I never have a cheat meal or drink wine or beer.” I think that’s very difficult to sustain, and I think finding that balance of being healthy and indulgent when you can is the best way to live life. Personally, I don’t think living life and always feeling deprived is a good thing. For me, that’s not who I am. Let’s backtrack for a minute. How did you first get linked up with Lady Gaga? We grew up together. We went to an all-girl Catholic school from kindergarten through 12th grade. We were best friends, and she was the maid of honor in my wedding. When she had the last tour, we had a discussion about me coming along with her. It felt right. It was a nine-month tour and it was really one of the best experiences of my life. Traveling the world, seeing all these different markets. So, what’s a typical lunch or dinner you would make for Gaga? Something like quinoa with black beans, grilled shrimp, beautiful veggies. We want it to be healthy, tasty, filling, nutritious, and full of fiber. I really focus on meals that are good in taste but also healthy for your body. What we eat is what our bodies are. Being on tour or just performing all of the time, it’s exhausting. Being able to provide your body with good nutrients, including those that are in vegetables and fruit, is everything. And what if she’s just not feeling vegetables? We’d deviate a bit. If she wanted a burger and fries, we wouldn’t be doing fast food. So instead, I’d make her a turkey burger, gluten-free, lots of spices, and baked sweet potato fries. At least she’s feeling that she can indulge a little bit and have something similar to a real burger but is still good for you. Talk to me about snacks. I want to know what Gaga noshes on when she’s peckish. Now there are so many things that come in travel size or individual servings that are actually good for you. If Gaga gets really hungry, I carry little packs of almond butter, and that prevents us from grabbing something from like, a gas station. [I’ll] combine that almond butter with other things. Scandinavian crackers, full of fiber, may not be the most tasty on their own, but if you throw them together with the almond butter and some banana, you have something that’s filling and satisfying. It must be hard for an artist to stick to a healthy diet when she’s on the road. What’s the secret? It’s really about planning. That’s why Lady Gaga has personal chefs. She has a million things on her plate. To have someone who plans her meals, and sets things aside for her, then she knows that there’s no cheating. People think it’s so hard, the planning. But it takes 5 or 10 minutes at the beginning of your week. Think about your meals, where you’ll be going, what you may need to prep ahead of time. Put a few things in the car. I also always think variation is key. If you’re prepared that’s great, but if you only have one thing, then you’ll want what you don’t have. Bring something sweet and savory along for the ride. Any last words on making healthy decisions more doable? Water. Water. Water. Don’t drink soda. Don’t drink diet soda. Just drink water. Carry a bottle of water wherever you go, because otherwise you’re really thirsty, and you’re more inclined to eat and snack on different things. When you’re dehydrated, you also look worn. Tired. You don’t want that. I know Gaga definitely doesn’t want that. Related Topics:EntertainmentLady Gaga Magic Johnson Opens Up About His Son EJ Coming Out as Gay Late actress Carrie Fisher receives tribute at ‘Star Wars Celebration’ Zayn Malik and Gigi Hadid welcome baby girl Kanye West’s presidential run: real or for show? Gap and Kanye West sign 10-year deal to create line of Yeezy apparel Tom Cruise in space? NASA chief is ‘all in’ Venice Film Festival is a go, governor says Asia24 hours ago

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Tap The Thumbnail Bellow to See Related Gallery of "Dandelion Comforter Set Grey Floral Duvet Bedding Sets Fusion 18" Image Title: Dandelion Comforter Set Grey Floral Duvet Bedding Sets Fusion 18. Filename: dandelion-comforter-set-grey-floral-duvet-bedding-sets-fusion-18.jpg. Image Dimension: 520 x 520 pixels. Images Format: jpg/jpeg. Publisher/Author: Stevie Will. Uploaded Date: Monday - December 11th. 2017 22:41:24 PM. Category: Architecture. Image Source: contemporist.com.

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August 4, 2015 by Jeff Roberts 6 Comments State Route 604 begins at State Route 421 in Duffield, Virginia, and runs through Pattonsville, Blackwater and Jonesville on its way to the Tennessee state line. On the Virginia side, it is named “Doctor Andrew Jackson Osborne Highway”. Those familiar with the area will know that there are many Osbornes from there. So why was this particular Osborne’s name given to the highway? Dr. Andrew Jackson Osborne was born in Blackwater, Virginia, on February 14, 1869. He was the son of James Knox Polk Osborne and Elizabeth Robinette (another famous local name) Osborne. He had one sibling, Enoch Osborne born in 1877. He had two spouses, Polly Fisher Osborne, born in 1870, and Ollie J. Stacy Osborne, born in 1879. Through his two wives, he had 15 children. You can find their names here: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=82058132 Although his families were impressive, that isn’t what brought this man his fame. My father told me that he was one of the earliest DO’s, Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine. This form of medical care was founded in 1874 by Andrew Taylor Still, MD, who decided while serving as a physician during the Civil War that the “orthodox” approaches to medical care weren’t sufficient and were sometimes harmful. Osteopathy takes a “whole body” or “holistic” approach and focused on prevention more than treatment. The first school of osteopathic medicine was opened in Kirksville, MO, in 1892. This would have made AJ Osborne a pioneer in the new field. For a history of osteopathic medicine, go here: http://www.aacom.org/become-a-doctor/about-om/history The following information is from the Moore Family of Virginia and Kentucky Genealogy site at http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/h/o/w/Peggy-C-Howell/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0554.html Andrew Jackson (Doc) Osborne (son of James Knox Polk Osborne and Elizabeth Robinette)451 was born February 14, 1869 in Blackwater, Lee County, Virginia, U.S.A.451, and died April 08, 1937 in Blackwater, Lee County, Virginia, U.S.A.451.He married Polly Fisher. Notes for Andrew Jackson (Doc) Osborne: [osborne2[2].FTW] He was a Blackwater, VA physician for more than 40 years. He trained under Dr. William ROBINETTE and made house calls on his horse ‘Old Joe’. He had a good treatment record for the flu epidemic of 1917-18. He was a Mason, Odd Fellow, and member of the Blackwater Lick (Big Door) Church. He served three months in the Atlanta penitentiary for prescribing morphine to a Mr. HOBBS; he was turned in by Mr. ELY. He was born on the Caleb Hurd Farm. Dr. William Robinette (on the left) and Dr. AJ Osborne (on the right) Here is some more information from Janet Gover’s Blog-Stories within stories… within stories at http://janetgover.com/?p=4021 People would walk for miles to visit his (Dr. AJ Osborne’s) medicine house and he would also travel on horseback to see patients long distances away. It was said he often slept on that horse’s back. When he reached the medicine house, the horse would nudge the door to make enough noise to wake the doc. He never charged his patients – but those who could pay something, did. He was particularly distressed by the infant mortality rates in the mountains – and tragically ten of his own children died at birth or in early infancy. Doc Osborne ministered to the people all his life and was poor all his life. When he died in April 1937 the Rev Frank Phipps had to find a suit for him to be buried in. Janet found the information on Dr. AJ Osborne at the Museum of Appalachia in Clinton, Tennessee, where Dr. Andy’s entire office is on display. Here is their website: http://museumofappalachia.org But the best website containing Dr. AJ Osborne’s story can be found at The Country Doctor and Natural Medicine Newsletter at http://www.jmcnaturalmedicine.com/dr-amjad-library-book-1.html. There’s simply too much information to put on my page. But I highly recommend reading it. He was quite a man. Filed Under: Local History Elizabeth Carden says he was my great uncle. His sister Emma Osborne Webb Wade raised me,so I knew a lot about him. My father looked a lot like him. Olin Wade. I have a picture of him also. Sam Osborne says I really enjoyed the Great Article on Dr. Andrew Jackson Osborne…I am John Samuel Osborne,,, the Grandson of him,,,My father was Henry Stuart Osborne,, who is also buried in now The James Knox Polk Osborne Family Cemetery Andrew Jackson Osborne Jr. says He was my great grandpaw im the son of Andrew J Osborne Sr.(Jack) Gary Osborne says Sam, my Dad Billy Ray Osborne was the nephew of Henry Osborne. My dad told us his Uncle Henry was a great carpenter. He was my great grandpa. I am Gary DeWayne Osborne. My dad is Billy Ray Osborne-Jack Osborne’s brother. I have a son Gary DeWayne Osborne Jr. Who is the great great grandson of Doc Osborne. David Ward says Do you happen to have any additional images or information at all about Dr William Robinette? He was my great, great, great grandfather

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Home » Timelines by Topic » Topics » Governance » Human Rights » Civil Liberties US Civil Liberties Project: US Civil Liberties Open-Content project managed by Paul, KJF, mtuck, paxvector Page 16 of 19 (1858 events) previous | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 | next October 14, 2008: Community Organization Under Fire for Alleged Fraudulent Voter Registrations The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) defends itself against allegations of voter fraud and attempting to overthrow America’s democratic system, allegations stemming largely from Republicans, conservative news organizations, and right-wing talk show hosts. The Associated Press reports that Republican lawmakers are calling for a federal investigation into ACORN’s practices of registering Americans to vote, and cites examples of ACORN filing questionable voter registration forms (see October 14, 2008). Senator Barack Obama (D-IL), the Democratic presidential contender, says Republicans should not use any issues with ACORN as an excuse to stop people from voting on Election Day. ACORN has registered some 1.3 million voters, many of them young, minority, or poor citizens, and all of whom tend to vote Democratic. Elections officials in at least eight states are looking into voter fraud allegations leveled against the organization. ACORN spokesperson Kevin Whelan tells reporters that the organization is proud of “the vast, vast majority” of its over 13,000 paid canvassers who worked in 21 states to register voters. “They did something remarkable in bringing all these new voters,” he says. The group has acknowledged that some of its employees may have turned in questionable forms in order to meet their registration goals and continue working with the group, but says it has worked to weed out such problematic forms and has alerted county election officials to potential problems. Whelan says ACORN does not hesitate to fire employees who turn in fraudulent registration forms. Most states require third-party registration organizations such as ACORN to turn in even blatantly fraudulent forms under penalty of law. House Republicans have written to Attorney General Michael Mukasey demanding a Justice Department investigation, and requesting Justice Department help in making sure ballots by what they call “ineligible or fraudulent voters” are not counted on Election Day. Senator John McCain (R-AZ), Obama’s Republican opponent, says the Obama campaign should take action to rein in ACORN’s registration efforts in order to combat what he calls “voter fraud,” and notes that Obama represented ACORN in a 1995 lawsuit in Illinois. McCain’s running mate, Governor Sarah Palin (R-AK), says, “Obama has a responsibility to rein in ACORN and prove that he’s willing to fight voter fraud.” McCain has joined his House Republican colleagues in demanding a federal investigation. Obama says his campaign has no ties to ACORN, and says, “This is another one of those distractions that get stirred up during the campaign.” Recently a conservative Ohio think tank, the Buckeye Institute, filed a lawsuit against ACORN, charging it with criminal corruption under a civil provision of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, which is usually employed against alleged members of organized crime. [Associated Press, 10/14/2008] The liberal media watchdog Media Matters notes that the Associated Press and CNN have both failed to report that Obama was joined by the Justice Department, the League of Women Voters, and the League of United Latin American Citizens in the 1995 lawsuit. The lawsuit was intended to force Illinois to implement the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA—see May 20, 1993), and was found in favor of ACORN and the other plaintiffs. [Media Matters, 10/15/2008] Recently, officials raided the Nevada offices of ACORN in a fruitless attempt to find evidence of voters being fraudulently registered (see October 7, 2008). Independent fact-checkers will soon find allegations of voter registration fraud leveled against ACORN to be entirely baseless (see October 18, 2008). Entity Tags: Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, Buckeye Institute, John McCain, Kevin Whelan, Media Matters, Michael Mukasey Category Tags: Voter Fraud/Disenfranchisement, Voting Rights October 17, 2008: Civil Liberties Organizations Sues over Disputed Constitutionality of FISA Amendment Legislation The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) files a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the recently passed amendment to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA—see July 10, 2008). The EFF is particularly concerned with the portion of the legislation that grants retroactive immunity from prosecution to telecommunications firms that worked with government agencies to illegally conduct electronic surveillance against American citizens (see December 15, 2005). The FISA Amendments Act of 2008, or FAA, violates the Constitution’s separation of powers, according to the EFF, and, the organization writes, “robs innocent telecom customers of their rights without due process of law.” The lawsuit was triggered by Attorney General Michael Mukasey’s recent submission of a classified certification in another EFF lawsuit about illegal electronic certification (see January 31, 2006) that claimed the electronic surveillance conducted on behalf of the National Security Agency by AT&T did not happen. EFF senior attorney Kevin Bankston says: “The immunity law puts the fox in charge of the hen house, letting the attorney general decide whether or not telecoms like AT&T can be sued for participating in the government’s illegal warrantless surveillance. In our constitutional system, it is the judiciary’s role as a co-equal branch of government to determine the scope of the surveillance and rule on whether it is legal, not the executive’s. The attorney general should not be allowed to unconstitutionally play judge and jury in these cases, which affect the privacy of millions of Americans.” Mukasey’s certification claimed the government has no “content-dragnet” program that surveills millions of domestic communications, though it does not deny having acquired such communications. EFF has provided the court with thousands of pages of documents proving the falsity of Mukasey’s assertions, the organization writes. EFF attorney Kurt Opsahl says: “We have overwhelming record evidence that the domestic spying program is operating far outside the bounds of the law. Intelligence agencies, telecoms, and the administration want to sweep this case under the rug, but the Constitution won’t permit it.” EFF spokesperson Rebecca Jeschke tells a reporter that the FAA “violates the federal government’s separation of powers and violates the Constitution. We want to make sure this unconstitutional law does not deny telecom customers their day in court. They have legitimate privacy claims that should be heard by a judge. Extensive evidence proves the existence of a massive illegal surveillance program affecting millions of ordinary Americans. The telecoms broke the law and took part in this. The FISA Amendments Act and its immunity provisions were an attempt to sweep these lawsuits under the rug, but it’s simply unconstitutional.” EFF lawyers fear the FAA will render their lawsuit invalid. [Electronic Frontier Foundation, 10/17/2008; Salon, 10/17/2008] The EFF has filed a related lawsuit against the NSA and senior members of the Bush administration (see September 18, 2008). Entity Tags: Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Electronic Frontier Foundation, AT&T, FISA Amendments Act of 2008, Kevin Bankston, Kurt Opsahl, National Security Agency, Michael Mukasey, Rebecca Jeschke Category Tags: Freedom of Speech / Religion, Impositions on Rights and Freedoms, Privacy, Court Procedures and Verdicts, NSA Wiretapping / Stellar Wind October 18, 2008: FactCheck, Newsweek Examine ACORN Voter Fraud Allegations The non-partisan FactCheck.org, an organization sponsored by the Annenberg Public Policy Center, runs an article that discusses the ACORN “voter fraud” issue in depth. It states that there is no evidence of the “democracy-destroying fraud” that Republican presidential candidate John McCain accused ACORN of, draws a distinction between voter registration fraud and voter fraud, and acknowledges that true voter fraud is relatively rare, citing a five-year investigation by the Bush administration Department of Justice that found no evidence of organized voter fraud. Dan Satterberg, the Republican prosecutor who handled the largest ACORN voter registration case in the nation, in King County, Washington, in 2006, is quoted saying “this scheme was not intended to permit illegal voting,” and “ACORN is a victim of employee theft.” In its headline and lede, however, the FactCheck article says that McCain’s Democratic rival Barack Obama is “soft-pedal[ing]” his ties with ACORN, placing this on the same level as John McCain’s statement that ACORN “is now on the verge of maybe perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in voter history in this country, maybe destroying the fabric of democracy.” [Annenberg Political FactCheck, 10/18/2008] The article is also run by Newsweek. [Newsweek, 10/18/2008] Entity Tags: Dan Satterberg, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, FactCheck (.org), Barack Obama, John McCain Timeline Tags: 2008 Elections Category Tags: Voting Rights, Voter Fraud/Disenfranchisement October 19, 2008: Fox Interviewee Claims ACORN at ‘Heart’ of Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Fox Says ACORN’s Actions ‘Detrimental to Democracy’ John Fund. [Source: Rightsideva]Fox News runs an interview with right-wing journalist and Wall Street Journal editorialist John Fund, author of the book Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy, in which Fund claims that ACORN was “at the heart of the subprime mortgage crisis,” and is planning to “overload the election system, to make it so there’s such chaos at the polls that they can bring a lot of voters there.” He also calls Barack Obama “radical” and suggests that he is working in concert with ACORN on a hidden agenda to expand government and “dramatically change American society,” in ways he does not specify. On the Fox website the video is posted under the headline, “Author of book on voter fraud explains how ACORN’s actions are detrimental to Democracy.” [Fox News, 10/19/2008] Entity Tags: Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, John Fund, Barack Obama, Fox News Timeline Tags: Global Economic Crises, Domestic Propaganda, 2008 Elections Category Tags: Other, Voter Fraud/Disenfranchisement October 21, 2008: Conservative Radio Host: US Should Only Allow Landowners to Vote Progressive media watchdog site Media Matters reports that conservative radio host Jim Quinn, of the syndicated show Quinn & Rose, says that the US should go back to a time where only landowners could vote. Quinn says: “Originally, if you didn’t own land, you didn’t vote, and there was a good reason for it: because those without property will always vote away the property of other people unto themselves, and that’s the beginning of the end.… Now—I mean, I can hear the appeal to the masses: ‘It’s not fair, it’s not the American way that you don’t get to vote,’ but let me ask you a question: If I don’t own anything, what kind of a problem do I have with voting for a measure—a tax, a law—that takes somebody else’s property and gives it to me? I have no stake in personal property ownership ‘cause I don’t have any. Now, back in the day, when this was the law of the land, anybody who wanted to vote needed to step up to the plate, achieve, get a stake in America, and then vote.” Quinn equates non-landowners’ right to vote with what he calls “organized theft from the wealthy by the democratic masses.” [Media Matters, 10/21/2008] A day later, radio host Michael Savage says that public assistance recipients should lose the right to vote (see October 22, 2008). Entity Tags: Michael Savage, Media Matters, Jim Quinn Timeline Tags: Domestic Propaganda, 2008 Elections October 22, 2008: Conservative Radio Host: Public Assistance Recipients Should Not Be Allowed to Vote As reported by progressive media watchdog site Media Matters, conservative radio host Michael Savage tells his audience that Americans who receive public assistance should not be able to vote. “Do you think a person on welfare has the right to vote?” he asks. “I don’t. Why should a person who is on public assistance maintain the right to vote? Tell me why. Where is it written that they should have the right to vote?… I support them, and they should have the same vote I do? That would be like saying an infant has the right to vote or an insane person has the right to vote. Why should a welfare recipient have the right to vote? They’re only gonna vote themselves a raise.” Savage then brings up Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama: “So if you get a demagogue like Obama coming along, and he says to the welfare recipient, elect me, and I’ll make sure that we have trickle-up poverty, and the rich—so-called, that is anyone who works for a living—will give you more money, more welfare, of course you’re gonna vote for the demagogue Obama. See, if I was in charge, I’d pass a law which says, OK, you can’t support yourself for whatever reason, you’re on welfare, you lose the right to vote.… You get back on the self-sufficiency, you get the right to vote. Then we’ll have a fair election in America. Otherwise, it’s all over. We have a communist nation either now or in the very near future.” [Media Matters, 10/23/2008] A day before, radio host Jim Quinn said that only landowners should be allowed to vote (see October 21, 2008). Entity Tags: Jim Quinn, Media Matters, Michael Savage, Barack Obama October 28, 2008: Over 12,000 Florida Voters Face Disenfranchisement in Upcoming Elections As the November 4 elections approach, data shows that 12,165 first-time Florida voters are on a list that may bar them from voting. The list has swelled from over 8,000 names on a list released on October 16. The so-called “no match” list contains names of first-time voters whose identification numbers—driver’s license numbers, Social Security numbers, and official state ID cards—apparently do not match their numbers as listed on their voter identification cards. The so-called “no match no vote” law (see September 17, 2007) is considered by many to be deeply flawed and prejudicial towards minority voters. If the individual voter cannot resolve the discrepancy, he will be forced to cast provisional ballots, which are likely not to be counted. The list, as did its earlier iteration, contains a disproportionate number of African-American, Hispanic, and Democratic voters, and South Florida residents. Fifty-five percent of the previous list was made up of African-Americans and Hispanics, and three-quarters of the people on the list were registered Democrats. Pinellas County Supervisor of Elections Deborah Clark says her staff is trying to rectify mismatched voter information by calling people at night and sending up to three letters. “We don’t want to have them in pending status when they show up to vote,” she says. Some of the forms show invalid phone numbers, she adds. Republican Secretary of State Kurt Browning says the “no match” lists are necessary to ensure the integrity of the voter rolls. Adam Skaggs of the Brennan Center for Justice, whose group tried and failed to challenge the law in court (see September 17, 2007), says the figure is far too high, and the law “places an unacceptable burden on thousands of voters.” The voters having trouble matching the numbers are those without drivers’ licenses. Many of those people do not have state-issued ID cards, and they often do not carry their Social Security cards in public. He also notes that a number of newly enrolled Alachua County voters who are University of Florida students are on the “no match” list. [Tampa Bay Times, 10/28/2008] Entity Tags: Adam Skaggs, (Florida) Voter Registration Verification Law of 2005, Deborah Clark, County of Alachua (Florida), Kurt Browning Category Tags: Election, Voting Laws and Issues, Voter Fraud/Disenfranchisement, Voting Rights October 28-30, 2008: Conservative Lobbying Group Releases Anti-Obama DVD in Five ‘Swing States’ Cover illustration of the ‘Hype’ DVD. [Source: Amazon (.com)]The conservative lobbying group Citizens United (CU) distributes hundreds of thousands of DVDs in newspapers throughout Ohio, Florida, and Nevada, all considered “swing states” in the upcoming presidential election. The DVDs contain a “documentary” entitled Hype: The Obama Effect and are characterized by CU as “truthful attack[s]” on Senator Barack Obama (D-IL). Previous advertisements for the film said the film portrays Obama as an “overhyped media darling,” and quoted conservative pundit Tucker Carlson as saying: “The press loves Obama. I mean not just love, but sort of like an early teenage crush.” The DVD distribution takes place just days before the November 4 election. CU says it is spending over a million dollars to distribute around 1.25 million DVDs, which are included with delivery and store-bought copies of five newspapers: the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch, the Cincinnati Enquirer, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Palm Beach (Florida) Post, and the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The film attacks Obama’s record on abortion rights, foreign policy, and what the Associated Press calls his “past relationships” with, among others, his former pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright (see January 6-11, 2008). The DVD also attempts to tie Obama to political corruption in Illinois, and lambasts the news media for what CU calls its preferential treatment of Obama. CU president David Bossie says: “We think it’s a truthful attack. People can take it any way they want.” Bossie was fired from his position on a Republican House member’s staff in 1998 for releasing fraudulently edited transcripts of a former Clinton administration official to falsely imply that then-First Lady Hillary Clinton had committed crimes (see May 1998). Among those interviewed about Obama for the film are conservative columnist Robert Novak, conservative pundit Dick Morris, former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, former Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA), and author and pundit Jerome Corsi, whom the AP terms a “discredited critic” of Obama. Obama campaign spokesman Isaac Baker calls the DVD “slash and burn politics,” and says the DVD is another tactic of the presidential campaign of John McCain (R-AZ) to “smear” Obama with “dishonest, debunked attacks from the fringes of the far right.” [New York Times, 7/22/2008; Associated Press, 10/28/2008; Media Matters, 10/29/2008] Newspaper Official Defends Decision to Include DVD - Palm Beach Post general manager Charles Gerardi says of his paper’s decision to include the DVD in its Friday distribution: “Citizens United has every right to place this message as a paid advertisement, and our readers have every right to see it, even if they don’t agree with it. That we accepted it as a paid advertisement in no way implies that this newspaper agrees or disagrees with its message.” [Palm Beach Post, 10/31/2008] Falsehoods, Misrepresentations, and Lies - Within days, the liberal media watchdog organization Media Matters finds that the DVD is riddled with errors, misrepresentations, and lies. Claim that Obama 'Threw' Illinois State Senate Election - On the DVD, author David Freddoso claims that in 1998, Obama managed to “thr[o]w all of his opponents off the ballot” to win an election to the Illinois State Senate, a claim that has been disproved. Claim that Obama Refuses to Work with Republicans - Freddoso also asserts that there are no instances of Obama’s stints in the Illinois State Senate nor the US Senate where he was willing to work with Republicans on legislation, an assertion that Freddoso himself inadvertently disproves by citing several instances of legislation Obama joined with Republicans to pass. Claim that Obama Wants to Raise Taxes on Middle Class and Small Business - The DVD’s narrator misrepresents Obama’s campaign statements to falsely claim that Obama has promised to “irrevocabl[y]” raise taxes on citizens making over $100,000 to fund Social Security; the reality is that Obama’s proposed tax increase would affect citizens making $250,000 or more. The DVD narrator makes similarly false claims about Obama’s stance on raising the capital gains tax, and on raising taxes on small business owners. Conservative radio host Armstrong Williams tells viewers that Obama will raise taxes on small businesses that employ only a few workers, when in fact Obama has repeatedly proposed cutting taxes on most small businesses. Huckabee makes similar claims later in the DVD. Claim that Obama Supports Immigration 'Amnesty' - The narrator misrepresents Obama’s stance on immigration reform as “amnesty for the 12 to 20 million people who violated US immigration law,” a position that Obama’s “Plan for Immigration” rejects. Claim that Obama Wants 'Centralized Government' Health Care - Blackwell, now a contributing editor for the conservative publication TownHall, falsely claims that Obama wants to implement what he calls “a centralized government program that hasn’t worked in Canada, hasn’t worked in England, that has actually taken the freedom from the consumer and limited the choices.” Organizations such as PolitiFact and the New York Times have called claims that Obama supports government-run “single payer” health care false. Claim that Obama Refused to Protect Lives of Infants - Conservative columnist and anti-abortion activist Jill Stanek claims that Obama opposed legislation that would have protected the lives of babies “born alive” during botched abortion efforts, when in fact no such legislation was ever proposed—the law already protects babies in such circumstances—and the Illinois Department of Public Health has said no such case exists in its records. (Stanek has claimed that she has witnessed such incidents during her time as an Illinois hospital worker.) Stanek has said that she believes domestic violence against women who have had abortions is acceptable, claimed that Chinese people eat aborted fetuses as “much sought after delicacies,” and claimed that Obama “supports infanticide.” Claim that Obama Supported Attack on Petraeus - The DVD narrator claims that as a US senator, Obama refused to vote for a bill that condemned an attack by liberal grassroots activist organization MoveOn.org on General David Petraeus. In reality, Obama did vote to support an amendment that condemned the MoveOn advertisement. Claim that Obama Supported Award for Farrakhan - The DVD narrator claims that Obama has aligned himself with the controversial head of the Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan, and cites the 2007 decision by Obama’s then-church, Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ, to award a lifetime achievement award to Farrakhan. In reality, Obama denounced Farrakhan’s anti-Semitism, and stated that he did not agree with the Trinity decision to give Farrakhan the award. Claim of Suspiciously Preferential Loan Rate - The DVD narrator claims that Obama received a suspiciously “preferential rate on his super-jumbo loan for the purchase” of a “mansion” in Hyde Park, Illinois, from Northern Trust, an Illinois bank. A Washington Post reporter did make such a claim in a report, but subsequent investigation by Politico and the Columbia Journalism Review showed that the rate Obama received on the loan was consistent with other loans Northern Trust made at the time and not significantly below the average loan rate. 'Citizen of the World' - Corsi claims that Obama does not consider himself an American, but a “citizen of the world.” Media Matters has found numerous instances where Obama proclaims himself a proud American as well as “a fellow citizen of the world.” In 1982, Media Matters notes, then-President Reagan addressed the United Nations General Assembly by saying, “I speak today as both a citizen of the United States and of the world.” Media Matters notes that Corsi’s anti-Obama book Obama Nation was widely and thoroughly debunked (see August 1, 2008 and After), and since its publication, Corsi has made a number of inflammatory and false accusations about Obama and his family (see August 15, 2008, August 16, 2008, September 7, 2008, October 8, 2008, October 9, 2008, July 21, 2009, and September 21, 2010). [Media Matters, 10/30/2008] Entity Tags: Citizens United, PolitiFact (.org ), Palm Beach Post, Charles Gerardi, MoveOn (.org), Mike Huckabee, Politico, Rick Santorum, Cincinnati Enquirer, Trinity United Church of Christ, Armstrong Williams, Associated Press, Barack Obama, Washington Post, Tucker Carlson, Media Matters, Louis Farrakhan, Robert Novak, John McCain, David Bossie, Las Vegas Review-Journal, David Freddoso, Columbus Dispatch, Clinton administration, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Columbia Journalism Review, David Petraeus, New York Times, Hillary Clinton, Isaac Baker, J. Kenneth Blackwell, Jeremiah A. Wright Jr, Dick Morris, Jill Stanek, Jerome Corsi, Illinois Department of Public Health Category Tags: Campaign Finance, Media Involvement and Responses, Campaign Finance November 2, 2008: Court Orders Justice Department to Turn Over Legal Documents Relating to NSA Wiretapping Program A US District Court orders the Justice Department to turn over ten documents from the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel to determine whether they should be released under the Freedom of Information Act. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) say the documents may hold information that would shed light on the legal reasoning behind the Bush administration’s “Stellar Wind” warrantless wiretapping program (see Spring 2004 and December 15, 2005). EPIC and the ACLU seek the release of 30 documents from the OLC; Judge Henry Kennedy has ordered that 10 be turned over to him for further examination and 20 others remain classified because of national security considerations. Seven of those documents are about the government’s “Terrorist Surveillance Program” (TSP—apparently the same program as, or an element of, Stellar Wind), 12 are FBI documents detailing how TSP had assisted the Bureau in counterterrorism investigations, and one is an OLC memo covered under an exemption for “presidential communications”—presumably a memo written either by, or for, President Bush. [Ars Technica, 11/2/2008] Entity Tags: Henry H. Kennedy Jr., Electronic Privacy Information Center, Bush administration (43), US Department of Justice, American Civil Liberties Union, Freedom of Information Act, Office of Legal Counsel (DOJ), Terrorist Surveillance Program, ’Stellar Wind’ Category Tags: Impositions on Rights and Freedoms, Court Procedures and Verdicts, Government Acting in Secret, Database Programs, NSA Wiretapping / Stellar Wind November 4-5, 2008: US Senate Race in Minnesota Subject to Recounts Norm Coleman (l) and Al Franken (r) are locked in a recount battle for a US Senate seat representing Minnesota. [Source: MediaBistro (.com)]The US Senate race in Minnesota, between incumbent Norm Coleman (R-MN) and challenger Al Franken (D-MN), concludes with Coleman enjoying a razor-thin margin of victory and declaring himself the victor. However, Franken (running as the candidate for the “Democratic-Farmer-Labor” party, or DFL, Minnesota’s version of the state Democratic Party) says he will ask for a recount, as is his right under Minnesota law. Minnesota officials say the recount could delay the final result of the race until December. The Minneapolis Star-Tribune characterizes the race between Coleman and Franken as “one of the most bitter… in Minnesota history.” The initial results show Coleman in the lead by 215 votes, though he was adjudged to lead by as much as 725 votes in early estimates. The Associated Press previously called Coleman the winner, but has now withdrawn that call, labeling the race as too close to judge. Franken says his campaign is investigating alleged voting irregularities at a number of polling places, and adds: “[A] recount could change the outcome significantly.… Let me be clear: Our goal is to ensure that every vote is properly counted.” Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie (D-MN) says a recount would not begin until the middle of the month and would likely stretch into December. “No matter how fast people would like it, the emphasis is on accuracy,” he says. The vote is split three ways, with Coleman and Franken each having 42 percent of the vote and Independence Party candidate Dean Barkley having 15 percent. Exit polls show Franken rode a wave of Democrats voting for Barack Obama (D-IL) as president, including a large number of first-time voters. Minnesota delivered its electoral votes for Obama. However, Barkley drained a significant amount of votes away from Franken. Franken had trouble convincing some voters of his credibility, in light of his career as an overtly liberal comedian and author, while Coleman was hurt by being connected with the poorly performing US economy under President Bush. Franken caught up with Coleman in polling after the stock market almost collapsed in September. Franken says that like the just-elected Obama, “I believe we’re going to celebrate a victory in this race, too.” Coleman tells supporters that he “feels good” about the ultimate results. Both Franken and Coleman engaged in harshly negative campaign advertising, which drove a large number of voters to choose Barkley in the race. National Republicans called Franken “unfit for office” because of his liberalism, while Franken attacked Coleman by pairing him with Bush, telling voters that Coleman helped Bush “drive the economy right into the ditch.” The two campaigns together spent almost $50 million, making it by far the most expensive Senate race in the country. Franken was dogged by allegations that he did not pay the proper income taxes, and embarrassed by examples of “lewd” humor from his past comedy engagements, leading him to apologize for some of his humor to his supporters. Coleman dealt with questions about his payment of artificially low rent on an exclusive Capitol Hill rowhouse, and questionable contributions from wealthy benefactors. Coleman asks Franken to waive the recount in the interest of saving Minnesota taxpayers the cost of the procedure, and so that “healing” from the hotly contested race can begin. [Minneapolis Star-Tribune, 11/5/2008; Minneapolis Star-Tribune, 11/6/2008; Associated Press, 1/6/2009] Entity Tags: Mark Ritchie, Al Franken, Associated Press, George W. Bush, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Norm Coleman, Barack Obama Category Tags: Voting Rights, Voter Fraud/Disenfranchisement, Voting Rights November 6, 2008: Minnesota Senate Candidate Asks Challenger to Forego Recount and Concede Two days after the US Senate election in Minnesota failed to produce a clear winner (see November 4-5, 2008), Senator Norm Coleman (R-MN) demands that his challenger, Al Franken (D-MN), concede. Franken has asked that the votes be recounted, as Coleman originally led with a razor-thin 725-vote margin of victory. (A recount is automatic under the law with a margin of victory of less than 0.5 percent, as this one is.) As ballot totals have shifted with the addition of absentee and other ballots, Coleman’s margin has shrunk even further, to 438 votes. Franken says that “a recount could change the outcome significantly,” and adds: “Let me be clear: Our goal is to ensure that every vote is properly counted.” Coleman has requested that the recount not take place, and has declared himself the winner of the election. Coleman also says that a recount would cost some $86,000 to Minnesota taxpayers, a cost he describes as prohibitively high considering that he would almost certainly win the recount. Franken does not concede. [Minneapolis Star-Tribune, 11/6/2008] Entity Tags: Norm Coleman, Al Franken November 10, 2008: Coleman Campaign: ‘Improbable Shifts’ in Voter Tallies Favoring Opponent in Senate Race The campaign of US Senate candidate Norm Coleman (R-MN) says that “improbable shifts” in vote tallies are improperly favoring Coleman’s opponent, Al Franken (D-MN), in Minnesota’s Senate race. The accusation implies that Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie (D-MN) is exhibiting partisan bias in the Senate race recount. Franken requested a recount after Coleman was declared the winner by a margin narrow enough to legally support such a request (see November 4-5, 2008). Ritchie won the office two years ago after accusing his Republican predecessor of partisan bias. He promises that his oversight of the Senate recount will be fair, transparent, and impartial. “Minnesotans have an expectation of a nonpartisan election recount,” he has said. Coleman’s initial estimate of a 725-vote margin of victory has dwindled to some 200 votes, prompting Coleman to complain of “improbable shifts” in the vote tallies that are unfairly benefiting Franken. One of Coleman’s lawyers tells a reporter, “We’re not going to sit idly by while mysterious, statistically dubious changes in vote totals take place after official government offices close.” Ritchie responds by accusing the Coleman campaign of trying “to create a cloud” over the recount and “denigrating the election process,” and says that such shifts are normal when votes are retallied after any election, when county officials verify election night tabulations reported to his office. Ritchie says the Coleman campaign is mounting “a well-known political strategy,” adding, “If people want to accuse county elections officials of partisan activity, they better be ready to back it up.” Ritchie oversaw a recent Supreme Court election that was praised by both sides as being fairly handled. [Minneapolis Star-Tribune, 11/10/2008; TPM Muckraker, 11/11/2008] According to Ritchie’s office, small vote shifts after an election is called are normal. After an election, the office says: “[E]lection officials proof their work and make corrections, as necessary. It is routine for election officials to discover a number of small errors, including improper data entry, transposition of digits (e.g. entering the number 48 instead of 84), and other items that affect the reported outcome.” [Huffington Post, 11/21/2008] Entity Tags: Mark Ritchie, Al Franken, Norm Coleman November 11, 2008: National Republican Organization Attempts to Throw Impending Minnesota Senate Recount into Doubt The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) launches attacks on Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie (D-MN) in an attempt to throw the Minnesota Senate race recount into doubt. Senator Norm Coleman (R-MN) and challenger Al Franken (D-MN) ran for Coleman’s seat in the US Senate, and the results, narrowly favoring Coleman, were challenged by Franken (see November 4-5, 2008). The NRSC distributes a three-page “backgrounder” on Ritchie to reporters that implies Ritchie is letting his political background affect his conduct in administering the recount. Among Ritchie’s “suspicious” activities are his speech at the Democratic convention during the summer, and his having “led a voter registration coalition that included ACORN,” the much-vilified Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (see May 2, 2008, October 7, 2008, October 18, 2008, and October 14, 2008). The NRSC even attempts to imply that Ritchie is a Communist sympathizer in a piece entitled “Communist Party USA Wrote Encouragingly Of His Candidacy.” (On November 19, Fox News’s Andrew Napolitano will call Ritchie a “former Communist” and a “former member of the Communist Party,” but without advancing any proof of the allegations.) According to a report by TPM Muckraker’s Zachary Roth, “there’s no evidence that Ritchie has ever used his role as the state’s top elections administrator to advantage Democrats.” Roth writes that “the point of the GOP gambit… appears to be to cast public doubt on the integrity of the recount process, thereby bolstering Coleman’s claim that’s he’s the rightful winner and that a recount is unnecessary—just the strategy pursued by George Bush’s campaign in Florida in 2000.” [TPM Muckraker, 11/11/2008; Media Matters, 11/20/2008] Entity Tags: National Republican Senatorial Committee, Al Franken, Andrew Napolitano, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, Norm Coleman, Zachary Roth, Communist Party USA, Mark Ritchie November 12, 2008: Minnesota Governor, Wall Street Journal, Fox News Repeat False Claim of Absentee Ballot Irregularity An unsigned op-ed in the Wall Street Journal accuses the Senate campaign of Al Franken (D-MN) of voter fraud. Franken and incumbent Norm Coleman (R-MN) are locked in a race that was too close to call, and are awaiting the results of a recount (see November 4-5, 2008). Since then, the Coleman campaign (see November 10, 2008) and the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC—see November 11, 2008) have implied a variety of wrongdoings, including underhanded ballot tally manipulation, partisan bias, and even shadowy connections to the Communist Party. Some Democrats, the Journal states, are engaged in “stealing a Senate seat for left-wing joker Al Franken.” The Journal reiterates a claim by Coleman’s lead recount lawyer Fritz Knaak that the director of the Minneapolis Board of Elections forgot to count 32 absentee ballots that she had left in her car. The Coleman campaign attempted to get a judge to stop those ballots from being added to the total, the Journal states, but the judge refused to do so. The Journal also records a number of statistically “unusual” or “improbable” vote tally shifts that have combined to shave Coleman’s initial 725-vote lead to just over 200. The Journal joins Coleman and the NRSC in attacking Secretary of State Mark Ritchie (D-MN), whose office is overseeing the upcoming recount. It cites Ritchie’s own run for office in 2006, which was supported by, among others, liberal activist group MoveOn.org, and says Ritchie is “an ally” of “the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, of fraudulent voter-registration fame” (see May 2, 2008, October 7, 2008, October 18, 2008, and October 14, 2008). Ritchie’s “relationship” with ACORN, the Journal states, “might explain why prior to the election Mr. Ritchie waved off evidence of thousands of irregularities on Minnesota voter rolls, claiming that accusations of fraud were nothing more than ‘desperateness’ from Republicans.” The Journal expands its accusations to include the Franken campaign, which it says is “mau-mauing election officials into accepting tossed ballots.” [Wall Street Journal, 11/12/2008; MinnPost, 11/12/2008] The same day as the Journal op-ed is published, Governor Tim Pawlenty (R-MN) repeats the allegation about the absentee ballots being left overnight in an election official’s car, telling a Fox News reporter: “As I understand it, and this is based on news accounts, he claims that even though they were in his car, that they were never outside of his security or area of control, so the courts allowed that. It seems a little loose to me.” Asked by a Fox reporter, “What were they doing in his car?” Pawlenty replies: “There has not been a good explanation for that, Kelly. That’s a very good question, but they’ve been included in the count pile which is concerning.” Pawlenty mischaracterizes the gender of the Minneapolis Elections Director, Cindy Reichert. Reichert also says the entire story is “just not true.” The story comes from Knaak, who initially told reporters, “We were actually told ballots had been riding around in her car for several days, which raised all kinds of integrity questions.” By the day’s end, Knaak backs away from the claim of impropriety. A local outlet reports, “Knaak said he feels assured that what was going on with the 32 ballots was neither wrong nor unfair.” Reichert says that Knaak’s story is entirely false. No ballots were ever left in her car, nor were they left unattended in anyone else’s car. They were secured between Election Night and when they were counted. They were briefly in an election official’s car, along with every other absentee ballot, as they were all driven from individual precincts to polling places as mandated by Minnesota election law. “What I find ludicrous is that this goes on all around the state,” Reichert says. “If we could process them [at City Hall] we’d love to do that.” The absentee ballots were transported, sorted, and counted according to standard elections procedures, Reichert says. The 32 ballots in question were not counted until November 8, and both the Coleman and Franken campaigns were informed that the ballots were not included in the initial Minneapolis tallies. The tally for those 32 ballots: Franken 18, Coleman seven, and seven for other candidates or for no one. [MinnPost, 11/12/2008] Entity Tags: Tim Pawlenty, Fox News, Cindy Reichert, Al Franken, Fritz Knaak, Norm Coleman, Mark Ritchie, Wall Street Journal, National Republican Senatorial Committee November 16, 2008: Obama Says He Will Close Guantanamo Center, Stop US Torture Responding to speculation that his administration will continue the policies of torture and indefinite detention, President-elect Barack Obama says flatly that he will shut down the Guantanamo detention center as part of his administration’s new policy towards terror suspects. CBS interviewer Steve Kroft asks: “There are a number of different things that you could do early pertaining to executive orders. One of them is to shut down Guantanamo Bay. Another is to change interrogation methods that are used by US troops. Are those things that you plan to take early action on?” Obama responds: “Yes. I have said repeatedly that I intend to close Guantanamo, and I will follow through on that. I have said repeatedly that America doesn’t torture. And I’m gonna make sure that we don’t torture. Those are part and parcel of an effort to regain America’s moral stature in the world.” [Wall Street Journal, 11/11/2008; CBS News, 11/16/2008] Two days into his administration, Obama orders that the Guantanamo detention facility be closed (see January 22, 2009). Entity Tags: Barack Obama, Steve Kroft, Bush administration (43) Timeline Tags: Torture of US Captives Category Tags: Gov't Violations of Prisoner Rights November 17, 2008: Minnesota Senate Candidate Accuses Secretary of State of Displaying Partisan Behavior in Absentee Ballot Issue The campaign of US Senate candidate Norm Coleman (R-MN) says that Minnesota’s Secretary of State, Mark Ritchie (D-MN), has displayed partisan behavior on behalf of challenger Al Franken (D-MN) by announcing that his office would consider counting some absentee ballots that were not counted during the initial vote tallies. Approximately 1,000 absentee ballots were not counted in the initial tallies, and Franken’s legal team contends that most of them were wrongly rejected by election judges. The initial election results triggered a recount (see November 6, 2008); Coleman has already implied that efforts are underway to manipulate the vote in favor of Franken (see November 10, 2008), implications previously made by the National Republican Senatorial Committee (see November 11, 2008 and November 12, 2008). Coleman’s lead campaign lawyer Fritz Knaak says that the Franken campaign is engaging in “Florida-like tactics” in the absentee ballot issue (see 9:54 p.m. December 12, 2000). For its part, the Franken campaign is accusing the Coleman campaign of resorting to “baseless charges and innuendo.” Franken’s campaign is attempting to ascertain the names of the voters whose absentee ballots were rejected, with an eye to having them reconsidered. Studies have shown that rejected ballots tend to favor Democrats, leading elections expert Larry Jacobs to observe, “With the voter who tends to pull the lever for Democrats, there’s a little less dexterity.” One voter whose absentee ballot was rejected, Mark Jeranek, says his vote was set aside because he did not sign the envelope into which he placed his ballot. Jeranek voted for Franken, and has received an affidavit from the Franken campaign, which he is considering signing. “I don’t want to be a cause for revolution, but at the same time I want my vote to count,” he says. “It’s kind of neat—at least for a senatorial race—that it really does come down to every individual vote.” [Time, 11/17/2008; Weiner, 2010, pp. xviii] Entity Tags: Mark Jeranek, Al Franken, Fritz Knaak, Mark Ritchie, Larry Jacobs, Norm Coleman, National Republican Senatorial Committee November 18, 2008: Minnesota Senate Candidate Falsely Claims Victory before Recount Begins The campaign of US Senate candidate Norm Coleman (R-MN) issues a press release claiming that Coleman’s victory is “confirmed.” Coleman’s press release is erroneous. Coleman’s campaign manager, Cullen Sheehan, issues a similarly erroneous statement that says: “Senator Coleman has, for the third time, been named the winner of the 2008 election. We look forward to the beginning of tomorrow’s recount, and to what we believe to be the ultimate conclusion of the final chapter of this year’s election—the re-election of Senator Norm Coleman.” Far from being confirmed, the recount procedure involving Coleman and his opponent Al Franken (D-MN) has not officially begun (see November 4-5, 2008). It is unclear what basis Coleman has for claiming victory, and no official entity has confirmed Coleman’s victory in the race. Franken’s campaign also issues a release announcing that the recount procedure is about to commence, noting accurately that the State Canvassing Board has refused to certify a winner and stating the campaign’s intention to support the recount. [Minnesota Independent, 11/18/2008; New York Times, 11/18/2008] MSNBC reports that Coleman “is trying to look the part of the winner [in order to be able to] call into question any lead taken by Franken in the recount.” [MSNBC, 11/19/2008] Three days later, liberal reporter Eric Hananoki will write that Coleman is going beyond taking “premature victory laps” by demanding a halt to the recount, “float[ing] false voter fraud stories,” and “smear[ing] election officials” (see November 10, 2008, November 11, 2008, and November 12, 2008). [Huffington Post, 11/21/2008] Entity Tags: Norm Coleman, Minnesota State Canvassing Board, Eric Hananoki, Al Franken, Cullen Sheehan, MSNBC Category Tags: Voter Fraud/Disenfranchisement November 19, 2008: Recount in Minnesota Senate Race Begins The recount process to determine the winner of the US Senate race in Minnesota begins. Incumbent Senator Norm Coleman (R-MN) has a narrow lead over challenger Al Franken (D-MN), who requested the recount as permitted in Minnesota law when the results of a race are so close. The state Canvassing Board met on November 18 to certify the unofficial results, thus allowing the recounts to begin at almost 100 county and city election offices throughout the state. The procedure entails an appointed recount auditor examining each ballot by hand to determine the voter’s intent, monitored by representatives from each candidate’s campaign. Auditors will sort each ballot into the appropriate stacks. According to the 2008 Recount Guide issued by Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, “a ballot or vote must not be rejected for a technicality if it is possible to decide what the voter intended, even though the voter may have made a mistake or the ballot is damaged.” Ballots that are in dispute will be sent to the five-member Canvassing Board, which includes Ritchie, two state Supreme Court justices, and two Ramsey County district court judges, who will make final decisions as to the validity of disputed ballots. KARE-TV has reported that as many as 6,000 ballots may have been missed by the optical-scan machines because of improper markings. Ramsey County elections head Joe Mansky says that around 2 percent of ballots are mismarked in each election. If the intention of the voter is clear, he says, those votes will be counted. Law professor David Schultz says the process reminds the observer of the election debacle in Florida during the 2000 presidential election (see 9:54 p.m. December 12, 2000), and notes that Minnesota has a long tradition of not penalizing voters for failing to fill out ballots properly if their intent can be determined. [Minneapolis Star-Tribune, 11/6/2008] The Canvassing Board says it will not make a decision just yet on whether to count disputed absentee ballots. Minnesota Supreme Court Justice G. Barry Anderson, one of the five members of the board, says of the decision to table the absentee ballot issue: “I reference particularly the blizzard of paperwork that we have seen and whether or not there might be some additional time necessary to consider all of it. Is there anything about an additional period of time that will impact the rights of the parties to make election challenges or take other steps under the law?” Franken wants the absentee ballots in dispute to be counted; Franken’s lawyer David Lillehaug tells the board: “These people are real people who did everything right. They wanted to participate in our democracy. They wanted to vote and have their vote counted. Can’t we all agree that they shouldn’t have to start a lawsuit, or have somebody else start a lawsuit before their votes are counted?” Coleman’s attorney Fritz Knaak calls Lillehaug’s arguments “bothersome,” and says the board should not consider and count rejected absentee ballots. [Minnesota Public Radio, 11/18/2008] Entity Tags: Joe Mansky, David Lillehaug, Al Franken, David Schultz, G. Barry Anderson, Mark Ritchie, Minnesota State Canvassing Board, Fritz Knaak, Norm Coleman November 20, 2008: US Representative Denies Allegation of Election Fraud in Senate Race, Then Reiterates Claim US Representative Michele Bachmann (R-MN) denies saying that US Senate candidate Al Franken (D-MN), currently locked in a recount with Senator Norm Coleman (R-MN—see November 4-5, 2008), “stuff[ed] the ballot box” to stay abreast of Coleman in the Senate race. Bachmann made the comments on MSNBC’s Hardball just before the election. Fox News co-host Alan Colmes of Hannity and Colmes offers to show Bachmann a video clip of her making the statement, but Fox terminates the segment with Bachmann before the clip can be aired. In the same appearance, Bachmann accused President-elect Obama and some Democrats in Congress of being “anti-American,” and suggested the media investigate her claim. She denied making that statement also (see October 17-22, 2008). On Hannity and Colmes, Bachmann says that Franken “wants to stuff the ballot box with rejected ballots,” and this “calls into question what the record is and who’s watching the books.” Bachmann now says that Hardball host Chris Matthews baited and trapped her into making her remarks, and an “urban legend” about what she said quickly sprang up. “What I said was, ‘Do your job,’” she tells Colmes. “That’s what I said.” [Minneapolis Star-Tribune, 11/20/2008] Entity Tags: Barack Obama, Al Franken, Alan Colmes, Norm Coleman, Chris Matthews, Fox News, Michele Bachmann November 20, 2008: Judge: Five Algerians Unlawfully Detained at Guantanamo, Must Be Released Federal Judge Richard Leon rules that the US government has unlawfully held five Algerian men at Guantanamo for nearly seven years (see January 18, 2002). Leon orders their release. Leon rules that the government’s case, based on a slender compilation of classified evidence, was too weak to justify the five men’s continued detention. The government’s case is based on a single “classified document from an unnamed source” for its central claim against the men, and the court has no way to accurately judge its credibility. “To rest on so thin a reed would be inconsistent with this court’s obligation,” Leon writes. He urges the Bush administration not to appeal the ruling, and recommends that they be released “forthwith.” Leon rules that a sixth Algerian, Bensayah Belkacem (see October 8, 2001), is being lawfully detained due to his demonstrable ties with al-Qaeda. The six are among the Guantanamo inmates who won a narrowly decided Supreme Court case recognizing their right to seek redress in the US court system (see June 22, 2008), and include Lakhdar Boumediene, for whom the Court’s ruling was named. Leon, a Republican appointee previously considered sympathetic to the Bush administration’s position on the detention of suspects, urges the government not to appeal his ruling: such an appeal could take as much as two years, and, he notes, “Seven years of waiting for our legal system to give them an answer to a question so important is, in my judgment, more than plenty.” If the government chooses not to appeal, the lawyers for the detainees expect them to be released into Bosnia, where they were arrested in early 2002. The Justice Department calls the ruling “perhaps an understandable consequence of the fact that neither the Supreme Court nor Congress has provided rules on how these habeas corpus cases should proceed in this unprecedented context.” One of the detainees’ lawyers, Robert Kirsch, says the case illustrates “the human cost of what can happen when mistakes are made at the highest levels of our government, and no one has the courage to acknowledge those mistakes.” Other detainee lawyers say the case is a broad repudiation of the Bush administration’s attempts to use the Guantanamo facility to avoid the scrutiny of US judges. Lawyer Zachary Katznelson, a member of the British human rights group Reprieve, says, “The decision by Judge Leon lays bare the scandalous basis on which Guantánamo has been based—slim evidence of dubious quality.” The case was not strengthened by the Bush administration’s pursuit of it: originally the six were charged with planning a bomb attack on the US Embassy in Sarajevo, Bosnia, but in October, Justice Department lawyers abruptly withdrew those accusations. [New York Times, 11/20/2008; National Review, 11/20/2008] The five will be released the following month (see December 2008). Entity Tags: Reprieve, Bensayah Belkacem, Al-Qaeda, Bush administration (43), Lakhdar Boumediene, Zachary Katznelson, US Supreme Court, Richard J. Leon, US Department of Justice, Robert Kirsch Category Tags: Impositions on Rights and Freedoms, Court Procedures and Verdicts, Expansion of Presidential Power, Detainments Outside US, Gov't Violations of Prisoner Rights November 22, 2008: Minnesota Senate Race Recounts Continue, Minor Mistakes Found As the recount in the US Senate race in Minnesota (see November 19, 2008) wears on, incumbent Senator Norm Coleman (R-MN) gains a number of votes in the preliminary results, widening his lead to 180 votes from a previous total of 120. Coleman’s campaign observers are challenging many of the ballots granted to challenger Al Franken (D-MN) during the recount, forcing those ballots to be set aside and considered by the state Canvassing Board at a later date. Some mistakes were made in Duluth precincts, slowing the results from St. Louis County, including the discovery that several duplicate ballots were missing from one precinct. In Minneapolis, over 100 people are working in a warehouse building to count votes. Franken is leading Coleman by wide margins in almost all Minneapolis precincts. Coleman campaign observer Corlyss Affeldt says she is volunteering as an observer because “I want to make sure it’s right.… That seems to be the prevailing motivation right now.” [Minneapolis Star-Tribune, 11/22/2008] Entity Tags: Norm Coleman, Corlyss Affeldt, Minnesota State Canvassing Board, Al Franken Category Tags: Voting Rights December 2-3, 2008: Retired Flag Officers Meet with Obama Officials to Ask that Incoming President End Torture, Rendition, Indefinite Detention Policies Twelve retired generals and admirals meet with President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team to ask that his administration completely repudiate the Bush administration’s policies of torture, rendition, and indefinite detentions of terror suspects. The group represents a larger number of some three dozen retired flag officers. Several of the participants tell reporters before the meeting about what they intend to discuss. The retired flag officers are going into the meeting with a list of “things that need to be done and undone,” says retired Marine General Joseph Hoar, who commanded the US Central Command (CENTCOM) from 1991 through 1994. “It is fairly extensive.” Such a set of moves by the Obama administration, the officers believe, would help reverse the decline in world opinion about the US, a decline they say was sparked by the issue of detainee abuse both in the Guantanamo detention center and in other such facilities. “We need to remove the stain, and the stain is on us, as well as on our reputation overseas,” says retired Vice Admiral Lee Gunn, a former Navy inspector general. Retired Major General Fred Haynes adds, “If he’d just put a couple of sentences in his inaugural address, stating the new position, then everything would flow from that.” But it needs to be done quickly and decisively, says Gunn: “Gradualism won’t do. That abrupt change will send a signal to the world that America is back.” [Associated Press, 12/2/2008; Reuters, 12/2/2008] Obama has said repeatedly that he will shut down the Guantanamo Bay detention center and stop the US practice of allowing detainees to be tortured (see November 16, 2008). Entity Tags: Joseph Hoar, Barack Obama, Lee Gunn, Obama administration, US Central Command, Fred Haynes, Bush administration (43) December 5-12, 2008: Missing Ballots Affect US Senate Recount in Minnesota One hundred and thirty-three ballots, stored in a single envelope, are missing from the warehouse containing the hundreds of thousands of ballots cast in Minnesota during the November elections. The ballots are part of a statewide recount (see November 19, 2008) to determine the winner of the US Senate race between incumbent Norm Coleman (R-MN) and Al Franken (D-MN—see November 4-5, 2008). Minneapolis officials are diligently searching for the missing ballots, according to Mayor R.T. Rybak (D-MN). The recounts are supposed to be finished today, but Minneapolis has been granted an extension to find the ballots. Franken’s lead recount attorney, Marc Elias, issues the following statement: “Find the ballots.… The outcome of this election might be at stake.” The Coleman campaign is alleging ballot tampering. “We do not know that there are any ballots missing, and it is premature and simply irresponsible to suggest that they are,” says Coleman’s attorney Fritz Knaak. He goes on to say that because Rybak, Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, and many Minneapolis city officials are Democrats, there could be some kind of orchestrated effort to suppress votes to favor Franken. However, “It is critical that there be no effort to make this matter a partisan issue,” he adds. Minneapolis Elections Director Cindy Reichert says there is no evidence of any sort of “foul play” concerning the missing ballots (see November 12, 2008). Official recount tallies show Coleman with a 205-vote lead, but this number is not current and Franken is expected to gain votes, especially if the missing ballots are found and tallied. The missing ballots are from a precinct largely populated by college students, considered a group that generally favors Franken. [St. Paul Pioneer Press, 12/5/2008] Four days later, Minneapolis declares the ballots to be irretrievably missing, ending the state’s counting of ballots and moving the recount process into the next phase—canvassing the results and considering ballots challenged by the two campaigns. Ritchie says that the canvassed and audited election-night results from the precinct can be counted in lieu of the missing ballots, though it takes four more days for the Canvassing Board to come to the same conclusion. Counting the ballots adds 36 (later reported as 46) to Franken’s total. Coleman’s campaign says that there may be other reasons for the ballot issue, with a spokesman saying, “We would hope further review of these other scenarios will be conducted, rather than just accepting the political spin of the Franken campaign.” The Coleman campaign is also protesting some counties’ decision to review initially rejected absentee ballots. Franken is expected to gain votes if the absentee ballots in question are counted. [St. Paul Pioneer Press, 12/9/2008; TPM Election Central, 12/12/2008] Entity Tags: Norm Coleman, Cindy Reichert, Al Franken, Fritz Knaak, Marc Elias, R.T. Rybak, Mark Ritchie, Minnesota State Canvassing Board December 22, 2008: Former Justice Department Prosecutor Reveals Self as Source for NSA Wiretapping Story Newsweek reveals that Thomas Tamm, a former high-level Justice Department official, was one of the whistleblowers who revealed the government’s illegal domestic wiretapping program, known as “Stellar Wind,” to the New York Times (see December 15, 2005). Tamm, an ex-prosecutor with a high security clearance, learned of the program in the spring of 2004 (see Spring 2004). Intense FBI Scrutiny - As of yet, Tamm has not been arrested as one of the leakers in the criminal leak investigation ordered by President Bush (see December 30, 2005), though since the December 2005 publication, Tamm has remained under Justice Department suspicion—FBI agents have raided his home, hauled away his personal possessions, and relentlessly questioned his family and friends (see August 1, 2007). He no longer has a government job, and is having trouble finding steady work as a lawyer. He has resisted pressure to plead to a felony charge of divulging classified information. Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff writes, “[H]e is living under a pall, never sure if or when federal agents might arrest him.” Perhaps his biggest regret is the impact the FBI investigation has had on his wife and children. “I didn’t think through what this could do to my family,” he says. But, “I don’t really need anybody to feel sorry for me,” he says. “I chose what I did. I believed in what I did.” No Decision to Prosecute Yet - The Justice Department has deferred a decision over whether to arrest and prosecute Tamm until after the Bush administration leaves office and a new attorney general takes over the department. Both President-elect Barack Obama and the incoming Attorney General, Eric Holder, have denounced the warrantless wiretapping program. In one speech Holder gave in June 2008, he said that President Bush had acted “in direct defiance of federal law” by authorizing the NSA program. Former US Attorney Asa Hutchinson, who is helping in Tamm’s defense, says: “When I looked at this, I was convinced that the action he took was based on his view of a higher responsibility. It reflected a lawyer’s responsibility to protect the rule of law.” Hutchinson has no use for the idea, promulgated by Bush officials and conservative pundits, that the Times story damaged the “war on terror” by alerting al-Qaeda terrorists to Stellar Wind and other surveillance programs. “Anybody who looks at the overall result of what happened wouldn’t conclude there was any harm to the United States,” he says. Hutchinson is hopeful that Holder’s Justice Department will drop its investigation of Tamm. The Public 'Ought to Know' about NSA Eavesdropping - Recently Tamm decided to go public with his story, against the advice of his lawyers. “I thought this [secret program] was something the other branches of the government—and the public—ought to know about,” he tells Isikoff. “So they could decide: do they want this massive spying program to be taking place?… If somebody were to say, who am I to do that? I would say, ‘I had taken an oath to uphold the Constitution.’ It’s stunning that somebody higher up the chain of command didn’t speak up.” Tamm also admits that he leaked information to the Times in part over his anger at other Bush administration policies for the Justice Department, including its aggressive pursuit of death penalty cases, and its use of “renditions” and “enhanced” interrogation techniques against terrorist suspects. He insists that he divulged no “sources and methods” that might compromise national security when he spoke to the Times. He could not tell the Times reporters anything about the NSA program, he says, because he knew nothing specific about the program. As Isikoff writes, “All he knew was that a domestic surveillance program existed, and it ‘didn’t smell right.’” (Times reporter Eric Lichtblau refuses to confirm if Tamm was one of his sources for the stories he wrote with fellow Times reporter James Risen.) [Newsweek, 12/22/2008] Entity Tags: Michael Isikoff, Bush administration (43), Barack Obama, Asa Hutchinson, ’Stellar Wind’, Eric Holder, Eric Lichtblau, Newsweek, US Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Thomas Tamm, George W. Bush Category Tags: Impositions on Rights and Freedoms, Government Acting in Secret, Database Programs, NSA Wiretapping / Stellar Wind, Media Involvement and Responses December 24, 2008: Minnesota Supreme Court Rejects Coleman Lawsuit, Paving Way for Franken Win in Senate Race The Minnesota Supreme Court unanimously rejects a lawsuit by Minnesota Senate candidate Norm Coleman (R-MN), who argued that absentee ballots should not be counted in the vote tallies that are giving his opponent, Al Franken (D-MN), an edge in the recount for the Senate seat both are vying for (see November 4-5, 2008). The Coleman campaign, alleging that many of the votes were counted twice, has asked that vote tallies in 25 selected precincts should be reverted to their Election Night totals, which would blot out Franken’s lead in the vote count. The Minnesota high court rules that a question such as this should be reserved for post-recount proceedings, and says that the Coleman campaign’s theory of double-counted ballots is not supported by evidence. Currently, Franken leads by a narrow 47-vote margin. According to press reports, the lawsuit was Coleman’s last, best shot at winning the seat; with the high court’s decision, a Franken victory is “nearly a foregone conclusion when this recount finishes up in early January.” Coleman’s lead recount lawyer Fritz Knaak says that the decision “virtually guarantees that this will be decided in an election contest,” indicating that the Coleman campaign is not yet ready to concede defeat and may well be planning further litigation. “[I]t’s highly unlikely that one senator will be seated on January 6th,” Knaak says. Franken campaign spokesperson Andy Barr says: “We win in Supreme Court. The process can move forward despite attempts to halt its progress and cast doubt on the result.” [TPM Election Central, 12/24/2008; MPR News, 12/24/2008; Minneapolis Star-Tribune, 12/24/2008] Entity Tags: Minnesota Supreme Court, Al Franken, Andy Barr, Fritz Knaak, Norm Coleman Category Tags: Court Procedures and Verdicts, Voting Rights January 2009: White House Assumes Larger Role in ‘Shadow’ Government Plans The Bush administration updates the secretive Continuity of Government (COG) program, which is designed to ensure the survival of the federal government during disasters. Federal emergency responsibilities are consolidated within the White House Military Office, a move designed to simplify the government’s response procedures. Under the changes, the Department of Defense and the Bush administration take over parts of the program from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). According to the New York Times, “Under the revamped structure, the White House Military Office, which reports to the office of the White House chief of staff, has assumed a more central role in setting up a temporary ‘shadow government’ in a crisis.” According to the Times, the move comes after “months of heated internal debate about the balance of power and the role of the military” in a time of crisis. “Supporters of the plan inside the Bush White House, including Vice President Dick Cheney’s office, saw the erratic response to the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001 and Hurricane Katrina in 2005 as a mandate for streamlining an emergency response process they considered clunky because it involved too many agencies.” Officials opposed to the plan argue the new structure places “too much power in the hands of too few people.” They also perceive the changes to be “part of the Bush administration’s broader efforts to enhance the power of the White House.” Supporters of the plan originally wanted to take the changes further, but according to the Times, “concerns about the perception of growing military influence in the emergency process set off an internal struggle, and the White House decided not to move ahead with a more ambitious proposal to give the power of the purse to the military arm, rather than FEMA, for budgeting the emergency operations, one official said.” A spokesman for the Pentagon will later describe the changes as a “minor tweaking” of the system. The changes are authorized by President Bush’s National Security Presidential Directive 51 (NSPD-51), which was signed in May 2007 (see May 9, 2007). [New York Times, 7/27/2009] Entity Tags: White House MIlitary Office, Bush administration (43), Federal Emergency Management Agency, US Department of Defense, Richard (“Dick”) Cheney Category Tags: Expansion of Presidential Power, Continuity of Government, Government Acting in Secret January 5, 2009: Recount in Minnesota Senate Race Gives Contest to Franken; Coleman Promises Lawsuit Challenging Results US Senate candidate Al Franken (D-MN) is confirmed as the winner of the Minnesota Senate race over incumbent Norm Coleman (R-MN) after over a month of vote recounting and legal maneuvering by both sides. Coleman was initially declared the winner, but Franken immediately requested a recount, as the vote margin was very close (see November 4-5, 2008). Franken is declared the winner by 225 votes out of 2.9 million cast. The final totals: Franken with 1,212,431 votes and Coleman with 1,212,206 votes. Third-party candidate Dean Barkley also garnered a significant number of votes. Coleman says he intends to file a lawsuit challenging the results, blocking Franken from being seated in the Senate. Coleman’s attorney Tony Trimble says: “This process isn’t at an end. It is now just at the beginning.” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) says, “The race in Minnesota is not over.” Franken says, “After 62 days of careful and painstaking hand-inspection of nearly 3 million ballots, after hours and hours of hard work by election officials and volunteers around the state, I am proud to stand before you as the next senator from Minnesota.” Both sides mounted an aggressive challenge to votes, with campaign officials challenging thousands of ballots during the recounts. Franken made headway when election officials opened and counted some 900 ballots that had erroneously been disqualified on Election Day. Coleman says some ballots were mishandled and others were wrongly excluded from the recount, thus denying him the victory. His loss was made certain when the Minnesota Supreme Court refused to change the totals of the recount (see December 24, 2008). The state Canvassing Board, the entity in charge of the recounts, votes unanimously to accept the totals as final. Franken’s lawyer Mark Elias says of Coleman’s promised court fight: “Former Senator Coleman has to make a decision. And it is a profound decision, one that he has to look into his heart to make: Whether or not he wants to be the roadblock to the state moving forward and play the role of a spoiler or sore loser or whether he wants to accept what was a very close election.” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) says, “The race in Minnesota is over,” and calls Republican efforts to continue challenging the result “only a little finger pointing.” However, a spokesperson for Reid says Franken will not be seated when Congress convenes later in the week. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) warns that any attempt to seat Franken would result in “chaos.” Trimble says that the recount was handled poorly, and there “can be no confidence” in the result. The seat will remain unfilled until Coleman’s legal challenge is settled. [Bloomberg, 1/5/2009; Associated Press, 1/6/2009; Minneapolis Star-Tribune, 1/6/2009] Republicans in the Minnesota legislature have speculated on the possibility of Governor Tim Pawlenty (R-MN) appointing someone, presumably a Republican, to take the Senate seat on a temporary basis while the recount plays out, but Democrats, who hold the majority in the legislature, say they will block any such efforts. Legal experts say Pawlenty’s legal authority to make such an appointment is dubious at best. [Minneapolis Star-Tribune, 1/6/2009] Later press reports will state that Franken’s margin of victory was 312 votes, after a judicial panel reviews the recount totals. [Minneapolis Star-Tribune, 4/22/2009] Coleman files a lawsuit to block Franken’s victory (see January 7, 2009). Entity Tags: Dean Barkley, Harry Reid, Minnesota State Canvassing Board, Al Franken, John Cornyn, Minnesota Supreme Court, Tony Trimble, Mitch McConnell, Norm Coleman, Tim Pawlenty, Mark Elias January 5, 2009: Judge Rules Wiretapping Lawsuit Can Continue Judge Vaughn Walker rules that “sufficient facts” exist to keep alive a lawsuit brought by the defunct Islamic charity Al Haramain, which alleges it was subjected to illegal, warrantless wiretapping by the US government (see February 28, 2006). The lawsuit centers on a Top Secret government document accidentally disclosed to plaintiffs’ lawyers Wendell Belew and Asim Ghafoo that allegedly proves the claim of illegal wiretapping; previous court rulings forced Belew and Ghafoo to return the document to the government and prohibited its use in the lawsuit. The lawsuit is widely viewed as a test case to decide in court whether the Bush administration abused its power by authorizing a secret domestic spying program (see Spring 2004 and December 15, 2005). Jon Eisenberg, the lawyer for Belew and Ghafoo, says it does not matter whether the case pertains to the Bush administration or the incoming Obama administration. “I don’t want President Obama to have that power any more than I do President Bush,” he says. Because the lawsuit contains sufficient evidence even without the Top Secret document, Walker rules, it can continue. “The plaintiffs have alleged sufficient facts to withstand the government’s motion to dismiss,” he writes. Therefore, he adds, the law demands that they be allowed to review the classified document, and others, to determine whether the lawyers were spied on illegally and whether Bush’s spy program was unlawful. “To be more specific, the court will review the sealed document ex parte and in camera,” Walker writes. “The court will then issue an order regarding whether plaintiffs may proceed—that is, whether the sealed document establishes that plaintiffs were subject to electronic surveillance not authorized by FISA” (the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act—see 1978). [Wired News, 1/5/2009] Entity Tags: Vaughn Walker, Al Haramain Islamic Foundation, Asim Ghafoo, Jon Eisenberg, Bush administration (43), Wendell Belew, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Obama administration Category Tags: Court Procedures and Verdicts, Government Acting in Secret, NSA Wiretapping / Stellar Wind January 7, 2009: Defeated US Senate Candidate Sues to Void Recount Findings, Implies Voter Fraud Cost Him Election Former Senator Norm Coleman (R-MN), who was recently declared the loser in a hotly contested US Senate race in Minnesota (see January 5, 2009), rejects the findings of the Canvassing Board that reported his opponent, Al Franken (D-MN), as the winner, and files a lawsuit challenging the results. “Not every valid vote has been counted and some have been counted twice,” Coleman says. “Let’s take the time right now in this contested race to get it right.” The suit is filed in the District Court of Ramsey County, where Coleman hopes to convince a three-judge panel that votes were improperly excluded and included in the recount. Franken’s attorney Marc Elias calls Coleman’s lawsuit “an uphill battle to overturn the will of the people” and adds, “It is essentially the same thin gruel, warmed-over leftovers… that they have been serving the last few weeks.” Elias says the Franken campaign has its own questions about uncounted ballots. The lawsuit blocks Franken from being seated in the US Senate until it is resolved. Former Minnesota Governor Arne Carlson (R-MN) says Coleman should concede the election and bow out gracefully. “I don’t think it’s winnable,” Carlson says, and warns that Coleman risks damaging his reputation by pursuing such a lawsuit. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) says Coleman is “entitled to the opportunity to proceed however he sees fit. But for someone who’s been in the trenches on a number of these elections, graciously conceding… would be the right step. This can’t drag on forever.” Coleman says the issue is not about his winning or losing, but about fairness and accuracy in vote counting. Coleman’s suit will contend that the Canvassing Board did not apply consistent standards to challenged ballots, and both local election officials and Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie (D-MN) counted ballots unfairly to the advantage of Franken. Coleman’s lawyer Fritz Knaak says the campaign’s lawyers are conducting their own “very real investigation” into the election, and promises that the campaign will present testimony about “double voting” in some precincts. [Minneapolis Star-Tribune, 1/7/2009] Entity Tags: Norm Coleman, Al Franken, Arne Carlson, Mark Ritchie, Fritz Knaak, Marc Elias, Harry Reid, Minnesota State Canvassing Board January 9, 2009: Liberal Columnist Challenges Conservatives Alleging Voter Fraud in Franken Senate Victory to Provide Proof or ‘Shut Up’ Liberal author and columnist Joe Conason says that conservatives accusing Minnesota Senate candidate Al Franken (D-MN) of stealing the election from opponent Norm Coleman (R-MN) should show genuine evidence of voter fraud “or shut up.” Franken was recently declared the winner of the US Senate race by a narrow margin of votes (see January 5, 2009). Conason cites a raft of radio and television talk show hosts such as Bill O’Reilly and Rush Limbaugh, and conservative billionaires such as Richard Mellon Scaife, who have been “scream[ing] that Franken is stealing, rigging, pilfering, scamming, thieving, and cheating his way to victory” without advancing any proof, and “in plain contradiction of the available facts.” Conason writes, “Not only is there no evidence that Franken or his campaign ‘cheated’ in any way during the election or the recount, but there is ample reason to believe that the entire process was fair, balanced, and free from partisan taint.” Conason cites claims by Limbaugh on January 5 that Franken “stole the race,” and quotes Limbaugh as saying on that same broadcast: “They are stealing the race up there blind in front of everybody’s nose. They are counting absentee ballots [which election officials are required to do by law].… They’re counting votes twice—votes that were rejected, all kinds of things [which election officials ordered after determining that some votes were rejected wrongly]. That’s just—the Democrats are stealing the election up there.” (The material in brackets is inserted by Conason.) Conason goes on to quote Republican political consultant Dick Morris, who appeared on O’Reilly’s show on January 7 and claimed: “I think there’s funny business—funny business going on in Franken’s thing. Sure, he’s cheating, and sure that Minnesota’s doing it for him. I mean, there’s no question that there’s cheating going on.… This is outright larceny. This is just a total theft.” Conason calls Morris’s accusations “incendiary,” and notes that like Limbaugh, Morris advanced no evidence to support his claims. As for O’Reilly, he has written columns on Newsmax asking readers to donate to the Republican National Lawyers Association to “stop Franken from stealing the election”; that organization is raising money to assist in Coleman’s election lawsuit (see January 7, 2009). Conason writes that the Canvassing Board, the bipartisan entity that decided the race in Franken’s favor, was “impeccably nonpartisan,” and continues, “Nobody in their right mind in Minnesota believes that the board was biased.” He cites conservative blogger Scott Johnson as saying: “There was no noticeable partisan division among the board. Minnesotans are justifiably proud of the transparency and fairness of their work.” Conason concludes: “In essence, [the right-wing pundits] have accused my friend Franken of a felony under Minnesota law. If they know of any evidence that would show he has stolen votes or violated any election statute, let them report it to the state law enforcement authorities. And if they don’t, perhaps they will at last have the decency to shut up.” [Salon, 1/9/2009] Entity Tags: Norm Coleman, Al Franken, Bill O’Reilly, Dick Morris, Joe Conason, Minnesota State Canvassing Board, Scott Johnson, Rush Limbaugh, Richard Mellon Scaife January 10, 2009: Newsweek Readers Call NSA Whistleblower a ‘Hero’ Who ‘Protect[ed] the People’ against Bush and Cheney Newsweek publishes a range of responses to its article about Justice Department whistleblower Thomas Tamm (see December 22, 2008), who alerted the New York Times to the Bush administration’s illegal domestic wiretapping program “Stellar Wind” (see Spring 2004 and December 15, 2005). Most are extremely supportive of Tamm; Newsweek writes, “Nearly all labeled Tamm a hero.” One reader wonders why “few in the Justice Department were as troubled as Tamm about the illegality of the secret domestic wiretapping program or had the courage of his convictions.” Another notes, “Whistle-blowers like him are heroes because they are protecting ‘We the people.’” A Milwaukee reader, Harvey Jay Goldstein, suggests that President-elect Obama honor Tamm’s courage and service by “issuing him a pardon” and then “seek indictments against those involved in authorizing and carrying out the illegal program, including President Bush and Vice President Cheney.” The reader is “appalled” that Tamm “is being harassed and persecuted by the FBI (see August 1, 2007) for his part in disclosing the coverup of a program that originated in the Oval Office.” He calls Tamm “a national hero who had the guts to do what he thought was right and wasn’t intimidated by the power of the presidency.” Goldstein accuses Bush and Cheney of “undermining and circumventing the protections of the First and Fourth amendments [in what] are perhaps the most egregious attempts to consolidate absolute power within the executive branch since the dark days of Richard Nixon.” Illinois reader Leonard Kliff, a World War II veteran, writes: “It is disgusting that this man is on the run when he should be receiving a medal for his actions. I am sure the majority of Americans fully support him.” The Reverend Joseph Clark of Maryland calls Tamm “a common man doing his job—upholding the Constitution of the United States and the rule of law.… Thank God for people like Thomas Tamm who spoke when no one else was finding a voice.… This nation is made up of people like Tamm, and that is our strength.” And a former schoolmate of Tamm’s, Peter Craig, writes: “No one who attended Landon School in Bethesda, Md., in the late 1960s, as I did, will be at all surprised to learn that Tom Tamm ended up risking it all to do the right thing. In his senior year, for instance, Tom, then the president of the student council, decided to turn himself in to the rest of the council for some minor infraction unknown to anyone else (and ultimately warranting no punishment). It showed the same character and a burgeoning morality that years later would compel him to do what he did.” Only one published letter, from Bob Spickelmier, expresses the view that Tamm should go to jail for his actions. [Newsweek, 1/10/2009] Entity Tags: Thomas Tamm, Bob Spickelmier, ’Stellar Wind’, Bush administration (43), Newsweek, Harvey Jay Goldstein, Leonard Kliff, US Department of Justice, Peter Craig, Joseph Clark January 12-13, 2009: Franken Asks Minnesota Supreme Court to Force Issuance of Election Certificate Allowing Him to Take Senate Seat, Court Will Refuse Al Franken (D-MN), declared the winner of the disputed US Senate race in Minnesota (see January 5, 2009), asks the Minnesota Supreme Court to order Governor Tim Pawlenty (R-MN) and Secretary of State Mark Ritchie (D-MN) to issue a signed certificate to allow him to take his seat in the Senate. Both Pawlenty and Ritchie have refused requests from Franken to issue the certificate, saying that Minnesota law requires them to wait until a lawsuit by Franken’s opponent Norm Coleman (R-MN) is resolved (see January 7, 2009). Franken’s petition to the Minnesota high court contends that one part of Minnesota law requiring the issuance of a certificate holds sway over the portion of law Pawlenty and Ritchie have cited. Part of Franken’s argument cites a court precedence saying that the US Senate, and not an individual state, must choose whether to seat an elected official. [Minneapolis Star-Tribune, 1/12/2009; Minnesota Independent, 1/13/2009] The Coleman campaign issues the following statement regarding Franken’s request: “Al Franken knows he can’t win this election contest based on the major inconsistencies and discrepancies that were part of the recount, and his attempted power play today is evidence of that. He can’t and won’t be seated in a seat he didn’t win, so he is trying this underhanded attempt to blatantly ignore the will of Minnesotans and the laws of the state. The totals certified by the state Canvassing Board include double-counted votes, inconsistencies regarding rejected absentee ballots, and inconsistent handling of newly discovered and missing ballots. These are serious issues that both the canvassing board and the Minnesota Supreme Court directed be handled in an election contest, and that will go forward as required.” Coleman’s lead recount attorney, Fritz Knaak, adds to the heat generated by the Coleman campaign by calling the request an “incredible and rather astonishing” power play, “an unprecedented and futile charade,” an “arrogant move,” and “an insult to the process.” He continues: “Al Franken is not the winner. There is no winner, and there won’t be a winner until the process stipulated in Minnesota election law has been completed.” When the process is complete, Knaak says, “Norm Coleman will be back on top and back to the United States Senate. No one, not Al Franken, not [Senate Majority Leader] Harry Reid, not the national Democrats can declare a winner in Minnesota before there’s an actual legal winner.… Today’s move by Al Franken signals his desperation.… Our voters and our laws matter too much to let politics try to influence the outcome of this election.” The Minnesota high court will refuse to issue the order. [MinnPost, 1/12/2009; Minnesota Independent, 1/13/2009] Entity Tags: Harry Reid, Fritz Knaak, Norm Coleman, Al Franken, Minnesota State Canvassing Board, Tim Pawlenty, Minnesota Supreme Court, Mark Ritchie January 13, 2009: Former Military Prosecutor Says Guantanamo Detainee Should Be Released Darrel Vandeveld, in a photo from 2001. [Source: Go Erie (.com)]Former military prosecutor Lieutenant Colonel Darrel Vandeveld agrees with the American Civil Liberties Union’s position that Guantanamo detainee Mohammed Jawad should be released. Vandeveld was the lead prosecutor on the military commission trying Jawad, who has been held for over six years. Vanderveld says in a declaration that there is “no credible evidence or legal basis” to justify Jawad’s detention or prosecution. “There is, however, reliable evidence that he was badly mistreated by US authorities both in Afghanistan and at Guantanamo,” says the declaration, which Vandeveld files in a Washington court in support of the ACLU’s habeas corpus petition. Jawad, who was captured in Afghanistan in 2002 at age 16, was accused of throwing a hand grenade at two US soldiers and their interpreter. Jawad and fellow detainee Omar Khadr, a Canadian citizen, are the last two detainees to face charges based on acts they allegedly committed while they were juveniles. The ACLU maintains that Jawad was tortured to force him to confess. Vandeveld resigned from the military commissions in September 2008, saying he could not ethically proceed with Jawad’s case. In his declaration, Vandeveld says the “chaotic state of evidence” in the military commissions “make it impossible for anyone to harbor the remotest hope that justice is an achievable goal” (see January 20, 2009). [Agence France-Presse, 1/13/2009] Entity Tags: Omar Khadr, American Civil Liberties Union, Mohammed Jawad, Darrel Vandeveld Category Tags: Impositions on Rights and Freedoms, Other Legal Changes, Detainments Outside US, Gov't Violations of Prisoner Rights January 14, 2009: Amnesty International Calls for Investigation of Human Rights Violations Sparked by the official confirmation that Guantanamo detainee Mohamed al-Khatani was tortured (see January 14, 2009), Amnesty International calls for the incoming Obama administration and Congress to launch an independent commission of inquiry into human rights violations in the “war on terror.” In a press release, Amnesty International writes: “Torture is a crime under international law. The USA is obliged as a party to the UN Convention against Torture (see October 21, 1994) to investigate ‘wherever there is reasonable ground to believe that an act of torture has been committed in any territory under its jurisdiction.’ The same treaty requires it to submit the case to its competent authorities for the purpose of prosecution. The treaty, and international law more generally, precludes the invocation of exceptional circumstances or superior orders as justification for torture. Anyone who has authorized, committed, is complicit, or participated in torture must be brought to justice, no matter their level of office or former level of office. Yet the public acknowledgement that the USA has tortured al-Khatani was not accompanied by any news of efforts to bring those responsible to justice.” Such a government commission “must not be used to block or delay the prosecution of any individual against whom there is already sufficient evidence of wrongdoing. A criminal investigation into the torture of Mohamed al-Khatani is already long overdue.” The incoming president, Barack Obama, has already acknowledged that waterboarding, one of the “harsh interrogation techniques” used against Guantanamo detainees, is torture. “Next week, then, the USA will have a president who considers that torture has been committed by the USA,” Amnesty writes. “He will be under an obligation to ensure full individual and institutional accountability. There must be no safe havens for torturers.” As for al-Khatani, Amnesty believes the US should either release him or try him “in accordance with international fair trial standards in an independent and impartial court—not a military commission. No information obtained under torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment should be admitted in any proceedings, except against the perpetrators of any such treatment as evidence that it occurred.” [Amnesty International, 1/14/2009] Entity Tags: Barack Obama, Amnesty International, Obama administration, Mohamed al-Khatani Category Tags: Impositions on Rights and Freedoms, Expansion of Presidential Power, Gov't Violations of Prisoner Rights January 15, 2009: OLC Repudiates Earlier Memos Claiming Unprecedented Presidential Powers Steven Bradbury, the outgoing head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC), issues a legal opinion finding certain earlier opinions from the OLC invalid. Bradbury is referring to several memos issued by former OLC lawyers John Yoo, Jay Bybee, and others after the 9/11 attacks (see March 2, 2009). 'Doubtful Nature' - Bradbury writes that these opinions had not been relied upon since 2003, and notes that it is important to acknowledge in writing “the doubtful nature of these propositions.” The opinions “do not currently reflect, and have not for some years reflected, the views of the” OLC, Bradbury writes, “and on several occasions we have already acknowledged the doubtful nature of these propositions.” President's Position - One portion of Bradbury’s memo says it is “not sustainable” to argue that the president’s power as commander in chief “precludes Congress from enacting any legislation concerning the detention, interrogation, prosecution, and transfer of enemy combatants.” Bradbury is referring to a 2002 memo that claimed President Bush could order the “rendition” of detainees to other countries without regard to Congressional legislation (see March 13, 2002). 'Novel and Complex Questions' - In repudiating the memos, Bradbury writes that they were the product of Yoo and others confronting what he calls “novel and complex questions in a time of great danger and under extraordinary time pressure.” [US Department of Justice, 1/15/2009 ; New York Times, 3/2/2009; Reuters, 3/2/2009] Response - Yale law professor Jack Balkin later notes that the memo does not repudiate “any of the Bush administration’s specific policies regarding surveillance, detention, and interrogation.” [Jack Balkin, 3/3/2009] In 2004, the Justice Department repudiated the so-called “golden shield” memo, written by Yoo and the then-chief counsel for Vice President Cheney, David Addington, which gave US personnel almost unlimited authority to torture prisoners (see August 1, 2002). The New York Times writes that Bradbury’s last-minute memo “appears to have been the Bush lawyers’ last effort to reconcile their views with the wide rejection by legal scholars and some Supreme Court opinions of the sweeping assertions of presidential authority made earlier by the Justice Department.” Walter Dellinger, who headed the OLC during the Clinton administration, says that Bradbury’s memo “disclaiming the opinions of earlier Bush lawyers sets out in blunt detail how irresponsible those earlier opinions were.” Dellinger says it is important to note that the Bush administration’s assertions “that Congress had absolutely no role in these national security issues was contrary to constitutional text, historical practice, and judicial precedent.” [New York Times, 3/2/2009] Bradbury, who like Yoo and Bybee may face disbarment, is careful to note that while the legal opinions are invalid, he is not suggesting that the authors did not “satisfy” professional standards. [Washington Post, 3/3/2009] Entity Tags: John C. Yoo, Steven Bradbury, Office of Legal Counsel (DOJ), New York Times, Walter Dellinger, Jay S. Bybee, Jack Balkin, US Department of Justice Category Tags: Impositions on Rights and Freedoms, Expansion of Presidential Power, Government Acting in Secret, Government Classification January 15, 2009: Outgoing CIA Director: Agency Justified in Using Secret Prisons, Extreme Interrogation Techniques Michael Hayden, in the last days of his position as CIA director, defends the agency’s use of secret prisons and extreme interrogation methods on suspected terrorists. Hayden claims the techniques and practices helped prevent new terrorist attacks, though he refuses to provide evidence of this claim, and says that they were done “out of duty, not out of enthusiasm.” Hayden says the CIA detainee program should not be subject to a public investigation, because the program was made legal by secret Justice Department memos (see January 28, 2009) and some members of Congress were informed of the program’s existence. In addition, a public investigation could possibly damage the careers of CIA officers and the agency’s espionage operations. “We are asked to do things routinely that no one else is asked to do, that no one else is allowed to do,” Hayden says. “You can’t do this to these people.” Asked if he was concerned that Attorney General-designee Eric Holder unequivocally termed waterboarding as torture, Hayden responds, “It’s an uninteresting question to the Central Intelligence Agency.” He continues: “We don’t do that. We haven’t done it since March 2003, and we don’t intend to do it. What the agency has done in the past, what it is doing now, what it will do in the future is based on the best legal counsel it has at the time.” Hayden says he was “heartened” by President Obama’s recent remarks that the nation must “move beyond” the Bush years. [McClatchy News, 1/15/2009] Entity Tags: Michael Hayden, Central Intelligence Agency Category Tags: Impositions on Rights and Freedoms, Gov't Violations of Prisoner Rights January 15, 2009: Justice Department Will Continue Defending Warrantless Wiretapping Program, Says Incoming Attorney General Eric Holder. [Source: New York Times]Incoming Attorney General Eric Holder says the Justice Department will defend the US’s warrantless eavesdropping program (see Spring 2004 and December 15, 2005) in court, based on Congress’s passage of legislation immunizing US telecommunications companies from lawsuits challenging their participation in the government spy program (see January 5, 2009). Holder makes this statement during Senate hearings to confirm his selection as attorney general. “The duty of the Justice Department is to defend statutes that have been passed by Congress,” Holder says. “Unless there are compelling reasons, I don’t think we would reverse course.” President-elect Obama, while a senator, opposed granting immunity to the telecommunications firms, but voted for immunity because it was included in a broader surveillance bill that gave the Bush administration broad new powers to eavesdrop on Americans without warrants. [Wired News, 1/15/2009] Entity Tags: Barack Obama, US Department of Justice, Eric Holder, Bush administration (43) Category Tags: Impositions on Rights and Freedoms, Government Acting in Secret, NSA Wiretapping / Stellar Wind, Other Surveillance January 16, 2009: Coleman Lawsuit to Block Franken Senate Victory to Commence in 10 Days The lawsuit filed by former Senator Norm Coleman to block Senator-elect Al Franken (D-MN) from taking his seat in the US Senate (see January 7, 2009) is scheduled to begin on January 26. A three-judge panel will consider Coleman’s case and whether to reverse the findings of the state Canvassing Board, which declared Franken the winner (see January 5, 2009). [Minneapolis Star-Tribune, 1/16/2009] Entity Tags: Norm Coleman, Al Franken, Minnesota State Canvassing Board Category Tags: Court Procedures and Verdicts, Voter Fraud/Disenfranchisement, Voting Rights January 17, 2009: ’Hamdan’ Lawyer Named Deputy Solicitor General Neal Katyal. [Source: PBS]Georgetown law professor Neal Katyal is to be named the Justice Department’s deputy solicitor general. Katyal successfully argued for the defense in the landmark Hamdan v. Rumsfeld trial before the Supreme Court (see June 30, 2006). Legal Times reporter Joe Palazzolo writes, “Katyal’s appointment is another strong signal of President-elect Barack Obama’s intentions to depart sharply from the terrorist detention and interrogation policies of the Bush administration.” The Hamdan case, “which marked Katyal’s first appearance before the high court, was a stinging rebuke to [President Bush’s] broad assertion of wartime power.” Katyal’s boss, Harvard Law School dean Elena Kagan, was named earlier in the month. Katyal was incoming Attorney General Eric Holder’s national security adviser in the Justice Department from 1998 to 1999, when Holder was deputy attorney general for the Clinton administration. Katyal also served as one of the co-counsels for Vice President Gore in the Supreme Court election dispute of December 2000. He once clerked for Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. [Legal Times, 1/17/2009] Entity Tags: US Department of Justice, Elena Kagan, Neal Katyal, Joe Palazzolo January 19, 2009: Bush Administration Requests Stay in Judge’s Decision to Allow Lawsuit to Proceed As one of its last official acts, the Bush administration asks federal judge Vaughn Walker to stay his ruling that keeps alive a lawsuit testing whether a sitting president can bypass Congress and eavesdrop on Americans without warrants. The request, filed at 10:56 p.m. on President Bush’s last full day in office, asks Walker to stay his ruling and allow the federal government to appeal his ruling that allows the al-Haramain lawsuit to proceed (see February 28, 2006). The warrantless wiretapping alleged in the lawsuit took place in 2004, well before Congress’s 2008 authorization of the government’s spy program. The Obama administration’s incoming Attorney General, Eric Holder, says the Justice Department will defend the spy program because Congress made it legal (see January 15, 2009). It is not clear whether the Justice Department under Holder will continue to fight the Al Haramain lawsuit. The Bush administration wants Walker to reverse his decision to let plaintiffs’ lawyers Wendell Belew and Asim Ghafoo use a Top Secret document that was accidentally disclosed to them in 2004 (see January 5, 2009); that document, which allegedly proves the warrantless and illegal nature of the wiretapping performed against the Al Haramain charity, is at the center of the lawsuit. Previous rulings disallowed the use of the document and forced the defense lawyers to return it to the government, but Walker ruled that other evidence supported the claim of warrantless wiretapping, and therefore the document could be used. In its request for a stay, the Bush administration asserts that allowing the document to be used in the lawsuit would jeopardize national security, and that the document is protected under the state secrets privilege (see March 9, 1953). Administration lawyers say that Walker should not be allowed to see the document, much less the defense lawyers. “If the court were to find… that none of the plaintiffs are aggrieved parties, the case obviously could not proceed, but such a holding would reveal to plaintiffs and the public at large information that is protected by the state secrets privilege—namely, that certain individuals were not subject to alleged surveillance,” the administration writes in its request. If the lawsuit continues, the government says, that decision “would confirm that a plaintiff was subject to surveillance” and therefore should not be allowed: “Indeed, if the actual facts were that just one of the plaintiffs had been subject to alleged surveillance, any such differentiation likewise could not be disclosed because it would inherently reveal intelligence information as to who was and was not a subject of interest, which communications were and were not of intelligence interest, and which modes of communication were and were not of intelligence interest, and which modes of communication may or may not have been subject to surveillance.” Jon Eisenberg, the lawyer for Belew and Ghafoo, says: “We filed this lawsuit to establish a judicial precedent that the president cannot disregard Congress in the name of national security. Plaintiffs have a right to litigate the legality of the surveillance.” [Wired News, 1/20/2009] Entity Tags: Jon Eisenberg, Asim Ghafoo, Al Haramain Islamic Foundation, Bush administration (43), Obama administration, Eric Holder, Wendell Belew, Vaughn Walker, US Department of Justice, George W. Bush January 20, 2009: Critic of Bush Policies Joins Office of Legal Counsel Marty Lederman. [Source: Georgetown Law School]Georgetown law professor Marty Lederman, familiar to legal scholars and progressive bloggers for his work on the legal blog “Balkinization,” joins the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) as assistant attorney general. Lederman has been an outspoken critic of the Bush administration’s policies on warrantless wiretapping and torture. Lederman’s boss, OLC chief Dawn Johnsen, has been a frequent “guest blogger” on Balkinization, as well as a contributor to Slate’s legal blog “Convictions.” Lederman’s colleague Jack Balkin writes: “Needless to say, I am very pleased for the country by Marty’s new job. I do not exaggerate when I say that Marty is one of the finest lawyers I know, and there is perhaps no better time to put his remarkable talents to use in helping to reform a Justice Department that so badly needs reform.” Lederman is taking the position formerly held by lawyer John Yoo during the first few years of the Bush administration. [Think Progress, 1/20/2009; Balkinization, 1/20/2009] Entity Tags: Martin (“Marty”) Lederman, Balkinization, Jack Balkin, Office of Legal Counsel (DOJ), Dawn Johnsen, US Department of Justice Category Tags: Other Legal Changes January 20, 2009: Obama Orders Suspension of Guantanamo Prosecutions As one of his first official acts as president, Barack Obama orders that all military prosecutions of terrorist suspects at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility be suspended for 120 days. The order comes during the inaugural ceremonies, and is issued by Defense Secretary Robert Gates, the only Cabinet holdover from the Bush administration. “In the interests of justice, and at the direction of the president of the United States and the secretary of defense, the government respectfully requests the military commission grant a continuance of the proceedings in the above-captioned case until 20 May 2009,” the request reads. [CNN, 1/21/2009; Agence France-Presse, 1/21/2009] Obama promised repeatedly during and after the presidential campaign that he would close the detention facility at the Guantanamo Naval Base. This request does not go that far, but it does bring to a halt the planned prosecution

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Zahajki is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Drelów, within Biała Podlaska County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately west of Drelów, south-west of Biała Podlaska, and north of the regional capital Lublin. References Villages in Biała Podlaska County Siedlce Governorate Kholm Governorate Lublin Voivodeship (1919–1939)

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Blaine Callard, the chief executive of Harvey Norman Ireland, has indicated he is prepared to shut some of the group’s 12 stores in the State if “holdout” landlords won’t come to agreements with it over reductions in boom-time rents. “I’ve always said we are committed to Ireland, but it doesn’t mean we are committed to every site,” he said in an interview with The Irish Times. The electronics and furniture retailer’s like-for-like revenues are growing strongly, at about 5 per cent per annum. IBRC Assurance Company, the investment arm of the former Anglo Irish Bank, last week filed a High Court lawsuit against Harvey Norman as part of a long-running rent dispute with the group over its outlet in Cork, where IBRC Assurance is the landlord. IBRC Assurance is on the market through a receivership process being overseen by Grant Thornton accountants, which was unavailable for comment. IBRC, the bank in special liquidation that owns 100 per cent of the assurance company, declined to comment. Harvey Norman, which entered the market in 2003, has sought rent cuts from most of its landlords in recent years. Mr Callard praised Nama, which he said was “willing to come to a sensible accommodation” on sites it controlled. Harvey Norman has been in dispute with IBRC Assurance over the rent at the Cork store since 2009. In 2012, Mr Callard wrote to the then chief executive of IBRC, Mike Aynsley, asking for a rent cut. The banker responded that a rent increase would be more appropriate, prompting Mr Callard to accuse My Aynsley of “breathtaking arrogance”. In 2009 and 2010, several of Harvey Norman’s landlords filed High Court actions against it in rent disputes. Mr Callard said he wants to open new stores in Galway, Dublin.

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Samsung’s latest Frame TV has a matte screen that looks and feels more like real art January 3, 2022 by Team AMZ Pro Samsung has managed to single-handedly define the category of “lifestyle TVs” – highly designed TVs that fit into the home more seamlessly than traditional TVs – with The Frame. I have several friends, colleagues and family members who have recently purchased a model in The Frame series. For them, the device’s stylish looks, customizable frames and the ability to display artwork or personal photos when the TV is “off” are more important than the latest picture quality or HDMI specifications. For 2022, the company hopes to take The Frame to the next level and make its wall art living room trick more compelling than ever before. Samsung says the latest models will have a matte, anti-reflective screen with a “lifelike” texture that feels like canvas or paper to the touch. The anti-reflective screen could be a big draw for consumers; The frame is able to match the white balance and brightness of works of art based on ambient lighting in a room, but if there is one thing that reveals the fact that you are still watching a TV, then it is glare from the screen. A comparison of last year’s Frame in relation to the new matt screened model. Image: Samsung By introducing a new anti-reflective film and other anti-reflective measures, Samsung hopes that oil panthers and other art will jump off the screen to a more impressive extent than before. Unfortunately, I have not yet had a chance to see the new anti-reflective screens in person to see how compelling the end result is – or whether there is any negative effect on the image when viewing regular content. The company’s art store offers over 1,600 pieces, and frame owners can expect a new, more refined user experience in 2022 as they browse this selection. For 2022, The Frame will be offered in a total of seven different sizes, starting at 32 inches at the small end and topped with an 85-inch model. As for the technical specifications of the TV itself, they sound like last year: The frame will give you a nice 4K HDR image with an extended quantum dot color palette, but it lacks advanced TV features such as local attenuation in full array, 120Hz support, variable refresh rate and so on. And Samsung continues to ignore Dolby Vision completely. Based on Samsung’s claims, this guy would not see much glare on the new Frame. If image quality is your top priority, the company’s top-tier Neo QLED set (with Mini LED technology) is still the way to go. But that’s not what The Frame is for. This model – and Samsung’s other lifestyle models like The Serif – is for people who want a perfectly acceptable image in a package that complements their interior design instead of colliding with it. Pricing, release details, and more detailed technical specifications for the 2022 Frame Series should be announced closer to when the TVs begin airing in the coming months. Imprisonment for one year and 100,000 dirhams as punishment for spreading rumors South Korean defects to Hellhole North, where dictator Kim Jong-un’s regime roasts citizens with flamethrowers The largest black diamond in the world comes from Dubai Emma Stone thought Andrew Garfield was a ‘Jerk’ for lying about Spider-Man Demko makes 31 saves as Canucks win 3-1 over swinging Nashville Predators – Barrier Star Journal Wicket: Melbourne Renegades, Aaron Finch – 19 January 22nd Man climbs transfer tower downtown and asks for train closures on west side of River LA – CBS Los Angeles

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The Rise of E-Commerce for Brands: Wearable Technology Brands By Bradley Keenan The rise of e-commerce has changed the retail landscape especially for branded manufacturers. Online retail is disrupting the more traditional distribution channels for these companies and consumer behavior is driving more and more branded manufacturers to make a move into e-commerce. But wading into these unknown waters can be tricky and a bit scary. We’re here to help. Over the coming weeks on the blog, we’ll feature more brand-specific content — whether that be recent news or success stories. We want to help guide you through this industry transformation and give you more insight into what other brands are doing and why it matters. Samsung recently announced the launch of its version of the smartwatch, the Gear S2. This was a great move from Samsung — the product itself is amazing, but the timing of its launch is also brilliant. Samsung launched the Gear S2 ahead of Berlin’s IFA consumer electronics conference (a major event in the technology world), affirming its position as a serious competitor within the market. The key features of the Gear S2 include: Two differing styles Easy access to applications and notifications 1.2-inch circular screen with a 360 x 360 resolution 1 GHz dual-core processor, which will run on the company’s Tizen operating system The Gear S2 is also compatible with other Samsung devices, but one of the biggest game changers is that the battery can last from two to three days and features wireless charging. Similar to other smartwatches on the market, Samsung Gear S2 will provide notifications of calendar appointments, emails and news, and users can also send texts directly from their wrist thanks to built-in 3G connectivity. It will also allow for mobile payments, activity tracking, smart car keys and remote control of home devices. However, it’s one of the very few smartwatches that doesn’t rely on a mobile phone to work. Impact on the E-Commerce Industry This leads into what wearable technology could mean for e-commerce businesses. In the last few years, the impact mobile technology has made on online retail is already clearly visible. For example, Facebook’s local awareness ads currently allow retailers to drive foot traffic into their brick-and-mortar stores with geo-targeted ads to shoppers who appear in a certain radius of a store location. These ads could eventually pop up on a shopper’s wearable technology gadget when they are near the store. Retailers especially are battling with one another to create more efficient, valuable and high-tech products than ever before. Samsung isn’t the first company, but will also not be the last company to launch into wearable technology. I’ve been using a smart watch for a few weeks now. It seems to me that the biggest change is that I see my messages much more quickly than before. This means that things like geo-targeting are becoming more feasible as acknowledging alerts occurs nearly in real-time. So where we’ve seen retargeting online, we could expect to receive alerts when an offer on a product is only 30 meters away. The Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to grow to 25 billion installed units by 2020 and retailers are beginning to feel the pressure to create more and more products. Soon, consumers will be able to control every aspect of their lives through wearable technology — from being able to boil a kettle from a different room to telling consumers what is in their fridge when they’re out shopping and have forgotten their list. Impact on Logistics In the next few years, it’s expected that retailers will feel a significant impact to their supply chain, inventory, logistics and fleet management. IoT devices will allow retailers to monitor their inventories and data more effectively. Products will also be moving through the supply chain at a much faster rate, meaning that retailers will have larger inventories and will be able to improve their supply chain efficiency. Another impact retailers will see is how their interactions with consumers will change — the focus will be on tailor-made promotions and real-time analytics, rather than generalized advertising. The IoT mixed with big data equals endless opportunities and possibilities for retailers, including higher staff productivity, faster customer service responses, better maintenance and improved security. Impact on Consumer Behavior It won’t be just retailers feeling the impact — consumers will also feel the full force of the IoT movement over the next few years. The IoT market will change the way consumers shop and interact with retailers. With these types of new technology, consumers will find they have more control over their product selection, while spending less time and effort shopping. Consumers will have a broader choice of available products, with the ability to then customize these products to their specific wants and needs. Shoppers’ experiences will become more enjoyable and easier. Soon they will be able to enter a store and, based on their internet search history or previous product purchases, be guided to either similar or their favorite products. We hope this will have a positive impact on retailers. Sales will increase as well as profits, but before any of this can happen, consumers and retailers need to trust each other so the stream of data for analysis can become available. It’s safe to say that several exciting new products — like wearable technology — will be introduced to help make our lives much easier. Maybe the newest gadget will soon shop for us or automatically place orders online for items based on use? Who knows what is to come and how it will impact the world of retail, but we will be watching this evolution closely. Blog post by Bradley Keenan, Senior Director, Brand Solutions, ChannelAdvisor Most Recent Resources Resource - Overview ChannelAdvisor Managed Services for Amazon DSP Resource - eBook Essential Strategies for Turning Amazon Consumers Into Customers Resource - Webinar Amazon Seller Fulfilled Prime: How to React to the New Requirements branded manufacturersinternet of thingsIOTselling directwearable technology A representative will contact you to answer questions Insights. Opinions. Trends. Lots of them.

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However, if you missed purchasing a health insurance plan during open enrollment, you can rest assured that there are alternative coverage options available to you outside of the open enrollment period. There are several options available to you if you miss signing up for healthcare coverage during your state’s open enrollment period. These include special enrollment periods for qualifying life events, purchasing short-term plans, and signing up for a healthshare membership. Certain qualifying life events allow you to sign up for insurance during a special enrollment period. Qualifying life events include getting married, having a baby, permanently moving to another state, involuntary loss of coverage, newly-gained American citizenship, enrollment errors, and income changes. In most cases, you have 60 days after the date of the qualifying life event takes place to enroll in a new healthcare coverage. However, in cases where you’ve been given advanced notice that your coverage is ending, some special enrollment periods start 30 days before and extend 30 days after your policy termination date. If you need to enroll in a healthcare plan outside open enrollment and don’t qualify for a special enrollment period, other options are available. You can opt to purchase a short-term insurance plan, which provides coverage for up to three months at a time. Short-term plans are generally less expensive than permanent policies, and you can apply for another short-term healthcare plan after your coverage ends if you wish to extend your coverage. Another affordable alternative is to opt out of traditional health insurance coverage altogether and signing up for a healthshare program. Healthshares are offered by faith-based groups and allow you to make a contribution amount into a shared escrow account instead of paying a premium like with a health insurance policy. Healthshares are a more affordable option than health insurance, with a monthly cost typically half that of health insurance. What Are the Requirements for a Healthshare Membership? Most healthshare plans do have some regulations and requirements, such as subscribing to a certain faith and generally being in good health. If you don’t currently have any major health problems, a membership in a recognized Health Care Sharing Ministry could be a good option for you.

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Davies' delight at McGugan magic NOTTINGHAM Forest manager Billy Davies led the acclaim for Lewis McGugan’s spectacular strike that provided the highlight of the win over Ipswich. McGugan added to David McGoldrick’s opener with a superb 35-yard free-kick that left Davies purring. The Scot said: “It has to be one of the goals of the season - if not the goal of the season. It’s certainly a candidate. “I was worried that he wouldn’t make it because he had to miss training on Thursday with a virus and I didn’t expect too much from him. “He looked a bit leggy but he scored a wonder goal and we all know that’s what he’s capable of producing. “I was delighted with David McGoldrick’s goal, too. It will do his confidence the world of good. “It was a very pleasing three points for us. We showed a lot of determination and I thought the goalkeeper and defence were superb considering it was a makeshift back four. “We’ve now lost just twice in 13 games and we could be a lot better off because we have let teams off at times this season.” Forest went a goal up when Radoslaw Majewski fired a sublime pass down the line to Chris Cohen, who sent an inch-perfect cross for McGoldrick to score. After taking the lead, Forest continued to find a lot of space in the Ipswich half but were almost undone midway through the half. Jack Colback evaded the attention of Forest’s defence but saw his shot cleared off the line by Luke Chambers, before the same man blocked another drive moments later. The home side, though, survived and on the stroke of half-time McGugan found his range in extraordinary fashion, unleashing a drive that flew into the top corner. McGugan continued in a similar vein of form after the break and came agonisingly close to helping Forest to a third goal, with his cross evading Fulop but also Paul Anderson at the far post. Forest continued to press and substitute Nathan Tyson had a seemingly stonewall penalty waved away in the 70th minute.

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Archives: Sports Home / Sports Content storage: Accelerating Cloud Migration In Search of Cost-Savings and Efficiencies Case Study, IBM, Multi Cloud, Object Storage, Remote Working, Sports, Technology The pandemic appears to have provided the necessary impetus for more organisations to invest systematically in cloud-Based content storage. When it comes to content storage and the cloud, there is plentiful evidence to suggest that the last 18 months have provided a ‘perfect storm’ in which an already present trend has been significantly accelerated. This applies as much to organisations already some distance down that road as to those at a more formative stage of the transition. Raul Alba, Avid’s director of solutions marketing, points to two virtual events – held 12 mon apart – devised to help Avid keep in touch with its customers during lockdown. “If we compare the discussions we had in both series of meetings, we have seen a significant change in the mindset,” he says. ths apart – devised to help Avid keep in touch with its customers during lockdown. “In the most recent meetings, just weeks ago, every single customer we talked to has included clouds in its plans. Not all customers we talked to are at the same stage: some just want to be sure that any vendor they choose to work with has a roadmap to go to the cloud, while others already want to start migrating to the cloud as soon as possible.” Nonetheless, one can infer that the shift in viewpoint has been fairly dramatic in some quarters. “For me, the most surprising aspect is how things that were seen as completely impossible or nonsense a year ago, today seem to be ‘plan A’ for many organisations,” says Alba. As a leading innovator in the media cloud space, base has been well-placed to track the recent uptick in demand for cloud storage. Pursuing what it terms a ‘tailored cloud solutions’ approach for digital media companies, base provides clients with a central, cloud-Based media hub in which to store all their files and then seamlessly connects to a choice of pre-integrated Software as a Service tools. Working with media SaaS partners across multiple clouds – including AWS, Google and IBM Cloud – base can facilitate tasks such as automatic multi-site syncing for large files, accelerated global file transfer, remote Adobe editing, and sophisticated media asset management. Ben Foakes is founder and managing director of base. He says that the company’s focus on “simplifying and packaging up” cloud storage and services has served it well. “The way we work is that we don’t charge egress, retrieval or API call fees, and we have done all the network integration and behind-the-scenes work to do with running on multiple clouds. We started the business to simplify the cloud for media, and that continues to be [our primary objective].” Nonetheless, there is always room for improvement, and Foakes reveals that a current focus of development is “a self-service experience that means each client will have an app to access and automatically set up their environments and the way they want to work. It will make the cloud and related services more simplified for the actual users.” “There have been a lot of enquiries from companies over the last 18 months who are looking to close down their buildings, get rid of their hard drives and physical equipment, and go across completely to a virtual way of working for their creative teams,” he says. Meanwhile, for the more reticent organisations “who had previously been thinking about the cloud and adopting a more online, collaborative way of working, the pandemic has provided the necessary impetus to move ahead with their plans.” For Avid, Raul Alba has a clear sense of why migration of storage to the cloud is accelerating at this point: “The reasons why customers are moving – or considering moving – to the cloud are mostly related to flexibility in their operations, lower TCO [total cost of ownership] when all the factors (real estate, electricity, AC and maintenance) are considered, and the predictability of the financial cost of operations, tied to an Opex financial model.” With this in mind Avid, continues to evolve a family of solutions that prioritise flexibility and dynamic storage of resources. These include Avid NEXIS | Cloud and Avid NEXIS | EOD, both of which are underpinned by the Avid NEXIS | File System (FS) running on cloud storage. The File System features a storage infrastructure that is managed and automated by intelligent software rather than by the storage hardware, and is virtualised into a single pool of shared resources which are allocated dynamically with the required composition of data services (such as capacity, bandwidth and protection). Elaborating on AVID | NEXIS Cloud, Alba remarks that this “delivers tiered storage in the cloud, supporting online, nearline and archive storage for real-time media workflows. [Meanwhile] Avid NEXIS virtual storage workspaces allow complete control over the allocation of storage to individuals, teams and projects.” Apples for apples? Bob Bolson, director of solutions architecture at Imagine Communications, echoes many of the aforementioned factors behind the current growth in cloud storage, but also indicates that it has taken a while for the market to become more well-defined. At the start, he notes, “there was a lot of really expensive online storage as well as [storage solutions] that were almost like the equivalent of tape archives. But since then more tiers of solutions have become available, and that has given customers [more flexibility].” Indeed, at this stage, he points to an interesting “blurring of lines between different types of storage, so for instance a customer might want to dip their toe in the water for a certain service or type of production. It might also be that, in some cases, the price difference [between traditional and cloud storage] is not so dramatic that it immediately becomes [a must-have].” Increasingly, though, he believes that customers are likely to take a holistic approach to determining their storage arrangements. For instance, the benefits of cloud might become fully clear “when they drill down into the pricing, and consider the cost of the real-estate, cooling systems and manpower needed to keep [on-premise storage] up and running. They need to have a critical eye and speak with people who can give them the full story; it’s not just apples for apples.” Moreover, it is likely to be the cloud providers who can allow workflows to remain relatively unaltered who stand to benefit the most: “People like continuity, so the more you can make the workflows look and feel like those with which they are already comfortable, the better.” Enabling content creators to carry on working in familiar ways is also a priority for Aveco, which announced the launch of its new GEMINI Media Asset Management (MAM) solution at the end of June 2021. Designed for cloud, hybrid-cloud and on-premise use, GEMINI allows users to manage media and AI-enriched metadata, plus timeline annotations describing any frame or segment of an asset. Content assets are under control across all types of storage, including in the cloud, NAS and SAN, and video servers. Pavel Potuzak, CEO of Aveco, says: “The introduction of the GEMINI MAM brings powerful tools that are easy to use, so people can concentrate on the task at hand, anywhere in the world and on any browser.” In terms of storage strategies, it’s clear that we are in a period of transition that may last several years yet. But with broadcasters wanting to access, process and distribute content more flexibly than ever before, it’s certain that the share of storage provided by the cloud will continue to grow steadily across the M&E industry. By David Davis Powering Extreme E’s remote live production Broadcast, Sports, Technology A multi-cloud distribution platform from BASE Media Cloud and Veritone helps off-road racing series Extreme E store, manage and share assets with multiple global partners. Imagine a Red Bull air race on the ground. There are certain gates that teams need to pass through but how they get through them is them is down to the skill of male and female drivers on terrain that varies from desert to deforested jungle to deserted glacier. That’s the premise of all electric rally-style Extreme E, the progressive FIA-backed SUV racing series which launches next month. With 30 percent of the planet’s CO2 emissions coming from transport, Extreme E exists to showcase the performance of electric vehicles, and to accelerate their adoption. As such it needs to marry urgent environmental messaging with as lean a production footprint as possible. That’s particularly challenging for a live broadcast given that the locations are remote and infrastructure-free. “We want to shine the spotlight on the climate crisis that we’re facing all over the world through the lens of an adrenaline filled action sport,” explains Dave Adey, head of broadcast and technology for Extreme E. “We’re employing remote production with minimal production staff on site and no spectators at the track, so for us content and fast turnaround is imperative.” There are four constituent elements to the Extreme E production designed by production partners Aurora Media Worldwide and North One. All race camera sources including drones and onboards are uplinked from a lightweight TV compound on site. Car telemetry is managed by Barcelona-based Al Kamel Systems with AR and VR overlays from NEP in The Netherlands. Everything is back hauled to the gallery in London for production of live coverage across each race weekend plus highlights shows, a 30-min race preview and 300 VOD films for digital. Given the scale of production, Extreme E needed a system that would allow them to manage content, including the ability to upload from anywhere into a centralised secure storage location. They also needed to be able to manipulate, search, view and download content; and to give this functionality to its authorised media partners. “We need to find any of the content instantly so the user interface needs to be intuitive and the metadata schema rich but precise,” Adey says. “Once you find the clip you want to be able to view it with a proxy version online. We then may want to manipulate that content or create clips or transcode to different file formats. The system we chose had to do all of this and more.” Extreme E chose to use a sports multi-cloud Digital Media Hub (DMH) comprising a cloud-native storage and content distribution platform developed and managed by Base Media Cloud with Veritone’s AI-powered asset management system. After transmission, all live programming and all the rest of the content including VT’s, highlights and digital is uploaded to the DMH for rights holder to search, view and use. “The DMH provides a dual purpose: to make content easily available to rights holders; and provide a rich suite of assets that rights holders can use to enhance their own content,” explains Adey. “A key benefit of a cloud-native solution is that the distribution of content is much more cost effective. I don’t have to put up a satellite feed to do a highlights program. Instead, we can create those programs in London, upload them into our content management system and make them immediately accessible via accelerated download for any of our rights owners and media partners around the world. “It’s also really important that we have very high and very clear, environmental credentials which the multi-cloud sports media solution from Base Media Cloud and Veritone gives us.” More than 70 broadcasters have bought rights to Extreme E including Discovery, Sky Sports, Fox Sports, BBC, ProSieben Maxx, Disney ESPN and TV Globo. The series launches in April in the deserts of Saudi Arabia and will continue in Senegal, Greenland, Brazil and Tierra del Fuego. EXTREME E Remote Working Case Study with BASE Media Cloud, Veritone and IBM Cloud. Case Study, Post Production, Remote Working, Sports, Technology, Veritone A multicloud distribution platform from Base Media Cloud and Veritone helps off-road racing series Extreme E store, manage and share assets with multiple global partners. ● Extreme E’s remote production needs necessitated collecting and distributing data from multiple sources ● The solution needed to allow them and their media partners to search, view and download content ● A combined solution from Base Media Cloud and Veritone helps meet sports production’s unique needs Extreme E is an exciting new sports organisation that uses groundbreaking electric SUVs to race in remote parts of the world, from the Amazon rainforest to the Arctic, while raising awareness about climate change. The series aims to bring viewers a completely new way to interact with racing, as each event seeks to not only entertain with high-speed races in exotic locations, but raise awareness of the need to protect these remote environments. The series launches April 2021 in the deserts of Saudi Arabia and will continue in Senegal, Greenland, Brazil and the Amazon. A complex production With such an ambitious undertaking, Extreme E needs to employ a broad range of solutions to produce sensational race coverage, as the organisation revealed during a tech talk, “Remote Working at the Extremes,” at the Broadcast Sport Tech Innovation event earlier this year. Extreme E needs to utilise technology such as track, on-board and POV cameras (across water features, jumps, etc.), drones, virtual reality and augmented reality, and timing and telemetry data will consist of hundreds of pieces of data that will then be fed into the live TV program. For broadcast, its races will stream live on a variety of digital platforms. Each two-day race will conclude with a two-hour transmission, distributed to global rights holders. In addition, clips will need to be generated for TV shows, documentary series and social media. Given the scale of production, Extreme E needed a system that would allow them to manage content that is created all over the world, including the ability to upload from anywhere into a centralised secure storage location. They also needed to be able to manipulate, search, view and download content; and to give this functionality to its authorised media partners. If that level of operation weren’t enough, Extreme E is also fiercely dedicated to making its production as environmentally conscious as possible. By employing remote workflows, they can transport fewer people and equipment to each far-flung locale, reducing their carbon footprint. “We’re a TV-only product. We don’t have spectators on-site, partly because we’re so remote, and partly because we ‘race without a trace’ — we don’t want people damaging the already delicate locations we’re at,” explains Dave Adey, head of broadcast and technology for Extreme E. “Being a TV product, content is our most valuable asset, and the robust management of that is a fundamental requirement.” Implementing a remote workflow solution Extreme E (and its production partners Aurora Media Worldwide and North One) chose to use a sports multi-cloud distribution solution created through a partnership between Base Media Cloud and Veritone, a centralised cloud storage provider that helps its clients manage multiple terabytes of data using multiple clouds. Base Media Cloud and Veritone began their partnership nearly four years ago to form the solution, which is already used to meet the unique needs of some of the largest sports federations in the world. The sports solution combines accelerated file transfer and cloud object storage services from Base Media Cloud with Veritone’s Digital Media Hub AI-powered intelligent asset management system for a cloud-native integration from which all global content access is handled in the cloud, making it ideal for remote workflows. It standardises the ingest process from multiple partners, accelerates content into secure object storage and then provides instant access to those assets to key rights holders and stakeholders, such as broadcasters, teams and sponsors. This takes place at the heart of the production, where multiple production companies and partners can coordinate upload and standardise media access. By using Base Media Cloud and Veritone’s solution, Extreme E coordinates and simplifies their content and metadata aggregation from multiple partners and makes it easier to discover and share content globally and securely. The combined platform is built to scale, is able to connect to multiple services as the business grows (e.g. a comprehensive range of AI services, eCommerce for monetisation, open API’s for third party connectivity, remote editing, branded channels for streaming purposes, automated distribution workflows, etc.) “The benefits of cloud production and distribution with Base Media Cloud and Veritone is a real 101 for us,” Adey says. “It’s the initial building blocks that we need.” If you’re interested in exploring implementing our combined sports solution in your own organisation, get in touch with one of our representatives to see how you can solve your remote working challenges. Read more about Extreme E Extreme E Enhances Environmental Reputation With Cloud-Based Distribution Case Study, Media, Sports, Technology, Veritone, Webinar The competition is working with Base Media Cloud and Veritone to create a cloud-native storage and content distribution platform. Speaking at the Broadcast Sport Tech Innovation Forum, Extreme E head of broadcast and technology, Dave Adey, Base Media Cloud managing director Ben Foakes, and Veritone senior director, customer solutions, David Candler, have explained how they’ve worked together to deliver a cloud-based content distribution system and remote broadcast workflow for the competition. Adey explained the importance of this work: “Our TV compound needs to be self-sufficient. Everything will be back hauled to a production gallery in London, with track-side equipment at a minimum”. “The ability to search, view and download, not only for us but for rights holders and media partners, is vital – so Base and Veritone are a 101 for us, it’s the building blocks for what we need.” Both of these systems help Extreme E to achieve its environmental aims, with less equipment at the endangered sites where races take place and fewer resources used in terms of servers and electricity. Candler said: “We’re environmentally aware… working with public cloud infrastructures with fewer servers used, less electricity consumption, architectures designed at scale for efficient energy use, etc.” Foakes said of the BASE Media Cloud’s platform capabilities: “In addition to storage, file transfer and distribution – in the future you can do things like remote editing, spring up branded channels, automate distributing workflows.” Candler added on Veritone Digital Media Hub’s capabilities: “Multiple production companies and partners can co-ordinate upload and we can standardise media delivery…plus provide instant access to the key stakeholders or rights holders across the world.” Extreme E is set to launch next year, with the first race taking place in Al-‘Ula, Saudi Arabia in March. ‘Secure Your BASE Media Cloud Special Offer with Free Access to Veritone’s Flagship Applications for 60 Days Here’ Webinar: IBM Aspera Media Summit: How IBM Aspera accelerates remote workflows Aspera, Broadcast, Case Study, Cloud Storage, IBM, Media, Multi Cloud, Object Storage, Post Production, Remote Working, Sports, Technology Enabling Faster Content Production and Delivery Workflows Hear from BASE Media Cloud Founder & Managing Director, Ben Foakes, about how clients including Taylor Made Media and Engine House Media Services have used its platform, integrated with IBM Cloud and IBM Aspera to re-design their remote working storage and file delivery workloads. Sachin Agarwal, WW Product Management Lead, IBM Aspera Sigrid Larsen, Head of Media Services, The Engine House Media Services To watch full webinar, please click here

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Advanced Technology Services: Plant technicians move from memory reliance to knowledge database advantage Many companies periodically contemplate creating a database to capture the so-called “tribal knowledge” of employees. That way, they reason, there would be a database containing details about processes, procedures, and previous experience for all employees to actively share instead of relying on the memory of more-experienced employees. By Jim Fulcher August 1, 2008 The problem in undertaking such an initiative is while seemingly a straightforward process, creating such a database consumes plenty of time and resources. That’s not to say it can’t be done to ongoing advantage. Advanced Technology Services (ATS) has created such a database that now plays a vital role in employee performance. ATS, which has more than 2,200 employees, is a supplier of outsourced factory maintenance, industrial component repair, and IT services. In the past, says ATS President Jeffrey Owens, the company would have staff at a customer’s site, but if there was a problem with a particular piece of equipment and no one had experience with that model, technicians would be forced to call the OEM—and then wait for a response. Those delays cost time, and time is money for the customer because downtime can cost thousands of dollars per minute in lost productivity, Owens says. ATS grew its Knowledgebase tool out of the need for American business to remain competitive in a rapidly changing global economy. “That’s why we created ATS Knowledgebase: We knew it would greatly improve performance and reduce downtime if ATS field technicians could type in questions about a machine or device, and then in reply, receive manuals, diagrams, and common problems and means of resolution,” Owens says. “Now we are maintaining ATS Knowledgebase with strict parameters that govern how data is entered.” The administrative requirements are not surprising given that ATS Knowledgebase is expected to contain about 30,000 documents by July 2009. “We’re adding somewhere between 600 and 1,000 files each month,” says Jeff Morrow, ATS Knowledgebase administrator. “The true value is that experienced technicians are able to capture and then share best practices and procedures—which is knowledge that may have been lost in the past.” Owens explains that ATS Knowledgebase is only a tool, but with roughly 800 hits per month—which is expected to grow to 1,000 monthly hits by the end of the year—it’s an extremely useful tool. “The real value comes from the time savings of using ATS Knowledgebase,” Owens says. “It’s significant because the faster a technician can resolve a problem, the more money it saves a customer.” Jason Scales, a traveling technician with ATS, says ATS Knowledgebase is the biggest tool that technicians use—and that the resulting time savings is indeed notable. Scales says it’s common, as a technician, to walk into a plant and face unfamiliar equipment. And it often takes a long time just to locate a particular machine’s service manual. On the other hand, technicians can now walk into a plant, and, within minutes, find the manual in ATS Knowledgebase. Without such a database, it wouldn’t be unusual to spend an entire day having people look for the manual—only to discover that some pages are missing or damaged, he says. “Using ATS Knowledgebase saves a lot of time, which is critical to a manufacturer that is seeing downtime and wants to get back up running quickly,” Scales says. “It probably cuts the service time needed to get a piece of equipment running again by 50 percent.” See all of the winners.

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NAACP Says ‘Cincinnati Branch’ Is a Fraud July 2, 2015 KEVIN KOENINGER CINCINNATI (CN) – A group calling itself the “Cincinnati Branch” of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a fraud and was never sanctioned by the NAACP, according to a complaint in federal court. The NAACP’s national office sued the NAACP, Cincinnati Branch along with its incorporators – Beverly Morton, Ishton Morton and Lettie Reid – on Tuesday. The lawsuit says the group and its directors – who are former members of the NAACP – “are involved in a scheme to deceive the public … [and] have held meetings in the name of the NAACP” despite not being a sanctioned organization. The NAACP claims that following its formation in October 2014, the Cincinnati Branch filed a lawsuit against the NAACP and its National Director of Unit Administration, at which time the NAACP “learned of Cincinnati Incorporated’s illegal behavior.” That lawsuit sought an injunction delaying an election and accused several members of “deliberately and consciously … sow[ing] confusion and uncertainty” among members prior to the election, according to the complaint. Since the formation of the “Cincinnati Branch,” the plaintiff says “Ishton Morton, Beverly Morton and Lettie Reid have had their memberships suspended from the NAACP.” Despite repeated demands, the defendants have “refused to turn over the financial records, bank records, and bank account documents … belonging to the NAACP and its authorized, unincorporated Cincinnati Branch,” the complaint states. The NAACP also claims Ishton Morton and Reid “illegally added [their names] to at least four of the bank accounts of the authorized, unincorporated Cincinnati Branch of the NAACP.” The NAACP says “since their respective suspensions, defendants Lettie Reid, Ishton Morton and Beverly Morton have spent over $30,000 in assets belonging to the authorized, unincorporated Cincinnati Branch of the NAACP … [and] continue to conduct meetings, authorize and utilize funds of the NAACP for impermissible and illegal purposes, operate as if they are a sanctioned branch of the NAACP, and illegally execute contracts in the name of the NAACP.” The NAACP seeks at least $300,000 in damages and an injunction shutting down the unauthorized Cincinnati Branch for trademark infringement, false advertising, fraud, civil conspiracy and conversion. It is represented by Janaya Trotter Bratton of Trotter Law in Cincinnati. ← Cardinals Fire Official in Wake of Hacking Scandal D.C. Sued for Wrongfully Jailing Man for 26 Years → Poll: Most Americans Find Trump Twitter Tirade Racist

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You can apply for the France Visa since 1997 when France, as a Member of the European Union, furthermore transformed into a section state of the Schengen Area. Monaco – an European microstate/city-state arranged inside France – is seen as a noteworthy part of the Schengen Area notwithstanding the way that it didn’t formally sign the particular documents of the comprehension. Besides, no edge control is performed for the Schengen countries including it! Of course, Andorra as another microstate arranged among France and Spain performs edge controls, in this way to enter it you should get a multi-section Schengen visa since you should enter the Schengen Area while going or leaving Andorra. Who does and who needn’t mess with a Visa to enter France? Not to each nonnative and not for every district of France applies a comparable visa system. In that limit, visa special cases are exceptionally affected by remarkable segments, where the genuine ones are: outcast’s nationality, the locale of the France that the applicant hopes to visit, nonnative’s home status in Schengen Area or especially in France, the explanation behind visit, and furthermore length of remain. Download the France Visa Application shape, fill it absolutely and with validity. You can similarly fill the France Schengen Visa application shape electronically and after that print a printed duplicate. 2 photos must be associated; the photo should be of global ID sort out – a continuous whole face get with a light establishment. Take in additional about photo necessities and particulars for a French Visa. Your distinguishing proof and copies of your past visas – real to something like 3 months past return date – are required. Your universal ID must have no under two clear pages. Travel visa insurance attestation of minimum 30,000 € consideration inside France and the entire Schengen zone. With the ultimate objective to apply for a French visa, the French worldwide place of refuge/office requires a Schengen travel insurance course of action that is real in all Schengen countries. French universal place of refuge/office also requires the certification of consideration letter as the proof of incorporation to be submitted close by other requested records and France visa application. Flight ticket reservations. Find how to get a flight reserving for France Visa Application without paying the certifiable flight. Affirmation of accommodation for your entire stay in France. Book a motel in France on the web! Techniques for subsistence – Proof of sufficient budgetary means for the season of remain. As the European Commission shows, any nonnative endeavoring to enter France, since 19 June 2014, while applying for France Visa must be competent affirming the France Embassy or Consulate having the step by step money proportion of 120€ if holding no check of prepaid repayment. If the competitor has a prepaid hotel, by then this total diminishes to 65€/consistently for the season of anchored motel settlement, while the rest is 120€. Moreover, if the hopeful verifications more affordable kinds of comfort the total decreases to 32.25€/day. *Note: The stamped application outline must be ran with the straggling leftovers of the recently made reference to mandatory files and gave really at the correct worldwide place of refuge/office or its representative in your country of inception. Beside the general documentation required, running with should be other additional reports depending upon the inspiration driving your French Visa application. As for competitor’s expenses in the midst of stay in the Schengen zone, either the business or the assistant association must state incorporation of expenses on the letter or welcome. France Visa for Medical Purposes is headed for outcasts who need to enter and stay in a French area by chance to get a restorative treatment in a helpful association arranged in a French locale. Ordinarily this visa type is issued to nonnatives who can’t get the appropriate human administrations in their country of source. A Letter of welcome from the remedial establishment, or, A Formal Agreement of the French Hospital for Patient’s Admission – Both documents must consolidate information, for instance, the purpose of the outside patient’s advice, his/her present discovering, information about the treatment to take, its length, the game plan date, helpful costs notwithstanding, the essential pro in charge, and so on. For essential or emanant cases, the appreciated letter must be encased together with a formal insistence from the helpful foundation – communicating the accessibility to treat the patient on a specific date of section. Portion receipt of restorative costs from the French Hospital – A letter attesting the costs of the patient’s treatment are starting at now anchored. Letter of Consent from the Both Parents (for a minor competitor running with a third individual) – A formal report from the two watchmen, deciphered in a French tongue and approved, communicating they have no dissension about his tyke voyaging. Copies of Valid Schengen Visas (of running with parent, gatekeepers or third individual of a minor). Restorative Report from A Doctor In Charge Of Treatment in the Country of Residence of The Applicant. Asserted Hotel Reservation or Confirmed Accomodation in the Medical Clinic (for running with individuals of the hopeful). A verification from the national therapeutic expert for the deficiency of the country to offer the best possible helpful treatment for the applicant’s condition.

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Home Health Anti-gay attitudes blamed for high HIV rates in Hong Kong Anti-gay attitudes blamed for high HIV rates in Hong Kong Hong Kong (Photo by Diliff; courtesy Wikimedia Commons) HONG KONG — HIV diagnosis rates in Hong Kong have climbed over the past decade, unlike in other places in the world where there has been a consistent decline in the numbers of new HIV cases, the South China Morning Post reports. Between 2010-2016, the annual number of new HIV diagnoses in Hong Kong increased by nearly 80 percent, to a total of 692 new cases in 2016. By contrast, between 2010 and 2017, the annual rate of new HIV diagnoses declined by 14 percent in Asia and the Pacific as a whole, the Post reports. Meanwhile, Hong Kong’s annual government expenditure on HIV prevention policies has soared in an attempt to address this entrenched health scourge. By 2020, prevention costs are projected to reach a total of $400 million in Hong Kong dollars, the Post reports. Statistics show a solid majority of HIV diagnoses in Hong Kong have been in the group of men who have sex with men (MSM). Dr. Tim Brown, HIV epidemiologist from the East West Centre in Hawaii, once characterized HIV in Hong Kong as an epidemic within that group, the Post reports. Andrew Chidgey, chief executive of AIDS Concern Hong Kong, has argued that a major cause of the rapid growth in HIV-infection rates in Hong Kong is the pervasive cultural taboo against homosexuality among Hong Kong Chinese families, leading to men’s unwillingness to disclose either a gay or HIV-positive identity, the Post reports. Published at Sun, 08 Sep 2019 19:25:56 +0000 Previous articlePHOTOS: Sundance Next articleDozens attend vigil for murdered transgender teen in Baltimore NEW YEAR NEW YOU 2020: Local VIDA master trainer on trends, tips and technology at the gym The fear factor in queer childbirth GLAAD partners with UN on Spirit Day campaign After someone asked this gay man to ‘tone it down’, his dad stepped in with the best response Billy Porter: Pose is changing roles for black gay men for the better Transgender actor Ian Alexander says ‘The OA’ helped his family accept his identity Fair to poor health care common for trans patients Looking back: 50 years of the Blade

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At Moving Cars, we use only top standard trucks and transport equipment when transporting your vehicles across Australia The equipment we use is the exact same standard of gear used when new vehicles enter Australia via our ports to bring them to their respective dealerships in Each time we transport a vehicle it is handled with total care, and will always be transported in a safe and secure manner Moving Cars has a variety of services to cater to your requirements such as the ability to transport a non-drivable vehicle, or enclosed transport for high value vehicles, depending on its condition. If you’re needing to move a car from Port Hedland to Mandurah we’re able to supply you an instant quotation for this route, as it is one of our most frequently run and major vehicle transport routes. If you are looking to move to somewhere different around Australia, then we can also help out with that, however we may need to work out those prices if our system does not automatically provide them to you. Every single car transported with Moving Cars from Port Hedland to Mandurah will be transported by using only the best car carriers in the Australia. We provide our services Australia wide, then to top all that we have been in the transport industry for over 25 years now. So who better to get the job done for you. We provide Depot to Depot services in almost all areas of the country. This enables you to deliver the car off at a time convenient to you, rather than waiting for us to come and collect from you. One of the numerous reasons we are able to provide our highly competitive prices around Australia is the fact that we have depot locations in all major cities around the country. This allows us to perform our services very regularly throughout Australia. Generally speaking, on a day to day basis, we will have all quotes sent back to the customer within an hour, however it is more often the case that a quote will arrive to you within 10 to 15 minutes, if not immediately. Read some reviews of our service from previous customers. We don’t just claim to be an excellent choice in transporting cars from Port Hedland to Mandurah, people tell us we are. Are you needing to arrange to send your vehicle from from Port Hedland to Mandurah as quickly as possible? We are always striving to supply our customers with a faster and safer journey. Moving a vehicle from Port Hedland to Mandurah is easy, simple and quick when done through us. We’re aware that our customers rely on their cars for many reasons so strive to get them to you as soon as possible. We offer a number of services varying from the most affordable, to the quickest available. At Moving Cars we have been moving vehicles from Port Hedland to Mandurah for over 25 years. We’ve been involved in this industry for longer than almost anyone else. Would you really trust your car in the hands of an inexperienced car moving company. Why should you risk the damage that could incur by turning to an amateur vehicle transport company to relocate your car for you. We are booked in to be making a delivery to Mandurah very soon. Below is where we’re going, you might be lucky enough to catch our team in action! As we’ve already mentioned, we’ve been doing this for quite some time. So because of that, we have worked to make the process as simple and efficient as it can be. Which begins with the fact that we provide immediate prices to our clients for a very large portion of Australia. Then when it comes to finally booking the move, we provide you a simple, easy to use online booking system. Alternatively you can give us a call, provide us a handful of information, and your car booked in for transport. We do everything we can to ensure transporting your vehicle from Port Hedland to Mandurah is as easy as possible. To ensure that you always get the cheapest price possible, we match your needs with the best vehicle transporter. Car transport from Port Hedland to Mandurah is what we do best!

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Singtel announces $400 million data center New Tier 3+ site in West Singapore for colo and cloud Paul Mah Singapore Telecommunications (Singtel) has announced a new data center located in Jurong that it says will be its biggest such investment yet, to meet colocation and cloud demands. The new DC West site will cost US$285 million (S$400m), and have the equivalent of Tier 3+ reliability. The purpose-built seven-storey building will have a floor area of over 570,000 sq ft, and is equipped with a total power capacity of up to 36 megawatts – one of the highest in the region - according to a factsheet (pdf) linked from Singtel’s website. Singtel’s DC West (artist’s impression) Tall and green The data center is being built to achieve the BCA Green Mark Platinum when completed, and incorporates environmentally friendly features such as a Diesel Rotary Uninterruptible Power Supply (DRUPS) and a critical cooling system that uses “NEWater” - the brand name for water reclaimed from sewage by Singapore’s Public Utilities Board. Finally, DC West is designed with an eye towards financial institutions, and is expected to meet the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s (MAS) Technology Risk Management guidelines that was drafted to address both existing and emerging risks on this front. According to Singtel, DC West will be completed in the third quarter of 2016. “This new data center is designed to meet the critical hosting needs of the financial services industry, government agencies, and cloud and Internet service providers,” said Bill Chang, the CEO of Singtel Group Enterprise in a statement. “It enables Singtel to attract and host world-class cloud players in Singapore and position the country as a global hub for cloud computing and innovation.” DC West is scheduled to be completed at a time when other three other new data centers are expected to come online, and is itself a stone’s throw away from Kingsland Data Center, which opened earlier this week. As we reported earlier, Telin-3 by Telin Singapore is expected to be completed in the third-quarter of 2016, and the 1-Net North data center by 1-Net had seen its completion date pushed back from end-2015 into early 2016. While Digital Realty is estimating a late-2015 delivery for its second data center in Singapore, the first phase will see only 3.2 MW out of the planned 13.2MW of power made available – leaving the bulk to come online in 2016. On the other hand, Singapore’s Smart Nation vision and the impending proliferation of Internet of Things is expected to culminate in a much greater demand for backend processing and storage capabilities, due in part to the enormous amount of data that will be generated. The new data centers could well play an important role to help realize the vision.

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There is a whole world of essential oil information out there. Sifting through it can be overwhelming. Here we cover the eight most frequestly asked questions and some of our favorite tips for using and storing essential oils. #1: What is an essential oil? First let's define what an essential oil is and how it's made. Essential oils are the volatile aromatic oils produced by plants. Imagine fresh lemon balm leaves warming in the sun, rubbing rosemary between the palms of your hands, or bringing lavender flowers to your nose for a deep inhalation. Plants create resins and oils to attract pollinators, warn predators, and to protect themselves against disease. The product you buy called "essential oil" is this aromatic substance concentrated through various methods. An essential oil is not an infused herbal oil. This is a very common misconception. Most plant aromatics can be captured through vaporization. Depending on the botanical, distillation can be done using only steam, utilizing water and steam, or by fully submerging the plant material in water. Here is an infographic outlining the distillation process. You will find that most essential oils are produced this way, including flowers, leaves, barks, and roots. Some oils, specifically citrus peel, are cold pressed to extract their aromatics. This process involves puncturing the skins of either the whole fruit or just the fruit peel and pressing the essential oil out. With this process, a little bit of juice is extracted, which is then separated from the oil. You can find distilled citrus peel oils on the market. However, these are mainly used in the fragrance industry and not appropriate for aromatherapeutic use. Some plant aromatics are too delicate for distillation or too bound up in resin, so a solvent is used to make an extraction. The solvents used can be a range of substances (non-toxic and toxic) including hexane, alcohol, acetone, propane, and others, so look for a supplier that lists the solvent type used. That puts the power in your hands to decide if it's the right ingredient for your needs. In a good quality absolute, the solvent should be completely evaporated out of the finished product. However, because of the possibility of trace amounts of solvent, absolutes are not recommended for aromatherapeutic purposes, but are great for perfumery projects and are alcohol soluble. #2: How can I find high quality essential oils? First, you want to be sure that the essential oils are pure aromatic plant oils without diluents. Some essential oils on the market are cut with a carrier or diluted with lesser quality products. Next, to be certain that you are purchasing the right ingredient, look for the botanical Latin name on the product label. For example, Peppermint (Mentha piperita), should be listed clearly. Purchase oils that are certified organic or sourced from a supplier you trust. Because essential oils are so concentrated, that means that pesticides and other toxins can be concentrated in the oil as well. Keep in mind that some essential oils are made from wild-harvested plants or plants cultivated without chemicals, so they may lack the organic certification. Avoid buying anything with the term “Fragrance Oil” as these are often synthetically produced and are not true botanical essential oils. #3: What about Therapeutic Grade? When first starting out, many beginning aromatherapy enthusiasts look for oils that are Therapeutic Grade. This distinction, however, is not an industry standard and is not endorsed or regulated by any governing agency. It is purely a marketing claim. You can learn more about this issue by visiting: AromaWeb and National Association for Holistic Aromatherapy. Always research the plant part and production method used. Sometimes you might find several different options for one plant, like cinnamon leaf and cinnamon bark or dry ginger and fresh ginger. These will offer very different properties and aromas to your creation. Find out more about Citrus aruantium oils in this blog. Purchase small amounts to start. One drop of essential oil goes a very long way, so a 1/2 oz. or 1 oz. bottle will last quite a while! Plus, essential oils can be pricey, so it's nice to experiment and discover which ones you use most often before purchasing large amounts. Dark colored glass, like amber bottles, is the way to go. Store your essential oils in a cool, dark cabinet away from heat and light. Don’t store with the glass and rubber-top dropper in the bottle! Essential oils are concentrated and can break down the rubber over time. Always remove the glass dropper and use the screw cap. The drop-by-drop reducers that come in small bottles are fine and do not need to be removed. Learn more storage tips here! #5: Are essential oils safe? Well...yes and no. We like to say that less is best and use with care! These highly concentrated aromatics enter through our olfactory system and the skin, leading directly to the brain and our bloodstream. This allows the plant properties to cause changes both emotionally and physiologically within our bodies. Yes, but, essential oils also have to be detoxed by our liver and kidneys, and some plant aromatics are hard to process. Even using larger amounts of "safe" essential oils can be harmful to certain populations like children, people with compromised liver or kidney health, animals, and pregnant women. We highly recommend seeking the guidance of a qualified healthcare practitioner in these cases. #6: What's a safe way to use essential oils topically? All that said, there are endless ways to use essential oils topically. You should always dilute essential oils with a carrier of some kind. This can be organic vegetable oil, hydrosol, witch hazel extract, or alcohol. Any time you are working with a new essential oil and want to make a skin care recipe, do a patch test to make sure you won't have a reaction and the oil is right for you. Always avoid mucous membranes like the eyes and mouth unless you are under the care of a practitioner. These oils can be very caustic and can cause serious chemical burns! Research the oil’s properties before use to make sure it isn't contraindicated for your health. 1% Dilution: 5-6 drops per ounce of carrier is appropriate for preparations such as massage, where a lot of product is being used on the skin. 2% Dilution: 10-12 drops per ounce of carrier is appropriate for aromatherapy applications and body care recipes. Learn more about dilutions here! #7: Should I use essential oils internally? There is so much misinformation out there about whether or not essential oils are safe to use internally! Along with the international aromatherapy community, we say that you should never use essential oils internally without the guidance of a qualified healthcare practitioner. While there are some essential oils that can be used safely, this is the safer path to take, especially without skilled supervision. Essential oils can be incredibly caustic, causing burns or irritating the mucous lining of your digestive tract. Herbal preparations are more appropriate if you are wanting to take aromatics internally. One cup of peppermint tea or fresh squeezed lemon juice are strong remedies. Herbal preparations are very effective when used as gentle support for your body's own natural healing processes. More and stronger is not always better or more helpful. Remember, aromatics must be detoxed by the liver and kidneys. If you are looking for something a bit more potent than tea, tinctures are a great option for internal use - not essential oils. #8: What kind of recipes can I make using essential oils? Essential oils can be used in so many different ways! From natural body care formulas, to diffusing for aromatherapy and inhalations, natural perfumery and body sprays, massage oils, cleaning products, and much more, these versatile plant ingredients offer many possibilities. EXPLORE OUR FAVORITE AROMATHERAPY BOOKS!

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Found in FNA Volume 23. Treatment on page 199. Mentioned on page 196. Plants loosely cespitose. Rhizomes horizontal, slender, 1–3 mm thick. Culms (5–)10–45 cm × 1–2(–3) mm, glabrous. Leaves 1–3; ligules 0.3 mm; blades distichous, thickly crescentiform in cross section, 2–12(–18) cm × 1.5–4 mm, conspicuous midrib absent, apex blunt, glabrous. Inflorescences in loose spikes, 5–8; spikelets distichous, spreading-ascending, 1–2 cm; bracts erect to oblique, leaflike or scalelike, 4–15 mm. Spikelets linear-lanceoid to subterete, 3–6(–10) × 3–4.5 mm; floral scales deciduous, 3, tristichous, reddish brown, oblong-lanceolate, 3–5 × 2–3 mm, apex acute, glossy; prophylls linear, subtending flower. Flowers: perianth bristles separating from achene when mature, white, 0.5–1.2 mm, apex antrorsely roughened or barbed; anthers linear, 2.5–3 mm; connective apices barely 0.1 mm, obtuse, smooth; style as long as stigmas. Achenes yellowish brown, narrowly ellipsoid, dorsiventrally compressed, 4–5 × 1–1.3(–1.7) mm, base cuneate-stipelike, apex acute, beaked, smooth; embryo turbinate with lateral coleoptile and basal root cap (“Carex-type”). 2n = 40. Man., N.B., Nfld. and Labr., N.W.T., N.S., Nunavut, Ont., P.E.I., Que., Sask., Yukon, Alaska, Europe, Asia. Blysmopsis has been included in Scirpus or more recently treated within Blysmus. The current case for generic status was presented by J. J. Bruhl (1995). Blysmopsis differs from Blysmus in having thickly crescentiform leaf blades (not flat), terete or elliptic culms (not roundly trigonous), antrorsely (not retrorsely barbed) perianth bristles, and spongy, irregularly thickened fruit mesocarp layer (not regularly thickened). In the last feature, Blysmopsis is more like Cladium than its closer relatives Blysmus and Dulichium.

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Following a period of renovation and upgrading our facilities and equipment, the new look café bar means that you can now fully take advantage of our unique waterfront location with amazing views of Victoria Dock and the Menai Straits. It offers a perfect place to socialise with friends, to meet with colleagues and clients, to wind down with a glass of wine or to enjoy a family meal in a warm and welcoming atmosphere. We strongly recommend reserving your table in advance. You can reserve a table by phone - 01286 685 200, by emailing cegin@galericaernarfon.com or by completing an online form here. If you’re joining us for a meal pre-show, please allow plenty of time to enjoy your meal and remember that we serve fresh food not fast food. Free Wi-fi is available to all customers.

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Stories of restoration: Q&A with Belinda Ramirez IJM supporters Belinda Ramirez is the author of anti-human trafficking book Wildflowers. The coffee table book provides inspiring stories of survivors of sex and cybersex trafficking in the Philippines – including IJM clients. We spoke to Belinda about the process, motivation and stories behind the book. Q: Who are you and what is your connection with IJM? A: I’m a healthcare consultant, author, wife, mother and Christian based in Sydney’s leafy north shore. I’ve been married to Joel for 10 years and we have two children, Logan and Ruby. My background is in neuroscience and medtech. I first encountered IJM during the process of organising the interviews for my book Wildflowers. The CEO of Regenesys BPO, an agency which hires survivors of trafficking, put us in contact with IJM Philippines. We could see that IJM played a critical role in a survivor’s journey and it made sense to reach out and connect with both IJM Australia and the Philippines to feature their voice in the Wildflowers book. Q: What was your inspiration for undertaking the Wildflowers project? A: There were a few pivotal moments along this journey. Back in 2003, I visited the Philippines with a local church for about 2-3 weeks, which impacted me deeply. I later heard a powerful talk by Christine Caine, the head of A21, in which she quoted a trafficking survivor who said, “If you knew [about all of this trafficking], why didn’t you come sooner?” This really struck a chord within me. In 2014, my husband and I were introduced to another organisation called Voice of the Free. They run a shelter for survivors, including several rescued by IJM. The survivors live there, safe from traffickers and from harm. After hearing their stories, it felt wrong to me that these stories weren’t being heard by more people. These women were so brave in sharing their experiences with us strangers. Perhaps if they wanted to have a voice or share their story – and some, though not all, did – it would be an honour to help them do just that. My husband then bought me a coffee table book featuring stories and photos of inspiring female entrepreneurs, so it naturally followedthat we could provide these trafficking survivors with a similar chance to share their stories with an audience. That’s where the idea of Wildflowers was birthed. Q: Tell us about your process in putting this project together. How many survivors did you speak with? A: We interviewed and photographed 14 survivors, keeping their names and faces anonymous, to maintain their dignity and protect their identities. These 14 young women had either been trafficked in one way or another, or were cases of prevention – of successful intervention. My husband Joel and I recorded the interviews and did the photoshoots over a couple of visits to Manila and Cebu in 2016. My husband Joel is a Filipino-born Aussie so he served as my translator, bodyguard, comedian and co-photographer during the trip. I then wrote the stories with the help of a couple of editors and the talented designers at Mezzanine Media, who brought it all together into the beautiful coffee table book we see today. Q: Can you tell us about the IJM survivors you met? What did you learn about the restoration process through these conversations? A: Maribel was the first person we interviewed. She had been rescued from cybersex trafficking by IJM in partnership with local police and went on to be cared for at Voice of the Free’s Center of Hope shelter. At the time, Miss Philippines had just won Miss Universe, so we would ask each survivor what they would say if they were Miss Philippines, on the world stage. Maribel’s answer was, “It’s free to dream.” That answer says a lot about not only her, but about all the survivors we met. There was a weightlessness to them – there was no cynicism or bitterness when they looked to their future, they were free to dream again. We also learned a lot from interviewing Lawrence from the IJM Manila legal team. He has so much wisdom, you just want to sponge it all up or download it! One thing he talks about, which reflects a mindset we brought into the interviews, was the idea of helping survivors continue to make progress in their aftercare. This means only crossing a bridge once. Don’t create triggers in what you’re asking them or talking about with them, do everything in your power to keep them from going backwards, help them instead to keep moving forwards. An incredible example of successful aftercare emerged during our last interview. When we asked this survivor the question of “What’s something you want to share with the world?” she said, without a moment’s hesitation, “forgiveness”. This survivor dreamt that as long as she didn’t forgive the woman who had trafficked her, she would still be tethered to her. Let me be clear, it’s not about traffickers getting off “scot-free” – the legal process is important, but for this survivor, being able to face her trafficker in court and forgive her was a crucial part of her aftercare journey and healing. It’s a lot more than many of us would be able to do. Q: What do you hope to this book will achieve? A: I would love for Wildflowers to become a catalyst for change – not just something that sits dead on a coffee table, but something that inspires. At the very least, every person who purchases a copy through my online store (belindaramirez.net/shop) will know that part of the proceeds go to IJM and other anti-trafficking organisations. That’s where the journey might end for some people. But what I’d really love is for people to open the book up, read the stories, hear about organisations like IJM that support survivors and see that they – the reader – can make an impact. I’d love for them to be moved to give or host a fundraiser or start advocating for organisations like IJM. On top of that, I’d love for the book to be a multiplier, a talking piece when visitors come and see it on the coffee table, so they too become interested in doing something about modern slavery. Q: Why did you name it Wildflowers? The name actually came to me while I was at home one day, feeling sick and sorry for myself (we don’t have to be in that perfect zone all the time for inspiration!). Picture it: in nature, wildflowers are found in such rough, unforgiving and harsh terrain but they still manage to burst forth and flourish. That was the idea behind the title, Wildflowers. “Harsh” is actually an understatement for the experiences these women have endured. They’ve been pitted against all odds and yet they’ve managed to survive and flourish. They are beautiful inside and out. This post is based on Just Moments: Liv(e) with …, a series of Instagram Live conversations with experts, focusing on the role of aftercare for survivors of cybersex trafficking. Watch it here. You can purchase Wildflowers here. Back to IJM Blog IJM staff “2020 Staff Highlights” It’s been an unpredictable and challenging year – but also a rewarding one for the IJM team around the world and locally. Here are some highlights from IJM Australia staff members. Steve – CEO I like the story of Raja, how he was so diligent and loyal to his parents. Even though it was that “Playing the victim: Q&A with Grace Naoum” Grace is a Sydney-based actress. She recently wrote and performed a monologue at an IJM Australia event, depicting the experience of a survivor of sex trafficking. She spoke to us about her process and reflections in preparing her piece. Q: Can you tell us about how you put your monologue together? The IJM team sent “Supporting survivors of sex trafficking: Q&A with Kristi Van Es” Kristi is the CEO and Founder of Offspring Project, one of IJM’s partners in Kolkata. This aftercare organisation provides training and support for Kashi and other survivors of sex trafficking – they’ve made several of the wrappable gifts in IJM’s 2020 Christmas Catalogue. Q: Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? I’m from “Q&A with Shalini Newbigging: Rehabilitation and social services in South Asia” Shalini Newbigging is IJM’s specialist for rehabilitation and social services in South Asia. Does IJM work with government shelter homes for aftercare? In the Collaborative Casework phase of our programs, IJM Mumbai and Kolkata worked in close proximity with the government-run shelter homes in the state. This intervention was crucial because the shelter homes are

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John Haye John Haye was born in about the mid-1400s. According to Paul C. Reed, “John Haye was the first member of this family to appear in Sussex, surfacing abruptly during the turbulent reign of Edward IV.” During that time, on 14 March 14 Edward IV (1473/4), he was granted land in Robertsbridge, Sussex, England by the Abbot and Convent of Robertsbridge, consisting of a messuage with curtilage (a dwelling house with the outbuildings and land immediately surrounding it) called “the George” and pasture called “Upper Fayrefield.” The abbot reserved the right of access to the pasture for three days per year for a fair held for Holyrood day. On 15 March 1477/8 (18 Edward IV), he also received a grant in fee from the Abbot for a messuage and garden in Robertsbridge called “Westpelmede,” as well as a separate grant for a messuage called “Henry Awardes” in Robertsbridge. He was listed as a plaintiff, along with Nicholas Morant and John Parker in a writ of praecipe (a writ requiring a person to do something or else appear and show why they should not) dated Easter term 1501 against several couples concerning messuages with gardens in Battle, Sussex, England. Paul C. Reed mentioned a relevant entry on the court roll 14 August 8 Henry VIII (1516) which could indicate the payment of a heriot (a tribute paid to lord upon the death of a tenant, often a live animal from the estate of the deceased). This could possibly mean that John had died recently. John’s known children are: William Haye, married Joan Tufton (dau. of Sir Nicholas and Margaret (Hever) Tufton ), found in the subsidy roll of 1524, being taxed for £23 of goods at Robertsbridge, Sussex, England, and in the subsidy roll of 1525, being taxed for £26 of goods, granted a messuage called "Wysemede" in Robertsbridge, as well as a meadow in Salehurst, Sussex, England, 10 December 27 Henry VIII (1535), juror 2 April 1536 in Robertsbridge, died 22 August 30 Henry VIII (1538), inquisition post mortem held 17 October 34 Henry VIII (1542) in Robertsbridge, Sussex, England. John Haye, appears in the subsidy roll of 1524 for Robertsbridge, Sussex, England, being taxed for £19 and in 1525 for £17, a feofee of George Stephen of Salehurst and Echingham. Records related to the John Haye family but not copied below due to copyright considerations: Reed, Paul C., "The English Ensigns: Ancestral to Thomas Ensign of Scituate, Massachusetts, and James Ensign of Hartford, Connecticut (Wybourne Descent and Haye/Hayes Descent)," The American Genealogist, Vol. 75, Jul 2000, p. 229-40. Return: Home > Pilcher Last updated 1 Mar 2018

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Ty Majeski will return to the ARCA Menards Series starting at Charlotte Motor Speedway in May with Chad Bryant Racing. Majeski will pilot the No. 22 Ford Fusion for a limited campaign that includes Pocono, Michigan, Chicago and the season finale at Kansas. He will share the ride with Corey Heim, who posted a fifth-place finish in his debut at Five Flags Speedway. Majeski was on the wrong end of the deal with Roush Fenway Racing shuttering its Xfinity Series program after the 2018 season. In 15 Xfinity Series starts, Majeski earned the best finish of seventh last June at Iowa Speedway. On top of his 15 starts in Xfinity competition, he’s made nine starts in the ARCA Menards Series. His last start in the series came at Kansas Speedway in 2017 with Cunningham Motorsports, where he finished a career-best second. Majeski will also team up with Joe Graf Jr., who is running for the ARCA championship. The organization has one win, coming with Graf last season at Berlin. He will team up with veteran crew chief Paul Andrews. Andrews has experience working with Wisconsin-born drivers as he was the championship-winning crew chief on Alan Kulwicki’s 1992 triumph. “We’re very excited to welcome Ty Majeski to Chad Bryant Racing,” team principal Chad Bryant said. “Ty came to Cunningham Motorsports in 2016 and got off to a fast start and did some amazing things in a short amount of time. Heim is expected to be in the car at the next ARCA race at Salem Speedway along with the race at Fairgrounds Speedway in Nashville. A driver for the General Tire 200 at Talladega Superspeedway will be announced at a later date. Previous Friday Faceoff: Should There Be More Stringent Requirements to Race in Cup?

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What's the difference between Cuban Son and Mexican Son? Both are very important folkloric, traditional, styles in their respective countries. They sound very similar, but seems that they developed somewhat independently, at least at their beginnings. Here is an example of the Cuban Son: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DCvINQrUtQ And here is an example of the Mexican Son: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B3QTVLYaFw&list=PL86b3Kv-SgPv0z7A4mbUIiLQKAgAp5uXx&index=1 Both are called "Son" styles, and both regions are geographically adjacent, so they have a lot in common (presumably), but in the end they just not sound the same. What are the differences in rhythm, instrumentation, and music? Why are they considered different styles/genres? folk genre-characteristics Anton dB Anton dBAnton dB Some Similarities Both Cuban Son (CS) and Mexican Son (MS) share roots in Spain's Flamenco and Andalusian Folk Music, and in many of Africa's various music traditions, all of them brought from the migration craze of the New World. This influence is reflected everywhere: harmonies, melodies, lyrics, rhythms, instruments. In harmony one example is the Andalusian Cadence, a common Flamenco chord progression that can be found everywhere in both CS and MS (in a Phrygian context for Flamenco, harmonic minor for CS and MS). Both are heavily based on string instruments, guitar-like instruments particularly. Both are big fans of improvisation in music and lyrics. Both have their own particular dance tradition attached, and in many regions it is the music expected to party to, those parties being part of the tradition as a whole. Both saw birth from a region around the Gulf of Mexico. One of the big similarities is that both happen around a constant loop and switch between instrumental melody and lyrics (voice melody) sections. Another big one is that both make use of a "declaration-reply" dynamic, albeit in slightly different ways. Both use thirds and sixths extensively to harmonize multiple singing voices. Both are contemporary, and in many senses "brother" traditions that actively inspired each other during their development. Yet they have a distinct, particular, sound. Some Differences One of the prominent rhythmic differences is that most (if not all the traditional ones?) MS songs are in 6/8 (some use both 6/8 and 3/4 at the same time, known as Sesquialtera or Hemiola). In contrast, most CS songs (if not all the traditional ones?) are in 4/4 or 2/2. The clave rhythm is everywhere in CS, while it is rarely found (if at all?) in traditional MS. Instrumentation is another one of the big differences. Traditionally they are played with different instruments by different ensambles. This difference in instrumentation gives a very particular tone, timbre, and feel to each Son (this also happens regionally, inside CS and MS substyles). The familiar 6-string classical guitar seems to be much more common in CS. Some instruments specific to traditional CS include: Some instruments specific to traditional MS include: Jarana Quinta Huapanguera Requinto Jarocho Falsetto is widely used in some local styles of MS, this is not the case for CS. Some of the most well known Mariachi songs are MS, but they rarely play CS (because of the expected traditional context). Cuban Bolero found its way to the Son mix, and developed into the Bolero-Son (link in Spanish), while the MS and the Mexican Bolero (which is rooted in the Cuban Bolero) developed much independently, perhaps because of the differences in metric. Traditional Ensembles Playing Cuban Son Live Lágrimas Negras El Cuarto de Tula Traditional Ensembles Playing Mexican Son Live La Petenera El Buscapiés El Siquisiri Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged folk genre-characteristics or ask your own question. What's the difference between house and techno? What's the origin of the phrase “Rise Up Singing”? What's the difference between Bluegrass and Country? Origin and meaning of “Didn't Leave Nobody but the Baby” Other than the electric guitar, which plucked chordophones (guitar-like instruments) originated in the United States? Looking to find out the name and origin of this song Is Santiano's “Mädchen von Haithabu” intentionally very similar to Tha Mi Sgith?

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Wireless LANs have serious security flaws Bob Brewin Published: February 6th, 2001 Computer scientists at the University of California at Berkeley have sounded new warnings about the vulnerabilities of wireless LANs, saying flaws in a common encryption algorithm pose major security issues. The Internet, Security, Applications, Authentication and Cryptography (ISAAC) research group said in a report posted on the Web last Friday that it had “discovered a number of flaws” in the Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) 40-bit algorithm used to secure all IEEE 802.11 standard wireless LANs. These flaws, the ISAAC report added, “seriously undermine the security claims of the system.” Wireless LANs have a number of vulnerabilities, the report said, including passive attacks to decrypt traffic based on statistical analysis. WEP also has flaws that make it easier to inject unauthorized traffic from mobile base stations or launch active attacks to decrypt traffic by tricking the access point (the base station), the report said. Industry officials dismissed the report as old news, adding that the IEEE and manufacturers are already taking steps to beef up security. However, analysts said the ISAAC report is the first to illustrate how easy it is to hack wireless LANs. This security warning comes as wireless LANs, which provide high-speed connections today at 10M bit/sec., continue to gain popularity in the enterprise and home markets, where an investment of less than US$1,000 can provide a LAN without cables to cover a whole house. Gartner Group Inc. is expected to release a study later this week forecasting that more than half of the Fortune 1,000 companies will have deployed wireless LANs within the next two years. The proliferation of enterprise wireless LANs demands increased security because every laptop equipped with a wireless PC LAN card is a potential “sniffer,” said John Pescatore, a security analyst at Stamford, Conn.-based Gartner. A sniffer is typically hacking software used to monitor network traffic looking for passwords, credit-card numbers or other potentially useful data. Pescatore said he has received reports of employees from one company eating lunch outdoors at an office park and picking up signals from a LAN operated by another company. “You can’t read the [encrypted] traffic, but you can see the packets,” he said. Pescatore said he believes the underground hacker community is hard at work developing downloadable scripts to tap into wireless LANs, and he predicts that such tools will be available this year. “Within six months, ‘script kiddies’ are going to be able to drive around corporate campuses” and easily tap or spoof networks, Pescatore said. “That’s why we have been telling our clients for a long time that if they’re serious about using [wireless LANs], they have to protect them.” Phil Belanger, chairman of the Mountain View, Calif.-based Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance, downplayed the ISAAC report, saying “this is not new news.” IEEE has a group working to beef up wireless LAN security, he added. But, he said, users — especially enterprise users — need to understand that the WEP protocol was designed to provide a level of security equivalent to an unencrypted wired LAN. Enterprise users should add additional security measures to their wireless LANs, he advised, including using longer 128-bit encryption keys and exchanging data over a virtual private network (VPN) “tunnel” when using a wireless LAN. The IEEE 802.11 security working group is developing additional enhancements, including longer keys and a media access control, as well as modifying protocols to make wireless LANs more resistant to attack. Vendors started taking steps last year to enhance wireless LAN security. For example, the Orinoco division of Lucent Technologies Inc. introduced new products that provide automatic encryption key generation and distribution of enhanced keys on a per-session basis. Last month, Cisco Systems Inc. introduced new enterprise wireless LAN products with enhanced security. Gemma Paulo, an analyst at Cahners In-Stat Group in Scottsdale, Ariz., agreed on the need for beefed-up security in corporate wireless LAN networks, saying, “You need more security in enterprises, and vendors are mixing and matching solutions, such as VPNs and longer keys.” Emerging Tech enterprise users, IEEE, wireless LAN Cisco agrees to flash memory deal with Intel J.D. Edwards shakes up management as loss looms David O’Leary Canadian and Global education, business, computing leader Tracking emerging IT standards Avaya WLAN 9100 Series: Top 10 things you need to know Cloud computing standards update (ISO JTC1/SC38)

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Some brands are now migrating successful digital ads to the TV set, in a reversal of what was once the trend of repurposing TV spots for online video, says Rori DuBoff, Global Head of Strategy at Havas Digital, in an interview with Beet.TV. Havas recently launched a campaign for Dish Latino around the World Cup and the digital creative is now being used for TV ads, she explains. “It’s the opposite of what we once saw with TV content,” she says. The change is occurring as more brands develop specific branded content for digital. That can often yield positive results, leading to bringing that content to the TV. Havas created a campaign for Dish Latino tied into the idea of soccer as the “beautiful game,”connecting it to Dish’s ability to let users watch multiple angles of a TV program. The campaign began with video, out-of-home and mobile with TV layered in later. “The notion that you can watch content from any device, anywhere in multiple angles is where consumer is at right now,” she says. Dish began working with Havas last year. We interviewed DuBoff at the Beet.TV leadership summit on branded video. You can find additional videos from the event here.

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Development Proposal Q: Are you submitting an application for development approval to the City of Burlington? A: Yes, our application has been submitted to the City of Burlington for its review. The City requires that applicants submit a number of studies, such as a Planning Justification Report, Transportation Impact & Parking Study, and Pedestrian Wind Study. Q: Why is Amica considering developing here? A: It is important to Amica that we provide opportunities for residents to “age in place” in their communities. We conducted demographic research and found that there is a high population of seniors who live in close proximity to this site, many of whom do not have access to the care that they need. There is a high demand for all types of seniors living in Burlington; and the supply is quite limited. We found that there is a 98% occupancy rate of the senior living suites in close proximity to this site. Additionally, we found that there are not currently any private care suites that are dedicated to Memory Care in the nearby area – and there is a growing demand for this type of care amongst the senior community. We feel that this location provides a perfect site for senior living, with ease of access to downtown, the waterfront, the Joseph Brant Hospital, and other local amenities. The location is also convenient for families to visit their relatives. Q: What are your plans for the building? A: The building on-site will include the three types of living services that Amica offers: Independent Living, Assisted Living, and Memory Care. The proposed development will feature townhouses on the north end of the site, a 12-storey mid-rise component, and transition to a 17-storey tower on the south end of the property. Q: What is Amica’s track record on developments? A: Amica builds the highest standard of developments for seniors living in Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia. These buildings are specially designed so as to include Independent Living, Assisted Living and Memory Care. They are referred to as “continuums”. In the Halton Region, Amica operates two of these continuum residences in Dundas and Stoney Creek. In 2018, Amica Peel Village opened in Brampton, and Amica Georgetown will open in 2019. Q: Will you listen to the views of the community? A: Learning about the community’s views is an important part of the planning and design process. There are a few different ideas that we have about how we can engage with the community. We have held individual meetings with the neighbours directly adjacent to the site. We also have plans to host broader community meetings and intend to discuss timing of these with City Staff. Additionally, this website will have up to date information on the plans, status of the project, and timing; as well as opportunities to ask questions and provide feedback. Q: What is the average size of an Amica building? How many suites/residents? A: Every Amica community is different. Amica continuum buildings that feature three types lifestyles (Independent Living, Assisted Living, and Memory Care) vary in both size and unit mix. Most often, this variation is dependent upon the property and needs of the surrounding market. In our proposal, the breakdown is: 50% Independent Living 37% Assisted Living 13% Memory Care Q: What will be the influence on the wider community? A: Our goal is to have the new development at 1161 North Shore Boulevard East seamlessly fit into the community. It’s important for our residents, when they move into their new home, to continue feeling a part of the neighbourhood that they live in. To achieve this, we start by going through a rigorous architectural and landscape design process. Some things we consider are how to incorporate the necessary mechanical equipment in a way that minimizes disruption; and what building materials and standards will be the most efficient. We also design the development to ensure our residents and neighbours are safe; and so, we think carefully about what lighting and other safety features will be most satisfactory. Q: What is your commitment to us? A: Amica respects and values our relationship with you as neighbours and community stakeholders. We want to establish a strong, long-term rapport as neighbours while attending to the rising need for seniors housing in the neighbourhood. We commit to being open and transparent as we work through the process, keeping you informed, and seeking your input on how we can best fit into and serve the community. © 2018 Amica Senior Lifestyles, Amico Properties & Spruce Partners

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Movie Reviews by Kids: The Princess and the Frog We’ve heard the buzz, we’ve seen the previews, and we wanted to know, how does The Princess and the Frog, Disney’s latest animated film, really stack up? We spoke to 9-year-old R. Henry Moore of Toronto, who gave us his glowing review. Consensus is: two thumbs up! “I enjoyed the movie because I thought the concept of the movie—a hard-working girl whose father believes in her—is heart warming. There is nothing I disliked about the film. I would recommend this film to girls and boys who think they are not pretty or popular and who get made fun of because they are different. My favourite part of the movie was when Tiana’s mother is reading the book The Frog Prince to Tiana and Tiana’s friend, and they are all dressed up in princess dresses. I love when my mum reads to me. My favourite character was Tiana’s mother (played by one of my favorites, Oprah Winfrey) because she always encouraged Tiana to keep going and try her hardest.”

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Ladies and Gentlemen, the time has come yet again to get your golf equipment prepped for the Annual CAF CWO Charity Golf Tournament! This year join CWO Alain Guimond and other golfers to raise funds for your MFRC! This event will host a variety of enjoyable activities, including golf, that you don’t want to miss!

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/*************************************************************************//** * @file * @brief This file is part of the AFBR-S50 API. * @details Defines the pixel binning algorithm (PBA) setup parameters and * data structure. * * @copyright * * Copyright (c) 2021, Broadcom Inc * All rights reserved. * * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: * * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this * list of conditions and the following disclaimer. * * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, * this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation * and/or other materials provided with the distribution. * * 3. Neither the name of the copyright holder nor the names of its * contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from * this software without specific prior written permission. * * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" * AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE * IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE * DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE * FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL * DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR * SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER * CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, * OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE * OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. *****************************************************************************/ #ifndef ARGUS_PBA_H #define ARGUS_PBA_H /*!*************************************************************************** * @defgroup arguspba Pixel Binning Algorithm * @ingroup argusapi * * @brief Pixel Binning Algorithm (PBA) parameter definitions and API functions. * * @details Defines the generic pixel binning algorithm (PBA) setup parameters * and data structure. * * The PBA module contains filter algorithms that determine the * pixels with the best signal quality and extract an 1d distance * information from the filtered pixels. * * The pixel filter algorithm is a three-stage filter with a * fallback value: * * -# A fixed pre-filter mask is applied to statically disable * specified pixels. * -# A relative and absolute amplitude filter is applied in the * second stage. The relative filter is determined by a ratio * of the maximum amplitude off all available (i.e. not filtered * in stage 1) pixels. Pixels that have an amplitude below the * relative threshold are dismissed. The same holds true for * the absolute amplitude threshold. All pixel with smaller * amplitude are dismissed.\n * The relative threshold is useful to setup a distance * measurement scenario. All well illuminated pixels are * selected and considered for the final 1d distance. The * absolute threshold is used to dismiss pixels that are below * the noise level. The latter would be considered for the 1d * result if the maximum amplitude is already very low. * -# A distance filter is used to distinguish pixels that target * the actual object from pixels that see the brighter background, * e.g. white walls. Thus, the pixel with the minimum distance * is referenced and all pixel that have a distance between * the minimum and the given minimum distance scope are selected * for the 1d distance result. The minimum distance scope is * determined by an relative (to the current minimum distance) * and an absolute value. The larger scope value is the * relevant one, i.e. the relative distance scope can be used * to heed the increasing noise at larger distances. * -# If all of the above filters fail to determine a single valid * pixel, the golden pixel is used as a fallback value. The * golden pixel is the pixel that sits right at the focus point * of the optics at large distances. * . * * After filtering is done, there may be more than a single pixel * left to determine the 1d signal. Therefore several averaging * methods are implemented to obtain the best 1d result from many * pixels. See #argus_pba_averaging_mode_t for details. * * * @addtogroup arguspba * @{ *****************************************************************************/ #include "argus_def.h" /*!*************************************************************************** * @brief Enable flags for the pixel binning algorithm. * * @details Determines the pixel binning algorithm feature enable status. * - [0]: #PBA_ENABLE: Enables the pixel binning feature. * - [1]: reserved * - [2]: reserved * - [3]: reserved * - [4]: reserved * - [5]: #PBA_ENABLE_GOLDPX: Enables the golden pixel feature. * - [6]: #PBA_ENABLE_MIN_DIST_SCOPE: Enables the minimum distance scope * feature. * - [7]: reserved * . *****************************************************************************/ typedef enum { /*! Enables the pixel binning feature. */ PBA_ENABLE = 1U << 0U, /*! Enables the golden pixel. */ PBA_ENABLE_GOLDPX = 1U << 5U, /*! Enables the minimum distance scope filter. */ PBA_ENABLE_MIN_DIST_SCOPE = 1U << 6U, } argus_pba_flags_t; /*!*************************************************************************** * @brief The averaging modes for the pixel binning algorithm. *****************************************************************************/ typedef enum { /*! Evaluate the 1D range from all available pixels using * a simple average. */ PBA_SIMPLE_AVG = 1U, /*! Evaluate the 1D range from all available pixels using * a linear amplitude weighted averaging method. * Formula: x_mean = sum(x_i * A_i) / sum(A_i) */ PBA_LINEAR_AMPLITUDE_WEIGHTED_AVG = 2U, } argus_pba_averaging_mode_t; /*!*************************************************************************** * @brief The pixel binning algorithm settings data structure. * @details Describes the pixel binning algorithm settings. *****************************************************************************/ typedef struct { /*! Enables the pixel binning features. * Each bit may enable a different feature. See #argus_pba_flags_t * for details about the enabled flags. */ argus_pba_flags_t Enabled; /*! Determines the PBA averaging mode which is used to obtain the * final range value from the algorithm, for example, the average * of all pixels. See #argus_pba_averaging_mode_t for more details * about the individual evaluation modes. */ argus_pba_averaging_mode_t Mode; /*! The Relative amplitude threshold value (in %) of the max. amplitude. * Pixels with amplitude below this threshold value are dismissed. * * All available values from the 8-bit representation are valid. * The actual percentage value is determined by 100%/256*x. * * Use 0 to disable the relative amplitude threshold. */ uq0_8_t RelAmplThreshold; /*! The relative minimum distance scope value in %. * Pixels that have a range value within [x0, x0 + dx] are considered * for the pixel binning, where x0 is the minimum distance of all * amplitude picked pixels and dx is the minimum distance scope value. * The minimum distance scope value will be the maximum of relative * and absolute value. * * All available values from the 8-bit representation are valid. * The actual percentage value is determined by 100%/256*x. * * Special values: * - 0: Use 0 for absolute value only or to choose the pixel with the * minimum distance only (of also the absolute value is 0)! */ uq0_8_t RelMinDistanceScope; /*! The Absolute amplitude threshold value in LSB. * Pixels with amplitude below this threshold value are dismissed. * * All available values from the 16-bit representation are valid. * The actual LSB value is determined by x/16. * * Use 0 to disable the absolute amplitude threshold. */ uq12_4_t AbsAmplThreshold; /*! The absolute minimum distance scope value in m. * Pixels that have a range value within [x0, x0 + dx] are considered * for the pixel binning, where x0 is the minimum distance of all * amplitude picked pixels and dx is the minimum distance scope value. * The minimum distance scope value will be the maximum of relative * and absolute value. * * All available values from the 16-bit representation are valid. * The actual LSB value is determined by x/2^15. * * Special values: * - 0: Use 0 for relative value only or to choose the pixel with the * minimum distance only (of also the relative value is 0)! */ uq1_15_t AbsMinDistanceScope; /*! The pre-filter pixel mask determines the pixel channels that are * statically excluded from the pixel binning (i.e. 1D distance) result. * * The pixel enabled mask is an 32-bit mask that determines the * device internal channel number. 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Für UnternehmenFür Kursteilnehmer Salon - Bubbles Salon - Recessions7:49 History of Mortgage Lending3:46 Commercial Real Estate Vehicles11:47 Mortgages, part 19:04 PMI, CMOs, CDOs5:58 Post Crisis Regulation8:29 Chalk Talks - Excess Reserves9:37 The Bubble, part 17:08 The Bubble, part 311:18 Salon - Bubbles13:33 Let's say that someone even could recognize that there's these social quirks that we have in terms of the behaviors of maybe, the word of mouth behaviors that we're hearing in terms of whether you should sell or whether you should buy. For instance, I'm thinking about the housing crisis. Now let's say even you could know as a homeowner, before you buy your second home to then rent it out to someone. Let's say that that you suspect we are in a "bubble". I did that by the way. Nonetheless, even if you know, if the market is still going, shouldn't you take advantage of that bubble? Now here's another issue. Yes. When a market is going up rapidly and you think it's because of psychology, you might want to short the market, the benefit - own a negative quantity. You can't short houses. Sure. So a lot of people, during the housing bubble, it's a little bit hard to get out of that market. But then a lot of people I'm sure did because they think it was going crazy. But the problem is you don't know when it's going to turn. And there's a folklore that it usually takes several years longer than you ever imagined for it to finally turn. And then it finally does. But if you are a short seller, you might go bankrupt before that time is reached. Or if you are a financial adviser, advising clients to stay out of the market, you will have lost all of your clients before the turning point comes. This is part of the tension that makes it hard to deal with these phenomena. Going on top of Olivia's point on stock price and value, when bubbles exist in the market for example in 2000 with the Dot-com bubble. How does that affect the ability of price to reflect or indicate value? The term bubble was coined in 1720, at the time of a stock market crash in France. And it's kind of stuck as a colloquial term. It spread to other countries from France and it was a colloquial term that stays with us. But academics have always had a little trouble with it. What it refers to in my mind is a... there's an upswing and then there's the bursting. The upswing of the bubble is when stock prices or real estate prices or some other speculative asset goes up as a sort of part of a social epidemic where the price goes up and people start talking. They remind themselves of good news, they forget about bad news. It goes up again and more people start thinking I should be in there shopping, I should be buying this. And then the price gets really high. Doubters started to appear saying this is crazy. First of all nobody believes them but then market starts going down and then they're thinking maybe the doubters are right. And so then they start to really get further down. Now this you might call it a theory. It's a theory that people in the news media said was obvious when they were writing reports or they could see. In the 1720 bubble you could go out on a street in Paris and you would find mobs of people all shouting and excited when the market was crashing or even before when it was going up. It looked crazy. Economists though who are more academic or more professional, don't naturally take such explanation. So I think the word bubble has had limited impact except for what they call a rational bubble which I won't get into. There is a theory about possibly rational levels. So economists are just by their nature, they're not psychologists usually, they don't get it. So in fact though the 2007 to nine world financial crisis was a time when the word bubble came into more broad use even among academics. It used to be not in the textbooks of finance, they put it in after that. And now you can actually say bubble without feeling embarrassed. It's kind of interesting how like the term bubble, it seems like assume that it's at some point it has to burst and then everything has to come back down to I guess the truer core of what it's supposed to be. I guess sort of related to that, do you think that there' something about the 2008 crisis that was different that made bubble a more appropriate term than had been for these previous projects? But I don't like is... Your metaphor point is right. The word bubble, coined by somebody 300 some years ago suggests that it grows like when you're blowing a bubble with a little bubble blower. It's getting bigger and bigger. And as you watch you think it's going to pop, is it going to pop? And then poof! It's totally gone, unless you blow up another one. But I don't think bubbles are quite like that because they don't crash completely. And then you never know, they can come right back up. So I think I would have preferred if I were back in 1720 naming it. I would call it an epidemic because epidemics don't just disappear. You know, they go a while then they recede and then they come back again. I think it's an epidemic too because it sort of suggests that it's contagious. Right? Right. I think I like epidemiology which is a course in the medical school, because it also suggests why it is that bubbles appear so mysteriously. It's the same way that let's say an influenza epidemic appears. Suddenly hospitals are reporting, there's lots of new cases. Do they know why? Well let's say maybe the virus mutated and suddenly it's more infectious. It's the same way with stock market bubbles. So suddenly the market goes up. It wouldn't be a virus or a story or a theory. And the theories mutate the same way viruses do. Like there's some news thing or some politician says something and suddenly it's more contagious, a better story that people will tell, they'll influence each other. I use the word bubble because I think I know what people mean by it. But I think it's really epidemic, the word we want to use. And the 2007, was that different. You know the thing that was really unique about 2007 was that we had the biggest real estate boom ever in major countries. Like notably, the boom was really big in United States, China, UK, Spain, Italy, and it was also in other places, Iceland, Ireland. It was really big, reflecting something. Why did it get so big? You know what, I think part of the reason is the efficient markets theory itself. Because before then there would be public leaders who would come out and say this is crazy. But now they didn't want to because they didn't want to appear unscientific. So science shows that these markets are right, uncannily right. So I'm not going to criticize it. And if nobody criticizes it, it can just go wild. During the efficient markets era of second half of the 20th century, it was as if there is this smart money out there evaluating the level of the market. But you know what. I never meet this smart money. I only meet people who are trying to predict where it's going in another year, not thinking about these big issues. Maybe there are some but are they really dominating the market? That's the kind of doubts that came forward after 2007. Do you think it's irrational for an investor during a bubble to invest in the market even though you might feel it's above other prices or going up? Oh yes. So is it really irrational to invest in a bubble? Can you say rational bubble like any of the other? Right. If you can predict when it will burst, then you would want to go in and ride with it. Now there are some theorists who've argued that that in fact gives a rational- I mentioned rational bubble or there's quasi rational bubbles where some people are rational and that their behavior exacerbates the bubble. So I think that maybe you do want to ride a bubble. But I think it's a tough business. So maybe also when you're in a bubble you might not like bubbles. It's a bubble when they burst. Maybe in hindsight you can tell it's a bubble but while you are in the... See one thing people have to realize, after the fact, there is a tendency toward what they call historical determinism. Reading back on history you imagine you could have seen it all coming, it was obvious. So in the 1930s for example, didn't people know World War 2 was coming? It wasn't that obvious. Well it seems that way to us but it wasn't at all obvious then. And it's the same true for any of these events. Just a follow through. How does short selling affect, like development short selling effect, the I guess the rise and fall of these bubbles? Right. So in the 1970s, Edward Miller who's a finance professor wrote a famous article about short selling saying, "You know what, I think this is a major article. It seems so obvious after you read it.". But before Edward Miller said, "You know what, this efficient markets hypothesis just can't be right because there's nothing to stop some group of zealots." We know that some people have crazy beliefs, right. Well there's nothing to stop them from going in and bidding up the price of some stock to some crazy level, and everybody else knows it's crazy. Unless you can short sell, that means borrow shares and sell them enough so you can offset all of these. But what if all these people buy up all the shares and they hold them personally so that they're not available for shorting, maybe you can't short sell. So what's to stop it? That was his question and you know the finance profession was embarrassed by this because they didn't have an answer. The answer is if short selling is hard to do, and in some countries like China for example it's been very difficult to short sell. If you can't short sell, there is nothing to stop crazy people from bidding up the price. You know it's free, the markets are free and open. Somebody gets a screwy idea that this stock should be worth a million times earnings. If they want to bid it up to that it's their business, they can do it. That's one reason why. Now in terms of housing market, traditionally the housing market you can't short a house, you can't say, "Can I borrow your house and I'll sell it, and then I'll pay you back with a house like it?" That doesn't happen. Now I worked with my colleagues to create a futures market for single family homes so that there would be an options market, so that there would be a possibility of shorting. You could buy a put option on a house. And we have that market. The problem with it is that it's not very liquid. I'm hoping that it will eventually,but this is at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. We have 10 cities traded in the United States as a whole. There are other like the IPD in London which does commercial properties. There are ways of shorting real estate or property but they're not huge. And I think that short selling has its own inherent problems. It has to be facilitated by regulators and it has problems of itself that being a short seller is a risky business. You might go bankrupt trying it. And so it's just limited and that's an important reason to doubt market efficiency.

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In advance of its initial public offering, Facebook has purchased the two-year-old photo-sharing website Instagram. What do you think? "And I thought there was nothing that could make the Facebook IPO more exciting." "Great, another app I won’t have a chance to try because its acquisition by Facebook makes it too passé." "I wish I could make big business decisions like that. All I can buy for my company is stupid little cupcakes. And I already ate those."

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Posted on December 4, 2015 December 4, 2015 by livemusicdaily Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Announce The River Tour 2016 Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band launch The River Tour 2016, a nine-week US trek, on Jan. 16 in Pittsburgh. The announcement of the tour coincides with today’s release of “The Ties That Bind: The River Collection,” a comprehensive look at the era of the 1980 “The River” album that “Rolling Stone” calls “Springsteen’s best archival release yet.” Each night of the tour will be mixed for release on Live.BruceSpringsteen.net as high-quality downloads and CDs. Recordings will be available within days of each performance. The original The River Tour began Oct. 3, 1980, two weeks before the release of Springsteen’s fifth album, and continued through Sept. 4, 1981. With sets that regularly approached the four-hour range, the 140-date international tour firmly established a reputation for Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band as marathon performers. Tickets to The River Tour go on sale Dec. 11. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band 2016 US Tour Dates Jan 16 Pittsburgh, PA Consol Energy Center Jan 19 Chicago, IL United Center Jan 24 & 27 New York, NY Madison Square Garden Jan 29 Washington, DC Verizon Center Jan 31 Newark, NJ Prudential Center Feb 2 Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre Feb 4 Boston, MA TD Garden Feb 8 Albany, NY Times Union Center Feb 10 Hartford, CT XL Center Feb 12 Philadelphia, PA Wells Fargo Center Feb 16 Sunrise, FL BB&T Center Feb 18 Atlanta, GA Philips Arena Feb 21 Louisville, KY KFC Yum! Center Feb 23 Cleveland, OH Quicken Loans Arena Feb 25 Buffalo, NY First Niagara Center Feb 27 Rochester, NY Blue Cross Arena Feb 29 St Paul, MN Xcel Energy Center Mar 3 Milwaukee, WI BMO Harris Bradley Center Mar 6 St Louis, MO Chaifetz Arena Mar 10 Phoenix, AZ Talking Stick Resort Arena Mar 13 Oakland, CA Oracle Arena Mar 15 & 17 Los Angeles, CA Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena Via Bruce Springsteen Official Tagged with:Bruce Springsteen Previous PostFunksgiving: Robert Randolph & the Family Band, McLovins, and BYOG at Union Station Trainshed in Montgomery, AL Next PostA Look Back: Yanni’s Halloween Concert at the Giza Pyramids in Cairo, Egypt

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During the last International Dental Show in Cologne, Germany, Stratasys showcased the Objet260 Dental Selection 3D Printer. The multi-material printer targets mid/large sized dental and orthodontic labs that are trying to increase their market share. In consonance with current trends in endovascular devices technology, as can be seen by the big companies’ moves, Biokyra is working on two products that may enhance the performance and ease the treatment of aortic aneurysms. The Endovascular Suture is a system capable of performing sutures by minimally invasive technique. An innovative tool to the surgeon, opening new possibilities to endovascular surgery and possibly also to other surgery specialities. This is a worldwide innovative product that represents an evolution in minimally invasive procedures. Click here to watch the video. The company is also developing the Thoracoabdominal Aneurysm Treatment Stent Graft System: designed to provide an off-the-shelf solution for the treatment of thoracoabdominal aneurysms (TAAA), while used in combination with other standard commercially available devices. This hub endoprosthesis avoids the need for custom designed devices for the treatment of branched portions of the aorta and make the treatment available to more patients. You can watch the video here. Biokyra is always looking for business opportunities and funding. If you have an idea for a medical device or if you are an investor who is interested in getting involved, contact us. It seems like Medtronic is interested to continue investing in aortic and peripheral vascular business, since it has been among its fastest-growing divisions for the past five years. The company has already disclosed an investment in Arsenal AAA, a subsidiary of Arsenal Medical - which develops technology to avoid complications linked to endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) procedures. A few days after the announcement of this investment, Medtronic revealed its acquisition of Aptus Endosystems – maker of two FDA-cleared fastening devices and a steerable catheter for delivery of peripheral vascular products, which Medtronic will distribute. This statement was made during the Society for Vascular Surgery’s annual meeting. In a press release, the company said that these two investments were “demonstrations of Medtronic’s’ commitment to leadership in the Aortic space.” According to ReportsnReports.com, the market for aortic stent grafts is expected to increase at a compound annual growth rate of 6.7% until 2020, when it is expected to reach $1.9 billion. The market research company still states “Despite the high product price, physicians still see a significant benefit in providing endovascular options ahead of performing open surgery”.

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Former Chelsea star thanks Jose Mourinho for turning him into a ‘monster’ Former Chelsea frontman Tammy Abraham claims he has been turned into a “monster” by Roma boss Jose Mourinho. Abraham quit Stamford Bridge to move to the Italian capital in the summer and has hit five goals so far this season. However, a drop-off in form for Roma has coincided with a barren spell for Abraham, with just one goal in his last eight games. But the 24-year-old’s decision to move on from the Premier League continues to be vindicated at international level – with Abraham again included in Gareth Southgate’s latest squad. Asked what Mourinho had taught him at the Stadio Olimpico so far, Abraham replied: “Just be a monster really! “I think one of the things he said was I was too much of a nice player. You have to show that aggressiveness as you’re getting older as a striker. “It’s not always about being nice on the pitch. You need that character, you need that presence to frighten defenders. I think that’s something I’m learning and getting better at. “It’s always tough, moving and going to experience a different country and different culture. “I felt the sooner I settled in the better, and started learning different types of football and different styles. I’ve gone to spread my wings and hopefully I can keep up the level of performances I need to stay in the team. “Of course (the World Cup) was in the back of my mind but really I just wanted to play football. For me, it’s still a young career and I just felt I needed to go out and play some games to improve and hit the highest levels and hopefully I can keep striving on.” Abraham came off the bench to replace hat-trick hero Harry Kane in Friday’s 5-0 World Cup thumping of Albania at Wembley. Abraham chasing goals against San Marino He now has nine caps and two goals for England. The attacker will be hoping for a rare start when the Three Lions face minnows San Marino on Monday night. A draw would guarantee them a place at next year’s World Cup. “Yes, of course, I’m always someone who backs myself and believes in myself. You have to be ready because anything can happen in football,” he said when asked if he is determined to become the go-to man to replace captain Kane when needed. “For me it’s about always trying to be ready. Of course players go through injury and bad spells etc. However, as a player you have to be ready and that’s something you have to be ready for, whenever the call is and the opportunities come. “(Kane is) phenomenal. Everyone is so delighted for him, especially on the bench, every time he scored. It just shows that he’s world-class. “He got into certain positions where the odds are not in his favour, apparently. But he puts them away like he always does. “You know he’s striving and striving and trying to get better every game. He’s someone I really look up to and hopefully he can get many more.” READ MORE: Chelsea, Real lead teenager race but secret weapon gives Barcelona edge The post Former Chelsea star thanks Jose Mourinho for turning him into a ‘monster’ appeared first on TEAMtalk. Previous: Paper Talk: Liverpool accelerate talks to beat Tottenham to Serie A star; two names joins Rodgers in Man Utd frame Next: January stampede on as Man Utd prepare to let star leave for just £10m

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Dolaucothi Roman Mines, Pumsaint, Carmarthenshire SN6629 4031. Dolaucothi (Ogofau) Roman gold mines are located near the village of Pumsaint (five saints), close to the A482 road, 8 miles south-east of Lampeter and 7 miles north-west of Llanwrda. The mines are at the east side of the village beneath the slopes of Allt Gwmhenog on the eastern bank of the river Cothi. The ancient site is on the Dolaucothi Estate and is owned by the National Trust. The first activity here was probably in the Bronze-Age, but the Romans exploited the gold here from the late 1st century AD, and mining was still going on in Medieval times and, even more recently! Dolaucothi Gold Mines: entrance (Photo credit: Pete Reed) The Romans started mining gold here when they conquered Wales in the late 1st century AD and probably built a fort close by in 78-80 AD to protect what they saw as a vital asset. The new governor of Britain, Sextus Julius Frontinus, moved to build a number of strategically positioned forts across southern Wales – Coelbren, Pumsaint and Llanio (Bremia) being just three of them – others soon stretched out across the length and breadth of Wales from Caerleon in the south-east to Segontium in the north-west, which in the west were later served by the Roman road, Sarn Helen. The gold was shipped overseas to the mint at Lyons in Gaul and made into coinage that quickly saw its way to the heart of the Roman empire, Rome, and beyond. To begin with opencast surface trenches were dug, but then later deep tunnels were dug down into the solid rock of the hillside of Allt Gwmhenog, some of of which were 50 foot deep and upto 300 feet long, allowing for better access to the gold-seams. But this meant sheer brute strength was needed because the workers were only using simple picks and chisels, which would take many days to excavate just small areas. On the hillside to the north the Romans built aqueducts, one of these being 7 miles long running along a gorge by the river Cothi, while another ran up the valley of the Annell for 4 miles. At intervals there were stone tanks or reservoirs for holding the water – these are still visible along the hillside as are the channels and stone ledges from the foundations of the aqueduct. Evidence suggests that the Romans abandoned the gold mines in the late 3rd century AD, but some form of mining continued in post-Roman times and even in to the Medieval period. In the 1930s a Roman water-wheel was excavated from deep down in the mine, and back in the 18th century a hoard of gold artefacts were found including brooches and snake bracelets. These treasures are now in the British Museum in London. Carreg Pumsaint – geograph.org.uk – 396874 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Near the entrance to the Roman mine on a low mound there is a small standing stone (Carreg Pumsaint) which, according to legend, is associated with five Celtic saints who lived as a hermits here in the 6C AD. There names were Ceitho, Celynin, Gwyn, Gwynaro and Gwynog. They were the sons of Cynyr Farfdrwch, a prince of Pembrokeshire, at the time of St David. Legend says the brothers fell asleep in the mine, vowing only to awaken when a truly virtuous bishop is once again seated on the throne of Menevia. Yet another legend claimed they would only awaken when King Arthur returns to Wales. There are said to be five hollows in the stone where the saints lay their heads – although today there only seem to be four hollows in the stone. Long ago there were five healing wells located in the Cothi river at Cwm Cerwyni half a mile south-west of Pumsaint church, each well being dedicated to one of the saints. The wells were at one time a place of pilgrimage. Houlder, Christopher., Wales: An Archaeological Guide – the prehistoric, Roman and early medieval field monuments, Faber, London, 1978. Categories: Ancient Mines, Dolaucothi Roman Mines Pumsaint | Tags: Dolaucothi Roman Mines at Pumsaint in Carmarthenshire | Permalink. La Gran’ Mere Du Chimquiere, St Martin, Guernsey, Channel Islands La Gran’mère du Chimquière, St Martin, Guernsey (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Latitude 49.437841 Longitude 2.554598. Located about 2 miles south-west of St Peter Port on the island of Guernsey is the parish of St Martin with it’s medieval church. The church stands beside Le Grande Rue, a site that was originally a pagan one but was Christianised in the 6th century AD by Celtic missionaries from Wales and the west of England. In the churchyard there is a large granite standing stone menhir that was carved into a female form some four thousand years ago and is said to represent an earth goddess or earth mother figure, hence the name La Gran’ Mere – the grand-mother. The granite statue menhir stands guarding the entrance to the churchyard of St Martin’s parish church and is between 5-6 feet high. Dating from around 2,000 BC when it was probably a square-shaped standing stone or “long stone”, it was fashioned into a female figure with head and shoulders in either the Celtic or Roman period. The carvings are of a typical female figure, an earth mother form that depicts a pagan fertility goddess which, rather strangely, guards and protects a Christian church. Perhaps the old pagan goddesses still have their uses! Newly married couples would, and still do, place coins or flowers on the statue’s head and shoulders to bring them luck, seeing it as a fertility symbol perhaps. In the 16th century a disgruntled churchwarden decided to split the stone in two, regarding it as a pagan relic, but the local people rallied round and restored the statue. The split in the stone can still be seen today. There is another similar standing stone figure in St Marie’s churchyard at Castel on the west coast of the island, although that one is much more defaced. Categories: Standing Stones, Statue Menhir St Martin's Guernsey | Tags: La Gran' Mere Du Chimquiere at Saint Martin in Guernsey Channel Isles | Permalink. King Orry’s Grave, Laxey, Isle of Man Grid Reference: SC 4389 8439. At the north side of Laxey village, about 70 yards to the north of the junction of the A2 road and Ballaragh road, stands the largest prehistoric monument on the island known as King Orry’s Grave, a section of which is in a garden. The original name for the monument was apparently ‘Gretech Veg Cairn’. It is actually a chambered long barrow from 4,000 years ago in the Neolithic age. There is uncertainty as to just who King Orry was, and why this monument should be associated with him, but probably he was the legendary King Gorse or Gorred of Crevan, a Viking who died here in the 11th century AD. However, as we already know, the long barrow pre-dates King Orry by thousands of years. The chambered long barrow with it’s single chamber at the top end is formed by two standing stones with a lintel slab that has now fallen. Here at the west end the cist burial would have been located beneath a cairn, but whether this long barrow ever had a mound over it we do not know for certain, so perhaps it would be safe to say that it did. There is a well preserved U-shaped forecourt that is 12 metres long and 4 feet wide, and is formed by 6 stone slabs, two of which are quite long. The eastern section of the moument has a second barrow with possibly two chambers, a forecourt and entrance, and a line of cists running roughly north-east to south-west. But, unfortunately this section has a road running through it and has largerly destroyed this part of the monument, it’s cairn of stones having been robbed-away to be used in the building of the two cottages close by in 1868. The western section of the long barrow was originally in a private garden and had never been excavated but, in the 1990s, the cottage and garden were purchased by MNH (Manx National Heritage), allowing access for visitors to the main part of the site, which is some 30 feet in diameter; the whole site being over 170 feet in length. The site was first excavated back in 1830 when the cist was uncovered and, more recently in 1953-4 when only one burial of unburnt bones was found along with a few grave goods, including a pottery bowl and some flints. The Manx Museum And National Trust: Fourth (Revised) Edition, The Ancient Monuments And Historic Monuments Of The Isle Of Man (A General Guide), Douglas, 1973. Categories: Burial Chambers / Cromlech / Dolmens, Cairn / Cairn Circle, King Orry's Grave Laxey Isle Of Man | Tags: King Orry's Grave at Laxey in Isle of Man | Permalink.

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For 2018, Fabergé presents a new dynamic for the latest addition to the highly sought-after Visionnaire Chronograph range. Titanium and black ceramic materials are framed by digits in orange and an edgier aesthetic: the result is wholly modern, bold and confident. At the outset, Fabergé Visionnaire Chronograph marks a new standard in charting time with a unique revolutionary movement: hours and minutes are read at the periphery of the watch dial while the chronograph function takes centre stage. Doing so facilitates greater accuracy in chronograph reading, vital when seconds matter. Visionnaire Chronograph for 2018 embraces this unique capability and unapologetically demands its consideration. The result is an aesthetic that depicts the very epitome of the Visionnaire Chronograph purpose – flanking this revolutionary movement with a livery befitting of its sportier capabilities. Considered an energetic colour, orange provokes associations with excitement, exhilaration, determination and enthusiasm. Orange is often selected to draw attention, so is a natural choice for the bold and confident aesthetic of Visionnaire Chronograph: drawing attention to the revolutionary movement 6361, developed in partnership with Agenhor Manufacture, and that imparts unprecedented clarity, precision and efficiency to the highly popular chronograph complication. Fabergé Visionnaire Chronograph Dynamique is available from September 2018.

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'The Voice' Finalist Ricky Duran Has Overcome Unthinkable Tragedies in His Life He's been through so much. ❤️ By Megan Stein Ricky Duran is The Voice season 17 finalist on Blake Shelton's team. The 29-year-old always seems so positive, but he's been through a lot of hard times in his life. Blake Shelton is normally known for mentoring country musicians on The Voice, but his finalist in season 17 is a far cry from the Oklahoman’s go-to style of music. Ricky Duran has been quietly racking up votes for weeks, earning viewers’ support with performances like “Let It Be” and “You Are the Best Thing.” His soulful sound has brought him all the way to the finale where he’ll compete against Katie Kadan, Rose Short, and Jake Hoot for the prize. But there’s more to Ricky than his music, so take a few minutes to get to know him better before placing your vote. He’s lost both of his parents. Ricky’s dad originally taught the 29-year-old guitar, and they played in a band together through his high school years. But, according to his bio, Ricky’s father “tragically took his own life” following his college graduation. Earlier this year, he lost his mother to breast cancer. Now, he’s carrying on their legacies by continuing to pursue his dreams. He has a girlfriend. A post shared by Ricky Duran (@rickyduran) Sorry, ladies! Ricky just celebrated an anniversary with his girlfriend, Alyssa, who seems to be very supportive of her boyfriend’s ambitions. “When you follow your intuition for long enough, everything falls into place,” he sweetly captioned a photo of the two from July. “So happy I met this girl.” Aww!!! He’s a southern boy at heart. Though his hometown is Worcester, Massachusetts, Ricky now lives in Austin, Texas. Which is probably why he and Blake make such a great pair. Good luck to Ricky as he heads into The Voice finale! Meet Ricky's Competition Katie Kadan Jake Hoot Rose Short Megan Stein Megan Stein is the senior editor for The Pioneer Woman, and oversees entertainment, features, and news for the website. More From Best of TV 2021 Erin Napier on Why She Doesn't Show Helen's Face How to Watch the New Magnolia Shows on Discovery+ Inside Ralph Macchio and Phyllis Fierro's Marriage Everything to Know About 'The Masked Dancer' How to Watch the (Virtual) New Year's Ball Drop What to Know About The New Winner of 'The Voice' What Happened to Jack in the 'Virgin River' Books? What to Know About Carter Rubin on 'The Voice' 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' Is on This Weekend! How to Order Hallmark's New Holiday Wine Best of TV 2021 'The Voice' Finalists Are All So Amazing Meet 'The Voice' Top Four Finalists Meet 'The Voice' Season 16 Top Four Finalists The Voice's Katie Kadan Already Has a Full Album Jake Hoot Is 'The Voice' Singer to Beat Right Now What to Know About The Voice's Andrew Sevener

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AAA Predicts 36.1 Million People in U.S. Will Travel For Memorial Day Weekend Joseph Pisani, Associated Press May 16th, 2014 at 4:30 PM EDT Airplane tickets, hotel stays and car rentals are all expected to be more expensive this Memorial Day weekend compared to the holiday weekend last year. About the only bright spot on that front is that gas prices are expected to be lower, and the vast majority of travelers will get from point A to point B by car. Dennis Schaal A strong case of cabin fever and a little more money to spend should inspire a greater number of Americans to hit the road this Memorial Day weekend. That’s the forecast from auto club AAA, which on Friday said it expects a total of 36.1 million people to travel 50 miles or more. If that estimate holds true, it would be the largest amount of people traveling during the holiday weekend since 2005. Most will drive to their vacation spots, but more people are expected to fly or take a cruise or train this year compared with a year ago, AAA said. The improving job market and a rise in disposable income are fueling the increase in holiday travel plans, AAA found in its annual survey. The desire to get out of the house after a brutally cold winter is another strong incentive to hit the road. “Thoughts of historic cold are still fresh in the minds of Americans in many parts of the country,” said AAA’s Chief Operating Officer Marshall Doney, in a statement. “The winter blues appear to have given Americans the travel bug.” Of the total travelers, 31.8 million are expected to drive, up 1.3 percent from 31.4 million last year. Gas prices are less of a concern for drivers, since they are expected to be lower than last year’s average of $3.63, thanks to rising supplies, AAA said. Airports will be busier, with 2.6 million people expected to fly this year, up 2.4 percent from last year. And 1.7 million people will take a cruise, train or bus, a 6.5 percent jump from a year ago. Travelers can expect to pay more for their getaways. Hotel rooms are likely to cost $3 more a night from last year, at an average of $169 per night, AAA said. The average cost of a round-trip plane ticket is $227, up from $215 a year ago. Car rentals will average $44 a day during the weekend, up 1 percent from a year ago. A 3.4 percent increase in personal income from last year should help cover those additional costs, the auto club said. The AAA forecast represents an 18 percent increase in travelers from 2009, the low point of the recession, when only 30.5 million Americans traveled for Memorial Day. The number has been increasing steadily since 2011. The busiest travel weekend was in 2005, when 44 million people went away. Last year, AAA said more people traveled during the Memorial Day weekend than it projected. It had expected total travel to fall nearly 1 percent from the year before to 34.8 million. But 35.5 million Americans actually traveled last year, according to a survey conducted following the holiday weekend. For its forecast, AAA works with research company IHS Global, which uses economic data to come up with its projections. A separate company, D.K. Shifflet & Associates surveys more than 50,000 households after the trips have been taken. Follow Joseph Pisani on Twitter at https://twitter.com/josephpisani Copyright (2014) Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Tags: aaa, memorial day, skiftstats Photo credit: In this May 24, 2013 file photo, traffic begins to thicken as motorists getting an early jump to Memorial Day destinations in Indiana and Michigan travel an interstate freeway through Chicago. Charles Rex Arbogast / Associated Press Here’s What Tourism Needs to Start Showing This Year Short-Term Rentals What Should Airbnb Launch in 2022? Travel Resolutions for 2022: Top Picks From the Skift Staff Travel’s Pandemic Myths: 7 Facts That Prove Them Wrong U.S. Puts Tougher Covid Test Requirements on Inbound Flyers Over Omicron Spread

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Select up to 3 trims below to compare some key specs and options for the 2012 Chevrolet Impala. For full details such as dimensions, cargo capacity, suspension, colors, and brakes, click on a specific Impala trim. Calculate 2012 Chevrolet Impala Monthly Payment Which Cars You Can Afford?

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Video still from 'Sunflowers' 1 min 58 secs loop Chlorophilia : Artists : Liz Harrison On holiday in France nearing the end of summer, we walked in the searing sun, with the insistent and overbearing sound of the cicada in the background. We advanced along the edges of fields of decaying sunflowers, whose time nearing completion, had almost run their cycle. Tall repetitive forms echoing one another, in unison, loosing their golden presence, the green pigment disappearing from their leaves turning them crispy and brown. Rustling as their forms brushed against each other regretting the shortening days as the sunlight was stolen from their substance. This flower worships the sun, whose rays are like a magnet to the sunflowers foliage and their upturned heads. They reminded me of an army, stiff and tall, echoing one another's movements, their heads bobbing up and down with the weight of their seeds. Their time had come. Liz Harrison's practice is interdisciplinary and focuses on sculptural and lens based installation. Themes of landscape, architecture and text are recurrent, evolving from experiences of spaces that embrace a history, both personal and generic. A spatial awareness and a sense of place are the means of interrogation in Liz Harrison's work - how we understand and occupy not only our present, lived-in spaces but those of our past in collective and in personal memory. Our immediate surroundings act as her primary resource - spaces defined in the city by architecture, by history and carved by urgent and ever-changing need; rural landscapes whose nature is no less a human construct though it may be played out at a different speed. The sculptural object, site-specific installation, lens-based projection and moving image are often employed simultaneously, in response to diverging and seemingly unrelated subject matter. Liz Harrison has shown extensively in London, the UK and Europe. www.lizharrison.co.uk

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Mouse that roared: Disney characters win local union shakeup AP Photo,, No available, FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2019, file photo, Mickey Mouse celebrates the Super Bowl winning team, the New England Patriots, during the Super Bowl victory parade in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Months after workers who play Mickey Mouse and Goofy at Walt Disney World threatened to leave the Teamsters union because of what they called "horrible misrepresentation," General President James Hoffa has appointed two associates to take over the local union in Orlando, Fla., according to a letter from Hoffa posted Monday, June 24, to the doors of the Local 385 union hall. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP, File) ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The mouse that roared was heard. Months after workers who play Mickey Mouse, Goofy and other characters at Walt Disney World threatened to leave the Teamsters union because of what they called “horrible misrepresentation,” General President James Hoffa appointed two associates Monday to take over the local union. A letter from Hoffa was posted to the doors of the Local 385 union hall in Orlando, Florida, saying he had begun a process known as trusteeship. Local 385 represents costumed character-performers, truck drivers and other Walt Disney World workers. Hoffa promised to send resources to help the local union right itself, writing “it is regrettable that circumstances have reached this point.” Ralph Singer, a Disney World truck driver, said union members were “ecstatic” about the trusteeship. “Enough people complained, and they made a great decision,” Singer said. “Hopefully, they will clean house.” Teamsters spokeswoman Kara Deniz said an election will be held within 18 months so members can choose new leaders. Separately, investigators with another, independent Teamsters office have said in court filings that they are scrutinizing allegations that Local 385’s leaders created false records and committed embezzlement and obstruction. No charges have been filed. Clay Jeffries, Local 385’s president, didn’t respond to an email seeking comment. The 9,000 members of Local 385 have key roles in central Florida’s tourism and transportation industries. About half are Disney workers; the rest include UPS drivers, hotel employees, food service workers, rental car employees and other drivers across 20 Florida counties. The costumed character-performers have been Teamsters members since the early 1980s. But nearly two-thirds of the 1,000 performers at Disney World signed a petition to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters earlier this year, threatening to leave. Among the complaints was that Local 385 leaders made a deal with Disney World officials to cut out 20 or so workers from being covered by the union. Union members also said Local 385 leaders had been unresponsive to grievances by members seeking help against the companies they worked for. In March, Hoffa ordered a hearing in Orlando where union members were able to voice their complaints to leaders with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. In his letter on Monday, Hoffa noted that the local union had lost more than 500 members since 2017 and that the hundreds of Disney workers were threatening to leave. Hoffa said he had asked Local 385’s leaders to respond to the allegations but they never responded. A Disney spokeswoman didn’t immediately respond to an email seeking comment. Follow Mike Schneider on Twitter at https://twitter.com/MikeSchneiderAP Adopt a Plant in Danger of Extinction at the UNAM Botanical Garden

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Home » Africa » One dead, seven hospitalised as swine flu outbreak hits Namibia One dead, seven hospitalised as swine flu outbreak hits Namibia by Oscar Nkala The Namibian Ministry of Health has confirmed the death of one person who succumbed to a fresh outbreak of swine flu, also known as the H1N1 virus. Image/ Alvaro1984 18 Acting Deputy Permanent Health Ministry Secretary David Uirab said the 45-year-old man died at a privately-run hospital in the capital Windhoek last Friday. So far, seven people from the Windhoek local government area have been diagnosed and are being treated for the H1N1 virus. The ministry has since classified the outbreak as a seasonal influenza that has been recurrent in Namibia since the first swine flu outbreak in 2009. The ministry said cases of the flu tend to rise to a peak during the winter season. According to the government analysis, the people most at risk are children under 5 years of age, the elderly, pregnant women and those with weakened immune systems. The influenza bug is transmitted through coughing, sneezing or direct contact with surfaces covered with contaminated droplets. Over 8 000 cases of the avian flu were recorded in Namibia during the first outbreak in 2009. Of these, 102 cases were confirmed positive. Lyme disease vaccine update: ‘Significant progress’ being made Taiwan reports 1st locally-acquired dengue case of the year in Kaohsiung City West Virginia hepatitis A outbreak: More than 400 cases, one death Sustaining vaccine confidence in a post-truth era: Panel Q&A from ISNTD d³ 2018 Redefining Access to Medicines: Panel Q&A from ISNTD d³ 2018 Utah hepatitis A outbreak: 70% of cases in Salt Lake County

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Americana is the thirteenth studio album by ARIA Award-winning Australian musician, Diesel. The album was released on 1 July 2016. Upon announcement of the album, Liberation Records said the album is a contemporary piece that "incorporates elements of American roots music styles". On July 1, Diesel announced the 10-date Americana tour to commence in September 2016. Background and release In September 2015, Diesel announced his Pieces of Americana tour. Diesel was born in America and raised in Australia and wanted to pay tribute to the artists that influenced his own musical journey by covering classic songs. "It's such a broad term, 'Americana' – it means different things to different people," he said. The tour commenced in February 2016 and went until March 2016. Additional dates were subsequently added and it continued until June 2016. On 17 December 2015, he announced "Americana recording sessions have now commenced" and on 26 April 2016, the album Americana was announced along with two promotional songs available for download, "Here Comes My Girl" and "Queen Jane Approximately". Reviews Daniel Patrin from Renowned for Sound said; "Diesel lets the recordings on Americana speak for themselves, offering a nostalgia-laced and respectable record filled with his own panache and aural integrity. It’s by utilising his musical career experience how Diesel can prove with little persuasion, his success in delivering a brilliant tribute record – climactically fusing his Australian musical spirit with his shining American pride." Mark Bereford from The Music said "Given the musical style of Diesel and the universal adoration for many of the original songs filling Americana, it's a surprise to see it fall.". He did complement the track "Rag Mama Rag". Michael Dywer of Rolling Stone Australia saw how the concept of "Americana" must mean something else to an American born, Australian raised musician and praised the recasting principle of song genres. Track listing "Intro...Hank's Dream" [instrumental] (Diesel) – 1:37 "Ring of Fire" (June Carter Cash, Merle Kilgore) – 3:11 "Rave On" (Sonny West, Bill Tilghman, Norman Petty)– 2:30 "Circle Game" (Joni Mitchell) – 4:01 "Rag Mama Rag" (Robbie Robertson) – 2:48 "Queen Jane Approximately" (Bob Dylan) – 4:11 "Fire and Rain" (James Taylor) – 4:18 "Born to Run" (Bruce Springsteen) – 4:31 "Here Comes My Girl" (Tom Petty, Mike Campbell) – 4:14 "Angel from Montgomery" (John Prine) – 4:00 "Don't Let It Bring You Down" (Neil Young) – 3:12 "Scarlet Ribbons" (Evelyn Danzig, Jack Segal) – 2:49 "Born on the Bayou" (John Fogerty) – 4:02 Charts Release history References 2016 albums Diesel (musician) albums Liberation Records albums Covers albums

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Home/Heard It On WUFT-FM/Columbia County Plans For August 2021 Ban On Internet Cafes Columbia County Plans For August 2021 Ban On Internet Cafes By Erica Shebovsky April 22, 2021 Heard It On WUFT-FM Columbia County this month became the latest local government in north central Florida to ban internet cafes due to safety concerns. Internet cafes are essentially adult arcades where games are played on simulated gambling devices. These games require the use of skill and the element of chance such as slot machines. State Attorney for the 3rd Circuit John Durrett said some of the machines he has encountered are illegal. “There is a manipulation of the code in the machines to where there’s an inherent amount of chance within the game for which someone is going to be paying out money and taking in money in order to play the game. They’re going to be manipulating it in such a fashion as to where the house is always going to win,” Durrett said. In March, the Columbia County Commission placed a temporary moratorium on Internet cafes, pausing any new establishments from opening. According to the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office, there were only three internet cafes in the county in 2019. Two years later, there are over 30. Columbia County Commissioner Toby Witt called it an explosion of the establishments. “We probably had a tolerance for them when there was maybe 5 in the county, but now we’re pushing 50. I think they just exceeded the public’s tolerance for them. We work for the public, so we are listening to the public outcry,” Witt said, “ I don’t even think they’re legal to start with.” County Attorney Joel Foreman said because surrounding counties started banning internet cafes, these businesses started to relocate to other areas — such as Columbia County. “Marion County, Duval County and Nassau County have all said they are just going to prohibit these machines because they think the probability that they’re being used illegally is so high. Because of public safety issues in Duvall, Nassau and Marion counties, they have withstood challenge in federal court,” Foreman said. During the April 15 Columbia County Commission meeting, the board discussed an ordinance to ban internet cafes. Earlier this year, a man was kicked out of the “Q-Time 777” casino. He came back to the casino with a gun and opened fire. The casino’s security guard shot and killed the man, according to Columbia County Sheriff Mark Hunter. Hunter said since 2019 there have been 1,260 calls for service at the establishments. These reported incidents among internet cafes include 1 homicide, 1 battery, 5 burglaries and 18 incidents involving robbery, theft, or fraud. “In 2019, we had 228 calls. In 2020, we had 645 calls, and in 2021 we’ve already had 387 calls,” he said, recounting the rising strain the cafes have put on local law enforcement. Heather Kirby lives in Lake City and said an internet cafe is in the process of opening near her home and she does not feel comfortable. “Please stop these internet cafes from coming near our homes. A bullet can travel from one home to another. If there’s a robbery, I could be innocently killed sitting in my recliner watching a TV,” Kirby said. Sandra Willoughby, manager of The Wild Cherry Internet Cafe, spoke out to the commission about her concerns for her employees. “I do know that we employ a lot of people in these internet cafes. I have several mothers that are single, divorced and have three or four children,” she said. “This is their only income.” With the pandemic and difficulties receiving unemployment benefits, Foreman said he would like the commission to not take immediate action. “It’s hard to tell a man you’ve got 60 days to find another job. I want to make sure they have ample time to find jobs and get themselves back on their feet,” Foreman said. The commission agreed and effectively gave the businesses and their employees four months to find new work. The ordinance that commissioners passed bans commercial uses of simulated gambling devices in unincorporated areas — in other words, everywhere outside Lake City and Fort White. It goes into effect Aug. 13. Erica Shebovsky About Erica Shebovsky Erica is a reporter for WUFT News who can be reached by calling 352-392-6397 or emailing news@wuft.org. Previous ‘Strongest Anti-Rioting, Pro-Law Enforcement Piece Of Legislation In The Country’: Community Looks Ahead As Florida’s HB 1 Comes Into Effect Next National Antiracist Book Festival Partnering With Gainesville Bookstore Marion County Schools holds second event looking for bus drivers Alachua County Public Schools ended its mask mandate fight with the state and received back $194,720 New police training tactics are coming to Gainesville 36 men graduated with degrees at Columbia Correctional Institution Despite the pandemic getting in the way, this program has successfully increased their confidence and community with their classmates and families.

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A Journey To the Center of The Witch, Salem, and Criticism Filed to:The Witch When people think about Salem, Massachusetts, they think about witches, and that’s fucked up, if you think about it. Looking back on the Salem Witch Trials of 1692-1693, in which 24 people were executed after being falsely accused of witchcraft, the town should be defined by its absence of witches. Lacking witches has, in fact, never meant more to the history of a single U.S. city. And yet, witch imagery (generally of the pointy plastic hat-wearing variety) abounds in the otherwise charming New England town where every step feels like it should be accompanied by a score of crunching dead leaves underfoot. There’s the Salem Witch Museum, the Witch House (tangentially related to the trials), and more witch-related stores and psychics (some of whom openly identify as witches) than you can shake a broomstick at. Salem’s high school sports teams, too, are the Witches. Jezebel’s Madeleine Davies spent some time in Salem in 2014 and pointed out the apparent contradiction in her piece on the local culture. Regarding a discussion she had with Kristina Wacome Stevick, the artistic director of the History Alive! theater company, Davies wrote: “It is ironic that out of one side of our mouths we can say that [the 24 people who died during the Salem Witch Trials] were innocent victims and at the same time say that they’re the spiritual ancestors to [these modern day witches],” she tells me. “I think the 17th century accused witch would be like, ‘Who are you and why are you claiming this affinity?’” “At the same time,” she continues, “I’ve made peace with it, I guess. I don’t know that people would be coming to Salem as much as they do if it weren’t for that mercenary side of things. When they’re here, hopefully they can learn some history.” Searching For the Dead in Witch City: A Weekend in Salem, Mass. "You're gonna have a great time in Salem," the Boston rental car employee says as she hands me… Consistent with the way it tethers itself to its history, Salem’s nickname is Witch Town, when something like Uh... We Fucked Up There Weren’t Actually Witches Here Town would be much more historically accurate. But people don’t always care about historical accuracy, and what people think matters so very much. It is precisely the force of a different consensus, and my exclusion from it, that led me to Salem. I saw a press screening of Robert Eggers’s period horror movie The Witch in January and didn’t really like it, save some batshit hallucinatory images, its frenetic final 15 or so minutes, and a memorable turn from a menacing goat named Charlie (he plays Black Phillip in the movie). I admired the sustained tone of despair while considering the movie to be a mostly plodding portrait of a family of 17th Century New England settlers whose existence would otherwise not be worth examining if it weren’t for the tragedies that befell them. (Yes, people die fantastic deaths in The Witch, but hey, that’s better than having nothing remarkable happen during your primitive life, at least from a narrative perspective.) The family members end up turning on each other, in attempt to ferret out which of them is the witch suspected in their midst—and really, what else did they have to do in the late 1600s but cause and engage in their own drama? The long stretches between action sequences reminded me of those in a run-of-the-mill slasher—miserable Puritans, The Witch suggested to me, are the new dumb, horny teenagers. The Witch, however, was a smash at Sundance in 2015, where Eggers won the Directing Award in the U.S. Dramatic category, and became an immediate critical darling. Disagreeing with what’s anointed as the important movie of the moment is nothing new to me, but it sometimes vexes me all the same. Social media makes the mechanics of groupthink more tangible than ever, and it makes me wonder if people say they like things because they actually like them, or out of a sense of obligation, or because, simply, they’re afraid of being wrong while going against the grain. And then that makes me wonder about what the point of criticism is anyway, in 2016. I worry that nuance is being steamrolled in favor of the kind of telling and not showing that Twitter encourages, which I see hampering all kinds of writing now on a daily basis. Certainly, the numerous dumb things said about another Sundance smash from last year, Tangerine, (including the idea that any of its performances deserved Oscar nominations) seemed to indicate a desire to position oneself on the perceived right side of culture by grading way, way on a curve and without much deep thinking. And yet, when a publicist offered me the opportunity to take a virtually free trip to Salem to speak with some experts about The Witch, including Eggers and, it turned out, Witch star Anya Taylor-Joy, I agreed. This would allow me to inhabit a 3D, interactive rendering of the kind of extra features the likes of Criterion include on their Blu-rays to help explicate beloved but often difficult films. It would be a way of immersing myself in a movie that almost everyone who saw it seemed to love, but that I just couldn’t connect with, despite my affinity for horror movies. After all, The Witch is a meticulously designed period piece that’s the product of four years of planning on Eggers’s part. Its embedded with the same sense of history as Salem itself. It is, by any measure, an achievement. I figured that my assessment of The Witch could be off the mark, and gaining this knowledge could only help me get closer to truth. I got off to a slow start on Amtrak’s high-speed Acela Express. Thursday morning, en route to Boston, I fell asleep while reading the 10,000-word Wikipedia entry on the Salem Witch Trials. A crowd may be able to determine the worth of art, but I’ll be damned if it can turn out vivid prose worth savoring. I decided to change tactics and research reactions to The Witch, eventually landing on Alan Scherstuhl’s review of the film for the Village Voice. One scathing paragraph convinced me that Salem was the perfect place to think a lot about this movie: For all its genuflections toward history, The Witch offers the same cheapjack lesson field-trippers get when they visit tourist-trap museums in today’s Salem, Massachusetts. Every condemnation of witch-burning fools is matched by some shivery spook-out, a promise that we’ll never know just what evil might have romped among the Massachusetts pines. The Witch purports, at times, to confront ignorance and hysteria, but in the end, for horror thrills, Eggers’s film sides with the preachers and executioners. It literalizes the fevered terrors of our God-mad ancestors — and then brags that it’s all steeped in research. It’s like if, a couple of centuries from now, the latest holodeck true-crime horror flick is a West Memphis Three story that wraps with the boys high-fiving Lucifer. Scherstuhl seemed to pinpoint my problem with the morality of the film, which as it often happens, would have been easy enough to look past if the movie worked for me on a visceral level (that is, if it actually scared me, I’d be more forgiving of its uncomfortable implications). The Witch argues for the presence of witches, thus reifying the Puritan narrative that sent innocent people to death, I reasoned. I ruminated on that opinion for a few hours. That afternoon, I sat down with Eggers and Taylor-Joy in the Witch House, where Judge Jonathan Corwin lived during the Salem Witch Trials. Corwin presided over some of the trials, which means that his preserved house has ostensibly nothing to do with witchcraft and whatever creepiness it retains is a product of it being so damn old and spare and wooden. Eggers is a bearded Brooklynite whose every word plays like the precise articulation of serious consideration. He told me that though he didn’t set out to make a feminist film, he’s pleased that it’s what it turned out to be. “It’s very clear to me today that the evil witch of the early modern period was men’s fears, desires, ambivalence, fantasies about women and female power, and also women’s own fears and ambivalences about themselves and motherhood within this super male-dominated society,” he said. “Female sexuality is female power and female power in this period is supernatural. It’s the devil, you know what I mean?” Through that lens, then, the film isn’t offering an excuse for Calvinist persecution—it’s exposing the galling degree to which that persecution was immoral and inhumane. If you are afraid of women’s sexuality and power, be very afraid you fool, says The Witch. Eggers has described his movie’s concept as “a Puritan’s nightmare.” The passing of over 300 years translate that to a story about the making of a female hero. It’s the same narrative, but modern enlightenment changes the meaning. If you want to apply this reading to Salem, perhaps the philosophy of the town and all of its Party City-type witch imagery doesn’t make light of the thinking that led to the deaths of innocent. Perhaps Salem is saying, “So what if they were witches?” They still wouldn’t have deserved to be put to death. “It’s reclaiming the word,” added Taylor-Joy to Eggers’s explanation his movie’s celebration of female power. “Now, the word ‘witch’ can be empowering. It needs to be taken back in a way that’s not so drenched in fear of an outspoken woman.” Despite Eggers’ clarity on the matter, he conceded possible merit in the critique that charges his work with wanting to have it both ways, by projecting its historical accuracy (a title card at the film’s conclusion assures viewers that the film is based on historical accounts) in a tale that is ultimately ahistorical. There are few things more endearing to me than an artist who can rationally discuss and accept criticism of his output. “I think some people have accused me of trying to have my cake and eat it, too. Maybe I am,” he said. “I guess you would say, especially if you were a contemporary witch or part of a neo-pagan tradition, you might say, contemporary witches do make flying unguents, still, but the active ingredient is not the entrails of an unbaptized babe. That could be potentially muddying for some people who want to adhere to a dogma. The thing about Salem is they knew they fucked up. They knew they had accused innocent women of witchcraft, but that didn’t mean they didn’t believe that witches were real.” That is how a house that doesn’t have anything to do with witchcraft still has plenty to do with witchcraft. Taylor-Joy seemed particularly affected by her surroundings at the Witch House, at one point requesting that they switch rooms they were interviewing in because of the ambient energy she was receiving. “From the second we got into Salem, I’ve just been crying all day and it’s been really intense,” she’d say later that night at the CinemaSalem movie theater in front of a rapturous audience of locals, many of whom would reveal themselves as witches (or at least, it seemed, witch-adjacent) during a Q&A. Eggers continued driving home the idea that witches were real in 17th Century Salem because consensus made them that way. “Even if the evil witch only existed in the mind of the ignorant, she was such a huge idea in the consciousness of the early modern period that we’re still dealing with the ramifications of that today,” said the director. During the panel, much was made of the “authenticity” of Eggers’s work by fellow panelists like novelist Brunonia Barry, and Salem Witch Trials experts Richard Trask and Tad Baker. Baker, whose indefatigable affability belies his fascination with the mass murdering of innocents, told me earlier at the Witch House that The Witch’s portrayal of family members turning on each other was historically sound and contemporarily relevant. “You don’t know who the witch is [in the movie] any more than we know who the terrorist is,” said Baker. “Therefore, we’re going to banish them all. We’re not going to let any of them in, because they might be the other. They might be the threat to society. There’s the ultimate terror.” “Authentic” is a description that generally makes me grind my teeth when it’s applied to the formalized lies that we call art. Yet what other word could more accurately describe the work of a director who rejected the circular-sawed lumber brought in by his production designer Craig Lathrop for being anachronistic? (Lathrop ended up remilling the lumber with a band saw.) So meticulous was Eggers in his overseeing of the set design (he has a background as a production designer), that he required the use of trunnels instead of nails on the house that the family of The Witch lives in. He scrutinized down to the smallest detail that would be undetectable to the vast majority of viewers. “To actually understand the early modern period, for everyone except for a few people in the extreme intelligentsia, the real world and the fairy tale world were the same thing,” he explained. “If someone called you a witch, they really thought you were a supernatural being capable of doing the things the witch does in this film. If I’m going to get audiences to go along and accept that, we have to be transported to the 17th century. We have to be in the mindset of these English Calvinists or it’s not going to work.” “No one’s going to jump up in the audience and say, ‘That’s not hand-riven oak, this is bullshit!’” he admitted. “But the more of those things that I would slide in, the more it falls apart, the more the specificity is not there and the more you can’t believe in this.” The audience and panel that night were full of people unafraid to display their eccentricity and to discuss their ancestors. In that respect, the entire event felt like living in Waiting for Guffman, and I strongly believe there is a fun mockmentary (or just documentary) to be made about Salem’s culture. One of the audience members was Lori Bruno, a local witch who was invited to the screening after reading the tarot cards of some of the movie’s publicists. You may remember Bruno from a news report that went semi-viral last year, regarding a lawsuit she filed against a warlock. Like many audience members who get up to speak during Q&As, she had more A than Q. Her three-and-a-half minute sermon touched on her ancestor who’d been burned alive in 1600 Campo de’ Fiori for being a witch, the Presidential election (“Watch you you vote for because you don’t know who you’re getting under that goat!”), and some useful, rhyming rules of thumb (“Watch and be aware of what is going on in the world today. Be strong. Right the wrong. And always sing the freedom song.”). Her charm made me feel high as hell. While waiting for an Uber to take me back to the Salem Waterfront Hotel after the event, I watched Eggers leave the building, beaming. He could barely verbalize what it meant to him to have his movie be so warmly received by a room full of people who seem to be deeply connected to witchcraft, Salem history, and the strange space the negotiation of those forces has created. I told him that it had just dawned on me that this movie is a true expression of geekdom. By now I was convinced that what I smelled when I watched this movie wasn’t bullshit, but the dung Eggers used on his set’s walls for the sake of historical accuracy. He told me that as he waited four years to secure funding for The Witch (the first movie he directed), he never stopped researching. The time spent only made his movie more meticulously assembled and admirable for being so. During the Q&A he’d touched on resistance he received from potential investors who passed, summing up their viewpoint as, “Child actors from the UK? Building all this stuff? Period accurate? This is a waste of money.” The Witch cost a reported $1 million to make, and grossed over $8.6 million its first three days in theaters. What people think matters, but some thoughts matter more than others. After hearing that Eggers spent four years conceiving this movie, the idea that I’d swoop in after considering it for just a few hours, and deliver my verdict seemed awfully silly. That’s the nature of criticism: It’s one person’s relatively glib reaction against another’s expertise. Line up enough of those reactions, however, and you have an image that is just as tangible as the product it’s gleaned from. A picture of a picture, no matter what went into the composition, is still a picture. I set out to Salem to understand The Witch better, to bolster my opinion, and inform myself, only to end up feeling like my opinion is the last thing this movie needs. What I can say at this point without reservation that I appreciate The Witch as the product of sharp, hard-working minds. I wondered how it feels for Eggers to have those outside forces shape the overall narrative of his movie, if we’re including the release and reaction as part of its narrative (and given all of the time we humans spend dissecting and obsessing about pop culture, I think it’s more than fair to say that response helps shape the bigger picture of what a movie is). I noticed in interviews that he’s glossed over questions about the Satanic Temple endorsing the movie and hosting pre-release screenings of it. To io9, Eggers said, “That’s between them and the distributor. I’d like to leave it at that.” To Bloody Disgusting, he said, “I would like to speak for both of us and just say that it’s nice to have fans, and keep it at that.” During our Witch House interview, I told him that I knew he hated talking about the apparent alliance between A24 and the Satanic Temple. “How do you know that?” he asked. “Because I’ve been reading interviews where you refuse to answer the question,” I told him. “But I wonder why. Clearly, [the Satanic Temple] worked with A24, so to me what this signals is A24 did this behind your back and that you didn’t want anything to do with that because it then hangs this association on your movie. It’s part of the narrative of your movie.” He offered to talk to me about it off the record. “Well, I think I got it right,” I responded. He laughed. I continued: “It must be difficult to have that component attached to your movie when it’s totally out of your control.” “No comment,” was his response. Images via FonsPR Open kinja-labs.com

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No matter how small A while back I was shocked to see a weekly Catholic publication referencing the title of a pornographic book on it’s front page. The editor explained they had used the reference as a selling point, which is all well and good, and a reasonable explanation, but it’s still a pornographic book that was being referenced, and as such has no place in Catholic publications. I spoke about it while on a study weekend, I reported that I had been told the expression ‘50 Shades of Grey’ was a well known expression. I could not find one person, including people who had worked their whole lives in the field of using English as a (for want of a better expression) professional tool. Having asked on Twitter if anyone knew the expression, I was pointed to ‘shades of grey’ as a phrase, which, while new to me, I am made aware is not unknown, so I stand corrected. However, should a Catholic publication be using pornography to sell? The expression might be one that’s used, but at this time in history, anyone hearing it will think of the book, and after the past weekend, the film also. Should the Catholic press be leading us to even remotely think of this book as part of its sales pitch, well call me old fashioned but I think not. In the mid 1940s two books, No Orchids For Miss Blandish and Forever Amber, were also seen in a similar light to that of ‘50 shades’ today. There is no question the Catholic church would have seen a single agent use a similar expression to one of these book titles in order to make a point (or a sale), imagine the wrong person saying “No incense for Bishop Amigo” or “Forever Advent”, it would not happen, and it should not happen now. I know in some spheres my whinge is seen as trifling, but it’s still a complaint. My complaint has been ridiculed on social media by some, but this heartens me, they are using the old principle of denigrating the point when you can’t answer it with intellect. Trivialising my issue worries me somewhat, not for myself as I have shown above, but the trivialising of a zygote as the byproduct of sex, or a embryo as a clump of cells is a strategy used by pro choicers, whereas the Catholic view is, no matter how small, it’s still a self directing human being. One would assume the same principle would be used here. My issue with this headline is still an issue, even if only for me. I hope it is not one that revisits us at any time.

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Home> Cases/Cooling/PSUs The NZXT C650 650W PSU Review: Designed To Last by E. Fylladitakis on August 11, 2020 8:00 AM EST 80Plus Gold Introduction, Examining Inside & Out Cold Test Results Hot Test Results Final Words & Conclusion NZXT is a company that has come from fairly humble origins, starting things off back in 2004 with just a couple of PC cases. They have come a long way since then, slowly by surely expanding their ever-growing product portfolio. Nowadays, NZXT is one of the most prominent PC case, cooling, and power supply manufacturers, with a very strong global market presence. We have reviewed several NZXT products in the past, yet very few of their PSUs ever found their way into our labs – in fact it's been nearly a decade since our last NZXT PSU review. That counter resets today, as we are taking a look at NZXT’s latest upper-class PSU design, the C-series C650. Among NZXT's PSU lineup, the C-series is very much the manufacturer's bread and butter for PSUs, with C-series PSUs making up the vast majority of its product lineup. At a high level, the C-series is designed for advanced PC users and enthusiasts alike, and with the rest of NZXT's lineup only going higher still, it's clear that the company is taking aim at a specific niche of the PSU market rather than going after a broad swath of the PSU market. Along these same lines, NZXT has also dialed in to the middle of the market in terms of capacity; with three C-series models ranging from 650 Watts to 850 Watts, the PSUs fall into a typical range for today's high-end single CPU/single GPU systems. As for our review, today we'll be taking a look at the least powerful unit of the series the 650 Watt C650. Power specifications ( Rated @ Unknown °C ) AC INPUT 100 - 240 VAC, 50 - 60 Hz TOTAL 650W We received the NZXT C650 PSU in a relatively simple cardboard box. The artwork on the box is simplistic, yet appealing, with just a beautifully taken picture of the unit decorating the front side of the box. Its thick cardboard walls and internal foam padding provide adequate shipping protection. NZXT stuck to the basics when it comes to the C650, supplying only four mounting screws, some modular cables, and an AC power cable alongside the PSU. The modular cables do however come inside a simple purple bag, so they can be contained. Otherwise there are no cable straps, cable ties, or other accessories of any kind. The NZXT C650 PSU is a fully modular design, meaning that no cables are hardwired to the chassis. All of the cables are made of all black wires and black connectors. The SATA and Molex cables are “flat” type cables, with exposed wires that are attached to each other, while the PCI Express, CPU, and 24-pin ATX cables have nylon sleeving covering the wires. NZXT C650 Connector type Hardwired Modular ATX 24 Pin - 1 EPS 4+4 Pin - 2 EPS 8 Pin - - PCI-E 6+2 Pin - 4 PCI-E 8 Pin - - SATA - 8 Molex - 6 Floppy - - External Appearance NZXT designed the C650 to be aesthetically subtle and functional. The chassis is entirely black, with the company logo and product name printed with dark reflective fonts on its two sides. A black sticker with the unit’s electrical certifications and specifications can be found on the top side of the chassis. Other aesthetic improvements are limited to simple chassis upgrades, such as rounded edges and an integrated fan finger guard. Although the PSU is 150 mm deep – a little longer than what the ATX standard dictates (140 mm) – it is compatible with the vast majority of ATX-compliant cases available. Only very few proprietary case designs may cause compatibility problems. At the rear side of the PSU, we can see the typical AC cable receptacle and on/off switch, as well as a toggle switch that controls the cooling fan mode. The C650 has two cooling modes – the basic mode, where the fan spins constantly and its speed is thermally controlled, and the hybrid mode, where the fan can stop spinning entirely when the load is low enough that active cooling isn't necessary. Some users are uncomfortable with zero active cooling or rely on the PSU’s airflow for other reasons, therefore the option to disable the hybrid mode was a good idea. Modular connectors cover most of the PSU’s front surface. A basic legend is directly printed onto the chassis, along with a warning not to use cables from other manufacturers. The connectors are keyed, ensuring that it is not possible to insert the wrong cable into the wrong receptacle. Internal Design The NZXT C650 relies on a 120 mm fan for its cooling needs, which is the largest fan that could fit inside its chassis. It employs a simple black 120 mm fan that is made by Hong Hua, a known but not very popular manufacturer. In fact, these fans aren't even used by very many OEMs, instantly hinting at the OEM behind the creation of the C650. The HA1225H12F-Z has a fluid dynamic bearing (FDB) engine and can be annoyingly loud at its maximum speed of 2200 RPM, though we expect it to almost never reach those speeds under normal operating conditions. A trained eye will easily identify the OEM behind the NZXT C650 to be Seasonic, as it is based on a popular and highly decorated platform. NZXT did tweak the core platform a little to ensure compatibility with last-gen GPUs, but most of the reference design remains untouched. The heatsinks are relatively small and simplistic, suggesting (before testing) that the platform is either highly efficient or very loud. The filtering stage begins on a small PCB at the back of the AC cable receptacle and continues on the main PCB. It is a reference design that consists of four Y capacitors, two X capacitors, two filtering inductors, and a surge-suppressing MOV. There are two bridge rectifiers sharing a single heatsink, which is uncommon for a unit with such a modest power output. The primary APFC capacitor is a 400V/470μF electrolytic capacitor made by Hitachi and is supported by a sizable coil. Moving on to the primary inversion stage, we can see four transistors forming a typical full-bridge topology. Very few manufacturers opt for a full bridge design due to its cost, even with platforms designed for top-tier PSUs, yet it is more reliable and efficient than equivalent half-bridge topologies. They are mounted on small heatsinks in pairs, hinting the very high efficiency of both the topology and the transistors themselves. The secondary side conversion stage is also simplistic, with just a couple of MOSFETs generating a single 12V line. The rest of the voltage lines are being generated by DC to DC converters that are mounted on a secondary daughterboard. All of the secondary capacitors, electrolytic and polymer alike, are supplied by Nippon Chemi-Con and Rubycon, making the C650 an all-Japanese affair. Cold Test Results Introduction, Examining Inside & Out Cold Test Results Hot Test Results Final Words & Conclusion 80-wattHamster - Monday, August 17, 2020 - link Cuz it costs about the same to make a 500W power supply as a 350, and you can charge more for it. Funny thing is, even when you find a decent 350-ish unit, it'll probably cost more than you'd pay for a 500+ because volumes and channels and other such malarkey. Frustrating. Threska - Monday, August 31, 2020 - link Lesson number one. Two components to never cheapen out on. First is PSU, and the other is motherboard. Most intermittent problems people have can be traced to those two. It may cost more, but it may go through several rebuilds as well. Well I'm a gamer with a Vega, and occasionally I can see the struggles with the latest games. So, no, "overpowered" is a moving target, especially in a seven year time-frame.

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This article looks at market-initiated compulsory licences issued under patent regimes, the first of which came into force with the grant of the Nexavar licence in India. By classifying the various types of compulsory licences, this article brings out the differences between government-use and market-initiated licences. I argue that market-initiated licences have many advantages over government-use compulsory licences. Although factors like overcoming capacity barriers of local manufacturers and legislative preparedness of the nation seeking to implement the licences are important for the grant of market-initiated compulsory licences, such licences, when granted, can regulate competition, address non-emergency situations like lack of affordability of life-saving drugs by reducing drug prices, facilitate local production and encourage the practice of price discrimination, while simultaneously resolving antitrust concerns that arise out of a refusal to licence by the patent owner.

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Culture | Education | Politics Appleton School District Considering Renaming Lincoln Elementary APPLETON – Residents of the Appleton Area School District will get their chance this week to provide feedback on the proposal to rename Lincoln Elementary in honor of Ron Dunlap. The vision, written at the top of the survey, is: “Working together, students, family, staff and community will ensure that each graduate is academically, socially and emotionally prepared for success in life. Every Student Every Day.” And, the survey says: “An important factor in pursuing this vision is the environment in which students learn. Students learn best when they are challenged and feel supported, welcomed and respected.” Eggert questioned why the survey would include the district’s vision statement, saying the proposal to rename Lincoln Elementary stems from a community effort to honor Dunlap after his 2019 death. Dunlap, who was named one of the most influential African Americans in the state, dedicated nearly four decades of his life to public education. Because Dunlap spent 16 years as principal of Lincoln Elementary before becoming the district’s first coordinator of minority services, the district-organized team landed on the proposal to change Lincoln’s name to the “Ronald C. Dunlap Elementary School, Home of the Lincoln Lions.” Motives matter. If the district wants to rename a school to honor a local leader who made great contributions to the community, then that’s outstanding. Districts can rename schools (although, they must be flush with cash to spend money on something relatively trivial) at their discretion. If they want to honor a modern local leader instead of an old president from Illinois, then cool. If they are renaming the school to send the message that Lincoln is not worthy of being honored and want to replace him with a token local leader as an excuse, then it indicates a much larger problem with the district. I hope some parents get to the bottom of what’s going on in their district. ← Biden To Meet With Putin West Bend School District Lifts Mask Mandate →

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My guest today is Jamie Walden. He is among other things the author of the book, Omega Dynamics: Equipping a Warrior Class of Christians for the Days Ahead. Jamie, his wife and children are full time Missionaries. I mention Jamie’s wife and children because God’s calling is upon a family as the husband and father leads them.

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4.4 cu. ft. Mini Refrigerator in Black - ENERGY STAR® Whether you want extra refrigerator space at home or you're university bound, this Magic Chef mini fridge has the storage options you're looking for and then some. A can rack conveniently keeps pop organized and within reach while additional door shelves provide space for other frequently used items. Plus, as an energy efficient appliance, you'll not only save money when you use the refrigerator, but you'll reduce your global footprint too. How cool is that? 4.4 cu. ft. Mini Refrigerator in Black - ENERGY STAR® is rated 3.7 out of 5 by 3. Rated 1 out of 5 by David from Did not last I purchased this fridge about a year and a half ago and the compressor recently quit. The full warranty is for only one year. While there is a five year warranty on the compressor I was told by the service technician that the cost of labour to make the repairs would be more than buying a new fridge. Rated 5 out of 5 by Kimberly from Perfect for a guest fridge We have always planned to put a "coffee bar" in the guest room but haven't gotten around to it. We had a load of company coming and figured we should at least make some efforts so I started with the fridge. The only issue I have is that it can't be built in or recessed. I am not sure if this is clearly stated in the ad and have not had time to look. I found it in the manual after it was all setup and ready to go so decided to just keep it and get a new, built in bar fridge when we do the actual reno. This one is quiet and could be used in a number of other places in the house or barn. Rated 5 out of 5 by JBK44 from Perfect! This small fridge is perfect! Great addition to a larger one or for a single person. I placed that small 'guy' in my dining area with black & red microwave on top and this set looks great! Beautiful finish inside and outside and arrangement of shelves inside is great as well.I will recommend this item to anyone looking for a small fridge. Can this fridge be built in or recessed? Yes but please leave 3-5 inches around the unit so the air will circulate. Without proper ventilation the compressor can freeze up. Most of the 'built in' units you will find have front ventilation. Is the door reversible? I need the door to open the other way. Purchased this model today. Yes, the door is reversible. Glass shelves are removable/adjustable. The unit is also very quiet.

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As an IT company it only makes sense that we cater for IP based security solutions. With the added benefit of years of expert IT knowledge we are proud to be able to offer IP based CCTV solutions. From property surveying to installation and setup, we will get you up and running with a surveillance package tailored to suit your needs. All of our CCTV cameras are PoE which means they only require one cable run to power the device and stream video back. Advanced PTZ functionality means you can monitor your premises from multiple angles and set up zone patrols. For larger premises you may be interested in our 20x optical zoom PTZ cameras which provide outstanding clarity even when zoomed in. These cameras are perfect for number plate recognition and grabbing details which would otherwise be impossible on fixed focal length cameras. Indoor 360º degrees monitoring with advanced software dewarping allows you to monitor any room from every angle with zero blind spots. Continually record video whilst panning around in realtime to view any part of the area being monitored. All of our CCTV solutions can be linked to your smartphone or tablet device such as iPhone / iPad / Android based devices for remote monitoring.

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Vara este un oraș în Suedia. Demografie Vezi și Listă de orașe din Suedia Orașe din Suedia

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package nl.ulso.sprox.impl; /** * Provides controllers by returning a singleton object. */ final class SingletonControllerProvider implements ControllerProvider { private final Object singleton; SingletonControllerProvider(Object singleton) { this.singleton = singleton; } @Override public Object getController() { return singleton; } }

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Fine and scarce Patek Philippe 18K gold reference 2526 vintage automatic wrist watch with porcelain enamel dial circa 1954. This is the first self-winding wristwatch made by Patek Philippe and was produced in only 580 pieces, including yellow, pink and white gold and platinum. The dial with applied gold markers and gold hands, the signature and minute markers in gold enamel. The reference 2526 is the only Patek wrist watch with a porcelain enamel dial, and not all of this reference number have enamel dials. Calibre 12-600AT rhodium 30 jewel 8 adjustment movement with 18K gold rotor in heavy screwback case. A handsome and rare watch in particularly fine condition.

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India has called nuclear-armed Pakistan’s bluff with its air strikes on militant camps in that country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday, adding that one country cannot have two Prime Ministers. Referring to the air strikes by the Indian Air Force (IAF) at Balakot, Modi told an election rally here: “Pakistan and its supporters have been threatening us for long with its nuclear capability but the IAF called its bluff with its strikes. “Those days are gone when India would give in to threats. This is a new India and it will strike militants well inside their hideouts across the border,” he thundered. Accusing the Congress and its allies of always criticizing him for highlighting India’s security situation, he said: “They do so because they never fully trusted the country’s defence forces. “The Congress always restricted our Army from going all out against militants. It has used the defence forces only for income generation, be it Bofors or helicopter deals. The Congress and its allies keep politics above the security of the country. “Some people are so involved in anti-Modi tirade that they have forgotten the security of the country,” he said. Modi accused the National Conference and PDP of supporting separatism. “They threaten India with a separate Prime Minister and also separation of the state from the country. “I want to make it clear to these separatist supporters that Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India and will remain so. The people of J&K are not the slaves of the Abdullahs and the Muftis whose three generations have ruled this state. “It was in Kathua that Shyama Prasad Mookerjee unfurled the tricolour and Prem Nath Dogra stood with him. One country cannot have two Prime Ministers, two flags and two Constitutions. That commitment made by Shyama Prasad Mookerjee is our firm resolve,” he said. “These corrupt families of J&K must know that Modi will stand like a wall against their attempts to continue their family rule in the state. They may keep abusing me but they will not succeed in dividing this country. Modi also promised citizenship rights for West Pakistan refugees and the return of Kashmiri Pandit migrants to the Kashmir Valley once he was voted back to power.

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using namespace Gwen; class TreeControl : public GUnit { public: GWEN_CONTROL_INLINE( TreeControl, GUnit ) { { Gwen::Controls::TreeControl* ctrl = new Gwen::Controls::TreeControl( this ); ctrl->AddNode( L"Node One" ); Gwen::Controls::TreeNode* pNode = ctrl->AddNode( L"Node Two" ); pNode->AddNode( L"Node Two Inside" ); pNode->AddNode( L"Eyes" ); pNode->AddNode( L"Brown" )->AddNode( L"Node Two Inside" )->AddNode( L"Eyes" )->AddNode( L"Brown" ); pNode->AddNode( L"More" ); pNode->AddNode( L"Nodes" ); ctrl->AddNode( L"Node Three" ); ctrl->SetBounds( 30, 30, 200, 200 ); ctrl->ExpandAll(); } { Gwen::Controls::TreeControl* ctrl = new Gwen::Controls::TreeControl( this ); ctrl->AllowMultiSelect( true ); ctrl->AddNode( L"Node One" ); Gwen::Controls::TreeNode* pNode = ctrl->AddNode( L"Node Two" ); pNode->AddNode( L"Node Two Inside" ); pNode->AddNode( L"Eyes" ); Gwen::Controls::TreeNode* pNodeTwo = pNode->AddNode( L"Brown" )->AddNode( L"Node Two Inside" )->AddNode( L"Eyes" ); pNodeTwo->AddNode( L"Brown" ); pNodeTwo->AddNode( L"Green" ); pNodeTwo->AddNode( L"Slime" ); pNodeTwo->AddNode( L"Grass" ); pNodeTwo->AddNode( L"Pipe" ); pNode->AddNode( L"More" ); pNode->AddNode( L"Nodes" ); ctrl->AddNode( L"Node Three" ); ctrl->SetBounds( 240, 30, 200, 200 ); ctrl->ExpandAll(); } } }; DEFINE_UNIT_TEST( TreeControl, L"TreeControl" );

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Overall, NutriSource Woodlands Select is an above average dog food, earning 7 out of a possible 10 paws based on its nutritional analysis and ingredient list. In this case, NutriSource Woodlands Select's most plentiful ingredient listed is wild boar, which is considered a quality protein source. It also contains turkey, turkey meal and menhaden fish meal as additional quality protein sources. Using the calculations provided by the AAFCO, NutriSource Woodlands Select has approximately 371 calories per 100g (105 calories/ounce), which is an average amount of calories compared to the average of the other dry dog foods in the DogFoodDB.

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in: NCAA team season with no sport parameter, Excessive uses of cfb link, 1950 Southeastern Conference football season, 1951 Southeastern Conference football season The Florida Gators football team represents the University of Florida in the sport of American football. The University of Florida fielded its first official varsity football team in the fall of 1906, and has fielded a team every season since then, with the exception of 1943. During the 1950s, the Gators competed in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Southeastern Conference (SEC), and played their home games at Florida Field on the university's Gainesville, Florida campus. This article includes a game-by-game list of the Florida Gators' ten football seasons from 1950 to 1959. During the 1950s, the Gators were coached by G. Robert "Bob" Woodruff (1950–1959), who compiled an overall record of 53–42–6 (.555) during the decade. 5–5 (2–4 10th SEC) Bob Woodruff Florida Field 1950 SEC football standings #7 Kentucky † 5 – 1 – 0 11 – 1 – 0 #4 Tennessee 4 – 1 – 0 11 – 1 – 0 #16 Alabama 6 – 2 – 0 9 – 2 – 0 #20 Tulane 3 – 1 – 1 6 – 2 – 1 Auburn 0 – 7 – 0 0 – 10 – 0 Rankings from AP Poll The 1950 college football season was Bob Woodruff's first of ten as the new head coach of the Florida Gators football team. Woodruff was a former college football player and assistant for coach Robert Neyland's Tennessee Volunteers, who made his name as an up-and-coming young head coach leading the Baylor Bears for three seasons in the late 1940s. Like Neyland, Woodruff emphasized stout defense, the kicking game and a ball control offense. The highlights of the season included two Southeastern Conference (SEC) victories over the Auburn Tigers (27–7) and the thirteenth-ranked Vanderbilt Commodores (31–27)—the first season since 1940 in which the Gators won two or more SEC games. The Gators' twentieth ranking after the Vanderbilt game marked their first-ever appearance in the top twenty of the weekly Associated Press Poll. Woodruff's 1950 Florida Gators finished 5–5 overall and 2–4 in the SEC, placing tenth among twelve conference teams.[1] Opponent# Rank# 9–23–1950* The Citadel Florida Field • Gainesville, Florida W 7–3 9–30–1950* Duquesne Florida Field • Gainesville, Florida W 27–14 10–7–1950 Georgia Tech Grant Field • Atlanta, Georgia L 13–16 10–14–1950 Auburn Florida Field • Gainesville, Florida (Homecoming) W 27–7 10–21–1950 #13 Vanderbilt Dudley Field • Nashville, Tennessee W 31–27 10–28–1950* Furman #20 Florida Field • Gainesville, Florida W 19–7 11–4–1950 #5 Kentucky #17 McLean Stadium • Lexington, Kentucky L 6–40 11–11–1950 Georgia Gator Bowl Stadium • Jacksonville, Florida L 0–6 11–18–1950* #17 Miami Florida Field • Gainesville, Florida L 14–20 11–25–1950 #17 Alabama Gator Bowl Stadium • Jacksonville, Florida L 13–41 *Non-Conference Game. #Rankings from AP Poll released prior to game. 5–5 (2–4 T-9th SEC) #5 Georgia Tech § 7 – 0 – 0 11 – 0 – 1 #1 Tennessee § 5 – 0 – 0 10 – 1 – 0 #15 Kentucky 3 – 3 – 0 8 – 4 – 0 The 1951 college football season was Bob Woodruff's second as the head coach of the Florida Gators football team. The highlights of the season included two intersectional victories over the Wyoming Cowboys (13–0) and the Loyola Lions (40–7), and two Southeastern Conference (SEC) victories over the Vanderbilt Commodores (33–13) during Florida's Homecoming and the Alabama Crimson Tide (30–21) in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. For the second year in a row, Woodruff's 1951 Florida Gators finished 5–5 overall and 2–4 in the SEC, placing ninth among twelve conference teams.[1] 9–15–1951* Wyoming Gator Bowl Stadium • Jacksonville, Florida W 13–0 9–22–1951* The Citadel Florida Field • Gainesville, Florida W 27–7 9–29–1951 Georgia Tech Florida Field • Gainesville, Florida L 0–27 10–6–1951* Loyola Los Angeles Rose Bowl • Pasadena, California W 40–7 10–13–1951 Auburn Cliff Hare Stadium • Auburn, Alabama L 13–14 10–20–1951 Vanderbilt Florida Field • Gainesville, Florida (Homecoming) W 33–13 10–27–1951 #17 Kentucky Florida Field • Gainesville, Florida L 6–14 11–17–1950* Miami Burdine Stadium • Miami, Florida L 6–21 11–24–1951 Alabama Denny Stadium • Tuscaloosa, Alabama W 30–21 Gator Bowl, W 14–13 vs. Tulsa 8–3 (3–3 6th SEC) #2 Georgia Tech † 7 – 0 – 0 12 – 0 – 0 #8 Tennessee 5 – 0 – 1 8 – 2 – 1 #7 Ole Miss 4 – 0 – 2 8 – 1 – 2 #9 Alabama 4 – 2 – 0 10 – 2 – 0 #15 Florida 3 – 3 – 0 8 – 3 – 0 The 1952 college football season was Bob Woodruff's third and most successful as the head coach of the Florida Gators football team. The Gators were led by fullback Rick Casares, halfback J. "Pappa" Hall, alternating quarterbacks Doug Dickey and Fred Robinson, and All-American lineman Charlie LaPradd. The season's many highlights included a 54–13 blowout of the Clemson Tigers, conference victories over the Georgia Bulldogs (30–0), Auburn Tigers (31–21) and Kentucky Wildcats (27–0), and another blowout of the in-state rival Miami Hurricanes (43–6). Woodruff's 1952 Florida Gators finished with an overall record of 8–3 and a Southeastern Conference (SEC) record of 3–3, placing sixth among twelve SEC teams.[1] The season ended with the Gators' first appearance in a NCAA-sanctioned bowl game, a closely matched 14–13 Gator Bowl victory over the Tulsa Golden Hurricane on January 1, 1953, in which star fullback Rick Casares kicked the winning extra points for the margin of victory.[2] 9–20–1952* Stetson Florida Field • Gainesville, Florida W 33–6 10–11–1952* Clemson Florida Field • Gainesville, Florida W 54–13 10–18–1952 Vanderbilt Dudley Field • Nashville, Tennessee L 13–20 10–25–1952 Georgia #20 Gator Bowl Stadium • Jacksonville, Florida W 30–0 11–1–1952 Auburn #17 Florida Field • Gainesville, Florida (Homecoming) W 31–21 11–15–1952 #7 Tennessee #18 Shields-Watkins Field • Knoxville, Tennessee L 12–26 11–22–1952* Miami Florida Field • Gainesville, Florida W 43–6 12–6–1952 Kentucky #17 Florida Field • Gainesville, Florida W 27–0 1–1–1953* #12 Tulsa #15 Gator Bowl Stadium • Jacksonville, Fla. (Gator Bowl) W 14–13 3–5–2 (1–3–2 9th SEC) #13 Alabama † 4 – 0 – 3 6 – 3 – 3 #8 Georgia Tech 4 – 1 – 1 9 – 2 – 1 #17 Auburn 4 – 2 – 1 7 – 3 – 1 The 1953 college football season was the fourth for Bob Woodruff as the head coach of the Florida Gators football team. The 1953 season was a year of rebuilding and backsliding after the graduation of All-American Charlie LaPradd and the loss of fullback Rick Casares to the U.S. Army. The highlight of the season was the Gators' second consecutive victory over the Georgia Bulldogs, but the Gators began a pattern of agonizingly close losses to the Rice Owls (16–20), Auburn Tigers (7–16), Tennessee Volunteers (7–9) and Miami Hurricanes (10–14), as well as two ties with the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (0–0) and LSU Tigers (21–21). Woodruff's 1953 Florida Gators finished with a 3–5–2 overall record and a 1–3–2 record in the Southeastern Conference (SEC), placing ninth of twelve SEC teams.[1] 9–19–1953* #12 Rice #15 Rice Stadium • Houston, Texas L 16–20 9–26–1953 #3 Georgia Tech Florida Field • Gainesville, Florida T 0–0 10–3–1953 Kentucky McLean Stadium • Lexington, Kentucky L 13–26 10–10–1953* Stetson Florida Field • Gainesville, Florida W 45–0 10–17–1953* The Citadel Gator Bowl Stadium • Jacksonville, Florida W 60–0 10–24–1953 #14 Louisiana State Florida Field • Gainesville, Florida (Homecoming) T 21–21 11–31–1953 Auburn Cliff Hare Stadium • Auburn, Alabama L 7–16 11–7–1953 Georgia Gator Bowl Stadium • Jacksonville, Florida W 21–7 11–14–1953 #18 Tennessee Florida Field • Gainesville, Florida L 7–9 11–28–1953* Miami Burdine Stadium • Miami, Florida L 10–14 5–5 (5–2 T-3rd SEC) #6 Ole Miss † 5 – 1 – 0 9 – 2 – 0 The 1954 college football season was the fifth for Bob Woodruff as the Florida Gators football team's head coach. The Gators' standout players included running back Mal Hammack. The season was one of mixed results for the Gators: their best-ever Southeastern Conference (SEC) win-loss record, balanced by five overall losses. The highlights of the season were five SEC wins over the fifth-ranked Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (13–12), Auburn Tigers (19–13), Kentucky Wildcats (21–7), Mississippi State Bulldogs (7–0) and Tennessee Volunteers (14–0). Woodruff's 1954 Florida Gators finished 5–5 overall and 5–2 in the SEC, placing third in the twelve-team conference[1]—their best SEC showing to date. 9–18–1954* #16 Rice Rice Stadium • Houston, Texas L 14–34 9–25–1954 #5 Georgia Tech Grant Field • Atlanta, Georgia W 13–12 10–2–1954 Auburn #20 Florida Field • Gainesville, Florida W 19–13 10–9–1954* Clemson #14 Florida Field • Gainesville, Florida L 7–14 10–16–1954 Kentucky Florida Field • Gainesville, Florida W 21–7 10–23–1954 Louisiana State #18 Tiger Stadium • Baton Rouge, Louisiana L 7–20 10–30–1954 Mississippi State Florida Field • Gainesville, Florida (Homecoming) W 7–0 11–6–1954 Georgia Gator Bowl Stadium • Jacksonville, Florida L 13–14 11–13–1954 Tennessee Shields-Watkins Field • Knoxville, Tennessee W 14–0 11–27–1954* #11 Miami Florida Field • Gainesville, Florida L 0–14 #10 Ole Miss † 5 – 1 – 0 10 – 1 – 0 #8 Auburn 5 – 1 – 1 8 – 2 – 1 Alabama 0 – 7 – 0 0 – 10 – 0 The 1955 college football season was Bob Woodruff's sixth as the head coach of the Florida Gators football team. The Gators played their only eight-game Southeastern Conference schedule before the 1990s, and probably the most difficult of the 1950s. The standout Gator players included offensive and defensive tackle John Barrow, halfback and punter Don Chandler, two-way halfback Jackie Simpson and defensive back John Symank. The highlights of the 1955 season included three conference victories over the Mississippi State Bulldogs (20–14), LSU Tigers (18–14) and Georgia Bulldogs (19–13). The Gators closed out the season with a knife's edge 6–7 road loss to the Miami Hurricanes in their home stadium in Miami, Florida. Woodruff's 1955 Florida Gators finished 4–6 overall and 3–5 in the SEC, placing tenth of twelve teams in the conference.[1] 9–17–1955 Mississippi State Florida Field • Gainesville, Florida W 20–14 9–24–1955 #2 Georgia Tech #19 Florida Field • Gainesville, Florida L 7–14 10–1–1955 Auburn Cliff Hare Stadium • Auburn, Alabama L 0–13 10–8–1955* George Washington Gator Bowl Stadium • Jacksonville, Florida W 28–0 10–15–1955 Louisiana State Florida Field • Gainesville, Florida W 18–14 10–22–1955 Kentucky Commonwealth Stadium • Lexington, Kentucky L 7–10 11–5–1955 Georgia Gator Bowl Stadium • Jacksonville, Florida W 19–13 11–12–1955 Tennessee Florida Field • Gainesville, Florida (Homecoming) L 0–20 11–19–1955 Vanderbilt Dudley Field • Nashville, Tennessee L 6–21 11–26–1955* #14 Miami Burdine Stadium • Miami, Florida L 6–7 6–3–1 (5–2 3rd SEC) #2 Tennessee † 6 – 0 – 0 10 – 1 – 0 #4 Georgia Tech 7 – 1 – 0 10 – 1 – 0 The 1956 college football season was the seventh for Bob Woodruff as the head coach of the Florida Gators football team. The Gators were led by All-American tackle John Barrow, quarterback Jimmy Dunn, two-way halfbacks Joe Brodsky, Bernie Parrish, Jim Rountree and Jackie Simpson, and defensive back John Symank. The highlights of the season included conference road wins over the Mississippi State Bulldogs (26–0) in Starkville, Mississippi, the Vanderbilt Commodores 21–7 in Nashville, Tennessee, and the LSU Tigers 21–6 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, a shutout Homecoming victory over the Auburn Tigers (20–0), and a second consecutive win over the Georgia Bulldogs (28–0). Woodruff's 1956 Florida Gators started a promising 6–1–1, but lost their final two games to finish 6–3–1 overall and 5–2 in the Southeastern Conference, placing third in the SEC among twelve teams.[1] 9–22–1956 Mississippi State Scott Field • Starkville, Mississippi W 26–0 9–29–1956* Clemson #19 Florida Field • Gainesville, Florida T 20–20 10–6–1956 Kentucky Florida Field • Gainesville, Florida L 8–17 10–13–1956* Rice Florida Field • Gainesville, Florida W 7–0 11–20–1956 Vanderbilt Dudley Field • Nashville, Tennessee W 21–7 10–27–1956 Louisiana State Tiger Stadium • Baton Rouge, Louisiana W 21–6 11–3–1956 Auburn Florida Field • Gainesville, Florida (Homecoming) W 20–0 11–24–1956 #5 Georgia Tech #13 Gator Bowl Stadium • Jacksonville, Florida L 0–28 12–1–1956* #6 Miami #18 Florida Field • Gainesville, Florida L 7–20 6–2–1 (4–2–1 T-3rd SEC) #1 Auburn † 7 – 0 – 0 10 – 0 – 0 #14 Mississippi State 4 – 2 – 1 6 – 2 – 1 #13 Tennessee 4 – 3 – 0 8 – 3 – 0 The 1957 college football season was Bob Woodruff's eighth as the head coach of the Florida Gators football team. The 1957 season was the last time the Gators would play only nine games in a season. Ten games were scheduled, but the season opener against the UCLA Bruins was canceled when most of the Gators team members were suffering from a serious bout of influenza. The Gators were led by quarterback Jimmy Dunn, two-way halfbacks Bernie Parrish and Jim Rountree. The highlights of the season included a home-opener victory over the Wake Forest Demon Deacons (27–0), four conference wins over the Kentucky Wildcats (14–7), LSU Tigers (22–14), Georgia Bulldogs (22–0) and Vanderbilt Commodores (14–7), and a road win over the in-state rival Miami Hurricanes (14–0) in Miami, Florida. Of the Gators' two losses, one was a 0–13 shutout by coach Shug Jordan's national champion Auburn Tigers. Woodruff's 1957 Florida Gators finished their abbreviated season with an overall record of 6–2–1 and a Southeastern Conference (SEC) record of 4–2–1, tying for third place among the twelve SEC teams.[1] 9–28–1957* Wake Forest Florida Field • Gainesville, Florida W 27–0 10–5–1957 Kentucky McLean Stadium • Lexington, Kentucky W 14–7 10–19–1957 Mississippi State Florida Field • Gainesville, Florida (Homecoming) L 20–29 10–26–1957 #10 Louisiana State Florida Field • Gainesville, Florida W 22–14 11–2–1957 #4 Auburn #19 Cliff Hare Stadium • Auburn, Alabama L 0–13 11–16–1957 Vanderbilt Florida Field • Gainesville, Florida W 14–7 11–30–1957* Miami #20 Burdine Stadium • Miami, Florida W 14–0 Gator Bowl, L 3–7 vs. Mississippi 6–4–1 (2–3–1 T-8th SEC) #1/1 LSU † 6 – 0 – 0 11 – 0 – 0 #4/4 Auburn 6 – 0 – 1 9 – 0 – 1 #11/12 Ole Miss 4 – 2 – 0 9 – 2 – 0 #14/15 Florida 2 – 3 – 1 6 – 4 – 1 Rankings from AP Poll / Coaches' Poll The 1958 college football season was the ninth of ten for Bob Woodruff as the head coach of the Florida Gators football team. The Gators were led by quarterback Jimmy Dunn, defensive back Don Fleming, halfback and punter Bobby Joe Green and All-American tackle Vel Heckman. The season's highlights included an intersectional victory over the UCLA Bruins (21–14) on the road in Los Angeles, California, two conference wins over the Tulane Green Wave (34–14) and Georgia Bulldogs (7–6), a rivalry game upset over the Miami Hurricanes (12–9), and a first-time victory over the new in-state rival Florida State Seminoles (21–7). The six wins were balanced by a series of three close and disappointing losses to the eleventh-ranked Mississippi State Bulldogs (7–14), the consensus national champion LSU Tigers (7–10), and the fourth-ranked Auburn Tigers (5–6), and a tie with the Vanderbilt Commodores (6–6). Woodruff's 1958 Florida Gators finished with an overall record of 6–4–1 and a Southeastern Conference (SEC) record of 2–2–1, placing eighth in the twelve-member SEC.[1] The Gators capped the year with a season-ending 3–7 loss to the eleventh-ranked Ole Miss Rebels in a defensive struggle in the December 1958 Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, Florida. 9–20–1958 Tulane Florida Field • Gainesville, Florida W 34–14 9–27–1958 #11 Mississippi State #18 Florida Field • Gainesville, Florida L 7–14 10–10–1958* UCLA Los Angeles Coliseum • Los Angeles, California W 21–14 10–18–1958 Vanderbilt #18 Florida Field • Gainesville, Florida (Homecoming) T 6–6 10–25–1958 #3 Louisiana State Tiger Stadium • Baton Rouge, Louisiana L 7–10 11–1–1958 #4 Auburn Florida Field • Gainesville, Florida L 5–6 11–8–1958 Georgia #19 Gator Bowl Stadium • Jacksonville, Florida W 7–6 11–15–1958* Arkansas State #18 Florida Field • Gainesville, Florida W 51–7 11–22–1958* Florida State #12 Florida Field • Gainesville, Florida W 21–7 11–29–1958* Miami #14 Gator Bowl Stadium • Jacksonville, Florida W 12–9 12–27–1958* #11 Mississippi #14 Gator Bowl Stadium • Jacksonville, Fla. (Gator Bowl) L 3–7 5–4–1 (2–4 9th SEC) #5/5 Georgia † 7 – 0 – 0 10 – 1 – 0 #3/3 LSU 5 – 1 – 0 9 – 2 – 0 #2/2 Ole Miss 5 – 1 – 0 10 – 1 – 0 #10/13 Alabama 4 – 1 – 2 7 – 2 – 2 #NR/15 Auburn 4 – 3 – 0 7 – 3 – 0 The 1959 college football season was Bob Woodruff's tenth and last year as the head coach of the Florida Gators football team. The Gators celebrated a close conference win over the Mississippi State Bulldogs (14–13), and suffered close conference defeats to the Vanderbilt Commodores (6–13), the top-ranked LSU Tigers (0–9) and the eighth-ranked Auburn Tigers (0–6). Woodruff finished his tenure on a high note, with the Gators' victories over the Florida State Seminoles (18–8) and the twelfth-ranked Miami Hurricanes (23–14), their primary in-state rivals. Woodruff's 1959 Florida Gators finished with an overall record of 5–4–1 and a Southeastern Conference (SEC) record of 2–4, placing ninth among twelve SEC teams.[1] Despite having returned the Gators to competitive respectability within the Southeastern Conference (SEC) in his ten seasons as the Gators' coach and athletic director, University of Florida president J. Wayne Reitz declined to renew Woodruff's contract in 1959 after two previous contract extensions. Woodruff returned to the University of Tennessee, his alma mater, in 1963, where he became the long-time athletic director of the Tennessee Volunteers sports program. 9–18–1959 Tulane Tulane Stadium • New Orleans, Louisiana W 30–0 9–26–1959 Mississippi State #19 Florida Field • Gainesville, Florida W 14–13 10–3–1959* Virginia #19 Florida Field • Gainesville, Florida W 55–10 10–10–1959* Rice #17 Rice Stadium • Houston, Texas T 13–13 10–17–1959 Vanderbilt #19 Dudley Field • Nashville, Tennessee L 6–13 10–24–1959 #1 Louisiana State Florida Field • Gainesville, Florida (Homecoming) L 0–9 10–31–1959 #8 Auburn Cliff Hare Stadium • Auburn, Alabama L 0–6 11–7–1959 #11 Georgia Gator Bowl Stadium • Jacksonville, Florida L 10–21 11–21–1959* Florida State Florida Field • Gainesville, Florida W 18–8 11–28–1959* #12 Miami Gator Bowl Stadium • Jacksonville, Florida W 23–14 32x28px Florida portal Florida–Florida State football rivalry Florida–LSU football rivalry Florida–Miami football rivalry ↑ Noel Nash, ed., The Gainesville Sun Presents The Greatest Moments in Florida Gators Football, Sports Publishing, Inc., Champaign, Illinois, pp. 16–18 (1998). 2010 Southeastern Conference Football Media Guide, Florida Year-by-Year Records, Southeastern Conference, Birmingham, Alabama, p. 60 (2010). McEwen, Tom, The Gators: A Story of Florida Football, The Strode Publishers, Huntsville, Alabama (1974). ISBN 87397-025-X.

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 #pragma once #include <aws/sagemaker/SageMaker_EXPORTS.h> #include <aws/core/utils/memory/stl/AWSVector.h> #include <aws/core/utils/memory/stl/AWSString.h> #include <utility> namespace Aws { namespace Utils { namespace Json { class JsonValue; class JsonView; } // namespace Json } // namespace Utils namespace SageMaker { namespace Model { /** * <p>A list of IP address ranges (<a * href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/VPC_Subnets.html">CIDRs</a>). * Used to create an allow list of IP addresses for a private workforce. Workers * will only be able to login to their worker portal from an IP address within this * range. By default, a workforce isn't restricted to specific IP * addresses.</p><p><h3>See Also:</h3> <a * href="http://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/WebAPI/sagemaker-2017-07-24/SourceIpConfig">AWS * API Reference</a></p> */ class AWS_SAGEMAKER_API SourceIpConfig { public: SourceIpConfig(); SourceIpConfig(Aws::Utils::Json::JsonView jsonValue); SourceIpConfig& operator=(Aws::Utils::Json::JsonView jsonValue); Aws::Utils::Json::JsonValue Jsonize() const; /** * <p>A list of one to ten <a * href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/VPC_Subnets.html">Classless * Inter-Domain Routing</a> (CIDR) values.</p> <p>Maximum: Ten CIDR values</p> * <p>The following Length Constraints apply to individual CIDR values in * the CIDR value list.</p> */ inline const Aws::Vector<Aws::String>& GetCidrs() const{ return m_cidrs; } /** * <p>A list of one to ten <a * href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/VPC_Subnets.html">Classless * Inter-Domain Routing</a> (CIDR) values.</p> <p>Maximum: Ten CIDR values</p> * <p>The following Length Constraints apply to individual CIDR values in * the CIDR value list.</p> */ inline bool CidrsHasBeenSet() const { return m_cidrsHasBeenSet; } /** * <p>A list of one to ten <a * href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/VPC_Subnets.html">Classless * Inter-Domain Routing</a> (CIDR) values.</p> <p>Maximum: Ten CIDR values</p> * <p>The following Length Constraints apply to individual CIDR values in * the CIDR value list.</p> */ inline void SetCidrs(const Aws::Vector<Aws::String>& value) { m_cidrsHasBeenSet = true; m_cidrs = value; } /** * <p>A list of one to ten <a * href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/VPC_Subnets.html">Classless * Inter-Domain Routing</a> (CIDR) values.</p> <p>Maximum: Ten CIDR values</p> * <p>The following Length Constraints apply to individual CIDR values in * the CIDR value list.</p> */ inline void SetCidrs(Aws::Vector<Aws::String>&& value) { m_cidrsHasBeenSet = true; m_cidrs = std::move(value); } /** * <p>A list of one to ten <a * href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/VPC_Subnets.html">Classless * Inter-Domain Routing</a> (CIDR) values.</p> <p>Maximum: Ten CIDR values</p> * <p>The following Length Constraints apply to individual CIDR values in * the CIDR value list.</p> */ inline SourceIpConfig& WithCidrs(const Aws::Vector<Aws::String>& value) { SetCidrs(value); return *this;} /** * <p>A list of one to ten <a * href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/VPC_Subnets.html">Classless * Inter-Domain Routing</a> (CIDR) values.</p> <p>Maximum: Ten CIDR values</p> * <p>The following Length Constraints apply to individual CIDR values in * the CIDR value list.</p> */ inline SourceIpConfig& WithCidrs(Aws::Vector<Aws::String>&& value) { SetCidrs(std::move(value)); return *this;} /** * <p>A list of one to ten <a * href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/VPC_Subnets.html">Classless * Inter-Domain Routing</a> (CIDR) values.</p> <p>Maximum: Ten CIDR values</p> * <p>The following Length Constraints apply to individual CIDR values in * the CIDR value list.</p> */ inline SourceIpConfig& AddCidrs(const Aws::String& value) { m_cidrsHasBeenSet = true; m_cidrs.push_back(value); return *this; } /** * <p>A list of one to ten <a * href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/VPC_Subnets.html">Classless * Inter-Domain Routing</a> (CIDR) values.</p> <p>Maximum: Ten CIDR values</p> * <p>The following Length Constraints apply to individual CIDR values in * the CIDR value list.</p> */ inline SourceIpConfig& AddCidrs(Aws::String&& value) { m_cidrsHasBeenSet = true; m_cidrs.push_back(std::move(value)); return *this; } /** * <p>A list of one to ten <a * href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/VPC_Subnets.html">Classless * Inter-Domain Routing</a> (CIDR) values.</p> <p>Maximum: Ten CIDR values</p> * <p>The following Length Constraints apply to individual CIDR values in * the CIDR value list.</p> */ inline SourceIpConfig& AddCidrs(const char* value) { m_cidrsHasBeenSet = true; m_cidrs.push_back(value); return *this; } private: Aws::Vector<Aws::String> m_cidrs; bool m_cidrsHasBeenSet; }; } // namespace Model } // namespace SageMaker } // namespace Aws

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THE FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW, one of the most influential English-language periodicals of the 19th century, was the invention of Anthony Trollope, who, with the support of Frederic Chapman, James Cotter Morison, Danby Seymour, Alfred Austin, and others, decided to launch a magazine designed to free the “higher journalists” of the time from “the views of an Editor or Political party.” Under the editorship of George Henry Lewes the first issue appeared on 15 May 1865. The subeditor was John Dennis. For copyright, print archive and contact information, click here. For editorial information and submission guidelines, click here. THE PRESENT ‘NEW SERIES’ seeks to disprove Trollope’s assumption that “opposites will not appear in conjunction with liberalism, free-thinking, and open inquiry” by inviting views both complementary to and divergent from those expressed in the pages of the Fortnightly and other similar periodicals and presenting them in a medium that encourages eclecticism and contrast. This New Series of The Fortnightly Review is an editorial experiment, as was the Fortnightly at its inception. In the case of this series (more precisely the third series of the periodical; a “new series” first appeared in January 1867, reflecting the change in publication frequency to a monthly), the experiment is in the use of a new medium in which editorial juxtaposition is an interesting component of the presentation of ideas, often providing a modern context for older texts – especially those not easily obtainable elsewhere – and the critical and other values they represent. (A simple example is seen here.) The intention is to provide a basis for the examination of ways in which innovations in publication shape literary art and illumine older work in the light of new – and vice-versa. The editorship was taken on jointly by Prof Anthony O’Hear, Director of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, and Denis Boyles, formerly a visiting fellow at the University of Buckingham and now on the faculty of l’Institut Catholique d’Études Supérieures in La Roche-sur-Yon, France. After a period of surprising growth, the editorial arrangement was altered. Prof O’Hear required more time for his work and so Prof Alan Macfarlane, Professor Emeritus of Anthropological Science and Life Fellow of King’s College at the University of Cambridge, assumed the co-editorship of the Fortnightly and a number of contributing editors were added. Denis Boyles supervised the launch in late 2013 of the Fortnightly’s “Odd Volumes” imprint. The Fortnightly is updated often, although what is called a “principal article” appears every week or two – sometimes three. Comments (either by one of our correspondents or from sources elsewhere), along with miscellaneous reviews and notes, appear frequently in the Fortnightly’s Chronicle & Notices department. (For an extended view of periodicity and this publishing model, see here.) Content is indexed in the right-hand column and in the extensive index on the cover page. The Trollope Prize: The Fortnightly Review provides a modest honorarium to the graduate winner of The Trollope Prize awarded by the University of Kansas. The winning essays are published here first. A thorough history of the Fortnightly Review by Janet (Hogarth) Courtney, the wife of W.L. Courtney, the Fortnightly‘s longest-serving editor and a very attentive observer of London’s literary life, has been transcribed for the editors of this New Series and appears here. Additional comment by the Courtneys on the life and career of John Morley, an early and influential editor, appears here. Further information will be found in the sources cited at the bottom of this page. The New Series’ motto, “The stroke of an oar given in true time,” is by Ruskin who used it to describe “one of the simplest pieces of perfect art” in a lecture, “Of Wisdom and Folly in Art,” given on 8 February 1872. In 1954, The Fortnightly (“Review,” the most appropriate of the two words in the original title, had been dropped earlier and the article was incorporated on a formal basis) was incorporated into The Contemporary Review. The Contemporary Review, established as a rival in 1866, was, until 2011, published by the Contemporary Review Trust and had no association with this website. Sadly, The Contemporary Review has now apparently ceased publication. This New Series of The Fortnightly Review was launched by Anthony O’Hear and Denis Boyles. In 2014, Prof Alan Macfarlane became a co-editor. For more information on the current editors and contributors, please click here. The New Series template is based on VeryPlainTxt, a theme by Scott Wallick. Research and other notes: The Rossetti Archive has a limited number of entries archived from the Fortnightly Review. The Internet Archive has a selection of digitized issues online. A nearly complete index of The Fortnightly Review through 1900 may be found in The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900 (Vol 2) . Trollope’s obituary of Lewes, published in The Fortnightly Review on 1 January 1879 – and republished in an abridged version in The New York Times on 16 February 1879 – is available online at Ellen Moody’s website. Lively reading about Trollope and others may be found at the Anthony Trollope website. Those interested in digital research relating to the ‘long’ 19th century (1789-1914, according to historian Eric Hobsbawm) will find the contents of Patrick Leary’s Victoria Research Web and the work of NINES useful; those interested in ‘little’ magazines published between 1880-1945 will be grateful for the index at the Modernist Magazines Project (which also includes The Germ from 1850) and the joint project of Brown University and the University of Tulsa at the Modernist Journals Project. We encourage students and scholars to join and support the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals. Sources consulted for this page: Trollope: An Autobiography (Oxford World’s Classics) ; W. Houghton: The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900 (Vol 2) ; R. Mullen: Anthony Trollope: A Victorian in His World; R. Super: The Chronicler of Barsetshire: A Life of Anthony Trollope ; Sullivan: British Literary Magazines: The Victorian and Edwardian Age, 1837-1913 (Historical Guides to the World’s Periodicals and Newspapers) ; Everett: The Party of Humanity: The Fortnightly Review and Its Contributors, 1865-1874. ; “What’s in a Name?: Signature, Criticism, and Authority in The Fortnightly Review.” Sarah Nash. Victorian Periodicals Review – Volume 43, Number 1, Spring 2010, pp. 57-82. For more on Trollope and his world, visit Amazon’s page for Richard Mullen. The Fortnightly Review’s initial prospectus, as published in the Saturday Review and in the Athenaeum, 25 March 1865, appears here. Source: Everett.

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The Federal Government will schedule another 20 repatriation flights to bring stranded Australians home A bushfire emergency warning has been issued for residents in Perth’s south, where a blaze is threatening lives and homes The Turkish Red Crescent helped 37 million people last year and wants to further boost aid in 2021 Emirates has suspended flights to three Australian cities stranding hundreds of Australians in the process Beatrice Mutetwa, 62, a lawyer highlighting human rights issues in the southern African country of Zimbabwe has lost the count of threats and intimidation Fenerbahce Beko defeated Panathinaikos OPAP 100-74 for a fifth straight win The Turkish president and Italian prime minister discussed bilateral relations in a phone call Passengers who use public transportation in Istanbul will require the country’s coronavirus contact tracing HES code At least eight suspects were arrested for alleged links to the YPG/PKK terror group in an operation in Istanbul Malaysian authorities held back a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) aircraft due to a legal dispute President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Friday that he supports the Mexican attorney general’s decision to absolve former Secretary of National Defense The US on Friday furthered its pressure on Tehran as Washington imposed fresh sanctions on Iranian entities and individuals in the final days of Donald Trump’s presidency Zamwild Latest Zambia News, World News, and Viral News Oxford COVID-19 vaccine may go before regulators this year Pele wants to be more Edson but far from ‘retirement’ Suicide bombing in Kabul kills 18, including schoolchildren The Kenyan President, Uhuru Kenyatta, said his government will advance a four-point agenda as it takes up a non-permanent seat at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Allegations of anti-Semitism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are being investigated by the U.S. Department of Education Taylor Swift has been named artist of the year at the American Music Awards and won two other trophies in a ceremony held live in Los Angeles amid tight coronavirus restrictions YPG/PKK detains Arab fighters fleeing terror group US President Donald Trump called out his own party for holding up the coronavirus relief in the Senate PF Member of the Central Committee Kebby Mbewe has advised opposition UPND Turkish forces neutralized at least 82 terrorists in northern Iraq over the past month, according to a security source on Thursday Zimbabwe’s Health minister Arrested in COVID-19 Corruption Case Nigerian police on Sunday confirmed that five worshippers were killed and 18 others abducted when gunmen attacked a congregational mosque Trump’s media foe the Atlantic calls to ‘end’ Nobel Peace Prize after his nomination, but not after Obama’s Davies 4 months ago The two nominations for President Donald Trump for the Nobel peace prize – for brokering deals in the Middle East and the Balkans – has prompted the Atlantic to call to cancel the award, sparking pushback from conservatives. “End the Nobel Peace Prize,” the Atlantic declared in a headline Friday. 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Much has changed since the first Mother’s Day Celebration which was held in 1908, at a little Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia. However, our devotion to our mothers has remained the same. Mothers profoundly impact our lives and therefore the world. With that being said, we want to celebrate, honor and shower them with all the goodness and love we can possibly put forth. So, should you be in need of a little inspiration to create that extra special day, I hope you will find it here. After all, you have arrived at Where Inspiration Blooms. Mothers are the very heart of our homes. Our homes are where families are comfortable and happy ~ which makes them the absolute perfect place for our celebrations. But, let’s make this special day all about memories, not work. Today, I am honored to share with you the lovely creations of a most talented lady and my blogging friend, Pam at ~ Everyday Living. For those of you who may not be familiar with her work or her inspiring blog, she is a gifted interior decorator, photographer, and writer. Pam is also a wife, mother and grandmother ~ one busy lady. And when you see her work, my goodness you will be inspired, because no one does more beautiful tablescapes than Pam. You will jump out of your seat and busy yourself with new ideas to create a perfectly stunning setting for your own celebration. Brace yourself ~ Beauty is about to unfold! It is true, we do not all have lovely gardens which serve as a wonderful setting for special occasions. Even for those who do, weather can often determine a change to indoors. So my answer to this: Fill your room with bloom! Blooms atop a stack of plates on a buffet, instantly signify ~ a special occasion. And of course, a table filled with gorgeous flowers always conveys love and thoughtfulness. Now, that you have a few ideas for a beautiful table whirling around in your mind, let’s talk about food. Truly, you can have wonderful food without intense preparation. I am sharing several recipes which can mostly be made ahead of time. Leaving you time to play with blooms, enjoy Your day and Your wonderful family! In a large pot, combine chicken, onion, 3 celery stalks, parsley, 1 Tbls. salt and 1/2 tsp. red pepper. Cover with water, and bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Reduce heat to a simmer, and cook until chicken is falling off the bone, approximately 30 minutes. Remove the chicken from broth. Strain and reserve the broth for another use, discard vegetables. Let chicken cool completely. Shred meat, and place in a large bowl. Refrigerate until ready to use. In the top of a double boiler over simmering water, combine sugar, flour, mustard, remaining 1/2 tsp. salt, white pepper, and red pepper. Whisk in egg yolks and vinegar. Whisk constantly until mixture is thickened. Remove from heat, and whisk in butter, then cream. Refrigerate until ready to use. Finely chop remaining 8 celery stalks. Add to bowl with chicken. Pour dressing over chicken and celery, tossing to combine. At this point you can add any or all of the following: red seedless grapes – halved, a golden delicious apple – peeled and chopped, chopped pecans, and raisins. Serve cold, with or on soft rolls. Note: Make this a day ahead and refrigerate overnight. Note: I have made this recipe for so many years, I could put it together in my sleep. If you have shrimp lovers in your family, you will never go wrong with this recipe. In a large bowl, combine sour cream, mayonnaise, onion, celery, ketchup, lemon juice, horseradish, salt, and pepper. Stir mp and macaroni. Cover, and chill for at least 4 hours before serving. Note: Make this a day ahead and refrigerate overnight. Serve cold and with soft rolls. Note: I have been making this recipe for close to forty years. It is a recipe from the Virginia coast. I make it a day ahead, pull it from the refrigerator and pop it in the oven. You have a marvelous warm dish. It is wonderful for a luncheon or dinner. Preheat oven to 350. Beat the eggs with mustard and pepper. Add crabmeat, pimento and 2 cups of the mayonnaise. Spoon the mixture into a 2-quart casserole baking dish and spread with 1/4 cup mayonnaise and sprinkle with the parmesan cheese. Bake for about 20 minutes until brown and bubbly. Note – I check this at 20 minutes, but I usually bake it for 30. Pour the mixture into a greased and floured loaf pan. Bake for 40 minutes to 1 hour or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. I hope you have enjoyed your visit today and have received some great ideas and inspiration. As you can see the recipes are easy and are meant to provide a day free of work. They assure you will spend little time in the kitchen, after all, it is your day. In closing, I want to thank Pam at Everyday Living for her kindness and generosity. I believe it was Maya Angelou who said, “A person will always remember how you made them feel.” So true with regard to my friend, Pam. She has been a great source of inspiration since I began this blog and I will never forget her kindness and how she has made me feel. So, to all the mother’s who may be reading this today, I wish you a glorious day, filled with everyone and everything you love. A day of beauty and celebration! Never doubt your love radiates in our world and is a true force for good! 4 Comments on "A Special Day" Dear Pam, I once again thank you for your kind words. I’m wishing you a beautiful Mother’s Day, as all those who love you – celebrate you. Enjoy your most special day! Many Blessings, Pam. What beautiful inspiration! Mother’s Day will just be me and my husband. My children live to far away and my sweet mom has passed away. Your recipes sound wonderful. Thank you, Penny. Have a lovely Mother’s Day ~ play in your garden !

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Kings Hammer FC is a pre-professional soccer club that plays in Cincinnati, Ohio and based in Covington, Kentucky competing in the Great Lakes Division in USL League Two. History The club was founded in 2013 through the merger of Kings Soccer Academy with Hammer FC, but its roots go back to 1993. They have won a US National Youth championship. In 2020, they added a U23 team in the Ohio Valley Premier League, winning the league's inaugural season in the Fall of 2020. In 2021, they joined USL League Two, the top amateur division in the United States, while still planning to operate their OVPL team. Year-by-year Notable former players Jacob Goodall, Kings Hammer SC - 2021, signed in 2021 by Greenville Triumph SC () Rizwaan Dharsey, Kings Hammer SC - 2021, signed in 2021 by Vitória Futebol Clube - Pico () References External links USL League Two teams Soccer clubs in Ohio Association football clubs established in 2013 2013 establishments in Ohio Sports teams in Cincinnati

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Brand new, never used and fully complete set. Note this headset is for use with a landline phone, it is not for gaming/computer use. Collect from seller in Dublin15. Item can be posted, at additional cost.

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The Weekender: Where the Boat Leaves From By Dan Bradley Jan 26, 2018, 3:00pm EST Share All sharing options for: The Weekender: Where the Boat Leaves From Photo by: Education Images/UIG via Getty Images The NHL All-Star Weekend is upon us, and our team will be well represented. There are plenty of times this silly hockey team still makes the most pessimistic person among us smile. Much like how the city Nashville transformed itself from a dingy city best known for sad songs and fishing into a thriving cosmopolitan destination while never changing out of its boots, the local hockey team went from a band of lovable try-hards and a goalie to one of the most entertaining teams in the league. Between some sharp trades, a change in leadership, and a refined philosophy, the Nashville Predators changed their perception for the better without spending years waiting on the lottery. Every single game he plays, Filip Forsberg does something that makes you pay attention. Every single game he plays, P.K. Subban finds a way to do something you or his opposition wouldn’t expect. You can say similar things about Mattias Ekholm, Roman Josi, Ryan Ellis, Kevin Fiala, Ryan Johansen, Kyle Turris, and Pekka Rinne. More nights than not, they find a way to do something that gives you a smile. That’s the stuff that happens on the ice. It’s been good to great the past two seasons. What we’re all still getting used to is having a team that’s interesting off the ice as well. Subban absolutely shined on the Daily Show, and he’s a better ambassador for the game most of the folks NBC keeps pushing us to like. It may be a bit under the radar to the trendy crowd, but Trisha Yearwood’s show on Food Network featured Forsberg, Johansen, Colin Wilson (!!!) and some good game day recipes. Silly Food Network doesn’t allow for embedding, but here’s the link. It’s video number 12, Trisha on Ice. A great freeze frame of Forsberg is also appreciated. That’s where we’re at now with this team. It sure beats the Outdoor Life Network’s postgame show talking about the Copps Coliseum hosting games. The Nashville Predators still have yet to play a game at full strength. Tampa Bay may have scored the overtime win, but Nashville fans should still be excited to play them in a series, should things work out like the coaches believe they will. When Nashville had trouble scoring in last year’s playoffs, it was due to large defensemen guarding their own net. When Nashville had trouble defending during last year’s playoffs, it was largely due to breakaways and accounting for the oppositions giant and talented centers. Tampa Bay may have plenty of skill, but there were plenty of times where Nashville looked much sharper. Viktor Arvidsson hasn’t made a pass like that since his first rookie camp, and it ended up behind Saros. The power play looked like the Rohirrim cutting through the Urak-Hai on their way down the mountain to Helm’s Deep. And that’s coming from a man who has a Bolts sticker on his car. A matchup with the Bolts is exactly with this stupid league needs. Yes, I’m biased. But unless the Caps can ever figure out how to win a conference final, I trust the Lightning to represent the East. What you’re about to see is the NHL doing its best to mimic the NFL’s “Is it a catch?” phenomenon. Hawks score, play is under review for goalie interference. pic.twitter.com/BVicgt5QTx — Flintor (@TheFlintor) January 25, 2018 Seems pretty clear that Anisimov is all up ons Andersen here. No way this should count pic.twitter.com/JlvejCmMiG Yep, watch Anisimov’s stick actually move Andersen’s mask. I don't even know. pic.twitter.com/UtJMQQTGwd They counted it. Every team can point to an example of their own side getting a favorable call, and being on the wrong end of this call (I hope). It’s one of the more insufferable parts of watching a game these days. “At least they actually reviewed it.” -Colton Sissons, probably. Prepare your mind. Saros getting the start, and a few minutes from winning, against Tampa. Bumping up his trade value perhaps? #Preds — Spencer Asch-Jones (@SpennyAJ4) January 24, 2018 Pekka Rinne is 35. That's why any trade needs to include a young center. Nash to STL for Robert Thomas. Nash to Preds for Fiala. This draft has no top centers. It's defenemen heavy. So the trade needs to be for a young top 6 center. — Howie Wirtheim (@HWirth) January 22, 2018 Rick Nash to St. Louis for their 1st round pick that wasn’t as good as Eeli Tolvanen. Rick Nash to Nashville for Kevin Fiala; an aging player with an expiring contract that pays him $7.8m for a player that has another year left on his ELC with one less goal this season. On a scale from Jarny Celly to Nealer Hate Goal Celly How excited are you about the McLeod waive? ThunderKiwi Considering that the roster spot means the return of Forsberg (or other movement coming inwards from Finland), I’m closer to the Neal celebration. Calle’s been known to let loose a little. Cody McLeod was a good guy, and did what was asked of him. He didn’t quite have the skill set to adapt with today’s game. Let’s hope he has a good spell with the Rangers. Who will be the Jaguars QB next year? And will they make the playoffs? musamonster Probably Blake Bortles to start the year, at least. He’s due a $19 million option next year. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Jags released him, and then offered him much less. I don’t see too many teams lining up to pay him. They would be foolish not to draft a QB. Chad Henne ain’t the answer. Honestly? I don’t know if the Jags make it back next year. Watson will be healthy for the Texans, and Andrew Luck might have something he’s been missing since Bruce Arians left: solid leadership. He’s still a mongoloid who can’t stay healthy in a league with Clowney, Campbell, and some other nasty defensive stars. Since we’ve split the Turris line, which pair of FiTS is most important to keep together? Turris – Fiala? Turris – Smith? Fiala – Smith? lomn Turris and Smith. Kevin Fiala makes things happen on the ice all by himself. Craig Smith needs a bit more space on the ice. Put together a realistic trade package(1 Each Player Listed) that would land us 1) Pacioretty. 2) Hoffman. 3) Kane. Since the Red Wings suck and seem to be in a cap crunch is there any chance of Poile hosing Detroit for a different winger. Dennis.K.Morgan 1 and 2 would likely have to include at least two of Aberg, Gaudreau, Trenin, and some draft picks if Nashville doesn’t want to part with a defenseman. If our guy Tolvanen has a good showing in the Olympics, Poile might be less likely to pay a high price for Hoffman or Pacioretty. But the Red Wings are in a different situation. Their cap number is way too high, and they’re out of the last playoff spot by a mile. If there is a team that would be shedding a top 6 player for a non-roster player, it would be the Red Wings just based their upcoming contracts. If there’s one team that can’t execute a proper contract extension that doesn’t handcuff the team, it’s Detroit. And if there’s one player you’d want from Detroit, it’s Gustav Nyquist. He doesn’t give you the bang for your buck the way Hoffman or Pacioretty does, but he would cost less in acquisition assets. Would you look at someone like Mike Green in addition to a forward before the deadline? (Can’t remember if we’ve discussed here.) Murphy MacManus Mike Green’s scooter would’ve looked much better in the arena garage 7 years ago. Defense isn’t a worry. What do you most want OTFers to know about you? Gnash4President That I view hockey, and other sports, like a reality TV game show. I just pay to see it live more than actual game shows. How great would a film about David Poile & The Nashville Predators be? Context: I’m currently watching “Draft Day” for like the 8th time and love the whole underdog makes bad ass moves story. Swiss Pred Let’s imagine a first-person narrative similar to Narcos, Casino, or a Guy Ritchie movie. I would have it start with a montage during the early years, and pick up during the winter of 2012. The actor playing David Poile (Aaron Eckhart) would celebrate getting Paul Gaustad and Andrei Kostitsyn before luring back Radulov to finish out his NHL deal. “Once we shook hands with Detroit, we felt unstoppable. It was our year.” “...f*** Mike Smith.” Dejected, Poile walks out of the Westgate Town Center to his rental car, and drives across the soulless desert landscape to the airport. “I knew then that we would have to change, and that we could no longer live with the slim margin of error. If we were going to win, we had to do more than just outlasting other teams. We had to leave no doubt.” “The next two years were a grind. Thankfully, we sucked so bad that we completed a five-year turnaround in 18 months. And I finally had an excuse to get a new coach. Meet the lovable and cuddly... Peter... Laviolette.” “GET YOUR *** UP THE ****EN ICE.” -Lavy “Yep, that’s him. If you needed to diagram a subway system, Laviolette could do it. He loved explaining how things worked. He also loved explaining to younger players how and why they weren’t working hard enough. Hell, we burned through 20 timeouts during the regular season his first year because the time wasn’t doing exactly what he said. But you know what? It worked.” I had to make myself stop writing the script. Is it too early to think about the Draft? What position do the Predators need to target in the 2018 Draft, presuming they keep their first round pick? I know it’s early, but after reading Eric’s prospect report, it seems like most of our prospects are middling-average or just disappointing…with the exception of Tolvanen/Ejdsell. Rachel K Being a scout in the NHL doesn’t sound like a ton of fun. Most of these kids we don’t hear about until after they’ve been drafted, which is different than the other major sports in North America. Average prospects are the cost of winning, but players like Arvidsson, Josi, and Tolvanen are examples of how well this team scouts Europe. Just like Dr. Seuss says: it’s not about what it is, it’s about what it can become. Here’s the good news: there aren’t many holes to fill. Here’s the better news: they have plenty of time to fill them. With Paul Kariya in town, there was conversation about what his signing meant to the franchise. In 15-20 years, what will be said about PK Subban and his impact based on what has happened since the trade? rpnociti The Subban trade made this team on and off the ice. How many hockey trades in history have done that? With one trade, Nashville got a new image and suddenly became one of the teams to watch in hockey. Subban is a name that’s very valuable outside of hockey, and has made the Preds more valuable since his arrival. I was living in Florida at the time of Kariya’s arrival. We can play it down now, but there were some dark clouds hovering above the league and the franchise during that time. It was fun, but it felt like the deep breath before the final plunge. It worked in the long run, and those teams showed the potential ownership how much a competitive sports franchise could be worth in Nashville. I remember calling up friends and being excited about Paul Kariya, but when this current chapter is in the history books and we’re all old men & women hanging around the bowling alley... we’ll agree that the Subban trade was the one that made the Nashville Predators more than just a team supported by Nashville. If the Winnipeg Jets could swap uniforms with another team, you’d be more afraid of them. Tampa is a great place to visit, and the suburbs are pretty great. The setup at Clearwater Beach is amazing. Carter Hutton has pushed Jake Allen out of the starting job in St. Louis. That’s not satire. Montreal might want to blow it up sooner rather than later while Price still has prime years left. Same with New York. I don’t believe wise choices were made along the way, but their situation is a bit better than the Habs’. Nash could fetch some pieces at the deadline, and they do have some hefty raises coming due this summer. They opted to trade Stepan instead of Nash, which makes sense for a rebuild. For as much hell as Poile caught over the Rinne contract, it expires after next year. Lundqvist may be the better goalie, but he’ll be on the Rangers’ books until 2021 at $8.5 million. They won’t be trading Eeli Tolvanen. The NBA All-Star Game also features a fantasy draft. Instead of televising it, it’s done weeks in advance... on a conference call. Three points to House Bettman. Pay close attention to the NBA’s interest in legalized gambling. This could change everything in North American sports as we know it. On to the next one.

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Bookshelf Briefs is a weekly collection of short reviews (100-150 words) from the Manga Bookshelf crew focusing on recent releases. These are the columns to which I’ve contributed. 3/28/11 Metropolis 4/4/11 Library Wars: Love & War 4 4/11/11 K-ON! 2 4/18/11 Karakuri Odette 6 and Time and Again 5 5/2/11 Dengeki Daisy 4 5/9/11 Kizuna Deluxe Edition 2, Sakura Hime: The Legend of Princess Sakura 1, and Silver Diamond 9 5/16/11 Genkaku Picasso 3 5/23/11 Saturn Apartments 3 6/6/11 Bakuman。 5, Chi’s Sweet Home 6, and Itsuwaribito 2 6/13/11 Ouran High School Host Club 16 6/20/11 Higurashi When They Cry: Demon Exposing Arc and Moon and Blood 1 6/27/11 Bleach 35 and Blue Exorcist 2 7/4/11 Cross Game 4 and Sakura Hime: The Legend of Princess Sakura 2 7/11/11 Maid Shokun 1 and Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan 3 7/18/11 Arisa 3, Black Butler 6, and Skip Beat! 24 7/25/11 RIN-NE 6 and Shugo Chara! 11 8/1/11 K-ON! 3 and Nabari No Ou 7 8/8/11 13th Boy 8, Fairy Tail 14, and I Am Here! 2 8/15/11 Kamisama Kiss 4 and The Story of Saiunkoku 4 8/22/11 Itazura Na Kiss 6 and Tegami Bachi: Letter Bee 6 8/29/11 Bokurano: Ours 4 and Oresama Teacher 4 9/5/11 Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney 2 9/19/11 One Piece 58 9/26/11 Shugo Chara! 12, This Night’s Everything, and Warning! Whispers of Love 10/3/11 A Liar in Love 10/10/11 Entangled Circumstances and Tonight’s Take-Out Night 10/24/11 Stargazing Dog 10/31/11 Raiders 7 and Vampire Knight 13 11/7/11 Pandora Hearts 7 and Yotsuba&! 10 11/14/11 Arata: The Legend 8 and Tired of Waiting for Love 11/21/11 Full House 6 and RIN-NE 7 11/28/11 Only Serious About You 1 12/5/11 About Love and The Innocent 1/2/12 Kobato. 5 and My Girlfriend’s a Geek 5 1/9/12 Chi’s Sweet Home 7 1/16/12 13th Boy 10 and Bleach 36-37 1/23/12 Bokurano: Ours 5 and Pandora Hearts 8 1/30/12 Full Bloom 1 and The Song of Rainfall 2/6/12 Arisa 6 and Cross Game 6 2/13/12 Dengeki Daisy 8 and Only Serious About You 2 2/27/12 Ata and No Longer Human 3 3/12/12 Arata: The Legend 9 3/19/12 Nabari No Ou 9 4/2/12 Devil’s Honey and Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon 4 4/9/12 Ekiben Hitoritabi 2 and GTO: 14 Days in Shonan 2 4/16/12 Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You 13 4/23/12 Skip Beat! 27 5/7/12 Kamisama Kiss 8 and Psyren 4 5/21/12 Itazura Na Kiss 8 5/29/12 Black Butler 9 and Cross Game 7 6/4/12 Ai Ore! 5 6/11/12 Gokudou Meshi 2 and The Story of Saiunkoku 7 6/18/12 A Devil and Her Love Song 3 7/9/12 Dawn of the Arcana 4 and Ouran High School Host Club 18 7/16/12 Kobato. 6 and Slam Dunk 22 7/30/12 Oresama Teacher 9 8/13/12 Alice in the Country of Clover: Cheshire Cat Waltz 1 8/20/12 Ooku: The Inner Chambers 7 9/10/12 The Flowers of Evil 2 9/17/12 Lizzie Newton: Victorian Mysteries 1 and Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon 7 10/1/12 Arata: The Legend 11 and Yotsuba&! 11 10/8/12 Drops of God: New World and Jiu Jiu 2 10/22/12 The Flowers of Evil 3, Library Wars: Love & War 8, and Skip Beat! 29 11/5/12 Bleach 50-51 11/12/12 Durarara!! 4, Oresama Teacher 11, and We Were There 15 11/19/12 Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You 15 and Pandora Hearts 12 11/26/12 Ai Ore! 7 and RIN-NE 10 12/3/12 Aron’s Absurd Armada 1, Natsume’s Book of Friends 13, and Soulless: The Manga 2 12/10/12 Real 11 12/17/12 Cross Game 8 12/24/12 My Darling Kitten Hair 2 12/31/12 Alice in the Country of Hearts: My Fanatic Rabbit 1 and Crazy for You 4 1/7/13 Jiu Jiu 3 and Strobe Edge 2 1/15/13 Raiders 9 1/29/13 Skip Beat! 30 and Slam Dunk 26 2/11/13 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon 9 2/25/13 Alice in the Country of Joker: Circus and Liar’s Game 1 and Fushigi Yûgi: Genbu Kaiden 11 3/4/13 BTOOOM! 1 3/11/13 Demon Love Spell 2 and Umineko: When They Cry Episode 1: Legend of the Golden Witch 2 3/18/13 Strobe Edge 3 3/25/13 Dawn of the Arcana 9 4/1/13 The Story of Saiunkoku 9 4/8/13 Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You 16 4/29/13 Bunny Drop 8 and We Were There 16 5/6/13 A Devil and Her Love Song 8 5/27/13 BTOOOM! 2 6/3/13 Arisa 10 6/24/13 Blood Lad 3 and Tiger & Bunny 2 7/1/13 A Devil and Her Love Song 9 and Strobe Edge 5 7/22/13 Knights of Sidonia 3 and Little Fluffy Gigolo PELU 2 7/29/13 Pandora Hearts 16 8/5/13 Kaze Hikaru 21 and Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic 1 8/26/13 Bunny Drop 9 9/23/13 Voice Over!: Seiyu Academy 1 10/7/13 Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic 2 10/21/13 Sweet Rein 1 11/4/13 Pandora Hearts 18 and Real 12 11/11/13 Knights of Sidonia 5 11/18/13 Strobe Edge 7 and Sunny 2 12/2/13 Oresama Teacher 15, Slam Dunk 31, and Yotsuba&! 12 12/9/13 Skip Beat! 32 12/16/13 Bloody Cross 1 and RIN-NE 13 12/23/13 Arata: The Legend 16 and Voice Over!: Seiyu Academy 2 12/30/13 Demon Love Spell 5, Nisekoi: False Love 1, and Soulless: The Manga 3 1/13/14 Dengeki Daisy 13 1/20/14 Natsume’s Book of Friends 15 and NightS 1/27/14 Black Butler 16 and Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You 18 2/10/14 Kamisama Kiss 14 2/24/14 A Devil and Her Love Song 13 3/3/14 Blood Lad 4 and Fushigi Yûgi: Genbu Kaiden 12 3/10/14 Ranma 1/2 2-in-1 Edition 1 3/17/14 My Little Monster 1 and Phantom Thief Jeanne 1 3/24/14 Bloody Brat 1 3/31/14 Library Wars: Love & War 11 4/21/14 Sweet Rein 2 and What Did You Eat Yesterday? 1 4/28/14 Bunny Drop 10 5/12/14 Dawn of the Arcana 12, Strobe Edge 10, and Whispered Words 1 5/19/14 Natsume’s Book of Friends 16 and Say I Love You. 1 5/26/14 Dengeki Daisy 14 and Phantom Thief Jeanne 2 6/2/14 Kamisama Kiss 15 and One Piece 71 6/9/14 Millennium Snow 3, My Little Monster 2, and Tiger & Bunny 5 6/16/14 Itazura Na Kiss 10 6/30/14 Arata: The Legend 18 and Say I Love You. 2 7/7/14 Demon Love Spell 6 and My Love Story!! 1 7/28/14 Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma 1 and Spell of Desire 1 8/4/14 Kaze Hikaru 22, Sweet Rein 3, and Voice Over!: Seiyu Academy 6 8/18/14 Black Rose Alice 1 8/25/14 Happy Marriage?! 7 9/2/14 Black Butler 17, Blood Lad 5, Loveless 12, and Skip Beat! 33 9/8/14 Chi’s Sweet Home 11 and Phantom Thief Jeanne 4 9/15/14 Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic 7 9/29/14 Arata: The Legend 19, Library Wars: Love & War 12, and Midnight Secretary 7 10/6/14 My Little Monster 4 10/13/14 Dawn of the Arcana 13, Honey Blood 1, Kamisama Kiss 16, and My Love Story!! 2 10/20/14 Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma 2 and Voice Over!: Seiyu Academy 7 10/27/14 Happy Marriage?! 8 11/10/14 What Did You Eat Yesterday? 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Submitted by Shaul Berger Category: Translation - Other Family Surname: Neuman Erenreich Kozlowska Town: Krakow This letter is summary of witness deposition of my mother in law Irena Neuman nee Erenreich. It is regarding acts of courage of Jadwiga Kozlowska is righteous gentile who hid my mother in-law in Krakow during Holocaust from 1943-1945. I want translation of the letter from 1961 9/11/2020 11:09 AM Witness Statement As a participant. As a Jew, I was in hiding in the Aryan district of Cracow, [and am] conscious of the responsibility of being truthful in the facts given by me, below. I state Citizen Jadwiga Kozłowska-Borkowska, daughter of Paweł, born on the 9th of June 1918 in Skawina, was known personally to me since 1935. The abovementioned [person] had a pseudonym - and fulfilled a function - she took part (this part describes: the record of service and activity in the time of the fighting against Hitler's occupying forces, the function carried out[,] the army rank, in which divisions she served, groups, postings, under whose command, directions, taking part in fighting and other actions, in which places, the name of the camp etc. any changes and periods of time[)]. After the liquidation of the Miechów ghetto in 1943 with the help of Mrs. Jadwiga Kozłowska-Borkowska I fled to Cracow and was hidden by her from the first moment until mid-January 1945 i.e. until liberation. With satisfaction, I wish to underline, that Mrs. Jadwiga Kozłowska-Borkowska putting her life and those of her family at risk hid in this time not only myself but from time to time several [other] Jewish men and women. She did this completely without gain, she didn't take any money either from me or from the others hiding at her place, for the flat, food or even getting us clothes, or for help in buying medications for us, in all that time. Mrs J. Kozłowska raised our spirits, which at that time had big significance. Mrs. Jadwiga Kozłowska-Borkowska drove from her own initiative and at her own cost to Miechów to save my father of blessed memory from the transport to Oświęcim, insodoing, seriously risking her life, unfortunately she did not manage to accomplish this becuase she found out my father had already been loaded onto a wagon. At that opportunity she brought me valuable things of mine from Miechów, which she returned to me in full after the occupation, not even charging me for the costs she incurred. It is known to me, that Mrs. Jadwiga Kozłowska-Borkowska was taking care of delivering food and medication during the occupation in the territory of Cracow and Wieliczka to many Jewish families in hiding. I underline, that with her deeds and behaviour, she actively resisted the German action of exterminating the Jews. Her dedication to saving Jews[,] giving material and moral support had no limits. Signed: Irena Neuman 9/11/2020 11:17 AM The paragraph "The abovementioned [person] had a pseudonym - and fulfilled a function - she took part (this part describes: the record of service and activity in the time of the fighting against Hitler's occupying forces, the function carried out[,] the army rank, in which divisions she served, groups, postings, under whose command, directions, taking part in fighting and other actions, in which places, the name of the camp etc. any changes and periods of time[)]." should be ignored as it is standard wording from the form that would be crossed out depending on the service of the person giving the statement. This became clear when I saw the other document you uploaded, which is the original of this one.

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Home > What We Do > Latest News > News Releases > New podcast series by young people reveals positive impact of CashBack scheme New podcast series by young people reveals positive impact of CashBack scheme A new series of podcasts, made by young people at Screen Education Edinburgh, explore the positive impact of creative CashBack projects across Scotland, for both the young people and artists involved. The CashBack for Creativity programme aims to tackle inequality by removing barriers to access and provision of arts and creative experiences for young people, aged 10-24 regardless of background or situation. The podcasts were commissioned by Creative Scotland to further explore and share the findings of BOP Consulting’s 2017 research into the CashBack programme. This provides a fascinating insight into the wide-ranging impact of the arts and creativity on the lives of young people who have experienced additional challenges in life or experience barriers to access and explores good practice in delivering creative projects to young people. Based on over 50 in-depth interviews with participants and practitioners, the report paints a rich, rewarding and complex picture of how young people can be supported through creative projects. One of the clearest findings is that progression journeys must be made on the terms and needs of individual participants. The report also finds that working together, trusting each other and relying on each other is the only way that the best outputs and outcomes can be achieved when working with young people. The paper highlights how CashBack projects have been found to help young people develop their creative identity and explore their creative selves in a safe and supportive environment. These podcasts expand on those interviews, featuring case studies on the young people participating in the programme and information on the work being completed during CashBack projects across Scotland. Jessica’s story – gaining the confidence to progress Amongst the testimonies in the first podcast, which focuses on attainment and progression, we hear from 19-year-old Jessica whose experience of the scheme has resulted in hands-on experience of film-making, boosting her confidence, skills and self-esteem. Being involved gave me the confidence to do this, I would never thought I could achieve something like this before- Jessica After moving to Scotland in 2016, Jessica struggled to find her feet. Suffering from depression and anxiety, she tried to find inspiration in a local college course but dropped out after just one month. It was then that she discovered Tomorrow’s People, a 6-week engagement programme offering mixed group activities and 1-1 support, and through that, Screen Education Edinburgh’s Access to Film Making course. This was when things really started to happen. Fast forward a year, and Jessica is brimming with confidence. Her involvement in the course has led to several other exciting opportunities; after completing an accredited “Intro to Film Making course”, Jessica now regularly attends regular drop-in sessions where young people from deprived areas can develop their knowledge and passion for film and filmmaking. She’s also enrolled in Street League, a youth sports charity that uses sport to engage young people and teach them key life and work skills and is now coaching a young person with visual impairment, on top of a part time job. For Jessica, the impact of the support she’s received is clear: “There is no way I would have been confident enough to do the coaching or the part time job if it wasn’t for doing the courses I have here.” Jessica took a lead role in producing these new podcasts. Listen to the podcasts below or on Soundcloud. If you prefer, you can access transcripts of these podcasts below. The podcasts each explore key themes that surfaced from the research, including: attainment and progression outcomes for young people health and wellbeing outcomes for young people employability routes and outcomes in creative projects pedagogy - which explores how learning and training in creative projects, including those found in the CashBack programme, are delivered, and a concept of communities of practice and how CashBack and other creative projects rely upon these to deliver quality work and deliver programmes with real impact on young people’s lives Download transcripts of the podcasts. CashBack Podcast Transcript: Attainment Download the full transcript of this CashBack for Creativity Podcast, in PDF format. CashBack Podcast Transcript: Health & Wellbeing CashBack Podcast Transcript: Employability CashBack Podcast Transcript: Pedagogy CashBack Podcast Transcript: Community of Practice About CashBack for Creativity CashBack for Creativity is a programme funded by the Scottish Government's CashBack for Communities programme. It offers young people (10 - 24 years) across Scotland the opportunity to engage in creative and cultural activity. It provides high quality learning and developmental activities across all art forms which improve the skills and confidence of young people, raise attainment and aspirations, and provide pathways for further learning, training, education and employment. Running from April 2017 – March 2020, phase 4 of the CashBack for Creativity programme is administered by Creative Scotland, with a total of £2.6m to deliver activity to disadvantaged young people across Scotland under the theme of Creativity. For further information please visit: https://www.creativescotland.com/cashback Image: SHMU Youth Media Project (funded by CashBack for Creativity). Photo credit: Graham Dargie

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Hawaii News Digest Latest Hawaii State and Hawaii Island News Blog Comment Policy for Hawaii News Digest Opinion, analysis, and discussion. First responders get vaccine Posted on December 24, 2020 by Russ Roberts Hawaii County first responders received COVID-19 vaccinations Wednesday morning. Views expressed in this Hawaii Island News summary are those of the reporters and correspondents. Content supplied by the “Hawaii Tribune-Herald.” Accessed on 24 December 2020, 1512 UTC, Post 22,077. Source: https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/category/hawaii-news/ Please click link or scroll down to read your selections. Hawaii County first responders receive COVID vaccine Hawaii County first responders received the first round of COVID-19 vaccinations Wednesday morning at the Afook-Chinen Civic Auditorium in Hilo. Breakdown of COVID vaccines delivered to each county This is a county-by-county breakdown of COVID-19 vaccines delivered to Hawaii as of Wednesday, according to the state Department of Health. This does not include vaccines received by the state Department of Defense. HVO: Kilauea lava lake rises to more than 500 feet Areas around the summit of Kilauea on Wednesday were blanketed in high levels of sulfur dioxide and particulates that reached levels established by the Environmental Protection Agency as hazardous, according to a statement from Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. HMC begins vaccinations The first round of Pfizer vaccines was given to health care workers Wednesday at Hilo Medical Center, 273 days after the first stay-at-home order was implemented in Hawaii. Ige delays state furloughs after virus relief bill passes Dec. 24, 2020 • Updated 6:23 p.m. HONOLULU — Gov. 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A tribute to Charlene Iboshi, co-chair of the Community First Advance Health Care Directive Committee The vision of East Hawaii’s nonprofit Community First is one where we as a community not only take personal responsibility for our own health but help each other care for our mutual well-being. Dec. 23, 2020 • Updated 11:39 a.m. As of about 8 a.m. this morning, the lava lake inside Halema‘uma‘u crater in Kilauea volcano has risen to 515 feet, according to the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. Big Island Dems to pick Kahele replacement candidates Three familiar names and four not quite as familiar will vie for an open state Senate seat this evening in virtual interviews with precinct officials who will select three Democrats to send to Gov. David Ige as candidates to fill the District 1 seat vacated by Kai Kahele, who was elected to Congress. 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State briefs for December 23 Deadline extended to keep $250M Honolulu rail project grant VIDEO: Sunday’s eruption of Kilauea, as seen from Maunakea Dec. 22, 2020 • • Updated 11:06 a.m. Sunday’s eruption at the summit of Kilauea volcano was captured by one of the weather cameras at the Gemini Observatory on Maunakea. Two lava fountains continue to fill Halema‘uma‘u crater Dec. 22, 2020 • Updated 8:55 a.m. Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientists continue to monitor the new eruption at Kilauea volcano. First Kilauea eruption since 2018 draws hundreds of onlookers to HVNP HAWAII VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK — After feeling the biggest earthquake of his life, Kyle Nolan knew something dramatic was happening. For the latest Hawaii Island, West Hawaii, Hawaii State, and Hawaii Sports News, please check the blog sidebar, links, and twitter posts. These news feeds are updated daily. Thanks for joining us today. 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The Next Great Awakening. . . . . . or Great Deadening? Part 3: Building the 7 Mountains “The coming Elijah Revolution will affect the entire world and will prepare the way of the Lord before His return. According to Scripture, Jesus will sit at God’s right hand until all of His enemies are put under His feet. The Elijah Revolution will accomplish this as God’s end-time emissaries confront seven nations and 'greater and mightier than we' the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusits. These nations correspond to seven 'mountains' of global society Media, Government, Education, Economy, Religion, Celebration/Arts, and Family.”[1] "Several months ago, we noted that Jim Garlow and David Barton were leading a 12 day tour of the East Coast where participants would learn all about the Christian history of our nation and its founder and visit "the sites of the 1st and 2nd Great Awakening, while praying for the 3rd." "This 'Next Great Awakening Tour' wrapped up in Washington, DC on July 4th and, as we noted,... it was during this tour that both Barton and Garlow were featured on Glenn Beck's television program. As it turns out, participants in this tour also got to participate in a taping of Beck's program and met with several Republican and Religious Right leaders, according to updates from Garlow's Skyline Church blog.[2] In Part 1 of this series, we reported that Jim Garlow's and David Barton's "Next Great Awakening Tour" included Lance Wallnau. Garlow, a pastor/activist who chairs Newt Gingrich's Renewing American Leadership campaign, gushed, "Lance Wallnau was, as usual, exceptional in his laying out of how to see the culture transformed."[3] Who is Lance Wallnau and how did he come to the forefront of this national media extravaganza where he has rubbed shoulders with politicians, media types and religious leaders? The answer to this question tracks right back to C. Peter Wagner and his New Apostolic Reformation (NAR). In November 2007, Os Hillman, president of Marketplace Leaders, and of the International Coalition of Workplace Ministries, sent out his TGIF ("Today God Is First") newsletter announcing two important developments: "1. Reclaiming the 7 Mountains of Culture: The Next Focus?" and "2. New 7 Mountains Site, www.Reclaim7Mountains.com." Os Hillman then chronicled the historical development of the marketplace (workplace) transformation model, and announced the launching of the 7 Mountains model: "There is a new trumpet call going out to men and women of influence who are seeing the negative influences in their culture as a wake-up call. "They are beginning to be used by God in the 7 mountains of influence in business, government, media, arts and entertainment, family, religion and education to reclaim their nations for Christ."[4] Os Hillman announced that his organization, Marketplace Leaders, "has established a new website to fan this new focus. Visit our brand new website www.Reclaim7Mountains.com." Hillman also promoted a "Church in the Workplace Conference: Reclaiming The 7 Mountains That Shape Society," conference for January 24-26, 2008, in Atlanta, Georgia. This conference featured Lance Wallnau, who has been described as "the motivational guru for the Seven Mountains."[5] Lance Wallnau's "Seven Molders of Culture," are also known as mountains or spheres (and sometimes other terms), and are usually listed as: 1. Family, 2. Religion, 3. Government, 4. Media, 5. Education, 6. Business, and 7. Arts. Lance Wallnau was propelled to national fame by C. Peter Wagner, chief of the New Apostolic Reformation. In his 2008 book Dominion! How Kingdom Action Can Change the World (Chosen Books) Wagner wrote concerning Lance Wallnau: "I maintain that whatever society we live in, we cannot hope to see that particular society transformed unless all seven molders of culture are transformed simultaneously. Business consultant Lance Wallnau was the first to draw my attention to this. He likes to call the molders the 'seven mountains.' Wallnau says, 'If the world is to be won, these are the mountains that mold the culture and the minds of men. Whoever controls these mountains controls the direction of the world and the harvest therein.' ... "Lance Wallnau would say that few outsiders could enter one of the seven spheres and expect to reach the top of the mountain. The most likely ones to do so would be insiders. Why? Because each one of the seven has a distinct culture." (p. 144) In an earlier book The Church in the Workplace (Regal Books, 2006) Wagner says essentially the same thing about Lance Wallnau on page 113-114. In this book, which was endorsed by Os Hillman, Wagner explains that each of these seven mountains should be headed by an apostle. This is an open acknowledgment that his self-anointed, self-appointed apostles in his New Apostolic Reformation are planning to take charge of each of these 7 mountains! "Each [mountain] should be seen as an apostolic sphere, requiring apostolic leadership to transform that unit into a society that reflects the values and lifestyle of the kingdom of God.... "Only extended-church apostles will be able to lead the army of God into these strategic battlefields. Lance Wallnau asks, 'How do we go about reclaiming the mind molders of nations, and what does this have to do with you and your calling to the marketplace? Everything! You are about to be drafted into an elite unit of marketplace commandos.' "Then Wallnau goes on to suggest a battle plan: 'Look at your occupational field and see it as a mountain. What companies and people are at the top of that mountain? Why are they at the top? What skills, knowledge, and personal characteristics are needed to occupy that position? What would need to exist for you to occupy the top of that mountain?'"(p. 114-115) To understand just how LITERALLY these men take actual, physical dominion of these various cultural segments of the global society, read C. Peter Wagner's "Let's Take Dominion Now!" which is chapter 3 in his The Church in the Workplace book and is posted HERE at Os Hillman's "In the Workplace" website. In this chapter, Wagner describes Dominion as "social transformation" and claims that this agenda comes from God, describing it is "one of the strongest words that the Holy Spirit is clearly speaking to the churches today." Of course, adding this "endorsement" by the Holy Spirit is meant to give added weight and impetus to Wagner's Dominion mandate. At its core, this Dominion theme is a perversion of Scripture, particularly the doctrine of the Gospel of Salvation -- that Jesus died on the cross for your sins, and has redeemed you by His shed blood, and that you are saved by grace through faith in Jesus as your Lord and Savior. Substituted for this humble, simple Gospel of the cross is the new gospel of 7 mountains -- the gospel of the KINGDOM! C. Peter Wagner's Dominionist gospel of "social transformation" is a "cultural mandate" which is based on changing things on the earth to match things in heaven. In "Let's Take Dominion Now!" Wagner, who has acknowledged concocting new theologies, admits that this whole agenda is Kuyperian: "Calvin... taught that believers are responsible for social transformation, and his followers began to believe that we have a cultural mandate (the mandate to transform society) as well as an evangelistic one (the mandate to save souls). One famous Calvinist, pastor and theologian Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920), lived this out, entered politics, became prime minister of the Netherlands and caused tremendous positive changes in society as a result." In C. Peter Wagner's faulty theology, Jesus did not defeat Satan on the Cross. "While Jesus never questioned Satan’s dominion, He came to earth expressly to take it away from him. Jesus came as the second, or last, Adam (see 1 Cor. 15:45-47). The first Adam lost dominion; the second Adam will regain it." [emphasis added] Because of this heresy, that teaches that the church is supposed to complete what Christ didn't, Wagner can then teach the false gospel that "our new paradigm for taking dominion includes a dual task: the evangelistic mandate (saving souls) and the cultural mandate (transforming society)." An invented corollary heresy teaches that entire nations collectively are to be saved, and that "the Great Commission’s biblical goal is nothing short of social transformation." This type of teaching is prevalent throughout Dominionist circles. The "cultural renewal" or "Kingdom" gospel is being substituted for the real Gospel of salvation. When Os Hillman was first launching Lance Wallnau and his "Reclaiming the 7 Mountains of Culture" strategy, he offered a package deal -- one could purchase a copy of Landa Cope's book An Introduction to The Old Testament Template: Rediscovering God's principles for discipling all nations (Template Institute Press, 2006) and get a free copy of a FaithandWork Resources.com DVD with Os Hillman and Lance Wallnau discussing the "Reclaiming the 7 Mountains of Culture." We wrote about this on December 6, 2007 in a post, "Rethinking Eschatology: Dominionists on the Move," where we quote from Landa Cope's book: "The Message Is The Kingdom "This means when we preach salvation alone we are missing the majority of God's kingdom message. Salvation is essential. There is no other way of entry into the Kingdom of God. But salvation is the entry into the kingdom; it is not the goal or the Kingdom itself. By making it the goal we have lost most of God's message. (p. 147) . . . "Our destiny is not salvation "God died to save us and desires salvation for all. The only way into the Kingdom of God is through Jesus Christ, but salvation is not God's ultimate goal. The new birth is a means to an end." (p. 150) To promote Dominionism and the concept of the 7 mountains/spheres, C. Peter Wagner and Os Hillman put Lance Wallnau and his 7 Mountain show on the road. In 2007, the Wagner Leadership Institute (WLI) and his Global Harvest Ministries featured Lance Wallnau (along with Wagner, Chuck Pierce and Barbara Wentroble) in an April 26-28 seminar "Taking Dominion Now!" In 2008, Wagner and Wallnau were featured at a "Positioned for Kingdom Leadership Summit" sponsored by Kingdom Alignment International. This event was described as: "This Summit June 6 & 7 in Franklin TN, for leaders, emerging leaders and anyone who senses the change in the paradigm of how we are doing church, will greatly be impacted in this two day intensive meeting with Dr. C. Peter Wagner and Lance Wallnau. You will not only be refreshed, but this meeting will challenge you to move forward in a new kingdom paradigm that will greatly influence society and help advance the kingdom of God. "Awakening has begun in our nation and a new breed of kingdom minded leadership is arising!"[6] Wagner had sent a letter on May 31, 2007 that introduced Lance Wallnau in the context of some major apostolic ministry restructuring. This letter, which has been posted HERE for posterity, states: "The major catalyst whom God has brought into the picture to help renew our minds in terms of our philosophy of mission is Lance Wallnau, founder of Lance Learning Group currently based in Rhode Island. Lance, in a former season, planted churches and formed an apostolic network which he has now turned over to other leadership. He is a member of ICA, and he currently travels widely as a conference speaker and as a consultant to business and government leaders. Through the years we have formed a close relationship, he has been a speaker at several of our conferences, and Lance is the newest member of EVAT. "Lance's trademark teaching relates to what he calls the seven 'mind molders' or the 'seven mountains.' These have now become a permanent fixture in my personal teaching on taking dominion, and I have referenced Wallnau in The Church in the Workplace as well as in my forthcoming book Dominion! In my view it is not possible to get an operational handle on how to initiate corporate action toward social transformation without taking into account the seven mountains or what I like to call 'molders of culture.' The seven are religion, family, business, arts & entertainment, government, education, and media." C. Peter Wagner promoted Lance Wallnau heavily early on, especially through his Wagner Leadership Institute (WLI). Lance Wallnau is listed along with Todd Bentley (of Lakeland Florida fame) on the 2006 WLI schedule.[7] And Wagner featured Wallnau on the Global Harvest Ministries conference schedule for "The Spirit and the Bride Say Come: Unlocking God's Kingdom Strategy for Today" conference, March 8-10, 2007.[8] Wallnau also appeared with Barbara Yoder at the "Welcome to the School of Transformers WLI Kick-Off on November 8-10, 2007.[9] By 2008, Lance Wallnau was ready for prime time. TheElijahList, chief purveyor of NAR and Latter Rain cult information, promoted a conference at Che Ahn's Harvest Rock Church, July 30-August 3, 2008, “Bringing Revival to the Seven Mountains of Culture,” with notable speakers Lance Wallnau, Che Ahn, Cindy Jacobs and Peter Wagner. This event was described as: "As the Lord’s glory is pouring out in Lakeland, we are looking forward to a time of revival coming to the wells of Southern California. As part of the 33 Days of Glory, Harvest Rock Church is hosting Bringing Revival to the Seven Mountains of Culture
. We are to transform cities and nations by our presence and prayer in every realm of our culture. Join us for this time of equipping by international leaders. The Lord is speaking to the Church in this present day to transform these realms of influence with the light of Christ."[10] As mentioned earlier, Wallnau appeared on the docket of Os Hillman's January 24-26, 2008 "Church in the Workplace Conference." This conference's theme was prominently displayed as "Reclaiming the 7 Mountains," and it included presenters that focused on various topics of how to take Dominion: Os Hillman - "UNDERSTANDING THE BIBLICAL BASIS FOR RECLAIMING THE 7 MOUNTAINS" Lance Wallnau - "STRATEGIES TO RECLAIM THE 7 MOUNTAINS" Katherine Leary, Director of the Center for Faith and Work at Tim Keller's Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York - RELIGION MOUNTAIN - "How The Local Church Can Equip Workplace Leaders To Reclaim Mountains" Chuck Stetson, Chairman of The Wilberforce Project and Chairman of the Bible Literacy Project - "EDUCATION MOUNTAIN" Colin Ferreira, a leader in marketplace ministry and has been instrumental in igniting nation transformation initiatives in his nation [Trinidad] - FAMILY MOUNTAIN Dr. Lance Hurley "and his wife Sharon will portray President and Mrs. George Washington at a special lunch time presentation" - GOVERNMENT MOUNTAIN Doug Spada - RELIGION MOUNTAIN Erik Lokkesmoe, Vice President of Strategic Partnerships and Outreach for Walden Media/Bristol Bay Productions -- ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT & GOVERNMENT MOUNTAINS Johnny Enlow, senior pastor of Daystar International Christian Fellowship in Atlanta, Georgia, who was in the process of writing The Seven Mountain Prophecy -- "Understanding The Spiritual Roots of the 7 Mountains" Special topics included a "BUSINESS MOUNTAIN Workplace Ministry Leaders Panel" of "CEOs of national membership-based workplace ministries to reveal their strategies to re-claim the 7 mountains through their ministries." It also featured case studies of "of CEOs of national membership-based workplace ministries to reveal their strategies to re-claim the 7 mountains through their ministries."[11] A Power Point Presentation of this conference can be found HERE. See page 50 where it says: It's not enough to have Christians at the top of the 7 mountains. They must have a "culture-changing" faith." And be sure to see Abraham Kuyper on page 66. Another "Church in the Workplace – Reclaim 7 Mountains of Culture International Conference was held on February 6-8, 2009 in Atlanta, and again featured Lance Wallnau. Os Hillman, in the closing of the conference, said, "We must become Change Agents. Together we can learn our calling, walk in our anointing, reclaim the mountains and change culture for Christ!"[12] Other related resources describing these 7 mountains can be found at the www.faithandworkresources.com website. Nowadays Lance Wallnau is all over YouTube. For example, HERE, where he is "discussing the importance of gaining control of the 7 Mountains during the "Pray and Act" webcast. This time around, Lance is being featured by Jim Garlow again, who has mounted a high-profile national 40-day fast as part of a countdown before the mid-term national elections.[13] To add to Wallnau's fame and influence, Os Hillman has been offering a free September 16 teleseminar, "Strategies for Transforming Culture through the 7 Mountains with Lance Wallnau & Os Hillman," complete with a free 8-CD bonus audio package, "Strategies for Reclaiming the 7 Mountains."[14] Meanwhile, Wallnau is still making the rounds of TheElijahList NAR crowd, and was recently a featured speaker at the "Kingdom, Power & Glory Festival" in Sedona, Arizona, which was advertised as: "Join us as we access this seasonal portal during Rosh Hashana! Receive the impartation and revelation to invade the 7 mountains God activates in you to take the Gospel to the world (Business, Hollywood, Education, Religion, Government, etc.) as you enter your promised land! God promises that when we come together on purpose during this exact seasonal portal, there is a promised blessing, visitation, and grace to enter your destiny like never before. God has divinely orchestrated the speakers in a supernatural synergy that will propel you into the next season! "New Beginnings and the New Year starts spiritually during this week when you come together with God's people as we access divine blueprints from Heaven for the new season. Every year at this time, the highest level of spiritual activity and Heavenly encounters occur. This festival will be a time of major glory, miracles, prophetic direction, revelation, impartation and New Beginnings and new direction for many! Don't miss your special appointment with God in the mountains of Sedona. Come let us go up to the mountain of the Lord!!!"[15] Time for yet another reality check in this series. A man who has recently and quite suddenly been given respectable credibility by political and religious right leaders at a very high level, is also part of a wild and wacky "seasonal portal" event that is described as an "impartation and revelation to invade the 7 mountains" with a "supernatural synergy." Have these political/religious leaders lost their minds?! They are openly associating with the man who is the chief marketer of C. Peter Wagner's grand designs for apostolic Dominionism! Lance Wallnau is the top PR guy for engineering this grandiose scheme to take over the planet! Even secular political pundits have noticed how bizarre this political/religious mishmash is becoming![16] The truth is that no truly biblical revival, awakening, reformation, transformation or renewal can take place without the preaching of the Gospel of Salvation. And in all of this hubbub for another great "awakening" we hear no clarion Gospel call. What we are hearing is "Let's Take Dominion Now!" We are hearing about "mountains" and "spheres," "armies" and "strategies," "cultural and social transformation," "issues" and "covenants." But we aren't hearing about ministering one-on-one to people with broken hearts and lives who need Jesus. If this "awakening" was truly about the Gospel, instead of conquering the world, you would hear a humble heart-rending message like this: "As a brief summary of the sanctification of the Church by the Son of God, we may lay it down from the Word of God that He took part of the flesh of the children (Heb. 2:14); bare their sins in His own body on the tree (1 Peter 2:24); made atonement for their transgressions, and expiated all their crimes by being made the propitiation for their sins (1 John 2:2), Romans 3:25); shed His precious blood and laid down His life on their behalf (John 10:15, 1 Peter 1:19); reconciled their persons when they were enemies and aliens unto His heavenly Father (Romans 5:9, Col. 1:21); offered Himself a sacrifice for their offences (Heb. 9:14, 26-28); and washed away all their iniquities in the fountain opened in one day for all sin and uncleanness (Zech. 13:1)."[17] 1. "Jim and David's Excellent Right-Wing Adventure," 7/6/10, http://www.rightwingwatch.org/print/5587 . To see Jim Garlow's diary of the Next Great Awakening Tour, go to http://www.skylinechurch.org/skyline/?p=2201. The conference brochure is posted here: http://www.skylinechurch.org/images/NGAtourBrochure.pdf 2. Extract from Pastor Johnny Enlow’s book “The Seven Mountain Prophecy” posted here: http://www.the7mountains.com/tag/lance-wallnau/ 3. To see Jim Garlow's diary of the Next Great Awakening Tour, go to http://www.skylinechurch.org/skyline/?p=2201. 4. This newsletter was originally posted here: http://www.marketplaceleaders.org/pages.asp?pageid=11118 but is no longer accessible in its entirety. It was archived on 12/7/07. However, the original newsletter article, "Reclaiming 7 Mountains of Culture Next Focus of Faith at Work Movement," by Os Hillman is now posted here: http://www.intheworkplace.com/apps/articles/default.asp?articleid=39002&columnid=1935 5. Rachel Tabachnick, "The Head And Not The Tail" - Battle Cry For The Seven Mountains Campaign, Part Two - Will Hawaii Be The Next 'Transformation' Conquest For The Apostles And Their Prayer Warriors?" 9-13-10, http://www.talk2action.org/story/2010/9/13/11834/9878. For Part One see "Will Hawaii Be The Next 'Transformation' Conquest For The Apostles And Their Prayer Warriors?" 9-12-10, http://www.talk2action.org/printpage/2010/9/12/172231/428 6. Promo e-mail by Tammy L. Alsup, Kingdom Alignment International, Pulaski, Tennessee – held in Franklin, TN, sent April 29, 2008 from Kingdom Alignment International, emphasis added. The original url was here: http://kingdomalignment.com/home/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13&Itemid=29 7. December 29, 2005 letter from Craig Davis about Wagner Leadership Institute. The letter was from Global Harvest, the url was still here as of January 21, 2008: http://www.globalharvest.org/global_link_72.htm. 8. Url was still here as of January 25, 2008: http://www.thespiritandbridesaycome.org/Schedule/tabid/3200/Default.aspx 9. On January 25, 2008, the url for this conference was here: http://www.wlimontgomery.org/ 10. Promo posted here: http://www.elijahlist.com/words/display_word_pf.html?ID=6571 8. The url for this was originally http://www.marketplaceleaders.org/pages.asp?pageid=42065 and recordings of the sessions and presentations are still available here: http://www.best-christian-conferences.com/bcc/store/Scripts/orderform.asp?id=5929 11. 2009 Conference Report: "Change Agents Gather in Atlanta, GA USA to Consider Culture Changing Strategies," http://www.reclaim7mountains.com/pages.asp?pageid=82164 12. http://www.tgifbookstore.com/category_s/22.htm 13. See report and video clips, "Pray and Act: Dirty Tricks, Stonewall, 7 Mountains, and Biblical Economics," 9/13/10, http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pray-and-act-dirty-tricks-stonewall. Garlow wrote a "Pray & A.C.T." newsletter on September 1st that explained that his fast would begin on 7:14 AM on September 20 and continue through 7:14 AM October 30, based on 1 Chronicles 7:14, where it will culminate in yet another Lincoln Memorial event. See: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2010/04/may-day-prayers.html Jim Garlow and Chuck Colson are using this fast as a way to promote their controversial Manhattan Declaration. See: http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/009/discernment/12-manhattan-declaration.htm 14. See http://mpleaders.ning.com/video/reclaim-7-mountains and other videos on this site. 15. Promoted on TheElijahList on August 17, 2010. See also: http://www.injesus.com/message-archives/christian-living/DavidHerzogMinistries/prayer-alert-sedona-conference-during-911-very-strategic-israel-praise 16. See, for example, this sobering article "Dominionism and The Religious Right: The Merger Is Complete," July 6, 2010, http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/dominionism-and-religious-right-merger-complete 17. J.C. Philpot, "On the Person, Work & Covenant Offices of God the Holy Ghost," Meditations On Matters of Christian Faith and Experience, Vol 1, p. 217. Some formatting was changed for modern usage. Available from Old Paths Gospel Press, 406-466-2311. This particular meditation by Philpot, which we were not able to locate in its entirety online, is one of the most beautiful and balanced works we have read on the ministry and office of the Holy Spirit, and, as such, stands in stark contrast to the flaky and freaky false "spirit" of the NAR movement. The Money God The Great Outpouring of Wealth Did Jesus Teach the Divinity of Humanity? Contentiously Contending! Destiny-Driven Dominionism

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NACCHO Aboriginal Health News Alerts The national authority in Aboriginal primary health care – Aboriginal health in Aboriginal hands Welcome & Intro Category Members Good news stories NACCHO is always looking to promote positive stories about our member organisations and staff making great contribution to improving the health outcomes of our mob If your mob has a positive story to tell, send details to nacchonews@naccho.org.au NACCHO Affiliates and Members Deadly Good News : #National #HIVAwarenessWeek #WorldAIDSDay2019 ACCHO Events #NSW @ahmrc #VIC @VACCHO_org #QLD Sam Watson Tribute Goolburri and Mamu ACCHO #SA @AHCSA_ #WA KAMS #NT @DanilaDilba #ACT @nimmityjah 1.National : NACCHO recognises the importance of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander HIV Awareness Week and World AIDS Day 2019 presenting at both launches at Parliament House : Two of 132 ATSIHAW events this week mostly in ACCHO’s. 1.2 National : AHMRC hosts a meeting of all NACCHO Affiliate PHMO (Public Health Medical Officer) this week #CommunityControl 1.3 National : Nation Dance December 1 is a First Nations People group of unity between our Nations. 2.1 NSW : AH&MRC, the Alcohol and Drug Foundation has developed a resource for ACCHOs to prevent and minimise the harm associated with alcohol and other drug use in their local communities. 2.2 NSW : AH&MRC was at the Aboriginal Mental Health and Wellbeing Workforce Forum this week 3.VIC : VACCHO welcomes the Interim Report from the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System 4.1 QLD : Tributes flow in for Sam Watson a trailblazer and a “wonderful human being “ always on the frontlines fighting for his people. 4.2. QLD : A Short Video made by JCU in regards to GP Registrar’s working at Mamu Health Service Ltd Innisfail #FNQ 4.3 QLD : Goolburri Aboriginal Health celebrates 25 Years of Strengthening our communities and families through culturally safe and sensitive practices. 7. WA : Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Services (KAMS) Her Rules Her Game promotes very funny condom video with serious message How to submit in 2019 a NACCHO Affiliate or Members Good News Story ? Email to Colin Cowell NACCHO Media Wednesday by 4.30 pm for publication Friday 1.National : NACCHO recognises the importance of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander HIV Awareness Week and World AIDS Day 2019 by presenting at both launches at Parliament House : Two of 132 ATSIHAW events this week mostly in ACCHO’s From the left : Dawn Dasey Deputy CEO NACCHO, Bev Greet, Michelle Tobin Chair Anwernekenhe National HIV Alliance, Senator Louis Prat, SAHMRI Head Aboriginal Health James Ward and Tim Wilson SEE NACCHO Press Release and full Coverage HERE “ATSIHAW has grown bigger, with 132 ATSIHAW events to be held by 73 organisations across Australia this year – mostly in ACCHOs. ACCHOs have embraced ATSIHAW wholeheartedly and this has been key to ATSIHAW’s success. Community engagement has been pivotal to the improvements in Australia’s HIV response and it’s time to focus on getting HIV rates down in our communities.” South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) Head, Aboriginal Health Equity—Sexual Health and Wellbeing, A/Prof James Ward Download the 30 Page PDF Report 2019-SAHMRI-ATSIHAW-booklet ATSIHAW 2019 dates are November 28 to December 5 View the ATSIHAW 2019 registered events on Facebook or below by state. NSW | QLD | SA | VIC | WA | ACT | NT | TAS See Web Page All current Nation Dance events happening are listed in this event, they are allocated by each state for your convenience. Click on discussion tab and you can find your state and your local community Nation Dance Event and you can share with the mob. Alwyn Doolan For the first time in history calling all First Nations People & their Nations across the continent of Australia to dance on country as one in time.For centuries Aboriginal people have danced on the land of Australia for all purposes of sacred ceremonies. In turning the pages in history of Aboriginal people and their culture is that it is ancient and is filled with over 400+ Nations and 200+ languages spoken. This unique web of design across the whole continent is manifested with many songs and dances that tell stories of who we are and where we come from. It gives us our identity. Dancing on country is a respectable attribute to honour to your people and nation of which you come from. It’s the culture within dancing that glorifies our ancestors & our creation stories. It provides the spiritual healing of self and your environment. The Mura Biri Gururu Aboriginal Dancers will up at the Bunya Mountains on Waka Waka country There is a great trauma happening to the lands in Australia with bushfires, rivers drying up, fracking, deforestation & protection of sacred sites. All these are rippling into community’s health and well being on a human level and with the despair of changes we need to uplift ourselves within our communities from rural to coastal and big cities. In collaboration with AH&MRC, the Alcohol and Drug Foundation has developed a resource for ACCHOs to build connections, work together and support each other to prevent and minimise the harm associated with alcohol and other drug use in their local communities. 2.2 AH&MRC was at the Aboriginal Mental Health and Wellbeing Workforce Forum this week Our Public Health Manager presented on journeys in Aboriginal health and wellbeing #CommunityControl #YourHealthYourFuture 3.VIC ; VACCHO welcomes the Interim Report from the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System We ( VACCHO ) welcome this Report as it reflects and recognises the challenges faced by the Aboriginal community and our tireless work to support and care for our community with at times very limited resources and infrastructure. We are looking forward to working with the Victorian Government to help honour their pledge to implement all of the Commission’s recommendations as well as their commitment to self-determination. We commend the Commission and the Government’s sincere efforts to not only hear Aboriginal voices but to also act on them. Watch some of the witnesses from our public hearing day dedicated to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Our Acting CEO Trevor Pearce stated that “The report recognises what the Aboriginal community has been saying and fighting for over a very long time. Putting Aboriginal mental health into Aboriginal hands and recognising Aboriginal values of healing and caring for Community is key to Aboriginal health and wellbeing. We welcome the Commission’s recommendations”. VACCHO also would like to thank all organisations and Community members which contributed and facilitated the submission process. https://rcvmhs.vic.gov.au/download_file/view_inline/2175 Every January 26 you could count on him being front and centre at Brisbane’s Musgrave Park for the annual Invasion Day Rally. After a half-century of achievements, perhaps that will be a lasting image in the minds of many. Sam passed away this week after a short battle with illness. He was surrounded by his family who held his hands as he underwent his final journey to his ancestors. His daughter Nicole, beside him in his final moments, told NITV News the family are still in shock after his sudden passing. “We’re quite overwhelmed at the moment … but over the last twenty-four hours we’ve received so much love .. and that has been a great source of comfort for our family,” she said. Sam’s advocacy is well known in the community. He was a tireless fighter for Aboriginal Rights, but Nicole says there was so much more to the man. He was a passionate Queensland Maroons fan with a wicked sense of humour, who loved nothing more than spending time with his wife Cathy and his grandchildren. He was also incredibly proud of the next generation coming through the Murri Community who he met during his political work. “He was a paradox in some ways, when he political he was very staunch, but he was also a very compassionate person and he always had faith in people,” she says. “He had so many friendships, not just in the Murri Community but the broader one, he was just a really great friend and listener …. We’re just so privileged for the time we got to spend with Dad.” A trailblazer and a ‘wonderful human being’ From handing out ‘how to vote’ cards on the day of the 1967 Referendum, to playing a crucial role in implementing the findings of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, to most recently assisting families of the Stolen Generations connect via his role at Link-up, Sam was always pushing to improve the lives of Aboriginal people The impact of his work is far-reaching. Andrea Mason, Coordinator of the Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara Women’s Council said Sam’s contribution to social justice and Aboriginal affairs will long be remembered. “He was a giant of the Aboriginal Rights movement … He had a huge heart to advocate for the community in Queensland and nationally, but also he’s left a legacy for his children and family,” she said. “He comes from a remarkable time because he was also a campaigner on the day of the Referendum, and to me these are the men and women who are not faceless because they didn’t see their job as done, they stayed involved and continued to be strong and fearless in their advocacy to see a better future for our community.” Radio Host at 98.9 FM Karen Durante remembers meeting Sam as a junior journalist. “Uncle Sam was such a wonderful human being. I remember meeting him when I first met to Brisbane, he was one of the first activists I spoke to while working for the ABC. He was so eloquent in the way that he explained our issues, that meant a lot as a young person .. he will be sorely missed.” Catherine Liddle, the First Nations Media Association CEO, says Sam’s tireless advocacy was crucial in opening doors for Aboriginal people. “What we do now wouldn’t be possible if it wasn’t for voices like his, and to lose those voices from the landscape is devastating. He did open pathways for other people, and as a journalist I always found him accessible,” she said. “He would always comment and he gave us the stories and he gave us his story, and going forward I think that’s something we will all be able to hang onto.” Goolburri Aboriginal Health Advancement Company Limited is an incorporated Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service who have supported Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous communities in the Toowoomba, Darling Downs and South West region for over 25 years. Led by CEO Lizzie Adams the not-for-profit organisation provides General Practitioner (GP), Oral, Primary and Allied Health Services, with a range of Home and Community Care, Family Wellbeing, Aged Care Services, Early Numeracy and Literacy Support and NDIS services. They are responsive to the needs and aspirations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, families and communities within the Goolburri Region and support them to exercise control of their Health and Wellbeing. In 2018 Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Services (KAMS) identified an opportunity to partner with West Kimberley Women’s Football League. KAMS saw this as a chance to not only promote the benefits of team sport but to link Aboriginal Medical Services to local teams. KAMS looks forward to the bright future of women’s footy in the Kimberley and the benefits this brings to the health of entire communities 8. 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CHECK OUT THE WEBSITE 9.ACT : Julie Tongs CEO Winnunga ACCHO Canberra thanks Bobbi and McInnes Wilson Law (Global Law) for the pro bono work you are doing for Winnunga Julie Tongs CEO Winnunga ACCHO Canberra thanks Bobbi and McInnes Wilson Law (Global Law) for the pro bono work you are doing for Winnunga Photo Kiki Korpinen Deputy CEO Winnunga Bobbi Julie Dr Ana Herceg Winnunga Public Health Medical Officer By nacchomedia • Posted in Members Good news stories, Members NEWS NACCHO Affiliates and Members Deadly Good News : #National Download the NACCHO 2018-2019 Annual Report #NSW @ahmrc #VIC @VACCHO_org Ballarat @VAHS1972 #QLD @QAIHC_QLD #NT @CAACongress #SA @AHCSA_ #WA @TheAHCWA 1.1 National : Download the 2018-19 NACCHO Annual Report 1.2 National : Our CEO Pat Turner presents to the Joint standing committee on the NDIS 1.3 National : NACCHO Deputy CEO Dr Dawn Casey chairs a round table to discuss medicines priorities and challenges for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. 2. NSW : The November Edition of AHMRC Message Stick is out now! 3.1 VIC : In a Victorian first, the Andrews Labor Government has agreed with Aboriginal health organisations and Health Services to create a new forum to improve the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal Victorians across the state. 3.2 VIC : Ballarat and District Aboriginal Co-operative welcomes first patients into new $8 million medical and regional health hub 3.3 VIC : Deadly opening ceremony for new VAHS Epping Clinic in Melbourne’s northern suburbs 4. QLD : The Queensland Aboriginal and Islander Health Council (QAIHC) hosted their third annual Awards for Excellence , celebrating leaders, organisations and communities within the Sector. 5. NT : Congress ACCHO Alice Springs Care Coordination Team awarded Administrator’s Medal in Primary Health Care 2019 6. SA New traineeship pathway for AHCSA Aboriginal Health Practitioners 7. WA AHCWA’s Mappa team and Ash from Waitj Productions are on set at the Derbarl Yerrigan Health Service shooting the Mappa Promo video. Wednesday by 4.30 pm for publication Thursday /Friday Download in PDF from HERE Ms Turner: Thank you for the opportunity to appear. We have already made a written submission to the committee, so I hope that that answers most of your questions. We are here to elaborate on any other points that the committee may wish to put to us. It’s important that we point out that we serve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people through our local and regional Aboriginal health services that are community controlled, with some 145 organisations spread throughout Australia. We represent their interests in terms of policy and leadership. We work closely with both the bureaucracy in Canberra and the minister responsible, where we have a very professional and productive ongoing relationship. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are twice as likely to experience disability as other Australians. So there are nine per cent with a severe condition compared to four per cent for non-Indigenous people. Currently, 5.7 per cent of NDIS participants are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, with 16,417 active participants as of 30 June this year, which is considerably less than the percentage thought to have a significant disability. The percentage of NDIS participants who are Aboriginal is indicative of the numbers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with plans; however, it is not necessarily representative of the extent to which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are receiving assistance under those plans as a result of appropriate services not being readily available. See pages 7-11 for Pat Turners presentation NACCHO Pat Turner NDIS On Friday November 15th, NACCHO – the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations – hosted a round table with Medicines Australia and representatives of its respective members to discuss medicines priorities and challenges for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The roundtable was also attended by Jo Watson, Chair of the Commonwealth HTA Consumer Consultative Committee. NACCHO Deputy CEO Dr Dawn Casey chaired the meeting and Evo Health consultants Renae Beardmore Sharon Musgrave acted as facilitators for the workshop. The group discussed challenges and solutions to enhance medicines access for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people by improving how PBS medicines are listed and how medicine supplies are maintained. The group also considered how quality use of medicines materials and activities may be improved. Participants worked constructively to develop a list of co-designed solutions that will be taken back to their respective organisations for 2.1 NSW : The November Edition of AHMRC Message Stick is out now! Read about Oceania Tobacco Control Conference, success stories from Waminda – South Coast Women’s Health & Welfare Aboriginal Corp. and The Glen Rehab, as well as how to prepare your service for #HIVAwarenessWeek2019. Read more >> http://bit.ly/34alu2Y Establishing a state-wide body has been identified by Victorian Community as a vital step towards ensuring all parts of the Victorian health system are working together to improve health outcomes for Victoria’s Aboriginal people. At last week’s roundtable senior representatives from the Victorian Government met with Aboriginal community controlled health organisations (including our Acting CEO Trevor Pearce), other health associations, peak bodies and the Australian Government. It was a chance for Government to hear from leaders in Aboriginal health about their key priorities and to discuss how a future forum could work to advance initiatives that will have a real impact on Aboriginal lives. VACCHO Chair and CEO of Ballarat and District Aboriginal Co-operative Karen Heap said “Finding effective solutions to the issues facing Aboriginal people must be driven by Aboriginal people working closely with Government and I am confident the new Forum will provide a much needed, high-level voice to ensure the most appropriate and effective way forward.” The new dedicated stand-alone medical clinic and district health hub has welcomed its first patients and is now bringing communities throughout the greater western region of Victoria together. Our Acting CEO Trevor Pearce joined @DanielAndrewsMP, @juliana_addison and @michaelasettle in congratulating Ballarat and District Aboriginal Co-operative CEO Karen Heap, her incredible staff and the Ballarat Community on their new incredible medical centre. 🖤🧡❤️ pic.twitter.com/KNWsrGdEGn — VACCHO (@VACCHO_org) November 1, 2019 With Aboriginal themes at the forefront of the design, this hub brings together high quality medical, health and community services under the one roof, so patients can get the treatment they need in a culturally welcoming environment. Featuring ceiling lights curved in linear snake patterns, the facility also boasts a range of Aboriginal art as well as portraits of Elders and Founding Members to celebrate Aboriginal culture and promote understanding and respect within the community. Integrating general practice rooms with specialist mental health and alcohol and other drugs consulting rooms allows for better coordinated care planning and greater interaction of services, including smoother cross referrals to the different services and programs offered by the Ballarat and District Aboriginal Co-operative. Funding regional health infrastructure The Victorian Government’s Regional Health Infrastructure Fund invested $6m towards this project, with the remaining $2.5m contributed by the Ballarat and District Aboriginal Co-operative to purchase the adjoining land. The total investment allowed for the expansion of the existing premises and the build of the new facility to expand and create additional space for specialist medical and health-related services. The Victorian Government established the Regional Health Infrastructure Fund to rebuild and refurbish rural and regional health facilities, ensuring all Victorians can access high quality care and facilities, no matter where they live. Deadly opening ceremony for VAHS Epping Clinic. Officially opened by Life Member, Alan Brown, Long term board member, Tony McCartney and long term local community member resident, Tina Wright. On behalf of VAHS, we acknowledge our ancestors work and in the spirit of community control, this clinic owned by the community, for the community. 4.QLD : The Queensland Aboriginal and Islander Health Council (QAIHC) hosted their third annual Awards for Excellence , celebrating leaders, organisations and communities within the Sector. Established to recognise the hard work, determination and growth of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Controlled Health Sector (ATSICCHS), the awards acknowledge those that are making a real difference throughout their communities. QAIHC Chairperson Gail Wason said the organisation was impressed by the number of nominations in each category for this year’s awards. “The volume of nominations received by the Sector this year demonstrates the growth and success experienced in rural and remote communities across Queensland,” said Ms Wason. “I am truly inspired by the dedication and commitment of the people who work within our Sector.” “It is important to acknowledge individuals and organisations for the work they do in improving health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Queensland,” she said. QAIHC Chief Executive Officer, Mr Neil Willmett is proud of the Sector and acknowledges the tireless work of individuals working for ATSICCHS in Queensland. “Staff at our Member Services often go above and beyond to work towards providing their clients with exceptional care through every stage of their life,” said Mr Willmett. The winners of the QAIHC 2019 Awards for Excellence are: QAIHC Partnership Excellence Award – Institute for Urban Indigenous Health QAIHC Innovation Excellence Award – Cunnamulla Aboriginal Corporation for Health QAIHC Patient Satisfaction and Service Excellence Award – NPA Family and Community Services Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporation QAIHC Leader of the Year Award – Veronica Williams and Gary White QAIHC Member of the Year Award – Galangoor Duwalami Primary Healthcare Service. The QAIHC Awards for Excellence were proudly sponsored by CheckUP, Health Workforce Queensland, Mazars, Hunter Promotional Products & Uniforms and Griffith University First Peoples Health Unit. Pictured (L-R): Rachel Godley and Balpalwanga Louise Maymuru (Laynhapuy Homelands Health), Her Honour the Honourable Vicki O’Halloran AO, Kathleen Hauth (Central Australian Aboriginal Congress) and Michelle Dowden (One Disease). These awards celebrate and recognise the Northern Territory’s exceptional health workforce. The Administrator’s Medals in Primary Health Care 2019 were presented on Thursday 21 November by Her Honour the Honourable Vicki O’Halloran AO, Administrator of the Northern Territory, at an official awards ceremony at Government House. These medals recognise and reward health professionals, teams and whole practices/health services that have contributed significantly to the provision of primary health care in the Northern Territory. The 2019 recipients are: Individual Medal – Michelle Dowden, One Disease Team Medal – Care Coordination Team, Central Australian Aboriginal Congress Whole of Practice/Health Service Medal – Laynhapuy Homelands Health Nominations were received for people, teams and practices/services from right across the Territory, including Darwin, Alice Springs and surrounding communities, Tennant Creek, Nhulunbuy and Galiwin’ku. The nominations also covered a diverse range of specialty areas, including nursing, dentistry, medicine, optometry, podiatry, physiotherapy, mental health, health promotion and health literacy. ‘Effective collaboration between individuals and teams working in primary health care in the Northern Territory is particularly important due to the inevitable challenges that remoteness poses to the delivery of high-quality health care,’ said Northern Territory PHN CEO Nicki Herriot. ‘The medal recipients are all fine examples of how to adopt innovative service delivery models to overcome these challenges.’ She continued, ‘it’s wonderful to have this annual opportunity to recognise them.’ More information on the winners: Michelle Dowden – CEO, One Disease Michelle has worked for 25 years in primary health care in the Northern Territory. Prior to her current role as CEO of One Disease, Michelle spent time managing the Ngalkanbuy Health Clinic and held the position of Director of Primary Health Services at Sunrise Health in the Katherine region. Michelle is admired for her innovative management style and people-centred approach to health care. She passionately delivered health promotion in the early days at the grass-roots level, travelling door-to-door in remote communities. She has worked on initiatives ranging from infant nutrition strategies to awareness campaigns designed to eliminate scabies and RHD. Michelle is commended for her long-term commitment to primary health care and her breadth of experience within the Northern Territory. Care Coordination Team, Central Australian Aboriginal Congress The Congress care coordinators go the extra mile in providing culturally appropriate and safe health and social services to their clients in Central Australia. They focus heavily on involving clients’ family and carers as this is central to providing holistic comprehensive primary health care. The care coordinators often bring up issues and identify gaps in service provision for their most vulnerable clients. For example, appropriate housing is an obvious and long-standing issue for many of the complex and often elderly clients. The care coordinators advocate heavily for those clients to ensure that their social needs are met, which is an essential step to improving their health outcomes. Laynhapuy Homelands Health The team at Laynhapuy Homelands Health is holistic, friendly and extremely passionate about their job. They service the homelands of East Arnhem Land for all primary health care needs. They drive hundreds of kilometres to service Homelands and deliver up to date clinical care, building incredible rapport with patients. Laynhapuy are commended for always searching for innovative ways to improve the health of those living in the Homelands. For example, they have begun running local grocery stores in homelands, keeping prices as they are at Woolworths. This allows people better access to food without paying up to a large taxi bill to get into town. The Administrator’s Medals in Primary Health Care are proudly sponsored by Northern Territory Primary Health Network, Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory, Health Providers Alliance Northern Territory, the Centre for Remote Health, CRANAplus, Northern Territory General Practice Education and the Northern Territory Government Department of Health. By nacchomedia • Posted in Members Good news stories, Members NEWS • Tagged Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service, NACCHO NACCHO Affiliates and Members Deadly Good News : #National @Mayi_Kuwayu #NSW Durri ACCHO #VIC @VACCHO_org #NSW Durri ACCHO #QLD @GurrinyHealth @Apunipima #Closingthegap #HaveyoursayCTG dates 1.1 National : Our NACCHO CEO Pat Turner joins the senior advisory group co-designing an Indigenous Voice to Government 1.2 National Our NACCHO Deputy CEO Dawn Casey at Vision 2020 AGM 1.3 National : NACCHO is a proud partner of the Mayi Kuwayu Study 2. NSW : Durri Aboriginal Corporation Medical Service facility to undergo $3.1 million major refurbishment 3. VIC : On World Diabetes Day, VACCHO celebrated our 12 year partnership with Diabetes Australia Vic 4.1 QLD : The Yarrabah ACCHO has an opportunity to improve the mental and physical wellbeing of the community with the launch of a new health centre. 4.2 QLD Apunipima ACCHO at the Mapoon Health Summit on Cape York 4.3 New National Agreement on Closing the Gap community engagement dates in Queensland Please note #SA #WA #NT #TAS and #ACT continued next week 22 November ” Minister for Indigenous Australians Ken Wyatt has urged the senior advisory group co-designing an Indigenous Voice to Government to take hold of the “moment in time” before them to change the lives of Indigenous Australians. The minister led the first meeting of the consultation body made up of 19 people at Old Parliament in Canberra on Wednesday. The senior advisory group is seeking to shape a framework towards developing options for an Indigenous voice to all levels of government. But his actions have earned some backlash for already taking enshrining the voice in the constitution off the table. Mr Wyatt called on the leadership group to embrace their opportunity to “enact meaningful” and “long-lasting change” for Indigenous Australians and the entire nation. “All of us have been around for a long time – we have seen communities grow but we’ve seen them struggle,” he said. “We talk about community control – but I don’t see it on the ground. “The bottom line is for the elder in the community, the child … the family – that’s where we have to make the difference.” Introduction and photos from NITV Online Download the Ministers press release and opening speech HERE Minister Wyatt Press Release speech the Voice Read all 30 plus articles Aboriginal Health and the Uluru Statement Dawn Casey Chair of the Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Committee providing the Committee update, Vision 2020 AGM. Commending all committee members, sector & Minister Hunt (support for eye health & ACCHOs) At the AGM, Chair Amanda Vanstone described Vision 2020 Australia as a vital and financially stable organisation. She highlighted the significant support received from both the Australia and Victorian governments and thanked all member organisations, including major financial supporters, for their contributions. Vision 2020 Australia Chief Executive Officer Judith Abbott spoke to some of the highlights of the year, including development of 10 submissions to government, high levels of member and stakeholder engagement, a growing social media presence and sustained efforts and impact through the Victorian Government funded Vision Initiative. Mayi Kuwayu is the National Study of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing, based at the Australian National University in Canberra. This project is a major longitudinal study of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults that examines the connection between culture, health and wellbeing. You can participate in the survey by visiting: https://forms.savant.net.au/lfserver/mkstudy The Macleay and Nambucca Valley Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community will receive a massive health boost, with Durri Aboriginal Corporation Medical Service (ACMS) announcing a $3.1 million funding package to undertake a major refurbishment of its Kempsey facility. The funding package, which was awarded through the Federal Government’s Indigenous Health (Major Capital Works) Program, has been deemed one of the most noteworthy achievements in the organisation’s 40-year history. The grant will see Durri ACMS undertake a much-needed refurbishment of its existing medical service building on York Lane, which provides a dedicated range of health care services for the local Indigenous community. The refurbishments, which are scheduled to commence in May 2020, will reap great benefits for current patients, staff and the broader community. Initial plans reveal a complete transformation of the original front and reception area into a sleek, modern and accessible space, with a focus on providing both indoor and outdoor spaces to create a welcoming environment for patients and staff. Durri ACMS Chief Executive Officer Tim Aguis thanked the Government for its generous support, which will greatly benefit the local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community. “As the second largest Aboriginal medical service in New South Wales, Durri has been proudly serving the local community for 40 years,” said Mr Aguis. “These long-overdue refurbishments will help improve our delivery of vital Primary Health Care Services to this community. We deeply appreciate the Federal Government’s support, as we enter this exciting new phase in the organisation’s history. “I would also like to acknowledge the efforts of the Durri ACMS Board, whose members committed a great deal of time and commitment to put forward the successful application. “This funding is one of the biggest achievements for Durri ACMS since the Board’s appointment three years ago.” The funding announcement comes as an early birthday present for Durri ACMS, which is due to celebrate its 40th anniversary later this year. 3. VIC : On World Diabetes Day, VACCHO celebrated our 12 year partnership with Diabetes Australia Vic. Through this partnership we have had a significant impact on prevention and management of diabetes in Victorian Aboriginal communities. The famous ‘Feltman’ and the recent addition of ‘Feltmum’ were developed through this partnership and have been educating our mob about diabetes for over 10 years across Australia. Thank you to everyone who came to celebrate this long standing and successful partnership “The whole community is lifted when its youth have a bright future and Yarrabah is doing great things to provide the best opportunities for the next generation,” Minister Wyatt says making support services more accessible in remote regions will have a flow-on effect The Indigenous community of Yarrabah in far north Queensland has a new Aboriginal community-controlled Youth Hub. The Minister for Indigenous Australians, Ken Wyatt, attended the opening and said he hopes the hub will have a positive effect on the community. “This great facility is a safe-space for young people to meet up and connect with each other and access support services that promote wellbeing, resilience and responsibility,” he said. “It is a place that shows young people facing challenges in Yarrabah that they don’t need to do so alone.” Under the broader Yarrabah Youth and Family Social and Wellbeing Project, the facility will aim to help disengaged and at-risk youth and families aged 15-25. Located 55 kilometres east of Cairns, the community is home to over 2,500 people. According to the latest ABS statistics, 97% of Yarrabah residents are Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander with more than 50% under the age of 25. The Hub, operated by Gurriny Yealamucka Health Services Aboriginal Corporation, includes a community kitchen, laundry facilities and bathrooms as well as counselling rooms, office space and more social areas. It follows a new report from the Productivity Commission that says Indigenous people are three times as likely to suffer from high levels of psychological distress compared to other Australians. It also recommends Indigenous-controlled organisations to operate Aboriginal suicide prevention programs, online navigation programs, and additional funding for mental health nurses in Indigenous communities in particular. Minister Wyatt says making support services more accessible in remote regions will have a flow-on effect. “The whole community is lifted when its youth have a bright future and Yarrabah is doing great things to provide the best opportunities for the next generation,” Minister Wyatt said. Days after announcing the federal government will begin 12 months of consultations on an Indigenous voice to government, the Minister spent his time in far North Queensland visiting the Yarrabah State School and the Mandingalbay Yidinji Eco-Cultural Tourism project Thank you to the RoyalFlyingDoc and qldhealthnews for taking part in robust discussions, support from the Mapoon Council and all involved. #OurHealthInOurHands Thursday Island: Monday 11 November ( Closed ) Townsville: Tuesday 19 November Cairns: Wednesday 20 November Mt Isa: Tuesday 26 November Ipswich: Thursday 28 November Rockhampton: date t.b.c. More information available HERE NACCHO Affiliates and Members Deadly Good News #ClosingTheGap #HaveYourSayCTG survey closes 8 Nov: Registrations for #NACCHOAgm19 #NACCHOYouth19 Close today 25 October Plus This months @ahmrc featured ACCHO Riverina Medical 1.1 National : Registrations to this year’s Youth Conference and the NACCHO National Conference Close today 25 October 2019. 1.2 National : Closing the Gap / Have your say CTG deadline extended to Friday, 8 November 2019. 1.3 National Indigenous Health MedTalk podcasts launched 2. This Months Feature ACCHO Riverina Medical and Dental Aboriginal Corp Yandarra, a Wiradjuri word that means “coming together”, captures the essence of Riverina Medical and Dental Aboriginal Corporation, an Aboriginal community-controlled health service that was established by a dedicated group of Elders some 30 years ago Monday 4th November 2019 NACCHO Youth Conference *Youth Registration is Free of Charge The central focus of the NACCHO Youth Conference Healthy youth, healthy future is on building resilience. For thousands of years our Ancestors have shown great resolve thriving on this vast continent. Young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, who make up 54% of our population, now look to the example set by generations past and present to navigate ever-changing and complex social and health issues. Healthy youth, healthy future provides us with opportunities to explore and discuss issues of importance to us, our families and communities, and to take further steps toward becoming tomorrow’s leaders. We hope to see you there! Registrations are now open for the 2019 NACCHO Youth Conference, which will be held November 4th in Darwin at the Darwin Convention Centre. Register More Info HERE 5 – 7 November NACCHO Conference and AGM -Darwin NT Tuesday 5th & Wednesday 6th November 2019 7th November 2019 NACCHO AGM This year, NACCHO’s Members’ Conference focuses on the theme – Because of them we must: improving health outcomes for our people aged 0-29 years. We have chosen this focus because we know that investing in the health and wellbeing of our babies, children and young people can help prevent ill health, disease and disability. Strong investment in this age group will help them to thrive, help them build strong and healthy families and communities, and help to positively influence their future health outcomes and life expectancy measures. Because of them we must provides an opportunity to place our future generations at the forefront of our discussions, to hear about the innovative work that is happening in our community controlled and other sectors, to exchange ideas and share our knowledge. Registrations to this year’s Youth Conference and the NACCHO National Conference will close on 25th October 2019. Late registrations will not be accepted. We hope you can join us! If you have any questions or would like further information contact Ros Daley and Jen Toohey on 02 6246 9309 or via email conference@naccho.org.au The engagements are now in full swing across Australia and this is generating more interest than we had anticipated in our survey on Closing the Gap. The Coalition of Peaks has had requests from a number of organisations across Australia seeking, some Coalition of Peak members and some governments for more time to promote and complete the survey. We want to make sure everyone has the opportunity to have their say on what should be included in a new agreement on Closing the Gap so it is agreed to extend the deadline for the survey to Friday, 8 November 2019. This will help build further understanding and support for the new agreement and will not impact our timeframes for negotiating with government as we were advised at the most recent Partnership Working Group meeting that COAG will not meet until early 2020. There is a discussion booklet that has background information on Closing the Gap and sets out what will be talked about in the survey. The survey will take a little bit of time to complete. It would be great if you can answer all the questions, but you can also just focus on the issues that you care about most. To help you prepare your answers, you can look at a full copy here The survey is open to everyone and can be accessed here: https://www.naccho.org.au/programmes/coalition-of-peaks/have-your-say/ Indigenous Health MedTalk covers topics related to women’s and men’s health, family health and wellness, mental health, sexual health and community innovations related to and affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Hosted by Dr Danielle Arabena: the Medical Educator for the Indigenous Health Training Team at General Practice Training Queensland. Danielle speaks to innovators, trail blazers and community leaders in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and medicine. A podcast, not exclusively for Medical Doctors, but anyone with an interest in Indigenous health. Listen / Subscribe HERE Tangerene Ingram, RivMed CEO – Photo Credit: Amy Coopes “Yamma dummarung” the sign reads. Welcome to the land of the three rivers. Welcome to Wiradjuri country. Thank You to AHMRC for this report It’s the first thing you see as you walk through any entranceway here, a very special campus of sorts in the centre of Wagga Wagga’s health district. It’s somehow fitting that the Riverina Medical and Dental Aboriginal Corporation – or RivMed, as it’s known to locals – was founded, and is still rooted in, a family home; family is at the heart of what they do, and everyone is greeted as kin. Yandarra, a Wiradjuri word that means “coming together”, captures the essence of RivMed, an Aboriginal community-controlled health service that was established by a dedicated group of Elders some 30 years ago. These lands have, for tens of thousands of years, been a meeting place for the Wiradjuri, the people of the three rivers, and after British invasion it became a major resettlement community. Yandarra – Photo Credit: Amy Coopes “They took them and put them all on the missions, and then they decided to move them off the missions and put them into towns,” explains RivMed CEO Tangerene Ingram, a Wiradjuri woman from the community of Brungle between Tumut and Gundagai, with a wry smile. “We have so many different nations living here.” Ingram gestures at a map of Aboriginal nations as she traces the history of this town on the Murrumbidjeri, or Murrumbidgee, one of three rivers that give the Wiradjuri their name. Such maps are displayed prominently across RivMed, a celebration of and commitment to belonging. “It’s not just the medical needs that are being met, and the dental needs, it’s also a meeting place,” explains Ingram of what sets RivMed apart. “Because it’s such a culturally safe space, you do feel comfortable. You go there, you see family, you see people you know, you see the Aboriginal person at the counter, it’s that type of service.” Copies of the Koori Mail and photo albums celebrating events including the annual Yandarra health promotion festival are scattered throughout the waiting room of the Valda Weldon Primary Health Care Centre, named for Aunty Val, one of RivMed’s indomitable founders, whose portrait looks out over the glass doors. RivMed Clinic Reception – Photo Credit: Amy Coopes The television in the corner broadcasts Aboriginal Health TV (“We didn’t want to show mainstream,” says Ingram). A whiteboard next to the reception desk advertises community events: women’s cooking classes top this week’s schedule. A tongue-in-cheek artwork depicting nunay ngurruway (bad choice) and marang ngurruway (good choice) has pride of place, with the latter panels featuring the preparation and hunting of traditional foods and a group of Wiradjuri women in ceremonial dress lifting weights around a stereo. ‘It’s your choice to be healthy’ the artwork states. RivMed clinic art board – Photo Credit: Amy Coopes Though it retains a homely, familial warmth, RivMed has come a long way from humble beginnings in a house near the Wagga Wagga Base Hospital with just a handful of medical and dental staff. It’s now a thriving multidisciplinary service with some 6,000 clients and will soon boast almost 90 staff spanning the region, from Narrandera, Griffith and Leeton through Cootamundra and Brungle right down to Albury on the Victorian border. “There’s a lot of things happening for RivMed,” says Ingram. Steph and Sharma – Photo Credit: RivMed Families in focus Ingram, whose background spans correctional services, health, social and emotional wellbeing and child protection and welfare, has overseen a remarkable expansion at RivMed in recent years, with a focus on at-risk children and families. She is ambitious and unapologetic about pushing the boundaries, with pride in the service’s work that is both boundless and infectious. RivMed is one of the only services in regional NSW to offer a strengths-based, in-home program known as Functional Family Therapy (FFT), an early intervention targeting vulnerable families whose children are at risk of being taken into care due to issues ranging from substance use, domestic violence and trauma, through to squalor, grief and loss. “The therapist goes into the home, and they start at the point at which the family is,” explains program manager Felix Machiridze, a former journalist who fled Zimbabwe as a refugee and has retrained in social work as part of his recovery. “There is no top-down kind of approach, we say the family itself are the experts of their own issues, but what we try to do is to make the family see these issues in a different way.” – Felix Machiridze, Social Worker Felix – Photo Credit: Amy Coopes Not every family in the program is Indigenous, but Machiridze says it resonates for Aboriginal people because it focuses on collective responsibility, inherent strengths, and social capital. In the two years it has been running, just one family out of 100 has needed to repeat the program, and it is such a success RivMed has hired staff in Albury, Narrandera and Cootamundra to extend its reach. In a major win for the service – and a precedent that will now be rolled out statewide – RivMed convinced the NSW Government to broaden the referrals pathway so that it is not only Family and Community Services (FACS) and the Department of Communities and Justice that can refer families to the program. Instead, RivMed’s GPs and other staff, as well as the Family Referral Service, also will be able to direct families into the program. “We have found for some families, especially most Aboriginal families, because of historical issues they do not want to do through the FACS pathway. They would rather not participate where FACS is concerned” says Machiridze. Saraya and Latoya – Photo Credit: RivMed In addition to FFT, RivMed runs an intensive 18-week family-based services initiative for Aboriginal families at risk and has been funded by FACS to offer two-year preservation and restoration programs working with families whose children have been or are at risk of being removed, with the aim of supporting a reunion or keeping a family intact. The project will have staff in Griffith, Narrandera and Leeton. Following five years of lobbying, RivMed has just secured accreditation to offer out-of-home care to Aboriginal children, something of which Ingram is particularly proud. “RivMed has always looked at the social and emotional wellbeing of the whole of the family,” she says. “Now we can take care of the health side, whether it’s the mental health, the drug and alcohol, your general GP health needs, to what’s happening with the family in terms of child protection… It’s a whole package, and we’re growing.” dental ed – Photo Credit: RivMed Charting community need Almost as swiftly as they move into a new building, RivMed outgrows it, such is the demand for services. The dentist needs another chair, there aren’t enough consult rooms for the busy roster of GPs, specialists, allied and mental health staff, and the clinic will soon have its very own in-house pathology lab on site. They have a clinic at Brungle, between Gundagai and Tumut, and have been involved in talks about supporting the Narrandera Aboriginal community with their health needs. Some 6,000 people are on the RivMed books. Everything they do at RivMed is carefully calibrated to community need. They are one of four AMSs participating in the Sax institute’s longitudinal SEARCH study looking at the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal children, and their focus on vulnerable children arises directly from this research. According to the data, the most disadvantaged child in these populations are boys aged between three and nine who are in foster care, Ingram says. “It’s really making us look at the program and how we can work better with our families.” – Tangerene Ingram, RivMed CEO Nat and patients – Photo Credit: Amy Coopes Food security has also emerged as a major pressure point for local people in the Sax study, particularly for people who “live out in the suburbs and can’t get into town because they don’t have the money, or mum’s on a pension, how can they get access”, Ingram says. “If you’ve only got ten dollars you’re not going to be able to purchase meat and your veggies or whatever, they are going to go and spend it on a big heap of chips and Devon or bread because that’s going to feed all the kids.” – Tangerene Ingram, RivMed CEO The service works with Oz Harvest locally to give out fresh food at the clinic and is leading discussions with local NGOs including St Vincent de Paul and the Salvation Army on how to better support the community. Yandarra fry up – Photo Credit: RivMed As part of a multi-AMS consortium in the region caring for those with chronic conditions, RivMed administers Integrated Team Care Program funding, providing transport to specialist consults, accommodation if required, even paying for appointments. In the few years it has been running, this program has been a huge success. A dedicated Aboriginal Health Worker, Patrick Sagigi, does chronic care outreach into the community, following up with patients after procedures and operations. A beaming, burly young Torres Strait Islander who exudes bonhomie, he grins as we talk about his work. Aboriginal Health Workers are what makes the service special, according to Practice Manager Jane Kearnes, who started her life at RivMed working on reception and now oversees the day to day operations of the medical clinic. Damian and Jenaiha with clients – Photo Credit – RivMed Because they are known in the community, and for our community a face that they know in our service, it makes them more comfortable… They have really important roles within the organization” says Kearnes. Natalie Smith has been an Aboriginal Health Worker at RivMed for almost ten years and speaks with passion about her work. “It’s so important to have us, [to overcome] that barrier between our clients and the GPs. Our clients are happier to engage with us, and for us to go out into the community and find them, we’ve got more knowledge of the communities, the families,” she says. Navigating the mainstream Helping people navigate the mainstream health system is an essential part of her job, and something thrown into sharp relief by the death of Naomi Williams, 27, and her unborn baby at Tumut Hospital in 2016. The incident sent shockwaves through the RivMed community, with many local people, including Ingram, calling Williams family. “It really impacted on this community,” she says. An inquest into the young mother’s death found “clear and ongoing inadequacies” in her care and called on the Local Health District to improve the cultural safety of its service by bolstering its Indigenous workforce and addressing implicit bias. Ingram has been in talks with the district on “how we can work better together, and service the smaller communities as well”. Smith will accompany clients who need escalation to hospital and stay with them until they are triaged, seen by a doctor, and handed over to the care of the Aboriginal Liaison. She will ensure they understand what is going on and feel safe before she returns to the clinic. Trust of mainstream services is an ongoing issue for the community. Of the four services participating in the SEARCH study, RivMed has the highest percentage rate for mental health presentations to hospital, and Smith says these largely occur after hours and on weekends when RivMed’s team are not available. RivMed Exterior – Photo Credit: Amy Coopes “I think it’s our clients not wanting to access mainstream services, not having a familiar face from our community in the services,” she says. “For us, it’s about looking at what we can put in place to try and fix that for our community.” Down the hall, Annika Honeysett’s rooms are a hive of activity, mums with prams exchanging news while their babies squawk happily. Honeysett is the AHW attached to the maternal and child health team, working closely with the midwife and shared care GPs to care for expectant and postpartum mums. “I love it, especially when you see a mum from when they first come in to when they bring in the babies,” says Honeysett, who has been at RivMed for four years and trained as an AHW “to help my family and my community”. “If we don’t help our community, nothing gets done… They see our faces and they know who we are out in the community. That makes them feel comfortable, safe” she says. Annika working – Photo Credit: Amy Coopes By nacchomedia • Posted in Members Good news stories, Members NEWS • Tagged Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service, Aboriginal Health NACCHO Affiliates and Members Deadly Good News : Registrations for #NACCHOAgm19 #NACCHOYouth19 extended to 25 October Plus #NSW @Walgett_AMS #Qld @DeadlyChoices @Wuchopperen @ashbarty @EvonneGoolagong #Vic @VACCHO_org #NT @CAACongress #WA #SA 1.1 National : NACCHO , Affiliates and members visit Kimberleys to learn about renal services 1.2 National : Registrations to this year’s Youth Conference and the NACCHO National Conference will now close on 25th October 2019. 2.1 QLD :Australia’s Sportswoman of the Year Ash Barty and tennis legend Evonne Goolagong Cawley helping out at the Deadly Choices NAIDOC Tennis Camp hosted by Wuchopperen Health Service Ltd 2.2 QLD : Treaty consultations in Queensland could deliver better housing and health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples 3.NSW : AHMRC : A primary care oasis: Community Control success stories at Walgett AMS 4.VIC : VACCHO partners with BreastScreen Victoria’s to arrange the hot pink van, known as “Marjorie” to visit Gunditjmara Aboriginal Cooperative ACCHO in Warrnambool 5. WA Wirraka Maya Health Service Aboriginal Corporations staff support Rowans Walk and suicide prevention awareness 6. SA : First Syphilis Point of Care Test at Nunyara ACCHS’ Community Connection Day 7. NT : Congress ACCHO Alice Springs healthy promotions teams are getting out to communities to spread prevention messages 1.National : NACCHO , Affiliates and members visit Kimberleys to learn about renal services Pictured here at Derby Renal Health Centre are Neil Willmett (CEO, QAIHC), Dania Ahwang (CEO, Wuchoperren Health Service, Cairns), Donnella Mills (Acting Chairperson, NACCHO) and Dawn Casey (Deputy CEO, NACCHO).” REPOST – QAIHC CEO Neil Willmett The incidence of Kidney Disease in the Kimberley is one of the highest in Australia. Chronic Kidney disease (CKD) and End-Stage Kidney Disease (ESKD) incidence within the Aboriginal population of the Kimberley greatly exceeds the national burden of disease. Dialysis prevalence for this region has more than tripled in the last decade and is increasing at a much faster rate than in the rest of Western Australia (WA). Kimberley Renal Services is a wholly owned subsidiary of Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Services Ltd established to manage regional renal support and dialysis services in Broome, Derby, Kununurra and Fitzroy Crossing. Fitzroy Crossing Renal Health Centre opened in July 2012 and currently has 4 chairs Broome Renal Health Centre (previously known as Kimberley Satellite Dialysis Centre KSDC) has been in operation since 21st October 2002 and currently has 10 chairs Kununurra Renal Health Centre opened in May 2013 and currently has 6 chairs Derby Renal Health Centre opened in May 2013 and currently has 6 chairs Each Renal Health Centre operates Monday to Saturday with varying opening hours providing dialysis services to clients across the Kimberley. Care is provided largely by Nurses and Aboriginal Health Workers (AHW) and support staff includes Aboriginal Care Coordinators, Patient Care Assistants, Receptionists and Administrative Support Staff and Cleaners. 1.2 National : Registrations to this year’s Youth Conference and the NACCHO National Conference extended to 25 October 2019. It’s not every day a tennis World Number 1 is in Cairns but that was the case today when Ash Barty, along with Evonne Goolagong-Cawley came to have a hit with some of Cairns up-and-coming stars. The first Indigenous woman elected to Queensland’s parliament has encouraged all Queenslanders to take part in the 26 treaty consultation sessions to be held across the state. Official talks of a treaty that could deliver better housing and health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Queensland began in Cairns on Thursday. They were the first in a series of community consultation sessions across the state with plans to reach a treaty with First Nations people. “I encourage all Queenslanders to attend a consultation session and participate in this important conversation,” said Environment Minister Leeanne Enoch. “This is an historic step we take together, one that is long overdue but one that will strengthen the way to greater reconciliation, self-determination and a more inclusive, respectful shared future.” The state government outlined plans towards a treaty with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders people in July, with the aim for greater self-determination in Indigenous communities. Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships Jackie Trad told parliament on Thursday it was time for the truth about the state’s ancient history and colonisation to be told as part of steps towards a shared and inclusive future Driving through Gamilaraay country in the remotest reaches of northwestern NSW, the single most striking feature is the dry; vast expanses of parched land. At the Walgett Aboriginal Medical Service, the walls are beginning to crack because the soil the building stands on is too dry to support its weight. On the day I visit, the water from the taps runs yellow, sediment settling in it from the artesian basin below, and the Shire Council advises locals to boil it before drinking. Walgett is not expecting rain for another three years, and though it is nowhere to be seen, water – or, more precisely, the lack of it — courses through every conversation. The situation is so precarious the AMS is now receiving donated water and storing it casks on palates for distribution on Mondays and Wednesdays to those who need it most. Water stored in casks on palates. Photo credit Dr Tim Senior. This doesn’t seem sustainable, but for Christine Corby, CEO of the long-running Walgett AMS, it is simply one more way in which the service offers comprehensive and holistic primary care. It may look like a conventional medical clinic, offering a range of programs including acute medical care, chronic disease management, dental and oral health services, allied health, psychology, specialist clinics, child health and antenatal care, but Walgett AMS is so much more than a one-stop shop for health. It is of, by and for the community. Really, it *is* the community, and Aboriginal Health Workers and Practitioners are integral to its success. Read in Full HERE This article was written by Dr Tim Senior and edited by Amy Coopes, on behalf of Croakey Professional Services. It was sponsored by The Aboriginal Health and Medical Research Council (AH&MRC) of NSW, which had final say over the content. Croakey Professional Services help generate funds to sustain our public interest journalism activities, and also aim to provide a useful service to our readers. To find out more about the range of services on offer, see here. To mark Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Aboriginal women in Warrnambool this week got free breast screens – the best way to find cancer early and save lives. BreastScreen Victoria’s hot pink van, known as “Marjorie” visited Gunditjmara Aboriginal Cooperative at Harris Reserve to give free breast screens to women aged 50 . The first 50 women to receive a mammogram received a free cultural screening shawl to wear during the procedure, and to take home with them. These shawls have been developed to make breast screening more comfortable for Aboriginal women across Victoria, with Warrnambool’s shawl featuring a design by local Warlpiri artist, Rebecca Clayton. Morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea was also be provided throughout the day. BreastScreen Victoria CEO, Vicki Pridmore, said that the initiative was a culmination of months of hard work and planning with project partner, the Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (VACCHO). “We hope that the beautiful shawls created by Aboriginal artists as a part of this project can assist women screening to feel comfortable, welcome andrespected,” Ms Pridmore said. We hope that the beautiful shawls created by Aboriginal artists as a part of this project can assist women screening to feel comfortable, welcome and respected. BreastScreen Victoria CEO, Vicki Pridmore Breast cancer is the most common cancer among Aboriginal women in Victoria. A breast screen can find cancer as small as a grain of rice, long before a woman or her doctor can see or feel anything. Typically, women aged between 50 and 74 should have a breast screen every two years – the best way to find breast cancer early, when treatment is most effective. All breast screens are with a female radiographer, in a friendly and safe environment. Clients don’t need a doctor’s referral or Medicare card, and only take 10 minutes. Ms Pridmore is encouraging Aboriginal women aged 50 to 74 to take advantage of the van’s visit to town. “When found early, breast cancer can be treated very successfully. This visit has been organised with our partners at VACCHO and Gunditjmara to make sure that Aboriginal women in Warrnambool have access to a potentially life-saving breast screen,” she said. “The vans use the highest quality digital radiography machines to ensure that women receive the best service, regardless of their location.” In support for Rowans Walk and suicide prevention awareness, WMHSAC staff had a great time yesterday encouraging all participants with cool refreshments, as they completed the awareness walk. Nunyara’s Willhelmine Lieberwirth ( also NACCHO Board Member ) and Kate Warren. Syphilis Point of Care Test (finger prick with result in 15 minutes). SAHMRI Young Deadly Free poster https://youngdeadlyfree.org.au/ 7. NT : Congress ACCHO Alice Springs healthy promotions team are getting out to communities to spread prevention messages The Congress FASD Prevention Program visited Ntaria community this week, promoting ‘NO grog before, during and after pregnancy is safest for dad, mum and bub’….here is Donna and Justine having a yarn with Ntaria school kids. Check out our health promotion team who are out at Amoonguna community spreading health messages about risky alcohol behaviours, nutrition, Tackling Indigenous Smoking and Sexual Health education By nacchomedia • Posted in Members Good news stories, Members NEWS • Tagged Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service, Indigenous Health, NACCHO NACCHO Members Deadly Good News : Community health was the big winner in the #NSW #KooriKnockout and #QLD #MurriCarnival thanks to our ACCHO’s and our affiliates @ahmrc @QAIHC_QLD Plus #Vic @VACCHO_org #WorldSightDay2019 #WA #NT 1. National : NACCHO Chair congratulates Kuku Yalanji and Tagalaka woman Haylene Grogan appointed as Queensland’s first-ever Chief Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Officer 1.2 National : Have your say about what is needed to make real change in the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people #HaveYourSay about #closingthegap 2. NSW : The South Coast Black Cockatoos have won the 2019 NSW Aboriginal Rugby League Koori Knockout 3. QLD : Queensland Murri Carnival wrapped up on the weekend with huge community support 4.1 VIC : VACCHO Partners with VISION 2020 for the Looking Deadly Aboriginal Health Worker training 4.2 VIC : Leadership opportunities for Victorian Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander students at the Regional Protect Country Summit 19 and 20 October 5.WA : Chair of the Aboriginal Health Council of Western Australia (AHCWA), Vicki O’Donnell expresses great concern over inadequate access to mental health support 6.1 NT : Congress ACCHO Alice Springs partners with Headspace to open new drop in centre 6.2 NT Danila Dilba ACCHO Darwin awarded the NTGPE Training Post of the Year Award 1.1 National : NACCHO Chair congratulates Kuku Yalanji and Tagalaka woman Haylene Grogan appointed as Queensland’s first-ever Chief Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Officer “ NACCHO congratulates Ms Grogan on her historic appointment and welcomes her experience and knowledge of Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations (ACCHOs). This is a significant role as for the first time, this type of leadership position has been created within a government health department. “We look forward to working constructively with Ms Grogan to improve health outcomes of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people throughout Queensland. We are confident that with Ms Grogan leading the new Aboriginal and Torres Stait Islander Health Division will result in positive progress towards closing the health gap in Queensland for our communities,” Donnella Mills Acting NACCHO Chair Read full or download full NACCHO Press Release Pictured above from QAIHC (L – R) Dr John Wakefield (Director General, Queensland Health), Hon. Jackie Trad MP (Deputy Premier of Queensland), Haylene Grogan (Chief Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Officer), Hon. Steven Miles MP (Queensland Minister for Health and Ambulance Services) and QAIHC CEO Neil Willmett Proud Kuku Yalanji and Tagalaka woman, Haylene Grogan, has been appointed as Queensland’s first-ever Chief Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Officer (and Deputy Director General) of Queensland Health. Haylene Grogan began her health career with the community controlled Wuchopperen Health Service in Cairns in 1982. She has since held senior positions in the federal and state governments, including in Queensland Health, in roles encompassing service delivery, policy development, program implementation and project management. The South Coast Black Cockatoos have won the 2019 NSW Aboriginal Rugby League Knockout, or the Koori Knockout, against Griffith Three Ways in an impressive 28-point lead Report from NITV Photos AHMRC Griffith, known for their strong defence, didn’t fall into their usual groove during the first half with the South Coast scoring 26 points in the first 21 minutes. South Coast’s Jason Gillard scored an impressive hat-trick, giving his team an early lead and Bud Sullivan, South Coasts kicker, scoring three out of six of the conversion kicks, as well as getting over the line with a try. The second half saw Griffith make their way up to 12 points, but it wasn’t enough to take out the men’s title, with South Coasts winning 40-12. Mr Wellington and James won their first Koori Knockout 21 years ago, playing for Numbacca Valley Rams and then another two with the Redfern All Blacks. The South Coasts aforementioned jersey featured an image of James on the left sleeve, so he too could be there to win another Koori Knockout. This victory will see the 50th Koori Knockout travel to NSW’s Shoalhaven in 2020. The women’s Bellbrook Dunghutti Connections and the Wellington Wedgetails battled it out with Wellington taking out the title during the second half. The first half was neck and neck sitting on nil-all until Dunghutti scored a try right on half-time The young talent shone through the boys’ and girl’s La Perouse Panthers teams, who proved phenomenal with star player Lachlan Moses scoring the first three tries for the U-12 boys during the first half and making the conversion kick in the second half. The team went up against the Butucarbin Warriors in a dominate 38-4 win taking out the champion title for the U-12s boys at the 2019 Koori Knockout. Mr Moses said that it felt “good” to win the 2019 title. “We versed them last year in the grand final, so it feels good to get one back,” he said. As he continues to work on and improve his skills, Mr Moses said he “would love to play NRL” as he looks into the future. Griffith Three Ways United 12 – 40 South Coast Black Cockatoos Bellbrook Dunghutti Connections 4 – 6 Wellington Wedgetails U-17 boys Kempsey Sharks 12 – 10 Western Koori Eels U-16 girls La Perouse Panthers 34 – 0 Narwan Eels Toomelah Tigers 10 – 20 South Taree La Perouse Panthers 38 – 4 Butucarbin Warriors In the men’s division, the Purga Wagtails claimed the honours, while Brisbane Natives were the winners of the Open Women’s division. SEE QRL Photo’s HERE Plus 242 Photos HERE The Queensland Under 16 Murri side which is selected from performances in this carnival will be unveiled on the QRL website soon. All results from the carnival can be found at the Murri Rugby League website. Photos below thanks to Deadly Choices It’s #WorldSightDay2019 and we’ve got a full house!!! Today we launched the Looking Deadly online learning module created by #Kadadjinyi and our new quarterly eye-health State-wide Communique with Nicole McCartney – Chief Aboriginal Health Adviser DHHS We also celebrated with Margaret Murray from Mungabareena Aboriginal Corporation the tireless work the amazing Dr Genevieve Napper has done in the eye health sector for over 20 years. If you want to know more about the deadly work that’s being done in the eye health area (or you think you might need an eye check…just sayin) contact us here at VACCHO or go to http://www.vaccho.org.au/wd/eh/ Across Australia, too many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people still experience avoidable vision loss and blindness, and those who have lost vision often find it difficult to access the support and services they need. For example, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are three times as likely as non-Indigenous people to be blind or have low vision and on average, currently wait 63% longer for cataract surgery. Strong eyes, strong communities: a five year plan for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander eye health and vision charts a course to close the gap for vision and achieve a world class system of eye health and vision care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Based on available evidence and shaped by the collective input of many individuals and organisations, Strong eyes, strong communities describes an integrated suite of activities that need to be progressed over the coming five years. In combination, these will expand service delivery, strengthen partnerships and local supports, embed eye care into community controlled and mainstream services, eliminate trachoma, and sustain the focus on monitoring progress. This blueprint for change recognises that improving eye health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is everybody’s business, and that the collective efforts of governments, communities,service providers and others are essential. Together, a world class system that delivers culturally safe eye care to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is within our reach. My name is Zac Romagnoli-Townsend, I am a community organiser for Seed Indigenous Youth Climate Network; Seed is a branch of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition and we are standing up to protect country, community and climate. I am getting in touch in regards to a leadership opportunity for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander students in Victoria. Seed is a continent-wide network of young Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peoples standing up to protect country and making climate justice a reality for our communities. You can find more information about us here: https://www.seedmob.org.au/. We are calling on Indigenous youth between the ages of 14 and 35 years old to come to our Regional Protect Country Summit, being held at the Anglesea Valley Lodge. The purpose of the summit is to learn about climate change, it’s causes, impacts and risks to country. Young people will have the opportunity to connect with their peers across Victoria to learn, share and make plans to stand strong for our culture, country and future. When: From Saturday morning 19th October – Afternoon of Sunday 20th of October Where: Anglesea Valley Lodge, 635 Wensleydale Station Rd, Wensleydale VIC 3241 Who: Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander youth aged between 14-35 (family supporters are welcome) What: Connecting with each other, learning about climate justice, and making positive, lasting and meaningful change. Getting there: We will be helping to organise transport and covering the cost of that transport Accomodation: From Friday to Saturday we will be staying together at Anglesea Valley Lodge. Food: We will cater all meals from Friday night to Sunday afternoon. Please let us know dietary requirements in advance. REGISTER HERE: https://forms.gle/g8uC6nY76H8Mwy6S6 Please encourage any and all Indigenous youth that you know who would be interested in this opportunity to register! If they need assistance with registering or have any questions, please feel free to contact me on: 0497 371 650 or Zac.Romagnoli-Townsend@aycc.org.au 5.WA : Chair of the Aboriginal Health Council of Western Australia (AHCWA), Vicki O’Donnell expresses great concern over inadequate access to mental health support services across WA, and the unacceptable suicide and self-harm rates within Aboriginal communities. Chair of the Aboriginal Health Council of Western Australia (AHCWA), Vicki O’Donnell expresses great concern over inadequate access to mental health support services across WA, and the unacceptable suicide and self-harm rates within Aboriginal communities. AHCWA is the peak body for its 23 Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services across WA. “AHCWA has major concerns with the lack of culturally secure mental health support services for Aboriginal people and communities, experiencing crisis and trauma on a daily basis” says Vicki O’Donnell. This crisis has tragically been highlighted again, with the recent suicides in the Midwest and Gascoyne regions, and the fatal shooting of an Aboriginal Mother in Geraldton who had a history of mental health, alcohol and other drug issues. Aboriginal people continue to experience systemic racism within the Mental Health and Justice systems, resulting in poor health and wellbeing outcomes for Aboriginal people, their families and communities across WA. AHCWA provides full support to the Aboriginal Elders and Leaders who gathered in Geraldton to discuss the suicide crisis in the community and are calling for urgent reform of the Mental Health system. AHCWA calls upon the Government to undertake the following as a matter of urgency: • Significant reform of the Mental Health Sector through direct engagement with Aboriginal communities and organisations. • Commitment of significant funding for Suicide Prevention for Aboriginal people across WA. • Significant investment for the delivery of culturally secure Social and Emotional Well Being services for Aboriginal people and their communities across WA. • Greatly improve the awareness and understanding of suicidal behaviour, mental health, alcohol and drug issues through appropriate training of Police and others who work within the justice system. • Review of existing sentencing laws to prevent the further breakdown of families and communities. • Review of the policies and procedures around the use of lethal force by Police Officers. Headspace, a one-stop-shop for young people who need help with mental and physical health had opened a new centre in Alice Springs. Cultural Advisor Roxanne Highfold, tells CAAMA that young aboriginal people in Alice Springs want to be shown respect and have their voices heard by the community. At the NTGPE Training Awards earlierthis month , Danila Dilba was awarded the Training Post of the Year Award, highlighting our strong training culture and commitment to developing a high quality clinical workforce. In the last few years, several of our GPs have become GP supervisors, providing invaluable mentoring and support to up and coming GPs By nacchomedia • Posted in Members Good news stories, Members NEWS • Tagged Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service NACCHO Affiliate and ACCHO Members Deadly Good News Stories #National #ClosingtheGap #HaveYourSay @QAIHC_QLD @END_RHD #NSW Wellington and Bulgarr Ngaru #VIC @VAHS1972 #SA @Nganampa_Health #WA @TheAHCWA #NT @CAACongress 1.1 National : NACCHO attends National END RHD Advisory Committee meeting in Perth 1.2 : National : Have your say about what is needed to make real change in the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people #HaveYourSay about #closingthegap 2.1 NSW : Wellington Health Service hosts celebrations 2.2 NSW : NSW Health is not forming effective partnerships with Aboriginal communities to plan, design and deliver appropriate mental health services 3. VIC : VAHS was excited to host several graduations this week to our students for completing the 8 week Deadly Choices Leadership program. 4.1 QLD : MAMU ACCHO : The Students from Innisfail State College finally got their Deadly Choices Education shirts today after completing the Healthy Lifestyle Program in Term 2 4.2 QLD : The terrific work being done by Gidgee Healing Normanton Clinic as presented at the CheckUP Australia Outreach Forum 5.1 SA : Nganampa Health at APY school Sports day and tobacco display by Tackling Indigenous smoking team 5.2 SA : Nunkuwarrin Yunti ACCHO co-hosts Prof Kerry Arabena and Pat Dudgeon for the South Australian Gayaa Dhuwi/Indigenous Governance workshops. 6.WA : New students are into their first block of AHCWA’s Family & Wellbeing training. 7. NT Central Australian Aboriginal Congress , Central Land Council and Tangentyere Council join the #climatestrike along with more than 50 business owners and their staff and students and supporters Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is an avoidable inequality. Around 5,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia are living with RHD and 400,000 young Indigenous people are at risk. This represents one of the highest rates of RHD in the world and it is also the leading cause of cardiovascular inequality between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Australia. QAIHC is working with its Members, Queensland Health and national counterparts to address RHD in Queensland. Pictured here Co-Chairs of the National END RHD Advisory Committee – Pat Turner (CEO, NACCHO) and Professor Jonathan Carapetis AM (Institute Director, Telethon Kids Institute) with QAIHC CEO Neil Willmett Thanks QAIHC CEO for sharing your report There was dancing, music and culture shared during NAIDOC Day celebrations on Friday, which was hosted by the Wellington Health Service. Wiradjuri man Herb Smith was the emcee, with music provided by Isaac Compton. Various local community services also attended. In his address to the community, Mr Smith said what makes NAIDOC so special is that it provides an opportunity for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people to join together. “To recognise the valuable contribution Aboriginal people have made to this country and to their community,” he said. The creator of ‘Dreamtime Tuka’ said it was great to see the Wellington Health Service embrace NAIDOC celebrations. Aboriginal Health Worker and NAIDOC Day organiser Gillian Keed said it was a beautiful day for the community to come together to celebrate history, strong culture and the achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Guests were treated to a traditional smoking ceremony and dances. A report released by the Auditor-General for New South Wales, Margaret Crawford, has found that NSW Health is not forming effective partnerships with Aboriginal communities to plan, design and deliver appropriate mental health services. There is limited evidence that NSW Health is using the knowledge and expertise of Aboriginal communities to guide how mental health care is structured and delivered. Mental illness (including substance use disorders) is the main contributor to lower life expectancy and increased mortality in the Aboriginal population of New South Wales. It contributes to a higher burden of disease and premature death at rates that are 40 per cent higher than the next highest chronic disease group, cardiovascular disease.1 Aboriginal people have significantly higher rates of mental illness than non Aboriginal people in New South Wales. They are more likely to present at emergency departments in crisis or acute phases of mental illness than the rest of the population and are more likely to be admitted to hospital for mental health treatments.2 In acknowledgement of the significant health disparities between Aboriginal and non Aboriginal people, NSW Health implemented the NSW Aboriginal Health Plan 2013 2023 (the Aboriginal Health Plan). The overarching message of the Aboriginal Health Plan is ‘to build respectful, trusting and effective partnerships with Aboriginal communities’ and to implement ‘integrated planning and service delivery’ with sector partners. Through the Plan, NSW Health commits to providing culturally appropriate and ‘holistic approaches to the health of Aboriginal people’. The mental health sector is complex, involving Commonwealth, state and non government service providers. In broad terms, NSW Health has responsibility to support patients requiring higher levels of clinical support for mental illnesses, while the Commonwealth and non government organisations offer non acute care such as assessments, referrals and early intervention treatments. The NSW Health network includes 15 Local Health Districts and the Justice Health and Forensic Mental Health Network that provide care to patients during acute and severe phases of mental illness in hospitals, prisons and community service environments. This includes care to Aboriginal patients in the community at rates that are more than four times higher than the non Aboriginal population. Community services are usually provided as follow up after acute admissions or interactions with hospital services. The environments where NSW Health delivers mental health care include: hospital emergency departments, for short term assessment and referral inpatient hospital care for patients in acute and sub acute phases of mental illness mental health outpatient services in the community, such as support with medications custodial mental health services in adult prisons and juvenile justice centres. The NSW Government is reforming its mental health funding model to incrementally shift the balance from hospital care to enhanced community care. In 2018–19, the NSW Government committed $400 million over four years into early intervention and specialist community mental health teams. This audit assessed the effectiveness of NSW Health’s planning and coordination of mental health services and service pathways for Aboriginal people in New South Wales. We addressed the audit objective by answering three questions: Is NSW Health using evidence to plan and inform the availability of mental health services for Aboriginal people in New South Wales? Is NSW Health collaborating with partners to create accessible mental health service pathways for Aboriginal people? Is NSW Health collaborating with partners to ensure the appropriateness and quality of mental health services for Aboriginal people? NSW Health is not meeting the objectives of the NSW Aboriginal Health Plan, to form effective partnerships with Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services and Aboriginal communities to plan, design and deliver mental health services. There is limited evidence that existing partnerships between NSW Health and Aboriginal communities meet its own commitment to use the ‘knowledge and expertise of the Aboriginal community (to) guide the health system at every level, including (for) the identification of key issues, the development of policy solutions, the structuring and delivery of services’ 3 and the development of culturally appropriate models of mental health care. NSW Health is planning and coordinating its resources to support Aboriginal people in acute phases of mental illness in hospital environments. However, it is not effectively planning for the supply and delivery of sufficient mental health services to assist Aboriginal patients to manage mental illness in community environments. Existing planning approaches, data and systems are insufficient to guide the $400 million investment into community mental health services announced in the 2018–19 Budget. NSW Health is not consistently forming partnerships to ensure coordinated care for patients as they move between mental health services. There is no policy to guide this process and practices are not systematised or widespread. It’s the last week of school for term 3 and VAHS was excited to host several graduations this week to our students for completing the 8 week Deadly Choices Leadership program. Each student who completes the program are rewarded with a special VAHS Deadly Choices school shirt. The program aims to build health literacy and leadership with our young people. The following schools have completed the 8 week program. Reservoir High School Sunbury Secondary College Parade College Lalor North High School Bundoora Secondary College Mernda P-12 Attached some photos of students from Reservoir HS, Sunbury SC and Epping HS with their new shirts. 5. SA : Nganampa Health at APY school Sports day and tobacco display by Tackling Indigenous smoking team Hot, windy and very dusty but display well received by APY kids and kids from Yalata. Raffle prizes will be drawn at school dance competition tonight. Well done to all those kids who won medals and to all those kids who participated. Thanks also to Will power for the work they have done today and this week. The course runs over the 11th&12th of September and the 25th&26th of September. On completion of the course, participants receive a Cert II in Family Wellbeing. For more information on the Family & Wellbeing Training Course, contact Ken Nicholls on (08) 96145 1036 or ken.nicholls@ahcwa.org The Central Land Council has called climate strikers to think of remote community residents who are most at risk from the climate emergency. “CLC members and workers will join striking students and their supporters from across the Northern Territory and I support their right to take this action,” CLC chair Sammy Wilson said. “I call on them to spare a thought for Aboriginal people out bush who may not be able to travel to the strikes but who are already suffering most during our hotter, longer and drier summers,” Mr Wilson said. “I am dreading another summer like the last one because it is especially tough on our old and sick people who live in overcrowded, poor quality houses.” With many remote communities under severe water stress, water shortages and quality topped the list of policy priorities endorsed by the CLC’s elected delegates at their most recent council meeting in August. The delegates want to live sustainably on their country and see water rights and liveable houses as central to their future and are prepared to fight for a safe environment. “The government gave us the land back but not the water. Water is the new land rights,” Mr Wilson said. Following the NT’s hottest summer on record, and the driest in almost three decades, the delegates also nominated climate change and water security as high policy priorities. “Last summer many people were struggling to sleep. We heard about people taking turns in the coolest parts of the house,” Mr Wilson said. “Most of our people live in concrete boxes and can’t afford to run air conditioners around the clock. Many don’t have working fridges to keep food safe for eating, so they are very likely to get sick.” Mr Wilson said we must listen to scientists who are predicting that the poorest people in the hottest countries will be hardest hit by climate change. “Aboriginal people want to be part of the solution. We want to have access to clean technologies such as solar power so that our children have the chance to keep living on our traditional country.” NACCHO Affiliate and ACCHO Members Deadly Good News Stories : #National #ClosingtheGap #HaveYourSay #NSW Tharawal @ahmrc #VIC @VAHS1972 #QLD @Apunipima 25 yrs @QAIHC_QLD #NT @CAACongress #WA Bega #ACT @nimmityjah #Tas 1.1 National : Our Coalition of Peaks #HaveYourSay survey on Closing the Gap sent to hundreds of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community-controlled organisations and their networks, inviting responses from both individuals and organisations. 1.2 National : A trial at 22 Aboriginal health centres around the country is hoping to improve quality of life for Aboriginal people living with chronic disease. 2.1 NSW : Matthew James from Tharawal Aboriginal Corporation has written an insightful article on Aboriginal social and emotional wellbeing in an Australian urban community. 2.2 NSW : AHandMRC and Hitnet Community Hubs provide connection and access to information for difficult-to-reach and digitally excluded populations across Australia. 2.3 NSW : Aboriginal patient experience : BHI and the Centre for Aboriginal Health are working together to collect the experiences and outcomes of care for Aboriginal people admitted to NSW public hospitals 3.VIC : VAHS encourages seniors /elders to get active and have fun with their Senior Games 4.1 QLD : This week the Cape York mob celebrate 25 years since Apunipima Cape York Health Council emerged from a health conference held at Pajinka Wilderness Lodge, near Injinoo, in 1994. 4.2 QLD : Nominations for the 2019 QAIHC Awards for Excellence are open! 5.WA : Bega Garnbirringu Health Service receives a $3.5 million grant to help fund a new multi-storey social service and training facility 7. NT : Congress ACCHO Alice Springs promotes 9th day of the 9th month which is International FASD awareness day! 8. ACT : Winnunuga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health and community Services #Historymaking turning of the soil for new ACCHO Medical Centre 9. Tas : Tasmanian Government signs the Closing the Gap Partnership Agreement between the Coalition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peak bodies and the Council of Australian Governments Under the trial, patients receive one-on-one education and care by specialised pharmacists working in the centres. Pharmacist Angela Madden says people need to understand their medications or they stop taking them. We also hear from Lorraine and Margaret who are experiencing the benefits of the program. Listen to the ABC Radio National Life Matters Interview HERE Learn more how NACCHO is involved in the oversight and management of several projects and programs related to medicines and pharmacy. NACCHO also provides national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander medicines policy leadership. See NACCHO Website Tharawal Aboriginal Medical Service (AMS) is based in Airds, NSW and celebrated its 35th year of operation in 2018. Tharawal AMS provides healthcare, social and cultural support services to Indigenous Australians across South West Sydney. Tharawal AMS is an Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (ACCHO), independent of the Government, Primary Health Networks (PHNs) and independent of but aligned in principle to other AMSs across Australia. The Byala team, Byala meaning ‘lets talk’ in the local Dhawaral People’s dialect, is a multi-disciplinary team made up of 7 staff. The team is led by a Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (MHNP) and includes an Aboriginal Mental Health Worker, Aboriginal Drug and Alcohol Worker, Aboriginal Youth Worker and a Psychologist. Access to a second Psychologist for 2 days of the week and a Child Psychologist 1 day a week. The Byala team provides direct service to Indigenous Australians aged 5 years and older. Services are delivered in a number of modes including individual and group, office-based and outreach (including hospital visits, home visits, school visits and other service visits). To meet the needs of our target community both appointment-based and walk-in clinics are offered. 71% of the Byala team are Aboriginal. The success of the Byala team is grounded in the fact that Tharawal AMS is a community controlled and run organisation for the local Aboriginal Community by the local Aboriginal Community that places equal importance on the complementary role of clinical and cultural staff. We are a service run by the Community we serve and accountable to the Community we serve. See full article HERE The Hubs enable people to connect to online services, access and share culturally appropriate health and social information. Hitnet was first utilised by the AH&MRC as a practical tool for services to use through the Head Lice project, whereby relevant content central to the project was loaded onto the Hub and placed in the local AMS for the community to engage with. The local AMS in question has a range of projects and activities which they are enthusiastic to promote to their community through Hitnet. Another Member Service saw the value of Hitnet and included it in a funding grant application. This specific Member was successful in their application and was able to purchase a Hub for their service. The AH&MRC engages with our Members and their communities in meaningful ways. Through a range of face-to-face, online, workshops, training and collaborations initiatives, we aim to communicate, educate and promote Aboriginal health. These are proven and effective means to connect with and learn from our Members. Hitnet fulfils a service need of sharing locally generated content and key public health messages with Members, their staff and the wider community. The Hubs offer an effective method for engaging with the community and sharing important educational material in a timely, culturally safe and innovative way. Each Hitnet Hub is used on average 1,000 times per year, representing purposeful interactions. Hitnet is essentially a one-stop-shop for all health promotion content. The team at Hitnet provide 3 monthly reports which provide reach and engagement metrics for their Hubs. This data can help to assess individual community needs and guide the development of health programs. The AH&MRC have been able to purchase Hitnet Hubs for Orange Aboriginal Medical Service, Tamworth Aboriginal Medical Service, Pat Dixon Medical Centre, and Coomealla Health Aboriginal Corporation. (Pictured above ) Hitnet Hubs have enabled Member Services to access culturally appropriate health promotion resources and online services. 2.3 NSW : Aboriginal patient experience : BHI and the Centre for Aboriginal Health are working together to collect the experiences and outcomes of care for Aboriginal people admitted to NSW public hospitals. For the first time, every adult patient who identifies as Aboriginal will be invited to provide feedback on their admitted patient or maternity care experience during 2019. The Adult Admitted Patient Survey asks Aboriginal people who have recently been admitted to a NSW public hospital for feedback about their experiences of care. This survey is mailed out to people about three months after the end of their hospital stay. The Maternity Care Survey asks Aboriginal women who recently gave birth in a NSW public hospital about the care they received. This survey is mailed out to women about three months after their baby is delivered. The results of these surveys will provide hospitals with valuable information about what they are doing well and where they can improve care to better meet the needs of Aboriginal people. Promotional materials are available to help increase awareness of the survey program among Aboriginal people and to encourage them to respond when they receive a questionnaire. These materials can be accessed below, or alternatively, please contact us to request printed copies. BHI published a Snapshot report, Aboriginal people’s experiences of hospital care, in July 2019 which highlights key findings at a statewide level for 459 Aboriginal people who shared their experiences of care in the Emergency Department Patient Survey 2017–18 and 550 Aboriginal people who shared their experiences of care in the Adult Admitted Patient Survey 2017. BHI previously published a Patient Perspectives report on the experiences of care for Aboriginal people, which drew on data from almost 2,700 Aboriginal patients who were admitted to a NSW public hospital in 2014. Healthcare in Focus 2017 examined healthcare in the context of three important dimensions of performance – accessibility, appropriateness and effectiveness – for more than 60 measures. One third of these measures related to the experiences and outcomes of Aboriginal people. To find out about upcoming releases of survey results that reflect the experiences of Aboriginal people, please refer to our Reports Plan. See Website HERE Seniors games is every Wednesday 11am-2pm at 2 Wright Street in Reservoir so feel free to come join in the fun. The group love to have new additions and competitors for the teams. Apunipima Cape York Health Council (Apunipima) is celebrating their 25th Anniversary this week. On 14th September 1994 Apunipima was established as a health advocacy organisation. The Cape York Land Council held a Health Summit t Pajinka Lodge, near Injanoo at the tip of Cape York. The summit, attended by Traditional Owners, Elders and Community health leaders of 17 Cape York communities, included a key focus to address the worsening health outcomes of Cape York’s Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islanders. From these humble beginnings, Apunipima has grown from an initial membership base of 34 to almost 1000 in 2019. From an advocacy beginning, today Apunipima delivers comprehensive primary health care services across 11 Cape York communities and covers the largest geographical area of any Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation in Queensland. Apunipima is a significant employer in Cape York with 30% of our team being made up of community-based employees. Apunipima employs Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Practitioners, Health Workers, outreach Midwives, Allied Health professionals, a paediatrician and numerous GPs. Aileen Addo, Apunipima’s Board Chair said, ‘This milestone is a great opportunity for us to acknowledge and reflect on how far our organisation has come, and also how much more work with the people of Cape York is needed to improve our health.’ Over 25 years, Apunipima’s model of care has improved health outcomes for the people on the Cape – from closing the gap on life expectancy to dramatic improvements in infant mortality. Apunipima is committed to expand and enhance their services to deliver greater health and wellness improvements across the Cape. The Awards provide a platform to recognise the outstanding achievements of individuals and organisations within the Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Controlled Health Sector. Award nominations are only open to QAIHC Member Services. Find out more at https://qaihc.eventsair.com/2019-qaihc-awards/. #QAIHCdelivers #IndigenousHealth Kalgoorlie-Boulder’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health practice this week received a $3.5 million grant to help fund a new multi-storey social service and training facility on MacDonald Street. State Aboriginal Affairs Minister Ben Wyatt on Monday presented a Lotterywest cheque to Bega Garnbirringu Health Service when he met staff and board members to discuss the work the centre was doing in the region. The funding covers about one third of the estimated $10 million project, with the proposed facility to feature a culturally appropriate training area, youth spaces, large rooms for community information and recreation sessions, rooms for family meetings and culturally appropriate counselling, and an administration area for the management of Bega’s social and wellbeing services. The new facility will also allow Bega to grow its current team of about 110 staff members to more than 150 in the future. Bega chief executive Clive Holt said there was a high demand for both the centre’s clinical and social services, and the new facility would better equip staff to meet the needs of the Goldfields’ indigenous community. “This funding means we can redevelop our existing ageing physical infrastructure to a point that we can accommodate our workforce, not only today, but going into the future,” he said. “The last financial year we did just over 15,000 consultations so I think when you look at those sorts of numbers, there is clearly a demand for our services.” Mr Holt said the new facility would also allow Bega to expand its range of services in areas including emergency relief, senior support, health promotion and suicide prevention. “The client numbers continually increase so there is increasing demand for our current services, but we also are under pressure to provide an increased scope of services to the community,” he said. “There is a massive focus on mental health at the moment and we are seeing more and more demand and we need to be in a position where we can meet that demand in the future.” Bega will work with architects to develop a final design for the facility, with Mr Holt hoping the project will be complete within 18 to 24 months. To mark the day Congress hosted a brunch this morning at our Gap Clinic . Visitors grabbed something to eat and found out about FASD. Fetal Alcohol Sprectrum Disorder is the most common preventable disability, and preventing #FASD is a whole-of-community responsibility. Mothers never intentionally put their children at risk. If you or anyone you know is pregnant, planning to be pregnant or might be pregnant, remember: “NO alcohol is best for Dad, Mum and Bub” 8.ACT : The recent turning of the soil ceremony marks the start of the build of Winnunga’s brand new health facility with funding provided by the ACT Government. Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health and Community Services is an Indigenous-led health care facility that provides culturally safe, holistic health care services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Canberra and the surrounding regions. ‘The new build for Winnunga Nimmityjah Health and Community Services is a wonderful example of ACT Government’s support for self-determination of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health services,’ said Nikki Gotovac, Director of ACT Health Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Partnerships Team. ‘We recognise the experience and expertise of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community to run their own services. The funding will allow Winnunga to determine how to use the grant to best fit the needs of the community’. Construction on the new facility is expected to start shortly and will be completed towards the end of 2020. For further information on the range of health services and programs provided by Winnunga, visit www.winnunga.org.au 9. Tas : Tasmanian Government signs the Closing the Gap Partnership Agreement between the Coalition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peak bodies and the Council of Australian Governments. Roger Jaensch,Minister for Aboriginal Affairs Another step has been taken towards improving outcomes for Tasmanian Aboriginal communities, with the Tasmanian Government signing the Closing the Gap Partnership Agreement between the Coalition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peak bodies and the Council of Australian Governments. This historic agreement ensures the equal participation and shared decision making by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people on Closing the Gap. Since coming to Government in 2014, the Hodgman majority Liberal Government has led the journey of reconciliation to re-set the relationship with Tasmanian Aboriginal communities. Aboriginal people are now recognised in the Tasmanian Constitution as Tasmania’s first people, we have updated the Aboriginal and Dual Naming Policy to improve inclusivity and we have strengthened the Aboriginal Heritage Act 1975. Last year, the Premier committed to delivering the next phase, guided by the principles of empowerment and self-determination, to deliver a community-led strengths-based strategy that enables Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders to thrive. This is in stark contrast to the Labor party, who continue to shout from the sidelines, not willing to put in the work to deliver what really matters to Tasmanians. The Hodgman majority Liberal Government will work closely with all Tasmanian Aboriginal communities to ensure everyone is able to have their say as we deliver a shared purpose – one that recognises Aboriginal heritage and culture, and one that points to a brighter future for our First People. NACCHO Affiliate and ACCHO Members Deadly Good News Stories : #National @NACCHOChair @HealthJusticeAu #NSW @ahmrc @IAHA_National @Galambila #VIC @VACCHO_org #QLD @QAIHC_QLD #SA @Nganampa_Health #WA @TheAHCWA #NT @DanilaDilba #ACT @WinnungaACCHO 1.1 National : NACCHO Aboriginal Men’s Health Ochre Day in Melbourne inspires over 200 delegates 1.2 National : NACCHO Acting Chair Donnella Mills to be keynote speaker at Health Justice Conference in Sydney 1.3 National : The winner of the Puggy Hunter Scholarship, worth up to $15,000 a year announced 2.1 NSW : AH&MRC alongside the Australian Digital Health Agency produce booklet to provide key information to the community about the My Health Record and how to use it 2. 2 NSW : Graduate Rachel Williams now at Armajun Aboriginal Health Service, where her skills and connection to the community are crucial in providing dental care for local Aboriginal people. 2.3 NSW : For Women’s Health Week Galambila these are some of the amazing women on the Galambila ACCHO Coffs Harbour team 2.4 NSW : IAHA supports in principle the NSW Auditor-General’s recommendations; particularly the focus on finalising an Aboriginal mental health policy 3.VIC: VACCHO Acting CEO Trevor Pearce sets the scene at NACCHO OCHRE Day Men’s Health Conference Melbourne around issues important for our Victorian men. 4. QLD : QAIHC Sector Leader online Magazine features Lizzie Adams, the dedicated CEO of Goolburri Aboriginal Health talks about need to invest in young people 5.SA : Nganampa Health Council partnership targeted the availability, affordability, accessibility and promotion of healthy food in remote communities 6. WA : AHCWA’s TIS team and QALT project officers are currently attend the WA TIS Workforce Development Program. 7. NT : AMSANT reports staff from 3 of their NT ACCHO’s feature in NT 2019 Health Professional of the Year Awards 8. ACT : Winnunuga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health and community Services #Historymaking turning of the soil today at 10.30 am 9.TAS : Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre Registered Training Organisation short-listed for 4 awards “ NACCHO Ochre Day is an important event that reflects on the social and emotional issues our men face and are less likely to seek help for themselves. It is a great platform to hear stories of hope and empowerment and to learn what is working in our communities – of strategies that are successful for our men to take better care of their health and wellbeing. This year’s conference saw great participation from all 200 delegates who embraced the three focus areas of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men being in control, innovative and influential. Problems were met with solutions, with many delegates taking home new skills and knowledge to face the challenges in improving the health of men in their communities.” NACCHO’s commitment is to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander males to live longer, healthier lives and reduce the rate of preventable hospitalisations, which is almost three times higher than for other Australian men.” Mr John Paterson, CEO of Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory (AMSANT) and spokesperson for NACCHO said in his opening address at the seventh annual Ochre Day Men’s Health Conference over August 29-30 at Pullman On the Park, Melbourne : Hosted by VACCHO Read full NACCHO Press Release and report HERE Read John Paterson’s keynote speech HERE Do you work in an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community controlled organisation or with First Nations communities? Do you recognise complexity and wonder how to help people with multiple, intersecting need? Then Health Justice 2019 is for you! Over 24-25 September in Sydney, this highly engaging program will bring together everyone working at the intersections of legal, health and social need: practitioners, researchers, policy-makers, funders and community members; across disciplines, services, systems and communities. A fresh approach to conferencing, Health Justice 2019 is less about talking heads and more about opportunities to learn, share and collaborate. Sessions of particular interest to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and services include: Keynotes from Donnella Mills and Eddie Cubillo, reflecting on their experiences as leaders in Aboriginal community controlled health and legal services and advocating to improve health in their communities Alistair Fergsuon and other voices from collective impact approaches placing communities at the heart and head of responses to increasing social disadvantage, rising crime and community safety fears Roundtable discussion about health justice partnerships and how they are responding to complex and intersecting need Panels and workshops exploring the social determinants of health and how we define outcomes around what communities want Showcasing organisational approaches to improve workforce resilience and targeted workshops to build strategies to support practitioner wellbeing. Join us to share your insights and be part of the conversation to set new directions for people with intersecting health, social and legal needs and the services that support them. Registration includes access to highly targeted workshops building capability to work in partnership and to tell the stories about what you do and why it matters. Visit the conference website to see the full program and register here:healthjustice2019.org/register. Shania Charvat was in a tutoring session on campus when she received a call from someone sending her a well-timed lifeline for uni. And the first thing she did was hang up on them. She laughs she saw the unknown interstate number and assumed “they were trying to sell me a vacuum cleaner or something”. Shania called back three hours later to learn she’d been awarded the national Puggy Hunter Scholarship, worth up to $15,000 a year. The Australian Government established the scheme as a tribute to the late Dr Arnold ‘Puggy’ Hunter’s outstanding contribution to Indigenous Australians’ health and his role as chair of the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation. (1991-2001 ) The scholarship is awarded to an Indigenous student in a health-related discipline. The Bendigo Bachelor of Human Services/Master of Social Work student and Palawa woman says she can’t put into words how much it means to be a 2019 recipient. “At the time they called I had $9 in my bank account to last me two weeks, and I thought, how am I going to do this? I sobbed on the phone and said, this is lifechanging for me,” Shania says. “I’ve never been in the situation where I considered leaving university but weeks before the call I started thinking I’d have to go and earn some money before I could continue the course. The scholarship means I can stay at uni and I can get my degree.” Shania is in the second year of her four-year course. She came to La Trobe straight after finishing VCE at Bendigo Senior Secondary College to study a Diploma of Health Sciences, planning to eventually become a nurse like her grandmother. “But I found I really loved learning about psychology,” she says. “It was just so interesting to me and I couldn’t put my text books down, which was a first because I’m dyslexic. “My lecturers recommended I do psychology or social work. I chose social work and I haven’t looked back since.” After graduating from the Bendigo course Shania hopes to work with young people in prison. “I want to show them that prison may be where they’re at now, but it’s not going to be their life, we can change it.” She’s the first person in her family to go to university, but certainly not the last. Shania’s mum, Sam, now studies Education at the Bendigo Campus, her sister Michellie is here completing a Bachelor of Creative Arts, and her younger sister, Takeetah, plans to pursue her love of sociology here next year. Check out this great resource for adults: The My Health Record Storybook. This little booklet was designed by the AH&MRC alongside the Australian Digital Health Agency to provide key information to the community about the My Health Record and how to use it. There is also one for Youth and Parent/Carer/Guardian’s. To have a read of the storybook, click on the link : Less than three months after she completed her degree, Rachel Williams started work as an oral health therapist in Inverell, not far from her hometown of Glen Innes. Williams is a Ngemba woman working at the Armajun Aboriginal Health Service, where her skills and connection to the community are crucial in providing dental care for local Aboriginal people. For many of the people she treats, the nearest specialists are a two‑and-a-half hour drive away. “So we do as much as we can here, rather than just referring it on to someone else.” Four years ago, Williams received the Rotary Aboriginal Oral Health Scholarship. The scholarship was created in partnership with the University’s Poche Centre for Indigenous Health, established thanks to a $10 million donation from Greg Poche and Kay Van Norton Poche. It helped her to achieve certificate qualifications as a dental assistant. Afterwards, she began a dental assistant traineeship in Inverell, but dreamed of taking her studies further with a Bachelor of Oral Health. Again, a scholarship provided crucial support. She completed the degree with support from the Dr Lawrence F Smith Scholarship for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students in Dentistry. “Moving so far from my family and friends, leaving my job and relocating to Sydney was challenging,” she says. “The scholarship was invaluable in helping me adapt. “Being able to help people in my community, to help close the health gap for Aboriginal people in rural areas, it’s something I have always wanted to do.” “IAHA encourage investment in Aboriginal-led, community controlled mental health and social emotional wellbeing services for long-term solutions; based on a strong commitment and a future of our own design” Nicole Turner, Chairperson of IAHA .IAHA contributes significantly to the national dialogue on health and wellbeing access, equity and solutions for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. IAHA supports in principle the Auditor-General’s recommendations; particularly the focus on finalising an Aboriginal mental health policy framework which includes ‘actions to increase the numbers and types of Aboriginal workers across all levels and positions in the mental health workforce.’ Indigenous Allied Health Australia (IAHA), the national organisation for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander allied health workforce, welcomes the report from Margaret Crawford, New South Wales Auditor-General. IAHA contributes significantly to the national dialogue on health and wellbeing access, equity and solutions for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. IAHA supports in principle the Auditor-General’s recommendations; particularly the focus on finalising an Aboriginal mental health policy framework which includes ‘actions to increase the numbers and types of Aboriginal workers across all levels and positions in the mental health workforce.’ IAHA CEO Donna Murray said that, “while there have been improvements in the mental health context for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in NSW, significant work still needs to be done. Increasing the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander representation in the health and wellbeing workforce at all levels is a critical step towards this.” The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander allied health workforce brings solid returns on many fronts, they have the knowledge and the specialist skills to be part of the sustainable solution going forward. As an extension of the recommendations around the Aboriginal health workforce, IAHA contends that – consideration of training pathways, retention, supervisory supports and employment priorities is essential for sustainable and long-term change. The Audit states, “NSW Health provides some funding to Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services to provide mental health services. These non-government organisations have the cultural and clinical capability to support Aboriginal patients with complex mental health needs, but most advise that they lack the level of staffing and resources to meet community demand,” evidences the need to develop, support and promote the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workforce. 3.1 VIC: VACCHO Acting CEO Trevor Pearce sets the scene at NACCHO OCHRE Day Men’s Health Conference Melbourne around issues important for our Victorian men. Did you know that our ACCOs serve 7000 fellas throughout Victoria and yet they are still over represented in almost every negative health statistic? More work to do but we’re still here, and still pushing! If your wondering who those fellas are up on the screen it’s Wayne Tanner, John Nikkelson and Uncle Barry Fary from Bendigo & District Aboriginal Co-Operative in their awesome men’s shed when we went up for a visit (and seriously – that shed rocks!). 4.1 QLD : QAIHC Sector Leader online Magazine features Lizzie Adams, the dedicated CEO of Goolburri Aboriginal Health talks about need to invest in young people This edition features Lizzie Adams, the dedicated CEO of Goolburri Aboriginal Health Advancement Co. We hear about the changes she’s seen during her time in the Sector and why it’s important to invest in our young people. Read it now at https://www.qaihc.com.au/publications/sector-leader-magazine Every year, during the Ochre Day conference, NACCHO hosts a memorial dinner in honour of Jaydon Adams, a young leader whose contribution to youth participation in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health lives on. See the Foundation Website The winner of the 2019 Jaydon Adams Memorial Award was Nathan Taylor from Dandenong and District Aborigines Co-operative Ltd. Pictured here on right with Mark and Lizzie Adams Nathan was recognised for his exemplary work as an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth worker Nathan Taylor is employed as a Youth Worker at DDACL. In his role he comes into contact with many Aboriginal young people and is always caring about what they are doing and their health and their current situation. He shows exemplary care and concern for his fellow Koori (male or female) and advocates on their behalf with various providers, especially within our organisation. Nathan Taylor is always concerned about better health for Aboriginal young people. He has been integrally involved in a good health program for young people early in the morning before school. He arranges to pick them up, gets them to a basketball facility and puts them through their paces, then they get ready and changed and have breakfast. He then drops them off at school. 5 SA : Nganampa Health Council partnership targeted the availability, affordability, accessibility and promotion of healthy food in remote communities The 12-month project by Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (NPY) Women’s Council, Nganampa Health Council, Mai Wiru Regional Stores Aboriginal Corporation and the Prevention Centre targeted the availability, affordability, accessibility and promotion of healthy food. Project researcher Professor Amanda Lee said previous research showed that the turnover of foods in what is usually the single store in remote Aboriginal communities was a good indicator of peoples’ dietary intakes, as validated against objective biomedical data. The results of this study also provide insights into broader nutrition issues affecting other Aboriginal communities and wider Australia. “We have been assessing food security and dietary intake metrics to inform interventions on the APY Lands since 1986 and, despite everyone’s efforts, nutrition and diet-related health had been getting worse,” Professor Lee said. “But since the communities introduced this concerted intervention in 2018, the stores we worked with have improved the number, range, quality and relative price of fresh fruits and vegetables, lean meats and wholegrain cereals, improved product placement and promotion, and provided healthy takeaways, to help make healthier choices the easiest choices.” The research team worked with Mai Wiru Regional Stores and the communities to strengthen their store nutrition policy. Project officer Rhiannon Hutchinson, a trained nutritionist, also worked with members of two specific communities, implementing a range of community-led interventions to increase demand for healthy food. This involved responding to any requests to help improve nutrition, including cooking, product demonstrations, budgeting, sessions for children and young people, recipe development and ‘bush picnics’. She also worked closely with store managers to help implement the revised Mai Wiru store nutrition policy in these two communities, in a step-wise approach. Multiple evaluation methods included assessment of store sales data, costs/affordability using the Healthy Diets ASAP (Australian Standardised Affordability and Pricing) methods, and store nutrition policy compliance. Non-intervention communities functioned as staged controls. Importantly, the project took a strengths-based approach and built on traditional food knowledge. The main dietary message was to “eat store foods that are most like traditional bush foods”. All organisations worked with the communities to improve capacity, build on traditional nutrition knowledge and skills and build community demand for healthy foods. During the intervention: Improvement in food security metrics were more marked in the stores in the two intervention communities where scores for product availability, product placement, and promotion increased respectively from 80% to 98%, from 64% to 92%, and from 54% to 100%. Improvement in diet was most marked in the community (Pipalyatjara) where both food supply and food demand strategies were in place the longest; the intake of fruit doubled (from 39g to 79g per person/day), the intake of vegetables increased (from 109g to 133g per person/day) and the intake of sugary drinks decreased by 5%. Reliance on bread as the main dietary source of energy decreased by 20%, suggesting less food stress. The average proportion of energy derived from unhealthy (discretionary) foods and drinks from all stores assessed was stable at 45% (compared to around 37% for non-Indigenous communities). However, at Pipalyatjara, the proportion of energy derived from unhealthy foods decreased to 39%. A healthy diet on the APY Lands became more affordable than an unhealthy diet, costing 15% less; the cost of fruit and vegetables was only 6% higher than in Alice Springs. Over the year, on the APY Lands, the cost of a healthy diet increased by about 2% and the cost of an unhealthy diet increased by 5%. In comparison, in Alice Springs the cost of a healthy diet increased by 7%, while the cost of an unhealthy diet increased by 5%. The project was funded by the Medical Research Future Fund to address Aboriginal food security and dietary intake. Lack of food security – when all people, at all times, have physical, economic and social access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life – is still a significant contributor to poor health in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Professor Lee said the project confirmed that multi-strategy, community-lead nutrition projects focusing on both supply and demand could improve Aboriginal food security and diet rapidly and should be implemented nationally at scale. “The stores in the two intervention communities now score almost 100% against all the metrics assessed. For example, they have moved sugary drinks fridges to the rear of the store, no longer stock large sizes of sugary drinks, and cross-subsidise the price of healthy choices, such as fresh produce, lean meats and water. “The key was to work collaboratively to strengthen the store nutrition policy, monitor implementation regularly, feed results back to the communities, and support community demand for healthier options,” she said. Working with remote communities who can intervene in their food system in a more contained manner than in less isolated communities has resulted in findings that can be applied more broadly to other Aboriginal communities and wider Australia. For example, the project has shown that there is a direct relationship between product placement and promotion in food outlets and dietary intake. Results reinforce the notion that policy regulation and market intervention are required to improve food security and diet. The National Best Practice Unit for Tackling Indigenous Smoking is hosted the 2-day workshop at the Rendezvous Hotel in Scarborough. Picture above : AHCWA TIS and QALT project officers with Greg Hire formally from the Perth Wildcats after he presented on the ‘A Stitch in Time’ organisation. Greg founded the organisation in 2014 which aims to provide programs for youth, aged 12-25 in the Perth Metro and Regional communities. Congratulations to the winners of the 2019 Health Professional of the Year Awards! Rebecca Earle, James Arratta, Rrapa Dhurrkay, Dr Meredith Hansen-Knarhoi and Rebecca Matthews were recognised on Friday for their outstanding contributions. Danila Dilba GP, Dr Meredith Hansen-Knarhoi, has been recognised as the GP of the Year at the NT Health Professional of the Year awards over last weekend. Dr Hanson-Knarhoi is passionate about Aged Care and women’s health and goes beyond the role of an ordinary GP when caring for her nursing home patients. Meredith’s compassion, humanism and respect for culture sets a strong example for excellence in primary health care. GP or other Doctor working in Primary Health Care of the Year Dr Meredith Hansen-Knarhoi (GP, Danila Dilba Palmerston Clinic) Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Health Practitioner of the Year Rrapa Dhurrkay (Senior Aboriginal Health Practitioner, Miwatj Elcho Island Clinic) Nurse and/or Midwife of the Year Rebecca Earle (Remote Area Nurse, Julanimawu Clinic Bathurst Island) Allied Health Practitioner of the Year Rebecca Matthews (Remote visiting podiatrist, Central Australian Aboriginal Congress) Primary Health Care Support Person of the Year James Arratta (Belyuen Health Centre) We are across all social media platforms. Make sure you keep up to date with what is happening in our community and around Australia in Aboriginal Health. Follow the ongoing push for change and massive improvements in moving forward with the new building for Winnunuga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health and community Services. For the first time, the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre Registered Training Organisation (NACCHO Affiliate for Lutruwita/Tasmania) entered the above and were short-listed for 4 awards: Swinburne University of Technology Industry Collaboration Award and Training Provider of The Year for our RTO; and for students trained in our RTO Certificate IV course in Alcohol and Other Drugs – Rotary Club of Deloraine Vocational Student of the Year Award Finalists Keeomee Mansell of the Aboriginal Health Service in Burnie and Janelle Williams of Cygnet now employed by the Bridge Salvation Army in Hobart; and for the TasTAFE Aboriginal Student of the Year Award Finalist, our staff member Dionne Bishop trained by our RTO and employed by the AHS in Hobart, the only finalist candidate not trained by Tas TAFE, won a Special Commendation – the only such award conferred on the night. A very big night for our only Aboriginal RTO in this State. NACCHO Affiliate and ACCHO Members Deadly Good News Stories : National watch Pat Turner #QANDA #NSW GWAMS @ahmrc #VIC @VACCHO_org #QLD @Apunipima @DeadlyChoices #WA Wirraka Maya #SA #NT @MiwatjHealth #ACT @WinnungaACCHO #TAS 1.1 National : Did you miss our CEO Pat Turner on Q and A this week ? Watch HERE 1.2 National : Keynote speakers announced for NACCHO Ochre Day Men’s Health Conference 2019 in Melbourne next week Has your ACCHO Registered ? 1.3 National : ACCHO’s invited to attend Health Data Portal Co-design Workshops: September – October 2019 1.4 National iSISTAQUIT “implement Supporting Indigenous Smokers To Assist Quitting” program is starting now, and we need your help and ideas – so here is how you can help us. 2.I NSW : The ANFPP team at Greater Western Aboriginal Health Service hosted morning tea with the Aunties from Baabayn 2.2 NSW : AH&MRC launches new website 3.VIC : VACCHO and the Aboriginal breast screening project in partnership with BreastScreen Victoria. 4.1 QLD : Apunipima ACCHO Cape York Baby One Program health worker training 4.2 QLD : AFL Brisbane Lions superstar leads Deadly Choices campaign to increase 715 Health Checks 5. SA : The Commissioner for Aboriginal Engagement, Dr Roger Thomas, is commencing State-wide consultation to seek the views of Aboriginal communities to improve relations between government and Aboriginal people. 6.WA : Meet Alfred Barker. He’s a Traditional Owner and the Chairperson of Wirraka Maya, where he works to educate and support men about the role they can play in preventing FASD 7. NT : Check out what the awesome Miwatj Health AMS TIS team in Gapuwiyak have been up to over the recent school holiday break. 8. ACT : Ms Julie Tongs, CEO of Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health and Community Service has calls on Ms Rosie Batty AO to assist with advocacy 9. TAS : Heather Sculthorpe NAIDOC Speech 2019 Panellists: Linda Burney, Shadow Minister for Indigenous Australians; Julian Leeser, Co-Chair of Joint Select Committee on Constitutional Recognition; Jacinta Price, Director of Indigenous Program, CIS; Patricia Turner, CEO of National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation; and Sally Scales, Uluru Statement Delegate. (who replaced Noel Pearson at the last moment ) From transcript panellist Pat Turner, a legendary figure in Indigenous affairs: “We survived here for 60,000 years before the last 200 and we’ve been devastated more in the last 200-plus than the 60,000 years before that … we want to have the right to share the power and to make the decisions about the future of our people in our own country.” Jacinta Price thought the debate “distracts us from what’s really going on” – issues such as violence and suicide in Indigenous communities. Pat Turner shot back. A distraction? “It hasn’t distracted me because we’re working very hard to close the gap. And to ensure that Aboriginal voices are at the table in negotiations with government as equals.” She concluded: “We’re waiting for no one. We’re getting on with the job.” “We are very fortunate this year to have an illustrious line-up of speakers and are expecting to host around 200 male delegates from across the country. The conference aims to increase access for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander males to primary health care services, and participation in healthy lifestyle activities within the community.” Mr John Paterson, CEO of Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory (AMSANT) and spokesperson for OCHRE DAY The National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO) will hold its seventh annual Ochre Day Men’s Health Conference on 29-30 August at Pullman On the Park, Melbourne. This year’s conference will focus on three aspirational topics around Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men being: in-control, innovative and influential. The NACCHO Ochre Day Conference is an important event that draws attention to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander male health issues and their impact on their social and emotional health in a holistic way. The enduring theme for the conference is – Men’s Health, Our Way. Let’s Own It! The NACCHO Ochre Day Conference was established in 2012 to provide a strategic focus on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander male health issues in a holistic way Read or Download full press release here For further information on the conference and to register online, click here. A series of co-design workshops will be conducted around Australia during September and October 2019. The co-design workshops will allow health service representatives to: Gather input for future nKPI, OSR, HCP and QLIK Interactive Report enhancements based on your July-August 2019 reporting experience; and Discuss Stage 2 OSR requirements and how to effectively gather the required data. Co-design workshop locations, dates and venue details are set out here : How to register for a co-design workshop An Eventbrite invitation was sent to all health services on 26 July 2019. If you would like an invitation sent to you please send us your name and email address to indigenousreporting@health.gov.au. Seats are strictly limited and fill up quickly so please register ASAP. Like all previous Portal co-design workshops conducted in 2017, 2018 and February-March 2019, travel, accommodation and expenses to attend a co-design workshop is at your health services’ expense. Do you have other colleagues who want to attend? This email invitation can only be used by you. If you want a colleague to attend, please email us their name and email address to indigenousreporting@health.gov.au Please note that due to a high level of interest we request that no more than two people from your health service attend, where possible. This will ensure we have a wide representation from the sector attending the co-design workshops. Not able to attend? Consultation is an important part of developing the Portal. If you are unable to attend a co-design workshop, you can still contribute. Details of how to do this will be communicated to you soon. If would like more information about the co-design workshops, please contact us at indigenousreporting@health.gov.au Our focus is to improve health providers’ (HP) provision of smoking cessation care for pregnant Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women. Download the full poster Poster-iSISTAQUIT call for resources We are currently developing our training materials into an on-line format, making social media resources, and exploring effective ways of recruiting services. Register your interest: We invite Aboriginal Health Services, Tackling Indigenous Smoking Sites, and Mainstream Health Services to be Partner Services of the iSISTAQUIT team in implementing iSISTAQUIT, to take the iSISTAQUIT_survey or email iSISTAQUIT@newcastle.edu.au and we will arrange a call or zoom meeting Become an Advisor: We are looking for Advisors to support us developing: a) The online training format for Health Professionals and /or b) The social media campaign. Send us your resources: To develop the media campaign, we are looking for resources that are provided to pregnant women to support smoking cessation (print, digital, video or social media). If you have developed resources or have examples that you give to pregnant women or ideas for messages for quitting in pregnancy, please contact us and/or send your resources iSISTAQUIT@newcastle.edu.au 2. I NSW : The ANFPP team at Greater Western Aboriginal Health Service AHS hosted morning tea with the Aunties from Baabayn The Australian Nurse-Family Partnership Program (ANFPP) is a nurse-led home visiting program that supports women pregnant with an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander child to help them become the best mum possible. ANFPP mums are offered support and guidance during early pregnancy and on into their baby’s infancy and toddlerhood. The ANFPP is an important early investment in the future of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in local communities. We are part of the Australian Government’s commitment to improve the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people It was a great morning yarning about the program and showing them around our new office. The AH&MRC Board of Directors and staff are delighted to announce the launch of our new website. The website is the next phase of the AH&MRC rebrand, with the logo being announced in September 2018. VIEW new website HERE “We have gone through a transition period and we now have a clear direction of our organisation, with a website as the representation.” says Scott Monaghan, Chairperson of the Board of AH&MRC The AH&MRC website has been created to promote success stories from the sector, job openings and local events, professional learning opportunities, accredited courses, research development and more. “We want members and the community to use the website to keep up to date.” concluded Mr Monaghan. The August Edition of Message Stick is out now! Read about the new AH&MRC website, the Closing the Gap on Indigenous Health Conference, the PHN and ACCHS Roundtable and opportunities to work with AH&MRC and our members. Read more here >> http://bit.ly/33QDlw8 3.1 VIC : VACCHO and the Aboriginal breast screening project in partnership with BreastScreen Victoria. Our COO Helen Kennedy and Susan Forrester are with Gina Bundle from The Womens at our ICAP Forum modeling one of the many breastscreening shawls currently being designed by so many of our incredible women around Victoria. this Aboriginal breastscreening project is done in partnership with BreastScreen Victoria. Gunditj Corp staff members Charmaine Clarke and Sherry Johnstone with our Susan Forrester showing off the incredible artworks created by local Gunditjmara women that will be used in our Aboriginal breastscreening shawl project with BreastScreen Victoria These beautiful shawls will be used to keep our women culturally safe and strong during screening sessions. If you want to know more about this project contact us on 03 9411 9411. In a recent edition of Apunipima ACCHO Cape Capers there was mention of the training taking place at the Cairns office, with the Nutritionist Team providing workshops based around increasing knowledge on nutrition in the communities for pregnant women, mums and infants. The Baby One Program and Bump 2 Bubba teams took on meaningful discussions, cooking sessions, team building exercises and workshops around ways to improve resources and processes in getting the ‘better health’ message across. It was clear that the group provided valuable ideas for the future and gained more insights into what will be key messages for the Cape’s future health. Dr Thomas has already undertaken some targeted consultation with Aboriginal stakeholders. This has developed an engagement reform proposal for his State-wide consultation. Premier Steven Marshall committed in his Aboriginal Affairs Action Plan released in December 2018 to develop a model to facilitate and enable better engagement between the Government and Aboriginal communities and for Aboriginal views to be more represented in government decision-making. The Premier said it was critical that the views of Aboriginal peoples were heard across all levels of government. “I am committed to ensuring Aboriginal South Australians are adequately represented in the decisions that affect them,” said the Premier. Dr Thomas urged Aboriginal South Australians to get involved in the consultation process. “I encourage all Aboriginal people, communities and organisations to share their views, by attending a consultation session, or to provide written feedback on the recommended model,” Dr Thomas said. The Commissioner has developed eleven draft guiding principles as a reference point for the discussion and development of potential models of Aboriginal engagement: Once the Commissioner has consulted with Aboriginal communities over the coming three months, a report will be presented to the Premier for Cabinet to consider. Aboriginal South Australians are encouraged to have their say during the consultation process, and can do so via a number of channels: 1. Attend a consultation: The Commissioner for Aboriginal Engagement will visit many sites across South Australia, and lead the consultation with Aboriginal people, organisations and representatives, over the next three months. To find out more information about the Commissioner’s visits across South Australia, arrange a meeting, or to request more information, contact the Office of the Commissioner for Aboriginal Engagement (OCAE) or visit dpc.sa.gov.au/aboriginal-engagement 2. Provide written feedback: Feedback Forms will be provided at all the consultation meetings. Alternatively, you may submit your feedback online. Detailed written submissions are also welcome and can be emailed to the Office of the Commissioner for Aboriginal Engagement at AboriginalEngagement@sa.gov.au 3.Call Office of the Commissioner for Aboriginal Engagement: 6.1 WA : Meet Alfred Barker. He’s a Traditional Owner and the Chairperson of Wirraka Maya, where he works to educate and support men about the role they can play in preventing FASD Recently it was Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Awareness Day, and we’re sharing the last story in our series profiling inspirational people leading the charge to make FASD history in the Pilbara in collaboration with Telethon Kids, BHP Western Australia and Wirraka Maya Health Service Aboriginal Corporation. Meet Alfred Barker. He’s a Traditional Owner and the Chairperson of Wirraka Maya, where he works to educate and support men about the role they can play in preventing FASD, through supporting their partners not to drink during pregnancy. After watching, please SHARE this video with your networks to help raise awareness of the role that men can play in the prevention of #FASD. 7.1 NT : Check out what the awesome Miwatj Health AMS TIS team in Gapuwiyak have been up to over the recent school holiday break. Listen up! Come check out what our awesome TIS team in Gapuwiyak have been up to over the school holiday break. It’s great to see djamarrkuli have fun and learn about ngarali (tobacco) and healthy lifestyles. And sports Miwatj AMS TIS worker Thomas Guyula from Gapuwiyak, is passionate about educating and helping people understand the dangers of smoking! Ms Julie Tongs, CEO of Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health and Community Service has called on Ms Rosie Batty AO, to use her address at the annual EMILY’s List Oration to be held in Canberra on Wednesday 21 August to urge the ACT Government to reverse its decision to defund the ACT Legal Aid Commission’s specialist family violence service. Julie Tongs noted that Aboriginal women are vastly over-represented as victims of crime including as victims of domestic violence. She said: “The most recent data reveals an Aboriginal woman is 35 times more likely to be hospitalised due to domestic violence related assault than a non-Aboriginal woman.” Julie Tongs further noted the Legal Aid Commission has assisted hundreds of women a year, including many Aboriginal women, who have been subjected to violence and abuse. Download the full Press Release HERE WNAHCS Media Release 2019 – Rosie Batty The national theme for NAIDOC this year is Voice, Treaty, Truth. This is a summary of the Aboriginal community demands in the Statement From The Heart developed at Uluru 2 years ago. Achieving these goals, based on the recognition of Aboriginal people in the Australian Constitution, is regarded by some as the basis for reconciliation – as enabling Aborigines and non-Aborigines to move forward together towards a better future. The proposal for a ‘Voice to Parliament’ is the most controversial of these demands. The former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull immediately dismissed the idea calling it a third chamber of the federal Parliament: the Senate, the House of Representatives, and the Aboriginal Voice. In fact it would have only the power to advise and so would be less a decision making body than the former Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission which did have some power to determine policy and make financial decisions. Instead of the risky business of trying to get changes agreed to the Australian Constitution, many are now advocating State level treaty making as a means of changing the power imbalance between Aboriginal people and the State. That would have to go very much further than the simple wording changes to State Constitutions made by the Tasmanian Parliament and others which simply state the obvious fact that Aborigines were the first people of this country. A treaty would need to cover matters like the return of lands, a guaranteed income through a share of the gross domestic product of the country or a similar formula, and protections for Aboriginal language and culture. The benefits of a treaty were summed up by Michael Mansell in his book about treaty and statehood as follows: Aboriginal communities need essential and fundamental tools to replicate what once was – an ordered, civilised, united Aboriginal society that took care of its own and managed its affairs – and restore it in a modern world. The fundamental tools needed include land ownership, empowerment, financial guarantees, cultural integrity and self-determination. The longer Aboriginals are denied these essential assets the longer we will see despair and frustration, and the more we will have to revisit the consequences of disadvantage. We would expect these fundamental requirements to be additional to basic services provided to everyone in Australia like health, housing and education. These service areas are still failing Aboriginal people, starting from the significant gap in life expectancy. How do we reach equivalent life outcomes for our people without becoming just like white people, without becoming assimilated into the values and lifestyle of those who invaded our lands and nearly destroyed our people? We start by the truth-telling referred to in the Uluru Statement. We’ve seen the beginning of that process in the massacre mapping of the continent by Dr Lyndall Ryan and others, decades after the first version of Lyndall’s book on Aboriginal Tasmania was published. We see it increasingly in the story telling of Aboriginal writers, play wrights and song writers like puralia meenamatta/Jim Everett, Cheryl Mundy, Nathan Maynard, and Dewayne Everett-Smith. And in the art works and photographs of Ricky Maynard, Janice Ross Lowery Maynard, Rodney Gardner and many others. And now in the curriculum materials in Tasmanian schools through the highly praised ORB multi-media package. Truth telling must start with being clear that this country and this State were not settled peacefully but through violence and treachery. In our case, the treachery occurred when our Old People were persuaded to give up their guerrilla war against the invaders and board the boats bound for Flinders Island. They were persuaded that this was the only way to prevent the rest of their people being slaughtered and that they would soon return to their home lands. Instead most of them died on Flinders Island. This is how Walter George Arthur described the treachery in 1846, writing from Wybalena on Flinders to Queen Victoria in London, England: The humble petition of the free Aborigines Inhabitants of Van Diemen’s Land now living upon Flinders Island …That we are your free children that we were not taken prisoners but freely gave up our country to Colonel Arthur then the Governor after defending ourselves, Your petitioners humbly state to your Majesty that Mr Robinson [George Augustus] made for us and with Colonel Arthur an agreement that we have not lost from our minds since and we have made our part of it good. Your petitioners humbly tell Your Majesty that when we left our own place we were plenty of people, we are now but a little one. In any normal human understanding, this must surely be an undertaking to make a peaceful settlement with a treaty. Lutruwita/Tasmania is well over due to make good on this promise. And not just any promise: an undertaking between equal sovereigns. What the Education Department’s ORB lacks is Aboriginal decision making and control, things that the national Coalition of Peak Close the Gap organisations has stressed to be every bit as important as targets and indicators. As recognised by the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody nearly 3 decades ago, it is the lack of Aboriginal control and decision making that has resulted in the disparities in life outcomes so prevalent today. Let’s keep in mind that this is the main area that needs to improve if we are to get anywhere near reconciliation in this country. We are very pleased that so many people keeping coming back year after year to help us mark the start of NAIDOC week. In the future we may be able to use this occasion to celebrate together but for now at least we must use the occasion as a reminder that we still have a long way to go. Nayri nina-tu. 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MPC Study Provides Data on the Economic Benefits of People Spots The Southport People Spot. Photo: John Greenfield From a quick glance at a People Spot mini park filled with people enjoying the weather on a gorgeous afternoon, it may seem obvious that the extra foot traffic is providing a boost to nearby businesses. A recent study by the Metropolitan Planning Council attempted to quantify this economic benefit, and found that these parklets do, in fact, provide a significant shot in the arm for local retail. Chicago’s People Spots repurpose asphalt in a street’s curb lane to use it as public space for residents, rather than parking space for private cars. These are facilitated by the Chicago Department of Transportation and paid for by local businesses. They consist of a seating area on a platform in the street, surrounded by planters, which shelter users from car traffic. The design can range from a typical sidewalk café-style layout, with tables and chairs, to the imaginative free-form fixtures at the People Spot at Southport and Addison in Lakeview, which vaguely resemble a whale’s skeleton. Any displaced metered parking is relocated to another part of the ward. The parklets are removed each year by November 1, when the space reverts to car parking until the spring. An MPC infographic on the benefits of People Spots. In July and August of this year, MPC and Sam Schwartz Engineering observed activity from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on weekdays at Chicago’s eight People Spots in Bronzeville, Lakeview, and Andersonville, as well as the People Plaza seating area in the median of State and Lake in the Loop. Unfortunately, a People Spot that was proposed this year for the corner of Dearborn and Adams, outside the MPC offices, was kyboshed due to insurance issues. The researchers observed about 450 parklet users, and interviewed more than 100 of them, as well as some 40 business owners. About 80 percent of the merchants surveyed said that the People Spots increased foot traffic on their block, and helped bring customers to their establishments. Some credited the parklets with contributing to a 10 to 20 percent increase in sales since they were installed. For example, owner Michael Salvatore of Heritage Bicycles, 2959 North Lincoln, said the café-style parklet in front of his store is “Instagram Heaven,” which encourages customers to spread the word about his cycles and coffee via social media. Dane Redway, manager of Akira clothing store, 5228 North Clark, said the adjacent People Spot serves as a “town square,” where “people sit and stare at the storefront windows.” Even if they don’t make purchases at the time, he thinks those parklet users are more likely to come back and shop in the future. The study found that 93 percent of parklet users and merchants felt that the facilities created a more positive vibe on the retail strips. In some cases, the spots have been used for community events. Bronzeville’s Quad Communities Development Corporation organized a jazz concert, as well as an arts showcase featuring tapdancers, at the neighborhood’s two People Spots at 643 and 918 East 47th Street. The Lincoln and Andersonville parklets hosted a 50-person potluck and a brass band concert, respectively. The Bronzeville People Spot. Photo: CDOT 73 percent of People Spot users said that, if they weren’t hanging out in the spaces, they would probably be at home, and 34 percent of them made spontaneous food or beverage purchases, the study found. 43 percent of respondents said they traveled two blocks or less to get there. 57 percent of them walked to the parklets, while another 11 percent got there by bike. It may seem obvious to Streetsblog readers that using public space to provide an amenity for residents and shoppers, rather than to warehouse private property, is beneficial for nearby businesses. However, in the past, some merchants have balked at the notion of using any curbside parking spaces for People Spots. The MPC study should be a useful tool for convincing skeptical business owners that a new parklet will be good for their bottom line. Filed Under: Local Businesses, Neighborhoods, Metropolitan Planning Council, People Spots, Sam Schwartz Engineering Alex Oconnor Once again the auto-storage advocates and their doomsday predictions of ruining businesses for lack of parking are empirically demonstrably wrong. Did the increased foot traffic lead to increased sales? Vitaliy Vladimirov “Some credited the parklets with contributing to a 10 to 20 percent increase in sales since they were installed. “ Matt Nardella Glad to hear there is some backup data now. Turns out the previous notion that vibrant streets are created by a collection of humans not a collection of parked cars, proves true. Chrissy Mancini In place of about 16 parking spots there are 450 people visiting the People Spots on an average day. Terrific for business. Alice Hlidkova I love this article. I am sure the City of Pittsburgh can benefit from a study like this. I would like to learn more on best practice and methodology as I am compiling data on street vs sidewalk vendors and truck loading/unloading for the City of Pittsburgh City Planning Department. Can you provide some recommendations on data collection? New People Spots Are Part of Strategy to Energize Ho-Hum Stretch of Clark In July, two new “People Spot” mini parks debuted on an Lackluster segment of Clark near Wellington, as part of a larger campaign to revitalize the business strip. The new parklets are located in front of El Nuevo Mexicano restaurant, 2914 North Clark, and Osteria De Pizza Metro, 2863 North Clark. They cost a total […] Pedestrianizing Southport for Trick-or-Treaters Is a Frightfully Good Idea By John Greenfield | Oct 24, 2014 Tired of cars gobblin’ up all the right-of-way when there should be more space for pedestrians? Take your little witches and werewolves down to the annual Trick or Treat on Southport, organized by the Lakeview Chamber of Commerce. This free, annual community event takes place this Sunday, October 26, from 1-4 p.m. on Southport, from […] CDOT Creates a New “Off-the-Shelf” Parklet Design, Installs a Prototype in Chatham By James Porter and John Greenfield | Nov 6, 2018 The project was funded by a $30,000 Livable Communities grant from the AARP. People Spots Return to Andersonville; A People Street May Be Coming By John Greenfield | Apr 25, 2014 It’s a sure sign of spring when Chicago’s People Spot mini-parks start reappearing. Workers recently reinstalled the parklet at Addison and Southport in Lakeview, featuring undulating, vertebrae-like benches, assembled from some 375 wooden cross-sections. Yesterday the Andersonville Development Corporation, a nonprofit that promotes sustainable community and economic development, reinstalled the People Spot at the southwest […] The Case of the Missing Andersonville “People Spots” By John Greenfield | Aug 4, 2015 [This article also runs in Checkerboard City, John’s transportation column in Newcity magazine, which hits the streets on Wednesday evenings.] As the Tribune’s Blair Kamin recently pointed out, it’s embarrassing that San Francisco will soon have more than eighty “parklets”—parking-lane space repurposed as picturesque seating areas—while our much-larger city only has a handful of them. Dubbed “People […] Cubs Divvy Station and Southport People Spot Enliven Wrigleyville It’s a pleasure to see Divvy docking stations, People Spot seating areas, on-street bike corrals, and other productive uses of the public way popping up around Chicago. They serve as reminders that there are much more effective ways to move people around the city and attract customers to business districts than focusing on facilitating car […]

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Redskins Wrap Up 2nd Mini-Camp Redskins mini-camp continued its familiar pattern on the third and final day: Plenty of hard work, plenty of energy--all encouraging signs from a football team that is quickly coming together. The Redskins' second mini-camp of the offseason, concluded Sunday afternoon with another two-hour practice. Afterwards, the focus quickly shifted to what lies ahead for coaches and players between now and June 4-6, when the team will host its third and final mini-camp of the offseason. "The next couple of weeks, what we're asking the guys to do is [several days a week] to work with their position coach, be on the field for walk-throughs and be here for weight training and conditioning," head coach Joe Gibbs said. "Then we leave it up to them to get one more workout during the week. That'll be roughly our schedule until the next mini-camp." Players heard the message loud and clear. "Coach let us know that he expects everybody to be here and to put their work in," said wide receiver Laveranues Coles. "He might not say anything about it, but you can tell he's keeping a mental note on who's working hard." Added defensive lineman Phillip Daniels: "It's key, coming here in shape and pushing people off the ball--just being able to run around as fast as you can and make plays. I'm getting older so I have to start a little earlier now." Gibbs continued to praise the players' attitudes and work ethic, despite what he termed as "rough" play on the practice field throughout the weekend. The team had several expected starters sit out the scrimmages, so coaches shuffled in young players at various positions. "It makes it hard to have anything real smooth when you have a lot of people missing in action," Gibbs said. "We got a few [injured players] back this weekend. But in general, that's my biggest concern--getting everybody healed up." Regarding the quarterbacks, Gibbs said: "We feel real good about our quarterback position. Tim Hasselbeck looked good. Patrick Ramsey--this was his first camp [since returning from foot surgery]--looked very solid. So did Mark Brunell. We put them in a bad position several times today because we were substituting a lot of people around them. Overall, I think they're working hard and doing well." Gibbs described the process of how he and the coaches grade players during mini-camp. "Every night, we grade every player from practice," he explained. "We're writing down their name and what they did well or what mistake they made. Over a period of time, you start looking at those names and you start going over things. "Out of Saturday's practice, there were two guys who you wouldn't have guessed who kind of jumped out. So it surprised you and you kind of think, 'Hey, these are the kind of guys you're looking for.' I think you start to develop a profile of the kind of person each player is." Gibbs added that, with coaches immersed in player evaluation, he does not expect to make any major personnel moves between now and the start of training camp. "From here on out, it's going to be very hard for us to add somebody to the football team," Gibbs said. "We maximized free agency and we did as well as we could do in the draft. We did well with the undrafted free agents--a couple of them have really showed up and played well out there. "But if you can add somebody, it might be just a person here or a person there. Right now, I feel pretty good about our players."

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Greenwich girls soccer ties Westhill Dave Ruden, Staff Writer 1of17Stamford High School's Kaela Schneider controls the ball against Trinity Catholic High School's Kathryn Connolly in girls soccer at Trinity in Stamford, Conn. on Friday October 22, 2010. Stamford won 4-1.Kathleen O'RourkeShow MoreShow Less 2of17Stamford High School's Angela Altamura reaches for the ball against Trinity Catholic High School in girls soccer at Trinity in Stamford, Conn. on Friday October 22, 2010.Kathleen O'RourkeShow MoreShow Less 4of17Stamford High School's Sam Lyman controls the ball against Trinity Catholic High School in girls soccer at Trinity in Stamford, Conn. on Friday October 22, 2010.Kathleen O'RourkeShow MoreShow Less 5of17Stamford High's Lauren Schapiro controls the ball against Trinity Catholic High School in girls soccer at Trinity in Stamford, Conn. on Friday October 22, 2010.Kathleen O'RourkeShow MoreShow Less 7of17Stamford High School's Sam Sye controls the ball against Trinity Catholic High School in girls soccer at Trinity in Stamford, Conn. on Friday October 22, 2010. Stamford won 4-1.Kathleen O'RourkeShow MoreShow Less 8of17Trinity Catholic High School's Nat Senoble controls the ball against Stamford High School in girls soccer at Trinity in Stamford, Conn. on Friday October 22, 2010. Stamford won 4-1.Kathleen O'RourkeShow MoreShow Less 10of17Stamford High School's Sam Lyman reaches for the ball against Trinity Catholic High School's Shilpa Kolli in girls soccer at Trinity in Stamford, Conn. on Friday October 22, 2010. Stamford won 4-1.Kathleen O'RourkeShow MoreShow Less 11of17Stamford High School's Kaela Schneider battles Trinity Catholic High School's Jenn Featherston in girls soccer at Trinity in Stamford, Conn. on Friday October 22, 2010. Stamford won 4-1.Kathleen O'RourkeShow MoreShow Less 13of17Trinity Catholic High School's Nicole Fay controls the ball against Stamford High School in girls soccer at Trinity in Stamford, Conn. on Friday October 22, 2010. Stamford won 4-1.Kathleen O'RourkeShow MoreShow Less 14of17Trinity Catholic High School's Grace Telesco reaches for the ball against Stamford High School in girls soccer at Trinity in Stamford, Conn. on Friday October 22, 2010. Stamford won 4-1.Kathleen O'RourkeShow MoreShow Less 16of17Trinity Catholic High School's Nat Senoble eyes the ball against Stamford High School's Hannah Carlson in girls soccer at Trinity in Stamford, Conn. on Friday October 22, 2010. Stamford won 4-1.Kathleen O'RourkeShow MoreShow Less STAMFORD -- Aulona Velaj stood with her hands on her hips, her head slumped toward the turf at Westhill High School. Though moments earlier Velaj had rocketed a shot high into the net to give the Vikings a 2-2 tie with Greenwich, the junior midfielder was focused more on the play that preceded it, which led to the go-ahead score by the Cardinals' Shannon Colligan. "It's my fault the goal went in," Velaj said. "She's fast and I lost her. My goal is not really enough for me." Velaj's reaction, and that of her teammates to Wednesday's draw, is perhaps the best evidence to date of the strides the Vikings have made this season. A year ago, the Westhill players would have been ecstatic with the outcome. Now they left the field unfulfilled. "I'm not disappointed, but the girls feel like they lost," Westhill coach Dave Flower said. "I'm proud of what they have done. I really like their attitude." In a battle of teams that are legitimate contenders for the FCIAC title, the Vikings improved to 9-1-1 and maintained the second best record in the league. ROUNDUP Sacred Heart soccer beats Masters Greenwich girls soccer hands Darien its first loss "Everyone expects more from us, and we should give it," Velaj said. "Now we're better. Last year it was about the tie or losing by just one goal. "Now we don't settle. We want the best." While some have questioned whether the Vikings -- who by the way are 2-1-1 against the seven other teams that would qualify for the playoffs if the season ended today, and will finish the regular season against two of the others -- are for real, Greenwich coach Danny Simpson praised his players after the game for their effort "against the No. 2 team in the league." He was not just reiterating fact. "Dave has done a good job with a lot of young talent," Simpson said. "It took three to four years to build it, but they are going to stay around for a while. These are the games you want to play." Greenwich improved to 7-3-2 and, like Westhill, again demonstrated that while they are also built on youth, they have the technical skills to play with anyone. "It was a battle in the middle between two teams that work hard," Simpson said. "In the first half there were not many shots. In the second half you couldn't keep the goals out. It was a fair result." After nearly 60 minutes in which there were hardly any real scoring chances, the two schools erupted for four goals in a 12-minute span, with the Cardinals twice taking leads and the Vikings answering. "It got so intense out there," said Colligan, a sophomore forward who made a brilliant play for the Cardinals' second goal. "There was a lot of pushing and shoving. It was a physical game, but a good game." Greenwich took its first lead in the 58th minute off a set piece. Emily Melick put a corner kick into the box and Haley Norrgard was robbed by Westhill goalkeeper Jenn Osher's acrobatic save. Alex DiStefano pounced on the rebound and scored. The advantage lasted for less than a minute, as the Vikings' Tessa Dunster was pulled down by a defender and scored on a penalty kick. The Cardinals nearly went back on top in the 67th minute, when Norrgard took a shot that was stopped by Osher and then cleared away by the Vikings' Claire Mahoney. Moments later, Colligan made a run, eluded Velaj and got herself into open space, allowing her to drill a shot high into the net beyond Osher's reach. "Someone played a ball to me at the 40 and I had a man on my back and took her out back," Colligan said. "I cut it inside and just took a hard shot and was able to put it under the crossbar. I felt I had good power on it." Velaj said she carried the play with her back to the other side of the field. "I just needed to score," she said. "Anything so we didn't lose." With just over 10 minutes remaining, Velaj settled a ball from Julia Busto and hit a hard shot to tie the game. "I credit them for coming back so quickly and getting the two goals," Simpson said. "The first one I felt was a soft way for our defense to give a goal away and on the second one we needed to show more decisiveness. They are a good side and come at you." The Vikings' growth is reflected in the standings and the accolades they have received, but one gets the sense complete satisfaction will only come with the school's first championship trophy in the sport. "People are talking, but people are not scared of us yet," Velaj said. "We want to be the best."

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movies-and-tv.com Home » Movies » ‘Home Front’ Director Lucas Belvaux on Tackling Trauma Head On ‘Home Front’ Director Lucas Belvaux on Tackling Trauma Head On With 2017’s “This Is Our Land,” director Lucas Belvaux examined the ways in which far right movements attract, recruit and reformat new converts, curdling contemporary anxieties for acrid political goals. With his follow-up, “Home Front,” the Franco-Belgian auteur explores the roots of those prejudices. Adapted by Belvaux from Laurent Mauvignier 2009 novel “The Wound,” the film follows two working-class cousins as they fulfil their colonial military duties in 1960s Algeria and as they nurse their scars and traumas in Burgundy of 2003. While the more cerebral Rabut (Jean-Pierre Darroussin in modern times, Edouard Sulpice in flashback) has tried to forge ahead, his cousin Bernard (Gerard Depardieu now, Yoann Zimmer then) remains a livewire, looking for any provocation to snap back into violence. Local draw Catherine Frot rounds out the cast. Produced by Synecdoche and Artemis Productions, the Cannes-labeled project is screening at Ventana Sur. The Party Film Sales in partnership with Wild Bunch International are handling global sales, while local distributor Ad Vitam will release the title onto French screens in early 2021. Do you see this as a kind of follow-up to your previous film, “This Is Our Land,” which explored the lure of the modern far right? Indeed, this film is almost a companion piece to “This Is Our Land.” They’re two currents in the history of France, because we know that the birth of the National Front was directly tied to the Algerian colonialist movement. So on a personal level, it made sense to continue examining this topic. Whereas on a social level, we’ve seen a real move to revisit this period that French society had such trouble digesting. We’ve seen [several examples over the past few years]. There needs to be a kind of truth and reconciliation commission, like there was in South Africa. We need that in France, to reflect what really happened in Algeria. So for all those reasons, I’d say this film arrived at the right time. The film is divided into two timelines, following the characters in Algeria in the early 1960s and in France 40 years later. Only that also makes it something of a period piece, as the “present tense” is still set nearly two decades ago. Was it easier to make this film with that additional distance? We could have made a version of this story in 2003, but it would have been more complicated. For one thing, the book itself hadn’t been written at that point. Laurent Mauvignier built on the histories of his father and uncle, who both fought in Algeria. Neither of them would speak about it for years; it was like that for many families – either the veterans would never speak about it, leaving their children and grandchildren to piece their stories together, or they would only reveal their stories very late in life. Indeed, the children of those men also suffered from their fathers’ PTSD, so today it’s more often the grandchildren – who are more distanced from the firsthand and secondhand trauma – that are really approaching the subject with a fresh look. Though you’ve already written and directed several literary adaptations, “Home Front” has a novelistic structure – more so than in any of your previous work. How did you approach this particular adaptation? We often say this or that book was made to be a film, but in practice that’s not often the case! Even books by [bestselling mystery writer, and creator of the Detective Maigret series] Georges Simenon, which feel self-evidently cinematic on the page, can be difficult to actually adapt. In this case, the source text was very literary, marked by very precise language. [Rather than inhibiting our work] that allowed for interesting cinematic translations. We had to take the structure he created and find cinematic equivalents. By definition a book doesn’t have voice-overs – it’s all monologues or soliloquies. With a film, you can build on the texts, multiplying the voices and playing them off another. The film has an almost musical structure. In music we use the term “counterpoint,” where two melodies play off one another. We tried to create a similar effect in the film, letting the soundtrack and dialogue recount a different story than the visuals. The visuals could be in the 1960s while the voice-over anchored in the 2000s. Literature has episodic novels, Russian nesting doll constructions where one story leads into another, and that’s something I wanted to evoke. We see that some of the most deplorable characters from the 1960s segments will pay for their sins for the rest of their lives. And that would not have been possible had we anchored the narrative to any one timeline. The film was selected by Cannes, which couldn’t go on as planned, and then had to reschedule its release when France went back into lockdown in October. What is it like releasing a film in such uncertain times? In the end, we were lucky in our misfortunes. The second lockdown hit several weeks before the film’s release, so we didn’t pass the deadline. Posters had yet to go up, and we could still postpone plenty of press and promotional aspects. Which was not the case for several films that only saw two days of release before everything shut back down. We just pushed the release a few months without losing much. 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Back to former Texas governors Gov. William Pettus Hobby Terms August 25, 1917 - January 18, 1921 Born March 26, 1878 Passed June 7, 1964 Birth State Texas Family Married twice--Willie Cooper; Oveta Culp (two children) Status Succeeded WILLIAM PETTUS HOBBY was born in Moscow, Texas. After attending Houston High School, he went into the newspaper business, starting as a clerk with the Houston Post-Dispatch in 1895 and rising to writer, city editor, and finally managing editor. In 1907 he became manager and part owner of the Beaumont, Texas Enterprise, remaining in that position until he won the office of Lieutenant Governor of Texas, a position from which he succeeded to the governorship upon the impeachment of James Ferguson. As governor during World War I, he oversaw the establishment of the draft system in Texas and the creation of numerous military camps. He was nominated in his own right in 1918 after defeating Ferguson’s comeback attempt in the Democratic primary. Winning the general election, he made provisions for drought relief, established requirements in party primaries, and increased state aid for education and highways. He also established a Board of Control, putting into effect the state’s first budget system. After leaving office, Hobby returned to his newspaper career, including ownership of the Beaumont Enterprise and the Beaumont Journal. He also merged and then became owner of the Houston Post and the Houston Dispatch, renaming the paper the Houston Post-Dispatch. As president of the Houston Post Company, he acquired KPRC radio and KPRC-TV in Houston, becoming chairman of the board in 1955. He died and was buried in Houston. Sobel, Robert, and John Raimo, eds. Biographical Directory of the Governors of the United States, 1789-1978, Vol. 4. Westport, CT: Meckler Books, 1978. 4 vols. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. G. New York: James T. White & Company. Texas State Library & Archives Commission Governors of Texas, 1846-present Current Texas Governor Recent Texas Governors Gov. Rick Perry Gov. George W. Bush Gov. Dorothy Ann Willis Richards Gov. William P. Clements Gov. Mark White Gov. Dolph Briscoe Gov. Preston Smith Gov. John Bowden Connally Gov. Price Daniel Gov. Allan Shivers

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Paper Beast: A Dreamlike Odyssey coming to PlayStation VR News, PlayStation 4, PlayStation VR GamerFest is coming have you got your ticket? Let's Talk About Unbound: Worlds Apart A Review in Progress: For Honor PC, PlayStation 4, Review, Xbox One I was lucky enough to try out the closed beta of For Honor earlier in the year so going into this review of the full game I was excited. How did it all turn out once the weapons were drawn? Well read on and find out with the GamEir review of Ubisoft’s hack and slash game For Honor. The story of For Honor is set in a medieval period in a fantasy realm where Vikings, Samurai, and Knights have been brought together for no other reason than to wage war upon each other and to allow gamers around the world to answer the ultimate question, who’d win in a fight a Samurai, a Viking, or a Knight? After many centuries of war, the enthusiasm for the battlefield has died down. That is until Apollyon, and her Blackstone Legion show up hoping to stoke the flames of war once again and bring what Apollyon believes is missing in this messed up world, purpose. You play as several different characters across the three factions through various battlefields clashing with enemy after enemy. And that’s one of the problems with the story of For Honor, it’s repetitive, uninspired and though the actors are trying to give life to these characters, the script offers them nothing memorable and thus offers the players nothing memorable. The story of For Honor, however, is not the reason audiences were excited for For Honor when it first showed up. It was the gameplay that was offered, a fighting style that in my opinion had never been seen before in a hack and slash game. The gameplay system is one of a kind utilising a theatre style swordplay system where there are three areas of attacking and defending during encounters with your opponents whether they be A.I or other players. In a sense, it feels like a rock paper scissors game except it would be called attack stances, deflecting and dodging. It’s great fun and is incredibly addictive, and I couldn’t stop going back to the battlefield slashing my way through my opponents. The star of For Honor is the gameplay, and that’s one of the features I loved about it. Another feature I enjoyed was the customisation of your character. There are so many different variations available to mix and match that it feels like your character is your own and no one else’s. With regard to characters, there are twelve available character types available for you to choose from. They range from the heavy warriors who are slow but can take the damage, to the vanguard which I used the most, they’re the P90 of playable characters highly versatile but specialising in nothing. If you’re wondering what faction I went with at this point, I went with the Samurai; this was mainly due to the design of the Samurai and their weaponry. I brought my Samurai warrior into the several modes on offer with vigour: Dominion, Brawl, Duel, Skirmish and Elimination, my personal favourite is Dominion, Dominion is a four-versus-four multiplayer mode in which players must capture and hold multiple zones in a battlefield. Points are earned through occupying combat zones. When one team earns enough points, they must eliminate the players from the other team and win the match. It’s always fascinating to get to that final section of a Dominion game where you have to bring down the remaining players on the opposing team and then they reach the milestone, and then they go hunting for your team. It’s just such an enjoyable but tension-filled experience. Duel is enjoyable as it’s exactly what it says on the tin, you duel with an opponent until there is a victor. Brawl is like Duel except there are two teams against each other, this is less balanced because you’re relying on your teammate not to die and that’s hard when you may not know the other player. What I have experienced during my playthrough of For Honor is a renewed love of competitive gaming thanks to the inventive hack and slash gameplay and the outstanding level of customisation. Unfortunately For Honor is let down by the lack of a decent story which can be completed in a few hours and a sense of repetitiveness if you should play for too long. Not only that but it has had continuous issues when it launched which has affected the reception from gamers worldwide. Ubisoft has given fans of hack and slash games something new and enjoyable in For Honor. I enjoy it every time I stick it on but with some issues upon launch and a declining audience For Honor may need to offer even more soon to keep its audience from leaving. For HonorPCPlayStation 4UbisoftXbox One GWENT is coming to PAX East 2017 The McLaren 720S is coming to Project CARS 2 All aboard Train Valley – Console Edition Torment: Tides of Numenera goes Gold and celebrates with an interactive Quest video

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Shine or Go Crazy - Episode 20 (A SqueeCap) People, sorry it took me so long to recap this. There was an issue of time (a gazillion birthdays and farewells of dear work colleagues/friends etc. to coordinate) but also an issue of will. I hate sad stuff. I don't want to watch sad stuff. The world is sad enough, you only need to have a look at the news. Anyway, now I'm ready. I think. Why? WHY would you lead with this face? Why? Now I'm crying again. See what I'm saying?! Episode 20 verdict: Just sad. Shin-yool has stopped breathing in the prison and Wang So's heartbreaking screams are just that: heartbreaking. At the same time, Wang Wook is sitting in his room, staring at the blue Arabian plate, thinking of his vow to never lose what he so loves again. In that moment, I did not get a particularly warm nor especially fuzzy feeling. Me neither. Surprisingly, that doesn't make him to the prison but to the King! Ooooookay, the King gets crazier and crazier. Today, he's not much afraid but super aggressive, especially against Wook, since he knows he has conspired with Wang Sik-Ryeom. Which will make him a scarecrow king, just like himself. That greatly amuses him. Man, I love this guy. He is so good in this role, and he really gives his everything to it, don't you think? Oh yes. During this scene, I even thought he might be the best of the actors in this show. He works hard. Can he get the antidote yet?! But no, Wook first has to go and talk to his sister. Oh, clever ... the only person that the King trusts is Wang So, right? So Wang So has to be the one that gives him the antidote. They need to sneak him out of prison! My heart holds this teeny tiny voice saying Wook? Wook-ah? Will he be Wook-ah? Is that an affectionate way to speak to someone, adding an "ah"? It absolutely is! Wang So is screaming his lungs out for somebody to call a doctor, but the guards have orders not to let anybody in (idiots). Finally, Wook appears! With a doctor. They put a mattress in Shin-yool's cell and she is fed some medicine, but it's not looking too good ... Wook gets some braziers in there, too (nice, with all the straw). One thing I give him credit for...he's pretty much always thinking about her and what she needs. Not saying he always comes up with the right answers, but still. It helps here, but I do find him obsessive and immature. Still, he's Pretty in Pink. (I don't like APink much, though, so I'm throwing in this really pink video by Laboum.) But what is this? A guard drops a smoke-bomb and everybody who inhales the fumes collapses. Well, everybody but our main protagonists, who can simply shield their faces against the smoke and be fine. Why not. Oh look, it's Saki's favorite, Se-won! Sigh. I want to invite him over to play Departing Warrior's Last Night with Friendly Maiden I'm a maiden, you've been married with a kid already, I get to play this! Wook turns to So and hands him the box with the antidote. Hurry, So, hurry! Outside, speaking to the doctor, is Yeo-won. She asks after "the wench's" condition and hears that it's a surprise she is still alive - she is quasi frozen inside and is currently living by pure will alone. There is no treatment and she will die before the year is over. I'm sure that was a comfort to her. Now Yeowon's got her alliance, she probably doesn't care too much. So, this quasi-frozen inside business is the poor circulation from the heart condition, I'm guessing. Wang So is in the King's room ... but things start going bad immediately when So tells his brother that he is only out momentarily. The King is a broken man, ridden by guilt and fear, but Wang So manages to once more assure him that he is the rightful ruler that gives strength to people. The King begs for So's forgiveness ... and when he grants it, he takes the antidote. Or maybe not?! Cause we don't see it! Do not do that to me. In this prison, Shin-yool wakes up ... and the first thing she sees is Princess Yeo-won. Yikes. But the woman assures her she means no harm. She is here because Shin-yool wanted to see her. Yup, to ask her to please let Chunghae Trading Company survive. She knows she is dying - and she wants to protect her benefactors. Not for her sake, but for Wang So's sake. They're like family to him, too. Yeo-won is mildly amused, but she is listening, more so when Shin-yool talks about the spices that are delivered and the ginseng she wants for collateral. It's a bold move, Shin Yool. Yeo Won is bound to respect that. What I found really amazing was Shinyool listing all the things Yeowon won't be to So, namely family or love. Luckily, Yeowon didn't seem to care much. Wang So is back! He informs everyone that the King took the antidote - and while looking at Shin-yool all the time, he adds that tomorrow will be a long day. A very long day. After that, he is locked into his cell again and the siblings disappear. What bad hair. That face trumps everything. Those wrinkles worry me. They just do. While Uncle Hairline licks his lips happily (tons of nobles have signed a petition for severe punishment of our OTP, Wook is organizing the defense. And then, it's the day... will there be torture? Heads rolling? The prisoners are brought into the courtyard and Wang Sik-Ryeom starts posturing as great Inquisitor. (Jack of All Trades, this dude.) He repeats the terrible crime they committed (Marriage! Without royal decree!) They threaten the bedrock of command! Unlce Hairline was just getting ridiculous here. But then creepy people do weird stuff. And now, the witness: General Kwak. After he has told everyone that he witnessed both the marriage and the bedding, Shin-yool and Wang So readily admit that they got married five years ago ... but not really. Wang Sik-Ryeom is breathing fire and brimstone when the King is announced. With him enter all the other witnesses: the whole Chunghae Trading Company (minus most of the servants) Yay! It's the King! I remember being very happy that he was having a good day. He did not witness any bedding. This isn't medieval Italy. Move over, Uncle Hairline - the King is here, and he is his old self. First witness: Gyu-dal, who tells every little detail about being in love with General Kwak's daughter to being beaten up by him and how that let to Shin-yool being in danger and Wang So being kidnapped. Everybody confirms this and there was no bedding. Looking BAD there, Kwak. Haha. Serves you right. I loved that he had no idea Kwak had learned Korean in the meantime so he was really laying on the insulting language. Sometimes Gyu-Dal is too much but sometimes he's just perfect. It must have been a fun role - similar to his MnD role, though, I wonder if this is just what he does. What's MnD? (Marriage not Dating) I like this actor. I want to see him in more stuff. But Uncle Wang is not yet done: if the marriage was pretense and Wang So never even saw the bride's face, how come the two are tied up together like this, here? When everybody vows they have only met a while ago at the slave market, he gets really angry and wants all the Chunghae people out. Stop this, shouts the King! His guards and Uncle Wang's guards face each other with swords drawn. The King declares he will not give in today. How the HELL does Uncle Fuckwit get away with THAT piece of business, really? So sick of this Uncle. He's like an especially annoying whack-a-mole. Still, the Chunghae People are led away, while our OTP is left worried and in shackles. Will the King be able to kick Uncle Wang's balls (figuratively)? Or does Wang have the King by the balls? Yes of course he does: he has proof that the current King was involved in killing his daddy. But the King is having one of his good days: he suggests they can just both die. Seeing how he has the bronze mirror AND Consul Wang's signature is also on that scroll. They both agree to keeping their knowledge secret - but they also vow not to budge in today's inquisition. Well, great. Someone just KILL HIM. Not the king. Not condoning murder, but this is how creeps get away with being creepy because no one they're targeting can roll in the dirt the way they do. Consul Wang has the memorandums brought, signed by the majority of nobles, calling for severe punishment. Wang So gets up and implores the King to abolish the old-fashioned and useless marriage law, who are only manipulated by the nobles these days. He then cues in his mother, who calls for "the appeals". It's an equally high mountain of scrolls, calling for the abolishment of the marriage law. So, kind of out of place. Not to mention irrelevant. Sure, times have changed and maybe the law isn't necessary now - but it was the law at the time, so that's that. They can't win this by saying 'look how many people don't like it!' They could've gotten pardoned and the law abolished, though. Fine, fine, says Uncle Wang (just doesn't shut up, does he?), then let Wang So prove that his marriage was really fake and there was no consummation of that marriage. Why did Shin-yool cross the seas to come to Goryeo? Why did Wang So go and learn trade with Chunghae? Why did he attempt everything to save Chunghae Trading Company? It's NOT looking good. But then, Elf Wang Wook gets up and says it's pretense indeed. Because him and Shin-yool are in the middle of discussing marriage themselves. And so, he turns around and begs his Majesty for his consent to marry her. Fucking brilliant, you mean. In a case that can only be he said/she said, why NOT let something like that be 'proof' that they didn't get married? It's all an entirely stupid argument on both sides, really. Especially since a previously married woman apparently couldn't possibly re-marry [rolls eyes]. Still, it saves the day. And Wang So does what he said he would do, what they agreed on: he claims that he and Shin-yool have no relationship whatsoever. They are saved ... or are they? I sat there thinking 'well your faces have proven the truth, really, which is that Wang So just lied.' They look like DEATH... all three of them. Especially Shinyool. Wang Sik-Ryeom insists on a punishment for Wang So: he will serve as drafter under his son Wang Poong, collecting the men for forced labor. Or else, he will use torture to find out who the leader of the Righteous Men is. YOU EVIL TOAD YOU! And thus, the King decides. Ah, you loathsome leftover sperm, I hate you. I like this insult, Joanne. One day, I shall use it. It's too much for Shin-yool, who collapses again. She may be alive, but she might wish she were dead as soon as she wakes (I'm with Gyu-dal here). Wang So is just shellshocked, sitting there big-eyed and vulnerable, accepting the King's explanation (he had to save him and all will be alright with time). He very clearly won't be alright, that much is clear. Lonely cat from Geumgang Mountain. OOooookay, enough of the crying :(((((( Okay the cat thing was weird, but heartbreaking. But weird. He's a grown man. Come on. I actually felt for him here. Or maybe I prefer the crying to this resigned, sad lump of a man who just nods when Wook says there was no other way. And asks him to please forget about his Gaebong. Why make things harder. Despite all his pain, Wang So has the grandness to thank his half-brother for saving the Assistant Head. I feel for them both. Wook will have his dream come true in the most nightmare-ish way possible, and Wang So has to let go of his dream of restoring his brother and then running away with GaeBong, since now she'll be the wife of another man. Except hello, he's the husband of another woman and he was going to run away, so what's the diff? (Exactly.) He understands right away that Wook wasn't pulling an underhanded move, he was pulling the only move he could - and he didn't do it for himself, he did it for her. So does So think they'll have any more of a marriage than he does with Yeo Won? (They will consummate, I'm sure of that.) Honestly, now that a week has gone by and my tears have dried up, I really think this is a bit of over-reaction on So's part. I'm not so sure about this forgetting business, because next, Wang so is on Shin-yool's bedside and calls her name. When she wakes up and seems him there, she flies into his arms ... as he pats her back, he asks her to come with him. It's that shrine where they swore to become blood brothers. And he brought her here to release her from this bond. They tell the God of heaven and earth that even the little time they had with each other made life worth living for. And the vow to be strangers from now on. (uhmmm, wait a minute. Won't they be living in the palace, side by side?!) I guess maybe he just figures that okay, they had their run, and they have to give it up for real or jeopardize a whole lot of people. So maybe this goodbye is sincere and they each plan to try and have a real marriage with the partners they ended up with. You know, that they would make a genuine effort to be married to the people they actually ARE married to. Ah, shit. Tears. Maybe. That's why I felt some care for them for a change, since they were being all responsible and all. Also, they have to be responsible this way or risk Uncle Hairline's spies bringing them down. But not yet enough of the sad. He accompanies her home for the last time ... and it's time for the final goodbye. He is strong ... and turns around, to walk away. So does she. But on the door step, the aching of her heart brings her to her knees. And he, who has walked a bit up the street, falters and slowly turns around ... when she comes running out again. They silently hug - and kiss. I think we can give them at least that, right? Sure, why not, assuming no one hostile sees them. Wang Wook might be the big winner here, but he isn't, really. He has promised Shin-yool (I think?) that he'd cancel the marriage with her once he has become king. That's very noble. No, people ... he doesn't deserve your hate. Also because he cries a lot. People who cry a lot are very sensitive. And indeed, getting to marry the woman you love to save your half-brother that you hate, well-knowing she will never ever love you is not my definition of happiness. Yeah. He did a good thing here, and a whole bunch of people are completely mistaken about what happened. He certainly does not deserve hate, and he actually earned respect from me this episode. I didn't understand that HE'D cancel the marriage, though - I thought it said that when he became king the marriage would have to be cancelled (she's not royalty, as far as they know, and so perhaps can't be Queen?) - but either way, he knows from the start that this marriage won't last long and that it isn't a love match by any stretch. I think he's so into whatever will make her happy, that he'll promise, and maybe even mean it, that he'll cancel the marriage. But since she doesn't have long to live, that promise doesn't mean much. And thus, the wedding preparations begin. Shin-yool smiles a sad, sad smile when they make her wedding dress and she remembers her first wedding. The one with her true love. More tears, of course. Shoo, shoo, go away you mean drama. So sad. :(((( Remember episode 12? We though that Wang So would "have to" sleep with his wife and that was sad. But in reality, Shin-yool and Wang So were never really in danger - up until now. The only way this can be averted is if he becomes King - but he will never betray any of his brothers for that. At the moment, Shin-yool and Wang So are endangered in at least two separate ways: a) she is dying and b) she is becoming his brother's wife. One thing alone is serious enough but both together? DAMN. I sort of want her to die while she's married to Wook, though, and that Wook calls So in to be at her deathbed. I think then the two brothers can focus on taking down Uncle Fuckwit, and maybe Wook will die tragically in that battle, and then So and Yeo Won will rule the country brilliantly, because King Brother will die soon - right? Do we all think his mental reprieve is short lived? He's got too much guilt to stay sane. I'm cool with the scenario Joanne sketched out. The story can work well like that. I know that poor Elf got a lot of hate for his actions in various online forums, but hey, he meant well. He will even release her once he is king. I seriously can't hate him. The question is, though, whether a life apart is better than a short life together. The Romeo and Juliet way, you know. He did it to save her, and by extension his brother. I wonder would he have done the same if it were not her, though. I FEEL like he's siding up with So because they have to be together to take down Uncle Fuckwit, but I'm not entirely sure that can be proven by what's been seen or said. I don't think she'll live long enough to be released. :-o Let's take a vote: who thinks they're really married, to begin with? Apparently it was a valid ceremony but they never intended to take it seriously and never consummated it - so if you need both a valid ceremony and consummation, at that time it wasn't a real marriage. But then they re-met and fell in love and by this point it should be no surprise to anyone that they DO want to be together forever and that they probably HAVE had sex...so is that long dormant 'fake' marriage now genuine? Which of course would make her 'real' marriage to Wook invalid from its first moment, not that that matters. But more importantly, to me - it means that they DID lie in that court. It WAS a fake marriage, but it no longer IS a fake marriage. I somehow feel sad about that deception, although I do understand it. I don't know how it works in Buddhism, which is what they would've followed. If you need intent and full agreement, then no, it was not a real marriage. If you just need the words said by the right people with the right motions, no intent necessary, then it is a marriage. As for the consummation part, that's usually important in the Abrahamic traditions since the primary purpose of marriage is to regulate sex. But it could be that in Buddhism, you can have sexless marriages. What matters here is that AT THAT TIME, it was pretense and certainly not real. The law is only about the 1st marriage. After he got married to Yeo-won (that was only a few a days or so after the Kaebong incident) he could do whatever he wanted with whatever woman. So no breaking the law. Jang Hyuk Oh Yeon-Seo Recap Shine or Go Crazy sinopsis synopsis 빛나거나 미치거나

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