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Saint John the Evangelist
627 W. Pike St.
Covington, KY. 41011
1268 Parkway Ave.
Covington, KY. 41011
SAINT JOHN THE EVANGELIST
On December 27, 1854, the feast day of Saint John the Evangelist, a church under his patronage was solemnly dedicated to him at Leonard & Worth Streets in Covington, Kentucky. Seventy years later in November 1924, a new Saint John Church located at 627 Pike Street would then become the gathering place for the local Catholic community to assemble in worship and profess their religious beliefs. The present parish church, a magnificent structure of early German Gothic design, still remains the centerpiece of the Lewisburg neighborhood of Covington.
Saint John is a monument to that heritage of which many of us are so proud. It represents an era of immigrants who came to this country called America. They were willing to forsake their homelands in search of a more meaningful and rewarding way of life. The origin of Saint John with its German-Catholic influence is just one of the many Catholics parishes in Northern Kentucky whose beginnings can be attributed to a commonality of ethnic roots and religious persuasion.
Saint John is the third oldest parish in Covington. One of the first official acts of the newly formed Diocese of Covington (1853) was to give permission to build a church in Lewisburg. Work began on December 27, 1854. By the turn of the century, the church, because of it's hillside location, was in need of major repairs. The only alternative was to find a new location. In 1908, Rev. Cammilus Maes, Bishop of the Diocese of Covington, purchased the land on Pike Street which is the present site of Saint John.
The school building was the first to be erected and served as church, school, rectory and nun's convent. It was dedicated in 1914. Rev. Anthony Goebel who was assigned as pastor in 1909, continued as pastor for forty five years until his death in 1954.
In 1922, ,ground was broken for a new church and a new rectory. It was dedicated on Thanksgiving Day, November 27, 1924.
The style of the church is German Gothic. The proportions are of the old masters of Medieval Architecture. The height of the steeple corresponds to the length of the church, both measuring 163 feet. The interior has a beautifully arched wooden ceiling and altars cut from Italian marble. The stained glass windows were designed by the Art Glass Firm of Dr. Oidtmann, Linnich, Germany. The seven windows in the sanctuary depict major events documented in the Old and New Testaments. At the right side of the front entrance is a niche which contains a statue of the Pieta, a copy of the masterpiece in the Cathedral of Muenster in Westphalia. The church bells are a exact reproduction of the bells in the Cathedral Aix-la-Chapelle in Aachen, Germany. The installation of the pipe organ was completed in 1934. The church is currently listed on the National Register of Historic Places.In December, 1963, Monsignor Edward Fedders, a member of the Marynoll Order was elevated to the rank of Bishop. He was a son of Saint John Parish and remains the only native son to date of the Diocese of Covington to be consecrated as a Bishop in the Roman Catholic Church.
In 1986, Saint John merged with three other local parishes to become a Diocesan District school. The name was changed to Prince of Peace. In July, 1999, Saint Ann of West Covington became a mission of Saint John's.
Today, Saint John continues to provide spiritual and social guidance to the community as it has for the last one hundred and fifty years.
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Saint Ann Parish was first organized in 1860, the little community of West Covington, then known as Economy, had a mere 500 inhabitants.
Before 1860, a Mr. Patrick Monahan taught catechism classes because there was no church or resident priest. Economy's Catholics had to travel long distances to attend Mass. They went to Saint Mary's Cathedral, then on 8th Street in Covington, or took the ferry to Saint Patrick's Church in Cincinnati.
The Reverend Thomas R. Butler, pastor of the Cathedral, offered the first Mass of record in Economy. In answer to a sick call, Father Butler brought the requisites for offering Mass with him. He said Mass in the Callahan home next door to the sick person on Short John Street.
From then until the completion of the first building of Saint Ann's Church in 1862, Mass was said regularly in the little one-story frame cottage rented from the Burns family at the corner of Main (Parkway) and High Streets.
Bishop Carroll of the Diocese of Covington, hesitant about sanctioning a new church, had to be convinced by a committee of Catholics from Economy that a church was needed there.
On Sunday, June 3, 1860, in the presence of a large gathering of the faithful from Covington and Newport, Bishop Carroll laid the cornerstone for the new church. The men of the parish worked on the construction of the first little Saint Ann's by lantern and moonlight after working 8 to 10 hours a day at their own jobs. The raging Civil War saw distressing poverty in the parish, and completion of the building had to be postponed.
In 1864, Bishop Carroll appointed The Reverend Adrian Egglemeers as first resident pastor. On his arrival he found few Catholics and an unfinished church. During his pastorate of 11 years, he saw the church completed as well as a rectory, Sisters' home, and a two-story school. When he left Saint Ann's in 1875, there was a large congregation and the parish was thriving with 150 children in the school.
Saint Ann drew parishioners from the West End of Covington as well as Ludlow, which eventually spawned Saint Patrick's, at 5th and Philadelphia and Saint James Parish in Ludlow.
In 1888, a French Canadian priest, The Reverend Louis G. Clermont, arrived at Saint Ann's. He established a shrine dedicated to Saint Ann with a relic from Rome said to be from a rock of Saint Ann's tomb from Jerusalem.
This began the tradition of novenas to Saint Ann, which has continued to this day. The 9-day event begins on July 18th and on the last day, July 26TH, thousand of devotees of the Saint carry her statue and lighted candles through the streets of Covington.
During Father Clermont's tenure, the front wall of the school began to give way, causing much worry, concern, and expense over the years. The school was torn down to make way for a new structure dedicated in September 1908, by Bishop Maes.
In 1910, the congregation under the direction of Reverend William B. Ryan observed the Golden Jubilee of Saint Ann Parish. On October 1, 1917, Reverend Thomas B. Ennis succeeded Father Ryan, beginning a pastorate, which continued for twenty-three years.
Father Thomas B. Ennis erected a new church building; its cornerstone laid on August 30, 1931, was the original cornerstone from the 1860 church. The structure was dedicated June 19, 1932.
In November, 1940, Reverend Joseph Deimling was appointed to Saint Ann. The present school is the third built and completed June 1, 1957, and dedicated the following October. In June 1981, a decision was reached by the parishioners and the Diocese to close Saint Ann School due to declining enrollment. The children of Saint Ann continue to attend Prince of Peace School. The Saint Ann building presently houses a very fine day care facility.
Father Lewis Jasper was named the new pastor on May 29, 1977 and undertook the renovation of the church.
Other pastors during the years were Father Joseph Broering, Father Steinhauser, Father Rosing, Father Paul Krebs, Father Mark Steidle, Father Douglas Fortner and currently Father Michael Greer.
Saint Ann became a mission of Saint John in 1999 the two parish's work together to spread the good news in the city of Covington.
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Town of Whitby helping business owners with new incentive program to shop local
By Frazer Snowdon Global News
Posted June 16, 2021 7:44 pm
Updated June 16, 2021 8:20 pm
1:35 Whitby launches support programs to encourage residents to shop local
The town of Whitby is coming to the aid of business owners with several initiatives. Starting with a program that encourages residents to shop local while also paying their outstanding parking ticket. Frazer Snowdon has more. – Jun 16, 2021
As businesses slowly begin the process of returning to normal, the Town of Whitby is hoping to lend a helping hand to people struggling to get through.
The town is launching a number of initiatives it believes will help encourage residents to shop local. One of them could help you get rid of that pesky parking ticket.
Mayor Don Mitchell says through the new program, people can now shop locally and pay their ticket.
"All you have to do is email them a copy of what you spent in a Whitby business," says Mitchell.
The program allows anyone who received a ticket between March of 2020 and Jan. 31 of this year to shop at their favourite store or eat at a restaurant to pay their ticket. The town will send a direct message to those that are eligible for the program. Once they show proof, as long as the bill exceeds the parking ticket, it will be cancelled.
"This is a great way to address that backlog and encourage people to support their merchants wherever they may in town," says Mitchell.
Kevin Brown, who owns Kb Food in downtown Whitby, is thrilled with the idea.
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"It really helps to help struggling businesses kind of get back on their feet again," he says.
He was able to open his patio last week after months of being restricted to takeout only. He says he's optimistic for what's to come over the course of the summer.
"For the first time since this whole thing started, it actually feels like we're getting out from underneath. It's going to feel weird to go back to normal again."
Karey-Anne Large with the Whitby Business Improvement Area (BIA) says anything that will encourage people to stay in their local area is going to help businesses get back on track.
"This is a really creative way to drive that shop local message home," says Large.
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The town will also continue to offer expedited patio approval for business owners and waiving application fees. Mitchell says with few to no cases appearing to come from patios being open, it's their goal to make the transition for business owners as seamless as possible.
"We want to get the patios reopened; that's their lifeline. This allows our residents to go there and support businesses."
Whitby's chamber of commerce has also made rapid testing kits easy to obtain for business owners with less than 150 employees. Large, with the BIA, is praising the initiatives, saying they give everyone something to be excited about.
"It's interesting to walk downtown Whitby and there's buzz and people and laughter again," she says.
"There's definitely hope. We're looking forward to coming through the other side."
The town is also developing a five year economic development strategy and inviting people to complete a survey between now and June 23rd.
For more information visit their website.
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Named after Glenn Seaborg, American nuclear chemist and Nobel prize winner
Scientists working at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, USSR reported their discovery of element 106 in June 1974.
Synthesis was also reported in September 1974 at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory by the workers of the Lawrence Berkeley and Livermore Laboratories led by Albert Ghiorso and E. Kenneth Hulet.
It was produced by collisions of californium-249 with oxygen atoms.
There are 12 known isotopes of seaborgium
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The element is named after Glenn T. Seaborg, atomic pioneer and Commissioner of the Atomic Energy Commission
Seaborgium is used for scientific research purposes only.
Seaborgium is harmful due to its radioactivity
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Plaza of the Moon, Teotihuacan, 2014
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Mexico City rooftops, 2014
Bosque de Chapultepec, Mexico City, 2014
Teotihuacan, 2014
Anthropomorphic masks in Museo Nacional de Antropologia, Mexico City, 2014
Berries in the scrub near Teotihuacan, 2014
Illuminated exhibits in Museo del Templo Mayor, Mexico City, 2014
El Castillo at Tulum, 2010
Aquatic Circle artefact in Museo del Templo Mayor, Mexico City, 2014
Iguana at the Mayan ruins of Tulum, 2010
Tecalli mask in Museo del Templo Mayor, Mexico City, 2014
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Wall painting in San Francisco, Mazapa, 2014
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PREP BOYS BASKETBALL: Attitude, effort still fuels Marquette
Explorers embrace 20-win season, regional title
Greg Shashack, gshashack@civitasmedia.com
Published 1:45 pm CST, Tuesday, March 8, 2016
Marquette Catholic senior Shandon Boone (10), shown driving to the basket while Roxana's Zach Golenor (left) contests the shot in an Explorers win Feb. 12 in Alton, led Marquette to a 21-10 record and a Class 3A regional championship. less
Marquette Catholic senior Shandon Boone (10), shown driving to the basket while Roxana's Zach Golenor (left) contests the shot in an Explorers win Feb. 12 in Alton, led Marquette to a 21-10 record and a Class ... more
Photo: Billy Hurst / Telegraph File Photo
ALTON – Steve Medford took the job as Marquette Catholic Explorers boys basketball coach in 2010 looking to build a winning culture.
That foundation would be poured with two factors in every player's complete control.
"Attitude and effort," Medford said, "our kids are extremely good at that."
Winning attitude and effort produced another winning season for the Explorers, who finished a 21-10 campaign with last week's 38-34 loss to Breese Central in the semifinals of the Pinckneyville Class 2A Sectional.
"Twenty-one wins is a great feat," Medford said. "And some of the wins we got this year were really, really good. Couldn't be more proud of our kids."
It was the fifth 20-win season in Medford's six with the Explorers. The regional championship, hard-earned with an overtime victory over rival Roxana at Dupo, was the fourth in six years.
"Our kids have played extremely hard," Medford said.
Before staying true to its enrollment with assignment back in Class 2A this season, the IHSA multiplier put Marquette in Class 3A the previous three seasons. The Explorers won a 3A regional in 2014, but their best shots at state could not clear the Class 3A hurdle.
Now, Marquette moves forward with a different obstacle to clear. With Shandon Boone graduating, following the departure of now Division I college players Deion Lavender, Jake Coddington and D'tae McMurray, the Explorers appear without an all-state caliber threat on the offensive end.
The 5-foot-8 Boone, who transferred to Marquette from CBC in St. Louis as a junior, finished his two seasons with the Explorers as a 1,000-point scorer.
"Big shoes to fill," Medford said of Boone, who averaged 18.3 points per game as a senior. "But I think we've got some good, young kids in our program and we'll build on it next year."
The graduation losses don't end there for Marquette. Ben Sebacher, a 6-5 senior and the Explorers' second-leading scorer, leaves a large void in the post. And a third starter must be replaced in gritty senior guard Trey Aguirre. A fourth senior, Tim Derrington, came off the bench and hit a 3-pointer in the sectional loss to Central.
"Losing a lot," Medford said outside the team's locker room at Pinckneyville's Duster Thomas Gym. "I was telling the young group of kids we have in there, those kids – the four seniors we had – went about it the right way. They never missed anything, they were at everything, they worked hard, they bought into the game plans, the execution, they bought into all of that.
"That's the reason we had some success, because of those guys. They're going to be greatly missed."
Half of Marquette's five defeats came against Class 3A-4A opposition, while the Explorers posted notable victories over Mississippi Valley Conference champion Highland, Jersey, Waterloo, Roxana (twice), Southwestern and Metro East Lutheran.
But the Explorers spent most of the season having to overcome deficiencies on offense, with limited scoring options beyond Boone. Most of the team's biggest wins came with scores in the 40's.
And both of the Explorers' losses to Breese Central – 38-36 Feb. 19 in Alton and 38-34 March 1 in Pinckneyville – came because Marquette was unable to reach 40.
"I'm really proud of my kids," Medford said after the sectional defeat. "They played extremely hard. Our lack of scoring all year long really hurt us and it kind of shows up in these big games like this. But we've defended really, really well and that's always kept us in the game. Again, it kept us in the game tonight."
Medford is Marquette's all-time winningest coach with a 135-49 record over six seasons. Season No. 7 may present his biggest challenge, though the Explorers return starting guards in junior Nick Messinger and sophomore Reagan Snider.
The talent level may change. But Medford expects the building blocks – attitude and effort – to remain constant.
"I can't say enough about our kids," he said. "Great kids."
Greg Shashack may be reached at 618-798-1486 or on Twitter @gregshashack


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Video: Odd Future Performs at 2011 mtvU Woodie Awards
Bizarre is the only way to describe Odd Future's performance at the 2011 mtvU Woodie Awards in Austin, Texas. The hip-hop collective closed the show by performing their singles "Sandwitches" and "Yonkers," along with a midget, masks, and mascots. Be afraid, be very afraid.
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Wiz Khalifa blazed the stage in a throwback Johnny Depp T-shirt at the 2011 mtvU Woodie Awards during SXSW, where …
Eminem Pays Respects to Nate Dogg
A smattering of Nate Dogg's peers including Snoop Dogg, 50 Cent, and Game took to Twitter to remember their fallen …


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Pruitt's plan to debate climate science paused as science confirms human...
Julie Dermansky - December 20, 2017
"What happens in the Arctic doesn't stay in the Arctic; it affects the rest of the planet."
Pruitt is removing science advisers who have received EPA funding, but...
Kate Aronoff - November 4, 2017
The EPA administrator called for scientific independence while drowning in fossil fuel money.
Report: EPA hires 12 more bodyguards for Pruitt, costing $2M annually...
Lorraine Chow - October 24, 2017
Meanwhile, President Trump's budget blueprint would cut the EPA's funds by more than 30 percent.
EPA Inspector General investigating Pruitt's 'frequent' travel to home state 'at...
Lorraine Chow - August 31, 2017
"Pruitt seems to be using these visits to launch his political career."
Pruitt's attack on science continues to undermine integrity at EPA
Elena Saxonhouse and Adam Beitman - August 6, 2017
Pruitt's behavior is just the type of behavior the Scientific Integrity Policy should be protecting against.
EPA reverses decision to delay Obama-era pollution regulation after 15 states...
Alexandra Jacobo - August 4, 2017
The rule will go into effect as planned on October 1, rather than being delayed by a year.
Departing EPA official warns of more crises like Flint under current...
Sam Knight - August 3, 2017
"Only a few months on the job, Scott Pruitt has become the leading candidate for worst boss in the world."
EPA's Scott Pruitt wants to televise a debate on climate change
Amelia Kinney - July 16, 2017
Pruitt says there are many unanswered questions about climate change.
VICTORY! Appeals court rule EPA cannot delay Obama-era emissions rule
Alexandra Jacobo - July 5, 2017
This is a huge victory for environmentalists, who have been working tirelessly against Scott Pruitt and the EPA to ensure Obama-era environmental regulations aren't undone.
EPA boss launches program to 'critique' scientific consensus on climate change
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Since taking the EPA's helm, Pruitt has assisted with President Trump's systematic dismantling of critical rules that protect the environment in favor of energy development.


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Imagine If We All Could Have Esther Wojcicki As A Parent
The evidence is overwhelming that in our schools today, the successful curriculums are those that are directed toward deeper learning, project-based learning, and social and emotional learning.
Learners that feel empowered and hands-on, that collaborate and learn empathy are the ones who excel academically.
So why shouldn't the same be true of parenting? The recent cheating scandal certainly shows the other extreme. What happens amidst helicopter parenting run amuck, of parents not having faith in the innate abilities and independence of their kids.
Maybe you don't have to let your 11 or 12-year-old fly off to France and change planes by themselves as my guest did, but giving them responsibly at home from a young age is essential.
Few people understand this better than Esther Wojcicki. Esther understands not in some abstract white paper kind of way, but by having raised three incredibly successful daughters; Ann, the co-founder of 23 and me, Susan is the CEO of YouTube and Janet is a distinguished doctor and professor of pediatrics.
Esther is in her own right an amazing success story. A formidable voice on behalf of journalism and media literacy, Esther Wojcicki is the founder of the Media Arts programs at Palo Alto High School and serves as vice chair of Creative Commons and was instrumental in the launch of the Google Teacher Academy. Her new book is How to Raise Successful People: Simple Lessons for Radical Results .
My conversation with Esther Wojcicki:
We Are Not Descended From Fearful Men: David Maraniss and "A Good American Family"
Mark Twain is reported to have said that history does not really repeat itself, but it often rhymes. Today we live in a climate, not unlike the late '40s and early '50s, where fear is weaponized, and where suspicion of the other is exploited as a salve for change.
Yet there always seem to be brave men and women trying to rise above. As Ed Murrow said in his takedown of Senator Joe McCarthy," we were not descended from fearful men. They were not men who feared to write or to speak," who, again in Murrow's words, "did not confuse dissent with disloyalty."
But fear is personal, visceral, and chilling when exploited by the government. It undermines the very foundation of a democratic republic, and sometimes of families. Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner David Maraniss makes it as personal as it can be in A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father . The story of his father and his family caught in the maelstrom of the red scare in the 1950s.
My conversation with David Maraniss:
A Multi-Cultural Society, An Elite Senate, Good and Bad Leaders: How It All Went So Wrong
Today as we sometimes contemplate the real possibility of the end of the American experience. We think about its roughly 250-year history, often in the context of the people that have led us, good and bad, and taken us to where we are today.
So perhaps it might be instructive to look at the 500 years history of the Roman Empire, and look at some of its leaders. Some who drove it to great heights and others who were responsible for taking it over the proverbial cliff.
Barry Strauss, professor of history and classics at Cornell, is a leading expert on ancient military and Roman history. His latest work, Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine , and our recent conversation gives us new insights to where we might be headed.
My conversation with Barry Strauss:
Fear, Loathing and Immigration: The Battle Was Once Much Worse
Immigration and the fear of outsiders is a deep strain in the American psyche. It didn't start with Donald Trump. In fact, it hasn't even reached its full flowering under this administration. When Trump talked of murderers and rapists coming to the border, of other nations not sending us their best, he was merely echoing a historical context that has actually played out in far worse ways in our history
From the Chinese Exclusion Act through the highly restrictive immigration acts passed in the early 20th century, the white Christians have always felt under siege. To make matters even worse, in the early part of the 20th century the rhetoric and false science of eugenics was weaponized in the immigration battles.
This is the story that my guest Daniel Okrent tell in The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America :
My conversation with Daniel Okrent:
Democracies Are Not Forever…Is The US Headed Down The Same Path As Rome?
Every day, no matter what the issue — whether it's election integrity, rule of law, climate change, guns, impeachment, or the Mueller report — what's at stake is not just daily political wins and losses, but the very survival of the republic.
As was the case at its founding, during the Civil War, and at a select few times in US history, Americans would be making a huge mistake if they took the survival of the nation for granted. History tells us that the Roman Republic had a very good 400-year run, only to have its citizens let it fail.
In this podcast we talk to prize-winning historian, professor, and Rome scholar Edward Watts. He takes us through some of the frightening parallels, which include cults of personality, dramatic wealth creation, the wearing down of critical guardrails and norms, and the willingness of Roman voters to ignore the damage being done as Rome exchanged freedom for autocracy.
Watts explains how, while it may have taken 100 years for the full effects to be felt, violent language, immigration issues, the ginning up of fear, and the violation of conventions in order to implement policy all played important roles. It's ancient history we should well remember.
My WhoWhatWhy.org conversation with Edward Watts:
Outright Lies Are Posing As Today's Conspiracy Theories
Long before the Internet, in the early days of talk radio, the all-night hosts were the progenitors of modern-day conspiracy theory. Hosts spent hours talking about crop circles, animal mutilation, Area 51, the Kennedy assassination and all manner of events and evidence that could be used to construct a hidden narrative.
The idea was that strange things were happening, that evidence in plain sight could be interpreted in ways that evolved to different conclusions. The narrative was always about the interpretation of evidence that was in plain sight. We were told that we just didn't understand the full impact of what it meant.
Today, all of that has changed. Almost like science, the "conspiracy theories" today from people like Alex Jones, or Donald Trump are not about another way of interpreting the world. It's all about flat out lies, fabricated rumors and it's often presented with the only backup being the mantra, "people are saying."
Laying bear this new look to conspiracies are Harvard Professor Nancy Rosenblum and Dartmouth Professor Russell Muirhead in their book A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy
My conversation with Nancy Rosenblum and Russell Muirhead:
The Klan and White Supremacy…Then and Now
Even though it may not seem like it, domestic terrorism, particularly built around white supremacy, is nothing new. Given that racism is our nation's original sin, it should not be surprising that in the post Civil War period, the historical efforts to deal with the Ku Klux Klan are both instructive in their own right, but at the same time foreshadows the thru lines that lead us to where we are today.
This is the story that the Washington Post's Charles Lane shares in his book Freedom's Detective: The Secret Service, the Ku Klux Klan and the Man Who Masterminded America's First War on Terror .
My conversation with Charles Lane:
We'll Be OK If We Can Make It to 2040
America has often been a divided nation. Battles at our founding were often settled at 50 paces.The western ethos that is part of half of America fueled many of those divisions. Brother fought against brother
in the civil war. The industrial revolution gave us riots, and death and violence. The cold war and fear of communism gave rise to whole careers and lives ruined just by accusation. The '60s didn't just produce great music but led to the death of students on the safety of a college campus.
But, to use the often tired cliche of Wall Street, this time it's different. Or at least so it seems. The divide today, fueled by social media, by 24/7 news cycles and the decline of faith in our basic institutions and fear of hyper-rapid and deep fundamental change has produced a kind of tribalism that undermines rather than reinforces all the central ideas of democracy and republican government.
Darrell M. West vice president and director of governance studies at the Brookings Institution looks at all of this in Divided Politics, Divided Nation: Hyperconflict in the Trump Era .
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University of Minnesota cuts ties with Minneapolis police after George Floyd's death
ByMYRON MEDCALF
MINNEAPOLIS -- Two days after a black Minnesota man died after being pinned by police, the University of Minnesota announced it will sever its relationship with the Minneapolis Police Department.
School president Joan Gabel made the announcement Wednesday night in a letter that was sent to students, faculty and staff members, writing that the university will no longer use local officers to assist at major events, including Golden Gophers football games.
George Floyd, 46, died Monday night while in Minneapolis police custody. A bystander's video showed officer Derek Chauvin, who is white, kneeling on the handcuffed Floyd's neck, even after he pleaded that he could not breathe and stopped moving. Two other Minneapolis officers held down Floyd, while a fourth officer stood nearby and interacted with bystanders who pleaded with the officers to get off Floyd.
All four officers involved in the incident were fired Tuesday. On Wednesday, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey demanded criminal charges for the officers.
Protests were held in the city Tuesday and Wednesday.
"Our hearts are broken after watching the appalling video capturing the actions of Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) officers against George Floyd leading to his tragic death," Gabel said in her letter. "As a community, we are outraged and grief-stricken. I do not have the words to fully express my pain and anger and I know that many in our community share those feelings, but also fear for their own safety. This will not stand."
Gabel said she has directed school officials to "no longer contract the Minneapolis Police Department" for large on-campus events, including football games. She also said the school will cut ties with the MPD for "specialized services" such as "K-9 explosive detection units."
TCF Bank Stadium is about 5 miles from the site of Floyd's death. At football games, Minneapolis police often had a strong presence accompanying the university's police force.
One day before Gabel's announcement, the university's undergraduate student body president, Jael Kerandi, issued a letter and a petition demanding that the school sever its ties with the Minneapolis police.
"We no longer wish to have a meeting or come to an agreement, there is no middle ground," Kerandi's letter said. "The police are murdering black men with no meaningful repercussions. This is not a problem of some other place or some other time. This is happening right here in Minneapolis."
The Minnesota Vikings said they were deeply saddened by the incident, which happened just blocks from their U.S. Bank Stadium. Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James was among several professional athletes who spoke out against the actions of Minneapolis police.
Gabel is the University of Minnesota's first female president. She was appointed in 2018 and her term began last year.
"We have a responsibility to uphold our values and a duty to honor them," Gabel wrote. "We will limit our collaboration with the MPD to joint patrols and investigations that directly enhance the safety of our community or that allow us to investigate and apprehend those who put our students, faculty, and staff at risk.
"I write to you to express our overwhelming sadness, and our demands for accountability and justice. Our campuses and facilities are a part of the communities in which they reside. University students, staff, and faculty are day-to-day participants in the life of every community in this state, and we must act when our neighbors are harmed and in pain."


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SES Networks
"With Salesforce, we can offer added value to our customers and get new solutions to market faster than the competition."
- Elly Domene, Director of Global Customer Experience Management at SES Networks.
RAM Tracking puts growth in the fast lane with Salesforce
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SES Networks reaches for the stars with smarter analytics and faster innovation
When SES Networks demonstrated to customers its new dashboards and analytics for tracking network utilisation, they got an unexpected response, as Trailblazer Ewald Schrap, Director of Network Services at SES Networks, explains, "The test customers nearly fell off their chairs when they saw how easy it was. Showing customers how their networks are being used will help them make better business decisions."
The new dashboards, which are powered by Salesforce, are not aimed just at IT personnel; they can also be used by marketing, finance, and engineering teams to extract important business information. "Connectivity is fundamental in today's digital world. We want to help our customers to make the most of their network resources so they can maximise agility and efficiency," said Elly Domene, Director of Global Customer Experience Management at SES Networks.
Building long-term customer relationships
SES Networks believes in a world where affordable, high speed connectivity is always within reach. As a connectivity and experience leader, it has opened a host of opportunities to the digital world for millions of people from the Amazon basin and sub-Saharan Africa to the middle of the Pacific. But SES Networks believes that creating access to connectivity in just the beginning. Everyone deserves access to not just connectivity, but affordable, high-performance services that will allow them to fully capitalise on the opportunities of the app-driven world.
The company owns and operates ground-breaking satellite systems which have the capability to offer fibre-like connectivity to communities in remote locations. For example, it provides high-performance satellite-based connectivity to the city of Juba, in South Sudan, which would otherwise have extremely limited broadband connectivity.
Making its customers successful is key to the company's business strategy. "Healthy customers means healthy business," said Domene. "We want to build long-term partnerships that maximise loyalty, and that means we need to go beyond purely transactional customer relationships: we need to listen, react, and empower."
Simplifying business process and the customer journey
SES Networks recognises that the first step to successfully acquiring and retaining customers is making key business processes as simple as possible. "With Salesforce, we can deliver a consistent experience from when a prospect first contacts us, through to onboarding, using our services, billing, and renewing," said Domene.
The company first started using the CRM solution in 2012, and refreshed its implementation in 2016 to include Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Pardot, Salesforce CPQ, Community Cloud, and Analytics Cloud. "We realised that Salesforce had more than kept up with us over the last five years, and was one of the few solutions that could cope with our 100-mile-per-hour market," said Mary Hooft, Director of Salesforce Lifecycle at SES Networks.
Creating personalised quotes
SES Networks doesn't just operate in a fast market; it operates in a complex market. With multiple and varied offerings, SES Networks needs to make it as easy as possible for its sales teams to compile proposals for its customers, which include telcos, governments, cruise operators, and energy providers.
"Our products are like building blocks, which means our sales teams and expert engineers can work together to craft tailor-made solutions based on a customer's exact requirements," said Schrap. "With Salesforce CPQ, we can create custom quotes on the fly that reflect the personalised solutions that we deliver to our customers around the globe."
Freeing up the sales team from administration
SES Networks' trailblazing leaders haven't just made quoting easier for their sales reps; they've simplified the entire sales cycle with better qualified leads and automated workflows. "We want our sales teams to spend their time talking to customers, not inputting data," explained Domene. "With Salesforce, we've created an entirely integrated platform, which means you never have to enter data more than once."
This integrated approach starts as soon as a lead is captured on SES Networks' website and ends with a SAP-based revenue recognition engine, which will eventually support on-demand billing. Leads are qualified and nurtured using Pardot, and assigned to either the marketing or sales team depending on how hot they are. "With Pardot, we can send automated emails to prospects and grow our sales pipeline," said Hooft.
Providing responsive technical support
SES Networks also uses Salesforce to keep track of its satellite hardware as well as customer deployment schedules. "Getting equipment on the ground once a contract has been signed can take up to six months, so moving things along as fast as possible is key to delivering value quickly," said Schrap. "With Salesforce, we can achieve key milestones in parallel rather than as sequential steps."
Once a customer's satellite installation has gone live, SES Networks co-ordinates technical support via its Network Operations Centre. SES Networks' team of engineers uses Service Cloud to provide 24x7 support to customers around the world. "We've customised Service Cloud to fit with our best practice IT service management processes," explained Brian Stalker, Vice President of Global Network Operations at SES Network. "Using Service Cloud helps us prioritise issues and assign them to the right engineer. We've even built an online community using Community Cloud that enables our customers to check status, read engineers' notes, and self-serve. Providing real-time updates improves the customer experiece and increases their trust in us."
Driving continuous improvement
To optimise its services and processes, SES Networks is starting to capture customer feedback at every stage of this customer journey. "We're constantly taking the pulse of our customer base, so there's no surprises when it comes to renewals," said Domene. "We're going to use this information to drive continuous improvement."
This customer feedback will eventually be combined with KPI and other business information to create internal dashboards in Analytics Cloud, which will inform business decisions and pinpoint trends. "With access to intelligent analytics, we can anticipate market and customers trends, and adjust our service offerings to match," said Hooft.
In the future, SES Networks plans to take advantage of Salesforce Einstein's AI capabilities to make correlations between network issues and utilisation. "Mindshare is really important in our business; we want to be recognised as a leader," said Domene. "With Salesforce, we can offer added value to our customers and get new solutions to market faster than the competition."
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Chemical Glycobiology
Presented by the Chemical Biology Discussion Group and New York Chapter of the American Chemical Society
Glycosylation creates a diverse array of carbohydrate epitopes attached to cell surface proteins and lipids. These carbohydrates or glycans play crucial roles in a diverse array of medically relevant biological processes from viral pathogenesis to tumor cell metastasis and stem cell differentiation. The biosynthetic and molecular complexity of these biopolymers, which are branched and often epimeric, has constrained our understanding of both the chemistry and biology of these molecules. New approaches to research in this arena are bringing together chemists and biologists to meet the analytical, synthetic and biochemical challenges of understanding this important class of biomolecules.
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Overview of Chemical Glycobiology
Jon Lai, PhD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Chemical Synthesis Directed to Small Molecule Natural Products and Biologics
Sam Danishefsky, PhD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Structure, Function, and Inhibition of Human O-GlcNAc Transferase
Suzanne Walker, PhD, Harvard Medical School
Visualizing the Dynamic Glycome
Lara Mahal, PhD, New York University
Imaging the Glycome using Click Chemistry
Peng Wu, PhD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Jon Lai, PhD
Jon Lai received his B. Sc. (Hons.) in Biochemistry from Queen's University in Ontario, Canada, then completed his Ph.D. in 2004 in Biophysics and Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin – Madison with Sam Gellman. From 2004 – March 2007, he was Helen Hay Whitney post-doctoral fellow with Chris Walsh at Harvard Medical School and then studied virus envelope glycoprotein structure and function as a research associate in Stephen Harrison's lab (Harvard Medical School) from April – November 2007. He began his current appointment as Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in December 2007. His research program has two major focus areas: (i) dissecting and evolving antibody-antigen interactions by phage display; (ii) understanding mechanisms of viral membrane fusion and how this process can be inhibited with designed peptides and proteins.
Lara Mahal, PhD
Lara K. Mahal is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at New York University. An expert in glycomics, she is currently a Sloan Foundation Fellow and the recipient of the NIH Director's New Innovator Award, an NSF CAREER Award and a Beckman Fellowship. Professor Mahal obtained her B. A. from the University of California at Santa Cruz, her Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley and was a Jane Coffins Child Postdoctoral Fellow at Sloan Kettering Research Center.
Jennifer Henry, PhD
Sam Danishefsky, PhD
Samuel J. Danishefsky received his B.S. degree at Yeshiva University. He did his graduate research under the late Professor Peter Yates. He then joined the laboratory of Professor Gilbert Stork at Columbia University as an NIH Postdoctoral Associate. His first academic position was at the University of Pittsburgh, where he joined as Assistant Professor in 1963. He was promoted to Associate Professor, Professor, and University Professor. In January 1980, he moved to Yale University and was named Eugene Higgins Professor in 1981. Appointed by President A. Bartlett Giamatti as Chairman of the Department of Chemistry, he served until 1987. He became Sterling Professor at Yale in 1990. In 1993, Professor Danishefsky moved back to New York as Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University and the Eugene Kettering Chair and Head of the Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. In 1996, he shared the Wolf Prize in Chemistry with Professor Gilbert Stork. In 2006, he was the recipient of the Franklin Medal in Chemistry, the Bristol Myers Squibb Lifetime Achievement Award in Chemistry, and the National Academy of Sciences Award in the Chemical Sciences.
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Suzanne Walker, PhD
Professor Suzanne Walker received her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1992, where she eventually joined the faculty as a Professor of Chemistry. In 2004, she moved to the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at Harvard Medical School. Professor Walker started her independent career working on cell wall biosynthesis in bacteria, an area that continues to be a major focus. She currently studies metabolic pathways involved in microbial survival and pathogenesis. The underlying motivation for her projects is to develop the scientific foundations for the discovery and evaluation of new targets, strategies, and compounds to treat resistant bacterial infections.
Peng Wu, PhD
Peng Wu received his doctorate from the Scripps Research Institute in 2005 under the guidance of Professor K. Barry Sharpless. From September 2004 to April 2005, he was a visiting student in the laboratory of Professor Craig J. Hawker at IBM Almaden Research Center and at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His graduate studies, in collaboration with the Hawker lab, demonstrated for the first time the powerful utilization of click chemistry in the preparation of well-defined macromolecules and nanostructured materials. After completing postdoctoral work at the University of California, Berkeley with Professor Carolyn Bertozzi, he joined the faculty of Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 2008. The Wu lab research spans the disciplines of chemistry, materials science and biology, with a focus on the invention of new tools for studying protein glycosylation, especially those related to infectious diseases.
This event is funded in part by the Life Technologies™ Foundation.
The Society for Glycobiology
Sam Danishefsky, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
General operating perspective in pharma is that small molecule drug targets are fashioned by chemists through various means. The current emphasis is on producing huge libraries for heavy-duty screening. By contrast, biologics are presumed to arise from strictly natural means. The lecture will deal with the very special nature of small molecule natural products in enabling small molecule leads. It will also show that chemical synthesis is now able to think realistically about gaining access to biologic‐level targets through chemistry.
Lara Mahal, New York University
Glycosylation is important in a variety of biological processes from cell signaling to tumor cell metastasis. Our laboratory has developed tools to examine both dynamic glycosylation as part of signaling by O-GlcNAc and complex cell surface glycans. Herein we discuss our work in these areas.
Suzanne Walker, Harvard School of Medicine
O-GlcNAc transferase is an essential mammalian enzyme that functions as a nutrient sensor to couple metabolic status to the regulation of a wide variety of cellular signaling pathways. OGT catalyzes the transfer of N-acetyl glucosamine from UDP-GclNAC to serines and threonines of cytoplasmic, nuclear, and mitochondrial proteins, including transcription factors, tumor suppressors, kinases, phosphatases, and histone modifying proteins. Aberrant O-GlcNAcylation by OGT has been directly linked to insulin resistance, diabetic complications, cancer and neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer's. We will report the crystal structure of human OGT, both as a binary complex with UDP and as a ternary complex with a peptide substrate, and will discuss the mechanistic implications of the structures. We will also describe progress towards the development of inhibitors useful as cellular probes to explore the biology of OGT and to assess its potential as a therapeutic target.
Peng Wu, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Imaging the glycome within a cellular environment is now possible using chemical tools from the emerging field of bioorthogonal click chemistry.
Azides and alkynes are phenotypic bioorthogonal chemical reporters that are small, biologically inert, and capable of reacting with each other at physiological pH. Most glycan subtypes can be imaged by metabolic labeling with azide- or alkyne-bearing monosaccharide precursors. In this talk, I will discuss our recent results of imaging and profiling sialylated and fucosylated glycans in living organisms using a click chemistry-based approach.
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Video: Court Grants Naira Marley bail of 2 million
By GidiPoint.com on	 May 30, 2019 Entertainment
Justice Nicholas I. Oweibo of the Federal High Court Grants Naira Marley N2m Bailustice Nicholas I. Oweibo of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Thursday, May 30, 2019, granted bail to a Nigerian artiste, Azeez Fashola, also known as Naira Marley, in the sum of N2,000,000.00( Two million Naira).
Marley was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on May 20, 2019 on an 11-count charge bordering on cyber crime.
One of the counts reads: "That you, Azeez Adeshina Fashola, aka Naira Marley, and Yad Isril (still at large), on or about the 26th day of November, 2018, within the jurisdiction of this honourable court, conspired amongst yourself to use Access card no : 5264711020433662 issued to persons other than you in a bid to obtain gain and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 27(1) (b) of the Cybercrime Prohibition, Prevention etc Act 2015 and punishable under Section 33(2) of the same Act."
He pleaded not guilty to the charges preferred against him and was remanded in prison custody.
At the last sitting, counsel to the defendant, Taiwo Oluwa Ore- Agba, had asked the court for a date to hear the bail application on behalf his client.
Consequently, Justice Oweibo had adjourned the case to May 30, 2019(today) for hearing of the bail application.
At today's sitting, counsel to the defendant, Olalekan Ojo, SAN, adopted the bail application before the court and urged the court to exercise its discretionary power to grant his client bail in the most liberal terms, saying "the offence before the court is a bailable one."
However, counsel to the prosecution, Rotimi Oyedepo, opposed the bail application and urged the court to refuse the defendant bail.
"This offence relates to the use of cyber crimes and it is a time bomb if it is not expeditiously addressed.
"It will not only affect our today, but also put our tomorrow in jeopardy and the image of the country," he further argued.
In his ruling, Justice Nicholas Oweibo granted the defendant bail in the sum of N2, 000,000.00(Two Million Naira) with two sureties in like sum.
One of the sureties must be a civil servant on Grade Level 10, while the other must own a landed property within the jurisdiction of the court.
The Judge further directed the EFCC to verify the status of each of the sureties.
The case was adjourned to October 22, 23 and 24, 2019 for commencement of trial.
Trial has been adjourned to October 22-24.
His counsel, Olalekan Ojo, SAN expressed satisfaction with the ruling, saying the terms are liberal.
The EFCC arraigned him last week before Justice Nicholas Oweibo, where he pleaded not guilty to an 11-count charge bordering on cyber crime.
Here's a video of his family jubilating:
Video of him leaving court after he was granted bail:
Court Grants Naira Marleybail of 2 million
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£10m Leeds Town Hall revamp: Costs spiral but work is '˜vital'
Leeds's iconic 160-year old Town Hall building is set for a revamp costing almost £10m - more than three times the original estimated bill.
Tuesday, 23rd February 2016, 7:46 am
Updated Tuesday, 23rd February 2016, 7:50 am
The city council has submitted an application for Lottery heritage funding for half the cash, with the remaining bill to be footed by local taxpayers.
The result of the bid is imminent - and success would pave the way for the authority to start the search for an expert design team. Work could start as early as July this year.
The YEP revealed previously that council bosses were considering bidding for Lottery funding for a possible £3m makeover.
But now it has emerged the current estimated cost for the "essential repairs" is £9.56m. The authority insists the investment is sound - and will save public money in the long-term.
A spokesman for Leeds City Council said: "The Grade 1 listed Leeds Town Hall was voted the city's favourite building by YEP readers in 2009 and hosts over 1,000 events throughout the year.
"However, like any significant building of its age, it inevitably requires an ongoing programme of repairs and improvements to secure the building for future generations.
"The council is now taking the opportunity to both protect the building and also open-up its heritage features, whilst making it more economically sustainable. "By providing more meeting spaces for hire and better catering facilities inside we will continue to reduce its reliance on public funds in the long term.
"The council will contribute a maximum £4.8m from its capital programme towards the total estimated project cost of £9.56m.
"We are looking to lever in the remaining money from sponsorship and fundraising. We have made an application to the Heritage Lottery Fund which is currently being assessed and we hope to hear the result of our application shortly.
"The Town Hall is an iconic Leeds landmark and the work is essential so it can continue to provide a warm welcome to tens of thousands of visitors each year."
The refurbishment works would include a brand new heritage trail around the Victorian cells, courtroom, Victoria Hall and clock tower, work to strengthen the roof, improved acoustics and a new bar.
An iconic piece of city's history
Leeds Town Hall, completed in 1858, was once a municipal hub, hosting courts, the city's police station and cells, register services and more. However nowadays it serves primarily as a concert and conference venue.
The decision to build Leeds Town Hall was made in 1851, at a meeting of the then Leeds Borough Council. An attempt was made to fund it by selling shares for £10 but the plan failed, A public competition to design the building was won by young Hull architect Cuthbert Brodrick. He won £200. For the next 108 years, Leeds Town Hall stood as the tallest building in Leeds.


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More games added to Coventry City's pre-season schedule
The Sky Blues have got five friendly fixtures pencilled in this month
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Coventry City have added more dates to their pre-season schedule which takes a disappointing twist this year.
The Sky Blues kick off their friendly programme of matches this weekend with the short trip to non-league neighbours Leamington, followed by a training camp in Spain that concludes with a test against League Two opposition, Northampton Town.
The only other senior games pencilled in for fans after the squad's return to the UK on the weekend of July 13, is a match against Liverpool Under-23s at Rugby Town's Butlin Road on Wednesday, July 24, and an away game at Swindon Town (Saturday, July 27) a week before the new League One season gets underway against Southend United at St Andrew's.
Two more fixtures have now been pencilled in for Saturday, July 20, and Tuesday, July 30 in order for Mark Robins's men to complete their preparations with the required number of match minutes in their legs.
The Sky Blues taking a breather during one of their intense pre-season fitness sessions
The latest two games, however, will be played behind closed doors – a situation the manager puts down to the fact that the club does not have its own stadium.
"We have got a number of games behind closed doors because we have clearly had an issue with the stadium," he said.
"We will be going to different places to play behind closed doors.
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"There will be a Saturday game and possibly a Tuesday game, both behind closed doors.
"It has been more difficult this year. There is a game the Tuesday before the season starts where we will play at the training ground just to get games in.
"But it doesn't matter, it's just about the quality of the game and we need to get minutes into the players – the usual thing for pre-season – but it's been difficult getting a fixture list because we don't have a home stadium to play in.
Coventry City boss Mark Robins
"That's something we have had to contend with this time around and not having the definitive answer about where we would be playing next season until the first week in June has had a knock-on effect in terms of what we have done with games. But it looks OK."
Saturday's opening fixture at the New Windmill Ground will provide an opportunity for fans to get their first look at the club's nine new senior signings, although it's expected to take on the usual format of two different teams for each half to ensure as many members of the squad get game time.
"It's purely to get the legs going in a game situation," said Robins.
"Then we have a really tough week in Spain next week and play against Northampton at the Pinatar at the end of the week, so it's a good week to look forward to."
Jordan Shipley in pre-season training
Ticket prices for the Leamington game, which kicks off at 3pm, are priced at the following:
Adults - £10
Over 60's - £7
*Students - £5
Under 18 - £2
Under 12 - FREE
* Students must show proof with a valid NUS card.
There will be no segregation between supporters and tickets will be available to purchase via cash turnstiles on the day of the game, with entry to the stadium available from 1:00pm.
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Parking is available for approximately 450 vehicles although there will be no alternative parking around the ground due to the location of the stadium which is surrounded by busy country roads.
Leamington have provided a double-decker bus which will operate from the Leamington Spa Railway Station to the Stadium as scheduled below:
Leamington Rail Station 13:50 14:20
Windmill Inn, Tachbrook Road 13:54 14:24
Heathcote Inn , Tachbrook Road 13:57 14:27
Phillips 66 Community Stadium 14:05 14:35
The price for the bus service will be £3 return and this will be needed to pay on your journey to the ground in order to ensure your return back to the railyway station.
The bus will depart shortly after the final whistle, with the final bus leaving Leamington from 5:30pm.
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Famed Eastside High Under Fire For Sticking Tardy, Disruptive Students In A Trailer
Joe Clark May Not Be There Anymore, But School Still Thinks Outside The Box January 19, 2012 at 7:19 pm
Filed Under:Eileen Lehpamer, Kathryn Brown, Morgan Freeman, Paterson
If you are late to class or act up on school property there's a good chance you will visit the Eastside High WEBB trailer. (Photo: CBS 2)
PATERSON, N.J. (CBSNewYork) — A New Jersey high school made famous for its unorthodox approach to discipline is once again sparking controversy — by sending tardy students to a trailer.
The quest to clean up Eastside High School is chronicled in the classic 1980s film "Lean on Me" starring Morgan Freeman as then-Principal Joe Clark.
Flash forward two decades and school leaders are once again trying a radical technique to cut down on bad behavior.
This time – it's called the "WEBB," an acronym that stands for, according to sophomore, Jose Gonzalez, "We expect better behavior."
1010 WINS' Eileen Lehpamer Reports From Paterson https://newyork.cbslocal.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/14578484/2012/01/late-3lehpamer-42-wgeis.mp3
The WEBB is a trailer set outside the school building.
"It's a trailer. It's for bad students," senior Johnny Navarette told CBS 2's Kathryn Brown on Thursday.
And for the past year and a half, students who are late are locked out of class and sent to the trailer for the remainder of the period.
"I think the trailers are completely waste of time because it takes the learning out of students," one student told 1010 WINS' Eileen Lehpamer.
School officials say they are supposed to use the time to study for graduation exams, but some students who have been say it's a waste of time.
"They just make us sit in there and wait a whole block when we could be learning," senior Selena Rodriguez said.
The policy has been controversial from the start, but Principal Zatiti Moody said he needed to do something drastic to end what was becoming a routine and very disruptive problem.
Still, he's acknowledged this policy may be too extreme, writing in an e-mail to school staff last month that said: "The practice … of locking our doors and sending all tardy students to the WEBB has caused an alarming failure rate for students," and added, "Many staff members have expressed their concern with students missing out on extended periods of learning."
"If the reason you come here is to get your education and stuff, then why pull them out?" sophomore Luisa Aristy said.
School officials declined to speak with CBS 2's Brown on camera Thursday, but the principal has said publicly he has softened enforcement of the WEBB recently, and is working with teachers and staff here to re-evaluate the policy.
Students say they also get sent to the WEBB for infractions like not wearing their uniforms or being disruptive in class.
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Junior League of Macon Endowment Fund
The Junior League of Macon is just one local non-profits with an organizational endowment fund managed by the Community Foundation of Central Georgia.
Established in 2005, the Junior League's endowment fund allows the organization to finance, sustain, expand and initiate designated Junior League of Macon Community Programs. The annual distribution may also be used to support the JLM headquarters, meetings, training, other JLM operating or capital expenses.
Among its community projects, the Junior League actively supports literacy among preschool and elementary public school students, securing free books for preschoolers to promote reading in the family and volunteering in reading programs for elementary school students.
These community projects are supported by the organization's annual fundraisers. At the same time, the endowment fund grows through memorial and honorarium gifts given by the organization's members. In the spring, when JLM members renew their membership, there is an opportunity to make a gift to the endowment fund.
"We are big cheerleaders for the Community Foundation," she said. "Their mission and our mission is a beautiful fit: We both want to positively impact the community. They manage our endowment fund so that we can spend our time and effort on early childhood literacy and school readiness," said Kathleen Medlin, past president of the Junior League of Macon
The Junior League relies on the expertise and knowledge of the Community Foundation staff to help build its endowment. Because the endowment fund at the Community Foundation has given Junior League members a vehicle for supporting the organization's long-term goals.


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Education in laboratory animal science Comparative medicine Staff portal
Lectures and seminars Webinar: Translational potential of rats in research
10-12-2021 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Add to iCal
The aim of these CPD webinars (Continuing professional development) is to follow the legal requirements for maintenance and demonstration of competence in laboratory animal science, and to facilitate the implementations of the 3R's in routine animal work.
Translational potential of rats in research
Rats have made significant contributions to investigations into human disease. Their relative size, intelligence, docile nature, and physiological similarity to humans have made them preferred models for pharmacology, toxicology, neurobiology, and cardiovascular studies. While mice have historically been the preferred species for genetic studies, advancements in gene targeting technologies in the rat have significantly closed the gap.
Indeed, the past two decades have seen major advances in our understanding of human disease using rats as research models, including the translational success of therapies for heart failure, Alzheimer's Disease, hypertension, and diabetes. The advantages of the rat as a model of human disease, and the continued proof of the success of this model, make it likely that rats will remain one of the most widely used species for biomedical and pharmaceutical research for years to come.
Sara Hashway, DVM, Diplomate ACLAM, is the Director of the Office of Animal Resources (OAR) and Attending Veterinarian at the University of Colorado Boulder, U.S.
Her primary research interests include animal model refinement and optimization of husbandry practices. She co-authored the chapter "Translational Potential of Rats in Research" within the 3rd edition of the book "The Laboratory Rat".
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Dairy Foods Columnists
Create Value by Reducing Your Carbon Footprint
By Clay Detlefsen
The U.S. dairy industry has been diligently gathering data, crunching numbers and double-checking methodologies to ensure that the carbon footprint and life-cycle assessments for fluid milk and cheese are consistent with internationally accepted schemes and protocols. Since we are pretty much done with those, now what?
It is time to cash in — or should I say "create value" — by reducing your carbon footprint. Many folks in the dairy industry have been doing that for longer than the word "sustainability" has been around. But the buzz around sustainability has energized efforts to increase efficiency, reduce waste, reduce greenhouse gases and add to the bottom line like never before.
Check out the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy's website (www.usdairy.com) and you will see how busy the industry has been and what we are achieving. The case studies on the impact of switching from incandescent lamps to LED lighting show doing so reduces electrical energy consumed substantially. It also shows LEDs save time and money by reducing maintenance time and costs because they last up to 20 times longer than incandescent lights — LEDs can last up to 40,000 hours.
There is a case study about one of my favorite technologies — thermal solar heat — at Oakhurst Dairy, Portland, Maine. I mentioned this case briefly in my first column (Dairy Foods, January 2011, page 124), but it's worth a little more ink here. That facility in Maine — yes, Maine — has been saving more than 7,500 gallons of No. 2 fuel oil per year with the potential for improvement. Currently, that represents annual savings of about 224,000 pounds of CO2.
What I like about this project is that it went forward despite having an unusually long payback period. Payback in this case will be eight years versus the industry standard of one to two years that most projects need to get capital funds. After the first eight years, the system will be paid for and should last another 22 years, which will save the company an estimated $350,000 at today's oil prices. If fuel prices increase, which you and I know they will, the savings grow. So solar can pay out, even in Maine.
Energy audit finds savings
Sometimes value comes not from adding something new, but rather making better use of what you have now. That was the case for an Ohio novelty plant that had multiple air compressors running off local controls. After my friends at Solution Dynamics Inc., Brookfield, Wis., performed an energy audit of the facility, they discovered that adding another air compressor at a cost of $50,000 was not the solution. Instead, they focused on getting the most out of what was already there. They did this by integrating the multiple units, adding larger controlled storage capacity, installing high-efficiency nozzles and other equipment and, of course, fixing leaks. In the end, the company invested a little more than $76,000 with a life expectancy of 10-15 years and an annual cost savings of nearly 850,000 kWh or $38,250. The payback came in at 1.4 years — right in the sweet spot needed to get capital funds.
Value to processors can also be delivered by new refrigeration systems, refrigeration system upgrades or by replacing outdated milk evaporators with reverse-osmosis systems, as was done at the Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers Cooperative's balancing plant in Laurel, Md., in 2009. Here too, the payback period was unusual for the dairy industry: 4.4 years. But, the company clearly saw the value when it benefited from reduced electrical demand and natural gas usage savings of nearly $500,000 per year. Reduced maintenance on this low-temperature technology was a bonus and it eliminated nearly 2,700 metric tons of CO2. It really drives home the opportunities offered by the dairy industry's voluntary commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions for fluid milk by 25% by the year 2020.
Dive into the motor pool
Delivering value can also come from the transportation side of the dairy industry. Transportation, processing and distribution comprise about 17% of the greenhouse gas emissions associated with a gallon of consumed fluid milk. Raw transportation to processing locations amounts to nearly one-half the amount of greenhouse gas emissions associated with processing. So, there are lots of opportunities to be had. For example, Dairy Farmers of America, Kansas City, Mo., installed a GPS-based electronic fleet management system, which delivered an incredible value. The system delivered data on fuel consumption, route information, inspection data and driver speed, which is wirelessly routed to fleet managers. With a relatively small investment of $138,000 plus $50,000 per year in maintenance for 150 trucks, the payback period was six months. That's excellent. Annual fuel savings came in at $377,000 — or 94,250 gallons of diesel at an estimated cost of $4 per gallon. This represents an approximate 950 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions avoided.
While the title and the premise of this column is about capitalizing on value associated with reducing greenhouse gas emissions, readers should not be complacent about water. We will deal with that issue, too, but suffice to say for now: Water saved is greenhouse gas emissions reduced. n
KEYWORDS: carbon footprint electricity natural gas processing
Clay Detlefsen is senior vice president, regulatory and environmental affairs and staff counsel for the National Milk Producers Federations, Arlington, Va. Previously, he was a vice president at the International Dairy Foods Association, Washington, D.C.
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Must See: Black Family Receives Letter From Neighbors: 'You Don't Belong Here'
Suffolk County police are investigating the origins of a letter urging a Black family to move out of the neighborhood.
By Whitney Gaspard	· May 25, 2015 October 27, 2020
On Thursday, Lindenhurst, Long Island resident Ronica Copes received a letter in her mailbox boldly asking her and her family to move because they're Black.
The letter, that was addressed to the "African-American Family", was printed on plain white paper in bold capital letters stating, "This is coming from the Lindenhurst Community. Lindenhurst is 84% white. You don't belong here. Please leave as soon as you can."
Copes expressed shear disappointment when reading the letter, but also admits she was hardly surprised by it's content. In an interview with local New York station WPIX, Copes said, [It is] unbelievable, but then it's not. [It is] our daily reality. I've just never seen it in this form."
County Executive Steven Bellone released a statement Friday calling the author of the letter a "coward," saying, "I stand together with all Lindenhurst residents who decry this act of hatred. This community and all of Suffolk County are better than that."
Suffolk County police are investigating the letter as a hate crime against the Copes family.


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Share this Story: NHL season, World Juniors, Winter Olympics all compromised as COVID runs rampant
NHL season, World Juniors, Winter Olympics all compromised as COVID runs rampant
Bruce McCurdy • Edmonton Journal
Dec 22, 2021 • December 22, 2021 • 6 minute read • Join the conversation
Covid protocol puts Edmonton Oilers in penalty box. (Cartoon by Malcolm Mayes) Malcolm Mayes
Believe me, I'd rather be writing about anything else right now than this cursed virus. But COVID-19 and its latest wave is front and centre right across society these days, and hockey is certainly not immune. There seems to be no frontier of the game that is unaffected, and the news just keeps getting worse.
NHL season, World Juniors, Winter Olympics all compromised as COVID runs rampant Back to video
Let's start in the NHL, where Christmas came early. Or at least, the Christmas break did. Just 1 of a scheduled 10 games was played on Tuesday night, when Tampa Bay Lightning faced off against Vegas Golden Knights in a battle of heavyweights that could have been billed "Last Team Standing". As if to mark the occasion, Bolts coach Jon Cooper was ruled out for the game after a positive test, ending his personal consecutive games streak at some 633 in a row, while the Vegans had to proceed without players Alex Pietrangelo and Evgeni Davidov, both scratched after failing game day tests.
In all, 129 players and 21 coaches are currently in protocol along with an unspecified number of support staff. That's roughly 15% of the league. 26 of the 32 teams now have players and/or coaches unavailable.
With all 4 contests slated for Wednesday already shelved, the NHL unilaterally postponed a giant slate of 15 games that was planned for Thursday, Dec 23. Instead, all teams will formally enter Christmas break effective Wednesday, two days earlier than planned. Some 50 games have now been affected, 41 of those just since this past Saturday.
The plan, for now, is for all 32 teams to return to home base on Boxing Day, one day earlier than initially planned, to give all teams the opportunity to do testing and establish their readiness before travel and games recommence on Dec 27. That night a further 14 games are on the slate, though already some of those contests are in doubt. Among them the one here in Alberta, where the Edmonton Oilers and Calgary Flames are supposed to resume the Battle of Alberta in Calgary. But the Oilers project to still be short-staffed by at least 5 players on that date. The Flames meanwhile lead the world with a stunning 20 players currently under COVID protocol, with Dan Vladar becoming the 20th on Tuesday. As it stands the majority of them will have served their time (10 days, all else being equal) by the time the puck is scheduled to drop, but who knows where they will stand when testing resumes.
And that's not all. Oilers fans, for example, were notified on Tuesday of some stringent new provincial guidelines affecting attendance at future games. As a minipack holder I received the following email from the club, which presumably was fairly standard to paying fans of all tiers:
This afternoon, the Government of Alberta announced new Covid protocols for the Province that will impact upcoming Oilers and Oil Kings games at Rogers Place.
Effective immediately, total attendance for all games will be limited to 50% of capacity, and food and beverage service will no longer be available.
We are currently addressing the implementation of these new regulations and will be in contact with you via email by end of day Thursday, December 30 to provide you with all your ticket options.
Please note – no further ticket information is available at this time, so we request you please hold your questions until you have had an opportunity to read the detailed email communication on Thursday, December 30.
In other words, they're still working out the logistics on the fly, even as they know that games in the immediate future will be limited to 50% capacity, with no concessions. That's a major kick in the pants for both fans and for an organization that has lost a ton of gate and related revenues over the past 22 months. How they'll resolve that 50% limit will be a headache and a half, even before factoring in that the closure of concessions will crimp the style of some fans more than others.
The silver lining is that the Oilers won't be playing a home game until the second week of January, having embarked on a long road trip to vacate the premises for the impending IIHF World Junior Championship.
Oh yeah, about that…
That leaves Red Deer at a capacity of 3,550 and Edmonton at 9,250. Both have sold well over 50% of the seats and now have to sort out refunds. Big blow for Hockey Canada, who were re-awarded the event because they lost fan $ in 2021. This year was originally planned for Sweden.
— Scott Wheeler (@scottcwheeler) December 21, 2021
Different organizers, similar headaches. More tickets sold than places to seat them.
The good news, for now, is that at least there will be some fans in the building, unlike last year's bubble environment that didn't allow for a single paying customer in the building. But a bitter pill for local hockey enthusiasts who were (correctly in my view) given a second kick at the can to make up for last year's shutout, only to run into another round of stringent regulations at the last minute.
Meanwhile, Hockey Canada will not collect the expected financial windfall from ticket sales for the second year in succession, even as they will get a significant chunk of them this time around.
No point in guessing how this 50% attendance restriction will fall out for either the NHL team or for national organizations, let alone for fans. To state the obvious, it's a sticky wicket. More to the point, whatever "on the fly" restrictions might be floated today might be something else entirely when the time comes for games to be played. If they're played.
This quirky tournament in Davos, Switzerland has become a staple on the international hockey calendar, and followed with at least some degree of interest in this country since 1984. That was the year that Team Canada competed for the first time against a variety of European club teams. consisting primarily of a collection of "imports" with Canadian birth certificates playing for a variety of club teams in Europe. That club, playing under local coaching legend Clare Drake, skated to an unexpected gold medal.
Players wearing the red maple leaf have emerged victorious in 15 of the subsequent 35 Spenglers. But the tournament was cancelled outright in 2020. Now in 2021 it is all set to make its return, but without Team Canada, which formally withdrew citing COVID concerns on Monday of this week.
It seemed inevitable for the past week or so that the NHL's planeed participation in the impending (?) Beijing Olympics was doomed due to am"material disruption" to the schedule, and on Tuesday that became all but official with persistent word that the league and the Players' Association were preparing a joint announcement to that effect. It will likely be announced Wednesday.
This is a tough one for players who in the most recent CBA extension spent considerable negotiating capital ensuring their return to the famous best-on-best tourney after not participating in South Korea in 2018. The delicate negotiation involved the NHL, the PA, the International Ice Hockey Federation, and the International Olympic Committee. Alas, the most influential player in all this seems to be the new guy, who skates under the mysterious name of Omicron Variant.
Has to be bitterly disappointing for players such as Oilers' superstar Connor McDavid , already prevented from participating in one Olympic cycle, and held out from the real Team Canada in the last "best on best" tournament, the 2016 World Cup of Hockey. McDavid was considered a "Young Star" that time as the tournament relied on a couple of gimmicks to bulk up to eight teams.
Now it looks like he and his NHL peers from all hockey-playing countries will be on the outside looking in again. Unless the Olympics themselves get postponed by a year, which may not be out of the question even at this late date. We've already seen the template, the 2020 Summer Olympics in Japan which were put off by a full calendar year and ultimately played out in somewhat stilted fashion 52 weeks late in the summer of 2021.
That decision will ultimately be made far above even Gary Bettman's pay grade, and not easily at that. But if there is one thing that COVID has taught us, and painfully at that, is that almost anything is possible in the 2020s … except normalcy.
UPDATE: Wednesday morning
NHL withdrawal from the Olympics formally confirmed with concurrent announcements from NHL commissioner Gary Bettman and NHLPA executive director Donald Fehr.
Official announcement: #NHL backs out of #Beijing2022. pic.twitter.com/BhL0mRq1JF
— Frank Seravalli (@frank_seravalli) December 22, 2021
Statement from NHLPA executive director Don Fehr on Olympics decision: https://t.co/hU0v244cyI pic.twitter.com/GtHeGLG7Is
— NHLPA (@NHLPA) December 22, 2021
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2005 JFK Profile in Courage Essay Contest Accepting Submissions from U.S. High School Students
For Immediate Release: September 2, 2004
Further information: Ann Scanlon (617) 514-1662
BOSTON - The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation announced today that its 2005 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Essay Contest is now open and accepting submissions from U.S. high school students in grades nine through twelve. The deadline for entries is January 8, 2005.
The first-place winner of the annual contest receives a $3,000 cash prize, and the student's nominating teacher receives a John F. Kennedy Public Service Grant in the amount of $500 to be used for school projects that encourage student leadership and civic engagement. The winner and nominating teacher are honored at the Foundation's annual Profile in Courage Award ceremony hosted by Caroline Kennedy and Senator Edward Kennedy held each May at the Kennedy Library in Boston.
Students may submit an original essay, no longer than 1,000 words in length, about a current elected public official in the United States, who is acting courageously to address a political issue at the local, state, national, or international level or an elected public official in the United States since 1956 who has acted courageously to address a political issue at the local, state, national, or international level. Past submissions have told the stories of courage of a number of leaders, including Illinois Governor George Ryan, U.S. Representative C.L. Otter of Idaho, New York Board of Education President Bernard Confer, U.S. Senator Wayne L. Morse of Oregon, New York State Assemblyman George M. Michaels, U.S. Representative Barbara Lee of California, Alabama Governor Bob Riley, U.S. Senator Russell Feingold of Wisconsin, U.S. Representative Joseph Moakley of Massachusetts, Vermont Governor Howard Dean, and U.S. Representative Bart Stupak of Michigan.
Named for President Kennedy's 1957 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Profiles in Courage, which recounts the stories of eight U.S. senators who risked their careers to fight for what they believed in, the Profile in Courage Essay Contest is sponsored by the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation and supported by Fidelity Investments through its Fidelity Cares program.
The John F. Kennedy Library and Museum is a presidential library administered by the National Archives and Records Administration and supported, in part, by the Kennedy Library Foundation, a non-profit organization. The Kennedy Library and Museum and the Kennedy Library Foundation seek to promote, through educational and community programs, a greater appreciation and understanding of American politics, history, and culture, the process of governing and the importance of public service.