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The Bullish Case for Bitcoin: 2023
2022 was a difficult year for Bitcoin holders. What was once destined to be the year where Bitcoin would see its price go parabolic and perhaps even reach $100,000. Instead, it ended up being a year of pain and disappointment. If you were lucky, your portfolio was intact but saw…
Altcoin Spotlight: Cardano (2023 Update)
Cardano is a blockchain-based platform that aims to provide a more secure and sustainable ecosystem for the development and execution of decentralized applications. In this article, we will take a closer look at the technology behind Cardano, its creators, and its potential uses. What is Cardano? Cardano is an open-source blockchain platform that…
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I love Nano cryptocurrency! Because it's a feeless cryptocurrency, and it has the purpose of helping the Earth environment. I'm in love with Nano cryptocurrency, its unique block-lattice architecture and feeless transactions make it stand out from others. I strongly believe in its potential for mainstream adoption and being a…
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Shiba inu coin is a crypto project known for creating millionaires and millions of losers as its extremely volatile price swings up and down. This crypto is named after an adorable breed of dogs, shiba inu traces its origins back to dogecoin which was the original meme coin crypto as…
Ten ways Bitcoin is being used in every day life, right now.
Here 'are ten ways that Bitcoin is being used in every day life: Online shopping: Many online retailers, including Overstock and Newegg, accept bitcoin as a form of payment. Travel: Many travel websites, such as Expedia and CheapAir, accept bitcoin as a form of payment for booking flights, hotels, and…
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Avalanche — Setting Blockchain Milestones
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The Most Republican County in Every State
Alexander Kent, Thomas C. Frohlich, Evan Comen, Samuel Stebbins, Michael B. Sauter
Last Updated: January 13, 2020 2:39 pm
> Reddest county: Blount County
Blount County is the reddest county in Alabama. In 2012, more than 86% of voters cast their vote for Romney, the highest share of any county in Alabama. In addition, county residents are represented in the House by the 4th and 6th Congressional Districts, both of which are held by Republicans. As with other predominantly Republican-leaning counties, Blount County residents are also poorly educated, with only 12.3% of adults attaining at least a bachelor's degree, a smaller share than the 29.3% of American adults with such a degree.
> Reddest county: N/A
Data for Alaska counties is not sufficient to identify the most or least Democratic area in the state. However, Alaska residents as a whole trend conservative. A majority of eligible residents in the state voted for Romney in 2012, and all three members of Alaska's congressional delegation are Republican.
3. Arizona
> Reddest county: Cochise County
Romney won 60.7% of the 2012 votes cast in Cochise County, the sixth highest share of any county in Arizona. While voters in a number of other counties in the state cast higher shares of votes for Romney than Cochise county, those counties have not enjoyed the same level of Republican representation in Congress. The state's 2nd District, which includes Cochise County, has been represented by a Republican in four of the last five congressional sessions. Both of Arizona's senators have also been Republicans over that time.
> Reddest county: Boone County
Romney won 72.5% of the 2012 votes cast in Boone County, contributing to its rank as the reddest county in Arkansas. Adults in Republican-leaning counties tend to have lower educational attainment rates than residents of blue counties. Boone County is no exception. Just 15.1% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, nearly half the share of American adults with such a degree.
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> Reddest county: Amador County
Amador County is a Republican stronghold in a predominantly blue state. While nearly 60% of California voters cast their ballot for Obama, only 40% of voters in Amador County voted for the president. The county is represented by Rep. Tom McClintock of the 4th District, one of just 14 Republicans representing the state's 53 congressional districts. Both senators — Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer — are longstanding Democrats.
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In December we announced the release of the alpha version of Project Maelstrom and shared our vision for a distributed web. It's a vision for the Internet that we've long held at BitTorrent; we believe its a necessary innovation to sustain a truly neutral, content-friendly network.
At that time we asked, what if more of the web worked the way that BitTorrent does? Project Maelstrom aims to answer that question with a web browser that powers a new way for web content to be published, accessed and consumed.
Since December, we have learned a lot. We also have established a growing community of testers, developers and publishers. More than 10,000 developers in fact, and an additional 3,500 publishers, looking to share our vision of how the Internet can work. These are technologists, academics and researchers. These are start-ups, agencies, and visionaries. And these are the people who will help us build the next 20 years of the Internet.
Today, Project Maelstrom enters its next phase by expanding our group of testers and by offering a new set of developer tools.
Our test group will be expanded with the introduction of the Project Maelstrom browser beta. This is an open beta for Windows users and by empowering the browser with a distributed protocol we open a better future for publishers, creators, and users. And we do this while offering a more efficient, scalable and cost-effective alternative to HTTP.
The latest release also introduces the first developer tools for Project Maelstrom, empowering publishers and developers to leverage the efficiency of BitTorrent technology in their content and interactive experiences.
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Destry David Nave died suddenly Wednesday morning, January 1, 2020, at 42 years of age.
Destry was born October 2, 1977, and spent most of his life in Lebanon. He was a 1995 graduate of Lebanon High School and a member of Immanuel Baptist Church. Destry worked in his family's funeral and cemetery businesses.
He was preceded in death by his grandparents, Jewell W. Nave and Mary Jane Murphy Nave.
Destry is survived by his daughter, Murphy Jane Nave and her mother, Stephnie Nave; his parents, Nancy and Terry Owens; brother, Grant Owens; sister, Callie Farley and her husband, Ethan; grandparents, Donald and Audrey Owens and many loving aunts, uncles and cousins.
Destry's family gathered for private services and interment on Saturday morning, January 4, 2020, at Hunter Memorial Park in Watertown.
In lieu of flowers the family has requested that memorial contributions be made for his 6-year-old daughter, Murphy Jane Nave. You may make contributions at any CedarStone Bank location in Lebanon, Mt. Juliet or Donelson.
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Next week the European Parliament (EP) will vote on a resolution to ban glyphosate by 2020.
The EP Environment Committee's resolution had overwhelming support today (Thursday 19 October) and could be endorsed by the whole MEP sitting in Strasbourg next week.
The NFU has been working hard to convince MEPs of the need to respect the scientific evidence and EU's own regulatory processes which have confirmed the safety of glyphosate.
While the European Parliament's vote is only advisory and it is national governments that decide, it could bring political weight to the argument against the renewal if the vote goes the wrong way.
The UK Farming Unions have written to all UK MEPs requesting they OPPOSE the motion - read the letter here.
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During the night there are more races with different odds, quinella's and "hurdles" to overcome as horses may land on problem squares containing such instructions as "move back 3 spaces", horse racing trivia questions or a physical challenge! At the end of a possible six race program the leading punter is recognised and celebrated!
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If there's a site that exemplifies explosive growth, it has to be Twitter. It seems like everywhere you look, someone is Tweeting, or talking about Tweeting, or Tweeting about Tweeting. Keeping the site responsive under that type of increase is no easy job, but it's one that John Adams has to deal with every day, working in Twitter Operations. He'll be talking about that work at O'Reilly's Velocity Conference, in a session entitled Fixing Twitter: Improving the Performance and Scalability of the World's Most Popular Micro-blogging Site, and he spent some time with us to talk about what is involved in keeping the site alive.
James Turner: Can you start by describing the platforms and technologies that make Twitter run today?
John Adams: Twitter currently runs on Ruby on Rails. And we also use a combination of Java and Scala, and a number of homegrown scripts that run the site. We also use a lot of open-source tools like Apache, MySQL, memcached.
JT: What type of hardware are you running on?
JA: It's all Linux, so a lot of x86 hardware. I can't tell you the brands or how many.
JT: Do you make any kind of attempt to stay homogeneous in that?
JA: Yes, we do. All of our hardware is very consistent. It makes deployment of new software very easy. And we also use a number of configuration management tools like Puppet to deliver software to those machines.
JT: As anyone can see, Twitter has had a pretty explosive growth, especially recently. Were you prepared for this kind of ramp up?
JA: I don't think so. I mean we're growing week over week in enormous numbers. And we spend a lot of time calculating the growth and scalability of the site to make sure that we can handle the upcoming load.
JT: I mean obviously there are events like Oprah decides she's going to Tweet that are going to be spikes. Do you try to get warning of that stuff?
JA: Yeah. And frequently we know of major events happening. Major events are very predictable like Macworld, even any massive amount of media interaction, we have some fair warning beforehand.
JT: There was a period of time when Twitter's reliability was kind of a sore point and people got kind of sick of the little birdie telling them the site was unavailable. What kind of effort was required to solve those problems? And what was the methodology you used?
JA: First thing, it was probably the whale, not the bird.
JT: Oh, sorry. You're right. The whale.
JA: If we see the bird, things are probably okay. But the thing is we have a very metrics-driven culture. And as part of my talk at Velocity, I'll describe this. But we have a cycle. And the methodology has always been to discover the bottlenecks using detailed metrics and reporting of data. Resolve that bottleneck. And that could be modifying software, modifying process or changing the way that we handle incoming messages. Close that bottleneck. Just make it go away. And then repeat that loop over and over and over again.
And we do that through graphing. We do that through instrumenting the application. And it's very important that we don't make any changes until we've looked at the instrumentation. And I think one is to not get — sites frequently get caught up in this, "Well, maybe I'll try something; it'll make things better." And we really don't work that way. We're very much a metrics-driven culture.
JT: Was there kind of a painful transition that some sites have from being kind of the garage band site to kind of growing up? Or was there always a culture of corporateness to the environment?
JA: Well, I would say that the culture here is still very — it's still very open. I mean the company's been running for two-and-a-half years and it's very much a start-up environment. We have lunch everyday together. It's a very fun office environment. As far as the corporate nature, I think what you might be referring to is the formalization of engineering requirements, that going from this sort of Wild West changing things everyday to going to a more disciplined culture around deploying software and testing. And that's definitely true. The process that we have around deploys and the process that we have around software development has become much more structured, and that's definitely helped out with site stability. Now when we deploy software, we are very, very cognizant of, "Did we increase the error rate? Have we made the site worse? Have we changed the response time?" And those metrics are very important to us.
JT: I assume you have some kind of some kind of sandboxing or staging where you can apply load to a new release before it goes live?
JA: Certainly. We have staging environments. We have different admin environments. We have a lot of isolation before things go live. And, in fact, many developers develop locally on their computers. We have a lot of Macs here. You may have seen the recent Apple business profile of us. But we are a heavy Mac shop. And the developers can run their entire environment, all of Twitter, on a single machine if they need to for testing.
JT: How is Twitter different from a traditional Web 2.0 site in terms of its needs?
JA: Do you mean hardware, software, or just in general?
JT: How you go about thinking about it?
JA: I think it's different because the majority of our traffic takes place over the API and not over the web. And that means that if we have issues that are on the website as opposed to issues that users would see in a client, it's a very different load profile. Many people communicate with us through SMS, for example, instead of the website. And most Web 2.0 companies are very concerned with the look and feel of the website and how things perform. And we're more of a conduit.
JT: Twitter certainly does have a certain minimalism to it, a very Google-esque minimalism to the design.
JA: Yeah, I would say that.
JT: So, as you just mentioned, Twitter does live as part of a larger ecosystem of social networking sites and applications. They all interconnect to some extent. A lot of your traffic does come out of iPhone apps and cell phone apps and widgets on desktops. How conscious do you have to be of how third parties are consuming your APIs?
JA: Well, I mean we definitely have terms of service that third parties have to follow. We're very open to abuse because of that. We're frequently disabling accounts because of spam and people abusing the API. That changes the way you run the site. It changes the way you run security. And abuse definitely impacts performance. The more abuse we have, the less legitimate traffic can use the site.
JT: To what extent do you find yourself almost in a partnership arrangement where, obviously, the APIs are mainly of benefit to the people consuming them as application developers, how much of a cooperative environment do you have there?
JA: Well, we communicate with API consumers every day on the development mailing list. That's mostly run by Alex Payne and Doug. They handle our API support. We have a website that gets updated every day with different tips on how to use our API. So it is — it's a cooperative arrangement but a very open arrangement between the developers and Twitter.
JT: As Twitter has evolved, the use cases have changed somewhat. You see people using a lot more of the searching and tagging features now, as people have kind of evolved how they use it. How much does that change the load and nature of the site? And how hard is it to stay ahead of that?
JA: Well, search is a good example. It's very well-known that when we released search to the public, we released it in very small batches initially. So you can see — a lot of people said, "Oh, I have the search box on my page." And many people said, "Well, I don't have the search box." So we do bucket testing to make sure that the site is going to be able to take the load. And then we release a feature. At least that's how that feature went out.
JT: Can you give us some feel for what you're going to be talking about at Velocity, what people can look forward to?
JA: Yeah. The talk at Velocity, I want to spend some time focusing on the way that process and metrics allow people to really understand how their website works and being able to interpret those metrics and use those for scaling. You know, there are limits to what we can talk to about the way that Twitter works internally, mainly because of NDA issues and whatnot. But I want to be able to take the lessons from here and put them in a format where they can be applied to anyone's site. And I think one of the things that we like to show people at Velocity is that there is a different way of looking at performance problems. We encourage getting people into a metrics-driven culture. And small companies and small web shops may not realize that at first of how important it is to use numbers to make decisions. So we'll cover that. We'll also cover some best practices for Ruby on Rails deployments and what the importance of doing things asynchronously as opposed to synchronously, like when you're sending mail to a user, how those processes should be done outside of the scope of the web request. Some things like that.
JT: Sounds good. So to put you on the spot, when you tweet, what are you tweeting with?
JA: If I'm sitting at my desk, I'm using right now Tweetie, which is really great. I used to use Twitterific, but now I use Tweetie. And on my iPhone, I also use Tweetie. So I switched over from Twitterific to Tweetie recently because it has a better interface to our API. But it has support for search trends. But, honestly, there are many, many good clients out there. And I think that it's good to go on the iPhone App store or go on websites and find one that you really like because there are a lot of features that are different between the interfaces.
JT: I have to say I've become a Tweetdeck fan myself recently.
JA: Yeah. That's a great product, too. I think it gives you a really broad scope of what's happening on Twitter all at once.
JT: We've been talking to John Adams who works in Twitter Operations. He'll be speaking at the Velocity Conference on Fixing Twitter: Improving the Performance and Scalability of the World's Most Popular Microblogging Site. Thank you for taking time to talk to us.


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Q: VS2003 error while performing build/rebuild solution in Release Mode I have VS2003 ASP.NET web application and when I perform build/rebuild solution in debug mode it compiles and build perfectly with no errors,
but when I change the mode to Release and try to perform a Build Solution or Rebuild solution I am getting following compile-error for various dlls that I am referencing.
I have replaced name of the name space with generic xyz
The type or namespace name 'xyz' could not be found ( are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
All my refernces are correct and I am able to compile in debug mode without any errors.
My OS is Windows Vista
does anyone know why I am getting this error in Release mode and a possible workaround for this issue?
Following is the sample from output window
i have changed files name , i have not changed the actual errors
------ Rebuild All started: Project: XYZ, Configuration: Release .NET ------

Preparing resources...
Updating references...
Performing main compilation...
C:\xyz\a.cs(4,7): error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'ToolLib' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
C:\xyz\a.cs(5,7): error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'ToolLib' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
C:\xyz\a.cs(4,7): error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'ToolLib' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
C:\xyz\a.cs(5,7): error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'ToolLib' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
C:\xyz\a.cs(4,7): error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'ToolLib' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
C:\xyz\a.cs(4,7): error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'ToolLib' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
c:\xyz\b.cs(4,7): error CS0246: error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'Globals' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
c:\xyz\c.cs(5,7): error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'ToolLib' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
c:\xyz\d.cs(4,7): error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'Logger' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

..........

and so on

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Build complete -- 26 errors, 0 warnings
Building satellite assemblies...
Satellite assemblies could not be built because the main project output is missing.

A: I closed the solution and deleted .suo file associated with solution  and opened the solution again and I was able to compile in both debug and release mode.
I have not changed anything else in the solution.
thanks all for your comments.

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Recently stock market analysts have updated their consensus ratings on shares of Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE:BW).
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02/29/2016 – Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc. had its "neutral" rating reiterated by analysts at Credit Suisse. They now have a USD 21 price target on the stock.
12/15/2015 – Sidoti began new coverage on Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc. giving the company a "buy" rating. They now have a USD 25 price target on the stock.
07/10/2015 – BB&T Capital Markets began new coverage on Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc. giving the company a "buy" rating. They now have a USD 24 price target on the stock.
07/08/2015 – Johnson Rice began new coverage on Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc. giving the company a "buy" rating. They now have a USD 26 price target on the stock.
07/02/2015 – UBS began new coverage on Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc. giving the company a "buy" rating. They now have a USD 25 price target on the stock.
07/01/2015 – William Blair began new coverage on Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc. giving the company a "outperform" rating.
06/29/2015 – KeyBanc began new coverage on Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc. giving the company a "overweight" rating. They now have a USD 22 price target on the stock.
02/21/2015 – Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc. was downgraded to "hold" by analysts at Jefferies. They now have a USD 40 price target on the stock.
Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc. has a 50 day moving average of 21.77 and a 200 day moving average of 19.80. The stock's market capitalization is 1.18B, it has a 52-week low of 15.86 and a 52-week high of 23.99.
The share price of the company (NYSE:BW) was up +0.58%, with a high of 22.66 during the day and the volume of Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc. shares traded was 235291.
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The Ongoing Legacy of EWU McNair Director Doctora Christina Torres García
08/12/2021 by Jaeger, Corinne Leave a Comment
After 12 years of dedicated service as EWU's McNair Director Doctora (Dra.) Christina Torres García has been selected by Central Washington University (CWU) through a national search process to be the Assistant Professor in the Communications Department and Director of their Latino & Latin American Studies Program (LLAS) called El Centro Latinx. Dra. Torres García has been a leader at EWU, regionally, and nationally serving low-income first-generation and underrepresented students. Her dedication went beyond just McNair Scholars to strengthening support across the university for all students at EWU, so it's no surprise to anyone who has worked with her that Central chose her to join their faculty and staff.
Dra. Torres García spent her childhood in Mexico and migrated to the US as a teen, following her farm-working parents to Washington State. In 1999, she became an EWU McNair Scholar herself. Named for Dr. Ronald E. McNair, the second African American to fly in space and who passed in the ill-fated U.S. Challenger space shuttle, the TRIO McNair Post-baccalaureate Achievement Program selects first-generation and low-income college students, and/or those from groups underrepresented at the doctoral level, to introduce them to academic research and provide them with effective strategies for getting into and graduating from PhD programs.
EWU McNair Alumna Dra. Christina Torres Garcia was the Clear Choice for McNair Director
Dr. Margaret O'Connell, Biology Professor and McNair board committee member since the first EWU McNair grant was funded in 1996, remembers, "I first 'met' Christina when I read her application to a very early EWU McNair cohort, and I remember the committee's immediate vote to accept her. Our assessment was confirmed as she delved into her McNair undergraduate research and went on to earn her PhD." Dra. Torres García first earned her MBA and then a PhD in Cultural Studies and Social Thought in Education at WSU, making her uniquely qualified to lead Eastern's McNair program. Dr. O'Connell confirmed this as she reflected on her experience with the McNair program:
It has been a profound honor and a tremendous delight to have been associated with EWU's McNair Scholars Program since its inception. I serve on the program's selection committee and have read the application of every McNair Scholar. I have mentored McNair Scholars, I served on the search committee for Program Director when the former director retired, and I have been a steadfast cheerleader for the program – recruiting students, writing letters of support for grant applications, and celebrating the perfect scores received on those grant applications. In all these activities, I have worked closely with Dr. Christina Torres García. Christina's strong sense of giving back to community led her to apply to be the Director of the McNair Program and, again, her selection was a clear choice" - Dr. Margaret O'Connell
Dr. Margaret O'Connell
Dra. Torres García has not only recruited and supported well over 100 EWU McNair Scholars, including nearly half of the 41 EWU McNair Scholars who have attained their PhD so far, but she's always going above and beyond for students within and outside of the program. At the beginning of COVID, she provided potatoes and onions to students in need. As the pandemic continued, she saw the structural obstacles that students from underserved populations had to navigate during their graduate application process and the inequities in taking the GRE at home, such as students having little to no access to quiet and private space for testing. In response, she assisted in securing the temporary waiver of standardized graduate testing requirements at Eastern. And these are just a few recent examples!
Left to Right: McNair alum Isaura Gallegos: MS in Genetics and Cell Biology at WSU, current PhD student in Education and Human Learning and Development at Harvard; McNair alum Deseure Deberry: MA in Justice Studies, Arizona State University; McNair alum Dr. Charise Deberry, MA in Sociology at WSU, PhD in Cultural Studies and Social Thought in Education, WSU, currently University of Minnesota Morris McNair Assistant Director; McNair alum Dr. Maria Morales: PhD in Cultural Studies and Social Thought in Education from WSU, current faculty at the Evergreen State College; Dra. Christina Torres García; Maria Reyna, TRIO Student Support Services alum, Master's in Social Work from EWU, currently Director New Student Transitions & Family Programs at EWU.
A Powerful Collaborator and Student Advocate
Throughout her time at EWU, Dra. Torres García built strong relationships with faculty research mentors from all colleges and collaborated in enacting the best mentoring approaches. She worked with Deans, the Provost, and the President to arrange McNair faculty mentor's summer compensation, summer credits for McNair Scholars, and free transcripts. She has also worked closely with the Writer's Center, Plus, the Library, the Digital Commons, Records and Registration and a multitude of other student support programs on campus. Additionally, she's provided resources and helped create community with students in the Multicultural Center and the College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP).
During her tenure as McNair Director, Dra. Torres García wrote two competitive federally funded grants in collaboration with Cynthia Dukich, which received maximum scores in both competitions (2012, 2017). This was especially notable given that in 2012 nearly 25% of McNair programs lost funding. Dra. Torres García credits her success with grant writing and program development to, "the healthy partnerships and mentoring I have cultivated with McNair and TRIO directors across the nation including the Washington State TRIO Association (WSTA), the Northwest Association of Educational Opportunity Programs (NAEOP), and the Council for Opportunity in Education's (COE)." All of this has culminated in Dra. Torres García leading one of the most successful McNair programs in the region.
My leadership style is influenced by Indigenous philosophy; I consider myself a servant leader grounded in a holistic and humanistic approach. I focus on supporting and collaborating with others, contributing in insightful ways for the betterment of students and colleagues in my unit, university, and beyond." - Dra. Torres García
Doctora Christina Torres García with families of EWU McNair Scholars at the 2019 Spring Gathering.
Following this philosophy, Dra. Torres García has contributed to Eastern in a multitude of other ways. While teaching Chicana/o Studies in 2011, she modernized a minor that had not been revised since the 2000s by cross-listing courses with Communication and Gender, Women's & Sexuality Studies. In 2018, she co-chair and organized an all-day event featuring panel and round table discussions focused on best practices in serving students of color by faculty, community leaders, administrators, and other professionals across the state. This event, EWU Inaugural Cinco de Mayo Latino Forum, was a great success and led her to pursue research and writing on how we can restructure the educational system to become more just, equitable, and inclusive as colleges and universities move towards becoming Hispanic Serving Institutions. In addition, she collaborated with the Honors Program to assess and restructure their course curricula to incorporate civic responsibility and social justice elements and developed a Research Methods course centered on Social Justice. Dr. O'Connell brilliantly summarized Dra. Torres García's success and powerful impact at Eastern:
As Director of the McNair Scholars Program, Christina has skillfully balanced the individual needs of each student with the overarching goals and requirements of the McNair Program. She can challenge students out of their comfort zone but is always there to support. One important component of that support is communication. Christina has been conscientious about fostering clear communication between the McNair Scholars, their mentors, and the McNair Office. She celebrates the success of current and former McNair Scholars with sincere joy and communicates this joy to the university community. A Ronald E. McNair quote is 'before you can make a dream come true, you must first have one.' Christina had a dream for herself and has helped so many EWU students find theirs." - Dr. Margaret O'Connell
Dra. Torres García celebrating the 2018 EWU graduation of McNair scholar Felix Beltran, who is currently completing his dissertation for his PhD in Political Science from Purdue.
A Respected Leader, Locally, Regionally, and Nationally
Outside Eastern, Dra Torres García has also contributed to regional and national work for low-income, first-generation and underrepresented students. As a TRIO peer-reviewer for the (NAEOP), an organization that trains members to simulate a U.S. Department of Education audit for federal funding programs, Dra. Torres García evaluated the student learning objectives, identified areas of improvement, and documented evidence of project services on TRIO Educational Opportunity Center (EOC), Student Support Services (SSS), SSS-STEM, and McNair. Through this position, she has created strong relations among TRIO directors across Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and Alaska.
Furthermore, she served a three-year term as the WSTA president and had the opportunity to work with approximately 200 outstanding TRIO directors and staff across the state. She has also worked closely with the COE while advocating for Veteran, Undocumented, DACAmented, and TRIO students by educating Senators, State representatives, and other members of Congress on nationwide initiatives for more than ten years.
Ongoing Academic Research in Equity, Chicana Feminist Epistemology, and Higher Education
As if all of this wasn't enough, Dra. Torres García has also continued research and writing throughout her work. Recently, the Oxford Research Encyclopedias invited her to write an article about "Chicana Feminist Epistemology in Higher Education" to be included in their Race and Education issue. She has also written "DACAmented students' Testimonios about their Educational Journey Against the Backdrop of Racist Nativist Discourse in Washington State," submitted to the Journal Race, Ethnicity, and Education, and "Being Brown in the time of Trump: The Tactics of Dehumanizing (Im)migrants" which is now undergoing peer-review at the University of Arizona Press.
She is also conducting ongoing research with EWU McNair Alumna, Assistant Professor of Mathematics and McNair coordinator at Heritage University, Dr. Laura Zamudio-Orozco, examining how race, gender, and class shape STEM research mentor-mentee relationships. Moreover, in coordination with the Pell Institute and the Council for Opportunity in Education, Dra. Torres García is guiding a state-wide research study on first-generation, low-income students' challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic and how this affects their college aspirations.
A Force for Positive Change Who Will Be Greatly Missed
Needless to say, losing Dra. Torres García from the Eastern community will be significant. She will be particularly missed by EWU McNair students and staff. Maria Reyna, current Director of New Student Transitions and Family Programming at Eastern remembers how proud she felt to see Christina dancing and teaching ballet folklorico to EWU students. Seeing traditional Mexican folk dancing showcased on a college campus made Maria feel like she belonged. About this first connection, Maria states, "Meeting Christina as a fellow student formed the basis of a friendship and professional relationship that has lasted to this day. I know the dedication she has given to our students will continue at Central, and she will be greatly missed." Central students, faculty, and the institution itself will be incredibly lucky to have her join them.
The McNair Program will stay in good hands with Cynthia Dukich becoming the Interim Director as of September 1st. Cynthia, current Assistant Director of McNair, says of her work with Dra. Torres Garcia over the last 12 years:
Maria Reyna, TRIO Student Support Services alum, Master's in Social Work from EWU, currently Director New Student Transitions & Family Programs at EWU.
Good friends Cynthia Dukich, McNair Assistant Director and incoming Interim Director of McNair; and Dra. Christina Torres Garcia, Outgoing McNair Director
It is one of the great privileges in my life to have worked with Christina as a colleague and a friend for all these years. I have learned so much from her, as I have watched her determined pursuit of excellence, commitment to growth, and collaborative approach to everything she does. Although I am very excited for her opportunity to apply her talents, knowledge and compassion to supporting student success as faculty and LLAS program director at Central, I know I speak for many at EWU when I say I am very sad she is leaving and that I will miss her very much." - Cynthia Dukich, McNair Assistant Director
Even though it is hard to see her go, as always, Dra. Torres García can be counted on to be supportive to any who reach out to her, even from afar. And, there is no doubt she will continue to be a force for positive change in the region and beyond.
Dra. Christina Torres Garcia with McNair Certificates for McNair Scholars and Graduates at the 2019 Spring Gathering.
Filed Under: 2014-2015 Cohort, 2015-2016 Cohort, 2016-2017 Cohort, 2017-2018 Cohort, 2018-2019 Cohort, 2019-2020 Cohort, 2020-2021 Cohort, 2020-21 Awards, 2020-21 Publications, Alumni, Alumni Spotlight, Chicano Studies, EWU McNair PhD's, McNair Mentors, Mentor, News, Research, Scholars, Uncategorized, Women's and Gender Studies Tagged With: Alumni, Chicana feminist epistemology, Chicano/a/x Studies, COE, Department of Education, Dra. Christina Torres García, EWU Alum, EWU McNair Program, EWU McNair Scholar, Higher Education, Latinx/a/o Studies, McNair, Mentor, Mentors, naeop, PhD, Research, TRIO
EWU McNair Alumna Angélica García-Macías Accorded Ford Fellowship Honorable Mention
Congratulations to EWU McNair Scholar Angélica García-Macías! The Ford Foundation found Angélica's application to their pre-doctoral fellowship particularly strong and wanted her to recieve special recognition on their Honorable Mention List. This is commendable, for while Angélica was not one of the 75 recipients of the fellowship, her application stood out near the top amongst 2,228! Angélica graduated in 2020 with a major in Political Science with an emphasis in Pre-Law and minors in Spanish and Chicano Studies. In 2020 she was acknowledged for her strong academic record and demonstration of outstanding leadership qualities with the Frances B. Huston Award. She was accepted by four graduate programs and began the Political Science PhD program at the University of California, Irvine in Fall 2020 with full funding.
Angélica's research focuses on Latinx community involvement in politics and solutions to increase Latinx political participation. For her 2018 EWU McNair Summer Research Internship, she studied housing discrimination in the Latinx community with the mentorship of Dr. Martín Meráz García. Then in 2019, she was awarded a summer research internship at MIT. There, under the mentorship of Dr. Charles Stewart III, she researched the electoral behavior of the Latiné community.
EWU McNair is so proud of Angélica's continued accomplishments and we're excited to see what she does next!
Filed Under: 2020-21 Awards, Acceptances/Awards, AngelicaGarciaMacias, McNair Mentors, Mentor, News, Political Science, Research, Scholars Tagged With: Angelica Garcia-Macias, Award, Dr. Martín Meráz García, EWU McNair Program, EWU McNair Scholar, Ford Fellowship
EWU McNair Alumna Marixza Torres Awarded National Science Foundation Fellowship
Congratulations to EWU McNair Alumna Marixza Torres! Marixza has been awarded a highly competitive and prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRF). The NSF GRF program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported STEM disciplines pursuing research-based masters and doctoral degrees at accredited US institutions. The five-year fellowship includes three years of significant financial support. Each year EWU McNair educates students on various scholarship and research opportunities and how to apply for them, including the NSF GRF. While it is rare that an undergraduate will receive one of these fellowships, it prepares our students for future applications, and they are provided feedback from NSF on how to strengthen the application submitted. Last year, Marixza was accorded an Honorable Mention in the 2020 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program competition for her research proposal's intellectual merit and potential broader impacts.
Marixza graduated from Eastern Washington University with a degree in Applied Developmental Psychology and a minor in Chicano studies. She completed two research internships as a McNair Scholar. For her 2018 EWU McNair Summer Research Internship, guided by her mentor Dr. Christina Torres Garcia, Marixza conducted research on the cultural obstacles faced by families of Latinx young adults with autism. In 2019, she was awarded and completed the Summer Research Opportunities Program at the University of Notre Dame under the mentorship of Dr. Dawn M. Gondoli. Through this internship, she examined the relationship between adolescent adjustment, dimensions of parenting, and work orientation. Marixza presented on her research at several conferences. In addition, during the 2019-20 academic year, Marixza worked with Dr. Theresa Martin analyzing the relationship between family communication in college and prosocial values exploring the influence of these on academic achievement. For her strong academic record and demonstration of outstanding leadership qualities at Eastern and in the community the College of Social Sciences awarded Marixza a Frances B Huston Medallion in 2020.
Last year, Marixza was accepted by the Master's of Social Work program at the University of Texas, Austin, the PhD program in Human Development and Family Services at the University of Missouri, and the Psychology PhD program at the University of California, Irvine, where she began attending in the Fall 2020 with full funding. In talking with EWU McNair in the fall, Marixza noted the impact of the program:
The program's ability to empower marginalized students gave me the confidence to address my imposter syndrome and continue to build my skills to succeed. After developing research proposals and presenting my work to others, I saw how valuable my perspectives were to making significant contributions to the academic field in Latinx Psychology. With the support of TRiO's McNair, I developed the expertise I needed to become a doctoral student at the University of California Irvine in the Department of Education and Human Development. This opportunity transformed my life and will allow me to address concerns impacting the Latinx community."
We are so proud of Marixza and all of our EWU McNair Scholars. Since Eastern's TRIO McNair program was first funded in 1995, 39 EWU McNair Scholars have completed their PhD's and over 117 have earned Master's degrees. These amazing individuals are making history and valuable impacts on their communities including teaching future teachers, bringing to light hidden histories, improving health in rural areas, increasing equity and diversity in academia, strengthening mental health care for underserved communities, and supporting McNair programs at other institutions.
Faculty and staff, if you have students in your class who are interested in conducting research and attending graduate school, please send them to our website! Students, if you want to make a difference in your communities or learn more about the EWU McNair program, check out our website or check out this eligibility questionnaire!
Filed Under: 2020-21 Awards, Acceptances/Awards, MarixzaTorres, Psychology, Research, Scholars Tagged With: Dr. Christina García Torres, EWU Alum, EWU McNair Program, EWU McNair Scholar, Fellowship, Marixza Torres, NSF, NSF GRFP, Research
EWU McNair and Research Transform Students Lives!
10/01/2020 by Garcia, Christina Leave a Comment
Dear EWU & TRIO Community and Students,
I am sure you remember our EWU McNair scholar Marixza Torres, a Frances B Huston Medallion recipient, who was accepted into the University of California, Irvin's Ph.D. program in Human Development in Context (HDiC), fully funded! She also was accorded an Honorable Mention in the 2020 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program competition for her research proposal's intellectual merit and potential broader impacts. She is doing excellent at UCI beginning the first semester of her Ph.D. program and would like to share a few words on how EWU's TRIO McNair Program assisted in accomplishing her academic goals.
TRiO's McNair has expanded my life opportunities and has given me the tools to enact change in my community. As a Mexican American and first-generation student, I began my academic journey feeling like I did not know enough about my community to make lasting change towards social justice. That quickly changed...When I found out about the McNair Scholars Program, I knew little about graduate school and felt as though my limited academic exposure did not compare to other scholars in my field of psychology.
During the McNair Program, Marixza worked on three research projects. First, she conducted research on Latinx families with autistic children, shedding light on the unique challenges that they face due to numerous barriers in health care services, including the limited language translation and limited culturally competent personnel. Guided by her mentor Dr. Christina Torres Garcia, she utilized three surveys including the Family Needs Survey, Caring for My Child Survey and the Bias and Cultural Competence Survey. This research assists in filling the gap in the literature regarding Latinx families with autistic children in the Pacific Northwest. During the academic year, Marixza worked with Dr. Theresa Martin analyzing the relationship between family communication in college and prosocial values exploring the influence of these on academic achievement. In 2019, through a Summer Research Opportunities Program at the University of Notre Dame, Marixza examined the relationship between adolescent adjustment, dimensions of parenting, and work orientation guided by Dr. Dawn M. Gondoli. Marixza described how the culmination of all these experiences transformed her life:
The program's ability to empower marginalized students gave me the confidence to address my imposter syndrome and continue to build my skills to succeed. After developing research proposals and presenting my work to others, I saw how valuable my perspectives were to making significant contributions to the academic field in Latinx Psychology. With the support of TRiO's McNair, I developed the expertise I needed to become a doctoral student at the University of California Irvine in the Department of Education and Human Development. This opportunity transformed my life and will allow me to address concerns impacting the Latinx community.
Faculty and staff, if you have students in your class who are interested to conduct research and attend graduate school, please send them to our website! Students, if you want to make a difference in your communities or learn more about the EWU McNair program, check out our website or check out this eligibility questionnaire!
Filed Under: Acceptances/Awards, MarixzaTorres, Psychology, Research, Scholars, Social Media
18 EWU McNair Scholars Present at EWU Virtual Symposium
EWU McNair is proud to announce that 18 EWU McNair Scholars presented at this year's Virtual Symposium. In the midst of regular reminders of the suffering from COVID-19, in particular its disproportionate effect on communities of color, as well as recent police murders, we hope that lifting up our scholars will continue to support their work and the ultimate goal of McNair – which is to increase diversity in academia. Every McNair Scholar at EWU has powerful story. It is our goal that scholars use their powerful knowledge, experiences, and voices to develop research and actions that contribute to shifts in systemic racism, economic inequality, and overall building a more just world. Read below to learn more about the research presented, including links to each student's poster or oral presentation. A huge thank you to all of the mentors that helped make this possible. We're so proud of all of our students' hard work and look forward another summer research in just a few weeks!
Four of our new scholars presented posters with their research proposals for the summer of 2020. Alexandria Coronado presented, "Research Proposal: Housing and Food Insecurity Among College Students" with the mentorship of Dr. Lindsey Upton. Ashley Destin presented, "Size Scaling in the Skull of North American Felids as Adaptations for Prey Acquisition" with the mentorship of Dr. Judd Case. Aulane Mpouli presented, "Molecular Docking Study of ITPA protein substrate complex" with the mentorship of Dr. Yao Houndonougbo. Hope Sands presented, "Exploring the Archaeological and Geographical Past of Fort Spokane: A Proposal" with the mentorship of Dr. Brian Buchanan.
Meanwhile, four new McNair scholars Analisea Araya, Gloria Bravo, Alexis Guizar-Diaz, and Rachael Pentico presented on completed or ongoing research. Analisea presented, "An Analysis of Early Modern Philosopher Mary Astell and a Critique of the Western Canon" with the mentorship of Dr. Kevin Decker. Gloria presented, "Economic Sanctions Reproduce State Sponsored Repression, Human Rights Violations and Violence: A Case Study of Venezuela" with the mentorship of Dr. Majid Sharifi. Alexis presented on, "Machismo, Marianismo, and The Ethics of Care" with the mentorship of Dr. Mimi Marinucci. He will continue this research in the summer of 2020 with Dr. Edwin Elias. Rachael Pentico presented, "A Review of Plant-Soil Feedbacks and Their Importance For Palouse Prairie Restoration and Management" with the mentorship of Dr. Rebecca Brown.
Four additional continuing McNair scholars presented on their research from their 2019 EWU McNair Summer Research Internship. Darlene Gilroy presented "Chemical Weathering of Deposits from the 1980 Mount St. Helens Eruption and its Effect on Stream Water Chemistry" in collaboration with Dr. Carmen Nezat. Theresa Lee presented "Understanding Prisoner Reentry: Public Perceptions of Reentry Barriers Among College Students" with the mentorship of Dr. Lindsey Upton. Both Darlene and Theresa have also presented this research at other conferences around the country this last school year. Malachi Chukwu presented "Projects of Economic and Social Development in the Global South: The 20th and 21st-century developmental trends and their impacts" with the mentorship of Dr. Majid Sharifi. And Wendolyn Martinez presented "Propaganda: USSR and US – Comparing Propaganda from the US and USSR Produced for the Advancement of Public Approval for Hydro-projects in the 1930s," with the mentorship of Dr. Dorothy Zeisler-Vralsted. Malachi and Wendolyn had hoped to present at a McNair conference in the early spring; however, the conference was cancelled due to COVID-19.
Also, four graduating McNair Scholars presented their current research at the Virtual Symposium. Abdulrazik Mohamed presented "Darfurians in the Diaspora: Perceptions of the Conflict in Darfur, Sudan's Past and the Future of Darfur Under International Response" with the mentorship of Dr. Dorothy Zeisler-Vralsted. Abdu has also presented additional research this school year at the Annual International Symposium on Women and Genocide in the 21st Century: The Case of Darfur and the Black Doctoral Network Conference in the fall of 2019. Angélica García-Macías presented "Eat the Poor" under the mentorship of Dr. Thomas Hawley. Last academic year, Angélica presented research from her work with EWU McNair Mentor Dr. Martín Meráz García at several conferences as well as her research with Dr. Charles Stewart III at MIT at an MIT symposium last summer. Madelyn Brown presented "Maintaining Our Land: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Wildfire Prevention" with the mentorship of Dr. Christina Torres García and PhD candidate SimHayKin S. Jack. Rachel Silverthorn presented "Gender differences in confidence in jury decision making" under the mentorship of Dr. Kayleen Islam-Zwart. She also presented this research at the 31st Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention. Washington, D.C. in 2019. All four of these scholars will attend Masters or PhD programs in the fall of 2020!
Finally, two EWU McNair Alumni, current EWU graduate students, also presented their current research. Christina Ramelow presented "Oral Farnesol Administration Protects Against Inflammatory Demyelination," research done with mentorship from Dr. Javier Ochoa-Reparaz and in collaboration with multiple other graduate students and faculty. Veronica Albrecht presented "Characterizing Two cagPAI Located Small RNAs in Helicobacter pylori" in collaboration with Dr. Andrea Castillo and "Gene Expression Regulation of sRNA Hpnc2525 in the Clinically Relevant Helicobacter pylori cagPAI Genomic Region" in collaboration with EWU McNair STEM GSA and fellow graduate student Brandon Flatgard, under the mentorship of Dr. Andrea Castillo. Christina and Veronica will both attend fully funded PhD programs in the fall of 2020.
To learn more about our new and continuing scholars and all the other amazing work and presentations they have done, check out our Spring Gathering page celebrating scholars, mentors, and alumni. EWU McNair is incredibly proud of the hard work of all of our scholars and we look forward to seeing their research impact higher education and the wider world.
Filed Under: 2015-2016 Cohort, 2016-2017 Cohort, 2017-2018 Cohort, 2018-2019 Cohort, 2019-2020 Cohort, 2020-21 Presentations, AbdulrazikMohamed, Alexandria Coronado, Alexis Guizar-Diaz, Alumni, Analisea Araya, AngelicaGarciaMacias, Ashley Destin, Aulane Mpouli, ChristinaRamelow, Darlene Gilroy, Gloria Bravo, Hope Sands, Madelyn Brown, Malachi Chukwu, McNair Mentors, Mentor, Rachael Pentico, RachelSilverthorn, Research, Scholars, Theresa Lee, Veronica Albrecht, Wendolyn Martinez Tagged With: Dr. Andrea Castillo, Dr. Brian Buchanan, Dr. Carmen Nezat, Dr. Charles Stewart III, Dr. Christina Torres García, Dr. Dorothy Zeisler-Vralsted, Dr. Edwin Elias, Dr. Javier Ochoa-Reparaz, Dr. Judd Case, Dr. Kayleen Islam-Zwart, Dr. Lindsey Upton, Dr. Majid Sharifi, Dr. Martín Meráz García, Dr. Thomas Hawley, Dr. Yao Houndonougbo, MIT, SimHayKin S. Jack
EWU McNair Scholar Abdulrazik Mohamed Awarded Dean Jeffers W. Chertok Honored Student Award
Congratulations to EWU McNair Scholar Abdulrazik Mohamed! Abdu has been selected to receive the Dean Jeffers W. Chertok Honored Student Award for the College of Social Sciences, International Affairs. This award is presented to exceptional students who have shown a commitment to their education by demonstrating outstanding academic achievement with a minimum of a 3.75 GPA in their previous four quarters and through leadership and service to the community. Abdu is the founder and president of the International Affairs Community club at EWU. He is the Chapter Vice President for the National Society of Leadership and Success where he helps support new members and train them on leadership skills. Outside of school, Abdu works with refugee youth who do not have families or parents in the U.S. For the last three years he has helped teach them independent living skills they need to navigate the US such as homework, cooking, transportation, and job searching. In addition, he's volunteered for World Relief, Habitat for Humanity, and for the Mobile Food Bank.
Beyond his exceptional community involvement, Abdu is a brilliant, hard working scholar. He is a senior at EWU majoring in International Affairs. Throughout his time at Eastern, Abdu has received the Clarence and Elizabeth Wynia Scholarship, the Robert and Randi Neilson Scholarship, two EWU McNair Summer Research Internships, and the Excellent Student Leader Award from the Department of Political Science and International Affairs. He has also been invited to lecture in several classes on his research on Darfur, refugee resettlement, and life in refugee camps.
As a McNair Scholar, Abdu has committed to attaining a Ph.D. To prepare for this, he completed two summers of research internships at EWU under the mentorship of Dr. Dorothy Zeisler-Vralsted. Abdu's research focuses on the conflict in Darfur and perceptions of that conflict. He has presented his research at multiple conferences including the 8th Annual International Symposium on Women and Genocide in the 21st Century: The case for Darfur and the Black Doctoral Network Conference, where he received an honorable mention for his poster presentation. To read more about Abdu and his research check out his webpage on the McNair site.
Abdu has been accepted into the Masters in Global Governance, Politics, and Security at American University, the Masters in Peace and Justice Studies at San Diego University, the Masters of International Affairs program at Penn State University, and the International Relations PhD program at Florida International University with full funding. Penn State awarded Abdu a Director Scholarship providing significant funding for two years. Moreover, Abdu was selected for a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, this provides funds to help cover institutional costs and a subsistence allowance, which Abdu can take to any university! Abdu plans to attend Florida International University in the fall of 2020.
McNair is so proud of Abdu and all of his hard work. We know he will have a continued powerful impact on academia and on the global community as he pursues a graduate education and beyond!
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There are two Adams that we need to know about. The first is Adam from Eden, the first man on earth, husband, father, gardener, and eater of forbidden fruit. The second Adam is Jesus, the eternally-beggoten Son of God the Father, carpenter, prophet, and sinless sacrifice. He is called Adam because He, too, stands at the headwaters of a people. Paul compares and contrasts the two in 1 Corinthians 15.
God gave life to Adam from the ground. God gives life through the second Adam now risen from the grave. Not only do both Adams represent us, we reflect them.
The first Adam was brought to life in glory in a garden. The second Adam was buried in a garden and then raised to life in greater glory. The first Adam lost glory for all of us when he sinned. The second Adam secured glory for all of us when He rose again. We enjoy the blessings of both the natural body and the spiritual body; we follow and image both Adams. We were born and we were born again. We are humans and we are Christians, so we eat and drink on two levels, looking to our resurrection glory like the second Adam.
For more on how the spiritual man is still a material man read this post by Doug Wilson.


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AAP hijacks Davos agenda
M Post Bureau24 Jan 2014 12:39 AM GMT
While not many are willing to go on record with their take on 'India's newest political phenomenon' – Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party – and its potential impact on the upcoming general elections, almost every foreign leader is quizzing their Indian counterparts about these issues.
Some Indian leaders have dismissed AAP's emergence calling it a Delhi-centric development and saying such authoritarian and mob-based politics has no place in the Indian democracy. Still, they admit that AAP has caught the imagination of people in India and it cannot be wished away as it is making the right noises about the need to improve governance.
While trying to convince foreign investors about the continuity of the Indian growth story, the Indian leaders are also facing tough questions here about the widespread anticipation that the next elections could throw a fractured mandate, said many participants at the WEF. According to them, AAP's emergence on the political scene has further added to the uncertainty about the outcome of Lok Sabha poll and corporates have begun looking into the possibility of engaging with this new political force. An Indian-origin chief of a large global conglomerate said he was so impressed with speeches made by Kejriwal that he called him up from overseas and expressed his desire to meet him on his next visit to Delhi.
While seriously wanting to engage with this new phenomenon, the businessman said he could not pursue the same as it would have attracted unnecessary publicity about being aligned with one particular political force that is currently in the eye of storm of every other party. Industry body CII's director general Chandrajit Banerjee said the political scenario is always very important for the economic policies of a country and therefore general elections are definitely a crucial issue.
'As far as AAP is concerned, it is too early to make a judgement, although emergence of this party has definitely been a curtain raiser sort of thing for everybody,' he said, while adding that the CII is also looking at engaging with AAP like it has done with all other political parties. He admitted that the emergence of AAP has brought to the fore one clear theme – about governance and accountability of the government.
On why the Congress party was continuing to support the minority AAP government in Delhi, Chidambaram had said, 'Opinion in the party was divided. Local unit took that decision, right or wrong. The point is whoever is in government, must govern'. 'You can't mask your inability to govern by street agitations. The line that divides agitation and anarchy is a very thin line and they may have crossed that line in the last few days,' he said.


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Forecasts of economic gloom do not apply to the hardware market just yet, according to analyst firm Gartner, which has predicted that the market for both PCs and servers will remain in growth this year, and at least for the start of next year.
Gartner believes the continued growth will be spurred by companies buying servers for consolidation and virtualisation, and by strong emerging markets.
The predictions came out of the Gartner IT Hardware Insights forum, which was held at the company's UK headquarters in Egham, Surrey, on Wednesday.
"We don't believe that all of the hardware markets have reached the consolidation stage yet," said Gartner research director Annette Jump, speaking at the forum. "Some products may show some of the characteristics [of the consolidation phase of an industry] and some products may reach that stage, but not the overall market." According to Jump, the emerging markets hold the key to growth for many IT companies, with the key markets being Mexico, South Korea, South Africa, Indonesia, Central and East Africa.
"Overall, the market [for servers] is looking pretty strong," added Adrian O'Connell, principal analyst at Gartner. "Even in the US, demand has calmed a bit, but the [hardware] market has stayed relatively strong." The UK market has also been less active, he added.
Senior research analyst Errol Rasit said the period from 2008 to 2009 will be marked by a split in the market for hardware. "At the high end and the very low end, we have two very large groups who are spending," he said. Linux-based systems are a beneficiary of this trend, thanks to the move away from high-end Unix systems to x86-based systems.
Another beneficiary is IBM which, according to Gartner, is seeing a resurgence of interest in the zSeries mainframe. Companies that used to use large-scale, x86-based multi-processor systems are now "buying larger systems to achieve economies of scale", Rasit said.
But, for servers, the Unix market is still dominated by Sun, added Rasit. "Sun is doing a good job of maintaining [the] number one [position]."


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Flying has drawn faster records of being one of the most efficient transportation of all times. For attaining efficiency in terms of both time and fuel, there are some specifications, which are required by the flight crew to operate and contemplate. Flying over an area of radar coverage and flying over an area without radar coverage is a completely different issue. It is a common belief among people, feeling to be safe all the time in terms of radar tracking and all, which are true to some extent and are sometimes false too. Here is how as explained by Scott Beale Tempus.
Atlantic Ocean is one of the largest oceans, separating Europe with North America and South America as a whole. It takes a whole 6 hours journey from London to New York, while crossing the Atlantic Ocean and while traveling in a typical Boeing 787 Dreamliner, or an Airbus A380. Both of these planes and other planes flying over the Atlantic Ocean, has their radar switched off.
Transatlantic flights follow a fixed path called as the "Highway of Sky," which by the way is available in over 10 different routes over the Atlantic Ocean.
The routes are pre-determined by the Oceanic entry/ exit points at Gander in New Finland, USA, have an ATC station, which will track the environmental and other possible deterrent conditions, which might later prove costly. On a general case, a flight will obtain the route details, which are named colloquially for the pilots to ATC, have an easy communication understanding while setting up a pre-determined coordinates. For an instance, one such route point from Gander side is Zulu, which is the southernmost track name.
This is approved and the ATC can regulate the traffic to another path, if they find two flights flying excessively closer and has a distance of 5 minutes in between them.
Once the flight reaches the entry point coordinate, a final approval message will ensure the flight to fly at a fixed speed in the path, which is usually a range from 770 to 900kmph. Post the flight entering the track point, the pilot switches off the radar and autopilot mode will take care of the next proceedings.
After flying for miles and constant tracking, the next move pilot does is to turn on the radar services, exactly after hitting the 30 degrees west, coverage at Shannwick ATC radio turns on, and the communication systems are back to work once again.
In the end of the path, the pilot will acknowledge the end of the Oceanic crossing to the ATC, which means the end of crossing the transatlantic path.
Thus, Scott Beale Tempus explains, flying in a fixed path allows the flight to be in an access controlled situation and the chances of a major mishap are averted, alongside fuel, efficiency is maintained while crossing Atlantic.


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Lopez's TV show about family
Los Angeles, May 30 (IANS) Singer-actress Jennifer Lopez says her new TV series will show that there is no perfect image of a family and what matters is "love".
The show features a same-sex couple raising adopted, biological and foster children, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
The 43-year-old said: "I am a non-traditional family. Me being a single mom, their dad doesn't live at home with them. They have three stepbrothers from two moms, that's not traditional. Do I want my children to feel weird about that? No I don't. So putting a show like this one to me is, look, there is no perfect (image of) what family is supposed to be."
Lopez, who is currently dating dancer Casper Smart, divorced actor Marc Anthony in 2011 and is raising five-year-old twins, Maximilian and Emme.
"The show is about love and that's what I constantly remind myself of because I kind of let society get inside my head, 'Oh, it shouldn't be like this. I did this, I did that. I failed,' And it's like, no. They're happy, they're healthy, they're loved more than anything in the world and they're going to be fine. I want them to know that," she added.
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Jillian Linder started skating at the age of seven. She trained under 5x Ukrainian National Champion Alexei Mantsorov in Omaha, and Regional, Sectional, and Junior National qualifying coaches David Leatherwood and Irene Harm.
Jillian competed across the United States in Texas, Colorado, California, and the Midwest for ten years as a competitive figure skater.
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I expect to tell you why I love poker other than all casino games. Allow me to start by informing you that casinos are a business, they are not there to donate money to their players. So although people have the illusion of thinking discovered that go to a casino and win money, this not the case. Sure, there is short term luck, but in extended run, the casino always wins. Online Casino Malaysia have a key edge over the players in terms of percentages. Sometimes these edges run into doubledigit percentages. Roulette for example has around an edge for the casino.
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This means that sport is not based on luck, but rather on skill. If something is based on skill, it shows that it is possible to learn to get good advertising and get consistent great outcomes. Poker can be played in live casinos or also in online casinos. It's become a lot more difficult to play poker online due to regulations in countries all around the world, but live poker is also fun. While live poker is excellent slower to play, can be a lot more profitable than online gambling. The reason for this is that in a casino there are many players who are drunk, play for fascinating who generally don't have a clue how to play skillful poker.


The Arcade version of Centipede appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.
In 1983, Milton Bradley adapted this video game into a board game.
DC Comics created a Centipede comic that was included with Atari's Centipede game. Here is that comic from AtariAge.com.
Centipede was one of the "Fabulous Eleven" launch games for the Atari 7800.
As can be expected with an Atari game, Centipede was ported to the Lynx, but never released.
The PC port of Centipede is extremely small--the entire program code and graphics fit into 20k.
Centipede was popular enough to have a song inspired by it on the full-length Pac-Man Fever album - Ode To A Centipede.


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Tri-Vista Designs toll-free at (870) 446-5126 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday, or visit the firm's website at www.trivistadesigns.com click on "Recall Notice" for more information.
This recall involves 16-ounce white ceramic beverage mugs with metallic gold accents. A monogram letter A, B, C, D, E, G, H, J, K, L, M, R, S or T is printed in gold on the mug. A sticker on the bottom of the mug has "UPC# 698617673962," "SKU# 138837" and "Retail: $6.99."
Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled mugs in the microwave, and return them to any Kirkland's store for a full refund.
The firm has received one report of a mug that began to spark while in the microwave. No injuries have been reported.
Kirkland's stores nationwide from March 2015 to May 2015 for about $7.
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Kirtland doctor shares experience of being gay military member
Dr. Daniel Hohman of the 377th Medical Group gave his perspective of service prior to "don't ask, don't tell" and during its reign as law on June 17, 2016, at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M. (U.S. Air Force photo/Dennis Carlson)
By Bud Cordova
Nucleus writer
KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (AFNS) -- (This feature is part of the "Through Airmen's Eyes" series. These stories focus on individual Airmen, highlighting their Air Force story.)
With many liberties now being afforded to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender service members, people are finding it valuable to look back at the times when personnel had to serve in silence.
Dr. Daniel Hohman of the 377th Medical Group gave his perspective of service prior to "don't ask, don't tell" and during its reign as law at a pride month presentation here on June 17.
Before Hohman spoke, Col. Eric Froehlich, the 377th Air Base Wing commander, said it's essential to love one another and be more inclusive in today's military.
"It is important to reflect on the values of diversity," Froehlich said.
Hohman, now retired from the military, started service in the Navy before the implementation of DADT, which was repealed in 2011.
After graduating high school, he turned down a U.S. Naval Academy appointment out of fear of his sexual orientation being discovered. Instead, he attended the University of Michigan, studying cellular and molecular biology.
"Armed with the student loan debt, I decided to apply for the Navy," Hohman said.
He was accepted and went to Aviation Officer Candidate School in Pensacola, Florida.
"You had to live your life in the closet," Hohman said.
He was assigned to Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia, after completing his pilot training. That's when the problems started.
As he was assigned to his first aviation squadron, he was also given orders to sing at the White House during an inauguration. Singing did not fit with what his squadron commander thought a naval aviator should do.
"He gathered everyone in the squadron and had me sing to them. Not exactly a great way to introduce the new guy," Hohman said.
Shortly after that, the squadron was activated for Operation Desert Shield. While Hohman's top secret clearance was being renewed, it was discovered that he had smoked marijuana in college.
He had never failed a drug test in the Navy, but his squadron commander tried to charge him with falsifying a government document and added charges of conduct unbecoming of an officer and fraternization.
Two years later, Hohman was exonerated and the Navy then sent him to medical school.
"I spent all day in classrooms and all night in the library," he said.
He was one of the older students. It didn't seem like an advantage until they started clinicals.
"Being older earned me more trust from my patients. I guess it's because I didn't look like Doogie Howser," he said, jokingly.
After graduating from medical school, Hohman was accepted into residency at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland, the flagship for Navy medicine.
"I had to live, act and appear as the naval officer I should be. I went deeper into the closet under DADT while at Bethesda," he said.
When he completed residency, Hohman was assigned to Okinawa, Japan, as the group surgeon for Marine Aircraft Group 12. During that time, 9/11 occurred and six months later he was reassigned to the USS Carl Vinson in the Persian Gulf.
He spent 37 months aboard the ship after hesitantly volunteering for the extension. He was the senior medical officer, yet had less time as a medical officer than some of those serving under him.
"The challenge was the squadron of aviators assigned to the ship also knew the background of the case in Norfolk and the probable cause of why it came about due to my orientation," Hohman said.
After his tour on USS Carl Vinson, he spent 15 months in Pensacola and then was sent to Okinawa again.
In Okinawa, rumors about Hohman's sexual orientation once more spread among Marines there. What finally ended the rumors was a general's comments on how Hohman was a great medical asset.
Hohman said it became hard to hide his orientation as he approached the 20-year service mark. He was terrified when a colonel at the wing summoned him to his office and said, "My wife, Gina, knows you're gay."
"You can't shine when you're paralyzed with fear," Hohman said.
He said LGBT service members learned that they needed to be a little better at their jobs than their peers to avoid the risk of getting kicked out under DADT.
"We have come so unbelievably far. Never before did I think that I would be speaking to a room full of service members as an openly gay man," he said.
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"Extra's" Mario Lopez recently sat down with legendary singer Barbra Streisand, who opened up about her new music and upcoming tour, which is kicking off in Los Angeles in August.
Before dishing on her tour, Barbra applauded Mario for pronouncing her last name correctly, saying, "You can call me Barbra. You actually said my name right, though. Streisand."
As for the concerts, Streisand revealed, "The first act is songs from number-one albums, and then the second act is the new material from my album." Barbra's new album "Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway," which features duets with Hollywood elites like Alec Baldwin, Hugh Jackman, and Jamie Foxx, drops on August 26.
She also hinted about her show, "Some of the people who are singing on the album are gonna join me."


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West-Central Africa Division (WAD)
Women's Prayer Retreat
More than 1600 women from all parts of Ghana gathered for a prayer retreat organized by the WM Department of the Ghana Union Conference. The retreat was held at Bekwai, Ghana, this April. The theme was "Reviving Women through Prayer."
The women not only reached up to God for His blessings, but also reached across to help those present who were in need. A donation of $2500 was given to the needy widows.
There was joy on every face. The women renewed their devotion to God, lighting a candle to symbolize their commitment.
Source: West-Central Africa Division WM department
Women Take a Stand against Abuse
As part of the Enditnow program the women of the Botswana Union under the leadership of the WM Department organized a march through the city of Gaborone, and presented a petition to the Minister of Labour and Home Affairs of Botswana.
Various departments of the church joined the women in speaking out against this abuse. Mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, pastors, Shepherdess, Pathfinders—all participated.
At the conclusion, everybody paused for a few minutes to remember those affected by the violence and those who have died due to violence.
By Susan Williams, Botswana Union Women's Ministries director
Euro-Africa Division (EUD)
Bulgarian Women in Mission
Women in our churches in Bulgaria are active. From 2007 to 2009, many have completed all four levels of the WM Leadership Certification Program. A highlight of their Women's Ministries congress in 2011 was the presence of Heather-Dawn Small, General Conference WM Director, and Denise Hochstrasser, the new WM Director for EUD. Enditnow has also been a success in Bulgaria, where the women have collected many signatures. The Hope Channel offered a 75-minute broadcast about enditnow in the Bulgarian language.
Challenges in Bulgaria include lack of financial resources and the large number of Roma church members, many of whom neither read nor write. Children are often married early, some as young 12. Abuse is a major problem. Women's Ministries is working hard to implement a literacy program and sexual and health education for the Gypsy women, who often become mothers at an early age.
Source: Euro African Division WM Department


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