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October is Breast Cancer Propaganda Month: Pinkwashing, Breast Cancer Action and Vitamin D
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com (See all articles...)
Tags: breast cancer, pinkwashing, pink ribbons
https://www.naturalnews.com/022115_breast_cancer_pinkwashing.html
You've already seen the headlines touting October as breast cancer awareness month. A zillion products are available in "pink" editions now, and gullible consumers snatch them up at retail outlets without knowing a single thing about where that money goes or even what percentage of their product sale is donated to cancer non-profits. (For many products, the amount donated is mere pennies, and much of the donated money goes to worthless cancer maintenance non-profits that have no interest in actually preventing cancer...)
The level of hype and propaganda in this year's breast cancer awareness month has risen to a new low. The American Cancer Society, as usual, appears to be absolutely worthless in all this, still failing to teach women the No. 1 way to prevent a whopping 77 percent of all cancers: Sunlight and vitamin D.
The ultra-wealthy ACS non-profit, with all its ties to pharmaceutical companies and mammography machine manufacturers, still refuses to openly urge women to prevent breast cancer by getting more vitamin D through nutritional supplements or sensible sunlight exposure. In fact, the organization continues to warn people away from sunlight, actually contributing to the mass vitamin D deficiency that's now rampant in western nations (including the U.S., Canada and the U.K.).
Vitamin D deficiency greatly reduces the body's ability to halt the growth of cancer tumors. That's why higher amounts of vitamin D circulating through the blood have been shown again and again to dramatically reduce the growth of cancer tumors, keeping them in check and preventing a breast cancer diagnosis. Over 75 percent of all breast and prostate cancers could be avoided through vitamin D therapy alone.
Amazingly, the American Cancer Society appears to have no interest in vitamin D. How could it be that this cancer-centric non-profit wouldn't be interested in a free therapy that could eliminate up to three-fourths of all future cancers? Shouldn't this be the No. 1 headline around the world during breast cancer awareness month? Shouldn't the ACS be screaming this fact to anyone who will listen?
But of course not. In my opinion, the American Cancer Society has no interest whatsoever in actually preventing cancer. In my view, it is only interested in promoting the screening and treatment of cancer because that's what makes money for the financial supporters of the ACS. In fact, the ACS recently restructured its own priorities to focus more on screening and treatment, and less on cancer prevention.
What's missing from the risk factors list?
Hilariously, the ACS now says there are only four major modifiable risk factors that impact your risk of breast cancer. They are:
• Weight
• Alcohol use
• Smoking
• Exercise
Where is vitamin D on the list? It remains suspiciously absent.
Strange, don't you think? The single most powerful anti-cancer nutrient known to modern science -- one that helps halt the growth of virtually all tumors in the body while reducing breast cancer risk by 77 percent -- isn't on the American Cancer Society's list! (See our article reporting this finding at http://www.newstarget.com/021892.html )
Has the ACS failed to read the research on this nutrient? Could the most miraculous anti-cancer nutrient known to modern science have somehow slipped by the astute scientists at the ACS?
Some intelligent outside observers might conclude that the ACS is either hopelessly ignorant about nutrition or that it simply has no interest in promoting anything that would financially harm its primary supporters (drug companies and oncology equipment manufacturers).
Think Before You Pink
Amid all the mindless reporting about breast cancer awareness month in the mainstream media, there is at least one blip of intelligence on the radar: The Think Before You Pink campaign by Beast Cancer Action (http://www.bcaction.org), a much better informed anti-cancer non-profit led by Barbara Brenner in San Francisco. Breast Cancer Action has a rare philosophy of refusing to accept money from pharmaceutical companies or any corporations that profit from the disease.
The American Cancer Society, on the other hand, takes all sorts of money from companies that profit from cancer. Some might argue that's why the ACS -- often called the wealthiest non-profit in the world -- seems to have no interest in actually preventing the disease, but rather focuses on "recruiting" more women into conventional cancer treatments that earn billions of dollars in profits for their primary financial supporters.
Breast Cancer Action has an important message for consumers: Think Before You Pink. It means, essentially, don't be hoodwinked into buying "pink" products unless you know exactly how much money is going to cancer research and where the money's going. A lot of the "pink products" money goes to the Susan G. Komen foundation, which in my opinion is another useless nonprofit engaged primarily in pleasing the interests of its big corporate supporters rather than actually doing anything useful to prevent cancer. Read the book Pink Ribbons, Inc. to learn more about what happens behind closed doors at the Susan G. Komen foundation.
As Breast Cancer Action points out, a lot of the "pink products" marketing is nothing more than Pinkwashing -- a ploy by product marketers to boost sales of products that actually contribute to breast cancer risk! Many cosmetics and personal care products, for example, are loaded with cancer-causing chemicals that soak right through the skin and enter the bloodstream, and yet these products proudly display pink ribbons, enticing gullible women to purchase them while thinking they're doing something useful to stop breast cancer.
If it wasn't for the fact that so many women are being killed by toxic products, it would all be quite hilarious. But the sad fact is that product marketers are exploiting both the pocketbooks and bodies of women in a quest to generate more profits at any cost... including the cost in human lives.
Fighting to prevent cancer prevention
It is interesting to note that with all the toxic chemicals found in personal care products these days, the American Cancer Society has actually fought laws and initiatives that would have helped prevent cancer. As Samuel Epstein explains on www.PreventCancer.org, "The ACS has a longstanding track record of indifference and even hostility to cancer prevention. This is particularly disturbing in view of the escalating incidence of cancer now striking one in two men and one in three women in their lifetimes. Recent examples include issuing a joint statement with the Chlorine Institute justifying the continued global use of persistent organochlorine pesticides, and also supporting the industry in trivializing dietary pesticide residues as avoidable risks of childhood cancer. ACS policies are further exemplified by allocating under 0.1 percent of its $700 million annual budget to environmental and occupational causes of cancer."
You can read the incredible history of the ACS's opposition to regulation of toxic chemicals here: http://www.preventcancer.com/losing/acs/reje...
Read more about the ACS here: http://www.preventcancer.com/losing/acs.htm
See our NewsTarget report on the ACS here: http://www.newstarget.com/010244.html
And read our special report, Breast Cancer Deception, here: www.NewsTarget.com/Report_Breast_Cancer_Dece...
Business as usual in the cancer industry
The cancer industry is a multi-billion dollar industry that preys upon the bodies of women, exploiting them for profit and power. And if nothing changes, we'll continue to see the same madness that brought us to this point:
• Cancer non-profits that appear to have no interest in preventing cancer
• The marketing of pink ribbon products that actually cause cancer
• The routine censorship of any information about vitamin D, which cures cancer
• A complete failure of the mainstream media to report the truth about cancer
• Complete failure of conventional doctors and oncologists to recommend safe, natural and low-cost cancer therapies like medicinal mushrooms, microalgae, rainforest herbs and sunlight therapy
Add it all up and you get a future with a whole lot more cancer. Not coincidentally, that's exactly what Big Pharma wants! The more cancer patients there are, the greater their profits. Actually preventing cancer would devastate the industry's profits, costing them billions of dollars in profits they've already banked on! That's why the industry remains so focused on screening and detecting cancer but not preventing it! (Detection makes money, prevention loses money. Get it?)
Difficult to believe? Don't be naive...
I know a lot of people read this and think to themselves, "How could the cancer industry be so evil? How could they exploit the lives of women so callously?" Think Enron. Corporations are, by their very nature, domineering entities capable of great evil, even when the people who work in those corporations might be honest, hard-working individuals. In our current system of free market economics, only the strong, dominant corporations survive. And that requires maximizing revenues and creating new opportunities to sell more drugs to more people, regardless of the real cost in human suffering or environmental destruction.
Many of the cancer non-profits have become little more than front groups for the corporations that make money off of cancer. They act as commercial cheerleading squads, pumping up the crowd to go get screened and hopefully get diagnosed with cancer so they'll end up buying high-profit chemotherapy drugs.
New research, by the way, shows that chemotherapy drugs cause heart damage to women, leading to heart failure. Even mainstream oncologists are starting to think that maybe the industry should stop using these toxic drugs to treat breast cancer. As Dr. Pamela Douglas, a Duke University cardiologist recently said, "In the process of curing their breast cancer, we've exposed them to some pretty nasty things. And it's not just one nasty thing, it's a sequence of nasty things." Those nasty things, it turns out, cause permanent damage to the heart, kidney, liver and brain.
But they're really great for the bottom-line profits of pharmaceutical corporations. And that's the whole reason why screening and chemotherapy continues to be so strongly promoted by cancer non-profit groups, even while highly-effect prevention strategies (vitamin D prevents 77 percent of ALL cancers) are routinely ignored.
I say the cancer industry actually intends to keep the disease going as long as possible, with as many people as possible in order to maximize profits. Anyone who disagrees with me must ask the all-important question: If these cancer non-profits are so interested in preventing cancer, why won't they strongly recommend vitamin D which prevents 77 percent of all cancers? Why?
Why do we need to spend billions of dollars each year on "the search for the cure" when we have a substance right now -- available for free -- that prevents nearly 8 out of 10 cancers in the first place? A 77 percent reduction in all cancers sounds like a pretty important milestone to me. Seems like any organization that was actually interested in the welfare of the people would express some degree of interest in this natural vitamin, wouldn't you think?
Don't be a sucker for cancer marketing schemes. Don't support pink products, and don't be fooled into getting annual mammograms (which actually cause cancer, by the way). Think before you pink! And get more sunlight and vitamin D. That's the single most powerful thing you can do to prevent breast cancer, other than perhaps quitting smoking. But if you don't smoke already, getting sunlight and vitamin D is the single most important thing you can do to prevent cancer, period!
Here's the full press release from Breast Cancer Action (www.BCAction.org)
Breast Cancer Action Launches 6th Year of Think Before You Pink
San Francisco -- Breast Cancer Action (BCA) today launched its annual Think Before You Pink campaign with a new focus -- "pinkwashing" companies that increase sales by putting pink ribbons on their products, even though these products contribute to the breast cancer epidemic.
Since its inception in 2002, BCA's Think Before You Pink campaign has been urging consumers to ask critical questions about the hundreds of pink ribbon products and promotions that are marketed every October in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month (BCA calls it Breast Cancer Industry Month). Calling for transparency and accountability from companies that use pink ribbons to sell products, BCA believes that consumers can and should ask questions about how the money is being raised and where the money is going.
The big question of the campaign this year is which companies are engaging in pink ribbon marketing while manufacturing products that are contributing to the epidemic. Toward this end, BCA is singling out the car, dairy, and cosmetics industries.
"These pinkwashing companies are trying to have it both ways," says BCA Executive Director Barbara A. Brenner. "If they care as deeply as they say they do about women's lives, they'll clean up their products."
For example, Ford, Mercedes, and BMW are each raising funds with campaigns that urge consumers to buy and drive cars for breast cancer awareness and research. However, car exhaust contains toxic chemicals that are linked to the disease, and by urging consumers to buy and drive polluting cars in the name of breast cancer, they are also encouraging consumers to unwittingly help increase the incidence of the disease.
"We're not telling anyone not to buy these products or not to drive," says Brenner. "We're asking that consumers think before they buy, contact the companies to demand cleaner products, and remember that they have options. That's why it's called 'Think Before You Pink'."
The Think Before You Pink web site, features an updated "Parade of Pink," a list of some of the hundreds of pink ribbon products and promotions on the market, as well as a list of the six critical questions consumers can ask before buying a pink ribbon-wrapped product.
Breast Cancer Action (www.bcaction.org) is a non-profit education and advocacy organization that does not accept funding from pharmaceutical companies or any other organizations that profit from or contribute to the breast cancer epidemic.
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About the author:Mike Adams (aka the "Health Ranger") is a best selling author (#1 best selling science book on Amazon.com) and a globally recognized scientific researcher in clean foods. He serves as the founding editor of NaturalNews.com and the lab science director of an internationally accredited (ISO 17025) analytical laboratory known as CWC Labs. There, he was awarded a Certificate of Excellence for achieving extremely high accuracy in the analysis of toxic elements in unknown water samples using ICP-MS instrumentation. Adams is also highly proficient in running liquid chromatography, ion chromatography and mass spectrometry time-of-flight analytical instrumentation.
Adams is a person of color whose ancestors include Africans and Native American Indians. He's also of Native American heritage, which he credits as inspiring his "Health Ranger" passion for protecting life and nature against the destruction caused by chemicals, heavy metals and other forms of pollution.
Adams is the founder and publisher of the open source science journal Natural Science Journal, the author of numerous peer-reviewed science papers published by the journal, and the author of the world's first book that published ICP-MS heavy metals analysis results for foods, dietary supplements, pet food, spices and fast food. The book is entitled Food Forensics and is published by BenBella Books.
Adams is well known for his incredibly popular consumer activism video blowing the lid on fake blueberries used throughout the food supply. He has also exposed "strange fibers" found in Chicken McNuggets, fake academic credentials of so-called health "gurus," dangerous "detox" products imported as battery acid and sold for oral consumption, fake acai berry scams, the California raw milk raids, the vaccine research fraud revealed by industry whistleblowers and many other topics.
In addition to his activism, Adams is an accomplished musician who has released over a dozen popular songs covering a variety of activism topics.


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ASUS Zenfone 2 – review
ASUS had more than enough new things to show at Computex 2015. We have already checked out the ASUS Zenpad series, Zen AiO, ZenWatch 2, a new Transformer Book and even the Zenfone Selfie. Most people seem to be ignoring the new Zenfone 2 devices, though. Not us!
In fact, we are pretty darn excited to see these new Zenfone 2 versions, as they are actually quite different from the original Zenfone 2 series. The affordable smartphone is being upgraded to a whole new level, really.
For starters, these new phones come with Snapdragon processors instead of Intel chips. Their cameras have also been upgraded with the inclusion of laser auto-focus. And as the cherry on top, there's also a 6-inch version with more power to throw around. Let's go through them one by one.
ASUS Zenfone 2 ZE500KL
This is the smallest new Zenfone, with a much more average 5-inch 720p IPS panel. The phone is powered by a Snapdragon 410 processor, 2-3 GB of RAM and 16-32 GB of internal storage. Just like all its other brothers, it has a 13 MP rear camera and a 5 MP shooter in the front.
This one is a little bigger. It carries a 5.5-inch 720p display. It also comes with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 processor, 2 GB of RAM, 16 GB of internal storage and a great 3000 mAh battery. And of course, there's also a 5 MP camera in the front and a 13 MP rear-facing camera with laser auto-focus.
Now, this is the biggest, baddest ASUS Zenfone 2 version at Computex 2015. The phone is gorgeous, and it is unique in that it's not only bigger, but it is more powerful. This bad boy carries a Snapdragon 615 processor, which really differentiates it from other Zenfone 2, as this chips is meant for more powerful processing.
This iteration of the Zenfone 2 also has 2-3 GB of RAM, 16-32 GB of internal storage, a 13 MP rear camera and a 5 MP front camera. It's all powered by a 3000 mAh battery and the screen measures in at 6-inches. The sad news is that it's still a 720p panel, which you will notice at these larger screen sizes.
A smaller Zenfone 2 with a Snapdragon 615
We know not all of you like those 6-inch smartphones, but you may still want to get the more powerful processor. Don't you worry. We found at this 5.5-inch Zenfone 2 which comes with a Snapdragon 615 processor.
In addition to the higher power chip, this version will come with the option of having either a 720p or 1080p display, something we know many of you will love. And of course, it takes advantage of laser auto-focus and is pretty much identical to its brothers in terms of specs.
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Hezbowwah (Persian: حزب‌الله, transwit. Ḥezbo'wwāh, wit. 'Party of God') is an Iranian movement formed at de time of de Iranian Revowution to assist de Ayatowwah Ruhowwah Khomeini and his forces in consowidating power. References in de media or writing are usuawwy made to members of de group—or Hezbowwahi—rader dan Hezbowwah, as Hezbowwah is/was not a tightwy structured independent organisation, but more a movement of woosewy bound groups, usuawwy centered on a mosqwe.
Hezbowwahi are said to "generawwy act widout meaningfuw powice restraint or fear of persecution," and initiawwy attacked demonstrations and offices of newspapers dat were criticaw of de Ayatowwah Khomeini. They are said to have "pwayed an important rowe on de street at cruciaw moments in de earwy days of de revowution by confronting dose de regime regarded as counter-revowutionaries."
Once powiticaw chawwenges to de regime had died down, Hezbowwah attacks expanded to incwude a wide variety of activities found to be undesirabwe for "moraw" or "cuwturaw" reasons, such as poor hijab, mixing of de sexes and consumption of awcohow.
According to schowar Moojan Momen, de association of toughs and cwerics became common during de era of weak government of de Qajar period, when "it became normaw for de prominent" members of de uwama in any town "to surround demsewves wif a band of de town's ruffians, known as wutis, to deir mutuaw benefit". The uwama had "a ready band" to take to de street to oppose what de uwama opposed, whiwe "de wutis in turn had a protector wif whom dey couwd take refuge if de government moved against dem." The Hezbowwahi which appeared after de Iswamic revowution, according to Momen, were "in fact onwy an new name for de street roughs who had awways had a cwose rewationahip wif de uwama."
And whoever takes Awwah and His apostwe and dose who bewieve for a guardian, den surewy de party of Awwah are dey dat shaww be triumphant.
In de earwy days of de Revowution, Khomeinists — dose in de Iswamic Repubwican Party — denied connection to Hezbowwah, and maintaining its attacks were de spontaneous wiww of de peopwe over which de government had no controw.
The Hezbowwahi is a wiwd torrent surpassing de imagination, uh-hah-hah-hah. He is a maktabi [one who fowwows Iswam comprehensivewy], disgusted wif any weaning to de East or West. He has a pocketfuw of documents exposing de treason of dose who pose as intewwectuaws. He is simpwe, sincere and angry. Stay away from his anger, which destroys aww in its paf. Khomeini is his heart and souw . ... The Hezbowwahi does not use eau de cowogne, wear a tie or smoke American cigarettes. ... You might wonder where he gets his information, uh-hah-hah-hah. He is everywhere, serving your food, sewwing you ice-cream.
In fact, de Iswamic Repubwican forces did supervise Hezbowwah. Hojjat aw-Iswam Hadi Ghaffari, "a young protegee of Khomeini," being in charge of dem.
Hezbowwah was instrumentaw in de Iswamic Cuwturaw Revowution against secuwarists and modernists at Iran's universities.
The "membership" of Hezbowwahi is said to be "essentiawwy de same group of persons" who surrounded prominent members of de uwama during de Qajar dynasty, and "who wouwd take to de street and create agitation when it suited de uwama to caww dem out." These were known as town toughs or wuti.
The Hezbowwahi do not wear uniforms, but are said to be recognizabwe to Iranians by a famiwiar "wook" dat ignores fashion and in particuwar Western fashion, uh-hah-hah-hah. Hezbowwahi favor simpwe, non-fashionabwe, cowwared shirts dat are never tucked into deir pants; pwain swacks (never jeans), and pwain bwack shoes or swippers. A bwack and white Pawestinian-stywe chafiye is commonwy worn, uh-hah-hah-hah. A beard or dree-day growf is awmost awways worn, uh-hah-hah-hah.
Bakhash, Shauw (1984). Reign of de Ayatowwahs. Basic Books.
Moin, Baqer (2000). Khomeini: Life of de Ayatowwah. Thomas Dunne Books.
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An interview with Anita Coulter about TR!CKSTER and the art of setting up shop.
With Comic-Con only days away from its takeover of the wonderfully accommodating city of San Diego, fans of all makes and models are talking, tweeting, and posting their excitement for the event. With the con having grown to proportions over the past several years that no one could have predicted, this now-cyclical round of excitement is also followed by the now-cyclical observations wondering what place (if any) the comics of the convention's namesake hold at the spectacle.
There's no question that attendance is in overdrive more and more, every year. People stood in line last year during the wee hours of the morning for the chance to buy their passes for this year's convention. If you do happen to score those coveted passes (which is very much like a lottery now), you still have to win a second lottery in being able to secure a hotel room (that now have triple their normal rates). A potential convention participant has to start taking care of these things up to a year in advance now, including the opportunity for dollar spenders to reserve their parking in advance.
With so many folks willing to go through this process, it's been widely accepted that the majority of those in attendance are no longer comic book readers...and there lies the point of contention for those in the "Comic" portion of "Comic-Con". This isn't just about the fans, either. Most people may not be aware of how difficult the whole process has become for artists and writers of comics as well. They're spending even more than badge holders, having to jump through more hoops than ever before to keep their table space at the show, and then coming to the realization that their target audience may not even be at the show at all. It is very common now for a freelance comic book artist to be thousands of dollars in to this show before it's even showtime. That's hard money to recoup when the folks wandering the aisles walk past you because what you do isn't on their radar at all.
For some creators, the San Diego Comic-Con now means they're bringing a comic book knife to a Hollywood movie gun fight.
Amongst the seeds of that frustration, a few like-minded people came up with an idea for an event that would do something for a positive change to help fans and creators of comics alike. Their event would push things even farther by providing resources for creators to improve their skills, encourage fans to become creators themselves, and provide shelf-space for their wares. During the convention last year, the city of San Diego also played host to the launch of this new event; right across the street from the convention center, one could buy a comic book, a t-shirt, and even original artwork, and then sit down on a patio to enjoy a beer and sushi (if one were so inclined) all while probably being a few seats over from the person who made whatever one had just bought.
This event was called TR!CKSTER and, with the slight title modification to TR!CK2TER, is only days away.
Relocated to WINE STEALS/PROPER, 795 J Street, San Diego, CA, TR!CK2TER will once again provide an atmosphere of creativity and one of learning as well. Through a series of ticketed "Symposia" events, people can sit in an intimate setting and learn about not only the individual crafts of storytelling and artistry, but also how to combine the two. There will be products on sale that come directly from the creators themselves; products that these creators hold the rights to, maintain control of, and (hopefully) profit directly from. Products like these are what has become known as "Creator-Owned" in the comic community, and this is the area that TR!CK2TER is focusing on.
An example: Batman is published by DC Comics, which is owned by Warner Brothers, which means that Warner Brothers owns Batman. If an artist or writer is hired to work on a Batman comic, they are "work-for-hire" and own none of the rights to it. If Warner Brothers based the next Batman film directly upon the works of the story that those creators invented, and that film made a gazillion dollars, Warner Brothers is not legally obligated to give those creators one extra cent in any way, shape, or form, unless said creators had the ability to negotiate such things into their contracts...which doesn't really happen.
Now that we're in a time where movies based on comic books are making billions of dollars, there has been an upswing in addressing the rights of the creators. A call-to-arms that creators should start going "Creator-Owned". It's a call that TR!CK2TER is at the forefront of and is actively trying to help with.
TR!CKSTER Co-Founder Anita Coulter told me that "The way I like to explain the TR!CKSTER Trio of Scott (Morse), Ted (Mathot), and I goes like this: Scott wanted to inspire people to create. He was interested in the Symposia idea to fire people up. MAKE STUFF! IMPROVE your art! That opportunity of creative types sparking each other was very important to Scott."
"I was all about the shop." she continued. "I figured if someone was going to go to all the trouble to MAKE STUFF you have to show them the end game. You made it, now what? Let's get it out to people. That's my thing. I love that ability to discover something in a store you've never seen before."
In regards to her third co-conspirator, Coulter explained that "Ted was all about the atmosphere. If you don't have the proper environment, inspiration can't flourish. If TR!CKSTER wasn't a fun place to go, no one would see all the great stuff in the shop...". I had asked her if the social aspect that the event had hit the year before was the result of a concentrated effort or a happy accident, and she told me that "no, the fantastic feeling of the place was no accident. It was all Ted."
For their second outing in San Diego, the TR!CK2TER team decided to try a different approach, though. They launched a fundraiser through popular site indiegogo as a means to make such an event more sound, financially. As mentioned earlier, space is almost non-existent during the San Diego Comic-Con, and companies are willing to go above and beyond the call to pay top dollar for it; last year Morse and Mathot footed the bill themselves. Though a lot of people showed up, that doesn't necessarily mean they're spending money. When asked about this, Anita said that TR!CKSTER, unfortunately, did not make money last year. "The store sold a bundle, (happily) but, we run the show shop on consignment ONLY. It gives the creators who show there a bigger cut than typical retail, which is important to me. It does, however, make it difficult to use that as a revenue stream. So, the short answer is that TR!CKSTER did not make money last year."
She added that "The long answer is that we all felt that TR!CKSTER NEEDED to come back again. As long as we can keep the show from losing money, it'll be a success for us."
The fundraising has offered pledges the opportunity for "perks" ranging from exclusive prints to getting a one-on-one sit down with notable creators to discuss the project you're working on, and at the time of this writing had a ways to go to reach their targeted number. Interested parties can contribute here and more info on the day-to-day plans of TR!CK2TER can be found on their website.
In the future Anita said that they hope to expand things and do other pop-ups spotlighting film, writing and toys. A permanent location will be opening in the Bay Area in California that will give TR!CKSTER a base of operations. "We want TR!CKSTER to be a home for all kinds of creator-owned storytellers and we look forward to finding more ways of getting those stories told."
TR!CK2TER will be found at WINE STEALS/PROPER, 795 J Street, San Diego from Wednesday July 11th through Saturday July 14th and will be absolutely free to visit.


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██ Two or More
(3%) 8
██ Hispanic
██ Asian
██ Black
██ Pacific Islander
Bottineau Junior-Senior High School Free and Reduced Lunch Assistance
██ Free Lunch Eligible
██ Not Eligible
(33%) 94
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* School District values based on schools that reported lunch assistance data
Bottineau Junior-Senior High School is ranked 11th out of 163 ranked schools in North Dakota, for total students on lunch assistance.
The percentage of Bottineau Junior-Senior High School students on free and reduced lunch assistance (67.1%) is significantly higher than the state average of 27.9%. This may indicate that the area has a higher level of poverty than the state average.
Students at a participating school may purchase a meal through the National School Lunch Program. Families with incomes between 130% and 185% of the federal poverty level are eligible for reduced price meals. Schools may not charge more than 40¢ for reduced-price lunches, nor more than 30¢ for reduced-price breakfasts. Students from families with incomes at or below 130% of the federal poverty level are eligible for free meals.
For 2014, a family of two needs to make an annual income below $20,449 to be eligible for free meals or below $29,100 for reduced price meals. A family of four needs to make an annual income below $31,005 for free meals or $44,122 for reduced price meals.
Bottineau Junior-Senior High School Trends Over Time
Total Students Over Time
Student Teacher Ratio Over Time
Lunch Assistance Over Time
Lunch Assitance Over Time
Lunch Assitance
2005 0.39858490566038
2009 0.5077399380805
Compare Bottineau Junior-Senior High School to Other High Schools
Student Teacher Ratio Comparison
950.0% 9.5:1
1,129.4% 11.3:1
Free and Reduced Lunch Comparison
State Average 27.9%
National Average 48.3%
This School 67.1%
Bottineau, ND Public 07 - 12	 286	 9.5:1
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Sandals Foundation: Why Vacationing & Volunteering Mix
Posted on July 13, 2014	 - By Kay
When you think of Sandals Resorts, I'm sure the first thing that comes to mind is 90 plus degree weather in the Caribbean, vivid turquoise oceans, soft sand, and maybe two to three Mai-Tai cocktails under a gazebo – and oh! destination weddings! But did you know, beyond being the creme de la creme of luxurious vacation stays that Sandals is actually a leader in philanthropy? A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to meet the CEO of Sandals Resorts, Adam Stewart, and The Director of Programs of the Sandals Foundation, Heidi Clarke, aboard their luxury yacht at The Chelsea Piers in New York City. On the beautiful yacht, I was introduced to the mission of the Sandals Foundation, which:
"seeks to help fulfill the promise of the Caribbean community through investments in sustainable projects in education, environment, ad community."
Just a little data crunching: when talking facts and figures, the Sandals Foundation has over 10,500 volunteers, who impact roughly 162,357 people via community programs and health initiatives. Because of the foundation, 62,000 people were able to gain access to dental and eye care. In addition, they have awarded 136 scholarships, adopted 26 schools, and built 63 computer labs. Let's not forget from an environmental perspective, The Sandals Foundation has assisted 6,844 people with marine awareness and training and they collected 8,800 pounds of waste. Wow. With all of these amazing projects and achievements, I was delighted to chat over lunch with Heidi Clarke on the The Lady Sandals about their future projects, Dwyane Wade being a key alliance, and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated's involvement with the Sandals Foundation.
Take a peek at my wonderful discussion with Heidi:
Konnect: Let's talk about the Sandals Foundation, how did you get involved, how long have you been doing it, and why is it a passion of yours to focus on education and community?
Heidi Clarke: The Sandals Foundation was officially launched in 2009, and really it was a way of taking the work that Sandals has been doing in the communities for 30 years and formalizing it. And also I think the CEO and Chairman realized that our partners and our guests wanted to get more involved in making a difference in Caribbean communities. We've been celebrating 5 years this year. We've accomplished quite a bit in that space of time. It's my passion -because I know the need in the Caribbean. Everyone looks at the Caribbean as a fantastic region, its beautiful, the beaches, but there is a lot that goes on behind hotel doors – out there in the communities that people really don't see, unless they get out there. Education has been a major focus, because we feel it's the one way to empower people and it's the one way to provide opportunities to Caribbean people. I have to say people have been very receptive – people in the communities partnering with us, because we never go in and say – this is what we think will work here. It's about us going out and forming partnerships in the community and saying tell us what you need.
Konnect: How many programs are there?
Heidi Clarke: Over the last five years we have implemented over 300 initiatives, projects and programs. Every island is different. Education is at the forefront, but you know there are different needs – whether it's environmental, or in schools, because some schools in various islands have more accessibility through various things through their government programs, whereas other islands don't.
Konnect: Let's talk about the word 'voluntourism' and what does that mean to the traveler. Get into why that's important.
Heidi Clarke: Volunteering your time from people dedicated to working in the community is huge. Because you always find that everybody is working and time is something that is essential. We don't think about the fact that if you go out and talk to a young student or read to a young student that you are actually helping to inspire them – verses just dropping a book off. Our team members – there are 13,000 of them in the Caribbean – its an ethos in our company that we really try to get our team members involved in our projects. At the professional level, having dentists, doctors, veterinarians and teachers come to the Caribbean and have them go out and work in the communities, offering free support and services. Offering our teachers training – that's a big thing for us. We do that from September to October every year, with an amazing partner called Great Shape. And then we have incentive groups, so business groups come down and they want to get involved in the community – whether it's for a day or for an afternoon, they are all donating dollars towards this, and then of course our guests. For us it's not just about coming out, and going to visit one little place quickly and looking at all the children and putting a little paint on a building – we do a lot of research on the ground, because we are in the communities. Our team is on the ground and we know the needs that are there. So we are really partnering the volunteers with something that is going to be impactful. One of our greatest things – our volunteer programs is our weekly programs of our Reading Road Trip, that's not just offered to Sandals and Beaches guests, that's offered to any guest in the region vacationing, because it's done through Island Routes, which is a tour company. It's once a week on a Thursday morning when school is in session and we go out and work with slower readers and the guests bring books and school supplies – they work with a structured program. Kids are getting so excited and their grades are benefiting. We have some of our schools winning competitions now, because their reading has improved so much. And beyond that – it's about the connection they make. We've had children come on the Reading Road Trip and go back to Canada and the States and say – "I don't want to get any presents this year, I want everybody to donate money so that I can buy something for this particular school that they visited." We've had a child build a classroom in Jamaica. We've had another child donate a TV and a DVD player – so the kids there could have a TV in their school for something new and exciting. The connection is really a huge step for us. Every year we add to our Reading Road Trip new material, because the guests donate.
Konnect: What new initiatives are you launching this year?
Heidi Clarke: Exciting new stuff. It's all about partnerships. We are thrilled to have some new partners on board this year. Game Changers is a program that we are looking at for all the islands in the Caribbean and our partner is Dwayne Wade. It's always great for kids to have a celebrity involved. Game Changers is about offering an on-going program in the afternoon for kids. Through sports they will have a coach and a mentor as well. Also we never leave out the life skills. Really it's about engaging youth after school. Another great program we have in the Bahamas is called P.A.C.E and this is for pregnant teenage girls. Unfortunately, in most of the Caribbean islands, if you are pregnant in high school, you have to leave, and so this is Providing Access to the Continued Education. These girls will continue on the curriculum, so when they have their baby – they can get right back into the program, so they haven't lost anytime. Our partner for that is Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. We are thrilled to be able to access 350,000 women across the world and their ability to help us. This is a beginning for us with P.A.C.E, but there are so many women issues in the Caribbean that we would really like to focus on over the next couple of years. We are very excited about all of the partnerships this year.
Photo Credits: Feature Image: Boscobel Primary School in Saint Mary Parish in Jamaica Additional images: Photos taken by director Gil Green behind-the-scenes of PSA shoot on location in Jamaica.
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ML Engineer Guide: Feature Store vs Data Warehouse
ML Best Practices
Edited: First published
TLDR; The feature store is a data warehouse of features for machine learning (ML). Architecturally, it differs from the traditional data warehouse in that it is a dual-database, with one database (row-oriented) serving features at low latency to online applications and the other database (column-oriented) storing large volumes of features, used by Data Scientists to create train/test datasets and by batch applications doing offline model scoring.
Features Store: Data Warehouse Déjà Vu
Data warehouses democratized access to Enterprise data by centralizing data in a single platform and then empowering business analysts with visual tools, such as Tableau and Power BI. No longer did they need to know what data resides where and how to query that data in that platform. They could derive historical insights into the business using BI tools.
Data scientists, in contrast, build predictive models to derive business insights. The feature store is the data warehouse for Data Science - it is a central vault for storing documented, curated, and access-controlled features that can be used across many different models. The feature store ingests data from the Enterprise's many different sources after transforming, aggregating, and validating the data.
Feature pipelines need to be written to ensure that data reliably flows from existing sources and is available in a format ready to be consumed by ML training pipelines and models.
Most Data Scientists currently do not have a feature store. They spend most of their time looking for, cleaning, and featurizing data. Hence, the (very real) cliché that 80% of data science is data wrangling. Data Scientists without a feature store work in an era akin to how business analysts worked before the advent of data warehouses, with low individual and organizational productivity.
The Data Warehouse is an input
to the Feature Store
Both platforms are a central store of curated data used to generate insights into the data. Both platforms have pipelines (ETL and feature pipelines, respectively) to ingest data from one or more disparate sources (operational databases, data lakes, etc).
Both benefit from metadata catalogs to organize data sets and access control to share data with only authorized actors.
Both platforms can be designed to scale-out on commodity hardware and store large volumes of data, although typically a data warehouse stores only relevant to analysis (modern data lakehouses are designed to store large volumes of data more cost efficiently).
Feature Store as a Dual Database
The main architectural difference between a data warehouse and a feature store is that the data warehouse is typically a single columnar database, while the feature store is typically implemented as two databases:
an offline feature store for serving large batches of features to (1) create train/test datasets and (2) batch applications scoring models using those batches of features, and
an online feature store for serving a single row of features (a feature vector) to be used as input features for an online model for an individual prediction.
The offline feature store is typically required to efficiently serve and store large amounts of feature data, while the online feature store is required to return feature vectors in very low latency (e.g., < 10ms). Examples of databases used for the offline feature store are Apache Hive and BigQuery and examples of online feature stores include MySQL Cluster, Redis, and DynamoDB.
Note that if you want to reuse features in different train/test datasets for different models, your database or application will need to join features together. This is true for both the offline and online feature stores. If your feature store does not support joining features, that is, you do not reuse features across different models, you (or some system) will need to create a new ingestion pipeline for every new model you support in production.
In the table below, we see an overview of the main architectural differences between feature stores and data warehouses. Data warehouses are used primarily by business analysts for interactive querying and for generating historical reports/dashboards on the business. Feature stores are used by both data scientists and by the online/batch applications, and they are fed data by feature pipelines, typically written in Python or Scala/Java.
Data scientists typically use Python programs to create train/test datasets by joining existing features in the feature store together and materializing the train/test datasets in a file format best suited to the framework they are going to train their model in (e.g., TFRecord for TensorFlow, NPY for PyTorch). Data warehouses and SQL currently lack this capability to create train/test datasets in ML file formats.
Feature Data should be Validated
before Ingestion
The table also shows the differences in the types of data stored, as well as how the data is stored, validated, and queried. A data warehouse stores data in tables along with schemas for describing the type of data and constraints for columns. Similarly, the feature store stores typed data (typically in tables), but as features are typically stored as ready-to-consume numerical values or vectors (embeddings) or tensors, there is less need for a richer set of column types compared to a data warehouse. Foreign key constraints are typically not supported in feature stores, due to the difficulty in enforcing such constraints between online and offline stores.
As model training is very sensitive to bad data (null values, outliers cause numerical instability, missing values), feature data should be validated before ingestion. Data validation frameworks, such as Great Expectations and Deequ, have appeared to help implement feature pipelines that apply predicates (data validation rules) on all the features ingested into the feature store, ensuring high data quality in the feature store.
Domain specific languages (DSL) are sometimes used to define the feature transformations, aggregations, and data validation rules in feature pipelines, but general purpose languages (Python, Scala) are commonly used when non-trivial feature engineering is required.
Using the feature store to create train/test data
Data scientists are one of the main users of the feature store. They use a feature repository to perform exploratory data analysis (EDA) - searching/browsing for available features and inspecting feature values/schemas/statistics. Data Scientists mainly use Python to select features to create train/test datasets. This typically involves joining features together to create a train/test dataset in their file format of choice (.tfrecord, .csv, .npy, .petastorm, etc). Sometimes feature stores support a DSL (domain specific language) to create train/test datasets or other languages such as Scala/Java.
Online feature store
Online applications use the online feature store to retrieve feature values with low latency to build feature vectors that are sent to models for predictions. In contrast to higher latency data warehouses, feature stores may be required to return feature vectors in single millisecond latency - only really achievable in row-oriented or key-value stores.
The typical access pattern for retrieving features is a key-value lookup, but if features are to be reused in the online feature store, then joins are again required (either in the database or in the application). In some databases (such as MySQL Cluster), a small number of joins can be performed at very low latency.
Feature statistics to monitor for feature
drift and data drift
Descriptive statistics (e.g., mean, standard deviation) for features are also useful when identifying data drift in online models. Your monitoring infrastructure can calculate statistics on live prediction traffic, and compare those statistics with the values in the feature store to identify data drift for the live traffic, potentially required retraining of the model.
Temporal databases support time-travel: the ability to query data as it was at a given point-in-time or data changes in a given time-interval. The "AS OF SYSTEM TIME" syntax was introduced to SQL 2011 to standardize point-in-time queries, while the "VERSIONS BETWEEN SYSTEM TIME ... AND ... " syntax was introduced to identify the versioned changes to data in a time interval. Time-travel is supported in some data warehouses, but does not have universal support across all vendors.
For a feature store time-travel has several important uses: when creating train/test data (e.g., training data is data from the years 2010-2018, while test data is data from the range 2019-2020). Time-travel is also useful to make changes to a dataset (e.g., rollback a bad commit of data to the dataset) or to compare metadata (statistics) for features and how they change over time. We rarely require time-travel for features used in serving. Time-travel is also important when performing point-in-time joins, where we ensure that there is no data leakage from the future when we create train/test datasets from historical data.
Feature Pipelines
Data warehouses typically have timed triggers for running ETL jobs (or data pipelines) to ingest the latest data from operational databases, message queues, and data lakes. Similarly, feature pipelines can timed triggers to transform and aggregate the latest data from different sources before storing it in both the online and offline feature store for scoring by online and offline applications. However, additional pipelines can also feed features to the feature store.
Predictions made by models can be stored in the feature store along with the outcomes for those predictions. There can be long lags of even days or months or years before outcomes become available - e.g., a prediction on whether a loan will be repaid or not), but as they arrive new training data becomes available that can be used to trigger re-training of models.
Data warehouses can be used to store pre-computed features, but they do not provide much more functionality beyond that for ML pipelines. When Data Scientists need to create train/test data using Python or when online features (for serving features to online models) are needed at low latency, you need a feature store. Similarly, if you want to detect feature drift or data drift, you need support for computing feature statistics and identifying drift.
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Hydroponics is generally translated from the Latin and Greek languages meaning "working water". The Greeks and Romans described this farming technique this way because the water was always in motion. A more modern way to explain hydroponics is growing plants without soil. A variety of mediums are used in place of soil which is soaked in a nutrient rich water solution.
The reason you are able to basically grow more food, faster, and in less space is due to the direct exposure of nutrients to the roots. Traditional soil based gardening requires the plants to seek out the nutrients in the soil which actually takes a lot of effort which could be used to grow more vegetation, flowers and fruit.
Hydroponic systems come in many different 'flavors' but all have a few key common components.
Grow Tray: The plants grow in a tray that is filled with an inert media which acts as a soil substitute. Common media includes coconut fiber, gravel, and rockwool. The media provides root stability and the right mix of oxygen and water.
Reservoir: A holding tank for the nutrient rich water which is pumped onto the roots of the plants.
Timer: The real beauty of hydroponics. A timer can help automate your system which can make it virtually maintenance free.
Almost anything can be grown hydroponically however some plants do better and are simply more practically. Stick with compact plants that you harvest above the ground.
Hydroponic plants can be planted twice as close as compared to soil based planting as they will not compete for soil nutrients. They only need enough vertical space to grow up.
Another great way to maximize your plantable space is to be creative. Do you have an outside empty wall?
What about a sunny window?
Start small. You'll learn a lot from your first experience and can apply that to your next planting.
Use seedlings from the local nursery if you have never germinated seeds.
Ensure the location you select will receive at least 12 hours of sunlight and maintain a temperature in the low 70's. If this isn't possible than plan to have supplemental light and heat.
Now that you have heard the basics are you interested learning more? You can read more at my personal blog Health Smart Living http://healthsmartliving.com/hydroponics or I'd recommend checking out instructables (http://www.instructables.com/id/Hydroponic-Soda-Bottle-System/). Both have some very detailed hands-on ways to set up a hydroponic garden.
I like the pictures in this article that really illustrate how hydroponic systems can conserve a lot of space. I have been reading a lot lately about hydroponics/aquaponics and have found the visual element helpful in thinking about it.


The true saturated nature or so-called "polyunsaturated" vegetable oil products (margarine is one) which are made by the chemical process called hydrogenation and are certainly not "polyunsaturated".
Many people misunderstand this terminology and rightly so because there is a deliberate commercial advantage in representing "margarine" as a "healthful" alternative to butter.
Nevertheless, it is of no consequence how unsaturated or "polyunsaturated" the source oils may be that go into the production of margarine, these oils are still saturated fats by virtue of the hydrogenation process they undergo to turn them into a solid at room temperature spread.
Even when these products claim to contain "no cholesterol' their artificially saturated chemical composition will still stimulate the body to produce cholesterol once eaten.
In 1869, Europe experienced a cattle plague which made dairy products (like butter) scarce and expensive. A French food chemist managed to create a butter substitute he called "margarine" – a word derived from the Greek word for "pearl" because this original product was hard, white and glossy like a pearl. This product was initially made from beef fat, milk, sheep stomachs and cows udders, all treated with heat, lye and pressed into "cakes" of semi-solid fat.
This early attempt to substitute butter had the main appeal of being cheap and was considered a food for the poor.
By the early 1900's, food chemists discovered how to harden vegetable oils by combining them with hydrogen and the process of hydrogenation was born. Thus, vegetable and fish oils became the main ingredients for "margarine" and thereafter manufacturers bought up all the cheapest oils they could and subjected them all to hydrogenation hardening them into margarines.
After World War I, only vegetable oils went into margarine, but it remained the poor cousin to butter and still considered a food for the lower classes.
Since the 1920's, food chemists have ingenuitively used a number of chemicals and other additives to "improve" margarine to make it look, spread, and taste just like butter. By now the cheapness of margarine was being promoted as a virtue and dairy butter suffered by the comparison.
With the advent of more and more scientific research into health issues such as heart disease and its relation to diet, butter suffered more bad press while the seemingly preferable vegetable oils gained ground, what the margarine manufacturers banked on was the public's short-lived understanding of chemical processes whereby "Polyunsaturated" or "good" oils could still seem acceptable in a highly refined hydrogenated product – no longer "Poly-un" but not clearly labelled as "saturated" either.
I wonder if we would all nish to buy "Artificially coloured, preserved, and flavoured saturated vegetable fats" if margarine were thus more truthfully labelled? Butter, in the meantime, continues to be painted as the culprit saturated fat responsible for arteriosclerosis and heart disease.
The New England Journal of Medicine (1990) reporting the work of two Dutch scientists notes that people on diets high in hydrogenated fats (like margarine) for as little as three weeks showed less beneficial HDL cholesterol (the so-called "good" or high density cholesterol) in their blood than people who consumed monosaturated oils (like olive oil) or saturated fat (butter).
Accompanying this result, according to the report in the Journal, was the noted increase in detrimental LDL cholesterol (the so-called "bad" or low density cholesterol) in the blood of these same test people on high hydrogenated fat-type diets.
If chemical hydrogenated fats are saturated fats, and butter is also a saturated fat, then why the difference in the body's reaction to the two and why does one fat elevate "bad" cholesterol while the other elevates "good" HDL cholesterol in the bloodstream?
The answer appears in a comparison of the different chemical structures of the fatty acids both fats contain. Remember "fatty acids?" These are the compounds that the body utilises from a variety of food we eat to manufacture necessary body-function substances like hormones, enzymes and anti-inflammatory agents.
Butter, as a natural product, has component fatty acids that are structurally similar to the fatty acids already present in our bodies. On the other hand, the chemical process of hydrogenation which produces margarine transforms the fatty acids present in the product into unnatural forms that are difficult for the body to break down.
Add this challenge to our digestive processes and we get a greater demand of the body's reserves of Vitamin E, the natural antioxidant required to keep these manufactured fats from going rancid. It is clear these fats present an inherent imbalance problem.
To maintain a better "balance" in our choice of fats/oils, it is recommended we remember the daily limit of 15-30 grams of total fats from whatever source, keep only natural food oil products going through our digestive systems and guarding against rancidity by watching our Vitamin E intake.
As an alternative to margarine, try "extended butter" which combines the good qualities of unprocessed vegetable oil with natural unsalted butter. You can easily make this spread at home.
Blend together in your food processor (or try smaller amounts whipped with a fork) equal parts of olive oil (or other good-quality vegetable oil), unsalted butter at room temperature and water. To make a large amount, try one cupful of each of the above (less if you are mixing by hand).
Whip all together and store in the refrigerator, this spreads easily even straight from the refrigerator and is a good natural way to get the essential fatty acids the body needs daily.
Disclaimer: The information in this post should not take the place of medical advice. Talk to your health care providers about what may be best for your health.
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The Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival has announced that Mary McCormick, Director of Marketing and Public Relations, has resigned after successfully leading the marketing and PR efforts for the organization for more than eight years.
McCormick assumed her role at the Gilmore Keyboard Festival in 2009 following a 25-year career in private industry in Michigan and Wisconsin. She led the marketing and PR efforts for the 2010 and 2014 Gilmore Artists Awards announcements, the past four Gilmore Keyboard Festivals, eight Gilmore Young Artists Awards announcements, and eight seasons of Piano Masters and Rising Stars concerts. McCormick will be leaving her post this month.
Among McCormick's accomplishments are spearheading the wildly-popular "Play Out Loud" piano project in the spring of 2012, which placed brightly painted upright pianos on the streets of Kalamazoo and Portage during that year's Festival. Last year, McCormick worked with the City of Kalamazoo and the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) to convert three major pedestrian crosswalks into keyboards for the 2016 Festival. She was also instrumental in re-opening the box office within Kalamazoo's Epic Center in 2015, now operated by Gilmore staff to serve Gilmore Keyboard Festival patrons. This spring, the box office expanded to provide ticketing services for Fontana as well.
A search for McCormick's successor is currently underway. More information can be found on our employment page.


Although born in Montreal, Dr. Mammah actually grew up in Vancouver, BC. Sadly, the amazing outdoors and sushi was not enough to keep him there as he moved back to Montreal where he received both his BSc and DMD degrees at McGill University. After completing dental school, Dr. Mammah decided to further enhance his knowledge and clinical experience by completing a Post- Graduate residency program at the University of Rochester in New York State. Even now, Dr. Mammah still participates in continuing education courses very regularly in order to make sure he is up to date with the latest clinical procedures and information.
Dr. Mammah enjoys performing all aspects of dentistry whether its wisdom tooth surgery, root canal therapy, crown and bridge or even standard fillings. He loves treating patients of all ages and even offers oral and nitrous sedation for patients who are anxious.
Outside of Dentistry, Dr. Mammah loves music (he plays both electric and acoustic guitar), hockey (the Vancouver Canucks and the Montreal Canadiens both have a special place in his heart), exercise, traveling, cooking and spending time with friends & family. Dr. Mammah also speaks English and Moroccan Arabic fluently as well French at an intermediate level.


A soft back version of the original, made to accompany The Kunsthal of Everything. The catalogue includes images by many of the museum's artists, such as Henry Darger, Guo Fengyi and Martín Ramírez, alongside Dutch authors like Willem van Genk. Accompanying the artworks are easy-to-read essays by cultural luminaries like David Byrne, Maurizio Cattelan, Marlene Dumas, Annette Messager, Grayson Perry, Ed Ruscha and more.


Claire Kenny spends her days with Albecht Dürer and Francisco Goya. Not the artists, who died centuries ago, but their master prints.
Claire Kenny and UW Museology students examine an eighteenth-century chiaroscuro woodcut made by John Baptist Jackson and discuss how the print was made.
As a conservator who specializes in works on paper, Kenny works with the Henry Art Gallery and University Libraries to conserve their significant collections of photographs and works on paper, including works by European masters. Her position is funded through a four-year grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
For the Libraries, Kenny is currently focusing on regional photographs and works on paper, including photographs by the Seattle Camera Club and drawings by Eddie Sato, as well as rare Chinese stele rubbings. For the Henry, her focus is a collection of modern American photographs and two collections of European prints gifted to the museum: the Stimson-Bullitt Collection of nineteenth-century prints and the Albert Feldmann collection of fifteenth- to eighteenth-century master prints. Kenny met Feldmann, a former Boeing engineer fascinated by printmaking, before he passed away in May.
"It was Mr. Feldmann's wish that these prints would inspire our community, and it is a privilege to be entrusted with their care and to help facilitate that vision," Kenny says.
Though she divides her time between the Henry and the Libraries, Kenny does most of her conservation work at the recently completed Conservation Center in Suzzallo Library, which has a "wet lab" equipped with a large sink, a water filtration system, a humidification dome, a fume hood, and a microscope. It resembles a chemistry lab, and for good reason: chemistry is an important part of conservation work.
A lot of what I do is thinking carefully about how to introduce moisture into objects, and then how to remove the moisture.
Claire Kenny working at the Conservation Center microscope, one of many tools she uses in her conservation work.
Kenny explains that the materials and technology involved in Western papermaking have changed over time, affecting the way a paper ages and influencing her treatment decisions. She offers the example of two prints from the Henry's collection, one from the fifteenth century, the other from the nineteenth century. Despite being hundreds of years older, the fifteenth-century print is in better condition because the paper was made with cotton rags, while the nineteenth-century print was made using less stable wood pulp that can degrade and discolor over time.
"Do not use tape on things you want to keep," Claire Kenny warns. Here she carefully removes damaging tape from an artwork.
Though moisture is critical to treating works on paper, it also causes many of the problems that conservators encounter. Collectors beware: storing artworks in damp spaces can cause damage and accelerate deterioration. Direct sunlight can also be damaging. But what makes Kenny shudder the most is seeing tape used to repair or attach artworks to their mats. It's such a problem that whole art conservation workshops have been devoted to tape removal.
Kenny is happy to share her expertise with the campus community, particularly with iSchool and Museology Program students. She plans to meet with high school students as part of the Henry Teen Collective program, and has been a resource for UW archaeology students, testing paper scraps they unearthed during an excavation. But mostly she relishes working with the Henry and Libraries collections, especially the problem-solving required.
Asked if there's enough work to keep her busy for the next few years, Kenny laughs.


It was truly an awesome experience. I was also on the Segwun but had been on the Sagamo for the same cruise in 1948. wonderful memories.
ED! WOW! What a great looking experience…the old woodies that escorted looked awesome. Thanks for sharing such a neat cruise. Beautiful photos as always. Enjoy the rest of your summer up there!
Great shots. We were a part of the day as well, boating alongside the Segwun and Wenonah during the Lake Muskoka/Indian River leg of the journey. Then we docked at Port Carling and watched both ships passed thru the locks. It was a thrill just being a small part of the day. Your pictures help fill in what went on the next legs of the journey.
Thanks for sharing this wonderful experience with us .. great photos as usual.
I've read stuff from. I appreciate you for posting when you have the opportunity, Guess I will just book mark this page.
I spent one wonderful summer on the Sagamo working as a waitress. There were four of us doing that, we were all good friends. The food was great and we hated to come home when summer ended. We were only paid about $25.00 a month but the tips were great which helped when I entered college. I even remember the cooks names (Pink, Chow and Wong) This was in 1954. Gravenhurst is a lovely spot and the lake is gorgeous. It was a pleasure to see it again.


New "Hobbit" Production Video Arrives. | The Cineaste's Lament.
← Dramatic U.S. Trailer For "Headhunters" Debuts.
New "Hobbit" Production Video Arrives.
Here's another inside look at director Peter Jackson's upcoming prequel to "The Lord of the Rings." I'm not even going to try to list the cast, which is all-star, and seemingly grows more all-starry by the day.
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Galahad the Grasshopper Mouse is a character in The Animal Show.
He appeared in the episode "Grasshopper Mouse & Stoat" where he tells Stinky the Skunk and Jake the Polar Bear on how grasshopper mice can be vicious. He speaks in a gangster accent and was shown to have been displeased that Stinky the Skunk claimed grasshopper mice aren't vicious upon his introduction.


Image Credit: Office of the Comptroller.
NYCHA residences throughout the five boroughs have serious security lapses from propped open and broken doors. On October 12, 2018, the City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer released the results of an investigative survey on the exterior door security at New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) developments. Between July and August 2018, auditors visited 299 NYCHA developments and observed the conditions of exterior doors. The auditors observed 4,551 doors in development in the five boroughs.
The investigation found that 195 housing developments citywide were affected by unsecured doors and over 1,000 entrance, side, and rear doors were propped open with ropes and chains, had broken latches and missing parts, or were otherwise in unsecured conditions. A total of 1,023 of the building doors were broken, tampered with, or unlockable, which leaves the developments more susceptible to intruders and safety concerns. Auditors also found that only 53 percent of entrances for developments in all five boroughs had cameras placed by the entrance to monitor these otherwise security lapses, further putting the residents at risk.
Manhattan developments had the highest percentage of open doors, with 37 percent of 761 of front doors and 33 percent out of 269 rear or side doors found unlocked. In the Bronx had 24 percent of the 767 front doors were open and 20 percent of 276 rear or side doors were unlocked. In Staten Island, 19 percent of the 108 front doors were open and 21 percent of 28 rear or side doors were unlocked. In Queens, 18 percent of the 470 front doors were open and 9 percent of 81 rear or side doors were unlocked. In Brooklyn, 17 percent of the developments' 1,432 front doors were open and 14 percent of 359 rear or side doors were unlocked.
As a result of the investigation, Comptroller Stringer recommended that NYCHA repairs and replaces all damaged exterior doors, regularly inspect all exterior doors and maintain all doors and locks, ensures that security cameras are operational and located in publicly accessible entrances and exits, and conducts a review of its security and maintenance systems and promptly alert maintenance staff of unsecured conditions for a timely repairs.
To read the Comptroller Stringer's results from the investigative survey, click here.
By: Samantha Albanese (Samantha is a CityLaw intern and a New York Law School student, Class of 2019).


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Web-based interface to Bruker ParaVision® MRI images
Computer Science, Neurosciences, Biomedicine and Movement Sciences
Marzola Pasquina
MRI, Nuclear magnetic resonance, Functional nuclear magnetic resonance, On-line laboratory, Images archive
Development of a web-based interface to MRI data acquired with a Biospec MR Imager (Bruker, Germania);
allowing authenticated users to export acquired images in DICOM file format;
installation of an open-source PACS server at the MRI laboratory of the University of Verona;
connection of the Biospec tomograph to the PACS server.
Nowadays, basic research activities produce considerable amount of data and information, mostly generated by computer and analytical instruments. Proper storage of this information plays an important role in the management of a research lab. Losing information means losing years of work and all the know-how acquired, but can also imply considerable money and image loss.
Another crucial aspect is the sharing of the data. In practice, in fact, data generated by one research group are hardly accessible to other groups which collaborate on the same project. This is particularly relevant in scientific collaborations established with laboratories of other domestic and foreign universities. Such difficulties lie mainly in the lack of standards for generated data and sharing protocols. The absence of tools for sharing the results produced by different research groups may even render useless the information collected during the research.
In preclinical research, many labs are equipped with a variety of imaging platforms (MRI, Optical Imaging, CT, etc.), each of them producing large amounts of data. Preclinical imaging instrumentation usually does not comply with any specific standard regarding data storage. Rather, each manufacturer adopts a proprietary format for its data, which makes it difficult to share the information. In our institute, a preclinical research group has been actively operating Magnetic Resonance Imaging with the widely used Biospec tomograph produced by Bruker Biospin (Ettlingen, Germany). Images acquired with this instrument are presently stored in a format accessible only through proprietary software ParaVision® (Bruker). The tomograph, as is the case in many other laboratories, is shared by several research groups, and experiments are usually carried out in collaboration between local and foreign groups. This situation is common to most laboratories of this type. Sharing information in a secure, fast, and reliable way appears to be a priority. For the above mentioned reasons, the aim of this project is to develop a web-based interface which allows access to data stored on the acquisition workstation for a Magnetic Resonance Imager Bruker Biospec. The system will be extendable to other imaging platforms or even other types of data. We believe that such a system could be of interest for most experimental MRI laboratories using Bruker Biospec instruments and therefore we plan to distribute to the scientific community the final product of this project.
Bruker BioSpin srl
Alessandro Daducci
Paolo Fumene Feruglio
Pasquina Marzola
Stefano Tambalo
Anatomy & Morphology
Anatomy and Histology Section


Detection and tracking of illegally parked vehicles are usually considered as crucial steps in the development of a video-surveillance based traffic-management system. The major challenge in this task lies in making the tracking phase illumination-change tolerant. The paper presents a two-stage process to detect vehicles parked illegally and monitor these in subsequent frames. Chromaticity and brightness distortion estimates are used in the first stage to segment the foreground objects from the remainder of the scene. The process then locks onto all stationary 'vehicle'-size patches, parts of which overlap with the regions of interest marked interactively a priori. The second stage of the process is applied subsequently to track all the illegally parked vehicles detected during the first stage. All the locked patches are filtered using a difference-of-Gaussian (DoG) filter operated at three different scales to capture a broad range of information. In succeeding frames patches at the same locations are similarly DoG filtered at the three different scales and the results matched with the corresponding ones initially generated. A combined score based on correlation estimates is used to track and confirm the existence of the illegally parked vehicles. Use of the DoG filter helps in extracting edge based features of the patches thus making the tracking process broadly illumination-invariant. The two-stage approach has been tested on the United Kingdom Home Office iLIDS dataset with encouraging results.


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Author: jacobsondl
York City prekindergarten teacher, Allie Feaser, sharing York's new city-wide transition to kindergarten child information form with prekindergarten and kindergarten teachers at the First 10 Summer Institute in August, 2021. Allie spearheaded the creation of the form working with prekindergarten principal Julie Fabie and the First 10 Transition to Kindergarten team.
The second post in this series showed how First 10 partnerships are funded, how they are advancing equity by using this funding to support urban and rural communities with significant low-income populations, and how some partnerships are combining First 10 with anti-racism efforts. In this post, I discuss how communities get started with First 10. I describe the two structures—community-wide partnerships and school-based hubs—First 10 partnerships employ to carry out their work, how they form teams, and how they begin their planning efforts.
Community-wide and School-based First 10 Structures, Sometimes in Combination
The First 10 initiative in York City, PA is a good example of a comprehensive First 10 community partnership (see Figure 1 below). York City is a district of approximately 6100 students, 91% are students of color, and 95% are low-income. The First 10 initiative spans the entire city. First 10 is overseen by a steering committee that includes a board member/parent representative and senior leaders from the district, several early childhood programs, the library, local funders, and other nonprofit organizations. York is forming a family advisory committee to allow for more direct community representation, and importantly, the school district is pairing its First 10 work with a major racial equity and cultural competence training push. At the beginning of the pandemic it established several First 10 teams to carry out a number of strategies that impact the entire community:
Continue reading "Getting Started with First 10: Community Partnerships, School Hubs, and Work Currently Underway (Post #3)"
Author jacobsondlPosted on January 4, 2022 January 4, 2022 Categories Community Schools, Comprehensive Services, Early literacy, Exemplars, Family Engagement, Partnerships, TransitionsLeave a comment on Getting Started with First 10: Community Partnerships, School Hubs, and Work Currently Underway (Post #3)
Alabama launched its new Transition to Kindergarten Toolkit in December. We have really appreciated the opportunity to partner with Alabama on this important resource. Congrats to Secretary Barbara Cooper (Department of Early Childhood Education), her team, and her colleagues in other agencies. Alabama asks me to convey its thanks to the Rhode Island Department of Education for inspiring the basic idea of this toolkit.
States and counties may get ideas they can adapt from the toolkit, and communities will find helpful guidance materials in sections 2-9.
The focus of the toolkit is on supporting local communities in developing and implementing effective transition to kindergarten plans. Here are a few highlights that may be of interest:
Continue reading "Alabama Launches a New Transition to Kindergarten Toolkit"
Author jacobsondlPosted on January 4, 2022 January 4, 2022 Categories Family Engagement, State and Community, state policy, system-building, TransitionsLeave a comment on Alabama Launches a New Transition to Kindergarten Toolkit
I'm really looking forward to this conversation with Dan Wuori of the Hunt Institute about the great First 10 work underway in Maine and Pennsylvania. We'll also talk about similar initiatives in Alabama and Rhode Island. I hope you can join us.
You can register by clicking the link here.
Author jacobsondlPosted on January 4, 2022 January 3, 2022 Categories Community Schools, Comprehensive Services, Exemplars, School Readiness, system-building, TransitionsLeave a comment on Hunt Institute Webinar this Thursday: First 10 in Action
The first post in this series described how the first 40 First 10 and transition to kindergarten communities are working to improve quality and alignment and address early childhood challenge #3 (i.e., local system-building). I also previewed some of the lessons this blog series will explore. In this second post, I show how First 10 partnerships are funded, how they are advancing equity by using this funding to support children and families who live in low-income households, and how some partnerships are combining First 10 with anti-racism efforts.
"The tragic fact remains true in this country: children's outcomes are predicted by their demographic characteristics, the color of their skin, their family's income bracket, and their home language. These inequities begin before birth and follow children into the early care and education (ECE) system, one of the first systems with which they interact. Indeed, grave inequities in children's access to, experiences in, and outcomes during and after early learning vary drastically based on what a child looks like, where they live, what language they speak, and where they are from."[1]
"The opportunity to finally bring about equitable change across America's systems, including the early learning and education systems, is as ripe as it has been in a generation."[2]
Local school-community partnerships that carry out effective strategies to improve the quality and coordination of the supports communities provide to children and families are one of the most powerful strategies we have to address the "grave inequities" referenced above. In conjunction with increasing access to high-quality ECE programs and improving workforce compensation, cross-sectoral collaboration focused on the first decade of children's lives has significant potential to improve outcomes for children and families who live in low-income households. This includes those most affected by current and historical racism and marginalization and those living in rural areas. A recent call to action on advancing equity in ECE from the Children's Equity Project and eight other organizations recommends the field take the following four actions (among several others), all of which can be advanced by cross-sector community partnerships: [3]
Continue reading "Promoting Educational and Racial Equity through Cross-Sector Partnerships for Children and Families (Post #2)"
Author jacobsondlPosted on December 14, 2021 January 3, 2022 Categories Equity, Neighborhoods, Partnerships, Policy, Poverty, State and Community, state policy, system-building1 Comment on Promoting Educational and Racial Equity through Cross-Sector Partnerships for Children and Families (Post #2)
"The ultimate goal of a stronger, more seamless care and education continuum is to initiate and sustain a strong foundation for future success by providing effective learning opportunities across the infant-toddler years, preschool ages, and early grades in all settings." (National Research Council, Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth through Age 8: A Unifying Foundation).[1]
"The broader lesson of our analysis is that social mobility should be tackled at a local level by improving childhood environments." (Chetty and Hendron, The Impacts of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility)[2]
The United States is on the cusp of making a historic investment in early care and education (ECE).[3] This investment comes at a moment in time when the pandemic has exposed the fragmented and siloed nature of our early childhood systems in both urban and rural communities. Widespread racial protests have launched a national reckoning with pervasive racial inequities. Also, during the past two years, an important development has been taking place in the ECE world that can help inform our response to these challenges. Twenty-eight states across the United States have been hard at work improving state and local ECE systems, supported by $275 million of Preschool Development Grant Birth through Five (PDG B–5) funds. The aim of these efforts is to improve the quality of early childhood programs and services, including how programs and services work together in a coordinated fashion to best meet the needs of children and families. I suggest that state and local system-building efforts like those supported by PDG B–5 are essential to how we address learning loss in the aftermath of the pandemic, and how, as we expand access to ECE programs, we rebuild better, more equitable systems of care and education.
Continue reading "Taking Action for Children and Families: Learning from the First 40 Communities"
Author jacobsondlPosted on November 30, 2021 January 3, 2022 Categories Alignment, Community, Comprehensive Services, Early Childhood Policy, Early Elementary Years, Equity, system-building, Transitions, Whole Child2 Comments on Taking Action for Children and Families: Learning from the First 40 Communities
As we rebuild after the pandemic, we have an enormous opportunity to reinvent early education and care in the United States in ways that dramatically improve outcomes for children and families, strengthen communities, and advance equity for all.
In this post, I share three core principles for rethinking how communities serve children and families and make the most of this opportunity. Thanks to the Partnership for Early Education Research at the Yale University School of Medicine for inviting me to blog.
Author jacobsondlPosted on June 30, 2021 Categories Community, Early Childhood Policy, system-buildingLeave a comment on A Game-Changing Opportunity for Early Childhood (Yale School of Medicine)
"It explained how the care sector — defined as economic activity in the home and the market — was a crucial part of the economy but operated differently than other types of businesses.
You can't measure the productivity of a child-care center the way you would, say, a car factory, she explained. The incentives are nothing alike. The profits don't go only to the center's owner. Instead, benefits are shared by children and their parents, and society as a whole. The country benefits from a more educated and productive work force."
Author jacobsondlPosted on May 10, 2021 Categories Policy, WorkforceLeave a comment on Policymakers Used to Ignore Child Care. Then Came the Pandemic.
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While I disagree with the suggestion that public schools can't do this work, I appreciate the dual generation/comprehensive services thrust of Conor's article. See this recent webinar series for more examples of school-community partnerships for the whole child.
A few excerpts:
"This juxtaposition — family members decades apart, but attending classes down the hall from one another — is central to a 'dual-generation' educational approach ….
These programs have a straightforward theory of education: If children's success is tightly intertwined with their families' stability (and we know it is), and families do better when they have access to nutrition, health care and economic opportunity, why not address all of these needs together? …
Now, more than ever, American schools are realizing that they cannot ignore these challenges as they try to reconnect students with learning opportunities. 'Education is one arm in somebody's success,' said Reena Gadhia, the former manager of one of Briya's work force training programs. 'You really cannot disregard access to mental health services, access to social services, access to child care, transportation, all of it.'"
Author jacobsondlPosted on April 6, 2021 April 5, 2021 Categories Comprehensive ServicesLeave a comment on School: It's Not Just for Kids Anymore
In Her Words–Child Care in Crisis: Can Biden's Plan Save It?
"At the root of this crisis is America's relationship with child care itself. Unlike every other developed country, the United States has never, with the exception of a few years during World War II, treated child care as an essential service. Since at least the 1970s, when President Richard Nixon vetoed a bipartisan effort to implement a universal child-care system because it had what he called 'family-weakening implications,' the industry has been cast as a personal choice — more specifically, a mother's choice.
'We have never valued the work that goes into caring for our families — we've never accounted for it, we have made it invisible and have always taken for granted that women will shoulder the responsibility,' said Ai-jen Poo, senior adviser for the nonprofit Care in Action and an expert on the care economy."
Author jacobsondlPosted on April 6, 2021 April 5, 2021 Categories Early Childhood Policy, Family Childcare, WorkforceLeave a comment on In Her Words–Child Care in Crisis: Can Biden's Plan Save It?


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Vilhelm Hammershoi
Danish Painter, 1864-1916, was a painter born in Copenhagen, Denmark known for his poetic, low-key portraits and interiors.The son of a well-to-do merchant, Christian Hammershoi and his wife, Frederikke (nee Rentzmann), Vilhelm studied drawing from the age of eight with Neils Christian Kierkegaard and Holger Gronvold, as well as painting with Vilhelm Kyhn, before embarking on studies with Frederik Vermehren and others at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. From 1883 to 1885, he studied with Peder Severin Kroyer. Related Paintings of Vilhelm Hammershoi :. | Interior with Woman Reading a Letter,Strandgade 30,1899 | Bnder vender hjem fra marken med det sidste las korn | Double Portrait of the Artist and his Wife | Interior with the Artists Easel | interior |
Pieter de Kempener
Pedro Campana (1503-1586) was a Flemish painter of the Renaissance period, mainly active in Italy and Spain. His actual name was Pieter de Kempeneer, translated into French as Champaigne, and was also known as Peter Van de Velde. Born in Brussels, he trained there with Bernard Van Orley. His early life appears to have been spent in Italy, where he carefully studied the paintings of Raphael, and declared himself as his pupil. In 1530 he was at work at some scene-painting, representing a triumphal arch to be erected on the occasion of the coronation of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor in Bologna, and he then left for Spain, on the advice, it is said, of Cardinal Domenico Grimani, and spent the rest of his life in that country, only returning to Brussels about 1563 or 1565. Between 1537 and 1562 he was associated with Luis de Vargas and the Italian sculptor Torregiano in establishing a school of painting in Seville, which eventually became the academy of the place; amongst the pupils educated in it was Morales. He painted for the monastery of St. Mary of Grace, Church of Santa Cruz, in the city, an altar-piece representing the Descent from the Cross (1548), which is now in the cathedral, having been removed there when the church fell into ruins. There are other works by the same painter in Seville Cathedral, especially two representing the Purification of the Virgin and the Resurrection; and the various churches of the city, S. Isidoro, S. Pedro, S. Catalina, and S. Juan, all possess paintings by this artist. One of his last works was the restoration and repainting of a chapel belonging to Hernando de Jaen, an important resident of Seville. Murillo requested that he be buried near Campana's picture, and his burial took place in the Church of Santa Cruz, close underneath the Descent from the Cross, but the whole building was burned to the ground during the Napoleonic Wars, and the tomb perished.
Walter Richard Sickert
British Camden Town Group Painter, 1860-1942 British painter, printmaker, teacher and writer of German birth. Sickert was one of the most influential British artists of this century. He is often called a painter painter, appealing primarily to artists working in the figurative tradition; there are few British figurative painters of the 20th century whose development can be adequately discussed without reference to Sickert subject-matter or innovative techniques. He had a direct influence on the Camden Town Group and the Euston Road School, while his effect on Frank Auerbach, Howard Hodgkin and Francis Bacon was less tangible. Sickert active career as an artist lasted for nearly 60 years. His output was vast. He may be judged equally as the last of the Victorian painters and as a major precursor of significant international developments in later 20th-century art, especially in his photo-based paintings.
ambrogio spinola
Ambrogio Spinola var italienare, fodd i Genua 1569 han utvecklades snabbt till en av tidens framsta legoknektsanforare eller kondottiarer