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Marine who crawled across Boston Marathon finish line for fallen comrades invited to run NYC Marathon
The U.S. Marine who crawled across the Boston Marathon finish line in honor of his fallen comrades has been invited to run the New York City Marathon despite not qualifying for the race, according to a report.
Micah Herndon, 31, ran the race in 3 hours and 38 minutes on Monday. With around 4 miles left in the race, his legs began to give out, and with around 100 yards left, his military training kicked in.
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Herndon got to his hands and knees and crawled on the pavement to finish the race. He told The Associated Press it "was the longest 4.2 miles I've ever run in my life."
"It was kind of second nature," he said. "They instill 'adapt and overcome.' Any situation you're in, that's what you do."
Herndon told ABC News' Good Morning America that he was trying to qualify for the New York City Marathon, which is scheduled for November. But when he realized he couldn't get his goal pace down, he "just had one mission in mind and that was to finish by myself."
Micah Herndon crawls to the finish line in the 123rd Boston Marathon on Monday in Boston.
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But despite his race scores, the news outlet reported the marathon operation invited Herndon to join the race anyway.
"I appreciate that. That's good stuff right there," Herndon said. "Whoever set that up, thank you."
The Marine ran the marathon on Monday in honor of Marines Mark Juarez and Matthew Ballard, and British journalist Rupert Hamer, who were killed in Afghanistan by an IED in 2010. During the Boston Marathon, he ran with their names on his hands, his shoes and race bib. They were his inspiration, he said.
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Herndon repeats their names when he's training or competing in a race, even though he gets strange looks from other runners.
The 31-year-old said "it's hard to reintegrate into society and be a civilian" after serving overseas, but encouraged other veterans to "find whatever your release is." He says his "happens to be running."
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Welcome to the weekend! I'm sure we can all agree that the only thing better than a three day weekend is the four day work week that follows. I was doing some online shopping this week to help Cait launch our first edition of Friday Five on Instagram Stories. In all my perusing of new arrivals, I found myself getting more and more excited for spring — bright colors and sun dresses are some of my favorite things (plus a jacket here in San Francisco, of course). It's our last weekend in February, and I'm so ready for the change of seasons. What's in store for you as we wrap up winter?


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Beauden Barrett tormented wounded Australia yet again as ruthless New Zealand completed a Bledisloe Cup whitewash with a 37-20 victory in Yokohama on Saturday.
New Zealand got a grip on the contest and hit the front in clinical fashion, Squire taking an inviting pass from Sonny Bill Williams – playing his 50th Test – to burst through and dot down, with Barrett adding the extras.
The powerful Naivalu ploughed through the All Blacks fly-half in the left corner to mark his recall with a score and Bernard Foley reduced the deficit to 17-10 with an excellent conversion.


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The NFL Should Take the Temperature of Every Team's Front Office Culture
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The NFL is again facing a P.R. crisis as one of their premier franchises has been exposed for having a toxic work environment. On Thursday the Washington Post published a story where 15 former Washington football team employees alleged they were victims of sexual harassment. Owner Daniel Snyder, in a statement, distanced himself from the accusations and said that he was "committed to creating a new culture and standard for our team that began with the hiring of Coach Rivera."
Dan Snyder releases statement after Washington Post report details sexual harassment allegations from 15 women pic.twitter.com/5Jauy6WhHp
— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) July 17, 2020
One might wonder why he wanted to create a new culture months before this report came out if he was clueless, but that's for an NFL investigation to determine. Or at least it should be. The NFL is apparently going to defer to a lawyer hired by Snyder for the investigation. As many have pointed out, the league has not allowed other franchises to hire the people investigating themselves. The NFL should probably go with an independent investigator in Washington, but why stop there?
The league should look into the corporate culture of every single team. What's the worst that could happen?
We know for a fact that this was not just a problem in Washington. Former Carolina Panthers owner Jerry Richardson was forced to sell the team after it was reported that at least four former employees had received significant monetary settlements following inappropriate workplace behavior. That makes two. Could it be possible there is a third? A fourth? How many years did it take to find out what was happening in those two front offices? Why should the NFL sit around and wait while someone else might be victimized?
Or maybe Roger Goodell can stand in front of reporters (via video conference call from his basement) on the eve of the 2020 season and say that they found 32 franchises who are working hard to maintain a safe space for all league employees. He could prove the NFL is taking all allegations seriously. If there's nothing going on, there's no harm in asking.
If other clubs have nothing to hide, that is even better, but if the NFL gets involved and there is something else going on with another team, they can get ahead of it. If the NFL makes a serious commitment to eliminating toxic work environments from its franchises, people should feel empowered to come forward.
Like so many organizations right now, in this current climate, the NFL has a real chance to look at how they are doing things and make necessary changes that will be positive in the long run. So far, by letting Snyder slide, it doesn't look like the league will do that. Maybe next time.

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Can You Solve These Mysteries?Amateur sleuths and Internet detectives: Now's your chance to prove your skills. Solve these real unsolved cases, then alert the police so they can put these babies to bed.
Something Wrong with Aunt Diane
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The West Mesa Bone Collector
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Billionaires Strung Up by the Pool
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Creepy And Disturbing Mysteries That Sent Shivers Down Our Spines
Lauren Glen
Updated January 9, 2023 10.5k votes 2.4k voters 110.2k views
Vote up all the mysteries that make your spine tingle.
Crime-related dramas on TV and in film often make even the most mysterious cases seem relatively easy to solve. After a few scenes depicting frustration and bewilderment, the expert CSI agent or forensic scientist suddenly makes a case-breaking discovery by analyzing a piece of hair, pulling together cellphone data, or having a witness crack under pressure. Often, the heroes of these stories overcome another corrupt entity within their division to ensure that justice is served as they save the day.
While these dramas make for excellent and entertaining stories, they're often a far cry from reality. What happens when a killer leaves behind all his clothes at a crime scene, full of DNA, and experts still can't identify the perpetrator? Or when crooked law enforcement agents don't have anyone there to expose their evidence-meddling tactics? Or when a serial killer strikes a city, and no one finds out about it for years?
Unlike the popular mystery-solving dramas in the entertainment industry, these true crime stories are a collection of eerie mysteries that remain unsolved - despite the evidence and clues the murderers left behind.
Photo: Kris Fricke / Flickr / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
When A Search Party Went Out To Find Their Missing Coworker, They Found A House Of Horror Instead
In 2014, an Okada (motorcycle taxi) operator named Kazeem from Ibadan, Nigeria, sent distressed text messages to his friends and coworkers that he was being held captive in a remote forest. He begged for help, alerting loved ones that he had been lured to the site by two customers who asked him for a ride. Once he arrived, he was kidnapped.
When a search party assembled near the forest to find Kazeem, they found an abandoned building filled with rotting bodies, skeletons, and detached bones. A group of heavily malnourished people were shackled in leg irons in the building, and more were outside in the surrounding bush. The scene, which spanned more than 15 kilometers, was strewn with human remains and rotting parts. Kazeem wasn't among those whom law enforcement rescued.
Upon further investigation, authorities and local citizens found that the site, littered with abandoned buildings, had previously been used for construction work. Once it was abandoned, criminals adopted the space to run a business selling body parts for black magic rituals. Victims were raped, tortured, and slaughtered at the site, leaving passports, shoes, clothes, travel bags, and driver's licenses behind.
Although unaware of the full spectrum of atrocities happening close to their homes, residents near the forest knew the area was dangerous, especially at night. Multiple concerned citizens had placed calls to the police, but authorities never acted on the tips. Many people believed that victims still remained in the "house of horror" and rioted in an attempt to compel officers to continue searching for survivors.
Photo: Michael Coghlan / Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0
Two Different Paperboys Were Abducted In A Seemingly Quiet Iowa Town
Young John David Gosch left his West Des Moines home early in the morning on Sept. 5, 1982, to deliver newspapers throughout the neighborhood. He picked up the papers, placed them in his wagon, and then vanished. Multiple witnesses testified they saw Gosch retrieving the papers for delivery. When neighbors began calling his parents, expressing concern that they hadn't received their papers, John and Noreen Gosch went out looking for their son. They found his paper-filled wagon two blocks from their home, but their son was nowhere in sight.
One witness claimed he saw the 12-year-old talking to a man in a blue car close to the paper drop. Another mentioned Gosch told him the man had asked for directions and was following him along his route. The following year, a woman in Tulsa, OK, claimed she had spotted Gosch being chased by two men who dragged him away. She eerily recalled that the boy had yelled: "Please, lady, help me! My name is John David Gosch."
When another local paperboy, Eugene Martin, was abducted the following year, the Anderson Erikson Dairy company began printing photos of the kidnapped children on their milk cartons. By 1985, the milk carton project became a nationwide movement. Children in schools across the US stared at the faces of Martin, Gosch, and other missing children who were mysteriously kidnapped and never seen again.
In 1997, Noreen reported a 2:30 am visit from her son, now a 27-year-old man. From their conversation, she deduced he'd been part of pedophile ring, escaped, and then changed his identity because he was scared to come home.
Photo: Daniel Case / Wikipedia / Fair Use
Asha Degree, Age 9, Packed Her Backpack, Walked Out Of Her House On A Rainy Night, And Vanished
On a rainy night in Shelby, NC, a nearby car accident caused a power outage. Harold Degree peeked in the bedroom shared by his two children, Asha and O'Bryant, around 2 am. They were both asleep, so he went back to the bedroom he shared with his wife, Iquilla.
When Iquilla went to wake the children for school the next morning, Asha was missing. O'Bryant, 10, told his parents he heard his 9-year-old sister's bed squeak in the middle of the night, but he assumed she was just shifting in her sleep. It was Valentine's Day, February 14, 2000.
After police arrived on the scene, they found no signs of forced entry. A canine unit surveyed the surrounding area with no luck, but leads were trickling in. Two witnesses called the Shelby police station asserting that they had seen Asha walking near Highway 18 around 4 am. When one of the witnesses approached the girl, she ran into the woods and was never seen again.
Investigators found Asha's hairbow in a shed the next day, subsequently spending seven days and 9,000 hours searching for any clues the missing girl may have left behind in the 2-by-3-mile area. They received numerous tips, but none led them any closer to learning of Asha's whereabouts. North Carolina's state investigation department partnered with the FBI to hunt for the girl, and Montel Williams and Oprah Winfrey even shared her story on national TV. But it took another year and a half before another clue was found.
On Aug. 3, 2001, construction workers at a site 30 miles from Asha's home found her missing backpack. Inside was a New Kids On The Block shirt and a school library book, McElligot's Pool by Dr. Seuss. Unfortunately, the discovery did nothing to further progress in the case. A few prison inmates claimed they knew who murdered the girl and where she was buried, and tips continued to come in slowly. Unfortunately, they all led to dead ends. As of June 17, 2021, Asha was still missing, and no one knows why she left her home in the middle of a rainstorm, or what became of her after.
Photo: Brian Auer / Flickr / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Timmothy Pitzen Disappeared After His Mother Took Him Out Of School To Go On Vacation, Then Committed Suicide
On May 11, 2011, Timmothy Pitzen's mother surprised her son by taking him out of school for a three-day vacation around their home in Aurora, IL. The duo visited Brookfield Zoo in a Chicago suburb, the Key Lime Cove Resort in Gurnee, and the Kalahari Resort across the state line in Wisconsin. It was the last time they were seen together alive.
Law enforcement found Amy Fry-Pitzen's body in a motel room on May 14. Reports say she took her own life, leaving behind a note indicating her son was safe. However, the 6-year-old boy was never found. When the police found Fry-Pitzen's vehicle in a parking lot, there was an unsettling amount of blood in the backseat. DNA testing proved it was Timmothy's, but family members told investigators the boy had suffered from a severe nosebleed the previous year. Additionally, the knife Fry-Pitzen used to take her life had only her own blood on the blade.
Based on her cellphone records and video footage, the last time the pair saw one another was approximately 5 miles northwest of Sterling, IL, where Fry-Pitzen made her last phone call. Her phone and Timmothy's backpack and toys remained missing for years. In 2019, a teenager came forward, claiming to be the missing child. However, DNA testing proved otherwise; he was actually 23-year-old Brian Rini, a person with mental health issues. He was sentenced to two years in prison. Whether Timmothy met a tragic fate or is hidden somewhere, alive and well, is unknown.
Photo: Plumas County Police Department / Wikimedia Commons / Public domain
A Family Was Murdered In Their Home While Three Children In The Adjoining Room Slept Through The Massacre
After divorcing her husband, Sue Sharp and her five children moved from Connecticut to Keddie, CA, to make a new start. Sue, her 15-year-old son John, 14-year-old daughter Sheila, 12-year-old daughter Tina, and 10- and 5-year-old sons Rick and Greg got along well with the neighbors, quickly making friends in their new hometown. However, their sense of belonging came to a violent and tragic halt in the early morning of April 12, 1981. Sheila returned home from the neighbor's house that morning and was met with a horrific scene.
Her mother, her brother John, and his friend Dana Wingate had been brutally murdered while she was away. Meanwhile, Rick and Greg and a visiting friend were asleep in the adjoining bedroom. The children had apparently slept through the deadly attack, and 12-year-old Tina was missing. After opening the front door and witnessing the grotesque scene, Sheila immediately ran back to her neighbors to call the police.
The three victims, bound by medical and electrical tape, had been bludgeoned, stabbed, and strangled. First responders reported blood all over the crime scene: on the walls, the bottoms of the victims' feet, the ceilings, the floors, the bedding in Tina's room, the furniture, and the back steps. The scene was so grotesque that investigators didn't even realize Tina was missing until hours later.
Authorities never caught the murderers, and it took three years to find Tina's body. The FBI and local police made numerous mistakes throughout the investigation, leading the community to speculate that the investigators were somehow involved in or covering up for the murderers. Although investigators never pinpointed a motive, they speculated Sue was having an affair with her neighbor. As soon as the local sheriff realized his friends were the main suspects in the case, he advised them to leave town. The neighbor's wife even went to the police with a letter that her husband wrote, confessing to the crimes.
Despite the incriminating evidence, no one followed up on the lead. When investigators reopened the case in 2013, they found evidence that the neighbors and the authorities who questioned them might have been involved in a drug-smuggling ring. They also found a weathered hammer and knife that might have been used as murder weapons. However, no one has ever been charged for the massacre.
Photo: 珈琲牛乳 / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY 3.0
An Assassin Murdered An Entire Family, Then Spent Hours In The House Eating Ice Cream And Relaxing
While the rest of the world prepared to ring in 2001, the Miyazawa family lay dead in their Setagaya, Tokyo, home. On December 30, 2000, Mikio, his wife Yasuko, and their 8-year-old daughter Niina, were stabbed to death, while their 6-year-old son Rei was strangled. When detectives arrived at the scene the following day, they found fingerprint evidence suggesting the killer spent several hours in the home after he murdered the Miyazawa family, eating ice cream, drinking tea, taking a nap on the living room couch, and playing on the family computer.
The unknown suspect left a surprising amount of evidence behind, including his clothes and the murder weapon. Investigators initially believed they would identify and catch the murderer quickly. Now, more than 20 years later, detectives still have no answers.
However, law enforcement's inability to determine a suspect isn't due to a lack of effort or necessary skills. Around 280,000 officers have worked on the case, scrubbing the killer's clothing, accessories, and weapons for DNA and clues. Even the killer's bowel movements, which he left unflushed in the family's toilet, were tested so authorities could learn about the suspect's last meal before the attack.
After tracing where the killer purchased his clothes and knife, scientists analyzed bird droppings found on the murderer's sweater. Detectives also analyzed the killer's DNA to learn his ethnicity and ancestral origins. Still, every clue so far has led to a dead end.


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Royal NIOZ Acquires Three New Teledyne Webb Slocum Gliders
Ocean News 24 January 2023
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Teledyne Marine announces selling and delivering three Webb Slocum gliders to the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ). NIOZ conducts multidisciplinary applied marine research to address major scientific questions about our oceans and seas.
After completing a competitive tender procedure, NIOZ acquired three Teledyne Webb Research G3 Slocum gliders. NIOZ Scientists, engineers, and ship technicians recently underwent operational and maintenance training on the systems with field support staff from Teledyne Webb Research and the UK's National Oceanographic Center (NOC), which are Teledyne's European Slocum Service Center. This training was conducted in Spain at SOCIB facilities in preparation for the glider science project to be undertaken initially by the RV Pelagia in the North Sea in the spring of 2023.
On deck with Slocum Webb Gliders after successful sea trials.
The Nose project will study the absorption of CO2 in the North Sea. Slocum gliders were acquired with a grant from the NWO Large-scale Scientific Infrastructure (NWO-GWI), awarded in 2020 to a broad nationwide marine research consortium of universities, institutes, and TO2 institutions.
"After tendering, we opted for cooperation with Teledyne Webb Research in the United States of America. For us, the G3 Slocum Glider proved to be a flexible platform with long endurance and an acoustic data transfer capability." Marck Smit, NIOZ Sea Research
Deploying a Teledyne Webb Research Slocum Glider
NWO-NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research is the national oceanographic institute. It principally performs academically excellent multidisciplinary fundamental and frontier applied marine research addressing important scientific and societal questions pertinent to the functioning of oceans and seas. NIOZ serves as a national marine research facilitator (NMF) for The Netherlands scientific community and stimulates and supports multidisciplinary fundamental and frontier applied marine research, education, and marine policy development in the national and international context.


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Coatings can be a bit overwhelming. Here are some things to consider when choosing whether or not to have your tools coated and which type of coatings to choose.
When coating tools, Super Tool uses the Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) process because it allows for more aggressive machining while maintaining the strength and hardness of the steel bodies. The PVD process is a vacuum process that shoots charged particles at the tool causing an atomic reaction. A beam of electrons is shot at the tool causing them to bond with atoms on the surface. This creates a hardened coat around the coated area of the tool giving it great strength and durability. PVD coating can also create smoother and sharper cutting edges, which helps to reduce edge build up and can improve the finish cut of the tool.
There are many coatings to choose from. We offer the four main types: Titanium Nitride (TiN), Titanium Carbonitride (TiCN), Zirconium Nitride (ZrN), and Aluminum Titanium Nitride AlTiN. The following chart can help you determine which coating to use for the operation your tool is performing.
Thermal Insulation – the build up of heat as the tool is cutting is one of the main reasons tools can break down. Coatings create an insulation barrier to help reduce the amount of heat that is generated during operation by pushing the heat back to the chip. Insulation can also allow the user to increase the feeds and speeds at which the tool is run.
Mechanical Strength – Under normal operation, the roughness of the tools cutting edge and the abrasion from the chips cause the cutting edge to dull. With coating, friction is reduced and hardness of the tool is increased which causes the chips to flow easier and reduces tool wear.
Chemical Resistance – Tools experience all sorts of chemically reactive forces during operations (i.e. heat, coolant, and the material of the workpiece itself). Coatings help to prevent the degradation of the tool (loss of tool life) by helping to repel these forces and improve cutting quality.
These are just a few reasons to consider coating your tools. Remember, having a coating put on your tools will increase the price and may lengthen the delivery time if it is not a stocked item, however, the extended life of the tools and better finish of the tools can be worth the wait.
Applying a coating to a tool allows the user to substantially increase speeds and feeds while minimizing tool wear. Selecting the correct coating and its attributes can mean the difference between a successful operation and one that shows little to no difference.
Very nice chart. Thank you.
Why Milling is mostly done dry?
Can using a coolant improve tool life of Milling inserts (both PCD & Carbide) ?
Dry machining is frequently used in milling applications when using high performance cutting tools such as carbide. While liquid coolant offers advantages including temperature cooling, lubrication, and chip clearing improperly applied liquid coolant can do more damage than good.
It is difficult to genuinely flood carbide milling cutters whether it is an end mill, slitting saw, face mill, etc… With the high rpm rates used the teeth are continuously subjected to wet then dry then wet again which results in uneven cooling of the tool. Carbide is highly susceptible to micro-cracking due to the thermal shock of this uneven heating and cooling.
Once the micro cracking begins, the tool fails. Therefore, dry machining is typically used in milling applications.
When dry milling keep in mind that heat buildup can generate additional problems. Often instead of liquid coolant, the machinist will switch to compressed air as a coolant in these applications.
When it is possible to truly flood the tool with liquid coolant there can be significant improvements in tool life and stock removal rates.
thank you for the information on the use of lubricants for milling . it was very informative.


I was born in Madras, India, and I have lived in Dubai, Banff, Toronto, Oxford, and Benares; I like to think of myself as a bit of a nomad, most at home on the move, in meadows and on mountains, at the meeting places of misfits. I've studied psychology, religion, social work, and international development, and for the past few years I've been trying to find ways of balancing my interests in social justice and literature through my writing and activism. In 2011, I was a finalist for the Guardian's International Development Journalism Competition, for which I spent a week researching a story in Manila. More recently, an essay I wrote on religion, freedom, and economic development was awarded the Ngo Human Welfare Prize by Green Templeton College at the University of Oxford.
I'm sharing two excerpts from my novel, Nostaglia for the Future, which follows the life of Christina Fleischer during her teenage and student years in Toronto between the late 80s and early 2000s. Through its depiction of Christina's search for meaning and a moral anchor, the novel explores what it means to be a young Canadian in a world where old certainties and truths are increasingly liable to question. Christina must learn to navigate the complex interplay of politics, religion, and morality in order to come to a realization of the possibilities inherent in the experiment of hope that modern multicultural Canada represents, even as she faces the dangers and misunderstandings that arise from the cultural conflicts she encounters.
Christina, a teenager of German-Canadian descent, befriends Fatima Al Akbar as they start high school together in downtown Toronto. The only child of a misanthropic academic and idealistic artist, with a tendency to escape the world around her by turning to books, Christina is drawn to Fatima, an orthodox Muslim of Palestinian-Egyptian heritage with a similarly literary bent, as they recognize that they both feel like outsiders, albeit in very different ways. Christina becomes a frequent visitor in Fatima's home, where she is welcomed with warmth and generosity into the Al Akbar household by Umm, the matriarch and helm of the family, whose kitchen and songs become the anchor of their childhood. Not long after she gets to know the family, Fatima's older brother Sharif, and later her younger brother Karim, are sent off to Afghanistan to join their father in the fight against the Communists, and as Fatima approaches her final year in high school, she and her mother join the rest of the family in Afghanistan. In the years that follow, Christina progresses through her studies in university, increasingly bewildered by the news emanating from the Middle East, tensions in her own family life begin to increase with the death of the other source of a spiritual anchor for Christina, her grandfather, a scientist who had moved from Germany to Canada after the Second World War. The letter he leaves for Christina at his death throws her into turmoil as she tries to reconcile the gentle old man she knew with what she reads in his last words to her. Christina's liberal, questioning parents give her little certainty to hold on to in her quest for a moral centre, and her struggles come to a head in 2002, when Umm, Fatima, and Fatima's youngest brother Saif, return to Canada to seek medical care for Saif, now grievously wounded in battle.
The first piece is from the beginning of the novel, just after Christina has got to know Fatima; the second is set ten years later, some years after Fatima and her family have left for Afghanistan.
I've always read a lot and over the years became increasingly fascinated with the ways in which literature could have an impact on people's lives and provide alternate ways of envisaging solutions to political and socio-economic problems through the creation of empathy. I was initially drawn to writing because of an urge to tell stories in a way that might help people enter into lives that are not their own and see something of themselves in others. The silence and solitude of a writer's existence have also always attracted me, and over the years, writing has become a means of processing life and approaching stillness. Having studied social work and international development, I decided to return to creative writing as a more empathetic way of approaching the same goals of thinking about the larger moral issues of modern life.
I've often returned to the works of John Steinbeck, Seamus Heaney and Halldór Laxness for their largesse of vision and the respect and sympathy with which they depicted the lives of the poor and disenfranchised. It was in reading them that I first sensed the transformative power of narrative and verse. Marilynne Robinson's Gilead has also been a very special book for me because of the meditative nature of its prose and the fearlessness with which it approaches the immortal.
Canadian authors have also been influential in the development of my literary consciousness. In particular, I have admired the works of Gwendolyn MacEwen, Margaret Laurence, Mordecai Richler, Alistair MacLeod, Tomson Highway, Joy Kogawa, and Elizabeth Hay for their capacity to hold a mirror to the Canadian psyche and create a new mythology for Canada.
I want to be a writer who can't be put into a box. I hope my writing will address the perennial questions of human existence, across many genres, including fiction and non-fiction.
I like to write in the mornings when I am bleary-eyed and still in my pajamas, before the distractions of the world have a chance to intrude. When I am lucky I also retreat to cottage country and write staring off at a lake.


I'm loving the whitest of white walls in this location house in London. I'm kinda smitten by the touches of black too. My inspiration files are groaning with images just like these. (OK and a lot of deepest darekest black too.) Good news on my new old house front is that the painters start next week. We'll be painted in time for Christmas…. I hope. Means I have to stop unpacking until each room is done 🙂 You can see what a state my messy office is in on my page. Think of it as a before. Meanwhile this fab home is from the 1st-Option location stable. Delish isn't it?
love the dining chairs and the black sleek tile in the kitchen!
Be still my heart–those chairs! also loving that black phone.
Wow great space. The reason I love white walls and floors because the pieces stand out and make them almost like they are floating. That mirrored tub is awesome.
I'm in love with those dining chairs! Beautiful!
The chairs around the dining table are so lovely! And i'm not really a fan of antlers on walls, but I have to say it has been done very tastefully in the first picture!
Where are those blue and white mosaic chairs from?
A lovely house if only they would lose the antlers and the dead animal on the floor. Will these two trends NEVER END?
Like everyone, I cannot get over those chairs. I keep pulling up the page to stare at them. it's unhealthy at this point.
The images are beautiful indeed and while I can't quite get my head around modern hunting trophies both the cow hide and sheep skin are bi-products of the meat industry. Our ancestors used every part of the animal – surely not to do the same would be wasteful? It's not a trend. People have always looked to the natural world to provide beauty, warm and texture for their homes and will continue to do so for many years to come.


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Q: Cannot uninstall Magento data migration tool (component type not set) First question here, so let me know if I am doing something wrong.
I have a Magento 2.1.4 installation and I am trying to uninstall magento/data-migration-tool by going into Setup --> Component Manager. Every attempt fails. Console log gives the following details.

[2017-04-26 01:05:02 CDT] Job "maintenance_mode {"enable":true}" has been started

[2017-04-26 01:05:02 CDT] Magento maintenance mode is enabled.

[2017-04-26 01:05:02 CDT] Job "maintenance_mode {"enable":true}" has successfully completed

[2017-04-26 06:24:02 UTC] Job "setup:cache:disable []" has started
Changed cache status:
config: 1 -> 0
layout: 1 -> 0
block_html: 1 -> 0
collections: 1 -> 0
reflection: 1 -> 0
db_ddl: 1 -> 0
eav: 1 -> 0
customer_notification: 1 -> 0
full_page: 1 -> 0
config_integration: 1 -> 0
config_integration_api: 1 -> 0
translate: 1 -> 0
config_webservice: 1 -> 0

[2017-04-26 06:24:02 UTC] Job "setup:cache:disable []" has been successfully completed

[2017-04-26 06:24:02 UTC] Job "setup:component:uninstall {"components":[{"name":"magento/data-migration-tool"}],"dataOption":false}" has started

[2017-04-26 06:24:02 UTC] An error occurred while executing job "setup:component:uninstall {"components":[{"name":"magento/data-migration-tool"}],"dataOption":false}": Component type not set

[2017-04-26 06:24:02 UTC] Job "setup:cache:enable ["config layout block_html collections reflection db_ddl eav customer_notification full_page config_integration config_integration_api translate config_webservice"]" has started
Changed cache status:
config: 0 -> 1
layout: 0 -> 1
block_html: 0 -> 1
collections: 0 -> 1
reflection: 0 -> 1
db_ddl: 0 -> 1
eav: 0 -> 1
customer_notification: 0 -> 1
full_page: 0 -> 1
config_integration: 0 -> 1
config_integration_api: 0 -> 1
translate: 0 -> 1
config_webservice: 0 -> 1
Cleaned cache types:
config
layout
block_html
collections
reflection
db_ddl
eav
customer_notification
full_page
config_integration
config_integration_api
translate
config_webservice

[2017-04-26 06:24:03 UTC] Job "setup:cache:enable ["config layout block_html collections reflection db_ddl eav customer_notification full_page config_integration config_integration_api translate config_webservice"]" has been successfully completed

A: You can uninstall a module through composer if it was installed using composer. If yes then use this command:
php bin/magento module:uninstall -r <Vendor>_<Module>

-r flag removes module data. then issue:
php bin/magento setup:upgrade

If module was not installed through composer:

*

*remove the module directory app/code//

*drop module database tables (if it created any)

*remove entry from core_config_data and setup_module tables
Run command
php bin/magento setup:upgrade

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Conservatives Push for Counter-Terror Divestment
2007 2 Jan
(CNSNews.com) - The United Nations Security Council has voted to impose sanctions on Iranian nuclear and missile programs, but some American conservatives argue that U.S. state governments can have a greater impact on Tehran's nuclear activities by pulling money out of companies that do business with the terror-sponsoring nation.
"Security Council sanctions on Iran are virtually useless, they're so watered down," Christopher Holton told Cybercast News Service on Friday.
"Iran's revenue stream from various economic activities, especially oil and gas, enables it to have those programs and there's been nothing done to put any pressure on Iran to ... in terms of economic sanctions, which is really what needs to be done."
Holton is the Director of DivestTerror.org, a project of the conservative Center for Security Policy that urges U.S. public pension systems to divest from companies that do business in terrorist-sponsoring nations.
"What the effect of the Divest Terror initiative would be would be far more comprehensive than anything that the U.N. Security Council came up with," Holton said.
Holton said many pensioners do not realize that their money is invested in companies that do business in nations recognized by the U.S. State Department as state sponsors of terror.
"U.S. investors in general are heavily invested in foreign companies that do business with our enemies," he said. "Iran is the world's foremost sponsor of jihadist terrorism."
According to a 2004 Divest Terror report, the top 100 public pension systems in the United States invest more than $188 billion in countries listed as state sponsors of terrorism.
The average top pension systems invests in 73 companies doing business in Iran, 26 companies doing business in Sudan, 31 doing business in Syria, nine doing business in North Korea, and 24 doing business in Libya, which was removed the state sponsors of terror list in May 2006.
Divest Terror says public pension systems should require companies that operate in terror-sponsoring nations to make a choice "between doing business with the American people and capital markets on the one hand or, alternatively, doing business with terrorists' friends and this country's enemies."
Among the 12 companies that do the most business in terrorist-sponsoring countries - dubbed "the dirty dozen" by DivestTerror.org - are German telecommunications giant Siemens AG and South Korean automaker Hyundai.
All 50 states and the District of Columbia are listed on the report has having pension systems invested in companies that do business with terror-sponsoring nations. But since the report's release in 2004, at least a few states have taken steps to divest.
Efforts to Divest
In 2005, Missouri Treasurer Sarah Steelman began efforts to divest that state's money from companies doing business with terror-sponsoring nations, including the New York Branch of Arab Bank, which in August was fined $24 million by the U.S. Treasury after an investigation into money laundering and financial support of terrorist groups.
In July 2005, Steelman successfully changed Missouri investment policy to prohibit investments in such companies.
The policy now says that the state "seeks to promote and support the objectives of U.S. foreign policy regarding terrorism. Accordingly, investments in companies ... that are known to sponsor terrorism or aid the government in countries that are known to sponsor terrorism are prohibited."
In July 2005, the Swiss America Trading Corporation launched "Operation Divest Terror," a program that allows investors to check their holdings against a list of companies known to do business with terrorists or state sponsors of terrorism.
The corporation checks clients' investments against a list of companies connected to terrorism provided by the Conflict Securities Advisory Group, which says there are "about 400 U.S. and foreign publicly traded companies that have business activities in or with terrorist-sponsoring states."
Investment in terrorism-sponsored companies or governments was even an issue in the 2006 midterm election campaign. In his unsuccessful bid to keep his Senate seat, Pennsylvania Republican Rick Santorum accused his Democratic challenger, then-State Treasurer Bob Casey, of allowing Pennsylvania pension funds to invest in companies linked to terrorism.
Santorum accused Casey of "aiding and abetting terrorism and genocide," a charge Casey said reflected "a really desperate campaign."
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From comedy to drama, award-nominated young actor Jet Jurgensmeyer has brought dynamic characters to life in film and television, quickly solidifying him as "one to watch" in the entertainment industry. With multiple exciting projects slated for release this year, Jet is not slowing down anytime soon.
First, he can be seen starring opposite Valerie Azlynn and Jackée Harry in the indie feature film "Cupid's Proxy" (Simba Entertainment) set to premiere on VOD nationwide September 12, 2017. Next, Jet can be seen starring as fan-favorite Stinky Peterson in the film reprise of the popular 90s/00s television series, "Hey Arnold! The Jungle Movie," premiering November 23, 2017. The two-part TV film will serve as the definitive finale of the series, answering all unanswered questions, including the whereabouts of Arnold's missing parents. Following that release, Jet will appear in the 20th Century Fox film, "Ferdinand," releasing in theaters nationwide on December 15, 2017. The film follows Ferdinand (played by John Cena), a bull with a big heart, who is mistaken for a dangerous beast and is captured and taken from his home. Determined to return to his family, he rallies a misfit team on the ultimate adventure. Jet will voice the role of Young Guapo, the counterpart to the adult character, played by former NFL Superbowl Champion and MVP, Peyton Manning.
Additional recent film credits for Jet include starring in Nickelodeon's "Legends of the Hidden Temple," Disney's "Adventures in Babysitting," appearing in the Oscar-nominated, Clint Eastwood film "American Sniper," Universal's "The Little Rascals Save the Day" as Spanky, PureFlix Cinema's "Woodlawn," and Freestyle Digital Media's "Redemption Road." On the television front, Jet boasts an extensive list of credits including "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" [CBS], "Hot in Cleveland" [TV Land], "Marry Me" [NBC], "Grey's Anatomy" [ABC], "Austin & Ally" [The Disney Channel] and "Black-ish" [ABC]. He has also lent his voice to several animated projects over the years, including series regular roles for both Nickelodeon's "Shimmer and Shine" and "Bubble Guppies," as well as Amazon's Emmy-Nominated "Stinky & Dirt." He has also been featured in several episodes of Disney's "Special Agent Oso" and "Pickle and Peanut." Jet has garnered six nominations from the Young Artists Awards, the most recent being in 2016 for Best Performance in a Feature Film – Supporting Young Actor (13 and Under) for his work in "Woodlawn" and Best Performance in a Voice-Over Role – Young Actor (11 and Under) for his work in "Bubble Guppies."
Born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, Jet has been entertaining audiences since he could walk. His parents owned a restaurant that hosted live music and dinner shows, and some of his first steps were across their stage with a microphone in hand. He and his family currently split their time between Tennessee, Missouri, and California. When not acting, he loves to hang out on his family's farm, ride horses, go fishing and spend time outdoors. He is also active in sports, playing soccer, basketball, and golf, as well as perfecting his skills in Kenpo Karate, where he holds a purple belt. He also spends a lot of time playing his guitar and writing and recording music. You can check out some of his most popular covers on his YouTube channel.
On the charity front, Jet has become an avid supporter of The Ryan Seacrest Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to inspiring today's youth through entertainment and education focused initiatives. One of RSF's first initiatives was to build broadcast media centers, named Seacrest Studios, within pediatric hospitals for patients to explore the creative realms of radio, television and new media. Jet consistently visits these studios across the country, and has raised over $15,000 towards building more of them.
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The offseason is inevitably a period of projection and speculation, which makes it the ideal time to ponder the hypotheticals that the Pittsburgh Steelers will face over the course of the next year, whether it is addressing free agency, the draft, performance on the field, or some more ephemeral topic.
That is what I will look to address in our Buy or Sell series. In each installment, I will introduce a topic statement and weigh some of the arguments for either buying it (meaning that you agree with it or expect it to be true) or selling it (meaning you disagree with it or expect it to be false).
The range of topics will be intentionally wide, from the general to the specific, from the immediate to that in the far future. And as we all tend to have an opinion on just about everything, I invite you to share your own each morning on the topic statement of the day.
Topic Statement: The Steelers will once again send (at least) three offensive line to the Pro Bowl in 2019.
Explanation: Pittsburgh is, I believe, the only team in the league to have had three offensive linemen go to the Pro Bowl in each of the past two years. Those same three players remain on the team as starters, and two of the three have more than three Pro Bowls do their credit.
Once you make the Pro Bowl once, it's easier to make it a second time. And the more you make it, generally, the easier it gets. With three multiple-time Pro Bowlers, the Steelers are well-positioned to make it three years in a row in which they send them all back to the exhibition game.
Alejandro Villanueva in particular is coming off the best season of his career, and Maurkice Pouncey had his best season since 2014. David DeCastro has been playing at such a high level that it's really hard to get much better.
Add to that the fact that they retain continuity around them with Ramon Foster and Matt Feiler returning from last season—though the right tackle position had yet to be decided. And the Steelers should have a successful season. Successful teams get more favoritism toward Pro Bowl votes.
Be that as it may, we still have yet to appreciate just what the departure of Mike Munchak to the group will mean. While there is plenty of confidence in Shaun Sarrett to succeed him, the fact is that he hasn't done it on his own yet, and is thus unproven, even if he has largely done almost everything already that will be asked of him.
Aside from that, it's simply hard to make the Pro Bowl three years in a row, in part because it also means that almost everything has to go right for three consecutive years. That doesn't often happen. And there is talent in particular at tackle in the conference that Villanueva will have to contend with to retain his title, including Russell Okung, Taylor Lewan, and Ronnie Stanley, with other young tackles set to mature sooner than later.


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By Wade Nickerson on 03.22.21
Thanks to the VIU Eco Club, those looking to help out their local pollinators can get some native wildflower seeds for free at the VIUSU Pub.
"[We] wanted to give wildflower seeds out, but just didn't know how to get them to people," Haley Andersen, event coordinator for the Eco Club, said in an interview. "So, then I thought, 'Hey, why don't we put them at the pub?' Because everybody loves the pub, and it's one of the few places on campus where people are actually going."
Andersen will be putting a basket containing several varieties of pollinator-friendly wildflower seeds at the pub this week. The seeds are West Coast Seeds brand, an organic seed company from Delta, right here in BC. In addition to curating organic seeds, the company currently supports Food Banks Canada through its Dr. Bonnie Henry Pollinator Blend seeds.
The seed packets will remain at the VIUSU Pub while supplies last, but with enough interest, the basket may stay topped-up through the spring. "If all the packets [are] taken, and people like it, we'll probably do more; this is just a trial run," Andersen said.
Andersen thought the seeds should be as accessible as possible, so they are suited to various planting environments. Whether you have a lawn or simply some outdoor planters, there are appropriate wildflower seeds for you.
If you don't have anywhere to plant flowers but are still interested in the Eco Club, there are other projects in the works and the club is always looking to expand its reach—COVID-19 willing.
The Eco Club hosts litter pick-up events in places like Bowen Park at least once a semester. Before COVID-19, the club also hosted events like clothing swaps and ecology-related movie screenings. Presently, the Eco Club chair, Emma Simard-Provençal, is working alongside VIU biology professor Dr. Caroline Josefsson to get approval for an ecological restoration project at VIU.
"What we're doing is native restoration," Simard-Provençal said. "Just behind the biology building, there's a … long section of grass [and] we're going to be turning that into a Garry oak ecosystem. [Right now] it's just a bunch of non-native/invasive species."
Garry oak ecosystems were once common in coastal BC, but today they are an endangered habitat. Along with the Garry oak project, the Eco Club hopes to perform additional invasive species removal around the VIU campus.
While many students are undoubtedly busy heading into the tail end of the semester, Andersen wanted interested individuals to know that they can participate in Eco Club events without fear of commitment. "We just want people to care about the environment," she said with a smile.
If you want to get involved with or simply learn more about the Eco Club, you can keep up with them on their Instagram, @viuecoclub.
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The Walking Dead's Carl Is A DJ / Producer?
The Walking Dead's Carl Is A DJ / Producer?
Ever since being killed off the show, The Walking Dead's Carl (Corallllllll!!!) has been pretty busy.
Apparently, actor Chandler Riggs is an EDM DJ / Producer who's been signed by Steve Aoki's Dim Mak record label. He goes by the name Eclipse.
In addition, he's continued to act, doing several episodes of ABC's "A Million Little Things".


In fact, instead of recommending any punitive steps, such as suspension of loan on environmental or livelihood grounds, the ombudsman's report rejects the view that it is not feasible to "not finance new business activity that cannot be expected to meet the Performance Standards over a reasonable period of time". Instead, the IFC is allowed to take its own decisions on merit, and whether to "move forward with the investment". The Office of the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO) for the IFC submitted its audit report on August 22, which was made public on October 23.
The refusal to take steps against IFC comes despite the CAO report refers to how Tata Power has overlooked the need to take a detailed view of environmental destruction of the region and adverse impact on the marginalized communities, especially fisher people. The CAO particularly states to how MPSEZ, which is "a major industrial development", and its owners, the Adani Group, "have been the subject of multiple allegations of environmental wrongdoing in recent years, particularly in relation to the destruction of mangroves around MPSEZ".
The CAO's decision to soft-pedal on Tata Power's project came despite the fact that a high profile NGO report submitted to it which warned of "pollution from Indian coal-fired power plants, especially fine particulate matter (PM10) and oxides of nitrogen (NOx) and oxides of sulfur (SOx)". The study expressed concern over "environment of the region and livelihood of the local people." The report stated that the impact of pollution will in future be felt from both the power plants, as both are coal-fired.


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OSU golf: Austin Eckroat proves his mettle with T-12 finish at Mayakoba Golf Classic
By Todd Kelly
Published: Tue, December 8, 2020 5:00 PM Updated: Wed, December 9, 2020 1:27 AM
Oklahoma State golfer Austin Eckroat shot in the 60s all four days at last weekend's PGA Mayakoba Golf Classic at Playa De Carmen, Mexico. [Hector Vivas/Getty Images]
Austin Eckroat was one of two amateurs in the field at the PGA Tour's Mayakoba Golf Classic.
The Oklahoma State Cowboy and Edmond North graduate proved he belongs on the big stage, posting a top-12 finish at El Camaleon Golf Club in Playa del Carmen, Mexico. He made an appearance in the 2019 U.S. Open, but otherwise this marks his first PGA Tour event.
Eckroat shot in the 60s all four days, and saved his best round for last, posting scores of 69-69-67-65 to finish at 14 under, and for one week at least, he was as good as World No. 3 Justin Thomas, Abraham Ancer, Max Homa and Maverick McNealy, who also finished at 14 under.
Former Oklahoma State Cowboy Viktor Hovland won the event at 20 under. Another Cowboy, Matthew Wolff, has high praise for Eckroat, his former college teammate.
At the Mayakoba, Eckroat also outdid Andy Ogletree, who impressed with rounds of 69-67-70-73 in his first event after turning pro last week, but Eckroat topped him by nine shots.
The other amateur in field was Quade Cummins of Oklahoma. Cummins also made the cut but finished T-67 at even par.
Earlier this year, Eckroat was one of the many college players in the men's and women's game who were planning to turn pro. The global COVID-19 pandemic altered everyone's plans and Eckroat decided to return to Stillwater and play one more season for the Cowboys. He was a junior last season and NCAA rules allow him to be a junior again this year.
As Eckroat and the rest of the Oklahoma State golfers await the release of the spring schedule, he is not having a difficult time staying busy.
He is one of four college golfers in the field at the PXG College Golf Showcase at Scottsdale National in Scottsdale, Arizona, which will be on Golf Channel Dec. 16.
Eckroat was also selected by the USGA for the 16-man practice squad for the Walker Cup. That group meets Dec. 16-18 at Bay Hill Club & Lodge and Lake Nona Country Club, in Orlando, Florida.
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" Argentina and Burma. I have been to most of the countries in the world, but not those two. I want to shoot doves in Argentina. Burma, of course, because no one has really been there. "
" Argentina has the best bird shooting in the world. "
W. E. B. Griffin
" Argentina wants to have good ties with the entire world. "
" Argentina wouldn't exist if not for self-determination, and this can't be valid for some but not for others. "
Pepe Eliaschev
" Cash-strapped cities in nations from Argentina to Albania have begun to turn over their municipal water systems to Big Water, often under lease arrangements that can continue in force for decades. "
Charles C. Mann
" Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die. "
Ian McKeever
" Fiat has assembly plants in Brazil and Argentina. "
" I am encouraged to see women are being elected in Chile, Argentina, Liberia, Ireland. More is more. "
Dee Dee Myers
" I don't think that Argentinian cinema is well-known outside Argentina the way it should be. "
" I feel a strong bond with Chile and Argentina. "
Douglas Tompkins
" If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it. "
Evita Peron
" I grab coins and tees in my travels, but I usually mark my ball with a coin from Argentina, either a peso or a 10-centavo piece. "
Angel Cabrera
" In Argentina, we're surrounded by polo ponies. The farm covers roughly 170 hectares, and there are no cattle or sheep, just horses. "
Facundo Pieres
" In Argentina, you do what your father does. If your father plays football, you play football. If your father plays polo, you play polo. "
Adolfo Cambiaso
" I really wanted to be Ambassador to Argentina. "
Jorge M. Perez
" I speak Spanish because I grew up overseas in Spain, Uruguay and Argentina. "
Bitsie Tulloch
" It seems that Argentina is incapable of looking critically at its tragic military adventure in the Falklands. "
" I've been to Mongolia, Peru, Argentina, India. "
" Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves. "
" Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to. "
" My uncle is from Argentina, so I grew up hearing Spanish. My Spanish isn't very good, but my pronunciation isn't terrible. "
" One thing I like about Argentina, they only cook with salt; that's it. "
" On July 18, we will mark the 12th anniversary of the senseless loss of 85 lives in the bombing of the Jewish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina. "
Tom Lantos
" Publicly, I've never talked about Argentina. "
Jose Mujica
" The Peruvian faces are completely different from that faces in Argentina and in Brazil. "
Walter Salles
" The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina. "
" The world is under siege, in conflict, but it is enthusiastic about Argentina. "
" Venezuela, with Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, is a full member of Mercosur. And many other Latin American countries, CARICOM, Bolivia have expressed their support for Venezuela. The Arab League, the full Arab League has voiced its support. "
" We choose the national park idea because it's really the highest form of protection for landscapes that exists under current law, especially in Chile and Argentina. "
" We have not argued in either Brazil or Argentina that the IMF should step in to protect the banks. "
Charles Dallara


Jenner spoke in a long-awaited interview televised Friday with ABC's Diane Sawyer about his gender identity, saying he has always been confused about it. Early in the interview, Jenner took out his ponytail to let his long hair flow behind him.
"My brain is more female than it is male," said Jenner, the 1976 Olympic decathlon champion who has been better known in recent years as part of television's omnipresent Kardashian family.
Jenner said he hopes that speaking publicly about the gender issues would do some good in the world and vigorously denied that the interview was some sort of publicity stunt to promote the Kardashian reality TV show.
"If the Kardashian show gave me a foothold to do some good, I'm all for that," Jenner said.
Jenner said he self-identifies as "her," not a specific name. But he told Sawyer he felt comfortable using the pronouns "he" and "him," a designation that is an important issue for many in the transgender community.
Jenner said he told his first two wives about the gender confusion, and it was a factor in the breakup of his second marriage. During the 1980s, he began taking hormones, had surgery to make his nose smaller and was having hair removed from his face and chest.
Jenner said he's gone back to say he was sorry to people in his life hurt by the gender identity issues.
He fought back tears and reached for a tissue before the interview even began. Jenner said it was hard to talk about gender issues because of concerns about disappointing people.


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State Boards Can Be Key Players in Improving Early Childhood Education
Renee Rybak Lang
renee.lang@nasbe.org
Contact: Michael Spaeth, michael.spaeth@nasbe.org, 703-684-4002
Alexandria, VA — Recognizing the importance of early childhood education (ECE), federal and state governments have been investing billions of dollars to serve the nation's youngest children. Yet many children still enter elementary school unprepared, and their K-12 schooling largely fails to close those initial gaps. State boards of education have authority that positions them to be key players in improving early education. A new NASBE Education Leaders Report discusses opportunities for state boards to use this authority to improve ECE policy in their states.
Analysis of the varied state board roles reveals several key areas in which they exercise authority over ECE:
Teacher Workforce: In all, 32 state boards have authority over preK-12 teacher licensure, 28 approve teacher preparation programs, 15 oversee teacher professional development programs, and 13 oversee evaluation systems for early educators. For example, Kansas worked with a consortium of higher education institutions to align preparation programs with early childhood unified license requirements. As part of NASBE's ECE network, the New York Board of Regents is revisiting its core competencies and licensure structure.
Leader Workforce: There are 24 state boards that determine principal licensure, 7 with authority in principal preparation, 12 that oversee principal professional development programs, and 13 that oversee principal evaluation methods. Nebraska, for example, plans to enhance its Principals Early Childhood Leadership Program by providing video-based training aligned with priorities the state board identifies for ECE.
Financing: In 31 states, state boards maintain some degree of authority over funding and allocations for K-12 children, whether it be manifested in the form of grants or budgetary approvals.
Early Learning Standards and Guidelines: Sixteen state boards oversee early learning standards, and others develop guidelines for children from age 3 to 5. Illinois's state board, for example, in 2013 amended the state's standards after convening researchers, policy experts, and stakeholders from public and private schools, Head Start, colleges, and community-based early care and learning programs to collaborate on the revision.
Kindergarten Entry Assessments: Thirty-three states have developed policies and resources for the kindergarten entry assessment, and the state boards in Colorado, Illinois, and North Carolina have the authority to approve this assessment and related tools for their schools to use. Colorado's state board worked with its department of education to convene experts and other stakeholders on school readiness assessment. North Carolina's board similarly collaborated in 2012 on a process for K-3 formative assessment.
Child Care: Although state boards typically do not have authority over child care programs, Iowa, Louisiana, and North Carolina do. In Louisiana, for example, the state board establishes statewide minimum standards for the health, safety, and well-being of children in early learning centers.
Head Start: Under ESSA, each local education agency (LEA) receiving Title I funds is to "develop agreements" with Head Start agencies and, if feasible, other early childhood education entities. State boards can issue guidance to LEAs on how to make such local coordination fruitful.
NASBE has been deeply committed to advancing ECE for decades. From its influential task force report "Right from the Start" in 1988 to its current cohort of ECE network states, NASBE has been working closely with state boards, state education agencies, and other state agencies to support the delivery of quality services to children and their families. Through cohorts of ECE networks, state boards have advanced research-informed standards, curriculum, assessments, and teaching practices. They have also strengthened teacher preparation and professional development in line with research.
"ECE has an undeniably direct connection to college and career readiness, yet current state policies are not adequate to support it," writes author Winona Hao. "By investigating and applying state boards' authority in collaboration with other state leaders, states can develop more effective policies."
Read and share the NASBE Education Leaders Report "The Role of State Boards in Improving Early Childhood Education."
NASBE is the only national organization giving voice and adding value to the nation's state boards of education. A nonprofit organization founded in 1958, NASBE works to strengthen state leadership in educational policymaking, promote excellence in the education of all students, advocate equality of access to educational opportunity, and ensure continued citizen support for public education. Learn more at www.nasbe.org.


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Further clarification in relation to the transaction with Volcan
Volcan Investments Limited (Volcan) and Vedanta Resources Limited, the parent companies of Vedanta Limited, holding more than 50%, have played a significant role in shaping and building Vedanta Limited businesses in a visionary and entrepreneurial manner.
Volcan owns a 21% stake (voting interest) in Anglo American Plc (AA Plc). AA Plc is a globally diversified mining business that comprises of De Beers (largest diamond producer), copper, platinum and other precious metals, iron ore, coal and nickel.
Cairn India Holdings Limited (CIHL),an overseas subsidiary of the Company, was offered the opportunity by Volcan to invest some of its surplus cash resources in a structured investment representing the economic interest in upside potential of ~24.71 million shares (~1.8% of outstanding shares) of AA Plc. The structure provides significantly higher returns compared to other overseas cash management investments that would typically return around 2%.After careful consideration of the risk adjusted returns of this opportunity relative to other available investments, it elected to invest a portion (which is less than 5% of Group's cash and cash equivalentof around US$5.0bn) of its available cash resources, aspart of its cash management activity. The ownership of the underlying shares, and the associated voting interest, remains with Volcan.
The investment now has full capital and downside protection to ensure that the interests of Vedanta Limited shareholders' are protected.
The investment was made on an arm's length basis in December 2018, after meeting all governance requirements. The economic interest was valued by an independent valuer and approved by the boards of CIHL andVedanta Ltd. This was voluntarily and transparently disclosed in the December quarter results.
We remain committed at all times to act in the interest of all shareholders and look forward to continued engagement with them.


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Summary: In a randomized, single-blind, controlledtrial involving 104 pregnant women aged 18-30, it was found that newborns had higher birth weight and larger head circumference on a multivitamin-mineral regimen than on a multivitamin regimen alone. For the last 20 weeks of gestation, 51 women were given a multivitamin and 53 were given a multivitamin-mineral combination, once daily. Mean birth weight (3.3 vs. 3.1 kg) and head circumference (35 vs. 34 cm) of the infants whose mothers receivedmultivitamin-mineral supplements were higher than those whose mothers received multivitamins. The authors conclude that birth weight and head circumference were, "increased in infants whose mothers received multivitamin-mineral supplements for 5 months during pregnancy compared with infants whose mothers received multivitamin supplements."
Summary: In a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized control trials (from 1945-2013) examining the effects of probiotic usage on eczema development, the evidence supports a strong correlation between probiotic supplementation and the decline in the incidence of infantile and childhood eczema. Participants included were 7 years of age or younger with probiotic exposure in utero or below 6 months of age and were not previously diagnosed. Twenty seven publications describing 16 studies assessing 10 probiotics involving 2,797 participants met the criterion for the analysis. The pooled relative risk of all the studies (0.74) indicated that probiotic supplementation in the first several years of life did have a significant impact on development of eczema. The authors conclude, "Probiotic supplements taken during pregnancy and/or during infancy produces a significant decline in the incidence of eczema."
In a prospective, observational, cohort study involving 1838 pregnant women in South India, low intake of dietary vitamin B12 in the presence of high folate intake in the first trimester was found to be associated with a higher risk of small for gestational age infants. In a subgroup of women with high folic acid intakes in the 2nd trimester, those with the lowest vitamin B12: folate ratio had a higher risk of small-for-gestational-age infants as compared to those with the highest tertile (adjusted RR=2.73). The authors conclude, "These findings suggest that, in addition to vitamin B-12 and folate deficiencies alone, there may be adverse birth outcomes associated with unbalanced vitamin B-12 and folate intakes or status during pregnancy."
Obstetrics and Gynecology, at Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden).
in diastolic blood pressure in pregnancy could be due to a lack of magnesium. Researchers conclude that magnesium supplementation may prevent hypertension during the final trimester of pregnancy.
Mah., Kadinana Cad. No: 22/4 03200, Afyonkarahisar, Turkey. E-mail: minekanat@hotmail.com ).
pre-pregnancy BMI, pregnancy body weight, pregnancy BMI, and serum triglyceride levels, while a significant and positive correlation between L-carnitine and HDL levels was found. The authors conclude, "The crucial role of L-carnitine in pregnancy metabolism suggests that nutritional supplementation of this amino acid can be offered to women who are either overweight or obese at the beginning of the pregnancy."
Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada. E-mail: Brenda MY Leung, bleun@ucalgary.ca ).
In a study involving 475 women from the Alberta Pregnancy Outcomes and Nutrition study, mean nutrient intakes from supplements were found to be higher in women with lower EPDS (postpartum depression) scores, particularly selenium and omega-3 fatty acids. Prenatal supplementation with selenium (per 10 mg, OR=0.76) and postnatal social support (OR=0.87) were both found to protect against postnatal depression. The authors state, "Future research on dietary supplementation in pregnancy with special attention to selenium intake is warranted."