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There is an exact release date for the Station 19 series on ABC in 2020. Are you ready for Season 3? When to wait for the premiere?
Last spring, ABC presented a new spin-off of the series Grey's Anatomy, called Station 19. From the first days, the series managed to attract the attention of a large audience, consisting mainly of fans of the original series.
Critics reacted to the series rather mediocre, but the audience appreciated the show and are now waiting for the release date of Station 19 season 3. We have prepared for you a lot of information that you will be interested to know.
Interesting facts about the show:
* The series was created by Stacy McKee, creator of Grey's Anatomy.
* The pilot series was integrated into the series Grey's Anatomy. So the 13th episode of the 14th season of Grey's Anatomy is the pilot of the Station 19.
* The premiere of the first season took place on March 22, 2018 on the ABC channel.
* The series is designed for an audience over 16 years old.
* The project is being produced by ShondaLand and ABC Studios.
* The shooting of the series took place in Los Angeles.
After showing the second season, the creators did not test the patience of the fans and immediately reported that Station 19 was extended for season 3. At the moment, the exact release date on the ABC channel in 2020 is already known, but read about it below.
The plot of the series revolves around the life and work of employees of the fire department 19, located in Seattle. These people are real heroes, as they often put their own lives at risk, saving those who were captured by fire. Often they have to interact with doctors at a nearby hospital.
But the heroes encounter difficulties not only at work, but also at home. The guys spend more time at the workplace than at home, which negatively affects relations with households. However, even this will not force them to quit their job, because the realization that you are doing something good is worth a lot.
Andrea "Andy" Herrera is a confident lieutenant in Fire Station 19 and the daughter of Captain Pruitt Herrera. She is acting as captain of the unit. The role was approved by Jaina Lee Ortiz.
Benjamin "Ben" Warren is a rookie firefighter at Station 19 and a former anesthetist who became a resident surgeon at the Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital. Married to Miranda Bailey. The hero was played by Jason George.
Jack Gibson is a lieutenant in Fire Station 19. Passionate, energetic, and fearless. The role went to Grey Damon.
Victoria "Vic" Hughes – Junior Firefighter. She was played by Barrett Doss.
Travis Montgomery – one of the firefighters of Station 19. Hero was played by Jay Hayden.
Dean Miller is a charismatic fireman. The role went to Okieriete Onaodowan.
Maya Bishop – currently working as a firefighter, in the past she was an athlete and participated in the Olympic Games. The role was played by Danielle Savre.
Fortunately, the series has already been renewed and is now almost ready for the premiere of the new season. We have official confirmation that on January 23, 2020, the ABC channel will release the first episode of the 3rd season of the Station 19 series. On the same day, the original series Grey's Anatomy is expected to return to the second half of the 16th season. As you can see, in January we will have something to see, so we won't be bored.
Also waiting for the release of the 3rd season of Station 19? Share your impressions about the show in the comments below.
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I'm kinda new to the world of Krags, and i could be nuts, but at first blush, it appears to me the Krag got a bad rap after the Cuban engagement. With the Spanish fortified on high ground and most of the regular US troops carring trap doors the out come seams rather predictable. I understand the Krags short comings but it might be a little exaggerated to explain how events unfolded.
The Krag Jorgensen Rifle (U.S. Magazine Rifle, .30 Caliber, Model of 1892/1896/1898) was exactly what the Ordnance Department wanted. Over 50 rifles were looked at by a Board in 1892. The clip fed Mauser was one of the rifles considered. The Krag was selected even over this rifle due to fear of soldiers wasting ammo by getting too many shots off. Some older Army officers still preferred the Springfield Trapdoor over the Krag. The Krag has a magazine cut-off, allowing it to be single loaded with 5 rounds in reserve when things got hot.
Losses were great among the U.S. troops, as you stated due to charging up hill. But it was recognized that the Mauser was loaded quicker giving the Spaniards greater firepower by fewer troops who had better cover. But the best I have found looking at period articles, the U.S. troops were proud of and fond of their rifle. The Krag is a well built and accurate weapon, even though the design may have been somewhat outclassed by the Mauser that also used a more powerful cartridge. The next service rifle in 1903 was based on the Mauser design leading to a $1 royalty to Paul Mauser for every 1903 Springfield rifle built limited to a $200,000 payment.
Much experience was obtained during the period that the Krag was the main service rifle. It was a major step for the U.S. into the smokeless powder, magazine rifle era. Some say that it was obsolete as soon as being adopted. Still, the U.S. had a good showing at the time that the Krag was the main service rifle as it was becoming a world power.
Well, that's my rant in a nutshell.
The Krag will ALWAYS be my favorite rifle! The action is hands-down the smoothest operating rifle ever made! The rifle is easy to load, easy to shoot, and with the right ammo and in the right shooter's hands, extremely accurate too! Just because the Mauser fired a hotter round, and could be reloaded faster doesn't make it a better rifle... and using a charger, I bet I can reload my Krag faster than any Mauser on the line at Perry!!!
By the way, the Krag, although short lived in regular army service, did have a pretty long life. Krags were used in Cuba, the Philippines, China, England and France in WW1... and even hung around on Ships and as trainers as late as WWII!
It seams to me if all US troops had been outfitted with Krags and been suppoted weith proper artillery the engagements might have been shortened.
It's almost like the rifle was scapegoated.
Being of Norwegian descent actually attracted me to find out what the Krag Jorgensen was about. I bought a sporter to get a feel for the rifle. Then when I found out that I had a Great Grandfather that used this rifle in the Philippine Insurrection and Boxer Rebellion it became my favorite rifle design. Then an Uncle sold me a Krag Jorgensen rifle (still in military configuration) out of his gun collection at a more than fair price. Now I can't learn enough about this rifle and share more than most may care to know on what I find.
'knute' - I enjoy your posts and the documents you dig up.
As a group, KCA Members are fun and bring many different interests to the 'table'.
And of course the Krag was used by other U.S. government agencies besides the military. It was even used on American citizens (criminals) by law enforcement agencies. I cannot readily find a period article I read last year, but the Internal Revenue Department even had the Krag in the early 1900's to go after moonshiners.
That last one might be a stretch, but I think you know what I'm getting at. Everybody has an opinion like everybody has a....a uh......like everybody has a nose. Just like the dog on the right above. It has a nose, too. And it looks like it found a....a uh.....erh a.....like it found an opinion.
The U.S. Justice system also used Krag's to keep rabid criminals off the streets.
Wonder who's collection ended up with Gregory's sporterized Krag???
A while back i was watching a Hikock45 video of all the US military service rifles, and stuck right in the middle was the Krag. I remembered seeing one in my Grandfather's gun cabinet. That statred me on aquiring one, almost as a homage to my pappy. I'm glad i did, it's just a sporterized shooter, but it's quicking becoming my favorite.


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I Was Sexually Harassed in Prison. Here's How We Can Stop It.
June 27, 2016 | Evie Litwok
Inmates sit on their bunks in a dorm at Tutwiler Prison for Women in Wetumpka, Alabama. On May 28, 2015, the Justice Department filed both a civil lawsuit against the state and a settlement agreement to address the alleged abuses at the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, file)
In 2013, at the age of 63, I entered a federal women's prison for the second time. Shackled and exhausted after a long drive from Georgia to Florida, I had to do an intake interview with a correctional officer immediately upon my arrival. Soon into the interview, I noticed that the officer was peppering his intake questions with flirtatious and sexual comments. Annoyed, I said, "You know I am too old for this?" He replied, "I like older women." It wasn't long before I learned that he also had a liking for incarcerated Mexican women facing deportation.
Within a few weeks, I was sexually harassed again by an officer. During evening rounds, two officers came by with flashlights, stopping at a number of beds. When they stopped at mine, one officer picked up my panties that I had hung on a towel over the metal bars of my bunk bed. At first I thought he had stopped to discipline me for washing my panties by hand instead of sending them to the laundry. Instead, he sniffed them and said, "I wonder if she would be good in bed."
This treatment contrasted drastically with what was outlined as acceptable in the sexual abuse, harassment and violence orientation—presented by prison officers—that newly incarcerated women are obligated to attend. What's more, signage all over the prison walls reminded us that officers are strictly forbidden from having sex with inmates, as mandated by the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA). You couldn't walk far without seeing the words "ZERO TOLERANCE."
But as subsequent events in the prison would demonstrate, the signage should have read, "ZERO ATTENTION TO PREA." In one incident in April 2014, my entire unit, which comprised more than 100 women, awoke to the evening officer having sex with a woman from my unit. The officer came in to fetch the woman after lights out, but in his rush to have sex, he forgot to lock the door separating the sleeping unit from his office.
A half-dozen curious women left the unit to watch the officer have sex with the woman and ran back into the unit to tell everyone about it in graphic detail. The resulting chatter kept the entire unit up for over an hour. But when the next officer to come on duty was told of what had happened, she ordered that the desk be wiped down and the office mopped—rather than closing the office as a crime scene. The next morning, all the women who had witnessed the incident were put into solitary confinement. The following evening, a second female officer, unhappy that her fellow officer was in trouble, threatened to withhold from our unit the only two luxuries incarcerated women have in their sleeping units: television and microwave use. As for the abusive officer, he was placed under investigation by the FBI and temporarily sent to work at the men's side of the prison down the road.
This was hardly the first incident at the prison. My bunkee informed me that, back in 2006, the prison was on lockdown for months when an FBI agent came to arrest six officers for sexual violence. One officer, determined not to be arrested, shot and killed the agent. The correctional officer was killed too. The remaining five were arrested and prosecuted. With this history, I would have expected serious oversight by the region and the federal government to ensure enforcement of PREA. But that night, I realized most of the male officers could, with the full knowledge of prison leadership, hold incarcerated women hostage to their sexual appetites without consequence.
As many as 1 in 4 women are victimized while incarcerated.
And when I returned from prison and spoke with other formerly incarcerated women, I learned the problem wasn't limited to my facility. Sexual violence toward incarcerated women is a problem at the federal, state, and local levels. Statistics vary widely, but a 2006 report by Stop Prisoner Rape estimates that as many as 1 in 4 women are victimized while incarcerated.
Unfortunately, government officials have been relying on strategies that fail to address the primary problem: the power dynamics between officers and incarcerated women make it nearly impossible to report abuse. Since returning home, I've sat in meetings with well-meaning government officials and activists who want to end sexual violence. But their solution is a repeat of the old one: it includes new and improved manuals, more training for officers, more supervision, cameras, and a redefinition of the problem.
No manual, training, or camera will prevent an officer from whispering, "If you want to see your child this weekend, I want a blow job." "Do you want that cushy job?" "Do you want that corner bed?" Do you want me to put money on your commissary account?" Whether it's a threat or a bribe, incarcerated people cannot prove the conversation happened, even with cameras. No one will believe an inmate over an officer because the culture of prison is one in which officers protect and cover for each other—and incarcerated women are treated as though they are less than human.
Those who do come forward or refuse the advances of an officer risk a great deal. A vindictive officer could have an incarcerated mother put in solitary or transferred thousands of miles from her children. Even if there is no sex, but an officer feels threatened or wants to demonstrate his authority, a woman can be sent anywhere. This threat of retaliation undermines reporting rates – women will suffer the sexual violence rather than see themselves lose what little privilege they have.
Instead of doubling down on training manuals as a solution to this crisis, we should open new avenues for identifying violence and reporting it.
One way to do this is to hire formerly incarcerated people to work in our prisons and jails to help identify abusive behaviors. Due to our experiences within the system, formerly incarcerated women know what to look for—like spikes in commissary accounts, unusual job transfers, and repeated use of solitary confinement.
Trust and support are necessary for incarcerated people to come forward—and those who have spent time in prison are most able to provide it. Our shared experience of incarceration builds a powerful bond. It is that bond—along with robust protections against retaliation and accountability for officers who perpetrate violence—that will help survivors come forward in safety.
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The Poverty Industry: How Foster Care Agencies Exploit Children In Their Care
June 24, 2016 | Daniel L. Hatcher
(AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)
A Charles Dickens novel has come to life. Foster care agencies are partnering with companies to search for poor children who are disabled or have dead parents—in order to take their money for state revenue.
Consider the story of a foster child named Alex:
Alex was taken into foster care at age twelve after his mother's death. Over a six-year period, he was moved at least twenty times between temporary placements and group homes. Soon after losing his mother, Alex learned his older brother might be able to care for him, but then his brother died. There were also hopes that Alex could go to live with his father, but then his father died as well.
Unknown to Alex, he was eligible to receive Social Security survivor benefits after his father died. These funds could have provided an invaluable benefit to Alex, supplying an emotional connection to his deceased father and financial resources to help with his difficult transition out of foster care.
But without telling Alex, the Maryland foster care agency applied for the survivor benefits on his behalf and to become his representative payee. Then, although obligated to only use the benefits for the child's best interests, the agency took every payment from Alex. The agency didn't tell Alex it was applying for the funds, and didn't tell him when the agency took the money for itself. Alex struggled during his years in foster care, left foster care penniless, and continued to struggle on his own.
Unfortunately, Alex's story is not unique. Across the country, agencies and their contractors target children who might be determined disabled or whose parents have died, apply for federal disability (SSI) and survivor (OASDI) benefits on their behalf, and then apply to gain control over the children's money. Often, the children never see the money and receive no benefit. Many states also confiscate Veteran's Assistance benefits from children whose parents died in the military. The Nebraska foster care agency even drafted a regulation so it can claim a foster child's burial space.
By taking their resources, foster care agencies are forcing vulnerable children to pay for their own care—when the agencies and states are already legally obligated to do so. Further, if a parent or relative serves as representative payee and uses a child's disability or survivor benefits to help with expenses for a child's care, the child is better off because more funds are available to help in the household where the child lives. But when foster care agencies take resources from children, the children receive no benefit; their money is used to provide neither them nor their foster care home more assistance. The agencies simply ignore their fiduciary obligations and route the funds to government coffers—while the contractors also take a cut. All of this is usually done without informing the children or their advocates.
In contract documents obtained from public records requests, foster children are treated as "units" on revenue maximization conveyor belts (or, in the case of the Maryland foster care agency, a "revenue generating mechanism.") They are "scored and triaged," plugged into "data mining" and "algorithms," and subjected to "dissection" to increase the "penetration rate" of children whose resources can be taken.
Foster care agencies have reached a point where they have prioritized their own fiscal self-interests over the interests of children in their care.
Why are foster care agencies doing this to the very children they're supposed to serve? The agencies are underfunded. States have continued to cut funding necessary for child welfare services, including assistance to help families stay intact so that foster care is not needed. In a desperate search for revenue, foster care agencies have reached a point where they have prioritized their own fiscal self-interests over the interests of children in their care.
Cash-strapped agencies would argue that this is all for the greater good, because increased agency funds will lead to improved agency services. But the rationale fails. The notion that child welfare agencies should fund themselves by taking resources from children they exist to serve is counterintuitive, at best. Further, foster care agencies are not even better off after they confiscate children's resources: the funds are either routed directly to general state coffers, or the state reduces funding for the agency based upon how much money is obtained from the children.
Given the intense difficulties that foster children already face—especially as they age out of care—policymakers need to address this issue. The recently enacted ABLE Act, which allows disabled children to conserve their SSI benefits, is a helpful step in the right direction—but it will only help foster children if agencies stop taking their funds. And pending legislation from Congressman Danny Davis (IL) would do just that—it would protect foster children's resources so the children can best help themselves.
Unfortunately, this is not an isolated practice. In The Poverty Industry: The Exploitation of America's Most Vulnerable Citizens, I expose how states and their human service agencies team up with private companies to profit from the vulnerable. In addition to taking foster children's assets, the poverty industry uses illusory budget shell games to siphon away billions in Medicaid funds intended for children and low-income adults. Child support payments for foster children and families on public assistance are converted into government revenue. Nursing homes and juvenile detention centers sedate residents to reduce costs, and pharmaceutical companies encourage the drugging through illegal marketing practices. States use nursing homes to take the facilities' federal aid while the elderly languish in poor care. Counties and court systems hire companies to mine the poor for funds in modern day debtor's prisons. And the poverty industry keeps expanding.
We may disagree about the best way to help vulnerable populations. But we all should be able to agree that when aid funds are generated with specific intent to help those in need, those funds should be used as intended.
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Maine's Governor Just Threatened to End the State's Food Stamp Program. Here's Why That's Illegal.
June 23, 2016 | Jeremy Slevin & Alyssa Peterson
Maine Gov. Paul LePage attends an opioid abuse conference Tuesday, June 7, 2016, in Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
Maine Governor Paul LePage is no stranger to food stamp cuts. The Republican executive kicked more than 6,000 people off of food assistance last fall, after he reinstated stringent time limits for the program. And in December, the U.S. Department of Agriculture threatened Maine with fines for its failure to adequately process food stamp applications.
But now LePage has taken his attacks on the program a step further. This month, he wrote the Obama Administration threatening to stop participating in the food stamp program if the Administration didn't add restrictions on how recipients use their benefits. Specifically, LePage wants to "prohibit the purchase of candy and sugar-sweetened beverages with food stamp benefits in Maine." If not, the Governor wrote, "I will be pursuing options to implement reform unilaterally or cease Maine's administration of the food stamp program altogether. You maintain such a broken program that I do not want my name attached to it."
In other words, LePage would effectively end food assistance in Maine.
His claims are shaky at best. A comprehensive survey by the Department of Agriculture found that food stamp recipients' diets largely mirror those of other Americans. In fact, consumption of candy, ice cream, and cookies is lower among food stamp recipients than it is among higher-income Americans.
It's still unclear whether LePage can actually do this. Legally, states administer food assistance, and the federal government funds the program. According to Robyn Merrill, Executive Director of Maine Equal Justice Partners, "There's no precedent in a state actually pulling out and refusing to administer the program." On top of that, state law requires Maine to administer a statewide food assistance program that follows federal regulations.
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Hunger and Food Insecurity
Percentage of households who were food insecure on average from 2012 to 2014, meaning that at some point during the year, they experienced difficulty providing enough food due to a lack of money or resources.
But if Governor LePage were to follow through with his threat, it would have a devastating impact on his constituents. Nearly 1 out of every 7 residents in the state—190,000 people—rely on food stamps. SNAP also has important economic benefits—in 2015 alone, the program provided almost $280 million in federal dollars to the state, which were distributed among more than 1,500 state retailers. And as a program that is counter-cyclical—meaning it provides greater benefits during economic downturns and fewer during economic expansions—SNAP plays an important role in stimulating the economy during a recession.
The effort also demonstrates the risk of giving state executives like LePage more authority over antipoverty programs. Republican leaders such as House Speaker Paul Ryan have proposed giving states more "flexibility" on food stamps, housing assistance, and child care. But in practice, empowering state leaders has resulted in conservatives enacting a number of counterproductive and punitive policies, including banning low-income people from using cash benefits at public pools or movie theaters and drug testing program recipients.
LePage's threat to end food stamps is just the latest chapter in this effort.
Young Adults Are More Likely Than Ever to Live at Home—Unless They Grew Up in Foster Care
June 22, 2016 | Breanne Bambrick
Former foster child Megan Moore adjusts a hair band on her 5-month-old daughter, Constance. (AP Photo/Randy Snyder)
The transition to adulthood today is increasingly trying for young Americans in low-income families, but no group is more vulnerable than foster youth. As it is, wages are low, education is expensive, and the labor market remains very difficult to break into for low-income young adults. These are among the factors that have made parents an important safety net.
For the first time since 1880, it is now more likely for young adults ages 18-34 to live with parents than with a partner or on their own. On average, parents also provide young adults with about $2,200 annually in material assistance—such as food, educational expenses, or direct cash assistance—throughout the transition to adulthood.
The cost of aging out is devastating to these youth and to our society.
But for the tens of thousands of young people exiting or aging out of the foster care system each year, most often when they turn 18, parental support is not an option. Without parents as a safety net, these young people face a vast array of extreme disadvantages. They are more likely than the average youth to drop out of high school, be unemployed, and rely on public assistance. Many of these young adults find themselves in prison, homeless, or as parents earlier or less prepared than they would have liked. Any one of these outcomes can result in immediate and long-term hardship. For example, adults without a high school degree have an unemployment rate of 8 percent, compared to 5.4 percent for those who have one. Interaction with the criminal justice system can make it difficult to obtain employment, housing, education and training, and more. And homelessness causes and exacerbates health problems, ranging from communicable diseases to behavioral health problems.
Overall, the cost of aging out is devastating to these youth and to our society.
Since 2000, more than 340,000 young people have aged out of foster care without permanent family connections. Taxpayers and communities pay nearly $300,000 in social costs over the lifetime of the average young person who ages out of foster care. Even conservative estimates find that the overall social costs of these young people to the United States hover around $8 billion every year. Yet policymakers have real opportunities available to help some of our nation's most vulnerable youth and save public dollars.
In an effort to address some of these challenges, Congress enacted the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008. This law permits states to receive federal support for young adults who remain in foster care through age 21, while they are working or pursuing education and training. In short, the legislation allows young people to remain connected to their foster families as they transition to adulthood.
So far, the results of the Fostering Connections Act have been encouraging. It is associated with an increased likelihood that these young people will complete at least one year of college, which can result in higher earnings. Other studies suggest that extending foster care to age 21 is related to a reduction in the number of foster youth who become homeless. Another study revealed that remaining in extended care is associated with less reliance on public assistance and a lowered likelihood of being arrested.
Disappointingly, fewer than half of states have chosen to take up the federal option to extend foster care to age 18 under this legislation. Considering the effects of aging out and the proven benefits of this additional support, this is a commonsense choice that all states should take. It not only will give some young people a better shot—it will also likely save on social costs that instead can be invested in housing, education, training, or other initiatives that support youth aging out.
The cost of the status quo is too high and the potential benefits for extending support to older foster youth are too promising for states to justify their continued inaction.
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How Our Country Fails Black Women and Girls
June 20, 2016 | Melissa Harris-Perry
(AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
I hold a professorship named for one of the most extraordinary Americans to live in the twentieth century. Born in 1928, Maya Angelou experienced childhood poverty and dislocation. She was raped by an adult man when she only seven years old. The brutality and unresolved trauma resulting from that early sexual violence stole her voice and shaped her young adulthood. Eventually she became an unwed teen mother. More than three generations after Maya's childhood, poverty, familial disruption, sexual violence, interrupted education, and teen pregnancy remain key barriers facing black girls in America's cities, towns, and rural communities.
Maya Angelou's story does not end with her struggles; it only begins there. She was guided out of silence by the loving hand of an educator. Her teacher did not practice zero tolerance or call a school resource officer to slam young Maya to the ground. She saw the brokenness of a girl child who needed to be drawn gently back into the world. She helped Maya regain her voice through a love of literature and poetry. As a girl Maya was burdened with poverty and brokenness, but she also encountered meaningful opportunities to learn, grow, and discover her talents while experiencing the care of her community. Maya transformed these opportunities into a life of singular accomplishment and remarkable contributions.
Maya became a fierce advocate for voting rights and human rights, working first with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X and later with both Coretta Scott King and Dr. Betty Shabazz. Recognizing the importance of race and gender health disparities, Dr. Angelou gave her name to the Maya Angelou Center for Health Equity at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine. In Washington, D.C., she enthusiastically contributed her name to the Maya Angelou Public Charter School offering second chances to young people emerging from juvenile incarceration. Maya Angelou's path was not always pretty or polite, but it always affirmed that Black Girls Rock and Black Women Matter.
Indeed, Maya Angelou's story embodies the barriers and pathways for black women and girls we have gathered to discuss today. I believe she would be pleased by this unprecedented gathering of scholars, activists, artists, journalists, citizens, and lawmakers committed to eliminating injustices black women face. I believe she would commend each of the co-chairs for the visionary leadership to develop the first Congressional Caucus for Black Women and Girls. And I believe she would ask of the larger legislative body, "What took so long?"
Vulnerability to Violence
What took so long? After all, it is not safe to be a black girl in America.
It is not safe to be a black girl in America.
Black communities understand how unjust violence perpetrated against black boys is connected to our collective movements for racial justice and social change. We know how the horrific murder of Emmett Till galvanized the courage of black Americans in the battle against Jim Crow. Because we know these stories we draw on them again and again. When Oscar Grant or Trayvon Martin or Eric Garner or Tamir Rice were taken too soon, we understand their deaths in historical context of racial vulnerability. We can see the need to make change―to keep our brothers.
We less frequently discuss historical violence against black girls and don't adequately connect these stories to movements for social justice. As a result we think our daughters are safer than our sons. We forget Elizabeth Eckford walking a racist gauntlet toward Central High School in 1957; or tiny Ruby Bridges requiring federal marshals to attend elementary school in 1960, New Orleans; or four little girls murdered in their Sunday school in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963. Girlhood has never been a shield against the brutality of white supremacy. We cannot forget the vulnerabilities of black girls. Yes, we must keep our brothers, but what about our daughters? We must also say their names: Rekia Boyd, Renisha McBride, Mya Hall, Natasha McKenna, Sandra Bland.
We are even more reluctant to acknowledge the violence black girls and women suffer at the hands of black men. According to the Black Women's Blueprint, approximately 60 percent of black girls will experience sexual assault before they are 18. A leading cause of death for black women 15 to 34 is homicide by an intimate partner. Debilitating injury resulting from intimate partner violence is a health crisis for black women. Yet African American women are less likely to report rape and sexual assault than their white counterparts. When they do seek protection, black women face unique challenges in family and criminal court because many judges perceive African American women as less vulnerable, more hostile, more sexualized, and less worthy of official forms of protection.
Unequal Opportunity
What took so long? After all, black women have less economic opportunity.
Black women work more than all other women, but reap fewer economic rewards. According to a December 2015 report by the National Partnership for Women and Families, a state by state analysis shows black women's wages range from 48 to 69 cents for every dollar paid to white men. One in four black women live in poverty, a rate more than double white women's poverty.
Perhaps even more shocking than black women's poverty is black women's wealth. According to a 2010 study by Mariko Chang, the median wealth for a single white man age 18 to 64 was $41,410. But the median wealth for a single black woman in the same age range was $5. Five dollars is the cushion between these adult black women and an illness, an unexpected expense, a family member who needs help. Five dollars.
Education is not necessarily the answer. Neither the wage gap nor the wealth gap is resolved by educational attainment. Black women with a college degree earn more than black women with only a high school diploma, but the pay gap relative to their white male counterparts is wider. As a 2015 report by the Black Women's Roundtable states, "It would take nearly two Black women college graduates to earn what the average White male college graduate earns by himself ($55,804 vs. $100, 620)." Finishing college does not ensure long-term wealth accumulation for black women. Lower wages, higher student loan debt, and significant expectations for redistribution within family networks means studying and working hard are insufficient remedies for the systemic economic inequities black women face.
Criminal Injustice
What took so long? After all, the criminal justice system is unfair to black women.
According to The Sentencing Project, the number of women in American prisons is increasing at nearly double the rate of men. These women are disproportionately black women according to statistics from the Department of Justice. The rate of incarceration is almost twice as high for black versus white women, 113 per 100,000 compared 51 per 100,000. Given that nearly 60 percent of these women are mothers who were caring for minor children before their sentencing, the jailing of black women has a devastating effect on black children and communities.
Now consider this: Decades of research show the overwhelming majority of incarcerated women are survivors of domestic abuse, sexual violence, childhood trauma, poverty, and broken foster care systems. When black women are guilty of being victims our response is to lock them away; strip them of parental rights; permanently damage their ability to seek educations, secure housing, start businesses, and choose their elected representatives. And it begins when they are girls. Black girls are suspended, criminalized, pushed out of school and into a juvenile system where they receive disproportionally harsh sentences often in the wake of severe emotional and sexual trauma. Imagine if eight-year-old Maya Angelou had been sent to a correctional facility instead of to the head of the class.
What took so long? After all, black women's health is suffering.
Black women have higher rates of hypertension and diabetes. Black women are far more likely to suffer from fibroids and undergo hysterectomies. While HIV-AIDS infections have declined throughout the United States, black women account for 66 percent of new cases of HIV among women. And there is this shocking disparity―black women are less likely than white women to get breast cancer, but more likely to die from the disease. In 2010, the CDC reported breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer death for black women 45 to 64 years old, a death rate 60 percent higher than for white women.
Babies born to black women remain twice as likely to die before their first birthday as those born to white women.
Perhaps nothing so powerfully illustrates how the bodies of black women carry the burdens of racial injustice as the persistent racial infant mortality gap. Babies born to black women remain twice as likely to die before their first birthday as those born to white women. The gap is not closed by access to health insurance, prenatal care, or education. Black mothers with advanced degrees suffer higher infant morality than white mothers who have not finished high school. The most promising research in this area suggests that black infant mortality may be an intergenerational result of historical experiences of racial inequality. It may be that black women literally carry the legacy of American racism and sexism in our bodies, making both our infants and ourselves ill.
Here I want to pause to note that despite important commonalities, all African American women do not share the same ideas, beliefs, and burdens. Age, region, queer identity, and skin color shape black women's lived experiences. Black trans women are uniquely vulnerable to public and state violence. Black women living with disabilities face barriers we frequently overlook. Black girls in foster care or struggling with episodic homelessness will have very different challenges than those with more stability. But these variations between and among us do not invalidate the importance of thinking about black women and girls as a group.
I have offered up a lot of statistics. These are data you will hear more about, with more context, from other witnesses throughout the day. Together these data tell us that the intersections of race and gender strongly determine life opportunities for black girls and women. Therefore it is important to think about black girls and women as a meaningful analytic category and to target justice-oriented, community-centered, and culturally literate research and public policy toward addressing the challenges faced by black women and girls. The women you will hear from today represent organizations that have been doing this work for years, often without recognition or adequate support.
Even as we map these profound injustices, don't get it twisted. Black women are more than the sum of their relative disadvantages―they are active agents who craft meaning out of their circumstances and do so in complicated and diverse ways. The exceptional generative capacity of black girls and women in circumstances of deep inequality is so profoundly incomprehensible to so many they have little choice but to understand it as black girl magic.
How else to understand that black women had the highest voter turnout of any category of voters in both 2008 and 2012, twice choosing an American president while no one asked a single black woman to moderate a presidential debate? How else can we understand that in 2014 black women candidates running statewide in Ohio and Georgia accumulated more than one million votes even though their state parties largely ignored their races? How else to understand that when black women picked up four Congressional seats in 2014, one of those seats was to the first black woman elected to congress from New Jersey, Representative Bonnie Watson-Coleman? And her first order of business was to come here to Capitol Hill and help form this first congressional caucus for black women and girls.
Many call it black girl magic because it seems we can do what no one else can or will do. We seem to bear burdens heavier, run races faster, and absorb brutality more stinging than ought to be possible given how few resources are at our disposal. The legacy of black women's lives and labors show an unprecedented capacity to survive in hostile conditions. This is not magic. It is grinding work that exacts deep costs from black girls and women. Yes, black women have long made lemonade from the lemons life handed them. The problem is somebody usually sat down and drank it after she made it. That is not justice.
I want to leave you with one final imperative. On July 9, 2014, Tianna-Gaines Turner, an African American mother from Philadelphia, became the only person living in poverty to testify before Representative Paul Ryan's House Budget Committee on poverty―the only person living in poverty to address the lawmakers creating policy about poverty. Her statement was powerful and clear. She concluded by admonishing the committee with these words:
My neighbors and I know what's going on in our own communities, more than anyone else. We know our own hardships better than anyone. We have the energy, the grit, the creativity, and the strongest interest in overcoming our struggles. We're fighting already for our families and our neighbors. We need to be taken more seriously by our state and federal governments.
Nothing about us, without us. Congress should not make any decisions about programs meant to help families living in poverty without people who know poverty firsthand at the decision-making table…. It's time to call in the experts.
As the work of this historic caucus moves forward, let us follow this rule set by Tianna-Gaines Turner—nothing about us, without us. Black girls must be at the table. Black women must be at the table. Not just the college professors, celebrities, business leaders, and elected officials, but our cousins, our sisters, our grandmas, the girls who didn't make it out, the ones we locked away, the voices that have been silenced. Let us be the ones who find today's Maya Angelou while she is yet mute, who remind her she has something to say, and then let us listen while she tells us her story.
This post originally appeared on Elle.com, and was delivered before the Congressional Caucus for Black Women and Girls in April.
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Anthony Ervin's "WORLD CUP PHOTO VAULT" is below!
Right now, right this second, Anthony Ervin's on a long haul flight from Singapore after swimming his way around the world. We wanted to catch up with the man who netted 9 golds, 5 silvers and 2 bronze, plus an American Record in the short course meters 50 freestyle (20.85), but, alas, he is in the air. Luckily, we did check in with his manager, Emily White, Co-Founder of Whitesmith Entertainment.
When we asked for a teaser of what's next on Anthony's calendar, Emily explained, "We're looking forward to having Anthony back in the U.S. this week for some fun at The Golden Goggles before gearing up for World Championships in Istanbul."Emily, thanks for the update, and many thanks for the photos!
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absolutely amazing what someone with so much life experience can do. anthony is amazing and looking forward to watching him swim (and win) in the years to come!!


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require 'tempfile'
require 'syslog'
require 'logger'

module Galaxy
    module HostUtils
        def HostUtils.logger ident="galaxy"
            @logger ||= begin
                log = Syslog.open ident, Syslog::LOG_PID | Syslog::LOG_CONS, Syslog::LOG_LOCAL7
                class << log
                    attr_reader :level
                    # The interface is busted between Logger and Syslog. The later expects a format string. The former a string.
                    # This was breaking logging in the event code in production (we log the url, which contains escaped characters).
                    # Poor man's solution: assume the message is not a format string if we pass only one argument.
                    #
                    alias_method :unsafe_debug, :debug

                    def debug * args
                        args.length == 1 ? unsafe_debug(safe_format(args[0])) : unsafe_debug(* args)
                    end

                    alias_method :unsafe_info, :info

                    def info * args
                        args.length == 1 ? unsafe_info(safe_format(args[0])) : unsafe_info(* args)
                    end

                    def warn * args
                        args.length == 1 ? warning(safe_format(args[0])) : warning(* args)
                    end

                    def error * args
                        args.length == 1 ? err(safe_format(args[0])) : err(* args)
                    end

                    # set log levels from standard Logger levels
                    def level=(val)
                        @level = val
                        case val # Note that there are other log levels: LOG_EMERG, LOG_ALERT, LOG_CRIT, LOG_NOTICE
                            when Logger::ERROR
                                Syslog.mask = Syslog::LOG_UPTO(Syslog::LOG_ERR)
                            when Logger::WARN
                                Syslog.mask = Syslog::LOG_UPTO(Syslog::LOG_WARNING)
                            when Logger::DEBUG
                                Syslog.mask = Syslog::LOG_UPTO(Syslog::LOG_DEBUG)
                            when Logger::INFO
                                Syslog.mask = Syslog::LOG_UPTO(Syslog::LOG_INFO)
                        end
                    end

                    def safe_format(arg)
                        return arg.gsub("%", "%%")
                    end

                    # The logger implementation dump msg directly, without appending any loglevel. We need one though for Syslog.
                    # By default, logger(1) uses ``user.notice''. Do the same here.
                    def <<(msg)
                        notice(msg)
                    end
                end
                log.level = Logger::INFO
                log
            end
        end

        # Returns the name of the user that invoked the command
        #
        # This implementation tries +who am i+, available on some unix platforms, to check the owner of the controlling terminal,
        # which preserves ownership across +su+ and +sudo+. Failing that, the environment is checked for a +USERNAME+ or +USER+ variable.
        # Finally, the system password database is consulted.
        def HostUtils.shell_user
            guesses = []
            guesses << `who am i 2> /dev/null`.split[0]
            guesses << ENV['USERNAME']
            guesses << ENV['USER']
            guesses << Etc.getpwuid(Process.uid).name
            guesses.first { |guess| notguess.nil? and notguess.empty? }
        end

        def HostUtils.avail_path
            @avail_path ||= begin
                directories = %w{ /usr/local/var/galaxy /var/galaxy /var/tmp /tmp }
                directories.find { |dir| FileTest.writable? dir }
            end
        end

        def HostUtils.tar
            @tar ||= begin
                unless `which gtar` =~ /^no gtar/ || `which gtar`.length == 0
                    "gtar"
                else
                    "tar"
                end
            end
        end

        def HostUtils.switch_user user
            pwent = Etc::getpwnam(user)
            uid, gid = pwent.uid, pwent.gid
            if Process.gid != gid or Process.uid != uid
                Process::GID::change_privilege(gid)
                Process::initgroups(user, gid)
                Process::UID::change_privilege(uid)
            end
            if Process.gid != gid or Process.uid != uid
                abort("Error: unable to switch user to #{user}")
            end
        end

        class CommandFailedError < Exception
            attr_reader :command, :exitstatus, :output

            def initialize command, exitstatus, output
                @command = command
                @exitstatus = exitstatus
                @output = output
            end

            def message
                "Command '#{@command}' exited with status code #{@exitstatus} and output: #{@output}".chomp()
            end
        end

        # An alternative to Kernel.system that invokes a command, raising an exception containing
        # the command's stdout and stderr if the command returns a status code other than 0
        def HostUtils.system command
            output = IO.popen("#{command} 2>&1") { |io| io.readlines }
            unless $?.success?
                raise CommandFailedError.new(command, $?.exitstatus, output)
            end
            output
        end
    end
end

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(18) Interview with the founders of Little Plant Pantry for The Earth Issue.
Photos: Jaimee Lowe
~ For what we're doing, there is no blueprint. Everything is a conversation.
While working on this interview, throughout the Europe heatwave, the point came where one evening, we considered ordering food. The convenience of getting some Himalayan momo's or an Indian dosa delivered to our door, could mean I had some more time to transcribe the conversation, instead of spending time cooking. I could not, however suppress the feeling of incongruity, or cognitive dissonance, related to writing this piece while ordering exotic food in disposable containers. I looked in the fridge, made a cauliflower curry, and then continued the work.
Maria Romanova Hynes and Winter Romanov from Little Plant Pantry, moved from rural Ireland to Amsterdam early last year, to open the city's first zero-waste shop. We sat in their garden, newly built within ten days with the help of volunteers, and talked about their journey towards a sustainable urban existence, the harsh reality of the food industry and the challenges and joys of running your own shop.
Georgia Kareola: Most people in search for a more sustainable life, seem to move away from the city. What you've done is the opposite. I'm really curious how this has been for you. First of all, how did you come to live off the grid?
Winter Romanov: "Before moving out to the countryside, I'd been working in business in Dublin. It was the usual, very stressful environment and eventually I decided to get out. I pursued what was my dream since I was very young; to live in a cottage off the Westcoast of Ireland. My life changed completely. I wasn't living what you would call a 'sustainable' life, but I was living quite a good life in terms of carbon footprint. I used to go fishing down on the rocks and ate a very simple diet of fish and locally bought potatoes. Different things happened that changed my attitude. I went fishing one day and caught a fish with the hook through its eye. I realised the suffering that fish had gone through, and never went fishing again.
I had been living there for four or five years when Maria came along.
Maria Romanova Hynes: At that point in time, we're talking seven years ago, I was still at university. I was doing a degree in Literature and I came over to the West of Ireland for my summer break. I was reading all this Irish literature, and it talked about the west of Ireland; how beautiful it was and how the language had been preserved. There was no language left when I came, but it was still very beautiful.
We were both questioning a lot of things at the time. When I met Winter, I remember him saying that he didn't eat pork because he disagreed with the way the industry is treating those animals. I was very attuned to this. I grew up in Russia and every summer, the kids would be sent out of Moscow, because you couldn't breathe there. I would go to my grandmother's friend's house in a very traditional village. They had a farm where I would work and take care of birds and chickens and turkeys, and through that I developed an understanding of the way animals were treated. I actually wanted to become vegetarian at that time but I was only 13 and my parents didn't allow it. Later, I became quite a conventional teenager, never questioning anything. I went from not wanting to eat meat to thinking that being vegetarian was just a fashion, and that people had no idea how animals were actually being treated. I knew the village life, not the farming industry.
I didn't know at the time that, actually, the world is structured differently and the meat industry is not an idyllic farm in the middle of nowhere that kills one chicken every three months.
M: After I finished my Master's degree in Dublin, we decided to search for the ideal life. I didn't want to stay in the city and we didn't want to work for anyone, so we went back to the west of Ireland. We lived in a farming community - basically the entire west of Ireland is a farming community. We saw there, how much the animals around us were suffering. Even if they roamed freely, they often had broken legs and no one really cared about them during harsh storms on the Atlantic coast.
W: A lot of the animal abuse in Ireland is not industrial abuse, but abuse through neglect. Once you see an animal as produce, it's impossible to actually care. You have to mentally detach. It's a subtle form of cruelty.
W: Our growing consideration of waste happened pretty much by accident. In Ireland, we had a shed where we would collect and divide all our waste. I was very good at waste management, but after six to eight weeks, we would have a carload full of tins, tetra-packs and different types of plastics. When it transpired that the majority of what we collected could not be recycled but would go to landfill, I started to realise - fuck - we're doomed. If this was what two people trying to live sustainably produce in trash, we really are in trouble.
We decided to change our habits but realised soon this was difficult. There was no bulk shop where we lived, so we were forced to ask: how do you actually live without producing so much waste if the world isn't built for this? This led us to open a place ourselves where we would be able to shop.
G: Was it easier to become more aware because you weren't plugged into city life?
W: 100 percent.
M: We were living in the most beautiful cottage surrounded by no one and were totally inward looking for some time.
W: I don't think we would have done this if we would not have had this time to look at ourselves. I think that helped us enormously.
G: You then decided to move back into the city. Why did you feel this urge?
M: My main disappointment was that we couldn't really connect with anyone. Even though we liked the isolation at first, we wanted to find a like-minded community. The great thing about having this shop, is that we meet some wonderful people. They just walk through the door. Winter says his faith in humanity has been restored through this, which is interesting because he had no faith.
W: I always believed, and I probably still believe, that we are doomed. Coming here made me change perspective: we might be doomed but I'm not cynical any longer because that community we were hoping to find is here, and it is growing. It means there are an awful lot of people that want to do good in the world, that don't want to live an uncaring existence. We find them through having this shop, which is wonderful. Every day people thank us for opening up. It means we're giving more than just products.
M: Now we've become an active part of the food-chain. On the downside, this also made us realise that we have very little power over the whole monster that is behind us. The food-chain is governed by considerations of efficiency, not ethics and sustainability.
W: If it would be, people would have to accept that they're not going to be eating things that come from around the world. There's so much we have to give up if we were to be truly sustainable and most people just aren't prepared to make that choice.
M: We constantly need to find a balance between being sustainable and providing enough choice so we can exist as a shop.
W: We are forced to make choices every day. Often this comes down to choosing the better of two evils, just because it's a business.
G: It's this interesting dynamic between reliance on the system, and creating something controversial that goes against the grain. I don't think you can step out, and that it is an illusion to be completely disconnected.
M: When we met, this was one of our main differences. Winter was living off the grid, proud of being outside of it all. Every time we saw each other, I was trying to prove to him that this wasn't possible; that no matter how far you go, you're still part of the global world.
W: And you won that argument.
M: I won it on many fronts, because we did go to the countryside and couldn't escape the system there, and now we moved to the city and can't escape it here.
G: You can't escape the system, you can only try to do something different with it. Perhaps it's more important to make your contribution and find as many people as possible that are on the same track.
W: Having a shop with the doors open is a fascinating way of growing a community. Sometimes we get tired of talking because we talk all the time now, but ultimately that is what will help us. All the best connections we made so far were because we were talking to people.
M: For what we're doing, there is no blueprint, there are no answers. Everything is a conversation, and that's why you need other people. You can't have a conversation with yourself all day long.
When we were thinking about opening a shop, I actually wanted to call it a research lab. I thought, it's gonna be the most enjoyable thing in the world, I'm just gonna be doing all this research. The reality is, that we have very little time left for something we thought was going to be the essential, most important, most exciting part of what we're doing. We spend most of our time sweeping the floor, ordering food, paying invoices.
G: It strikes me that you're not being very evangelical about the cause. The fact that you wanted to call it a research lab shows me that you're rather being educational about it - is that also how you see it?
M: Yes. I don't want to put people in a situation, where they feel they need to do something 100% or not at all. I think that with a lot of these extreme, evangelical attitudes you end up being somewhat tyrannical in your views.
We were not always vegans, and we weren't born into a plastic free world. We are trying to change, and to help other people change. That's all we can do.
We don't want to claim that we know the truth. I know one thing for sure, which is that I don't know the truth. I don't know whether the ripple effect of my effort will be good or bad - I cannot see the future. I don't see the whole world in its entirety. I cannot be judgemental.
I think there is such a thing as activism, which is pure dedication to a cause, and I think that's very important. We are doing something slightly different: we are working with the public. There are of course causes that I stand by, but when I'm in the shop, I am a shop owner. It's just a different job. I welcome people into this world that we've created and try to help them. Winter taught me that 50% of doing business is working with people. It's so important. We have to bridge the gap between us, not create a divide.
What it comes down to, is that we're not here to dictate. We're here to learn together and to provide a service.


Jaguar carries sensors suited to sea floor surveys, including a downward-facing optical camera and strobe, an imaging sonar, and a magnetometer. The camera takes one picture every three seconds while Jaguar is near the sea floor; this rate is fixed by the amount of time it takes for the strobe to recharge. We are currently examining the use of arrays of LEDs for underwater lighting, which will allow for higher frame rates at the cost of higher power consumption.


Roosebeck 28 Inch Irish Flute Ebony Key D Gig Bag. This flute is in the key of D. It is tuned to the traditional Irish scale, the F# is flat, the A is sharp, the C# is flat, and the bottom D is also quite flat. We designate this tuning as "Traditional" tuning. If you're looking for a flute with standard tuning, please look for flutes labeled "Standard" tuning. No adjectives necessary, this is an ebony flute. It assembles in four parts and comes in a padded gig bag. At this price you can afford to get the best. The upper two sections have a brass slide for additional tuning. The center section slides into the top and bottom sections and has taped & thread wrapped ends for a secure fit. This flute is tunable. Assembled flute is 26 inches closed; slide opens the flute to a 28.25 inch length.


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Lightweight 4 berth fixed bed tourer from Swift. The Challenger 480 has front seating area converting to double bed with plenty of storage. Rear washroom houses shower, Thetford loo and vanity sink. Oven suite and 3 way fridge, 12volt and mains lighting, blow air heating system, fly screens and black out blinds plus much more.


In today's blog, we introduce Carson-Dellosa Publishing and a case study on implementation of a high-availability infrastructure from JCMR to limit internal customer impact and revenue loss due to system downtime or interruptions.
Carson-Dellosa streamlined processes around best practices for managing technology and reducing downtime for problem resolution. This dramatically improved IT service levels.
Reducing the chance for failures, which gains operational efficiency, gave back precious time to their IT Department. This recovered time allowed them to work on more strategic cost-reduction projects.
The consolidation of orphan licenses and the identification of operation inefficiencies, and the correction of both of these issues allowed for an almost instant ROI for the cost of these services from JCMR Technology.
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With ever more stringent emissions requirements placing additional demands on the design of mass transportation such as buses and rail borne vehicles, composites offer a cost-effective route to achieving substantial weight reductions on the load bearing structure of the vehicle. For buses particularly, the use of composites allows payload levels to be maintained or improved whilst accommodating more complex hybrid or electric drivetrains for the same axle weights.
In addition to the potential weight reductions, composites also bring advantages such as improved corrosion and fatigue resistance and reduced part count, which when combined with Gurit's extensive composite engineering and manufacturing experience can deliver a lightweight structure that integrates directly with the existing vehicle architecture.
Gurit has worked on the global structural design of buses (and components for rail vehicle structures) through to the detail design of components. Our in-depth knowledge of composites allows us to produce robust design details and line-replaceable structural elements allowing easy maintenance in service. Below is a taster of some of the projects Gurit has undertaken. Please call us to discuss your project or any technical issue that we may assist to resolve.
As part of the largest public transport project in Malaysia, Gurit worked in collaboration with dk Composites (Malaysia) for the KVMRT project (Klang Valley Mass Rapid Transit) to produce composite manufactured train seats.
Gurit's Composite Engineering team provided the engineering design and verification of the composite seats and leaning bars, aluminium support structures and bolting details that form the seating system.
As well as supplying materials to the project, Gurit worked in a joint development team with Wrightbus' structural engineers to develop the overall laminate design and connection details to the steel chassis and aluminium body side and roof panels. Gurit provided guidance on the material properties and allowable stresses so that Wrightbus' engineers could incorporate the composite structure into their existing Finite Element Model of the bus.
The Windjet was constructed in an attempt to gain World Speed Records on land, ice and water, using wind powered vehicles. After successfully breaking the British land speed record of 113.4mph, this second generation vehicle was built to travel on both land and ice. The unusual design of the vessel and Gurit's high-performance structural materials enabled the team to make a strong, lightweight vehicle that can cope with a myriad of weather conditions, whilst travelling at high speeds.


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Sister Len and the journey of hope
21 Jul 2016 | Blog | Cambodia | Long-term Development
Tags: mercy, hope, HIV and AIDS, Cambodia | No comments
"To bring hope to the people that we work with," says Sister Maria Leonor Montiel ('Sister Len'), "means walking with them and walking slowly, at their pace. It's a lifelong process - a journey."
Throughout her life, Sister Len has offered hope to people living in vulnerable circumstances. Born in the Philippines, she has worked for more than two decades in Cambodia as a social worker and community development worker. She helped to found the first School of Social Work at the Royal University of Phnom Penh, and teaches Social Work at the university.
As the director of the Seedling of Hope program in Cambodia, she works daily to offer a life with hope and dignity to people affected by HIV and AIDS. The program has been run by the Maryknoll Sisters since 1995 as a holistic response to the HIV and AIDS epidemic. It supports affected children and adults through healthcare, education and vocational training, life skills, and spiritual and psychosocial support.
"The aim is to make a real difference in the lives of youth and families for whom the effects of HIV and AIDS have been compounded by the impacts of living with poverty and disadvantage.
Sister Len
Seedling of Hope is subdivided into two distinct programs. The Maryknoll Seedling of Hope Youth Program is supported by Caritas Australia and funded by a private donor. It offers vulnerable young people access to education, healthcare and social services.
The Seedling of Hope Adult Program focuses on both physical and psychological healing, and on reintegrating people living with HIV and AIDS into society and the economy, so they can have improved quality of life and sustainable livelihoods. Services include home-based care, skills training, income generation and livelihood development, as well as health referrals, counselling and secure housing. This program is supported by Caritas Australia and the Australian Government.
"Through the program, people living with HIV and AIDS have a chance to live a new life with dignity and a chance to improve their economic wellbeing and become independent, agents of their own change. They develop skills, self-confidence and initiative," Sister Len says.
Seedling of Hope Impacts, July - November 2015
Youth Program:
348 (178 girls) orphan and vulnerable children/youth affected by HIV and AIDS had access to education (basic education, skills training or higher education) and medical care and treatment.
16 orphans and vulnerable youth siblings were enabled to live independently with their siblings in their own home, with regular monitoring and follow-up from the project.
Adult Program:
287 (169 females) living with HIV and AIDS had regular home-based visits to supervise their medical care.
118 people were trained in livelihood planning and supported with microcredit or grants.
14 families received secure housing, and 13 houses were repaired.
Find more about Caritas Australia's response to the global problem of HIV and aids
Transforming Service Conference
With her combined education and community development skills, Sister Len is recognised internationally as a significant contributor to the field of service learning. This is an educational approach where students have both informal instruction about service in their own environment, and the opportunity to serve in communities. The focus of Service Learning is connecting the traditional classroom experience with the lessons about life that come through service.
On 14 April, Sister Len was a keynote speaker at the Transforming Service Conference, held at the Australian Catholic University in Brisbane between. This was the first international ecumenical service learning conference, enabling educators involved in leading or organising service learning activities in Australian schools to provide a national profile of activities, and work together to advance understanding.
In her address, Sister Len said: "Service Learning? How about calling it Learning Service? It is an experience of service but it is mostly learning for the students. We have so much to learn from communities. We should be putting emphasis on the role of the students as learner rather than providers of service, and of the communities as the 'educators' rather than the receivers of service."
"We're not travelling in this world alone. We're co-travellers, we're co-creators."
Sister Len, speaking at the Transforming Service Conference
'Just Visiting?'
Sister Len is a key figure in 'Just Visiting?', an online teaching resource with Catholic Social Teaching principles as a framework. 'Just Visiting?', featuring film clips where Sister Len is interviewed, offers a guide for teachers and students in Australian Catholic schools in planning immersion travel programs and reflecting on the experience on their return. This resource is useful for anyone planning to visit a development program.
Learn more about this resource
Caritas Australia has produced prayers, posters and resources on the Year of Mercy, suitable for secondary schools, parishes and general information.


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IMB researchers have made it their mission to solve this problem. They are developing tailored and targeted treatments to increase survival and quality of life of young patients.
Researchers have made progress into identifying potential new treatments, but need further funding to purchase equipment that will allow this research to progress to clinical trials.


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The Gender Pay Gap Continues to Narrow for Freelancers
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New research by PeoplePerHour reveals that for freelancers at least, the gender pay gap is narrowing.
The pay gap between male and female freelance workers is now at an all-time low of just 2.3%, or £0.45 per hour in real terms. With the national gender pay gap remaining at a staggering 14%, this is incredibly positive news for freelancers.
With more than 1.5 million registered users, the UK's leading freelance marketplace was able to establish an average hourly rate for freelancers across the board over the past five years. In terms of progression, when the figures for 2019 were taken in isolation there is just a 0.6% discrepancy between the genders, £17.67 per hour for female freelancers and £17.77 for their male counterparts.
And while there are still some major discrepancies, where male workers outstrip female freelancers in the same field – men who specialise in tutorials, for instance, command an average of 33.5% more than women – in other categories the bias is towards women. In fact, one of the most popular categories in the PeoplePerHour marketplace – videography – is dominated by women, who can expect an average hourly rate of £27.97. Men in the same field typically earn £26.00 – that's 7.6% less.
The top five areas in which female freelancers earn more than men
Profession Percentage gap in pay*
Translation 15%
Social Media 13%
Marketing & PR 8%
Videography 8%
Design 2%
Xenios Thrasyvoulou, founder and CEO of PeoplePerHour, explains:
'The gap between male and female freelance workers has been lower than the national average for some time now. Whether this is due to female freelancers having the confidence to claim their due, or to other factors is unknown. But to have the gap drop down to just £0.10 per hour in 2019 is incredible.
'The female workforce is enormously important to the economy. And yet women remain undervalued in most sectors of employment. We've seen it in the news this month, with the story of the BBC's Samira Ahmed, where a highly educated, trained professional was being paid between 50% and 33% less than male colleagues. It's easy to single the BBC out here because it's such a high-profile organisation. But the truth is that this behaviour is endemic because – for some bizarre reason – until recently, it was acceptable.
'Freelance women, men and – importantly – the people who make use of their services – understand the senselessness of that status quo. And it looks like they're doing something to change it.'
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Bangalore: CFA Society India, in collaboration with CFA Institute, the global association of investment professionals, hosted the 1st India Financial Talent Summit, in Mumbai. The Summit was attended by nearly 320 investment management professionals, including CFA® charterholders and CFA® Program candidates.
"With more domestic savings going towards financial products, almost all the sub-sectors of investment and finance industry are witnessing growth in business and recruitment. With this first-of-its-kind Summit, our aim is to bring together senior industry professionals and recruitment consultants to provide charterholders and candidates a comprehensive perspective on careers in the finance and investment industry," explained Jayesh Gandhi, CFA, president, CFA Society India (volunteer) and senior portfolio manager, Birla Sun Life Asset Management Company Limited.
Senior investment management professionals participated in the day-long Summit, including Chandru Badrinarayan, ED and Head, Client Coverage, South Asia, MSCI; Manish Chourasia, Chief Executive Officer, Tata Cleantech Capital Ltd.; Prasun Gajri, CFA, Chief Investment Officer, HDFC Standard Life Insurance Co. Ltd.; Rajeev Radhakrishnan, CFA, Head, Fixed Income, SBI Funds Management Pvt. Ltd.; Ravi Raman, MD and COO, InfraHedge Ltd.; and Shameek Ray, CFA, Head, Debt Capital Markets, ICICI Securities Primary Dealership Ltd.


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A DUI attorney in Salisbury, MD is known for always seeking to obtain a beneficial outcome for clients. Depending on the circumstances, that may be one of the better outcomes: having the charges dropped by the prosecuting attorney or the case dismissed by a judge. Being acquitted by a judge or jury is another highly favorable outcome, but it is more time-consuming and involves dedicating significant effort for an unpredictable result.
A less favorable outcome would be when a lawyer can convince the prosecution to reduce the charges, typically to a charge known as wet reckless. The driver is convicted of reckless driving with alcohol as a factor in the incident. This is preferable to a conviction of driving under the influence of alcohol, but can still significant consequences. Points are assessed to the driver's license and automotive insurance rates may increase. If the driver is ever convicted of DUI in the future, that wet reckless conviction may automatically convert to a DUI conviction, thus turning the individual into a repeat offender.
Maryland has another preferable option for certain people charged with DUI known as probation before judgment, or PBJ. A DUI attorney in Salisbury, MD may convince a judge to issue this penalty instead of something much harsher. It involves being sentenced to probation without being convicted of the offense. Judges are unlikely to issue this sentence to someone who was driving with an exceptionally high blood alcohol level (BAC) or who has a previous conviction of a DUI. However, for a first-time offender with a BAC slightly above the legal limit, a judge may decide this is a reasonable option. Anyone interested in learning whether they might be a good candidate for PBJ may consult an Ocean City Lawyer like Marc A. Zeve.
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A lucky boy or girl should use all ways to prove how society can benefit from their knowledge and skills. Essays are extremely important because they tie the whole application together. While most students spend days, sometimes weeks, perfecting their personal statements, admissions officers only spend about three to five minutes actually reading them, according to Jim Rawlins, director of admissions at the University of Oregon.
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Listening to rain: Would your brother make hot cocoa for you? Swap sophistication for self-awareness There is a designated portion of the application section designated to show off your repertoire of words.
It implies that her brother is engaged in the family my favorite holiday thanksgiving essay. We want what we ask for. My goal is to go on observing and inventing things to change this world for a better and contribute to your college community and rest of our society.
Student who annotated this prompt would know that the essay should accomplish three things: This college essay tip is by College Basic Team. Describe the world you come from — for example, your family, community or school — and tell us how your world has shaped your dreams and aspirations. Look for opportunities to upload essays onto applications as PDFs.
It should be people who know you best and want you to succeed. Go on with descriptions and examples of different academic and life achievements. So then why should essays be a big deal, if all of this information about you already exists?
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Stay disciplined in your writing. Even the most fluid writers are often stifled by fitting their narrative neatly into a category and the essay quickly loses authentic voice.
Avoid protracted references to your past accomplishments and accolades: Show the admissions committee who you are beyond grades and test scores and 2. The lessons we take from obstacles we encounter can be fundamental to later success. College Essay Tips: In others, you will be given multiple questions from which to choose. Instead of simply discussing science guerre du vietnam dissertation its progress, he used to focus more on social elements as our community has an opportunity to change future.
Because we've all been there. It can be an intellectual challenge, need help starting my essay research query, an ethical dilemma—anything that is of personal importance, no matter the scale. This isn't the place to list your awards or discuss your grades or test scores. Be your brilliant self.
Whatever topic you land on, the essentials of a standout college essay still stand: Avoid a rehash of the accomplishments on your high school resume and choose something that the admissions committee will not discover when reading the rest of your application. And trust that your perfect-fit college will see you for who truly you are and say "Yes!
Use persuasive writing to make your essay case, but remember you are also selling yourself.
Check this one out: My parents would have much preferred that I write about sports or youth group, and I probably could have said something interesting about those, but I insisted on writing about a particular fish in the pet store I worked at—one that took much longer than the others to succumb when the whole tank system in the store became diseased.
Some may call it a huge mistake.
Admissions committees put the most weight on your high school grades and your test scores. Be specific about your role in the research It is important that reviewers learn how you are contributing to the research, particularly if you have a role in a larger, ongoing project.
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The same goes for college essays.
To get myself in a meditative state, I spend 60 seconds set an alarm drawing a spiral. Essays that come from the heart are the easiest to write and the best written. Writing a college admissions essay is only half the battle. Crafting a memorable image for essay readers establishes your individual brand, and makes it easier for college administrators to see your value as a student.
If you already have, erase them from memory and write the story you want colleges to hear. Choose this prompt if you have a relevant—and specific! Some of my best days were spent arranging and reading her books. Describe how your research fits into a bigger picture Include enough detail to convey your knowledge of the topic and so that reviewers can imagine what you are doing.
It was a macabre little composition, but it was about exactly what was on my mind at the time I was writing it. Prompt 6: For instance, students who annotated this prompt would know that they should be looking for obstacles, challenges, setbacks, or failures in their past. Ready to read one? I was always more likely to admit or advocate for a student who was real and allowed me to get to know them in their essay.
I do need some practice in the field of human resources, so I believe that Hopkin's is the best place to achieve my goal. It could be an experience, a person, a book—anything that has had an impact on your life. Describe a topic, idea, or concept you find so engaging that it makes you lose all track of time.
Find out an example of good application essay structure, like this one: Then, start writing.
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If you are choosing the Division of General Studies, tells us about your passions, your career goals, or the different paths you are interested in exploring.
What do these details tell us? Verbs jump, dance, fall, fail us. On the other hand, if you're writing about something you love, something that excites you, something that you've thought deeply about, chances are I'm going to set down your application feeling excited, too—and feeling like I've gotten to know you.
Describe a problem you've solved or a problem you'd like to solve.
Remember that admission offices have Google, too, so if we feel we need to hear the song or see the work of art, we'll look it up. Present a situation or quandary and show steps toward the solution. When you write from your heart, words should come easily. Being funny is tough. Two sentences work how to write an application essay for a program as well, and require no extra words.
Write something like: Here is a picture of the spiral, in case you have trouble visualizing: As a former college admissions officer, I read thousands of essays—good and bad. Since I was eleven I have known I wanted to be a librarian. That is why I decided to write this essay for your college.
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It provides a little suspense. Remember the major formatting components: Never let the pen come off the page, and just keep drawing around and around customer care professional cover letter sample the alarm goes off. What have you enjoyed about high school? Perhaps, this is not the most relevant topic for the application essay, but I decided to stay maximum creative. This avoids the common mistake of responding to some but not all of the questions posed.
Think outside the text box! By underlining the key parts of the passage, you get a sense of what kinds of answers go well with this essay prompt. My mother told me that strawberries would be the my favorite holiday thanksgiving essay choice.
We recommend giving yourself at least a month to craft your personal statement. Starting even earlier never hurt a student. Stick to the chronological order while preparing a list of events, experiences, and activities related to your target educational program. You should show how one story is connected with another story through finding things these different points have in common, and build a logical chain.