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The ALAN Review
The ALAN Review (TAR) is a peer-reviewed (refereed) journal published by the Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of the National Council of Teachers of English (ALAN). It is devoted solely to the field of literature for young adults. It is published three times per academic year (fall, winter, and summer) and is sent to all ALAN members, individual and institutional. Members of ALAN need not be members of NCTE.
TAR publishes high quality articles and professional materials that support the learning and development of readers committed to (or wanting to learn more about) young adult literature—its authors, its readers, and its advocates. TAR publishes scholarship and resource materials that build, expand, and challenge readers' understandings, as well as support them in the daily work they do with the students in their care.
Additional Information about TAR
We host online versions of the regular columns published in our print version. You can read them here.
Submission and Author Guidelines
Those interested in submitting manuscripts for consideration in The ALAN Review should familiarize themselves with the guidelines for authors below. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically to tar@utk.edu.
ABOUT THE ALAN REVIEW
The ALAN Review (TAR) publishes articles that explore, examine, critique, and advocate for literature for young adults and the teaching of that literature. Published pieces include, but are not limited to, research studies, papers presented at professional meetings, surveys of the literature, critiques of the literature, articles about authors, comparative studies across genres and/or cultures, articles on ways to teach the literature to adolescents, and interviews with YA authors.
Many of the individual members of ALAN are classroom teachers of English in middle and high schools. Other readers include university faculty members in English and/or Education programs, researchers in the field of young adult literature, librarians, YA authors, publishers, reading teachers, and teachers in related content areas. ALAN has members in all 50 United States and a number of foreign countries.
PREFERRED STYLE
Manuscripts should usually be no longer than twenty double-spaced, typed pages, not including references. A manuscript submitted for consideration should deal specifically with literature for young adults and/or the teaching of that literature. It should have a clearly defined topic and be scholarly in content, as well as practical and useful to people working with and/or studying young adults and their literature. Research studies and papers should be treated as articles rather than formal reports. Stereotyping on the basis of sex, race, age, etc., should be avoided, as should gender-specific terms such as "chairman."
MANUSCRIPT FORMAT
Manuscripts should be double-spaced throughout, including quotations and bibliographies. The names of submitting authors should not appear anywhere in the manuscript. Short quotations, as permitted under "fair use" in the copyright law, must be carefully documented within the manuscript and in the bibliography. Longer quotations and complete poems or short stories must be accompanied by written permission from the copyright owner. YA author interviews should be accompanied by written permission for publication in TAR from the interviewed author(s). Interviewers should indicate to the author(s) that publication is subject to review of an editorial board. Original short tables and figures should be double-spaced and placed on separate sheets at the end of the manuscript. Notations should appear in the text indicating proper placement of tables and figures.
The ALAN Review uses the bibliography style detailed in the Publications Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA). Please adhere to that style when including in-text citations and preparing reference lists.
SUBMITTING THE MANUSCRIPT
Authors should submit manuscripts electronically to tar@utk.edu. In the subject line, please write: ALAN Manuscript Submission. All manuscripts should be written using a recent version of Microsoft Word and use APA bibliographical format. Complete submissions include the following three documents: 1) A manuscript without references to the author(s) and with name(s) removed in the Properties section under the File menu to ensure the piece is blinded; 2) A title page with names, affiliations, mailing addresses, and 100-150 word professional biographies for each submitting author, as well as a brief statement that the article is original, has not been published previously in other journals and/or books, and is not a simultaneous submission; and 3) In order to reduce personal bias and increase personal awareness and responsibility in The ALAN Review, we are asking all our authors to submit a positionality statement along with their manuscript. A positionality statement addresses who you are, how you view the field of young adult literature, and your relationship with the field. We ask that each submitting author writes their own positionality statement. Please consider the following question to craft your statements: How are you positioned in terms of the content you will be reviewing? In other words, what are your social identities (e.g., ability, race, ethnicity, gender, etc.) and your professional expertise in relation to the manuscript you are submitting?
Each manuscript will receive a blind review by the editors and at least three members of the Editorial Review Board, unless the length, style, or content makes it inappropriate for publication. Usually, authors should expect to hear the results within eight weeks. Manuscripts are judged for the contribution made to the field of young adult literature and mission of The ALAN Review, scholarly rigor, and clarity of writing. Selection also depends on the manuscript's contribution to the overall balance of the journal.
PUBLICATION OF ARTICLES
The ALAN Review assumes that accepted manuscripts have not been published previously in any other journals and/or books, nor will they be published subsequently without permission of the editors. Should the author submit the manuscript to more than one publication, he/she should notify The ALAN Review. If a submitted or accepted manuscript is accepted by another publication prior to publication in The ALAN Review, the author should immediately withdraw the manuscript from publication in The ALAN Review.
Manuscripts that are accepted may be edited for clarity, accuracy, readability, and publication style. Upon publication, the author will receive two copies of The ALAN Review in which the article appears. Publication usually occurs within 18 months of acceptance.
Calls for Manuscripts
Those interested in submitting work for consideration to The ALAN Review can read the current calls for manuscripts below.
YA in Action
Volume 49: Issue 3 (Summer 2022)
Submissions due: November 1st, 2021
From hashtags (think #BlackLivesMatter #StopAAPIHate #FreePalestine and #WeNeedDiverseBooks) to books for young adults, the written word can inspire us to act. Patrise Khan-Cullor's YA edition of When They Call You a Terrorist: A Story of Black Lives Matter and the Power to Change the World (Wednesday Books, 2020) reminds us that protest in the interest of the most vulnerable comes from love. With journal entries, photos, and notes that show the formation of an activist from a very young age, this meaningful, empowering account of survival, strength, and resilience seeks to change the culture that declares innocent Black life expendable. In Taking On the Plastics Crisis (Penguin Workshop, 2020), youth activist Hannah Testa shares with readers how she led a grassroots political campaign to successfully pass state legislation limiting single-use plastics and how she influenced global businesses to adopt more sustainable practices. And in Marke Bieschke's Into the Streets: A Young Person's Visual History of Protest in the United States (Zest Books, 2020), young adult readers can journey through photos, artwork, and other visual elements of significant protests, sit-ins, and collective acts of resistance throughout US history.
We want to know: What issues are you and your students passionate about? How do you define activism? What does activism look like for you and your students? How do you use young adult literature—in your classroom, in your personal life, in your research—to act and/or to inspire activism? What YA titles inspire you to act? What YA titles show you how to?
We invite correspondence about ideas for articles and submission of completed manuscripts. We would especially love to hear from adolescents about the role YAL plays in their own activism or desire to act. Here's a partial list of topics, meant only to suggest the range of our interests for this issue:
For people who have never been involved in activism before, books like This Book Is Anti-Racist (Jewell, 2020) can be a powerful starting point. It provides readers with actionable steps and lessons on how to take action! What other books act as guides to waking up and getting involved in activism? How are books jumping-off points for action?
The resurgence of anti-Asian hate, sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic and racist rhetoric by Trump, is not a new occurrence in the United States. Books like We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration by Frank Abe and Tamiko Nimura teach readers about pivotal moments of oppression and resistance in Asian American history and illustrate how we can connect this history to our present day. What other books provide context into excluded histories that can help us face our current reckoning and grow as activists?
This past year, we've increasingly seen how important activism is when it comes to voting rights. How do books like Yes No Maybe So (Saeed & Albertalli, 2020), You Say It First (Cotugno, 2020), and One Person, No Vote: How Not All Voters Are Treated Equally (YA edition, Anderson & Bolden, 2019) demonstrate ways in which adults and adolescents can get involved in political activism?
Titles like Parachutes by Kelly Yang and Shout by Laurie Halse Anderson inform readers about sexual assault and calls for allies to speak up about harassment, rape, and the #MeToo movement. How do works like Yang's and Anderson's inspire action for women's rights? What other YA titles ask readers to "shout" for women's rights and advocate for radical feminism?
George M. Johnson calls themself a journalist, author, and activist. How does their book All Boys Aren't Blue offer readers an introduction to advocating for LGBTQIA+ rights? How can an author's online presences, like George's, also be a model for young people on how activism can be extended from books to social media? What other books help inform young readers about the fight for LGBTQIA+ rights?
In Love Is a Revolution by Renee Watson, the protagonist struggles with finding her place as a teen activist in comparison to her cousin, who is passionate about environmentalism and being part of a teen activist group. How does Watson's book portray the tension people may feel when first getting involved in activism? How can it inspire teens to find their passion for activism? How does Watson's book speak to the power adolescents hold? What books could be paired with Watson's to show the importance of environmentalism? Consider Poisoned Water: How the Citizens of Flint, Michigan, Fought for Their Lives and Warned the Nation (Cooper & Aronson, 2020).
Open Call—What Is Important to You Right Now?
Volume 50: Issue 1 (Fall 2022)
Submissions due: March 1, 2022
We are halfway through our editorship, and we've learned so much from our ALAN family of YA authors, researchers, teacher educators, classroom teachers, and school librarians. We know our contributors are careful, critical readers of YAL, and we also know that representations of youth in YAL and social justice are important topics to our readers and those who write for us. For this issue, we're handing the mic over to you because we want to know what else is important to you—what's on your mind when it comes to YAL? We invite you, our ALAN family, to shape this issue by telling us what you think is important in the field of YAL right now. Below are some questions that may help guide your submission, but remember—this issue is truly about what you, our readers and writers, have to say! Submissions should be related to the teaching and scholarship of YAL, but feel free to be creative with your topics.
How have anti-Critical Race Theory and anti-LGBTQIA+ laws affected your teaching/research practices and students? How have you responded in your classroom/research?
How have you been affected by other new legislation, both good (e.g., Latinx and Asian American history course requirement in secondary schools) and bad (e.g., voter suppression and anti-abortion laws)?
How are current events (i.e., the discovery of Indigenous children's remains at residential schools, the 20th anniversary of 9/11, the removal of US troops from Afghanistan, the continued COVID-19 global pandemic) affecting your YA reading list and/or your teaching/research practices?
What excites you right now in the field of YAL?
How are you defining the field of YAL right now?
What trends are you seeing within the YA texts you and your students are reading?
What projects are you working on in your classrooms and/or in your scholarship with YAL?
Have your YA reading lists shrunk or grown as a result of personal growth, new legislation, new research, budget allocations, etc.?
What is still not getting enough attention within the YAL universe?
What's new? What's old and getting reworked? What has been exhausted that you'd like to see the field improve upon or move away from?
How is YAL inspiring your research/teaching/learning?
Please submit all manuscripts electronically to: tar@utk.edu. Please see the full submission guidelines in the tab above.
Please note, The ALAN Review's editorial team is creating an inclusive writing guide for authors, which will include expectations for inclusive language use and citations. While this guide is being prepared, authors are asked to consider the inclusive language and citations used throughout their manuscripts. Please access the following resources to help determine the inclusivity of your manuscript and your references list:
University of Idaho Brand Resource Center Inclusive Writing Guide
The Diversity Style Guide
GLAAD Media Reference Guide
National Center on Disability and Journalism Language Style Guide
Asian American Journalists Association Guide to Covering Asian Pacific America
National Association of Black Journalists Style Guide
A Note on Inclusive Citation Practices: if only white scholars are referenced, this is unacceptable; cite multiply marginalized and underrepresented (MMU) scholars and voices (e.g., #CiteASista)
Those interested in becoming a reviewer for The ALAN Review should read and understand the expectations below as they prepare their response to authors.
The ALAN Review: Become a Reviewer
Thank you for wanting to serve as a reviewer for The ALAN Review! TAR publishes high-quality articles and professional materials that support the learning and development of readers committed to (or wanting to learn more about) young adult literature—its authors, its readers, and its advocates. TAR publishes scholarship and resource materials that build, expand, and challenge readers' understandings, as well as support them in the daily work they do with the students in their care.Expectations of reviewers are as follows:
1. Read and evaluate manuscripts within three weeks of receipt. Reviewers will provide timely and thoughtful feedback on the relevance of the manuscript to the call/field of YAL, clarity of the writing, and strength of the methods/approaches described. Reviewers will provide evidence for the claims they make about the manuscript and provide specific feedback for the author. We aim for the revision process to be constructive for the author; therefore, we expect reviewer comments to be actionable, clear, and kind.
2. Reviewers ultimately select if a manuscript is: Accept (with minor revisions), Conditionally Accept (accept with necessary revisions), Revise and Resubmit for Review (Substantial revisions necessary; resubmit with no guarantee of publication), Reject (Not suitable for publication in TAR).We appreciate your expertise and support of our authors. We employ a double-blind referee system: identities of the author(s) and the reviewers are not revealed to one another. However, we include reviewers' comments (or excerpts) in our responses to submitting author(s).To indicate your interest, please fill out the below Google form with your information and expertise. When we receive manuscripts for each issue, we try to match manuscripts to our reviewer's expertise. If selected, you will then receive a blinded copy of a manuscript and a Google form to complete the review within 2-3 weeks.To become a reviewer, please fill out this interest form.
Archives of The ALAN Review are hosted at Virginia Tech and can be accessed from that web site. Please note that archives reflect a two-year delay from the print publication date.


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Russia's 'democratic' revolution of February 1917 saw all types of professions and social groups mobilize into unions and congresses to articulate their demands. Lower and middle classes dominated, but it is notable how former elite groups were quick to form bodies to defend their interests and to promote their visions of Russia's future. Historians have invariably dismissed these groups as marginal to the revolutionary process and inherently 'counter-revolutionary'. This article challenges these assumptions, using the Union of Officers, formed across the military in May 1917 to defend officers' professional interests, as a case study. The union spread quickly, published a newspaper, and agitated among politicians for greater discipline in the military. Its activities fuelled popular fears of counter-revolution, but only a few of the union's leaders actively worked against the government. General Kornilov's failed revolt in August demonstrated that most officers had doubts. Nevertheless, the union played a crucial role in mobilizing moderate and conservative forces against further reform. This exacerbated social conflict and political polarization, fatally undermining the Provisional Government and democracy in 1917.


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Steven Heller | Interviews
Approximately forty-give-or-take-a-year-or-two-years ago, I met Peter Blegvad at 7:00 a.m., my usual portfolio review time, in my New York Times office. Although we were both bleary-eyed, I was as impressed with his range of work—comic strips (he created the strip Leviathan), illustration, music—then as I am today. Born in the United States, he's lived in England for most of his life, so I was taken with the hybrid American timbre mixed with London intonation. He assumed the role of a philosopher-artist for whom traditional pen and ink illustration was a means to an end. However, I'm not exactly certain whether he knew or found that end then or now. I'm always getting copies of his recent endgames in the mail. Three years ago it was "Gonwards", a boxed set of CDs and DVDs, last year it was two books in one, Milano Eagles & The Marvelous Moo, which took 40 years to make and its byline reads Björn d'Algevey, an exquisite corpse, of Blegvad and the late Pushpin Studios illustrator-storyteller Jerry Joyner.
This year Blegvad sent me another type of surprise altogether that is a small part art book, an even smaller part memoir and mostly a treatise (more like a treat) that serves as therapy for him and mind expansion for readers. The poetically enigmatic title says it all: Imagine, Observe, Remember; it is a book about process, memory, remembrance and interpretation. "When I began doing comparative drawings of things imagined, observed and remembered, I was an illustrator looking for a story to illustrate. Something with a beginning, middle and end," Blegvad writes in his foreword or "Disjecta Membra" (scattered fragments) of Imagine, Observe, Remember. . . "It began as a way to think about illustration. It became a way of using illustration to think about imagining, observing and remembering. It's a kind of phenomenology project, a way to look at different ways of looking and seeing, using the means at my disposal, using myself as subject." After reading it twice, I thought it would nice if Blegvad provided insight into this practical theoretical philosophical wonderment.
Steven Heller: You write that the book "became a kind of phenomenology project, a way to look at different ways of looking and seeing using the means at my disposal, using myself as subject." Does this mean that it is a memoir or something other?
Peter Blegvad: There are bits of memoir interspersed throughout, but the book is something very 'other'. The writer Sally O'Reilly says it's "like theory fiction crossed with a graphic novel; and other than Paul Klee's notebooks, I can't think of anything else quite like it." It starts like a memoir, looking back to when I began the project, 45 years ago. But as memoir it's unreliable, as memory is. The story I tell about how and why I began drawing things X 3 could be told differently, like this for instance:
Someone once dared to ask "What's the point? Why bother to make comparative drawings of things depicted thrice?" One answer is that I was curious to see which of the three faculties—Imagination, Observation, or Memory—inspired the better drawing. (And, because I doubted my ability to draw well, I adopted a pseudo-scientific approach in order that my work might transcend critical evaluation on purely aesthetic grounds. I wanted to escape the tyranny of criticism, including self-criticism.)
In the book I describe how the basic idea of drawing things X 3—imagined, observed, remembered—was inspired by my struggle to develop a style as an illustrator. I liked accurate mimetic drawings, based on observation, but I also liked distortion, abstraction and stylization, based more on imagination and memory. So I was experimenting with these different approaches, drawing things as I pictured them mentally and then drawing them again from life, in order to help me decide which approach to follow. As I grew more adept at drawing my mental images of things, I began to find them as interesting, in their flawed imperfect way, as the things they were images of. So gradually my focus shifted from thinking about illustration to using illustration to think about how we imagine, observe, and remember.
There's also a memoir-like section about my parents—Erik and Lenore Blegvad—who were both artists and who were my primary influences.
The sections devoted to my own experiments aren't exactly memoirs, but as records of past activity there's an aspect of that to them.
But other sections of the book are based on workshops I taught over the years and are concerned with visualization exercises for writers and illustrators, with hypnagogic vision, with the poetics of failure, with encyclopaedias, with ancient Greek mnemonic techniques, with the history of cognitive science and eccentric figures like Sir Francis Galton, the Victorian polymath who's probably mainly infamous now as the founder of eugenics, but who was also a pioneer psychonaut who performed strange experiments on himself in order to catch a glimpse of his own mental processes at work. I like the problems that arise when the mind tries to observe itself. It's a conundrum, like trying to taste your own tongue. It might be impossible, but one can proceed as if it wasn't.
So, I'd say the book is less a memoir than an extended Surrealist experiment designed to encourage the idea of using oneself as a laboratory.
SH: There is a large amount of philosophical discourse with yourself. What are the main questions you want to answer? And what have you succeeded or failed in answering?
PB: Questions: What is real? What isn't? Where does the life live? Is it necessary to forget in order to imagine? What is the nature of the phenomena one 'sees' with the mind's eye? What is the nature of this 'seeing'? How might such phenomena be translated into visible images? What is lost, what is gained in the process? How do we know—or think we know—what we think? Do we discover or create—observe or imagine—mental images? What moral obligation—if any—does imagination have to truth?
To me, these aren't just questions they're mysteries. Where does the life live? One answer might be: mystery is where the life lives. The mind—consciousness—is a mystery, maybe the deepest. Nabokov said, consciousness "…is the only real thing in the world and the greatest mystery of all". A question I ask more than once: What's the point? Instead of an answer I quote Jenny Diski: "Perhaps the point of asking questions is not to receive an answer but to reiterate and refine the question itself. I'm inclined to think that there is, essentially, only one question. It is 'What is the point?' and in some form or another it is asked over and over again by those of us who have failed to mature enough to stop asking it."
SH: I've not read a book that dives as deep into the weeds as this, what triggered you to delve so deeply?
PB: Curiosity, perversity, excitement at the discoveries I was making. Over 45 years one thing led to another. I began very much with the sense of it being a lifelong labour. I needed some monumental encyclopaedic mission to distract and protect me from the void—my 'self'—and maybe to precipitate a 'second birth', because the first hadn't quite done the trick. It worked, more or less...
SH: You write: "Although much of my work has been in black and white, color will be examined in different lights." What as an artist is first and foremost important about color?
PB: That bit now reads: "Color will be examined in different lights, especially the indeterminate colour of dreams and mental images." Color (to revert to the US spelling) is another mystery, like music. When I use color in an illustration it's often merely pragmatic, a way to direct the viewer's eye. And, if I'm lucky, to create mood, atmosphere. I'm married to a brilliant colorist, the painter Chloë Fremantle. Most of the little I know about color I've absorbed from her. I guess what's important might be to do with the energies colors generate in us. A good colorist knows how one color affects another, and how they affect us psychologically and emotionally by their harmony or dissonance. Looking at Hilma af Klint's large abstractions, for instance, is like taking a bath in color, it's exhilarating, energizing, purifying somehow.
SH: How does Everyman's Encyclopedia operate in the way you think and make?
PB: Part of the appeal this project has for me is its encyclopaedic scope. As kids, many of us experienced a 'nostalgia for the infinite'. I never grew out of it. But I relate to the "perverse post-Enlightenment desire… to attempt the encyclopaedic and at the same time run it aground" identified by Swiss artist duo Fischli and Weiss (in an article by Randy Kennedy in the New York Times, 2 February 2016, 'Fischli and Weiss: Anarchy at the Guggenheim').
In 1985 I used an old copy of Everyman's Encyclopaedia (the 1932 edition) as the source for a series of drawings of things beginning with 'L' imagined, observed, remembered. Laburnum, Liszt, Loch Lomond, Lion... These are all reproduced in the book. Why 'L'? No particular reason. For the L of it. But I liked the air of obsolescence the images in the encyclopaedia had. I tried to imbue my drawings with some of their penumbral mystique.
SH: Is it possible to see things that are not there? Other than hallucination, that is?
PB: I think most of us do it all the time without being aware, and the ability—the awareness—can be 'educated' (trained). Eva Brann: "…our mental life is almost continuously filled with images, noticed or unnoticed (where unnoticed does not necessarily mean unconscious, but merely unattended to)." —The World of the Imagination: Sum and Substance. In my experience, noticing and attending to these things can be rewarding in unpredictable ways. Because they're mysterious, and, as said, mystery is where the life lives.
"Once you let them in, you've already done the first and
most critical thing, you've honored that information by including it.
And by doing that you've actually changed the world. It's nothing
mystical, but you've redefined the world for yourself."—Robert Irwin
As I say in the book, you may not be able to converse with the ghost of a flea while sketching its portrait like William Blake did, but your capacity for seeing things that aren't there can be demonstrated by visualising a capital letter N and rotating it ninety degrees clockwise. What letter is it now?
SH: What is what you call "a memory ghost"? Do we all have them or just a lucky few?
PB: They're most commonly people from one's past, but one can be haunted by sensations, by sounds, by language, or by objects too—a remembered room or house, for instance, or the car you rode in as a child. Some people are haunted by old phone numbers or mathematical equations. There can't be many people—except maybe the very young—who aren't haunted by something or someone from time to time.
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(Host) Rising fuel prices are prompting more people to ride Vermont's small, rural transit systems to work, stores or medical appointments.
The business is welcome, but the agencies that operate the routes say the higher prices are also driving holes through their budgets.
(Albright) It's a gray but mild morning as regular riders of a small red bus operated by Rural Community Transportation based in St. Johnsbury climb aboard and greet each other.
Charlotte Piadade and Beverly Withers live in the same affordable housing project and always sit together.
(Piadade) "We ride all day and sometimes we don't get off and sometimes we just get off somewhere and go to the bank, somewhere like that. We are going to stop at the grocery store today."
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(Albright) Others on the bus are going to work or school.
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Farther south, in the more congested Upper Valley, it's a similar story. Advance Transit saw a 15 percent increase in ridership this February, compared to last February.
(Chesnut) "I'm not even sure it's the actual price per se but the rapid rate of increase has really shocked people into changing their behavior."
(Albright) That's Van Chesnut, Advance Transit's Executive Director. He says ridership and routes have been steadily increasing on the system's buses since 1998-so much so that a recent study by the regional planning commission found a striking improvement in air quality that can be traced to the decrease of cars on the road.
(Chesnut) "All told there were over a million miles of automobile travel saved each year, I believe over fifteen tons of carbon monoxide, and some other positive trends being reported."
(Albright) Though fare structures and revenues vary across the state's thirteen community run transit systems, they all depend heavily on federal, state, and local subsidies. Some large employers also help foot the bills, and save on parking spaces. Fares-which can be free–account for a tiny fraction of revenues. And when gas prices spike, subsidies and corporate sponsorships don't always keep pace. Still, Chesnut says, Advance Transit's buses have to fuel up and go, regardless of the price.
(Chesnut) "Oh, I think we put on about 600,000 miles a year."
(Albright) If gas prices stay high, he says Advance Transit is studying the impact of charging for travel. But it's not a simple equation because some riders might go back to their cars, and civic-minded sponsors might also bail out.
Whatever Vermont's small transit systems do to balance their budgets, the director of UVM's Rural Studies Center predicts they are likely to find workable solutions. Jane Kolodinsky thinks Vermont's non-profit community carriers are an invaluable resource.
(Kolodinsky) "And sometimes those smaller micro-buses are a less expensive alternative than would be a large centralized transportation system."
(Albright) Maybe. But in St Johnsbury, RCT's Operations Manager David Towle has appealed to the state for emergency assistance to cover higher gasoline bills. He's not at all sure he'll get help since the state budget is so tight. But he wants to avoid cutting back routes, because so many in this isolated area depend on them.


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Yasho studied economics as an undergraduate and public policy as a master's student at Stanford University. He has gained experience in the public sector working for the Prime Minister's Office in India, and also in the private sector at Reliance Jio during its time of inception. Post college, he worked for a technology company, Truecaller, in San Francisco. He is curious and passionate about helping unlock India's potential in the 21st century!
Akshay studied computer science as a bachelor's and master's student at Stanford University. Over the course of the last few years, he has worked in the Bay Area in early-stage technology companies, at SAIF Partners Bangalore - a leading Asian venture capital firm, and also helped build a civic engagement technology for Dr. Shashi Tharoor. His dream in life is to enable personalized education for the world - Openhouse being his first step!
Sweta is perhaps the most important member of Openhouse - as our community manager she helps manage all the classes, students, teachers and events that take place here each day. Prior to this, she interned as a nutritionist at ILS Hospital & taught underprivileged children English + Computer Applications at Disha Foundation & Karma Kutir in Kolkata. A bachelor in Economics from UCLA, Sweta loves to spend time working on projects that can make difference in the lives of our youth.
Abhirup studied Physics as an engineering student at IIT Bombay. Following that, he worked at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Germany, Microsoft Research, Jabong Labs, and Milaap Social Ventures: India's largest crowdfunding platform. Abhirup also co-founded SearchX and subsequently built a smart news/content research tool drawing from millions of news sources. Most recently he spent a year teaching Maths and Physics to 60+ students for the IIT-JEE in his hometown, Agartala. As an individual, Abhirup is excited by the sheer potential of the education revolution in India, and is always happiest at the heart of the action.


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The Myanmar government has repeatedly demonstrated its unwillingness to restore citizenship to over a million Rohingya Muslims. Without citizenship, basic rights to security, property, and livelihood are effectively non-existent.
Rohingya refugees will not simply return to a situation in which their very lives are in jeopardy because of ethnic and religious hate that is directed at them. The legal guarantees and civil protections of citizenship must be part of any real repatriation agreement.
Burma Task Force is working diligently to apply the international pressure that will result in the restoration of citizenship for the Rohingya. By funding legal representation for Rohingya activists to bring Myanmar before a tribunal of the International Criminal Court (ICC), the government will be forced to recognize and answer for its crimes.
Since September 2017, Burma Task Force has been working closely with Rohingya survivors to record, translate, and archive their first-hand testimonies about the atrocities carried out against them. Collaborating with human rights lawyer Megan Hirst, BTF has made these testimonies the basis of the present case in the ICC.
In addition to advancing the prosecution of this case in the ICC, Burma Task Force is also pursuing litigation against Myanmar through the Principle of Universal Jurisdiction. Universal Jurisdiction allows victims of unconscionable international crimes can to redress against their oppressors, regardless of when or where such crimes have occured. Past Burmese heads of state who oversaw mass pogroms against the Rohingya can potentially be brought to justice under the aegis of Universal Jurisdiction.
Going forward, BTF will continue to pursue every possible route to justice for the Rohingya. Like the Jewish survivors of the Holocaust and their allies, who did not give up pursuing their oppressors until Eichmann was brought to trial, BTF will continue to spearhead the effort to bring Myanmar's war criminals to justice.
Legal documents and other resources
Burma Task Force has initiated legal proceedings in the International Criminal Court to force a humane resolution to the Rohingya crisis. Here you can find the key legal documents of the ongoing case:
Observations on the Behalf of Victims of the Tula Toli Massacre
Information on Victims' Applications Received
CPIJ Amicus Request
ICJ Amicus Request
Decision on CPIJ Amicus Request
Decision on ICJ Amicus Request
Basic Facts About Universal Jurisdiction
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Засолювання оселедцевих — процес консервування промислової риби сімейства оселедцевих (салаки, тюльки, кільки, хамси) за допомогою куховарської солі. В Україні та Росії виробляється переважно в чанах або скринях і в невеликій кількості — в бочках. Рибозасольний посуд наповнюється оселедцем і чергуються з сіллю шарами насипом (в безладді) або правильними рядами з одноманітним положенням риби. Залежно від розмірів оселедця, його жирності та температурних умов оселедець солять зі штучним охолодженням (до засолу або під час засолу) або без охолодження. При холодному засолі сповільнюються автолітичні та бактеріальні процеси, що дозволяє оптимально наситити тканини риби сіллю навіть при її значній товщині. Тривалість засолу оселедця залежить від його розмірів, жирності, дозування солі, необхідної солоності м'яса, а також температури, при якій протікає засіл.

При бочковому засолі оселедця застосовується тільки правильне укладання оселедця рядами. Цілий або попередньо оброблений оселедець (зябрений, обезголовлений) обвалюють в солі та укладають в бочки (кристалики солі при цьому прилипли до шкіри і її не струшують), спинкою вниз, з хрестоподібним розташуванням рядів в шарі по всій висоті бочки. Бочки наповнюють на один ряд вище верхнього краю і залишають незакритими для опади обсягу оселедцевої маси з початком процесу засолу. Для вирівнювання концентрації тузлука бочки щодня перекочують на 1 / 4-1 / 2 обороти. Засіл в бочках вимагає значних виробничих площ. Дозування солі при бочковому засолі коливається від 18 до 20 %.

В домашніх умовах можна приготувати малосольний оселедець зі свіжої або мороженої риби.

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Out now in the UK and US, the new Avengers film from Marvel sees our favourite superheroes assembling to take on Thanos in Infinity War. We've got all the info you want on the Avengers: Infinity War cast, trailers, and Blu-ray and DVD release date We've got all the info you want on the Avengers: Infinity War cast, trailers, and Blu-ray and DVD release date. The Avengers are assembling again as big bad Thanos arrives - here's everything we know about the new Marvel film, out now. By Dominic Preston | 05 Sep 2018. Out now in the UK and the US, the Avengers are assembling for the third time in Infinity War, the first part of the two-part culmination of the eleventy billion films so far in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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• • • Avengers: Infinity War Blu-ray release date, cast, trailers & news Out now in the UK and US, the new Avengers film from Marvel sees our favourite superheroes assembling to take on Thanos in Infinity War.
We've got all the info you want on the Avengers: Infinity War cast, trailers, and Blu-ray and DVD release date. The Avengers are assembling again as big bad Thanos arrives - here's everything we know about the new Marvel film, out now By | 05 Sep 2018 Out now in the UK and the US, the Avengers are assembling for the third time in Infinity War, the first part of the two-part culmination of the eleventy billion films so far in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
This is not to be confused with , the upcoming videogame take on the characters which may or may not tie directly into some of the films. Blu-ray release date Avengers: Infinity War is out on home entertainment everywhere right now. If you're in the UK you can get a or the , and in the US you can get it on or on and . There are also special editions of the 4K UHD version exclusive to and respectively in the US.
Behind the scenes featurettes: • Strange Alchemy (5:08)– Share the thrill of characters from across the MCU meeting for the first time—and discover why some were teamed up together. • The Mad Titan (6:34) – Explore the MCU's biggest, baddest villain, his trail of influence through the stories, and the existential threat he represents.
• Beyond the Battle: Titan (9:36) – Dive into the climactic struggle on Thanos' ruined world, including the epic stunts and VFX, to uncover the source of its power. • Beyond the Battle: Wakanda (10:58) – Go behind the scenes to find out how the filmmakers pulled off the most massive and challenging battle Marvel had ever attempted.
• Audio Commentary (approx. 149 min.) by Anthony and Joe Russo, Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely • Digital Exclusive: A Directors' Roundtable (approx. 32 min.) – Eight amazing directors reflect on how their movies contribute to the Marvel Cinematic Universe's larger storytelling adventure. Deleted and extended scenes: • Happy Knows Best (1:23) – Tony and Pepper spar over the details of their upcoming wedding—until a hassled Happy Hogan pulls up with an urgent request.
• Hunt for the Mind Stone (1:24) – On a darkened street, Wanda Maximoff and the wounded Vision attempt to hide from Thanos' brutal allies. • The Guardians Get Their Groove Back (3:20) – As Peter Quill and Drax quarrel over their failed mission to Knowhere, Mantis interrupts with news.
• A Father's Choice (4:00) – Thanos confronts Gamora with a vision from her past—and with lying to him about the Soul Stone. • Gag Reel (2:05)– Watch your favorite Super Heroes make super gaffes in this lighthearted collection of on-set antics. Cast and crew Unsurprisingly, the cast for Infinity War is sprawling and difficult to keep track of, as it features just about everyone who's ever starred in any of the prior 19 (!) MCU films.
Still, we'll do our best: Robert Downey Jr. Iron Man/Tony Stark Chris Evans Captain America/Steve Rogers Chris Hemsworth Thor Scarlett Johansson Black Widow/Natasha Romanoff Mark Ruffalo The Hulk/Bruce Banner Josh Brolin Thanos Benedict Cumberbatch Dr. Strange/Stephen Strange Chadwick Boseman Black Panther/T'Challa Tom Holland Spider-Man/Peter Parker Paul Bettany The Vision Elizabeth Olsen Scarlet Witch/Wanda Maximoff Chris Pratt Star-Lord/Peter Quill Zoe Saldana Gamora Dave Bautista Drax Bradley Cooper Rocket Raccoon Vin Diesel Groot Pom Klementieff Mantis Sebastian Stan Winter Soldier/Bucky Barnes Tom Hiddleston Loki Anthony Mackie Falcon/Sam Wilson Don Cheadle War Machine/James Rhodes Karen Gillan Nebula Gwyneth Paltrow Pepper Potts Stan Lee ???
Looking behind the camera, Joss Whedon is out after directing the first two Avengers films, replaced by Joe and Anthony Russo - no bad thing though, as they made the thoroughly excellent Captain America films Winter Soldier and Civil War, proving they know how to juggle a cast of thousands. The script is by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, best known for, well, Winter Soldier and Civil War as well actually.
So that's good. The pair also wrote the first Captain America and second Thor films, along with creating the brilliant Agent Carter TV show, so they're well-versed in the MCU. Photos and posters For a long while Disney and Marvel didn't release too many official images or posters from Infinity War, but there's since been a bit of a deluge. The best image we have for Infinity War is actually one of the oldest: the mega-poster assembled out of a smaller series of posters unveiled for San Diego Comic-Con 2017: There's also the film's initial teaser poster, which bears more than a passing resemblance to similar posters from the first two Avengers films: In March 2018, Marvel released a whole lot more.
netted this image which shows Captain America and allies looking out across Wakanda, presumably just before (or after) the big fight the trailers are teasing. Everyone looks impressively moody though, so you can tell things are serious.
The exact same day, Entertainment Weekly outdid them handily however, unveiling and a whopping , some of which feature some very surprising new looks - more on that in our .
Check out all the covers right here, and click through the link to see them in full. To mark the launch of ticket pre-orders Marvel launched another poster that serves only to emphasise just how ridiculously giant the film's cast is - to put it in perspective, this is actually missing quite a few of the film's heroes.
That's not all though, and there is apparently no end to the posters for this film. First up, there's an (almost) comprehensive set of for the film, a few of which you can see here: We're still not done though. After releasing those 22 posters, Marvel then went and followed them up with a special poster for the Imax release of the film, which will include some scenes shot in the vertically expanded format: Watch the trailers So far there have been three official trailers for the film - not counting the initial footage screened to fans at San Diego Comic-Con 2017.
The first, embedded at the top of the page and again here, is our best look at the plot, spanning from moody voiceover to all-out war. The second proper look came in the film's Super Bowl spot, a 30-second tease that focuses on teasing fans with little details like Captain America's new shields (yup, plural) and Iron Man's fancy new armour. More recently, the latest trailer is another plot-focussed one, telling us more than ever before about Thanos, and showing off the absolutely enormous scale of some of the fight scenes.
Whether you prefer your movies on 4K Blu-ray, DVD, or digital, you'll be able to watch the blockbuster Marvel movie from the comfort of your own home soon--or even right now.
The digital edition has been released, while the physical versions come very soon, on August 14. Both versions come packed with extras, from deleted scenes (including one with a and a ) and commentary tracks to behind-the-scenes clips that show how a movie of this magnitude is made.
The digital version comes with an additional 30-minute Marvel director roundtable discussion. These features are quite revealing in some ways, as we've already from them. Here's the full list of bonus features: • Strange Alchemy (5:08)--Share the thrill of characters from across the MCU meeting for the first time--and discover why some were teamed up together. • The Mad Titan (6:34)--Explore the MCU's biggest, baddest villain, his trail of influence through the stories, and the existential threat he represents.
• Beyond the Battle: Titan (9:36)--Dive into the climactic struggle on Thanos' ruined world, including the epic stunts and VFX, to uncover the source of its power. • Beyond the Battle: Wakanda (10:58)--Go behind the scenes to find out how the filmmakers pulled off the most massive and challenging battle Marvel had ever attempted.
• Deleted and Extended Scenes (10:07) • Happy Knows Best (1:23)--Tony and Pepper spar over the details of their upcoming wedding--until a hassled Happy Hogan pulls up with an urgent request. • Hunt for the Mind Stone (1:24)--On a darkened street, Wanda Maximoff and the wounded Vision attempt to hide from Thanos' brutal allies. • The Guardians Get Their Groove Back (3:20)--As Peter Quill and Drax quarrel over their failed mission to Knowhere, Mantis interrupts with news. • A Father's Choice (4:00)--Thanos confronts Gamora with a vision from her past—and with lying to him about the Soul Stone.
• Gag Reel (2:05)--Watch your favorite superheroes make super gaffes in this lighthearted collection of on-set antics.
• Audio Commentary (approx. 149 min.) by Anthony and Joe Russo, Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely Now the only question is where you want to buy the movie. Here are your options. Avengers: Infinity War Digital Edition If you want to own it as early as possible, here's where you can pre-order the digital version of the Avengers: Infinity War.
• -- $20 • -- $20 • -- $20 • -- $20 • -- $20 Avengers: Infinity War Multi-Screen Edition You might have to wait two extra weeks, but if you like your movies in physical form, it's worth it. This version comes with a Blu-ray disc, plus a digital copy of the movie. • -- $23 • -- $23 • -- $25 Avengers: Infinity War 4K Cinematic Universe Edition This version of the movie also comes with a standard Blu-ray version, as well as a digital copy.
Here are your options. Avengers: Infinity War Digital Edition. If you want to own it as early as possible, here's where you can pre-order the digital version of the Avengers: Infinity War. Amazon -- $20. iTunes -- $20 This version of the movie also comes with a standard Blu-ray version, as well as a digital copy. In addition to the ones linked below, Best Buy has an exclusive steelbook edition of this version for $35. Target has an exclusive version that comes with a 40-page gallery book for $40, or one that comes with a red Iron Man Funko Pop for $42.
AVENGERS INFINITY WAR digital download and Blu-ray release dates have been confirmed with a new trailer. But what about the bonus features? Will there be an extended Thanos cut?. There is even worse news for UK fans, since only US dates have been announced for home entertainment. Will there be a four-week delay like the Ant-Man and the Wasp cinema dates?
Action, adventure, science fiction. Director: Joe Russo, Anthony Russo. Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo and others. The Avengers reunite to take on their biggest villain yet: Thanos, the Mad Titan. After his minions failed to retrieve the Infinity Stones, Thanos heads to earth to get them for himself. He plans to infuse them into a gauntlet that will give him the ultimate power over space and time. Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Black Widow, and the rest of the Avengers gather together for one last stand against a foe who wields the power of life and de .


The legendary fountain in the Latin Quarter.
Commissioned by Haussmann under Napoleon III, the Saint-Michel fountain dominates Place Saint-Michel and is the ideal starting point for a tour of the Latin Quarter.
A monumental fountain (26m high and 15m wide), and inspired by the painting by Raphael in the Louvre, called Saint Michel terrassant le démon (St. Michael slaying the devil) painted around 1505. The painting represents the Archangel Michael slaying the devil, symbolizing the struggle of good against Evil.
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Italy: number of registered cars in Emilia-Romagna 2010-2018
Number of registered cars in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna from 2010 to 2018
This statistic displays the number of registered cars in Emilia-Romagna in Italy from 2010 to 2018. According to data, the number of registered cars in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna in 2018 reached 150,967 units.
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Number of diesel vehicles in the Italian region of Sicily in 2016 and 2017, by cubic capacity
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Number of diesel industrial vehicles in the Italian region of Piedmont in 2016 and 2017, by GVW*
Number of diesel industrial vehicles in the Italian region of Trentino-South Tyrol in 2016 and 2017, by GVW*
Number of diesel industrial vehicles in the Italian region of Veneto in 2016 and 2017, by GVW*
Number of diesel industrial vehicles in the Italian region of Apulia in 2016 and 2017, by GVW*
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Number of registered cars in the Italian region of Veneto from 2010 to 2018
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Number of registered cars in the Italian region of Abruzzo from 2010 to 2018
Number of registered cars in the Italian region of Trentino-South Tyrol from 2010 to 2018
Number of registered cars in the Italian region of Lazio from 2010 to 2018
Number of registered cars in the Italian region of Lombardy from 2010 to 2018
Number of registered cars in the Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia from 2010 to 2018
Number of registered cars in the Italian region of Marche from 2010 to 2018
Number of registered cars in the Italian region of Calabria from 2010 to 2018
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2,000 Las Vegas style slots. 70 table games. Six dining options. Two lounges. 1,200-seat entertainment venue. That's Seminole Casino Coconut Creek in a nutshell. 'Only at Coco' can you experience this energized, elevated casino life here in South Florida.
Growing up near Atlantic City sort of softened the appeal of any casino for me. Those who aren't familiar with the bright florescent lights, clock-less and window-less atmosphere, cling-clanging of the casino floor are always fascinated by it. Me? I could care less about blackjack, poker and slot machines. What I care about is the entertainment — the concerts, shows, and occasional live bands playing in the lobbies — and of course, the food. That's what I like about Seminole Casino Coconut Creek. The food and entertainment are just as important, if not more important, than the gambling. If I'm going to lose money, I want something to show for it! I'd much rather fork up some cash for an expensive dinner at NYY Steak or a mind-blowing performance inside the 10,000-square-foot Pavilion.
Our event hosts, Luxury PR Group and Heather of Local Mom Scoop, led the way to our first stop — Fresh Harvest. I visited this restaurant a few months back and had a great experience. This is not your ordinary casino buffet. It featured farm fresh and locally sourced food at a variety of stations including a salad bar, charcuterie boards, antipasto, sushi, raw bar, carving board, pasta, pizza, and an enormous selection of desserts. Their motto? Sophisticated palates welcome. We got a taste of that sophistication as we were served two appetizers from the chef. He called the first the Ahi Poke Poke, basically tuna tartar with avocado and gyoza skin that sat atop a crispy wonton chip. It was a beautiful, delicious bite and I wished there were more! The second appetizer was a braised pork wing served alongside a Peruvian purple potato and celery root puree. I was so intrigued by the puree, I simply asked for a plate of just that — and thank God I did! It was silky smooth and bursting with flavor. These two items are not normal run-of-the-mill buffet offerings, which just goes to show how unique and creative the food at Fresh Kitchen is.
Our next stop was at the Seminole Casino Coconut Creek's Italian restaurant, Sorrisi. The restaurant is decorated beautifully and really gives you that fine dining feeling. Sorrisi offers guests a Chef's Table experience in a semi-private group dining room that seats up to 14. You'll be able to watch as the head chef prepares your meal, and savor a family-style Italian feast with paired wines recommended by a Master Sommelier. There is also a private room that seats up to 20, which is where our group would be dining. A musician was playing and a traditional platter of olive oil, bread and cheese awaited us. Course #1 at Fresh Harvest was good, but things were only going to get better as we progressed through the night. Now it was time for Course #2. True decadence appeared in front of us in the form of lobster ravioli swimming in a cognac cream sauce with sun dried tomato and a huge chunk of Maine lobster floating alongside. It's a good thing we were served a small portion because the richness of that sauce could fill up even the hungriest of eaters after a few bites. This is a special occasion dish, for sure, and one that is not to be missed.
On the other side of the plate was something on the lighter side. Because as we know, it's all about balance. The grilled romaine salad with grilled artichokes and reggiano cheese was delicious. This salad is an ideal starter to a great Italian meal. Of course we were served an Italian wine to go with our Italian course — a crisp glass of Greco di Tufo, Mastroberardino® from the Campania region of Italy.
The next course was the one we'd all been waiting for — it was time to experience NYY Steak. When it comes to steakhouses, this is apparently #1. According to Seminole Casino Coconut Creek, it's the region's most sought-after steakhouse. Lead butcher, Walter Apfelbaum, came out to tell us about the restaurant's USDA Prime steaks, dry-aged in their in-house butcher shop for a minimum of 21 days. Not only are they known for their meat, but they have plenty of seafood options available, which made me a very happy blogger. NYY Steak is a winner of the Wine Spectator Award of Excellence and prides itself on its extensive list created to enhance guests' fine dining experience. As soon as we sat down, things got fancy — champagne and caviar! This was the real deal caviar experience, complete with egg, red onion, crème fraiche and chives. It was paired with Laurent-Perrier® Brut.
Soon enough, the smell of bacon filled the air — and we were given a presentation unlike anything I've ever seen. Thick cut, house cured and smoked bacon was hanging from a string, dangling above a small skillet of cornbread that was drenched in maple syrup. I obviously passed on the bacon, but that cornbread? I had to try it! It tasted more like a pancake that someone accidentally poured an entire bottle of maple syrup on — not that this is a bad thing. That sugary sweetness oozed throughout every pore and crevice of the bread, moistening every last inch and really richening it up.
The staff must have felt bad about everyone stuffing their faces with bacon in front of me, so they sent me out their jumbo lump blue crab cake with a green apple and fennel slaw and Meyer lemon aioli. I wasn't surprised to see a beautifully presented crab cake come out of their kitchen, one without much filler, if any, and a ton of fresh flavor — especially from the citrus aioli. I caught others at the table sneaking a peek to see what I had. It's a running joke now among our bloggers to hashtag #WhatDidShainaGet at our media dinners.
It's now entree time! While the others enjoyed a prime-aged New York strip with a classic steakhouse side of creamed spinach, I feasted on the most perfectly cooked, buttery smooth piece of sea bass with braised baby bok choy, red miso and a soy-ginger glaze. This was definitely a #WhatDidShainaGet moment, as every pair of eyes shot right over to my plate as soon as the server put it down. But that fish was ALL MINE — I wasn't giving up a bite! Sorry, guys. #WhatShainaGetsShainaKeeps.
Despite a few buttons popping and belts unlooping, we all made room for a bite of what came out next — TRUFFLE MAC AND CHEESE! Ooey, gooey, cheesy macaroni topped with fresh truffle shavings. The table was silent while we all indulged. I've always known steakhouses to really excel at their side dishes, making them all just as decadent and over the top as the meat on their menus. This proved me correct.
But NYY Steak didn't stop there — they went all out for us. Dessert was their signature 151 volcano, a massive pile of vanilla bean ice cream topped with Heath Bar crunch and lit on fire with a little bit of 151 rum, making for quite the finale.
Finale? Not so much. We were then taken upstairs to level2, the non-smoking casino lounge, where we were met with a display of desserts including champagne cake pops (!!!), fruit tarts, blueberry cream puffs and vanilla macarons. As if dinner and dessert wasn't enough of a lavish experience, each of us was gifted with a swag bag filled with goodies like a monogrammed wine cork, a Seminole Casino Coconut Creek t-shirt and towel and a pair of SOAK Slide Sandals.
Thank you so much to Luxury PR Group and Local Mom Scoop for putting together such a fabulous event — and a HUGE thank you to the staff at Seminole Casino Coconut Creek for treating us to something extra special. We may get to eat out at great restaurants often, but this was truly something else.
Seminole Casino Coconut Creek is located at 5550 NW 40th Street in Coconut Creek.


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Walgreens and Kroger extinguish e-cigarette sales
by: CBS News
(CBS News) – Buying e-cigarettes is getting harder as a growing number of major retailers opt out of a market drawing heightened public scrutiny amid vaping-related illness that have killed at least 18 people. Walgreens and Kroger are now following in the footsteps of Walmart and Rite Aid in discontinuing sales of electronic nicotine-delivery products.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are investigating at least 18 confirmed deaths and 1,080 probable vaping illnesses across 48 states and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Most of the illnesses involved vaping THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, while 17% used only nicotine, according to the CDC.
Flavored e-cigarettes have become increasingly popular in recent years, especially among younger vapers, causing concern among health officials and government regulators, with the FDA labeling use of the product an "epidemic."
"We have made the decision to stop selling e-cigarette products at our stores nationwide as the CDC, FDA and other health officials continue to examine the issue. This decision is also reflective of developing regulations in a growing number of states and municipalities," Walgreens stated Monday.
Walgreens is the nation's largest drugstore chain, operating 9,560 stores across the U.S.
Kroger: Will "exit this category"
Kroger posted a similar statement, saying it was "discontinuing the sale of electronic nicotine delivery products, or e-cigarettes, at all store and fuel center locations due to the mounting questions and increasingly complex regulatory environment associated with these products." Kroger added that it would "exit this category after selling through its current inventory."
Kroger, which also owns Harris Teeter, Ralphs, Fred Meyer and other store brands, operates more than 2,700 retail stores.
The moves come more than two weeks after Walmart announced it will stop selling e-cigarettes in all of its stores, with the nation's largest retailer also citing the growing public concerns about vaping. Rite Aid made the move earlier in the year.
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Colonial encounters in Acholiland and Oxford: the anthropology of F.K.Girling and Okot p'Bitek, co-hosted with the African Studies Centre
Friday 27 November 2020, 3pm
Tim Allen (LSE)
A video of the seminar can be viewed here on the African Studies YouTube channel.
The renown Acholi poet, Okot p'Bitek, studied anthropology with Evans-Pritchard in Oxford, a few years after Frank Girling. The latter had lived among the Acholi people when p'Bitek was a teenager.
They both encountered problems at Oxford for their anti-colonial views. Girling, a veteran of the Spanish Civil War, was a suspected communist activist. Against the odds, he managed to complete his doctorate, but the Colonial Office demanded cuts to the version published in 1960. Meanwhile, p'Bitek found academic ideas about Africans taught at Oxford misconceived and offensive. He rejected established analytical approaches, and the university failed his doctorate in 1970.
This talk will discuss their experiences as anthropologists at the end of Empire, and will draw attention to the importance of their insights - especially in the context of the appalling upheavals linked to the Lord's Resistance Army and an its predecessors, that have affected the Acholi region of Uganda since the 1980s.
A PDF of an article is available here
Lawino's People The Acholi of Uganda has been published.
ISCA Seminar Series Michaelmas 2020
To be held online on Teams (the joining link will be added above)
3pm, Fridays (Weeks 1-8)
Convened by Harvey Whitehouse and Nayanika Mathur


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Not used to bowling four overs, but getting there, says Hardik Pandya
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MUMBAI: India all-rounder Hardik Pandya on Friday said bowling a full quota of four overs in the IPL is tiring but insisted he is getting better with each passing game.
Pandya has struggled to manage his bowling workload post his back surgery in 2019.
His last appearance for India was against Namibia in the T20 World Cup in Dubai on November 8 last year. At that marquee event, he had bowled just four overs — two each against New Zealand and Afghanistan.
However, the Gujarat Titans skipper has bowled a full quota of four overs in all three of the team's matches in the ongoing IPL.
"I am going to get better with every game. I am getting tired as I'm not used to bowling four overs. But I'm getting better," Pandya said at the post-match presentation after his side defeated Punjab Kings by six wickets.
Pandya lavished praise on youngster Shubman Gill, who scored a brilliant 96, and all-rounder Rahul Tewatia who smashed two sixes of the last two deliveries to help the Titans register a memorable win.
"Gill is telling everybody that he is there. A lot of credit goes to Sai (Sudarshan) as well for that partnership. It kept us in the game.
"Hats off to Tewatia. It is difficult to go out there and hit, and to do it under this pressure is great."
Not used to bowling four overs, but getting there, says Hardik Pandya added by Press Trust of India on 1:02 am April 10, 2022


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Home » Global tipping points: Climate change and the coronavirus
Global tipping points: Climate change and the coronavirus
We cannot ignore the compounding effects of either and must take action before we reach the point of no return.
Emil J. Bergholtz is a professor of theoretical physics at Stockholm University. Nele Brusselaers is an associate professor of clinical epidemiology at Karolinska Institute. Andrew G. Ewing is a professor of chemistry and molecular biology at the University of Gothenburg and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science.
An increasing number of experts are saying, "We have to learn to live with COVID-19." However, as scientists, we see this is a fundamentally flawed idea — and one we have not chosen to follow with other similarly dangerous pathogens.
Similar arguments have been successful in the past, like claims that we must learn to "live with climate change." And the COVID-19 debate is going in the same direction to those surrounding climate, albeit much more quickly.
Both these approaches have the same components: They sound reasonable and realistic at first, but they obfuscate that there is an alternative, and they do not account for nonlinear feedback loops — meaning further changes that are driven by the change itself, exponentially perpetuating a chain of cause and effect — thus the resulting assumptions are far too simplistic.
Economists often embrace such short-term ideas. For example, William Nordhaus, the 2018 Economics Nobel winner, had suggested that an increase of the Earth's temperature by 3.5 degrees Celsius until the year 2100 would be optimal — the right balance between economic growth and climate protection — and based on this, he worked against climate action, which he finds too costly.
However, climate scientists have since shown Nordhaus' estimate to be completely incorrect.
https://www.politico.eu/article/climate-change-coronavirus-global-tipping-points/


Joshlynn Lyons, 14, a CPS freshman, demonstrates Aug. 22, 2018, outside Chicago Public Schools headquarters in support of safe schools and special education. Inside, officials approved rules changes for how students and staff communicate with each other online.
The Chicago Board of Education on Wednesday approved sweeping requirements that govern how students and staff communicate with each other online, even as board members expressed concern about the need to train workers and kids on the new rules.
Students now cannot call or leave voice messages on the personal mobile devices of CPS workers. Students are also largely prohibited from communicating directly with those adults via text messages, and cannot interact with school-based workers on personal social media accounts.
The school system's teachers, coaches, vendors and volunteers are largely subject to the same restrictions. They can't communicate with students via personal mobile devices, texts, personal email addresses, non-CPS social media accounts and instant messages.
Exceptions for safety-related, family and bulk communications still apply, and staff members can use personal social media accounts to communicate with graduates or former CPS students who are over the age of 18.
The school board also approved additional policy revisions that weren't previously made public this week, including language that allows the school district's chief executive to "authorize exemptions" to the adult policies.
Officials plan to spend the coming weeks promoting the changes, auditing schools' messaging tools and educating district students and adults about how the changes will work. DiBartolo said the district was still assessing how to bring those lessons to school classrooms, prompting board members to request regular updates on how the changes roll out.


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Upper Midwest Law Center, White Farmers Push Back Against USDA Loan Forgiveness Program, Claiming Discrimination
Brianna Smith — July 8, 2021
Farmer spraying pesticides; image courtesy of hpgruesen via Pixabay, www.pixabay.com
The Upper Midwest Law Center is suing the Biden Administration to stop a new USDA loan forgiveness program that discriminates against white farmers.
Earlier this week, the Upper Midwest Law Center filed a lawsuit in hopes of stopping a USDA loan forgiveness program, claiming it discriminates against white farmers. The suit was filed in the federal District of Minnesota. The plaintiffs include Steve Nuest, Kaylyn Dalsted, Chad Walter, Kevin Vetsch, Lynelle Vetsch, Johnathan Quamme, Samantha Quamme, Nuest Farms, Inc. d/b/a Nuest Partnership, and Walter Brothers Family Farms, LLC.
Former Vice President and current President Joe Biden on the campaign trail in 2019. Image via Flickr/user:Gage Skidmore. (CCA-BY-2.0).
The program is known as Section 1005. It was initiated by the Biden Administration as part of the $1.9 trillion stimulus package that was passed by Congress in March. The program was intended to "provide debt relief to socially disadvantaged farmers — defined by the government as those who are Black, American Indian/Alaskan Native, Hispanic, Asian and Pacific Islander." White farmers are excluded. As part of the program, Black, American Indian, Hispanic, Asian American or Pacific Islander farmers will have up to 120% of their farm loans paid.
The program hit a wall, though, when U.S. District Judge William Griesbach in Milwaukee "temporarily blocked the administration from making loan forgiveness payments, stating the program, in fact, discriminated against white farmers and ranchers because of their race." So far, two other federal courts have agreed that the program is indeed discriminatory toward white farmers and deemed the program unconstitutional. They have also issued injunctions against the program.
The Biden administration is pushing back, though, and said the "government had a compelling interest in remedying a well-documented history of discrimination against minority farmers in Department of Agriculture loan and other programs and in preventing public funds from being allocated in a way that perpetuates the effects of discrimination." The administration did little to address the concerns of the white farmers who would be discriminated against because of their skin color of the program is allowed to proceed.
As part of the suit, the plaintiffs note that the "Supreme Court's past decisions are clear that the way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race." The suit also argues that " because the loan forgiveness program discriminates based on race, it violates the plaintiff's rights under the U.S. Constitution's Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment." Nuest, one of the plaintiffs, said:
"Our demand is simple: don't discriminate against farmers because of their race. We simply want equal treatment under the law."
When asked about the court's decision to temporarily block the program, Bill Walsh of the Upper Midwest Law Center said:
"The Wisconsin decision is only a temporary halt, subject to further court review. The only way to assure a final determination against this program is for multiple cases to be filed in several Appeals Court Circuits and get to SCOTUS for a final decision."
White farmers file lawsuit, claiming Biden's loan forgiveness program discriminates against them
Judge pauses loan forgiveness program for farmers of color
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NFL: 5 unbelievable Tom Brady stats
Tampa Bay Buccaneers v Denver Broncos
Walter Sharp
Throughout his NFL career, Tom Brady has set numerous records. He has done almost everything that can be done as an NFL quarterback. There are five stats Brady has accomplished that will make any NFL fan hop on Google and make sure that they are accurate.
Here are the 5 stats that Tom Brady has produced that will have fans scratching their heads.
5. Tom Brady went 11-9 as a high school starting QB
Tom Brady did not start on his high school football team until his junior year. He wouldn't have started then, but the starting quarterback quit to focus on basketball. Brady had only seen time on the junior varsity team that went 0-8. His junior and senior years, Tom Brady would post a 6-4 record and a 5-5 record, missing the playoffs both seasons.
4. Brady has more Super Bowl Rings than John Elway, Brett Favre, Dan Marino and Peyton Manning combined
If we were to add all the Super Rings of Elway, Favre, Marino and Manning all together they would fall one short of Tom Brady. The four quarterbacks have a combined total of five Super Bowl rings. Three out of the four are Hall-of-Famers and Peyton Manning is on his way this year. Brady has six Super Bowl rings.
Check out Tom Brady with the snazzy full hand of Super Bowl rings. #Patriots #GOAT #TB12 pic.twitter.com/0oeB8z8kkG
— Kevin Tame Jr. (@Kevin_Tame) June 10, 2017
3. Tom Brady has more regular seasons wins than the Houston Texans franchise
Tom Brady is 230-69 as a starter in the NFL; his 230 wins tops the Houston Texans franchise. Houston Texans came to the NFL in 2002 and have been in for 19 seasons. In those 19 seasons they have played five more games than Brady.
Houston Texans have a record of 135-169. This puts Tom Brady 95 wins ahead of the Houston Texans franchise. Brady began to start for the New England Patriots one year before the Texans came to the NFL.
2. Tom Brady has more passing touchdowns in his career than the Jacksonville Jaguars do in 26 years in the NFL
The Jacksonville Jaguars joined the NFL in 1995. Since joining the NFL the Jaguars have passed for 517 total touchdowns. Tom Brady made his first start in the 2001 NFL Season. He has passed for 581 total passing touchdowns and counting. Playing five less years than the Jacksonville Jaguars, Brady has thrown 64 more touchdowns than their entire franchise.
1. Tom Brady's 30 playoff wins are more than 28 other NFL Franchises
Brady has won 30 NFL playoff games not counting this year. If he were to win all three NFC playoff games and the Super Bowl he would have more NFL playoff wins than 29 NFL franchises. The way it stands right now the only teams ahead of Tom Brady in NFL Playoff wins are the Dallas Cowboys (35), Pittsburgh Steelers (35), Green Bay Packers (34) and San Francisco 49ers (31).
Tom Brady waking up to Chase Young calling him out pic.twitter.com/2uEl5uUKdd
— Ashlie (@EMT_Ashlie) January 4, 2021
We cannot add the New England Patriots because if you take away Tom Brady's 30 playoff wins. They will have a measly 7 playoff wins in their team history. Tom Brady has a chance to tie the 49ers with a win against Washington and pass them with a win in the Divisional Round of the 2020 NFL Playoffs.
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