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EATING HABIT AND NUTRITIONAL STATUS OF A NIGERIAN PRIVATE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
I. F. ANI Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Ben S. Carson (Snr.) School of Medicine Babcock University
Y. I. EBOKA Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Ben S. Carson (Snr.) School of Medicine Babcock University
B. K. ADEOYE Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Ben S. Carson (Snr.) School of Medicine Babcock University
E. O. NGOZI Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Ben S. Carson (Snr.) School of Medicine Babcock University
N. C. AJUZIE Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Ben S. Carson (Snr.) School of Medicine Babcock University
Keywords: Eating Habits, Nutritional Status, Body mass Index, Overweight, Obesity, University students
The study aimed at determining the eating habit and nutritional status of Babcock university undergraduate students. Multiple stage random technique and systematic sampling was used to select 288 respondents and a structured questionnaire was used to elicit information on the socio-demographic data and eating habit. The BMI of the respondents was determined using weight and height squared and the 24- hour dietary recall was analyzed using Total Dietary Assessment software. The relationship between eating habit and nutritional status was determined using Chi- square. Most of the respondents in the study were between 18-21 years (73.6 %) consisting of 45.6 % male and 53.7 % female. The respondents (54.8 %) consumed two meals in a day, 63.9 % eats in response to hunger while others eat due to different factors. Consumption of fruits and vegetables was poor as only 17.0 % and 14.9 % consumed fruits and vegetable daily. Many of the respondents consume snack regularly (85.4 %) with 33.7 % consuming in- between meals and 14.2 % snacking late in the night. Prevalence of overweight and obesity was high among the respondents as 30.4 % were overweight and 27.1 % were obese. Mean calorie intake and % RDA being 3223.04± 687.66 and 111.14 for males and 2429.45 ± 243.14 and 110.43 for females. Frequency of consumption, snacking, period of snacking, soft drink consumption and, poor fruit and vegetable consumption all had significant (P< 0.05) effect on the nutritional status.
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All Kansas residents must register their motorcycle with the Department of Revenue (DOR) before legal operation on the roadways is allowed.
Whether you're new to Kansas OR a current resident who just purchased a bike, use this guide to learn about registering your motorcycle in The Sunflower State.
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After moving to Kansas, you have 90 days to register your motorcycle.
Have your motorcycle inspected by the Kansas Highway Patrol at an authorized VIN inspection station.
Once the inspection is complete, you'll receive a Motor Vehicle Examination Certificate (Form MVE-1)—don't lose this!
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Your Motor Vehicle Examination Certificate (Form MVE-1).
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After buying a motorcycle, you'll have 60 days to register it with the KS Department of Revenue.
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Wildhome Designs love Australian flora, as you might have noticed, so for those that are interested, we've included here some brief descriptions of our favourites. More to come.
The evergreen Grevillea plant has over 360 species and is an Australian native with some varieties also found in New Guinea, Indonesia and Sulawesi. The Grevillea belongs to the Proteaceae family and is also known as Silky Oak, Spider Flower and Toothbrush Plant. It's happy living in rainforests and open country and ranges in size from small shrubs to 35 metre trees.
The bright and colourful flowers have no petals but instead consist of a tube called a calyx that splits into four lobes with long styles. Native birds love them for their sweet nectar.
Grevillea leaves come in all shapes and sizes. They can be forked fronds or unsplit and elliptic, delicate and sparse or dense and thick, glossy, waxy or furry.
The Australian Banksia has approximately 170 species and belongs to the Proteaceae family. They range in size from small woody shrubs to 30 metre trees and are found in a wide variety of landscapes.
Banksias are easily distinguished by their flower spikes, consisting of a woody axis commonly referred to as a "cone" and heads. The "cone" is covered in tightly packed pairs of individual flowers, in some varieties numbering in the thousands. As the flowers die off the woody cone is revealed, sometimes showing opened seed follicles. About half the Banksia species have these flower spikes. The flowers' nectar is an important food source for Australian native birds, bats, possums, bees and marsupials.
The leaves most often, but not always, have serrated edges and come in a wide range of sizes, colours and shapes.
Eucalypts, commonly known as Gum Trees because of the sticky liquid that comes from damaged bark, are a large and varied family of about 900 species of trees and shrubs. They're found all over Australia, apart from alpine region, and internationally valued for their oil, colourful blossoms, timber and fire and drought resistance. They're also used in the production of honey, paper and dyes.
The white, yellow, pink or red flowers consist of a large number of stamens (not petals) and attract many insects and nectar-feeding birds. Eucalyptus fruit is referred to as a gum nut.
The oil-producing leaves have a lanceolate shape and hang downwards to reduce sun exposure and water loss.
Melaleucas are actually related to the eucalyptus as part of a larger family, the Myrtaceae.
There are about 300 species within the genus, nearly all of which are native to Australia, mostly growing as shrubs and small trees of less than 10 metres in height.
These water-loving plants are found along riverbanks, estuaries and swamps. While Melaleucas are widespread, large and densely packed forests of Melaleuca are found in the tropics, where their roots are continually submerged in water, leaching tea-coloured tannins.
Melaleuca bark, AKA paper bark, has been used by Australian aboriginal people for thousands of years as a general-purpose material from roofing to food prep.
These days, distilled tea tree oil is made from commercial plantations and is popularly used as an effective antiseptic.
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Today, Adobe released Flash Player 10.1 in its finished format for Android. The betas have been among the most downloaded apps on the Android Marketplace since Flash debuted on Android 2.2 "Froyo" at this year's Google I/O conference. Froyo is the first, and currently the only mobile OS to run a full-fledged version of Flash.
There are several devices that currently support (or are expected to support) Android 2.2 "Froyo," and therefore Flash 10.1. These devices include the Dell Streak, Google Nexus One, HTC Evo, HTC Desire, HTC Incredible, DROID by Motorola, Motorola Milestone, Samsung Galaxy S and others. Flash Player 10.1 will be an over-the-air download and in the future it will even come pre-installed on some devices.
Pre-installation may become the eventual norm because Flash technology is ubiquitous on the web. Flash 10.1 also comes with features that are well suited for mobile use, like the ability to hibernate animations that aren't on-screen. Flash animations will also pause when an incoming call is received.
It's been completely redesigned and optimized for mobile, including new interaction methods that support mobile-specific input models, and support for accelerometer.
With Smart Zooming, users can scale content to full screen mode. Performance optimization work with virtually all major mobile silicon and platform vendors makes efficient use of CPU and battery performance.
New Smart Rendering ensures that Flash content is running only when it becomes visible on the screen further reducing CPU and battery consumption.
Sleep Mode makes Flash Player automatically slow down when the device transitions into screen saver mode.
Advanced Out-of-Memory Management allows the player to effectively handle non-optimized content that consumes excessive resources.
Automatic memory reduction decreases content usage of RAM by up to 50 percent.
Flash Player pauses automatically when events occur such as incoming phone calls or switching from the browser to other functions. Once users switch back to the browser, Flash Player resumes where it paused.
Other mobile operating systems that are waiting in the wings to get Flash Player 10.1 include Palm's WebOS, Research in Motion's BlackBerry OS, Nokia's Symbian, the MeeGo version of Linux from Intel and Nokia, and Windows Phone 7 (not at that operating system's debut).


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I arrived at the appointed time. The Sufi Center was in a tidy little building near a school that was quiet on a Sunday. The area would have been free from all noise if not for a flock of black birds cawing loudly in the trees. I had learned online that today's dhikr would be of the vocal variety. The description said we would be joining our hearts, souls, and voices in an ancient Sufi chanting practice.
Inside, the woman I had spoken with on the phone greeted me. Thin and tall, her blond hair was parted in the middle to let her face through. She had two names: the American one her parents had given her and the one she had given herself as an adult, Hayati, which means "life" in Arabic. Hayati explained that first we'd complete the evening prayers and then she would lead the group in repeating names of God. I knew that in Islam Allah is said to have 99 names, some known and some hidden. Each is a noun or an adjective (like "Nourisher" or "All-Wise") that might help a person conceive of the attributes of God. Would we run through the entire list or pick a few? Whatever the case, I planned to just go with it.
More people arrived. They looked to me like a small cross-section of average middle-aged Austinites: open-minded creative-types. Maybe they had once been dope-smoking youths, but that was a phase on a long path of soul searching, the twists and turns of which had somehow landed them here. We gathered in a large room that appeared to take up the majority of the building. It had few furnishings and a beautiful woven rug covered all but the perimeter. Hayati retrieved a small stack of prayer rugs from a closet. I followed her lead, helping her spread them across the larger rug diagonally to face Mecca. The worshippers arranged themselves with men in front. The women pulled scarves out of their bags or lifted them from around their shoulders and draped them over their heads. I grabbed the one I had brought just in case. I was surprised at how conventional this seemed. One of the men played the part of the imam, reciting passages in Arabic. We went through the evening prayers just as we would have in a typical mosque.
After the prayers, we gathered into a circle. Hayati whispered to me that she had selected three names of God. We would focus on one at a time and I should follow her lead. She began. I think she was saying "Allah" but it sounded like "Ya…a…la," each syllable a burst of breath from her belly. Soon the others joined her. Their eyes were shut tight, and they swayed back and forth. Together, their voices sounded like a train leaving the station, "Ya…a…la…Ya…a…la…Ya…a…la…" I was embarrassed, but I didn't know what else to do. I closed my eyes and swayed. I was The Little Engine That Could chugging up a hill.
Hayati changed our chant to "Eh…la…la." Around and around we went with these new sounds, each an exhalation. Time was not ticking at a steady pace. The bright dots against my eye lids formed patterns that shimmied with my breath. Our chant morphed again. "Hey…coo-a…la." This one sounded hilarious and I wanted to laugh. It made no sense what we were doing. How was this different from the Pentecostal practice of speaking in tongues? Our mouths were making sounds our minds didn't recognize. Then it was like Muhammad whispering across generations, telling me to just go with it. Hey…coo-a…la. Surrender. Hey…coo-a…la. Make peace with the bigger picture. Hey…coo-a…la. You are not in charge. The patterns behind my lids exploded into chaos, a million points of light shooting in all directions; the entire universe in my eyes.
Little details of Sufism reminded me of bits and pieces from other faiths. I read that the name "Sufi" was derived from the Arabic word "suf," meaning "wool," for the simple garments these individuals preferred to fancier options. This made me think of early Protestants who believed opulent attire was inconsistent with true Christianity and insisted on plain, unadorned clothing. In both cases, it was meant as a way to voice concern about the larger society's preoccupation with wealth, which felt to them like a departure from the core message of faith.
I instantly recognized Sufi worship practices like chanting and visualizations as similar to those in Kabbalah and Buddhism, particularly Tantric methods, and ditto on the insistence that new students must learn from more experienced guides or risk crossing over into dangerous territory. Even significant symbols in Kabbalah and Buddhism like the circle and the ocean made appearances in Sufism. But Sufis also did certain things that struck me as entirely unique. Their chanting might be accompanied by strenuous breathing or thrashing of the head and torso to induce a trance-like state to help separate them from the false reality of the material world. Of course, who hasn't heard at least some mention of the "Whirling Dervishes," those one-of-a-kind Sufis who spin around and around to represent the movement of the cosmos?
Somehow, my inclination to find Sufis in Austin with whom I could worship felt appropriate. Maybe it was Austin's distance from the glitz of Dallas, or its reputation for not quite fitting with the rest of Texas. Both Sufis and Austinites specialize in nonconformity so, in that way at least, the two seem to go hand-in-hand. But perhaps this gets closer to the truth: by exploring Sufism, some part of me felt like I was betraying Fatima. I thought if I did it spur-of-the-moment and in a location I never imagined as relevant, then it might exist outside the narrative. I see now that in the telling it becomes the story and, at every turn, I've let down somebody.
It wasn't hard to locate a Sufi Center in Austin. The website's pages implied a connection to Islam, invoking Arabic terms and concepts, but nowhere was the relationship overtly stated. It called Sufism "an ancient, practical, and effective school of mysticism based on the teachings of the Prophets." I had assumed that orthodox Muslims were the ones distancing themselves from Sufis. Now I wondered if the feeling was mutual.
The woman who answered the phone sounded surprisingly ordinary as she confirmed the time I should show up Sunday evening. I would be joining a weekly event called a "Dhikr Circle." I wasn't sure what we would do in this circle. "Dhikr" means "to remember" and, among mainstream Muslims, generally refers to a silent reflection or recitation that focuses a person's thoughts on God. With Sufism, dhikr takes on a greater range of activity. Depending on the order, dhikr may be singing or dancing. It might require feats of stamina and strength. When the Dervishes whirl, that's dhikr. I searched the Sufi Center's website to try to determine what kind of dhikr was in store for me.
While Mecca gets most of the attention for being the birthplace of Islam, it's actually the village of Medina about 200 miles away where Muhammad developed his ideas into a full-fledged faith. In Mecca, his message of sweeping social reforms was unwelcome by those whose fortunes depended on the practices he condemned. The wealthy leaders didn't want to give up their lopsided money lending methods or free their slaves. They certainly had no intention of earmarking a percentage of their incomes for the needy. After more than a decade of failing to convince Mecca's elite of its obligation to care for the most vulnerable members of society, Muhammad decided to relocate to Medina where he found a more receptive audience.
I can't help but draw parallels between Muhammad's Mecca and my perception of Dallas. Both are commercial centers with vast income disparities, but it's not just that. Muhammad was motivated by the indifference of those around him who hoarded their resources and I suppose I get this same sense of disinterest when I observe people who appear not only comfortable with inequality, but who seem to relish it. All the expensive adornments speak volumes, and not just of the size of one's bank account. Of course, even after relocating to Medina, Muhammad returned to Mecca to visit the precious things he'd left behind: the Kaaba and Zamzam spring and other important sites. Eventually, his relationship with the place got less rocky. I suppose the same could be said of me and Dallas. Despite my emotional baggage, I've been drawn back because of my grandma and others whom I love. Little by little, I'm making peace with the city itself.
Dallas may be my Mecca, but Austin is my Medina. When I'm there, everything is less complicated, more laidback. Dallas forces me to swim in the murky lake of my subconscious; Austin is a dip in a crystal blue swimming hole. I wanted to take advantage of my proximity to Austin to pay a quick visit before making my way to Washington, D.C., where I'd always imagined this story ending. I was thinking of it as a respite, like a pause at an oasis before continuing on a difficult journey. Austin is about the same distance from Dallas as Medina is from Mecca (200 miles). Thankfully, my trek via Southwest airlines was slightly less arduous than taking a camel.
Arriving in Austin signaled that my trip was drawing nearer to its conclusion, which forced me to acknowledge I hadn't yet made proper accommodations to experience a version of Islam that tends to be controversial among traditional Muslims: Sufism. I had put the issue on the back burner at least in part because of Fatima's warning. When I asked what she thought of Sufism, her reply was swift and definitive: "It is not real Islam." She recommended I steer clear of it. It was similar to the reaction I got when I mentioned Kabbalah to some mainstream Jews.
So, for the time being, I did as she suggested. Besides, I had my hands full trying to understand regular Islam. Yet, in my reading, I was intrigued by Sufis. Every faith I had explored boasted similar mystical variations birthed by individuals who cared less for the rules of religion and more for the experience of feeling connected to the divine. In every case, the parent faith appeared to be locked in a love-hate relationship with its mysterious little offshoot, engaged in some centuries-long process of dismissal and little-by-little acceptance. When Fatima denied the validity of Sufism, I got the impression she had internalized embarrassment on behalf of the majority of Muslims who are ashamed of the grotesque branch that sprouted from their healthy trunk. But from my perspective, Sufism did not indicate an abnormality. Just the opposite: I found it confirmation that Muslims are no different from anyone else. Within any group of humanity, some will possess these impulses. If anything, Sufism spoke to our shared human nature.
As Salma spoke, I noticed her finger nails were tipped magenta. What surprised me about her disclosure wasn't that Muslims could have differences, but that such differences might exist within a unit as intimate as husband and wife or dad and daughter without it threatening the familial bond. If ever there were negotiations, it seems they long ago ceased, and now the family members lived in harmonious dissent. Perhaps this was a lesson for unity on any scale.
"It's important you know that not every Muslim agrees," Salma told me. "I don't cover my head in public, but I don't believe this makes me less devout." On this last point, she was clear: she considered herself faithful. She performed her daily prayers, and she was true to the other pillars. "It's important that we educate ourselves and do what we feel is right for us as individuals." I thanked her for sharing her perspective, and silently wondered if voices like hers might help make some aspects of Islam more compatible with contemporary tastes.
By the time I was ready to go, Raj and his family had showered me with so many gifts that they also had to give me a shopping bag in which to carry them. I received a beautiful Quran, much nicer than the cheap paperback version I had been using. They gave me a box of sweets to share with my grandmother; they were delicious, like extra-rich and dense donut holes. Before his departure, Abdul handed me a jug. It was the shape of a canister one might use for gasoline, but much smaller and made of clear plastic. "It's Zamzam water," he said of the liquid inside. It took a moment for his words to register: I was holding water from Mecca. Aside from the Kaaba, the spring from which this water comes is perhaps the most important site in all of Islamic history. Like the Eid itself, its significance is tied to Abraham's son, Ishmael. It is said that when Ishmael was an infant and desperate with thirst, the earth gurgled forth at this spot and has offered precious life-sustaining water in abundance ever since. "I brought it back from my Hajj," Abdul told me. "You may have it." I couldn't believe this precious item was mine to keep.
After I thanked everyone profusely and promised to stay in touch, Raj walked me outside. At the car, I set my bag of gifts down. I felt an overwhelming appreciation for the effort Raj had made to get my phone number that first day. I was grateful to his family for including me in their Eid celebrations, and for everything they had taught me. If I was to follow Islamic norms, I would have taken care not to touch Raj. I would have driven away with a wave. But that felt all wrong: too formal and not at all indicative of the fondness I had developed.
"May I give you a hug?" I asked. I was emboldened by Salma's advice. Each person has to assess guidelines for themselves and make judgments about what is and isn't applicable. Raj seemed pleased by my question. "Yes," he answered. He smiled and I went in for an affectionate squeeze that perfectly fit the situation.
After lunch, Abdul prepared to leave. He had a date with a sharp blade and the throats of two goats. He explained that a farm about an hour's drive offered this service for Muslims in the region. For Eid, its machinery was cleaned under the supervision of an imam. Abdul could select his animals and personally slit their throat, which allowed him adherence to some of the ritual's finer details: he would make sure his knife's tip faced Mecca and he would not turn away from the sight of the animal's blood. I was relieved not to have to witness the slaughtering. Abdul would do it on our behalf.
The resulting meat would be divided into thirds, Abdul told me. Most importantly, one-third of it would be given to a family that lived on a limited income—a transaction arranged informally through the mosque. His family members would eat one portion and they would share the final portion with friends, most likely preparing it themselves and inviting friends over to partake. I learned that while it is important that the slaughter occur on the Eid, the guidelines about consumption are looser and the meat might stay in the freezer for weeks.
Once her father was gone, Salma asked if I would be willing to speak with her privately. We sat together on the sofa in the family room off the kitchen. She said she had waited for her father to leave because she didn't want to be disrespectful, but she wanted me to know that she did not necessarily agree 100 percent with his interpretation of what it meant to be a faithful Muslim. Take, for example, the practice of women wearing hijab. "My father believes women should wear a scarf any time they leave their own homes," she told me, "Whereas my mother and I think differently." She explained that she and her mother interpret the Quran's passages on the matter more loosely; they read them as referring specifically to Muhammad's wives whose coverings were a show of discretion around the steady stream of foreign dignitaries and others visiting their house. Salma explained that she and her mom cover their heads while in the mosque but for busy days at the office or school, they opt to leave the hijab at home.
But even with these sources, many topics were never mentioned by Muhammad or his confidantes—leaving shades of grey on issues as minor as nail polish. My first night at the mosque back home, my Egyptian acquaintance, Mandisa, caught sight of my painted toe nails and explained to me that polish is not allowed in Islam because it acts as a barrier to water during pre-prayer washing. That same night, as I was performing my first-ever communal rakahs, I noticed that the woman next to me had a pedicure. I was confused. In my reading, I had seen nothing about nail polish; I wanted to get it right before unleashing my bare feet at other mosques. One book had mentioned a hotline available in the U.S.—1-800-Fatwa—for obtaining rulings by contemporary experts on topics such as these. I dialed the number, but it was no longer dedicated to this purpose. Instead, I got a recording about a sweepstakes for a free Caribbean cruise. I decided to err on the side of caution and strip my toe nails bare.
We made our way to an upscale subdivision filled with identical-looking brick homes. Theirs was at the end of a cul-de-sac, the front door dwarfed by the impressive façade. I parked on the street while Raj stood in the driveway waiting for me. He reminded me of my grandpa who was always affectionate with me, though I doubted my grandpa would have been as tender with a stranger as Raj was with me. Raj ushered me through the entrance in the garage that led directly to the kitchen.
Inside, the food was ready and the table was set. They insisted I take the head, facing the big picture window looking out to the yard. Through bits and pieces, I had learned that Raj was a retired engineer who dabbled in writing. He and his wife had lived in Texas for close to 40 years. Now he beamed with pride as his daughter explained that she and her husband, Abdul, were both doctors. To top it off, his granddaughter, Salma, was currently in medical school. I thought about how envious my grandmother would be—she had waged a many-decades long campaign to convince someone in the family to become a doctor but not one of her children or grandchildren had been swayed. Here, Raj and his wife were outnumbered by doctors.
Abdul asked what had brought me to their mosque and Raj said, yes, please tell us. They knew I was learning Islam, so I figured they wanted a longer version. As we ate, I gave it to them. I started at the beginning and explained everything. I had grown up with no religion. I got older and grew curious. Then I moved to a small town and began by going to churches. I worked my way through Christianity, Judaism, and Buddhism. It had taken several years, but I had finally made it to Islam. At home, I had done what I could to educate myself. Then I came to Dallas to visit my grandma and worship at mosques.
They nodded, but looked confused. I could see them trying to make sense of it. They wanted to know how my experiment would end, where exactly I would land. I didn't know what else to tell them. I was trying to make sense of it too.
Abdul, especially, seemed baffled. He asked if I knew the pillars of Islam. I said them out loud, counting on my fingers: daily prayers, Ramadan, zakat (giving to charity), monotheism. That was four. What was the last? "Shahada," Abdul said. Of course. The shahada, the statement of faith. He asked if I knew the Islamic view of Jesus. Yes, I answered, he is greatly respected and considered a prophet, similar to Muhammad.
The morning after the Eid celebration at the convention center, I had another to attend—this one with my new friend, Raj.
I was supposed to meet Raj and his family at their mosque. The first stop on this Dallas leg of my religious journey, their mosque was the one whose walls were a blank canvas for its security cameras; the second time around, it felt familiar and not at all daunting. I knew the ropes: what door to enter and which direction to face. When I arrived, many women were present but Raj's wife didn't appear to be among them. I took a seat and waited.
My thoughts kept going back to the Eid celebration at the convention center. How had I felt being a part of such a large gathering? For that hour or so, I was united, if only symbolically, not just with everyone in the room but with others engaged in the same activity across the world. When I first saw photos of Hajj, I remember being amazed that all those tiny dots around the Kaaba were people. From the vantage of the photographer's lens, they looked like little bits of something bigger, maybe a single piece of cloth with just minor variations of color and texture. It got me thinking about the irony of unity: you can see it so much more clearly from the outside. At the convention center, I had stitched myself in to the fabric of Muslims, an extension of the cloth around the Kaaba, but it didn't necessarily feel how it looked: like we were all the same, like we were one monolithic hunk of humanity. I had blended in and gone through the motions but I hadn't spoken in depth with anyone. If I had, I doubt we would have agreed on all key issues or found that we see the world in the same way. Can we have differences—perhaps even some that are very big—and still be "one"?
Raj's wife appeared and greeted me with a smile and a loving hug. She introduced me to her middle-aged daughter and her granddaughter, who was in her early twenties. They planted kisses on either of my cheeks. I wasn't sure I deserved such warmth, but I was happy to receive it. We settled in for the sermon—Raj's wife in her chair and the rest of us at her feet like she would be giving us a bedtime story. The flat screens showed the orange-bearded imam and the backs of the men's heads in the main sanctuary.
The imam's talk was dedicated to an aspect of this holiday I had yet to focus on: the slaughter of animals. It is customary on this day to acknowledge Allah's willingness to allow Abraham to sacrifice a ram in place of his son by killing an animal. The meat is to be shared with the needy. For Muslims who are unable to perform the slaughter personally, services located in the U.S. or other countries will do the deed on their behalf and ensure its distribution to the appropriate parties. This explained the flyers I had been seeing at various mosques over the last few weeks that said check a box—goat, sheep, or cow—and mail a check.
The imam did not spare us the grisly details. He spoke about the importance of seeing the knife slit the throat, not turning away, coming face-to-face with the reality of this sacrifice. It reminded me of the more gory details from Jesus' story: the focus on the bloodshed, his wounds and the lashings. It also shares obvious similarities with the Jewish custom of sacrificing animals. I started to worry about what was in store once I went home with Raj's family. Just a few nights earlier, over dinner with my grandmother and me, my great aunt told us about some old neighbors of hers, recent transplants from Greece, who kept a "pet" goat in their back yard. Every Easter, the goat would vanish, replaced by the smell of smoking meat.
After the service, I followed Raj's van, filled with his family members, back to his daughter's house. They seemed lovely, but I had no idea what to expect.


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Riverside Covenant Church began meeting in 2000 as a church plant of Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC) in Lafayette, Indiana.
Riverside did not have a permanent gathering place for our first five years of existence, but instead gathered for its first three years at the University Inn and Conference Center in West Lafayette and then spent two years gathering at Burnett Creek Elementary School. In April of 2006, by God's grace and provision, we purchased an existing church building in the heart of West Lafayette and only a mile from the Purdue University campus.
Another great resource to learn more about what God has done through Riverside Covenant Church over the years is our Annual Report. You can view our Annual Reports below.
*a draft version was mistakenly posted instead of the final version distributed at the meeting. The mistake was corrected on 8/11/2015.
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Arizona's early enrollees, transfers sign NIL deals with Friends of Wilbur & Wilma
Collectives across the country continue to showcase that if you pick their school, NIL opportunities will soon follow.
Earlier this week, Ohio State-focused collective The Foundation held a signing event with five of the Buckeye's early signees. The event looked like a press conference with star recruits Carnell Tate, Jermaine Mathews, Jelani Thurman, Noah Rogers and Malik Hartford posing for pictures and doing interviews.
But out West, Friends of Wilbur & Wilma also had a signing event by officially inking 16 of Arizona's 2023 recruiting class and transfers to NIL deals.
As part of the agreement with Friends of Wilbur & Wilma, the players each received a cash stipend and a new laptop. The cash stipend is part of the players' agreement and will be paid out monthly throughout the terms of the contract with the collective.
Players that were officially tagged in the collective's social media post include:
Quarterback Brayden Dorman
Receiver Jackson Holman
Defensive linemen Bill Norton and Tyler Manoa
Defensive back Genesis Smith, Canyon Moses, Arian Parish
Linebacker Kamuela Kaaihue
Athlete Gavin Hunter
"As part of their onboarding into the collective and their welcome to Tucson, they get a cash stipend for move-in," Friends of Wilbur & Wilma General Manager Joey Medina told On3. "They also get a brand-new laptop for business communication purposes. It's super, super exciting to get these 16 onboarded. We have seven more that will be here in early summer and that'll complete our recruiting class of 2023.
"It's an exciting time for these guys and for us. By working with them right when they get to campus, they can begin to make an impact in the Tucson community."
Arizona signees get to work through NIL deal
Medina is right.
Friends of Wilbur & Wilma was one of the earliest collectives in the Pac-12 Conference, launching in February 2022. It's been highly active throughout the Wildcat community and has created some tremendous NIL opportunities for student-athletes it partners with.
One of those opportunities is with Torre Chisholm, the Executive Director of the Friends of Pima Animal Care Center. Within minutes of signing partnerships with the collective, players started promoting the 2023 Pets of Pima Parade. The parade is a massive fundraiser event for the animal care center.
"Torre introduced his non-profit and helped the guys learn what it was about," Medina said. "Then we put together a social post and guys have started to put out the posts to promote their annual parade they have coming up.
"It's a win-win situation for the student-athlete and also for the local business."
While the collective has seen the most success with football student-athletes, The Friends of Wilbur and Wilma supports creating and developing NIL business opportunities for all student-athletes of Arizona's 21 athletic programs. Unlike many other collectives, deals are also struck with walk-ons.
"Our scholarship players get a little more," Medina said. "But walk-ons get something from us every single month for being a valuable asset to the community."
Friends of Wilbur and Wilma has big backers
Founded by loyal Wildcat supporters Cole Davis and Humberto Lopez, Friends of Wilbur and Wilma utilizes Blueprint Sports technology to learn more about supporting Arizona student-athletes NIL opportunities and connect with them.
Furthermore, the collective also has the support of the Andre Agassi Foundation for Education.
"I'm a big believer in empowering our next wave of athletes," Agassi, the eight-time grand slame tennis champion, previously said in a press release. "It's incredible to see and support this technology. And I know that the University of Arizona student-athletes will benefit greatly from this support."


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Underground Rapper of the Week: Sean Anonymous
Posted by Ezra Stead (05/29/2012 @ 10:13 am)
Underground Rapper of the Week is a new feature designed to raise awareness of rappers from all over the world who, if that world were a perfect place, would be more famous than they are. It will be updated every Tuesday before the sun goes down. Feel free to email suggestions of slept-on rappers from your city or wherever to: ezra.stead@gmail.com
Undoubtedly one of the most gifted and hard-working emcees in the Midwest, Minneapolis's Sean Anonymous has been steadily on his grind for at least the past seven years now, since joining the Twin Cities crew Wide Eyes in 2005. Having toured extensively throughout the U.S. as a solo act and with a variety of other groups – including Wide Eyes, Death Ray Scientific and Bottom Feeders – Anonymous is now poised to take on even greater acclaim with his upcoming solo EP, Anonymo, produced by DJ Corbett and set to drop in June.
Even before the release of their first EP, Situation, in early 2008, Wide Eyes was a force to be reckoned with in the Twin Cities' Hip-Hop scene because of their intense and energetic live show. Anonymous in particular is known for a stage presence that can best be described as "wildin' out," as he truly puts his whole body and mind into every live show. In his best performances, Anonymous often appears to be on the verge of exploding, but at the same time never loses focus as he delivers intricate, versatile flows with a rapid-fire delivery that remains accessible even at its most technically challenging. This summer, you can catch him performing live at the Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Bonnor Springs, and Maryland Heights stops on the Vans Warped Tour.
Perfectly complementing the rest of Wide Eyes – fellow emcee Tony Phantom and producers Dimitry Killstorm and DJ Name – with his sound, Anonymous can't help but stand out on certain tracks, such as his mind-boggling first verse on "Borrowed Time," from the 2009 Wide Eyes album, Hands Tied (pay close attention beginning at about 0:56 to hear how hard he goes in). Since the release of that video, Anonymous has been hard at work capitalizing on the advantages of this visual medium with stellar new videos for "Fast Forward" and the upcoming Anonymo track "Hot to Death" (coming in August), both directed by Dave Wilson.
The great thing about the music of Wide Eyes is how simultaneously old school and forward-thinking it is, with undeniably head-nodding production by Killstorm and Name layered under thoughtful but gritty flows by Anonymous and Phantom. Anonymous has also found success collaborating with other notable Twin Cities emcees Spy MC and Shelltoe in the darkly humorous group Bottom Feeders, and shows great comfort joining in live performances with some of the finest underground rappers in the nation, such as Ohio's Blueprint, L.A.'s Abstract Rude (both of whom will be guest-starring on Anonymo), Chicago's Phillip Morris and Juice, Minneapolis's own MaLLy, Toki Wright and many more. Incidentally, Anonymous is one of the friendliest and most approachable emcees you're likely to meet, and his goofy, unpredictable sense of humor is especially evident in his latest music video, "Name Droppin," which you should watch at least twice below.
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Over the past few weeks, our favorite social media giants have made a number of tweaks and changes to their platforms. While these updates can be a headache, it's all for a good cause, as these updates are designed to improve user experience and make it easier for businesses to reach new customers and clients. To help keep you in the know, we've rounded up the latest updates to Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Remember: Knowing is half the battle!
Instagram has been working hard to create a better experience for businesses, and so far it's paying off. At Sage Island, we've seen many of our clients' accounts receive higher engagement and more clicks, thanks to a number of the platform's tweaks.
A new look. In May, Instagram debuted its biggest design overhaul yet. This included logos and icons that are cleaner, modern and more colorful to better reflect the spectrum of content shared on the app. Instagram also simplified the app itself, opting for a flatter look with black and white accents. This keeps the focus on the photos and videos users choose to share, rather than the app itself. While the new look received its share of complaints, users have now accepted it and many even seem to prefer it.
Business profiles. Technically this is in the "coming soon" category, but we're already excited about it. Soon, Instagram will let brands and companies add a contact button to their profile, which will allow customers to call or email with a click. Business profiles will also include analytics, similar to Facebook Insights, so you can see how your photos and videos are performing, track audience trends, and change your strategy accordingly.
Promoted posts. Like most social media communities, sponsored posts are Instagram's bread and butter. Thanks to updates to its advertising model, it's easier than ever to create high-performing ads on the platform. Previously, Instagram ads were completely separate posts that appeared in users' feeds, but not on your page. Once the campaign ended, the post (and all the engagement it received) disappeared. No more! Now, if a post is performing well, you can boost it to get more exposure, and the post remains on your profile as a regular part of your content. This saves time and lets you reap the rewards of your ads indefinitely.
Twitter Connect. One of the best things about Twitter is finding new people to follow, especially when those people share your interests, hobbies or industry. In May, Twitter unveiled a new way to make finding those people easier than ever, called "Connect." In the top left-hand corner of the Twitter app, you'll now see a small icon of a person with a plus sign. Click this, and it will take you to a new screen where you can "Find Friends." Twitter will search your contacts, but it also will suggest people based on who you already follow, which tweets you've recently liked, and accounts that are popular near where you live. For businesses, this is a great way to connect with like-minded users who will enjoy your account and hopefully use your services.
140, for real. Since the very beginning, tweets have been limited to 140 characters, which isn't an arbitrary number; there was once a time when text messages couldn't exceed this limit. Times have changed, but this quirky and beloved restriction is part of what makes Twitter unique. While the company will be keeping the 140 limit, it will no longer count @names in replies and media attachments such as photos, GIFs, videos and polls in those numbers. This means you can now send media rich tweets without limiting your own witty commentary and brilliant contributions.
Tweet yourself. Retweeting is a great way to join a conversation or boost a tweet (especially if the tweet says something nice about your company). Sometimes, though, we want to retweet or quote ourselves. Maybe we wrote a brilliant tweet no one saw and we want to give it a boost. Maybe we have more to say on a subject. Maybe it's just plain narcissism. At any rate, users can't currently retweet themselves but that will soon change. Twitter plans to enable the Retweet button on our own tweets, so everyone will finally know how brilliant we are. It's about time.
Reply all. One of the most confusing aspects of Twitter is how replies work. If you begin a tweet with a name – "@name is the best company in the world," for example – only users who follow both you AND @name will see the tweet. In the past, users have worked around this limitation by placing a period in front of the tweet, like so: "[email protected] is the best company in the world," but this solution was inelegant, to the say the least. Twitter is finally making things easier on us by allowing tweets that start with a username to be seen by everyone, which helps with exposure and engagement.
Chat bots uprising. Okay, so it's not quite an uprising, but Facebook is making its chat bot application available to business accounts. This means that your business can now create bots for Messenger, tasking them to answer simple customer questions such as, "When are you open?" and "Is this item in stock?" While bots will never replace real live customer service, they can save you time and keep your customers happier.
More control. In the past, when you wrote a status update on Facebook, it appeared both on your profile page and in the feeds of your friends. You could later hide these updates from your profile page, but this could only be done retroactively. A new change will allow you to publish updates on Facebook that never appear on your profile page. This can be a bonus for people who don't necessarily want a public and permanent record of their Facebook activity, and is part of Facebook's desire to get its users to share as much personal information as possible. It may also be an attempt to keep up with the rise of SnapChat, where photos and videos are public for just 24 hours before disappearing into the ether.
More diversity. More than 900 million people communicate using Facebook Messenger, but until recently the app's emoji didn't come close to reflecting the diversity of its users. At the beginning of June, the company rolled out 100 new emoji characters that seek to fix this oversight. These emoji allow people to choose a variety of skin tones to better reflect who they are. While some people may roll their eyes at this update, it's actually a big step forward for Facebook. Users who feel comfortable, included and connected to social media platform are more likely to stick around. What more could a business want?
As you can see, social media is constantly changing, updating services and tweaking platforms to improve their users' experiences. If you're a business owner on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter and you need help keeping up with these changes, contact Sage Island. Our digital marketing professionals love to stay on the cutting edge of social media and are happy to help you do the same.


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The Judge has handled cases in all areas of the law including admiralty, civil rights, class action, commercial, construction, aviation, education, disability, business, environmental, financial, insurance, intellectual property, employment, professional malpractice, personal injury, products liability, real estate, securities, tax, and wrongful death.
Environmental: Mediated case brought by governmental agency against a chemical company for airborne toxic emissions; mediated case involving dispute between a developer and federal wilderness preserve; mediated CERCLA case against company that subcontracted for disposal of toxic waste to another company that allegedly dumped it illegally.
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Water fight in the Thompson Okanagan
First Nations struggle to take back their water resources
by Hannah Askew Jan 5, 2010 9 min read Share
Concerned about the growing power of food corporations, Wolverine decided to take up farming full-time, and to save and share heirloom seeds with those who were interested. (Photo: Fabrice Grover)
While the Secwepemc, Okanagan and other First Nations protected the region's fragile resources for over 10,000 years, a mere century and a half of settler rule has brought the area to the verge of ecological collapse.
"A lot of people have got their hearts broke, trying to make a living off this land without any water" Wolverine tells me. We are walking down the hill from his house towards a small field planted with flowering squash. His dog, Bingo, trails behind.
Wolverine — who prefers not to be called by his English name of William Ignace — is a 78-year-old member of the Secwepemc nation. He farms a sloping piece of land in the semi-arid hills of the Adams Lake Indian Band Reserve near Chase, British Columbia. On his 50 acres, he grows organic beans, corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, peas and squash. He keeps chickens, a few cows and a pair of horses. He is also an internationally recognized champion of indigenous rights, regularly invited to speak at gatherings and conferences around the world.
"I tried to sue the government back in '89 for lost revenue" he told me. "I got 12 families [from the reserve] together and asked them what crops they would've grown if they'd had water. Then I looked up the money they could've made if they'd grown those crops. That's the figure I was planning to sue the government for."
The lawsuit was never launched, but farming on the reserve remains an act of stubborn defiance. As the government does not provide irrigation pumps for the Adams Lake Band, Wolverine had to rig up his own system. He bought a diesel pump for $700 and installed it on the bank of the small river that flows at the base of his land. Unfortunately, the pump has to be operated manually and is difficult to start.
On the evening that I interviewed him, he was frustrated because he had sprained his wrist earlier in the day, trying to get the motor going. "This is the kind of thing we have to put up with from the Canadian government" he said.
The Thompson Okanagan has a contentious history when it comes to water rights. As the region is partial desert, irrigation plays a vital role in agriculture. When European farmers first settled the region in the 1890s, a primary concern was to create irrigation systems with which to water crops. The early irrigation systems (built by private land speculators or by farmers themselves) consisted of simple wooden flumes that relied on gravity to carry water to farmers' orchards and fields. After World War I, the provincial government became involved in building centralized irrigation systems using gasoline-powered pumps to draw water from out of the lake for use on farmers' lands.
Early irrigation systems, in combination with other development projects undertaken by settlers, had a devastating impact on First Nations' traditional food-gathering practices. Prior to the colonization of their territory, Okanagan and Secwepemc people enjoyed a varied diet of edible roots, berries and other plants, as well as salmon and wild game such as deer, elk and rabbit. The erection of fences by settlers, in combination with the diversion of water sources, disrupted the regular migration routes of large animals in the region, leading to a dramatic reduction in their number; the spawning grounds of the salmon were destroyed or made difficult to access because of dams; and finally, many of the edible roots and other plants diminished in availability or disappeared altogether as a result of cattle grazing, residential development and other projects.
The late Mary Thomas (1919-2007), a traditional ecological knowledge keeper and a member of the Secwepemc nation, told enthnobotanist Nancy Turner that as a child she used to go down to the mouth of the Salmon River where it flows into Shuswap Lake to dig wapato and water parsnips from along the banks of the river. The water parsnips were eaten raw, while the wapato were placed into baskets to be cooked up later. "Now" she said in 2001, "there's not one plant left down there. Let alone a cattail where the birds used to sing beautiful music. You don't hear that anymore."
With traditional food sources diminishing in the early 1900s, many First Nations people were forced to hire themselves out for wages and attempt farming on reserve land allotted to them by the provincial government. Mary Thomas recalled to Turner that her mother started a vegetable garden on the Neskonlith Indian Band Reserve, and also got a job helping to construct an irrigation system for white settlers.
The Secwepemc people held (and continue to hold) holistic beliefs about the natural water systems that once criss-crossed the region, maintaining that the rivers, lakes and streams have a spiritual value as well as providing life to many plants and animals. Thomas recalled that her mother felt sad about having to participate in the building of the irrigation dams: "It was hard work weeding and hoeing a vegetable patch, but it was even harder going against the cultural beliefs."
In the late 19th and early 20th century, many First Nations families chose to support themselves by running their own farms, but access to water was a continual problem as the colonial government frequently denied water permits to First Nations applicants in favour of white orchardists and farmers. In 1914, a white official writing on behalf of the Royal Commission on Indian Affairs for B.C. observed, "Again and again in our visitation of reserves in the "˜dry belt' I got the impression that the Indians are being deprived of water to which they are entitled."
A number of First Nations fought against the injustice of the system. In 1911, Paul Terbasket of the Okanagan nation was jailed for irrigating his crops and orchard in defiance of a government decision that denied him a water permit in favour of the Similkameen Fruitlands Company. Then in 1917, an Okanagan woman named Mary chopped to pieces an irrigation flume carrying water to a wealthy white farmer.
Finally, in 1931, the Adams Lake Band and the Neskonolith Band demanded that the Department of Indian Affairs pay for an irrigation system to increase the volume of water available to the two reserves.
In response to this petition, some Indian Affairs officials were sent to look at conditions on the two reserves. One reported back that "The large number of Indians resident thereon [were] dependent almost entirely upon agriculture for their livelihood, and the totally inadequate supply of water for irrigation purposes." Another agent confirmed the inadequate water supply and added, "The cause of most of the Indian diseases in the interior of British Columbia Dry Belt is [ … ] malnutrition. Lack of water to raise crops on their lands is the primary cause."
In other words, the reports confirmed exactly what the native leaders were saying: the people on the reserves were suffering because they had no means to support themselves other than farming, and there was not enough water available on the reserves to farm with.
Wolverine was born on the Adams Lake Reserve in 1931, the same year that these reports were made. Although his family lived on arable land, insufficient irrigation meant that his parents frequently had to take work off-farm to make ends meet. When I asked him what kind of work they did, he said, "They were jacks-of-all-trades, I guess. Had to be, to survive. Loggers, ranchers, they did everything. Trappers."
Like Mary Thomas, Wolverine attended the infamous Kamloops Residential School as a child. When the issue came up in our interview, he looked down at the dry grass at his feet.
"That's a black mark on Canada's history, that" Wolverine said when asked about the experience. "Well, we learned hard work. That's one thing we learned."
Unlike many other residential school survivors, Wolverine is still a fluent speaker of his native tongue, Secwepemctsin. He also possesses extensive knowledge of the Secwepemc land and culture. He describes himself, along with Mary Thomas, as being one of the few "true elders."
As a younger man, he worked for nearly 40 years as a faller for logging companies around B.C., single-handedly felling trees up to 13 feet in diameter. During these years, Wolverine sometimes took breaks from the logging camps to come back to his land to farm and trap.
He didn't get seriously into farming, though, until the early 1980s when a Hopi man mysteriously appeared on his land and presented him with a small sack containing ancient Hopi seeds for squash, beans, corn and tomatoes. Concerned about the growing power of food corporations, Wolverine decided to take up farming full-time, and to save and share heirloom seeds with those who were interested. His seeds have travelled as far as Russia, where they were distributed by the NGO "Save the Seeds."
As a full-time organic farmer on the Adam's Lake Reserve, Wolverine quickly grew frustrated by inadequate access to irrigation, which was still a problem for him, just as it had been for his parents. After doing some legal research, he decided to launch a class-action lawsuit against the government for allowing other parties to overdraw from the river and for failing to ensure an adequate flow of water onto the reserve.
Ultimately, however, the lawsuit was never launched. "I spent three years of my life researching that case" he told me, "but in the end the [band] leadership backed away. They didn't want any trouble."
These days, Wolverine is growing tired of fighting. "I spent five and a half years in the pen, you know" he says to me, referring to the jail time he served for his leadership role in the Gustafsen Lake standoff, in which he, along with several others, illegally occupied sacred and unceded territory traditionally used for Sun Dances at Ts'Peten.
His top priority now is to secure a good irrigation pump so that when he leaves his farm to his children they will have an easier time. Fingering his sprained wrist, he tells me that he is considering applying for a grant to help replace the pump. In recent years, the Aboriginal Agriculture Initiative has had some funds available through a joint partnership with the government of Canada, the province of B.C., and the non-profit Investment Agriculture Foundation of B.C. to help First Nations farmers pay for irrigation systems.
The problem of water availability is more acute today than ever. Environment Canada released a climate change study in 2005 that found that significant warming has been observed in the Okanagan Valley. Less snow in the mountains and early melts increase the flow of water during winter months and lessen the flow in the summertime, when irrigation demands are highest. Climate models predict that by 2050, the valley may have 35 per cent less precipitation as compared to the 1961-90 average.
Tough choices will have to be made in the future, experts say, between water use for domestic, agricultural, and industrial needs, and ecological needs such as water for wild plants, animals and fish. As water scarcity in the region increases, the claims of politically marginalized First Nations communities are likely to become even more sidelined. The livelihoods of Okanagan and Secwepemc farmers who, like Wolverine, live on reserves and are already struggling to get enough water to irrigate their fields will be in jeopardy.
Throughout her lifetime, Mary Thomas fought hard to protect the rivers for the salmon run, founding the Salmon River Watershed Restoration Project. She, like many other Secwepemc people, felt a strong obligation to care for the land. "Man is supposed to be the protector" she told Turner. "Humans were given the responsibility to protect the goodies that they created on this mother earth and I'm afraid that we're not obeying that. We're losing."
In the past, guardianship rights over the lakes, rivers and streams of the Thompson Okanagan were forcibly taken from First Nations people. This act was not only unjust, but also had a devastating impact on the ecology of the region. While the Secwepemc, Okanagan and other First Nations protected the region's fragile resources for over 10,000 years, a mere century and a half of settler rule has brought the area to the verge of ecological collapse.
The environmental difficulties that the Thompson Okanagan region is currently experiencing come as no surprise to Wolverine. "When you wage a war on the Indigenous people, you wage a war on the environment itself" he says.
Hannah Askew is an instructor in the Aboriginal Justice Studies Program at the Native Education College in Vancouver.
Tags: activism environment food indigenous politics
This article originally appeared in the January/February 2010 issue of Briarpatch.
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I very much doubt that "these days Wolverine has grown tired of fighting." Sounds like anything but. Nor do I accept that he "illegally occupied" unceded, sacred Secwepemc Sundance grounds at Gustafsen Lake. It was only the governments of Canada and BC that committed crimes at Gustafsen Lake as a consequence of the usurpation, ecocide and genocide which continues. As does the resistance of Wolverine. As apparently does the continuing ignorance of most Canadian writers on this topic.
From John Shafefr on Jan 6th, 2010 at 8:57pm
Hats off to Wolverine for his long-standing efforts to protect the environment. His struggles help all of us and future generations. It's inspiring to hear stories of people who have fought for what's right despite tremendous odds. The historical context in this article really sheds light on how First Nations people have been at the forefront of environmental stewardship and deserve wider support from society at large.
From Michelle Quigg on Mar 15th, 2011 at 11:15pm


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October 11, 2011 - Vol. 23, No. 1
Adam Cote
From the Key Club:
Key Club Advisor - Bonnie Ashworth
Key Club Members: Maddy Philpot, Elosia Rodriguez, Adasha Santos, Beth Teichert, and Marissa Witshire
From the Laconia Police Department: Lt. Al Lessard ,
Bonnie Ashworth
Maddy Philpot
Eloisa Rodriguez
Adasha Santos
Beth Teichert
Marissa Witshire
Lt. Al Lessard
News from the OUTGOING Prez:
Mike reported the Gilford High School Robotoic team is looking for sponsorship. The Robotoics team last spoke to the Kiwanis Club at our meeting dated, 7/11/11. No decision was made on this request.
Mike Marsh then led a discussion on the Laconia Kiwanis Club including: what the Club is about, where it's going in the future, and what can be done to make it more inviting. Input was given from both new members and from long term members. Input was also provided in a letter from Jack Batchelder. Suggestions included:
• More involvement in activities with the Key Club
• Become involved in supporting the Builders Club in Jr. HS (pre-Key Club)
• Promotion on our activities and on recruiting new membership
• Mixing seating arrangements so members get to know each other. Also, once a month, assigning seats to committee members with their respective chairman so they can discuss committee business
• Reaching out to younger people and networking via facebook and other new methods of communication
• Consider doing more activities in the community (even if they are not fundraising) such as a soup kitchen
• Go back to using committees to working together with designated assignments
• Go back to reading the Board of Directors minutes to the membership to provide membership with information on what is happening within the Club
• Bringing a politician(s) (from both parties) as a guest speaker to bring public attention to the Club
Mike then thanked the group for their comments and Jack Batchelder (for his letter) and noted this type of meeting needed to be done in efforts to strengthen the Club.
News from the INCOMING Prez:
Roger Landry reminded the membership the next meeting, which will be on October 24, will be the installation of new officers and directors. Roger extended an invitation to the Key Club to attend. The meeting will be held at the Beane ConferenceCenter and Russ Beane has lined up a surprise entertainer.
For directions to the Beane Conference Center "click" here.
Russ Beane extended a very warm invitation to the advisors and members of the Key Club to join us at our installation night at the Beane Conference Center and offered to pick up the cost of their meals.
News from our Secretary:
Kathy Calvin reported two Kiwanis KARES are scheduled as follows:
Elm Street School – Tuesday, October 25th from 9:30 to 10:30 am
Woodland Heights School – Friday, Nov 18th from 9:00 to 11:00 am
Volunteers are needed.
Kathy also noted the Dover Kiwanis Club was holding a walk-a-thon (through downtown Dover) on Saturday October 15th to raise money for needy children. Kathy and her daughter, Patty Jean,will be participating. Any matching funds and/or participants are welcome.
News from the Key Club President:
Beth Teichert looked for moral support from the Kiwanis Club at the Key Club's participation in the annual Salvation Army Turkey Plunge. This year, the Turkey Plunge will be held at Opechee Park on November 19th. Kathy Calvin will, again, be participating. For more details, "click" here.
News from a Past President and former Lt. Governor:
The Laconia Kiwanis Club was started June 1, 1927. Accordingly, Chet Cilley reported " next year we will be celebrating our 85th anniversary." Chet noted this might be an opportunity to promote the club. In celebration of past milestones, the club often published a special supplement in the Laconia Citizen. To view the supplement from our 65th anniversary, "click" here. Note: This is a large file. After "clicking," it will take about 60 seconds to download.
Take the Challenge:
Lifetime member, Dick Breton issued a challenge to the membership. Dick brought in recent members (Scott Laurent and Betty Ballantyne) and challenged the Club to bring in a new member or a past member over the next three months. He plans to get another one.
$21 to the winner...
Al Lessard enforces an honest draw.
....and the winner is Scott Laurent.
Too bad, Joe!
•$1 from Scott Laurent from winning
• $1 from Kathy Calvin because Betty Ballantyne, through The Irwin Zone, was instrumental in helping to raise in excess of $2,000 for the Laconia High School Band
• $6 from Joe Adrigola in honor of each Key Club member and advisor who showed up at this evening's meeting
• $5 from Mike Marsh to celebrate his last meeting as President
Free Meal:
Won by Warren Mitchell
Food Pantry:
Joe Adrignola explained what the Food Pantry collection was all about. Once a month, on the night of the board of directors meeting, we "pass the hat" to benefit the Salvation Army Food Pantry. We accumulate that money and then buy a gift card in September (prior to the close of the Club's fiscal year). In November of each year, we go to Market Basket and purchase-needed items for the food pantry. All Brite Cleaning accepts our donation and doubles it.
$48 was collected tonight.
If you are not on the Kiwanis Bulletin e-mail list (and would like to be) please give Steve Loughlin your e-mail address. (Also, if you are reading this bulletin and are not presently on the mailing list (and would like to be), "click" here.
Tonight's meeting was adjourned at 7:54 pm.
Monday October 24th
Club Meeting - Annual installation of new officers and directors - Beane Conference Center, Blueberry Lane, Laconia
Monday November 14th
Club Meeting - Guest Speaker TBA
Saturday November 19th
Support Kathy Calvin and the Laconia Key Club at the annual Salvation Army Turkey Plundge. This year, it's at Opechee Park on North Main Street, Laconia.


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Home Sports The Morning After Recap: Tatum leads Boston Celtics to win over Raptors
The Morning After Recap: Tatum leads Boston Celtics to win over Raptors
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Jayson Tatum led the Boston Celtics to a make an impression on the Toronto Raptors with his 40 tips. Let's check out how the C's first got it done in Tampa.
The Boston Celtics picked up their fifth win of the growing season on Mon night, beating the Toronto Raptors with a score of 126-114. Without Marcus Smart and Jeff Teague scheduled to modest injuries, the Cs were short-handed entering a back-to-back against an established opponent.
Because of Jayson Tatum's aggressiveness and the bench's taking pictures ability, Boston received this one relatively easy after a poor start.
Tatum finished with 40 details on 11-19 taking and a perfect 13-13 from the brand. Through three quarters, he previously 38, needing only three more to tie his career-high of 41.
He didn't make it happen but had an incredible game nonetheless.
The primary criticism in the All-Star's game is not traveling to the basket enough to set-up contact. This might make the game much easier on him, as he would be capable of geting easy points at the free-throw range rather than relying on his leap shot each game.
He caught flames in the next quarter, scoring 21 of the C's 38 tips in the period. He has shown to be unguardable when his shot is falling and it is steadily bettering his driving and finishing ability.
If he can put both these key skills alongside one another, he gets the probable to be an all-time great.
Boston's bench was led by rookie Payton Pritchard, who had the best game of his young career.
Finishing with 23 points on 8-13 firing and eight helps, he made all the right works when his team needed it. He may easily drive by his defender along with his quickness and enter the car paint and has recently showcased his surprising finishing potential for an inferior guard.
He does not have any problem scoring through contact against bigger defenders, and can also make the right forward from the paint if there's an start teammate. This, along with draining the outside jumper, are skills that will help the Celtics for a long time.
For a while, he has already gained the trust of coach Brad Stevens to learn crucial minutes by the end of close games, using 32 in this one.
His reference to Robert Williams from the bench has been exciting to watch, pairing the wonderful finisher about the rim with a crafty passer off the pick-and-roll. This brings about more reliable bench criminal offense compared to previous year's team, which got Brad Wanamaker at point guard.
Over the defensive end, he held his own even in mismatches in the post against famous brands Pascal Siakam, drawing a travel on the play. He's already a productive player because of this Celtics team, and he's performed significantly less than 10 game titles in the NBA.
The aforementioned Williams played 20 minutes from the bench at center and recorded 11 points, 15 rebounds (six offensive), and two blocks.
Those are extremely efficient numbers in a brief period of their time, as he was simply outworking the Raptors bigs in the color. Celtics supporters know he has the leaping capability to turn anything into an alley-oop, but he in addition has started to copy that athleticism to the protective end.
After Timelord replaced the duo of Daniel Theis and Tristan Thompson, who both started once again, the Boston Celtics defense drastically improved.
Along with Offer Williams, Timelord offers a more switchable option at middle, who has gotten better at challenging shots with his long wingspan without fouling. This bothered the Raptors immensely, as they shot 20-45 in the paint on the overall game.
Offer had a bounce-back performance after his poor commence to the season, looking like himself again on the defensive side of the ball. He finished with 14 tips, six rebounds, and three blocks in 24 minutes.
He was working on the offensive a glass and his long ball looked better than ever, making 3 of his 4fourshots from distance. If he is able to continue steadily to improve and offer stability on the defensive end, he deserves a significant location in the rotation. The main element variable to the amount of time he will play is his potential to make injections from downtown. If he can be respected as a shooter on opposing teams, he will be considered a valuable piece to the team's young core.
Semi Ojeleye's reemergence as a productive player is perhaps the most unexpected storyline of the young season for the Boston Celtics.
Ojeleye played thirty minutes from the bench and scored 12 tips on 3-5 shooting from beyond the arc. Very much like Grant, his bounce shot looks advanced this season, as his release is quicker and smoother. It's not practical to anticipate him to hit three triples a game, providing strong defense off the bench while having the ability to be well known on criminal offense is the most crucial thing.
The offense will never tell you Ojeleye, and he'll be sitting in the corner for the majority of it, but he's made himself a contributor in the rotation you should definitely many thought he could achieve this task.
Jaylen Dark brown had maybe his most detrimental game of the entire year, and it was still a fairly decent performance.
Scoring 19 details on 7-16 firing from the field, Dark brown let Tatum end up being the primary option in that one, as he was improving looks and draining them from all around the court.
With two superstars in the making, the Boston Celtics have the ability to rely on either player to transport their offense on any given night, plus they gain even yet another primary option later on in the month with the upcoming gain of Kemba Walker.
With no Smart or Teague open to play, Stevens gave the commence to Tremont Waters, to the surprise of many.
Waters hasn't gotten steady playing time, and this was only his second start in as much years.
He shows flashes of a capable NBA point guard, but the shot just didn't land for him in Tampa Bay, heading 1-8 from the field for five items. His deep range is interesting but nonetheless needs development as an undersized point guard.
The Celtics went back to the double-big lineup in this game, only varying away from it once all season. They acquired off to an awful focus on their starting lineup on to the floor, falling behind 23-10 in just over five minutes of play.
Although the blend of Thompson and Theis gives you to rebound the ball better and have more second-chance opportunities, their lack of defensive quickness permits open perimeter shots repeatedly, something that the Raptors took good thing about in the first quarter. To start out the second half, Ojeleye replaced Theis in the lineup, instantly improving on both edges of the ball.
In the future, look for Brad to make some kind of lineup change, as the Thompson-Theis experiment has had enough of a chance in this shortened season.
As a team, Boston shot 15-29 (51.7 percent) from downtown in comparison to Toronto's 13-37 (35.1 percent). Get back big of the shooting disparity, it'll always be hard for Toronto to win.
The Raptors were also outrebounded 56-37, including on the offensive glass (12-8).
For the Raptors, they got decent offensive development off their core players, with Fred VanVleet dropping 35 and Pascal Siakam and Kyle Lowry combining for 40. However, they couldn't get stops on security when they had a need to, allowing the Celtics to hightail it with the game stemming from a 38-14 second quarter.
Off to a 1-5 start, Toronto should be nervous about their playoff aspirations in exactly what is a very similar team to last year – the one that took the Boston Celtics to several games.
A good win for the Celtics, taking them to 5-3 on the year.
Onto Miami on Thursday!
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