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Here are 3 Detroit businesses to support this holiday season
by Bryce Huffman November 24, 2021 February 11, 2022
Alana Rodriguez says she believes she is an inspiration for Detroit girls who want to be entrepreneurs. (Eric Thomas photo, The Neighborhoods)
The holiday shopping season is here. While the big malls in metro Detroit are usually busy with holiday shoppers during this time, you don't have to leave the city to buy gifts for your loved ones or yourself. Here are three Detroit businesses you can support during the holiday season and year-round.
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Source Booksellers
4240 Cass Ave. #105, Detroit
If you want to give someone a gift that stimulates the mind, a good book from Source Booksellers is a great idea.
Janet Webster Jones is a Black woman who has owned and operated Source Booksellers in Detroit for 32 years. Jones said the Cass Corridor/Midtown neighborhood has changed a lot over the 20 years her store has been in the area, but she embraces the change.
"If you're in business, you have to stick and stay, because things are going to change all around you," Jones said. "And the business is going to change as a result of those changes."
Bookseller Janet Jones is a lover of "all things Detroit." (Eric Thomas photo, The Neighborhoods)
One change the brick-and-mortar bookstore on Cass had to endure during the COVID-19 pandemic was selling books online while the physical store was shut down. Jones said she was somewhat surprised to see "another whole world of business" open up.
"The social dynamics that were happening at the time, particularly with George Floyd's murder and Breonna Taylor and all those others, people across the country got real interested in reading about racism and police brutality and all those kinds of things that came along with it," she said.
The City of Detroit's Small Business InitiativesThe City of Detroit has created more ways to support small businesses this year. The Detroit Economic Growth Corporation (DEGC) and Detroit Means Business created multiple ways for you to support Detroit's small businesses this holiday season. For starters, DEGC made theShop Small Detroit map that locates different small businesses across the city. Secondly, you can participate in the Detroit Means Business Shop Small Detroit Bingo Giveaway. All you need to do to enter the giveaway is download a bingo card, shop locally, and upload a receipt as proof for a chance to win a free gift card. This Bingo is running from November 27th through December 24th. The city is also curating a list of every small business in the city and shopping events for them. You can find out more at the City of Detroit Facebook page.
Jones describes her store as a "niche nonfiction bookstore" that pulls in customers from all over.
"I just had a woman come in today who drove all the way from Farmington Hills," she said. "A few days ago, we had someone come in from Grosse Pointe, then obviously we get a lot of Detroiters from all across the city."
Though Jones is a self-described "lover of all things Detroit," she said it doesn't bother her when people from the city go to the suburbs to shop.
"There's a real historical context for it," she said. "You had the freeways tear up so many of the neighborhoods starting in the 1950s, and that made people feel like they had to leave the city to go buy things. But there's enough out here for everybody; if people choose to shop somewhere else, it doesn't bother me."
Jones works at the store full time, with her daughter, primarily, then
has a few other part-time workers lend a helping hand. The holiday season is a big time of year for her.
"This time of year is special because there are so many significant holidays like Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanza that people do shopping for," she said, "but then also New Years, MLK Day, and Valentines Day that come at the start of the year. So lot's of people are thinking of gifts for their loved ones."
Janet Jones and, daughter, Alyson Jones Turner manage the shop together. (Eric Thomas, The Neighborhoods)
Mama Coo's Boutique
1701 Trumbull, Detroit
If you're looking for affordable-yet-stylish clothing or accessories for women, Mama Coo's Boutique in Corktown is a great place to start. Alana Rodriguez, a born and raised southwest Detroiter, first opened Mama Coo's as a pop-up shop eight years ago. She opened her brick-and-mortar store three years later.
Rodriguez said having a business in Corktown isn't typical for a Latinx woman from southwest Detroit.
"The dynamic and demographics were always different between southwest Detroit and Corktown, but what's nice to see now is that people from (other) neighborhoods do come here, and they feel comfortable," Rodriguez said.
Alana Rodriguez's Corktown store sells clothing and accessories for women. (Eric Thomas photo, The Neighborhoods)
Rodriguez went to college with plans to work in the nonprofit sector, but now she believes her business is satisfying that urge to make a difference.
"I love seeing young Black and Brown girls come in and see me here and my sister here, knowing that this is ours, like one day they could have a store like this," she said.
The holiday season can be busy for Mama Coo's, but Rodriguez said this time of year is the "bread and butter" for her business.
"We want to get new products out there, we want to get people in here, we want to have events, we want to have pop-ups and invite other businesses for cross-promotion, we need to do everything because this is where we're going to make all our money," she said.
Rodriguez said that, last year during the pandemic, the store transitioned to making a majority of its sales through social media pages, but this holiday season, she is hoping for a return to normal.
Temeria Heard's company, Swaggles, is committed to keeping dogs from abusive homes. (photo from Temeria Heard)
Swaggles
3031 W. Grand Blvd., Ste 505B
If you want to buy gifts that also contribute to a worthy cause, then Swaggles might be the right business to support this holiday season. The apparel company makes clothing and accessories for humans and dogs. It then donates a percentage of the proceeds to local and national no-kill shelters and rescues.
Temeria Heard founded Swaggles in 2019 after seeing images and videos of animal abuse that "kept me up at night or woke me up at night."
"I have a little dog, and I love her so much and I couldn't imagine somebody doing anything to hurt her," Heard said. "Just seeing the dogs being abused was heartbreaking."
Heard said Swaggles' mission is to support businesses and causes that share a passion for helping animals and giving donations to animal rescues.
"No matter what, even when we don't have sales, we still donate," Heard said.
The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged businesses all over the country, and Swaggles was no different. Heard said that the business saw some good days and some bad.
"Sometimes it's kind of slow, sometimes we get a little hit and we're a little busy," she said. "So it just kind of depends on where people are at and what their priorities are."
Right now, one of Heard's goals is to keep growing the Swaggles brand.
"I feel like (Swaggles) is my little baby, and to see it's just 2 years old," she said, "my goal is to speak it out there that this is going to be a household name."
For more ways to support small businesses in Detroit this holiday season, check out the Detroit Means Business website or the DEGC website.
This story was developed as part of a partnership between BridgeDetroit and The Neighborhoods, which is a City of Detroit storytelling initiative. We have teamed up to identify Detroit's thriving neighborhood business corridors and highlight the entrepreneurs who power them. The Neighborhoods takes the photos and BridgeDetroit writes the stories.
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Bryce Huffman is a reporter for BridgeDetroit. He was formerly a reporter for Michigan Radio, and host of the podcast, Same Same Different. More by Bryce Huffman


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Lyon dispatch - "the food" - the best thing that will happen to you
"The food" is good in France, I am told. And it is. After a month in Paris, we have relocated more permanently to Lyon, long known as the "gastronomic capital of France," which sounds like the food here ought to be even better. Arguable. Arguable both ways.
The nutshell story of Lyon is that a generation or two of chefs, mostly women, converted a regional urban cuisine into high culinary art and in their restaurant kitchens trained a couple of generations of chefs, mostly men, who continued and extended the tradition. Many of the chefs were part of the nouvelle cuisine movement of the 1970s, an innovative time in French cooking.
At a street food festival I acquired a piece of propaganda about Lyon's food that is full of statistics. Four thousand restaurants in Lyon, or one per 334 people. Michelin stars: 23, three of them belonging to the legendary Paul Bocuse, making Lyon the fourth-most "starred" city in Europe, greatly disproportionate for its size. 477 bakeries, 298 butchers, a paltry 28 fish sellers, but Lyon is not exactly near the sea. I have little idea what these numbers actually mean. The density of restaurants does feel thick compared to anywhere else I have been in France, and the bakeries do feel like they are on every other corner.
Lyon's reputation as a restaurant city means it gets massive numbers of restaurant tourists, thus supporting not just all of those Michelin stars but several more levels of restaurants, including the famous bouchons, specialists in a particular strain of traditional Lyonnaise cuisine. For writers like Ruth Reichl or Elizabeth David, this food is not especially good, heavy and brown when good food should be light and green. I love it, but how often can a person really eat at such a place? Sausages, liver, tripe, huge amounts of butter – I would quickly develop gout. Similarly, what do all of those Michelin stars have to do with me? If I ate at those too often, I would quickly develop poverty. (Please click on "À LA CARTE AND SET MENUS" to see a PDF of the current menu at Paul Bocuse).
It seems that Lyon has become in some ways a kind of restaurant museum city, providing perfect copies of a range of classic dishes rather than innovating. On an individual level, of course, who cares? Cooking is in many ways the art of the perfect copy.
Lyon did add an innovation to French cuisine recently. The taco Lyonnais was invented circa 2001 in a suburb a bit east of me. It is a North African sandwich, meat and cheese wrapped in a flatbread and grilled in a panini maker. It thus resembles a Mexican-American burrito quite a bit, a Mexican taco very little. How the word "taco" got attached to it I do not know, but the sandwich has permeated not just Lyon but France more generally.
See, for example, Takos King, in the Place Joachim-du-Bellay in the center of Paris, the home of "Authentic French Takos" which promise, on the left, to be "The Best Thing That Will Happen To You." Just to the right – I took a photo but sadly it stinks – is an O'Tacos, which on that August evening had a long line. O'Tacos is a franchise that has dropped the identification with Lyon, and has made its own innovation with the Gigataco – more than two kilograms! – and with, I wish I were kidding, eating contests.
The taco Lyonnais is now established French food, even if it is not eaten universally. My guess is that people with or who will soon have high blood alcohol levels make up a lot of the customers at O'Tacos. But it is part of "the food" in France, which is perhaps not always good.
Paris museums - but you do go
In the museums you will find acres of the most strange and fascinating things; but all museums are fascinating, and they do so tire your eyes, and break your back, and burn out your vitalities with their consuming interest. You always say you will never go again, but you do go. (Mark Twain, Following the Equator, 1897, Ch. 16)
I went to a museum or museum-like location almost every day that I was in Paris, sometimes, even, if they were small enough and I was fool enough, two a day. I have now been to a small fraction of the museums of Paris.
The Museum of Art and Design had the first airplane to cross the English Channel (the top one pictured, I think), and a steam-powered bus that was the first motorized vehicle allowed to drive in Paris, and a diving suit that never worked but looks cool, and, what else, Lavoisier's test tubes, and a display of the evolution of the eggbeater, not prominently featured, but they had it.
This is basically the French patent museum, full of prototypes, dead ends, and revolutions Amply strange and fascinating.
On the same day, I went to the Museum of the National Archives, both museums reminding me that I am in a capital city, where amidst facsimiles of Napoleon's will, the Edict of Nantes, and the letter authorizing the Albigensian Crusade, there was this:
It's the Infernal Machine – each pipe is a firearm – that nearly assassinated King Louis-Philippe in 1835, and did kill eighteen other people. A hand-constructed, terrible object, not a facsimile but the actual fragment of history, set out among the charters and constitutions for some reason.
The museums of Asian and Pacific art were as strange and fascinating as anything in Paris. The small-scale Musée Cernuschi, the Guimet (ancient) and Quai Branly-Jacque Chirac (more recent). What Surrealist ever bettered the wooden Melanesian reliquary, part tuna, part shark, impaling a little man on its beak, and containing a human skull. This object did not come to Paris until 1935; the Surrealists who saw it must have despaired.
The objects in the Western and non-Western museums are in deep conversation. The 1845 J. M. W. Turner painting at the Louvre (right), which I swear looked more orange in person, and this Australian dream painting by Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri, which depicts the dream of a mouse (below), seemed to have a lot to say to each other. Formally, I mean. When I came across the latter, I thought "Didn't I just see this at the Louvre"?
That Turner was the last painting I really saw at the Louvre. Where I got the strength, I do not know. It was getting late, the crowd had become preposterous, and I was no longer looking at art but at people looking at art, or more precisely at people taking photos of people taking photos of art. And who could blame them. I was in the long red gallery filled with the most famous French paintings – Gericault's "The Raft of the Medusa," Delacroix's "Liberty Leading the People," and Napoleon in a number of monumental scenes. How is anyone supposed to actually look at these things, as paintings, as art, even without the company of hundreds of other people. We were mostly there, like those in line to see "Mona Lisa," to acknowledge the celebrity of the paintings.
When I start thinking like this, it means my vitalities have been plumb burnt out, and the smart thing is to trade the museum for coffee, which is what I did.
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Student Spotlight: Meet our Students of the Month!
Each month, our four student-led businesses vote on a member of their team who has gone above and beyond their responsibilities to be the Student of the Month!
Students get a certificate of honor and are awarded two tickets to the concert of their choice at the Santa Barbara Bowl. We also hang up a Student of the Month announcement in the shop for the rest of the month. Included in the announcement is a short interview conducted by the student leader to help others get to know those being honored!
The Creative Studio Student of the Month is Elle Kamuiru!
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The Pier Pressure Designs Student of the Month is Mayte Ramirez!
If she could travel anywhere in the world, Mayte would go to Rome! Also, She really looks up to her father and apple salad is her favorite dessert!
The Havok Student of the month is Jaharí Denison!
Jaharí admires and looks up to his father and his brother. Also, coffee cake is his favorite dessert!
The Infinite Treasures Student of the month is Osiel Ocampo!
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INTERVIEW: Victor Cruz on the Possibility of Snow During 2014 Super Bowl
If people were bewildered when the lights went out at Super Bowl XLVII inside the Mercedes Benz Superdome – what will happen next year, when the big game is held outside at New Jersey's MetLife Stadium?
"That won't be too much fun, I'll tell you that," said New York Giants Wide Receiver Victor Cruz on the prospects of inclement weather. The G-Man spoke with "The Ralphie Show" a few weeks ago at the Cartoon Network "Hall of Game Awards." "Either way it's going to make for a great game, and everyone's going to talk about it."
Cruz confirmed that there will definitely be an extra buzz inside the Giants locker room next year knowing that the Super Bowl will be hosted in the team's stadium.
"We're excited for it man," he continued. "We're excited to potentially be the first team of the host city to play in the game."
The Wide Receiver attended this year's game in New Orleans. His first thought when half of the building went dark?
"I was thinking, 'I gotta get out of here,'" Cruz said. "I knew it was going to come back on but I had to catch a flight."
Cruz enters this season as a restricted free agent. The Giants have until Tuesday to sign him to a long-term deal. If another team offers Cruz a deal that New York chooses not to match, the G-Men will receive a first round draft pick from that team.
Super Bowl XLVIII will be played in MetLife Stadium on February 2, 2014.
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At the Cartoon Network "Hall of Game" Awards, Olympic gold medalist McKayla Maroney talked with "The Ralphie Show" about her favorite Internet meme along with the meme that she inspired.
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INTERVIEW: Ryan Lochte Says Reality Show Won't Interfere With Olympics
Ryan Lochte's schedule these days is a little different than a year ago. The Olympic gold medalist is a guest at red carpet events, an actor on TV shows, and a spokesperson for a number of different brands. Plus, Lochte is currently filming a new reality show, "What Would Ryan Lochte Do?" set to debut this June on E!. So, when it comes to training for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio, what would Lochte do?
"You know what's so unique about this reality TV show is that it's following me, it's doing whatever I do," Lochte explained to me a few weeks ago on the green carpet of the Cartoon Network "Hall of Game Awards." I'm pretty sure every reality show is filmed by simply following around the subject, but I didn't interject. "My biggest relationship in my life is swimming… and my biggest goal is 2016 Olympics."
Lochte said even when he travels, he seeks out a pool for training sessions, and that Saturday in Santa Monica was no different. Surprisingly, the swimmer said it took time to become acclimated with the cameras filming his every move.
"I was a little shy," he admitted. "But now, I just go with the punches. I'm just rolling with it."
We would expect nothing less.
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My Vote = Absolutely inspirational
'Although the Civil Rights Act of 1964 legally desegregated the South, discrimination was still rampant in certain areas, making it very difficult for blacks to register to vote. In 1965, an Alabama city became the battleground in the fight for suffrage. Despite violent opposition, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (David Oyelowo) and his followers pressed forward on an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, and their efforts culminated in President Lyndon Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965'.
Seriously recommended as it really gives you a visual feel of how the black community felt in the 60s in America. Very hard hitting and defiantly had the room in tears.
Folkestone Classic Film Club was set up in 2003 by John Swift and Peter Gee. Meeting every Thursday for tea and biscuits the Folkestone film club provides a variety of films throughout the year on all types of topics. Members pay £4 for each film whilst a standard ticket is £5.50, with the film starting at 11 sharply.
Going in with only knowledge from a trailer I was not knowing what to expect, yes I knew the film was based around truly amazing events however I did not imagine I would be so engrossed into the story. Immediately you're captured by the morbid opening of young black children being blown up in a building, unless you don't have a heart this does make you question humanity.
The scenery itself of the Silver Screen Cinema lures you in as it gives you the sense of being back in the older times when there was no films, just plays and productions. It's truly amazing how a room of now can make me, 16 years of age feel like I'm sat back in the 20s. The seating on the floor isn't tiered however there is a balcony to give you an overlook of the cinema which also includes extra-large seats!


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Robert "Bob" Johanson
November 11, 1932 — May 3, 2022
Robert "Bob" Johanson passed away on May 3, 2022. He was born in Ogden, Utah to Leonard & Edith Carter Johanson. Bob was a lifelong resident of Morgan and graduated from Morgan High School in 1950. He went on to graduate from Utah State Agricultural College in 1955. Following in his brother, Don's footsteps, he served in the United States Air Force and worked as a Navigator-Bombardier from 1956-1959.
After his military service, Bob returned to Morgan and worked for his older brother, Keith, building homes. Of the many homes they constructed in the area, his most prized possession was the home he built in 1978, where he resided until his passing. With his love of navigation and coordinates, Bob enrolled in Air Traffic Control School in Oklahoma. Upon graduation, he embarked on a new career with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) at the Salt Lake Center from 1972 until his retirement in 1993.
In 1967, Bob married his sweetheart, Elizabeth "Betty" Nance Johanson. Together they raised 5 children. In his spare time, he enjoyed hunting, fishing, going on drives, photography, working in his yard, sports – especially the Jazz, and old cowboy music.
Bob will be missed by his brother, Malin, his 5 children, Jeff (Mary Ann) Jones, Ginger Glauser, Buffy (Bill O'Malley), Brian, & Diana, 10 grandchildren, 14 great grandkids, with 3 more to come this year.
He was preceded in death by his wife, parents, 3 brothers, and a sister.
We would like to give special thanks to the staff of Avamere at Mountain Ridge and to Inspiration Home Health and Hospice who provided exceptional care and support.
Friends may visit with family on Saturday, May 7, 2022 from 10-12pm at Walker Mortuary located at 45 W. 200 N. Street in Morgan.
In lieu of flowers, Bob would appreciate if you would dig a weed before it goes to seed!
To plant a beautiful memorial tree in memory of Robert "Bob" Johanson, please visit our Tree Store.
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Sullivan Goss – An American Gallery has acquired three new oil paintings and three coveted – and lost! – color etchings by Nell Brooker Mayhew. An exhibition has been organized to celebrate. In addition to offering a curated selection of the artist's unique color etchings and handcolored inspirational prints, the gallery will also present her palette and two spectacular works by her contemporaries Jessie Arms Botke and Mary deNeale Morgan.
Always emerging, never quite emerged: In a new four volume catalog called Emerging from the Shadows: A Survey of Women Artists Working in California, 1860–1960, art historian Maurine St. Gaudens puts forth a compelling picture of the creative richness of women artists working in early California. This follows another effort by Patricia Trenton called Independent Spirits: Women Painters of the American West, 18901945. Diverse, productive, and largely marginalized, these women clung together under such umbrella organizations as the Women Painters of the West. They taught. They exhibited. They sold work. Until recently, they also remained largely hidden from comprehensive histories. With increasing attention being paid to the contributions of women, Mayhew's distinctive contribution to California's visual culture can now be more easily assessed.


When Stanley Gold took over as Board Chair he promised major change. He also pledged to have 50% of the board under 50 y.o. within two years. I hope he understands this means including two generations of adults, not one.
Last week the 133-member board of The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles voted nearly unanimously to dissolve itself and reconstitute about 65 percent lighter.
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Hillel centers on university campuses were viewed not long ago as little more than the local Jewish hangout, a place where students could come for kosher meals or socialize with other Jews.
But in a move that Hillel leaders say has been forced upon them by this generation's altered social landscape, the organization is throwing open its doors to everyone, designing programs that appeal to Jews and non-Jews and hyping its contribution to university — not only Jewish – life. Click here to continue reading.
A growing fear Jewish philanthropists will not continue signing checks.
It would also be safe to say that Jewish philanthropy has maybe knocked good Jewish doctors and good Jewish lawyers off the list of great Jewish jobs. Got 200 bucks lying around? Start a non-profit.


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Washington Walks' original walking tour in its 20th Anniversary Edition!
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Memorials by Moonlight Tour
Discover some of America's most iconic monuments in a dramatic new light on a night tour.
Memorials: Remembrances of War
Join us on a walk paying tribute to America's heroes and the National Mall monuments dedicated to them.
Saturday, May 21, 2022 at 11:00 a.m.
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Memorials: The Journey to Civil Rights
This walking tour reveals the stories of America's civil rights journey through iconic National Mall monuments.
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On this walk, we reveal the hidden histories behind the iconic National Mall memorials and monuments you only thought you knew.
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Report Education
A Better Foundation Aid Formula
This report explains why Foundation Aid, a need-based State school aid program, was developed, what is wrong with it, and how to make it better.
Special Feature Economic Development
Job and Wage Growth by Region
How are the state's regional economies performing? Our interactive map and charts features employment and wage data from 2010 to 2015, the most recent year for which annual county-level employment figures are available.
Blog Public Workforce
Benefits Sweetener Scorecard
The 2016 Benefit Sweetener Scorecard identifies more than 60 bills active this session. These bills could cost the State and local governments hundreds of millions of dollars per year, and since about half the bills do not specify a fiscal impact, the potential costs could be significantly greater.
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6 Things to Look for in New York State's Mid-Year Budget Update
What are the important things to look out for in The Mid-Year Update to the FY 2017 Financial Plan? Coveres revenue projections, economic development, collective bargaining, medicaid, minimum wage, and budget gaps.
Report Pensions & Benefits
An Expensive and Risky Benefit
A unique feature of a tax deferred compensation plan available to NYC teachers guarantees them a 7% investment return regardless of what happens to interest rates or in the stock market.
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State Economic Development Programs: Are We Getting Our Bang for Our Buck?
Allegations in state government are bringing more light to the state's economic development - the cost of many programs continues to rise but the rate of return doesn't hold up. CBC's Dave Friedfel explains.
New York City's Competitiveness in Attracting Talent
How does the New York City metro area compare to other large cities in the competition for a talented workforce? Affordability and commute times remain challenges.
Special Feature Health Care
Facts About Medicaid in New York
This infographic presents facts about enrollment in and the costs of Medicaid in New York State.
Video Health Care
NYS Medicaid Director Jason Helgerson (2016)
NYS Medicaid Director Jason Helgerson presents to the CBC an annual update on progress made by the Medicaid Redesign Team.
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The "20-20-20-20" Dilemma: Legacy Costs in the New York City Budget
A giant slice of the New York City budget pays for costs that are the legacy of commitments made in the past: debt service, pensions, and retiree health insurance. These legacy costs already exceed 20 percent of the budget and will expand by 20 percent to more than $20 billion in annual spending by fiscal year 2020.
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Agency Focus: NYC Housing Preservation and Development
The New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development is the nation's largest municipal housing agency, and is charged with implementing the largest housing plan in the city's history. How's it doing?
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Predicting the Peak, Preparing for the Trough
The impact of a possible recession could be as high as $59 billion, or 18.2 percent of tax revenues over four years.
Special Feature Education
Enacted School Aid Per Pupil Map
An interactive map which shows the proposed increase in school aid per pupil for each of New York State's 674 school districts and allows the comparison of state aid across major categories.
Local Medicaid Spending
An interactive map that indicates the burden of the local share of Medicaid costs falls hardest on the poorest counties. Rescinding the State's assumption of growth for New York City will further exacerbate this inequity. New York City currently has the highest Medicaid burden per capita at $597, compared to the average local share throughout the rest of the State of only $190 per capita.
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What Ails Medicaid in New York?
This report assess the progress of the Medicaid Redesign Team (MRT), launched in 2011, in implementing strategies to curb costs and improve the quality of care in Medicaid.
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Legislature Introduces Even More Benefit Sweeteners
The State Legislature has introduced 8 new bills to enhance the benefits of State and local public employees and retirees in the 2016 session.
Special Feature City Budget
Runs by FDNY Fire Companies
An interactive map that shows "runs," or responses to emergencies, made by engine and ladder companies in fiscal year 2015. The map allows users to analyze the types of emergencies to which their local fire companies respond.
2016 Benefit Sweetener Scorecard
The Citizens Budget Commission's 2016 Benefit Sweetener Scorecard identifies more than 60 such bills active this session. These bills could cost the State and local governments hundreds of millions of dollars per year, and since about half the bills do not specify a fiscal impact, the potential costs could be significantly greater.
NYS Exposed:Risky Business Investments
Billions of your taxpayer dollars are used in an effort to lure businesses to our region to create jobs. What's being done to make sure state money isn't being wasted?
Facts About DSNY
Presents facts about the NYC Department of Sanitation's operations and costs, including collection and disposal costs and recycling and organic waste capture rates.


Selena Gomez's song "Bad Liar" is not about missing Justin Bieber, despite a new report. Gossip Cop can correct this speculative and wrong claim. The new single is actually about her new boyfriend The Weeknd.
Next, the webloid opines that "Bad Liar" sounds "sad," though Gomez appears "happier" these days. Then the site editorializes, "Let's just hope The Weeknd isn't too threatened by how deeply she still feels," before asking its readers, "Do you think The Weeknd is upset about Selena's new song?" The simple answer is no.
The song is not about Bieber. It's actually about The Weeknd, who Gomez was pining for while he was still dating Bella Hadid. Justin Tranter, the co-writer of "Bad Liar," tweeted, "You got some of the lyrics wrong, and it's actually about trying to hide magic feelings for someone new, but not being able to." Whoops.
Of course, HollywoodLies, as it is known, has a rich history of trying to rope Bieber into Gomez stories and vice versa. It seems the site has had a harder time dealing with their breakup several years ago than the two singers themselves. Gossip Cop has busted the webloid dozens and dozens of times for fabricating untrue tales about Gomez and Bieber, and you can easily find those articles on our site.
This time, however, we'll remind you what both the young singers think of that site's inaccurate reporting. Last year, Bieber wrote, "HollywoodLife is untruthful and hurtful" on Instagram. He followed that up with another post that read, "#hollywoodlifeisgarbage." Gomez, for her part, is on the same page. She previously said in an interview, "HollywoodLife is the worst." Who is Gossip Cop to argue?


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Letitia James has been sworn in as New York attorney general after becoming the first African-American as well as the first woman to be elected to the position (Underwood was appointed, not elected, after Schneiderman stepped down). James was sworn in late Monday during a ceremony held at the State Capitol in Albany. She is the state's 67th attorney general. "It is the highest honor to officially begin my time as the Attorney General for the great state of New York," James said in a statement from the office…Prior to stepping down, Schneiderman sued Trump University in 2013, alleging illegal business practices, launched an investigation into the Trump Foundation and participated in a number of lawsuits challenging President Trump's policies since then. Underwood also filed a lawsuit against Trump in 2017 for alleged "improper and extensive political activity" and "self-dealing" by the Trump Foundation.
James will be continuing Underwood's suit against Donald Trump and his three oldest children over allegations of self-dealing and financial improprieties in the operation of the Donald J. Trump Foundation, a suit which in mid-December already led to the dissolution of the president's self-named charity. Underwood described what she called a "shocking pattern of illegality" at the charity, saying, according to The Hill, "Mr. Trump used charitable assets to pay off the legal obligations of entities he controlled, to promote Trump hotels, to purchase personal items, and to support his presidential election campaign." The state will now oversee disbursing the remainder of the Trump Foundation's assets to reputable organizations. The lawsuit will still continue under James's watch even though the Trump Foundation has agreed to dissolve – the suit seeks some $2.8 million in restitution as well to bar Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, and Eric Trump from being on the board of any other New York charities due to their conduct at the Trump Foundation.
Donald Trump's home state may be changing its attorney general, but its firm stance of fully investigating Trump and holding him responsible for the findings has not only been maintained, but apparently strengthened. Letitia James said in a mid-December interview with NBC News today, according to The Hill, that "We will use every area of the law to investigate President Trump and his business transactions and that of his family as well. We want to investigate anyone in his orbit who has, in fact, violated the law." New York state does have jurisdiction over many of Trump's activities, since his businesses, 2016 and 2020 campaign headquarters, dissolving charitable organization, and longtime primary residence are/were all in New York state.
Among the additional items James said she plans to investigate are Trump's real estate transactions, the infamous June 2016 Trump Tower meeting, Trump's activities during his 2016 campaign, and potential violations of the emoluments clause of the Constitution.
President Trump may not like it, but he can also expect a new avenue of investigation against him, namely the Democratic majority House that starts tomorrow, a majority that now gives Democrats the power to issue subpoenas, both of Trump administration officials and of documents, including Trump's income taxes, and the power to conduct investigations. From James's statements, New York state is certainly at least maintaining, if not increasing, the intensity of its investigations. And of course Robert Mueller's investigation continues.


V.I.P. Home Services has been around for 40 years. V.I.P. was born giving great service, primarily treating customers like V.I.P.s. This is the core business value of the company which has enabled it to grow into an award-winning franchise system.
V.I.P. BIG enough to count but SMALL enough to care!
I chose V.I.P. Home Services due to their size and long history of success in Australia. The added appeal was having Warren Smith and Vea Johnston running the Fencing and Home maintenance division. They both have an extensive and successful history in the franchise world.
In August 2015 V.I.P. Home Services partnered with Warren Smith and Vea Johnston, who in turn have formed the franchise business opportunity being V.I.P. Home Services – Fencing and Home Maintenance Australia wide.
Warren and Vea bring a wealth of franchising and practical experience in Fencing and Home Maintenance services, collectively 36 + years worth.
We care about your investment!
Good Luck with your new business Warren & Vea - I hope you are even more successful as you not only made people's businesses worth a lot more than they paid, you coached them to a successful life.
V.I.P. Home Services began in 1979 and was the first home services business to franchise in Australia.
Founded by Bill Vis, the company remains Australian owned and operated and has the same core values from the very day it started – exceptional customer service.
It is this great service, essentially treating customers like V.I.P.'s, that has enabled the company to grow into an award winning franchise system that has over 1,100 franchisees across Australasia.
Currently we only offer franchise businesses in Perth, Country Victoria and Melbourne. For other states, we are seeking Regional Master Franchises.
cont.. Again, his communication was brilliant and answered every question we had. Now that the retaining wall is finished, it looks great, and Harley's work shines as we cannot find one single fault. I would highly recommend Harley to any friends and family for future work. And he will be the first person we call when needing anything else.
Great to deal with and great craftsman. Thoroughly recommended.
Hi Terry, Just wanted to let you know that I'm very happy with my new fence. I liked the way it was erected professionally, and you cleaned up afterwards. I'd be happy to recommend your services in the future.
Professional approach and first class work on my fence by Clint. Thoroughly recommend.
Bryan and Karen, this is to let you know that we are very happy with our newly installed picket fence. We have been so impressed with Bryan's professional attitude that we would recommend VIP Home Services - Fencing to anyone who is thinking of installing a new picket fence.


Which Season Matches Your Makeup Look?
What is your go-to spring makeup item?
1. Acne is caused when you don't wash your face enough.
Which color should you choose next time you get a manicure?
Did you watch Princess Diana's wedding?
Do you wear sunglasses all year round?
What kind of manicure do you get?
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2016 - unlucky for some?
There is a well established link between superstition and numbers. In the West we have such trepidation around the number 13 that certain buildings lack a thirteenth floor, airplanes lack a thirteenth row and streets miss out a building number 13. In other cultures different numbers evoke fear - in Japan the number 9 is avoided (perhaps because in Japanese the word nine sounds like suffering) and in China the number 4 is considered unlucky because it sounds similar to the word for death.
After this year I am left wondering what level of fear the number 2016 will inspire in future generations.
I remember learning the Ancient Greeks believed the world was built around numbers and when they discovered irrational numbers this shattered their beliefs. Such numbers, including pi and the square root of 5, are impossible to express exactly as a fraction and when expressed as decimals are unending and without discernible pattern. I confess I'm starting to empathise with the Greek philosophers: only a couple of years ago I would have been certain that the progress towards a kinder and more equal society (exemplified by the USA electing its first black president in 2008) would be so secure that someone like Trump could never win an election and now I know I was wrong (and that there are even people who consider Trump not extreme enough!).
In my tutoring work I have been lucky enough to know so many wonderful students and families. One of the the things I still love about my job is the number of other languages, customs, cultures and nationalities I have had the chance to learn about. And now I read reports of spikes in the number of hate crimes and find I have a little bit of fear for so many of my current and former students.
One of possible measures anyone may be able to take to try and ensure 2017 does not continue this regressive trend into nationalism and xenophobia is to support charities that will uphold civil liberties and mitigate the environmental damage caused by Trump et al. Nearer to home, we cannot forget that an ever growing number of families are relying on food banks and the number of people let down by the current benefits system runs into the thousands. This version of an Advent calendar (putting one item for a food bank in a box each day in December and then donating the box to the nearest local charity on Christmas Eve) may be of some help, and a petition to suspend the fit-for-work assessments may be found here. Others have suggested donating to reputable news organisations as they need more support than ever if they criticise or challenge regressive practices.
Despite the depressing tone of this post I would like to leave you with some hope for 2017. The first comes from the life long work of Abdul Sattar Edhi, founder of the Edhi foundation that provides an incredible range of vital services in Pakistan, including ambulances, hospitals and orphanages, Sadly, Edhi is one of the many luminaries who passed away this year but I think his example of how much good a single person can do is needed now more than ever. The second is this illustration of the votes cast in the American election by those aged 18 - 34 who, more than any other age group, voted against Trump and the myopic racism he espouses.
Lets make 2017 a better year!


For 21 years, Teresa Ray has volunteered to keep the toys flowing to young patients.
When Teresa Ray traded her office manager job in the private sector for the new title of "CEO" of the Riley Cheer Guild Toy Room, it was the best career move she ever made.
Ray is the senior member of the Toy Room troupe of volunteers. She's been at it for 21 years, so she knows her toys.
It's just one of many hats that Ray wears in life. She's also a wife, mother of two, grandmother of five and a full-on Disney fanatic. To that last point: Minnie Mouse is her favorite character because she's always happy; the family has been on so many Disney vacations over the years that Teresa and David Ray's youngest daughter went to work for Disney as a vacation planner; and Mickey and Minnie welcome visitors to the Rays' Greenwood home thanks to a decorative plaque given to them by a neighbor.
If Disney's Magic Kingdom is the happiest place on Earth, Riley's Toy Room might be a close second – if only for the thousands of donated and purchased toys just waiting for their chance to bring a smile to a child's face.
Every month, more than 10,000 toys hop off the shelves in the Toy Room – tucked up on the fourth floor of Riley – and into the arms of child life specialists and nurses who distribute them to patients.
The tradition started in 1924 when the hospital opened and the Cheer Guild was first created. The first Riley patient was greeted by members of the Cheer Guild with gifts.
In years past, Ray and her team used to get joy from loading up carts with toys and delivering them to children room to room, but policy changes designed to protect patients put an end to those trips.
Now, Toy Room volunteers inspect every toy that comes into the room to determine if it meets safety standards before tagging it and putting it with like items in the cramped headquarters. Then team members who work in the units can select toys as needed.
While not everything makes the cut, Ray said most donated toys, games, books and crafts will find their way to young patients. Items must be new and in their original packaging. A Wish List details the most popular donations.
When Ray first became a Riley volunteer, she said she felt an instant connection to the people and to the mission.
Since those early days two decades ago, she has served many years on the Riley Cheer Guild board, including multiple stints as president. Cheer Guild members can be found throughout the state, all donating time, money and talent to the Guild and the Toy Room.
Volunteer Gretchen Sullivan can be found in the Toy Room every Tuesday, sorting and tagging toys. She looks forward to this day every week.
Her husband spent much of his youth at Riley being treated for polio, she said, so this is her way of giving back to the place that cared for him.
For Ray, it's volunteers like Gretchen, patients and Riley team members who make her glad she made the decision to walk through the doors of Riley 21 years ago.


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Der Barbital-Acetat-Puffer, auch Veronal-Acetat-Puffer oder Michaelis-Puffer, nach Leonor Michaelis ist ein Puffersystem, das in der Klinischen Chemie eingesetzt wird. Er besteht aus Barbital (5,5-Diethylbarbitursäure-Natriumsalz), Natriumacetat und Salzsäure und puffert im Bereich von pH 3,0 bis pH 7,4.

Der Veronal-Puffer für den pH-Bereich 6,8 bis 9,2 wird  aus nur zwei Stammlösungen, einer Lösung von (5,5-Diethylbarbitursäure-Natriumsalz) und einer Salzsäure-Lösung hergestellt.

Die Stammlösungen sind stabil und können bei einer Temperatur von 4 °C einige Monate gelagert werden. Die fertige Pufferlösung ist zumindest bei neutralen pH-Werten trotz Aufbewahrung bei 4 °C anfällig für das Wachstum von Mikroorganismen und sollte frisch zubereitet werden.

Die Ausgangssubstanz Barbital unterliegt der Betäubungsmittel-Verschreibungsverordnung.

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He'd never missed a game, but now he'll sit for two thanks to a high hit on Adrian Kempe.
Ducks left winger Andrew Cogliano's iron man streak has ended at 830 games, even though he's in perfect health, and he has no one to blame but himself, unfortunately.
It wasn't the most forceful blow, but (a) it was an illegal check to the head; (b) it was interference, as Kempe was nowhere near the puck; and (c) narrative matters in this case. That the blow came right after violence had broken out between the two teams makes it especially incriminating for Cogliano. And so, despite the fact he's never been suspended and that Kempe stayed in the game, the league handed Cogliano a two-game suspension Sunday. A reminder: being a repeat offender or injuring player never impacts whether a player is suspended. Both factors only influence the length of a suspension – after a decision has been made to suspend a player in the first place.
And Cogliano's streak ends at 830, slotting him at fourth all-time behind Doug Jarvis (964), Garry Unger (914) and Steve Larmer (884). Cogliano had never missed a game in his career, giving him the second-longest games played streak to start a career behind Jarvis. It's natural to ask whether the streak remains intact given Cogliano isn't injured – but a missed game is a missed game.
Good on the NHL's Department of Player Safety for not letting the emotional appeal of "preserving the streak" influence the decision to ban Cogliano. If he wanted to break Jarvis' record, he shouldn't have taken an unnecessary route to deliver a high hit on Kempe, plain and simple.


Add a little bit of 'resort life' into your life with these beautifully finished rattan mandalay baskets. Perfect for transporting dirty and clean laundry, these baskets are quite large. They are also perfect for attractively storing unused soft furnishings such as cushions, blankets and throws. Rattan is naturally a durable natural material. Can be used both indoors and undercover outdoor areas.


Monday, February 11, 2019, 5:00 – 8:00 PM. Support CCBOR at City Council Meeting. Please come and show your support on Monday, as we present to city council asking them to place our community bill of rights ordinance on the May 2019 city voting ballot. Since the state of Ohio refused to place our Columbus city ordinance on the November 2018 ballot, two Ohio supreme court cases have supported a similar city measure to be placed on the Toledo ballot. This has resulted in the reversal of a Lucas County Board of Elections decision that kept the Lake Erie Bill of Rights (LEBOR) off the Toledo ballot in November 2018, and it will now appear on a special election ballot scheduled for February 26th, 2019. The Lake Erie Bill of Rights will give Toledo city residents power to enforce their right, to protect their source of public water that originates from Lake Erie. The Columbus Community Bill of Rights will allow residents to enforce our protection of our city's precious water, soil, and air resources from the risk of harmful contamination resulting from oil & gas extraction activities, most probably from transport and disposal of liquid and solid frack waste within, or in the vicinity of, our resources. It is absolutely imperative that Columbus create this protection for our city now, as Ohio is posturing within this decade to become one of the world's prominent plastics feed stock sources through fracking of the Utica shale play. Since Ohio legislators and regulators effectively deregulate the industry, most of the increasingly immense radioactive waste stream from fracking in PA, WV, and OH, will end up being transported to Ohio's landfills and injection wells, as well as becoming part of our roads and possibly even building materials. Columbus lives with 13 oil & gas waste injection wells with several more permits pending, within our public water source's watershed north of the city. A landfill within city limits along Alum Creek has been permitted by Ohio EPA to accept radioactive shale drill cuttings for disposal. Location: City of Columbus, 90 W. Broad St., Columbus. Facebook.
Monday, February 11, 2019, 7:00 PM. Central Ohioans for Peace Meeting. Screening of Human Flow (2017/140 minutes). Over 65 million people around the world have been forced from their homes to escape famine, climate change and war in the greatest human displacement since World War II. Human Flow, an epic film journey led by the internationally renowned artist Ai Weiwei, gives a powerful visual expression to this massive human migration. The documentary elucidates both the staggering scale of the refugee crisis and its profoundly personal human impact. Captured over the course of an eventful year in 23 countries, the film follows a chain of urgent human stories that stretches across the globe in countries including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, France, Greece, Germany, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, and Turkey. Human Flow is a witness to its subjects and their desperate search for safety, shelter and justice: from teeming refugee camps to perilous ocean crossings to barbed-wire borders; from dislocation and disillusionment to courage, endurance and adaptation; from the haunting lure of lives left behind to the unknown potential of the future. Human Flow comes at a crucial time when tolerance, compassion and trust are needed more than ever. This visceral work of cinema is a testament to the unassailable human spirit and poses one of the questions that will define this century: Will our global society emerge from fear, isolation, and self-interest and choose a path of openness, freedom, and respect for humanity? Location: Columbus Mennonite Church, 35 Oakland Park Avenue, Columbus. For information about COFP, visit our website at https://sites.google.com/site/centralohioansforpeace/Home.


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TikTok emerges as most downloaded app globally on Christmas 2021: Report
Image Credits: IANS
San Francisco: Popular short video-sharing platform Tiktok has topped the chart of downloads on Christmas Day this year.
According to mobile data and analytics company App Annie, the number of downloads on December 25 globally was estimated across both iOS and Google Play Stores.
TikTok led the chart of Christmas Day downloads ahead of Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp Messenger, and Snapchat.
As for mobile games, "Brain Story: Tricky Puzzle", "Poppy Rope Game", "Metro Parkour", "Free Fire" and "ROBLOX" ranked the top five in downloads.
Recently, TikTok surpassed tech giant Google as the most popular website of the year, says a report.
According to a report by IT security company Cloudflare, the viral video app gets more hits than the US-based search engine.
The rankings show that TikTok knocked Google off the top spot in February, March and June this year, and has held the number one position since August.
The social network, which is owned by China-based Bytedance, now has more than one billion active users across the world and that number continues to grow.
In June 2020, the Indian government banned the popular short-form video app TikTok amid border tensions with China.
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India reports 13,154 new Covid cases, 43 % higher than yesterday, Omicron tally reaches 961


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Over on Sturm. For all of those who need one. Looks like the wood has been refinished.
i don't think its the camera pic's....??
and the colt's are being made out of unobtainium!! wink!!
"we can never go back, never"...gen windbag mCcarter...when he left is 28 on the beach.wink!!
I could have bought that one before it hit the ads. I believe this is the one with the US property mark. I was also attracted to what was supposed to be the original finish. I wanted to get him down in price, but he was pretty firm on it. He said you will think this cheap by next year. Well, probably so! However, I just couldn't justify paying that extra for those features. With the difference in price, I will probably buy a nice safe.
i do not know too many that are taking current purchase price stuff.bought in last six months >at "thompson greed"pricing,and shooting and beating the hell out of it...............do you???
most that i meet bought the tommies a number of years ago..at a better price,so they don't mind a few rounds down range...............anybody here bought that nice colt beauty at $25,000.00 plus.......and beat it up??
heck when i paid $5,000.00 for a colt i never abused them..wink!!
and it will only get worse in this "thompson thing"
sad again,it's like buy now and forget about it..........or pay even more of the madness!!
Yea, but I hear Michael Moore does.
you know what is even more scary........i e-mailed on three thompson samples today.........all SOLD!
i don't want to be in the $50,000.00 gun klub..........wink!!
But Michael Moore is a turd waiting to be flushed.


CINAHL, Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature, is a library database for locating nusing articles.
To find CINAHL, click the "Search for articles by topic area" link.
The "Databases by Subject" list will display a list of related databases for each area. The "Database QuickPicks" highlights databases for each subject area. You can either find CINHAL under the Health and Medicine subject, or click on the CINHAL link under the "Database QuickPicks".
When searching you will always want to make sure you have clicked on the box under Peer Reviewed. This makes sure the results you are getting have all gone through the peer-review process and can be considered scholarly.
You will also want to limit your results by date, usually to within the last five years. This makes sure you are getting results that are relevant and up-to-date.
Let's do a search for 'stem cells' AND 'ethics'. In this way we are doing a search for articles that are about the ethics of stem cells.
This is the first result in our list. We can see that the PDF full text version of the article is available as there is a PDF Full Text notation at the bottom of the listing. To view more details on the article we would click on its title.
Clicking on the article title in the results list brings us to the article abstract (basic summary of the article content) and the article's publication information.
At this point, on the top, left side of the screen, there will be a link to the PDF full text of the article. This is where you click to read the article.
The menu on the right side of the screen allows you to email an article to yourself, capture a citation in a specific format, or capture the permanent link to the article.
Further down the results list we run into an article that does not have a full text version immediately available. Note that instead of the "PDF Full Text" notation it says "Find Full Text or Request Copy".
If the article is available in another online database, clicking the Find Full Text link will bring you to the article. From here you can read the article in HTML format, or select the icon in the top left of the screen to download the PDF.
There will be instances in which the article cannot be located through another online source. At that point you would request the article through Interlibrary Loan (ILL), by clicking on the Interlibrary loan online request form.
The first time you use ILL you will be prompted to create an account.
With Interlibrary loan, a request is sent to other libraries for the material. It is not an immediate fulfillment. Articles will be emailed to the address you have on file with your ILL account.


Inscribed on the main post office in New York City there is a famous motto: "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds." It's become the unofficial slogan of the United States Post Office. But the Post Office didn't invent this famous saying. It's from the Greek Historian Herodotus. He was describing an elaborate system of horseback messengers created by the Persian monarchs to keep in touch with the reaches of their vast empire. Herodotus reports that the great Persian King Xerxes used the couriers to report back to the capital that he had lost a major battle.
Xerxes' system of couriers was an early form of what we might call a knowledge and information policy. Persian Kings needed a reliable system for sending information securely across vast distances. So they created an ancient version of the Internet for their personal use.
All states throughout history have had knowledge and information policies. The earliest goals of these policies were to maintain state power, to execute military campaigns, to engage in surveillance and espionage, and to promote national security. Every nation-state in the world today, whether democratic or authoritarian, has knowledge and information policies, even though the technologies have changed greatly from King Xerxes' day.
Most governments in the history of the world, like Xerxes' Persia, have been autocratic. Control over information, technologies of communication, even the education of the public, have been designed to serve the interests of the ruling classes.
The emergence of democracies changed the purpose of knowledge and information policy. In a democracy, sovereignty rests in the people. But if the people are the rulers, they need information in order to hold their representatives accountable. The public needs access to information about public issues, and about what government officials are doing in their name; it needs relatively inexpensive ways to communicate with other citizens, organize, discuss, protest and form public opinion. In a democracy, political legitimacy necessarily depends on the free flow of information, and on the maintenance of a robust public sphere of discussion and opinion. In fact, the first democracy in Ancient Athens also pioneered techniques for spreading information among its citizens.
The framers of the U.S. Constitution were men of the Enlightenment. They assumed that representative government required people to be able to debate public issues; they believed that the growth and spread of science, art, and learning would benefit society and increase practical freedom. They understood that democratic self-government depends on a democratic knowledge and information policy.
Even before the First Amendment and the Bill of Rights were added in 1791, these Enlightenment ideas influenced the design of the 1787 Constitution. Article I, section 8, gives Congress the power "[t]o promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries." The progress clause was designed to decentralize and democratize innovation and information production. Instead on relying on royal patronage to generate art and science, or tie up innovation through royal favoritism and crown monopolies, Congress wanted to use markets to create incentives for intellectual production and diffusion of knowledge. For the founders, the purpose of intellectual property was to serve democratic values and generate a truly democratic culture.
The 1787 Constitution also gives Congress the power "[t]o establish post-offices and post-roads;" A democracy, especially one extending over such a large area, needed people to stay in touch with each other, not just government officials. Good roads and a good mail system were essential to self-government in a large republic.
Two of the most important early decisions by the new national government were knowledge and information policies. Professor Anuj Desai of the University of Wisconsin has written about their history. At the time of the founding, newspapers were mostly delivered by mail to different parts of the country. Congress created a special postal rate for newspapers to encourage the spread of news and opinion, educate the public, and promote communication of ideas and political cohesion throughout the republic. Congress imposed higher rates on business and personal correspondence to subsidize lower rates for newspaper delivery. A version of this cross-subsidy exists today, although it has largely outlived its usefulness because people don't get their newspapers by mail anymore.
The second major decision, also ratified in the 1792 Postal Act, was data security; when mail was delivered by the U.S. postal service, government officials could not look inside people's mail without a warrant. Although the official English practice was that postal officers would not read private correspondence, it was not always followed, and during the Revolution people feared that insecure mail would lead to discovery that they were disloyal to the British crown. European absolute monarchs probably felt even less compunction than British civil servants about opening and reading the correspondence of their subjects. By protecting informational privacy, this early policy also protected conscience and free expression. This principle isn't recognized as a constitutional guarantee until many years later. It starts, however, as an information policy of the early American Republic that, together with postal subsidies and post roads, creates the beginnings of what I will call an infrastructure of free expression.
It's not an exaggeration to say that modern states are informational states; states that recognize and solve problems of governance by collecting, analyzing and distributing information. Knowledge and information policy is at the heart of government today.
Knowledge and information policy is about far more than the protection of free expression. Modern governments provide social services and benefits to their citizens, like social security, Medicare, and veterans' pensions. This requires vast data processing systems to compile statistics and distribute benefits. Modern citizenship requires data processing in order to distribute the benefits of citizenship, and this leads to the creation of vast government databases, which in turn, creates the need for privacy regulation, another important information policy. Governments also invest heavily in public education because it is crucial to democratic citizenship. Governments subsidize the production of information, like agricultural and weather information, as well as geographical data. And, especially in the United States, governments subsidize most basic scientific research.
You might think that information states must tend toward democracy. But it isn't so. East Germany had an enormous information collection apparatus—the Stasi—but it certainly wasn't democratic. Today China's knowledge and information policies are designed to keep the Chinese Communist Party in power while growing China's economy.
The big choice we face today is between democratic information states and authoritarian information states. Different countries lie on a spectrum between these two ideal types.
Authoritarian information states are information gluttons, information misers and information monopolists. They try to collect as much information as they can, but they don't share it with their people. They try to monopolize control over information in order to serve the interests of those in power.
Democratic information states, by contrast, are information gourmets, information philanthropists and information decentralizers. They collect only the information they need for governance; and they do not keep information secret any longer than necessary. They not only willingly share information with their citizens, they also create information and knowledge for their citizens to use and enjoy. Democratic information states try to ensure that their citizens have ample opportunities for education; they promote access to knowledge and information in order to form public opinion and to keep government officials in check. Democratic information states also decentralize the production of knowledge and information because this promotes democratic self-government.
Many people are optimistic that the Internet and the digital age will make authoritarian government increasingly difficult if not impossible. I am not so sure. In fact, as I'll describe shortly, it's possible for authoritarian states to use the Internet and digital technologies to create digital versions of authoritarian information states. More troublingly, it's also possible that the Internet will tempt democracies like the United States to adopt increasingly authoritarian knowledge and information policies out of fear of terrorism and in order to protect interests in intellectual property.
Justice Hugo Black, after whom this lecture series is named, gave a pretty good account of a knowledge and information policy for a democracy. In a 1941 case called Associated Press v. United States, he argued that "the widest possible dissemination of information from diverse and antagonistic sources is essential to the welfare of the public, [and] that a free press is a condition of a free society." "Diverse" means that we should decentralize information production and information distribution. No one entity should control knowledge production, many people must participate in creating information and it should be widely distributed. "Antagonistic" means that knowledge production should be structured to allow the clash of different viewpoints, and to encourage dissent and innovation. Therefore governments should protect and foster institutions, like the press, universities and scientific research, that can check facts, produce new forms of knowledge, and help guarantee the quality and salience of information.
Associated Press involved an agreement by newspapers to limit access to information to their members and create barriers to entry by other news organizations. The members of the Associated Press argued that, that as members of the media, they had a First Amendment right to do so.
There are two big ideas that I want you to take away from this lecture. The first is to think in terms of knowledge and information policy. Think about our valued individual liberties of freedom of speech, press and assembly not in isolation, but in the larger context of policies for the spread and growth of knowledge and information.
We usually talk about the First Amendment not as a policy but as an individual right. But I also want you to see it as an integral part of knowledge and information policy. Why? Because many parts of information policy can't easily be cashed out in terms of individual rights. You don't have an individual right to have the government create public libraries. The Constitution didn't require the early Congress to subsidize newspaper delivery. You don't have an individual right to government decisions about how much to invest in science in fiscal year 2011. You don't have an individual right to have to have fiber optic cable brought to your neighborhood, or to have particular frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum sold at auction, handed out in the form of licenses, or made into a commons for spread spectrum technologies. These are policy choices. They are decisions about institutions and technological design. And they are crucial to your practical ability to speak in a digital world.
The second big idea is that individual freedoms of speech, press and assembly require an infrastructure of free expression. That infrastructure includes technologies of communication, policies that promote innovation and diffusion of knowledge, the institutions of civil society that create knowledge and help ensure its quality, and government and private investments in science, education, and communications technology.
I began this lecture with the example of an infrastructure built by a Persian monarch. These days, however, the infrastructure of free expression is not primarily controlled by kings and dictators. Increasingly it is in the hands of powerful private corporations like Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Verizon, Comcast and Cisco; they create and maintain the architectures, networks and platforms through which everyone else communicates.
In fact, governments often work in cooperation with the companies that control digital content and digital telecommunications networks. Knowledge and information policy—and power over knowledge and information—is increasingly the product of coordination between state power and private power.
How are these two ideas—information policy and infrastructure—related? Think about the title of this Lecture: The First Amendment is an Information Policy. What I mean is this: The First Amendment is a crucial information policy in a democracy, but it is also only one information policy among many others. Constitutional guarantees of free expression are a necessary part of knowledge and information policy for a democratic information state, but they are not sufficient. To understand free expression in the digital age, we must grasp this central truth. Good policy and good design promote democracy and a democratic culture; bad policy and bad design foster oligarchy, aristocracy, and even totalitarianism.
I want to offer two examples of how the infrastructure of free expression is crucial to democracy in the Internet age. Both of them take place outside of the United States. Both of them show the powerful role of infrastructure in a networked world. And both of them serve as lessons for why we must keep our own infrastructure of expression free and open in this country.


Penguins are one of the most popular arctic animals around…and for good reason! They're adorable, sociable, and interesting to learn about!
Since winter is fast approaching, I thought I'd put together a penguins unit study for my kids and I'm sharing it with you all today! If you'll be covering penguins or the Arctic as part of your homeschool this winter, read on to learn some fun facts about penguins!
To help your kids learn the basics about penguins, watch the YouTube video below and then ask your kids to answer the following questions.
Paper Heart Penguin Craft – Crafty Morning: This is a super cute heart-shaped penguin craft that's easy for all ages to make! Plus, it'd be an adorable wall or window decoration during the winter.
Free Polar Animals Notebooking Pages – Look! We're Learning!: Learn about all kinds of polar animals, including penguins, with this set of free Polar Animal Notebooking Pages!
Penguin Sensory Bin – The Chaos and the Clutter: If you try to use sensory activities in your homeschool, your kids will love exploring this simple Penguin Sensory Bin during your penguin unit!
These beautifully illustrated children's books about penguins are an excellent addition to this unit!
For more penguin learning fun check out our Penguins Activity Pack! Inside you'll find the following penguin themed activities; penmanship, mathand notebooking pages for PreK through Middle School, matching games, bingo cards, spelling and vocabulary worksheets and mazes!
You can purchase this pack below for only $4.99 through January 31st!
Selena blogs about her family's homeschooling adventures every week at Look! We're Learning!. You can subscribe to email updates from Look! We're Learning! or follow Selena on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, or Google+.


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Rev. Susan M. Rothenberg, M.Div.
Unglued Church
Lenten Discipline — March 8
March 8, 2014 by Susan Rothenberg
Lenten discipline of the day:
Give it away.
I know what it is to have little, and I know what it is to have plenty. In any and all circumstances, I have the learned the secret of being well-fed and of going hungry, of having plenty and of being in need. I can do all things through him who strengthens me. (Philippians 4: 12-13)
If you are reading this, odds are you have a place to live, enough to eat, and an income that sustains you, at least at this moment. There may have been a time in your life in which you did not have much, and memories of that time still haunt you. Or you may be concerned that what you have isn't enough or may be taken from you at any moment.
Paul writes about his experience of scarcity and abundance, and expresses gratitude to the church in Philippi for their gifts to his ministry. But Paul also knows that the source of all goodness comes to him through the goodness of God. Relying on God's mercy and love, Paul can live free of financial concerns.
All of us want to feel the freedom of being relieved of anxiety surrounding our finances. But sometimes, through the simple act of sharing even the smallest gift, we are blessed by experiencing God's abundance and grace in surprising ways.
Today, as a Lenten discipline, make a small donation — $10 or $20 — to the non-profit of your choice. If you are Presbyterian, you may want to make a donation to One Great Hour of Sharing — an offering that benefits Presbyterian Disaster Assistance, which works to restore communities around the world affected by natural and human-caused disasters, the Presbyterian Hunger Program, which works with Presbyterians and other partners to alleviate hunger and eliminate its causes in this country and others, as well as Self-Development of People, which works to empower economically poor, oppressed, and disadvantaged people.
You can give through your Presbyterian congregation, by visiting the website at www.presbyterianmission.org/give-oghs, or give $10 instantly by texting "OGHS" to 20222.
Here's a video from 2013 that makes a powerful statement about the work of the agencies that receive financial support from the One Great Hour of Sharing offering.
Lenten Disciplines — March 7
FIrst Sunday of Lent Year A, March 9, 2014
Deeper Than Darkness
Click Your Heels.
How It Feels To Be Free
Don't Look Away
Tempted and Torn
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