Today the expert council answers questions on lectins, grazing systems, dogs, wordpress websites, investing in the stock market, silver and more.
Great song, great segment on metals. Happy anniversary!
I've been wondering if the timing of this 'trade war' was deliberately chosen in part to allow negotiating time for acceptable deals to be struck and agreed upon by the fall, shortly before the midterm elections. If this 'trade war' gets resolved (for the time being anyway) in the next month or so, the boost that may give the markets would certainly be played for political advantage by the current party in power. The election itself I could give two shits about, but the investing implications of this hypothetical strategy are interesting… maybe this is part of the reason John says he's favoring emerging markets?
John and I both favor emerging markets for a far different reason. A decades long correlation on the moving average between them and domestic markets was broken a while ago. Given the current state of affairs, that makes no sense today. It must correct, and emerging either has to go up to meet the old correlation or domestic must come down. It is a technical analysis sanity checked against real world reality.
The trade war is barely a skirmish and the markets are heavily over reacting to it. This is strait out of Regan's play book he did the sort of things early on. In the end the US didn't get much out of it but he did "win" and it helped him a great deal.
This doesn't mean you are wrong about "the plan" though. There have already been concessions made, more are coming. The other side can give a lot and it is still really a little to them. If timed right yea it is huge for the mid terms. As I predict will be further North Korean concessions.
N. Korea is going to give us everything we want, they just have to maintain a certain image to their people as they do. What they want is to open up trade and modernize to a degree. What they don't want is a Berlin Wall or Ukraine On Fire moment as a result.
Great info on lipomas. I've been dealing with those in my dog for a couple years now. He's a 9 year old yellow lab. My vet recommended removing one, and leaving another alone. It can get quite expensive, even just to get the biopsy done is a couple hundred dollars. The one I had removed was about $850. Best of luck to those of you dealing with this!
I wonder how sprouting would impact the dangerous lectins in grains and legumes?
In most but not all instances it seriously reduces them or even eliminates them. There are some legumes not safe for sprouting. As I don't do sprouting with legumes I don't have any at the top of my head. But some things are not safe to sprout, for a different reason for instance sorghum isn't, sorghum sprouts can have cyanide in them!
When ever you sprout something new just do a quick search for info on it first.
Jack, how do you feel about buying Canadian Silver Maples?
They are listed as .9999 pure silver vs .999 pure silver for the Eagles. Yeah, not a significant difference, so I'd consider them the same.
They have a smaller premium on them compared to Eagles.
They also have a higher 'face' value of $5 (CAD) vs $1 (U.S.). The exchange rate isn't that big.


"What do youknow about? Words & Wonders?" My brother asked me when I told him I had no interest in a particular conversation going on around me, for my lack of knowledge on the topic. This got us going about my blog, and I started digging for the meaning of my tagline. I finally decided it was a good time to identify what it means and share it with my audience.
When I came up with the name, I thought it was a good way to convey my passions in a few words, while reflecting the general content of the web-site. 'Words,' seemed fitting since I was describing a blog and an author web-site. But words are only the means to an end, though sometimes us writers get caught up in the art of language, and forget it is only a vehicle to paint a picture for our readers.
So in this case, 'Words' are a vehicle to to illustrate 'Wonders.' I had and still have, a mental image of a wide-eyed child—innocent and full of wonder staring at something brand new and heretofore undiscovered. This is what I aim to deliver with my writing—something off the beaten path, that has value, and causes even the adult to pause and see something as if for the first time.
Most things have become rote to us and we have wearied of finding anything new in this life. But the only problem really, is our eyes are not open. The wonders of God are all around us, begging to be noticed. They may be little quirks of human nature, the miracles God does for us all the time, His faithfulness everyday, the complexity and grandeur of His creation all around us, or an idea presented in a way not thought of before. This just covers a few examples.
Every day is a new day—can we embrace it with the wonder of a child, or are we going to treat it as all the ones that have gone before? Lamentations 3:22-23 The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. —ESV.
The verse in Mark is contrary to the way we naturally would like to receive the kingdom of God, but we are free to do so, and must do so according to scripture. So join me in seeking the wonders of God. He has made available vast treasures, to all who are willing to find, with the help of the Holy Spirit, a childlike innocence and wonder through the blood of Jesus.
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Connacht Announce Signings Of Aussie 7s Superstar & New Zealand Number Eight
by Jason Hennessy · July 8, 2020
Double signing.
Connacht Rugby have today announced the signings of Australian 7s player Ben O'Donnell and Bay of Plenty Number 8 Abraham Papali'i. The pair will link up with the squad before the start of the 2020/21 Guinness PRO14 season.
Ben O'Donnell joins from the Australian Sevens programme, having played 95 matches for his country since he was handed his debut in 2017 under Andy Friend.
The 24-year old went on to score 47 tries in that time and has been a key figure in their progression through the World Rugby Seven Series over the past three seasons.
O'Donnell was voted Australian Sevens Player of the year in 2018 and subsequently went on to be the first Australian player ever nominated for the World Sevens Player of the Year.
New Zealander Abraham Papali'i arrives from Bay of Plenty where he was a key member of the squad that won the Mitre 10 Cup Championship last year. The Auckland-born duel code player started his Rugby Union career with North Harbour before being recruited into the New Zealand Warriors (Rugby League) pathway.
In 2015 Papali'i signed a two-year contract with the Sydney Roosters of the Australian National Rugby League (NRL).
Following his time with the Roosters, Papali'i joined Lézignan Sangliers in the premier French Rugby League competition before the 6'4" number 8 returned to New Zealand and successfully restarted his Rugby Union career with Bay of Plenty.
Head Coach Andy Friend says today's announcement is a significant boost ahead of the return to rugby.
"I am delighted to welcome Ben and Abraham to Connacht Rugby," Friend said.
I got to know Ben very well on the Australian Sevens scene. It did not surprise me that he went on to become such an important player for them and I am thrilled that he has chosen to join Connacht.
"Abraham is a powerful number 8 who has all the attributes to become a really valuable player for us while furthering our options in the back row. I know every Connacht supporter will be excited to see what he can offer."

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Q&A | PROJECT INSIGHT
In the German mountains, Siemens and regional utility provider AUW have started trialling a peer-to-peer energy trading platform to try and establish a highly optimised and hyper local power market. Heidi Vella speaks to Stefan Jessenberger, Siemens Smart Infrastructure's innovation & partner manager for microgrids and 4D-energy systems, to find out more.
ildpoldsried, a picturesque municipality in Bavaria Germany, is renowned for its achievements in renewable energy production. The region has wind turbines, roof-top solar, hydropower, and biogas plants that generate eight times more energy than the 2,600 residents require. The excess is sent to the grid.
The forward-thinking municipality is now the setting for a new peer-to-peer energy trading platform developed by Siemens and its partners AÜW, the local grid operator, AllgäuNetz, Kempten University of Applied Sciences, and the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology. Named Pebbles, and launched in October, the purpose of the platform is to optimise local trading and consumption of all the decentralised energy sources.
Heidi Vella: How did the Pebbles project get started?
Stephan Jessenberger: The project follows on from two others we did previously in Wildpoldsried, one in 2010 and another in 2014. By the end of the last project, we knew how to do energy trading, how to connect the participants, and how to enable them to trade energy.
The other research we did was about microgrid resilience. Because there are a lot of different renewables, the natural next step was to look at how to integrate the distributed energies into a market. Not a normal market, but a future market with local energy trading.
How does the Pebbles platform Siemens has created actually work?
Essentially it matchmakes between the different participants in an innovative way. It's unique in that it brings together not only those who generate energy and consume energy, but also the grid operator, taking grid constraints into account while doing the matchmaking between two participants. It is optimised matchmaking to avoid grid congestions and increase the overall efficiency of the existing grid. It's automated end-to-end.
When deploying more and more renewables, it often creates more congestion. To avoid that and the need for large grid extensions, we want to use digital technologies and platforms to better bring generation and consumption together, anticipating the status of the grid.
How is this system different from a microgrid?
We define a microgrid as a system that can operate at least partly in off-grid mode. For example, if there is a power outage of the overlaying grid, a microgrid will still operate. For the Pebbles project, the off-grid operation is not a focus. It's about how to integrate a larger number of participants in a wider area, so potentially the area of the whole distribution grid operator, into the market.
The user app was planned to launch in October, how is it going?
We had the inauguration in October but due to Covid-19 we have been unable to train the users or to roll out the app. This is still pending, unfortunately. We need to explain and install it on the iPad or iPhone as it's not yet in the Apple store because it's in the development stage. The platform itself is working, but the users do not have the app.
When it is launched, each participant can use the app to configure their personal preferences. For example, they might want to sell energy at €0.25 per kilowatt hour and a consumer can decide what type of energy, at which prices, they are willing to buy. The consumer may decide to buy local green energy. The platform will take these preferences into account, as well as forecast energy generation and consumption and grid utilisation.
How do you incentivise people to get involved?
There is one incentive we can leverage, which is tax exemptions. In Germany, if energy traders are within close proximity, under 4.5km in distance, then consumers can save €0.02 per kilowatt hour on their energy.
However, because this is a research project and we need to show there are more incentives from a macroeconomic point of view, we also do simulations with flexible grid fees. So, if energy is used within a certain time frame where there is low utilisation of the cost of the grid, then grid fees are reduced. This is not currently within the regulatory framework in Germany but it is something we propose to the regulators for the future, to make use of a trading platform and a mechanism that will increase the overall efficiency of the energy system.
What have been the most challenging aspects of the project?
To figure out how to build a network model and a matchmaking algorithm that reflects the network in the best possible way to incentivise end users to consume and to produce in a grid-friendly manner. And also, to differentiate between the different deliveries and to split up the bill for the end user.
There are also electric vehicles stations in Wildpoldsried, are you considering incorporating vehicle-to-grid technology?
This is definitely something we have in mind. Not for the project itself, because setting up the platform is already quite challenging, but in future charging stations and the vehicle-to-grid concept could be integrated as another participant.
What is Siemens' long-term goal with this project?
It's two-fold. We want to show policymakers and the regulators that there is a benefit to such a system; they'd save flexible grid fees, differentiated grid fees, local grid fees, transmission grid fees, and so on. The project helps to convince policymakers and regulators to implement such cheap schemes to make use of technology to avoid grid extensions at large scale.
Grid extensions cannot be avoided everywhere, that's clear, but at least in a certain percentage, it can be avoided and with the help of digital technologies that can provide a benefit for the whole of society because energy costs will stay low.
Also, this platform helps integrate renewables because, with the help of batteries, there could also be more flexibility and this could be supported by price signals from the trading platform to incentivise the usage of the battery to facilitate a better, more efficient utilisation.
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How large could the platform scale to be?
There should be no real limitation, it could include hundreds and thousands of users. It could be used for larger cities, to bring cities together with surrounding rural areas. It's all about computing power for the algorithms and taking into consideration grid constraints. What's required, however, is the regulatory environment.
What do you need from the regulator?
To introduce variable grid fees and the ability to exchange data between the grid operator and either a retailer or an independent system operator that would operate the trading platform. Because you would need the grid operators' data to optimise the matchmaking and this has to be allowed. This would be completely different to how we do energy trading so far.
In Europe, we have this copper plate approach where you can trade energy without having any physical boundary conditions during the trading. This is done with scheduling to plan for potential network congestion. So, Pebbles contradicts the way energy is being traded in Europe today.
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What is Wrong with Sober's Attack on ID? (Part III): Ignoring the Widely Discussed Positive Predictions of Intelligent Design
Philosopher Elliott Sober recently published an article entitled, "What is Wrong With Intelligent Design?" which claimed that intelligent design is not testable. In Part I, I rebutted Sober's early history of intelligent design. Part II explained how Sober made the curious charge that auxiliary prediction weaken the testability of a scientific theory, something which Darwinists are famous for doing. This third installment will assess Sober's characterization of ID and explain how Sober ignores positive predictions of intelligent design. Sober misses 2 key points about intelligent design, leading him to false conclusions:
(1) It's simple: intelligent design detects the past action of intelligence, nothing more, and nothing less
Sober states: "We have no independent evidence concerning which auxiliary propositions about the putative designer's goals and abilities are true." That's not correct. While the "goals" of the designer may be beyond the reach of the scientific inquiry, ID does make claims about the "abilities" of the designer. Sober then provides quotes from design-proponents, and he fails to recognize that they always refer to detecting intelligence! We understand the abilities of an intelligent agent and we understand what intelligence produces (discussed below). Sober doubly misrepresents ID: He wrongly expects ID to identify the "goals" of the designer, but then fails to recognize that ID identifies the "abilities" of the designer.
(2) Studies of intelligence show that a unique hallmark of intelligence is its ability to produce high levels of complex and specified information.
Intelligence is a feature we understand and comprehend from our studies of human intelligence in the natural world. From these studies, William Dembski explains that "the primarily, empirically verifiable thing that intelligences do is generate specified complexity." (Dembski, The Design Revolution, pg. 194). But does the generation of specified complexity make ID testable in a "comparative" sense (see Part II) with respect to neo-Darwinism? Yes, it does.
Dembski explains that natural processes like the neo-Darwinian mechanism do not generate high levels of specified complexity:
[Intelligent design is] a fully scientific claim and follows directly from the complexity-specification criterion. In particular this is not an argument from ignorance. Just as physicists reject perpetual motion machines because of what they know about the inherent constraints on energy and matter, so too design theorists reject any naturalistic reduction of specified complexity because of what they know about the inherent constraints on natural causes. Natural causes are too stupid to keep pace with intelligent causes. Intelligent design theory provides a rigorous scientific demonstration of this long-standing intuition. Let me stress, the complexity-specification criterion is not a principle that comes to us demanding our unexamined acceptance–it is not an article of faith. Rather it is the outcome of a careful and sustained argument about the precise interrelationships between necessity, chance and design.
(William Dembski, Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science and Theology, pg. 223 (InterVarsity Press, 1999).)
Thus, according to Dembski, intelligence produces highly specified complexity, but neo-Darwinian processes do not. Sober never mentions specified complexity once in his article, which is strange since it's such a central component of intelligent design today.
Sober Botches Irreducible Complexity
Similarly, Sober also ignores that irreducible complexity is a unique indicator of intelligent design, but he states that irreducible complexity "does nothing to test ID. For ID to be testable, it must make predictions." Claiming that irreducible complexity is nothing more than a critique of evolution, Sober writes "The fact that a different theory makes a prediction says nothing about whether ID is testable. Behe has merely changed the subject." Here, Sober is repeating the Darwinist plaintiffs' arguments in the Kitzmiller case. But Sober misrepresents ID and ignores the fact that ID theorists have argued extensively that irreducible complexity is not just a negative argument against evolution, but also a positive indicator of design. Behe writes:
[I]rreducibly complex systems such as mousetraps and flagella serve both as negative arguments against gradualistic explanations like Darwin's and as positive arguments for design. The negative argument is that such interactive systems resist explanation by the tiny steps that a Darwinian path would be expected to take. The positive argument is that their parts appear arranged to serve a purpose, which is exactly how we detect design.
(Michael Behe, Darwin's Black Box, Afterward, pgs. 263-264 (Free Press, Reprint, 2006), emphasis added.)
Similarly, Scott Minnich and Steve Meyer see that irreducible complexity is a unique, positive argument for intelligent design:
Molecular machines display a key signature or hallmark of design, namely, irreducible complexity. In all irreducibly complex systems in which the cause of the system is known by experience or observation, intelligent design or engineering played a role the origin of the system. Given that neither standard neo-Darwinism, nor co-option has adequately accounted for the origin of these machines, or the appearance of design that they manifest, one might now consider the design hypothesis as the best explanation for the origin of irreducibly complex systems in living organisms. … Although some may argue this is a merely an argument from ignorance, we regard it as an inference to the best explanation, given what we know about the powers of intelligent as opposed to strictly natural or material causes.
(Scott A. Minnich & Stephen C. Meyer, Genetic analysis of coordinate flagellar and type III regulatory circuits in pathogenic bacteria, in Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Design & Nature.)
Incredibly, Sober makes no mention of the fact that design proponents have formulated irreducible complexity or specified complexity as positive indicators and predictions of design. He completely ignores these in order to make his central point that ID makes no positive predictions.
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Adam Bock is a good listener
Talking the talk
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | December 19, 2008
Adam Bock
Anna Deavere Smith
"I'M ALWAYS MANIPULATING LANGUAGE," SAID BOCK.
When Adam Bock first came to Providence in the late '80s, after a friend told him there was this great playwriting teacher at Brown, he was busting with unstoppable aspiration. When Paula Vogel told him he had to start by studying acting and proving his writing skills, he agreed and eventually was accepted into her MFA writing program.
Theatre Review: The Receptionist
No, it's never been easy to discourage Bock. For example, in his third-grade Montreal classroom, he was cast as one of the oompa loompas in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
"I was not happy with that," he confesses, chatting animatedly at Trinity Rep before a rehearsal of The Receptionist. "So I went home and made my own version of James and the Giant Peach and made myself James. So we had two sort of rival theater companies in my third- and fourth-grade classes."
After that coup, the rest of his career might sound anti-climactic. The first play of Bock's that received serious attention was a decade ago, when an unknown in San Francisco; Swimming In the Shallows beat out plays from Berkeley Rep and ACT for a Bay Area best play award, though staged in a tiny, 50-seat gay basement theater, Theatre Rhinoceros. That primed the pump for further awards and successes. Moving to New York, where he now lives, his 2006 play Thugs won an Obie and paved the way for two plays to be staged there last year. Bock has written 13 so far. He is still going strong. Major Hollywood producer Scott Rudin is having him write a screenplay, the subject yet to be decided.
Bock, 47, is not sure why he stuck with plays rather than other kinds of writing. "I would try to write poetry, and I was a very bad poet. And I got exhausted writing fiction — because it's too long, you have to say everything."
But with plays you don't even have to bother saying "he said" and "she said." And besides: "I like spoken language. I'm very interested in that."
That fascination was locked in for good at a semester-long workshop after college (Bowdoin) at the O'Neill Theater Center, in Connecticut. "Anna Deavere Smith came in and taught us for three days," Bock says. "So that's where I first got interested in language, because she explained how she was capturing language by taping it and then playing it back through herself. She learned how to notate it so she could always come out the way it sounded. I got really charged up."
Paying close attention to how people talk, he began to notice how spoken language is so different from most talk on a page. "So many plays, I think, are actually written language that then the actor has to break up into their own pauses, or move through language to make it sound like spoken language?" he explains with a rising inflection that makes the observation sound like a question. "But what I'm interested in is what are the starts and stops of real language, and if I put them in to create drama, if there is a moment of drama, what happens to language? If I'm yelling at you, it doesn't come out sounding like a big speech, it comes out like a garbled mess — but you still understand the speech. That interests me very much."
This professional listener has worked as a receptionist himself, including when he interned at Trinity Rep during the years Richard Jenkins was in charge (1990-94). As a public relations assistant, he was frequently tapped to fill in for the permanent receptionist.
"I realized how many different languages you speak when you're a receptionist," he says. "You speak one way to the person on the phone you know, one way to the person you want to hang up with, one with someone you don't know, one with your boss, and then also with people walking in the door."
That's a crucial concern for any playwright, who after all is working with styles and modes of interactions as much as with words.
"So I'm always manipulating language," Bock says. "I'm always listening. I heard one time, these kids went: 'Nuh-uh.' 'Uh-huh.' 'Nuh-uh.' 'Uh-huh.' 'Nuh-uh.' 'Uh-huh.' 'No way — really?' That's what makes me laugh, that stuff. To hear those sounds."
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  someActorRef ! SomeMessage
  ...
}

In case I use self alias name. I send message from MyActor to other actor, the sender becomes deadLetters. When I use different alias instead of self it works fine.
I suppose ! method implicitly must take self field of Actor class, but it's being hidden by the self alias.
In my opinion it's dangerous to use self type alias name if you extend a class.
My question: Why compiler doesn't tell about duplicated alias/field names? Or how to handle this problem?

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Melody Damayo (born July 3, 1973) is a model, film director, and actress of Filipino descent best known as Mimi Miyagi.

In 2011, Complex magazine ranked her at #12 in their list of "The Top 50 Hottest Asian Porn Stars of All Time".

Early life and education
Melody Damayo was born in Davao City, the second of four children, to conservative Seventh-day Adventist parents. When she was six, she moved to the United States with her parents, and she grew up in California.

Damayo went back to Mindanao for high school, and her family enrolled her in a Seventh-day Adventist academy (Mindanao Mission Academy) in Misamis Oriental, hoping she would absorb Filipino values. After finishing high school, she enrolled in an Adventist college in Bukidnon, studying finance and economics at Mountain View College, but she dropped out in her second year. She says she had been a disc jockey on the college radio station and had decided on a career in show business.

Damayo returned to Los Angeles and obtained a scholarship to the American College for Fashion Merchandising, but, once again, she dropped out without graduating when she had run out of money and began looking for jobs. By age 18, she had become a Certified Master Makeup Artist at the makeup artistry school at FOX studios in Hollywood.

Adult film career and mainstream appearances
She took some part-time gigs as a go-go dancer at an Asian nightclub in Beverly Hills, before transitioning into adult films and nude modeling.

Damayo says she saw an advertisement for nude models and answered it. She took the name "Mimi", the childhood nickname given by her grandmother. "Miyagi" was derived from the character Mr. Miyagi in the film The Karate Kid, although she has nothing to do with him. She says she cloaked her actual ethnicity in Asian mysticism.

In 1996, she retired from adult film acting and moved to Henderson, Nevada. She married a former professional football player. She hired a consultant to set up a website (MimiMiyagi.com), then got embroiled in a legal battle over control of the domain name.

In 1998, she appeared in an America Undercover documentary entitled Strippers: The Naked Stages.

She was the publisher of the erotic American Asian magazine Oriental Dolls (now known as Asian Hotties).

In 2001, after a divorce, she quietly dedicated herself to several humanitarian and animal volunteer organizations.

Nearly bankrupted by her divorce, in September 2003, "Mimi" came out of retirement and appeared in the adult film Happy Ending (not to be confused with Happy Endings later released by Lions Gate Entertainment).

She again transitioned out of the adult film industry in 2007 and starting acting in mainstream movies like Little Bruno. She also had a cameo role in the 2013 mainstream movie Speed Dragon.

In 2012, she became a fashion reporter for Eyestrane, an online magazine focusing on Asian talent internationally.

Political career

On May 12, 2006, she filed as a Republican gubernatorial candidate in the state of Nevada, under her birth name Melody Damayo, saying one of her priorities would be anti-stalking legislation. "I have nothing left to hide, everybody has seen all of me already", she said. One of her slogans was "I'm bare and honest at all times." Her candidacy came three years after fellow adult film star Mary Carey's campaign for Governor of California in the 2003 California gubernatorial recall election. On May 16, 2006, her campaign was endorsed by the liberal blog Wonkette.

She faced four other Republican candidates in the primary held on August 15, 2006 and was defeated by a wide margin by Jim Gibbons. After her loss in the primaries, she joined the Libertarian Party.

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Slik Uses Mistika to Create Edgy Urban Look for Med
New hit comedy series Med, currently airing on VRAK 2, outlines the amusing antics of an insolent youth, with his two inseparable friends and eccentric parents. Produced by KOTV (Alain Chicoine, Louis Morissette and Louis-Philippe Drolet) and directed by François Bégin, the program premièred on January 7th. "Med is Slik's very first TV project to benefit from Mistika's creativity and has been well received, with our client more than satisfied. In fact, the broadcaster is ecstatic," colorist Mathieu Marano said.
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Legend3D has announced that has purchased a Mistika 3D system from SGO. It will integrate its Mistika post-production system with two Assist Stations into the conversion and visual effects pipeline at the company's 60,000 square foot studio with multiple theatres and R&D facilities. With the capacity to work on up to three full feature films and multiple commercials concurrently, Legend3D has delivered projects such as The Lego Movie, Man of Steel, Life of Pi, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Smurfs 1 & 2, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, and many others.
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1963-12-05 - The New X-Men
Summary: Recent events drive a decision to be made. The time has come to train the new generation of X-Men.
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A long night's sleep doesn't necessarily mean waking early. Erik had turned in early, after returning from he and Crystal's, shall we say, series of unexpected trips. The sun has barely risen when he finds himself downstairs, in the kitchen, cooking up some breakfast.
In his dressing robe and slippers.
It's simply been that kind of week.
The smells soon begin to fill the area. He'd considered cooking a traditional American breakfast, but after scouring the expansive pantry, he's selected something that reminds him of his youth.
One by one, the pierogi are drained, then set to bake in a thin layer of butter. After this, he sets the water to begin preparing coffee using an old fashioned French press.
Once upon a time Charles wouldn't have woken before dawn on a bet, but it's amazing the sort of habits one can get into when one finds their way into being responsible for a building full of children.
Today he's up early so he can do some measuring and shifting of furniture in some of the rooms that will soon be thronging with the school's normal activity, though he's not even down the stairs before he notices someone's already at work in the kitchen. <Erik?> he wonders, rubbing sleep out of one eye with the heel of his hand. "With how busy you've been, I half expected you to sleep through the day." he notes with a wan smile from the kitchen door. "But as that's apparently not the case, just how much of that might you be making?"
Sleep has not been kind to Crystal. The last few days - the last week - have been enough to shred her nerves. The usually composed young woman has grown-short tempered, though at least she seems able to limit herself to walking away rather than shouting at anyone. Generally.
She was out early this morning, taking herself for a run to try to burn off the excess energy, and only now returns to the kitchen in sweatpants and a t-shirt, her hair pulled back in a ponytail and cheeks flushed. Which means she probably ran a marathon's worth of laps around the grounds in the last hour.
Shredded nerves are a thing Erik has become familiar with. He's handled himself well, perhaps surprisingly so, to those who really know him, but it's driven him to a place that could best be described as autopilot. With an oven mit drawn up to his arm, he's poking around inside of the oven when Charles arrives. "Oh, I've made plenty, my old friend," he answers without looking, eyes squinting as they remain focused on the work at hand. "Pierogi have a habit of waking those who smell them." He finally withdraws, oven mit outstretched, and a sizable pan filled with the delicious goodies comes floating out, carried by a focused magnetic field.
Noticing Crystal, Erik smirks a bit while reaching for the French press. The pan settles itself upon a pair of trivets, and he begins pouring cups for everyone. "By my count, you've circled the estate twenty times, my dear." A pause. "Then again, I was preoccupied."
Removing the oven mit, he gestures toward the preparation. "Mushroom, sausage, and quark, with a thin run of plum jam."
"Funny how that works." Charles agrees of the aromatic dumplings, collecting plates from a cupboard for them all and claiming a couple of the pierogis. "And thank you— Crystal, good morning!" Charles greets with a morning version of his usual cheer when she turns up as well. "We seem to share a gift for perfect timing today… and welcome home to both of you, by the way." Charles adds a bit more gently. He only knows snatches of what has kept them busy while they were out, but he knows enough to guess a quiet meal in familiar walls might be needed about now.
"Well, by lap fifteen I was at least tired enough to only be thinking about the running," Crystal smiles wearily back at Erik, stepping to his side to take a deep breath of the food with a hand to the small of his back. "It was that or find someone with enhanced strength and durability for a bit of sparring, and I'm still not certain that would have ended well."
She rests her cheek against his arm for a moment before she steps back, turning a small smile on Charles. "Good morning, Charles. And thank you," she laughs weakly. "If you and Moira ever need a night away from it all, I know a lovely beach in Tahiti that's just a teleport away."
Enhanced strength and durability? Erik lifts an eyebrow, casts a look Crystal's way, then looks over toward Charles. "This is why we don't spar." Regardless, he rests a hand on her forearm before she turns, smirking Crystal's way. "It's a wonderful place," he agrees, before lifting his coffee for a testing sip. There comes a slight grimace, too hot, still.
"I am glad you're here," he tells Charles, then looks toward Crystal. "Both of you." Back to Charles. "There are some things I wish to discuss."
"Oh do you, now?" Charles replies to Crystal with amusement. "We'll certainly have to keep that in mind." he's curious about just how that factored into their little adventure.. but then Erik speaks, and it may be better to let them explain what they wish at their own pace. "Then by all means." Charles agrees, cracking open a pierogi and letting some steam vent— rather like the coffee it may take a bit before they can enjoy breakfast as more than just a smell.
Crystal's smile flickers at Erik's observation, and she moves to load a plate for herself as well, leaning against the kitchen counter as she waits for the food to cool. That, and as much as she ran, she's still restless. Best to let the energy burn off a bit before she settles down. Almost relieved to hear about someone else's problems, she simply looks to Erik, brows rising slightly.
"I took Scott and Jean to Sacramento," Erik begins, without hesitating. "As soon as we read the news." He looks at his cooling coffee for a long moment, then turns toward Charles. "There was one survivor. A young mutant girl named Lily Chambers, who wouldn't have been a survivor, had we not dug her out of the ground."
He does have a way with words.
"They insisted that I bring the girl home. I insisted that we do what was lawful. She's been turned over to the state… I would hope that we could petition to adopt her into our own fold, but the greater concern here is what happened to Sacramento's mutant population."
He takes another testing drink from his coffee, then sets the mug down, perhaps with a bit more force than he'd have liked.
"They were all but wiped out."
And that was one of the bits Charles already had a pretty good idea of, though the girl is news. With an effort, Charles keeps the ill twist in his stomach from projecting to the others.
The news about the girl however, that bit is new. "Thank goodness you were able to find her, at least." Charles says quietly. If Jean was there, he doesn't need to ask if there was anyone else they might have missed. One life saved means their trip was well worth while, at least. "You spoke with the law enforcement there then, I take it?"
Crystal's features are dark at the mention of Sacramento, head tipped downward. It's why Attilan has always been kept a secret. And yet, in the wake of everything that's happened lately, also why she's been thinking it may be time to end those millennia of secrecy.
"I did," Erik admits, his voice much quieter than the near outburst had suggested it might become. There is a long silence, during which he stares at his coffee, before turning to look at Charles. "Some of them wanted to help. Others decided it was best to… draw their firearms." Erik's chest rises and falls at that. "Nobody was hurt."
And… he'll leave it at that.
"I don't know how long we can protect this place, Charles," he finally admits, turning with coffee in hand to take a drink. "I propose we begin training the older students, with regularity. A set schedule. They must be prepared." A look to Crystal. "Especially now that some of them are taking it upon themselves to don old X-Men uniforms and go hunting around for strange artifacts in places like Hell's Kitchen."
"Thank you." Charles says in the same quiet and simple tones. He knows how difficult it is for Erik especially to give leeway when it comes to men with guns and a position of power. Still, this time there was what looked like actual progress with the government treating them as citizens, people. Even with the tragedies of the last few weeks, it's a hope that's not entirely broken.
But there's a difference between hoping for brighter days, and being blind to the possibility of bad ones. Charles lets out a quiet breath, both hands around his coffee cup.
"You're not the first to say such a thing to me this month." Charles notes with a humorless smile curling up one side of his mouth. "..And you're right. For themselves, and for all of us. Now especially, when we may need to act anyways, we need to be seen. Seen in control of our powers, seen protecting people, seen as a force for good. I think we're not the only ones who could use something to believe in right now. Especially now."
Though the comment about artifacts in Hell's Kitchen gets a questioning raise of one eyebrow.
Crystal snorts softly at the last comment. "That is because no one has taken Jean Grey in hand," she mutters, and even Charles gets a hint of the blame for that one. "The girl's either ranting and screaming, or curled up in a ball crying. Which would be one thing if she were thirteen years old, but she isn't. It would be one thing if she could fling dumpsters with her mind, but she can. Honestly, Charles, if she can't learn to control herself, how exactly does anyone expect her to learn to control her powers?" Oh, there's the rest of the rant that's been going through her mind all night.
Far be it for Erik to defend Jean Grey, but he was there when she struggled to obey his lead in Sacramento. Charles wasn't, neither was Crystal. He stands up a bit straighter at Crystal's remark, and raises a hand toward both. "Hold on."
He draws a deep breath, hoping that his strong voice is enough to keep the discussion from escalating into an argument. "Crystal, some mutants have a much harder time learning to harness their powers. Young Mister Summers cannot even control his; he's forced to wear goggles, or classes, simply to keep from blasting a hole in everything he looks at. It isn't exactly like terrigenesis."
He looks then from Crystal to Charles. "But she's right. Some of them need more practice. Some of them just need to be given a chance. We're all at fault here… I wasn't even aware of Summers' lack of control, which almost cost us a terrible accident on the way to California." Erik isn't going to talk about his magnetic powers accidentally ripping Scott's visor off while the Blackbird was in flight. It was handled. "Loki of Asgard. The aliens." He turns back to Crystal. "The mounting tension in Attilan." Back to Charles. "The Soviets." He shakes his head. "We must train this new generation of X-Men."
The tension from Crystal suddenly bursting forth isn't exactly a surprise to Charles, but Erik isn't guessing wrong when he cuts him off mid-way to replying in her defense.
Charles nods to Erik's statements on the matter, adding, "Jean's…other resident has made matters especially difficult for her over the years. She's literally carrying a voice in her head with no sense of restraint or moderation. All considered, I think it's a testament to Jean's strength she's retained as much of herself as she has. In fact from the last time I evaluated them both, if anything I think it's -Jean- that's making an impression on the Phoenix more than the other way around. That's frankly incredible."
Though he has to allow, "That said, you're right as well, Crystal. Especially if we're considering.." Charles lets out a breath, and meets Erik's eye now directly. "No, if we -are- reinstating the X-men again, she and any others who will be going on these missions will need to have more control than that. And that is on us to teach them."
He takes one more deep breath..and smiles again. "Not that this is anything new mind you.. but it would seem we have our work cut out for us."
"We don't generally walk out of the chamber knowing how to use our powers, either, Erik," Crystal says archly, crossing her arms over her chest as she bristles. "But we certainly don't allow children who can't control themselves out in public until they learn. Our own king spent his first eighteen years of his life in a sound-proof chamber until he was certain he could prevent himself from making even the smallest sound, even in his sleep, because his voice is an instrument of such power. I frankly don't care what's taken up residence in Jean's head, but all of your excuses are not helping her to realize that the only person who can control it is her. You all need to stop coddling her and making excuses for her, or she'll never learn. Scott, on the other hand, seems perfectly capable of behaving himself, so I don't think control of powers is the issue."
Erik makes a concessive gesture toward Crystal, after paying her words much heed. "Maybe something needs to be done about the Phoenix," Erik suggests. It's an off-hand remark, more flip than anything, and he isn't exactly considering the moral implications of his words, either. He sets the coffee mug down again, this time without the bang, and folds his own arms. "Despite what disagreements we may have, they are, ultimately, semantics. We have protected these students, given them a safe place to live, to grow and learn. That is a good thing. But it's simply not enough anymore." He looks from one to the other. "I don't think anyone is in disagreement on that."
Turning away, Erik reaches for one of his pierogis. He takes it in hand, without utensil, and turns back to the others. "I will commence with a training regimen at once," he offers, before popping that delicious morsel into his mouth.
"When you have it written up, I'd very much like to look it over." Charles comments, though his attention is still largely on Crystal. It would seem that her particular concerns are running more to the specific than the general right now.
"And with the matter of the X-men aside, yes. Let's talk about Jean, then. What would you have me do, Crystal? If you are asking that she not be taken into conflicts moving forward, then for the moment I heartily agree. If you are asking that we take steps to impress upon her the very real consequences of letting her impulses run uncontrolled… I've been taking steps to do that as well." he offers her a memory, more a mental knock on the door if she wants it. In truth he's curious how recent the events worrying Crysyal are as well. "We'll be able to help her more easily if we're all on the same page." he suggests.
"Do you know what she said last night, Charles? When she was railing against the fact that we would dare question her choice to go out into the city in costume because there might be consequences?" Crystal is still in a tizzy - no wonder she went for such a run this morning. But it seems this hits closer to the root of the matter. "That of course she could just erase it from everyone's mind. Do you understand? She believes that the proper response to her own failure is to violate the very selves of complete strangers."
Erik is very quiet now. Of all the arguments made, this one is the one that weighs heaviest, perhaps on them all. It was this very possibility that had prompted Erik to fashion that damned helmet; who knows what damage has still to be undone from that escapade.
He looks from one to the other, then away with a long sigh. He reaches for another pierogi, then walks over toward the pantry. There, upon one of the shelves, is a notebook. He collects it, then walks back over toward Charles, offering it over.
One wouldn't need to read it to understand what it is. There's a look in Erik's eyes that says it all. Seems he's already written up that training plan.
That does shed quite a bit of light on the severity of Crystal's agitation, and the event she just described is resonating strongly enough with it Charles can only assume it's the pivotal one to the topic at hand. Charles frowns. "Erasing the memories of someone is a consequence. And not a light one." Charles says with the measured tones of a person who's spared more than a little thought to such things.
Charles is about to say more when Erik proffers the book. Still seated, Charles glances up in momentary puzzlement, but a moment later he laughs quietly, accepting the book with an amused shake of the head. "Thank you, my friend." he says. Leave it to Erik to be prepared on such a matter.
"It's rape, Charles. It's an absolute violation of a person's mind every bit as much as forcing them to do something against their will." Crystal eyes the notebook for a long moment then shakes her head, picking up her plate. "Erik, if you've not included something about ethics in there, I'll be happy to provide guidance on it. Perhaps there ought to be a chapter on responsible stealth as well. I'm going to finish this upstairs."
"It is strictly a field operations guide," Erik denotes. "It does not cover the morality or ethics of anything." He looks from Crystal to Charles. "If our people don't have that basis os understanding, then they aren't even ready…" He motions toward the book. "… for that."
Erik looks toward Crystal as she departs, a heavy sigh upon his features. He waits until she is gone, before looking back toward Charles. "Do read through it, Charles, but…" He walks forward, coffee in hand, and places a hand upon the man's shoulder. "Don't take too long making your decision."
With that, he's off to go upstairs. He has a Princess to attend to.
Crystal's sentiments are ones Charles is long familiar with. Some of them he's had rather loudly and angrily launched at him without a single word needing to be said. The irony of that notwithstanding, there is a very sharp difference between overhearing and altering. Charles doesn't try to stop Crystal when she leaves— this is a topic that is surely going to come up again, no reason to press it now when Crystal's already worn.
Charles looks up again to Erik when the hand is placed on his shoulder.. on this at least, they're all in clear accord. Charles smiles quietly and says, "I already have."
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Biden set to announce new military assistance for Ukraine
By AAMER MADHANI and DARLENE SUPERVILLEApril 21, 2022 GMT
President Joe Biden listens during a meeting with Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, left, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, and other military leaders in the Cabinet Room the White House, Wednesday, April 20, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is set to announce plans Thursday to send additional military aid to help Ukraine fight back against the Russian invasion, according to a U.S. official.
The official, who was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity, said Biden will deliver a Thursday morning address at the White House detailing his plans to build on the roughly $2.6 billion in military assistance the administration has already approved for Ukraine.
The new package is expected to be similar in size to the $800 million package Biden announced last week. It includes much needed heavy artillery and ammunition for Ukrainian forces in the escalating battle for the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine.
Earlier this week, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau also said his country will send heavy artillery to Ukraine. And Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that the Netherlands will send more heavy weapons, including armored vehicles.
A senior U.S. defense official on Wednesday said training of Ukrainian personnel on American 155mm howitzers has begun in a European country outside Ukraine.
Biden on Wednesday lauded U.S. military officials for "exceptional" work arming Ukraine as he gathered the nation's military brass for their first in-person group meeting at the White House of his presidency.
It's an annual tradition that had been put on hold because of the coronavirus pandemic but is now being resurrected as the U.S. arms Ukraine to help it fight back against Russia's invasion.
"I don't know about you, but I've been to Ukraine a number of times before the war ... and I knew they were tough and proud but I tell you what: They're tougher and more proud than I thought," Biden told military commanders. "I'm amazed at what they're doing with your help."
Biden brought together the Pentagon's top civilian and uniformed officials amid the most serious fighting in Europe since World War II. Russia's nearly two-month-old invasion of Ukraine was at the center of wide-ranging talks with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and combatant commanders.
Biden also used the gathering to reflect on his administration's efforts to diversify Pentagon leadership. Hicks is the first Senate-confirmed woman to hold her role. Biden also chose Gen. Jacqueline Van Ovost of the Air Force as commander of United States Transportation Command and Lt. Gen. Laura Richardson of the Army as commander of United States Southern Command. They are just the second and third women to lead combatant commands.
"It's an important milestone," Biden said. "I think that speaks to how we're harnessing the strength and diversity of our country."
Following the meeting, Biden and first lady Jill Biden hosted the military leaders and their spouses for dinner in the White House Blue Room.
Such a gathering was last held in October 2019. Donald Trump was president at the time and was facing a House inquiry that would lead to his first impeachment, which centered on allegations that he withheld military assistance from Ukraine as part of an effort to pressure the country's president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, to dig up dirt on Biden's adult son's business dealings in Ukraine.
AP National Security Writer Robert Burns in Washington contributed to this report.


Remember my friend Rachele that I've spoken of before?
We have good times together and her/our projects are fun to make!
I also hope she starts blogging again, because she's good at it!
she has added an annual Christmas ornament exchange.
I am so grateful to be surrounded by such amazing (and crazy fun) crafty women!
And can I just interject AGAIN about how much I love Pinterest?
Anytime I need an idea for pretty much ANYTHING, I can find it there!
So I created a list of handmade ornaments that I loved and finally narrowed it down to one.
I don't know who originally made it, but isn't he completely adorable?!
This was one of my favorite quests EVER at Hobby Lobby!
I filled regular and small sized clear glass ornaments with tiny foam balls and fake snow.
I left the metal 'cap' on the small ornament to hold the snow in, then glued them together with E6000.
The small ornament with it's 'cap' fit perfectly snug into the larger ornament.
Here is the first one I finished.
Ummmmmm, are you thinking what I'm thinking?
Or who's that Mario guy? Him too!!!
Ahhhh, that's better. A little more charming without the big goofy grin! Don't you think?
How cute is Tracie's handmade 'cupcake'?!
Paula's tiny topiary blew me away!
Ann's precious handmade drum....she always has a way with packaging too!
Rachele is a clever one with that paper! So cute!
I love every single ornament and how completely different they all are!
Funny how I didn't even make one of mine to keep for myself.
Here's Ann's handmade 'ribbon candy' with her clever packaging (that she also handmade).
I absolutely love the simplicity and meaning of Monika's glass ball!
Kathy is the super sewer of the group!
Rachele's made from a cookie cutter, a big bell and layers of fabric and glitter!
Tracie's handmade decoupaged paper ball!
I hope you found some inspiration to make some ornaments of your own next Christmas!


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For mild to moderate cases of OSA or snoring, we offer a simple oral appliance that can be worn in the mouth during sleep. Sleep apnea occurs when the tongue and soft tissue in the mouth fall back into the throat, completely blocking the airway during sleep. Oral Appliance Therapy (OAT) involves the selection, design, fitting and use of a specially designed oral appliance that maintains an opened, unobstructed airway during sleep. The appliance is small, comfortable, easy to wear, and easy to travel with.
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Андо Сунсуке ( 10 серпня 1990, Сетаґая) — японський футболіст, що грає на позиції воротаря.

Клубна кар'єра
З 2009 року захищає кольори команди «Кавасакі Фронтале». 2013 рік провів в оренді у клубі «Сьонан Бельмаре».

Виступи за збірну
2012 року у складі національної збірної Японії був учасником футбольного турніру на Олімпійських іграх.

Титули і досягнення
 Переможець Азійських ігор: 2010

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Посилання
 J.League

Японські футболісти
Футболісти «Кавасакі Фронталє»
Футболісти «Сьонан Бельмаре»
Футбольні воротарі


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Balancing brain power: the need to prioritize mental health over AP classes
Pathfinder Editorial Board|January 19, 2023
Ashlyn Gillespie
A pile of Advanced Placement (AP) study books sit on a library desk. When taking AP classes, many students sacrifice other areas of their lives to keep their grades up. "It's not the fact that I am taking an AP class. I am spending more time doing the work for school than I would spend time with friends and family," senior Noah Schell said. "It is a sacrifice I made and realized after signing up for the classes. Over the years, I have devised a system of managing my time, which sometimes means I don't get all of the work done."
In 2022, 424 Parkway West students took 801 Advanced Placement (AP) examinations, meaning that most took two or more tests, and over a third of the student population enrolled in an AP class. Because course registration next year begins Jan. 18, class rigor is at the forefront of students' minds. When registering for classes, students take higher amounts of AP classes to pad college applications. Still, we must question the importance of these classes over the rise of mental health awareness.
Schools attempt to promote AP classes and student mental health simultaneously, but these two things are not "advertised" equally. Instead, mental health advocacy comes across as a box that needs to be checked. Dismissed mental health screenings and vague mental health meetings only acknowledge this point. Meanwhile, the campaign for AP classes seems to be promoted much more frequently. In correlation with the push for mental health, what type of course load is too much for students to handle?
Looking at the big picture, Parkway School District is well known for its push for APs. This high-achieving reputation puts pressure on students to meet this expectation and take on more significant challenges. Out of the 801 AP exams distributed in 2022, 82% received a score of three or higher on the AP exam.
With course registration approaching, the district is promoting AP classes through counselor meetings and emails. This persistence puts pressure on students to take an increased number of AP classes when this promotion is set to provide equal opportunities among students. At the same time, while there's a big push for AP classes, students — like senior Noah Schell — question why there isn't a greater drive for mental health along with the push for AP classes.
"Of course, mental health should come first; that is a no-brainer. There are ways that you can balance it so that you can take APs and still prioritize your mental health. I think West could do a better job focusing on mental health [which is] a bigger priority than APs," Schell said. "Ultimately, it has to be the students themselves willing to [make mental health] a priority over class themselves."
But while there appears to be a force of persuasion to take APs, there is no pressure to increase or uphold standards for AP classes such as attendance, the number of people taking exams or scores earned.
"There's never been any pressure or statement to say 'hey, we have to do X, Y or Z,'" assistant principal Mario Pupillo said. "[We want] to have our student population taking AP classes to mirror our general population. We would like to see all of our students represented in our AP classes."
English Department Chair and English teacher Shannon Cremeens believes that the AP push is not intended to convince kids to take more AP classes, rather to encourage more students to explore the rigor. On the other hand, she thinks too many kids are taking too many AP classes.
"[We advertise for AP classes] to make sure that we have equity among all students and that it is being offered and making sure all students feel like they could take it if they wanted to," Cremeens said. "Let's say I have never taken an honors class before in my life. Students are asking, 'Am I worthy? Am I going to fail if I take this AP class?' The question comes down to if you really want to do this. [If you do], then you should be able to. Does that mean you are going to get an A? No. But you have exposed yourself to something that you are passionate about."
When thinking about which courses to take next year, students should weigh the pros and cons of taking higher-level courses and what effect taking multiple AP classes can have on their mental health and personal life. (Emily Early and Ashlyn Gillespie)
When deciding courses for the next school year, students should consider the benefits and drawbacks to determine what workload appeals most to their schedule. Schoolwork should not be the sole focus of a teenager's life. Instead of trying to conquer the most academically, schools should influence teenagers to find a balance across aspects of their life, including school life, social life, home life and sports. Students who do the most feel like they struggle or miss out on other parts of their lives. As a student determined to achieve the most academically, senior Nikita Bhaskar plans to attend the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) and has taken 15 AP classes since eighth grade but can see the toll these courses have taken on her mental health.
"During class, I am very tired, mainly from staying up late to do homework for that class, which is counterintuitive. In the beginning, I'll sign up for an AP class because I am interested in the subject, but then as the semester goes on, it becomes harder to stay motivated in that class if the workload is unbearable," Bhaskar said.
An oversight Bhaskar noticed was that she was taking AP classes with other students who had a greater passion for learning. This may appear to be a positive impact, but this resulted in her not learning or interacting with any of her other friends or peers who don't take AP classes. Often, we see the kids placed in gifted programs also following a heavy course rigor by taking multiple AP classes and then facing a phenomenon called "burning out." Pressuring "gifted kids" into APs leads to less diversity in the groups of people we see in these classes because a test is required to be gifted but not to take AP classes.
Another downside to the AP track that is often left out of the conversation is that not all colleges give college credit for some AP classes available. For example, the University of Missouri (Mizzou) requires an exam score of three or higher in AP Literature and AP Language; however, they only accept one of the two options for credit — students cannot get credit for both. There are many courses Bhaskar has taken, knowing the exam credit will not transfer over to her college, but instead took because she feels more productive, learns more in these classes and practices her test-taking by signing up for the exams.
"The college that I am going to doesn't take the AP exam credit for some of the classes [I am taking], but without the course rigor of taking [AP classes], it would be much harder to get into any school," Bhaskar said. "As hard as AP classes can be, it is really hard if you are trying to go to a competitive school to not take AP classes because kids all over the country are [taking those courses], and that's who you are competing with."
Even if a student decides to take AP courses, there is a difference between taking one and four. The discrepancies between these amounts can have a significant effect on students' mental health, which can influence stress levels, increase the risk of depression or anxiety and can decrease the value of self-worth.
"When you break it all down, it's not worth it. It's not worth your health. Nothing is, really," Cremeens said. "Yes, I think AP classes are important. I think it's awesome that we have them. I don't think it's important that they need to take more than two. Once you get to that point, you have to ask yourself, 'what am I doing this for?'"
Still, some students may find themselves trying to take AP class after AP class; some say it is to challenge themselves, and some just need the academic rigor. However, there must be a balance between an academic and personal life to maintain mental health. Taking AP classes since he was a freshman, Schell quickly found ways to help manage his workload and relieve stress from his classes.
"It comes down to setting my priorities straight and then making sacrifices when needed. Sometimes I know I need to get a homework assignment done, so I tell my friends I can't go out for ice cream or whatever," Schell said. "Sometimes, I'm like, 'I have done a lot of homework today [so] I'm just not going to do anymore. It's not going to get done tonight, and that's fine.' I have learned to be okay with it over the years. Usually, when it hits 10 p.m. or 10:30 p.m., if I still have homework, I'll be like, 'Well, that sucks,' and I will cut my losses. It has taught me to prioritize and manage my time better."
Although he supports students taking AP classes, Schell admits that Parkway should have a higher focus on mental health and do a better job of prioritizing it. Studies from medical journals suggest that AP students lose an extra hour and 40 minutes of sleep compared to non-AP course takers. This forecasts a problem related to mental health: sleep loss. Junior Serpil Kucukkaya relates to the stressors of taking too many AP classes. With a workload of four AP classes, Kucukkaya finds herself studying through many sleepless nights.
"Sometimes [AP classes] can take a toll on my mental health because I'm so drained. [On] my third unit test, I was so drained from studying all night that I'm pretty sure I zoned out for a good five minutes during the test," Kucukkaya said. "I couldn't do anything, and I wasn't able to finish the test. It takes a big toll because I have so much workload. I don't just have these classes. I have to balance it with other [classes] too."
As an advocate for mental health, Cremeens further stresses the importance of students taking time for themselves, exploring hobbies and spending time with friends and family. Nowadays, students put pressure on themselves to get the highest grades in the highest classes to compete for prestigious colleges. It seems impossible to attend a top school in current times without overwhelming schedules with AP classes and extracurricular activities because they are highly focused on college applications.
Returning to school after the pandemic brought varied mental health issues to the surface. In addition to the mental health issues high schoolers already deal with day-to-day, students face issues stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, which include anxiety over mask mandates lifting, lack of motivation or anxiety over school work and depression from lack of social behaviors and events. Schools like Kirkwood and Rockwood have provided specific resources for students dealing with these issues on their websites. They have had meetings with students and counselors to help ease these issues and provide better transitions. On the Parkway website, there are only resources for the Parkway Counseling Center and hotlines listed for varied uses. On the other hand, Kirkwood's health services page includes personal counseling services, links to helpful healthcare tips, and extended resources for students and parents. Hopefully, we will see Parkway's mental health resources extended to include some options available for students and teachers.
Parkway must do a better job of helping encourage students to prioritize mental health over coursework and AP classes. Other schools in the St. Louis Metro area — including East Saint Louis School District — have moved to provide mental health days for students, which are excused absences from school days to provide students a chance to work on their mental health.
With course registration crawling to the forefront of students' minds, our school should be encouraging a balance between AP courses and mental health. Parkway should offer resources like outside counseling services and options for mental health days to students. Counselors should address mental health issues before allowing students to take multiple AP classes, but this alone would be impossible. We should consider adding more mental health counselors to the staff to enable guidance counselors to focus on their job: to help lead kids through high school. We must stress the importance of enjoying the little things and being satisfied with taking lower courses to prioritize mental health.
"You equate that you are not good enough when you don't do well, and that's truly not what that lesson is telling you," Cremeens said. "That lesson is telling you that you have overextended yourself. It is not telling you that you are stupid. It is telling you you do not have the time to devote to doing everything because you can't do that. No one can do that. I think that is the issue [everyone needs to consider.]"
Mario Pupillo
Nikita Bhaskar
Noah Schell
Serpil Kucukkaya
Shannon Cremeens
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This is just a post full of… STUFF. I have many things to tell and show you guys!
I have two panels on the Saturday.
All 26 writers on stage at once for YA games!
I assume I get to moderate the dystopia panel because I have a story in the YA dystopia anthology After, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (fancy people!) with many other fancy people in it. Behold!
I am not sure how that happened: I am definitely not cool enough to be on that list. But I'm very pleased. My story Faint Heart was based on an idea I've talked about before – a future world where the social rules are like the court of Eleanor of Aquitaine. Courtly love, and chivalry, and clones. But forget about me: did you see who else is in the anthology? My gracious. It's out next year. Next year is a big year for me!
This year was big too: the year I finished my Lexicon series! For all those wanting a Lexicony taste, here are some deleted scenes from Demon's Surrender. Warning: spoilers, and unexpected people kissing!
Speaking of next year being a big year, if you happen to be in Charleston this weekend, there will be signings after every panel. As well as signing any books, I will have Team Human stickers to give out! Should you happen to want a sticker that says 'Friends don't let friends date vampires.' AWESOME ADVICE!
July 3rd 2012 is the official release date for Team Human in the US, and it is now up on amazon. It feels all real!
I will also have booklets of the first three chapters of Unspoken with me, free to good homes.
And Unspoken, as well as coming out in the US from Random House, is coming out in Czech from Levne knihy, and in the UK, Ireland and Australia from Simon & Schuster UK, who already published (and beautifully covered!) the Demon's Lexicon series. I'm really happy, as my UK editor Venetia Gosling (doesn't she have the best name?) is the first person I ever pitched Unspoken to.
SARAH: Whenever I see people with a psychic bond I just can't help but wonder how that's meant to uncomplicate a relationship.
VENETIA: Well, reading someone's mind is meant to be a sign of connection–of love.
SARAH: And you would love them. And hate them. You'd be all mixed up about them you'd hardly know. Not having even the slightest veil over all your secrets would be so strange. I mean, just think about what you'd feel like if you came downstairs in the morning and your husband thought something unflattering about your outfit.
VENETIA: What might he think about my outfit…?
SARAH: Somebody has to write a book about how strange, and co-dependent, and addictive, and tangled and terrible it would be, to have that kind of bond.
VENETIA: But let's get back to the issue of my outfit.
SARAH: You see how it's already tearing us apart.
But nothing could tear me and Simon & Schuster UK apart! I love their Lexicon covers–I'm so excited for my Unspoken cover. (Whether I will have different covers in different countries: yet to be seen!) But lovely that I will have a book out next year on Irish and English shelves, so my family won't think I'm fibbing about this 'being a writer' lark.
My friend and awesome author lady Saundra Mitchell made me a beautiful book trailer for Unspoken which made me clap softly to myself. I cannot wait for people to read it!


Don't cry, it's coming soon.
Capcom has revealed Devil May Cry 5 will be released on March 8, 2019.
During Gamescom 2018, the developers revealed the next chapter will arrive early next year, and while much is still unknown we do have Devil May Cry 5 story details and some Devil May Cry 5 technical details.
Check out some brand-new Devil May Cry 5 gameplay footage from Gamescom 2018 below.
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defense-threat-reduction-agency-silver-nanoparticles-neutralize-hemorrhagic-fever-viruses
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ISIS Bankrolled by USA's Biggest Allies
August 11, 2014 Rich Winkel 1 Comment
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar & Turkey all back terror group
President Barack Obama's authorization of air strikes on ISIS targets in Iraq serves as an opportunity to remind ourselves which countries are bankrolling the deadly terror group.
The answer; Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Turkey and Qatar – three of the United States' biggest allies in the region.
Last night Obama announced limited air strikes to slow the advance of ISIS fighters and help members of the Yazidi religious minority group who were forced to flee into a mountainous region in the north of Iraq to avoid slaughter.
However, the administration has failed to put pressure on several Gulf states that are directly responsible for helping ISIS gain a foothold in Iraq in the first place.
As the Daily Beast's Josh Rogin documents, "The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), now threatening Baghdad, was funded for years by wealthy donors in Kuwait, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia, three U.S. allies that have dual agendas in the war on terror."
In addition to funding itself through criminal activity and punitive taxes imposed on the local population on pain of death, ISIS relies on a steady stream of income from countries that have bankrolled extremist Islamists for years yet have faced zero backlash from successive White House administrations. Even evidence of direct Saudi involvement in 9/11 failed to generate any reconsideration of who America calls its friends.
"Everybody knows the money is going through Kuwait and that it's coming from the Arab Gulf," said Andrew Tabler, senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. "Kuwait's banking system and its money changers have long been a huge problem because they are a major conduit for money to extremist groups in Syria and now Iraq."
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In failing to call these countries to account for funding ISIS, the White House has deliberately placed the importance of isolating Iran and Syria over and above the stability of the entire region.
The White House is also directly responsible for the spread of ISIS militants having backed other rebel groups in Syria which were once allied with and then taken over by ISIS.
Indeed, some evidence suggests that the U.S. even trained some of the Islamists who went on to join ISIS at a secret base in Jordan in 2012.
Aaron Klein was told by Jordanian officials that, "dozens of future ISIS members were trained at the time as part of covert aid to the insurgents targeting the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Syria."
Yet another U.S. ally – Turkey – also trained ISIS fighters at a location in the vicinity of Incirlik Air Base near Adana.
According to a Shiite source close to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, the Obama administration turned a blind eye to the fact that Turkey was equipping and then sending fighters to Syria before they went on to Iraq. The source even went on to accuse the White House of being "an accomplice" in the ISIS takeover of major Iraqi cities.
Whether or not the "humanitarian" air strikes on Iraq are really aimed at stopping the terror wrought by ISIS, or are merely part of a ploy to create a justification for a long-awaited attack on Syria, the White House itself, as well as some of America's closest supposed allies, all share some of the blame in aiding the growth of ISIS in the region.
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