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The Hartford College for Women (or HCW) was a two-year private college for women located in Hartford, Connecticut. It was opened in 1933, became a constituent college of the University of Hartford (UHart) in 1991, and closed in 2003.

History

1933 – 1938: The "noble experiment"
HCW was founded as the Hartford Junior College, a satellite branch of Mount Holyoke College, located about  north in South Hadley, Massachusetts. At the time, higher education opportunities for women living in the Greater Hartford area were extremely limited, requiring most young women to move away for four years in order to obtain an education. The Hartford Young Women's Christian Association's Education Committee, led by Bess Graham Frazier, approached Trinity College, a men's college in Hartford, and asked them to admit women. Remsen Ogilby, the president of Trinity, refused the offer, instead asking President Mary E. Woolley of Mount Holyoke if she would assist.

Since Mount Holyoke itself was facing difficulty attracting new students due to the Great Depression and competition from new women's colleges opening across the country, Woolley agreed to start a junior college branch in Hartford. Faculty members from Mount Holyoke commuted to Hartford to teach first-year liberal arts coursework. Additional faculty support came from retired Mount Holyoke professors living in the Hartford area and some professors from Trinity, which was at the time the only accredited college in the area. After completing their first year at Hartford Junior College, most students transferred to other institutions, especially Mount Holyoke, which greatly benefited the senior college's enrollment.

Known as Mount Holyoke's "noble experiment," the program was troubled from the beginning by the problems of long-distance administration. In 1938, Mount Holyoke – which, at that point, had begun to experience a rise in its enrollment – withdrew its affiliation, leaving Hartford Junior College as its own independent institution.

The college reorganized itself in 1939, with Howell Cheney, a Hartford businessman, as chairman of its Board of Trustees. The college retained its junior college mission but added more liberal arts programs, including more offerings in the sciences, social sciences, and arts. The college moved out of the YWCA and into a house on Highland Street, where it would remain for almost two decades.

1939 – 1980s: Reorganization and development
Following the end of the Great Depression, more female students were able to pursue higher education, and the student body of the college, now the Hartford College for Women, grew dramatically as a result. Under the 30-year tenure of president Laura A. Johnson, the college expanded its programs to offer Bachelor's degrees and became a national leader in women's education. She believed in operating HCW as a place for "women who [wanted] to learn and teachers who [loved] to teach," and continued that promote the college that way during the coeducation movement of the 1960s.

In 1955, the college was one of several area colleges approached by the Hartt School of Music, Hillyer College, and the Hartford Art School about a proposed merger. Along with Trinity College and the Hartford School of Music, HCW declined the offer. However, the Council of Hartford Community Colleges (CHCC), formed in 1956 in order to promote the idea of a merge, continued to consider it a priority to merge HCW into the new federation, which in 1957 culminated in the University of Hartford. The CHCC continued to offer the proposal of a merger to HCW even after the founding of the University.

Ignoring the offers to merge, HCW continued as an independent women's college. In 1958, the college purchased the Seaverns estate on Asylum Avenue and relocated the institution to its new wealthy neighborhood. In the early 1960s, HCW began admitting Laura Johnson Scholars, or women who were returning to (or entering) college beyond the traditional age. In 1968, the Career Counseling Center opened, becoming one of the first career counseling centers for women in the United States.

Resisting offers to merge once again in 1975 and 1976, HCW focused on offering more services to attract new students. By offering additional services such as the Career Counseling Center and the Entrepreneurial Center, founded in 1985, the college was able to continue attracting students even as other women's colleges were forced to close due to declining enrollment.

1991 – 2003: Merger to closing
By the early 1990s, the college was, like many women's colleges, encountering financial difficulties and decreasing enrollment. Although it had resisted offers to merge several times in the past, HCW finally merged into the University of Hartford in 1991, becoming the last of its constituent colleges to do so.

Although it merged into a coeducational university, giving students access to all of the programs and services offered by UHart, HCW maintained its single-sex status and separate campus. It also continued to develop and sustain new programs, including the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame, founded in 1994, and the Academic Express program for non-traditional students, founded in 1997. HCW for the first time began to offer B.A. degrees—in Women's Studies and Legal Studies only.

In 2003, the University of Hartford administration announced, to the surprise of most students and faculty, that it would be closing the Hartford College for Women and transitioning all of its degree programs into the College of Arts and Sciences. The news was met with resistance from the HCW community, but the protests were unsuccessful and the college graduated its last class the next spring. Several of the college's programs, including the Career Counseling Center (now the Center for Professional Development) and the Entrepreneurial Center (how part of the CPD), were revamped to cover the entire university and made coeducational.

Academics and teaching
As a liberal arts college, HCW offered courses of study in the humanities, arts, sciences, social sciences, and related fields. Once the college merged into the University of Hartford, students were able to enroll in majors offered through the other constituent colleges, including business and architecture. Students who wished to enroll in HCW programs, however, could only do so if they were female.

HCW was one of the first colleges in the country to offer a major in Women's Studies. The program was cited as one of the most progressive programs in the field by the New England Women's Studies Association due to its special emphasis on the relationship between gender, race, and class.

As the smallest of UHart's colleges, HCW had only five full-time faculty members at the time of its closing, each of whom had joint appointments through the College of Arts and Sciences. As a result, many courses for HCW students were taught by professors from outside the college. The college also had nineteen additional staff members, most of whom worked for the Career Counseling Center or the Entrepreneurial Center.

Campus
HCW classes were originally held at the Hartford branch of the YWCA, located on the current site of the XL Center. After its stint on Highland Street, the college moved to Hartford's more affluent and wooded West End in 1958, where it settled on a  campus near the site of the University of Connecticut School of Law. Several of the Georgian buildings on campus are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Legacy
Today, the campus serves as the primary graduate student housing option for University of Hartford. In 2006, The University of Hartford founded the Women's Advancement Initiative which serves female students by helping them develop academic and leadership skills, in memory of the college. The University in addition continues to operate the HCW Career Counseling and Entrepreneurial studies center on the Albany Avenue campus.

Symbols
While HCW's original colors were blue and white – the same as Mount Holyoke's – they were later often replaced with UHart's red and white.  Diplomas issued after the merge into UHart featured the University's seal.

The college's seal featured a temple of learning and the Latin motto Sibi constantem esse, which loosely translates into English as "To make them steady," or more accurately, "To be true to oneself."

The most recognizable symbol of HCW today is Butterworth Hall, the main building of the college visible from Asylum Avenue.

Notable alumnae
 Gia Allemand, actor, model, and reality TV contestant
 Patricia Fargnoli, former New Hampshire poet laureate
 Edna Negron Rosario, educator and public health advocate
 Marguerite Yourcenar was the most notable professor at the college in the early 1940s.

See also

List of current and historical women's universities and colleges in the United States

References
American Association of Junior Colleges.  American Junior Colleges. American Council on Education, 1971.
Datnow, Amanda.  Gender in Policy and Practice: Perspectives on Single-Sex and Coeducational Education. Routledge, 2002.
Graham, Beth Frazier.  History of Mount Holyoke in Hartford. University of Hartford Press, 1964.
Harwarth, Irene.  Women's Colleges in the United States: History, Issues, and Challenges. Diane Publishing, 1997.
Keller, Rosemary Skinner.  The Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America. Indiana University Press, 2006.
Tonkin, Humphrey.  A University for Hartford, A University for the World: A Short History of the University of Hartford. University of Hartford Press, 1998.

External links
Center for Professional Development
Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame
Entrepreneurial Center
Hartford College for Women
University of Hartford
Women's Education and Leadership Fund

Educational institutions disestablished in 2003
Educational institutions established in 1933
Defunct private universities and colleges in Connecticut
Education in Hartford, Connecticut
University of Hartford
Former women's universities and colleges in the United States
1933 establishments in Connecticut
2003 disestablishments in Connecticut
History of women in Connecticut


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Sun, Sandwiches & The West Indies: Pakistan Tour
April 1, 2018 By Dr. Sajid Butt 2 Comments
by Dr. Sajid Butt
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On the eve of the return of the West Indies Cricket team to Pakistan: remembering the good old days.
Pakistan vs West Indies 1975
If ever there were to be a nani amma, who was a cricket enthusiast, she would have related stories about an era when the West Indies reigned supreme in cricket fields around the globe.
Her stories would have revolved around larger-than-life characters that commanded respect, fear, awe and admiration throughout the cricket world. There were master batsmen, fierce, fast bowlers, magical spinners and leaders, and there was the sagacity of Worrell and Lloyd. West Indies is a motley nation of islands scattered over thousands of square miles of ocean. They share cricket, the English language and a colonial past as a common legacy. Because of their natural physical prowess and aptitude for the game, they kept churning out one cricket legend after another for decades – Super stars that allowed the people of the islands to demonstrate their superiority over their former masters, and thus provided a sense of pride to the nations.
On the eve of the current West Indian team's visit to Pakistan, I am going to talk about an era when this global super power of cricket visited Pakistan.
In 1975, the West Indies were going through a rebuild. The former giants Frank Worrell, Clyde Walcott, Everton Weekes, Wes Hall, Sir Garfield Sobers and Sir Charles (Charlie) Griffith had retired. A young Clive Lloyd was the skipper, overseeing the re-organisation of the team. The fearsome future pace quartet of Roberts, Holding, Garner and Marshall was not yet in place and only Andy Roberts was playing. Sir Viv Richards was a promising rookie and Gordon Greenidge had not yet made his debut. The team however had the formidable Roy Fredericks as the opener and dependable Alvin Kallicharran in the middle order. With Lloyd himself in the lower middle order and the ever-resilient Deryck Murray keeping wickets and providing strength to the batting, the team had the wizard off spinner Lance Gibbs completing the star-studded line up. It wasn't yet the champion team of the next decade but it was an opposition that was to be respected.
It was a game against this West Indies team in Feb '75, that I had the good fortune of seeing. In those days, watching a cricket match at the stadium was not such a big deal. Ticket prices, particularly for the general enclosure, were only five to ten rupees per day. Tickets were easily available and security around the ground used to be nominal.
I was taken to the Gaddafi stadium to watch the first day of the first cricket test of the West Indies series by my maamoo. I was ten years old and my brother Zahid, was eight. Both of us were dropped to my nani ami's house on the Friday night. Next day had been declared a local holiday in Lahore because of the game. (In those days, Saturday used to be a working day with Sunday as the weekly holiday).
Nani ami made us the delicious 'flying saucer' shaped sandwiches. These sandwiches were prepared in a special sandwich maker which was shaped like a flying saucer. The inside was buttered and the slices of bread were packed with the sandwich mixture. Nani ami had her own recipe of eggs, chicken and vegetables. The two halves of the sandwich maker were closed and the whole unit was warmed up on low heat. The device was flipped on both sides and after five minutes or so, the two halves which were joined with a hinge, were opened up to reveal a golden-brown sandwich! This was then divided in two halves. The piping-hot sandwich could cool before being wrapped up in foil. This sandwich remains one of the most delicious sandwiches that I have ever eaten. Along with sandwiches, we had mango squash in a large thermos with ice cubes, and all these goodies were packed in a little basket that had plates, ketchup and napkins.
Aah! the excitement of going to the stadium, crowds of people thronging the stadium gate – the combined hangama of a disorganised public and police! We were dropped at the outer gate of the stadium by a cab. Our tickets, which had been purchased in advance, were for the general enclosure.
Maamoo shepherded Zahid and me through the crowds, in to the ground. The security at the gate was managed by Police constables. They did a cursory check of our tickets and food basket and ushered us in. We were a few decades away from the time of metal detectors and three-ringed security arrangements!
Whilst we meandered through the snaking queues, the game had already started. As we were a few meters from the grilled iron gate, we heard loud clapping and applause. Someone, who was ahead of us in the queue, announced that Pakistan had already lost its opening batsman! To our disappointment, it was our hero Majid Khan, who had been dismissed for 2 by Andy Roberts. Thankfully we didn't lose any more wickets before we reached our seats.
We saw all the others lose their wickets right in front of our eyes! A menacing West Indies Bowling attack had ripped through our batting order!
In those days, the spectators in the general enclosure sat on cemented steps. Gaddafi stadium was yet to receive its fiberglass seats. We settled on one of the upper tier steps which allowed a good view of the ground. The dark green of the lush outfield welcomed our gaze. It was a late winter/early spring Lahore morning. It carried a faintly foggy air accompanied by bright sunshine – so typical of Lahore, making it an ideal day for playing and watching the gentlemen's game (these days, this magical haze has been replaced with the miserable fog!).
The shining sun offered a pleasant warmth and a rather brisk wind made it more refreshing than cold. It was the same wind which was behind Andy Roberts who, bowling from the 'college end' (named after FC College), had managed to get rid of the priceless wicket of Majid Khan.
Roberts was still bowling and was causing all sorts of trouble for our formidable batting line up. Majid had been replaced by the, 'Asian Bradman' Zaheer Abbas who had joined the debutant opener, Agha Zahid on the crease.
The on-field action was not as clearly visible to us, as the ball was just a blur and we could only see it well once it had been caught by the diminutive Deryck Murray behind the stumps. None of our top batsmen could stay too long at the wicket. We would realize that someone had been dismissed when a catch was taken in the slips and we spotted the tall West Indian frames celebrating, the towering figure of Clive Lloyd being the most prominent.
Lunch break approached, and we took out our goodies from the basket. We were sitting near a man who must have been in his late 30s. He was a gentleman of generous proportions, wearing trousers, shirt and a brimless hat on his head. He did not have anyone with him. We wondered what kind of person would go to watch a game of cricket on his own? Did he not have any friends or family members? We felt sorry for him.
Pan vendors at Cricket matches is a common sight in Pakistan
In the stadium, many vendors were selling various food items. There was the ubiquitous Hico ice cream, hot and cold drinks, sandwiches, burgers, samosay, pakoray, fruit and of course paan. One of the paan sellers had a unique style of selling his wares. He would carry his paan-making tray strapped around his torso and while standing on the stadium steps, he would call out at the top of his voice, " Kam az kam paan to khaao!"
The gentleman who had been watching the game on his own, and for whom we had been feeling sorry, began to sample the various goodies on offer.
He started with fruit, devouring a dozen kinnus (oranges), followed by some ganderees (sugar cane), moving on to the samosas and aalu chaat (potato salad), all washed down with Coke and Shezan. For lunch, our hero opted for the lunch pack with pulao (aromatic rce and meat dish), chicken curry and mitthai for dessert.
After eyeing this gastronomic episode of unending food festivity, we were now feeling sorry for ourselves with only home-made sandwiches to keep us satisfied! Delicious as they were, we did not have the variety to match the sumptuous array before him. He really made a picnic of it … while we were mere onlookers!
We nevertheless enjoyed a fantastic day's cricket. We watched world class players like Zaheer Abbas, Mushtaq Muhammad, Waseem Raja, Andy Roberts, Viv Richards and Clive Lloyd perform before our very eyes. We enjoyed a lazy winter's day, a sun-soaked snooze and an excellent picnic. All for as less as ten rupees per head!
The West Indies cricket team ruled the world for twenty plus years but then gradually embarked upon a downward spiral. The reasons for this decline are a separate discussion.
Those good old days might never return. Moreover, we have now entered an era of enhanced security. Tickets are not only exorbitantly expensive but will need the use of extensive social contacts to secure. For the moment, we must be happy and optimistic that our beloved international sport has finally returned to the country.
Did you enjoy this article? Then click the heart to recommend it to your online community! If you love cricket as much as we do, you can read more about the game in Pakistan here. PSL: The Force Awakens
Dr. Sajid Butt
Dr. Sajid Butt is a consultant-radiologist based in London, U.K.
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Muslim Girlhood, Past and Present: A Conversation with Shenila Khoja-Moolji – BLARB
Exploring the Intersection of Faith and Environmental Justice with Theologian Hussein Rashid - Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity (AC4)
With limited involvement from adjuncts, Barnard diversity initiatives fail to reach full potential - Columbia Daily Spectator
With limited involvement from adjuncts, Barnard diversity initiatives fail to reach full potential - Columbia Daily Spectator.
When former Barnard adjunct professor Hussein Rashid, CC '96, first came to Columbia, he navigated his way through his undergraduate years as a first-generation low-income student with some difficulty. Twenty years later, when he returned as an adjunct professor of religion, he also took on an informal advising role in order to pass on his knowledge to students at Barnard.
"I'd talk to students about being a student of color when I was in school versus what it's like now, what it's like being a Muslim on campus, what it's like being first generation and being on a lot of financial aid and still being conscious of class, as they themselves try to navigate that space," Rashid said.
Rashid is just one of Barnard's many adjunct faculty members who have been making an active effort to facilitate conversations surrounding diversity, inclusivity, and equity in the classroom.
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Jerusalem Post Opinion
Grapevine November 29, 2020: A week for important anniversaries
Levy prides himself on being a philanthropist and the sponsor of judoka Peter Paltchik, who recently won the European championship.
By GREER FAY CASHMAN
ISRAELI JUDOKA Peter Paltchik (right) and his sponsor Laurent Levy hold the medal that Paltchik won in Prague last Saturday night.
Today, Sunday, November 29, is the 73rd anniversary of the United Nations resolution on the partition of Palestine.
Tuesday, December 1, is an important date for this newspaper, which was founded on that date in 1932. December 1 is also the date in 1918 on which Iceland was granted independence by the Danish Parliament; Lady Nancy Astor in 1919 became the first woman elected to the British House of Commons; America's modern civil rights movement came into being in 1955, when Rosa Parks, a black woman, refused to give up her seat to a white passenger and move to the back of the bus; Benazir Bhutto was nominated in 1988 to become the prime minister of Pakistan, the first woman to hold this position in a Muslim country; and in 1990, Mikhail Gorbachev became the first leader of Soviet Russia to visit the Vatican.
On December 2, 1804, Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned emperor of France, and the United Arab Emirates was founded on December 2, 1971.
On December 3, 1962, Edith Sampson was sworn in at the Chicago Municipal Court as the first black women judge in America.
■ IN YET another first, Janet Yellen, who is US President-elect Joe Biden's choice to serve as Treasury secretary, will be the first woman to hold the position. She was also the first woman to serve as chair of the Federal Reserve, and the first woman to serve as chair of the Council of Economic Advisors, during the administration of Bill Clinton. If confirmed as the 78th secretary of the Treasury, she will also become the first Jewish woman in that role, but not the first Jewish person. Henry Morgenthau, the longest-serving secretary of the Treasury, was the first in 1934, then Michael Blumenthal in 1977, Robert Rubin in 1995, Jack Lew in 2014, and outgoing incumbent Steven Mnuchin in 2017.
■ AS IF the hotels on Jerusalem's King David Street have not suffered sufficient losses during the coronavirus lockdowns, community urban planner Elias Messinas advises that work on the revamping of King David Street is due to begin next week, and if all goes well, will be completed in March 2022. Plans for the revival of the tourist industry are already in the pipeline, but a lot of frequent flyers who stayed in specific hotels in King David Street whenever they came to Israel may opt to stay in other hotels, where there is no digging and banging in the street below.
■ ANYONE WHO watched Lena Chaplin's compelling documentary In Hiding on KAN 11 last week, should be able to understand why leading haredi rabbis are so opposed to secular subjects being taught in ultra-Orthodox schools. The film is about people in haredi communities – Gur, Belz and Toldot Aharon – who lose their faith and violate religious laws in secret, but are afraid to come out in the open because of the price of being cast out from the communities in which they live, breaking contact with their families and going into a world where they have no friends, no skills, no qualifications, and in many cases, cannot recognize letters in the Latin alphabet.
They want to leave, but they don't want to be thrown out. Some live a lie for years before taking the plunge. Others frequent bars, go to parties and frolic on the beach, but wear masks for fear of being recognized by head-hunters who are on the lookout for those who stray from the path. The head-hunters are appointed by leaders in the ultra-Orthodox world, who are wary of the influences of modern society, to check changes in behavioral patterns of people who appear to in any way be lapsing.
Most of the people who participated in the documentary did so anonymously, except for a young couple from Bnei Brak, who outside their apartment behaved as haredim, but once inside, broke nearly all the rules. Theirs had been an arranged marriage, and each had lost faith but was hesitant about telling the other. The husband started to notice that his wife was not as strict in following the rules as an ultra-Orthodox woman should be, and he questioned her about it. He confessed that he too was no longer a believer. They did a gradual exit from both religious observance and Bnei Brak, and in their case, were fortunate that both their families accepted their decisions and did not cast them out.
Unfortunately, the same could not be said for Avi Toplinski, a teacher and the father of six who spent 12 years living a lie and imparting values in which he did not believe, although he still loves studying Torah. When he eventually told his father, he was thrown out of his home and out of his family. Moreover, his father has forbidden everyone in the family to have anything to do with him and has ordered them to break all connections with him.
Though still a young man, Avi is already a grandfather. He has not seen any of his grandchildren or children for seven years. The younger children still live at home, and there is a heart-breaking scene of Avi driving slowly through his old neighborhood in the hope of seeing at least one of his children in the street. Many of the products of haredi environments who lose their faith don't necessarily lose their belief in God, and often get together for a Shabbat meal at which they light candles, make kiddush, eat challa, and sing the Shabbat songs with which they grew up.
The songs of their childhood stay with them and remain a source of comfort as they begin to explore the secular world. Even though it is understandable why certain strictures are imposed on members of haredi communities, it is sad that there is no room for compromise; some kind of half-way house within such communities where people can watch movies, read books that are considered taboo, have inter-gender discussions and then go home to lead a haredi life-style, instead of breaking up families and causing untold misery. As it is, aspects of the modern world have already entered ultra-Orthodox society. It's something that cannot be stopped, but it can be monitored and controlled.
■ JERUSALEM CITY Council member Arieh King, on his Facebook page, introduced those who follow him to "the secret falafel cruiser." Some months ago King was approached by Adi Zahavi, whom he had not known previously. Zahavi had a fine social welfare idea, and he was looking for a venue and partners to transform his idea into a reality. Zahavi's family, together with an anonymous group of donors, wanted to provide thousands of fresh falafel meals to the security and medical teams who are dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. They wanted to do this on a regular basis.
They now have a new, mobile, well-equipped kitchen, and lots of volunteers willing to deliver the meals by car, motorbike or bicycle. They want to do this as a gesture of appreciation for what soldiers and medical teams are doing in the struggle against the coronavirus. King was impressed and spoke to Mayor Moshe Lion, who in turn instructed the various departments within the municipality to cooperate with Zahavi.
King also recruited Yehuda Ben Yosef, who is in charge of the municipality's business services. The mobile kitchen is parked in Malha and is under kashrut supervision. From there, volunteers pack thousands of falafel meals in boxes and deliver them to destinations throughout Jerusalem, which inter alia include hospital coronavirus departments and children's wards, Jerusalem police units, Home Front Command soldiers, nursing homes, volunteers in community centers, among many others. If there is a good thing about the current crisis, it is the many examples of social entrepreneurship that have surfaced all over the country, particularly with regard to food distribution.
■ KAN 11 TELEVISION last Tuesday did an expose on French tycoon and entrepreneur Laurent Levy, who is changing the face of Jerusalem, obliterating its Old World charm, and putting scores of small businesses out of operation. Levy, who moved to Israel 15 years ago, and has bought up numerous properties all over the capital, seems to live by the maxim that whoever pays the piper calls the tune. He put the capital's Café Paris near the Prime Minister's Residence out of business in order to build a high-rise residential and commercial property on the site. Café Paris was previously Restobar and was open on Shabbat. Levy told the Restobar proprietors that unless they made the menu kosher and closed on Shabbat, he would not renew their contract. They moved out and Restobar became Café Paris, which was kosher and closed on Shabbat.
Restobar had previously been Café Moment, which in March 2002, was the target of a terrorist attack in which 11 people were killed and 54 wounded. A memorial plaque with the names of the dead was attached to the stone wall surrounding the building. Whether the plaque will be restored once construction of the current project is completed remains to be seen.
Some time before that Levy bought up a lot of property in Nahalat Shiva – one of the first Jewish neighborhoods outside the Old City – and before receiving all the necessary permits, built what has become a little Paris known as the Music Center, with a musical museum, French restaurants and coffee shops.
He also owns almost an entire block of properties in Jaffa Road where he intends to oust shopkeepers and build a 12-story hotel and commercial center that will completely change the character of that part of the city. Levy prides himself on being a philanthropist and the sponsor of judoka Peter Paltchik, who recently won the European championship. But when the Jaffa Road shopkeepers whose businesses have been closed for months asked Levy for rental leeway, they were told they had to pay to the last shekel.
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Parents accuse school district of exposing kids to sexually explicit content in library books
CP U.S. | Wednesday, August 11, 2021
By Nicole Alcindor, CP Reporter | Wednesday, August 11, 2021
Parents have expressed their outrage with a school district in Indiana that has reportedly allowed libraries in its elementary, middle and high schools to have books that have explicit sex scenes and elaborate on masturbation and transgender identity.
Angry parents spoke during a Carmel Clay School Board meeting late last month about several books available to students at district libraries that they say contain explicit content, according to local news reports.
Parents took turns reading excerpts aloud from some of the books.
"If I were to read it to you, you wouldn't be able to air it because it would be against FCC obscenity laws," parent Alvin Lui was quoted as saying, according to Fox 59.
The Western Journal reports that one parent at the meeting listed off several book titles available to the school children.
These include Introducing Teddy: A Gentle Story About Gender and Friendship, a book about a stuffed bear named "Teddy" who struggles with his gender and wishes to be called "Tilly."
Another title is Sparkle Boy, which focuses on a cross-dressing toddler. In Call Me Max, a kindergarten girl asks a teacher to refer to her by a male name.
One parent reportedly read from a novel available to high school students that includes a pornographic scene that describes characters having sex. Another parent raised an issue with the book It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health, who alleged it teaches kids who to masturbate. The book is promoted by Planned Parenthood as appropriate for ages 10 and up.
"[The] global campaign to promote sexualized material to grade school children which are heralded by the U.N., championed by Planned Parenthood and is now making its way into the Carmel schools," one parent reportedly said to the board.
Other parents argued that it's inappropriate for young students to be discussing these topics with anyone but their parents.
"You have lost sight of your responsibilities to educate our children," another parent told the board, according to Fox 59. "Parents are learning, watching, and taking action."
Superintendent Michael Beresford told parents that the school district had heard previous concerns about the books promoting transgender identities but that it was the first time he had heard concerns about books featuring sexually explicit content, according to Fox 59.
He assured that the school would look into every book title mentioned at the board meeting.
"Some of the books they mentioned aren't on our rolls that we have," Beresford was quoted as saying. "We are going into the buildings and looking into the buildings to make sure."
"We have a procedure for that," Beresford added. "One part of the procedure is the superintendent can direct advisory council. So, we're going to [do] that."
In recent years, there have been complaints from parents nationwide about content in schools they deem to be too "explicit," some promoting LGBT causes and others exposing children to inappropriate topics.
In June, a mother in Illinois spoke out during a local school board meeting over the state's controversial sex education standards that she believes "sexually grooms young children by introducing sensitive and inappropriate topics."
The mother shared elements of the state's curriculum that come from the National Sex Education Standards that she contends will force students to learn about things like masturbation and anal sex before they become teenagers.
A private school teacher in New York City resigned earlier this year amid backlash after reports indicated that she showed 6-year-olds a cartoon video explaining that it's OK for them to touch themselves for pleasure.
That teacher, Justine Ang Fonte, had led what reports called a "porn literacy" class at another New York City prep school earlier in her career.
According to The New York Times, Fonte's classes were in line with the National Sex Education Standards and the World Health Organization's International Technical Guidance on Sexuality Education.
"I equip them with a way that they can exercise body agency and consent, by knowing exactly what those parts are, what they are called, and how to take care of them," Fonte told the New York Times last month. "That was paired with lessons around, what are the different ways to say 'no'? And what's the difference between a secret and a surprise? And why you should never have a secret between a grown-up and you. Because it's never your responsibility as a child to hold a secret or information of a grown-up."
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Chapter 641: Seamless
The Yao family heard about the news as soon as Lin Huang left the Abyss Brink. Instead of informing Yao Huanhuan, her parents contacted their elder daughter, Yao Lan, who was busy working.
"Lan Er, did you meet that Lin Xie kid at the Abyss Brink?" The mother asked during the call in the reading room.
"Yes, I did."
"What do you think about him?" The father asked directly.
"He's very powerful. I can't fight him even if we were on the same level," Yao Lan commented.
"It can't be. You're a supreme genius as well. How could you guys be so different ability wise?" The father frowned.
"It's not only his battle ability. He's much more powerful than normal holy fire-levels overall as well as being skilled in a variety of techniques He's overall ability would top all supreme geniuses. Perhaps not more than five people of the same level could fight him in Division 3," Yao Lan gave an honorable comment.
"Did you fight him?" The father was surprised to hear her.
"No, I imitated what Huanhuan would say and do while I spent a day with him." Yao Lan smirked.
The parents were concerned. They did not expect their elder daughter to be this mischievous.
"His ability is indeed out of my expectations. He's a crimson flame-level who hunts for immortal-level rank-6 triple mutated Life Fire monsters. He even escaped from an imperial-level triple mutated monster. I think I wouldn't have been able to do it if I didn't use my ultimate move with my current abilities," Yao Lan shared what she observed after spending a day with Lin Huang.
Her parents, who were on imperial-level, were in disbelief about how powerful Lin Huang was after listening to what Yao Lan said.
"But the good news is that he's really not interested in Huanhuan." The parents were relieved by Yao Lan's conclusion.
"But the kid is back in Sweep City now for God-knows-what reason. We haven't told Huanhuan yet, but she's been bugging us to get the kid's whereabouts," the father said helplessly.
"This Lin Xie isn't a bad person, but it's better not to let Huanhuan get close to him. I couldn't get anything from his identity besides what's on the surface. Judging from his ability, he could be a Holy Son candidate trained by a top underground organization. We shouldn't offend the organization behind him."
"But Huanhuan" The mother looked troubled.
"You guys have spoiled her. Why don't I talk to Huanhuan after I'm done with my stuff here a few days later?" Yao Lan told her parents.
"Stop investigating Lin Xie. It's better than we don't have anything to do with him. Don't say anything even if somebody asks us about him."
After hanging up, from a hotel room in the foothold near the second layer of the Abyss Brink, Yao Lan projected a gold list from her Emperor's Heart Ring. If somebody else had been there with her, they would have recognized that more than ten names on the list were famous supreme geniuses in Division 3. Yao Lan smirked while she moved her graceful fingers, adding 'Lin Xie' at the bottom of the list in gold ink.
Besides visiting the black market, Lin Huang had been staying in his hotel room ever since he returned to Sweep City. He had been getting used to the telekinesis ability before obtaining the telekinesis weapon. After spending two days practicing the Devil's Psykid's telekinesis, he had mastered 80% of it. The inheritance of monster tinder was different from the legacy of the human memory as the former was more than just a memory whereby the human could obtain the skill directly. Take an ordinary person obtaining the ability to make dual-vector foil out of nowhere for instance. He did not have to learn and understand the theory of making it. Gaining such an ability became part of his body; he could create a dual-vector foil by himself as long as he had enough materials. The only thing that he had to go through was to get used to the process of creation.
The inheritance of the human's memory allowed one to obtain the memory but not the ability. It was like obtaining all of the information on how to make a dual-vector foil, but you would have to learn and understand the information before creating the dual-vector foil itself. If one could not understand the theory of making it, he could not make the dual-vector foil even the information was in his brain and the materials were sufficient.
That was the main reason why Lin Huang had picked the Devil's Psykid as his Life Fire monster after listening to Bloody's explanation. Obtaining the Devil's Psykid's telekinesis would save him at least two years of training time. It was calculated based on Lin Huang's supreme genius standard. For others, it would take tens of years - even up to 100 years - to master the ability. Ever since he received the ability, he had mastered it from kindergarten-level to a highschooler's level within two days. Besides some detailed and complicated techniques that required more training, he had basically mastered it.
With his current mastery of Divine Telekinesis, he could easily kill an immortal-level rank-3 monster without using any telekinesis weapons.
"There are still some difficulties in mastering the details. I'll need at least a week to practice and familiarize the Devil's Psykid's telekinesis." Lin Huang was aware of his own progress. Although he had mastered 80% of the Devil's Psykid's ability, the remaining 20% required more time as it was complicated.
Besides possessing Divine Telekinesis himself, Lin Huang chose the ability to hide his identity as he also inherited memory of the demigod Qi Muxiong. Qi Muxiong was a master in telekinesis, so it was a no-brainer that his telekinesis power was mighty since he was young. Besides discovering many telekinesis techniques throughout his life, he had also come up with a telekinesis cultivation called Seamless. The cultivation would allow a person to channel telekinetic power into countless threads which could then be controlled from far away.
Qi Muxiong could divide his telekinetic power into 18,000 threads as well as controlling the threads to attack at will within the range of 30,000 kilometers. If he was on Earth, he could stand on his balcony and control the threads to pierce through any creature's head that was located in any corner on Earth. The level-1 of Seamless was to use telekinetic power to divide 300 threads. After two days of training and mastering the basics, Lin Huang finally proceeded to learn Seamless.
The Yao family heard about the news as soon as Lin Huang left the Abyss Brink. Instead of informing Yao Huanhuan, her parents contacted their elder daughter Yao Lan who was busy working.
"Yes, I have." Yao Lan nodded.
"Very powerful. I can't fight him even if we're on the same level." Yao Lan commented.
"It can't be. You're a supreme genius as well, how could you guys be so different ability wise?" The father frowned.
"Not only his battle ability, he's much more powerful than normal holy fire-level overall as well as a variety of techniques His overall ability would rank on top of all supreme genius, perhaps not more than five people of the same level could fight him in Division3." Yao Lan commented honorably.
"Did you fight him?" The father was surprised to hear her comment.
"No, I imitated what Huanhuan would say and do as I spent a day with him." Yao Lan smirked.
The parents were concerned, they did not expect their elder daughter to be mischievous like this.
"His ability is indeed out of my expectation. A crimson flame-level who hunts for immortal-level rank-6 triple mutated Life Fire monster. He even escaped from an imperial-level triple mutated monster, I think I wouldn't be able to do it if I didn't use my ultimate move with my current ability.." Yao Lan told the things that she observed after spending a day with Lin Huang.
The parents who were imperial-level were in disbelief of how powerful Lin Huang was after listening to what Yao Lan said.
"But the good news is that he's really not interested in Huanhuan." The parents were relieved at Yao Lan's conclusion.
"But the kid is back in Sweep City now for god knows what reason. We haven't told Huanhuan yet but she has been bugging us to get the kid's whereabouts." The father said helplessly.
"This Lin Xie isn't a bad person but it's better to not let Huanhuan get close to him. I couldn't get anything from his identity besides those that are on the surface. Judging from his ability, he could be a Holy Son candidate trained by a top underground organization. We should not offend the organization behind him."
"You guys have spoiled her. I'm suggesting that I'll talk to Huanhuan after I'm done with my stuff here a few days later." Yao Lan said and reminded her parents.
"Stop investigating Lin Xie. It's better than we don't have anything to do with him, don't say anything even if somebody asks us about him."
After hanging up the call, Yao Lan who was in a hotel room in the foothold near the second layer of Abyss Brink projected a gold list from her Emperor's Heart Ring. If there was somebody else there with her, they would have recognized that more than 10 names on the list were the famous supreme geniuses in Division3. Yao Lan smirked while she moved her graceful fingers adding 'Lin Xin' at the bottom of the list with gold ink.
Besides visiting the black market, Lin Huang had been staying in his hotel room ever since he returned to Sweep City. He had been getting used to the telekinesis ability before obtaining the telekinesis weapon. After spending two days practicing Devil's Psykid's telekinesis, he had mastered 80% of it. The inheritance of monster tinder was different from the inheritance of human's memory as the inheritance of tinder was more than memory where the human would obtain the skill directly. For instance, an ordinary person obtaining the ability to make dual-vector foil out of nowhere. He did not have to learn and understand the theory of making. Obtaining such ability became part of his body, he could create a dual-vector foil himself as long as he had enough materials. The only thing that he had to go through was to get used to the process of making.
The inheritance of human's memory allowed one to obtain the memory but not ability. It was like obtaining all of the information on creating a dual-vector foil but you would have to learn and understand the information before creating the dual-vector foil. If one could not understand the theory of making, he could not make the dual-vector foil even the information was in his brain and the materials were sufficient.
That was the main reason why Lin Huang picked Devil's Psykid as his Life Fire monster after listening to Bloody's explanation. Obtaining the Devil's Psykid's telekinesis would save him at least two years of training time. It was calculated based on Lin Huang's supreme genius standard, for others, it would take tens of years even up to 100 years to master the ability. Ever since he gotten the ability, he had mastered it from kindergarten level to a highschooler within two days. Besides some detailed and complicated techniques that required more training, he had basically mastered the ability.
"There are still some difficulties in mastering the details. I'll need at least a week to practice and familiarize the Devil's Psykid's telekinesis." Lin Huang knew his own progress. Although he had mastered 80% of Devil's Psykid's ability, the remaining 20% required more time as it was complicated.
Besides possessing Divine Telekinesis himself, Lin Huang chose the ability to hide his identity as he also possessed the demigod Qi Muxiong's memory inheritance. Qi Muxiong was a master in telekinesis so it was a no-brainer that his telekinesis was powerful since young. Besides discovering countless telekinesis techniques throughout his life, he had also come up with a telekinesis cultivation called Seamless. The cultivation would allow a person to telekinetic power into countless threads which could then be controlled from far away.
Qi Muxiong could divide his telekinetic power into 18,000 threads as well as controlling the threads to attack at will within the range of 30,000 kilometers. If he was on earth, he could stand at his balcony and control the threads to pierce through any creature's head that was located any corner on earth. The level-1 of Seamless was to use telekinetic power to divide 300 threads. After two days of training and mastering the basics, Lin Huang had finally started training Seamless.


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US Elections: Neither Free nor Fair
2020-04-22 Policraticus America, Democracy, USA 0
Media across the world are literally transfixed by the spectacle of US elections. The Donald Trump-Hillary Clinton, Republicans vs. Democrats battle is captivating enough to distract public attention from other issues.
Democracy promotion has been a centerpiece of US foreign policy for over half a century since the days when President Woodrow Wilson crafted a new foreign policy that involved active democracy promotion. The implementation of the «beacon on the hill» concept presupposes that the United States would act as a model of excellence for others to follow is analogous to contemporary soft-power democracy promotion efforts. Lecturing on democracy is a distinctive feature of American foreign policy. Does the US really provide an influential role model for how elections should run in other countries? Is America really a shining example of real democracy? «Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all».
Domestic and international experts rate the US elections as the worst among all Western democracies. According to Electoral Integrity Project, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden are at the top of the ranking, while the US scores 62.
The report gathers assessments from over 2,000 experts to evaluate the perceived integrity of all 180 national parliamentary and presidential contests held between July 1, 2012, and Dec. 31, 2015, in 139 countries. The 2014 US congressional elections rank even worse, 65th out of 180 worldwide.
In May, the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights issued the OSCE / ODIHR Needs Assessment Mission (NAM) Report to assess the pre-election environment and the preparations for the US election on November 8.
It notes that in America election observation is regulated by state law, which does not explicitly provide for international observers at odds with the 1990 OSCE Copenhagen Document.
The paper says some 4.1 million citizens that are residents of US territories are not eligible and some 600,000 citizens that are residents of the District of Columbia can vote in presidential elections but do not have full representation in Congress. Some 5.8 million prisoners and ex-prisoners continue to be disenfranchised due to prohibitive and disproportionate legal regulations or burdensome procedures for reinstating voting rights in a number of states, particularly affecting minorities.
Women are generally underrepresented in public office, holding some 20 per cent of seats in the outgoing Congress and some 25 per cent of seats in the state legislatures. Some OSCE/ODIHR NAM interlocutors noted concerns about negative stereotyping of women. They are also concerned over an increase in inflammatory speech targeting minorities.
The OSCE report also notes that there are no limits on campaign spending: no aggregate limit on how much an individual may contribute. Spending by independent groups can be exempt from disclosure requirements. Boundaries of the districts to elect representatives are redrawn in line with partisan interests which may result in uncompetitive races.
The paper adds to numerous publications devoted to irregularities of the US voting system. Indeed, there has a been a range of vulnerabilities in the conduct of American elections made public in recent years, recently, especially since the notoriously flawed ballot design in Florida in 2000.
There is a widespread suspicion of the role of money in politics. Regardless of their political affiliation, Americans agree that money has too much influence on the outcome of the vote, the wealthy have more influence on elections, and candidates who win office promote policies that help their donors.
The people think the country's campaign finance system needs significant changes. Americans do not think donating money to political candidates is a form of free speech.
Electoral laws are unfair to smaller parties like the Green Party, favor the governing party, or restrict voter's rights.
Gerrymandering of district boundaries to favor incumbents, waiting in line in excess of many hours, inaccurate state and local voter registers, insufficiently trained local poll workers, and the breakdown of voting machines are just a few example in the list of noticeable shortfalls. In 2014 serious problems with electronic voting were reported. The polling machines recorded a vote for the Democratic candidate when the screen was touched to cast a vote for the Republican.
In Texas the statewide voter registration system crashed, forcing many to complete provisional ballots when poll workers were unable to confirm voter eligibility.
The 2016 race is disappointing enough. There was reported confusion about new photo ID requirements and long lines.
The system of superdelegates is evidently undemocratic. For instance, this year Democratic superdelegates, who aren't beholden to vote for a candidate according to the popular choice, could potentially sway the nomination. It caused discontent among rank and file party members who would prefer another candidate instead of Hillary Clinton. G.O.P. candidate Donald Trump called the delegate system «rigged».
Noam Chomsky, a famous American scholar and the author of Failed States, believes there is an enormous gap between public opinion and policy in the United States.
In the book What We Say Goes: Conversations on US Power in a Changing World he sets an example. In 2005, the Program on International Policy Attitudes did an extensive poll on what people thought the budget ought to be.
It turned out to be the inverse of the actual budget: where federal funding was going up, an overwhelming majority wanted it to go down. The public opposed increases in military spending overall and supplemental spending for Iraq and Afghanistan, which is going up even more now. Where the budget was going down—social expenditures, health, renewable energy, veterans' benefits, the United Nations-right across the board, the public wanted spending to increase. US media kept this fact out of public eye.
«…when Americans with different income levels differ in their policy preferences, actual policy outcomes strongly reflect the preferences of the most affluent but bear virtually no relationship to the preferences of poor or middle-income Americans. The vast discrepancy I find in government responsiveness to citizens with different incomes stands in stark contrast to the ideal of political equality that Americans hold dear. Although perfect political equality is an unrealistic goal, representational biases of this magnitude call into question the very democratic character of our society», says Martin Gilens, the professor of politics at Princeton University and the author the author of Affluence & Influence: Economic Inequality and Political Power in America.
«Now it's just an oligarchy, with unlimited political bribery being the essence of getting the nominations for president or to elect the president. And the same thing applies to governors, and US senators and congress members», concludes former US president Jimmy Carter.
The US officials often recklessly accuse other countries of election tempering. There is a reason to believe they do it to obfuscate the real story of fraud and irregularities in their own electoral process. No doubt, America would do a better job of promoting democracy in other countries by setting an example to follow but it's voting system is broken and needs to be fixed. Today the United States is definitely not in the position to lecture and teach others. It has a long way to go if it wants to become a real democracy.
Author: Alex Gorka
Source: Strategic Culture Foundation
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The first thing you hear is the slow-moving clatter of a wheelchair. Then comes his voice. Fetah Rudi survived an attempted assassination which left him paralysed for life, and has spent more than 17 years suffering the consequences.Kosovo Liberation Army - A Balkan Islamic fundamentalist terrorist organization a la HezbollahIn June 1999, Rudi was one of the Kosovo Albanians who was detained and tortured in a Kosovo Liberation Army, KLA prison.A few months later in December 2000, Rudi - a member of the Democratic League of Kosovo, LDK, which at the time was President Ibrahim Rugova's party - became a ...
What's in a Name? Everything and Nothing
By all accounts from Greece and Macedonia, a majority in both countries will be happy that a new name for Macedonia has been agreed upon by the governments in Athens and Skopje. After years of facing Greek vetoes to join the European Union and NATO under the name "Republic of Macedonia," the Greek government agreed to drop its opposition, so long as Macedonia change its name to "Northern Macedonia." Northern Greeks always objected to Macedonia's use of that name because they believed it represented a goal of Slavic and Albanian Macedonians to lay claim to the northern Greek region that ...
Albanian Ethnogenesis and Kosovo-Metochia
The topic to be addressed in this text is the basic misconception on the question of the Balkan Albanian ethnogenesis and national identity that was framed by extremely geo-politically coloured German-based "Illyrian" theory of the Albanian ethnic and cultural origin. This (quasi)theory, unfortunately, has very deep and negative regional political-security consequences. The implementation of the "Illyrian" theory of the Albanian ethnogenesis was accepted firstly by the Rilindja, (the Renaissance) – the Albanian nationalistic and chauvinistic political movement in 1878–1913 for the sake to create the ethnically pure Greater Albania as a national state of all Balkan Albanians composed by self-interpreted ...
Pseudo-Democracy, Reparations, and Actual Democracy
The CIA: Nazifying Ukraine since 1953


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Yesterday was a fantastic day. I spent the first half of the day on a Habitat for Humanity build with the board and staff of the Greater Nashville Realtors.
It was a day full of amazement and I thought I would share some of the highlights with you.
First, we began the day with a slab of concrete. It wasn't much to look at, though it had a lovely setting that backed to some woods. Surrounding our slab were several stacks of manufactured walls. These walls were built offsite using the same techniques and materials as any other home. Because they are built in a factory, they are made to exact specifications. I could not believe how well they fit together.
Second, we started with a blank slate, and by lunch time all of the exterior and interior walls were in place and the foam insulation was installed on the exterior of the home. It's amazing to me that a few dozen people (most with no experience) framed a quality home in one day.
Third, Habitat for Humanity builds these homes with energy efficiency in mind. They said the monthly utility bill will average $90/month.
Last, I got to spend a few minutes with the family that will own this home when completed, Eyob, Nigisty, and Selam. Before coming to the US, they were refugees in Africa for three years. Their gratitude, enthusiasm and willingness to work hard with us was the best part of the day.
It made me think of life in the United States long before my time. When neighbors would gather together for a "barn raising." Even though they would build a barn in just a few days, it was both hard work and fun.
That's exactly what I experienced yesterday. Good people coming together to help a neighbor and build a community.
I hope that the rest of my life is filled with days like this.
The Daily Deal in Nashville is this updated cottage in Inglewood [East Nashville] and listed for less than $310,000.


Wheat & Weeds: Where's The Oil?
Posted by RC2 at 11:26 AM | Labels: fake news, Is it hot in here?
When the BP leak first began, someone sent me the story of some vastly worse spill in the 70s that dispersed right away. Send it again, please, if it was you. I can't find it.
Update: Steve Hayward with more (link fixed).


Colorfully expressed through the uniqueness of who we were created to be.
Not a hippy-hoppy-happy indifference toward those around us.
WE ARE NO LONGER DEAD IN SIN.
Yes, we are the Easter people and Hallelujah is our song!
Abundant blessings of Peace, Love, and Joy to you and yours this glorious Easter day!
Soaking in the "Son" light..
Blessings on your Easter Week.
It placed Him in a glory of love that never weakens and that finds in Him peace, honor, and joy even to the point of ecstasy.
But He asked for apostles and martyrs to His name in every generation, and there has been no age without them.
And this man is you, O JESUS CHRIST!
Have a blessed Easter Week…May you rest in the joy and peace of His resurrection glory and be an apostle in His name!


Years ago I took my young son to one of my favorite events of the Minneapolis Aquatennial — the sand sculpture contest on the shores of Lake Calhoun. The sculptures ranged from the amateur to the fabulous. They were built by architecture firms, ad agencies, construction firms and other corporate employees who wanted to do some team building while contributing to their city's annual summer festival.
Castles were a common theme. There were also ogres, mermaids, antique cars, sea monsters and contorted human forms. The sculpture contest was a chance for teams of adults to leave their imprisoning cubicles in air conditioned offices, don some casual clothes, and escape to the lakeshore during Minnesota's all-too-short summer to express their inner child.
As my son and I viewed a particularly complex castle, a little boy, perhaps eight or nine years old with an unruly shock of blond hair, began furiously kicking the castle, destroying all the areas he kicked. One astonished woman asked him, "Where is your mother?" "I don't have a mother," retorted the boy, and he kept up his kicking and ruination. No one, including me, felt comfortable stepping in and stopping him.
Frivolous endeavors, meant to entertain and delight before the winds and rains washed them back to mere grains of sand on a beach, the sand sculptures were intended to be temporary. Their destruction by the child, while disconcerting, didn't seem that serious at the time.
However, now thirty years later, that child is an adult. Our world is filled with angry adults bent on destruction, and more often than not, they destroy that which was intended to be permanent. They destroy what teams of people have worked tirelessly together to build, such as governments, families, cities, and civil societies that were intended to last, and be improved upon by future generations. Parents don't have children to love and cherish for six years only to have them shot to pieces in a classroom by an angry man. The architects and builders of the Twin Towers didn't intend for them to be a temporary fixture in the New York City skyline. For one hundred years citizens, labor unions, politicians and presidents of all parties have tried to enact bold legislation guaranteeing American citizens health insurance. When the Affordable Care Act was signed into law in 2010, it wasn't intended to be taken apart and dismantled a few years later.
The answer I gave to my son's question, "why is he doing that?" wasn't adequate in my mind. An adequate response would have been to step in and stop the sandcastle's annihilation. An adequate response would have been to intervene in each child's life, determine why they are so angry and work to resolve their anger. Recently, three brave men intervened on an Oregon train to protect someone else's daughter from an angry, misguided adult. Two of those men paid for their intervention with their lives. Oftentimes, it's neither easy nor safe, to take a stand for something. Perhaps that's why many of us don't. Nevertheless, my original observation is still accurate: some people build, and some people destroy.
Why Can't We Argue Like Adults?


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With a GDP of over US$1.9tn in 2017, Italy is the fourth-largest economy in Europe. It has a diversified financial system, known for its high-end products. Manufacturing is well developed, with motor vehicles, machinery, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, fashion and clothing all key industries. According to the World Economic Forums Global Competitiveness Index 2017-2018, Italy scored high on the parameters of health, education, business sophistication, and market size. However, the countrys high tax burden and lack of financing options pose challenges to growth.
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Total GVA generated from road transportation registered a CAGR of -3.9%, falling from US$46.4bn in 2012 to US$37.9bn in 2017. A decline in national and international transport, coupled with a decrease in trade activities, drove the trend. Road transportation GVA is anticipated to post a CAGR of -6.3%, from US$34.9bn in 2018 to US$26.9bn in 2022 due to a decrease in road freight.
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"I've only known Dwight Jaynes for a little more than 40 years, so I'm still learning about the guy. But as far as I can tell, there's never been a multi-media person of his caliber in the Portland area. Newspaper, radio, television — Dwight has done it all, and with a far higher degree of sensibility and skill and acumen than almost anybody else.
The quote above was authored this month by one of Oregon's journalism icons – Kerry Eggers in response to a request I made about Dwight Jaynes for this blog. Dwight is usually identified by the moniker – "The Godfather." And what is the background behind this effusive quote from his long-time friend. Well, the evidence is pretty compelling.
He has made his mark both as a reporter and editor in the print media, become a familiar presence on radio as a talk-show co-host and analyst and one of the four regular commentators on the Talkin Ball television show following each Portland Trailblazer broadcast on Comcast. His one-on-one interviews on Comcast's "Posting Up" with such sports luminaries as Charles Barkley, Phil Knight, Bill Walton and wrestler Rowdy Roddy Piper were also notable.
In recent years, he's also made the move to social media with a blog on Comcast and a new podcast with a creative moniker – "The Podfather's Godcast." Oh, and don't forget his two books – one of which (Against the World) was coauthored with Eggers and the other – The Long Hot Winter – was a collaboration with former Portland Trailblazer player and coach, Rick Adelman.
To interview Dwight for the Beerchaser-of-the-Quarter, I suggested a venue for our lunch that both of us knew well – the Kingston – right across from Providence Park – and most recently known for the after-game celebrations by Portland State Football Coach, Bruce Barnum, who would buy everybody in the house a beer after one of PSU's victories in his first year (up to a $500 tab….).
Kerry Eggers' quote aptly summarizes why I wanted to "honor" The Godfather as Beerchaser-of-the-Quarter – a Portland native – he graduated from Cleveland High School in 1965.
Most of the narrative will be on Dwight as an interesting guy who cares a lot about his family, his thoughts about his profession and Portland and what he thinks about topics you may not find in articles about him.
And as some background, my past quarterly Beerchaser-of-the-Quarter awards have gone to athletes, military heroes, authors, academicians – most of whom I have met, but not all – for example, the crew of the USS Constitution for their 1798 war cruise. The person or group "honored" may or may not have anything to do with beer or bars.
Although I was well aware of who he was based on his thirty + years as a columnist for the Oregon Journal, the Oregonian and then as the inaugural editor of the Portland Tribune, I first met Dwight based on a failed bid to have lunch with him as part of a benefit in 2010 which radio station 750 -The Game, was sponsoring to help victims of the terrible earthquake in Haiti. He was then co-host of the morning show with Chad Doing and Antonio Harvey.
I bid $75 and left on a business trip to Chicago. Upon returning, I called and learned the bad news, but decided not to give up. I enjoyed his insightful columns and his candid conversation on the air about everything from the Blazers to why Portland does not have a Major League baseball team.
Twitchell went on to pitch for five teams during his ten years in the Major Leagues including one All-Star game appearance in 1973.
The Godfather's anecdotes from working with the icons in sports journalism such as George Pasero, Leo Davis and L.H. Gregory, are fascinating and could fill another book.
About a year passed and a few more lunches and I asked Dwight for a favor. I was working then as the Chief Operating Officer at the Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt law firm. Given a number of high-profile Oregon sports issues at that time and his reputation as a journalist and media personality, I thought our clients would be interested in hearing about his story and opinions about the changing role of the media in sports.
Based on the response from staff when we announced it, we decided to open it to firm personnel as well. Well, our largest conference room which seated about 120 people, was filled to capacity.
Beerchaser: Okay, let's get this one resolved early on – How did you get the moniker, "The Godfather," which seems to be used more these days than "Dwight"?
Godfather: It was about ten years ago when I was working at 95.5 The Game, on the morning show with Chad Doing. Gavin Dawson, who was the host and now works at CBS radio in Dallas, came up with the label, but initially I didn't like it. My brother, however, who has pretty good instincts, told me to "ride it out" and that it was working. It stuck.
Beerchaser: You worked with a lot of Northwest legends in sports writing. Who was the best and who was your favorite?
Godfather: Leo Davis was the best followed closely by Ken Wheeler, who helped me a lot. Bob Robinson was the best basketball writer and could remember the score of every game he covered.
Beerchaser: You are known for your candor in writing and broadcasting and willingness to take a position where most of the younger crew throw "softballs" and hold back criticism, evidently to preserve relationships and sources. An example was your criticism of Mo Cheeks when he coached the Blazers and you were one of the few, if only Portland writers, pointing out his deficiencies as a coach. Comment on this.
Godfather: "Telling it like it is," didn't used to be rare as is the case now. I've been around long enough, where it's expected. We never used to be friends with the people we covered and now that's not the case with many in the profession. The people we covered weren't our friends for obvious reasons.
Beerchaser: What's your favorite sport to cover?
Godfather: Baseball, then hockey and basketball, although I really have little interest in the NCAA and don't watch college basketball. I really enjoyed covering the Portland WinterHawks.
Beerchaser: What was your best interview and some of the most memorable? The worst?
Godfather: Charles Barkley for "Postin Up" (http://www.csnnw.com/dwight-jaynesposting-brand-new-show) was my favorite and the best. He's an amazing guy. (We didn't get to broadcast if for a long time after it occurred because of the delay in getting his waiver signed and returned….) Magic Johnson and Carl Malone were also great to interview.
Not surprising – best interview!
Pistol Pete in 1967 – great basketball vision, but poor interview….
Beerchaser: Your favorite and most respected coaches?
Godfather: My favorite coach was my Cleveland High baseball coach, Jack Dunn, who is 86 and still lives in Portland. http://portlandtribune.com/bnw/21-news/195802-home-run-hero-jack-dunn.
Jack Ramsey was not only a superb and unique coach, but a Renaissance Man and amazing human being. When the Trailblazers were in New York, Jack would take in a Broadway play(s) whenever he could.
Beerchaser: I know that baseball seems to be your favorite sport. Not only have you covered it, but you also played it at Cleveland, helped coach at PSU and worked for the Portland Beavers in their heyday. Give us some stream of consciousness thoughts about baseball.
Godfather: Some people say, "It's an old man's sport," but it's big money and very successful on TV. It's really one of the last pro sports that most millennials can affordably attend. Besides, it's a spectator sport where you can both watch and also interact and have a good conversation with the people you're there with. For example, going to a minor league game at the Hillsboro ballpark where the Hillsboro Hops play is a wonderful experience.
Beerchaser: Tell us about your family.
Godfather: My son, Will, is a law enforcement officer for the National Park Service at Great Smokey National Park and his wife, Molly, also works there for the National Park Service.
My daughter, Elizabeth Kulp, lives in Indiana, is raising three kids and is the owner of a small business. Unfortunately, I don't get to see them as often as I would like.
Beerchaser: You've collaboratively written two successful books. In fact, I checked, and you can still get them at Amazon and on the "sale" table at Powell's – albeit at a pretty cheap price…..! Tell us about them and any more in the pipeline?
Godfather: There is no money in writing a book and it is a grind. Kerry and I alternated chapters in the second one. The book with Rick was written in one month due to the need to get it published while people were still interested. We transcribed reams of Rick's dictation and notes, which had to edited and fact-checked to meet the Christmas deadline.
I just might have another book, but it would be a novel – a newspaper-related story reflecting the unique and funny people working for that type of organization.
Beerchaser: You've talked at some of our lunches about rules changes you would make in the NBA and I think those reading this might be interested in two of them that are kind of unusual. You know what they are….
Godfather: They should prohibit the hand slaps or high-fives after a missed free-throw by a teammate because of the amount of time it takes and because it is essentially a meaningless and robotic gesture. If they are going to be allowed, maybe it's okay after a player makes the free-throw….
The flop rule implemented in 2012 has had some problems. It's pretty subjective when a referee calls a flopping violation resulting in a $5,000 fine for the player after the second violation. The NBA should review each flop violation after the game and if the referee blew the call, he or she should pay the fine instead.
Beerchaser: Any final thoughts on your career?
Dwight Jaynes, based on his wide-ranging professional accomplishments, deserves the title, Godfather, but he is also a great guy with a sense of humility and humor. Check out his blog and his podcast at CSN.


Adlard Coles, 1957, Hardback in Dustwrapper..
Condition: Good — in Poor Dust Wrapper. Unlaminated dust wrapper a edgeworn and faded with loss at head, tail and corners. Top edges of text block tanned, foredges spotted. Endpapers and pastedowns spotted. Text bright and tight.
5th edition. [First Edition: 1948] Illustrated with black and white photographs & diagrams.


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Q: Work with Gradle from Java/Groovy application Purpose of my project is to build, test and display test results of some codebase that is under test. For my needs I've create Gradle project. Everything works good with aim of console.
But now I want to work with this "test-suite" project from my main Java/Groovy project which is web service.
So I want to know is there any way to find Gradle Java/Groovy "client" wrapper? Or does Gradle has features to call tasks externally?
Also I wonder what is the best way to understand that Gradle build is failed? Should I parse build console output or can I setup some error codes?
Thanks in advance!

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