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This gem was created following the Rails plugin made in Railscast 033 Making a Plugin.
Within an the model add stringify_time passing in a symbol that you want to set as the attribute you want aliased as a virtual attribute string.
Your users are now able to type in the date into a text field instead of using the Rails' default datetime_select dropdowns.
I'm noticing I am getting faster. I'm attributing this to making essentially the same application numerous times with this study method. What I am learning that was stored in short-term memory, is slowly moving into the long-term memory part of brain. I also thinking about creating a bash script to help with creating a new GitHub repo for each new project.
Using the in_groups_of method was fairly straight-forward. Create an instance variable of an array of object records, then call in_groups_of on it within the view. The first argument is how many objects are within one group, and the second argument is the object to pass in for padding. Padding meaning if you had 6 records with in_groups_of(5, false), the it would create the array [[1,2,3,4,5],[6,false,false,false,false]]. You can use this newly generated 2d array in a loop like so.
The first loop is to create an array called row_tasks. You then iterate through that row_tasks array to get at each individual task record.
Even after I ran bundle install and the output says I have it installed, I was unable to enter the console. I temporarily commented it out in order to work on the actual project. After I was finished with the project, I went to prepare the project to be hosted on Heroku. I uncommented the pg line, then tried bundle install again. This time I was able to enter rails console without any projects. I was in another tab this time. I'm not completely sure why this happened, but my best guess is that bash or rvm didn't load completely in the tab I was attempting to run rails c on. Embarrassingly enough, I actually opened an issue on GitHub on the Rails repo.
I populated the database using the seed.rb. Instead of declaring each record one by one, I did it dynamically with ruby. More in the blog post.
The concept this episode was adding a counter cache column to the the projects table. This allows us to call project.tasks_count instead of project.tasks.count. The latter is inefficient because the database not only returns the projects, but also all the tasks associated with that task. The former improves performance by allowing us to only send the projects' object which contains the tasks_count attribute.
The migration wasn't too different from what I've seen before, but there were a few things to take note of.
There is a default value on the tasks_count column. This default value allows us to increment and decrement when new tasks are added or deleted for each given project.
According to the Ruby on Rails API the reset_column_information method resets the cached information about a column. This is useful because if you didn't run reset_column_information, then the update of the tasks_count could be incorrect.
The update() accepts two arguments an id and an attribute. The attribute could be a hash. So p.id designates the correct project while tasks_count: p.tasks.length updates the tasks_count column with the correct value.
Now counter caching is enabled.
Although it might not be necessary to rebuild the starting app at the start of each episode, I find it useful. I just saw that the each episode's repo has a before and after app. While I may use this in the future, I want to have muscle memory in creating a basic app up and running. I also just noticed that the before app included seeds.rb to populate the database. I may not want to copy the whole app, I am not above saving myself time tediously creating custom records.
getting all the product records and ordering them by area. The problem Eager Loading tries to solve is the following request made in the view.
This is commonly known as the O(n + 1) problem. Where the query to get the the product is accompanied by another query to get the product's category name. I've been interviewed about Big O Notation before, so I believe that its a topic worthy of its own post.
We could select all the records even those that did not have the three requirements needed to be included in an inner join.
The thing I've messed up on has been the pluralization of the table names while writing a custom SQL command. I have had times where I left out the s in products and used the singular category instead of the plural categories. The way I need to remember this is by remembering that the tables holds multiple records, thus the table names are always plural.
The select method used here has two arguments being passed in to limit the data returned. The first products.* is a SQL command to return all the products from the database. The second categories.name as category_name returns only the categories' name. The as category_name aliases the data dynamically within the select method, so the attribute can be referenced from the model.
In the views you can replace product.category.name to product.category_name. In order to be sure that the category_name attribute is always available you have to create a custom getter method within the product model. This way you are not relying on the select method solely.
The database is first checked if there is a category_name alias in the database. If there isn't an aliased category_name, then it fetches the name through the ActiveRecord association.
Just like when you have a has_many and belongs_to relationship, you must define the foreign key within the table that has the belongs_to method. In this case it is the Categorization model. The schema would look like this.
This setup allows us to call @product.categories. @product.categories returns an array of category objects associated through the categorization table. This is similar to how you would create followers and followed_users for a user.
The main part of the episode was about how you can create checkboxes to select the categories. First obvious things to do are to loop through all the categories and display them in the _form partial. The tricky part comes with choosing a check_box or a check_box_tag. You want to choose a check_box_tag so you can display each category, not just one.
Next you want to fill in the value of checked or not checked. The second argument passed into the check_box_tag is the category.id. The third is the value of checked or not checked. The way you designate the value is by passing in true or false. The way it is done in the episode is by finding the @product.category_ids and checking if the category.id from the block is included within the @product's category_ids.
Now if you refreshed the page, the value is correctly displayed. A hidden_field_tag is also created in order to make sure that the form is submitted with a default value of nil. The reason you want to include this nil category_id field is to make sure that if no checkboxes are checked, then an empty array is passed as a parameter.
Ryan adds a usability enhancement by allowing users to click on the text to check and uncheck boxes. He first creates a unique id for each checkbox with dom_id. Next he adds a label_tag to the text. Oddly enough the dom_id method has no description within the Ruby on Rails API. It just has the source code. dom_id seems to be creating a unique string from the object's model and id values. In the categories example, the id was defined as category_1 and so on.


TurtleCell will debut its state-of-the-art, first-of-its-kind protective case with integrated retractable headphones for the iPhone 6 on Sept. 9 at the CTIA-Wireless Association Super Mobility 2015 Show in Las Vegas.
TurtleCell's groundbreaking, lightweight case is equipped with premium, in-ear built in headphones, providing a solution for the annoyance of tangled, broken and lost headphones. They are designed to offer superior sound quality, ease of use, and to be long-lasting. This makes them less likely to be lost or left behind, ideal for students, athletes, and anyone who listens to music on-the-go.
The headphones come standard with a microphone and full button control for safe, hands-free calling. Utilizing the phone's normal functionality is seamless with an audio switch, which allows you to engage or disengage the headphones. Subtle texture combined with a sleek pattern provides an enhanced grip without sacrificing pocketability. The case also provides the convenience of a built-in kickstand, perfect for travel and everyday use.
The headphones can be extended to variable lengths for convenient listening. When finished, retracting the headphones is simple—just press the retraction button on the side of the case. As an audio-focused company, the headphone quality was a major focus and they've partnered with a top-tier manufacturing partner to design custom buds that provide well balanced sound and a deep bass experience.
TurtleCell has partnered with Digital Treasures, an established mobile accessories distributor headquartered in Michigan, with more than 15 years of experience in the industry. The two companies unveiled the first TurtleCell for iPhone 5 at the 2014 Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas, resulting in huge international interest from retailers. They will unveil the new model for iPhone 6 at the 2015 CTIA show in Las Vegas Sept. 9, 10 and 11, and expect the TurtleCell to available nationwide by the 2015 holiday season.
Cases will be available for $59.95 in black, silver, red and gold, and will be available from retailers across the country.
TurtleCell offers the first all-in-one solution for people who listen to music on-the-go. The groundbreaking integrated case and headphones were designed intentionally to deliver superior sound quality. Developed by a team of young, Michigan-based entrepreneurs who were frustrated by the lack of a product that solves the problem of tangled headphones, their design focuses on usability and quality. The company is headquartered in Ann Arbor, Mich. For more information, visit TurtleCell.com.
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Малый Кусмор — упразднённое село в Касимовском районе Рязанской области.

Географическое положение
Малый Кусмор располагался в 22 километрах к юго-востоку от райцентра города Касимова и в 12 километрах от Елатьмы, на правом берегу р. Вахтанки правом притоке р. Унжи (левый приток р. Оки).

Ближайшие населённые пункты — село Большой Кусмор (в настоящее время включает в себя бывшую территорию Малого Кусмора), Новая Деревня.

История
Малый Кусмор возник в конце XVIII в. путём выделения из с. Кусмор, которое стало называться Большой Кусмор. Название — предположительно мещерского или мордовского происхождения (эти народы проживали в данной местности во времена Касимовского ханства). Помещица Н. Нарышкина переселила часть крестьян из села Кусмор (ныне Большой Кусмор) в новое поселение. Они находились в половине версты друг от друга и разделялись р. Вахтанкой.

Село именовалось в XIX веке — середине XX века Малые Кусморы, с середины XX века Малый Кусмор. Также в источниках именовалась Малый Кусмар (Тамбовская губерния. Список населённых мест по сведениям 1862 г., стр. 40), Мало-Кусмор (Адрес-календарь и справочная книжка Тамбовской губернии 1914 г., стр. 248).

В селе существовал церковный приход Успения Пресвятой Богородицы, к которому первоначально были приписаны также селения Лазарево, Полутино, Ларино, Мерлино.

В середине 19 в. (ближе к крестьянской реформе 1861 г.) крестьяне в селе принадлежали Николаю Фёдоровичу Голицыну и Николаю Фёдоровичу Бахметьеву.

До 1923 года село входило в состав Мало-Кусморской волости Елатомского уезда Тамбовской губернии. В 1929—1963 годах входило в состав Елатомского района Рязанской области.

Ближе к концу 20 в. Малый Кусмор становится частью Большого Кусмора и исчезает с карт.

Население
К 1862 году число жителей: мужского пола — 296, женского пола — 298 (Тамбовская губерния. Список населённых мест по сведениям 1862 г., стр. 40), к 1914 году — среди 407 жителей мужского пола — 198, женского пола — 209 (Адрес-календарь и справочная книжка Тамбовской губернии 1914 г., стр. 248—249).

Инфраструктура
Личное подсобное хозяйство. В 1862 году 36 дворов.

Транспорт
Через упразднённое село проходит автодорога 61 ОП РЗ 61К-052 Касимов — Новая Деревня — Елатьма — Савостьяново — Ардабьево — Дмитриево

Примечания

Литература
 Органова И. М. Малый Кусмор. // РЭ — Рязань. 1999. — Т. 1. — С. 590
 Органова Н. Село, которого нет: Точка на карте. // Рязанские ведомости. −1998. — 2 сентября.
 Органова Н. Большой и Малый Кусмор: Название на карте. // Приокская газета. — 1992. — 31 января

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Thought leadership offers enormous advantages to people and associations. It enables people to create notorieties as industry specialists, assemble more grounded relations with other industry leaders and experts, and prompts shorter deals cycles and longer client lifetime estimation of their associations. Thought leaders have some important qualities.
In the quest for this pinned for the title, numerous individuals do things that conflict with the ethos of thought leadership. This implies they don't simply neglect to accomplish the position they endeavor hard for; they additionally lose interest in their field.
Numerous individuals accept that what is important to them, additionally matters to their gathering of people and that sharing thoughts on such subjects will position them as thought leaders, In any case, considered anticipating that your gathering of people should think about what makes a difference to you. It's a different way.
Your clients, associates, and partners have their very own, squeezing questions and difficulties. They're searching for answers, and for individuals with the appropriate responses.
Authentic thought leadership characterizes and share clear messages that are applicable to their group of onlookers. When they address their group of onlookers' most squeezing questions, they prevail with regards to influencing individuals to buy into their points of view, in this way establishing the framework for long period thought leadership.
The most widely recognized failure individuals make is to expect that self-advancement is synonymous with thought leadership.
In this, they miss the most important part of thought leadership: esteem. Esteem is the crossing point of what individuals need and what you offer.
In thought leadership, esteem implies empowering your audiences to tackle their very own issues without concealed business motivation. It implies openly sharing significant perspectives that your gathering of people can apply on subjects that apply to them.
Authentic thought leaders focus less around their own picture and more on increasing the value of their gathering of people. Subsequently, they mold an individual brand of reliability which is unquestionably more successful than self-advancement.
We're strangling in a flood of content today. Over 90per penny of the content gets single digit commitment.
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They believe that having a novel sentiment makes them an idea head. However, simply having an exceptional assessment isn't sufficient. On the off chance that it doesn't resound with your gathering of people, your viewpoint is as futile as a single squat to an exercise center body.
You can't consider yourself a thought master, much the same as a worker can't consider himself the best in the association. Thought leadership is a title your gathering of people offers to you, much the same as an association grant a worker for being the entertainer of the quarter.
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Leaders can never again say, "do what I state, not what I do." Their activities talk more intense than their words. Much the same as that, figured leaders can never again share hopeful contemplations and anticipate that others should tail them without repeating the thoughts themselves.
Authentic thought leaders use personal participation and practices to demonstrate expertise. They don't seem like who individuals place themselves on a platform. Rather, their points of view demonstrate that they are people who understand the world and can enable it to develop.
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Warner have been pressing new vinyl editions of various 60s and 70s albums this year: no marketing, no fanfare… just working through the back catalogue, making sure some essential markers in the history of pop are back on the vinyl racks. This month, you'll find The Byrds' Sweetheart Of The Rodeo and Harry Nilsson's Nilsson Schmilsson appearing once again on vinyl.
Of this album's two singles, Jump Into The Fire is the one that's very much of its time, while Side Two's opener, Without You, is timeless. The Grammy Award-winning cut was co-written with Apple Records' Badfinger, recorded in London, and was the first taste of what Nilsson would sound like with some English musical input.
This was something he'd always yearned for since coming out as The Beatles' biggest fan, covering both You Can't Do That and She's Leaving Home on his sophomore set, Pandemonium Shadow Show.
This is a delightful album that – given Nilsson's reputation as a hell-raiser, the Beatles connections, the documentaries and the all-encompassing grandeur of Without You – has become somewhat overlooked, albeit unfairly. So drop the needle and give it another chance.


Democrats think former President Obama's presence on the campaign trail is a boost for candidates in their party, but all voters aren't as convinced.
The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on September 9 -10, 2018 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.


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NAO warns Whitehall consultancy spend is increasing again
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A report by the National Audit Office (NAO) into the use of consultants and temporary staff (C&TS) in Whitehall has concluded departments have substantially reduced their spending on C&TS since 2009-10. But spending, notably on project management and ICT, has begun to increase again.
The report, which also highlights three case studies – the Cabinet Office, the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra)and the Home Office – suggests that in 2014-15, the main 17 Whitehall departments spent between £1bn and £1.3bn on C&TS compared with £2.7bn in 2009-10, a reduction in spending of £1.5bn.
Since 2011-12, however, departments have increased their annual spend on C&TS by between £400m and £600m, while reducing their permanent workforce.
The overall level of spending on C&TS is uncertain because departments apply different definitions for different information systems and this information is not coordinated centrally.
The totals also do not include other areas where consultancy firms are active. In these areas, spending also reduced in cash terms: for example, spending on professional services, management of outsourced services, some legal and financial advice, and research reduced by £430m (8%) in 2014-15 compared with 2009-10.
Following the 2015 Spending Review in November, the NAO pointed out that departments will have to invest further in transformation projects, which generally require support from C&TS, while cutting overall spending. Significant skills shortages already remain in the areas needed to transform government, including project management and ICT which are common specialisms of C&TS.
The NAO adds that departments will need to address a risk that managers will increasingly use potentially higher-cost C&TS resources to bypass their department's controls over recruitment as a way of paying market rates for the necessary skills.
The report examines the progress made by central government since the NAO's 2010 report on consultants and interim staff and focuses on three questions:
– Have departments reduced their spending on C&TS?
– Do departments let and manage C&TS assignments cost-effectively?
– Does the centre of government, primarily the Cabinet Office in this case, effectively manage and support the use of C&TS by departments?
The report says that strategic workforce planning should help organisations understand their future skills needs, respond flexibly to local peaks and troughs in workload pressures and reduce the overall size of their workforce.
However, it adds, two of its three case study departments had no skills registers, or any analysis of their internal approvals of consultancy and temporary staff to better understand the skills they need, why recruitment efforts had failed or how to locate suitably qualified staff. The Home Office told the NAO it was trying to attract ICT specialists to reduce its reliance on temporary staff. All three case study departments plan to improve their strategic workforce planning.
Although a majority of temporary staff (52%) appointed by departments through Crown Commercial Service (CCS) agreement are for administrative and clerical grades, ICT and digital and project management staff account for higher proportions of the total cost.
The report also considered the role of the Cabinet Office's spending controls, which cover consultancy but not technical staff.
In addition to their internal approval systems, departments wanting to use consultants must also get approval from the Cabinet Office before appointing consultants for assignments lasting more than nine months and costing more than £20,000.
The Cabinet Office approves most of the requests made by departments for consultancy assignments of over nine months in duration, the NAO indicated. In 2014-15, departments made 162 applications (total value of £275m) for new assignments or to extend existing contracts. Of these, only one case was refused, an application for £6m to advise the High Speed Rail Group in the Department for Transport.
The NAO pointed out that other Cabinet Office spending controls can affect departments' use of C&TS, notably at Defra which had initially engaged consultants to carry out systems integration work for its Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) delivery programme.
However, it terminated these arrangements because of the Cabinet Office's concerns about high day rates and the risk of becoming dependent on a single supplier. Defra subsequently brought the consultants' systems integration role in-house, but it underestimated the complexity of the role and did not foresee the difficulty it would have in getting the necessary skills in place.
In its conclusions on the value for money offered by consultants and temporary staff, the NAO says they can be an important source of specialist skills and capabilities that are uneconomic for departments to maintain in their permanent staff.
It adds that the skills needed to manage and deliver change are essential to making transformation successful.
In the short term, departments will need to draw on consultants and temporary staff to make up for shortages in these skills in the Civil Service.
In the longer term, the NAO warns, departments will need to develop workforce, skills and capacity plans to reduce their dependence on external skills. They will need to improve their strategic workforce planning to determine where they can deploy existing staff, where they need to recruit, and where they need to engage temporary resources. Without this, departments cannot demonstrate that they are achieving value for money from the use of consultants and temporary staff.
The NAO recommends that departments should develop a strategic plan that covers all bodies within their group, identifies their current skills and expected 'skills gaps', and determines how best to fill those gaps, including likely future demand for C&TS.
Departments should also draw more on existing good practice to improve the way they let and manage C&TS assignments, including strengthening approval processes so that all C&TS assignments are based on business cases that are rooted in the strategic workforce plan; using CCS agreements as the default option for procuring C&TS; carrying out regular reviews of the 'pipeline' of requirements for consultancy, and of the ongoing need for temporary staff as is currently done by the Home Office; and reviewing all significant assignments and feed back lessons into the planning and approval systems.


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8 Old-Fashioned Hobbies That Kill Quarantine Boredom
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6. Embroidery
Embroidery or the craft of decorating fabric or other materials using a needle to apply thread or yarn is grandma's way to relax. And, in these times of uncertainty, many of us are becoming passionate about this old-fashioned hobby.
However, it requires a lot of patience and attention. If you have both of them, you can make your quarantine days more pleasant and bearable by applying anything you like (pearls, beads, and sequins) on your favorite hats, coats, blankets, dresses, or denim.
If you're looking to get started right now, you're not alone. Mariana Barran de Goodall, owner of Texas handmade embroidery studio Hibiscus Linens, says that she has seen a huge increase in interest in the daily step-by-step tutorials that she posts on the company's Instagram.
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Last week, the American people learned that two nurses who had treated the United States' index Ebola patient also had contracted the virus, and more worrisome, learned that one of the nurses had traveled on a commercial airliner. It understandably heightened concern more Americans were at risk of contracting this extremely deadly virus, and it caused many folks to be concerned that the government's response to the virus had been inadequate.
The American people want to have confidence that their government is doing everything in its power to contain the virus and prevent its spread. Since learning about the new exposures, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has put into place new travel measures for travelers who have been in the countries affected by the disease, and has also notified every passenger on the flight on which the ill patient traveled. But I believe one more restriction is needed – we need the Administration to take another look at putting in place workable travel restrictions from the affected countries in an effort to keep the virus contained at the source of the outbreak.
On Tuesday, I led 15 other members of the GOP Doctors Caucus in sending a letter to President Obama encouraging him to reconsider a temporary travel ban on countries that have been heavily affected by Ebola. As a physician, I understand we have a responsibility to support countries suffering because of Ebola with continued flow of aid workers and supplies to help control the spread of the disease. With that said, a temporary travel ban for individuals who are citizens of, or traveled to, affected countries in West Africa would help contain the disease. For American citizens exposed to Ebola, we recommended the administration consider a 21-day quarantine before allowing reentry to the United States.
Additionally, last week the president announced the addition of an "Ebola czar" to oversee the government's response and ensure that all agencies are coordinating their efforts. While I believe the creation of this position was necessary, I think the president erred and missed an opportunity to reassure Americans by selecting Mr. Klain, Vice President Joe Biden's former chief of staff , instead of someone who had public health experience. The president's selection of a political operative will lead too many to believe our response is being driven by politics as well.
I have been in touch with both the Tennessee Hospital Association and the Tennessee Department of Health. Both have reassured Tennessee's congressional delegation that hospitals across the state are ready should Ebola present itself. We have some of the best and brightest medical professionals in the world, and I am confident that the health and safety of patients and their medical teams are their highest priority.
Educating citizens and health professionals on Ebola is important to protecting American lives both at home and abroad. It's extremely important for the public to realize the risk of a widespread outbreak in the United States is very low. Ebola is a scary disease, but there's no cause for panic at this time. As I've said before, the United States has the resources and infrastructure to contain this disease should a more widespread outbreak ever occur, and we are one of the most well-prepared countries in the industrialized world to adequately handle a disease like Ebola.
As a physician, I will continue to closely follow developments in America's response to Ebola, and I look forward to working with the administration and public health officials to minimize the impact of this disease at home and around the world.
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Under Turnbull, We're Promised An Era Of 'Menzian' Politics: Jews And Workers Take Note
By Chris Graham on September 14, 2015 Australian Politics
During his first press conference as Prime Minister Designate last night, Malcolm Turnbull paid tribute to the broad church that is the Liberal Party.
"This will be a thoroughly Liberal government, it will be a thoroughly Liberal government committed to freedom, the individual, and the market," said Turnbull.
And then he handed over to Julie Bishop, and things got a little weird.
"As a believer in the Liberal Party that was created by Robert Menzies, I am firmly of the view that the values and beliefs of the Liberal Party are as relevant today as they were when this great party was formed 70 years ago," said Bishop.
"In Malcolm Turnbull we have a leader who will be true to those Menzian values and beliefs, and I'll be honoured to serve this party and this country in my current role."
There's two important points in that last paragraph.
1. Whatever cabinet reshuffle occurs, Julie Bishop intends to remain as Foreign Minister (note that down Malcolm).
2. Malcolm Turnbull will govern with Menzian values.
But what does that actually mean? What is a Menzian value?
The first thing you need to know about Sir Robert Menzies – Australia's longest serving Prime Minister – is that in July 1939, while Attorney General, he confidently predicted: "History will label Hitler as one of the really great men of the century."
What most impressed Menzies was the Nazis' outlawing of strikes, abolition of unions and its suppression of the right to collective bargaining.
A few months later, as Prime Minister, Menzies led Australia to war against Germany. Both the comment – and his history (Menzies was widely labeled as a coward for having never enlisted in World War I) – would plague Menzies for much of the rest of his life.
The second thing you need to know about Menzies is that his detractors referred to him as "Pig Iron Bob", a reference to the fight he led against dock workers who were refusing to load scrap iron destined to he shipped to Japan… the nation that a few years later would repeatedly attack Australia.
In other words, Menzies had moments of incredibly poor judgement, and was very anti-worker. But that's not all the Menzian era was good for.
Menzies spent much of the early years of the war in Britain, as part of Churchill's war cabinet. Some historians claim Menzies actually had some support to replace Churchill as British Prime Minister.
By contrast, when he returned to Australia in 1941, he found he had little support among the people who actually elected him, and he was forced to resign.
With the Coalition in disarray, Menzies' United Australia Party was cast from office in 1943, and by 1945, he realized he needed a new party. The Liberals were formed, and after the 1946 election, Menzies became the leader of the Opposition.
It was at this point that a message he sent to the Department of Defence was leaked, in which he complained that soldiers injured in the war were costing too much money.
"… a dead soldier cost a letter home and a plaque, Legacy provided for his family. A wounded soldier haunted governments for decades" Menzies wrote.
Let's hope Malcolm takes a far kinder approach to soldiers maimed under his watch.
By 1951, Menzies was back in as Prime Minister. That's when he introduced legislation to a Labor-controlled Senate to ban the Communist Party from Australia. Labor – cowards even back then, and keen to avoid a double dissolution election – let the legislation pass, but the High Court subsequently ruled it unconstitutional.
Menzies got his double dissolution a few months later on his bill opposing the nationalization of private banks (we've been paying for it ever since) and after winning office with a reduced majority, Menzies called a referendum and asked the Australian people to give him the power to change the Constitution so he could ban Communists.
It was ultimately rejected.
One interesting parallel is that Menzies ran the first 'TV election campaign', and by all accounts he acquitted himself well, and communicated strongly. This bodes well for our Menzian era, not least of all because, according to Tony Abbott, malcolm Turnbull virtually invented the internet.
Note to Joe Hockey (who obviously won't be the new treasurer, but a note to him anyway): throughout Menzies' time in office, he ran the budget in deficit and was a devotee of 'Keynesian economics' – the belief that government spending could stimulate the economy when times were bad.
And note to Eric Abetz (who hopefully won't remain as employment minister): a central part of Keyne's theory – and therefore a central tenet of a Liberal government – is that unemployment is not a consequence of laziness, rather a function of imbalances in supply and demand. Most people don't work because they can't find a job.
Back to Menzies…. After leading a Cold War scare in 1954 (known as the 'Petrov affair', and the rough equivalent of John Howard's Tampa and Tony Abbott's 'death cult'), Menzies was re-elected twice while the Labor Party turned itself inside out with splits and factional wars (the rough equivalent of the entire history of the Labor Party).
On race, Menzies was a mixed bag. He was accused of ignoring the suffering of Jews before and after the war, but in Menzies defence, it also he who began relaxing the White Australia policy, abolishing the dictation test in 1958 and then in 1962 passing legislation to abolish the restrictions on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people voting in elections. That's either a good thing, a bad thing or a nothing depending on your politics.
All up, Menzies was the very model of a scared white man, who ran a scared a white government for people it hoped to keep scared, albeit less white.
And while, in Turnbull's defence, he has a much better relationship with the Jewish community than Menzies ever did, we probably are in for an era of Menzian politics.
So expect no quarter for unions, 'smaller government' accompanied by a further pairing back on social services, and of course we should see the odd scare campaign if Turnbull and co are lagging in the polls.
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Chris Graham is the publisher and editor of New Matilda. He is the former founding managing editor of the National Indigenous Times and Tracker magazine. Chris has won a Walkley Award, a Walkley High Commendation and two Human Rights Awards for his reporting.
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A winter storm that blew into the north county region Tuesday night, with a mixture of snow, ice and rain, caused major headaches for many local residents, public safety and public works personnel. According to local officials, the snow began falling late Tuesday night and eventually changed to freezing rain and was followed by heavy rain throughout the day Wednesday. One Gardner resident was forced to relocate to her daughter�s home after the weight of the snow and ice on the roof of her mobile home cause the roof to buckle. According to Richard Reynolds, the building commissioner for the city of Gardner, a couple of the roofing trusses at the 265 Clark St. home failed and the roof began to bow in. �Gardner firefighters went up on the roof and removed the snow and ice,� Mr. Reynolds said. Acting Lt. Cleo Caouette of the Gardner Fire Department said the mobile home�s roofing trusses buckled about 6 to 8 inches. �One of her neighbors is a contractor and he went in to shore up the roof to prevent it from further collapsing and drain water from the roof,� he said. �We also responded to multiple reports of water coming through flat roofs,� the lieutenant said. �We responded to Timpany Plaza twice and once to Gardner Plaza.� Lt. Caouette said the city also experienced a number of downed electrical transmission lines, and some roads were closed because of flooding clogged drains caused. Gardner Police closed the a section of Pearson Boulevard to allow DPW crews to clear the drains of snow and ice. Department of Public Works Director Dane Arnold said that his crews were trying their best to keep up with the storm. �We got 6 inches of snow that turned into ice and then into rain,� he said. �The men have been out straight for 16 hours trying to keep the roads open and now we have most of them under control.� Thomas Draleau of 57 Keyes Road was concerned that water flowing from Keyes Road was flowing into his well and contaminating his water supply. Mr. Draleau said he has lived in the home for several years, and his drainage problems began when the developer of a now-defunct housing project installed sewer lines which altered the grade of the road. Mr. Arnold said the city is aware of the problem, however repairs to the road�s surface will have to wait until the spring. A Templeton home at the intersection of Brooks Village Road and Patriots Road was facing similar problems. Poor drainage in the area cause the water to build up on Brooks Village Road and begin to flow downhill into the home�s basement. �We have lived her for 4 1/2 years and it has never been this bad,� homeowner Kathy Flaminio said. �We have about 2 feet of water in the basement and the motor on our wood stove is gone and our clothes dryer.� Templeton firefighters responded to the Flaminio residence around 1 p.m. and began pumping the water from the home�s cellar. The Templeton Highway Department was busy trying to keep roads and drains open. �All of our crews are out there,� Highway Supervisor Francis �Bud� Chase said. �A lot of our low-lying roads and areas with poor drainage are flooding.� Mr. Chase said that Tuesday night�s snowfall was adding to the problems his crew was facing. �The frozen snow banks aren�t helping us and the slush is filing up the storm drains as fast as we can clear them,� he said. �Right now we are fighting Mother Nature, and Mother Nature is winning.� There were also reports of roads flooding in Ashburnham, Westminster and Winchendon, as well as reports of minor accidents. A National Grid spokeswoman said the reports of a number of small scattered power outages in the Gardner area cause by downed power lines. ernieking@thegardnernews.com


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The Aurorae
By L. Harang
This book attempts to survey the facts concerning the appearance of the auroral phenomena. Attention has been given to methods of height determination and other matters on which the original publications are not readily available.
My thanks are due to Professor C. Stormer and Professor L. Vegard for kindly putting illustrations at my disposal, and to Mr. G. Kvifte for his assistance with the spectroscopic tables.
L. HARANG
Kjeller, December, 1949.
Editors' Note v
Author's Preface vii
Contents ix
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Darcy James Argue's Secret Society
Real Enemies
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Review by Michael Stone
Political language—and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists—is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind - George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language," from "Shooting the Elephant " (1950)
The enemy is clearly delineated: he is a perfect model of malice, a kind of amoral superman—sinister, ubiquitous, powerful, cruel, sensual, luxury loving…. He wills, indeed he manufactures, the mechanism of history, or tries to deflect the normal course of history in an evil way. He makes crises, starts runs on banks, causes depressions, manufactures disasters, and then enjoys and profits from the misery he has produced. The paranoid's interpretation of history is distinctly personal: decisive events are not taken as part of the stream of history, but as the consequences of someone's will - Richard Hofstadter, "The Paranoid Style in American Politics"
Real Enemies, the big-band production of Vancouver-born composer-bandleader Darcy James Argue, is a prescient title for these, our times. It draws inspiration from the work of historians Kathryn Olmsted, who explores U.S. popular fascination with conspiracy theories in her book "Real Enemies" and Richard Hofstadter, excerpts from whose essay "The Paranoid Style in American Politics" (Harper's Magazine, November 1964) percolate through "Who Do You Trust" and "You Are Here," in the commanding voice of actor James Urbaniak (who, perhaps coincidentally, portrayed illustrator-musician R. Crumb in "American Splendor").
Real Enemies mirrors a multimedia project for the 2015 Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, a partners-in-paranoia production by Argue, writer-director Isaac Butler, and filmmaker Peter Nigrini. Not for nothing has Real Enemies garnered a 2017 Grammy nomination in the "Best Large Jazz Ensemble" category (Argue's first CD, Infernal Machines, was similarly honored in 2011, and also won Canada's Juno award for "Contemporary Jazz Album").
Argue, who studied at McGill University and the New England Conservatory, trails awards from the Guggenheim and Doris Duke foundations, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the Canada Council for the Arts, Composers Now, the Fromm Music Foundation, the Jazz Gallery, the Jerome Foundation, the Manhattan New Music Project, the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. He was appointed in 2016 as conductor of the Princeton University Creative Large Ensemble.
Peppered with audio cameos by Cold War and "intelligence community" household names (Ollie North, Senator Blunderbuss, Bush 41's putative New World Order among the many), under Argue's direction, the brassy 18–piece orchestra conveys the ambiguity, obsession, psychosis, nagging dread, and Twilight Zone menace-with-a-moral of contemporary tinfoil-hat sports and their handlers, all Sturm und Drang, Shock and Awe, Donner und Blitzen. Or as Argue's "Casus Belli" intones, "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste."
Per Hofstadter, "We are all sufferers from history, but the paranoid is a double sufferer, since he is afflicted not only by the real world, with the rest of us, but by his fantasies as well." So post a check to the ACLU, lock the doors, light a brandy fire, and settle in for that longest of winter's nights. Not a creature is stirring, but over the rooftops, down the chimney or the bit stream (if it's "free," you are the product), there's a man going 'round taking names.
Decisive popular majority, defensive minority rule (Big League!): Cowardice Is Courage, War Is Peace, Freedom Is Slavery, Ignorance Is Strength. Believe the Autocrat, for He Means What He Says. All Hail the Manchurian Weave, Long May It Wave, O, Orange and Fiery Brand for All Seasons: Ivanka for President in 2024, and don't cry for me, Argentina. Fables of Faubus, all projection, mire and murk: Time now to drain and verily, the diviner's swamp, eradicate, uproot the brand where lies feign truth and murder makes respectable, poisoned, festering, the real enemy's wishing well, all so very well and deep within.
- Michael Stone, 12 December 2016
"The Paranoid Style in American Politics" (Harper's Magazine, November 1964)
"Politics and the English Language" (George Orwell, from "Shooting the Elephant")
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"When you bring them together ... you can get a lot more value."
Better be that, else they are the first ones to suffer if any of the shuttle or satellite launches get hit by these small parts at several miles per second. Wud be fun to see their righteousness tested !
No more of these please never mind how much the wretched satellite cost much less the missile and kill vehicle you have to be a government employee to think anything about this operation was value for money. It hasn't engendered any new international conflicts, and no one was killed thats still not value for money. I know picky-picky but it's a high risk activity with no room for errors.
The U.S. has just demonstrated that it can knock out anything in orbit from a ship fired weapon, at will.
The value of that is astronomical.
I think that "Sat-Smash Smithereens" would be a good name for a band.
Rear Admiral, huh huh heh huh heh :-) What the hell is a Rear Admiral anyway?
Think Paris knows about Rear Admirals?
Looks to me like the US has the capability to destroy spacecraft, even if it's low altitude. Oh, and by the way, how does it make more sense to break up toxic chemicals in the atmosphere vs. a restricted area on the ground? Seems to me this exercise risked spreading the satellite and it's cargo over an area of miles, not the two football fields expected by a direct impact.
A Rear Admiral is a junior Admiral, kept at the back of the fleet during an engagement effectively as a spare, in case the other Admirals get to visit Davy Jones.
Minor correction (or additon if you like).
In sailing-ship naval warfare, the admiral commanding the fleet would be onboard the lead ship in the engagement, with the fleet strung out in line behind him. As the two hostile fleets pass one another, they fire off their cannon, of course. When the two fleets have passed beyond engagement range, each individual ship comes about, reversing the order of the ships in line, and the rear admiral (formerly on the rearmost ship, which has now become the lead ship) commands the fleet during this pass.
So a Rear Admiral is the fleet's second-in-command when they're sailing "forward," and the fleet's battle commander when they're sailing back the other way.
Mines the Long ornate one with the hidden compartments for "booty"
"""Seems to me this exercise risked spreading the satellite and it's cargo over an area of miles"""
I don't think you have a good handle on the altitude here. Even if there were larger pieces of the sat left, they'd still be in orbit for a while, since this thing is more or less still in space. There would be virtually no way that the fuel tank wasn't damaged, so you're guaranteed to have all the toxic chemicals boil off during the heated part of falling to earth. That doesn't mean they're spread over miles, it means that they're soaked up my millions of cubic kilometers of atmosphere, most of which is still at an incredably high altitude.
Essentially nothing that you do at the edge of space translates into 'an area of miles' because there is so much more orbit and atmosphere between your target and the ground. If you were shooting down an airplane, then maybe, but this is space, which is really really high up there. The biggest thing to worry about was probably just missing.
Sean, you ask, "Oh, and by the way, how does it make more sense to break up toxic chemicals in the atmosphere vs. a restricted area on the ground?"
Breaking it up in a location you determine is preferred over letting it land where it may and cleaning it up. If the sat had come down in a populated area, it would have done so with little warning, and the hydrazine, contained in a tank that might have survived reentry, could have poisoned a significant number of people. Bursting it high up in the atmosphere allowed it to disperse to safe concentrations, or maybe even be broken down into its chemical components by unfiltered sunlight, before hitting the surface in a location of the US Gov's choosing, in this case, well out to sea.
Skull and bones for poisonous content. Or perhaps I should have gone with the black helo for US Gov conspiracy to put some fish at risk?
The military were surprised to find that the craft was pulverised? Am I the only one who can think of a more likely alternative?
On contact the fuel ignites and takes the said sat away at a rate of knots. Later, when no one is looking, it comes back to haunt us.
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Lauro Gonzalez
CEO, SATMEX, Retired
Nancy Hinojos
Deployment Strategist - Palantir Technologies
Stanley Iezman
CEO, American Realty Advisors
Ramsey Jay, Jr
Larrin Marrisett
Chief Marketing Officer, Patriot Gold Group
Masai Minters
Director, Academic Advancement Program at UCLA
Greg Nathan
Portfolio Manager, FPA U.S. Core Equity Inc
COO, Zenith Insurance
Michael Quick
Provost Emeritus and Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California - Dornslife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences
Tate Rider
Vice President, DaVita Division
Maria C. Rodriguez
Partner, McDermott Will & Emery
Timothy M. Teagle
Global Client Services Partner, Business Development Leader Ernst & Young, LLP
Godwin Tsado
Data Science Analyst, Capital Group
Kari Van Gundy
Chief Executive Officer, Zenith Insurance
Jeff Weiss
Founder & Managing Director, CCI
David Wirtschafter
Board Member, William Morris Endeavor Entertainment
Arlene Withers
Los Angeles Sponsors
Our Los Angeles program is made possible with the generous support from key corporations and foundations invested in making a difference in the Los Angeles Area.
*These companies also participate in our Corporate Sponsorship Program.
Explore Other Regions
Interested in learning more about our programming in Los Angeles?
Contact our Los Angeles Executive Director
Thomas Chang
Boston Thriving
We're making a difference in Greater Boston
In 2019, the Boston Globe reported on valedictorians from Boston public high schools who graduated from 2005-2007. Their research showed that high-achieving, low-income students of color did not receive the same support, attention, and preparation for career success as their higher-income peers.
Of these talented and motivated students didn't graduate college
make $50k or less per year 12 to 14 years later
Got into and graduated from medical school — even though 25% aspired to be doctors
With our support, over 98% of Boston Scholars in our program graduate, and more importantly thrive, in college. Over 90% go to Top 100 colleges. While there, they earn better grades and persist more in difficult STEM majors than all other student profiles. And they graduate with the skills and experience needed to be the professional, business, and civic leaders our region needs.
Top 7 Colleges of Boston Scholars and Boston Alums
Wilna, Boston Scholar Alum
Tufts Class of 2018, MPH from Columbia 2020
If I don't graduate and get the right degree, I will have the passion but not the hard skills and tools I need to help me get where I want to get to. And Thrive Scholars has given me the support I need to make sure I know I can do it. They are another family—it helps to know that there are people, besides my immediate family, that are behind me who want me to do well.
What Boston Corporate Partners Say
Campus Recruiter, Wellington Management
Our early career recruiting team at Wellington Management has had a successful track record of hiring scholars from Thrive Scholars for our internship and full-time roles since 2018. The training and mentoring that Thrive provides its scholars is a significant reason why—we've found Thrive students to be eager to learn and ready to engage in all aspects of the business and culture of our firm. We look forward to continuing our partnership as Thrive grows nationally!
Boston Board of Directors
Meet the committed leadership guiding our efforts to triple the number of students we serve in Boston and nationwide.
Théry Badin
Operations Manager, goodbuy
Wendy Cassity
Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer, Nuance Communications
Kwasi Dadzie-Yeboah
Portfolio Manager, Fidelity Investments
Peter Dixon
Chief Investment Officer, Partner, and Portfolio Manager, Howland Capital Management
Alison Eggers
Partner, Seyfarth Shaw
Bob Giannino
President & CEO, United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley
Michael Goldstein, MD, MBA
Co-Director, Cornea, External Disease and Cataract Service, Tufts Medical Center & Chief Medical Officer, Ocular Therapeutix
Larry Greenberg
Sheila Lawrence
Partner, Ballentine Partners LLC
Darryn J. Lee
Director, Account Manager - Enterprise Sales, Phreesia
Dr. Adrian B. Mims
Founder/Executive Director, The Calculus Project Inc.
Joy St. John
Director of Admissions, Harvard College
Ihsan Speede
Managing Director & Counsel, Wellington Management
Becky Vogel
Lead Project Manager, Breakthrough Results, District Management Group
Boston Sponsors
Our Boston program is made possible with the generous support from key corporations and foundations invested in making a difference in Greater Boston.
Interested in learning more about our programming in Boston?
Contact our Boston Executive Director
Dan Navisky
Chicago Thrives
Launching extraordinary futures in the Windy City
Our program prepares and supports high-achieving underrepresented students across Chicago to get into the nation's Top 100 colleges – and graduate with the career skills and experience they need to thrive at the most innovative companies.
What's at stake in Chicago?
Today there are 2,500 low-income students of color in Chicago with the academic qualifications to get into top colleges. To succeed at top colleges, these talented students deserve our full support — but there simply aren't enough city-wide programs to support them all.
That's why, as part of our strategic national expansion to serve as many students of color as possible, Thrive Scholars is proud to now call Chicago home.
Thanks to our Supporters in Chicago
Our expansion to Chicago would not be possible without the generous seed funding from key corporations and foundations. By supporting Chicago's most talented and ambitious students of color today, they're helping them to become the professional, business, and civic leaders of tomorrow.
Some of the colleges Thrive Scholars attend
What Chicago Scholars Say
Northwestern University, Class of 2024
As a first-gen, low-income student, I was worried about going through the college application process and transitioning to this next stage in my education on my own. However, my Thrive College Access Manager and College Success Manager have been with me every step of the way. The Thrive community is full of academic excellence and awe-inspiring success stories, which just make me more excited to pursue my own goals. I love my Thrive family for believing in me and pushing me to do my best.
What Chicago Corporate Partners Say
Danny Sharp, Partner
Head of Alternatives, The Client Group Wellington Management Company
We wrestle with how to help more kids of color find their way into leadership positions and careers in finance, law, and other corporate professions. Wellington has been a supporter of Thrive Scholars for years and has been impressed by their data-driven programming and results in getting motivated and talented youth of color into great colleges and helping them graduate ready to thrive in companies like Wellington. Wellington is excited to have played a part in bringing Thrive Scholars to Chicago. We hope other local firms will find ways to get involved and support Thrive in Chicago. Our problems as a City require us to harness the abilities of our most talented youth of color. We need them as much, or more, than they need us.
Chicago Board of Directors
Meet the committed leadership guiding our efforts to triple the number of students we serve in Chicago and nationwide.
Jared Banner
Vice President of Player Development, Chicago Cubs
Dolores M. Muñoz
Senior Relationship Manager, Cabrera Capital Markets LLC
Leo Harmon
Senior Managing Director
Chief Investment Officer, Mesirow Equity Management
Michael Henry
Senior Director of IT Senior Business Advisor, UL Solutions
Olevia Mitchell
Technology Strategy Manager, Accenture
Danny Sharp
Craig Slack
Chief Investment Officer, City of Chicago
Michael B. Slade
Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Interested in learning more about our programming in Chicago?
Contact our Chicago Executive Director
Kylia Kummer
Thriving in Cleveland
Opportunity Rises on the Shores of Lake Erie
As part of our strategic national expansion to serve as many students of color as possible, Thrive Scholars is thrilled to count Cleveland among the cities where we work.
Our program prepares and supports high-achieving underrepresented students in Cleveland to get into the nation's Top 100 colleges – and graduate with the career skills and experience they need to thrive at the most innovative companies.
Meeting the need in Cleveland
There are 50,000 low-income students of color in America with the academic qualifications to get into top colleges – many from Cleveland. To succeed at top colleges, these talented students need our full support, just like that of their more privileged peers. Current programs aren't enough, but Thrive Scholars has a solution. Refined over 20 years, our program works. And now, it's working for Cleveland.
Thanks to our Supporters in Cleveland
Our expansion to Cleveland would not be possible without the generous seed funding from key corporations and foundations. By supporting Cleveland's most talented and ambitious students of color today, they're helping them to become the professional, business, and civic leaders of tomorrow.
What Cleveland Scholars Say
Cleveland Early College at John Hay Campus Howard University, 2024
Coming from a background where there weren't many people thinking about college at all. Thrive gave me a support system with peers and mentors to help me succeed in not only the college application process but succeeding in college as well.
What Cleveland Partners Say
Walt Rosebrough
CEO, STERIS Corporation
When I first learned about Thrive Scholars, I was impressed with their ability to deliver tangible results. Their approach focuses on finding and supporting high-achieving students of color from lower socio-economic status and supporting them for the last two years in high school and throughout college. The result of this program is more than 1,100 alumni over twenty years - making a difference for tomorrow's leaders. STERIS is pleased to support the opening of a Thrive Scholars Cleveland chapter. Our community can make a difference to these young adults, who would then be on a path to make a difference to our community.
CLEVELAND BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Meet the committed leadership guiding our efforts to triple the number of students we serve in Cleveland and nationwide.
Marzell Brown
IoT Engineering and Academic Enablement Manager of the Global Academic Organization, Rockwell Automation
Nicole F. Decker
Senior Vice President, Global Growth and Development, Fortune Brands Water Innovations
Joe Roman
President and CEO (Retired), Greater Cleveland Partnership
CEO Emeritus, STERIS
Shashi Yadavalli
Principal, M&A Services, Deloitte
Interested in learning more about our programming in Cleveland?
Contact our Cleveland Executive Director
Steven Lake
Thriving in the Five Boroughs and Beyond
Tackling a glaring opportunity gap in one of the world's richest cities and metro areas
The New York Metro area, New Jersey, and Long Island make up some of the most populous and most diverse areas in the United States. New York City, home to Wall Street, is also one of the wealthiest cities in the world, yet a majority of students come from underserved, low-income communities.
What's At Stake In New York?
Today, there are more than 1,055,000 students in the NYC school system, the largest school district in the United States. Of those students:
are economically disadvantaged
identify as students of color– 41% Hispanic/ Latinx, 24% Black/ African American, 17% Asian
With only one guidance counselor for every 300 students in NYC schools, talented students need full support to succeed at top colleges, and Thrive Scholars has a solution.
Starting with a high school student's junior year, our program prepares and supports high-achieving underrepresented students in the New York metro area to get into the nation's Top 100 colleges and graduate with the career skills, experience, and social networks they need to thrive at the most innovative companies.
That's why, as part of our strategic national expansion to serve as many students of color as possible, Thrive Scholars opens its doors in New York City to reach tomorrow's leaders.
Thanks To Our Supporters In New York
Our expansion into New York would not be possible without the generous seed funding from leading corporations and foundations. By supporting the area's most talented and ambitious students of color today, our partners are helping these Scholars to become the professional, business, and civic leaders of tomorrow.
What Our Scholars Say:
Williams College, Class of 2026
Being a first-gen from the Bronx, my family always supported me through my studies however they were unfamiliar with the college process and the steps I needed to take. Thrive provided me not only with counselors who knew the process but also a community of people to share my progress with. I thank Thrive for the people it has surrounded me with and the opportunities I have earned through them.
What Our Partners Say:
Anna Marciano
VP, Sustainability Zone North America Nestle, GC & Head of Sustainability, Nespresso USA
At Nespresso, one of the most significant ways that we support our communities is through collaborations with high-impact organizations such as Thrive Scholars that have proven to make a difference in bridging the educational gap of our nation's future leaders.
New York Board of Directors
Meet the committed leadership guiding our efforts to triple the number of students we serve in New York and nationwide.
Edward Flanders
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, Managing Partner, NY Office
Geline Midouin
Shearman & Sterling LLP, Chief People Officer
Seth Robinson
Palantir, Executive Vice President & Head of US Public Sector
Tieisha Smith
TIAA, Head of Tech Partnerships, Acceleration & Culture Transformation
Sheveada Williams
Nespresso USA, Marketing Manager & Black@Nespresso ERG Founder & Chairperson
Interested in learning more about our programming in New York?
Contact our New York Executive Director
Kerry Pereira Watterson


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In addition to the diagnosis of chlamydia in GUM clinics, the National Chlamydia Screening Programme (NCSP) provides screening for chlamydia to asymptomatic people aged under 25 years of age in England. The NCSP was launched in 2003. Information on the proportion of people diagnosed with chlamydia through the NCSP in the South East Coast SHA broken down by PCT for April 2008 to September 2008, the latest date for which figures are available, is published in "NHS Vital Signs 2008/9—Primary Care Trust (PCT) and Strategic Health Authority (SHA) specific tables 1st April 2008 to 30th September 2008". A copy of the tables have been placed in the Library.
Contaminated Blood and Blood Products Inquiry
Jenny Willott: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 16 December 2008, Official Report, columns 675-76W, on contaminated blood and blood products inquiry, how many of the documents discovered in unregistered files and subsequently withheld from release under exemptions in the Freedom of Information Act 2000 were also withheld from release from the documents returned to his Department's solicitors in May 2006 by Blackett, Hart and Pratt. [247231]
Dawn Primarolo: Around 4,500 documents were discovered in unregistered files, and 35 were withheld from release under exemptions in the Freedom of Information Act 2000, as set out in my answer of 30 June 2008, Official Report, column 652W. One document was withheld from release from around 600 documents returned by a firm of private solicitors. The one document withheld from those returned by private solicitors was also among those withheld from documents found in unregistered files. The document was withheld under section 40 (personal information) of the Freedom of Information Act.
Jenny Willott: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what account his Department is taking in its policy on testing for vCJD infection amongst at-risk groups of the recent completion of the trial of the EP-vCJD(TM) test by Amorfix Life Sciences in collaboration with the National Institute for Biological Standards and Control; and if he will make a statement. [247049]
19 Jan 2009 : Column 1186W
Dawn Primarolo: Advice on the use of this test will be sought from the Advisory Committee on the Safety of Blood, Tissues and Organs and from the Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) Incidents Panel when additional independent ongoing studies are completed.
Departmental Air Travel
Mr. Redwood: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many journeys (a) he and his predecessors and (b) his officials made by aeroplane in the course of their duties in each of the last five years. [246666]
Mr. Bradshaw: Travel by Ministers and civil servants is undertaken in accordance with the 'Ministerial Code' and the 'Civil Service Management Code' respectively.
The number of aeroplane journeys undertaken by the Secretary of State and his predecessors over the last five years is:
Period Number
July 2004 to March 2005
April 2008 to December 2008
Numbers of aeroplane journeys for officials are not easily available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
Departmental Languages
Mr. Philip Hammond: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) Ministers and (b) civil servants in his Department received coaching in a foreign language in the last 12 months; what expenditure his Department incurred in providing such coaching; and in what languages such coaching was provided. [248081]
Mr. Bradshaw: The Department does not hold central records of expenditure on foreign language classes, either for Ministers or for its employees. Any survey to gather the relevant information could be done only at disproportionate cost.
Departmental Marketing
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much his Department spent on advertising in the last 12 months. [243714]
Mr. Bradshaw: In the last 12 months, (1 December 2007 to 30 November 2008 inclusive), the Department has spent a total of £35,907,558 on advertising. This includes advertising on major public health and social care campaigns including tobacco control, sexual health, alcohol awareness, substance abuse support and advice, vaccination programmes and recruitment to social care work.
For the majority of staff in the Department, recruitment costs including advertising, are paid for locally by the business units that carried out the recruiting, and to gather the information from local sources would incur a disproportionate cost.
Departmental Ministerial Policy Advisers
Mr. Tyrie: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what expert advisers have been commissioned by his Department and its agencies since 1997; on what topic each was commissioned; and whether the adviser so appointed made a declaration of political activity in each case. [246955]
Mr. Bradshaw: The Department and its agencies commission a wide range of expert advisers from relevant fields to provide clinical and scientific input to their work.
Information is not held centrally and, given the time period, to collect it would incur disproportionate cost. Information about experts commissioned to provide professional or technical advice as members of advisory committees, boards and advisory public bodies would again incur disproportionate cost to collect.
Information about specific bodies can be found at:
www.dh.gov.uk/en/Aboutus/HowDHWorks/BoardsandCommittees/index.htm
www.dh.gov.uk/en/Aboutus/OrganisationsthatworkwithDH/index.htm
www.dh.gov.uk/en/Aboutus/OrganisationsthatworkwithDH/Armslengthbodies/index.htm.
Information about the 310 committees of the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory products Authority (MHRA) can be found at:
www.mhra.gov.uk/Committees/index.htm.
Information about special advisers, who are political appointees and advise on political, presentational and policy issues, has been announced to the Commons on an annual basis since 2003, usually in July.
All members of committees and advisory public bodies of the Department and its agencies are subject to the rules and procedures of the Appointments Commission including the requirement to declare any political activity.
Departmental Telephone Services
Mr. Graham Stuart: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what use (a) his Department and (b) service providers under contract to his Department make of (i) 0844 and 0845 telephone numbers and (ii) revenue-sharing telephone numbers for calls from members of the public; for which services such numbers are used; what prefixes are used for revenue-sharing numbers; how much revenue has accrued from revenue-sharing numbers in each of the last five years; what consideration his Department has given to introducing 03-prefixed telephone numbers for calls to all such services; and if he will make a statement. [247343]
Mr. Bradshaw: The Department runs or supports the following 0845 telephone numbers.
EHIC Order Line
EHIC enquiry line
Healthy Start Minicom
Social Work and Care Careers Recruitment Line
Social Work and Care Careers Recruitment Minicom
The 0845 numbers serving recruitment for social care and social workers will be moved over to the new 0300 tariff by the end of February. The use of 0845 numbers for the other services is currently under review.
The Department ran the following non-revenue generating lines, using 0870 numbers. While they were mainly for the use of national health service and social services professional there was some use by the public. Since May 2008, these services have been available via 0300 numbers but the 0870 numbers needs to be maintained until the end of March 2009 to allow for the transition.
Department of Health Publication Order line
Department of Health Publication Order line minicom
The Department's Executive agencies, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency and the NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency have no 0845 or similar cost telephone numbers for use by the public.
The Department does not centrally hold information on the telephone numbers used by the NHS.
The Department has 24 arm's length bodies and a number of national programmes e.g. NHS Employers. Information about telephone services for these bodies is not held centrally and cannot be provided except at disproportionate cost.
The Department also grants funds to a wide range of voluntary and charitable organisations to provide services relating to health and healthy living. Some of these organisations include telephone helplines as part of their services. It is not possible, without incurring disproportionate cost, to identify individual projects with telephones services and whether 0845 telephone numbers are used.
In February 2005, my right hon. Friend the Member for Barrow and Furness (Mr. Hutton), then Minister of State for Health announced a ban on the NHS using premium rate telephone numbers such as 0870.
We recently launched a public consultation on the intention to prohibit the use of 084 numbers in the NHS. This will run from 16 December 2008 until 31 March 2009.
Mr. Harper: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what consideration he has given to increasing the safeguards for people who lack capacity and have their direct payments managed on their behalf by a suitable person to a level which matches those for people who manage their own direct payments. [248129]
Phil Hope: Consultation on draft regulations in respect of the provisions in the Health and Social Care Act 2008 to extend direct payments to people lacking capacity has now closed and comments are currently being considered.
The draft regulations set out specific and robust conditions which a local authority must ensure can be met by the suitable person to whom it is making direct payments on behalf of the person lacking capacity. Before making any payment, the local authority must be satisfied that the appointed suitable person is capable of managing the direct payment and that in all circumstances it is appropriate for he or she to do so. In particular, the suitable person is required at all times to act in the best interests of the person lacking capacity, within the meaning of the Mental Capacity Act 2005.
The suitable person must provide any information to the local authority as it sees fit, including notifying the local authority whenever they believe that the direct payment beneficiary has regained capacity. Local authorities will be under a duty to carry out regular reviews to ensure that making a direct payment in this way meets the needs and serves the best interests of the person lacking capacity.
Practice guidance will be published alongside the regulations to support local authorities to take appropriate safeguarding measures and therefore ensure that people lacking capacity are also able to benefit from direct payments.
Doctors: Children
Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) named and (b) designated doctor posts in charge of child safety in primary care trusts are vacant. [247034]
Ann Keen: This information is not collected centrally.
Dr. Kumar: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps his Department is taking to increase awareness of Down's syndrome. [245855]
Phil Hope: The Department does not single out any condition when raising awareness around learning disability, although the Department recognises the excellent awareness work carried out by third sector groups, which support people with Down's syndrome and their families.
We have published today the "Valuing People Now" Strategy and Delivery Plan which will address people with learning disabilities having control over their lives and services, including what people do during the day, how they can be supported to access jobs, housing, better healthcare and making sure that change happens. Copies of both documents have been placed in the Library.
Elderly: Abuse
Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 12 January 2009, Official Report, column 144W, on elderly: abuse, which local authority reported in each of the 15 serious case reviews; and for each such authority how many serious case reviews there have been in each of the last four years. [248506]
Phil Hope: The serious case review reports and reports that were similar in nature but were not titled serious case reviews, were considered on a confidential basis. Local councils took part, on the agreement and understanding that the names of the councils involved and the reports not in the public domain would remain
anonymous. The Department must therefore respect this arrangement. All participants in this research were assured of anonymity.
Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what his Department's recommendation is for the amount of exercise people should take each week. [247917]
Dawn Primarolo: The Department's recommendations on the amount of exercise people should take each week reflect the Chief Medical Officer's views, set out in the report "At least five a week: Evidence on the impact of physical activity and its relationship to health" published in April 2004. A copy has been placed in the Library.
Children and young people should achieve a total of at least 60 minutes of at least moderate intensity physical activity each day. At least twice a week this should include activities to improve bone health (activities that produce high physical stresses on the bones), muscle strength and flexibility.
For general health benefit, adults should achieve a total of at least 30 minutes a day of at least moderate intensity physical activity on five or more days of the week.
Family Nurse Partnership Programme
John Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the family nurse partnership programme. [247382]
Ann Keen: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave him on the 9 December 2008, Official Report, column 71W.


García-Montero will not likely forget the good news she received while here in the DR where she is participating in the DRGFF 2011.
"Las malas intenciones" (Bad Intentions) by Peruvian director, Rosario García-Montero, showed on Friday at the Telecommunications Cultural Center as part of the Dominican Global Film Festival (DRGFF).
Director García-Montero will not likely forget the good news she received while here in the DR where she is participating in the DRGFF 2011.
To begin with, last Sunday she received the news that her film, Las malas intenciones" won the "Ventana Sur" prize for a Latin American feature film at the 26th edition of the International Film Festival of Mar de Plata, in Argentina. In addition, just several days ago, "Las malas intenciones" was pre-selected for the prestigious Academia de las artes y Ciencias cinematográficas of Spain.
García-Montero told the audience after her film screening on Friday that her film was 5 years in the making and that she was relieved and pleased with the outcome.
"Working with an 8-year-old (Fátima Buntinx in the role of Cayetana) was a challenge but also a pleasure at the same time. She worked hard on the set all day then in the afternoon she went home and had her teachers and homework waiting for her," said García-Montero at the screening in Santo Domingo.
When the film opened in Lima, Fátima, with her parents and friends, was not admitted into the theater by box office employees who said the film was too violent and that she and her friends had to be 14 to enter.
Meanwhile, Fátima Buntinx, in her first role, said on her Facebook page "I am not invisible. I will have to go back to Berlin to see my film.
" In her feature debut, García-Montero takes viewers into the world of a little girl, Cayetana, in Peru of 1982. Fantasy, sadness and joy mix and blend in the film.
Nine year old Cayetana leads a privileged life under the care of uniformed servants in a private manor about two hours from Lima. The chaos of the times, 1980's Peru, penetrates her perception through bomb threats at school, spray-painted slogans and symbols on the dusty village walls, and ominous newscasts about terrorists.
Alone and lonely Cayetana has created an imaginary world which helps her manage her time, she dreams about all of Peru's national heroes while her distant, pill popping, pregnant mother, is away on a trip.
The little girl believes that she herself will die when her brother is born. She is is desperate for attention, and when her grandmother takes her and her cousin to the beach, things start to look brighter. Still, Cayetana is determined to get rid of her new baby brother, and if she doesn't get her way, she will be ready to go out as one the national heroes of her dreams.