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Fruits of his passion (By Nqobani Ndlovu, in Zimbabwe, for Farm Radio Weekly)
Nqobani Ndlovu | February 18, 2013
Kheyi Masuku laboured for years as a farm worker at Kentuay, a farm that specialized in tree plantations. The main fruit crops were oranges and avocados, grown for the domestic market in Zimbabwe and for export. Then, in 2000, he became one of the thousands of farm workers left jobless by the ongoing farm invasions.
Mr. Masuku explains, "I returned home when I was left jobless. I did not have any educational qualifications. All that I knew was fruit tree plantations." But the invaluable experience Mr. Masuku gained at the farm led him to start his own fruit plantation in 2002.
In Zimbabwe, households are granted communal land of about five hectares. Mr. Masuku's family fields are in the Nkayi area of Matabeleland, about 170 kilometres southwest of Zimbabwe's second largest city, Bulawayo. Many communal fields grow food solely for household consumption, but some farmers are able to make these lands profitable. Mr. Masuku started growing mangoes, avocados and oranges.
Because of his experience and expertise, village chiefs granted him additional land. Mr. Masuku's tree plantations now cover 10 hectares. Much of the work is done by his family, but he also employs five labourers.
Mr. Masuku hires trucks to take his produce to Bulawayo's market. His crops ripen in different seasons, which is a benefit. He explains, "The good thing is that these fruits are seasonal and that means I have income throughout the year."
Mr. Masuku produces about 1000 trays each of oranges, avocados and mangoes for sale. A tray sells for around US $8, depending on the season and the market.
Mr. Masuku also has a nursery with citrus and indigenous trees. He grows saplings in empty beer containers, and currently has about 20,000 available for sale. Each one sells for US$ 5. He is passionate about reforestation, and tries to encourage others to follow his lead. Although the market for tree saplings is small, he often donates some of his stock to encourage reforestation. He says ordinary people don't yet have much interest in buying trees, except for traditional healers.
Mr. Masuku explains, "I have a lot of these indigenous tree plants that traditional healers use for treating their patients. Traditional healers are my main customers for saplings."
He says, "My wish is to own a farm and a fruit processing factory." If he had a farm of his own, Mr. Masuku is certain that in five years he could be producing five million trays of oranges or avocados. But he would have to borrow money to buy a farm, and banks are not keen on lending to farmers.
Most fruit in Zimbabwe is sold unprocessed, and there is a strong market for processed fruit. Mr. Masuku thinks that he could make good money if he set up a processing plant.
He says, "Other countries like South Africa and Ghana have vast tracts of tree plantations, and factories that process fruits to make juices. It is possible to do the same in Zimbabwe."


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Intrepid Museum
The large collection of exhibits, including submarines, aircraft carriers, gunships, and space shuttle, makes it the best place to explore the prowess of American military history. What makes this place really special is its well preserved exhibits like the USS Intrepid, the NASA space shuttle Enterprise, Bell AH-1J Sea Cobra gunship, the submarine USS Growler, a Lockheed A-12 supersonic reconnaissance plane and Aurora 7 Mercury capsule replica, to name a few. It also features various exhibits from around the world like an Israeli Kfir and a Polish Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-17.
Best of NYC Cruise
New York City is the holy grail of diversity in cultures and history. With so much to explore, it's a no brainer to board this cruise that gives you all of the best things in New York in in less than a day! With insightful narrations from the tour guides, one can witness views of over 101 NYC sights – the only cruise to show you 5 boroughs, 3 rivers and more than 20 bridges. In addition, you can see all three NYC rivers as well as iconic sights such as the picturesque Manhattan skyline, the Brooklyn waterfront, the legendary Yankee Stadium, the hip Harlem Heights waterfront, the lush greenery of upper Manhattan and the stately George Washington Bridge. What's more, is that you can also get up close and personal with the Statue of Liberty.
As you prepare yourself to take in the prowess of American military history, start at the Hangar Deck, and see the Intrepid's technology on the left side, and discover the life of those that worked on the ship on the right. You will learn how the USS Intrepid fared in the Pacific Theater of the war as it was bombarded by 5 Kamikaze attacks and 1 torpedo strike. Like the legend that it is, the ship survived and played a crucial role in the war. Here, you can also engage with exhibits that show the Intrepid's career in the Navy 1943 onward. You can also discover how daily life looked like for enlisted sailors aboard the Intrepid, and head on to the Gallery Deck to see the Ready Room, where pilots got instructions before take off, and the Combat Information Center. Next, prepare to take in the world's oldest existing nuclear-capable submarine. This tour is your best chance at coming close, exploring and learning the inner workings of a nuclear-powered submarine. You can explore certain sections that are open to the public, and learn about life aboard a submarine. Finally, move to the Flight Deck, where your admission pass will cover access to the NASA space shuttle, Enterprise. The shuttle was the first prototype that was developed by NASA, and having served its missions, it is now docked in the Hudson for us to explore and marvel at. The Deck also contains most of the museum's collection of restored aircraft.
Best of NY Cruise
Choose between cruises at 10:00AM and 01:30PM, starting at Pier 83 on the Hudson River near Time Square. This 2-hour cruise gives you all of what NYC has to offer. From the Statue of Liberty, United Nations, to the George Washington bridge and One World Trade Center, be prepared to be swept off your feet. While on the tour, treat yourself to freshly made sandwiches, salads, and snacks. A full bar that serves both hot and cold beverages is also available. Cruise through New York at the comfort of a well equipped boat that shall take you on a journey you'd never forget.
Sights Covered
Manhattan Bridge
Williamsburg Bridge
The Little Red Lighthouse
Grant's Tomb
Riverside Church
Intrepid To view a map of the route your cruise will be taking, click here.
Its impressive collection of exhibits, including submarines, aircraft carriers, gunships, and space shuttle, makes it the best place to take you on a journey from the World War II, to the space race to the developing technologies now.
The USS Intrepid is a monumental asset to the United States Navy as it participated in the battle of Leyte Gulf and in the Vietnam war.
One of the most eye catching exhibits is the NASA space shuttle, Enterprise. After having served its missions, it is now docked in the Hudson for us to explore. The Deck also contains most of the museum's collection of restored aircraft.
Other notable attractions include attractions include Bell AH-1J Sea Cobra gunship, the submarine USS Growler, a Lockheed A-12 supersonic reconnaissance plane, Aurora 7 Mercury capsule replica; along with various exhibits from around the world like an Israeli Kfir and a Polish Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-17.
Board a cruise that gives you 5 boroughs, 3 rivers and more than 20 bridges in less that a day with the help of tour guides.
Onboard amenities like the cafe, outdoor deck space, restrooms and heated/air conditioned indoor seating with large windows made for sightseeing are available to give you a satisfying, hassle free tour.
Use the Free Circle Line Skyline Navigator App onboard in seven languages with narration and enhanced content – download the app here
Exhibit Closures for Exploreum, 4D Experience & G-Force Simulator
Thursday, April 19: Closed after 2:00pm (The Museum closes at 4:00pm).
Wednesday, April 25: Closed 4:00pm–5:00pm
Thursday, April 26: Closed 3:00pm–5:00pm
November 1 - March 31
Open daily from 10 AM - 5 PM
April 1 - October 31
Monday to Friday: 10 AM - 5 PM
Saturday, Sunday, and holidays: 10 AM - 6 PM
Please note that final entry is one hour prior to closing time.
Subway: Take the A, C, E, N, Q, R, S, 1, 2, 3, 7 train to 42nd Street, then walk or take the M42 West Bus to Hudson River (12th Avenue). Walk North to the Intrepid Museum at 46th Street. Take the 7 train to the 34th Street – Hudson Yards station. Exit near 11th Avenue, and then walk west to 12th Avenue and North to the Intrepid Museum at 46th Street.
Bus: M34 (34th Sts), M42 (42nd St.) or M-50 (49th St.) to 12th Ave. and Hudson River. The Museum is a short walk North from the M34 and M42. The M50 can drop you off directly in front of the Intrepid.
Tour Timings
From 10 March to 27 April the cruise is available at 10 AM and 1.30 PM
From 28 April to 3 September the cruise is available at 10 AM, 12 PM and 1.30 PM
From 4 September to 28 October the cruise is available at 10 AM and 1.30 PM
From 29 October to 10 March the cruise is available at 12 PM
Guide Languages
On The Circle Line Skyline Navigator App seven languages are available: English, French, German, Italian, Mandarin, Portuguese and Spanish
For children/infants under the age of 3, please ask at the box office for an infant ticket; it is free of charge.
No outside food and beverages are allowed on board.
Ensure you have your own mode of transportation to the Pier to board the boat for the Tour.
Strict Cancellation Policy
This experience cannot be cancelled, amended or rescheduled.
Access to Intrepid Aircraft Carrier, Space Shuttle Pavilion, 28 Restored Aircraft, Growler Submarine
2 free films ("The Story of Intrepid" and "Kamikaze: Day of Darkness, Day of Light")
Access to the 86th Floor Observation Deck
Art Deco Lobby
Dare to Dream Exhibit
Sustainability Exhibit
Free Circle Line Skyline Navigator App
Unique narration of the most important historical and contemporary aspects by an experienced guide
Onboard café severing a menu of sandwiches, salads and snacks
Full bar serving up hot and cold beverages, beer, wine and cocktails
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Pick up and drop off to Pier 83 for the Cruise

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4/16 Update: Verizon teams on the frontlines with COVID-19 first responders
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04.16.2020 Updated on 04.15.2020|Emergency Management
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Technologies enable federal, state and local governments to better serve our communities
BASKING RIDGE, N.J. -- Whether standing up a virtual call center to enable government employees in Rhode Island to more efficiently serve their communities from home offices, or keeping nursing home patients in the State of New Mexico's Aging and Long-Term Services Department connected to loved ones, technology has played a critical role in the missions of federal, state and local governments, educational institutions, public health organizations and the public sector as a whole during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A mobile cell site and landline connectivity were recently delivered to Fort Totten Park in Queens, NY, which is being used as a base of operations for the military, fire department, up to 300 ambulances, and as a potential site for a field hospital. Hundreds of smartphones and devices were delivered to the U.S. National Guard who were recently deployed to New York City in a 24-hour window.
When nursing home residents sheltered-in-place in New Mexico, the state's Aging and Long-Term Services Department worked with Verizon to distribute hundreds of tablets to nursing facilities across the state. Residents use the tablets to stay connected to their friends and families.
"As you can imagine, this level of social distancing can be very difficult for families that are separated from their loved ones. We have received so much feedback from family members and nursing home residents who are using these tablets to connect with each other. They are so grateful," said Katrina Hotrum-Lopez, Cabinet Secretary, State of New Mexico Aging and Long-Term Services. "Thank you to our Verizon partners who worked with us to secure this order and have helped us bring joy and encouragement to the most vulnerable in our community."
Verizon also partnered with the State of Rhode Island Department of Health on a new COVID-19 hotline to better serve Rhode Islanders during this crisis.
"We are grateful for our partners at Verizon, who assisted the State of Rhode Island in its efforts to set up a virtual contact center on a quick turnaround in our State's greatest time of need," said Brian Tardiff, the State's Chief Information Security Officer. "We needed a hotline at the Rhode Island Department of Health that would enable state staff to answer a high volume of questions from Rhode Islanders who were looking for specific guidance in response to COVID-19. The cloud-based system was easy to stand up for those of us working from home, and enabled calls to be routed to people with the right skill set using just a browser and a phone. We understood that a project of this size and scope normally takes 45-60 days, and together we did it in 48 hours. In addition to adding the service and getting it up and running, we also trained the agents on the system, completing the entire scope of work and taking calls from Rhode Islanders in a matter of hours, not weeks."
Visit our COVID-19 information page to learn more about Verizon's response.
4/9 Update: Verizon teams on the frontlines with COVID-19 first responders
The Verizon Response Team (VRT) has been deployed in 30+ states to serve the public with emergency, on-demand communications services and solutions during the COVID-19 pandemic
For the first time in its history, the Verizon Response Team (VRT) is active on a nationwide basis, with more than 270 engagements
Pop-up healthcare facilities and drive-thru coronavirus testing sites, quarantine facilities on military bases and airports, support for medical and emergency operation centers are examples of where the VRT is deployed
31 states, including the District of Columbia, have requested Verizon Response Team assistance
BASKING RIDGE, N.J. -- The Verizon Response Team (VRT) has been engaged since the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic and to date, has deployed emergency services and solutions to hundreds of COVID-19-related response sites in more than 30 states. In addition to day-to-day support of federal, state and local government agencies on the frontlines of the pandemic, the VRT delivers on-demand, emergency assistance during crisis situations to government agencies, emergency responders, nonprofits and communities on a 24/7/365 basis. Its solutions include portable cell sites, WiFi hotspots, free charging stations and other devices and solutions that enable communications and/or boost network performance.
"The Verizon Response Team's extreme sense of urgency, combined with its ability to cross multiple segments -- whether healthcare, education, emergency management, or law enforcement -- furthers the missions of those we serve by delivering the connectivity and solutions they need on a moment's notice," said Andrés Irlando, senior vice president and president, Public Sector and Verizon Connect at Verizon. "The COVID-19 pandemic marks the first time the VRT has worked on a national crisis, and despite running at nearly five times its normal number of deployments, the VRT continues to operate effectively and deliver for response teams serving communities across the country."
Since January 28, the VRT has led hundreds of engagements. Nearly 1,300 pieces of equipment have been deployed to emergency operation centers, COVID-19 testing facilities, healthcare facilities and other operations support for the crisis.
Military bases, state and county health departments, state emergency operations centers, airports, law enforcement, medical organizations and fire departments are among the groups that have requested emergency service and support from the VRT. Specific activities include:
Standing up temporary emergency operations centers, hospital facilities and testing centers in areas like state parks, convention centers and vacant buildings by deploying network coverage
Connecting quarantine sites by deploying network coverage
Providing portable hospitals with WiFi connectivity
Facilitating communications at testing facilities by issuing smartphones and tablets
Keeping teams connected at critical care units, testing facilities and emergency operations centers by providing charging stations for medical staff, emergency management services, law enforcement and other first responders
Issuing smartphones and charging units for emergency operations centers
Enabling communications for emergency management field workers by deploying smart phones and providing network coverage.
3/30 Update: Verizon teams on the frontlines with COVID-19 first responder
Verizon delivers connectivity for USNS Comfort, enabling communication and technology
BASKING RIDGE, N.J. -- Over the weekend, Verizon worked with the US Navy to deliver connectivity for the Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort, a Navy medical treatment facility that includes 1,000 hospital beds, 12 operating rooms, radiology capabilities and a pharmacy. Verizon was able to quickly enable connectivity via a secure, dedicated circuit, which allows the medical community to remain in sync with each other and patients and to support critical IT capabilities to staff. The USNS Comfort is currently deployed to New York City and will serve as a referral hospital for non-COVID-19 patients and alleviate stress on hospitals.
"Enabling the U.S. Navy to deliver on its mission is at the core of what we do at Verizon: we are here to serve wherever and whenever we're needed," said Andrés Irlando, senior vice president and president, Public Sector and Verizon Connect at Verizon. "Whether it's providing mission-critical connectivity and mobile solutions to floating hospitals, work-from-home solutions for government agencies or enabling American students to learn from home, we are proud to be able to deliver necessary solutions in response to COVID-19."
3/25 Update: Verizon is delivering solutions that allow healthcare professionals to stay connected to patients and each other
BASKING RIDGE, N.J. -- Verizon continues its support of first responders, public health agencies, and federal, state and local government agencies with technology and connectivity solutions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Verizon Response Team is currently leading nearly 160 engagements in the United States and has deployed mobile cell sites, WiFi hotspots, free charging stations and other solutions that help boost network performance and enable communications.
Verizon along with public and private healthcare agencies is delivering solutions that allow healthcare professionals to stay connected to patients and each other, including the enablement of coronavirus testing through connected technologies, such as mobile hotspots, smartphones and tablets. The delivery of a reliable, secure network helps healthcare workers stay connected to patient records, on-premise laboratory results and other critical information they need when time to diagnosis and care is critical.
Specifically, Verizon is:
enabling connectivity at multiple federal, state and local mobile command centers to accelerate testing at critical remote testing sites
standing up technology to allow thousands of doctors to work remotely, alleviating stress on hospitals
delivering connectivity to support COVID-19 field efforts at testing and triage centers
enabling remote processing for healthcare insurance claims for mobile and remote users by augmenting contact centers
expanding telehealth options by increasing access to tablets and devices for patients
"Time is of the essence when addressing a pandemic like COVID-19," said Dr. Jerry Hauer, former Commissioner of the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services for the State of New York. "Verizon's capabilities and solutions are enabling the seamless communication first responders and public health professionals need to provide critical care to patients during this crisis."
Verizon has also deployed portable cell sites at Emergency Operations Centers (EOCs), coronavirus mobile testing sites and quarantine areas in Arizona, Georgia, Louisiana, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas and Washington, to increase network capacity at these locations.
"Our Verizon team has a tremendous sense of urgency when it comes to the critical technology and connectivity needs of both public health and public safety agencies," said Andrés Irlando, senior vice president and president, Public Sector and Verizon Connect at Verizon. "When first responders and federal, state and local agencies on the frontlines need us -- for mobile testing or quarantine sites or making sure healthcare professionals are able to connect with patients and each other -- Verizon is here to serve."
Verizon is also working with education, government and healthcare agencies to provide remote connectivity options, call centers, interactive voice response services (IVRs) and conferencing solutions. This week, Verizon announced that it is working with the Los Angeles Unified School District to provide internet connectivity for students who don't have Internet access at home. Other initiatives include:
standing up a COVID-19 hotline for a state's department of health
working with school systems to provide MiFi devices to enable remote learning
working with a city government to add capacity to 311 systems
setting up an integrated voice response system for a state department of health to allow better management of incoming calls
providing additional phones to multiple agencies to allow more workers the ability to work remotely
working with a federal agency to improve integrated voice response systems to better manage call queue
activating conference lines for county governments to enable essential functions to continue
supporting conference bridges for multiple state and federal agencies
Verizon's award-winning fiber optic and wireless networks continue to perform well, meeting the shifting demands. We continue to closely monitor network usage and prioritize network demand in assisting many U.S. hospitals, first responders and government agencies, as needed.
3/20 Update: Verizon manages mission-critical technology needs for federal, state and local agencies
"During an unprecedented crisis of this nature, no need is more critical than communication – whether it's between loved ones or between first responders and healthcare professionals who are on the front line, staying connected is absolutely vital for everyone's safety and protection," said former NYPD and LAPD Police Commissioner Bill Bratton. "As a police commissioner of the nation's largest cities and today as a private citizen, I have the opportunity to work with Verizon. I know that their network, their technology and most importantly their people will be there to support first responders when they need them most."
So far, Verizon has deployed portable cell sites to provide additional network coverage at Emergency Operations Centers (EOCs), coronavirus mobile testing sites and quarantine areas in Arizona, California, Georgia, New York, South Carolina, Texas and Washington states.
Verizon's fiber optic and wireless networks have been built and engineered to perform during moments of crisis. We are closely monitoring network usage and prioritizing network demand in assisting many U.S. hospitals, first responders and government agencies, as needed.
"The challenges faced by public sector agencies -- many of whom are leading the response to this pandemic on a national level -- are unprecedented," said Andrés Irlando, senior vice president and president, Public Sector and Verizon Connect at Verizon.
"For the past several weeks, we've been working with federal, state, local and education agencies to deliver the technologies, solutions and support they need to serve our communities -- and we'll continue to do so for the foreseeable future."
In addition, the Verizon Response Team, which supports governments and nonprofits 24/7/365, has been activated since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and is currently leading more than 120 engagements in the United States of portable cell sites, WiFi hotspots, free charging stations and other devices that help boost network performance and foster communications for agencies involved in response efforts. First responders and medical teams are using these devices to support critical tasks like managing quarantines sites and triaging patients, supporting the needs of public health and safety professionals including:
Quarantine locations at military bases and airports for people returning to the U.S. from abroad
COVID-19 testing facilities
COVID-19 triage areas for first responders
Airport command centers for emergency services
First responders and medical staff at hospitals, departments of health and public safety agencies
State field workers assigned to COVID-19 response
City event management organizations
Work-from-home support for fire chiefs and chiefs of police
Government housing for military families
Backup smartphones for dispatch and operations centers
Separate COVID-19 hotlines to divert 911 traffic
In addition, COVID-19 has led to increased call volumes for governments and public health organizations. To assist, we've added tens of thousands of conference lines to enable connectivity with coworkers and with the public served. We've also worked with organizations to configure integrated voice response (IVR) systems that efficiently route calls, helping to better manage incoming calls. We are also standing up virtual call centers that enable agencies to add additional agents.
Our teams will continue to partner with and support first responders, government and public health organizations because we are all in this together.
Coronavirus (COVID-19), Emergency preparedness
Verizon Response Team deployed to Nashville
03.04.2020 | Emergency Management
Verizon Response Team deployed to Nashville with mobile assets. Consumer/SMB customers in Davidson, Putnam, Wilson, Benton counties receive unlimited calling/texting/data 3/4-8.
Verizon is prepared for California planned power shut offs; summary of Fall 2019 wildfire response
Verizon preparation for planned power shut offs (PSPS) in California and a summary of our support during the recent CA wildfires.


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Q: Center input fields in form I have a login form that is on the center of the page. The FORM is already in the right place with the right size. However, the two inputs are aligned to the left and I want them to be centered. The following code does not work. Any ideas?
HTML

      <form action="/new" method="POST">
        <input class="loginField" type="text" name="email" placeholder="Email address"></input>
        <input class="loginField" type="text" name="password" placeholder="Password"></input>
      </form>

CSS
.loginField {
  margin: 0 auto;
  width: 500px;
  height: 50px;
}

A: Add a class="text-center" to your form
<form class="text-center" action="/new" method="POST">

jsBin demo
Logically, if you don't want all your form's text to be centered, wrap your inputs inside a i.e:
 and add the class to that DIV instead.

A: You should use the form-control class to alter the default behavior of Bootstrap inputs.
*I altered your HTML so it's mobile first, this wont effect the text being centered if it's unnecessary for your needs tho.

body {
  padding-top: 50px;
}
#loginForm {
  max-width: 500px;
  margin: 0 auto;
}
#loginForm .form-control {
  position: relative;
  height: 50px;
  font-size: 16px;
  text-align: center;
  border-radius: 0;
}
<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.5/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />

  <form id="loginForm">
    <input type="email" id="inputEmail" class="form-control" placeholder="Email address" required autofocus>
    <input type="password" id="inputPassword" class="form-control" placeholder="Password" required>
  </form>

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On Sunday evening, season 26 of the legendary animated cartoon, Simpsons, closed its curtains. The finale kicked off a bit differently than usual, with an interesting gag that featured guest appearances from Adult Swim's Rick And Morty.
In short, the entire Simpsons family is slaughtered by the duo when they crash land into their living room. Rick, Morty's mentally unsound grandfather, then sends his grandson into another dimension, while he casually raids the home. There are plenty of easter eggs along the way, as well. See if you can uncover them in the clip below.
Season two of Rick And Morty will premiere Sunday, July 26.


LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — Officials at a county jail in Pennsylvania say they mistakenly kept an inmate locked up 17 months too long.
The Lancaster County commissioners tell LNP (http://bit.ly/25loqIj ) the inmate doesn't want to be identified. But they say the inmate was supposed to be released in November 2014, but wasn't released until last month.
The commissioners didn't immediately make clear when or how the error was discovered, but officials say they know how it happened.
Officials say new charges against another inmate with the same name were mistakenly duplicated and put in both inmates' files.
Warden Cheryl Steberger issued a statement saying officials wanted to publicly acknowledge the mistake and apologize.
The jail is making changes including reviewing the records of all inmates with the same last name.


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Hand crafted Folk art Chalkware Santa by New England artist Kathryn Campbell of Bittersweet House Folk Art.
Of special note: Cast in chalkware using a wonderful rare antique German chocolate mold, measuring approx 3 - 1/2 inches, numbered, dated and hand signed "Bittersweet House Folk Art, Kathryn Campbell, Sherborn, MA".
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Modern combined oral contraceptives for pain associated with endometriosis.
Davis L., Kennedy SS., Moore J., Prentice A.
BACKGROUND: Endometriosis is a common gynaecological condition which affects many women of reproductive age worldwide and is a major cause of pain and infertility. The modern oral contraceptive pill is widely used to treat pain occurring as a result of endometriosis, although the evidence for its efficacy is limited. OBJECTIVES: To assess the effects of the oral contraceptive pill (OCP) in comparison to other treatments for painful symptoms of endometriosis in women of reproductive age. SEARCH STRATEGY: We searched the Menstrual Disorders and Subfertility Group Specialised Register of controlled trials; Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (The Cochrane Library Issue 3, 2006); MEDLINE (January 1966 to September 2006); EMBASE (1980 to September 2006); National Research Register; and reference lists of articles. SELECTION CRITERIA: All truly randomised controlled trials of the use of oral contraceptive pills in the treatment of women of reproductive age with symptoms ascribed to the diagnosis of endometriosis and made visually at surgical procedure were included. DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS: Study quality assessment and data extraction were carried out independently by two review authors. One of the assessors was an expert in the content matter. We contacted study authors for additional information. MAIN RESULTS: Only one study met the inclusion criteria, in which a total of 57 women were allocated to two groups to compare an OCP to a GnRH analogue. Methods of randomisation and allocation concealment were unclear and the study was acknowledged by its authors to be underpowered. Women in the GnRH analogue group became amenorrhoeic during the treatment period of six months, whilst women in the OCP group reported a decrease in dysmenorrhoea. No evidence of a significant difference between the two groups was observed in terms of dysmenorrhoea at six months follow up after stopping treatment (OR 0.48; 95% CI 0.08 to 2.90). Some evidence for a decrease in dyspareunia was found at the end of treatment in women in the GnRH analogue group, although no evidence of a significant difference in dyspareunia was observed at the end of the six months follow up (OR 4.87; 95% CI 0.96 to 24.65). AUTHORS' CONCLUSIONS: The limited data we found available suggests that this is no evidence of a difference in outcomes between the the oral contraceptive pill (OCP) studied and GnRH analogue was as effective as a GnRH analogue in treating for endometriosis-associated painful symptoms of endometriosis. However, the lack of studies with larger sample sizes, or focusing on other comparable treatments is concerning and further research is needed to fully evaluate fully the role of OCPs oral contraceptive pills in managing symptoms associated with ement of endometriosis.
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My husband has no sympathy.
Is all charity good? When can it become soulful? About why and how to do good deeds, we talk with a psychologist, the founder of the group of sites "
– One of my friends said that if now there are those whom public opinion agrees to consider to be heroes of our time, then these are most likely well-known people from the sphere of charity. And the truth is, sometimes they become almost media stars. For example, Dr. Lisa was such a person. The question arises: why are they and only they most likely today recognized as heroes? And what's more, does not the charity and risks from the point of view of the presence in it of something potentially soulful?
Although, in my opinion, Dr. Liza became such an authority not so much because she did charity work better than other people, but rather because she wrote very well in LiveJournal. I myself enjoyed reading its materials with great pleasure and I understand all the people who also read and respected her.
– What are you alerted Dr. Lisa?
– It does not alarm me. I am concerned that the cult of personality, which arose around her. Why is the person's words (and in some cases appearances, videos) of a person given more importance than his deeds? After all, there are a lot of people like Dr. Liza, but she is singled out, raised on a pedestal precisely because of her creativity in LiveJournal.
But it is fundamentally important what purpose a person pursues. If we use our media solely as a means to do our work better, then we ourselves will not receive any harm.
But in general, in my opinion, there is a serious substitution now. Today there is no talent higher than the media talent. For example, a person writes about his good deeds somewhere in social networks. This is a special talent. For example, I do not possess them. And many other people also do not have, but they also do something useful. But only the first, thanks to the media, voluntarily or involuntarily become peculiar gurus, idols.
Showing off your talents is like being proud of someone else's jewelry.
– I understand what you're talking about. These people are collecting money. They have a different kind of charity than ours. Indeed, it is impossible to collect money without media.
We have a different situation. Our project exists with almost no money.
– But I understood you so that the media as such is a rather harmful thing. Or not?
– Not harmful, but dangerous. It may be necessary to do this, but it is dangerous to do it from a spiritual point of view. Here begins the field of spiritual life. You need to constantly, daily, remind yourself who you are and that all your talents are from God. According to the Holy Fathers, it is a sin to show off your talents. It is like being proud of other people's ornaments. If any of your talent from God, then what is your merit?
What we can bring is intention and effort. Because after a while you get tired, a gradual burnout begins, everything gets boring. And the people you are helping to get bored too, get tired of their shortcomings. Labor to overcome our weaknesses is what we can probably do.
– In fact, the country already has a fairly large charity sector, and there are constantly discussions about the meaning of this activity. One of the points of view expressed is that this is the same profession as all the others. You can do journalism, you can do politics, but you can do charity. Internal content, spiritual issues in general do not really care about them as professionals. They understand their task as simply providing social services to their wards.
– Not sure that from a psychological point of view, they should be considered as benefactors. How do they differ from people working in business? This topic is just business. People have such work. Yes, some good deeds are obtained at the exit. But from a psychological point of view, this is no different from a business.
– But they will say: we really help our wards. For example, they bought 10 computers. How is this not a good deed?
– We are discussing even something that is good or not good. We discuss what happens to the person who does it. I believe that in this case other psychological laws simply act. Maybe the person here has a goal – it's just good to do your job and get a good salary for it. Exactly the same goal as anyone working in a commercial enterprise.
– Let's then put the question differently. In your opinion, which charity is right and which is not?
– It depends on what is considered correct. Charity has many facets. I now consider it from the point of view of the person who participates in it, and with some higher goals than simply getting a good salary.
– Then I ask: is there any kind of charity from which it is better for a Christian to refrain?
– There is no such charity, which in principle is harmful for anyone who does it. A minute ago, you were engaged in harming yourself to harm, but now you have made a spiritual effort in the right direction, and you are already doing it to your advantage. This is not some kind of decision that must be made at the beginning of the path, and then you follow it, and everything is good or, on the contrary, everything is bad. The Holy Fathers say that the gift of reasoning is one of the highest gifts. You need constant spiritual and intellectual work, observation of yourself, understanding why you did this or that.
The same should be in the practice of charity. Otherwise, it can be disastrous. A person will be haunted by many temptations, such as vanity.
Often they go to charity in order to receive the acceptance, recognition and love that parents did not give.
– What do you think, why do people do charity work? And why does she need to do it at all?
– During my collaboration with many people who are engaged in good deeds, I have seen various examples and motives for why people come here to work. I would single out two main, most common motives: the first – for the sake of improvement, the second – to consider myself good and significant. The second motive is unconscious, due to a psychological problem called "reduced self-acceptance". Many of us have not received parental love. And a person can enter into adult life with the unconscious, as a rule, the desire to somehow get that acceptance, recognition and love that parents did not give. The main ways here are personal relationships: love, marriage, and sometimes friendship.
But for people with a similar problem to build such a relationship is quite difficult. And much easier then go to charity. A person will solve some serious problems of other people, receive satisfaction from the consciousness of this, because in the process of this activity he is significant for other people. And if at the same time there is still gratitude from the beneficiaries or from the head of the organization, even more pleasant. And a person sits down on the bait of such a way to satisfy their need to be loved. But at the same time, he does not solve his root problems, and once he stops doing charity work, he will feel about the same as before these activities.
Therefore, it is necessary to solve their spiritual and psychological problems, and not to hide from them in charity. It is important, if you are doing a good deed, to understand why you are doing it. If you see that in fact you value more the feeling of your own worth and the gratitude of other people, then immediately take care of yourself. Or even go out of charity in order to take care of yourself. First, deal with yourself, and then you can come back.
– Do you need to wait for thanks when doing charity?
– Of course, not necessary. Moreover, the holy fathers say that you don't even need to be friends with the people to whom you do good. Because the friendship will be poisoned.
– Feeling that you owe me, that I am better than you, because I helped you, but not you to me.
– It turns out some kind of dry charity.
– It's not me who invented it, it's the holy fathers say so. Indeed, in our project, too, there were times when our volunteers began to make friends with the wards, in whom they invested a great deal. And then between them there were conflicts and disappointments.
I felt this most acutely when I had a personal crisis. The reason for creating the first site was that the bride left me right before the wedding. And in this state, I very acutely experienced the imperfections of my love for people in general. This consciousness struck me so much then, it was acute that I ran to the first charitable organization and began to go to the sick children in the hospital.
– So why do you need to do charity? To perfect the ability to love?
– To improve yourself. Based on this, it is necessary to choose not what is most easy for you to do, but what is difficult. Many people feel their spiritual poverty, the inability to say something warm to a person, somehow to console him. Such a task scares, makes you feel your failure. And you go to meet this fear. And you will see that if your intentions are pure, God will give you this ability.
I experienced such an experience, when simply killed by my personal crisis came to the hospital to orphans who were sitting in boxes. You stand in front of the entrance to the ward and you feel that now you have to give something to these children, and you have nothing, you yourself are in need. But you take yourself in hand and walk with prayer. And the strength is given! In the period of my most acute heartache, I helped much better than after three years when I felt almost an expert in this matter. So it turns out that one wound heals another.
It should be understood that the people you will help are imperfect. It is easy to love the person who behaves beautifully with you. But in the lives of such people, of course, no. All wards in one way or another show their imperfection. Someone poops for themselves, someone is ungrateful and says something bad about you. But all manifestations of human imperfection must be able to endure, still find the strength and good feelings in relation to a person in order to help him.
The main dangers are vanity and power.
– Then please tell us about your experience in charity. How do you think you need to communicate with employees and build charity projects?
– First, volunteers are involved in our project, not employees. Secondly, our project and experience are very specific, so my recommendations may not be suitable for everyone. Your first site "
Of the holy fathers, I understood the basic spiritual dangers. This, above all, vanity and power. Because there is the temptation of some kind of power over the people whom you help, over their minds and life. When you, for example, give a person advice, to divorce him or not to divorce. And even more so in conversations with suicides, where every word of yours sometimes comes to life. When volunteers on the forum lead a helping dialogue with a person, their word can influence the fate of the person who asked for help. If a person listens to you, then, on the one hand, this is a burden of responsibility. But on the other hand, this is a feeling of power to which you can begin to revel, especially if you see that your advice went to a man for good.
Therefore, from the very beginning, I began to build work so that no one worked for us according to these motives – vanity and others like him. For example, I wrote on the forums under a pseudonym. And all the volunteers too. Initially, many people were eliminated, because I specifically met those who want to work rather dryly, although many expected that they would immediately be praised for their good feelings.
I once talked with one journalist. He said that he, too, was engaged in good deeds — he carried old shoes to a landfill and put them neatly in the dustbin. And many people consider such actions a good deed. And if they want to help someone else on the site, then this is generally a feat.
My goal for volunteers was what? Do not lead people into temptation. It was my first duty – as much as possible, to help a little to avoid temptations.
At first, I did not think at all that there would be helpers. I just created a forum, people began to come there for whom the problem of separation turned out to be relevant. And some of them, quite a large part, not only listened to the advice, but also began to go on neighboring topics. And gradually, by itself, a community of mutual aid was formed. That is, those people who have already experienced parting in their lives began to help. This is a method known in psychology: mutual aid of sufferers. It is known that, for example, people who are not psychologists, but who themselves have experienced something similar, work perfectly on the help phones of potential suicides. According to the method of sympathy, they do what needs to be done.
– But why are they vested with the prerogative of advisers? What is their spiritual experience? And if they just give the wrong advice?
– If a person came to the forum, it means he has no one to turn to. And compared to the person with whom he usually communicates – close, someone on social networks – our helping academics. And those who have a psychological education, and who does not. It so happened that all of us are Orthodox. Our basic principle "do no harm" also plays a role, so, of course, we are extremely careful in our advice if it comes to them. This is probably one of the toughest forums in RuNet on the part of the rules and moderation. Removed all at least potentially harmful.
– Did you get a priest? So that, conditionally speaking, if not spiritual control, then at least spiritual advice on the conduct of the forum?
– We were lucky that Hegumen Theodore (Yablokov), who led the priest's virtual office, came to us from the very beginning (God sent him). And he gave us advice. But when I tried to give him the role you are talking about, he, as a wise and intelligent man (he is not only a priest, but graduated from the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute), reasonably reasoned that he did not have sufficient competence in psychology. There are fundamental spiritual principles, everything is quite simple with them. It is clear that if we had obvious mistakes, he would have pointed them out to us. But everything went well with us and will continue to follow Orthodoxy.
– Have you encountered the problem of your own irritability, resentment at ingratitude? To what extent is charity generally a human matter? How many are able to truly engage in charity?
– The first year, when you yourself suffered such a trauma, everything is going fine. You have love, sympathy. You warm everyone who came to the forum. And then you realize that for a long time everyone has been saying the same thing. The same situation, the same answers. "And this same thing is asking … Are they unable to read the forum?" There are a lot of reasons for irritation. But this is the same spiritual struggle, the very improvement, without which it is impossible to do it. We must learn to endure it and overcome in ourselves.
– You said that you are trying to be dry with incoming volunteer employees in order not to feed their vanity. But shouldn't the employees warm with love and each other, and not just their wards?
– I did not speak about the relationship at all, but about how I meet them when they turn with the desire to help. My goal is for a person to realize that he will do this for his own sake and for the sake of other people, and not so that some "bosses" would admire and praise him. My task is not to stand between him and good deed, not to replace the higher authorities. What is his motive? If the motive is sincere, he does not care.
But in general, with regard to mutual love, here you are absolutely right. As far as possible, we, of course, try to maintain the atmosphere of love in all of our groups, because each site is engaged in a separate team. Although I personally lack this emotionality.
We have all the work and communication taking place on the Internet. This has its advantages, but there are also disadvantages. For example, the minus is that at a distance to warm a person is also more difficult. Therefore, in a sense, we have a little all emasculated. But what you are saying is love – it is present. Without it, in our business is simply impossible.


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The Montessori principles of self-directed, individualized learning are fully expressed in the curriculum of the upper elementary classroom.
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Artist Spotlight: Barry Zito
February 28, 2017 Sam Gazdziak Artist Spotlight 4
Occasionally, the line between sports and music blurs a bit, and it's generally been a net positive for country and Americana music. Roy Acuff and Charley Pride turned to music as a career when injuries ended their pro baseball dreams. More recently, The Baseball Project, an all-star group of indie rockers and R.E.M alumni, has released three excellent albums of baseball-related songs. While the baseball world has occasionally thrown a wild pitch to the music world (the less said about Sean Casey singing "How Do You Like Me Now," the better), the average is still fairly high.
The latest crossover into country music comes by way of Barry Zito, the Cy Young Award-winning pitcher for the Oakland A's and San Francisco Giants. While he used to be known for his dominating curveball, he's gaining a reputation today for his singing and songwriting abilities. Zito recently released a six-song EP called No Secrets, and it charted on the Billboard Americana/Folk, Heatseekers and Top Country Albums chart on its release week.
While Zito is best known for his baseball career, he's no rookie to the music world. Not only did he come from a musical family (his father and mother both worked with Nat King Cole, and his sister is a singer), but he's played guitar in hotel rooms for years as a means of stress relief.
"I enjoyed my baseball career, but there were times I wanted to dedicate weeks or months to music and never could," he says. "I'm so elated to be able to pursue music every day and create from nothing every day, to really have something that never existed before each writing session.
"The part about country music that I love is that it's lyrically driven and story driven," he adds. "I think it's the last genre, at least commercially, to have a compelling story and lyric, so I'm so stoked that I get to write those stories."
Zito had been writing songs before moving to Nashville, but it took some intervention from his wife, Amber, to kindle a love of country music.
"I remember the first time she played me one of her favorite songs," he recalls. "It was "Stupid Boy" from Keith Urban. After we heard it, she said, 'Can you believe that story? It was so interesting.' Actually, I didn't hear the words. Coming from a jazz/R&B background, I was more akin to the music and the rhythm. I had never really listened to lyrics in my whole life!"
After that, Amber filled his iPod with some of her favorite songs, including "Stupid Boy," "Strawberry Wine" by Deana Carter and "Mississippi Girl" by Faith Hill. He was hooked from there.
Zito's journey to Nashville was a bit more circuitous than most. He was of course aware of its music scene and even had a painting of the city skyline in his Los Angeles home. However, his baseball career took precedence, and he spent a total of 15 years playing baseball in Oakland and then San Francisco. He had never visited Nashville until 2015, when he ended up pitching for the Nashville Sounds – the AAA affiliate of the A's – after taking a year off from baseball.
"I ended up in Music City, and I loved it so much after I started writing here that we sold our home in California, and we're here to stay," he says. "I now have that picture here in my studio here."
During that year playing for the Sounds, Zito expressed his interest in songwriting in an interview in The Tennessean. Shortly after the article was published, he was contacted by ASCAP, submitted a few demos, and was told that they could help him set up co-writing sessions once he was ready to focus on songwriting full time.
The songs on No Secrets reflect his songwriting talent, as well as his appreciation for country music. The quiet, folky arrangements complement the thoughtful lyrics composed by Zito and a group of co-writers, including Rick Brantley, Trent Willmon and Jameson Rodgers. While none of the songs directly reference Zito's past career, several of them are based on the ups and downs of his baseball career.
"My Own Path," for instance, came from a rough period where Zito was struggling with the San Francisco Giants. He consulted a sports psychologist named Michael Gervais to help him.
"I was going through a lot mentally, and I felt like the whole city of San Francisco was mad and up in arms. They'd given me this large contract, and I was really underperforming in a major way," Zito recalls.
In the correspondence between the two, Gervais told him to keep carving his own path.
"He said, 'This path may not be pretty, but it's yours and yours alone. Nobody else has this path. You have to take pride in what this is.'" Zito says. He related that story to co-writer Brantley, and the two turned it into one of the highlights on the album.
"The song is so important to me, because it brings it right back to that living room of the big house I used to own and being completely miserable," Zito says.
"Secret to Life," the opening track, comes from the point of view of someone who's spent some time searching for that secret without any success. "I may not know the secret to life, but I know what it's not," he sings.
"Undiscovered You," written with Willmon and Tommy Karlas, is a love song for his wife. "Home," the closing song, is one Zito wrote by himself and dates back to 2011, several months before he became a Christian.
"I was super low, and "Home" was about searching, searching, and being lost, and eventually finding the thing that I was searching for and realizing it was never too far away. It was right under my nose the whole time," he explains.
With the release of this EP, Zito has performed some concerts, but his primary focus will remain on writing songs and pitching them to other singers in Nashville. The songwriting allows him to use his creative side as well as explore the emotional depths that baseball players aren't supposed to do. As the line from the movie "Bull Durham" goes: "Don't think; it can only hurt the ballclub."
"Unfortunately, I was not able to turn that off as much in baseball," Zito admits. "I think I was known as… they would say 'eccentric,' but for me I think it was more introspective. I think I had awareness levels that were a little more heightened compared to most, which came back to bite me a lot. It really did. Being too lucid out there on the mound and too aware of things that are happening can really hurt you, as opposed to don't think and let it fly.
"But I do enjoy that I get to use that part of my brain now and not worry about tempering it, because I love being vulnerable with people and being open and introspective and analytical," he adds.
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Roy Acuff
Sean Casey
Tommy Karlas
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Fantastic profile, Sam! This was a terrific read, and I'm definitely curious to check out Zito's music.
I'm seriously arching an eyebrow about at least one-third of this, though.
Interesting story – especially since baseball has always been my favorite sport. I appreciate his honesty about his playing days with the Giants. He said "They'd given me this large contract, and I was really underperforming in a major way,"
He will be appearing at the Bluebird Cafe in the early show on March 29th as part of Tin Pan South. TPS runs from 3/28 thru 4/1 so he may also be appearing at other Nashville venues.
Love Barry Zito. He was a favorite player of mine for a long time.
I'm very curious to hear his music. Very nice profile, Sam. I enjoyed reading this very much.
I can't read about Zito's music and not remember when he used to sing on the Jim Rome Show and get made fun of by his teammates.


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The world is experiencing more natural disasters now than at any other time in history. Severe weather, earthquakes or floods can devastate communities, cutting off all communications. Each year, billions of residents are left in the dark with no way to call for help, request supplies or notify others of their status. To prevent such life-threatening emergencies, a group of five technology entrepreneurs from across the country has teamed up to create OWL (Organization, Whereabouts and Logistics), a low-frequency Wifi network paired with a cloud-based software solution that provides first responders with a reliable network to manage disasters when other primary communications systems are down.
A data hub for emergency responders
Charlie Evans
University of Tulsa computer science alumnus Charlie Evans is one of the original five who helped develop Project Owl in 2018 with founder and CEO Bryan Knouse. The group began to take shape and build a software platform known as OWL DMS, or a disaster management system, to act as a hub for data during natural disasters. The stars aligned when Project Owl welcomed a developer to the team who had the idea for a piece of hardware that would transmit the data using the long-range wireless technology known as LoRa. "It's a particular frequency used for IoT (Internet of Things) devices in America and nothing else will interfere with it," Evans explained, who serves as the team's chief software architect. "It has the capability to reach further distances between two points than a traditional wireless network."
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These networks of ducks, once deployed, cluster to communicate with civilian devices and reach first responders to help coordinate resources, track weather patterns and retrieve data analytics through the IBM Cloud.
Project Owl with IBM CEO Ginni Rometty
Project Owl's software platform paired with hardware capable of data transmission proved to be a winning combination, and in 2018, the team won the inaugural Call for Code Global Challenge, a hackathon sponsored by IBM with 100,000 developers from 156 countries. The win granted Project Owl an opportunity to deploy its technology through the IBM Corporate Service Corps and pursue further development of its model. "When we started, our focus was based on natural disasters, and we were very inspired when Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico," Evans said. "We've made several trips to Puerto Rico in the past 15 months to connect with local governments and universities to discuss what they went through and try to get people involved in the project."
Testing Owl in Puerto Rico and Texas
University of Puerto Rico faculty and staff currently maintain Project Owl hardware installed in their local area and have assisted in a pilot study where clusters of the duck devices were deployed in March of 2019. "We got up to 30 to 35 devices, and every couple of minutes, we received temperature, wind and barometric pressure readings from those devices," Evans said. "We're working on building this up to include more devices and cover a bigger service area."
In May, Project Owl ran another pilot study in Evans' local community of Katy, Texas. The Houston suburb was an important area to test after its overwhelming devastation of Hurricane Harvey in 2017. "Houston is so humid, and humidity is definitely a large factor in radio frequency transmission," he explained. "We noticed that in more humid areas, we couldn't place two devices as far apart as say New York City or Connecticut."
These international and domestic pilot studies provide priceless information to the Project Owl team and have presented new possibilities for the technology. Evans said the group has conducted high-altitude testing with scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory by sending ducks up into the atmosphere in a weather balloon. Project Owl's hardware also shows promise with a private security firm in Syria, can monitor methane output for operators in the oil and gas industry and could track the temperature of trucks used to ship Red Cross medical supplies.
Dropping ducks in the middle of disasters
Another benefit to the device's versatility is its inexpensive price tag. Project Owl reports the ducks are simple to assemble at a cost of less than $40 each. Also, the duck's quarter-mile to half-mile service range makes it a good candidate for dropping the devices out of a helicopter or airplane — blanketing an area with a simple communication network that connects via normal Wifi on a phone. "It pulls up a form, you fill out the form and it will use the long-range capability of the hardware to transmit and find its way through the network until it hits a point that it has internet connectivity," he said. "It goes up in the cloud and then lands on the other side, which involves the cloud-based software we're developing."
Evans is a key component of Project Owl's mission, but it's not the only company to which he devotes his time; his primary job is senior programmer analyst at Helmerich & Payne in Houston. After earning a bachelor's degree in computer science from TU in 2009, Evans worked for a couple of small technology companies in Tulsa before joining H&P five years ago. His wife, Sara, also is a TU alumna who earned her undergraduate degree in petroleum engineering in 2010.
"In my professional career and everything I've learned to help start Project Owl, the main root of it all was that TU's program taught me how to learn," Evans stated. "Now when I'm faced with a challenge, it's like second nature to know how to formulate a solution. TU's theory-based classes laid the foundation for what I do."
After an award-winning start, Evans and Project Owl anticipate a bright future for the technology and its ability to connect communities with life-saving resources.
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Do you feel you have a "calling"? What do you do when you become discouraged or tired? Perseverance is the capacity to stay with our work long after the passion has faded. Yet it is also the discernment to know when to stop pushing the boulder uphill. Meg works with six core Buddhist wisdoms — generosity, discipline, patience, diligence, meditative stability, and wisdom — to open our hearts, strengthen us, and offer the means to transcend the challenges and doubts that arise on the path. Hear what she has to say about the role women are playing today in the transformation of the planet, and how men can also add to the changes. http://margaretwheatley.com
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What's clear is that the Montclair City Council wants a raise. What's unclear is how much. They can't seem to make a decision and stick to it.
First it was 55 percent. Then it was 30 percent. Now it's back to 55 percent.
Speaking of confusion, it was Tuesday, I was at my first Montclair meeting since last May and the sense of deja vu was eerie. For example, there was talk that the old Broadway building at the mall would be knocked down "this year" — which I heard in both 2017 and 2016.
Also, everyone was welcoming back Mayor Paul Eaton after health issues and telling him he looked great — the exact same thing that happened in my presence eight months ago.
Had I been hibernating, or come unstuck in time?
Nope. Eaton told me his recovery from a heart attack in March 2017 took longer than expected. I checked the minutes, and after Aug. 7, he missed six of seven meetings, while participating from home via phone at the two December sessions — more about that in a moment.
From the dais Tuesday, he thanked residents for their cards and prayers. "I am getting better and better and look forward to getting more involved," Eaton said.
That sounds like a plan, although as the 82-year-old is up for re-election in November, I'm wondering if he's, you know, up for re-election. Is it time for him to become less involved, not more?
Eaton, mayor since 1995, told me Wednesday that he hasn't made a decision on his future. I had to ask him: Do you really have another four years in you?
Well, that's up to him — and voters. And maybe his wife of 60 years, Ginger.
Now, about the pay raise, which would take effect after the November election. Council members last gave themselves a raise in 2006. They're paid $8,904 a year, or $12,504 for the mayor. State law allows them a 5 percent increase each year, which is why, after 11 years, they could get 55 percent.
City Manager Ed Starr's recommendation was that they take the full 55 percent. Bear in mind that Starr works for the City Council. You can never go wrong telling your bosses they're worth every penny and more.
This first came up at the Oct. 16 meeting. Councilman John Dutrey said he thought 55 percent was too much, but the matter was set for a public hearing Nov. 6. It was then postponed to Dec. 4 and then to Dec. 18 due to absences.
At the Dec. 18 hearing, one resident spoke up, with Roger Lambert asking why the council couldn't adjust its pay in line with the annual cost of living index.
Dutrey said 55 percent was excessive, while noting the council did lose pay when its Redevelopment Agency stipend went away along with the agency. He made a motion to cut the increase to 30 percent. This passed 4-1, with Dutrey, Bill Ruh, Carolyn Raft and Eaton, by phone, voting for it and Trisha Martinez voting no because she liked 55 percent.
That was about the last moment of clarity on this issue, because when it came up Tuesday for final approval, there was a new wrinkle.
Starr explained that Eaton had had "poor reception" during the discussion and hadn't understood that the raise had been downgraded.
"I would be inclined to think we should take another look at this," Eaton said.
Frankly, the things we do see them do aren't filling me with confidence.
The vote to amend the 30 percent motion back to 55 percent passed 3-1, with Eaton, Raft and Martinez in favor, Dutrey opposed and Ruh absent. (He may rue that.) Dutrey reiterated that if the 55 percent raise passes, he will donate $200 per month of his raise to the Community Foundation until the end of his term in 2020.
So Dutrey and Martinez have been consistent all along, Eaton may not have known which position he was taking and Raft, it seems, feels strongly both ways — or, probably more accurately, will go along with whatever Eaton wants.
Yes, the presence must be respected. What's funny is that I went there Tuesday on a whim to inquire about a different matter and instead found myself at a meeting of the Gang That Couldn't Vote Straight. I'll come back to the other matter eventually.
The final vote on the raises — at least until council members change their minds again — is scheduled for 7 p.m. Feb. 5.
Montclair residents, if you too are making 55 percent more than in 2006, show up to cheer your council on. Otherwise, follow your conscience.


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It wasn't until the 48-year-old entertainer made her breakthrough in 2001's Baby Boy that she became a household name. 18 years later Taraji P. Henson, who was recently in South Africa to promote the fifth season of the globally acclaimed series, Empire, will be recognised for her work on 28 January 2019. Director of Baby Boy, John Singleton and singer Mary J Blige will speak at the ceremony, which is taking place just before the release on 9 February of her next flick What Men Want, a remake of Mel Gibson's What Women Want.
"Taraji P Henson is a powerful woman and a powerful actress. She is an entertainer that fans cannot take their eyes off of due to her great acting ability," said Ana Martinez, producer of the Walk Of Fame. "We welcome her bright star on our Walk Of Fame." This is reported by Essence.com.
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Do trolls have any value?
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These do. (Image from Fanpop.com).
"Don't feed the trolls," is an Internet author's mantra. The best thing to do when confronted with some racist, sexist, homophobic, or just hate-filled nonsense gushed out of some attention-seeking jerk is to ignore it. Or do you? Even some YouTube commentators are unsure about what to do with them.
But if trolls are going to pop up in our online lives (and if you express an opinion, they will), is there a way we can get some value from the experience? Can we turn crap into fertilizer?
There are ways, but we need to get some perspective and objectivity. That's not easy, especially when their words upset us. Here are some things you can do.
First off, if you are being threatened with physical harm, contact the police and the administrator of the website. That's not trolling; that's criminal behavior. True threats are not considered protected free speech, and people shouldn't have to risk physical harm by expressing themselves online.
What do you do with garden-variety nastiness? Consider how much of it is valid. Even the nastiest of statements may have a kernel of truth. Did you develop your argument well enough? Did you get your ideas across? Or are you off-base in your position? Use all of the feedback you get, good or bad, to strengthen your position and communicate more effectively.
Trolls can also indicate when you're successful in getting your point across. When opponents can't refute your arguments, or you delivered them so effectively that they're threatened by them, their only recourse is to get personal and hostile. Consider their insults as compliments.
Also realize that their attacks say more about them than you. What type of person would lower themselves to name-calling? Are they that threatened about anyone who is different from them? Or so insecure that they can't handle anyone who has a different opinion than theirs? Trolls can drive you towards pity instead of anger. In no case should they drive you to fear and self-doubt.
Should you engage trolls? No. Anyone who resorts to nastiness is so entrenched in their position that they will not change their minds. Your efforts to defend yourself to them may fulfill their need for attention. Don't waste your time arguing with them. They won't listen.
But don't ignore them either. You certainly shouldn't ignore any physical threats. But simple insults may have value if you look at them objectively and see how you can use that information to strengthen your arguments — or get validation that you're on the right path. Whatever you do, don't feed the trolls.


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An "Oh Brother" you can trust
Usually there is a tell in the title of each blog, but we changed this one after we started. Originally titled in "Oh Brother" we Trust; however, we were concerned people might think this was religious or like The Beatles we were trying to say we were more popular than Jesus. Of course, one peak at our YouTube followers would put that to rest. Please smash that like button and subscribe to our channel.
No, today is Election Day and as of this writing people are in line casting their votes doing their civic duty. Since this is being called the election of our lifetime, we thought it would be a good time to look at one of the great political thrillers of all time actually really based on a true story All the President's Men.
Although most people believe this movie is about the Nixon administration, it's as much about journalism as it is about politics. One criticism some people have of the film is it can sometimes get bogged down in a series of names, dates, leads, denials, and pounding the pavement. This is a valid criticism with several names and dates spilling out throughout the movie, but the end result is an accurate account of history and some of the most infamous names to work in a presidential administration.
Even though the viewer knows how the story ends the thrill is how we get there. The story begins with two young journalists at the Washington Post Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein played by Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman respectively following a local story about a minor break in at the now infamous Watergate hotel, which was home to the head of the Democratic national committee.
As the two journalists follow leads by interviewing secretaries and bookkeepers, they start to realize by the reactions of the people they interview they may be swimming in deeper water than merely a local story. As their boss at the Post seems to be constantly barking at them to get more sources, "Woodstein" as the duo was known around the office, keep the story mostly to themselves knowing they are getting higher and higher up in the presidential administration.
Looking back on the Watergate scandal the two journalists really got lucky when contacted by a member inside the administration known in the story as "deepthroat". An insider played by Hal Holbrook who guided the pair by dropping hints and sometimes making them work for the information likely trying to keep his own identity hidden from those within the administration. For years after the story broke, after the historic Presidential resignation, and to this day Woodward and Bernstein never named their secret source known as deep throat. Many thought it was likely not just one person, but a combination of several feeding them inside information. In 2005, over a decade after Nixon's death former FBI member Mark Felt came forward as the source who ultimately gave the reporters the key to tie everything together.
This is a long movie, but director Alan Pakula keeps the pace moving and doesn't get mired in facts, figures, and minor characters which must have been slow grueling work for Woodward and Bernstein.
Because of the pace and great performances, especially by the two leads Redford and Hoffman, the movie flows well and even though you know the outcome the tension throughout is palpable. With today's political divide in America, this is a great time to put in All the President's Men to see just how much has changed since the only resignation in American history resulting from a petty theft of $2,300. History used to teach us it's not the crime, but the cover up. Today seems to be more about covering up than the crime.
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