Lately I've been finding my style as a bit of a prep, ballet flats, skirts, skinny jeans, the little "tube wave" look at the front of my hair. I'm 12 and I'm going into 7th grade, and my school is FULL of preps, so I was thinking that I was around it so much I had just gotten used to it. But then my friends started saying "You sound like a prep." Or "You look like a prep today." I enjoy gymnastics, and I know a lot of preps that do gymnastics. But personally I'd rather be a prep and be with the "nice preps" than be with the people who criticize me about being a prep, they've started talking to me because of the way I changed, but a lot of my friends are fine with it, I like the baggy ponytails and the fishtail braids, but a lot of people do. Do these things make me look/sound like a prep? Since doing these things I've stopped biting my nails, and painting them in bright pinks or cream colors, sometimes some crackle, or sometimes just a french manicure. Do I sound like a prep to you guys? I'm fine with a yes or no, so answer truthfuly.
Be who you wanna be. It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks of you. Wear what you want, look how you want, act how you want, and if anyone has a problem then they aren't a real friend. Your friends shouldn't criticize you.
Does it matter? Be who you wanna be. It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks of you. Sticking labels like "prep" onto yourself is just a waste of time. Wear what you want, look how you want, act how you want, and if anyone has a problem then they aren't a real friend.
Not prep prep like .... i don't know how to explain but usually preps wear makeup LOTS of makeup!
And about your nails,you are doing nail-care which is good!
About your cloths, Many wear Ballet flats in my school because its comfortable,and preps wear High heels :/. Skirts is also cute but I hate my school skirt so i wear jeans.Preps wear short skirts and such and Skinny Jeans is okay because there are girls who loves to wear skinny jeans but they are not preps.
But if you are turning one of the preps,Being nice is better.
Lol. We can't wear high heels because if we do we're gonna break our necks running across the out-door campus, I live in a conservitive state, in the east, so most of the preps at my school wear skirts, skinnies, ballet flats, ect. preps wear lip gloss and that's it, I guess my school is different, considoring we're 4 years beind style. My school has nice preps, and mean preps, so I'd be a nice one.
Oh now i understand!! being a prep is nice,like it makes you take care of yourself and stuff more.But try to have your own style!My style is bit rule breaking but teachers don't care... Try being different and wear what suits your personality! Mine is the school blouse uniform and comfortable jeans with a sport shoes or converse with bracelets and a huge belt and small earrings.Being different makes you Unique!
At least, in your school they don't wear like 10 pounds of make-up.
I think it's nice to not have to wear tons of make up, the only girls at my school that do are the normal girls that are the "bad girls" so, yeah.
I don't care what's your style, I only would care if you were a good friend. I don't like makeup I never wear it. And here schools are in the IB Program not induvidual students. I don't want to be. It's got all those stupid "attitudes". I am sorry if this sounds like a diff program.
Are you his friend? if not, try to talk to him! and be friends!And that girl is jealous...The hairstyle is nice also but try curling your hair at the tips and let your bangs cover your forehead sideways and add a headband! Its really cute! wear with it a small jean jacket with any cream color with a dark blue skinny jeans and white,black,silver ballet flats.These cloths i told you about could take most of the guys eyes but try cute in a preppy way not you know .... and when you wear that add mascara to let your eyes pop with eyeliner,lip gloss and light blush! Make it simple you are 12 like me(soon-to-be-12). Try clothes that bend with you skin and the manicure the same top color or something close to it.
I know that feeling! i had a crush on a boy and i told my bff and she said he is not THAT cute !


Journalists risk losing their clout by engaging in activism, Media experts have cautioned, in the wake of the renewed debate on the role of the media in social campaigns. They argue that journalists should be able to maintain public trust in the profession through honesty, objectivity and accuracy.
The debate comes amid protests led by renowned media personalities on the introduction of Over the Top (OTT) tax. Under the tax regime, Ugandans are expected to pay a daily charge of 200 Shillings to be able to access social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp, among others.
Raymond Mujuni, one of the reporters at the forefront of the campaign against 'Social Media Tax' says that he was driven onto the streets under the belief that journalists are first Ugandans and what affects Ugandans affects journalists.
He says the rule of objectivity is what would prohibit a journalist from activism, but journalists are very much political beings who should be at the forefront of exposing unjust laws.
"I have a narrow window to permit for journalists to practice activism and that is if they don't influence or report on the areas they are actively involved in. That allows them to both enjoy their civic rights and report as well," he says.
But Makerere University Journalism Lecturer, Dr Adolf Mbaine says activism raises serious ethical questions for journalism. He says that journalists have platforms that other people do not have, to voice out their concerns about certain injustices.
Mbaine explains that because journalism condemns human rights violations and calls for sanity through condemning corruption and other government excesses, it takes the path of activism, which however should be practised with an ethical touch.
He cautions that a journalist cannot be seen to side with a political party and campaign for a presidential candidate until they have resigned from the profession to become mainstream politicians.
According to Mbaine, although it could be technically alright for a journalist to resign, engage in activism and return, it is still possible for a journalist to be damaged during that period.
Renowned media specialist George Lugalambi says that journalists are entitled to demonstrate if the issue of contention touches their rights and freedom. He, however, says journalists should excuse themselves from covering stories for which they have strong biases.
He adds that although he supports the passion for the cause against social media tax, journalists that participated in the campaign should not let this come through their work by for instance influencing news items or publishing what they were involved in.
According to Lugalambi, Journalists can be activists by asking tough questions in relation to the taxes, but not directly taking to the streets, otherwise, they tread a delicate and thorny path that puts them in conflict with ethical guidelines of the profession.
Media entrepreneur Kin Karisa acknowledges a slim line between journalism and activism adding that it is always important for journalists to draw clear boundaries between the two. He adds that journalists risk being misunderstood if they do not separate the two and that the media house cannot be seen as neutral and impartial.
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NEW YORK — The Orlando Magic face a dilemma with the NBA trade deadline approaching on Feb. 7.
Should they be buyers or sellers?
The Magic, who have endured six consecutive years without reaching the postseason, entered Thursday only three games out of the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. Team officials see value in chasing a playoff berth and having youngsters such as Aaron Gordon, Jonathan Isaac and Mo Bamba play meaningful games in March and April. Adding to the team's anemic bench would make a big difference.
But it is not that simple.
The Magic must make some excruciating decisions. Nikola Vucevic and Terrence Ross are in the final seasons of their contracts. If Orlando does not trade Vucevic and Ross before the deadline, the team will risk losing them when they become unrestricted free agents in July.
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There is no denying the dynasty of the New England Patriots. Since Bill Belichick was named the head coach in 2000, the Patriots have won 5 Super Bowls. They now have the opportunity to win their 6th, which would make both Bill Belichick and QB Tom Brady the winningest pair in the NFL. With a victory in Super Bowl 52, Brady and Belichick will achieve greatness in 2 more fronts.
As of now, Brady and Belichick are the winningest head coach/QB pair in NFL history in terms of Playoff victories. They currently have 27 Playoff victory wins together, which is 13 more than second-place holders, Chuck Noll and Terry Bradshaw. If the Patriots win Super Bowl LII, they will extend their Playoff streak to 28, thus doubling the second-place record. This is the equivalent of an Olympic runner lapping his opponents during a competition. While it holds no bearing on the outcome of Super Bowl LII, it is a testament to the team's dominance. Teamwork and sportsmanship aside, it is a testament to the success of these 2 together. As the years have gone on, new receivers, running backs and defensive members have come and go, but Brady and Belichick have remained together.
Another interesting tidbit regarding Super Bowl 52 is that it is a rematch of Super Bowl 39. In 2005, the New England Patriots and Philadelphia Eagles played each other in Jacksonville. Donovan McNabb was the QB for the Eagles at the time, and an injured Terrell Owens was his go-to receiver. The game ended 24-21 in favor of the Patriots and came down to the last minute. With this victory, New England became the first team to win consecutive Super Bowls.
Last year, New England came back from a 28-3 halftime deficit to stun the Atlanta Falcons in Super Bowl 51. Now, against the team they won to set the record, the Patriots have the opportunity to win consecutive Super Bowls again. As if that wasn't interesting enough, most analysts are predicting a back and forth game similar to Super Bowl 39. Philadelphia's defense will certainly give Brady pressure, and QB Nick Foles has plenty of offensive weapons to help him build a lead against the defending champions. However, it would be foolish to discount Brady's ability in big games like this. Not to mention the talent-heavy roster of New England on both sides of the ball.
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'Meadowlands Cup' golf event aims to highlight, build support for destination-based economy
Long-delayed as it was, the opening of the massive American Dream retail and entertainment complex is making good on its promise of bringing thousands of daily visitors to the Meadowlands, providing a much-needed lift to businesses in the region.
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Jim Kirkos feels that sends an important, overdue signal to local and state policymakers.
"Now the political leaders are starting to see that there is something to this destination-related economy, because now American Dream is becoming more of a reality," said Kirkos, CEO and president of the Meadowlands Chamber. "And hopefully they can get through all of the financial troubles of the pandemic and carry on, as it looks like it will, and we can be this powerhouse destination."
That message is at the core of the Meadowlands 2040 Foundation, an offshoot of the chamber focused on broad-based economic development planning in the region, and it will be top of mind next month at the organization's first-ever Meadowlands Cup golf event. Slated for Monday, Aug. 2, at the Upper Montclair Country Club in Clifton, the competition will bring together business leaders and raise funds to support the foundation's efforts — with a list of sponsors and participants that includes some of the state's biggest names in the commercial real estate, construction and service industries.
The event also figures to have broader appeal, in part by offering a new twist on the typical golf outing and what the chamber describes as a "spectacular trophy," one that will bear the engraved name of the winning company and its players and be prominently displayed at its new headquarters and visitors center in Lyndhurst.
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"It is exposing what's going on here to a wider audience," said Bill Hanson, the president of brokerage firm NAI James E. Hanson and vice chair of the 2040 Foundation board of trustees. He promised that the Meadowlands Cup — a true competition with two-person teams and a better ball format — is "not just another golf outing."
Established several years ago as a think tank-style organization, the 2040 Foundation is meant "to create awareness and partner with community leaders to build and sustain a strong economy through the year 2040," Kirkos said. That can mean highlighting issues such as workforce development, flood control, transportation and government regulations, but also advancing discussions about high-profile projects such as a new conference center in the Meadowlands.
Central to those efforts is a board of influential trustees led by Fletcher Creamer Jr., the CEO of J. Fletcher Creamer & Son Inc.
"I've always said that this region is the core or the heart of development in New Jersey," said Creamer, the fourth-generation leader of the Hackensack-based utility construction firm.
He added that the foundation in recent years — through events, a vision plan and other initiatives — has also sought to support the small businesses that make up the chamber's membership.
Fletch Creamer
"We're not done by any means, and being part of this helps the members with some long-term vision," Creamer said. "And with the trustees, we have a lot of brain power here and hopefully we can guide them in the future with a vision of continuing the growth in this area."
Kirkos, who hopes the success of American Dream will build the case for other destination-related venues, said the foundation looks to provide not only long-term planning but a more regional focus that goes even beyond the 14 municipalities within the original state-designated Meadowlands district. He noted that the region has grown to encompass "a bigger piece of geography as time has gone on, so we need to make sure that what we're doing inside the box of the core Meadowlands is also conducive to the growth of those that border it."
That focus has been part of the draw for trustees such as Debra Tantleff, founding principal of Tantum Real Estate, who is one of six commercial real estate executives to serve on the 12-member board.
"I think there's really an extraordinary opportunity to be involved with an organization that thinks a little bit more regionally, that is not beholden to any one specific policy or issue, but really weaves all of the pieces together … with all of the different items, issues and policies that affect economic development and growth," said Tantleff, who joined the board last year.
Kirkos added that, when leaders from real estate and other industries "stand next to us, it means something … and I think we get our credibility from those that are actively engaged and are part of the organization." Those connections will undoubtedly go a long way as the chamber and the foundation look to attract participants to the Meadowlands Cup golf challenge.
The Meadowlands Chamber CEO also believes the competitive format — and the potential bragging rights that are at stake — will also boost participation.
"A competitive corporate golf challenge is very similar to that of an innovator, a disruptor and an entrepreneur," Kirkos said. "Entrepreneurs are go-getters, they're competitors and they want to go out there and win. They want to succeed."
To register for the Meadowlands Cup or to find sponsorship opportunities and additional information, visit https://meadowlands.org/meadowlands-cup/.
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There was an article in the Vancouver Sun a few days ago about euthanasia in the Netherlands.
As pointed out by Henk Reitsma, the legalization of assisted suicide and euthanasia in the Netherlands has lead to a "kind" of slippery slope; at its apex beams the patients' apparent rights to self-determination, at its base lurks a chasm empowering the healthcare system to do what it wills. And the non-compliant are over-dosed with sedatives, starved and dehydrated, practices that do not require reporting, thus avoiding risk of prosecution for not following proper "euthanasia" guidelines. If guidelines are not always followed in the Netherlands, Canadians cannot presume to be exempt from misconduct. And given our overtaxed healthcare system, the decriminalization of euthanasia and assisted suicide in Canada would be none other than a perfect recipe for abuse.
Cristina is right. To say there is not a problem with abuse due to euthanasia in the Netherlands because "rates" have not increased dramatically is a superficial assessment if not all of the data is taken into account. When euthanasia deaths go up by 19% from 2009 to 2010 there is some cause for concern. Also, Groningen University Hospital already decided to euthanize children under the age of 12 if their suffering is intolerable or if their condition is deemed incurable. Also, when your citizens are walking around with "Do not euthanize me" cards, according to the Nightingdale Alliance, it is usually not a good sign.
Maybe the slope is not that slippery yet but the Netherlands is definitely heading down the waterslide. And Canada, with all the attention being paid to out of control health care costs, may join them in the near future if we are not diligent in opposing euthanasia and assisted suicide.
Don't worry, it's not a baby.
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by: DEEPTI HAJELA, Associated Press
Manisha Shete, left, a practicing Hindu priest, performs posthumous rituals for her client's mother at a residence in Pune, India, Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021. Shete, who first began to officiate at religious ceremonies in 2008, said demand is growing and "people have started accepting women priests." (AP Photo/Abhijit Bhatlekar)
When Sushma Dwivedi started seriously thinking about performing wedding rites and other Hindu religious blessings in New York City and elsewhere, she knew who she needed to talk to – her grandmother.
Together, they went through the mantras that are recited by pandits, the priests who perform Hindu religious rituals, to find the ones that resonated with what Dwivedi was trying to do — offer Hindu blessings and services that were welcoming of all, irrespective of gender identity, sexual orientation, race, any of it.
Her grandmother isn't a pandit — in India, as well as in Indian diaspora communities, that's been a domain that is largely populated by men, with cultural mores at play. But she had a wealth of religious knowledge, of ritual, of proper pronunciation, to share with her granddaughter.
And that her grandmother played an integral role in Dwivedi's understanding and practice of Hinduism reflects a larger religious reality. Those who study the religion and its traditions say that while there aren't a lot of women priests (although that is changing in India and in other places), women in Hinduism globally continue to take on leadership roles in other ways – building communities, taking on positions in organizations, passing on knowledge.
"We just jammed together and sort of went through scriptures. … And in that sense, that's the 'old school'-est Hindu way on Earth, right? You pass it down," Dwivedi said.
After all, it was through her grandparents, immigrants from India, that Dwivedi had been exposed to Hinduism while growing up in Canada. They helped build a Hindu mandir, or temple, in their Montreal community, and made the religion an integral part of her life from childhood.
This story is part of a series by The Associated Press and Religion News Service on women's roles in male-led religions.
Hinduism encompasses a range of practices and philosophies, and has a pantheon of divine figures encompassing both male and female. People can call themselves Hindus and yet practice in different ways from each other. There is no central authority, like an equivalent to the role the pope plays in Catholicism.
So leadership, in India as well as Indian immigrant communities, is decentralized and diverse, encompassing religious scholars, Hindu temple boards and more, said Vasudha Narayanan, a religion professor at the University of Florida who studies Hinduism in India and in the Indian diaspora.
"I would also say that women sometimes create the spaces where they can be leaders in all these other ways," she said.
They're women like Dr. Uma Mysorekar, who serves as president of the Hindu Temple Society of North America. It runs one of the oldest Hindu temples in the United States in the Flushing section of New York City's Queens borough.
Mysorekar, trained as a physician, got involved with the temple in the mid-1980s, and has been part of its administration for years, as it expanded its facilities as well as its programming. There are programs for seniors as well as young adults; the temple kitchen is available on food delivery apps.
Being an administrator wasn't her intention when she started, Mysorekar said.
"I didn't get involved to become a president. But when the circumstances were forced in, I did accept that challenge."
She's convinced that in Hinduism, women can be leaders simply by virtue of their ability to communicate the faith to others, notably to children.
"How many women have led … going back to times immemorial, and what they have contributed, it should give you that exemplary feeling," she said. "It's not that women have to be priests to be leaders, women have to be able to spread the teachings."
And in this modern age, when so much vital activity occurs online, women are making a difference there, too, said Dheepa Sundaram, assistant professor of Hindu studies, critical theory and digital religion at the University of Denver.
"If you look at social media spaces, you see a lot of women leading different kinds of groups now," she said.
She pointed to shubhpuja.com as an example, a site co-founded by a woman, Saumya Vardhan, that allows people all over the world to connect with pandits in India, who perform pujas, the religious rituals, that can be seen via videoconferencing.
"We're seeing women carve out different spaces in the spirituality ecosystem to find a way to actually gain power in that ecosystem," she said.
And there are examples of women making inroads even when it comes to being pandits, of pushing back against patriarchal restraints.
Manisha Shete, 51, a female priest who has been working as the coordinator at Jnana Prabodhini, a Hindu reformist school in Pune in western India that trains men and women to perform rituals, first began to officiate at religious ceremonies in 2008.
Her aspirations stemmed in part from an interest in India's ancient scriptures; after getting married, she studied
"After my wedding, I studied Indology — the history, culture, languages and literature of India.
"During my research work at the Sanskrit language department in Jnana Prabodhini … I felt that I can do this and I should do it. It was my favorite subject," Shete told The Associated Press.
Shete said at her school in Pune, where the course for the priesthood can extend up to 18 months, 80% of the students were women, including many who had been housewives and many others who voluntarily their jobs to enter the school.
She said the demand for female priests is growing in urban areas, especially among young women, and she often gets requests even from Indian families overseas to conduct rituals.
"People have started accepting women priests. Every reform comes with some obstacles. But it is happening."
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France's Severine Eraud lived up to her favourite status today at the Florence World Championships. The 18-year-old won the junior time trial gold medal ahead of two Aussies, Alexandria Nicholls and Alexandra Manly.
Clear skies, sun and cheers - and time checks - spurred her on. She started the along the Arno River last, raced up and down it and through the city - 16.19 kilometres in 22-42 minutes. "I heard I was fourth best at the time check," she said. "I gave it my all from that point. It worked."
Nicholls, out of 47 scheduled riders, was first off at 10:00. Without references, she clocked a time that stood nearly all day - at least until Eraud arrived. The 22-45-minute ride was 2.69 seconds shy of a win.
"A gold medal would have been nice," Nicholls said, "but I'm pretty happy with silver."
Eraud's gold adds to her national and European time trial gold medals won in the last two months. Elinor Barker won the world title last year and signed for Wiggle-Honda over the winter. Great Britain did not field a rider this time around.
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New research supports ANZ's continued push to be more accessible bank
ANZ today announced its new Accessibility & Inclusion Plan, marking tomorrow's International Day of People with Disability. This new plan commits to a more inclusive design, better customer and employee experience and stronger connection with community and partners.
Extending to New Zealand for the first time, ANZ's Accessibility & Inclusion Plan aims to embed accessibility and inclusion across all aspects of our business.
While continuing progress on inclusive technology solutions, the new plan will also embed inclusive design by actively consulting with people with disability in development, testing and implementation of banking solutions.
The plan strengthens employment opportunities and support, by implementing a disability leadership program and investing in mental health prevention strategies such as mental health first aid training.
ANZ Group Executive Technology and Executive Sponsor for Accessibility, Gerard Florian said: "ANZ's latest Accessibility and Inclusion Plan sits within the context of the major digital transformation underway across our operations."
"This latest set of commitments demonstrates how we are working to embed accessibility into our digital future and hybrid working model."
Supporting the plan is new research, Financial Wellbeing: People with disability or long-term health conditions, which looks at the financial confidence and wellbeing of Australians living with disability. According to the research, reduced earning potential, employment opportunities and poor mental health, all contribute to a level of financial wellbeing below the national average for Australians with disability.
Twice as many people with disability or long-term health conditions found it more difficult to save compared to those without, 22 per cent of Australians with disability reported having no savings compared to only 11 per cent of those without, making it more difficult to deal with unexpected expenses.
ANZ Group CEO, Shayne Elliott said: "The research provides a solid example for why a strong commitment to accessibility is important, given how Australians with disability fare with their financial wellbeing.
"ANZ is committed to working alongside others to identify and address barriers, foster positive attitudes and close gaps to improve outcomes for people with disability, in our workplace, for our customers and the broader community."
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Australians with disability or long-term health conditions had a financial wellbeing score of 54/100 vs Australians without a condition 66/100. Working age Australians (18-64s) with disability had a financial wellbeing score of 48/100.
57% working age Australians (18-64-year-olds) with disability or long-term health conditions reported fair/poor mental health vs 26% of working age Australians without a condition.
One-in-six (16%) working age people with disability had a university degree vs 28% of the working age people without a condition; 38% earned
People with disability are budgeting, planning and regularly monitoring their finances. Three-quarters (76%) of people with disability or long-term health conditions made a plan or budget for how they used their income, on par with people without disability (74%).
34% of Australians with disability or long-term health conditions wanted to own a home but did not feel it was a realistic goal for them (versus 15% of people without a condition).
Only half (51%) of Australians with disability or long-term health conditions felt confident in their ability to plan their financial future compared to 66% of Australians without a condition.
About ANZ's Accessibility & Inclusion Plan:
Commencing in 2023, the commitments run for three years and will be registered with the Australian Human Rights Commission. ANZ's first Accessibility & Inclusion Plan was published in 2007.
About the research:
The research draws on the insights and data from the ANZ's 2021 Financial Wellbeing Survey of more than 3,500 Australian adults conducted in mid-2021. Approximately one-quarter (24%) responded that they lived with disability or a long-term health condition.
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This is in response to a very hurtful comment to "My Testimony" [you can read it if you'd like. It's on 3 pages above]. If you would like to read the comment itself, I copied it into the "comment" section of this post. It's under my name [author's name is to remain anonymous] and posted on 2-4-13.
I hope this post will not be taken as a judgment. I am writing this not from pride – but from fear and trembling. In fact I'm not sure of having any confidence in this post – at all. But here it is anyway. I'm taking a giant leap, knowing that some of you will take offense. I just pray that this is a word from God I've been given, and that I'm not presently being influenced by a demon.
Here's a fun little baseball story just in time for championship games.
Bob and the Lord stood by to observe a baseball game. The Lord's team was playing Satan's team. The Lord's team was at bat the score was tied zero to zero, and it was the bottom of the ninth inning with two outs. They continued to watch as a batter stepped up to the plate whose name was Love. Love swung at the first pitch and hit a single, because Love never fails. The next batter was named Faith, who also got a single because Faith works with Love. The next batter up was named Godly Wisdom. Satan wound up and threw the first pitch. Godly wisdom looked it over and let it pass. Ball one! Three more pitches and Godly Wisdom walked, because Godly Wisdom never swings at what Satan throws.


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Hundreds show up for protest of UF Presidential Nominee
Protesters expressed their concerns about the process as well as Ben Sasse's views
There were large protests at the University of Florida Monday as a Nebraska Senator interviewed for the job of a college president.
By WCJB Staff
Published: Oct. 10, 2022 at 7:15 PM EDT
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - While UF Presidential Nominee, Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse, was meeting with faculty inside Emerson Alumni Hall, hundreds of people gathered outside to protest against the nomination.
Protesters were not only concerned about Sasse's views, but also the process that led to his nomination. Students and organizations were told the university would release a list of candidates.
When they got that list, there was only one name on it.
Protesters initially gathered outside, but pushed their way inside hoping their voices would be heard in the interview room. Eventually, they took over the room and halted the proceedings.
Their concern is that under Sasse, UF's diverse population will not receive proper representation.
"You look at what UF's guidelines were in their Presidential search and they violated multiple of them," said the Chair of UF's Young Democratic Socialists of America chapter, Aaron Ali-McClory. "And worse than that the person they came up with is not representative of UF's community that includes LGBTQ+ folks, folks who have had pregnancies and these are all groups that senator Sasse has stood against."
While concerns about the process were prominent, the more important issue seemed to be Sasse's views. They made clear they don't think he properly represents the University of Florida. Protesters also do not want their school to become a political playground.
"This is a man who opposes equal rights for LGBTQ+ people, who celebrated the overturning of Roe v Wade," said the Co-President of UF Graduate Assistants United, Rachel Hartnett. "And this is a man who is frankly not qualified for the position that they're giving him and the only reason that we can see is that it was a political decision by Governor DeSantis."
Both UF's Board of Trustees and Board of Governors have to give final approval on the selection of Sasse, which is expected to happen next month.
This is a developing story and updates will continue to be provided on TV20 and at our website, WCJB.com.
TRENDING: Ben Sasse hosts three forums at the University of Florida as presidential finalist
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NURSES UNION HOSTS BERNIE MONDAY: National Nurses United, the largest nurses' union in the country, will host Sen. Bernie Sanders for brunch at union headquarters in Oakland on Monday. Will they discuss an endorsement? Morning Shift noted last week that NNU plans to issue a presidential endorsement before September, and that NNU Executive Director RoseAnn DeMoro seemed very taken with Bernie. "Let's just be real. Bernie Sanders' issues align with everybody in organized labor from top to bottom," DeMoro said.
From: Politico's morning report. Aug.7,2015.


Comfortable Introducing a new human-centric design philosophy that fuses exterior styling and class-leading aerodynamics - delivering an interior with more space, higher quality materials and delicate craftsmanship.
BETTER CONNECTED Introducing FordPass connect on-board modem turns this vehicle into a mobile WiFi hot spot for up to 10 devices. Stay up-to-date with live traffic, check fuel levels or remotely turn on your engine with FordPass.
Powerful Choose from a six-speed manual transmission or a new eight-speed automatic gearbox that adapts to your driving style to give you smoother gear changes when you need them most.
The All-New Ford Focus has given its predecessor a facelift inside and out, with the cabin comfort and level of technology of the model's interior built with one person in mind - the driver. Featuring an extended wheelbase for greater legroom, high-quality materials throughout, and a carefully considered dashboard for easy operation, the All-New Focus enables you to do just that: focus.
Connectivity is a defining feature of the vehicle, with the All-New Ford Focus benefiting from the presence of Ford's innovative SYNC 3 communications and infotainment technology. Whether controlling your smartphone's apps and audio streaming by voice commands, touchscreen interface, or steering wheel mounted controls, staying in touch has never been safer.
Plus, with the new FordPass Connect option, there is an even greater level of connectivity available. With a WiFi hotspot, Live Traffic updates, and even the FordPass App to enable you to remotely access certain vehicle functions, this modern option is by far the greatest Focus to date.
The revised exterior of the All-New Ford Focus provides a subtle update to an old favourite. There is an added sense of purpose about the new edition, with the sharp lines and athletic stance ensuring that the model looks ready for action. The longer bonnet even embraces classic sports car design to give the new Focus a truly distinctive look.
What you will also notice is that the wider stance of the all-new Focus makes it feel more muscular and stable on the road and, with the dimensions slightly greater than in previous iterations, the added space will prove invaluable for occupants.
Power & Efficiency Fuel efficiency and responsive performance are no longer mutually exclusive attributes of modern engines. In the All-New Ford Focus, a selection of fuel efficient engines - including the three-cylinder EcoBoost petrol and EcoBlue diesel options - work with the streamlined design and smooth 8-speed automatic or 6-speed manual transmissions for optimum performance.
Technology with Purpose All modern motorists demand the best when it comes to in-car technology. With the All-New Ford Focus, the level of driver assistance and purpose-driven features is exceptional. Ford Co-Pilot360 represents a suite of driver assistance measures that support and enhance your drive, with Adaptive Cruise Control with Stop and Go, Lane Centring, and Active Park Assist 2 all included.
adaptive cruise control Choose the speed you wish to travel, and the All-New Ford Focus will maintain it. More than that, stop-and-go technology uses RADAR sensors to detect vehicles in front, slowing you down automatically to maintain a pre-set distance, only then accelerating once the road is clear and bringing the car to a full stop when traffic halts.
ADAPTIVE FRONT LIGHTING Supporting you at night and when visibility is poor, Auto High Beam will temporarily dip your headlights when oncoming traffic is detected, reducing dazzle for other motorists. Once the road is clear, the high beam will return automatically.
HEAD UP DISPLAY Maintaining visibility of the road ahead is essential for the safety of you, your passengers, and other road users, so Ford's new Head-Up Display works to deliver you the information you need without having to take your eyes off the road.
ACTIVE PARK ASSIST 2 Squeezing into tighter parking spaces is easier than ever with Active Park Assist 2. Simply push a button and the vehicle will first detect a suitable space (some as little as 20% longer than your vehicle), then automatically steer you into place.
FordPass 2.0 Instantly access your vehicle finance and Ford specialists on your phone. Looking for a parking space or where the nearest fuel station is?
FordPass Connect For the first time, you and your All-New Focus can stay seamlessly connected wherever you are.
Evasive Steering Assist The truly innovative Evasive Steering Assist provides instantaneous reactions when yours may be delayed. The system reacts to an evasive swerve, steering the vehicle to avoid a collision by just the right amount, preventing any on-road incidents.
Continuously Controlled Damping This computer-controlled shock absorber works to intelligently reduce the jarring feeling so often experienced when driving. Whether it's potholes or small objects in the road, Continuously Controlled Damping will minimise the damage to you and your vehicle.
the ALL-NEW FORD FOCUS The All-New Focus has arrived to enhance your driving experience.


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14-year-old arrested in Muslim hate crime assault: Cops
By Patrick Donachie
Police have an arrested a 14-year old in the assault of a Muslim man that took place outside of a Queens Village mosque earlier this month, an attack that the NYPD said was being investigated and classified as a hate crime.
Police were not releasing the suspect's name because of his age but said that he was being charged with assault as a hate crime.
At about 10:30 p.m. June 1, Mohamed Rasheed Khan, 59, was approached by three males who punched him on his face and head, causing him to fall off his bike, police said. The other two remain at large.
A statement from the New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations released after the attack said the assailants did not steal Khan's wallet, watch or bike during the attack and noted that the three attackers were laughing as they fled.
Khan was taken to Jamaica Hospital and had surgery. He was unable to open his eyes but was beginning to recover, according to a Facebook post on CAIR-NY's page June 9.
The investigation is still open, and the NYPD is encouraging anyone with additional information to call NYPD Crime Stoppers at 1 (800)-577-TIPS.
Reach reporter Patrick Donachie by e-mail at pdonachie@cnglocal.com or by phone at (718) 260–4573.


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Q: Sass directives mixin, include, =, and + I've been picking up Sass as I go on the project I'm working on and have noticed @mixin and @include being replaced with = and + respectively. I can't seem to find any information on these symbols as directives and sass-lang.com only makes mention to the @ prefixed directives.
Seeing these have brought up a few questions that I cannot seem to find answered here, on google, or at http://www.sass-lang.com.

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*Is it good practice to use = and + over their longer equivalents?

*Are there any differences between using them and the @ directives?

*Are there any more directives that are replaced with symbols like @extend?

*Will these work with sass and scss / even if they do, which style is more common in which flavor of sass?

A: This is old syntax for the .sass files (Pre SASS3)
see here under "Mixins": http://sass-lang.com/docs/yardoc/file.SCSS_FOR_SASS_USERS.html
Moving forward, you should use @mixin and @include, unless you have a reason for continuing to use the legacy format.

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Most Elementary School English-Language Learners Are U.S.-Born
Federal Report Roundup
By Mary Ann Zehr — September 30, 2005 1 min read
Three out of four U.S. elementary school students with limited proficiency in English were born in the United States, concludes a study.
"The New Demography of America's Schools: Immigration and the No Child Left Behind Act" is posted by the Urban Institute.
Conducted by researchers from the Washington-based Urban Institute, the study found that only 24 percent of limited-English-proficient students in elementary schools were born in a foreign country; 59 percent are the children of immigrants; and 18 percent are the grandchildren of immigrants.
At the secondary school level, a smaller proportion of English-language learners were born in this country. A little more than half—56 percent—of English-language learners in grades 6-12 are U.S.-born.
Mary Ann Zehr
Mary Ann Zehr was an assistant editor for Education Week. Her beats included English-language learners, bilingual education, immigrants, dropouts, achievement-gap issues, and charter and private schools. She is the author of the blog Learning the Language.
ESEA No Child Left Behind Act
Federal Biden Picks San Diego Superintendent for Deputy Education Secretary
San Diego Superintendent Cindy Marten was a classroom teacher for 17 years before she became a school and district administrator.
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Federal Biden Calls for $130 Billion in New K-12 Relief, Scaled Up Testing, Vaccination Efforts
President-elect Joe Biden proposed new aid for schools as part of a broader COVID-19 relief plan, which will require congressional approval.
First-grade teacher Megan Garner-Jones, left, and Principal Cynthia Eisner silent clap for their students participating remotely and in-person at School 16, in Yonkers, N.Y.
Mary Altaffer/AP
Federal Who Is Miguel Cardona? Education Secretary Pick Has Roots in Classroom, Principal's Office
Many who've worked with Joe Biden's pick for education secretary say he's ready for what would be a giant step up.
Evie Blad & Andrew Ujifusa
Miguel Cardona, chosen to lead the U.S. Department of Education, photographed in his 4th-grade classroom at Israel Putnam School in Meriden, Conn., in 1998.
Courtesy of the Record-Journal
Federal Obama Education Staff Involved in Race to the Top, Civil Rights Join Biden's White House
Both Catherine Lhamon and Carmel Martin will serve on President-elect Joe Biden's Domestic Policy Council.


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13 Common Questions About Behavior-Based Safety Answered
Behavioral Safety 4.0
Behavioral Science and Safety: Past, Present, and Future
Creating a Culture of Safety Engagement
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Clark Pacific's Safety Journey
Gail Snyder
High-rise hotels, hospitals, stadiums, student housing, churches, casinos, parking garages, all with an artistic flair: these are a few examples of the hundreds of structures that stand as the legacy of Clark Pacific, based in West Sacramento, California. This family business of over half a century specializes in producing and building with state-of-the-art concrete architectural and structural precast materials. A seven year construction project—the new, stellar Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California—is but one visual example of the quality products that come from Clark Pacific's years of service and expertise.
"We have the experience and wisdom of a 50-year-old company with the mentality and enthusiasm of a start-up," said Steve Voss, a 25-year employee and plant manager of the NorCal plant located in Woodland, California (one of three of the organization's manufacturing facilities). Another major and continual project that began in earnest approximately one and a half years ago proves his point. That project is an approach to safety called Safety Leadership.
Until 2015, safety at Clark Pacific was, of course, a very important factor in day-to-day operations. But as Voss explained, "Even though our incident rate was below industry standards, that's just not good enough. We knew we needed to do better. People were getting hurt and that's unacceptable."
Enter Audra Owens, now Director of Environmental, Health and Safety, who had in a previous position come across the book Safe by Accident: Leadership Practices that Build a Sustainable Safety Culture—a behavior-based approach to safe workplaces. The book, written by Judy Agnew and Aubrey Daniels of Aubrey Daniels International (ADI), impressed Owens, a safety professional of 20 years. "That book sparked a whole different way of thinking about how to approach safety," Owens explained. She brought this vision with her to Clark Pacific, when one of the first steps she took was to have Bob Clark, President of Operations, read Safe by Accident.
A phrase on the book's cover, "Take the luck out of safety," resonated with Clark. He admits that his previous role in the company's safety effort had been to hire safety personnel and remain available to them for consultation when necessary. "We had some good years with safety and our lost-time accidents. I just always knocked on wood when we were having a good year," he said. "I've come a long, long way from there. I realized, like anything, if you want to do it, you've got to put your head down and work hard. It's not about luck; it's about a focused effort to come up with a good solution. With safety, it's a journey. You're never going to get to the end. Even though you might be doing great right now, you can get better. There's something you can do every day to get better at it."
Safety Leadership is a positive approach designed to improve leader skills in changing safety-related behavior and promote safety engagement. It involves three general steps. First, identify important safety behaviors at all levels of the organization that will result in improvement. Second, strengthen those behaviors through daily, positive coaching interactions called touchpoints. Third, refine and improve coaching and positive reinforcement use through weekly accountability and debrief meetings. The process ensures everyone at every level is working in concert to achieve targeted safety results. At Clark Pacific, led by Owens and Bart Sevin, senior ADI consultant, the company identified four types of incidents to target first: hand and finger injuries, back injuries, live load violations (exposure of any body part under suspended loads), and crush-point violations. Simultaneously, they worked on increasing near-miss reporting in order to increase organizational learning.
Through much hard work, Owens and the Safety Review Council (SRC) designed a near-miss reporting system using (among other elements) a newly created, pocket-sized notebook containing specific but easy guidelines for reporting near misses. In the months to follow, Owens, who is recognized by everyone on the team as key to the success of the safety process, worked to develop an intranet system that consolidated and shared near-miss reports, incident rates, and other integral information regarding the safety effort. "Safety is a team sport," says Clark. "But having a great leader like Audra makes a lot of difference."
When Owens joined Clark Pacific she began with analysis of the safety activities and culture and conducted extensive interviews at every employee level. "I found there was no consistency and that told me we had a lot to do in building a safety culture," she said. One question that she asked was, "Do you believe that all incidents and injuries are preventable?" The responses surprised her. "A very few people said, 'Yes. I believe that,'" she commented. "Steve Voss was one of them." And according to Voss, so was his assistant plant manager, Frank Kliewer. "He and I were singularly focused," said Voss. "If you ask Frank if all injuries are preventable, he'll beat me to it saying yes."
After Owens and plant safety champions Voss and Brad Williams, Southern California plant manager, attended a one-week, ADI class in Atlanta, they returned with added enthusiasm. "We took away a much broader understanding and application of all things behavior, understanding compliant level versus discretionary effort and what that science can unlock," said Voss.
The next step was having Sevin train 57 leaders in the methods of behavioral safety leadership. Brief one-on-one, safety-focused interactions with direct reports called coaching touchpoints, are now part of the daily routine. At all levels, these brief discussions focus on providing feedback and recognition for the safety critical behaviors identified in the first stage of implementation. In regular meetings, from the top down, leaders conduct debriefs with their direct reports regarding their touchpoints and how they can all work to improve their coaching impact. In addition, weekly "toolbox talks" (company-wide communications to frontline employees regarding selected safe behaviors), and "safety moments" are now a mainstay at all of the Clark Pacific sites. This information is accessible along with the near-miss data on the company intranet Safety Incident Reporting Tracker (SIRT) system.
The Near-Miss System
Clark compares the changed approach to safety and the safety culture to turning a large ship while Voss points out that top leadership absolutely must be on board to accomplish that goal. One of Owens' first steps in doing just that was to create a successful near-miss reporting system. She explained, "If you don't have a robust near-miss program, you're missing the boat, because you will never know what your problems are and what you need to fix."
The near-miss reporting system has definitely become robust—supported by a positive culture change that rewards rather than punishes such reporting. Acknowledging that the drive toward incident prevention takes time in everyone's busy day, Voss and other safety champions regularly consult with supervisors in the plants and field to hone the process. Recently the safety team developed a cell phone app for near-miss reporting. "We eliminated administrative time and the data is there in real time," Voss said. "This, as part of our SIRT system, also helps us quickly respond to real-time metrics and that goes to reinforcing in a more immediate way."
One of many examples where the safety leadership coaching process helped accelerate adoption of important safety-related behaviors was, in fact, around the near-miss system. Frank Kliewer, who reports directly to Voss, utilized coaching touchpoints and debrief meetings to drive near-miss reporting with his direct reports, who in turn used touchpoints to increase the number of near misses reported by their employees. According to Sevin, "Frank is one of many excellent practitioners of the safety leadership coaching process, and he provided an early example of how more effective coaching can be used to drive key safety behaviors—like reporting the near misses that Clark Pacific needed to help move the safety culture in the desired direction."
Benchmarking Results
Many at Clark Pacific mention the change that must take place to emphasize and manage behavior rather than safety results. Today celebrations are held for meeting behavioral milestones (rather than lack of incidents), and that change has brought about significant results. "We're striving for a self-directed workforce, an accident-free workplace," Voss said. "Get past the mindset that an incident is just human error. That's a very convenient, yet shallow root cause, and numbers (lagging indicators) represent real people who have gotten injured."
Clark Pacific participates in a benchmarking group as one of five non-competitive precast concrete companies in the country. The groups meet and exchange information and best practices on a variety of issues in such areas as production, quality, finance, human resources, and, of course, safety. Clark Pacific recently hosted a tour of their facilities for their benchmarking partners which included an overview of their Safety Leadership program followed by actual involvement in the process.
"They were blown away because we showed the inverse correlation between near-miss reporting and our incident rate, and how it's gone based on where we were and where we've come," Voss explained. Between 2015 and 2016, near-miss reports rose by 503 percent while injuries decreased by 78 percent. "You see that correlation and it sells itself!" said Voss.
A Culture of Communication
Increased communication, data collection, feedback, and the regular message and activities from the top down that safety comes before any other consideration—all are changing the culture at Clark Pacific. Owens, Voss, and Clark can't express enough the importance of leadership involvement and visible support in making this a successful initiative. "We put a feather in Bob Clark's cap for getting people at all levels involved," said Sevin." He played a key role because he demonstrated the importance of the process by participating at his level on a consistent basis, and that's critical."
"Messaging is important," Owens said. "We're very much about meaningful and very deliberate communication around safety. We've branded One Company. One Life. Zero Injury. as our logo. I think when you have a passion and believe in this, others get on board when they see that it really makes a difference."
Voss added, "Almost to a person, people are talking in a different language here. In my mind, that's an affirmation that we're seeing the culture change."
The people at Clark Pacific have come to the realization that safety is a never-ending effort, or as they often call it, "an ongoing journey." Safety isn't a box that can be checked off as finished, or a number that is satisfied with compliance to industry standards. Safety is about people and people are about behavior.
"The science of human behavior doesn't change," observed Voss. "What are you doing to ensure people will do the right thing even when you're not there? In my opinion, this is the absolute best way to do it."
Clark Pacific is planning to use these same methods in other areas such as quality. "We're now understanding that the behavioral concepts don't just apply to safety," said Clark. "They apply to everything we're doing here. It's changed our culture. The big change for me personally is I realize this is my job, not just a token effort. I realize what we're accomplishing and it's one of the better things that I am doing in this company. The bottom line is that we really want our people safe and going home to their families the way they came to work. It's the moral thing to do and the behavioral science behind it . . . I believe in it!"
How has Safety Leadership contributed to the safety process at Clark Pacific?"
"At our Fontana Plant, the Safety Leadership process as taught and followed correctly has allowed us to flow, like irrigation water, safety down to the line workers. In the past, much of the safety knowledge and learning stopped or was damned at the foreman/lead man level. The line workers often saw safety as a burden to getting their job done. Now those at the end of the row are getting all the water (information and practices water) and are growing. The workers appreciate the way safety is taught and shown to them through touchpoints and the debrief meetings are great for reinforcing and teaching the supervisors the right way to encourage safe practices."
—Brad Williams, Plant Manager
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Using his preferred medium of verbal-farts, Trump told reporters on Sunday night "Look, whatever you think I said, or what other people heard me say, or things that I have been recorded saying, cannot possibly be true if I tell you they aren't, OK? I am the least racist person I know, the least racist; all my friends are racist, all my appointments are racist, all the news sources that inform my views are racist, but I am not racist, I'm no racist.
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Won a $4.3 million jury verdict for the family of a deceased Martin Marietta employee. The employee was killed in a worksite accident while performing maintenance on a conveyor belt carrying crushed stone from an underground pit. The jury found Martin Marietta to be 100% negligent and grossly negligent, and awarded punitive damages to the family. Trial evidence included false reporting by the company to OSHA.
Co-counsel in an ERISA class action alleging that plan fiduciaries breached their duties of loyalty and prudence by selecting and maintaining inappropriate Putnam mutual funds for the defendant company's 401(k) plan.
After four days of trial in Galveston state court, Ajamie lawyers settled a lawsuit against two insurance agents, six insurance companies and a law firm for $7,290,000. The lawsuit alleged that the defendants negligently advised a 90-year-old widow and her 65-year-old son to sell their Berkshire Hathaway Company stock (NYSE: BRKA) and use the proceeds to purchase life insurance and annuities as part of an "estate tax plan." The Texas Lawyer reported this recovery as one of the top ten settlements in 2006.
Prevailed in the Texas Supreme Court when the Court declined to grant an emergency mandamus petition filed by the defendant insurance company. Our clients sued the defendant insurance company in a $10 million commercial fraud lawsuit. After two years of intense discovery, we were able to establish the personal involvement of the insurance company's CEO. After we convinced the trial judge to order the deposition of the insurance company's CEO, the defendant argued that the CEO was protected by the Crown Central apex doctrine. The defendant insurance company immediately filed a petition for writ of mandamus with the Texas Court of Appeals in Houston. After receiving our briefing, the Court of Appeals denied the Petition for Mandamus. The insurance company appealed to the Texas Supreme Court on an emergency basis. After receiving our briefs, the Texas Supreme Court ruled in our clients' favor and denied the petition for mandamus.
Representing the family of one of the victims of the collapse of the Queen Isabella Causeway, the Ajamie firm successfully negotiated a seven-figure, policy limits settlement of the litigation arising from the accident. The limitation of liability litigation arising out the allision of the M/V BROWN WATER V with the Queen Isabella Causeway in south Texas involved eight deaths and numerous personal injuries. In its annual summary of leading verdicts and settlements, VerdictSearch Texas reported in The Texas Lawyer that the recovery was the top admiralty/maritime settlement in Texas in 2005. Negotiated a settlement in excess of $3.8 million for the surviving elderly mother of a construction worker who was killed in a workplace accident. The victim had no spouse or children. The lawsuit, which involved theories of defective product design, premises liability and negligent activity, settled on the eve of trial against multiple defendants.


My thanks to everyone who contributed to this wonderful birthday video and for celebrating with me in May Thanks especially to the three cohorts who produced this: Zach Wise, Chad Stevens and Meagan Smith.
What's Happening to the Earth?
Bob Taylor has been passionate about the hard work of shearing sheep in Athens County, Ohio for 51 years. These days he makes most of his living delivering huge bundles of the Columbus Dispatch to distributors around the region.
Bill Moyers (PBS) had a rock'em-sock'em program looking at American Journalism and how it helped the Bush Administration rush to war in Iraq.


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The Dark Connection Between UFOs and Grisly Mutilations
One of the most shocking cases involved an Air Force sargeant allegedly abducted by a saucer-like aircraft.
Colin Bertram
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The details are both grisly and strangely surgical: corpses found under the open sky with their eyes plucked out, tongues removed and private parts excised—all extracted with the utmost precision and leaving not a drop of blood.
Reports of such unexplained mutilations, carried out on both humans and animals, have baffled investigators for decades, leading to speculation about whether the perpetrators might be otherworldly beings conducting biological experiments on earth's inhabitants. While scores of reports have emerged from U.S. western and midwestern states detailing mysterious bloodless animal mutilations, human cases have been far less common—and often much sketchier in their documentation.
READ MORE: How Betty and Barney Hill's Alien Abduction Story Defined the Genre
The enigmatic 'Project Grudge Report No. 13'
One of the most shocking cases, the Lovette-Cunningham incident, involves an American Air Force sargeant allegedly abducted by a saucer-like aircraft, after which his cleanly mutilated body was found in the New Mexico desert. In ufology circles, reports have circulated that the case was studied by Project Grudge, one of the earliest U.S. Air Force programs tasked with investigating sightings of unidentified flying objects in the years after World War II. (Project Grudge was a short-lived precursor to the better known Project Blue Book, which ran from 1951 to 1969, many documents from which are now declassified.) The result of the Air Force investigation into the purported abduction was allegedly a 600-page document labeled "Project Grudge Report 13."
Problem is, no official information on Report 13 exists and the U.S. government denies its very existence, so its details are known only from second-hand sources who claim to have seen and analyzed the document. One account came from controversial conspiracy theorist William Cooper (1943–2001), who asserts he was tasked with analyzing an annotated version of Grudge Report 13 in the early 1970s. The other came from William English, a former Green Beret captain who says he too was asked to analyze the document, while assigned to a U.S. security service at a former Royal Air Force base in Chicksands, England.
English dictated two audio cassettes outlining what he remembered from Report 13, and according to Military Encounters With Extraterrestrials: The Real War of the Worlds by author Frank Joseph, English also participated in a 1991 Colorado radio broadcast where he discussed his findings. Cooper's and English's stories echo one another closely.
READ MORE: How the Little Green Men Phenomenon Began on a Kentucky Farm
A terrifying abduction, a curious autopsy
An undated photograph outside the Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, around where the incident occurred.
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Both recount an alleged incident of March 1956 involving Air Force sergeant Jonathan P. Lovette, who was assisting Major William Cunningham in the White Sands missile testing grounds near Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico. While searching for scattered debris from a recent rocket test, Cunningham was shocked when he heard a loud scream. Thinking Lovette had perhaps been bitten by a snake, English recountsCunningham crossed the dune to aid his partner when he purportedly witnessed one of the more bizarre human-extraterrestrial encounters.
Instead of finding Lovette nursing a snake bite, Cunningham, according to English, recounted seeing the soldier being dragged by a long serpentine arm, wrapped around his legs, connected to a silver disk hovering in the air 15 to 20 feet away. Cunningham watched, frozen in horror, as Lovette was pulled inside the craft, which then rose vertically into the sky. The major then stumbled toward his jeep and radioed for assistance.
Security teams arrived and the disturbed Cunningham was confined to the base hospital for observation and treatment after retelling what he believed he witnessed. According to Joseph's Military Encounters book, base personnel did confirm an unidentified radar contact near Holloman at the time Lovette vanished. The base dispatched search parties into the desert, but it would be three days before Lovette's nude corpse was discovered—some 10 miles from the site of the alleged abduction. From all indications the body had been exposed to the elements for 24 to 48 hours. According to English, the report offered no explanation of what might account for the missing third day, and the autopsy performed on Lovette raised more questions than delivered answers.
First question was: Why had Lovette's corpse been so severely mutilated? His tongue had been cut from the lower portion of the jaw, his eyes gouged out and his anus removed. In the Air Force medical examination report pertaining to the incident, English alleges that the coroner remarked on the apparent surgical skill used to remove the organs—in particular that the anus and genitalia had been neatly extracted like a plug. Perhaps most puzzling was the fact that the body had been completely drained of blood, but surprisingly, there was no vascular collapse usually associated with death by bleeding.
Though Grudge Reports 1 through 12 have been declassified, along with Report 14, no official mention or accounting of Report 13 exists. The Lovette/Cunningham case remains unsubstantiated and no follow-up reports regarding the incident—if it in fact did happen—are available.
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The wider mutilation phenomenon
A newspaper clipping found in the now declassified FBI documents from their investigation into animal mutilations in the 1970s.
While easily disregarded as fiction, the alleged 1956 New Mexico incident offers intriguing parallels to other reported mutilations both past and present. In 1988, a body was allegedly found at the Guarapiranga Reservoir in Brazil. According to reports, the victim had been dead for 48 to 72 hours, but there was no sign of decomposition. The eyes, ears, tongue and genitalia had been removed, as had the digestive organs. Officials were never able to identify the victim.
Widespread reports of livestock mutilation also contain similar details. Since the early 1970s, incidents of mutilated cattle, sheep, horses, rabbits, deer, bison and elk have been recorded, with the bloodless corpses often lacking jaw flesh, eyes, ears, tongue, lymph nodes and genitalia. In 2009, The Denver Post reported four calves were found mutilated in similar ways. NPR reported on a 2019 incident in Colorado in which five young purebred bulls mysteriously showed up dead, drained of blood and with body parts cleanly excised.
"A lot of people lean toward the aliens," Harney County Sherriff's Deputy Dan Jenkins told NPR. "One caller told us to look for basically a depression under the carcass. 'Cause he said that the alien ships will kinda beam the cow up and do whatever they are going to do with it. Then they just drop from a great height."
So numerous did reports of cattle mutilation become in western and midwestern states in the 1970s that the FBI was asked to step in and investigate. But according to now declassified documents, they were unable to properly perform the task due to jurisdictional issues.
No official answer has ever been given to these strange and unsettling incidents, and they remain unsolved.
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Gorse Hill Primary School Governing Body is an extremely committed body of people, made up from various sections of the community. Governors are responsible for all the statutory aspects of school such as agreeing and monitoring the implementation of the School Development Plan. Most importantly, they support, challenge and promote the ethos of the school. Additionally, the Governors are responsible for agreeing the school's budget plan, senior appointments, Health and Safety, and make decisions on building improvements and capital projects. Governors are involved in the everyday life of the school, often visiting to see the children and learn more about our wonderful school.
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Just think. A whole delete-key generation has come of age. Maybe that's what's wrong with society.
That was the opening line of a silly letter making the rounds in the pre-Facebook days of my youth. At age 12 I thought it was pretty funny. I still do.
I'd look it up on the Internet if I could. Someone has probably added it to the great body of trivia that clogs cyberspace. But I forgot my laptop when I left the big city for the farm. Alas.
You guessed it. Here I sit with a felt-tip pen scribbling 501 words on a yellow legal pad. No kidding. Most of what I've written so far is scratched out. I miss my delete key most of all.
I probably remember that part because it sounds like one of my self-defeating money-saving strategies – like last night when what I wanted most was a Braum's $1 vanilla-chocolate (emphasis on chocolate) frozen yogurt waffle cone. My Braum's closes at 10:45 sharp. I was over a hundred miles away when I realized I'd have to speed to make it. Why not just get to McDonald's by 11 p.m. and pay a little extra for a chocolate shake?
At 10:57 at the latest I pulled up to the unblinking order-taking intercom. I waited. Silence. Cars pulled in behind me. After about three minutes (the McDonald's definition of eternity) I pulled up to the money-taking window. No money-taker. Finally, after watching the woman in front of me get her food and drink, I drove to the last window, where I met Sapphire, a real person.
You guessed it. She told me they were closed.
I've heard McDonald's pays pretty well, but I knew they weren't paying the hapless Sapphire enough for her to listen to someone in the unhappy throes of chocolate withdrawal. What's more, she had yet to deal with those other two cars. I hoped no one was armed.
Did I get my chocolate? Yes. I paid $1.79 for 16 ounces of chocolate milk at Allsup's, where I also hoped no customers were armed. Good old Allsup's, the only place open one Thanksgiving when my mother and I thought we'd eat out. Love those burritos. We digress.
In closing (right on time), my compliments to the Post Office. They don't close till the very last minute. Yes, I'm their favorite customer.


 Dr. Brian Burke described his ethnographic field work in Columbia as "active immersion—not just 'being there,' but laboring to know a place," (publication pending).
I first came to know Martin County, Kentucky through news headlines: Kentucky's 'worst' water system might be only weeks away from collapse (January 26, 2018); Why One County Has Avoided Drinking Its Water For 18 Years (February 8, 2018); The water runs milky and can feel like fire. In this impoverished county, Trump's $1.5 trillion infrastructure plan may not help (February 12, 2018).
In the past couple of months, I've been getting to know Martin County from my front porch swing in Quail Hollow in Inez. Mickey McCoy's grandmother grew up in this house, and Mickey remembers when the yard was filled with a large garden with beans, tomatoes, and all kinds of other vegetables that he would help harvest, preserve, and eat. Most days when I sit out on the porch, I chat with a neighbor who passes my house on the way to visit the elderly couple that lives next door. She told me that soon, we will have to drive up the road that leads to the Big Sandy Federal Prison to watch the elk that pass by there in the evening.
I am getting to know Inez at dawn when the mist catches on the mountains and at dusk when the sky colors with the setting sun.
I am becoming familiar with the Inez Walking Trail that follows the creek through town. One evening, a county employee shows me to the part of the path where endangered turtles return year after year to lay their eggs. Another evening, my dog Fiddle, and I briefly share in the excitement of a young family who spot a big turtle in the creek while feeding bread to the ducks. I tell them about the time last week when Fiddle tried to chase a group of ducklings on the water.
I am learning about Martin County during monthly water board meetings, while reading thousands of pages of legal documents about the Public Service Commission's investigation into the Martin County Water District, and when combing through the archives at the Mountain Citizen newspaper office on Main Street.
I am getting to know Martin County when I buy bottled water at the Walmart in Johnson County, when I buy gas in Floyd County, and when neighbors in Martin County offer me tomatoes, corn, and hot peppers from their backyard gardens.
Mostly, I am learning about Martin County through stories: stories of sickness; stories of corruption; stories about water leaks; and stories about high school football games, the annual Harvest Festival and family reunions.
This place, like every place, is full of contradiction, complexity, joy and grief, and the experiences of everyday life. Martin County is shaped by decades of extraction with very little investment in water infrastructure; it is also shaped by the people who live, work, and play here. Slowly, I am laboring to know Martin County and listen to its many dreams and visions for the future.


This is an example that shows how to use user-defined monitors to establish communication between CPN Tools and an applet via external communication with Comms/CPN.
The net is a variation of the net for the Dining Philosophers. In the following it is assumed that you are familiar with the net for the Dining Philosophers.
In this net the philosophers pick up one chopstick at a time, whereas in the Dining Philosophers net, the philosophers pick up both the left and right chopsticks at the same time.
<cpntoolsdir>/Samples/DiningPhilosophers/DiningPhilosophers_COMM_Mon.cpn where <cpntoolsdir> is the directory in which CPN Tools is installed.
A Java applet has been created to show how Comms/CPN can be used to establish communication between CPN Tools and an external process. This applet provides an alternative graphical representation of the markings of the net for the dining philosophers system. Each time a transition occurs in the net, the graphics shown by the applet are updated.
In the figure below, philosopher number 5 has both chopsticks and is eating, while philosopher number 2 has only picked up the right chopstick.
The files for the applet can be found in <cpntoolsdir>/Samples/DiningPhilosophers/applet, or they can be downloaded from the help page for external communication with Comms/CPN.
The Java classes for the applet will not be described here.
Load the sample net DiningPhilosophers_COMM_Mon.cpn.
Apply the Rewind tool to the net to return to the initial marking.
Load the applet on the computer where CPN Tools is running, e.g. by double-clicking on the applet.html file.
Apply the Play tool to the System page (the simulation feedback will not be updated until a connection has been made to the applet, see steps 6 and 7).
Enter 9000 as the Port Number in the GUI for the applet.
Press the Start button in the applet.
Observe how the GUI for the applet reflects the marking of the CP-net.
There are two declarations that are used when communicating with the applet. The function send_to_applet uses one of the Comms/CPN functions to send a string to the applet. The reference variable connected is used in two user-defined monitors to check and/or indicate whether a connection to the applet has been established.
The two user-defined monitors for this net are named AppletComm and Deadlock. The AppletComm monitor is associated with all five transitions on page System, and the Deadlock monitor is associated with two transitions and two places on the same page.
The AppletComm monitor is associated with all of the transitions in the net. This means that the predicate function for the monitor will be invoked after every step in a simulation.
The initialization function is called once before a simulation starts. It checks to see if a communication connection exists between CPN Tools and the applet. If there is a connection, then the connection is closed, and the reference variable connected is updated to indicate that the connection has been closed. The ConnManagementLayer.closeConnection function is one of the Comms/CPN functions.
The predicate function is invoked after every step in a simulation, and it returns true each time one of the transitions in the net occurs.
The observation function is invoked each time the predicate function returns true, and it returns a pair of strings. The first value in the pair is a string representation of the variable p which is of type PH, and the second value is a string that indicates what event just occurred, i.e. which transition just occurred. The function PH.mkstr is one of the color set functions.
Whenever the predicate function returns true, the value that is returned by the observation function will be passed to the action function. The action function will check whether a connection to the applet has been established. If there is no connection, then ConnManagementLayer.acceptConnection function is invoked, and the simulation will be blocked until the applet opens a connection on port 9000. When a connection has been established, then the connected reference variable is set to true. Finally, the send_to_applet function is invoked with the string values that were passed from the observation function. The send_to_applet is defined in a declaration, as described above.
The stop function is invoked when simulation stop criteria are fulfilled. If there is still a connection between CPN Tools and the applet, then the connection will be closed, and the reference variable connected will be set to false. If the connection has already been disconnected, then nothing will happen when the stop function is invoked.
All philosophers have their left chopstick if the marking of place GotLeft is equal to all of the values in the PH color set, i.e. if the marking of the place is equal to the multiset returned by the function PH.all(). The function PH.all() is one of the color set functions. Checking whether all philosophers have their right chopstick is done in a similar manner.
The Deadlock monitor is associated with the nodes shown in the group below.
The initialization function for this monitor does nothing.
The == operator is used to check if two multisets are equal.
The observation function for this monitor does nothing, and it returns a unit value.
The action function is used to close a connection between CPN Tools and the applet when a dead marking has been reached. When the action function is invoked, it will send the string deadlocked to the applet, it will close the connection to the applet, and it will set the reference variable connected to false.
The stop function for this monitor does nothing.


In this video we will discuss, selecting, inserting, updating and deleting data in mvc using entity framework. Please watch Part 24, before proceeding.
We will be using tables tblDepartment and tblEmployee for this demo. You can get the sql script to create and populate these tables from Part 10 of this video series.
Step 1: Create a new asp.net mvc 4 web application.
Step 2: Right click on the "Models" folder and add "ADO.NET Entity Data Model". Set Name = EmployeeDataModel.edmx.
On the subsequent screen, select "Generate from database" option and click "Next".
On "Choose your data connection screen", click on "New Connection" button.
Specify the sql server name. In my case, I have sql server installed on my local machine. So I have set "Server Name=(local)". From "Select or enter a database name" dropdownlist, select the Database name and click "OK".
On "Choose your database objects" screen, expand "Tables" and select "tblDepartment" and "tblEmployee" tables. Set "Model Namespace=Models" and click "Finish"
Run the application again. Notice that, all the employees are listed on the index view. We can also create a new employee, edit an employee, view their full details and delete an employee as well. However, there are few issues, with each of the views, which we will address in our upcoming videos.
Sir, I am getting un supported context error..my drop downlist for DataContextClass does not list EmployeeContext even if i build the solutiom more than once..please help..
Watch the video, because you need to make EmployeeContext your connection string name, or else use the one called Sample, like on the blog here.
For the unsupported context error, upgrade to "visual studio 2013"; upgrading resolved the issue for me.
i have visual studio 2013 express version and still get this error.
I named my connection string as Employeecontext as well . I have used connection string in web.config but still get the same error. However i included SapmleEntities from the dropdown list of select context and its working.
Employee Controller is not generating scaffolding template and code and shows issues with alert. I have closed Visual Studio and opened again with Admin Privileges solved problem. This is for others reference.
After watching video and this tutorial .
In case you are using visual studio 2010 then you will not get this error.
Follow the same step as mentation in MVC Tutorials.
I Think IT`s HELPFUT TO u.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12256519/entity-framework-issue-in-vs2012-rename-properties-not-sticking, This worked for me, by moving entitydatamodel(employeedatamodel) to root directory, and the tbl prefix has gone. Thanks.
Hi Does this auto generation work for mvc3 also?
Whats the impact of using entity framework in mvc4 application.
Server Error in '/MVCDemo25' Application.
Exception Details: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Login failed for user 'IIS APPPOOL\DefaultAppPool'.
"Could not load file or assembly, the system cannot find the file specified."
Can you help me with this, so i can able to move forward.
Thanks for the Videos and the detailed blog on MVC. I tried to generate a Employee controller but it is creating templates for department, Please let me know where i am going wrong.
In the tables i took there is no foreign key.Hence i dint get any relationship and also no navigation properties are available....so can i take independent relationships?????
Hello sir, I want to know that is edmx file make mvc application slow or not when I have large amount of data in database.
Sir, if i Write data annotations in that auto generated class then if i update the model(edmx if any column changes ) yhen all the anotations will go away . what i need to do on that case.
how this is coming... can anybody tell. I am setting entity container name as employeecontext. how this option is rising in drop down list.
How do I update the entity framework key relation in the code. I followed all the mentioned steps to create Entity framework environment in code but later I found that in my database table I didn't have the foreign key relation between Employee and Department table so I have created a foreign key in Employee table referring Department table Department Id but the same foreign key relation is not updated in the entity framework code.
In my past interview, the Interviewer asked me about Dependency Injection in MVC. How will you implement?
Can you please make an video on Dependency Injection in MVC?
sir when i create the EmployeeController this error comes up"Could not find the CLR type For Models.Employee"
Hi Mostafa, this is happend because you have not mapped the Department table ID field-> with Employee table departmentId field.
It means this primary key field ID of table Department is not properly related to the field departmentId of Employee table as foreign key.
Hope I have given suitable reply.
After renaming the entities....i am trying to add the controller but..i am getting this error "unable to retriece metadata for mvcdemo.models.tblemployee". could not find the CLR type for model.emploee.....please help what i need to do...thank you..


Q What should I look for in a garden trowel? —JENETHA WILLIAMS, MARTINSBURG, W.VA. A Durability and comfort should be at the top of the list. A trowel with a forged one-piece blade and tang, like the one at top left, will stand up better to vigorous prying and digging than the colorful stamped-steel ones also shown here. And you'll get a much better grip on a bare-wood handle than on one of painted metal.
After your June 2015 issue featured more wonderful outdoor living spaces ["Great Outdoor Getaways"], I had to write. They all look very beautiful, and they're full of ideas. However, if you share outdoor living spaces with mosquitoes, forget anything without screens! We have had a deck for years but unfortunately can use it only in early spring and after the first frost in fall.
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The ethereal party label returns.
The Elysian party and label combination of Afterlife returns to Hï Ibiza on Thursdays from 27 June, promising a journey that starts with a "gateway to the unknown".
Over the summer there are plenty of chances to immerse yourself in the Afterlife experience until its grand closing on 3 October.
The hugely popular clubbing haunt, also billed as "an odyssey through the realm of consciousness" is lead by Italian musical partnership Tale Of Us, who supply the very finest in deeply moving, emotional electronic music.
For now the ethereal party brand has only confirmed dates so keep your eyes on our magazine for more information and tickets.