At the end of this week students will be able to: Set-up a variety of safety systems for a BUR roof. Install different BUR systems i.e. multi-plied, or modified systems. Demonstrate how to flash penetrations and roofing details based upon manufactures specifications Display team building skills and work efficiency.


Community education courses offer a variety of classes at a low fee. There are often sign language classes that can be taken in the evenings over the course of several weeks. Classes are held in Minneapolis Public Schools locations throughout the city.


BATON ROUGE, La. – The University of Louisiana System and its eight campuses have commissioned studies that, for the first time, will make it possible to document their impact on Louisiana's economy and quality of life.
Applied Research Technology Corporation of Baton Rouge will conduct the studies to determine each campus' economic and quality of life contribution regionally and the system's impact on the state as a whole. Results are expected by late spring.
"Are our regions and state better off financially because of the eight universities in our system? Are our communities better places to live as a result of our universities' presence? These studies will help us answer these questions. And I think the public will be impressed with the results," UL System Chair Elsie Burkhalter said.
UL System President Randy Moffett said the studies are essential in showing the state's return on its investment. The eight UL System campuses, situated throughout the state, include Grambling State University, Louisiana Tech University, McNeese State University, Northwestern State University, Nicholls State University, Southeastern Louisiana University, University of Louisiana at Lafayette and University of Louisiana at Monroe.
The studies will compile expenditures from a variety of sources (the university budget, faculty and staff, students, university visitors, university retirees, vendors and affiliated organizations) to compute an economic impact dollar figure that represents each university's fiscal impact and contributions to the region and state. Based on a methodology established through a seminal study by the American Council on Education, the UL System studies will detail expenditures and use a multiplier to determine the total impact on each region and the state.
Further, it will determine each university's influence on the region through its activities and programs and make a value-added assessment of what the university's graduates contribute to the regional and statewide economy, as well as to society in general.
It will also incorporate the comments of stakeholders, such as business and industry leaders.
Similar studies have been commissioned by the California State System, the University System of Georgia, the University of Maine System and the University of Texas System, as well as individual universities. In Louisiana, four UL System institutions — Northwestern State University, Southeastern Louisiana University, UL Lafayette and UL Monroe — have conducted their own economic impact studies over the years.
For more information about the eight universities of the UL System, visit the system's website at www.ulsystem.edu.


In a recent interview with KIRO Radio's Jason Rantz, Terry O'Neill, President of the National Organization for Women (NOW), made clear the state of pro-abortion rejection of modern science.
O'Neill was asked whether she would still promote abortion, even if science conclusively proved that life begins at conception….which it, umm… has.
"I don't care. Of course, I would support abortion," replied O'Neill.
But instead of answering the question, O'Neill attempted to debate religion. "Take religion out of it and we are not even having this conversation," she said, in an obvious attempt to avoid a scientific discussion. O'Neill went on to state that she has no idea when life begins – an interesting claim for an individual living in 21st century America.
I do know that a vasectomy, a reproductive health issue for men, is a sin. Just as much as abortion and birth control are. But you don't see Catholic bishops going up and down the halls of congress trying to criminalize, stigmatize, regulate and put restrictions on vasectomies the way they demand that sort of thing for women. So they are discriminating against women and our access to reproductive healthcare.
Like much of what O'Neill said in this interview, the vasectomy-sexism argument is, frankly, laughable. First, we're clearly going off on a rabbit trail at this point. Countless pro-lifers are not religious, and countless pro-choicers are very religious. But even for those who may fit O'Neill's stereotype of pro-lifers as ultra-conservative Catholics, the important difference between an abortion and a vasectomy is not the gender of the individual seeking the procedure. This really should go without saying, but for those who may be gravely ignorant on the topic and/or happen to be named Terry O'Neill, here is the difference: In a vasectomy, the potential to create a new human life is blocked (which some Catholics personally oppose, but few politically oppose) whereas abortion kills a new human life which has already been created, thus leading many Catholics, Protestants, and Atheists alike to oppose abortion – because murder is universally considered wrong. Interestingly, that transports us off the religion rabbit trail, right back to the main topic… what was it again? Oh yeah, science.
So, scientifically, when does life begin? O'Neill believes, and would have you believe, that the answer has not yet been found. Of course, modern science would disagree with her. But instead of facing the music, pro-choicers would apparently rather argue about religion, vasectomies, or maybe even why Coke is superior to Pepsi. (Okay, they'd be right on that last one.) But seriously – Terry O'Neill, can we please discuss science and science alone with regard to abortion? Maybe mix in a little logic, if you're willing? Let's leave those religious stereotypes at home.


Join this lunchtime publicity stall, 12-2pm on Friday 1st April. Meet under the railway bridge in Southend High Street.
Southend Against The Cuts has organised this event in support of a campaign backed by the TUC to defend the NHS against cuts and privatisation.


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Joe Biden Taps Kamala Harris As His Running Mate
Will it help him with black voters?
by FITSNews August 11, 2020 August 11, 2020 024
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After multiple missteps on racial matters, former U.S. vice president Joe Biden – the 2020 Democratic presidential nominee – chose a minority as his running mate this week. Will the bold move help the career politician in his bid to rally black voters to his banner, though?
Or was the selection not as bold as it seems?
We shall see …
For better or worse, U.S. senator Kamala Harris of California will run with Biden in November – becoming the first black woman ever to appear on a presidential ticket.
"I have the great honor to announce that I've picked Kamala Harris – a fearless fighter for the little guy, and one of the country's finest public servants – as my running mate," Biden tweeted on Tuesday, making good on his earlier promise to select a female vice presidential nominee.
Biden cited Harris' closeness with his late son, Beau Biden, as one of the reasons he selected her.
"Back when Kamala was attorney general, she worked closely with Beau," Biden tweeted. "I watched as they took on the big banks, lifted up working people, and protected women and kids from abuse. I was proud then, and I'm proud now to have her as my partner in this campaign."
"Joe Biden can unify the American people because he's spent his life fighting for us – and as president, he'll build an America that lives up to our ideals," Harris said in accepting the nomination. "I'm honored to join him as our party's nominee for vice president, and do what it takes to make him our commander-in-chief."
In responding to the selection of Harris, the campaign of U.S. president Donald Trump took aim at some of the far left positions she adopted during her own aborted bid for the White House.
"In her failed attempt at running for president, Kamala Harris gleefully embraced the left's radical manifesto, calling for trillions of dollars in new taxes and backing Bernie Sanders' government takeover of health care," Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson said. "She is proof that Joe Biden is an empty shell being filled with the extreme agenda of the radicals on the left."
Well … that was already happening with Biden.
Trump himself responding to the announcement by tweeting a campaign video bashing "phony Kamala" as a candidate who "ran for president by rushing to the radical left."
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Those are fair points, but libertarian presidential nominee Jo Jorgensen adopted a classier tact in responding to the announcement.
"I'm glad that Joe Biden has brought another woman into the race; the vice presidency shouldn't be a boys' club," Jorgensen tweeted. "When I think about the millions of girls and young women across America, I think they deserve a voice this year when it comes to the top job in the country."
Harris – an early Democratic presidential frontrunner – dropped out of the 2020 race last December, citing her inability to compete financially with the likes of billionaires Tom Steyer and Michael Bloomberg.
"I'm not a billionaire," she wrote. "I can't fund my own campaign. And as the campaign has gone on, it's become harder and harder to raise the money we need to compete. In good faith, I can't tell you, my supporters and volunteers, that I have a path forward if I don't believe I do."
The week prior to her exit, though, Harris was the subject of a pair of unflattering mainstream media pieces which portrayed her campaign organization as rudderless, chaotic and wasteful.
Ironically, Harris vaulted to the top tier of Democratic candidates by eviscerating Biden during an early debate – highlighting his alliances with pro-segregationist U.S. senators as well as his prior opposition to school busing.
"Do you agree today that you were wrong to oppose busing in America?" Harris grilled Biden. "There was a little girl in California who was a part of the second class to integrate her public schools, and she was bused to school every day. And that little girl was me."
Meanwhile, Biden savaged Harris for allegedly allowing nonviolent offenders to remain behind bars during her tenure as attorney general – claiming she wanted to preserve a supply of cheap labor for the state.
"What happened?" Biden asked. "Along came a federal judge and said enough is enough and he freed 1,000 of these people."
Expect for those exchanges to figure prominently in the Trump pushback to Harris' selection …
Harris, 55, was San Francisco's district attorney from 2004-2011 and California's attorney general from 2011-2017. The Oakland native – who is of Indian-Jamaican ancestry – was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2016. Since then, she has been a lead sponsor of U.S. senator Bernie Sanders' "Medicare-for-all" proposal as well as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's "Green New Deal."
"In picking Harris, Joe Biden chose the Antifa wing of the Democratic Party, making the stark differences between the two visions for America crystal clear," said Rick Manning, president of Americans for Limited Government (GetLiberty.org).
Despite her far left ideological orientation, this news outlet felt Harris was well-positioned to capture the Democratic nomination – particularly given the party's leftward lurching of late.
"We are surprised Harris' candidacy came to such an ignominious end," we wrote upon the occasion of her December withdrawal. "We saw her as being among the most promising 2020 Democratic candidates, and her exit from the race leaves the party without what could have been one of its most compelling voices in a general election."
Looks like Harris' voice is back in the mix now … but will it be enough to inspire black voters to turn out for Biden?
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