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USEFUL LINKS/ READING
Map of Conservation Area
Conservation Area Audit (including schedule of Listed Buildings)
Protection of Historical Buildings in Westminster (A useful guide)_
A guide for owners and occupiers of listed buildings
Maintenance of listed buildings
The St John's Wood Society's Planning Committee is dedicated to conserving the character of the St John's Wood Conservation Area, an area of special historic and architectural interest, immediately recognisable for its distinctive low density townscape with wide tree-lined streets.
Westminster City Council consults us on every planning application for the area, over 300 applications annually. We ask that owners give careful regard to the impact their proposal will have not only on the historic or architectural interest of the building, but also on the environment, streetscape and the amenity of neighbours. We do not object to proposals which have architectural merit, where materials and detailed design take into account and enrich original features and are in proportion to the existing building and streetscape.
The removal of characteristic features, or the introduction of unsympathetic windows, doors or materials can not only destroy the visual quality of one building but erode the entire character and interest of an area.
We work closely with our residents, our MP, Abbey Road and Regent's Park ward councillors, landowners (the Eyre Estate and John Lyon's Charity) local businesses, developers, architects and Westminster City Council's planning, enforcement, conservation and arboricultural officers. We are also involved with the emerging Neighbourhood Forum.
Detailed information on local planning issues is published in the Society's Magazine 'From The Wood'. The most recent articles are available here:


Wishing you and yours a happy 2015! This was once again an unsuccessful photoshoot. I don't know how those calendar photographers manage to get their rabbits to pose so nicely. I had a wild bunch this morning.
Happy New Year to you & your family. How's the business at the furniture store? We are very fortunate that we have an extra day off after Christmas & New Year. We are kind of spoil because we have our four days weekend for two weeks.
Btw, do you let the bunnies hop around inside the house? And do you have plan to volunteer on the Tooth Fairy Day this year?
Chat with you next time and take care.
Hope your holiday season was 'hopping'! Wishing you and your family a great 2015! Were Flopsie and Mopsie affected by the crazy fireworks – or did their ears protect them… hee! hee!


Finished quilt is 22" x 22" The hand printed fat quarter is natural fabric with forest green or black print.
Nine blocks each with one Fruit of the Spirit described in Galatians 5:22-23 with title banner block makes an inspirational 25" X 31" wall hanging. Black print on either natural or white fabric.


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Evelyn Mae Robertson
Evelyn M. Robertson
Evelyn M. Robertson of Van Tassell died Tuesday, June 11, 1985, at Community Hospital in Torrington.
She was born Jan. 30, 1915.
She is survived by her husband, Warren of Van Tassell; daughters, Kay Holmes of Van Tassell and Leah Ballou of Hulett, and a son, Clyde of Van Tassell.
Funeral services will be 2 pm. Saturday at Peet Chapel. Burial will be in Lusk Cemetery.
Peet Mortuary of Lusk is handling arrangements.
Evelyn M. Robertson of Van Tassell died Tuesday, June 11, 1985, at Community Hospital in Torrington. She was 70.
The daughter of Walter and Katherine Meier, she was born Jan. 30, 1915, on the family ranch north of Van Tassell.
Mrs. Robertson attended grade school at the ranch and high school in Harrison, Neb. She married Lee Shepherd in 1934. The parents of two girls, they lived on a ranch 16 miles north of Harrison.
After Mr. Shepherd's death in 1946, she moved to Harrison. She married Warren Robertson Nov. 28, 1947. They lived in Lingle before moving to the ranch seven miles north of Van Tassell in 1950. They were the parents of one son.
Mr. and Mrs. Robertson were active square dancers for many years. She also loved gardening.
She was preceded in death by her first husband, Lee Shepherd and her parents.
Survivors include her husband, Warren of Van Tassell; two daughters, Leah Ballou of Hulett and Kay Holmes of Van Tassell; a son Clyde of Van Tassell; two sisters, Lorraine Duckworth of Alliance, Neb., and Mildred Zerbst of Lusk; a brother, Walter Meier of Aurora, Neb., and seven grandchildren, Misty Lowe of Lance Creek, Cody Ballou and Kristy Ballou of Hulett, and Rich, Tori and Kelli Robertson, all of Van Tassell.
Memorial services were Saturday, June 15, at Peet Mortuary Chapel in Lusk. The Rev. Delbert Dick officiated. Burial was in Lusk Cemetery.
Donations may be directed to the American Cancer Fund or the Niobrara County Ambulance Fund.
Peet Mortuary handled arrangements.
Photo courtesy of the Joshua Brackett Eagle Scout Project
Obituary Robertson, Clyde (11/17/1914 - 07/18/1966) View Record

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5 iPhone Apps You Just Can't Miss This Week
By Alexander Aciman
It seems like hundreds of new iPhone apps pop up every week, but which ones should you bother trying? We explored the App Store and found five apps actually worth downloading.
News is like the mail: There's no start date, and there's definitely no end date. Timeline seems to have figured out that one of the best ways to deliver mobile news to readers is to curate stories and provide context. The app allows you to scroll through other stories attached to any given story in order to understand events in greater detail. In short, it treats the news like a timeline.
Timeline is free in the App Store
Funny or Die Weather
Some people just want their weather apps to give them, well, the weather. However, there's a level of much-appreciated inanity to sites or apps that want to jazz up the weather for the sake of comedy alone. Funny or Die's weather app gives you the weather, and then adds useless weather-related info ("the humidity of water is extremely high") and captions just to make you laugh. It makes looking at bad, blizzardy weather a lot more bearable.
Funny or Die Weather is free in the App Store
Colors is sort of like the Andy Warhol's Factory of apps. Apply 1,000 color filters over just about any combination of stencils to your photos. It's completely unlike the standard photo filters — instead, it's an experiment in turning your photos into surreal portraits. Toy around with this app with the same eager, naive eyes as the first moment you opened Instagram and learned about filters.
Colors is $0.99 in the App Store
Another minimal organization app for the scatterbrained, Handle takes all your tasks and appointments and merges them with your inbox. That means you'll no longer have to coordinate between two apps and miss deadlines or meetings because of it. The app also organizes your whole life into a timeline that looks similar to many other iOS apps, which makes it a lot more intuitive to use than apps designed as downsized calendars.
Handle is free in the App Store.
Shifts may be the fastest and easiest way to input simple data into your phone: You pick and place icons on a calendar that tell you whether you are working a night or morning shift or whether you have to go to school or you've got the day off. In short, it's great for keeping track of your obligations with only a quick glance and minimal upkeep on your part.
Shifts is $1.99 in the App Store


And some part-time residents' forwarding addresses had expired so ballots were returned as undeliverable. Ganger said it was 16 of 50 at one condo.
Residents seemed hungry to learn more about the plan to bury electric, phone and cable TV lines. A crowd of 50 to 60 people attended an informational meeting put on by the Civic Association at the Gulf Stream School. At the Town Commission meeting two days later, extra seats had to be brought in.
Koch said the rest of Gulf Stream wanted underground lines, but were put off by the expense. But technology changes have brought the cost down. The average fee for a single-family residence in Gulf Stream is $15,218, town consultants said, while pointing out that similar projects in Jupiter Island and Jupiter Inlet Colony came in well under budget.
"Now more people here see the value of undergrounding, and that's why we're bringing this to the voters to make this decision,'' Koch said.
No residents spoke at the commission meeting. At the Civic Association meeting, condo residents asked why they should pay the same as a single-family home when the wiring in front of their building served more than one family. The consultants said their formula treated each dwelling unit equally regardless of size.
Another resident asked why the cost shown on her ballot did not include a yearly breakdown. After the project is approved, the town can negotiate 10- or 20-year payment plans, the consultants said.
And one resident wondered if the project is worth it if power lines in Briny Breezes and Delray Beach are still overhead.
On the proposed annexation, town officials discovered that the usual precinct for county pocket residents had been chained shut and that four of the 90 registered voters on the county's list are dead.
"The polling place that they had had over on Federal seems to be deserted,'' Town Clerk Rita Taylor told commissioners before they gave initial approval to an annexation ordinance.
and the county pocket's voters.
Straw ballots on the underground utility project were due back at Town Hall by 2 p.m. Feb. 7. Go to www.thecoastalstar.com for updates.


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Killing the Last Cancer Cell
Recognizing that tumor cells lurking in the body after cancer treatment will cause a relapse of cancer, scientists are working to employ nature's army-the immune system-to destroy remaining enemy outposts.
Ronald M. Klinearchive page
Sunil Chadaarchive page
Early in this century, patients with cancer would often seek medical attention only in the final stages of their disease, after their tumors had become massive. Surgeons would attempt to remove these tumors to alleviate their patients' pain. But since sterile operative techniques were in their infancy and the discovery of antibiotics almost half a century away, such surgery often caused massive and frequently fatal infections.
In a few instances, however, tumor remnants of infected patients would disappear, leaving them healthy and doctors puzzled. Today, after decades of research into how the immune system works, scientists have learned that the seemingly miraculous cures resulted from the infections themselves, which set in motion complex immune reactions.
Understanding the relationship between cancer and the immune system-whose purpose is to find and destroy any abnormal cells in an organism among a mass of normal ones-has resulted partly from so-called "experiments of nature." A few diseases involving immune deficiencies are associated with higher rates of cancer, for example. A person infected with HIV, for instance, is 100 times more likely to develop a malignancy than an uninfected person. Also, organ-transplant recipients treated for a long time with drugs that suppress the immune system, thereby preventing rejection of the new organs, are many times more likely to develop cancer than the rest of the population. In fact, an elegant demonstration of the immune system's role in protecting against cancer is the fact that tumors occasionally regress when doctors remove immunosuppressing drugs.
Armed with such discoveries as well as modern biotechnology techniques, researchers have begun using several elements of the immune system to systematically destroy tumor cells. (Of course, immunotherapy is only one of a number of innovative ideas in cancer treatment that hold significant promise. The public investment into cancer research since the Nixon administration declared war on cancer in 1971 is finally starting to produce a variety of innovative techniques, such as methods that exploit the genetics of how a cell becomes malignant.) The work, being conducted on both animal models and people with cancers difficult to eliminate by traditional means, has a long way to go but suggests a more effective way of treating many cancers in the future.
The Problem with Recurrent Cancer
The standard methods for eliminating malignant tumors have long been surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. The underlying crude assumption is that doctors can generally destroy a cancer without losing the patient to the therapy's toxic effects. Of course, as researchers have developed supportive care such as powerful antibiotics and growth factors-natural body proteins that can be manufactured using genetic-engineering techniques and that cause the white-blood-cell count (which plummets after treatments) to recover more quickly-doctors have been able to administer more intensive chemotherapy. These treatments have played a role in the recent good news that the number of U.S. cancer deaths has finally dropped for several consecutive years. Still, 500,000 U.S. residents annually die of malignancies-a number hard on the heels of the country's number-one killer, cardiovascular disease.
For everyone who has witnessed cancer firsthand-whether as patient, family member, friend, or medical professional-one of the most worrisome and disheartening aspects is that while today's therapies can generally eradicate all measurable evidence of disease initially, any remaining cells may proliferate and cause a relapse of cancer. And because the first set of remaining cells has resisted chemotherapy, their offspring have a selective advantage to do the same, leaving the person with a recurrence of cancer that is often widespread and much less easily treated with chemotherapy or other techniques.
A critical need, therefore, is to find and eliminate the few remaining cancer cells left viable after conventional therapy. The immune system's elegant and complex methods of attacking invaders suggest a variety of ways to assail the remaining bits of malignancies. (Another goal is to discard today's techniques altogether in favor of an entirely different method. But eliminating treatments that now work better than anything else is not judicious until viable alternatives develop.)
At its simplest level, the immune system discriminates between "self" and "nonself" and destroys the latter. In most responses, the system relies partly on antibodies-proteins with two specialized ends. One end of an antibody binds to the infecting cell or virus while the other end attracts immune cells that engulf and digest the invader. The attack also relies on different immune cells, which, upon contact with foreign cells, secrete compounds that make the offenders' membranes porous so that their vital contents leak out and the cells eventually die.
With this general understanding of the immune system and knowledge of the early reports of tumor regressions after infection, in the 1960s and '70s clinicians injected some solid tumors with killed or weakened microbes, such as BCG (bacille Calmette-Gurin, an altered form of tuberculosis) and Cornybacteria (the cause of diphtheria), in the hope that such outside organisms would stimulate an immune response. And indeed they did, sometimes destroying the tumor. Although the results were inconsistent, the work demonstrated that "immunotherapy" might someday have a place in the cancer-fighting armamentarium.
Toward Specific Immune Therapy
Then along came genetic engineering and the recognition of its value in identifying and manufacturing proteins called cytokines. Some of these can act as anticancer agents because they regulate the activation of immune cells. They essentially put the immune system at a higher state of alertness so that it can better detect tumor cells. Researchers had discovered some cytokines in the mid 1970s, before the era of genetic engineering, but that technology made possible the production of a large enough quantity of the proteins for study and treatment.
Over the years, investigators have identified several cytokines that lead to the destruction of tumor cells. Indeed, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the intravenous use of the cytokine interleukin-2 for this purpose against kidney cancer. Researchers have also found this cytokine can help against one form of leukemia and malignant melanoma, and are studying its efficacy against a broad range of other cancers. And scientists have discovered that the cytokine alpha interferon can activate immune cells against a form of leukemia. Although for reasons not yet understood investigators have found that cytokine injections generally induce responses in only 20 to 30 percent of patients, researchers worldwide are continuing to explore which of a large variety of tumors, prognostic factors, doses, and dose schedules work best with particular cytokines.
Meanwhile, following some early work injecting cytokines to fight cancer, some scientists recognized that the amount of immune-cell activation that can take place in the body through cytokine injection is limited by the dose of cytokines that can be administered that way. The treatment's side effects, such as alternating fever and chills, low blood pressure, and difficulty in breathing, can become severe enough that patients need to stop the therapy. The investigators thought a way to raise the amount of activated immune cells would be to identify some of those cells, remove a few from the body, and mix them with a high dose of cytokines in a test tube. The idea was that the resulting large mass of activated immune cells, when infused back into the body, would travel to tumor sites and destroy cancer cells.
In 1982 Elizabeth Grimm, then a cancer expert at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and two colleagues were the first to identify a kind of immune cell-which they labeled a lymphokine-activated killer (LAK) cell-that led to the death of tumor cells. Using the cytokine interleukin-2, the team next activated quantities of LAK cells in test tubes. Working in the laboratory of Steven Rosenberg, chief of NCI's surgery branch, the group ultimately found that LAK infusions destroyed cancer cells, especially those associated with malignant melanoma and kidney cancer. But other researchers concluded that the effects were no stronger than those seen from simply injecting interleukin-2. Apparently generating LAK cells outside the body was no more effective that creating them within the body through infusions of interleukin-2.
Then in 1986 Rosenberg isolated an immune cell from inside a tumor itself. Calling this cell a tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL), he postulated that it recognizes proteins unique to a tumor, moves into that entity, and attempts to generate an immune response. He extracted TIL cells from a surgically removed tumor and, in a test tube using interleukin-2, stimulated their growth up to about 100 times their original number. After this process, which took three weeks, Rosenberg injected the complete mass of TIL cells into animal models and later patients. The therapy was more potent than LAK treatments, with the tumors in 11 of 20 patients shrinking or disappearing altogether.
In follow-up research to determine why the TIL technique didn't always work as expected, however, in 1990 Richard Barth of the same laboratory determined that TIL cells do not kill tumor cells directly. Instead, after traveling to the tumor site they secrete more cytokines, such as tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and gamma interferon. These presumably recruit still other elements of the immune system in an attempt to destroy the tumor-an operation analogous to a reconnaissance team finding an enemy and then firing flares to bring reinforcements. Armed with this knowledge, in a subsequent experiment the lab tried to genetically engineer TIL cells to raise their secretion of TNF and gamma interferon. The idea was that the manufactured material, after being injected into the body, would home to areas surrounding malignant melanoma tumors-a particularly virulent form of cancer. But the researchers couldn't consistently engineer the TIL cells as they wanted to.
Interest in the method, as well as in injecting amplified but unaltered TIL, has subsequently waned because of such practical difficulties. Moreover, growing TIL cells is costly because of extensive involvement of lab technicians over three to six weeks, and contamination of cultures with bacteria or fungi is always possible. Repeated surgeries are also required to provide tumor cells to stimulate continual TIL growth. Still, the notion underlying Barth's research-genetically manipulating tumor cells-has provided the intellectual impetus for the next stage of work: cancer vaccines.
Fighting Tumors with Their Own Kind
When most people think of vaccines, their reference is to doctors giving these agents to prevent illness in the first place. But vaccines can be more than that, since they are simply modified infectious agents, or portions of agents, that stimulate an immune response when administered into a body. Thus a vaccine can be given after a person is sick, with the intention of stimulating an immune response strong enough to enable the patient to heal and then stay well. This approach underlies the idea of cancer vaccines.
The method used to construct most cancer vaccines has entailed introducing genes for cytokines into tumor cells and injecting these into the body. (To ensure safety, they have been treated with high-dose radiation so they cannot proliferate but can still carry out functions such as releasing the cytokines.) Researchers believe that physically bringing together these agents, plus immune cells that are always circulating in the body, approximates what happens during the natural generation of an immune response against cancer. The additional tumor cells should theoretically secrete extra-large doses of cytokines that will in turn activate heightened immune responses. And theoretically, the treatment should work for a long time, since immune responses produce other cells known as memory T cells, which provide long-term immunity.
Experiments introducing cytokine genes into animals' tumor cells began in the late 1980s, with researchers having now tested more than 10 of some 50 isolated cytokines. Working with mice, scientists have found that 4 cytokine genes-those that produce interleukin-2, interleukin-4, gamma interferon, and GM-CSF-suppress the growth of existing malignancies of various kinds, including melanoma, colon, kidney, breast, and leukemia.
The encouraging results have led to more than 80 human clinical trials. Researchers have treated over 100 people with interleukin-2 vaccines, more than 80 with GM-CSF, and 30-plus with gamma interferon. The investigators are just starting to publish their findings. In the first trial to be described that has had a significant number of patients, for instance, investigators at Somatix of Alameda, Calif., inserted the GM-CSF gene into tumor cells of more than 40 extremely sick patients for whom other treatments for malignant melanoma had failed. The researchers then injected the modified cells into the patients. While because of the stage of their illness many of the patients died during the treatment period, 3 of 13 people have had some tumors partly or completely shrink after therapy. Since ordinarily none of these tumors would have been expected to shrink, that number is encouraging enough to suggest that further trials are warranted.
Still, the general technique is not ideal to use across the board, since it requires genetically engineering each patient's tumor cells. That's necessary because an individual will reject another individual's cells. To avoid this problem, some researchers have come up with the idea of using something other than whole cells: tumor antigens-proteins found on the surface of tumor cells. Antigens, which are not necessarily unique to individuals and therefore not something that bodies reject, lead to an immune response against abnormal entities such as tumors. If investigators can figure out the antigens produced by particular kinds of tumors, the thinking goes, large amounts of such compounds, or better yet, their genes, could be placed, along with cytokine genes, into "vectors." These are viruses manipulated so that they cannot replicate and therefore cannot cause disease but can still insert themselves into the DNA of host cells. The engineered vectors could be used to infect cells in a person with a particular malignancy. Presumably the resulting antigens would induce an immune response against the cancer.
In 1991, Thierry Boon, director of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research branch in Brussels, published a technique for identifying antigens found on the surface of tumor cells. Transferring into mice a gene he discovered using this method-for an antigen associated with a mouse tumor-Boon has generated immune responses that have protected against subsequent injection of tumor cells. Steven Rosenberg's group at the National Cancer Institute has since started clinical trials to evaluate the effect of transferring genes for that antigen, as well as two others subsequently discovered, into melanoma patients. Results are not yet available.
Inhibiting Inhibitors
Other researchers have taken an altogether different tack in developing cancer vaccines. Recognizing that some cytokines associated with tumors do not activate an immune response but actually inhibit it, a group led by Habib Fakhrai, director of brain-tumor gene therapy at University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine, has researched techniques for preventing tumor cells from secreting inhibitory cytokines. This past year Fakhrai published an approach for treating an aggressive brain tumor that secretes an inhibitory cytokine called transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-). This cancer usually causes patients' deaths within a year of diagnosis.
by Ronald M. Kline & Sunil Chada
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This story was part of our May/June 1997 issue.


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Your Call 113007 Media Roundtable
On the next Your Call it's our Friday Media Roundtable. While all eyes were on Annapolis, what else happened in the world you should know about? Tensions continued to mount on the Turkey-Iraq border. We'll speak with Aliza Marcus there. The economy staggered along and we'll talk with Peter Waldman about the health of economics coverage. We'll also speak with Telemundo political analyst Carlos Rajo about news south of the border. It's Your Call, with me, Sandip Roy, and you.
Peter Waldman in San Francisco
Senior writer at Condé Nast Portfolio, a monthly business magazine that launched in May 2007. Waldman joined Condé Nast Portfolio from the Wall Street Journal, where he had worked as a writer and editor for 21 years.
Aliza Marcus in Washington DC
A journalist based in Washington DC. She reported from Turkey on the Kurdish rebel war and regional conflicts, first as a freelance reporter for the Christian Science Monitor and later as a staff writer for Reuters. Her book Blood and Belief: The PKK and the Kurdish Fight for Independence is just out.
Carlos Rajo in Los Angeles
Political analyst for Channel 22 & 52, the local affiliates for Telemundo in Los Angeles, from the Middle East to futbol in Buenos Aires. He is an occasional contributor to El Pais in Spain.
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Labels: annapolis, iraq, israel, palestine, turkey
Your Call 112907 What makes a good protest song?
What makes a good protest song? On the next Your Call we're joined by Jeff Chang, Hip Hop Historian. Chang has just returned from a trip to Indonesia where he collected raps in Bahasa. Four years into the war in Iraq, where is the music giving voice and song to the outrage? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.
Jeff Chang in San Francisco
Hip Hop historian and chronicler, author of Can't Stop Won't Stop, the critically acclaimed history of the Hip Hop movement.
Dave Marsh in New York City
Dave Marsh cofounded Creem magazine in Detroit, edited two editions of the Rolling Stone Record Guide and also edited the newsletter Rock and Roll Confidential, which morphed into Rock and Rap Confidential. He is the author of more than two dozen music books, including three books on Bruce Springsteen, for whom he is the semiofficial biographer. His latest book is called The Beatles' Second Album.
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Labels: hip hop, protest song, rock music, war in iraq
Your Call 112807 What Would Give the Palestinians Leverage?
What would give Palestinians leverage in peace talks? On the next Your Call we talk about what components are needed for a peace process to feel optimistic about. Right now Palestinians face a nuclear power from behind blockaded borders, split between two parties engaged in low grade civil war. Mahmoud Abbas is there as president of Palestine, but who does he represent? Is American support necessary for Palestinian success, or could another coalition be cobbled together? What would a peace process you had faith in need? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.
Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi
Member of the Palestinian Legislative Council and former Minister of Communication for the Palestinian Authority.
Amjad Shawa,
Palestinian NGO Network coordinator for Gaza
Lamia Matta
Middle East International Advocacy Director at the International Crisis Group.
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Labels: gaza, israel, mahmoud abbas, palestine, peace talks
Your Call 112707 The Falling Dollar
What explains the rapidly falling value of the U.S. dollar? On the next Your Call, we'll speak with economists about how the dollar's groundbreaking lows are affecting the U.S. economy. Earlier this month, the dollar dropped to a 26-year low against the British pound. And this past week, it hit a record low against the euro. How does its decreased value affect the U.S. in terms of trade and wages? The dollar is still at the center of financial markets around the world, so how are countries like China responding? It's Your Call with me, Rose Aguilar and you.
Ronald I. McKinnon
Professor of International Economics, Stanford University
Chair in Government/Business Relations at the School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin, and chair of Economists for Peace and Security.
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Labels: dollar, euro, financial markets, us economy, weak dollar
Your Call 112607 Not My Day Job--Positive change happening in our backyards
Who is working to improve your neighborhood? On Your Call, we're kicking off a series sharing some local positive stories coming out of our communities. We hear about the doom and gloom in the world today but we know that's not the whole story. We want to take the opportunity to recognize the work being done by everyday people right here. After a long day of work, they are spending their energy giving back. What are they up to and what lessons have they learned? It's Your Call with me, Rose Aguilar and you.
Francisco Da Costa, Longtime Bayview Activist and Writer
Paul Larudee, Ph.D., Human Rights Activist for peace and justice in Palestine
Gillian Gillett, The San Jose/Guerrero Coalition
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Previous Shows: A conversation with Indian activist Vandana Shiva AUDIO NOT POSTED [11.23.07]
Native California [11.22.07]
Labels: neighborhood, positive stories
Your Call 112107 On the Record: Representative Dennis Kucinich
What does Congressman Dennis Kucinich's long voting record tell us about what kind of president he would make? On the next Your Call, we continue our On the Record series where we move beyond the stump speeches and rhetoric and instead focus on candidates' voting records. What does Congressman Kucinich go to bat for? Who funds his campaigns and why do Cleveland voters keep sending him back to Capitol Hill? What do you want to know about Dennis Kucinich? It's Your Call with me, Rose Aguilar, and you.
John Nichols in Madison, Wisconsin
Washington Correspondent for the Nation magazine.
Sabrina Eaton in Silver Spring, MD
Washington Correspondent for the Cleveland Plain Dealer
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Your Call 112007 A Debate about Peak Oil
How worried should we be about "Peak Oil"? On Your Call, we'll talk about the looming oil crisis with Vijay Vaitheeswaran, author of Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future. We'll also be joined by Michael Klare, author of Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum. How will "Peak Oil" affect our society? Some say it's happening now. How should we prepare? It's Your Call with me, Rose Aguilar and you.
Michael Klare, professor of Peace and World Security Studies at Hampshire College, and author of Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum.
Vijay Vaitheeswaran, Global Correspondent for The Economist. He is also the author of Power to the People: How the Coming Engery Revolution in the Engergy Revolution Will Change Industry, Change our Lives and Maybe Even Save the Planet. He also co-authored Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future.
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Labels: oil crisis, oil dependency, peak oil
Your Call 111907 Cross Cultural Care-giving
How do people from different cultures care for aging loved ones? On the next Your Call, we'll have a discussion about culturally sensitive care giving. The elderly population is growing every year and it is becoming increasingly diverse. What is being done to insure culturally sensitive care? Has awareness changed from generation to generation? Are you receiving support from a caregiver from a different cultural background? Join us on the next Your Call with me, Rose Aguilar and you.
Rita Hargrave, M.D., is a Fellow of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, with Special Qualifications in Geriatric Psychiatry. She is on the staff of the V.A. Hospital in Martinez, Calif., and Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California at Davis and keeper of the ethnic elders care network.
Carmen R. Green, MD Director, Pain Research Division, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology University of Michigan Medical School
Wesley Mukoyama, Executive Director of Yu-Ai Kai
Yu-Ai Kai, a Japanese American Community Senior Service, located in Japantown San Jose, committed to serving seniors with an array of activities and programs.
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Labels: elder care, elders, family caregiving
On the next Your Call it's our Friday Media Roundtable. The votes are finally in for the 2007 San Francisco election. We'll discuss election coverage and the oil spill with San Francisco Bay Guardian editor Tim Redmond. We'll also be joined by Lou Dubose, who left the comforts of Texas to edit the Washington Spectator. What was your story of the week? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.
Tim Redmond in San Francisco
Executive Editor of the San Francisco Bay Guardian, San Francisco's independent weekly
Lou Dubose in Washington DC
Editor of the Washington Spectator and formerly of the Texas Observer. He co-authored several books with the late and lamented Molly Ivins.
Labels: iraq vets, oil spill
Your Call 111507 The Tolerant Empire
What makes an empire rise to global dominance and what makes it fall? On the next Your Call we welcome two students of the rise and fall of global hyperpowers. Professor Juan Cole wrote a book about Napoleon's invasion of Egypt two hundred years ago and Professor Amy Chua has written Day of Empire, a study of how tolerance may be at the heart of every empire's rise, and intolerance the cause of every decline. What can we learn from empires long buried about America's flirtation with global dominance? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.
Amy Chua in San Francisco
John M. Duff, Jr. Professor of Law at Yale Law School and author of Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance--and Why They Fall
Juan Cole in Ann Arbor, Michigan
Richard P. Mitchell Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Michigan. His most recent book is Napoleon's Egypt: Invading the Middle East.
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Labels: empire, hyperpowers
Your Call 111407 On the Record--Rudolph Giuliani
On the next Your Call, we continue our On the Record series where we look at presidential candidates' voting records. Next up is former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. New York's murder rate dropped by 60 percent under Giuliani, but complaints about police brutality rose by 70 percent. Giuliani received international attention after 9/11 and since then, he founded a security consulting business and became a partner in a law firm. What does Giuliani's record tell us about what kind of president he would make? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.
John Judis in suburban Washington DC.
Senior editor at The New Republic and a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is also author of The Folly of Empire: What George W. Bush Could Learn from Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.
Wayne Barrett in New York
Investigative reporter and senior editor for the Village Voice since 1979. He is the author of Grand Illusion: The Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani and 9/11.
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Labels: new york city, on the record, presidential candidate, rudolph giuliani
Your Call 111307 What is the state of our oceans?
What will be the long-term impact of the recent oil spill in the Bay? On the next Your Call, we'll take a look at the state of the Pacific Ocean. An estimated 58,000 gallons of heavy bunker oil leaked into the Bay, killing sea birds and prompting the closure of nearly two dozen beaches. The spill prompted a public outcry because the damage is so visible. But what aren't we seeing in the ocean that we should be concerned about? It's Your Call, with me, Rose Aguilar, and you.
Sejal Choksi, Program Director at San Francisco Bay Keeper
Rod Fujita, a Senior Scientist at Environmental Defense, based in Oakland, California and author of Heal the Oceans: Solutions for Saving Our Seas
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Labels: oil spill, pacific ocean
Your Call 111207 Veterans Day Special--What Kind Of Care Do Our Vets Get Now?
How are wounded veterans being cared for upon returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan? On the next Your Call, we'll get an update on vets' health care. According to a new report by Physicians for Social Responsibility, healthcare for Iraq vets could top $650 billion. Since the 2003 invasion, at least 60,000 U.S. soldiers have been wounded. The percentage of amputees is the highest since the Civil War. Is the VA prepared to deal with this crisis? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar, and you.
Larry Scott, member of VA Watchdog organization
Dr. Evan Kanter, a member of the Board of Directors for Physicians for Social Responsibility
Click to Listen: Veterans Day Special--What Kind Of Care Do Our Vets Get Now?
Labels: iraq vets, va, veterans health care, war in iraq
On the Next Your Call it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week we speak with LA Times consumer columnist David Lazarus about consumer safety and the credit crunch, with NPR ombudsman Lisa Shepard about interviewing torture victims in the presence of their torturers and with Al-Jazeera English México Correspondent Franc Contreras about one of the worst natural disasters in Mexican history, the flooding of Tabasco. What was your story of the week? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.
David Lazarus in Los Angeles
Author of the Consumer Confidential column for the LA Times
Franc Contreras in México City, México
Al-Jazeera English's México correspondent
Lisa Shepard in Washington DC
Ombudsman for NPR News.
Labels: consumers, mexico, torture
Your Call 110807 What Makes the War Real?
What do we see in still photos of the Iraq War that we miss in other forms of media? On the next Your Call, New York Times photojournalist Ashley Gilbertson joins us to discuss his photographic memoir of his time in Iraq called "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot." We'll also be joined by independent journalist Dahr Jamail, author of "Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Iraq." What can we learn from journalists whose goal is to show what life is really like for Iraqis? And what do you want from coverage of a war? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.
Dahr Jamail in San Francisco
Independent reporter and author of Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq
Ashley Gilbertson in Washington DC
War photographer for the New York Times and author of Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
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Labels: photojournalism, war in iraq
Your Call 110707 On the Record: Senator Chris Dodd
What kind of a president would Senator Chris Dodd make? On the next Your Call, we continue our On The Record series where we look at the voting records of presidential hopefuls. This week, we're focusing on Democratic Senator Chris Dodd of Connecticut. Senator Dodd is making waves for stalling the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act until amnesty for telecom companies is removed. Dodd has been in Congress for 33 years. Where does he stand on issues you care about and who's funding his campaign? Join us on the next Your Call with me, Rose Aguilar, and you.
Tom Swann, executive director of the CT Citizen Action Group and previously ran Ned Lamont's campaign against Joe Lieberman.
Bill Curry, columnist for the Hartford Courant, a two-time Democratic nominee for governor of Connecticut and a White House advisor in the administration of Bill Clinton.
Hari Sevugan, spokesperson for Chris Dodd for President
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Your Call 110607 How can we support caregivers?
Are we doing enough to support caregivers? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about family caregiving. Fifty million Americans are taking care of sick family members. Their unpaid work is valued at $306 billion per year. What challenges do they face? How does public policy affect their work? What can we as a society do to support caregivers? And what does the future look like for our aging population? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar, and you.
Peggy Flynn, as founder of the Caregiving Zone
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Labels: caregivers, family caregiving, health care
Your Call 110507 Crackdown in Pakistan
Just days before the Pakistani Supreme Court was due to decide whether General Pervez Musharraf's recent reelection was valid, he imposed emergency rule, suspended the Constitution, and fired the Supreme Court. Over the weekend, Musharraf's military government arrested 500 opposition party figures and announced that journalists who bring "ridicule or disrepute" to the General could face up to three years in prison. News channels in major cities have been blocked. We'll get the latest from a Pakistani journalist on the next Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.
Shahnaz Rouse, professor of sociology at Sarah Lawrence College
Zahid Hussain, senior editor of Pakistan's Newsline magazine
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Labels: general pervez musharraf, pakistan
Your Call 110207 Friday Media Roundtable
On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll speak with the Nation's Gary Younge about misconceptions of black history in the media. We'll also hear from Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Loretta Tofani. She's out with a lengthy series about the treatment of workers in China. And Al-Jazerra English's Anand Naidoo joins us to discuss the latest in Gaza and Iraq. What was your story of the week? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar.
Anand Naidoo in Washington, DC, an anchor and correspondent for Al-Jazeera English.
Loretta Tofani, in Salt Lake City, a Pulitzer Prize winning independent reporter, working at the Pulitzer Center
Gary Younge in New York City, a staff writer with The Nation
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It is Truly … INCREDIBLE, to believe & see that, in AFRICA … !!?!!
" APPARENT " ….. Post Apartheid, Mandela legacy, South Africa !
ONCE AGAIN, for 2016 ….
BEYOND A … F'ing Joke ….. !!!!!!
However, it is no surprise, surprisingly … to me, with my well … ?!?
Blacks, Whites & Asians alike, as this piece states, have no shame in running talk on how mine, and clearly, other black peoples' hair, grows free ….
Untidy … to them … maybe … ???
Unclean … well ladies, … !!!
and y'all, UPP-ity … Black Girls … turning up your noses to my kind of wild styled hair, well, you best not be running that, straight FAKE Horse, or, Indian Hair, that ain't yours alright !!!!!
A lil' sumthin' I wrote whilst treading Philadelphia's streets, whilst on holiday, a few years ago ….


How to display count of real time online visitors in WordPress website.
Many websites like forums and bloggers blog add a widget to display all online visitors. If you also want to add similar kind of thing in your WordPress blog, this article is for you. In this article, I will show you how you can add the real time online visitors count in your WordPress website.
WP-UserOnline is a nice WordPress plugin which lets you achieve this thing in WordPress. It offers easy way to add real time visitors section in your WordPress blog. It also offers detailed statistics at backend to let you know more about visitors.
Install WP-UserOnline plugin in your WordPress blog and then navigate to Settings > UserOnline page to configure the settings of this plugin. When you will open this page, you will see few default settings. You can just hit the save button to continue with default settings. These default settings will work for most of the websites. Change only if you want to change something and know what you are doing.
Next step is to create a page where you want to display online users' stats. Create a new page from WordPress dashboard. Be sure to keep the same permalink of the page which was mentioned in the settings page as "User Online URL". Add [page_useronline] shortcode in the content of the page and publish the page.
To display the stats in the sidebar or footer, this plugin also comes with widget. So, you can add widgets to display the user online stats by adding the widget. Find the widget in the widget section of WordPress dashboard.
Alternatively you can also use the below code in the theme to display the stats without using widget.
Try this plugin and share your views with us via comments.


While San Antonio public schools were established by the City Council in 1854, it wasn't until May 2, 1899 that the school system became an independent district with the formation of its own Board of Trustees. The District received its first charter from the state of Texas in 1903.
The SAISD Central Office was originally Lamar School, which opened in 1878 at 141 Lavaca.
SAISD ranks third in student population among the 15 Bexar County-area school districts and is the 13th largest of Texas' 1,057 school districts. The District encompasses 79 square miles with a total population of 306,943 (2010 U.S. Census). Most of SAISD is within San Antonio, but also serves parts of the cities of Olmos Park and Balcones Heights and a small unincorporated area of east Bexar County.
Our residents live in the hub of what American humorist Will Rogers rightly called one of America's four unique cities. SAISD is a family-oriented, urban community of thriving neighborhoods and well-established businesses, including the downtown central district, historic sites, active worship centers, world-renowned museums, excellent restaurants and recreational facilities. Supreme among our city's featured attractions are first-class institutes of education, ours and those that many from SAISD go on to attend.
Higher Education – We share the inner-city with most of Bexar County's colleges and universities, some of which are internationally-recognized. They are: Our Lady of the Lake University; St. Mary's University; Trinity University; University of the Incarnate Word; University of Mexico in San Antonio (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico); the University of Texas at San Antonio's downtown campus; and the Alamo Colleges.
Cultural Diversity - Living in a school district as diverse and historically rich as the city whose name it shares, SAISD residents enjoy easy access to a variety of activities. Those pursuing cultural outings will find major museums, art galleries, ballets and libraries. Enjoy a performance by the San Antonio Symphony or catch a Broadway show, opera or concert in the splendor of one of downtown's impeccably-restored historic theaters. Downtown also offers a shopper's paradise, with venues ranging from the ultra-modern Rivercenter Mall to San Antonio landmarks such as El Mercado, the historic La Villita and the River Walk. Sports fans can cheer for the four-time world NBA champs, the San Antonio Spurs, at the AT&T Center. And don't forget the Alamo! — all within SAISD.
That Home Town Feel - One of San Antonio's most outstanding assets is the preservation of its historic sites and neighborhoods, most of which are found within SAISD. All have strong, active neighborhood associations, with styles of houses sure to please any taste. Or check out the growing community of trendy urban chic lofts giving new life and identity to former factories and warehouses.
Fiesta City USA - Each April downtown hosts Fiesta's signature festivities and parades, while June means the multicultural Texas Folklife Festival at the Institute of Texan Cultures. Festivals, in fact, are a way of life in San Antonio, whether the observance focuses on our rich heritage, our love of the arts or simply our love of life.
Come to SAISD and enjoy the best of San Antonio!


SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Minority students who want to pursue the study of forestry have a new avenue available to them: a scholarship funded by International Paper Co. at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF).
The establishment of the scholarship--a $20,000 gift to the college--coincides with the completion of International Paper's first century in business.
"Birthdays cause institutions as well as people to reflect. IP is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year," said Thomas C. Jorling, the former commissioner of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, who is now International Paper's vice president for environmental affairs.
Jorling and Thomas E. Amidon, a 1968 ESF alumnus who is a laboratory manager with International Paper, said minority groups are traditionally underrepresented in the field of forestry.
"It's terribly difficult to hire undergraduates who are members of minorities. It's difficult to find African-American candidates to interview," Amidon said. "IP needs employees who are part of a broader world. In forestry, the student population is not a reflection of the world at large."
Jorling said the scholarship, which is supported by all of International Paper's facilities in New York state could fund a student's four-year undergraduate career at ESF. He hopes that this support acts as a catalyst to bring more minorities into the field. Jorling said the company chose to establish the scholarship at ESF because of the college's international reputation in forestry.
"Every kid, at some point, wants to be a forest ranger," Jorling said. "Minority students want to enjoy the outdoors, they just don't have the support structure.
"Our effort to reach the goal of a more inclusive, more diverse workforce can only be met if the institutions that feed us reach and include a more diverse student body," he said.
College President Ross S. Whaley said the gift will enrich ESF's student body as well as increase the diversity of forestry professionals.
"This scholarship allows ESF to reach out in a new way to capable students who might otherwise not have the opportunity to pursue studies here," Whaley said. "A partnership of this sort between ESF and International Paper can only benefit the college, the company, and the forestry profession."
Since the college was founded in 1911, forestry has been one of the mainstays of ESF's broad variety of environmental programs. There are 100 undergraduate and 88 graduate students enrolled in the Faculty of Forestry. They have the option of taking specialized courses in recreation resources management, water resources management, or wood products.
The scholarship is the most recent link between the college and the company. International Paper regularly hires and recruits ESF graduates, including Amidon.
International Paper maintains about a dozen facilities in New York. The managers of those facilities dipped into their budgets to fund the gift to ESF.
International Paper employs about 450 foresters to manage the company's 6.3 million acres in the South and Northeast. Amidon said the company is the largest private landowner in the Adirondack Park, with 300,000 acres.
The foresters work in the field, assessing the health, productivity, and regeneration of the company-owned forests. They also help make decisions about what trees to harvest and how to replace them.


>>Study: Poor health is a less common cause of bankruptcy than commonly thought, but it brings other economic woes.
The article, "Myth and Measurement — The Case of Medical Bankruptcies," appears today in the New England Journal of Medicine. The co-authors are Finkelstein, who is the John and Jennie S. MacDonald Professor of Economics at MIT; Carlos Dobkin, a professor of economics at the University of California at Santa Cruz; Raymond Kluender, a PhD student in economics at MIT; and Matthew Notowidigdo, an associate professor of economics at Northwestern University.
The study's main source of data consists of hospitalization records from the years 2003–2007 and credit reports from 2002–2011, from the state of California, for people over age 25. The study included about 780,000 people with health insurance and roughly 150,000 people without health insurance. That information was available to the research team only under particular conditions that preserved the anonymity of the people being studied.
By examining cases where previously healthy people were hospitalized, then tracking the finances of those people in subsequent years, the researchers were able to study the issue in a way that delivers a solid link between cause and effect — namely, how often medical events themselves are the principal cause of changes in financial status.
Some of the previous research on the frequency of medically caused bankruptcies used survey data to produce estimates; one commonly cited figure is that 60 percent of bankruptcies have medical causes. However, those estimates used self-reported data about health issues, among those who filed for bankruptcy, without establishing that medical costs were the principal cause of those bankruptcies.
"The approach of the prior literature was just conceptually not right," Finkelstein says.
The current study found that poor health has a larger impact on the uninsured than the insured: For instance, as a related, recently published paper by the research team shows, four years after being admitted to the hospital, people with insurance owe $300 more in unpaid medical bills, on average, while people without insurance have an average increase of $6,000 in unpaid medical bills.
The researchers also found that medically caused bankruptcies are minimal among the elderly — those over age 64 — who are likely to have Medicare and who tend to be retired, thus not suffering the earnings reductions that ill people in the workforce experience.
To be sure, Finkelstein acknowledges, the current study has some aspects that may need additional scrutiny. By focusing on examples involving hospitalization, the researchers could be missing some cases in which accumulated medical costs of other kinds drive people to bankruptcy — including medical costs incurred by children, parents, or other relatives.
"We're not going to go to the mat over the idea that [the rate of medically caused bankruptcies] is always going to be 4 percent in every context and by every measurement," Finkelstein says. Still, she notes, the accurate figure is likely to be much lower than other recent estimates imply.
To Finkelstein, the findings also have a clear upshot for policymakers and legislators. Grasping the full breadth of the economic consequences of poor health might affect the priorities of lawmakers, directing them to seek solutions for the lost income that many people endure after a serious medical event.
Some of the research data pertaining to job outcomes, covering the years 1992–2012 for nearly 10,000 people, was obtained from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), a biannual U.S. national survey supported by the National Institute on Aging and the Social Security Administration, and directed by the University of Michigan.
Support for the study came in part from the National Institute on Aging and the National Science Foundation.


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<!–[CDATA[Emma Watson will star Disney's live-action version of "Beauty and the Beast" as the lead character Belle.
Disney made the announcement Monday, saying that production will begin later this year. No release date has been set.
The film will be directed by Bill Condon ("The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn"), who was announced as director in June. David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman of Mandeville Films are producing.
The "Harry Potter" actress also made the announcement on her Facebook page:
"I'm finally able to tell you… that I will be playing Belle in Disney's new live-action Beauty and the Beast! It was such a big part of my growing up, it almost feels surreal that I'll get to dance to 'Be Our Guest' and sing 'Something There.' My six year old self is on the ceiling – heart bursting. Time to start some singing lessons. I can't wait for you to see it."
The script was written by Evan Spiliotipoulos and rewritten by Steve Chbosky. Linda Wolverton wrote the script for the
animated "Beauty and the Beast," has grossed more than $145 million domestically since its release in 1991.
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UEFA Europa League - Second qualifying round lineup confirmed - News
Second qualifying round lineup confirmed
The second qualifying round picture is complete after 38 sides progressed following Thursday's first round conclusion, with ÍBV Vestmannaeyjar through to face FK Crvena zvezda.
Viulen Ayvazyan (L) celebrates his goal for Pyunik against Teteks ©Hakber
The first and second qualifying round draws for the 2013/14 UEFA Europa League took place in Nyon on 24 June.
The reward for the winners of the first round ties – which concluded with tonight's second-leg action – was a place in the second qualifying round on 18 and 25 July. European Champion Clubs' Cup winners in 1991, FK Crvena zvezda were perhaps the most notable team drawn to start in the second qualifying round and they will encounter ÍBV Vestmannaeyjar, victorious against HB Tórshavn. Part-timers Prestatyn Town FC, shock penalty shoot-out winners against SK Liepājas Metalurgs, will now meet HNK Rijeka.
Meanwhile, Rosenborg BK, who overcame Crusaders FC, will meet Saint Johnstone FC of Scotland. FC Rubin Kazan will kick off their attempt to reach the Turin final against Serbia's FK Jagodina next week, while R. Standard de Liège stand between another of tonight's winners KR Reykjavík and the third qualifying round. IFK Göteborg, who belied their underdog status by lifting the UEFA Cup under Sven-Göran Eriksson in both 1982 and 1987, tackle FK AS Trenčín from Slovakia.
Full list of 2013/14 UEFA Europa League participants
Second qualifying round draw (18 and 25 July)*
BK Häcken (SWE) v AC Sparta Praha (CZE)
FK Sarajevo (BIH) v FK Kukësi (ALB)
FC Thun (SUI) v FC Chikhura Sachkhere (GEO)
Xanthi FC (GRE) v Linfield FC (NIR)
IL Hødd (NOR) v FC Aktobe (KAZ)
FC Dila Gori (GEO) v Aalborg BK (DEN)
Maccabi Haifa FC (ISR) v Xäzär Länkäran FK (AZE)
HNK Hajduk Split (CRO) v FK Turnovo (MKD)
FK Ventspils (LVA) v AS Jeunesse Esch (LUX)
FC Astra (ROU) v AC Omonia (CYP)
Skonto FC (LVA) v FC Slovan Liberec (CZE)
CS Pandurii Târgu Jiu (ROU) v FC Levadia Tallinn (EST)
WKS Śląsk Wrocław (POL) v FK Rudar Pljevlja (MNE)
Malmö FF (SWE) v Hibernian FC (SCO)
FK Jagodina (SRB) v FC Rubin Kazan (RUS)
Strømsgodset IF (NOR) v Debreceni VSC (HUN)
FC Petrolul Ploieşti (ROU) v Víkingur (FRO)
HNK Rijeka (CRO) v Prestatyn Town FC (WAL)
VMFD Žalgiris (LTU) v FC Pyunik (ARM)
PFC Beroe Stara Zagora (BUL) v Hapoel Tel-Aviv FC (ISR)
FC Honka Espoo (FIN) v KKS Lech Poznań (POL)
FK Crvena zvezda (SRB) v ÍBV (ISL)
FC Shakhtyor Soligorsk (BLR) v FC Milsami Orhei (MDA)
FK Vojvodina (SRB) v Budapest Honvéd FC (HUN)
NK Olimpija Ljubljana (SVN) v MŠK Žilina (SVK)
FC İnter Bakı (AZE) v Tromsø IL (NOR)
FC Chornomorets Odesa (UKR) v FC Dacia Chişinău (MDA)
IFK Göteborg (SWE) v FK AS Trenčín (SVK)
FC Dinamo Minsk (BLR) v NK Lokomotiva Zagreb (CRO)
KR Reykjavík (ISL) v R. Standard de Liège (BEL)
UE Santa Coloma (AND) v PFC Botev Plovdiv (BUL)
Qarabağ FK (AZE) v GKS Piast Gliwice (POL)
Rosenborg BK (NOR) v Saint Johnstone FC (SCO)
Trabzonspor AŞ (TUR) v Derry City FC (IRL)
Valletta FC (MLT) v FC Minsk (BLR)
FK Senica (SVK) v FK Mladost Podgorica (MNE)
Anorthosis Famagusta FC (CYP) v Gefle IF (SWE)
SK Sturm Graz (AUT) v Breidablik (ISL)
FC Irtysh Pavlodar (KAZ) v NK Široki Brijeg (BIH)
FC Differdange 03 (LUX) v FC Utrecht (NED)
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Early Childhood Education Supported Nationwide, Poll Finds; CT Improving Coordination of Programs
August 12, 2013 / CTByTheNumbers.info
The First Five Years Fund (FFYF), a national advocate for preschool education, has released the results of a national survey of voters which finds that support across the political spectrum for a plan to help states and local communities provide better early childhood education programs to parents of children from birth to age five.
Conducted by the research team of Public Opinion Strategies and Hart Research, the national telephone survey found that 70 percent of Americans favored providing all low- and moderate-income 4-year-olds with voluntary access to high-quality preschool programs as well as making available more early education and child care programs for infants and toddlers and home visiting and parent education programs for families.
In Connecticut, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy signed an executive order in June that established an Office of Early Childhood (OEC) in the state, bringing together various programs that had been under the jurisdiction of a number of state agencies.
The Office is "comprised of related programs that were previously housed in five separate state agencies — the Department of Education's School Readiness program, the Department of Social Services' Care for Kids, Children's Trust Fund, and other childcare programs, the Department of Public Health's childcare licensing program, the Department of Developmental Services' Birth to Three program, and the Board of Regents' Charts a Course program — the OEC will improve continuity and the reach of early childhood programs."
The General Assembly failed to pass a bill creating the new office on the final night of the legislative session in early June, but the state budget allocated $127 million in the first year and $232 million in the second year to the office. Instead of leaving those dollars hanging in legislative limbo, CT News Junkie reported, the executive order seeks to offer a temporary solution, on an issue that Gov. Malloy has long advocated.
Myra Jones-Taylor was appointed by the Governor as the agency's executive director. She is a member of the New Haven Board of Education and served most recently as director of the state Office of Early Childhood Planning. The Office of Early Childhood is responsible for providing "a comprehensive, collaborative system for delivering improved programs and services to children age zero to five and their parents."
Nationally, support for the preschool proposal increased to 77 percent when respondents were told explicitly that the proposal would not add to the deficit, FFYF said, including 72 percent support from Republicans, 71 percent from Independents and 88 percent from Democrats. A majority of voters (51 percent) strongly support such a proposal.
Other findings from the survey include:
Ensuring children get a strong start in life was seen as an important national priority by 86 percent of respondents—second only to increasing jobs and economic growth—and 13 points higher than reducing the tax burden on families.
Voters say the country is not doing enough on this issue, with 70 percent saying it is an area we need to "do more." This includes large majorities of voters who have children (77 percent) and those who do not have children in their household (66 percent). Virtually no one (2 percent) thinks we're doing too much already.
"Americans rightly perceive a need for all children to gain the knowledge and skills necessary to start kindergarten - and life - on the right foot," said David Nee, Executive Director of the Hamden-based William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund. "Our own experience shows that early is good, and earlier is better. Infants and toddlers and their families need our support. We can do more, now, to achieve this goal."
In addition to support from large majorities of voters across the political spectrum, key demographic groups are in support of the proposal, including Hispanics (83 percent), African Americans (82 percent), suburban women (68 percent) and young voters under the age of 35 (79 percent).
The survey found that three in five voters (63 percent) want Congress to act on legislation now rather than wait until later (32 percent). And even when presented with "an impassioned argument" from both supporters and critics of making such an investment in quality, voluntary early childhood learning and child care, Americans continue to express their overwhelming support of the proposal.
The survey was conducted from July 8-11 by the bipartisan research team of Public Opinion Strategies and Hart Research on behalf of FFYF. The demographically representative sample of 800 voters was distributed proportionally throughout the country and reached registered voters on landlines and cell phones. The survey has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.46 percentage point.
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It's revved up and ready to go now. The Fast & Furious — Supercharged ride now is open officially at Universal Studios theme park.
The attraction, based on "The Fast and the Furious" film series, had been in soft opening / technical rehearsals for about a week. The ride simulates a high-speed chase through the street of Los Angeles and features several actors from the movies, including Dwayne Johnson, Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster.
Supercharged is part of Universal's Virtual Line system. Riders can select a time to ride using the Universal Orlando Resort mobile app or at kiosks near the attraction's entrance. Universal has installed Virtual Line at select other rides, such as Ride Through New York Starring Jimmy Fallon at Universal Studios and Pteradon Flyers at Islands of Adventure.


Karen and Joel's vintage chic Portland wedding was seriously beautiful. Think tons of flora and fauna with cats, polka dots, gold, blue, mint, and peach colors everywhere. Their cat, George, was present in spirit — he was on the invitations, the program, on a custom pocket square for Joel, and in their vows. Yay for fellow cat people! Don't miss the hand-dyed table linens, gold glitter vases, paper garland, and gold animal place cards.
They had a sing-along during the ceremony to "I Want to Hold Your Hand" by the Beatles, and their first dance was to "All My Life" by K-Ci & JoJo.
The morning of the wedding, Joel and the groomsmen went to the venue to set up chairs for the ceremony and to fill our balloons. There were these two white heart balloons I loved. We only had two. For months, I envisioned them being on either side of us during the ceremony. Leading up to the wedding, I said, "Whatever you do, don't let anything happen to the white heart balloons."
I got to the venue and everyone had to break the news that one of the heart balloons had indeed popped. It ended up being not a big deal. While it is important to have a vision of what the details will look like, it is equally as important to not get blindsided by some of those details not working out. For the most part, you'll be the only one to notice something isn't how you previously envisioned.
What a breathtakingly gorgeous setting for an outdoor wedding! Just beautiful!
This is gorgeous on so many levels! Could you send a link to the bridesmaids' dresses with the embellished sleeves? I tried searching both Asos and Modcloth and came up empty, and I'm kind of in love-love with them.
This is so beautiful. Love the subtle polka dot details on the bride's dress, and the singular white heart balloon looked lovely floating around at the altar! I would never have guessed there were supposed to be two!


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Baldwin Application Guidelines
There are two different deadlines depending on whether you have previously received a Baldwin Fellowship:
New Applicants: February 15th
Returning Applicants: March 1st
New Applicants for Baldwin Fellowships funded by the National Geographic Society: Open
Please Note: If the deadline falls on a weekend, the application will be due the end of the next business day.
Baldwin Fellowship Eligibility
Only scholars with citizenship in a developing country are eligible.
The applicant must have a Home Sponsor who is a member of the institution where the applicant is affiliated in the home country, as well as a Host Sponsor who is a member of the institution which the candidate plans to pursue training. Should an award be made, the Host Sponsor must be willing to assume responsibility for overseeing the candidate's training. Since the Baldwin Fellowship is intended to be a partnership between the candidate and both the Home and Host Institutions, it is expected that candidates will be offered support by these institutions in the form of financial assistance and, upon completion of training, employment in the home country.
Amount and Duration of Awards
Awards are limited to two years. The maximum award is limited to $15,000 per year.
Budgetary Guidelines
Baldwin Fellowships may be used to cover tuition, travel, living expenses, student fees, insurance, books, and other relevant categories of expenditure. Aid is not provided for family expenses or dependent support, salary and/or fringe benefits of the applicant, nor institutional overhead.
Proposal Body
Click here to download instructions for the Proposal Body/Statement of Purpose.
Budget Worksheet
Click here to download the Budget Worksheet.
Second Year Baldwin Fellowship Renewals
Please click here for more information on second year Baldwin Fellowship renewals.
The online application should be submitted by end of day February 15th in order to be considered for funding in the following academic year, which begins in the Fall. Formal letters of support from both the Home and Host Sponsors must also reach the office by this deadline.
Letters from Sponsors
Applicants must request letters from both the Home Sponsor and the Host Sponsor to be sent directly to the Foundation.
The Home Sponsor must be the department head or an appropriate individual from the institution with which the candidate is affiliated in the home country and in which the candidate intends to pursue a career. A letter of recommendation must be mailed directly to the Foundation by the Home Sponsor, separately from the application form. The letter should state:
The candidate's qualifications
The reasons the candidate needs training abroad
The kinds of support (monetary or other) that the Home Institution and/or the Home Government will provide (Past Home Institution support has included travel and stipend supplements.)
The candidate's employment and research prospects upon return to the home country.
The Host Sponsor must be a faculty member of the department or program in which the candidate plans to pursue training. The Host Sponsor must be willing to supervise the candidate's training and fulfillment of the terms of the Baldwin Fellowship, if awarded. A letter of recommendation must be mailed directly to the Foundation by the Host Sponsor, separately from the application form. This letter should describe:
The candidate's prospects for success in the proposed program of study/training
The length of time that is likely to be required for completion of this program;
The facilities and support to be made available to the candidate while at the Host Institution
Any financial assistance that the Host Institution will offer the candidate. (Past Host Institutions have provided Baldwin Fellowship support, waived tuition, travel, or subsidized living accommodations.)
You may download instructions to send to your sponsors here:
Host Sponsor Instructions
Home Sponsor Instructions
The Foundation office will notify candidates by May 15th about the status of their applications.
Conditions of Awards
The following reporting requirements are conditions of the Baldwin Fellowship Agreement:
Fellow Progress Reports: Progress Reports are required for multi-year Baldwin Fellowships and are to be submitted as part of the Renewal Application. Progress Reports will determine the Baldwin Fellow's eligibility, include an accounting of funds expended to date (which will be approved and signed by the Host Sponsor and the Baldwin Fellow), and include course work and grades to date. Formal transcripts must be sent to the Foundation at the end of each academic year. This progress report will be used to determine the Baldwin Fellow's eligibility for continued support and is DUE MARCH 1ST.
Host Sponsor Progress Reports: The Host Sponsor must provide the Foundation and the Home Institution/Sponsor with a progress report at the end of each year of the Baldwin Fellow's training period. The report should address the Baldwin Fellow's academic performance, progress in language ability (when applicable), and any other matters pertinent to the Baldwin Fellow's ability to complete the course of training undertaken, as well as a realistic estimate of the time required to complete the training. This progress report will be used to determine the Baldwin Fellow's eligibility for continued support and is DUE MARCH 1ST.
Final Reports
The final reports, transcript, and financial statements must be SUBMITTED WITHIN THREE MONTHS after the end of the study/training period as stated by the Baldwin Fellow on his/her application form.
Baldwin Fellow: Upon conclusion of the final year of the Baldwin Fellowship, the Baldwin Fellow must summarize his/her accomplishments in a Final Report (2-3 pages).
Host Sponsor: At the end of the training period, the Host Sponsor must provide the Foundation with a final report on the Baldwin Fellow's accomplishments. If the Baldwin Fellow requires additional training either to: 1) reach the initial goals of this Baldwin Fellowship award or 2) to obtain more advanced training before returning to his/her home country, elaborate on this plan including sources of support and estimated time for completion.
Transcript: A final transcript must be requested from the Host Institution by the Baldwin Fellow and a copy submitted to the Foundation.
Financial: The Fellow and Host Sponsor must make sure that the Host Institution submits an official signed accounting for the US dollar amount expended each year. This accounting is to be supplemented by a more detailed statement of expenditures by the Baldwin Fellow which is signed by both the Baldwin Fellow and the Host Sponsor.
Upon the Completion of the Training: The Baldwin Fellow must provide a status report on further educational plans and/or a position taken in the Home Country. At the time of return to his/her Home Country, the Baldwin Fellow must provide the Foundation with a current address.
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Episode 189: EntrepreFriendships and Seeing The World in a New Way with Monique Melton
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Ladies, hold onto your seats for this episode because you are about to have your world rocked (in the best way). Today I am diving deep into topics like mental health and racial reconciliation with Monique Melton, a relationships coach, Creator of the Esther 4:14 Experience, speaker and author of EntrepreFriendships.
For Monique, all of her work is central to building relationships and helping women do the work they're called to do. She is a natural big, bold dreamer, a deeply rooted woman of faith, a proud Navy wife and mama to two little ones who believes it's not about your comfort – it's about your growth (which I just LOVE!)
Seriously, you are going to want to tune in for this one. I promise you will be challenged and stretched and have your eyes opened in a way that will help you proactively move forward with purpose in how you live your life and run your business as a boss mom.
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Monique's Boss Mom Journey
Monique's journey as a boss mom began in college roughly ten years ago when she worked as a professional makeup artist while studying sociology and psychology, before going on to study two years of graduate level clinical counseling at John's Hopkins University.
Over the past ten years she's graduated college, gotten married, had two babies, stopped doing makeup, and grown into the place she's at now where she really focuses on helping women create community and thriving relationships as their develop brands and businesses that make an impact.
She talks about how she's gotten to a place of being able to combine #allthethings she loves into her business, which is what it's all about for her.
When discussing her entry into motherhood, Monique describes it as being completely devastating due to a traumatic first birth experience, and struggling with postpartum mood disorder after both of her pregnancies.
"I used to feel like motherhood destroyed my life." (7:38)
She shares though, that now she's come to realize that motherhood was the best thing that's ever happened to her because it has forced her to grow and stretch and learn, and challenged her to rise above everything she thought she knew about herself to become who she was created to be.
After the birth of both children she took a break away from work, which meant that when she was ready to return she had to go through seasons of rebuilding. These seasons helped her grow to value taking time to think through and reflect on how you're spending your life.
"I really appreciate taking time out to reflect and to think and process, and to not necessarily do but to just let yourself experience quiet and calm and just really hear what is next, and what is going on in your heart." (9:35)
After the birth of her second daughter, she really questioned what she was doing and what she wanted to do with her life, which is what lead to her walking out what she's doing now.
She mentions that it's important for us to be open to that reflective process because we are constantly changing and evolving, and that needs to be reflected in everything we do.
Integrating Your Passions with Your Business
Struggling through seasons of mental illness really "put a monkey wrench" into things, Monique shares, but overcoming it has led to her becoming a much more compassionate and loving person.
"I did not go through that to keep it for myself. We're all connected and so to keep your experiences for yourself, I feel like that's selfish. We're not living a life to live it alone, so if my experience is not just about me, how dare I keep it to myself because I'm afraid of what people might think?" 12:51
Monique is a living example of infusing what matters to you into the work you do, and she cares deeply about building strong relationships, normalizing conversation around mental health, and normalizing conversation around racial reconciliation.
Regarding mental health, she has this to say (which is amazing):
"You might still have disturbing thoughts or you might still have seasons of depression. It doesn't mean that something's wrong with you or you're broken and all these things. It just means that this is a part of your journey and that it can get better. There's certain things that you're going to need to do in order to cope, and that's fine – you don't need to compare yourself to anyone else." (13:51)
Monique also feels similarly about building real, true connected community by having open, honest, respectful conversations about the struggles that we all face every day with race, religion, etc.
"Well if we don't talk about it, how are we possibly going to heal and come together?" (14:27)
At the end of the day, she says, it all comes down to relationships and love, which is what she's all about.
The Importance of Having Hard Conversations
I love this analogy that Monique mentions comparing how we care for our relationships to how we care for our bodies. If you only feed your body the things you want or crave, you'll never live a truly healthy, fruitful, fulfilling life of longevity.
It's the same with relationships. If we avoid having real, tough conversations and only do what makes us happy or what feels comfortable in our relationships, that's not actually what's best for us. Over time we won't be able to interact relationally at an optimal level and we'll miss out on true connectivity.
"You can't have connection without trust, vulnerability, open and honest communication." (17:56)
We were created for community and to be in relationships, Monique expresses, and in our age of technology we've lost a lot of that real connection….which is why she's so passionate about correcting that through having honest, raw, vulnerable conversations that bring people together instead of continuing to push people further apart.
On Integrating Racial Reconciliation with Business
During this portion of our conversation, things start to get really interesting because Monique presents me with some really challenging points of view to consider when comparing my experience of life as a white woman in America with her experience of life as a black woman in America.
She shares some beautiful thoughts on the focus needing to be about all women joining together as sisters to engage in compassionate conversation and elevate each others' voices, which is how she believes healing can begin to take place.
She also strongly believes in the value of everyone making a conscious effort to open up conversations surrounding these topics in your business space and community, even suggesting that it's irresponsible not to.
Monique posed the thought that, if we say we want to build community where people feel safe, loved and supported, but we aren't demonstrating care for the issues that affect everyone on a daily basis, we aren't truly able to serve our communities well.
You know we're all about practicality here, so Monique has a few great recommendations for how to move forward with purposeful action after listening to this episode.
The first thing is to actively seek out opportunities to engage in constructive, compassionate conversation with people of different backgrounds and perspectives. She says it's about education, enlightenment and figuring out together what we can do to identify actionable steps forward.
She also encourages us to be bold and courageous because there is no easy or perfect, right way to make these conversations happen. We just have to show up and do it from a place of love and humility.
Lastly, she mentions something profound, which is learning to take note of your behavior and perspective when building community. You want to focus on creating an INVITING atmosphere, not just a welcoming one. Monique says there is a difference between become welcome somewhere and being invited, which is what people really crave – the invitation.
Recommended Reading to Learn More about Racial Reconciliation
Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person
10 Books on Racial Reconciliation & the Church
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Latasha Morrison of Be the Bridge
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
Killing the Black Body by Dorothy Roberts
You Can't Touch My Hair my Phoebe Robinson
Overcome Limiting Beliefs
Steps to Build a More Inclusive Community
3 Things to Do About Primarily White Speaker Lineups
Strategies to Build Unity in a Broken Community
Referenced in the Show:
Cathy Olson, Love Inspired
Shine Brighter Together
Esther 4:14 Experience
(Just FYI, some of these links may be affiliate links, which means if you make a purchase using the links I may receive some love in return!)
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Dana: Instagram / Boss Mom Facebook Community (her total happy place)
Monique: Website / Facebook / Twitter / Instagram
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Rory McIlroy eyes golf biggest prize
Rory McIlroy's thrilling last-day charge to win at the Deutsche Bank Championship on Sunday gives him a real shot at securing golf's most lucrative prize before leading Europe's Ryder Cup defense later this month.
The Ulsterman was at his vintage best to hunt down and overturn Paul Casey's six-shot lead with an exhibition of whirlwind shots in appropriately blustery conditions.
McIlroy went into the event with a new putter and a new putting coach in Phil Kenyon, the Englishman who is now involved with seven members of Europe's Ryder Cup team.
In July, he described his putting as "pathetic" after missing the cut at the UPGA Championship at Baltusrol, but in Boston he emerged top in putting average and birdies made.
Those figures suggest the changes he made worked as McIlroy, who also tweaked his grip before Saturday's third round, emerged with his third FedExCup playoff title and his first PGA Tour win for 16 months.
It was not just his putting that clicked, however. Several of his seven birdies came with the help of pinpoint bunker shots and the win was all the sweeter for coming on the back of a terrible start which saw him four over after the opening three holes.
McIlroy's personal triumph also represented a boost for Team Europe who need McIlroy at his fearsome best at Hazeltine between Sep. 27 and Oct. 2.
"I am really proud of myself for battling that first day, getting some momentum on Saturday and just going with that. It is nice to get that first win in the States this year," he said.
"Hopefully this is momentum I can bring on to the next couple of weeks and ultimately the Ryder Cup to hopefully help Team Europe win another one of those. I'm really excited going into the last part of the season."
The win puts McIlroy back in the top three in the world rankings and savoring the next FedEx playoff event, the BMW Championship which starts on Thursday at Crooked Stick.
Since that is a course where he won in 2012, he will feel confident he can do enough to stay in the top five of the FedEx standings for the final event and in touching distance of the $10 million overall prize.
That would be a tidy sum to have in his back pocket before the start of the Ryder Cup the following week.
"One of the things I would like on my golf CV is to win the FedEx Cup," said McIlroy. "The next two tournaments are huge for me, to try and do that."


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NewsMontana News
Second Democrat files for MT's U.S. House seat
Tom Winter challenging Williams in Dem primary
By: Mike Dennison
Posted at 11:46 AM, Mar 06, 2020
Democrat Tom Winter filed Thursday night to run for Montana's sole U.S. House seat, becoming the second Democrat and seventh candidate overall in the crowded race.
And, another candidate for the U.S. House – Republican Secretary of State Corey Stapleton – also is expected to file before the Monday deadline.
Winter filed online from his home in Missoula and said he's the only candidate with a comprehensive set of policy proposals, including universal child care, health care for all and action on climate change.
"I have only one litmus test as a state legislator: Does this help Montana's working families?" he said. "As Montana's congressman, that's who I will fight for. … I think people are tired of big money dictating our politics and getting us stuck with the same candidates we've already rejected numerous times."
Winter is challenging former state Rep. Kathleen Williams in the Democratic primary.
Williams was the Democratic nominee for this seat in 2018, losing to Republican incumbent Greg Gianforte. The seat this year is open, because Gianforte is running for governor.
Six Republicans are competing for the GOP nomination for U.S. House: Stapleton, Helena farmer-rancher Joe Dooling, John Evankovich of Butte, former state GOP Chair Debra Lamm of Livingston, retired National Guard officer Mark McGinley of Dillon and state Auditor Matt Rosendale.
The primary election is June 2.


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Neufund, a leading Germany-based Fintech startup and security token issuance platform, published an open letter to the German Bundestag today.... An open letter is a letter that is published in a newspaper or magazine, which usually protests or gives an opinion about something.
Open Letter Books December 15 at 12:32 PM � One of the *coolest literary ideas* is the Hingston & Olsen Short Story Advent calendar, and today it features "Snatching Bodies" by Rodrigo Fresan (a "bonus track" to BOTTOM OF THE SKY).... Email newsletters, on the other hand, typically get 20% or more to at least open up and take a glance at the content. That�s 1,000% better engagement. Or in other words, an email newsletter with 60,000 subscribers is the equivalent of a blog with 600,000 RSS subscribers.
Congratulations! You have experienced something systemically unfair, been enraged by someone else�s whiny entitlement, or observed some smug act of hypocrisy. And now you want to write a letter to the offender in question. Luckily, it�s easier than ever to write a scathing takedown and publish how to make a origami ninja star step by step With over 25 years experience in the music and film industries, Gary Seeger has had his fair share of publishing wins for acts like Powderfinger and Nick Cave and films like The Sapphires and Wolf Creek 2.
Neufund, a leading Germany-based Fintech startup and security token issuance platform, published an open letter to the German Bundestag today.
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Rather than address her transphobia Monnin has been ordered to pay Donald Trump five million dollars according to the Post Gazette.
"A federal judge this week upheld a 2012 ruling that a Cranberry woman who resigned as Miss Pennsylvania USA, claiming the pageant system was fixed, must pay $5 million in damages to the Miss Universe Organization.
An arbitrator in December found Sheena Monnin, 28, had made defamatory comments against Donald Trump's organization last year and that there was "virtually no possibility that the judging was rigged."
In a 30-page opinion filed Tuesday, U.S. District Judge J. Paul Oetken of New York supported that ruling.
"The Court does not take lightly that Monnin is compelled to pay what is a devastating monetary award. ... Sympathy, or apparent inequity, may play no role in a court's legal analysis, and here, the law is clear," he wrote."
On July 2nd, the Southern District Court of New York ruled on my appeal of the $5 million arbitration award.
I am grateful to Judge Oetken for his review of the case before affirming the award.
I was hopeful for a different outcome, but I am pleased that the true nature of the Miss USA judging procedure has been exposed by the testimony of the Miss Universe Organization (MUO) and Ernst & Young during the arbitration proceedings – testimony that reveals that the MUO does select the top 15 contestants irrespective of the preliminary judges' scores.
This is not about me being a 'sore loser' or wanting my '15 minutes of fame'. This is about the MUO's admission under oath that they manipulate the judges' results to suit their own ends. This is not what they advertise to the public.


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Q: Crontab and screen at reboot I try to create a cron command that execute a software in a screen during start-up on my Debian. It seems easy by doing this command but it doesn't work (no screen created during start-up):
root@xxxx> crontab -u user_name -e
@reboot /usr/bin/screen -d -m rtorrent

This line seems to not work (I tried using "@reboot /usr/bin/screen -dmS torrent rtorrent" but same result: no screen created).
I'm sure the command is working because launching it without crontab works perfectly (but will not automate the launch during start-up):
user_name@xxxx> /usr/bin/screen -d -m rtorrent
(Result: The screen is created)

Note:
root@xxxx> cat /etc/shadow |grep user_name
user_name:!:16694:0:99999:7:::

root@xxxx> cat /etc/passwd |grep user_name
user_name:x:1004:1004::/home/user_name:/bin/bash

I hope you have an idea because I can't find any logical explanation about this behaviour :'(
Cheers,
Quentin

A: Depending on your system your environment variables may not be set. You can either call everything using their full path or add your environment variables by hand. To do this (per man 5 crontab) you can insert variables at the top of your crontab in the standard KEY = VALUE layout
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

@reboot screen -d -m rtorrent

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