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Elizabeth Price (gymnast)
Updated on Jan 19, 2018
Full name Elizabeth Nicole Price
Role Gymnast
Nickname(s) Ebee
Date joined 2014
Name Elizabeth Price
Choreographer Dominic Zito
Born May 28, 1996 (age 19) Plainfield, New Jersey (1996-05-28)
Hometown Coopersburg, Pennsylvania, United States
Discipline Women's artistic gymnastics
Level Senior International Elite
Education Stanford University (2014–2018)
Residence Stanford, California, United States
Similar People Kyla Ross, Peyton Ernst, Bailie Key, Nia Dennis, Norah Flatley
Country represented United States
Elizabeth "Ebee" Nicole Price (born May 28, 1996) is an American artistic gymnast. Price was an alternate for the 2012 Summer Olympics Gymnastics team, the 2014 American Cup Champion, and the 2013-2014 Artistic Gymnastics World Cup All Around Series Winner. She was a member of the US Junior National Gymnastics Team from 2010 to 2012 and the US Senior National Team from 2012 to 2014. She retired from international elite gymnastics in April 2014. In the fall of 2014, she joined the Stanford University women's gymnastics team and competed in her first NCAA competition on January 4, 2015. She won two weekly honors: Pac-12 Freshman/Newcomer of the Week (January 12) and Specialist of the Week (March 10). At the 2015 Pac-12 Conference Championships, she tied for the uneven bars title, tied for third on vault, and was named Pac-12 Specialist of the Year. Price finished the season as 2015 NCAA national vault champion and a three time first-team All-American.
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2015 Freshman
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Elizabeth Nicole Price was born on May 28, 1996 in Plainfield, New Jersey to David and Diane Price and has two younger brothers named Ethan and Elijah. She was home-schooled, first through an online PA charter school and then through Bridgeway Academy allowing her to dedicate much of her time to training for elite gymnastics.
Price began gymnastics at the age of three years, when her parents decided she needed an activity toward which to channel her energy.
In 2011, Price broke her big toe after competing at City of Jesolo Trophy meet in Jesolo, Italy. She underwent surgery to reconstruct the toe.
Price signed the National Letter of Intent to Stanford University, and joined the Cardinal in the fall of 2014.
Price competed in the junior division of the 2008 US Classics, ranking 20th all-around. She was ranked 12th on vault, 22nd on both the uneven bars and balance beam, and 17th on floor exercise.
Price qualified to the junior elite level, and competed in the junior division at the US Nationals, placing 27th all-around. Vault continued to be her best event, where she ranked 13th by the end of day one and dropped to 14th place after the second day. She ranked 28th on uneven bars on both nights, but dropped from 15th place to 22nd on the balance beam over the course of the two nights of competition. She placed 26th on day one of floor exercise, but moved up to finish in 24th place on that apparatus by the second night.
Price took part in four invitationals in addition to the 2009 American Classic, a junior qualifying event for the Visa Championships (also known as the US Nationals). She won the all-around title at her gym's Parkette Invitational, and went on to win first place on vault and second place in the all-around competition at the Maryland Classics. She then competed at the Fiesta Bowl Invitational and achieved the same results in addition to a first place win on floor exercise. Later in the year, Price competed at the International Gymnix Open Competition (different from the Junior Cup which was won by Jordyn Wieber)in Montreal, where she won the all-around title. She scored the highest on vault and floor, finishing third on the bars and second on balance beam during the event finals, and tied for first place on floor.
At the 2009 American classic, she ranked in the top 20 competitors but failed to qualify for the 2009 Visa Championships.
In early 2010, Price participated in the Bieger's National Elite qualifier where she attained junior elite status for the second time since 2008. She finished first on vault and won the all-around competition. Price then competed at the US Covergirl Classic in Chicago, where she placed 7th on vault and 15th overall. These wins once again qualified her for the Visa Championships, this time in Hartford, Connecticut. There, she finished 13th in the all-around and earned a spot on the US Junior Nationals team for the first time alongside future Olympic teammates McKayla Maroney, Gabby Douglas, Kyla Ross, Jordyn Wieber, and fellow alternate Sarah Finnegan.
Price once again competed in her hometown gym's Parkette Invitational, claiming first in the all-around as well as on the balance beam, uneven bars, and vault. In March, Price was chosen to compete for the US at the City of Jesolo Trophy in Jesolo, Italy. There, she contributed to the United States' team's first-place win above Russia and Italy. She personally placed third on vault and fourth on balance beam, placing seventh in the all-around. After competition, she broke her big toe and required reconstructive surgery.
She recovered quickly and traveled to Chicago to compete in the 2011 CoverGirl Classic. She competed on only two events to spare her toe, and tied for third place on the uneven bars with fellow 2012 Olympic alternate Sarah Finnegan.
She qualified for the Visa Championships for the third time, and traveled to St. Paul, Minnesota for competition. Price finished eleventh in the all-around competition, placing fifth on vault and fourth on the uneven bars. She was named to the US Junior Nationals team for the second consecutive year with Kyla Ross and Sarah Finnegan. Douglas, Wieber, and Maroney met the age requirement for the Senior national team and were therefore appointed to that roster instead, joining Aly Raisman.
Price kicked off her first year as a senior international elite by competing once again in the Parkette Invitational, scoring a perfect 10 on vault. She finished first on every apparatus except on balance beam, where she placed second.
In March, Price was chosen for the second consecutive year to represent the United States at the City of Jesolo Trophy in Italy, where the team defended their title by winning first place. Individually she scored second on vault, fifth and sixth on floor exercise and the all-around respectively, seventh on the uneven bars and seventeenth on the balance beam.
In May, Price competed at the Secret US Classic in Chicago, Illinois.Price placed second on vault, fourth on the uneven bars, twentieth on balance beam, eleventh on floor exercise, and fifth in the all-around. These scores allowed her to qualify for the Visa Championships, her first time doing so in the senior division.
In June, Price competed at the Visa Championships in St.Louis, Missouri. On day one of competition, she placed second on vault once again, seventh on bars, ninth on beam, sixth on floor, and fifth all-around. On day two, Price finished eighth and ninth on bars and beam respectively and fifth on floor exercise and in the all-around. Following the 2012 Visa Championships Price was invited to compete at the 2012 US Olympic Trials.
In July, Price competed at the 2012 Olympic Trials and placed fourth all-around. Price was named as a team alternate to the USA Olympic Gymnastics Team alongside Anna Li and Sarah Finnegan. Following Trials Price stated "I'm really excited to go to London. I think I'm most excited about representing my gym at the Olympics, I felt really confident going in. I especially felt great about my floor routine, since that's my best event." Coach Bill Strauss said of Price, "I think it's fantastic. I think it will give her great experience internationally... She grew up with us. She's like our surrogate daughter."
In the 2012-13 season, Price was ranked 2nd in the WCII All Around World Rankings behind Germany's Elisabeth Seitz
Price was slated to compete at the 2013 American Cup, but withdrew due to a strained hip muscle. She cited her desire to be healthy for future competitions, such as the Visa National Championships and World Championships, as her reason for withdrawing given that this was a relatively minor injury.
Price resumed training in April 2013 subsequently injuring the opposite hip. She was still recovering from that injury and unable to compete at the 2013 Secret US Classic.
In August, Price was able to compete at the 2013 P&G Championships in Hartford, Connecticut. Price, however did not compete all four events due to lack of training because of injury. Price competed vault and uneven bars. Price finished eighth on uneven bars. Following the P&G Championships Price was named to the USA Senior National Team. Price was also invited to the qualifying camp for the 2013 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Huntsville, Texas. Following the camp Price was named as the non-traveling alternate to the United States team for the 2013 World Gymnastics Championships.
In January 2014, it was announced that Price would compete at the 2014 American Cup in Greensboro, NC after Kyla Ross withdrew owing to an injury.
Price competed at the AT&T American Cup and won the event with a score of 59.966, placing ahead of teammate Brenna Dowell.
She went on to win the all-around at the 2014 Pacific Rim Gymnastics Championships, just ahead of teammate Kyla Ross.
In April 2014, Price announced her retirement from elite gymnastics and the U.S. National Team. The reason for her departure was to attend Stanford University beginning in the fall of 2014 and compete in NCAA gymnastics as a member of the Stanford women's gymnastics team.
In the 2012-13 season, Price was ranked 2nd in the CII All Around World Rankings behind Germany's Elisabeth Seitz. [27]
In 2014, she was ranked number 1 in the FIG World Rankings in the CII All Around.
On November 13, 2013, Price signed the National Letter of Intent to Stanford University and the Cardinal women's gymnastics program. A couple of months later, in April 2014, she revealed that she would enroll to the school for the 2014-15 academic year.
2015: Freshman
Price began her NCAA career by scoring a 9.95 on vault at the Northern California Classic on January 4, 2015. On January 26, 2015, in a meet against Oregon State, she scored a perfect 10 on vault. She had suffered a broken foot during the off-season which reduced her training time in the preseason and prevented her from competing in the all-around at the beginning of the NCAA season. She added uneven bars on January 9, 2015 scoring a 9.925 in a meet against San Jose State. She suffered a shoulder injury during her uneven bars routine on January 31, 2015, in a meet against Arizona State, which kept her out of the bars line-up until the Pac-12 Championships. She competed on floor exercise for the first time on March 2, 2015 scoring a 9.975. Overall for the regular season, Price earned 11 victories in 14 performances: vault (6), bars (4) and floor (1). She scored 9.925 or higher in 12-of-14 routines,including the perfect 10 on vault, and began her collegiate career with seven consecutive individual event victories. She earned two Pac-12 weekly honors: Specialist of the Week (March 10) and Freshman/Newcomer of the Week (Jan. 12).
At the Pac-12 Championships on March 21, 2015 she helped Stanford to a third-place finish behind Utah and UCLA with scores of 9.95 on vault (3rd place) and 9.95 on uneven bars (1st place and a share of the Pac-12 uneven bar title with Corrie Lothrop of Utah). She was named Pac-12 Specialist of the Year for 2015.
At the West Virginia Regional Championships on April 4, 2015 she scored 9.925 on vault and helped Stanford finish 2nd to qualify to the NCAA National Championships. At the 2015 NCAA National Championships in Ft. Worth Texas on April 17, 2015 she helped her team qualify to the Super Six with scores of 9.95 on vault. 9.95 on uneven bars, and 9.85 on floor exercise, thus qualifying to the individual event finals on vault and uneven bars. At the Super Six competition on April 18, 2015 Price helped Stanford, ranked 11th going into national championships,finish the season in fifth place. She competed the All-Around for the first time all season scoring 39.675: VT 9.95, UB, 9.925, BB 9.9, and FX 9.9. At event finals on April 19, 2015, she won the NCAA vault title with a score of 9.9333 and tied for 5th on uneven bars with a 9.9.
Price finished the season as a three time All-American: regular season first team All-American on vault and post-season first-team All-American on vault and uneven bars.
Amanar, 6.3 difficulty start value for the vault (downgraded from 6.5 in the 2013 - 2016 Code of Points).
Two and a half twisting Yurchenko (roundoff, backhandspring entry; 2.5 twisting layout).
6.3 difficulty start value for the routine as performed at the 2012 Olympic Trials.
Kip + cast to handstand + weiler kip to handstand 1/2 (D) + toe-on Shaposhnikova (D) + free hipcircle to handstand (C) + giant 1/1 (C) + reverse hecht (D); kip + cast to handstand + toe-on piked reverse hecht (E) + overshoot to handstand (D) + stalder shoot to high bar (C); kip + cast to handstand + giant + giant + 1/1 twist double layout dismount (E).
Back tuck 1/1 (F); side somi (D); full turn; switch split leap (C) + back tuck (C); front aerial (D); flip flop (B) + back layout stepout (C); split jump + sissone; side aerial (D); switch side leap (C); roundoff + double pike dismount (E).
Roundoff + flip flop + double twisting double back somersault (G), roundoff + flip flop + double layout (F); switch ring leap (C) + switch side leap 1/2 (C); roundoff + back layout 3/2 (C) out to roundoff + flip flop + double tuck (D); tour jete 1/1 (D); roundoff + flip flop + double pike (D).
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Building the Future - The "Smart City"
A new project from Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of the company Alphabet (a parent company of many companies, including Google), plans on creating a smart city that uses technology to improve the urban landscape. The integration of exciting technologies with urban planning offers some enticing luxuries that will better the quality of life for the citizens of this city, which Sidewalk Labs refers to as Quayside. Quayside will be located in Toronto, Canada, and construction could start as soon as next year. The developers of this city intend to include autonomous shuttle buses that will replace private cars and save families thousands of dollars along with robots that will move mail and garbage via underground tunnels. A unique aspect of Quayside is its adaptability to local needs, which will be perfected through data coming from the city itself.
This smart city will use data coming from its citizens to make decisions about infrastructure or improvements to the community. Everything from the amount of people living in a building to the usage of a public trash cans will be collected as data, which will transform the way city affairs are managed. This has raised some concerns about the privacy of the futurecitizens of the city, especially because Sidewalk Labs plans on sharing data with third parties. However, the company insists that data collection will be done in a way that respects the privacy of its citizens, and collecting data will serve the sole purpose of improving the community. Because this city may be the first of its kind, there is still a lot to learn about how the city will operate. Only time will tell if the city will be a success.
The city will include driverless buses for its citizens.
California's First Driverless Bus
Robots will deliver mail and move trash in underground tunnels.
The Future of Robots
Data collection will serve to help make decisions about the community to improve the lives of the citizens of Quayside, but this raises fear about privacy.
Online Data Collection
Emma Wood; September 15, 2018

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Short code: DUE 67
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Home >Opinion >Singapore's success on covid is not easy for others to replicate
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Singapore's success on covid is not easy for others to replicate
3 min read . Updated: 05 Jan 2021, 10:28 PM IST Daniel Moss , Bloomberg
The heavy hand of state authority has played a major role there
At the dawn of 2021, Singapore feels like a coiled spring where growth is just waiting to be unleashed. Last-minute dinner reservations are once again almost impossible to secure and the countless malls that dot the map are hopping on weekends. The Central Expressway, a core artery running north from downtown, is again prone to congestion. Children—mercifully—are in school. The government projects gross domestic product (GDP) will increase between 4% and 6% this year, compared with a contraction of 5.8% in 2020, its worst. This brighter outlook and cautious easing of restrictions reflects Singapore's success at containing covid infections, and makes the place look great relative to the US and Europe. Even Japan and South Korea face new outbreaks.
But as real as Singapore's covid-fighting achievements are, they rest on a model that isn't easily exported. Its results are facilitated by a degree of state influence that other countries might find uncomfortable. In numerous cases, constitutions don't easily give national governments the ability to do what's been achieved here.
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Last week, the country entered phase three of its reopening. The government now allows social gatherings of eight people, up from five. The size of congregations at religious services has been expanded, subject to tight regulations, and authorities are trying to make it less onerous for workers to be in offices. If this sounds enviable, consider the amount of compliance it took to get here. It's compulsory to swipe into any establishment using its QR code, preferably with a government app on your smartphone, though taking a photo works, too. You also must submit to a temperature check, and keep your mask on. The first-time offence for not wearing a mask is a fine of $225 (US); second transgressions have a bigger penalty. Repeat offences invite prosecution. For those without a smartphone or who prefer not to use the app, the government is rolling out a token that you are urged to carry when leaving home. Even kids above seven are expected to comply. Officials tied this stage of reopening to wider adoption of the TraceTogether app and tokens. By mid-December, about 65% of the population used them.
The effectiveness of Singapore's approach lies in its combination of subtlety and pervasiveness. Even taxis have barcodes to be scanned, wearing masks has become routine [and] there's little disquiet about the enforcement of precautions. Safe Distancing Ambassadors (SDAs), civilians who make sure pedestrians and shoppers don't get too close to each other, were a ubiquitous and forceful presence when the lockdown started easing in June.
The last contact I had with an SDA was to ask directions to a taxi queue at a shopping centre. She was friendly, knowledgeable and appeared almost relieved to have someone approach her. A few metres away, two attendants sat at a desk near the entrance, monitoring people's smartphone displays to make sure they had "checked in". The duo looked up every now and then to cast an eye over the temperature-screening machine. The once exceptional has become mundane. That might be its genius. When I checked into Toast Box, a local cafe chain, nobody badgered me to scan in. Their assumption was I would do it of my own volition, and they were correct.
The primacy of the state goes way beyond whether the budget is in deficit or surplus, or if taxes are going up or down. Singapore didn't suddenly discover big government during this pandemic. From the state-linked companies that drove the rapid development of the past six decades to supermarkets run by state-aligned unions, public-sector activism is one of Singapore's defining qualities. This kind of machinery could be deployed effectively once the pandemic struck. Multiple fiscal stimulus packages aimed at relieving the recession have also played a role in this resilience. Singapore can only control so much, however. The bumper year projected for the economy will depend at least as much on what transpires beyond its borders. A muscular recovery in the rest of the world will be key. Asian growth forecasts have also been marked up on the notion that Joe Biden will pursue a less overtly confrontational approach to China. As a vital hub for cargo, money and talent, Singapore's fortunes are tied to this broader global picture. Until people can move in and out freely—border restrictions are still tight—growth will be sub-par. Curtailing covid is a necessary but not sufficient requirement for growth. Singapore has worked hard. The payoff, should it come, will arrive not a moment too soon.
If healthcare chaos prevails for another year or so in other major cities, like Sydney, New York and London, attitudes there over the boundaries of state responsibility and the domain of individual liberty might change.
Daniel Moss is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering Asian economies.


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Q: Custom AsyncTaskLoader class doesn't honor calls to forceLoad This is a bit of a weird problem. I'm using a class that extends AsyncTaskLoader (real deal targeting API level 11, not the compatibility one) to receive intents sent by another app component and respond by downloading some data from a local database. I initialize the loader using a LoaderManager in my main activity's onStart method.
When first started, the loader works fine. The following is a sequence of events that happens:
Activity.onCreateLoader - Loader constructor - Loader.onStartLoading - Loader.loadInBackground - Activity.onLoadFinished - Loader.deliverResult
However, when I exit the activity and re-launch it repeatedly, eventually it will stop working as expected. This would be the sequence:
Activity.onCreateLoader - Loader constructor - Loader.onStartLoading - nothing
There is a call to forceLoad inside Loader.onStartLoading, but in the latter case, it doesn't seem to do anything. All the places I've searched seem to say that calling forceLoad is a near-bulletproof way to get the loader to start doing its thing, but I keep running into cases where it simply does nothing. The properties of the loader are identical in each case (isStarted, isAbandoned, and isReset give the same result regardless). Frankly, I haven't found anything that is different about the loader between the cases when it works fine and cases when it doesn't load anything.

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Journalism program among nine cut at Cambrian College
On Thursday night, Cambrian College's board of governors voted to accept a recommendation that will effectively shut down nine programs at the school – including journalism. In fact, the school of Media Studies at the Sudbury college was eliminated completely.
The decision coming out of the standing-room-only meeting has upset some, according to CBC, due to the way in which it was handled. The CBC story suggests there was a "lack of consultation" in the program cuts that the coordinator of one of the cut programs called "disappointing."
According to a release, various factors, including enrolment levels, costs, and the need to reinvest in other areas experiencing increased demand led to the suspension of the affected programs.
Sylvia Barnard, president of Cambrian College, said that the journalism program was suspended because of all of these reasons, and then some. "We are suspending the program because of the decline in enrolment and the challenge that graduates are facing in finding employment," Barnard said in an email.* "Also, the revenue from the program does not cover the costs of delivery and overhead for the program any longer."
Barnard says that enrolment has "dropped steadily" recently, with only about 20 new students entering the program each year. On top of that, the retention rate from first to second year is only about 50 per cent, she said.
Originally, 11 programs were up to be cut, but two public relations programs were saved and will be moving to the School of Business, according to Cambrian's press release.
Mike Bleskie, a first-year student of one of these public relations programs wrote a letter to the Sudbury Star, published on Mar. 23 in response to commenters on a previous story that Bleskie says suggested "students have absolutely no right intercepting the affairs of a business such as Cambrian College." Bleskie disagrees:
We are setting out to maintain the voice of key partners of the Cambrian educational experience. We are a group of students, and students alone, who are shocked that, according to some, our programs do not fit into the mosaic of applied post-secondary education.
He continues, citing a strong media presence in Sudbury and a high level of community engagement and involvement from journalism and PR students as reasons the programs should be saved. In the end, though, the journalism program was cut.
Students who are currently enrolled in the program will be able to complete their diploma without any changes, the college says. The suspension will only affect students who were expecting to begin in 2012-2013.
Cambrian's journalism program is a two-year diploma program in which students take courses in traditional areas – reporting, print, broadcast, news writing and production and law. Aside from a class that students take in their first semester titled "Introduction to Video" – in which students learn basics of videography for television and online – there are no compulsory classes to teach students entrepreneurial skills or those required for new media. There is, however, a six-week internship placement in their final semester.
In her email to J-Source, however, Barnard said that the school had, in recent years, updated its curriculum "to reflect the new standards and new media." Despite this, Cambrian still had trouble attracting students.
OpenFile Toronto took a look at the state of journalism schools in Canada and their role in the evolving media landscape back in February. The story ran with the headline: Are journalism schools doing their students a disservice?
The story looked at the fact that job prospects are fairly grim for graduating students, though as Joe Banks of Algonquin College noted, anyone willing to move to a small town, get a driver's licence and work for a newspaper for low pay will be able to find work. That said, of community colleges in Ontario – who survey their former students six months after graduation – journalism students are not only less likely to be employed, but less likely to be employed in their chosen field than college averages. Ontario universities are not required to release employment statistics. As the OpenFile story notes, 23 of the 43 journalism schools in Canada exist in Ontario.
*UPDATED 4 p.m. Mar. 23 to include Sylvia Barnard's comments on the suspension of the school.


Simply put, C-Span (Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network) is the public's window on Washington—unedited gavel-to-gavel coverage of congressional sessions, congressional hearings, speeches by policymakers at think tanks, White House briefings, and interviews with academics, authors, historians, journalists, and policy wonks.
C-Span has no big-salaried personalities and offers no razzmatazz for viewers with short attention spans. But the amazing thing is not just that tens of millions of people watch it—it's that C-Span got on the air at all.
Cable TV was in its infancy when Lamb, then Washington bureau chief for Cablevision magazine, brought the idea for C-Span to a group of cable operators. He had 30 minutes to make his pitch.
Eventually 22 cable operators were sold on the idea. With $450,000, four employees, and one telephone line, C-Span went on the air in 1979, sharing a satellite with the Madison Square Garden Network. Congress was occasionally bumped by professional wrestling.
Brian Lamb's first call-in show aired in 1980. "The lines have never stopped ringing," he says.
C-Span now has three cable-TV channels. C-Span Radio is carried nationwide on the XM network.
Lamb credits visionary cable operators for much of the networks's success. C-Span's sole support comes from the cable systems that carry its programs; it has never received government funds and has no advertisers.
Lamb has been the face and the spirit of C-Span since its beginning. "I was cheap talent," he says. None of the hosts was paid to be a host—all had other jobs at the network.


The Nelson Grizzlies Rugby Club was formed in 1989. The clubs first president was fire chief Randy Brieter. He along with team founders John VanZanden and Dr. Loren Kozak developed the team. In those early days, Japanese students from the Canadian International College were recruited to help fill the team. The Nelson Grizzlies have played in the Inland International Rugby Union which included Canadian teams from the Kootenay and Okanogan and American teams from Washington, Idaho and Montana. The team now plays in the Kootenay Rugby Union. The Grizzlies have proudly represented the region at the BCRU provincial finals on several occasions.


I'm going into my 3rd camping season of being a member of these forums. The knowledge, input, experience, and friendliness on here is awesome. I have learned so much here. Even though we recently traded in our FR TT on a new (non FR) fifth wheel, I don't plan on going anywhere! If I ever have a question about anything RV related, these forums are my go to. For that, I say thank you! Ya'll are the best!
PS - When should I consider myself a non-newbie?
Congrats on your new 5th wheel. Glad you decided to stick around.
You can stay as long as you like...it's always great to have more people around who can potentially help you with your questions.
Pictures or the 5th wheel didn't happen. We too will upgrade our FR TT in the future. Not sure if we will stay Forest River or not. Either way I too will be staying here also.
I joined this forum on the recommendation of another fellow camper. I do not own a FR but the information I have garnered here is invaluable. I will be sticking around, as well and I want to also thank everyone for their valuable input.
I totally agree, this is a great forum. And I get tons of help. Took a trip this past week, had road closures etc.. And everyone was more than willing to help me find was around it all..
I still hang around here even though I own the one in my signature now. Lots to learn and share here.
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This Town In Greece Is Draped In Thousands Of Spider Webs
This sounds like something straight out of a horror movie.
CNN 2018-09-24
CNN · September 24, 2018
Giannis Giannakopoulos
It sounds like a something out of a horror movie: A town covered in thousands of webs, each crawling with hordes of spiders.
But for residents of a town in Greece, it's a spooky reality.
In recent days, the webs have draped plants, trees and boats along the lagoon in Aitoliko, a town of canals that's otherwise known as Greece's "Little Venice."
Giannis Giannakopoulos noticed the "veil of webs" earlier this week and captured the spider creations with his camera.
"It's natural for this area to have insects, no one is especially worried," he told CNN. "But I have never seen any spider webs this big in my life."
The phenomenon is rare, although the webs have appeared before in other parts of the country.
According to arachnologist Maria Chatzaki, they're always from the same type of spider: the Tetragnatha genus, a tiny critter no longer than 2 centimeters, or 0.7 inches.
Chatzaki told CNN the webs often turn into sheet-like covers that are home to thousands of spiders living underneath.
Greek biologist Fotis Pergantis, president of the Messolonghi National Lagoon Park, said there's a simple explanation.
Behind the phenomenon, Pergantis said, are the spiders' favorite snacks: gnats.
Small mosquito-like insects with a lifespan of two to three days, gnats use most of their existence to reproduce. They thrive in hot, humid temperatures and continue to reproduce during that time.
And since temperatures in Aitoliko lately have been ideal for gnats, Pergantis said there has been a whole lot of reproduction going on.
"When these temperatures last long enough, we can see a second, third and fourth generation of the gnats and end up with large amounts of their populations," he said.
With the growth of the gnat population, the spiders also thrive and multiply.
"It's the simple prey-predator phenomenon," Pergantis said. "It's the ecosystem's natural reactions and once the temperatures begin to drop and the gnat populations die out, the spider populations will decrease as well."
Neither the gnats nor these spiders are dangerous to humans. But Aitoliko residents will need to do a lot of dusting.
Written by Christina Maxouris and Brandon Griggs for CNN.
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Town of Aitoliko covered in webs during rare phenomenon


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Enrico Soekarno was born in Bandung, Indonesia on the sixth day of the sixth month of the year sixty six. He spent his primary school years in Jakarta, and completed his secondary schooling in Sydney, Australia.
Although he was trained as a film maker at the A.P.A in Sydney, he also attended the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome and took a C.E.P. on Theories Of Revolutions at the University of Sydney.
Since 1988 he has had exhibitions of paintings, drawings, etchings and photographs and participated in various multi media performances in Asia, Europe and Australia. After a brief sojourn in East Timor in 1991 he started his own design company, Visual Concepts / The Third Eye, and since then he has designed and illustrated books, including books for Indonesia's greatest author, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, directed music videos, painted murals and created several cultural publications and public service advertisements with a focus on the environment and the preservation of indigenous cultures.
In the early part of 1998 he took a boat on the Mahakam River and journeyed into the jungles of Borneo in search of fire. He found inferno!. He took 'sembako' to remote villages, rescued an Orang Utan and was jailed by the military in Bontang. He also filmed and painted the fire. Then he brought the smoke back to choke Jakarta with the "Kalimantan on Fire and The Colours of Death" and "Burning Borneo" series of exhibitions. Some of his works raised a censorship issue in the last days of the New Order, both in Jakarta and Manila. His work and contribution for the people suffering from the forest fires were featured in the award winning BBC production of "The Kings of the Jungle".
Since then he has travelled to many other parts of Indonesia and worked on various projects charting the fall of Suharto and the rise of the New Nationalism, and the Head hunters of Borneo. He also returned to East Timor for the referendum. His land journey back through the Indonesia's eastern islands resulted in the "Mirror Of the East" exhibition.
In 1999, he and his scientist sister, Anita, were short listed for the top forty candidates of the SCI-ART science and art partnership with a piece, combining stained glass structures and microscopic images, called "The Language Of Cells". He won an award from the minister of maritime and fisheries in 2002 for his efforts, as an artist, to save the environment. And the following year he was awarded the a+ Lucky Strike Award in the Freedom Of Thought category, for consistency in producing original works of art.
His journey towards the end of 2003, with comrades Yori Antar, Jay Subyakto and Krish Suharnoko (also briefly joined by Raudia Kepper and Ella Ubaidi), to the land of snows, Tibet, resulted in an exhibition and book entitled "Tibet Di Otak", which was followed up in 2008 by a solo exhibition "Out Of Tibet" and another group show the following year entitled "Heaven In Exile".
He is presently Chairman of the Yayasan Atap Dunia, or The Roof Of The World foundation, a non profit organisation working against and making exhibitions about cultural genocide especially in Tibet. He now lives in Jakarta with his wife, Cantik and two children, Kenya Kamalashila and Dante Nagarjuna.
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Board discusses additional cost estimates for Middle School project
Terry Rogers January 31, 2023 Education, Headlines, Milford Headline Story
At a recent meeting, the Milford School District Board of Education discussed schematic designs and drawings for the Milfrod Middle School project as well as a cost estimate that was $14,400,00 over funds approved by the state for the project. Superintendent Dr. Kevin Dickerson explained that the cost overruns were due to building cost escalations as well as outdated formulas …
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Study finds disproportionate number of white students in speech programs at MSD
Dr. Laura Manges, Director of Student Services, informed the Milford School District Board of Education that a study conducted by the federal government found that the district had a disproportionate number of white students receiving speech and language services. The study used relative risk ratio methodology provided by the federal government based on the December 1 student count. "On September …
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Milford Library plans several activities as February begins
Milford Public Library will offer a wide range of programs for the first week of February. The programs range from technology classes to fun events designed to tap into your creative side. "We would love to have you make someone smile," Carolyn Tabor, Program Coordinator for the library, said. "Send a greeting card made especially for them by you! You …
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Eighteen of Delaware Technical Community College's student-athletes from three different fall 2022 teams recently earned Eastern Pennsylvania Athletic Conference (EPAC) All-Academic Team honors. To be named to the EPAC All-Academic Team, student-athletes must have participated in a fall sport and achieved a minimum of a 3.25 GPA, while enrolled in 12 credits. The EPAC is made up of 13… Betsy …
Meet the Recent Athlete Spotlight Students
Delaware Tech student-athletes must excel on and off the field as representatives of the College. Throughout the season on the Delaware Tech Athletics Instagram account, one student-athlete is regularly honored for their overall athletic performance, teamwork, sportsmanship, and commitment to education. Here are the students that were featured on Athlete Spotlight this month: … Betsy PriceBetsy Price is a Wilmington …
Delaware Tech Baseball Enters 2023 Ready to Challenge for a Region Title
Delaware Tech's baseball team had a tremendous 2022 regular season, finishing with a 31-7 record and the top seed in the NJCAA Region 19 Championship Tournament. Unfortunately, the team went 1-3 in the postseason and was eliminated before the championship game. This year, the team aims to flip those results and enter the postseason on a hot streak. "My goal …
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Delaware Technical Community College is proud to recognize the students who achieved academic excellence during 2022 and were named to the College's President's List or Dean's List. This list was created as of January 4, 2023, and any grade changes that would impact academic excellence after that date will not be reflected. To be eligible for the President's List, a …
Carney to raise teacher salaries 9% starting in 2023-24
Jarek Rutz January 17, 2023 Education, Headlines
Classroom teachers in Delaware's public schools will receive a 9% increase in their salary next school year. Others who work in education will receive a 3% raise. Those announcements came Tuesday from Education Secretary Mark Holodick during an event in which Gov. John Carney detailed the money he was investing in public education in next year's budget, which starts July …
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Milford School District seeks community feedback for strategic plan
Milford School District is seeking parent and community feedback to help with the strategic plan process. The plan will ensure that Portrait of a Graduate, Core Values, Vision, Mission and Priorities align with the district's beliefs about Milford School District. Meetings for parents and the community will be held January 11 at 6:30 and 7:00 PM as well as January …
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MSD holds first public meeting for Middle School design
Terry Rogers January 6, 2023 Education, Headlines, Milford Headline Story
On Wednesday, January 4, Milford Middle School held their first meeting to present preliminary drawings to the public related to the renovation of the historic building. The district plans two more meetings as they get input from the public regarding what the school will look like after demolition and renovation. "We began this journey back in 2018," Dr. Kevin Dickerson, …
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The lip smacking street foods are everyone's favourite. No one could actually resist the temptation of street food. But, one thing that haunts everyone while taking a bite of tasty street food is the health. Street foods are tasty but they are healthy, people have doubt on this. Due to hygiene, cooking environment, raw material used and the place where it is served, there are people who make a distance from the street served foods. But, as already mentioned above, no one can resist the temptation of food. We compromise with health many times to have the food we like. But, compromising is not always necessary, especially when you have options to make it healthy. Confused???Yes, street foods can be healthy and I am going to tell you how. In this very special blog, I am going to tell you something really interesting about street foods and something that would not stop you from having your favourite street food next time. And, the way is to prepare it at home. Street food cooking is not a rocket science and you can actually cook it at home. If you have not thought about this before then I am sure after reading my blog you would actually start thinking it this way. Here I am going to mention the 6 benefits of homemade street foods. These are definitely the reasons why you should cook them at home. So, let us begin.
The first point is of course, it helps in saving money. Eating homemade foods is usually much cheaper than eating at a restaurant or buying processed foods from the market. But, I have an advice for you, when we eat at a restaurant we pay for not only the food, but also the costs of running that business. The lights, the water, the building, and the staff — in addition to the meal we are eating. The same goes for the pre-made or frozen meals at grocery stores. Here are some of the tips that will come in your rescue.
Plan several days of meals. We'll be less likely being tempted to eat something else if we have a plan or something already made.
Amazed to know this??? Yes, you can actually save your precious time when you are cooking the street food at home. It might seem like grabbing something to eat at the local supermarket or driving to get take-out at the closest restaurant might be a quick solution when you're in a hurry. In reality, many times it can be much faster to cook something at home, especially when you plan ahead. There are so many meals that can be made in less than 30 minutes. And if you choose a more complex recipe, you can always cook in bulk and eat the surplus later in the week or freeze it.
Health is always the premier issue why we keep ourselves away from street food. But, when it is cooked at home there would be no such issues. Many commercially prepared foods are high in fat, salt, and sugar. When we prepare our own food, we know exactly which ingredients and how much of each are going into our food. When we cook at home, we are in control. McDonald's fries have 19 ingredients. We can make them at home with far less — and they will taste just as good. A favourite at my house is potatoes cut into wedges, olive oil, salt, pepper, and cayenne pepper. Put these in a Ziploc bag to mix together. Then place in the oven on a pan for about 30 minutes at 400 F. It's only five ingredients, and tastes fabulous.
Another reason why you should cook the street foods is at home is also concerned with health. If you are preparing it at home obviously you are avoiding food allergies and sensitivities. Preparing your food at home can be especially beneficial if you or a family member has a food allergy. Because you are in control in your own kitchen, you can reduce the risk of an allergic reaction.
It happens with all of us that half of something is less and full we cannot eat. But, in the urge to save our money invested on it, we eat unnecessarily. This never happens when it is cooked at home. Many restaurants and fast food joints offer portions that are much larger than necessary. And the problem is, when food is in front of you, chances are you'll eat it. When you dine in, you can regulate the amount of food served for dinner, eliminating unnecessary temptation.
And this is the best reason why you should cook the street food at home. Eating at home gives the entire family time to talk about their day. Studies show that when we eat together, our kids and family are much healthier. Eating together is linked to less obesity, kids doing better in school, and less substance abuse within the family. Involving your children in food preparation (maybe by asking them to read the recipe out loud or mix ingredients) is not only a fun thing to do, but also a great way to teach them healthy eating habits.
Street food brings happiness and it can bring good health when prepared at home. But, in case you find that you are not a master chef and could not make it at home then I would suggest you to eat it at some hygienic place like Chat Ka Chaska. It is India's leading street food franchise that offers a wide range of street foods prepared in clean and hygienic environment.


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Did Jeremy Corbyn claim Balfour Declaration was 'imposed' by Jewish cabinet members? (UPDATED)
(See important update at the bottom of this post.)
British Prime Minister David Cameron's address last night on his government's plan to combat extremism included an argument which those who fight antisemitism would likely find quite compelling. Cameron, in speaking out against racist notions which incite some Britons to adopt radical Islamist ideologies, specifically called out the antisemitic narrative that "Jews exercise malevolent power" as an idea which creates a climate in which extremism can flourish.
Enter Jeremy Corbyn MP, the candidate for Labour Party leadership who followers of this blog would know has an extremely troubling record of expressing sympathy towards antisemitic extremist organizations.
CST, in an important post about the questions Corbyn must answer about his radical affiliations, argued that "the problem is not that Corbyn is an antisemite or a Holocaust denier – he is neither". The problem, CST wrote, "is that he seems to gravitate towards people who are, if they come with an anti-Israel sticker on them".
However, comments made by Corbyn at a Labour Party hustings last night at JW3 at the very least raise troubling questions about his own views about Jews. The question, posed event moderator Jonathan Freedland, concerned the upcoming 100 year anniversary of the Balfour Declaration – a statement of support made by the British Government for the establishment of a national home for Jews in Mandate Palestine.
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So, it certainly seems (based on the clip as well as several sources who reported these comments) that Corbyn said the Balfour Declaration was "imposed" by Jewish members of the British government.
However, neither Lord Balfour, the foreign secretary for whom the declaration was named, nor the prime minister he served under, led by David Lloyd George, was Jewish. Further, the only Jewish member of George's cabinet, Edwin Montagu, was an anti-Zionist Jew who actually opposed the Balfour Declaration!
Of course, even if there were in fact Zionist Jews in the government, the argument putatively advanced by Corbyn buys into the very same narratives about malevolent Jewish power cited by Cameron as among those toxic ideas which give rise to extremism.
Especially in the context of record levels of antisemitism recorded in the UK last year, anti-racists within the Labour Party need to hold Corbyn accountable for such an odious and historically inaccurate claim.
(According to a subsequent report in The Jewish Chronicle, Corbyn meant to say "opposed", not "imposed".)
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Ottawa's first baby of 2012 was born just 30 seconds after midnight.
Audrey Pelchat was delivered at the Ottawa Hospital Civic campus, weighing 8 lbs, 3 ozs.
"It's amazing. We're really happy," said mom, Sarah Fairbrass, 30, of Barrhaven.
"I was due Jan. 9 " said Fairbrass.
She was in labour for two hours.
Fairbrass and husband, Matt Pelchat, 27, kept the baby's gender a surprise.
The young couple's first child is Violet, who is 17 months old.
"I'm excited," said Pelchat on having two girls.
When the clock struck 12, "I didn't even know," said Fairbrass.
"I can't believe she's a new year's baby. It's overwhelming and I'm very pleased," said aunt Emma Fairbrass, who looked after Violet Saturday.
Violet wore a pink T-shirt her parents bought, reading Big Sister.
As her mom held the newborn, Violet reached out and touched her sister's head, then grabbed a knit hat and tried to put it on her.
"I think (Audrey's) going to be better behaved than Violet," said Fairbrass.
The couple revealed their shortlist of baby names.
If it was a boy, "we had Jeremy or Stuart," said Fairbrass.
For girls, Audrey "was the top choice when we met the baby. We had other choices — Ruby and Eleanor — but she looks like an Audrey," said Fairbrass.
Emma Fairbrass digs her newborn niece's name.
"I love it. It think it's adorable. I was first to know, so that's special," she said.
Meeting Audrey for the first time was a special moment for grandpa Tom Fairbrass.
"I found out last night," he said.
But with cameras rolling, he took her in his arms.
"Now don't cry, don't embarrass me," he said to Audrey.
Right on cue, she cried.
"They're so small and so delicate, compared to me. It's incredible," he said.
Having a Jan. 1 baby means they'll always have to throw a birthday party New Year's Day.
"We'll have some hung over guests," said Sarah.


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OIL, CHAVEZ, ETHICS AND JOSEPH KENNEDY II
The Venezuelan poor has no Kennedy II to embrace.
*** HOW CHAVEZ AND KENNEDY UTILIZE THE POOR TO ADVANCE THEIR PERSONAL AGENDAS.
In early 1980, just after he founded Citizens Energy Corporation, Joseph Kennedy II approached the democratic government of Venezuela to buy oil. The newly created corporation was starting as an oil trader, hoping to use the profits in charitable programs to be developed in third world countries and in the poorer areas of the United States. Kennedy's initiative was accepted by Venezuelan Minister of Energy and Petroleum, Humberto Calderon, with the condition that the corporation would use the benefits of the oil trading operation in social and energy conservation initiatives in Caribbean countries such as Jamaica, as well as in Venezuela. The Venezuelan government agreed to this program because it felt Kennedy's idea had merit but did not use it as P.R. tool. In fact, the participation of the Venezuelan government in these early programs went practically unnoticed in the U.S.
Almost 25 years later the authoritarian government of Venezuela, led by Hugo Chavez, felt that the program with Kennedy II could be revived in an expanded and different format. One of Chavez's main strategies called for the creation of allies in the U.S. political sector and generating goodwill among the poorer segments of the U.S. population, in an effort to antagonize the government of George Bush, one that he has insistently defined as evil.
The broker of this new agreement was U.S. Congressman William De La Hunt (D, Mass.) who visited Venezuela during 2005 and discussed the idea with Hugo Chavez. After months of negotiations an agreement was signed in November 2005 between Kennedy's Energy Citizens Corporation and Citgo, now owned by the Venezuelan government, to start a program through which Venezuelan fuel oil would be distributed at a 40% discount to poorer segments of the population in the northeastern portion of the country, essentially Massachusetts and neighboring states. The initial volumes would be relatively modest, some 40 million gallons during 2006, increasing to 100 million gallons in 2007 and the following years. As the price of the gallon of fuel has been around $3 the cost of this subsidy for Citgo has already been of the order of $180 million and will be of some $120 million during 2008.
In an article published in his blog in November 2005 ("On a scheme to hoodwink America's poor: Hugo Chavez enlists a Kennedy for his anti-U.S. campaign"), Pedro M. Burelli, a former member of the Board of Venezuelan oil state-owned company Petroleos de Venezuela, strongly criticized this agreement on several counts: one, the excessive media display, which suggests that the intention of the Chavez government is to play the role of the good Samaritan in the U.S. while keeping Venezuelans as poor as always; two, the fact that Citgo could have executed this program directly since it has logistical capabilities superior to Kennedy's organization; and, three, the well-documented fact that Chavez policies and rhetoric have triggered severe oil price increases for the U.S. population at large, which shows that this program is just a hypocritical propaganda ploy. The so-called "Chavez premium", Burelli affirmed, has added between $7-8 per barrel to the price of oil. Burelli also claimed that both De La Hunt and Kennedy had done this deal to reap political benefits rather than by altruism.
Even some pro-Chavez analysts in Washington DC openly admitted that the agreement was politically motivated, more than a humanitarian initiative. In The Boston Globe, a report by M. Levinson and S. Milligan (November 20, 2005) quoted Larry Birns, from COHA, saying: "This initiative by Chavez [and Kennedy] is a slap in the face" of the Bush administration. Jeff Cohen, an enthusiastic Chavez "volunteer" left no doubt about the political nature of Citgos's initiatives when he wrote (http://www.commondreams.com/, January 2008): "Looking for a way to protest Bush foreign policy? Buy gasoline at Citgo". Bloggers received comments such as: "Citco (sic) is cool by me. Chavez thinks Bush sucks and so do I". In an op-ed by Liza Featherstone for The Nation ('Chavez's citizen diplomacy", December 14, 2006) she quoted a resident of the Bronx, Ms. Patricia White, as saying: "I am impressed [by the Citgo program]. It is refreshing, no red tape. Chavez is not like a U.S. politician. Here 80% of what they say does not happen". If naïve Ms. White only lived in Venezuela she would have found out that more than 80% of what President Chavez says to Venezuelans does not happen and that the lack of red tape in the U.S. program was simply due to the authoritarian style of Hugo Chavez, one that admits no delays or objections. She probably did not know that in 1999, when an natural disaster took the lives of thousands of Venezuelans living along the coast, Chavez refused to let U.S. aid come into the country. Today, the area still needs rebuiding and survivors need attention that never came.
The Citgo/Kennedy program was ordered directly by Chavez to Citgo's president Felix Rodriguez in 2005 (now replaced by Alejandro Granados). Rodriguez was quoted by David Lynch in USA Today ("Has Citgo become a political tool?" January 11,2006) as saying : "The only difference between Citgo and other companies is that Citgo has only one shareholder". For those conversant with the Venezuelan current political situation the single shareholder Rodriguez had in mind was Hugo Chavez.
This "oil to the poor" program has been accompanied by a series of 30 second segments aired over national television, ads in which Joseph Kennedy II acts as the spokesman for the program and enthusiastically thanks Venezuela and Hugo Chavez for their generosity to the U.S. poor. These TV ads have received much criticism from Americans who feel indignant about Kennedy's opportunistic participation, who have witnessed Chavez's descent into dictatorship and/or have listened to his insults against President Bush and Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice. In reply to some of this criticism Kennedy II wrote an article in The Boston Globe ("Yes, Oil from Venezuela", December 24, 2006) in which he stated: "the cold, elderly woman, does not care about rhetoric". He seems to believe that the poor should be glad to receive handouts no matter the moral texture of the giver. He added: "criticism [of the program] is not about cheap oil but about Hugo" and said defiantly: "We will keep distributing Hugo's oil".Kennedy left no doubt he was siding with Chavez : "Chavez is socializing the oil profits. Poverty has dipped 25%. Food and health services have expanded". However, he was and remains badly disinformed. Chavez has been pilfering oil profits while poverty in Venezuela remains at about 46% and income inequality has increased. This has taken place in spite of the $300 billion of oil windfall Chavez has received during the last nine years. Crime in the country is rampant and extreme food shortages are forcing the petroleum company to act as emergency importer of food. The failure of Chavez's massive handout programs to really alleviate poverty is one of the factors that led to the defeat of his attempt to become president for life, last December 2, 2007.
The strongest criticism of Kennedy's involvement in this program has come from Congressman Connie Mack. In a letter to Kennedy dated February 20, 2007, Mack said: "Hugo Chavez is providing your company with "low cost heating oil" not to help the American people but, rather, to exploit his apologists in the name of public relations. Sadly, you have chosen to actively participate in this charade, even as he continues to attack the United States".
Kennedy replied to this letter with a biting letter of his own in which he called Mack's criticism hypocritical. He said: "I would suggest that you hold all of 558 million barrels of oil we import annually from Venezuela to the same moral standard and not just the small slice we provide at a discount to the poor". In this reply Kennedy obviously refused to make a difference between the traditional, arms-length commercial relationship that the two countries have maintained for over a century and the propaganda scheme in which plays a major role, one designed to make Chavez look altruistic.
Mack responded to this letter by challenging Kennedy to a public debate, a challenge Kennedy has refused to accept.
The TV ads have been shown for many months now, over national TV. Considering that each one of these TV spots costs hundreds of thousands of dollars and their high frequency, the cost to Citgo of this glorification of Chavez and Kennedy must run in the tens of millions of dollars per year.
There are, at least, two central issues related to this Citgo/Kennedy program. One is related to the fact that Venezuela is a country with extreme poverty, in great need of wise and honest utilization of its financial resources. Instead, Chavez is using Venezuelan national money in an all-out campaign for self-promotion. The oil for the poor program coordinated by Kennedy is part of this campaign, perhaps small in a quantitative sense but of great potential political impact in the United States.The U.S. poor receiving the handouts from Chavez have an average annual income six to ten times higher than the Venezuelan poor. This does not make logical or moral sense.
The other issue is related to Kennedy himself. A man nurtured in democracy, bearing a famous name in American politics, should have been more careful with the type of company he kept. Now, because of his deep involvement in the program, Kennedy is becoming a prisoner of the situation, finding himself obliged to defend a man who grows more undemocratic everyday. Chavez has just publicly sided with the Colombian narcoterrorist guerrilla, FARC, officially placing his regime in an alliance with the terrorists and against the democratic government of Colombia. As the spokesperson of the Chavez oil propaganda machine in the U.S., Kennedy has now become just one member of the gang.
As the days go by, Joseph Kennedy II might be feeling increasingly sorry that he got entangled with Hugo Chavez. Now it seems too late for him to break away without permanent damage to what remains of his reputation.
Publicado por Gustavo Coronel en 4:07
In the opinion of many, precious little remains of the Kennedy family reputation, even without the Hugo tarbaby.
I once revered the Kennedys. Today, I would say that it would be a tossup over whom I despised more: Hugo or the Kennedy family. And this is NOT taking into account Joe II's involvement with CITGO and Hugo.
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Siti Sulastri
Student of Doctorate Program, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta
Nuryono Nuryono
Indriana Kartini
Eko Sri Kunarti
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ADSORPTION OF Ca(II), Pb(II) AND Ag(I) ON SULFONATO-SILICA HYBRID PREPARED FROM RICE HULL ASH
Siti Sulastri(1), Nuryono Nuryono(2*), Indriana Kartini(3), Eko Sri Kunarti(4)
(1)&nbspStudent of Doctorate Program, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta
In this research, adsorption of Ca(II), Pb(II) and Ag(I) in aqueous solution onto sulfonato-silica hybrid (SSH) prepared from rice hull ash (RHA) has been studied. The preparation of SSH adsorbent was carried out by oxidation of mercapto-silica hybrid (MSH) with hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) solution 33%. MSH was prepared, via sol-gel process, by adding 3 M hydrochloric acid solution to mixture of sodium silicate (Na2SiO3) solution and 3(trimethoxysilyl)-1-propanthiol (MPTS) to reach pH of 7.0. Solution of Na2SiO3 was generated from destruction of RHA with sodium hydroxide solution followed with heating at 500 °C for 30 min. The SSH produced was characterized with Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction (XRD) analyzer, energy dispersive X-ray (EDX) spectroscopy and determination of ion-exchange capacity for sodium ion (Na+). The adsorption of Ag(I) and Ca(II) were conducted in a batch system in various concentrations for one hour. The adsorbent ion was calculated based on difference of concentrations before and after adsorption process determined using atomic absorbance spectrophotometric (AAS) method. The adsorption character was evaluated using model of isotherm Langmuir and Freundlich adsorption to calculate the capacity, constants and energy of adsorption. Result of characterization by EDX and FTIR showed qualitatively that SSH has been successfully synthesized which were indicated by appearance of characteristic absorbance of functional group namely silanol (Si-OH), siloxane (Si-O-Si), methylene (-CH2-) and disappearance of mercapto group (SH). The XRD data showed amorphous structure of SSH, similar to silica gel (SG) and MSH. The study of adsorption thermodynamics showed that oxidation of MSH into SSH increases the ion-exchange capacity for Na+ from 0.123 to 0.575 mmol/g. The change in functional group from silanol to mercapto and from mercapto to sulfonato increases the adsorption capacity of Ca(II). However, the capacity order of adsorbents for both ions of Pb(II) and Ag(I) in aqueous solution is MSH > SG > SSH.
adsorption; silica; rice; hybrid; sulfonato
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Italiens utrikesminister (italienska: Ministro degli Affari Esteri) är chef för utrikesministeriet, Ministero degli Affari Esteri (MAE). Dess huvudkontor ligger i Palazzo della Farnesina i Rom och Farnesina används ibland som metonym för ministeriet.

Utrikesministern anses vara en av de mera seniora ministerposterna i Italien och flera utrikesministrar har också tjänstgjort som landets konseljpresident och president. Utrikesministern ingår i Italiens regering, Consiglio dei Ministri, och utnämns av presidenten på förslag av konseljpresidenten. Äldre namn för ministrar är ministri segretari di stato, vilket är anledningen till att utrikesministerns närmsta medarbetare motsvarande Sveriges kabinettssekreterare benämns understatssekreterare, Sottosegretario di Stato.

Lista över Italiens utrikesministrar

Kungariket Italien

Italienska republiken

Källor
 Utrikesministeriets webbplats
 Engelskspråkiga wikipedia

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Italien

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