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SCIENTISTS SHOW THAT PEOPLE ABSORB ENERGY FROM OTHERS
by Alien UFO Sightings May 21, 2018
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Many people claim to have felt how someone "steals" their energy or they feel exhausted by being in their presence.
A biological research team at the University of Bielefeld has made an amazing discovery: Plants can extract an alternative source of energy from other plants. This finding could have a major impact on the future of bioenergy by providing evidence that people extract, in the same way, energy from others, as a kind of "psychic vampire".
Professor Olaf Kruse and his team studied a plant called Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, which not only carries out the process of photosynthesis, but can also absorb energy from other plants to stay active. Studies suggest that our physical bodies are like sponges, absorb what is in the environment.
Kruse cultivated microscopic algae capable of absorbing energy from other plants and around them when they lack them. As he writes in Nature . "It is the first time that this behavior is confirmed in a plant organism. These algae can digest cellulose, contradicting all the previous notes. To a certain extent, what we are seeing are plants that feed on plants. "
Following a similar line, the psychologist, specialist in healing energy, Olivia Bader-Lee, ensures that when energy studies advance in the coming years, you can see that this also happens among people.
Flowers need water and light to grow and people are no different. Our physical bodies are like sponges, absorbing from the environment. "This explains – in his opinion – why there are certain people who feel uncomfortable in specific groups where there is a mixture of energy and emotions".
Something similar can be experienced when we are in a natural environment and we can feel how the whole body gains in vitality. This contact with vegetation has been lost over time, however, it can recover and people can find new ways to heal each other.
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Rabat – A group of white male extremists in Texas, are training against a Muslim "uprising" by dipping bullets in pig's blood and bacon grease targeting victims of the Islamic faith, according to RT.
An organization known as "Bureau of American Islamic Relations" (BAIR) said that using pig products on the bullets would ensure that the victims would "go straight to hell," according to a video released by AJ+.
"A lot of us here are using either pig's blood or bacon grease on our bullets, packing it in the middle so that when you shoot a Muslim, they go straight to hell," said a man in the video, while another adds, "Don't f*ck with white people."
BAIR, based in Irving, TX, fears that Muslim refugees will take over the city, and has already staged armed protests against incoming Syrian refugees seeking asylum.
"2,174 Syrian refugees have been admitted to the US after a vigorous vetting process. ZERO have been arrested or removed on terrorism charges," Jen Psaki, Director of Comunications at the White House in Washington, DC, tweeted.
BAIR has also staged armed protests outside of mosques in Texas against the "Islamization of America".
Islamophobia has increased in the U.S., with a 2015 YouGov poll showing that 55 percent of Americans have an "unfavorable" opinion of Islam.
David Wright, spokesperson for the extremist group, said he was "going to start doing something about about Muslims now".
"If you get to the point where there's an Arab Spring, where there's a lot of radical Muslims here and they all decide to hit the streets at one time… that's going to be more of a battlefield type situation," said Wright.
Recently, Beth Van Duyne, mayor of Irving, fuelled the tensions by persuading the city's council to support a state bill with the purpose of blocking Muslim influence in US courts.
"The next step in jihad does not involve random, sporadic attacks," he told the news outlet. "They started killing people. Do you really expect me to stand here and wait until we get to that point?"

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Sometimes a story out of ancient writings that are not Christian or Biblical can still teach us lessons that we need to learn. Here is one such story that I read that is possibly based on a saying attributed to the wise King Solomon, "Cast your bread upon the waters, for after many days you will find it again."1 I hope it will be an inspiration to you as it was for me.
There was a woman who was known for being very wise. One day she was walking in the mountains toward a village when she went to get a drink of water from a mountain stream. As she looked in, she saw a large, red stone that she knew was considered very precious. She reached in and took the stone and put it in the bag that hung from her shoulder. The next day she encountered a man who was coming the other way. As they met, he told her that he was very hungry and asked if she could share something from her bag. The wise woman gladly opened her bag to shared her food.
When she opened her bag, the hungry traveler saw the precious stone and asked the woman if she would give it to him so he could use it in the next village to buy some food. She quickly reached in her bag and gave him the precious stone without hesitation. The traveler continued on, rejoicing in his good fortune. He knew the stone was worth enough to give him security for a long time.
After the wise lady concluded her visit to the village she was going to, she started on her way back home. Lo and behold, when she entered one of the villages on her way back, there was this traveler to whom she had given the stone waiting for her. He ran up to her and told her how happy he was to see her. He then shared with her that after they met he began to feel convicted. He knew how valuable the stone was and felt bad that he had taken if from her with such pretense. So he wanted to give it back to her in the hope that she would give him something even more precious. He asked her to please share with him what she had in her heart that made her to give him that stone without hesitation.
Some scholars say that the saying from Solomon about casting bread upon the waters came from the grain trade practiced by merchants along the Mediterranean Sea. It referred to their loading up ships full of grain and shipping them off to foreign lands without any prepayment, in hopes that it would sell and bring back a good sum of gold or silver in return. So it was more of a statement of encouragement to be ready to give something away even without any guarantee that you will get anything in return. That's the only way to find out if what you have is valuable enough for someone to pay you back.


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The Ginsburg Tapes
Summary: A podcast about Ruth Bader Ginsburg's oral arguments in the Supreme Court—before she was #NotoriousRBG. Hosted by Lauren Moxley Beatty.
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Episode 8 [Rebroadcast]: Lauren breaks down the final tape of Ginsburg's career as an advocate before the Supreme Court, and reflects on what she's learned through this project. Questions for Lauren? Shoot her an email at ginsburgtapes@gmail.com, or find her on Twitter @laurenmoxley.
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Near Beer and the Middle Tier (Rebroadcast) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 51:53
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Episode 5 (Rebroadcast): After Stephen Wiesenfeld's wife Paula died giving birth to their son, he was denied benefits available to sole surviving mothers with modest incomes. Had Stephen and Paula's places been reversed, Paula would have received those benefits. Ruth Bader Ginsburg represented Stephen in challenging the social security law. She used the case to show how...
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I join forces with Kate Shaw and Melissa Murray, co-hosts of the Strict Scrutiny podcast, for a deep dive into the Equal Rights Amendment. Questions for Lauren? Shoot her an email at ginsburgtapes@gmail.com, or find her on Twitter @laurenmoxley.
Ride on Its Skirttails | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1:05:36
After Leon Goldfarb's wife, Hannah Goldfarb, passed away, he was denied benefits available to sole surviving spouses that he would have obtained if their gender-roles were reversed. Ruth Bader Ginsburg represented Leon in challenging the law. The government argued that Ginsburg wanted to "characterize this as a women's rights case because the cause of women's rights...
Near Beer and the Middle Tier | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 51:53
When did the Supreme Court finally raise the bar for sex equality under the Constitution? In a case about beer. In Oklahoma, women could buy 3.2% alcohol beer at 18, but men had to wait until they turned 21. Two fraternity brothers at Oklahoma State University teamed up with a co-owner of a local convenience...
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Perched beside a tranquil lake with 12 acres of surrounding parkland, Kenwood Hall provides the perfect retreat from the hustle and bustle of the city. Tuck into a delicious afternoon tea for two in the comfortable surroundings of the Lakeview bar, or enjoy some fresh air out on the terrace, while taking in the beautiful view of the lake and hotel grounds. As an archetypal part of British culture, the afternoon tea is all about tradition, so that's precisely what Kenwood Hall provides. Savour the mouthwatering array of sweet and savoury treats on offer, including indulgent scones served with clotted cream and strawberry jam, an assortment of delicate finger sandwiches and delicious mini cakes. Top it all off with a variety of teas and coffee.


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module Sequences
  module CeleryScriptValidators
    include Skylight::Helpers

    NO_TRANSACTION   = "You need to do this in a transaction"
    ARGS_OF_INTEREST = { "tool_id"     => Tool,
                         "sequence_id" => Sequence,
                         "pointer_id"  => Point }
    ALLOWED_NODE_KEYS = [
      "body",
      "kind",
      "args",
      "comment",
      :body,
      :kind,
      :args,
      :comment
    ]

    instrument_method
    def validate_sequence
      # TODO: The code below strips out unneeded attributes, or attributes that
      # are not part of CeleryScript. We're only stripping attributes out of the
      # first level, though. I would like to recursively strip out "noise" via
      # CeleryScript::JSONClimber. I am holding off for now in the name of time.
      (inputs[:body] || []).map! { |x| x.slice(*ALLOWED_NODE_KEYS) }
      add_error :body, :syntax_error, checker.error.message if !checker.valid?
    end

    def seq
      @seq ||= {body: [],
                args: { version: SequenceMigration::Base.latest_version },
                kind: "sequence"}.merge(inputs.symbolize_keys.slice(:body,
                                                                    :kind,
                                                                    :args))
    end

    def reload_dependencies(sequence)
        must_be_in_transaction
        SequenceDependency
          .where(sequence: sequence)
          .destroy_all

        SequenceDependency.create!(deps(sequence))
    end

    def must_be_in_transaction
      count = ActiveRecord::Base.connection.open_transactions
      raise NO_TRANSACTION if count < 1
    end

    def tree
      @tree = CeleryScript::AstNode.new(**seq)
    end

    def corpus
      Sequence::Corpus
    end

    def checker
      @checker = CeleryScript::Checker.new(tree, corpus)
    end

    # Climbs through every node in a sequence and finds out which dependencies
    # will need to be kept track of
    def deps(sequence)
      return [] unless checker.valid? # Exit early if it's bad data
      all = [] # Start collecting the list.
      CeleryScript::TreeClimber.travel(tree, ->(n) {
        # Iterate over each node, looking for "args of interest".
        # Tools, sub sequences, etc.
        ARGS_OF_INTEREST.map do |arg, klass|
          id = n&.args&.fetch(arg, nil)&.value
          all.push(klass.find(id)) if id
        end
      })

      # Filter out the target sequence to prevent runaway recursion.
      # It would be impossible to delete recursive sequences otherwise.
      all.select! { |d| !(d.is_a?(Sequence) && (d.id == sequence.id)) }

      # Finally, output the data in a format that can directly be used by
      # SequenceDependency#create!().
      return all.uniq.map do |d|
        { sequence: sequence, dependency_type: d.class, dependency_id: d.id }
      end
    end
  end
end

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What have I been doing the last two months?
Getting fat and slow, mostly. When I went to the doc, he said to take at least a month off of running. So, I did.
Then the guy at PT (Who was MAGIC, MAGIC, I say, with the tape and the battery-delivered analgesics) had me keep doing the stretches I was doing, but, more importantly, didn't mess around and cleared me to start running again, provided I kept stretching and using orthotics.
So, I'm painfully fat (Well north of 180), and painfully slow (Bike's been averaging less than 16 mph), I'm at least running again.
I've also changed jobs, which should end up providing more time in the day. The pool's a 5 minute walk from my office, and, even better, it's only 7 miles door-to-door home to office. I'm still sorting out logistics with the job, but I've ridden my bike in at least once each week I've been working here.
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I'd love to be in the 180's right now.
Thanks for the reminder about the race this fall, Bill.


A new website entitled I Can Stalk U has arrived fresh on the heels of the website Please Rob Me. Both websites try and raise awareness about over sharing on the internet today. Please Rob Me focused on how people proactively share their location online. I Can Stalk U looks a a slightly more scaring form of over sharing, meta data in online photographs.
I Can Stalk U looks through Twitter for posts that include pictures. It then scans the meta data for the picture and tries to find the address where the picture was taken. If successful it posts the username and the location in the ICanStalkU feed.
Visual-literacy.org has a nicely done Periodic Table of Visualizations.
Ross Anderson put together a web page which contains many resources in the intersection of psychology and security. The site includes papers, books, conferences and people.
The US government has a web site on using plain language both within the government as well as for your own organization or group.
Shows several different sorting algorithms and how they sort several different types of data sets.
Ever wondered what sorting algorithms sound like? Â These YouTube videos show you what different sorting algorithms sound like.
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Home/Travel News/Will we need a new COVID-19 vaccine for the Omicron variant? Experts weigh in
Will we need a new COVID-19 vaccine for the Omicron variant? Experts weigh in
Drugmakers are racing to develop new vaccines intended to target the Omicron variant, a coronavirus strain that has mutations that suggest it could evade immunity provided by vaccination or natural infection.
Moderna Chief Medical Officer Dr Paul Burton said in an interview on NBC News that the company has already started work on a version of its vaccine to address the new variant.
Pfizer and BioNTech said they could develop an Omicron-specific vaccine within six weeks and ship initial batches within 100 days if needed.
AstraZeneca said it was looking to understand the impact the Omicron variant has on its coronavirus vaccine, and was testing its antibody combination therapy against the new variant.
It's unclear if a new vaccine will even be needed, however.
Shots previously in development and clinical trials for other variants, including Beta and Delta, were later found to be unnecessary as the existing vaccines proved to be highly effective or the strain in question simply "fizzled out", said John Moore, a professor of microbiology and immunology at the Weill Cornell Medical College.
The Delta variant, for example, remains the most contagious version of the virus, he said, but the vaccines have still proven to offer protection against it.
A Centres for Disease Control and Prevention study, published in September, found that when the Delta variant became dominant in the summer, unvaccinated people were four and a half times more likely to become infected, ten times more likely to be hospitalised, and 11 times more likely to die of COVID-19, compared with vaccinated individuals.
In other words, the existing vaccines worked against the Delta variant.
The discovery of a new coronavirus variant has triggered global alarm as countries rushed to suspend travel from southern Africa and stock markets on both sides of the Atlantic suffered their biggest falls in more than a year. Credit: matejmo/Getty Images
"So it wasn't necessary to manufacture and roll out a variant vaccine" specific to Delta at that time, Professor Moore said.
"That's a huge, I mean, huge investment, when you have to go and make new products and get it checked out by the FDA, even if it's under a fast track procedure," he said, referring to the Food and Drug Administration.
The Beta variant, first identified in South Africa, was another strain also once thought to necessitate an updated version of the vaccine.
Indeed, the existing vaccines were significantly less protective against infection with Beta, but the variant never spread widely in North America, Europe and other parts of the world like Delta did, he said.
It might have been necessary to develop a shot for Beta but the variant didn't take off, he added.
"That's the key unknown for Omicron," Professor Moore said.
"Is Omicron going to be like Beta and not outcompete Delta and just fade away or is it going to be a super version of Delta and something that we need to be really concerned about it?"
"Whether or not they would need to roll a new vaccine out depends on a significant number of unknowns that will emerge in the next few weeks," he said.
The World Health Organisation said last week that preliminary evidence suggested "an increased risk of reinfection with this variant, as compared to other" variants of concern.
The new strain also has mutations that are associated with higher transmissibility and potentially reduced antibody protection, it said.
Jerica Pitts, a Pfizer spokesperson, said none of the previous variants have escaped the protection of its vaccine in laboratory studies or real-world observations.
In considering whether to ask the FDA to authorise a new vaccine, the company said, it first needs to understand it can "neutralise the variant" in lab studies.
The company said it also needs to see whether Omicron can outcompete Delta outside the current hot spot in South Africa or if its rapid spread in the country is "an isolated case".
Drugmakers are racing to develop new vaccines intended to target the Omicron variant, a coronavirus strain that has mutations that suggest it could evade immunity provided by vaccination or natural infection. Credit: 7NEWS.com.au
Dr Michel Nussenzweig, an immunologist at Rockefeller University in New York, said if health officials see a significant increase in the number of vaccinated people hospitalised with COVID-19, there would be "good reason" to launch a variant-specific vaccine.
But that's "not clear yet," he wrote in an email.
"There's no real data available, just conjecture based on rates of reporting the sequence, which is going up rather quickly, and the data on viruses with related mutations."
Even if the vaccines do take a hit against Omicron, Professor Moore said, the chances of any variant "blowing away all vaccine immunity are very, very, very slim".
"If there is a worst-case scenario, you would expect to see more infections in vaccinated people, but you wouldn't expect to see a massive increase in deaths because there would still be some protective immunity."
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Ndabili Bashingili (born 28 December 1979 in Semitwe) is a Botswana marathon runner. Bashingili made his official debut for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he placed twenty-fifth out of a hundred runners in the men's marathon, with a time of 2:18:09.

Four years after competing in his last Olympics, Bashingili qualified for the second time, as a 29-year-old, in the men's marathon at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He successfully finished the race in fifty-ninth place by eight seconds behind Tanzania's Samson Ramadhani, with a time of 2:25:11.

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1979 births
Living people
People from Central District (Botswana)
Botswana male marathon runners
Olympic athletes of Botswana
Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics

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08 - Oct - 2020 | Assignments
Evaluate working with children and families from a range of theoretical frameworks.
Module: Children and Families
On successful completion of this module the learner should be able to:
LO1: Evaluate working with children and families from a range of theoretical frameworks.
LO2: Articulate and appraise the range of interventions employed in working with children and families who have experienced abuse, trauma and a range of stresses in their lives.
LO3: Critically evaluate assessment, intervention and ongoing support frameworks used when working with children and families.
Assignment 1:
Case Study: 40%
With reference to theory and best practice principles students are required to complete the Meitheal Strengths and Needs Record Form for the Case Study given.
Once completed students are required to articulate and appraise the range of interventions they have highlighted in the Strengths and Needs Record Form.
The Meitheal form can be found by doing a google search for: Meitheal Strengths and Needs Form.
(The completed form needs to be handed in with the hard copy of the assignment however should not be included in the word count and not put through Turnitin)
Word Count: 1,500 +/-10%
SAM AND MEGAN
Father: Andrew Kelly – 45 years old
Mother: Mary Kelly – Deceased
Children: Sam Kelly – 17 years old
Megan Kelly – 14 years old
Presenting Situation:
Maternal grandmother, Mrs. Clarke, called her local Tusla office on a Friday at 2pm to request an investigation of her son – in – law's home. Mrs. Clarke believes her granddaughter and grandson are being abused by their father. Grandson, Sam, is 17 and granddaughter, Megan, is 14. Their mother, (her daughter) is deceased.
Mrs. Clarke reported her grandchildren spend one weekend a month in her care. They are currently with her, and she saw bruises on Megan's arms and legs. She is also concerned that Sam has bruises; however, he is wearing a long sleeved shirt and trousers and will not allow her to look. Megan and Sam will not discuss what has caused the bruising. Sam said his father did get upset with him and with Megan but would not say anything further.
Mrs. Clarke did not want to send the children back home on Sunday afternoon. She said her son-in-law had developed a serious temper, and she is afraid he has begun to abuse the children. She said since her daughter died earlier this year, Andrew has become increasingly angry and verbally abusive toward the children even in her presence. She has not seen him hit the children, but she has heard him shouting at them.
After discussing the call with the duty social worker, an available social worker made a visit to Mrs. Clarke's home. She met with Mrs. Clarke, Sam and Megan. Megan was crying and refused to speak. Sam would only say his father's temper has got worse since Mary's death.
The social worker observed several marks on Megan's arms and legs: two round shaped marks about 1.5 inches in diameter on either side of her left upper arm and three marks on the back of her right calf, each about two inches in length and .5 inches in width. The social worker said "You have several bruises, Megan. Can you tell me how you got them?" Megan cried harder and did not respond. The social worker said, "Sometimes I talk to teenagers who are unsure about whether to talk to me. They want their family to get help but they don't want anyone to get into trouble." Megan continued to bow her head and cry. Sam said "Look, just please stop asking questions; we can handle it and you are just going to make things worse." The social worker explained that she and other social workers have been able to help other families before. She explained that she know the children's mother has passed and expressed her condolences. She said, "Sometimes when families are grieving, people need extra help. Maybe that is so for your family?" The children did not comment. Mrs. Clarke tried to get her granddaughter to discuss their home life but they continued to remain silent. Sam refused to show the social worker his arms or legs.
The available social worker spoke with the duty social worker and concluded the children needed to stay with Mrs. Clarke until the father could be interviewed. The social worker instructed Mrs. Clarke to contact the duty social worker if Andrew called or came to pick up the children. Mrs. Clarke stated she does not hear from Andrew when she has the children, and he does not respond when she calls. Mrs. Clarke made a point to tell the social worker she wants the children to be with their father but only if the children are treated well and remain safe.
After leaving Mrs. Clarke, the available social worker tried calling the father at his home but received no answer. The social worker also called Andrew's mobile phone number provided by Mrs. Clarke. There was no answer, and the social worker left numerous messages by voice mail.
Current Situation:
On Sunday morning, the guards received a frantic call from Andrew. He wanted to know why a social worker was calling him. The Guards advised Andrew to phone Mrs. Clarke to discuss the situation.
Andrew phoned Mrs. Clarke and asked if Megan and Sam were safe. She told him they were but that a report had been made to Tusla alleging abuse of Sam and Megan. She stated to him that social workers wanted to talk to him on Monday. Andrew become angry and stated he could not "handle the children" since Mary's death. He stated they were "ungrateful" and could just stay with her (Grandmother) "forever". Andrew hung up at this point and the children stayed with their grandmother.
The duty social worker contacted Andrew on Monday morning and explained he needed to come into the social work offices that day to see her. Andrew stated he would be available after work that day at 4pm and did not want the children home. The duty social worker asked if Mrs. Clarke agreed could the children stay with her. Andrew agreed stating "She can have them." The duty social worker told Andrew she would see him in the social work offices that afternoon at 4pm. The duty social worker contacted Mrs. Clarke, and she agreed to keep the children for as long as necessary.
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Q: If statement listing exceptions I'm having an issue with this codebat question:
The parameter weekday is True if it is a weekday, and the parameter vacation is True if we are on vacation. We sleep in if it is not a weekday or we're on vacation. Return True if we sleep in.
sleep_in(False, False) → True
sleep_in(True, False) → False
sleep_in(False, True) → True
Here's my solution:
 def sleep_in(weekday, vacation):

     if (True, False):
         return False

     else:
         return True

And the result came back as:
sleep_in(False, False) → True   False   X
sleep_in(True, False) → False   False   OK
sleep_in(False, True) → True    False   X
sleep_in(True, True) → True     False   X

I'm confused as to why it's wrong.
In my solution, I stated:
if (True, False):
    return False

And everything being True.
Can any one give me an idea where I am going wrong?

A:
We sleep in if it is not a weekday or we're on vacation.

This is best expressed as a straight-up boolean comparison.
def sleep_in(weekday, vacation):
    return not weekday or vacation

Fair warning:  this will evaluate to True if either of those parameters are truthy.
Speaking of "truthy", the experssion (True, False) is a tuple, and since it is a non-empty tuple, it will evaluate to True.  For reference, here is a list of all expressions that evaluate to False. Anything outside of that list will evaluate to True in a boolean context.

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A Youth Soccer Club in Queens Starts Its Season, Cautiously
Hannah Flynn | Friday, October 2, 2020
On a cool fall night in Queens, players for the Auburndale Soccer Club walk onto the field for practice wearing masks and drop their bags six feet away from everyone else's. Their parents, also masked and distanced, line up behind a fence at Cunningham Park, instead of on the grass as usual, to watch.
Players exchange a fist bump of encouragement or an elbow tap, instead of a high five. Though they are not required to wear a mask while playing, they stand by themselves at water breaks, and chatter among friends is limited.
Fall soccer season looks different this year, but despite the COVID-19 concerns – including a tussle with the city parks department and decreased enrollment – youth are showing up to play for the Auburndale Soccer Club.
"I was really excited when I heard what we will be back on the soccer field," said 13-year-old Cameron Rosen, who plays for the Auburndale Express '07.
The 43-year-old club usually draws about 700 players altogether, ages 3 to 19, to programs including First Kicks for the youngest, intramural play and travel teams.
This season, enrollment in its biggest program, travel soccer, has fallen by only about 12%, from about 400 to 350, said John Careddu, director of operations and treasurer. The club has not yet compiled numbers for the intramural program, which usually has about 175 players.
(Photo/Hannah Flynn)
Although the city is requiring leagues to develop safety plans, Careddu said "a handful of parents have told us they will not be registering their children due to COVID-19 concerns."
José Pujol, whose 12-year-old daughter plays for the '08 Strikers, said he was willing to try. "There is a lot of uncertainty. I'm keeping my fingers crossed and being hopeful, but we may be set up for disappointment," he said.
The tangle with the city parks department began in late August, when it announced that it would issue no fall field permits.
Coaches and parents across the boroughs objected, and a change.org petition created by South Bronx United, a youth soccer club in the Bronx, drew over 8,000 signatures. Mayor Bill de Blasio reversed the decision on Aug. 28. Auburndale expects to receive permits allowing full use of the fields at Fort Totten Park and Cunningham Park, where it plays each year.
The season will be two weeks shorter, running from Sept. 26 through Nov. 15. The club lowered prices, too. Typically, travel soccer costs $1,500 for 10 months, paid through an installment plan and used to cover expenses for trainers and facility upkeep. In March, when the spring season was cancelled because of COVID-19, the plan was frozen so no one had to pay for a season that couldn't continue.
This season, Auburndale decreased the price of travel soccer by $150, and the club will work with any family struggling financially. "If a child wants to play, we will figure out how to get them involved," said club President Thomas Claro.
Youth soccer has changed across the city this year. Last fall, the parks department issued 919 permits to youth soccer leagues, with the greatest number – 309 – in Manhattan, spokeswoman Charisse Hill said in an email. As of late September, it had issued 327 permits, with the greatest number in Brooklyn – 126.
The department requires organizations to complete a COVID-19 Safety Plan and Affirmation before it reviews requests. If an organization receives more than three violations during the season, the permit will be withdrawn.
Parks Department staff will perform spot inspections to ensure guidelines are followed, Hill said. Players and coaches at Auburndale Soccer Club must fill out a symptom-check questionnaire on an app, Team Snap, before every practice and game. Only people with negative self-checks can participate that day.
Players, coaches, staff and spectators must all wear masks while on the sidelines, and players must maintain distance when they are not active in the game.
Each player is only allowed two spectators for each game and practice, and after games everyone must leave the field, instead of the usual gathering.
Even with all those precautions, not every Auburndale parent found the decision to register children for fall soccer easy.
"We quarantined all summer," said Maria Ceballos, whose 11-year-old son plays on the '09 Arsenal. "As a parent, I am trying to do the best I can."
The club won't push any child into playing, said Denis Peros, coach of the Blast 2010. One boy on his team of 12 has not returned, but "he can come back whenever he feels comfortable," Peros said. "His spot will be waiting for him." Other parents, however, found the decision to play a no-brainer. Jonathon Rosen said he signed his three children up as soon as he could. "It's great that they're finally allowing them to play, and I hope they can continue as the season goes on," he said.
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Designated by the Anti-Defamation League as a "No Place For Hate" school.
Named a Teaching for Tolerance National Model Mix-It-Up School by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Welsh Valley recently hosted its first-ever Student Leadership Conference focused on leadership development through individual self-reflection, peer-to-peer collaboration, character development exercises and team building activities.
Welsh Valley's Technology Student Association amassed awards in an impressive 16 events at the 2015 National TSA Conference - the third most of all competing middle schools - highlighted by two National Championships.
In 2015, TSA raised $2,392 for the American Cancer Society during a Care Fair held at the school for which the students built and operated carnival game.
Throughout the entire 2015 season, Welsh Valley TSA earned a total of 144 event awards including two National, 10 State and 16 Regional Championships.
The NAMM Foundation has recognized LMSD for its outstanding commitment to music education with a Best Communities for Music Education (BCME) designation for the fifth consecutive year.
Annual musical excellence at Pennsylvania's Music in the Parks Festival (2006-2015) including Superior Ratings in 7th/8th grade Orchestra, 8th grade Band, and Competition Jazz Band.
Award-winning and perennial top-five finisher in statewide Science Olympiad competition. In 2015, the Dragons medaled in 12 out of 23 events at the regional competition en route to a second place overall finish while again qualifying for the State Competition.
Welsh Valley's annual Community Day celebration organized by the Character & Citizenship Committee raised more than $4,000 for charity in 2015.
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Kapela Ogórki – folkowy zespół muzyczny, łączący tradycyjna muzykę góralską z elementami rocka.

Kapelę założył Stanisław Ogórek w 1977 roku. Obecnie w jej skład wchodzą synowie założyciela. Grupa wydała samodzielnie 11 płyt. Współpracowała także z innymi zespołami, wydając składanki folkowe, biesiadne: "Góralska Zabawa" (z Kapelą GÓROLE), oraz o tematyce religijnej, kolędowej. Zespół koncertował w kraju, jak i za granicą (Niemcy, Stany Zjednoczone, Kanada). Oprócz tego kapela uświetnia wiele imprez zamkniętych: wesela, zabawy, imprezy okolicznościowe.

Skład
 Stanisław Ogórek – skrzypce, saksofon, vocal
 Janusz Ogórek – akordeon, instrumenty klawiszowe, vocal
 Zbigniew Ogórek – gitara, kontrabas, basy, vocal
 Tadeusz Ogórek – skrzypce prym, sekund
 Roman Miętus – gitara basowa, skrzypce sekund, vocal
 Dariusz Chrobak – perkusja, skrzypce sekund

Nagrody
 Konkurs gminny "Muzykowanie na Duchową nutę" (kilkakrotnie I miejsce)
 Powiatowy przegląd muzyków góralskich w Nowym Targu (I, II i III miejsce)
 Ogólnopolski festiwal kapel i śpiewaków w Kazimierzu Dolnym nad Wisłą ("Złota Baszta" w 2004, oraz dwukrotnie: I miejsce w 2006 i 2008 roku)

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In my plantiful kitchen I make a variety of dairy milk alternatives–almond milk, cashew milk, hemp milk, seed and nut milk, and nut milk blends. All of these are so easy to make at home and do not include the preservatives, emulsifiers and flavours which are added to store-bought versions.
This recipe is for my go-to milk–Vanilla Almond Milk. I like to have this on hand for cereal, smoothies, to mix straight with a protein powder or over ice on it's own. I think it is a good starter milk for people who haven't tried homemade almond milk; sweet and creamy–this is a great drink. You could leave the sweetener out if you want to keep it versatile for savoury uses or just prefer an unsweetened milk.
Start with raw almonds, not roasted or blanched.
Soak your nuts (overnight preferably) prior to blending them up. In a pinch, you can reduce the soaking time by placing the almonds in boiling hot water for an hour. Soaking will make them blend up easier–making for a smoother milk– and to enhance digestibility.
Drain and rinse the almonds after soaking. Do not use the soaking water in the milk.
You can use a couple of layers of cheese cloth if you can't find a nut milk bag, but nut milk bags are much stronger, have a finer mesh and ensure a less messy milking process. I got mine from a local health food store, but you can order them online from the supplier, Sprout Master, for less than $10 (Canadian).
The left over pulp has a few uses, but is really just fibre. If you don't want to compost it, you can dry it out and use it in place of breadcrumbs in recipes, or freeze it and add it to smoothies to bulk them up. I have also used the crumbs to make crackers and as a base in a fruit crisp topping.
This is a great gateway nut milk. It is creamy and sweet with a hit of vanilla so it tastes great in cereal, smoothies or enjoyed over ice.
Place the nuts, sweetener, water and salt in a blender.
Blend until well blended and smooth. Timing will vary according to your blender.
Place the nut milk bag in a large bowl and pour the milk into the bag.
Draw the string of the nut milk closed tight and begin squeezing the bag over the bowl, allowing the milk to flow into the bowl. Continue squeezing until no more comes out.
Transfer the milk to a sealable container and refrigerate. Will keep up to five days.


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'Ukee', a sea lion that was shot in Ucluelet, was euthanized at the Vancouver Aquarium's Marine Mammal Rescue Centre on Thursday. (Photo - Marine Mammal Rescue Centre)
Sea lion found shot off Vancouver Island dies at Vancouver Aquarium
"He wasn't responding to treatment, and his condition had taken a significant downturn."
A sea lion that was shot in Ucluelet died yesterday at the Vancouver Aquarium's Marine Mammal Rescue Centre.
The adult male Steller, named 'Ukee' by the centre's staff, was discovered in Ucluelet on Oct. 10 and transported to the centre on Oct. 11. After roughly two weeks of treatment, the veterinary team made the difficult decision to euthanize the animal, according to a post on the centre's Facebook page Friday afternoon.
READ MORE: Sea lion rescued in Ucluelet suffering from gunshot wound to the head
"He wasn't responding to treatment, and his condition had taken a significant downturn in the last two days," said the aquarium's head veterinarian Dr. Martin Haulena. "At this point we had to evaluate his quality of life. Although we are disappointed we couldn't return him to full health, we are glad we could end his suffering and make his final days more comfortable. I am so proud of the team for the incredible care they gave him."
'Ukee' was severely underweight at around 350 kilograms—healthy male Steller sea lions can reach around 800 kilograms—when he arrived at the centre. Veterinarians found at least one bullet lodged in the animal's skull and determined he had been blinded.
It is illegal to shoot a sea lion without a permit in Canada and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada is investigating.
READ MORE: DFO investigating shooting of sea lion in Ucluelet
West Coast marine mammal researcher Wendy Szaniszlo told the Westerly News she was frustrated by Ukee's death and said many people believe sea lions compete with fishers.
"Sea lions are unpopular because it is perceived that they eat a lot of fish, specifically commercially targeted fish such as salmon," she said. "Because of that, they are seen as competition and likely some folks are maybe wanting to take it in their hands to try to limit any kind of fishery-sea lion interactions…I find it very disheartening and frustrating too."
READ MORE: Nails endangering sea lions on Ucluelet float spark DFO investigation
She added that "there is very little information" around what sea lions specifically prey on and said her own research suggests salmon is only one small part of a sea lion's diet.
"Salmon is a portion of their diet, but it's not the biggest part of their diet and certainly not chinook salmon," she said. "They are feeding on a wide variety of different types of fish as well as octopus and squid, it's not specifically chinook salmon."
She added that she was happy to see so many community members come to Ukee's aide and report the distressed sea lion to the Marine Mammal Rescue Centre at 604-258-7325 and DFO at 1-800-465-4336.
"The Vancouver Aquarium was able to rescue the animal and do what they could to help it and try to save it. It's just unfortunate it had the outcome that it did," she said. "To me, it warms my heart that, while there are some people out there that truly dislike sea lions and are willing to cause them harm, there are many people out there that do like them and will do what they can to help rescue and rehabilitate them as well."
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Which of the following most closely describes your vacation personality?
How do you plan to get to Sedona?
Sedona's moderate weather is calling out to people from all over to come hike, enjoy and explore the beautiful red rocks. Ready or not, hiking, mountain biking, rock climbing and outdoor yoga season has begun (February - October)! It may have come a month (or two) earlier than usual in 2015, but locals and visitors are already taking advantage of this opportunity to get outside and be in the sunshine.
One of the most asked questions on Sedona.net is "What are the best hikes in Sedona?" Our answer is that it really depends on what you're going for and your level of fitness. Everyone knows about West Fork in the fall, Cathedral Rock for amazing views, Bell Rock for yoga since it is a vortex and endless mountain biking trails for every level of adventurer. Our suggestion is to go explore some trails you've never been to this spring.
Our friends at Wasatch Tech have developed an app called Sedona Hiking App that has 100 trails that you can access offline. With 360 total miles of documented GPS trails in and around the gorgeous red rocks of Sedona, the App enables you to follow your progress on a hike without getting lost. No cell service is needed. You can enjoy the hike knowing the hike's distance, difficulty, description, approximate time to hike, and elevation in order to pick the hikes best suited to you. You can even follow your progress with real-time GPS location on the trail screen.
If you're a Sedona regular and think you've done it all, or even if this is your first time visiting, this App opens up a hundred new possibilities (minus the trails you've already hiked) and is a really cool way to safely go exploring. The directions to the trailhead are clear and the descriptions of the trails' difficulty are accurate.
With these extra months of warm weather, you'll be tempted to spend more time hiking and playing outdoors in Sedona. This Sedona Hiking App is a great little tool to help you get moving in the right direction.
Visit the Sedona Hiking App to see a full list of what trails are available, complete with pictures, difficulty, various features, and a glimpse of what the maps are like.
Birthdays are a great reason to celebrate, but what's the point of a free offer on your birthday when it happens to fall on a day when you can't use it? We couldn't agree more. That's why we're offering you FREE park admission to Out of Africa Wildlife Park during the ENTIRE MONTH of your birthday! That's right! You read that correctly. Don't just come on your birthday – come the entire month of your birthday.


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Sandra Monteagudo and Jorgelina Balsa from Argentina electrified their eleven workshop participants with their infectious energy and joyful enthusiasm. From the very start, no theory concepts or historical stories mattered, but moving your own bodies did. Multiple impulses like flash-cards demonstrating different motions or diverse musical genres were the source of inspiration. Time and again, copying and altering the movements of fellow participants led to new motion studies and challenging improvisations. Each participant was allowed to carefully explore his own limits of agility. The continual switch between immobilization and action, between your own idea of motion and those of the fellow participants created exciting compositions. However, the group as a team was in the focus. Through improvisation the participants learned to observe and to respond to the signals of the others. Inspired by music and the singing of the fellow actors short sceneries were put together in twos or in small teams. Later, these ideas were altered, deepened or turned into something new after useful tips from the two workshop leaders. Everyday objects, chanting and short scripts in the participants' various mother tongues were smartly included. This created atmospheric images and entertaining stories. Thus, unusual scenes of unusual moods were created: full of energy and loud one time, quiet the other time; acrobatic on one occasion, on the contrary romantic or sad; very often very humorous. However, concentration and relaxation didn't miss out: massages, relaxation in combination with the group's choral chanting ensured quiet yet intensive moments, which were just as valuable for the team's work to get the body back to motion. With appreciation to the two thoughtful and gentle workshop leaders and the positive reception of the group an own rhythm was quickly shaped and the group grew together as a real team even in such a short time. The presentation during the colourful closing event on Sunday morning represented that spirit.


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Bret Harte 1837 - 1902
Bret Harte 1837 - 1902 was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California. In 1987 he appeared on a $5 U.S. Postage stamp, as part of the "Great Americans" Series of issues.
Harte was an enthusiastic advocate of homeopathy, and he wrote about homeopathy in his stories, and he carried a remedy case with him on his travels.
Harte was a lifelong friend and admirer of homeopath Egbert Guernsey, and Harte wrote about Guernsey as the central character of his story The Man Whose Yoke Was Not Easy, a portrayal of a kind and distinguished physician.
In _The Man Whose Yoke Was Not Easy_, Harte describes Egbert Guernsey as a:
… a man who had devoted the greater part of his active life to the alleviation of sorrow and suffering; a man who had lived up to the noble vows of a noble profession; a man who locked in his honorable breast the secrets of a hundred families, whose face was as kindly, whose touch was as gentle, in the wards of the great public hospitals as it was beside the laced curtains of the dying Narcissa; a man who, through long contact with suffering, had acquired a universal tenderness and breadth of kindly philosophy; a man who, day and night, was at the beck and call of anguish; a man who never asked the creed, belief, moral or worldly standing of the sufferer, or even his ability to pay the few coins that enabled him (the physician) to exist and practice his calling; in brief, a man who so nearly lived up to the example of the Great Master that it seems strange I am writing of him as a doctor of medicine and not of divinity.
Due to difficult and poor family circumstances Harte was earning at age 15, though he was beginning to write his poetry even then.
He managed to get work as a printer with the Northern Californian and then became editor of The Overland Monthly.
In 1871 he and his family traveled back East, to New York and eventually to Boston, where he contracted with a publisher for an annual salary of $10,000, "an unprecedented sum at the time."
Harte was also part of the intelligentsia who gathered around James T Fields, one of America's most famous publisher of American writers, and a partner in Ticknor and Fields, had a bookstore known as Parnassus Corner on Old Corner.
His literary salon was packed with the influential people of the time, including Louisa May Alcott, John Greenleaf Whittier, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, James Russell Lowell, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Julia Ward Howe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, , Mark Twain, Bret Harte, William Makepeace Thackeray, Charles Dickens, Matthew Arnold, Robert Browning, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Margaret Fuller, Bayard Taylor, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edwin Booth, and Nathaniel Parker Willis, who described Parnassus Corner as 'the hub in which every spoke of the radiating wheel of Boston intellect had a socket.. '
Harte was passionate about the treatment of minorities and he was particularly digusted with the influence civilization was having on the West.
Harte wasn't pleased with the effects that the railroad was having on the West, nor was he pleased with the way the white man was taking advantage of minorities, Indians, Chinese, and Mexicans to help settle the West. Both of these themes are shown throughtout his works.
Although Bret was appalled at these events, writing about them in the weekly newspaper helped to make him popular. That is the irony of his writings. His stories reporting the lawlessness and the atrocities of the West made his articles more interesting to the readers.
Sometimes this vivid portrayal of the Wild West got him trouble. Once Harte was fired for printing a story of a tribe of Indians who were planning a three-day religious ceremony on an island, until a party of white men arrived on the island and ambushed the ceremony, leaving many women, children, and elders slain.
Although this published article costed Harte his job, it conveyed his true feelings of outrage against such cruelties.
Another well known piece of his work is the lecture, "California's Golden Age", where he described the gold rush days as
"a kind of crusade without a cross, an exodus without a prophet. It is not a pretty story:...it is a life of which perhaps the best that can be said is that it exists no longer."
The other popular theme used by Harte dealt with racism. In "Plain Language from Truthful James", whites are outsmarted in their own efforts to cheat a Chinese. This poem, which Harte called "the worst I ever wrote", was popular world wide. However, it initiated racial discord in California against the Orientals.
Harte learned to entertain his readers by giving them what they wanted. Despite all the works Harte completed, only a few are remembered.
In 1860, Harte began writing stories with escape and illusion as their theme. For instance, "My Metamorphosis" tells the tale of a man who is caught bathing but hides among the statues in the garden of keep his nakedness hidden.
As a writer, Harte was a talented humorist who could take fairly routine story formulas and give them new vigor and settings. His background as a journalist gave him a brisk style and a special skill for describing people, their mannerisms, and dialogue.
Harte won national acclaim through his writings and publications from the West. Soon he began to write regularly for a magazine and published two plays. Also, Harte began to work as a literary critic, although his harsh reviews made him unpopular with other writers.
While serving as clerk and superintendent of the new U.S. mint, he met his future wife Anna Griswold. They married in August of 1862. During the Civil War, Harte wrote twenty-two poems and he made an outstanding contribution to The Overland Monthly, founded in 1868 with Harte as its editor. In fact, he even created the emblem for this magazine which was a bear paw print on the tracks of the railroad.
Two of his most memorable pieces were published in this magazine, "The Luck of Roaring Camp" and "The Outcasts of Poker Flat". In these two stories lay the formula for the western movies and books which would entertain our country for the next century.
These two stories deployed a cunning narrative strategy which insured their success with genteel readers. The tales argue that society's outcasts- whether gamblers, gold-seekers, prostitutes, or unemployed cowboys-all have hearts of gold.
The University of California in Berkeley offered Harte a Professor's seat in recent literature, but he declined in pursuit of being promoted further. Even magazines and newspapers offered Harte such positions as editor, publisher and columnist.
Finally, in 1878, out of debt to friends and coworkers, Harte left his family and accepted a station in Germany, as a U.S. Consul. After his transfer, he decided that Germany wasn't to his liking and he began to make frequent visits to Great Britain where he enjoyed being popular.
He later transferred to Glasglow, Scotland where he began making significant connections to the literary world. He lived with a diplomat and his family of nine children, and continued to write for the next seventeen years.
His wife and two of his children followed Harte to London after 1898. But by this time Harte had been entertaining the widow of the diplomat for some years, and he never reconciled with Anna, his wife.
Harte continued to write with little public recognition until his death from throat cancer in 1902.


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When I watch the Wyndham Championship I like to compare the course to the one I saw when I went to the Greater Greensboro Open in 1976. That was the last year the tournament was at Sedgefield before moving to Forest Oaks. It returned to Sedgefield in 2008. The course has changed some over the 26 years since I was there, but the holes are still recognizable to me.
My memory of the '76 tournament was a bit fuzzy, so I looked up the details. I remembered that Al Geiberger won and that Lee Trevino was close down the stretch. It turns out that Trevino came in second. Trevino sticks in my mind because we followed him for a few holes and were entertained by his constant chatter. I don't recall any ropes in 1976, and I know there weren't all the grandstands. We could sit almost on the fringe of the green as the players putted, so it was easy to hear and see everything.
Miller Barber came in third, but I don't recall watching him at Sedgefield. My memories of him are probably contaminated by when I watched him at the Houston Open in the '60's. His swing was unforgettable and all my images of him are on the course in Houston.
The most interesting part of looking at the stats from '76 was the payouts. Geiberger got $46,000 for winning. That's a little less than 5% of what today's winner will get. Inflation plays a small part, but I can assure you that the 2 bedroom, 1 bath house I sold in Durham, NC in 1976 is not worth $600,000 now. I'd guess it's $175,000 max, and likely less. It's just a lot more lucrative to be a pro golfer these days.
Nicklaus was the leading money winner in '76, and he won $276,000 that year. I remember Nicklaus winning a seniors skins game competition a few years ago and commenting that the check he got for that silly-season event was the largest check he'd ever received for playing golf. I think he got about the same for that skins game as he got for all of 1976.
It's too bad the purses in my games haven't changed like they have for the pros. It was a big day for me if I won or lost $5.00 in '76, and it isn't much different now. When we say it's a 2 buck Nassau, "buck" isn't slang for something else. They still don't have ropes lining the fairways while I play, either. Maybe there's a connection there?
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Factions spar over U.S. aid for Cuba
I wrote this story for the Houston Chronicle. It was published on Dec. 18, 2010.
HAVANA — When Cuban authorities threw Martha Beatriz Roque in jail in 2003, they accused her of taking money from the enemy: the
Now out on parole, the dissident leader is unapologetic and remains a supporter of U.S. pro-democracy programs.
"One must eat," Roque, 65, said from her living room in Havana. "People can't live on politics alone."
But U.S. government programs aimed at helping dissidents and boosting democracy in Cuba remain controversial in both Havana and Washington. Cuban authorities see the pro-democracy programs as an attempt at regime change. And they say they have living proof: Alan Gross, a development worker who was detained in
Cuba one year ago this month and accused of distributing illegal satellite communication gear.
Gross, 61, of Potomac, Md., was working for a U.S. subcontractor that was carrying out a pro-democracy program on behalf of the U.S. Agency for International Development, or AID.
The agency has spent at least $140 million on pro-democracy programs in Cuba since 1996. AID says it has used the money to help dissidents, political prisoners and their families, to strengthen civil society organizations, and to improve the flow of information to and from the island.
"There are many groups and individuals inside and outside Cuba who believe the funds are useful in supporting their ability to carry out their activities and promote fundamental freedoms …" AID responded to a request for comment for this story.
Some critics question the legality of AID programs in Cuba. "Sadly, I believe Alan Gross may stay in jail a long time, as long as these programs continue," said Tony Martinez, editor of the United States Cuba Policy & Business blog. "I see the key to unlocking his freedom lies in our ending these covert and subversive programs."
Defenders of the programs scoff at that kind of talk. They say the Obama administration needs to strengthen – not weaken – its support for Cuban dissidents. But as pro-democracy advocate Frank Calzon sees it, American diplomats have adopted a policy of "aggressive niceness" toward the socialist government.
"The message they are sending on the ground is that they don't care about Cuba's dissidents anymore and that's music to the regime's ears," said Mauricio Claver-Carone, a board member of the pro-embargo U.S.-Cuba Democracy PAC.
A source who is knowledgeable about U.S. programs in Cuba found that accusation puzzling. American diplomats spend a "huge amount of time and effort … supporting civil society issues."
AID programs in Cuba have been under fire since 2006 when the Government Accountability Office said some grantees had kept poor records and misused funds, buying such items as Nintendo Gameboys, cashmere sweaters and Godiva chocolates.
The trouble continued in 2008 when Felipe Sixto admitted stealing more than a half million dollars while working at the Center for a Free Cuba, a major recipient of AID funds.
Some of the agency's critics, including Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Rep. Howard Berman, D-Calif., have demanded greater accountability.
"These programs were a mess for a long time. Nobody knew where the money was going, who was getting it, whether any of it was getting to the island," said a congressional source who asked not to be identified. "The programs are undergoing a course correction. The intent is to make them less hostile," the source said. But hard-line activists and officials are "fighting tooth and nail to keep them as they were under Bush."
Reversing Bush policies has been a struggle, a former State Department officer agreed.
"The bureaucracy has basically hijacked this policy, which then puts the political people in the position of trying to wrestle it away from them. But, boy, that's like taking cocaine from an addict."
AID supporters, meantime, have accused Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of paralyzing the agency.
"When it comes to Cuba, the recent actions by the regime to arrest an American citizen have totally frozen our actions," said Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., during an exchange with Clinton in February. "Are we going to have a permanent freeze …? Is that the policy of the State Department?"
Communism is a failed philosophical political system. Cuba is an anachronism that will crumble of its own weight when the Castros die off. The problem with the current US system of aid to insurgents is the lack of accountability. It is a tepid "Bay of Pigs" approach that is merely a waste of money.
No, Clinton replied, but "an intense review" is under way.
These bureaucratic tangles have slowed disbursement of AID funds. Only in recent months has the agency been distributing $15.62 million that was budgeted for the 2009 fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 2009.
"The vast majority of this money is intended for individuals on the ground in Cuba," said an AID statement that was posted on the Internet. "Our objective is to maximize the amount of support that benefits Cubans on the island.
Since the $15.62 million in fiscal year 2009 funds has recently been programmed, it is too early to have a precise figure at this point, but the overall goal is to have the funds directly benefit Cubans on the island."
The AID statement caught the eye of Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez, who read parts of it before the United Nations General Assembly on Oct. 26. Cuba "will change everything that needs to be changed, for the benefit of Cubans, but we will not ask the U.S. government's opinion," he said. "We freely chose our destiny."
Fidel Castro reiterated the foreign minister's speech on Nov. 1 and vowed that U.S. measures would not defeat the Cuban revolution. Cuba scholars Nelson Valdes and Saul Landau question whether aggressive U.S. tactics during the Bush administration violated U.S. law. They contend that American officials in Havana were trying to create
chaos to undermine the socialist government. Instead, Cuban authorities arrested Roque and 74 other pro-democracy activists in March 2003 and sent them to jail.
Roger Noreiga, the assistant secretary of state for western hemisphere affairs from 2003 to 2005, said the United States did nothing wrong.
"Americans can be proud that this is one of a handful of countries that has supported the aspirations of the Cuban people to claim control of their future from a cruel Stalinist regime. I am proud of being a fierce advocate for democracy, and I am confident that our efforts were carried out in full compliance with the spirit and letter of the law.
"I welcome a full debate on this matter because we must take stock of whether we are doing enough today and because we cannot forget that Landau's chums in the regime have taken an American hostage – Alan Gross."
Noreiga added, "I wonder if Landau watched Hogan's Heroes and cheered against the POWs."
James Cason, who was the top U.S. diplomat in Havana in 2003, said he is proud of his accomplishments in Cuba.
"The U.S. policy of trying to reach out to the people of Cuba has been undertaken with stringent congressional oversight. Attempting to criminalize policy differences is neither useful nor effective diplomacy and most certainly is not 'the American way.'
"Through all these years, the fact remains: The tyrannical nature of the Castro regime does not result from U.S. policy. It is rooted in the Castro brothers' claim that they have the right to remain in power indefinitely and without regard to how the Cuban people feel about it. By now, blaming the United States is a tired and discredited
gimmick."
Roque said she'll continue her fight for freedom despite any controversy. She received a 20-year prison sentence in 2003, but was released due to her failing health in 2004. Supporters of the Cuban government regularly harass and threaten her. Just the other day, they painted pro-government slogans outside her apartment.
She said state security agents also keep her under surveillance "every second, every minute of the day."
"I'm convinced my house is full of microphones. When I go into the street, they follow me. They film me. They go to the store after I've gone to ask what I bought, even asking for receipts so they'll know how much money I'm handling.
"This is our life. And it's a very unpleasant life, but it's our reality and it's how we live."
Eaton, a former editor at the Houston Chronicle, is investigating U.S. government pro-democracy programs in Cuba with the help of the non-profit Pulitzer Center.


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In order to facilitate China's opening up policy and level the playing field for foreign business competing with domestic enterprises, the Foreign Investment Law of the People's Republic of China (hereinafter referred to as the "Foreign Investment Law" has been enacted on Jan. 1, 2020. After more than a year's implementation, despite the fact that the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak in 2020 has slowed down the global pace of cross-border investment, China is still bucking the trend. According to data from relevant departments of the Chinese government, China's utilization of foreign investment has increased by 4.5% in 2020, and the scale and global share of foreign investment has reached a record high, making China the world's largest recipient of foreign investment. Moreover, in the World Bank Doing Business Report, China's ranking jumped from 78th in 2018 to 31st in 2020, ranking among the top 10 economies with the fastest improvement in the world's business environment for two consecutive years. Before the year of 2020, there is no specific law regulating for foreign investment enterprises, therefore the Foreign Investment Law has played a significant role in promoting foreign investment. Below is the brief introduction of the Foreign Investment Law.
On one hand, the Foreign Investment Law provides more support to newly-established foreign enterprises in the following aspects:
I. Investment promotion
1. Foreign-invested enterprises (FIEs) may participate in government procurement activities through fair competition in accordance with the law, and the products and services produced and provided by FIEs in China are treated equally in government procurement according to the law. In the past, China's public procurement market was not fully open to FIEs due to the national security, state secrecy, cyber security etc., and FIEs are excluded from certain bids.
2. FIEs may, in accordance with the law, conduct financing through public issuance of stocks, corporate bonds, other securities and other means.
II. Investment Protection
1. Stronger protection of intellectual property rights of foreign investors and FIEs has been enforced, and Business secrets shall be kept confidential according to law.
2. To strengthen the continuity of government policies, local governments at all levels and their relevant departments are required to fulfill their policy commitments and contracts made to foreign investors and FIEs according to law, so as to protect the legitimate rights and interests of FIEs to the greatest extent. The foundation of the clause is that the local government has to be elected every four year and many FIEs are concerned that the new government will not admit the commitment of the last government and the clause in this law makes the concerns not necessary.
3. Protect and loose FIEs in terms of expropriation, capital contribution, profits, capital gains and income from asset disposal, intellectual property rights licensing fees, compensation or compensation obtained according to law, and remittance and export of liquidation income. There is a strict foreign exchange control in China, but the Foreign Investment Law gives FIEs a permissive environment.
III. Investment Management
1. Pre-establishment of national treatment: in the stage of investment access, foreign investors and their investments shall be treated no less favorably than domestic investors and their investments.
2. The negative list system:
The negative list system means that foreign investors are not allowed to invest in areas prohibited by the negative list.
Foreign investors shall make investments in the areas restricted by the negative list for foreign investment access, in accordance with the conditions stipulated in the negative list.
The areas outside the negative list will be managed in accordance with the principle of consistent domestic and foreign investment. That is to say, the establishment of new enterprises will be much more easier: the original examination and approval system will be changed to a registration system and the Foreign Investment Law, the Company Law and the Partnership Law will be the guidance. Meanwhile, various cumbersome provisions in the previous era of foreign investment are abolished. According to current practice, newly established FIEs (those not on the negative list) only need to submit relevant materials that meet the requirements to the industrial and commercial registration authorities.
On the other hand, wholly foreign-owned enterprise, sino-foreign joint ventures, sino-foreign cooperative enterprises in China are facing a big challenge in corporate governance under the foreign investment law and implementation regulations. For example, the organizational form, capital structure, governance structure (board of directors, function and composition of the board of supervisors, etc.) have to be fully in accordance with the law, within five years of transition. Therefore, during the transition period, the negotiation between the Chinese and foreign parties on the corporate and governance structure will become the key work that the above-mentioned companies have to face and need to implement as soon as possible.
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Land Rover reveals "invisible" bonnet for Discovery Vision concept
By David Szondy
Land Rover reveals "invisible"...
The Transparent Bonnet in action
A description of how the Transparent Bonnet works
Land Rover teased its new Discovery Vision concept last week in the run-up to its début at 2014 New York International Auto Show on April 16, and now the car maker reveals a bit more about the Vision – or rather, less. That's because the latest tease demonstrates a new technology that uses cameras and heads-up displays to make the front of the car "invisible" to the driver.
Land Rovers have a lot of pluses, but visibility around that landing deck of a bonnet is not one of them. Anyone who's ever tried to park one in a tight spot or negotiated a rutted path with only an inch of clearance knows how much guesswork is involved. To remedy this, the Vision concept steals a page from the latest fighter plane technology for its "Transparent Bonnet" virtual imaging system, that makes it appear as if the bonnet is made of glass.
Designed to act as an aid for off-roading and maneuvering in close quarters, it uses cameras mounted on the front grille of the Vision to capture real-time images of the area hidden by the bonnet, and projects them onto a full-width heads-up display on the bottom of the windscreen. This produces the illusion that the front of the car has become transparent, allowing the driver to see what obstacles are in the way.
In addition, the display shows a pair of virtual front wheels, so the driver knows where they are and what angle they're pointed at, as well as readouts of the front and lateral tilt of the car, front wheel angle, and speed in both imaging and non-imaging modes.
The video below shows the prototype "Transparent Bonnet" system in action.
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David Szondy is a freelance journalist, playwright, and general scribbler based in Seattle, Washington. A retired field archaeologist and university lecturer, he has a background in the history of science, technology, and medicine with a particular emphasis on aerospace, military, and cybernetic subjects. In addition, he is the author of a number of websites, four award-winning plays, a novel that has thankfully vanished from history, reviews, scholarly works ranging from industrial archaeology to law, and has worked as a feature writer for several international magazines. He has been a New Atlas contributor since 2011.
yawood April 12, 2014 10:49 PM
What a fantastic idea. It's a pity they don't project an image of the actual wheels, rather than virtual wheels. This would be great for picking your way over rocks or driving on a narrow track. Also being able to see the ground clearance under the lowest point would be good.
Mel Tisdale April 14, 2014 08:39 AM
When I started in the Rover company many moons ago, the design philosophy for Land Rovers was that they should be as repairable as possible, even if they broke down in the middle of nowhere. For that reason they resisted the use of coil springs, despite their superior ride, because leaf springs could most likely be repaired in any local forge even when far from modern civilisation. When I look under the bonnet of a modern Land Rover, I just scratch my head and hope that it keeps working. Mind you, the ride's a lot nicer. Gone are the days when if your car broke down, you checked that it had fuel, was not getting too much fuel and had a spark. It was usually one of those three that was the problem. If the new Discovery were meant for country-wide off road use, such as is the case with much of Africa, then 'Harry Potter' stuff like this would not be in the spec. because it isn't essential and is only repairable by specialists. As for having cameras that show the actual wheels, that would only be of use in dry conditions and even then, the dust build-up would spoil it after a very short while.
ELM April 14, 2014 07:25 PM
Why is it that they state it will help in rough terrain and then show a short clip on a smooth gravel road. Truth be know, just another useless gimmick. Mel Tisdale hit the nail on the head when he mentioned mud and dust build up. drive through a mountain track and even if it has not rained, you still have creek crossings followed with dust that will stick to wet lenses and just imagine what color your under carriage is like when it is muddy (either thick black pug or red clay, camera's will be useless and you will be trying to wipe the HUD. Also agree with Mel, gone are the days that cars were reparable in the field, and that it was truly a case of check the spark, check the fuel and weld the leaf spring with the battery, weld rod and jump start leads. Mind you, it will be great for the mechanic's, if they drop a bolt or screw while fixing all the other gimmicks on your Toorak (rich Melbourne suburb) tractor. Tough work crossing those tram tracks. Eddie
Gregg Eshelman April 14, 2014 10:35 PM
The cameras will need squirters and wipers, like Mercedes headlights.
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Europe's first underwater restaurant opens in Norway
AFP - [email protected] • 2 Jun, 2019 Updated Sun 2 Jun 2019 09:55 CEST
For the chef and diners alike, each meal beneath the waves at Europe's first underwater restaurant is a thing of wonder.
"We have this small window next to the kitchen and every time some special kind of fish comes by, I always start thinking about how it would taste," says chef Nicolai Ellitsgaard.
The aptly named new restaurant Under opened a few weeks ago in Lindesnes on Norway's southern tip.
It serves up Poseidon's delicacies in an architectural showpiece that stretches down five metres underwater, offering a unique closeup of ocean life.
From the outside, the giant concrete monolith juts out from the craggy shoreline, while its other end tips down into the North Sea.
Customers enter the restaurant onshore through a wood-panelled passage and descend down a long, oak staircase into a dimly lit dining room. Here, a gigantic plexiglass underwater window takes centre stage.
The 36-square-metre window -- "like a sunken periscope" in the words of its designers -- offers a panoramic view of the ever changing live aquatic show.
Photo: Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP
In Norwegian "'Under' means it's under, like submerged, underwater, and it also means a sense of wonder," says Stig Ubostad, who co-owns the eatery with his brother, Gaute.
"It is without doubt the largest one in the world and the only one in Europe."
There are no clown fish or sharks, like at other underwater restaurants in more tropical locations such as the Maldives or Dubai.
Rather, it is in this simple, but no less spectacular forest of kelp that cod, pollock and wrasse swim past depending on the season, with occasional visits from their predators, seals and the large seaducks, eider.
"It's an area on the southern tip where the brackish water from the east meets the salty water from the Atlantic, so the richness of the species is very high," says Trond Rafoss, a marine biologist involved in the project.
In addition to its distinctive architecture and fine dining, Under wants to shine a spotlight on environmental issues.
The international waiting staff are trained to provide guests with information about the aquatic show they are watching.
"The guests are on an adventure. They are exploring the nature themselves, because this is not an aquarium.
"The fish might look at us as an aquarium because what's happening outside here is under natural control," Rafoss says.
"You will never be disappointed, nature is never disappointing."
The restaurant is a 34-metre monolith designed by Norwegian firm Snohetta, known for its celebrated buildings such as the Oslo Opera and the 9/11 Memorial Pavilion in New York.
It can serve up to 40 diners during its one sitting a day, five nights a week.
In the kitchen, Danish chef Nicolai Ellitsgaard and his staff let their imaginations run wild when creating seasonal menus based primarily on what the sea has to offer, including a dessert composed of five different types of algae collected from a nearby shore.
"We try to use things that are in the area, and also use things that nobody else is really using," Ellitsgaard says.
The restaurant however is probably not for everyone's budget.
The tasting menu, consisting of 16 to 18 dishes, costs 2,250 kroner (230 euros) per person -- and double that when wine is included.
Under is nonetheless fully booked for the next six months.
"The wonder is when you come here from the surface and you get into this magnificent light," says Dag Jacobsen, a 59-year-old professor, who dined there with his wife and another couple.
"You see this kind of underwater light... The greenish, bluish water and all the interior here is also quite tuned to the sea as well, so you get a feeling of just diving into the sea."
For those who might worry about a catastrophe befalling the underwater structure, the owner says they can rest assured.
The 26-centimetre-thick plexiglass window is designed to withstand storms, and the entire structure, with its thick concrete walls, is built to resist pressure and shocks from the rugged sea conditions.
"We've been through so many consultants I think it's safer than anything else," says Ubostad.
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