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Smart Start Thanks Community for Help Meeting Mebane Foundation Challenge Grant
April 14, 2021 /in Preschool, Smart Start/by Jeanna Baxter White
Daijah and Harriet enjoy "Brown Bear What do You See?" at the Davie County Community Park.
Drumroll please! Smart Start of Davie County is proud to announce that the $10,000 Mebane Foundation Challenge Grant has not only been met but exceeded! Thanks to generous contributions from the Davie County community, Smart Start has raised $33,345 to fund its family support and literacy programs.
"We are humbled by the donations from local businesses and individual people in the community to support early education programs and Smart Start of Davie County," said Gena Taylor, executive director. "We appreciate the wonderful work by the Mebane Foundation through grants that have helped us grow our literacy and family support programs over the years! The success of our mission is attributed to generous supporters and we are deeply grateful to Mebane for their challenge grant, and to everyone that donated!"
Smart Start had to cancel its annual Hometown Hoedown fundraising event, which typically raises $40,000-$60,000, due to COVID-related gathering restrictions. Since state funding was reduced for the Smart Start network across the state approximately 10 years ago, fundraising and grant writing have played a critical role in supporting the organization's early care and family support programs, according to Taylor.
To support the organization after the cancelation of the event, and to promote early education initiatives in Davie County, Mebane Foundation President Larry Colbourne issued a challenge offering a dollar-for-dollar match up to $10,000.
Group Connection pumpkin carving activity for parents and children.
"The Mebane Foundation continues to be amazed by the willingness and support of the Davie County community to step up when organizations like Smart Start have a need. In this environment, many of our local non-profits are feeling the same type of pain with respect to fundraising shortfalls. With Smart Start being our long-term partner and working in the very same space our mission has us in, it made this challenge a perfect fit for us. I want to congratulate Gena, her staff, and volunteers for their all hard work!"
Taylor explained that the Mebane match will go toward funding Smart Start's family support programs and literacy programs where state funds fall short.
Smart Start of Davie County serves to ensure that young children enter kindergarten healthy and ready to succeed in school and beyond. The organization connects the community through programs that ensure quality early education, health, and family support for all children prenatal to kindergarten in Davie County. These programs include:
Child Care Subsidy – A child care scholarship program for families
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library – An early literacy program for children
Parents as Teachers – An in-home parent/child education program
Nurturing Parenting Program – A ten-week parenting class
Strengthening the Foundations of Quality – A technical assistance program for child care providers
Early Childhood Resource Center – A free educational kit and resource lending library for parents and child care providers
Reach Out and Read – An early literacy program championed by local pediatricians
WAGE$ – An educational incentive program for child care providers
"Many of the family support and community programs we offer, such as KidsFest, Nurturing Parents, Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, and Reach Out and Read are primarily funded by grants and private donations," said Heather Phillips, Smart Start board chairwoman. "We are so grateful to the Mebane Foundation's Challenge Grant in lieu of hosting our popular Hometown Hoedown event due to health and safety reasons. Because of the Foundation and the community's generosity, we were able to raise enough funds to confidently continue offering these beloved programs to the families of Davie County."
Although the Mebane Foundation Challenge has ended, it is never too late to give. Donations will continue to help provide quality programs serving children prenatal to five years, their families, and caregivers To give, call the office, or mail checks to 1278 Yadkinville Road, Mocksville, NC 27028.
About Smart Start of Davie County
To learn more about Smart Start and its many programs to promote early childhood education click here, call (336) 751-2113, or email info@daviesmartstart.org.
Roll and Read Story Walk at the Davie County Community Park in October 2020.
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Mebane Foundation Issues Challenge Grant to Support Davie County Smart Start
February 18, 2021 /in Preschool, Smart Start/by Jeanna Baxter White
Emily MacCaull and her son Tommy explore free Smart Start Toy Kits.
Instead of kicking up their heels, Davie County residents are being challenged to click a link. In lieu of its 10th Annual Hometown Hoedown, Smart Start of Davie County is partnering with the Mebane Foundation to promote early education initiatives in Davie County. Through this partnership, any donation made to Smart Start of Davie County under $2,500 will be matched dollar for dollar (up to $10,000).
"Smart Start of Davie County has been a strong partner of ours for more than a decade. Many of their programs touch the very heart of our mission," said Larry Colbourne, president of the Mebane Foundation. "COVID-19 has forced the cancelation of their largest annual fundraiser, thus, income and support for valuable programs could be adversely affected. I decided that because of our strong relationship, a $10,000 challenge grant to private community funders made sense, and might alleviate some of their loss in event revenue. I'm hoping that this dollar-for-dollar match of up to $10,000 will give Gena and her board some additional fundraising leverage in these difficult times."
Smart Start had to cancel its annual February fundraising event, which typically raises $40,000-$60,000, due to COVID-related gathering restrictions. Since state funding was reduced for the Smart Start network across the state approximately 10 years ago, fundraising and grant writing have played a critical role in supporting the organization's early care and family support programs, according to Executive Director Gena Tayor. She is hoping the matching grant will help raise a minimum of $30,000. "We are fortunate to have generous donations to help us continue the work that we do for young children, their families, and local childcare providers and thankfully have not had to reduce any programming."
"The Mebane Foundation is such a champion for educational programs in our community. Smart Start of Davie County appreciates the investment that Mebane has given to early learning and literacy. This matching grant opportunity has made a profound impact on donations. The fact that every dollar is doubled is an incentive for donors to help us reach our goals, in lieu of our annual fundraiser. On behalf of Smart Start of Davie County and the board of directors, I want to extend our heartfelt gratitude to Mebane for the continued support!"
What is Smart Start?
Smart Start of Davie County is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit that serves to ensure that young children enter kindergarten healthy and ready to succeed in school and beyond. The organization connects the community through programs that ensure quality early education, health, and family support for all children prenatal to kindergarten in Davie County.
Taylor shared that Smart Start envisions a world where all children are healthy, safe, and ready to succeed. She explained that the organization works to:
Identify the needs of young children and families; provide them with inspiring services and activities
Facilitate resources for families to prepare children for kindergarten
Collaborate with the community to identify the resources needed in Davie County
To increase access to high-quality childcare and provide quality instruction and support to area childcare facilities
Expand early literacy opportunities
To achieve these goals, Smart Start funds several programs locally, including:
Developmentally-appropriate materials delivered to Davie County childcare centers.
Mobile Rec Days at Farmington Community Center in partnership with Davie Recreation & Parks.
Child using tablet – Smart Start distributed over 30 tablets to families in the Parents as Teachers program through a federal COVID grant.
Kellie and Sirena read "A Snowy Day", the winter book on the story walk trail at the Community Park.
"Despite the pandemic, we have not slowed down with our programs," said Taylor who proudly shared that the office has been open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. since May. COVID has forced Smart Start to alter and adjust how it does its programming. For instance, they now offer a touchless drop-off and pick-up of resource center items for both teachers and parents.
Another change has been in the way that Smart Start is able to provide technical assistance to child care centers and early childhood educators. Since the staff is currently unable to enter the centers, they are interacting through virtual classes and Zoom calls. For the past four years, Smart Start has hosted an early educator's conference for teachers who serve birth to five in Davie County that offers continuing education credits for local childcare providers. Now they are offering classes on health and safety online. The money that would have been spent on the in-person conference was used to provide developmentally-appropriate materials to childcare centers such as fine motor items, sorting, shapes, etc. Each childcare center was able to request the items they needed for filling gaps.
Davie County Smart Start Busier Than Ever Before
On the family support side, Taylor says that they are busier now than ever before. "We definitely see families struggling and we have a waitlist for our home visiting programs and our parenting classes. I could use another full-time Parents as Teachers educator with the family needs that have come about and folks referring others to our home visiting program and our parenting classes."
Although they held parenting classes in person in October and November, they were split into A and B groups so that there were no more than seven people at a time in a class. Currently, one educator is conducting parenting classes via Zoom and the other is working with families at the Recreation and Parks Center to utilize outdoor space.
Additionally, the Parents as Teachers educators still managed to host 12 Group Connections activities which are open to all families with young children. These are held throughout the year with the focus of making social connections among parents and children. This year's socially-distanced, outside events included a roll and read literacy event in October, a pumpkin patch carving activity, and a painting event at the Davie County Community Park.
As another way to promote early literacy awareness, Smart Start also partners with the Davie County Public Library to provide preschool storytime on the 3rd Wednesday of each month.
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"Approximately 90% of a child's brain is developed by age 5, and the importance of early education is evident as the foundation for kindergarten readiness and the grades that follow," said Taylor. "t is critical that we invest in the lives of our children beginning at birth."
"Thank you so much to each of the generous folks that have donated to our match opportunity! Many businesses that sponsor our Hoedown event have given to us despite some having a tough year. We are humbled by the individuals that have sent in donations in lieu of buying a ticket to our in-person event. It is evident that the community stands behind us in supporting early education programs and we appreciate each dollar!
There is still an opportunity to give! Visit the link on our website, on our social media platforms, call the office, or mail checks to 1278 Yadkinville Road, Mocksville, NC 27028. Funds raised will help us provide quality programs serving children prenatal to five years, their families, and caregivers."
Storytime at the Davie County Library.
Mobile Rec Day at Cooleemee Recreation Center.
More About Smart Start of Davie County
The Mebane Charitable Foundation in Mocksville, NC, supports collaborations and partnerships among educational professionals (public and private), business leaders, elected officials, and the community at large and has served as a catalyst by granting more than $17 million to educational program partners across the state. The Foundation focuses resources to ensure that all children have the opportunity to reach their highest potential in school, career, and life.
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Mebane Foundation Grant Expands Reach Out and Read Program in Davie County Medical Practices
December 2, 2020 /in Reach Out and Read Carolinas, Smart Start/by Jeanna Baxter White
Dr. Kelly Duffy of Wake Forest Health Network – Pediatrics, Advance shares a book with Lucy Diemer (2 ½) as her mother, Louise, looks on.
Anyone who has ever looked into the eyes of a child entranced by the soothing cadence of Goodnight Moon knows that shared reading is magical.
"One of the best ways to engage with young children is through looking at books together. Every time a parent or caregiver snuggles with a child on their lap to read a book, a message is sent to the child that they are loved and will be okay," explains Callee Boulware, regional director for Reach Out and Read Carolinas (RORC)." Shared reading helps to develop not only strong parent-child bonds, but also promotes healthy brain development, improves language and listening skills, builds resilience, and buffers toxic stress in children and families."
Mebane Grant Strengthens The Program's Strategy
Primary care providers have a unique opportunity to educate and encourage parents to read with their children beginning in infancy. By targeting children and families through their medical provider, Reach Out and Read (ROR) provides a two-generational strategy focused on improved literacy and language skills, increased reading frequency, increased book ownership, and improved home literacy environments.
Recognizing the value of this approach, the Mebane Charitable Foundation in Mocksville has given Reach Out and Read Carolinas, in partnership with Smart Start of Davie County, a $32,000 grant to support the deepening and expansion of the program in Davie County.
"The Foundation has been very familiar with the great work and partnership of Reach Out and Read of the Carolinas and Smart Start of Davie County, so when we were approached to fund an even larger collaboration that would include our Davie County Health Department our support was a no-brainer. The program already reached more than 1,000 children even before the health department partnership was added; now it will reach even more young families and children that need the support. Considering that more than 43% of children in Davie County are not proficient in reading by the end of third grade, the need for this robust support for all families is evident," said Larry Colbourne, president of the Mebane Foundation.
About RORC & Smart Start in Davie County
The partnership between RORC and Smart Start of Davie County started in 2012, and the two organizations began working with Wake Forest Health Network Pediatrics – Advance and Mocksville in 2014 through a three-year grant from the North Carolina Partnership for Children. In 2017, the program was expanded to include Novant Health Davie Medical Associates and Novant Health Hillsdale Medical Associates through a second three-year grant. Together these four ROR programs are reaching 925 children between 6 months and 5 years of age. An additional 100+ Davie County children are benefiting from ROR programs located in Forsyth County.
The grant will help ensure the high-fidelity implementation of ROR at each of these locations, fund the expansion of the program to the Davie County Health Department in Mocksville, and implement the intervention "back to birth" in all active Davie County ROR programs.
"Grants have been instrumental in sustaining this program and we are very thankful to the Mebane Foundation for its continued support of literacy in our community, especially in the area of birth to five," said Gena Taylor, executive director of Smart Start of Davie County. "Vocabulary building, brain development, and family bonding are at the core of all of our programs and Reach Out and Read promotes all three."
Dr. Joel Edwards of Novant Health Davie Medical Associates carefully selects a book for a young patient.
"Reach Out and Read is a wonderful model that can be blueprinted into any clinical practice," said Boulware. "But our partnership with Smart Start is so valuable because my staff can't intimately know 100 counties in the way an organization in that county can know that county. Together we marry our evidence-based intervention with their local expertise. We also have families with additional challenges like housing, food, and adult literacy. Smart Start can bring the appropriate community resources into the waiting rooms and clinics as well as provide information to the doctors and staff so that we can connect all of the dots."
Smart Start also delivers the books pre-sorted by age so that it is easy for the medical provider to quickly grab an age-appropriate book. More than 1,800 books have already been distributed this year despite the significant number of well-child visits postponed because of COVID-19.
The Davie County Health Department is thrilled to join the collaboration and have the opportunity to offer ROR to the 700 birth-to-five-aged children that they serve. "Studies have shown that the number of words heard by young children as they grow up varies dramatically with socioeconomic status; children from low-income families hear significantly fewer words than their more affluent peers. The hope of the Reach Out and Read program is that by putting books into our patients' lives and homes, we will be giving parents the tools and knowledge that will help their children grow up with increased language, increased stimulation, an enhanced home environment, and a better chance for success in school," Davie County Health Department Pediatrician Dr. Stephanie Pirkle said.
Specifically, ROR offers a three-pronged research-based model to promote healthy brain development in children:
The Primary Care Provider Coaching and Building Skills in Parents, Modeling and Supporting Early Brain Development and Relationships: During well-child visits, the doctor prescribes reading by modeling read-aloud strategies while teaching and training the parent about how to share books and why it is important. Parents are engaged in the conversation as the provider offers guidance and emphasizes how reading brings families together.
The Book: Each child is given a new, culturally and developmentally appropriate book to take home, building a collection of 10-15 new books in the home before the child goes to kindergarten. According to recent reports, 41% of children are growing up in low-income households and almost one-quarter of those children have fewer than 10 books of any kind in their household.
Literacy-Rich Environment and Resources: Clinic environments support literacy-rich messaging and resources to families, supporting providers in community-health resources, and supporting parents in daily literacy activities with their children.
More Than Just A Book Giveaway
More than 437,062 children are served annually in North and South Carolina by over 2,424 trained medical providers in over 548 participating clinics and hospitals.
Backing up to birth is a critical component of the project, built on the depth of research and guidance available about the developing brain and the critical nature of the first 1,000 days.
"For the first 20 years of the intervention, ROR started with the six-month-old visit because the earlier visits were filled with immunizations and other concerns. We've since learned that 80% of the brain is developed by three years old, so we simply can't afford to waste a single day," Boulware said.
"By backing up all of our programs to begin with the very first visit after birth, we capture six more months of brain development through four additional in-person visits, and we have the opportunity to help families develop a routine of reading together from the very beginning, which is far easier than trying to implement one further down the line."
"Parents are a child's first teacher, so it is critical that they understand the importance of reading from the beginning," said Taylor. "Having someone influential in a child's life, like the pediatrician, provide a book and prescribe reading together as a family really enhances a parent's awareness of the importance of reading."
To ensure the structure and rigor of the intervention, medical providers are required to participate in continuing certified medical education training. "ROR is not going to cajole anyone into doing this," Boulware said. "The primary care providers are the ones in the room with the patients, and if they don't feel excited about the program it's not going to be done well. Reach Out and Read is not just a book giveaway, it becomes an integral part of the visit, and a valuable tool in the provider's toolkit."
So far, twenty-four Davie County medical providers have completed the training.
"It brings me so much joy to watch children progress from babbling to proudly saying their first words and later speaking in full sentences and sharing what is on their mind," said Dr. Kelly Duffy, Wake Forest Health Network Pediatrics – Advance. "Children's brains are developing rapidly in the first three years of life. Children that are read to more often in these early years go on to develop better language and literacy skills that are critical for the rest of their lives. Reach Out and Read makes it possible for every child in our practice to receive a book at each well visit from birth to age 5. This places books into the hands of families that might not otherwise have access to them. The books provided by Reach Out and Read help me reinforce the importance of reading with families. They also help me teach developmentally appropriate ways for families to share books and language in the natural rhythms of their daily lives with their children."
To emphasize the value of the ROR program, Boulware detailed some of the information a medical provider can glean through presenting a book.
By observing the child's interaction with the book, the provider can evaluate motor skills, cognitive skills, social-emotional skills, and get a sense of where the child is developmentally, such as:
Does the child handle the book in an age-appropriate manner? For instance, does a six-month-old immediately put it in their mouth?
If the book is handed to a child upside down, can they re-orient it correctly at the appropriate age?
Can they manipulate the pages?
Can they identify colors, letters, and point to pictures at the appropriate age?
Additionally, assessing family dynamics and relationships in the sterile environment of a clinic can be hard. The book gives the provider a way to see how the family interacts together, providing insight into the strengths of the family and the opportunity to skill-build from there.
Does the child immediately hand the book to a family member to have it read to them?
Does he get scolded for chewing on the book?
Is there a teachable moment?
"Doctors have told us over and over, especially through COVID, that these visits are the best part of their day," said Boulware, with a smile. "I've heard comments like 'The children love it,' 'the families love it,' and 'I can use Reach Out and Read to encourage families and to reinforce the message that whatever your challenges, you are still the most important thing in your child's life and it is my job as your doctor to partner with you and to help you make all of your dreams for your baby come true.'"
Videos From ROR Demonstrate a Typical Medical Visit:
Reach Out and Read is a 501©3 nonprofit that gives young children a foundation for success by incorporating books into pediatric care and encouraging families to read aloud together. Visit their website here.
Smart Start of Davie County is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit that serves to ensure that young children enter kindergarten healthy and ready to succeed in school and beyond. Click here for more information about the work of Smart Start of Davie County.
About The Mebane Charitable Foundation
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Smart Start of Davie County – Prepare Your Children for Success!
September 11, 2019 /in Davie County Schools, DavieLEADS, Preschool, Smart Start/by Jeanna Baxter White
Emily MacCaull and her son Tommy explore free Smart Start Toy Kits
Four-year-old Tommy carefully considers the boxes of toys lining the Smart Start bookshelves before selecting a kit labeled "Sand and Water Play." His mom, Emily MacCaull, waits patiently, allowing him to choose for himself.
These toy kits are just one of the many resources Smart Start of Davie County offers residents and early childhood educators as it seeks to ensure quality childcare, education, health, and family support programs for all Davie County children birth to five.
Smart Start is North Carolina's nationally recognized and award-winning early childhood initiative designed to ensure that young children enter school healthy and ready to succeed in school and beyond. Studies clearly show that the foundation for lifelong success in school and work is laid during these vital years.
MacCaull first learned about Smart Start and the toy-lending program from the daughter of a Smart Start employee when her older son Robbie, who is now a first-grader at William R. Davie Elementary School, was a baby. Since then, her sons have checked out every kit offered at least once. "I don't know why we even buy toys because the boys love to check these out," MacCaull said with a laugh. "It's been so nice to borrow a kit for a week or two and not have to own so many toys at home."
In fact, when the boys outgrow or get tired of their toys, the MacCaull family donates them to Smart Start to help create additional kits. "Checking out the kits has also broadened the boys' horizons because they've selected things I wouldn't have thought they would have been interested in."
Tommy is enrolled in the Dolly Parton Imagination Library program which provides any child living in Davie County one free, age-appropriate book per month from birth through their fifth birthday. The books are mailed to their home and addressed to the child. Provided in conjunction with the Dollywood Foundation, this program encourages literacy, parent/child interaction, and ultimately a successful start as the child enters school. Register for free at Dolly Parton's Imagination Library.
Group Connections Strengthen Community
The MacCaulls have also enjoyed the group connections activities which are hosted by the Parents as Teachers educators and open to all families with young children. These are held throughout the year with the focus of making social connections among parents and children. BlockFest, one of the more popular group connections, is a research-based exhibit that helps raise awareness of early math and science learning by offering hands-on block play experiences to families with young children. Other activities this summer included making ice cream, tie-dying, an outdoor story walk, and a cooking class.
Barrett Achor enjoys participating in the Blockfest group connection activities
The next group connection, Roll and Read!, will be held on September 20, in conjunction with Davie Recreation and Parks. Register by calling 336.753.8326.
Smart Start – Enrichment for all Young Families in Davie County
Smart Start Director Gena Taylor would love to have every family in Davie County with young children take advantage of these programs as well as the many others.
"I want our community to know that we are a non-profit that is here to create a Smart Start for children ages birth to five. Many people confuse us with Head Start or believe that we are a childcare center where children are kept during the day," said Taylor. "Instead, our mission is to give families what they need to help raise and nurture their children to be successful in kindergarten. These services include programs to assist with health, early care and education, family support, literacy, and more."
Daijah Emwanta participates in tie-dying Group Connections activity
Smart Start of Davie – A One-Stop Shop of Free Resources
"We are a one-stop-shop where parents can find referrals to resources in our community, lists of childcare centers, and more," said Taylor. "We work with our childcare centers to ensure high quality and offer training for teachers. We provide many programs for parents to be successful in the home with their children such as parenting classes, educational toys, and having quality books to create a love of reading prior to kindergarten."
Programs funded by Smart Start of Davie County this year include:
● Child Care Health Consultant, a free health consulting service for legally operating childcare facilities
● Childcare Subsidy, a childcare scholarship program for families
● Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, an early literacy program for children
● Parents as Teachers, an intensive, in-home, parent/child education program
● Nurturing Parenting Program, a ten-week parenting class
● Strengthening the Foundations of Quality, a technical assistance program for childcare providers
● Early Childhood Resource Center, a free toy and resource lending library for parents and childcare providers
● Reach Out and Read, an early literacy program championed by local pediatricians
● WAGE$, an educational incentive program for childcare providers
Smart Start of Davie County also offers a wealth of trainings throughout the year that all early childhood educators, parents, and community members are invited to join. These trainings are free of charge to Davie County residents, unless otherwise noted. Register at Davie Smart Start Training Programs.
Smart Start Early Childhood Education Specialist and Literacy Coordinator Katie Speer helps Tommy MacCaull check out his toy kit
One noteworthy initiative is Parents as Teachers (PAT), a comprehensive home-visiting, parent education program. This free service is available to all families from prenatal to five years of age or kindergarten start. Smart Start of Davie County is a Blue-Ribbon Affiliate, meaning the program follows the essential requirements of the model, which provide minimum expectations for program design, infrastructure, and service delivery.
"Sometimes it would be nice if a baby, toddler or preschooler came with a manual," said Susan McBride, family support coordinator & parent educator. "Welcoming a newborn into the world is an overwhelming and cherished experience. After being discharged from the hospital the feeling of "now what" sets in quickly for many new parents. The Parents as Teachers program can help ease that transition."
The PAT program allows trained Parent Educators to build relationships with families and offer invaluable tools to ready children for school starting as early as prenatal visits.
Parent Educators check baby milestones, bring developmental activities for parents to learn and get ideas from, and answer any questions and concerns. During the bi-weekly visits, Parent Educators reflect, engage and connect with families on topics that are at the center of the family. These topics could be nutrition, safe sleep, language development, parenting values, postpartum depression, or transitions to just name a few. The personal visits the family receive are customized for the needs of each family.
A new enhancement to the PAT program is LENA technology. The technology is an innovative standard for measuring talk with children, which is a critical factor in early brain development. LENA uses a small wearable device — often referred to as a "talk pedometer" — combined with cloud-based software to deliver detailed feedback that helps adults make proven, sustainable increases in interactive talk with children. Parent Educators introduced LENA to families in the spring of 2019 and there are currently 14 children participating.
"Our goal is to build strong protective factors to keep families healthy, strong and resilient while preparing children for success," McBride said.
To learn more about the programs offered by Smart Start of Davie County visit, www.daviesmartstart.org or follow them on Facebook or Instagram. Smart Start is located at 1278 Yadkinville Road, Mocksville, NC 27028. Phone: (336) 751-2113.
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Kanye West Has Completely Wiped His Instagram Account
Rebecca Shepherd
Kanye West has wiped his entire Instagram page, leaving it with no posts whatsoever.
The 44-year-old rapper - who is legally known as Ye - has removed everything from the page but has not deactivated or deleted it completely.
What the profile looks like now. Credit: Instagram/@kanyewest
It's not clear why Ye has removed everything from his account but it's something he has done in previous years, even going further and deactivating his pages.
Over the weekend, the father-of-four shared a Thanksgiving post where he took the time to thank his family, fans and even the haters.
There are also suggestions that he's wiped everything from his account following the death of his close friend and fashion designer Virgil Abloh.
According to Complex, his latest Sunday Service performance was dedicated to Virgil and came just hours after his death was announced by family.
A post shared by @virgilabloh
Just days ago, he posted a picture of him and wife Kim Kardashian sharing a kiss, despite Kim filing for divorce.
Also speaking at the Angeles Mission's Annual Thanksgiving event, Kanye said: "The narrative God wants is to see that we can be redeemed in all these relationships.
"We've made mistakes. I've made mistakes. I've publicly done things that were not acceptable as a husband.
"I'm not letting E! write the narrative of my family. I'm not letting Hulu write the narrative of my family. I am the priest of my home."
Kanye West with wife Kim Kardashian. Credit: PA Images/Alamy Stock Photo
He went on to say: "If the enemy can separate Kimye, there's going to be millions of families that feel like that separation is ok.
"But when God brings Kimye together, there's going to be millions of families that are going to be influenced to see that they can overcome the work of the separation, of trauma the devil has used to capitalize to keep people in misery while people step over homeless people to go to the Gucci store."
It seems Thanksgiving took its toll on the musician as fans believed it was the first since separating from Kim.
He spoke of his desire to be with his family when he explained: "I'm trying to express this way in the most sane way possible, the most calm way possible, but I need to be back at home."
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Road trips are best to experience with family! These quick family trips to Tagaytay or Baguio have always been fun and relaxing for every member of the family. Most importantly, your simple family getaways help you to spend quality time and catch up with your loved ones.
With the country being rich in beaches and magnificent landscapes, you will surely find the perfect spots to relax even with a long drive. And with Ford's Next-Gen Everest, the joy on the road with the entire fambam is made possible.
The Next-Gen Everest Titanium+ 4x4 is a great SUV for families, especially big ones. It has all the bells and whistles you could want in a car for a family. Yet, it also has some surprises up its sleeve!
An SUV with unwavering capability, safety, and comfort is what families want for all kinds of drives. May it be for long road trips with the family, grocery runs, Sunday church visits, or school pick-ups. This full-featured 4x4 SUV is prepared for everything you and your family will encounter while on the road.
So, why is the Next-Gen Ford Everest Titanium+ 4x4 your family's next dream car? Here are six reasons why!
1. Ideal car size for Filipino families
When Ford decided to redesign the Next-Gen Ford Everest, they took all the good points from the previous model and packed it in with more features—and then some. This seven-seater SUV is now roomier than ever.
theAsianparent head of content Candice Venturanza recently bought the Next-Gen unit. She attests, "We had the old model and I can easily see the difference when it comes to space. The second row can accommodate two car seats plus a third person comfortably!"
The third row, she says, is where she can really tell the difference between the old and new models.
"With the old model, passengers were a bit reluctant to sit there because it can get cramped, especially on long drives. The new model does not only give more legroom in the third row, but it also gives more trunk space for luggage and sports equipment."
The 4x4 model also has power-folding seats, making it easier to collapse the third-row seats to provide more room to haul stuff. Plus, this model also has a hands-free liftgate.
Candice adds, "You can easily open the trunk without putting down the shopping bags and fishing for your keys. All you need to do is trigger the sensor below the back fender with your foot and it will automatically open the trunk. Genius!"
2. Perfect for long drives
According to Agoda's Family Travel Trends 2021 poll, the Filipino mentality of "family first" applies to our travel habits. Nearly half of Filipinos (48%) are most eager to travel with their immediate family (spouse and children), and one in five are eager to combine a trip with family and "barkada."
And it's true. A road trip isn't fun without the entire family: from your children, parents, relatives, friends, and pets, too!
The Next-Gen Everest does not only boast comfortable seats for your family, but it also makes sure that the ride is comfortable as well.
"It's an SUV, but the ride is almost car-like," Candice says. "Usually, the third-row passengers complain that it's bumpier at the back, but with Ford's superb suspension, you can barely feel the rough roads."
She adds, "I also noticed that the vehicle accelerates smoothly, making it easier to maneuver and change lanes on highways. Like the old model, the steering wheel is soft yet responsive. You don't feel like you are driving an SUV at all."
3. Designed for comfort and style
"If there is one thing my kids love about the Next-Gen Everest, it's the panoramic moonroof," Candice says. "It's like having a convertible minus having to endure the hot temperatures!"
The Everest Titanium+ has a glass moonroof that allows the front seat and the second-row passengers to enjoy the natural light that comes in.
"It's very bright inside the car," Candice comments. "Whenever I ride another vehicle, it now feels very dark. I'm not used to it anymore!"
She adds, "I love the new design. It's a balance of rugged and classy—like it can be used for overland camping on weekends, but can also be a daily car for going to work or school. It looks very versatile."
4. Future-ready features
The Next-Gen Everest Titanium+ 4x4 has an electrical outlet and USB charging port in the back seat. This means that you don't have to worry about having enough outlets in your car. Very helpful if you have more than one person using their phone at the same time, especially if your vacay destination is in the province.
Candice chimes in, "I love the wireless charger too. I can just leave my smartphone charging, but still, be able to use its necessary features like Spotify or Waze thanks to the Apple Car Play connectivity. Imagine not having to put your phone on the dash just to navigate the busy streets!"
This seven-seater SUV also drives itself—literally! It has an active Park-Assist feature that lets the car park itself with a touch of a button.
"We are living in the future," Candice says in amazement. "The Everest is a big car and it can be a daunting task to park it in narrow spaces. But with this auto-parking feature, I can let the car squeeze into tight spots without any problems."
5. Safety first
More safety elements are included in the new Everest to aid drivers in maintaining stress-free concentration while on the road.
Ford's adaptive cruise control (ACC) technology with stop-and-go is included in the Next-Gen Everest, allowing drivers to maintain a certain speed and separation from the vehicle in front of them. In order to maintain the car centered inside the lane, lane centering can also detect lane markings.
Furthermore, you can choose the top speed you want to travel at with the innovative adjustable speed limiter before continuing to drive normally.
"We recently went on a road trip to La Union," says Candice. "I love how the Next Gen Everest incorporated a cruise control system, which allowed me to relax my foot during the long stretches of TPLEX and SCTEX."
She adds, "I think it makes the ride safer because you can set the speed limit. No more traffic violation tickets!"
The vehicle also comes standard with Anti-lock Braking System (ABS), traction control, and stability control. These are important features because they help you stay in control of your vehicle when driving on slippery roads—very important when you drive to Baguio!
Plus, airbags on the driver, front passenger, side, curtain, and knees are added for extra safety. With these, possible injuries may be lessened in case of an accident.
6. Long-term cost efficiency
As it comes with a five-year warranty or 150,000-kilometer guarantee, whichever comes first, getting a Titanium+ 4x4 leaves you and your family without any worries.
Ford makes it a priority to ensure that you have a worry-free journey, and the five-year guarantee is somewhat unusual for other automotive brands. With other cars, they offer the standard three-year warranty. But Ford tops that with two more. From good to great offers, right?
But, is it worth your money?
Absolutely, yes! When you invest in Next-Gen Ford Everest, you also invest for more quality family bonding, the safety of your family, and convenience when you go outside.
With Ford's Next-Gen Everest, you can get a lot for your money. The car is well-priced and has many features that make it a great value.
"When we sold our 6-year-old Everest, we were able to sell it for half of what we bought it for," says Candice. "We posted it online and we were able to sell it the following day! Needless to say, this SUV has a high resale value."
Filipinos love road trips and hanging out with their friends and family. And we can't do it happily when we do not drive altogether! "The more, the merrier," they say and Ford Philippines makes it true!
The Next-Gen Ford Everest is a great option for families who want to get out of their comfort zone and have the confidence that they are safe with their car.
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AFI DOCS Announces 2018 Impact Lab Film Projects
June 8, 2018 HollywoodGlee	2 Comments
Five films have been selected for the fourth annual AFI DOCS Impact Lab in partnership with RABEN_IMPACT. The selections for this distinguished fellowship and training program are four feature documentary films — CHARM CITY, DON'T BE NICE, THE PROVIDERS, and PERSONAL STATEMENT, which will have its world premiere and open AFI DOCS this year — and the short documentary film, BROTHER.
Led by impact strategists Heidi Nel and Charlie Crocker, the Impact Lab is designed for filmmakers with issue-driven films who aim to create broader social impact and political change through the power of story and film. The two and a half day Lab, which will take place June 11 through 13 in the lead-up to the festival, provides fellows with unique training opportunities with some of the most sought-after tacticians in the areas of advocacy, grassroots communications and grasstops engagement. Lab fellows are also connected with policymakers and Congressional aides working on legislation relevant to their films. The 16th edition of AFI DOCS will run June 13–17 in Washington, DC, and Silver Spring, MD.
THE 2018 IMPACT LAB FILMS
Synopsis: U.S. Army Captain Matt Zeller and Janis Shinwari barely knew each other when Janis, an Afghan translator for the Army, body-checked Matt to the ground, shot two approaching Taliban fighters and dragged him to safety, saving his life. What resulted was a new lease on life, and an incredible cross-cultural friendship.
Lab Fellows: Daniel Klein (Producer and Co-director) and Hunter Johnson (Director of Photography and Co-director)
Synopsis: On the streets of Baltimore, the murder rate is approaching an all-time high and distrust of the police reaches a fever pitch. With neighborhoods in peril, residents attempt to diffuse the violence through cooperative efforts helmed by community leaders, compassionate law-enforcement officers and a progressive young city councilman.
Lab Fellows: Marilyn Ness (Director) and Simon Mendes (Associate Producer)
DON'T BE NICE
Synopsis: Following a diverse team of slam poets as they mine their feelings and personal experiences about race, sexuality, gender and popular culture to craft poems for national competition, DON'T BE NICE demonstrates how collaboration and communication between artists can allow them to better understand who they are and what they want to say.
Lab Fellows: Nikhil Melnechuk (Producer) and Mason Granger (Impact Producer)
Synopsis: Karoline, Enoch and Christine are Brooklyn high school seniors who just want to go to college, but like so many public school students throughout the country, their schools don't have enough college guidance support. Refusing to give up, they decide to work as college counselors in their schools, becoming the very resource they don't have themselves.
Lab Fellows: Juliane Dressner (Director, Producer and Cinematographer) and Beth Levison (Producer)
Synopsis: THE PROVIDERS follows three "country doctors" — health care providers working for a small network of clinics in northern New Mexico — as they confront the challenges of keeping those in their poor and opioid-plagued communities safe. As the film movingly shows each doctor's day-to-day responsibilities, a complex portrait emerges of small-town America.
Lab Fellows: Anna Moot-Levin (Director and Producer) and Laura Green (Director and Producer)
(Source: blog.afi.com)
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Unsung Hero: Katie Berry, Co-Founder of Soup Angels and SundaySupper
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A meal for anyone hungry for food or companionship, no questions asked.
That is the mission statement of Soup Angels, the soup kitchen that Katie Berry co-founded with Kathie Rife. It is this soup kitchen and its journey that Katie Berry says led to her enlightenment. Here is her story.
The first soup kitchen that Berry co-founded, with Gary Hecht, is called Sunday Supper, which is located in Living Christ Church every Sunday evening. Before she began work on her first soup kitchen, Berry began with a year of prayer, which she believes was paramount to her process of founding soup kitchens. The goal of Sunday Supper, even since its early days in 2005, is to provide a place where hungry people can go every Sunday, not to feel like they are going to a soup kitchen, but instead to feel like they are having Sunday dinner with family or "going to Grandma's house."
The next soup kitchen that Berry co-founded is called Soup Angels, which is in the First Reformed Church of Nyack.
Between its opening in 2007 and today, Soup Angels has come a long way. In 2007, Soup Angels served soup and sandwiches one day a week. Now, Soup Angels serves dinner every Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday with between 80 and 100 guests at each meal.
The quick expansion of Soup Angels meant a big need for both money and volunteers. In terms of money, Soup Angels is completely financially independent from the town of Nyack and does not rely on food banks, so its only source of income is donations. Berry also found that, "We [Nyack] have no shortage of volunteers." Word spread quickly about the soup kitchen and plenty of people, young and old, agreed to volunteer.
Soup Angels and Sunday Supper both have similar goals: to serve people who are hungry and make them feel loved and at home – without asking any questions. However, the two soup kitchens have different models because Soup Angels is a large entity while Sunday Supper is smaller. Soup Angels serves about six times as many guests per week as Soup Angels does.
Berry explains that the model she helped create for Sunday Supper is a simple one that can be replicated anywhere. In this model the soup kitchen is based in a church, because churches typically have all the space requirements a soup kitchen needs, and starts out with "seed money" of around $1,000 which can be earned by fundraising. The seed money is used to buy essentials such as vegetable oil, ketchup, salt, and pepper to stock the pantry. Then, a team of volunteers is assembled and a team captain is designated. The team captain is responsible for defining a meal and assigning the tasks of cooking, serving, and shopping for the meal. Volunteers can cook the meal in the church and use items from the pantry. Team members then split the cost of the meal. This model ensures that after the initial seed money, there is no need for any further fundraising.
Businesses in the community often help out by donating their services. For example, Nyack Gourmet donates bread, Patisserie Didier Dumas donates desserts, and Tappan Zee Florist donates table flowers. The Sunday Supper model is based on shared responsibility and reliable volunteers, but Berry attests that people who volunteer "Want to do it… they're mostly people who are engaged, they love it, they want it to be the best, so they bring their best. So it works!"
In the process of co-founding these soup kitchens, Berry has not only been able to reaffirm her belief that "God is good," but she has also learned just how generous and giving people can be. Berry says, "There is this untapped wealth of people… who are delighted to help." Beyond that, she has learned that giving and volunteering isn't a one-way street, it can be filling to the person who is consuming the meal but also fulfilling to both the guest and the volunteer.
"It's not just feeding the belly it really is feeding the soul. But everyone gets fed… the person who's serving it gets fed, the person who's eating it gets fed, the person who prepared it gets fed. There's like all these layers of opportunity for people to get blessed."
After Katie Berry's many years of activism, she has identified a problem, a solution, and also advice for people looking to make change.
Berry says that part of the problem is, "Knowing where the need is. People feeling safe enough to say what their needs are, because people are willing to help." She says working on these soup kitchens, "Enlightened me. I didn't know that it would be such a floodgate opening [of people to be served and volunteers who would help out]." She learned just how ready people are to help.
Her answer to this problem is "community" and "Crossing the barriers: financial, racial, language, ethnic." Berry explains, "For people who have very little, there's nothing like being looked in the eye and told: I'm glad you're here, would you like more? Just communicating with someone who is invisible." She also says, "It doesn't matter if you sing in Swahili and I sing in French."
Finally, her advice to others, after her first and foremost advice to start out with prayer, is, "If you have a burning vision don't let go of it… but don't be rigid in your expectation. Let it define itself as you go. Trust the vision of other people. And make sure it's not about you… 'It's about my vision and my goal and my name' — what happens then is that you stop listening… your openness starts to shut down."
Perhaps the biggest insight she gained is that, "We all want the same things: we want to be safe, we want to be loved, we want our little share of the pie. That's just basic normal human desire… we want to feel like we're seen, like we have a voice, we want to be respected. The closer we get to that individually, the more it overflows to the community."
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You've probably heard by now that VMware has acquired GemStone via another recent acquisition SpringSource. Although the SpringSource acquisition was a while back and there have been numerous attempts at explaining the acquisition, it may still remain vague to some in the IT community. The GemStone acquisition is a little more obvious in that the company builds cloud computing applications. You also know that I usually dive pretty deep into cloud computing topics on this blog, so I will try to paint my perception as to why VMware has made these acquisitions.
For a while now, I have said that VMware has enjoyed the success (and purpose) it has for so long because of Microsoft. There are a few reasons for this. First of all, many businesses have a mixed platform environment where Microsoft servers and Linux or Unix servers work in monolithic application silos. In the Microsoft world, it is not usually recommended to run multiple applications on the same server. This resulted in many disparate servers running all sorts of applications from domain controllers to .NET application servers to SharePoint servers. If your business had an environment like this and you wanted to consolidate onto less hardware with better overall resource utilization, VMware was the only game in town. This is especially true in the beginning when there was no Hyper-V server from Microsoft and to this day, Hyper-V does a poor job virtualizing Linux and Unix workloads. Those enterprises who had migrated to an all Linux or Unix platform did not need VMware as Linux has had virtualization built in for years and Unix has had virtualization built in since the 1960s. While these types of virtualization were a little different than VMware's version, they were around none the less. Now you see why Microsoft has been the reason for the purpose and success of VMware for businesses that want to consolidate and increase efficiency. This is not to take away anything from the great things VMware has done nor belittle the platform. VMware has an excellent line of products whose management applications are second to none. In a world without Microsoft (or diverse operating system landscapes at the very least), there would be no need for VMware.
Looking at today's landscape in the IT sector, some major acquisitions have forced VMware to take a look at their relevance going forward. When Oracle bought Sun Microsystems, many reasons flew around the media blogs, but the core reason for the purchase was the Solaris, Java and Java Application Server platform. Here's why. Solaris has a nifty virtualization feature called Zones. Zones are like little virtual machines running atop the Solaris OS. Each zone is also running Solaris and functions as an independent 'system' on the network. There are network interfaces, application stacks and users within each zone. Each zone operates independently of other zones and can not impact other zones' performance. If a zone crashes, only that zone is affected. You can cluster Solaris and Zones as well to ensure high availability. You can also 'migrate' zones 'live' from one box to another. So what you essentially have is an all Solaris stack representing what VMware accomplishes with different OS virtual machines. The Solaris zones will also run faster than most VMs will run on VMware.
Now as I said earlier, each zone is a container with full application stacks residing within. Inside, you can run a full blown java application server, web server, etc. This allows a business to write all of their applications in Java, which is a multi-platform language, and then install the applications on a java application server inside a zone. Create several of these zone containers and cluster them across different servers and you have a fully redundant, highly available virtualized application server farm. With a little more logic and code, you can turn this architecture into a cloud computing platform. Sun Microsystems has always had the technology, they just never had the sales and marketing staff to do anything with it. Oracle saw this and snatched them when the valuation of Sun was at its lowest. Now Oracle owns the stack from the hardware (Sun Server) up through the OS (Solaris) the application server (Java Application Server) to the programming language (Java.) Integrate this with a solid storage platform (Sun StorageTek) and enterprise database (Oracle) and you've got an unstoppable force in the market.
So if you look at what Oracle purchased with the Sun acquisition (and what it means in the virtualization and cloud computing space) and you also take into account that Microsoft has been hard on the heels of VMware with the Hyper-V product, VMware had to make a move or face an almost certain collapse. Cloud computing was becoming a major threat to VMware as companies have been looking to offload many projects to the cloud and not purchase any more hardware (and accompanying VMware licenses.) In addition, most if not all of the cloud computing virtualization cores are built on open source hypervisor technologies like xen and kvm. This boxes VMware out from the cloud computing space as they have no play down at the hardware, hypervisor or OS level. While their virtualization technology could be leveraged, the question is why? The open source technologies used today are plenty robust and allow for automation and orchestration. There is no need to put an expensive product like VMware in production in these environments. Couple this with the fact that most of the applications being developed in the cloud today are being written in languages like Ruby (on Rails) and Java, and these reside on Linux or Unix instances. There is absolutely no need for VMware in this space.
So if you are VMware looking at the landscape, which doesn't look promising at all, how do you make a play at the cloud computing market? About the only value you can deliver is a complete stack that is tightly integrated and easy to deploy. The easiest way for VMware to do this is to drop a java application server into a VM 'appliance' and provide a framework for developers to write Java applications that can run on and interact with the platform. This, in my opinion, is why they purchased SpringSource and now GemStone. They wanted the Java and Cloud Computing application pieces of the complete stack in order to deliver an integrated product to customers. Now the have everything they need to deliver this. They can deliver the SpringSource tc Server as an 'appliance' running on their VMware platform which developers can develop applications for using the Spring framework. Integrate this with the Hyperic management platform, vCenter management platform and the GemStone management platform, and you have a combination that is pretty hard to beat. The only thing that can hold VMware back as far as adoption and success in the cloud computing arena is price. They are competing with excellent open source technologies that have very low TCO, so if VMware can keep the costs down while delivering excellent value, they will succeed in this market as they did in the virtualization market for so long. I am eager to see what they end up with as a packaged product, what it costs, and how it will impact the industry.


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Three cheers for the pro-life movement
And for the Federalist Society and unlikely politicians
Jim Holman2022-05-23T13:44:53-07:00May 24th, 2022|
Maybe a Jeb Bush would have stood by Kavanaugh when he was under withering assault. Maybe not. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
You've heard it all. The pro-life movement is too political. It is too connected with the Republican Party. The Republicans have done nothing to advance the cause of the unborn child. Pro-lifers are fools and chumps for being so closely aligned with the do-nothing GOP. Pro-lifers, and especially Catholics, have no home in either political party. And don't get me started on how Donald Trump has harmed the pro-life movement. This is the chatter one hears from certain quarters.
Yet here we are on the cusp of overturning the federal abortion regime. We are about to do what many thought was impossible. We owe this impending, upending victory to the entire pro-life movement—the folks saying Hail Marys in front of abortuaries, those intervening with women entering abortion clinics, those who educate the public about what abortion is. We owe it to folks who have done nothing more than send an occasional check to their favorite pro-life group.
But, most especially, on this day, we owe it to perhaps the most reviled part of the pro-life movement, that is, the political and legal arms of the movement. This will have been a victory of hearts and minds, to be sure, but most of all it will have been a victory of partisan politics and the law.
Consider the wild carom shot the political and legal arms of the movement have been tasked with. Consider the various tracks of action necessary to bring us to this moment.
First, elect a majority of the United States Senate and ensure most of them are willing to vote pro-life.
Second, elect a president, a series of them, in fact, willing to nominate judges and justices who view Constitutional interpretation in an originalist way, all the while staying clear of any kind of pro-life litmus test.
Third, you have seen the Federalist Society and others working to change legal education so that students and professors might incorporate originalism into their thinking and actions. Keep in mind that it has only been the Left who has been allowed to have an abortion litmus test for judges and justices. This is because the Left openly espouses a totally made-up Constitution.
Fourth, where the tracks come together is when there has been a nominating fight for judges and justices, ensuring they get through what has become a nasty process.
Fifth, and then on yet another track, there are those in the states who worked on electing pro-life legislators and advanced laws and therefore legal challenges that might eventually work their way through the court system to the Supreme Court.
It has been a wonderful tapestry of related action in politics—federal, state, and local, and the law.
How crazy and wonderful has been the effort that has led to being on the cusp of overturning the federal abortion regime, a regime that The New York Times said was settled with Roe in 1973. This has been a regime supported and buttressed by all the power centers of the country—the major news media, Hollywood, major corporations, rich foundations, the elite academy.
It has not been easy. In these long years, we have been betrayed. We have known all along that the GOP was not completely with us. Many in the GOP who called themselves pro-life did so only to pay lip service and get elected. But the GOP was the only game in town. The Democrats turned into the Party of Death decades ago. There has been no home for pro-lifers there.
Even the judicial path has been fraught. Do you remember the Harriet Miers fiasco? George W. Bush nominated her with the blessing of the Federalist Society. But pro-lifers blocked her, and she was replaced with Samuel Alito. She came thisclose (sic) to sitting on the Court, and we all assumed she would be a squish like Sandra Day O'Connor or a flat-out enemy like David Souter. Remember him? We have been fooled. We have been chumps. God's fools. God's chumps. And, for Him, we kept going.
Consider the new attacks from the right on the very idea of originalism. Members of the Newest Right, particularly Josh Hammer of Newsweek and Adrian Vermeule of Harvard, advocate a new kind of originalism because the old kind has not work. Just look at the Bostock decision drafted by Neil Gorsuch that equates transgenderism with sex. Take a look at the decision by John Roberts upholding Obamacare. It did make one wonder if the Federalist Society project was ever going to work out. Perhaps "the living Constitution" was embedded too deep into legal skulls to ever change.
In response, Hammer and Vermeule argue that we ought to look not to the Constitution but to our policy proscriptions and how these policy desires align with what they define as the "common good." This is a theory not dissimilar to what the judicial Left has been doing since the Warren Court decades ago, the Court that kicked prayer and the Bible out of school.
And then along came the Alito draft that may overturn Roe v. Wade and, perhaps, rescue originalism. He looked back hundreds of years to see whether abortion has even been a part of our jurisprudence or the norms of our lives. Of course, it hasn't. Abortion on demand in the Constitution was created out of whole cloth not long before Roe came to the Court. What's more, the precedent of Roe and Casey cannot hold if the underlying arguments failed in the first place.
The entire pro-life movement, all of it, will be able to take a humble bow when Roe is swept into the wastebasket of history. But three huzzahs must be aimed at those two most despised arms of our movement, all those who have toiled in politics and all those who have worked in legal theory and education.
There must be a final tip of the hat to the most unlikely pro-lifer, Donald Trump. None of this would have happened if he had not trounced Hillary Clinton. I don't think Jeb Bush or any of the others could have whipped her. Once elected, this man acted in the most pro-life ways. We were astonished. Maybe a Jeb Bush would have stood by Kavanaugh when he was under withering assault. Maybe not. The fact is, Donald Trump beat Hillary. He nominated pro-life justices, and he stood by them. And he did all this while under continuous criminal attack from the Deep State. Our joy and thanks must extend to him.
Three cheers. Hip hip hooray. Hip hip hooray. Hip hip hooray.
The above comes from a May 13 posting by Austin Ruse in Crisis magazine.
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gun control May 24, 2022 at 9:34 pm - Reply
As the school shooting in Texas proves — yet again — gun control is a pro-life issue. Let's be consistent, now.
Let's be consistent now. May 24, 2022 at 11:13 pm - Reply
Because violent criminals abide by gun laws and other laws?
No one is for shooting people, at schools or anywhere. Shooting people is, obviously, anti-life.
What about stabbings? Why don't we hear calls for knife control?
Tragically, most firearm deaths are suicides. There is a need for better mental health care.
I'd bet most readers here support reasonable gun control laws. But, abortion kills a vastly greater number of people than firearms and you know it. That's what this article is about.
Protecting people, born and preborn, is pro-life.
(And, sometimes, the lawful use of firearms protects people.)
Where did America go wrong? May 25, 2022 at 4:27 am - Reply
I think guns in the hands of extremely demented, violent young criminals, is only part of the problem. Where is the violent, demented young gunman's mom, dad, and family? Neighborhood? School? Church? Sports teams and coaches? Local, traditional youth organizations that traditionally help form young boys into good, decent, mature men? When did the murderer in the news, start to go wrong in his life– who was watching? Who tried to help him– anyone? Forming definite, good future plans, with family help, after high school, is a good idea. It's time to start to be a man, and give up childish teenage things. Mandatory military service for all young men, was once very helpful, for many. No more crazy feminist ideas– boys must grow up to manhood. Girls must grow up to Womanhood. And a return to the traditional marriage, home and family, the traditional, pre-1960s school, with a focus on the basics, and strong, traditional roles of man and woman, strong Judeo-Christian beliefs.
Peggy May 25, 2022 at 10:09 am - Reply
To Where did America go wrong: Extremely well said!!!
And back at the Warren Court where prayer and the Bible were eliminated from school. What replaces prayer in the public schools is now trangenderism, sex dysphoria, Critical Race Theory, LBGTQXYZ…
thatdirtylittleratnunnheim May 25, 2022 at 10:32 am - Reply
How many are on SSRI? How many young people who commit suicide?
Where did America go wrong? May 25, 2022 at 1:36 pm - Reply
In a good society, with good morals, manners, and respect for authority expected, with traditional marriage and family, traditional, good schools and strong churches, and good standards upheld everywhere– people will all be much happier, lead much better lives, have much less mental health and social problems, and crime will be much less. No liberal-leftist craziness, no filthy, rebellious hippies/misfits, no nonsense.
Michael Joseph Dremel May 26, 2022 at 10:05 am - Reply
I'm going to take a guess that you're older than me by at least a generation, but that's based on your input here. I totally agree with you on some vital points: where were the parents, mostly. And others? and as you said – who tried to help this young boy earlier? I'm betting the signs were all there that he was headed this direction. But I digress from totally agreeing with you on a few points as well. Being a 25 year disabled veteran, I'm not sure, except in a general mobilization, that mandatory conscription is the answer to making young boys into men.
Michael Joseph Dremel, I agree with you. But it was noted, in earlier generations, that the formerly mandatory two-year military service sometimes helped young men grow up and become more mature. Maturity is something that requires a certain amount of pressure from adults in authority positions, to help kids grow up. You must get kids to understand, in the teen years, that they "have" to give up "childish" things, including childish notions of irresponible, so-called "freedoms," and behave in an adult manner, and perform adult tasks– no excuses, no goofing off, no self-centered childishness, no nonsense. That kind of "have to" pressure, is badly needed, in today's Western society– particularly, for young men.
bohemond May 25, 2022 at 5:25 am - Reply
A leftist never misses an opportunity to grand stand over the still warm bodies of dead children. Gun control will do one thing, give more unaccountable power to corrupt politicians. If liberals could think they would realize the mass shootings are the sign of a morally corrupt culture/society that they helped bring forth. The underlying issue it the complete destruction of the family in the past 60 years, whose base is the sexual revolution. This will not end until the country accepts Christ the King, and obeys HIS Laws…
I agree. A morally corrupt culture, spearheaded by the filthy hippie/liberal-leftist sexual revolution, and destruction of the traditional marriage, family and home, supported wrongfully by mindless, immoral, liberal-leftist misfits in political power, is the root of today's evils, including horrific crimes. We badly need a moral and religious revolution in our society, and to love, respect, honor, and obey Christ and His teachings.
A most interesting hypothesis you present – if only everyone would act like the 1940's, 50's, all would be well. Regrettably, it wasn't all well, and even then, each generation has been accused of ruining the status quo, destroying American values, etc. Live, breathe, pray and worship as you will, but do not expect that everyone thinking as you will make the world perfect. Humans are inherently greedy and self-serving, doing and justifying acts that in the end are meant to keep them in power, in control or believing that they are holier than the "others" who do not believe or do as you do.
Where did America go wrong? May 27, 2022 at 3:29 pm
Michael Joseph Dremel– kids must not grow up to live as extremely irresponsible, immoral, self-centered, destructive alcoholics, dope-addicts, or criminals– tragic failures, on the dangerous fringes of society. It is the responsibility of parents, teachers, clergy, and all other community leaders, to help kids grow up to be responsible, successful adults. Today's immoral Western society is headed for ultimate disaster. A no nonsense return to our Judeo-Christian-based principles of Western society, is badly needed. Yes, mankind has always sinned– yet, even when sinning, in previous generations– adult thinking prevailed, and even criminals understood right from wrong– and wouldn't lie and say that wrong is right.
My comment of May 27 at 3:29pm, was edited. The editors removed my quotation marks in my final sentence, originally written: …and wouldn't say that "wrong" is "right." I believe that my English grammar training is correct, however.
why May 27, 2022 at 11:02 pm
why would they do that?
Reply to Michael Joseph Dremel May 28, 2022 at 3:14 am
Too many kids today, grow up without good influences, and drift into drugs, alcohol, and destructive, immoral ways of living. They are not ready for a good future, as adults. Many of them follow demented rock stars, and are drenched in their destructive music of violence and filth. Some end up on the streets, homeless, mentally sick, and many soon die. And some commit suicide, or die of drug overdoses.America can do much better than this.
Anne TE May 25, 2022 at 9:06 pm - Reply
When I was young in the 1940's and 50's, there was no "no fault" divorce and more intact families; abortion was illegal and very few women or children died from them contrary to what you are told; guns were all over the place, but mass and school shootings were almost non-existent, and the death penalty was enforced for such cases. People often left the doors to their houses unlocked. Now when my husband is not home, I lock all the doors to our house. It seems to me if children are not safe in the womb, neither are we safe out of the womb. Back then we did not kill the innocent but the guilty.
Interesting connection – get rid of abortion to push society to go back to the good old days of women being told that if their husband is abusive she can divorce him but gives up the children, or that she can only open a bank account or get a credit card if her daddy or brothers signs off on it? So in your words only "very few"women died from illegal abortions, and somehow that's a justification? You would not think so if it were your daughter or niece – that would be one too many. Guns are all over the place? Many, yes, but all over? An expedient exaggeration to what purpose? You and I agree on one point for sure – egregiously evil acts like shooting school kids should be met with a death penalty. Do not equate that crime with having an abortion – apples and oranges. A fetus cannot survive beyond the womb until about week 22, and then only with major intervention. Curious that your husband is not "at home" – why? Is he a traveler and gone much of the time? Or has he passed from life to life everlasting, but putting it as such is difficult for you? You grew up when there was little legal abortion, but there was more rampant racist lynchings and other points of pain. Be careful what you wish for – your granddaughter is the recipient of that world.
Much of what you said was untrue in California when I was young. Lynching was extremely rare in California, and the only lynching I remember hearing about was of a son of a wealthy white man, and the perpetrators, all white, were prosecuted. No black people in my area were ever lynched. The various Mafias did murder but usually among themselves.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta said it best when she said that if a mother can kill her own child in the womb, what is stopping you and me from killing each other.
Violence begets violence.
BTW, Michael Dremel, my grandmother had a credit card or cards and a bank account, too. She had one for me also, which I got later when I became of age, and my grandparents were working class in a multiracial neighborhood, not wealthy.
Family is Most Important May 27, 2022 at 7:25 pm - Reply
We all must live by good morals only, and teach and set a good example, for our children! That means, respect for Marriage, and no promiscuity. And respect for Life, from conception to natural death. Good parents always help their children grow up and become mature, and serve God, family, and country. All societies have problems. No matter what, we must act mature, and live by good morals, and teach our children to responsibly do likewise. Women traditionally were highly honored in their feminine, wonanly role, as the married "Lady of the House," running a household, with the cooking, cleaning, sewing, decorating, shopping, social activities, managing money, family life, milking the cow, planting a garden, and raising children– etc. This has traditionally been considered as an important "profession," for which almost all women would aspire, in all cultures, for centuries. This "profession" is still the most important in the world, regardless of what the world may think. It is not a "side chore" to do. Before the modern era, we used to have a much simpler society, and each gender took great pride in their role. No credit cards, only the rich had bank accounts. A man's paycheck was not designed for a single man– it was designed to cover all the needs of a married man, and his wife and children. The family was the basis of society– which provided first, for all needs– not "abandoned loners," with needs cared for by the government.
Family is Most Important May 28, 2022 at 4:27 am
Fortunately, many modern conveniences that were invented, have greatly helped homemakers with their daily work. But anyway, the vocation to be a traditional wife, mother and homemaker, is a wonderful and blessed vocation– and our culture today, greatly needs more respect for it. "The Mother is the heart of a family."
Anne TE– Me, too! Life was so much nicer, then! We knew all our neighbors, never locked our doors, and the annual crime rate in our town was always zero.
Anne TE May 29, 2022 at 10:51 pm - Reply
In California's public schools and around the nation archery was taught for those who kept good grades. My Girls' Athletic Association had black, brown, white and Asian girl archers. It was unthinkable for any of us to shoot each other.
I was listening to Relative Radio (former Immaculate Heart Radio) today, and a man called in to say that teens were allowed to take their rifles to high school in Texas back then if they were going hunting after classes were over, and no one shot anyone else. Something has clearly happened since then.
a former Dim, getting enlightened May 26, 2022 at 3:55 pm - Reply
Democrat Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer just blocked a school safety bill.
The bipartisan bill, named after Parkland, Florida, shooting victims Luke Hoyer and Alex Schachter, would require the Department of Homeland Security to establish a "Federal Clearinghouse on School Safety Best Practices" for use by state and local educational and law-enforcement agencies, institutions of higher education, health professionals, and the public. It's (past) time to stop playing partisan politics with the lives of children. Schumer claimed on Twitter that the bill "could see more guns in schools." How's that?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/schumer-blocks-senate-gop-school-safety-bill-angering-republicans
James May 26, 2022 at 10:07 pm - Reply
The most dangerous place for a child is his or her mother's womb. Millions have been killed there.
Blugeon May 25, 2022 at 8:43 am - Reply
Fr. James Martin is all over the Texas Massacre, using it to bludgeon pro-lifers about gun control and to bludgeon bishops who won't deny Communion to politicians who don't support gun control laws.
What do you expect from a creature who thinks two men can marry
Fred Herd May 25, 2022 at 9:56 am - Reply
"And if we look at the history of the church we will see that every time the bishops have dealt with a problem not as pastors, they have taken taken a political stance on a political problem. Think of St Bartholomew's Night: 'Oh, heretics, yes. But it's a serious heresy…let's cut all their throats….' No: it is a political matter." – Pope Francis
Pro-Life is winning and Trump had a lot to do with this.
https://www.crisismagazine.com/2022/three-cheers-for-the-pro-life-movements-political-and-legal-arms?mc_cid=b9b440bc61


CohesiveFT hosted a CloudCamp Developer Night this week. Speakers were Philip Szalwinski of 8th Light, John Downey of Braintree, Marcy Capron of Polymathic, and me. My presentation, Citizen Science With OpenROV, was based on the blog post of the same name.
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Henry Hale
Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University, US
Henry E. Hale (PhD Harvard 1998) is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University (GW). His work has won two awards from the American Political Science Association (APSA), the Leon D. Epstein Outstanding Book Award (for Why Not Parties in Russia, Cambridge, 2006) and the Alexander L. George Article Award (for "Divided We Stand," World Politics, 2005). He is also the author of the books Foundations of Ethnic Politics: Separatism of States and Nations in Eurasia in the World (Cambridge, 2008) and Patronal Politics: Eurasian Regime Dynamics in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge, 2015). For 2009-12, he served as director of the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at GW's Elliott School of International Affairs and during 2017-19 was Vice President of the APSA's organized section on Qualitative and Mixed-Method Research. He regularly travels to the countries of Eurasia and has held post-doctoral fellowships from Harvard (1998) and the Kennan Institute (2009). Prior to joining GW, he was assistant professor of political science at Indiana University. He currently also serves as editorial board chair of Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization.


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Home VPN Private Internet Access not working with YouTube TV? Try these FIXES! (January...
Private Internet Access not working with YouTube TV? Try these FIXES! (January 2023)
If you've been watching Private Internet Access (PIA) to watch YouTube TV and it isn't working, YouTube TV has managed to block all of PIA's current IP addresses.
This can be annoying, especially if it was working and now it's not.
Fortunately, there's a few fixes you can try to resolve this issue.
This article will explain how to fix Private Internet Access not working with YouTube TV and how you can prevent these sorts of issues coming up again in the future.
YouTube TV not working with VPN? There's an easy FIX!
Private Internet Access not working with YouTube TV: Fixes
Try these fixes in order. If one doesn't work, move on to the next until you can watch YouTube TV with a VPN again.
Ever noticed when you access YouTube TV you don't have to input your login information every time. This is because a Cookie has stored your information to streamline your experience with the platform.
Cookies are small files, and they aren't dangerous but sometimes they can cause conflicts between YouTube TV and PIA.
In order for Cookies to enhance your online experience they sometimes contain information regarding your location.
If the location stored on your Cookies is different from the location you're selecting with PIA, YouTube TV will notice this discrepancy and will know you're using a VPN.
In this case it will block the IP address given to you by PIA.
Try deleting your Cookies to fix the issue.
Change to a different US server
If PIA has suddenly stopped working with YouTube TV, it might be because the IP address you've been given has been identified by the streaming service and blocked.
The good news is YouTube TV cannot block PIA entirely. It can only block the IP addresses it provides, and it doesn't mean it has been able to block all of PIA's IP addresses.
Changing to a different US server will give you a different IP address, and if that one hasn't been blocked, PIA will work with YouTube TV again.
PIA supports two different protocols, OpenVPN and WireGuard.
Protocols determine how your online information is rerouted through a VPN server. OpenVPN is a very secure protocol but isn't the fastest, while WireGuard is a little less secure but is incredibly fast.
The reason PIA might not be working with YouTube TV is because the protocol you're using is no longer compatible with the streaming service. Try switching between the two protocols and see if that resolves the issue.
Make sure PIA is updated to its latest version
It's always a good idea to update PIA to its latest version.
YouTube TV might not be working with the VPN because of an error or bug that could have been fixed in an update.
Ensure you're PIA software is updated to ensure you have installed these bug and error fixes.
Upgrade to a VPN that's still compatible with YouTube TV
If none of the above fixes has resolved Private Internet Access not working with YouTube TV, then all of PIA's IP addresses have been identified by YouTube TV and have been blocked.
From here, you can do a couple of things. You can wait for PIA to fix the issue on its end and release new IP addresses that haven't been blocked by YouTube TV, or you can upgrade to a VPN that works reliably with YouTube TV.
Waiting for PIA to fix the issue can take a long time and there's no guarantee it will fix the issue. To watch YouTube TV reliably with a VPN, we recommend upgrading to ExpressVPN ($6.67/month).
ExpressVPN ($6.67/month) is an incredibly fast and secure VPN, and it has measures in place to ensure YouTube TV doesn't block all of its IP addresses. It does this by playing a game of cat and mouse with the streaming service.
Although unlikely, if an IP provided by ExpressVPN ($6.67/month) gets blocked by YouTube TV, ExpressVPN ($6.67/month) will close that IP address and open a new unblocked one.
This will allow you to watch YouTube TV reliably anywhere in the world and will ensure you don't come across the same errors you're coming across with PIA.
Why does YouTube TV block Private Internet Access?
It's pretty straightforward, YouTube TV blocks PIA because it can potentially allow users to watch the streaming service in locations where YouTube doesn't have the rights to broadcast its content.
YouTube TV only has the rights to broadcast its content in the US. If YouTube allowed customers to access the YouTube TV service outside the US, it would be breaching copyright and licensing agreements it has with its content partners. This can result in massive fines, which obviously, YouTube doesn't want to face.
To protect itself YouTube TV tries to block PIA or at the very least needs to be seen trying to block the VPN. And if PIA has stopped working with the streaming service, it has been successful in doing so.
How does YouTube TV block PIA?
YouTube TV blocks VPNs using three main techniques:
The most common technique is to do with the IP addresses that your VPN can provide. VPN providers have more customers than the number of IP addresses they can provide; this means that customers can use the same IP addresses. Usually, only a household with a few devices uses the same IP address. When YouTube TV sees hundreds or even thousands of connections coming through on the same IP address, it knows that it is a VPN, and it blocks it.
YouTube TV monitors for IP, DNS and WebRTC leaks that can tip the service off you are using a VPN.
YouTube TV teams up with GeoIP databases like Maxmind to identify IP addresses. If the IP address your VPN provides is on one of these databases, YouTube TV will be able to find out where in the world you are connecting to the internet from, and it will block you.
Lesser VPNs struggle to get around these blocks, and subsequently, all of their IP addresses get blacklisted by YouTube TV.
This is what has most likely happened to PIA, and it's why you're coming across issues using the VPN to watch YouTube TV.
Does YouTube TV work with VPNs?
Although PIA has stopped working with YouTube TV, there are VPNs that still work with the streaming service. These are the VPNs that have powerful measures in place to stay ahead of YouTube TV's VPN blocks.
The best VPN for this is ExpressVPN ($6.67/month).
ExpressVPN ($6.67/month) plays a game of cat and mouse with YouTube TV so that if an IP address it provides gets identified and blocked by YouTube TV, it will close that IP address and open a new one.
This will allow you to watch YouTube TV anywhere in the world reliably, and it will ensure you don't come across the same errors you have with PIA.
The best VPNs for YouTube TV when PIA isn't working


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Q: How can I set contents of a spreadsheet cell to Accounting format with EPPlus? I need to set the contents of certain columns to Accounting format.
This attempt:
public static readonly string NUMBER_FORMAT_ACCOUNTING = "$";
. . .
bidPriceCell.Style.Numberformat.Format = NUMBER_FORMAT_ACCOUNTING;

...simply gives "$" and "-$" as the values.
This attempt:
public static readonly string NUMBER_FORMAT_ACCOUNTING = "$0.00";
. . .
bidPriceCell.Style.Numberformat.Format = NUMBER_FORMAT_ACCOUNTING;

...gives me values such as, "$24.09" and "-$0.91"
What the user wants is space between the dollar sign and the value, and parens around negative values, such as "$  24.09" and "$ (0.91)"
What string do I need to assign the Numberformat.Format property for this to work?

A: Found the answer from Wildpinkler here, which is:
@"_(""$""* #,##0.00_);_(""$""* \(#,##0.00\);_(""$""* ""-""??_);_(@_)";

...so that the following works:
public static readonly  String NUMBER_FORMAT_ACCOUNTING = @"_(""$""* #,##0.00_);_(""$""* \(#,##0.00\);_(""$""* ""-""??_);_(@_)";
. . .
bidPriceCell.Style.Numberformat.Format = RoboReporterConstsAndUtils.NUMBER_FORMAT_ACCOUNTING;

A: Due to I need the currency format for Euros and a Spanish locale (example 1.000.000,00€). I had to:

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*Unzip one excel file where I had apply that format to a cell.

*Go to the xl folder and open the styles.xml file

*Find the format searching for '€' symbol between the numFmts tags
styles.xml:
<numFmts count="2">
    <numFmt numFmtId="44" formatCode="_-* #,##0.00\ "€"_-;\-* #,##0.00\ "€"_-;_-* "-"??\ "€"_-;_-@_-"/>
</numFmts>

Therefore, you can use this format like this:
sheet.Cells["A1"].Style.Numberformat.Format = @"_-* #,##0.00\ ""€""_-;\-* #,##0.00\ ""€""_-;_-* ""-""??\ ""€""_-;_-@_-";

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