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Cannabis an issue, but fentanyl and meth are leading causes of drug-impaired driving in Regina
Leader Post | Posted: Dec. 15, 2021, 1:43 p.m. | Updated: Dec. 15, 2021, 1:43 p.m. | 4 Min Read
With legalized marijuana, many thought a sharp increase in cannabis-impaired driving would follow.
REGINA, Sask. — Const. Jon Turner remembers well the fears from some when marijuana was legalized in Canada in 2018.
"I know there was a lot of fear that the sky would kind of fall in, once legalization hit that it would cause a massive increase in (cannabis impaired driving), he said recently.
"And we haven't seen that … We have seen an increase, quite a big increase, in drug-impaired driving, I think because with legalization came a lot more education."
But that increase is not from those using marijuana and then getting behind the wheel. Turner, a drug recognition expert instructor and a standard field sobriety instructor with the Regina Police Service, said alcohol is still the most common cause of substance-based driving impairment in Regina. And cannabis is not the second.
"It's not our driving force for impairment on the road right now. I would say that would be fentanyl or methamphetamine," Turner said.
According to SGI, some experts believe smoking one joint can impair a driver as much as drinking four beers. But while the possibility of cannabis-impaired driving may have increased, there's a number of reasons it hasn't seemed to come to pass.
Turner said more training has led to better recognition of drug-impaired driving.
Kerri Michell, president of Farmer Jane Cannabis Co., declined an interview but credited the Saskatchewan Liquor and Gaming Authority for providing customers with information about impaired driving. "They're our regulating body and do a great job outlining expectations and suggestions to ensure customers consume cannabis safely," she said.
Farmer Jane Cannabis Co. receives information sheets from the Government of Canada to share with buyers. This sheet includes a warning against driving under the influence.
A budtender at Farmer Jane said that they give the sheet to new customers. And budtenders are required to take the CannSell retail training program which highlights responsible selling.
Drug-impaired driving has been a concern since legalization, but at the time, SGI also rolled out TV and social media campaigns informing the public on responsible cannabis use. There was also a campaign at the time informing drivers of changes to impaired driving legislation.
Still, there are some out there who have not received the message.
The 2020 Canadian Cannabis Survey, developed by Health Canada, examined the behaviour of 10,822 people across the country who had used cannabis recreationally in the previous 12 months.
Twenty-two per cent of those surveyed admitted to driving within two hours of smoking or vapourizing cannabis or a cannabis product. Thirteen per cent reported driving within four hours of ingesting a cannabis product. Only two per cent of those surveyed reported having an impaired driving related interaction with law enforcement while they were driving a vehicle. Participants expressed that their primary reason for driving after cannabis use was that they did not feel impaired by the cannabis.
Many in law enforcement might suggest those stats are part of the reason so much training was devoted to the issue.
"There was a lot more funding to train theories and then a lot more pushed by departments as well to educate their frontline officers on drug impaired driving, not just cannabis, but others as well," said Turner.
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New Zealand International Film Festival names new director
30 April, 2019 by Staff Writer
Marten Rabarts.
Marten Rabarts will succeed Bill Gosden as the director of the New Zealand International Film Festival (NZIFF), starting with the 2020 edition.
Currently responsible for the promotion of Dutch film and film culture worldwide as the head of EYE International at the EYE Film Museum, he will take up the position in October.
Rabarts will attend this year's festival, which runs from July 18 – August 4 in Auckland, July 26 – August 11 in Wellington, August 1 – 18 in Dunedin and August 8-25 in Christchurch.
The line-up has been programmed with significant input from Gosden, who retired at the end of March after 40 years' distinguished service, and will be delivered by the NZIFF programming team led by program manager Michael McDonnell and programmer Sandra Reid.
NZIFF Trust chair Catherine Fitzgerald said: "As so many applicants noted, Bill Gosden left unique and large shoes to fill on his recent retirement. From a richly skilled and talented field of applicants, it was such a pleasure to find Marten wished to return to New Zealand and take up the challenge to be the film festival director.
"He brings a wealth of international experience in many aspects of film culture but has always remained firmly connected to his homeland. The NZFFT board were particularly impressed with his passion for creating international opportunities for homegrown talent and amplifying unique voices in cinema, across all his work in sales, production, development and marketing."
Rabarts said: "Being entrusted with the stewardship and a key role in shaping the future of one of New Zealand's most significant cultural events is a challenge and honour that draws me back to Aotearoa with excitement and an enthusiasm I trust will match the energy and passion of the NZIFF team who, with Bill Gosden at the helm, have built this world class celebration of cinema, stories and ideas.
"At a film festival like ours, audiences don't just 'go to the movies', they experience cinema which requires them to slip inside the skin of others; confront the joy, pain, tenderness, discomfort, triumph and paradox of what it is to be fully human in our turbulent times. A film festival doesn't pretend to offer easy answers, but I look forward to presenting films and unique cinema voices from at home and around the world that continue to pose the most urgent artistically intriguing questions of our times."
Born in Coromandel, Marten moved overseas at 16 to pursue a career in theatre and contemporary dance, transitioning into film in New York in the mid-1980s.
He has lived in Australia, the UK, the US and for most of the last 20 years in the Netherlands.
In his previous role as artistic director of the Binger FilmLab he helped bring together Kiwi and international filmmakers with Dutch filmmakers to develop their films, including Māori Boy Genius, The Strength of Water, Stray, The Babadook and Touch Me Not.
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Feeling Overwhelmed? The MFA Says One Minute With A Rothko Painting Could Help
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The MFA invites visitors to engage with works by Rothko and other artists for one minute. Most people only spend two or three seconds with art works in museums. (Andrea Shea/WBUR)
There's so much going on in the world these days: political conflicts, natural disasters, cultural unrest. It can be hard to process.
If you're feeling overwhelmed, don't feel bad. You're definitely not alone.
In response to our tumultuous times, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts is opening "Seeking Stillness," a display that invites visitors to spend time with about 40 works by contemplative artists, including 20th-century painter Mark Rothko. Folks there believe it can help.
MFA director Matthew Teitelbaum remembers a question he and his staff grappled with as they tried to decide on the fall exhibitions for the museum's contemporary gallery.
"What do we do in this moment where everything seems so raw, where everything seems so polemical, where everything seems so confrontational?" Teitelbaum recalled. "How do we get through it?"
An issues or politics-oriented show seemed like the answer. But the team had another idea.
"Well, we get through it by thinking more deeply about who we are and what our position is in the world," Teitelbaum said. "So if we can create a moment where that could happen for people — not really as therapy, but as a way of being — we would be doing something pretty special. And that's what we proposed."
Mark Rothko's "No. 1" at the MFA. (Andrea Shea/WBUR)
'Immersing Yourself' In The Paintings
Now it's a reality. A group of curators collaborated to organize "Seeking Stillness." For her part, Elliot Bostwick Davis, who chairs the MFA's Art of the Americas department, selected 11 monumental (some would say mystical) paintings by Rothko from the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. The Rothkos are on loan through July 1, 2018, and this is their New England debut.
"I think we're all just overwhelmed by modern life," Davis said as she stood in the gallery. She wants visitors who walk through the show to stop and really look at each painting for one minute. Just one.
That might not sound like a big ask, but Davis said it actually is. That's because most museum visitors spend between two and three seconds with any work of art.
"But these are works that will definitely reward you as you spend more time immersing yourself in them," Davis explained. "And that is why, as time went on, Rothko painted them so large, because he did feel, with the large paintings, [that] you're in it."
Some viewers see Rothko's atmospheric paintings as portals. For the artist's cult-like following, being surrounded by his huge, often color-drenched abstract works is the equivalent of going to a temple or church.
The simply titled "No. 1" almost looks like it's floating off the gallery wall.
Mark Rothko's "No. 1," painted in 1961 with oil and acrylic on canvas. (Courtesy National Gallery of Art, D.C.; Mark Rothko Foundation; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
"As you stare at it you might see a very narrow horizontal band at the top," Davis said, "and a very large, dark, deep rectangle. It actually is both black with some green in it."
For this show, Davis said, she wanted to recreate the feeling she had as an undergraduate seeing a room full of Rothkos at the Phillips Collection in D.C. for the first time.
Today the artist's abstract works fetch millions of dollars at auction, but he struggled mightily during his career — with the art market and with his own depression. Davis said he was on a quest to express pure emotion through his works.
"Rothko didn't want to speak for his paintings," she said. "He felt silence is something that was very powerful, and it could speak for itself."
Does It Speak To You?
Mark Rothko's "Untitled," painted in 1949 with oil and mixed media on canvas. (Courtesy National Gallery of Art, D.C.; Mark Rothko Foundation; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
But silence is elusive these days. Author and clinical psychologist Craig Malkin knows that well. He told me the MFA's "Seeking Stillness" theme taps into the zeitgeist, and the way many of his clients are feeling.
"They're constantly bombarded by notifications from their email, notifications from their text messages," Malkin said. "It's very difficult to unplug, which is, I think, why there's a strong movement just to be able to set all of that aside."
Malkin points to the rise of "nature coaches" who help people reconnect not just with the earth and a sense of peace, but also with themselves.
Art can also help you step back and reflect, Malkin says — as long as it speaks to you. Rothko isn't for everyone.
"For some people Rothko might just look like bands of color, but for me I see all kinds of lushness and texture that pull me in, and you even start to see shapes after a while," he said. "It makes it a lot easier to find some peace outside of all the noise that comes at us — even if it's important information."
Looking Pays Off
Rothko descended into a darker place before he committed suicide in 1970. Three paintings from his late period are also at the MFA. From a distance, they look like looming, rectangular swaths of black.
Rothko fans make pilgrimages to see the grouping of them at the Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas. Rothko skeptics — and there are plenty of them -- joke that anyone can paint works like these.
But art conservator Jay Krueger muses that modern "speed looking" while cruising through museums could be one reason not everyone appreciates these works.
"It's five seconds, 10 seconds, 20 seconds maybe. That's a crazy way to look at art," he said. "You know, you wouldn't listen to five seconds of a symphony and move on, or read a half page of a novel. You have to give it a chance to present itself."
Mark Rothko in 1954. (Courtesy Henry Elkan/Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art)
Krueger appreciates the MFA's "Seeking Stillness" concept. He's head of modern and contemporary paintings conservation at the National Gallery, and he's spent hundreds of hours staring at Rothko's work. Krueger says the dark painting he recently conserved, "No. 8," is a study in the artist's skills with layered media — with its stained canvas, custom-mixed pigments and brushstrokes that create unique texture and gloss.
Looking, Krueger says, pays off.
"Spend more time with fewer things," he recommended. "You'll remember more about what you've seen; you'll see more than you ever knew was possible."
Krueger says Rothko actually painted fairly quickly — but then he'd pause to look.
Music by the minimalist composer John Cage carries you through the adjacent galleries, which hold about 40 works by a broad range of artists — transcendent and meditative photographs, sculptures, paintings.
While the MFA's "Seeking Stillness" display isn't overtly political, Teitelbaum says, Rothko was a pretty political guy.
"He had some very specific notions about ethical behavior, the rightness of certain actions," Teitelbaum said. We shouldn't come away from this new show thinking something that's still is necessarily quiet.
"Mark Rothko: Reflection" is on display at the MFA through July 1, 2018.
This segment aired on September 22, 2017.
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The Scientific Outlook on Development (), sometimes translated to either the scientific development concept, or as the  scientific development perspective, is one of the guiding socio-economic principles of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), credited to former Chinese leader Hu Jintao and his administration, who was in power from 2002 to 2012.

The Scientific Outlook on Development incorporates scientific socialism, sustainable development, social welfare, a humanistic society, increased democracy, and, ultimately, the creation of a Socialist Harmonious Society. According to official statements by the CCP, the concept integrates "Marxism with the reality of contemporary China and with the underlying features of our times, and it fully embodies the Marxist worldview on and methodology for development."

The ideology was ratified into the CCP constitution at the 17th Party Congress in October 2007. It is lauded by the Chinese government as a successor and extension ideology to Marxism–Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory and the Three Represents.

Ideology
The Scientific Outlook on Development reflected a departure from Jiang Zemin's Three Represents in that it laid emphasis on correcting the unbalanced growth that had been much more favorable to wealthier, coastal provinces, neglecting the Chinese inland. It also put more emphasis on the masses rather than the elites, according to David Shambaugh.

Humanism is at the center of the scientific development concept. The people-oriented concept is "to take the interests of the people as the starting point and end point of all work, to continuously meet people's multifaceted needs and promote the overall development of people." It includes 4 specific aspects:

On the basis of economic development, continuously improve the people's material and cultural living standards and health standards
Respect and protect human rights, including the political, economic and cultural rights of citizens
Continuously improve people's ideological and moral quality, scientific and cultural quality and health quality
Create a social environment where people develop equally and give full play to their intelligence

Development
On April 15, 2003, Hu Jintao put forward for the first time during his inspection in Guangdong : "We must adhere to a comprehensive outlook on development." On July 28 of the same year, Hu Jintao put forward in a more complete way at the National SARS Prevention and Control Work Conference: "We must better adhere to the development concept of coordinated development, all-round development, and sustainable development." This is considered Scientific Outlook on Development. The first appearance of the term.

On October 14, 2003, at the Third Plenary Session of the Sixteenth Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, Hu Jintao clearly put forward "Adhere to people-oriented, establish a comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable development concept, and promote the all-round economic, social and human development." The meeting put the spirit of Hu Jintao's speech into the final resolution, and the concept of the scientific development concept was perfected and formally established as one of the ruling ideas of the Chinese Communist Party.

After that, the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party quickly organized the "Special Research Class on the Establishment and Implementation of the Scientific Outlook on Development by Provincial and Ministerial Leading Cadres". On February 29, 2004, at the completion ceremony of the seminar, Wen Jiabao asked the whole party to "unify thinking and strengthen Establish and conscientiously implement the scientific outlook on development" and raise the scientific outlook on development to the height of the "unified thinking" of the whole party.

On March 10, 2004, Hu Jintao delivered a speech on the scientific outlook on development at the Central Forum on Population, Resources and Environment, "To achieve the goal of building a well-off society in an all-round way and create a new situation in the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, we must adhere to the implementation of the " Three Representing the "important thinking and the spirit of the 16th National Congress ", firmly establish and conscientiously implement the people-oriented, comprehensive, coordinated, and sustainable development concept, and earnestly grasp development, the party's first priority in governing and rejuvenating the country.", referring to the scientific development concept Parallel to the "Three Represents", it is considered to be the most complete and comprehensive exposition of the scientific outlook on development so far.

On November 21, 2007, the Scientific Outlook on Development was written into the Party Constitution at the 17th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party.

Beginning in September 2008, the Politburo of the CCP Central Committee held a meeting on September 5, 2008, and decided to start in September 2008, in about one and a half years, to carry out in-depth study and practice of the scientific concept of development activities throughout the party in batches. The first batch: started in September 2008 and was basically completed in February 2009. Including: central and state organs, provincial (autonomous region, municipality) party and government organs; national, provincial (autonomous region, municipality) people's congresses, CPPCC organs, people's courts, people's procuratorates, and people's organizations organs; Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps organs; centrally managed financial institutions And its branches; public institutions directly under the Party Central Committee and the State Council, public institutions directly under the Central Committee, public institutions managed by various departments of the central government, and public institutions directly under the provincial (autonomous region, municipality). The second batch: started in March 2009 and was basically completed in August 2009. Including: city (prefecture, state, league), county (city, district, banner) party and government organs; city (prefecture, state, league), county (city, district, banner) people's congress, CPPCC organs, people's courts, and people's procuratorates And people's organizations and organizations; divisions and regiments of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps; central enterprises; enterprises directly under provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities), enterprises and institutions directly under cities (prefectures, states, and leagues); colleges and universities, secondary professional schools. The third batch: started in September 2009 and was basically completed in February 2010. Including: townships (towns), neighborhoods; villages, communities; Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps grassroots units; primary and secondary schools; enterprises, social organizations, and social intermediary organizations that did not participate in the second batch of activities.

Legacy

By around 2005 Hu Jintao was using the Scientific Outlook on Development concept as a catch-all for a wide variety of policies that had no other unifying theme. These included: improving rural areas, speeding up economic growth, using resources efficiently, and more.

See also
History of the People's Republic of China (2002–present)

References

External links
 The Scientific Development Concept – Key Concepts – Chinese Political Philosophy

Hu Jintao
Politics of China
Economic history of the People's Republic of China
Ideology of the Chinese Communist Party

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Warsaw 1944: Poland's bid for freedom (Campaign)
by Robert Forczyk
Binding: Paperback, 96 pages
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Poland had apparently lain dormant under the Nazi heel for nearly five years, suffering the waves of genocidal round ups, organized looting and the brutal suppression of its culture. The Poles, however, had in fact formed an underground army, the Armia Krajowa (Home Army), and waited for the moment when German weakness would offer the opportunity for a successful rising. That moment seemed to have arrived in July 1944. As the Soviet armies began to advance into eastern Poland following the destruction of the German Army Group Centre in the successful Bagration offensive, the AK launched its revolt in Warsaw on August 1, 1944. Though its 5,000 fighters achieved some initial successes, the Germans were able to retain control over both the Vistula River bridges and the airbase, which ultimately doomed the revolt to isolation and defeat. The SS was put in charge of suppressing the rebellion, beginning another wave of atrocities, shocking even by Eastern Front standards.
By the beginning of September, it was clear that the rebellion was doomed. The Western Allies attempted to fly weapons and supplies to Warsaw, but their efforts were undermined by Stalin's unwillingness to provide airbases. Stalin himself waited until the rebellion was approaching its death throes before allowing the First Polish Army (part of the Red Army) to cross the Vistula River to aid the rebellion. Although these reinforcements succeeded in briefly establishing a link up, it was too late. The AK finally agreed to surrender on October 2.


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Promoted by historical societies, museums and municipal groups as a means of bringing to life community and cultural leaders who shaped America's cities and small towns, cemetery tours illustrate poverty, riches, power and progress. They also showcase local talent--people who comb through old obituaries to select the characters, as well as those who write the scripts, pick out the costumes and fill the actors' roles.
Less of a personal pilgrimage than the Day of the Dead and other on-site family gatherings, the visits enable tourists to bone up on tombstone art, mausoleum architecture and patterns of the past while enjoying nature's beauty in these enchanting outdoor sanctuaries. Here are a few of this year's Midwest cemetery strolls, some guided, some self-guided.
Graceland Cemetery and Chapel Crematorium, 4001 N. Clark St.; Sundays from Sept. 16 through Oct. 21; 312-922-3432. Chicago Architecture Foundation docent-led tours visit the graves of sculptors Daniel Chester French and Lorado Taft and architect Louis Sullivan, among other notables. Time: 2 p.m. Length of tour: 2 hours. Price: $5.
Rosehill Cemetery & Mausoleum, 5800 N. Ravenswood Ave.; first and third Saturdays of every month, year-round; 773-561-5940. Longtime guide Jeanette Kovitz describes the life and times of early Chicagoans buried here, focusing on the community mausoleum in inclement weather. Residents include Norman W. Harris, founder of the bank that bears his name, A. Montgomery Ward, Richard Sears and Frances Willard, founder of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. Time: 10 a.m. Length of tour: 2 hours. Free.
Bluff City Cemetery, 945 Bluff City Blvd.; Sept. 23; 847-742-4248. More than 70,000 people are buried in this 108-acre cemetery, giving the Elgin Area Historical Society plenty of material for its 13th annual tour featuring eight characters. Historical Society member Rebecca McNabb-Minetti auditions volunteer actors, furnishes scripts and selects costumes, props and guides, according to Linda Rock, this year's chairman. Time: Noon-5 p.m. (last tour begins at 3:30 p.m.). Length of tour: 1 1/2 hours. Walking distance: 1 mile. Price: $5, $2 ages 13. Miles from Chicago: 37.
Riverside Cemetery, 2900 6th Ave.; "Gone, But Not Forgotten: Echoes From Riverside," Sept. 29, with a rain date of Oct. 1; 309-797-0790. This summer's guided tour of the 60-acre, city-owned cemetery founded in 1841 introduces eight local actors telling tales of people whose lives have been researched by Kathleen Seusy, program director of the Moline Park and Recreation Department. Time: 1-3 p.m. Length of tour: 1 hour. Walking distance: 1 mile. Price: $3, free ages 11 and under; includes refreshments. Miles from Chicago: 165.
Chippiannock Cemetery, 2901 12th St.; "Epitaphs Brought to Life," Sept. 8; 309-788-6622. Hop the trolley for a ride to the top of this 85-acre cemetery and a guided, downhill walk to meet 14 of the city's famous sons and daughters, portrayed by local thespians. Directed by actor Scott Naumann and scripted by Charles Oestreich, a retired high school English teacher, the popular 8-year-old tour goes on hiatus after this, resuming in 2005 for the cemetery's 150th anniversary. Time: 1-3:30 p.m. (every 10 minutes). Length of tour: 1 1/4 hours. Price: $3, free ages 12 and under. Miles from Chicago: 167.
Crown Hill Cemetery, 700 W. 38th St.; July 14, 22, Aug. 12, 18, Sept. 9, 22, Oct. 14, 28, Nov. 11; 317-920-2644. Among the 190,000 folks buried in this 555-acre preserve are President Benjamin Harrison, Colonel Eli Lilly, James Whitcomb Riley, Frederick Dusenberg and John Dillinger. Themed walking and walking/driving tours include "Dillinger & Other Notables," "Riley and His Friends," "African Americans" and "Actors, Artists, Architects & Musicians." Time: 2 p.m., 4:30 p.m. or 7 p.m., according to tour. Length of tours: 1 1/2 hours. Walking distance: 1 mile. Price: $5, $4 seniors, $3 school age. Miles from Chicago: 188.
Green Hill Cemetery, 18th Street near M Street; guided tours by appointment; 812-275-1637. Mute testimony to the skills of Lawrence County's limestone cutters, tombstones bear fascinating epitaphs and names of early settlers from Ireland, Scotland, France and Germany. Color-illustrated pamphlets make for easy self-guided tours. One describes a general drive, the other a drive to see stone tree trunk monuments trimmed with carved flowers, vines and birds. Walking distance: 1/5 mile. Miles from Chicago: 245.
Greenwood Cemetery, 1814 Lucas St.; Sept. 23, with a rain date of Sept. 30; 563-263-7051. Contrary to English playwright John Dryden's statement, dead men do tell tales, and visitors will discover stories of goodness, crime, pathos and scandal in this easily navigated, 153-acre burial ground. "We present 10 new `old timers' every year and we keep the research for families who might want to add it to their tree," said Kathleen Chalupa, a groundskeeper for the Muscatine Parks and Recreation Department. Among those buried here is the gentleman whose Maid-Rite sandwich made him a billionaire. Time: 1 p.m. Length of tour: 1 1/2 hours. Free. Miles from Chicago: 196.
Waterloo Cemetery; "Strolling With the Spirits: An Interpretive Cemetery Walk," Oct. 19-20, with registration deadline of Oct. 12; 319-234-6357. Tourists board buses at the Grout Museum of History and Science for a 5-mile drive to the cemetery and a guided, luminary-lit stroll where the histories of a kindergarten founder, a farmer, a banker, a hotel owner and four other early Cedar Valley residents will be unearthed by spirited actors. The program is designed for the entire family, according to organizer Debbie Hottle. Time: 7 p.m. Length of tour: 2 hours. Walking distance: 1 mile: Price: $8.50; includes refreshments. Miles from Chicago: 301.
U.S. Ft. Mackinac Post, Ste. Anne's and Protestant Cemeteries, Mackinac Island; "Tombstone Tales," June 30; 517-373-4296. During a twilight stroll beginning at the Post Cemetery on Garrison Road, docent-led groups will encounter nine 19th Century costumed characters who describe trials and triumphs of their departed friends and relatives. Among the deceased are Charles O' Malley, builder of the Island House Hotel; a French fur trader; Ambrose Davenport, an American patriot; and Sara Jane Murdick, a member of the family that made Mackinac Island fudge famous. Time: 8 p.m. Length of tour: 1 hour. Price: $10, $6 ages 6-17, $30 families. Miles from Chicago: 430.
Forest Home Cemetery, 2405 W. Forest Home Ave.; "The Early Years: 1853-1890," July 1, Aug. 5, Sept. 2, and "Improvement & Expansion: 1890 to Present," July 15, Aug. 19, Sept. 16; 414-277-7795. Historic Milwaukee Inc. sponsors both tours to this 200-acre parklike place where names of those who made Milwaukee famous are etched on tombstones. Time: 1 p.m. Length of tour: 1 1/2 hours. Price: $5, $2 ages 6-17. The cemetery's free self-guided historical tour booklet has a map and lists nine special-interest driving tours; 414-645-2632.


I was awakened early this morning by the arrival of my favorite super hero, the musical magician BPK. It's always a joy to have him back home. Early last evening I picked up my oldest and youngest (the middle boy stayed home to study, so that must be serious) and went to the theater to see The Avengers. Fun movie. Worth seeing. Too tired for any sort of serious review, as if I could do a serious review on a super hero movie, but if you're the least bit inclined, I would say go treat yourself and see it.
I'm also too sleepy right now to comment in depth yet on President Obama's recent statements in support of gay marriage. But if you've read my bio at or even this post, you know that I support him. It's not "my opinion" we are talking about, by the way. It's my life. So think carefully if you chose to debate me on this. Imagine talking to Hilary Clinton about women's place in the home, and in subjugation to their husbands. Yes, it won't go down well.
Besides the sleepiness, I wanted to take a couple of days to read and digest and not just give a knee-jerk reaction. For now I'll simply say that I am proud of him for being brave enough to share his evolution of thought on this issue in a time when growth or change in a politician is portrayed in smear campaigns by certain media scam artists, posing as news sources, as "flip-flopping." Whatever else it may mean, for the election, I am proud of him. I appreciate CurryLove's commentary on this. More to come from me on this sometime later today when that big yellow thing is in the sky.
So for now, I'll leave you the only bit of waking intelligence I seem capable of at the moment, one of my poems. This one received some sort of Honorable Mention back in the mid-2000's from either Best of the Net or Best of the Web, or. . . something. I wish I could recall, because I certainly cannot find any actual record of it. Still, it was published. . . someplace (says the scatterbrained poet) back when I was active at Poem Online, and for now I will let its title be my cue that at this bleak hour, I should return to sleep.
snugly in my pocket planner.
until my calendar is nearly bare.
over dinner, a deal done over drinks?
the vintage.  I swirl, and sniff.
pondering twilight, or the dawn.
I've been reading, not just people's opinions, but trying to gauge the short and long term effects of all of this. But it's hard not to be happy about it.
I'm glad to see President Obama finally living up to the superhero potential we saw in him during his first campaign! I'm looking forward to reading your thoughts about his statements.
"Time Piece" is magnificent. Congratulations on the award it received! It is SO WONDERFUL to be seeing your own poems lately.
Great poem. You do such a great job with others words, I am always hoping to also read yours. Well, I had a really joyful response to having our president change his words. Wrote about it today, posting the poem tomorrow, though it doesn't do it justice. I said that for that day our president was my metaphor for grace.
metaphor for grace. . . I really like that. 😀 And thank you for the comment and compliment. I'll go check out your words about Mr President's announcement shortly.


OneSavings Bank plc today announces that it is selling its entire economic interest in the Rochester Financing No.1 plc securitisation ("Rochester 1"). Morgan Stanley is to purchase the C, D and E Notes and will also launch a formal auction process for the Class F Notes and Residual Certificates issued by Rochester 1. This will result in a consideration of not less than £95 million in cash payable at completion to OSB. The entirety of the Class F Notes and Residual Certificates benefits from a backstop provided by Morgan Stanley with the consideration being subject to potential upward adjustment.
The Transaction is expected to generate an exceptional pre-tax gain of at least £25 million. The Transaction would have resulted in a reduction of c.£256 million of gross assets1 and c.£81 million of Risk Weighted Assets currently attributable to the securitised mortgages, and increased the Company's CET1 ratio by not less than 1.2 percentage points, if it had occurred as at 31 December 2015. In 2015, the gross interest income attributable to these assets was £18 million.
The gain on sale will be used in part to support additional net loan book growth in 2016 which is now expected to be marginally ahead of previous guidance of 20%. There is no change to any other guidance for 2016 as a result of the Transaction.
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In the ordinary worldly course, sound is reflected outwardly in ether and inwardly in the ear. Touch is reflected outwardly in air and inwardly in the skin. Form is reflected outwardly in fire and in a mirror, and inwardly in the eye. Taste is reflected outwardly in water and inwardly in the tongue. Smell is reflected outwardly in earth and inwardly in the nose. These reflections, however, are just like the reflections in a mirror. They only take place individually. All five reflections are not available at once; only one thing is reflected in each. In a mirror form is reflected. Touch cannot be reflected in a mirror nor can taste, smell, or sound. A mirror will only reflect form. It is only in Supreme God Consciousness that you find all five reflected at once. In fact, although these reflections are experienced individually in all of the sense organs—sight in the eye, sound in the ear, etc.—these reflections could not even be observed if consciousness were not there. Awareness is needed and this is found in consciousness, not in the organs.
The universe, therefore, is reflected in the mirror of consciousness, not in the organs, nor in the five gross elements. These are merely tattvas and cannot reflect anything. The real reflector is consciousness. In consciousness, however, you see only the reflected thing and not anything that is reflected. That which is reflected (bimba) is, in fact, svatantrya (absolute independent freedom of Lord Shiva).
"This whole universe is the reflection
of svatantrya in God Consciousness."
There is no additional class of similar objects existing outside of this world that He reflects in His nature. The outside element, that which is reflected, is only svatantrya. The infinite variety, which is created, is only the expansion of svatantrya.
You can understand this by taking the example of cause and effect. When a potter makes a pot, he takes clay and gives form to that clay with his potter's instruments, such as a stick, a string,
and the potter's wheel. Within the potter's creative activity, two kinds of causes can be distinguished. There is the material cause, which in Sanskrit is called upadana karana. This is that
cause which travels with the effect. It cannot and does not become separated from the effect. Second, there is the formal cause, which in Sanskrit is called nimitta karana. The formal cause does not travel with the effect. The material cause is the potter's clay and the formal cause is the potter himself with his stick, string, and wheel. In the ordinary worldly course, the reflected object (bimba) seems to be the cause of the reflection (pratibimba), because the reflected object cannot exist without that which is reflected. We have seen, however, that all reflection is really a reflection in God Consciousness.
If the reflected object is really the cause of the reflection, then what kind of cause is it? Is it the material cause, which travels with the effect, or is it the formal cause, which does not travel with the effect?
It cannot be the material cause because that would mean that there is something outside of God Consciousness, which travels to become part of the effect, which is the reflection. It is our theory in Shaivism that nothing can exist outside of God Consciousness. There cannot, therefore, be any agency which is separate from God Consciousness which travels with the cause, because if it is separate from God Consciousness, and therefore from the effect, it would not exist.
If the reflection of some object is existing in the mirror of God Consciousness, then of what is that object a reflection?
We have seen that if the object which is reflected were to remain outside of God Consciousness, then it would not exist. There can be nothing, therefore, which is outside to be reflected in the mirror of God Consciousness. There is only the mirror. There is no external cause, which has gone into the reflection, which is the effect. There is only the mirror of God Consciousness.
But what then is the cause of this reflection?
Svatantrya is the mirror. Svatantrya, the absolutely independent will of God, is the cause of this reflection. Unlike ordinary reflection which we experience in the world, wherein an object can be distinguished as the cause of that reflection, in God Consciousness only the reflection exists and not anything that is separate and reflected. In this causality, svatantrya is the formal cause, not the material cause of the reflection. It does not travel from the cause into the effect because, as I have explained, there is no cause which could be separate from God Consciousness. It is His free will, that He wills, and what He wills appears in the mirror of His Consciousness. It is simply His will (svatantrya). In reality, only the reflection exists and not anything that is reflected.
This universe, therefore, is found in the reflector of God Consciousness, not through the agency of anything of which it is a reflection (bimba), but through His svatantrya, where the universe is contained in seed form.
"Svatantrya is the seed of everything.
Everything exists in the mirror of God Consciousness with svatantrya as its cause."
The theory of reflection (pratibimbavada) is meant for advanced yogins. This theory teaches them how to be aware in their daily activities, while talking, while walking, while tasting, while touching, while hearing, while smelling. While they are performing all of these various actions they see that all of these actions move in their Supreme Consciousness. Their vision, their perception, heretofore limited, becomes unlimited. The mode of their actions becomes absolutely unique. They see each and every action in their God Consciousness. They exist in the state of Sadashiva. Each and every action of their life becomes glorious. This is the awareness that comes from the practice of pratibimba.
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You can "feel" the city when you choose to walk. Photo by Ashley Bayles.
Last weekend, I enjoyed one of the most amazing and fun activities a city has to offer: I was part of "Carnaval de Barranquilla," a UNESCO-recognized heritage event. The theme of the carnival is "El que vive es el que goza," which translates to "Who lives it is who enjoys it." I was fortunate enough to be part of a large comparsa, which is a dance troupe. We walked and danced the kilometer-long salsódromo of Via 40 to the tunes of the Caribbean star Elvis Crespo.
As we walked and danced at the big party, I thought about why I was having such a good time. I realized this big social gathering was possible because we were all willing to travel by foot. By going on foot, we got to interact with the other members of the comparsa; we made eye contact with the onlookers and enjoyed our surroundings. We felt the city.
While walking along the Via 40, images of amazing public spaces from my past travels came to mind, each one designed for walking and sharing life with fellow human beings: Venice, Italy; La Rambla in Barcelona, Spain; İstikal in Istanbul, Turkey; Malecón 2000 in Guayaquil, Ecuador; Plaza Hidalgo in the center of Coyoacán in Mexico City, Mexico; Beach Front in Copacabana in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Calle Huérfanos in Santiago, Chile; Rua das Flores in Curitiba, Brazil; Eje Ambiental Avenida Jimenez in Bogotá, Colombia; the new pedestrian Times Square and the High Line in New York City, New York; the waterfront in Durban, South Africa; Wangfujing Street in Beijing, China; Main Street in Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida; Calles Florida, Lavalle and Puerto Madero in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Some of these examples are even listed by the Project for Public Spaces as some of the best public spaces in the world.
There is no way you can have such an experience while sitting inside a motor vehicle, no matter how fancy or expensive that vehicle may be. To interact with other human beings, you need to go at their speed and be in the open. You need to dance and walk with them. Thanks to Barranquilla for closing streets to traffic and opening them up for fun, we had the chance to do exactly that: interact with each other.
Other great carnivals of the world can be found in Venice, New Orleans, Rio de Janeiro, Brooklyn, Goa, Tenerife, Notting Hill, Oruro, Olinda and Trinidad.
Have you been to a great carnival or public experience? What aspect of your environment made it memorable for you?


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I've blogged about NCTE last fall, and one of the many enjoyable sessions was the Children's Literature Breakfast, featuring Kadir Nelson. I was quoting Kadir in a talk about mentor texts that I gave last weekend (more about that next week), so I thought I'd share this poetryaction to his wonderful If You Plant a Seed.
I've been thinking a lot lately about what we put out into the world and what we get back, and how they're related. But this book also reminded me of other stories I've read that involve planting nontraditional things. Of course, I can't think of any of those at the moment, but please leave them in a Comment if you know of some! So I tried to figure out what might result if a farmer went a little HAYwire. Hehe. HAYwire—get it?
Kadir Nelson's book also put me in mind of The Promise, by an author whose books I really admire, Nicola Davies. You can see my poetryaction to The Promise here.
You can check out my poetryactions Pinterest board here and my bookalikes Pinterest board here, if you like, and don't miss the Poetry Friday Roundup with Elizabeth Steinglass today. I'm sure the poems shared today will plant something beautiful in you!
I love this poem! It's positively charming. Thanks for sharing it here.
I missed seeing Kadir Nelson at NCTE15 but maybe I will catch him at ILA16. (I can't wait to present with you there. This week guest moderating #ISTELitChat with you was a great experience.) Getting back to your post: I get the joke-hay wired. Planting non-traditional things-great match-up.
I love the idea of planting all of these unusual objects and seeing what grows!
Clever concept, Laura! You've got me thinking about what else we plant or send out into the world. If you plant a joke, will laughs burst out?
I'm rarely templed to join Pinterest…but to have easy access to your bookalikes and poetryactions ALWAYS tempts me!
Wonderful. I love the idea of planting things that aren't plants. Brought to my mind planting a kiss!


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Though this is not the comp card design I finally submitted for print (they are two-sided), this is an example of what the agencies are looking for. Good luck, Logan!
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module Data.Tree.BKTree
(
  BKTree(..)
, newBKTree
, listToBKTree
, addElem
, fuzzySearch
, size
, serialize
, deserializeString
, buildBKTree
) where

-- the nodes in a BKTree
data Node a = Node {
    distanceFromParent :: Int
  , element :: a
  , children :: [Node a]
  } deriving (Show, Read, Eq)

-- a wrapper type for the BKTree, holds the distance function
data BKTree a = E | BKTree {
    distanceFunction :: a -> a -> Int
  , root :: Node a
  }

-- make a new tree from an element and a distance function
newBKTree :: (a -> a -> Int) -> a -> BKTree a
newBKTree f a = BKTree { distanceFunction = f, root = newNode 0 a [] }

-- make a new Node from an element
newNode :: Int -> a -> [Node a] -> Node a
newNode d x xs = Node { distanceFromParent = d, element = x, children = xs }

-- build a new BKTree from a distance function and a list
listToBKTree :: (a -> a -> Int) -> [a] -> BKTree a
listToBKTree f (x:xs) = foldl addElem bk xs
                    where bk = newBKTree f x

-- add an element to an existing BKTree
addElem :: BKTree a -> a -> BKTree a
addElem (BKTree d r) x = BKTree d (addNode d x r)

-- make Node x a child of Node y, or child of children of...
addNode :: (a -> a -> Int) -> a -> Node a -> Node a
addNode d x y = if d x ey `elem` map distanceFromParent cy
                then y { children = addNode d x z : filter notMatching cy }
                else y { children = nX : cy }
                where  ey = element y
                       cy = children y
                       nX = newNode dfp x []
                       dfp = d x ey
                           -- dfp is the distance from x to y
                       z = head $ filter matching cy
                           -- z is the element that is the same distance from y that x is
                       matching q = distanceFromParent q == d x ey
                       notMatching q = distanceFromParent q /= d x ey

-- fuzzy search for x in BKTree. return results within distance d
fuzzySearch :: BKTree a -> a -> Int -> [a]
fuzzySearch (BKTree d r) x dist = nodeSearch d x dist r

nodeSearch :: (a -> a -> Int) -> a -> Int -> Node a -> [a]
nodeSearch d q dist n = if d (element n) q <= dist
                        then element n : (concat $ map (nodeSearch d q dist) (children n))
                        else concat $ map (nodeSearch d q dist) (children n)

-- size of a BKTree
size :: BKTree a -> Int
size (BKTree d r) = sizeOfNode r

sizeOfNode :: Node a -> Int
sizeOfNode n = if null (children n)
               then 1
               else (+) 1 $ sum (map sizeOfNode (children n))

----
--Serialization
----

{-
Haskell does not provide the ability to serialize functions. Therefore, the only
parts of the BKTree that we can serialize is the Node portion. This means that when
we deserialize a BKTree, we will only read in the Nodes, and will need to provide the
distance function. It is up to the programmer to supply the correct distance function.

Currently, only the deserializeString is provided.

TODO: figure out how to abstract deserializeString to all Show/Read instances.
      make it fast.
-}

-- writes the Nodes of a BKTree as a string
serialize :: (Show a) => BKTree a -> String
serialize (BKTree d r) = show r

-- reads a String as the Nodes of a BKTree
deserializeString :: String -> Node String
deserializeString s = read s :: Node String

-- builds a tree from a distance function and a list of Nodes
-- IMPORTANT -- This is where you need to be careful about what distance
-- function you are passing in.
buildBKTree :: (a -> a -> Int) -> Node a -> BKTree a
buildBKTree = BKTree

----
--Example Metric Spaces
----

-- Levenshtein Distance
-- the distance between two strings is an integer metric space

-- taken from Rosetta Code
-- http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance#Haskell
levenshtein :: String -> String -> Int
levenshtein s1 s2 = last $ foldl transform [0 .. length s1] s2
  where transform ns@(n:ns') c = scanl calc (n+1) $ zip3 s1 ns ns'
          where calc z (c', x, y) = minimum [y+1, z+1, x + fromEnum (c' /= c)]

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This incredible Costa Rica gold nugget is very smooth and gorgeous. Check out the buttery gold color. Investment/jewelry grade gold nuggets from Costa Rica are about 92% to 98% pure gold, some of the purest natural gold nuggets in the world. My contact in Costa Rica buys them directly from the prospectors. he hand selected the best ones for me and sent the rest to a refiner to melt. This amazing gold specimen weighs in at 7.82 Grams (120.7 Grains). The size of this beauty is 3/4" (19 mm) long. It is smooth and gorgeous and would make a great jewelry piece of an awesome addition to your gold nugget collection.


Through our "West Lakes MVP Families" program, children in the neighborhood were afforded the opportunity to hang out at "Fun Spot" with Penn State and University of Kentucky college football players! The "Day for Kids" event was just days before the teams faced off at the Citrus Bowl! It was a memorable experience for both the players and families living near Camping World Stadium! Check out this link for the full scoop!


Irish author Mark O'Connell has tonight, Monday 30 April, been awarded the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize for his extraordinary debut 'To Be a Machine: Adventures among cyborgs, utopians, hackers and the futurists solving the modest problem of death'. It is the first full-length exploration of transhumanism, a movement that seeks to cheat mortality and use technology for human evolution.
O'Connell was selected from a shortlist of six to win the prestigious £30,000 prize, which celebrates exceptional works of fiction and non-fiction that illuminate the many ways that health and medicine touch our lives. Artist and writer Edmund de Waal OBE, Chair of Judges, made the announcement at the award ceremony at Wellcome Collection, London, praising 'To Be a Machine' as a book that brings into focus timely issues about mortality, what it might mean to be a machine and what it truly means to be human.
The other titles shortlisted for the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize were: 'Stay With Me' by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, 'The Butchering Art' by Lindsey Fitzharris, 'With the End in Mind' by Kathryn Mannix, 'Mayhem: A memoir' by Sigrid Rausing and 'The Vaccine Race' by Meredith Wadman.


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1 in 3 men and 1 in 4 women are affected by cancer by the age of 75. While medical research has improved the outlook for cancer patients in recent decades, cancer is still a leading cause of death worldwide.
To change these stats, we are uniting against cancer. We are consolidating our research across disciplines, industries, networks and countries. And we're building on this knowledge to improve the outcomes of every cancer patient.
Our research looks at all stages of cancer: prevention, diagnosis, treatment and survival. There are 4 key areas we focus on:
Cancers with poor outcomes
We've seen huge leaps forward for some cancers and little to no improvement in others; these include brain, pancreas, ovary and all rare cancers. We're making these cancers our priority. We're finding better ways to fund, treat and manage these cancers, paying special attention to the advanced stages of disease.
Lead: Prof David Goldstein.
Bringing 'omics' to clinical practice
There's been an explosion of information on how the human genome, proteome and metabolome affect cancer. Now it's time to translate these insights into better clinical practice. We're linking 'omic' data with clinical and radiological data to better diagnose and treat cancer.
Lead: Prof David Thomas.
Reducing variation in clinical practice
Differences in how cancer patients are cared for can be costly - to the patient and our health system. These variations are avoidable. Big data helps us understand how and why clinical variation takes place, and what the consequences are. We're building a unique platform that collects, analyses and reports on cancer care accurately. This will ensure a consistent approach to care that reduces costly and traumatic variations in the future.
Lead: A/Prof Winston Liauw.
Living better with and after cancer
Cancer is a journey. It requires whole-of-life care from diagnosis through to treatment, recovery and survival as well as palliative care. There are hundreds of thousands of people in NSW who have had or are living with cancer. Both groups need hands-on support and care. We're finding innovative ways to make care better, more personal and more affordable. That way, more patients can live better lives – with and after cancer.
Lead: Prof Meera Agar.
We're building co-ordinated research teams to leverage, focus and strengthen relevant research initiatives around the world. And we're partnering with consumers, government and non-government organisations, charities and industry, to achieve significant breakthroughs. This will ensure we quickly turn our findings into life-changing outcomes for cancer patients everywhere.
The Maridulu Budyari Gumal Cancer CAG has a world-renowned team of clinicians, researchers and educators. As a collaborative, we're able to tap into a highly skilled team. One which includes experts from basic sciences, clinical trials, implementation research, public health and health services research.
Our Lead staff are:
Scientia Professor Michael Barton OAM
Prof Meera Agar
A/Prof Winston Liauw
Prof David Thomas
Prof David Goldstein.
Many of our researchers are also clinicians who work in:
South Western Sydney Local Health District
Sydney Children's Hospital Randwick.
All our research is conducted via respected research centres, including:
The Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research
The Lowy Cancer Research Centre
The Children's Cancer Institute
The Garvan Institute of Medical Research
The Centre for Big Data Research in Health.
Through these connections, we have access to whole genome sequencing, high-throughput chemical small molecule screening, advanced imaging, clinical trials, and big data support. We're using this sophisticated equipment to turn scientific discoveries into cures faster.
Our vision is to unite cancer research into a globally-leading partnership to deliver continuing evidence-based practice in diagnosis, intervention and support.
Leaders in clinical trials
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Australia's first Molecular Screening and Trials study into rare cancers
The first medicinal cannabis study
Large-scale, international Phase 2/3 studies
The Garvan's Illumina XTen facility is unique to the Southern Hemisphere. Through it, we're discovering new genes associated with cancer risk and progression. This will lead to better prevention and treatment.
Our clinical facilities deliver complex services to difficult and rare cancer cases. We're involved in the global fight against cancer. And aligned with World Health Organisation and International Atomic Energy Agency.
Unite against cancer
Get in touch with Dr Tanya Ward, Executive Officer; Cancer Clinical Academic Group, for more information on our current and developing Cancer CAG work.
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JCCC president Joe Sopcich announces plans to retire in 2020
Jay Senter - July 9, 2019 10:38 am
Johnson County Community College President Joe Sopcich announced today in a message sent to faculty that he is retiring from the position effective July 1, 2020.
Joe Sopcich will retire at the end of the coming school year.
Sopcich became president of the school in June 2013, following more than two decades working in various roles at the college. He began at JCCC as executive director of the JCCC Foundation back in 1992. In 2007, he was promoted to vice president of institutional advancement and government affairs. He then moved on to roles as executive vice president of administrative services and chief financial officer before being tapped to succeed outgoing president Terry Calloway.
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"In today's world of community college leadership, serving for seven years is almost double the standard length of time one serves in this position," Sopcich wrote. "So, I wanted to share with you my intent to resign as president effective July 1, 2020. In giving notice now, it will ensure a smooth transition. I can't thank you enough for what you do to make this College the special place that it is."
During his time leading the college, JCCC has undertaken ambitious plans to transform the campus. In 2017, the board of trustees approved a $102.6 million package of projects that will remake much of the college's infrastructure, including construction of new fine arts facilities, design studios, and career and technical education buildings. The college boasted impressive commitments from donors to help spark the construction efforts.
Current board of trustees chair Jerry Cook credited Sopcich with substantial positive impact on the college.
"Johnson County Community College has been blessed with Dr. Sopcich's leadership in each of the three key positions he's held over a 27-year period of time," Cook said. "Dr. Sopcich has established a remarkable foundation for the next president of the College. While we are disappointed with his retirement plans, we appreciate the impact he has made toward student success at JCCC."
Sopcich's tenure hasn't been without controversy, though. In 2018, the college tore out some sports facilities after voting to end its track and cross country programs, a move leaders said was motivated by the high cost of the programs compared to the relatively few number of students who participated. Comments a progressive activist said he overheard Sopcich make about a $1 per credit hour tuition increase caused a stir on social media, and Sopcich spoke with reporters to defend his position and his commitment to serving less affluent students.
Some of the controversies at the school in recent year appear to have played a part in drawing a large field of candidates to this fall's JCCC Board of Trustees race. Eleven candidates are vying for the three sets up for election this fall. Members of the board of trustees will have final say in the selection of the school's next president.
In his message to the faculty today, Sopcich said he believes the school's 50th anniversary in 2019 provides a good opportunity to explore new leadership.
"As I wrote earlier, summer can be a time of reflection," Sopcich said. "I will turn 65 next April, and my family and I have decided the time is right for my retirement. As I enter my seventh year as President, and the College enters its next half century of serving our community, I believe it is good timing for the College to embark on the selection of a new president."
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I have had questions on how to do the word cirles in Microsoft word so I thought I would post CIRCLE TEXT ART EXAMPLES that you can download and edit to your desire. DCDOLL showed me how to do the circle text at first, at least I think it was her.
Anyway there are three examples on this file, as show in the picture. Once you have one done that you like you can copy and paste it so you can print more than one.
I just used Arial for the font so it would open easy since it is a standard MS word font. You can adjust the font style, size and color to your liking. It might take some time playing with it to see what you want to use but at least you can always save the files for later use.
There are other shapes to use but for now I just thought I would do the circle examples.
I think these are great to use with circle punches. I just love circle sentiments!!
I was asked how to change the color of the text and thought I would post the contents of the email I send the lady that inquired. These should help if you are wanting to play around and not sure how.
4. if you want an outline color then click on the FILL color and choose your color. This will leave the outline to be a different color.
You can also do textures or patterns, all those options are in with the color editing box.
1. double click on the text box and a box will pop up.
3. Choose the font while the box is up and then click okay.
I am not always the best in writing instructions but hope these help!
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Love for one's neighbour, hospitality and compassion for the stranger in one's land, are central tenets of the Christian faith and must be part of one's policy on immigration.
However, a cohesive and sustainable immigration policy is necessary given the fact that there are finite resources available for the well-being of all within our borders.
Unwise stewardship of our limited resources will lead to understandable resentment among British nationals. Such feelings have legitimacy and must not be ignored. In formulating immigration policy, however, a clear distinction must be made between economic migrants, illegal immigrants and asylum seekers. A further consideration is that 'a brain drain' from developing countries to the UK sits uneasily with a policy to educate foreign students in order that they may return home to benefit their native country.
A study by the Institute for Public Policy Research says that claims that migrants "take our jobs" and "cut our pay" are misplaced and wrong. Indeed, the Christian Party believes that economic migrants who complement the skills required in the United Kingdom should be welcomed and encouraged.
Successive Westminster Governments have failed to address the fact that the immigration points system does not apply to economic migrants from the European Union (EU), which is the largest source of economic migration into the United Kingdom. As the EU expands the problem of immigration from other EU member states has grown worse. The Government's failure to address the problem of unrestricted immigration from Europe has totally undermined United Kingdom immigration policy. The Christian Party will address this as a matter of urgency either through a swift negotiated agreement with the EU, or a unilateral change in immigration policy. We support an in/out referendum on the EU during the next parliament.
The Christian Party will add to the conditions of entry for economic migrants that: 1. they must demonstrate competent communication in the English language, both written and verbal; 2. they must have jobs already secured, which they will take up on arrival in the UK; 3. they have private medical insurance placed with a reputable British insurer; 4. accommodation has been secured within the private sector prior to entry; covered by 5. a cash bond to cover all eventualities, recoverable upon leaving the UK or obtaining British citizenship. These provisions will reduce the pressure on the public provision of healthcare and housing that is often associated with immigration. In the event that an economic migrant is convicted of a custodial offence, their visa will be rescinded and they and their dependents will be returned to their country of origin at their own expense.
We encourage economic migrants to become British citizens and thus to obtain the same rights and privileges as British citizens, failing which they will continue to have the privileges that apply to economic migrants.
The Christian Party notes the failure of the Conservative Party pledge to reduce immigration. Theresa May, the Home Secretary, told a Tory conference: "Listen very carefully. I will say this only once. We aim to reduce net migration from the hundreds of thousands to the tens of thousands by the end of this parliament." David Cameron, the Prime Minister, repeated it, with 'no ifs, no buts', and asserted it is a standard by which his goverment may be tested. His government has failed the test.
We note the long and honourable history of the UK in assimilating immigrants, but the London School of Economics (LSE) estimates that up to 618,000 illegal immigrants are in Britain, more than two thirds (414,000) of whom live in London. Migration Watch say it could be as high as 1.1 million. The current debate is either to regularise their immigration status or to deport them.
A recent study by the LSE suggests that regularization could boost the United Kingdom's gross domestic product by £3 billion a year, but if the migrants were given access to healthcare and other benefits, it could cost the exchequer over £5.5 billion.
A partial amnesty might seem the most expedient solution but the Christian Party believes that this will send the wrong message and proposes a much more robust message to the international community that the UK is not open for benefit tourism.
Although we do not encourage illegal immigration, we acknowledge this fait accompli and the difficulties of immediate deportation, and thus we encourage illegal migrants to seek economic migrant status and thus to demonstrate good faith by integrating with the legal requirements for potential residency in the UK. We believe that this will go some way towards solving this long term problem.
The United Kingdom's moral responsibility to help genuine asylum seekers within our resources is accepted. However the glacial pace of Government progress in dealing with asylum is illustrated by the Commons Public Accounts Committee's report that it will be at least another four years before the United Kingdom Border Agency reaches its "optimum capacity" to remove failed asylum seekers. Indeed, the Home Office is able to action and average of only 12,000 removals of failed asylum seekers per year and has a backlog of cases in excess of 400,000.
The decision-making process must be overhauled and streamlined in order to achieve greater efficiency and speed. This is needful for both humanitarian reasons (uncertainty is stressful and all the more so for those who have genuinely fled for their lives), and practical reasons. Housing asylum seekers must not be at the expense of housing stock earmarked for the host population.
In order to stem the flow of bogus asylum seekers, and thus help to manage the current claims, the Christian Party supports full application of the 1951 Convention on Refugees, including the clause that refugees must accept asylum in the first safe country they reach. In keeping with the 1951 Convention it is clear that applications for asylum should only be considered at a British port or airport where the applicant has arrived directly from the country from which asylum is being sought; or else at the British embassy or consulate in that country. In the event that an asylum seeker arrives from a safe country, he or she cannot claim to be an asylum seeker and will be immediately returned to that safe country.
The pathway is open for such to apply as an economic migrant for entry to the UK.
Countries adjoining war zones or oppressive regimes cannot bear the full brunt of the resultant humanitarian need arising from fleeing refugees and asylum seekers. The Christian Party supports the concept of receiving refugees and asylum seekers based on international agreement in such circumstances.
This acceptance of refugees gives moral right to the UK government to contribute towards the international resolution of the strife which caused the refugee problem in the first place, in order to facilitate the return of these refugees to their homeland.
Refugees should not be viewed as seeking economic migrant status because, by definition, they are seeking safety and avoiding conflict. It is easy for such to be exploited in an unfamiliar country, and as they cannot be allowed to have more rights and freedoms than economic migrants, they need to be housed in a secure collective location, such as holiday camps or former military domestic bases which will allow them to retain their own community relations, cultural identity, and to identify possible solutions and structures in preparation for return to their own homeland.
It is urgent for Government to seek rapid international resolution of the conflict that created the refugees, before they lose the will to return to their own homeland.
Negotiate agreement with the European Union to apply the immigration points system to migrants from the European Union, or in the event of non-agreement declare a unilateral change in immigration policy.
Make private health insurance a visa requirement for immigrants.
Initiate a "No Home – No Visa" policy.
Support deportation for economic migrants convicted of custodial offences.
Support measures for the intensive processing of all illegal immigrants that do not qualify for amnesty so that they may be speedily removed.