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TSA Executive Joins K2 Security Screening Group
K2 Security Screening Group is excited to announce that Keith Jeffries, formerly the Federal Security Director (FSD) at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), will be joining the company next month as Vice President.
Arcules Experiences Rapid Growth as Demand Soars for Secure and Flexible Video Surveillance-as-a-Service Solutions
Arcules has announced a strong quarter for the company with growth driven by enhanced services, partnerships, customer wins, and global expansion.
Former Buffalo Police Officer Aaron Salter, Jr. is Recipient of 2022 Ralph Day Memorial Security Award
ASIS International announced that the late Aaron Salter, Jr., an Allied Universal security professional and retired police officer who made the ultimate sacrifice while protecting shoppers at the Tops Friendly Market during a mass shooting, is the recipient of the 2022 Ralph Day Memorial Security Officer Heroism Award.
ESA Establishes Resolution to Support Alarm Dispatch Reduction by Adopting Technology
The Electronic Security Association's board of directors unanimously passed a resolution on August 24, 2022, to support efforts to reduce false alarms through more efficient and effective notification methods.
Paxton Founder Tony Ratcliffe Retires – Passes the Reins to His Son
Thirty-eight years after founding Paxton, Tony Ratcliffe, group chairman of technology manufacturer Paxton Access Ltd., is stepping down. His son, Sholto Ratcliffe will take on the role, continuing Paxton's international journey and his father's legacy.
Alcatraz AI Names Tad Druart Vice President of Marketing to Accelerate Growth
Alcatraz AI has announced that it has hired Tad Druart as vice president of marketing. In this role, Druart will oversee the company's global marketing programs, including brand strategy, product marketing and communications to accelerate growth.
SALTO Partners with Southwest Architectural Sales to Increase Presence in Texas and Neighboring States
SALTO Systems has hired Southwest Architectural Sales (SWAS), LLC, to sell and market SALTO's innovative security products in Texas and neighboring states in the South.
SIA NCRSF Will Host 9th Charity Golf Outing
The Security Industry Association (SIA) National Capital Region Security Forum (NCRSF) – a community of leading D.C.-area security professionals representing industry and government – has revealed the details for its ninth annual charity golf tournament.
National Security Expert Brian Harrell Joins Shooter Detection Systems in Advisory Role
SDS works with education, business, government, healthcare, manufacturing and other customers to deliver smart, sensor-driven active shooter detection solutions to reduce response time during active shooter incidents.
ESA's Executive Management Professionals Group Accepting New Members
ESA's Executive Management Professionals (EMP) Group is accepting applications for new members. It is the leading community for individuals charged with the strategic and financial leadership of electronic security integration and monitoring companies.
Study: U.S. Corporations Facing Increasing Volume of Threats
U.S. corporations are facing an increased volume of threats driven by persistent political, social and economic issues, including Roe v. Wade, gun control, diversity, equity and inclusion, the war in Ukraine, return-to-office and COVID-19.
Security Industry Association Announces RISE Scholarship Opportunity
The Security Industry Association (SIA) is now accepting applications for the SIA RISE Scholarship, an initiative led by the SIA RISE community for young professionals.
i-PRO Opens of New Global Headquarters in Tokyo
Located in the vibrant business district Shinagawa, i-PRO's new headquarters will become a new core hub to highlight the company's latest technological innovation through interactive demonstrations, training sessions, certification classes, and presentations.
NAPCO Promotes Warehime to Vice President of National Accounts
Napco Security Technologies Inc. is announcing that long-time employee Duane Warehime is now the vice president of national accounts for Napco Security Technologies.
Unique Hiring Demands
Mitigating risks and threats along with extensive intelligence analysis are at the core of comprehensive and effective customized executive protection programs.
By Brian Jantzen
Keeping Your Eye on the Ball
Potential security threats keep evolving. It's a distressing reality that we continually need to adapt to—one that particularly weighs heavily on the minds of stakeholders at major sports venues as they explore security solutions to prevent drone, vehicular and other dangerous assaults.
By S. Guerry Bruner
The Case for Access Control
Security experts agree that the three most important components of a physical security plan are access control, surveillance and security testing, which work together to make a space more secure.
Discussing Security
The proliferation of smart edge devices that aggregate data and interoperate with other devices and systems on the network, is also fueling this migration by delivering additional sources of data that can help to streamline workflows, build efficiencies and save costs along with numerous other benefits.
By Steve Guardiani
Professional Recommendations
Digital transformation is changing the way we do business and COVID-19 accelerated this shift. Organizations that had not already moved data to the cloud, rushed to do it, while others accelerated their shift from on-premise to cloud.
By Rani Osnat
Adding Audio to ROI Programs
Across the globe, security teams are under pressure to justify what they do and how they do it. They need to continually make a strong case to internal and external shareholders for their budgets and activities.
By Kelly Lake


If a recent report coming out of South Korea is to be believed, the Galaxy Note 10 display will be even larger than the iPhone XS Max. These displays were allegedly ordered earlier this month, though that's all the info that was provided by the source on the matter.
On the other hand, according to the first Samsung Galaxy Note 10 rumors, the device might boast a larger screen than the Note 9. Other rivals are rolling out even bigger phones.
It's not usual for a phone to have a big screen. That's a whole 0.26-inches bigger than the Note 9. The Galaxy Note 10 will likely sport thinner bezels than its predecessor, while it's expected to include an in-display sensor, as more and more OEMs are including such sensor in their devices. Neither Samsung nor Apple will probably go overboard in that regard. The Snapdragon variant will ship to the U.S. and China, along with some other markets, while most other markets will receive the Exynos variant, including Europe. It remains to be seen how many cameras will the company pack into the phone, but expect no less than two.
We should mention that unlike Apple, Samsung doesn't use a display top-notch.
It might also be a jumping point for the so-called Galaxy F foldable tablet phone. Besides, until then, many Note 10 leaks and rumors would emerge online.
Apple and Samsung are in a never-ending competition and this is a great thing for consumers because the competition is pushing the two companies to the next level. As per the rumours, Samsung is rumoured to announce the Galaxy S10 in January or February.
However, Samsung Galaxy S10 won't come out until next year so Samsung still has plenty of time to decide the final design of the device. "Although the flip side of that is that many users may stick with the default 1080 setting of the Note 9".


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Low HPV vaccination rate could mean danger later for teenagers
Pediatricians are in an ideal position to turn around the low rate of vaccination against human papillomavirus in teenaged girls, according to a new government study. Nearly two-thirds of American teenaged girls have yet to receive the recommended 3-dose vaccination. Here are some proven methods for getting them the protection they need.
Nearly two-thirds of American teenaged girls remain at greater risk for cervical and other cancers because they have not received the recommended 3-dose vaccination for human papillomavirus (HPV), according to a new government study.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that just 49% of adolescent females have begun the series and 32% have completed it.
"Our progress is stagnating, and if we don't make major changes, far too many girls in this generation will remain vulnerable to cervical cancer later in life," said Anne Schuchat, MD, director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.
Persistent HPV infection causes almost all cervical cancer, which kills 4,000 women each year in the United States. "HPV is so common that most sexually active adults become infected at some point in their lives," according to the CDC. The HPV vaccines target the virus types that cause 70% of cervical cancer.
Schuchat recommended that pediatricians use every visit by an adolescent as an opportunity to administer the 3 recommended teen vaccines-tetanus, diphtheria, and acellular pertussis; meningococcal conjugate; and HPV. Approved HPV vaccines can safely be given to patients who have come into the office for treatment of minor acute illnesses such as upper respiratory tract infections or diarrhea, with or without fever.
Vaccination is recommended for all girls aged 11 or 12 years but can be administered as early as age 9. Catch-up vaccination is recommended for adolescent girls and young women who have not received all 3 doses of the vaccine series.
A reminder/recall system to initiate and complete recommended teen vaccines can help pediatricians increase vaccination rates among their patients. Promotion of a reminder system was 1 of the 3 initiatives common to the states with the highest vaccination rates, according to the CDC. In addition, the CDC suggests that pediatricians increase HPV vaccination rates by strongly recommending the HPV vaccine and educating parents about the risk of HPV infection and the benefit of vaccination.
The quadrivalent vaccine has a nearly 100% efficacy rate in preventing cervical, vulvar, and vaginal precancers and genital warts caused by HPV types 6, 11, 16, and 18; the bivalent vaccine has a 93% efficacy rate in preventing cervical precancers caused by HPV types 16 and 18.
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El Oceania Sevens es un torneo continental de selecciones masculinas de rugby 7 organizada por la Federación Oceánica de Rugby.

Historia

El torneo se creó en 2008 y se disputa anualmente. Desde 2011 sirve como clasificatoria continental para el Seven de Hong Kong y el mundial de Rugby 7. Su actual campeón es Australia.

Campeonatos

Posiciones

Número de veces que las selecciones se ubicaron en las primeras cuatro posiciones en todas las ediciones.

Nota: El Oceania Sevens 2022 es el último torneo considerado

Véase también

 Oceania Sevens Femenino
 Serie Mundial Masculina de Rugby 7
 Seven de Hong Kong
 Oceania Rugby Cup
 Oceania Rugby Junior Championship
 Oceania Rugby Junior Trophy
 Oceania Rugby Women's Championship

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Rugby7.com

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Active expression of the Cas9 endonuclease is a critical requirement for efficient gene editing. The Edit-R portfolio of Cas9 nuclease expression vectors includes six SMARTchoice constitutive promoter options or an inducible format, providing the flexibility to select an optimal system for robust expression and maximal cleavage efficiency when Edit-R guide RNAs are introduced into the cell.
In Type II CRISPR-Cas systems, the CRISPR-associated enzyme Cas9 is an RNA-guided endonuclease that requires a guide RNA for genomic DNA target recognition and cleavage. All Edit-R Cas9 nuclease products are a human codon-optimized version of the Streptococcus pyogenes Type II Cas9 nuclease.
Enrichment of edited cells in a population is greatly simplified with Cas9 fluorescent lentiviral or mRNA reagents that co-express either mKate2 or TurboGFP™ with Cas9. These reagents also allow for straightforward transfection optimization and visualization of successful Cas9 delivery.
Cas9 nuclease mRNA and protein are DNA-free options that permit transient expression of Cas9 to reduce off-targets and protect cells from potential unwanted cellular responses from long term expression. Fluorescent Cas9 mRNA allows for sorting, enrichment and visualization of Cas9 delivery.
Promoter activity, and resultant Cas9 expression, can vary with cell type; therefore vector-based Edit-R Cas9 Nuclease products are offered with six different, well-characterized, constitutive cellular promoters so you can choose an optimal promoter for your cells (Table 1). Edit-R Cas9 Nuclease is also available with an inducible promoter, permitting you to control the timing of the expression of Cas9, which may be a critical component to a successful experiment.
Non-lentiviral vectors provided as endotoxin-free purified DNA for direct co-transfection with Edit-R synthetic single guide RNA or crRNA and tracrRNA.
Purified lentiviral particles or plasmid DNA for generation of stable Cas9 nuclease-expressing cell populations. Constitutive or inducible promoter options are available.
Cas9 nuclease is not one-size-fits-all. Determining the most appropriate Cas9 nuclease reagent for your experiment is dependent on the particular application or cell type. Take a look at the features in this table to get started on selecting the best product for you.
Differential Cas9 expression driven by multiple promoters correlate with cleavage efficiency of several target genes in HEK293T cells. Cells were transfected with SMARTCas9-mKate2 expression plasmids with six different promoters, tracrRNA and crRNAs targeting human DNMT3B, PPIB, CDKN1A or VCP genes. Top panel: Images of cells expressing mKate2 fluorescent reporter were taken 48 hours post-transfection. Mouse EF1α promoter shows strongest expression of the mKate2 reporter. Bottom panel: Without enrichment (i.e., no cell sorting), HEK293T cells were lysed at 72 hours post-transfection and PCR was performed with primers flanking the cleavage site. SURVEYOR™ DNA mismatch assay was performed and the samples were separated on a 2% agarose gel. The level of editing was calculated using densitometry (% editing). UT = Untransfected. The mouse EF1α promoter provides the highest mKate2 expression which correlates with higher % gene editing in HEK293T cells.
HEK293T, A549 and U2OS cells were plated at 20,000 cells/well in 96-well plates and co-transfected using DharmaFECT Duo Transfection Reagent with Cas9 mRNA (200 or 100 ng) and synthetic crRNA:tracrRNA (50 nM) targeting VEGFA. Cells were harvested 72 hours post-transfection and the relative frequency of gene editing was calculated based on a DNA mismatch detection assay with T7 Endonuclease I. The synthetic crRNA was designed using the Dharmacon CRISPR Design Tool. UT = untreated sample.
Cells were transduced with a constitutive (CAG-Cas9) or an inducible (TRE3G-Cas9) Cas9 expression lentiviral particles at an MOI of 0.3, and selected with 10 µg/mL blasticidin in tetracycline-free medium for 10 days. Cas9-stable cells were then transduced with DNMT3B- or PPIB-sgRNA lentiviral particles at an MOI of 0.3. Cells were selected with 2 µg/mL puromycin for 2 days in tetracycline-free medium and split in two populations: uninduced (DOX-) and induced (DOX+) with 500 ng/mL doxycycline for 7 days. The cells were then lysed and analyzed for indels using a DNA mismatch detection assay with T7EI.
U2OS cells were plated at 10,000 cells/well one day prior to transfection. Cells were transfected with either Edit-R Cas9 Nuclease plasmid (200 ng), Edit-R Cas9 Nuclease mRNA(200 ng) or Cas9 nuclease protein (25 nM) and crRNA:tracrRNA (25 nM) targeting PPIB using DharmaFECT Duo transfection reagent (0.4 L/well) in biological triplicates.


"The great news is that there are many good people, organizations and providers trying to help, and in fact, helping," said Sylvia Torralba, membership director for the National Coalition of Domestic Violence (NCADV) which has partnered with Theresa's Fund to develop and launch the site. "What we're doing is aggregating an ocean of information into a single place." More than just aggregating information, the organizers of domesticshelters.org tirelessly spent six months unearthing and identifying 3,001 domestic violence provider organizations in the U.S., and then gathering up to 156 data points on each. The result is the largest database of its kind ever created, and importantly, the ability for domesticshelter.org visitors to enter their location, language and service preferences, and with a single mouse click, instantly see the most proximate, relevant opportunities for help. "If you conduct a search in this area, you'll often not find all of the local providers listed on page one. Some providers don't even have a web presence," said Chris McMurry, a marketing and technology entrepreneur and director of Theresa's Fund, who notes that the overwhelming majority of consumers begin their decision making process with an online search.
"We will be fixing that by moving the exploration of the provider community to the forefront of search results, and then by presenting visitors of domesticshelters.org with standardized data on the providers that allows people to make comparisons and more educated decisions." Generally speaking, for each provider there will be contact information excepting confidential locations, languages spoken, populations and geographies served, hours of operation, vacancy rates, and detail on 46 different types of services that may be offered. Importantly, provider organizations will be able to self-administer their organization's profile on the website, updating fundamental information as it evolves and adding custom content to enhance the comprehensiveness and attractiveness of their operation and offerings. According to Google more than 3,000,000 searches are conducted per month for information related to domestic violence, and most often related to seeking help.
The website will be optimized for smartphone and tablet use, recognizing that consumers are increasingly using their devices to conduct searches. Indeed, the number of local mobile searches is expected to exceed desktop searches by 2015, according to eMarketer. "With some 36,000,000 million searches a year in just the U.S. on the topic of domestic violence, domesticshelters.org is an overdue and much-needed concept that may help more people than any other service ever offered in this space, and may help save lives because it will be so easy, accessible and fast to use," added Torralba.


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"Reaching up to God - Reaching out to others" Organized on April 4, 1909, Long Beach Presbyterian Church is located on the corner of East Second St and South Burke Ave in Long Beach, MS. Our congregation extends a warm welcome to all in the name of Christ.
Go here? Tell us why you love Long Beach Presbyterian Church. Visited? Tell us what a newcomer can expect.
Enter your email address to receive an informative welcome email from Long Beach Presbyterian Church.


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Q: Failed to detect USB I am working on a application which should detect USB devices connected to the Computer. I got the following code after searching on the Internet:
Public Class Form1

Private Const WM_DEVICECHANGE As Integer = &H219
Private Const DBT_DEVICEARRIVAL As Integer = 32768

Protected Overrides Sub WndProc(ByRef m As System.Windows.Forms.Message)
    If m.Msg = WM_DEVICECHANGE Then
        If m.WParam = DBT_DEVICEARRIVAL Then
            MessageBox.Show("Removable Drive Detected")
        End If
    End If
    MyBase.WndProc(m)
End Sub
End Class

This code works fine for me.
But the problem is that if the USB device is connected first and the application is started afterwards, then it fails to detect the USB device.

A: That's simple to fix just add a timer double click on it enter that code then go back to your start up form double click on it then type in
   Timer1.start

This will check every so in so seconds depending on your timers tick ratio
10000 = 10 seconds
60000 = 60 seconds
3600000 = 1 hour
7200000 = 2 hours
43200000 = half a day
86400000 = 1 day

However there is still one problem the message box will appear over and over and you'll have layers of message boxes so try changing your code in the timer to this:
Public Class Form1
If label1.text = "0" then
Private Const WM_DEVICECHANGE As Integer = &H219
Private Const DBT_DEVICEARRIVAL As Integer = 32768

Label1.text = "1"
Protected Overrides Sub WndProc(ByRef m As System.Windows.Forms.Message)
If m.Msg = WM_DEVICECHANGE Then
    If m.WParam = DBT_DEVICEARRIVAL Then
        msgbox("Removable Drive Detected", msgboxstyle.OkOnly
        if vbok then label1.text = "0"
    End If
End If
MyBase.WndProc(m)
End Sub
End Class

You will need to add a label and if you don't want to see it just click on it go to properties(right side) and
disable visible

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Madonna, Dan Akroyd, Wayne Gretzky and James Maynard Keenan: what do these celebrities have in common? No, they haven't all dated Paris Hilton. They all own their own wineries and in some cases vineyards.
James Maynard Keenan, more commonly referred to as Maynard, is best known as the ultra secretive, artsy and quirky front man of the band TOOL. TOOL is a band that tends to be defined in many different ways because their musical styling can change from album to album but I hope we can all agree that TOOL is a rock band if we can't all call it a metal band.
Maynard is one of the last celebrities I would have expected to move into the world of wine. Yes it is likely because I picture him shirtless with a mohawk, or with long greasy hair, or even just plain old sweaty and disheveled after performing a concert. I think it also doesn't help that that's also what most of the other people around me look like when I'm at a TOOL concert.
Last year, the reclusive, private rocker put out a DVD on wine and his vineyard called Blood Into Wine. Maynard may have had his inspiration for getting into wine from his grandparents who made wine in Southern France. So it seems, wine may indeed be in Maynard's blood.
According to this great article I stumbled upon, Maynard feels Arizona wine is "Not a business that you can move to Mexico or China. It's from here. This is the definition of sustainable and local." Arizona is, as it turns out, a viable and accomodating climate for making wine. Why not use the land for something is what it boils down to. Starting up a vineyard is not a cheap or easy task so I think its wonderful that someone with money can come into an area and start employing the residents.
It turns out that Caduceus uses imported California grapes and local Arizona fruit. I had really wanted to try an Arizona wine, so I purchased a bottle of Arizona Stronghold which is the other wine that Maynard has worked on and is a shareholder in.
The Arizona Stronghold Nachise is a mixture of grapes but one I would call a syrah. It has a deep fruity flavour, and is not too dry. The label is very appealing as well. When I brought this bottle to a party I felt pretty badass telling people that I was drinking TOOL wine and then going into the details. Everyone wanted to smell the bottle if not have a taste, and no one had anything negative to say. The only issue or concern I had was the price. At approximately $30 a bottle this is as much as I would pay for this, but it does still seem a little pricey. This wine would be something that I would pull out for special occasions. I would be proud to serve this wine to friends of guests of discerning tastes, unlike the Ed Hardy Wine I sampled last summer.
The Caduceus Primer Paso is another fruity mainly syrah mix without too much lingering taste. The wine is smooth and easy drinking and another wine that I really enjoyed. I can definitely see why some wine reviewers have rated it well. My issue with this wine, and the reason I haven't tried Caduceus Naga is once again the price. At almost $52 a bottle I feel that this wine is more than over priced. I have had similar levels of enjoyment from $15 and $20 bottles. The only reason I would buy this wine again is to try to impress certain people. In all seriousness though, I don't believe you can impress someone by telling them how much you spent on a bottle of wine. So, if I purchased this bottle, or another flavour it would be for the novelty and even then that is 2/3 of the price for a floor ticket for a TOOL concert and you would have to decide which would last longer or give you more enjoyment.
If you have cash to spare I say give either wine a try. If you want to learn more about wine or vineyards that doesn't go overboard with details and technical terms and even uses humour from time to time Why not watch Blood Into Wine? You should be able to rent it at your local video store, it is available for purchase at liquor stores such as Campbell Liquor store in St. Albert and it's even on Netflix.
So until the next wine the catches my attention come along, bottoms up!


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Q: How to trigger EventMap event for template from another template's event in Meteor.js? I stumbled across a really funky requirement in Meteor.js — I have 2 buttons ("submit as child" and "submit as sibling") and text input that reacts to pressed keys. Buttons work on their own, but I'd like to trigger "click" event made with Template.my_template.events(...) from the input's keydown event.
I managed to script everything using following construct (coffeescript) of using both EventMap and rendered() callback:
Template.my_template.events =

    'keydown input': () -> reactToPressedKey();

Template.my_template.rendered = () ->

    $('click .submit_child').bind 'click', () -> doStuff();
    $('click .submit_sibling').bind 'click', () -> doStuff();

It works like I expected, but I wonder if there's any better solution like using only EventMap (Template.my_template.events)?

A: Just put the events in the other template.
Template.other_template.events
  'click .submit_child': doStuff
  'click .submit_sibling': doStuff

Template.my_template.events
  'keydown input': reactToPressedKey


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Trayvon case lays bare a rotten racist system
Published Tue 16 Jul 2013
The black inner city ghettos of the US exploded in the 1960s, in a series of uprisings against racism.
Perhaps the most dramatic wave followed the killing of Martin Luther King, where respect for him clashed with an angry rejection of his call for non-violence.
This rage was behind the founding of the revolutionary Black Panther Party, whose first activity was "patrolling the pigs".
They followed the police around carrying guns and law books of their own to observe how black people were treated by patrolling officers.
This was in part to stop the appalling toll of young black men who were shot down for "resisting arrest".
California law was changed to try and stop them carrying guns.
But the radicalism following the civil rights movement shone a light on the murky racism that has always dominated the US legal system and law enforcement.
Indeed the death penalty was effectively halted in the US for a decade from 1967, largely because it was proved to be so racist. Of all those who were executed, 54 percent were black.
This was totally out of step with the proportion of black people in US society. It was also out of proportion with the percentage of crimes said to be committed by black people.
A decade later state executions started again as the right won an argument that each case should be looked at individually without considering wider statistics.
But looking at each case individually hides the institutional racism in the system.
To this day 35 percent of those executed in US jails are black—and another 9 percent come from other racial minorities.
The right's argument is that this is because these people commit more crime. That's the same reason they say there are more black people in prison than in university.
But the argument is wrong and needs challenging at every level. It is down to racism.
The Trayvon Martin case throws the way different people are treated into sharp relief.
If Trayvon was white and his killer George Zimmerman was black few people believe he would have been found innocent.
We are rightly outraged at the blatant racism of the US system, but Britain is hardly free of such bias. Only two years ago anger at the shooting of Mark Duggan sparked riots across Britain.
Mark, like Trayvon, was smeared in the media.
The official inquiry into Mark's death begins in September and we can only hope it brings long awaited justice to his family.
But the inquiry into the police shooting of Azelle Rodney and the inquest into the death of Jimmy Mubenga at the hands of G4S guards exposed the realities of institutional racism that still exists in Britain.
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Arkansas charter school operator teaching creationism in Texas
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A fascinating, even explosive, investigative article in Slate says that a Texas-based charter school operator with an expanding footprint in Arkansas is teaching creationism instead of evolution in biology classes in Texas and otherwise using texts and materials full of fractured history and religious dogma thinly disguised as academic material.
The outfit is Responsive Education Solutions of Lewisville, Texas, which recently won approval of an application to open a Quest charter middle school in ritzy Chenal Valley, a school likely to attract upscale white parents anxious to avoid the majority black and poor Little Rock School District schools available. They at least still teach science, not religion.
From Slate:
A Texas charter school group has a secular veneer and is funded by public money, but it has been connected from its inception to the creationist movement.
When public-school students enrolled in Texas' largest charter program open their biology workbooks, they will read that the fossil record is "sketchy." That evolution is "dogma" and an "unproved theory" with no experimental basis. They will be told that leading scientists dispute the mechanisms of evolution and the age of the Earth. These are all lies.
The more than 17,000 students in the Responsive Education Solutions charter system will learn in their history classes that some residents of the Philippines were "pagans in various levels of civilization." They'll read in a history textbook that feminism forced women to turn to the government as a "surrogate husband."
Responsive Ed has a secular veneer and is funded by public money, but it has been connected from its inception to the creationist movement and to far-right fundamentalists who seek to undermine the separation of church and state.
Infiltrating and subverting the charter-school movement has allowed Responsive Ed to carry out its religious agenda—and it is succeeding. Operating more than 65 campuses in Texas, Arkansas, and Indiana, Responsive Ed receives more than $82 million in taxpayer money annually, and it is expanding, with 20 more Texas campuses opening in 2014.
As I've written before, this article notes Responsive Education's poor achievement record, according to the respected CREDO study at Stanford University.
The organization has nonetheless received significant support for its charter schools from the Walton Foundation, which favors letting a thousand charter schools bloom and worrying later about the failures, charlatans and kooks. Responsive Education was approved in 2012 to open the Northwest Arkansas Classical Academy in Bentonville, Premier High School in Little Rock and a Quest Middle School in Pine Bluff.
UPDATE: Responsive Education also got approval from the charter authorizing panel for charter schools to operate in cooperation with the Fountain Lake School District and Pea Ridge districts. Anybody look at the curriculum? It also will advise a new conversion charter high school in West Memphis. Arkansas school officials are untroubled by the revelations.
I've sent the organization questions about whether the roundly criticized materials cited in this article are used in existing Arkansas schools and planned for use in the west Little Rock school that will receive children from a Little Rock School District School that still believes in the scientific method. We've been repeatedly assured that seasoned professionals in the Arkansas education department reviewed their applications before approval, however, so I"m sure since state standards require teaching of evolution and federal case law in Arkansas frowns on teaching creationism, that they must follow a more suitable academic course, Right? Perhaps Gary Newton, the vicious Walton-paid critic of the Little Rock School District and leader of the Quest school creation, has some insight.
The Slate writer also finds religious and cultural bias in history books Responsive Education uses in Texas — such as finding anti-Christian bias in the roots of World War I. It blamed World War II, in part, on a non-existent group in Japan. It makes unusual cultural comments about the Philippines.It refers to homosexuality as a "lifestyle." It makes erroneous statements about stem cell research. It questions John Kerry's war credentials. Feminism and homosexuality are held in low regard.
This stuff is too rich to be believed. Funny if it wasn't so sad that so many gullible people think this is better than going to a school with a sound curriculum because it has too many people with the wrong skin color. (Noted: Responsive Ed also operates schools aimed at nearly all-black constituencies, following the rapid resegregation patterns of charters everywhere.)
One of Responsive Ed's schools, Founders Classical Academy in Lewisville, Texas, where Responsive Ed is based, uses a curriculum far worse even than the Responsive Ed Knowledge Units. The school teaches American history from A Patriot's History of the United States. The patriots book is "required reading," according to Glenn Beck, and it opens with an interview between Rush Limbaugh and the author. It is a book that, as Dave Weigel says, "will make you stupider."
This book teaches the superiority of the West, which in the 1400s and 1500s was apparently "quantum leaps" ahead of "native peoples," including Ming Dynasty China, one of the most prosperous Chinese dynasties. It explains that the West was superior to "native populations" in battles because "Aztec chiefs and Moor sultans alike were completely vulnerable to massed firepower, yet without the legal framework of republicanism and civic virtue like Europe's to replace its leadership cadre, a native army could be decapitated at its head by one volley."
Feminism gets ripped.
On the feminist movement, Founders Classical Academy students are taught that feminism "created an entirely new class of females who lacked male financial support and who had to turn to the state as a surrogate husband."
There's "character" education galore.
These lessons were lifted directly from a company called Character First Education, which was founded by an Oklahoma businessman named Tom Hill. He is a follower of Bill Gothard, a minister who runs the Institute in Basic Life Principles, a Christian organization that teaches its members to incorporate biblical principles into daily life. IBLP is considered a cult by some of its former followers. Gothard developed character qualities associated with a list of "49 General Commands of Christ" that Hill adopted for his character curriculum. Hill then removed Gothard's references to God and Bible verses and started marketing the curriculum to public schools and other public institutions.
The values taught by Responsive Ed can often be found word for word on Gothard's website.
Gotthard, you should know, teaches the need for obedience of women and children to men.
The article notes links between Responsive Ed and Accelerated Christian Education, a Christian curriculum for home schoolers. Responsive Ed disputes direct connection, but the associations are interesting. Current CEO Chuck Cook was a marketer for ACE and designed the Responsive Ed original curriculum.
It's an amazing, fact-filled investigative article. Author Zack Kopplin concludes that Responsive Ed schools where teaching materials were studied are effectively teaching religion and could be open to a lawsuit for doing so.
I don't think other charter schools can look away either; Responsive Ed is an internal threat to the charter movement. Rather than educating students, it's interested in indoctrinating them with one sect of religion. If weak oversight allows Responsive Ed to survive, it makes the entire charter system look bad.
…It is clearly past time for Texas to tighten the rules surrounding charters and enforce accountability to prevent any other religious programs from subverting the public education system.
This is a moment of truth for the charter movement and for Texas politicians. Will they support removing from charter programs these schools that break the law?
Arkansas needs to know, before it's too late, if this same stuff is the agenda of Responsive Ed schools in Arkansas. I've sent a query to the organization.
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Guy-Raymond partners with Datel to implement Sage X3
Founded in 1948, Guy-Raymond Engineering Co Ltd. produces a wide range of castors and assorted components for office seating, furniture, medical equipment, shop fittings, and many other applications.
From their expansive and modern factory based in Norfolk, the business manufactures and exports to over 30 countries all over the world, developing a global network of links with transport providers to provide international delivery of their products.
Representatives of Guy-Raymond were introduced to Datel when they were invited to attend Datel's Connect 2015 event: a gathering of businesses, including current and prospective Datel customers, and filled with presentations and sessions designed to inform and advise delegates about both Datel's and Sage's products.
Kelvin Daniels, Managing Director at Guy-Raymond, explains the circumstances that led the business to accept Datel's invite to attend Connect2015: "As a business, we've grown steadily over the years – primarily as a manufacturing organisation with a small amount of distribution, but now also exporting around 60% of our production.
"As a result of this growth, our old ERP system, Pegasus Opera, was proving cumbersome to use. We'd been using Opera for a long time and weren't updating to the latest versions very often, as we had done a lot of customisation work to the system, which would be problematical with updates. Whenever we did update to the latest version of the software, it would take a considerable amount of effort and downtime – basically draining our resources.
"This all made it much more difficult for us to move to a newer version, and unfortunately meant that the system was operating using mostly outdated features and functionality, and wasn't compatible with the new hardware we wanted to start using as a business, to accommodate and fuel our growth.
"Clearly, the time had come for us to start looking for a new ERP solution. We had been in touch with Datel for some time, so when we were invited to attend Connect 2015 to learn more about Sage and the ERP buying process, it was an offer we couldn't refuse."
Kelvin notes exactly how the Connect event from Datel was useful to Guy- Raymond: "One particular presentation at the event was focused on the ins and outs of choosing an ERP software provider and support partner, which was very helpful and gave a lot of people in our company food for thought."
In terms of how the business came to decide on their specific software solution, Kelvin said: "We had considered various other types of software, but after meeting the staff at Datel at Connect 2015, and a period of research and discussion, we unanimously decided to use a Sage solution.
"We realised that Sage X3 offered us a lot of advantages, especially in terms of being user-friendly and our being able to customise it ourselves in certain aspects, helping us to become more self-sufficient.
"Sage X3 gives us much better performance than Opera, with the number of manual processes being performed by staff set to reduce dramatically, giving us more time to complete value-added tasks.
"The main area that the software will be handling is more simplified sales order processing and stock control. Sage X3 will also provide us with new financial and reporting capabilities to give us a lot more insight into the business day-today.
"The fact that Sage X3 is able to produce documents in different languages will also offer us a lot of benefits. Having multilingual capabilities for our international reporting is something that we simply didn't have previously, and is an example of just one of the many steps forward Sage X3 will take us.
"There are a lot of possibilities for us and the system will support us into the future, so we won't be held back in any respect from growing as a business."
Commenting on why Guy-Raymond chose Datel as their business partner of choice, Kelvin said: "After attending Connect 2015, it was from then that we thought Datel would be a good business partner for us.
"We did look at two other suppliers as serious alternatives, and it was admittedly a somewhat close call between Datel and another Sage business partner. The main allure of Datel was Datel's considerable size and stake in the marketplace, in addition to the fact that Datel is one of the few business partners holding ISO:9001 accreditation. This cinched it for us and gave us all the reassurance we needed on Datel's quality of service."
For Datel, Sales Director Andrew Pritchard comments: "It's a testament to the knowledge and experience of the team here at Datel that we are now working with Kelvin and Guy-Raymond. I'm delighted to see that the workshops and presentations at Datel's Connect event last year played such an integral role in introducing Guy-Raymond not only to the benefits of Sage and Datel, but to the various processes involved with choosing the right vendor and software.
"We're looking forward to hosting our next Connect event in 2017, as well as supporting Guy-Raymond both during and after the implementation process, to see how Sage X3 facilitates the business's growth into the future."
Kelvin Daniels, Managing Director, Guy-Raymond
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Rumi was born on March 28 after Jessica had been on bed rest since late November when her water broke at just 24 weeks. She has been diagnosed with Trisomy 2 mosaicism, a very rare disorder that affects a proportion of cells in the body. Her mom Jessica explained: "Our Genetic specialists at Sydney Children's Hospital have told us that there are less than 10 cases in literature. There have been thousands of prenatal cases that all end in miscarriage, termination or stillbirth.
The little girl with a rare disease
They are uncertain of how many others currently share this diagnosis, their best guess is 2-3 in the world. The eldest recorded age that they could trace is aged 3." She also explained on the GoFundMe page that the money will go towards treatments for Rumi and keeping the family afloat at this tough time. Simple words clearly exposed helped people to understand and decide to participate: "We feel extremely lucky that we do have a roof over our heads, a small car to share and charities helping us with accommodation while living here in hospital. We are even luckier to live in a country like Australia who provides such incredible public health care."
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If you wish to display your favorite stickers on your jacket or any other clothes, the idea is to understand how to do it without damaging the fabric.
Iron-on patches are a great way to express your personality, individuality, and at the same time, it can help you hide torn or damaged spots on your clothes.
The idea is to learn how to prepare your fabric for the patch and to iron it on so that you can make sure that it lasts after washing without causing any damage.
If you do not know which patch the best for you, click here for more information.
Preparation is everything, so you have to make sure that everything is perfect so that you can enjoy in different fashion style when compared with other people. The first step is to find an appropriate patch that you wish to imprint on your jacket.
Some of them feature glue on the pack, while others have cloth backing that will help you deal with everything. You should take a closer look at your patch and determine whether you need some additional material to finish the process.
Checkhere, if you wish to learn what is fabric and types of textiles as well.
When it comes to decoratively embroidered fabric patches, they are usually stiff, thick and feature something that looks like plastic glue on the side. You can use it to cover discolored and ripped fabric so that you can revitalize it.
On the other hand, transfer paper patches are prints on one side of the special paper that feature another side, which is non-glossy. These types of patches cannot hold ripped fabric together,and you should place it underneath the material and apply it so that you can get it connected with it.
You can attach patches with simple cloth backing by using fusible web. Their main idea is to cover up stains and holes,and their design is to blend with different types of fabric. In most cases, they come with a paper backing that you have to pull off before you apply it.
There are also ways to design your patch if you do not want to spend money on it. Different guidelines will help you determine how to do it.
You should also examine your accessory and clothing. Have in mind that fabrics such as cotton and denim will provide you with the perfect base for iron-on patches and the general rule is that material you choose should be asheavy as the patch in overall.
We recommend you to check the fabric care label to see whether you will be able to iron it, and if you find the crossed-out icon of iron, it means that you cannot do it. In case that you cannot seea label, you should figure out the type of material you wish to use for the patch.
When it comes to polyester fabrics, you should be careful because if you apply great heat that can discolor or burn the fabric. Other materials such as silk are not for patching.
The preparation also involves placement and design, so before you turn on the iron, you should lay out your jacket and decide where you wish to place a patch. If that is the only one you want to iron, put it on the position you prefer, and it is vital to make it appear intentional.
On the other hand, if you wish to iron more than one, you should plan to see whether you will find room for them. You can also use the printable paper patch, but have in mind that asymmetrical items will appear reversed.
You should check out this link: https://www.wikihow.com/Make-Patches-with-Cloth-and-Acrylic-Paint so that you can learn how to it with efficiency and without any additional hassle.
The idea is to lay the base item on a heat-resistant and flat surface such as ironing board, but if you do not have it, you should arrange your piece on a sturdy table and place a thick bath towel on it.
If you wish to ensure that you find a perfect surface for patch, you should iron it first without it.
In case that you wish to do it on items that are challenging to iron, you should arrange it so that the part of the fabric is flat on the surface. Place it in the position you prefer and have in mind that adhesive side should be flat under the base. Check a few times to see if the patch is crooked.
Have in mind that if you wish to use embroidered patches, the sticky side is underside, while on transfer paper patches; the sticky side is the one where the image is printed. Place it face down on the fabric, and you will need paper backing once you iron on it.
It is essential to heat iron and to turn it to the hottest setting that the fabric can tolerate. However, you should turn off the steam, and empty it of water. You should also place a thin towel over it and avoid the problematic position of the patch.
The towel will protect both surrounding fabric and patch itself. It is crucialto position iron over the patch and presses it down for 15 seconds with as much pressure as you can. As soon as you remove the iron, you should let it cool down.
Afterward, lift the towel and see whether the patch is entirely fixed by rubbing it with a finger. If it raises a bit, you should replace the towel and press it again, but this time for ten seconds at most.
If you wish to secure it completely, we recommend you to use a needle or sewing machine as well as a thread so that you can ensure it completely. This will reduce the chances that it will fall off in time. You should choose a thread that will match the patch.
Best way to learn how to clean embroidery on your fabrics is by clicking here.
Avoid washing it more than necessary, because even though they should be permanent, they could get loosen up as time goes by.


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Ritchie moves into GM's office. . . . Wright, Henderson go to Edmonton. . . . MacGregor no longer with Dallas
@CoreyHirsch kicks off the 13th annual Kamloops Coaches Conference with a great keynote address pic.twitter.com/MjgYG5IOzN
— George Cochrane (@GeorgeWCochrane) July 13, 2019
F Colton Kroeker (Regina, Lethbridge, Kootenay, 2014-18) has signed a one-year contract with the Dundee Stars (Scotland, UK Elite). Last season, in 28 games with Mount Royal U (USports, Canada West), he had six goals and 16 assists. . . .
F Ben Maxwell (Kootenay, 2003-08) has signed a one-year contract with Langnau (Switzerland, National League). Last season, with Spartak Moscow (Russia, KHL), he had 11 goals and 12 assists in 59 games.
Darren Ritchie is the new general manager of the Brandon Wheat Kings, a team for which he has played, coached and scouted. Ritchie, from Winnipeg, played four full seasons (1991-95) for the Wheat Kings, putting up 152 goals and 126 assists in 232 regular-season games. . . . He spent 10 seasons (2006-16) as an assistant coach, and has been the team's director of scouting for the past three seasons. . . . Ritchie, 45, takes over from Grant Armstrong, whose contract wasn't renewed after he spent three seasons as GM. Armstrong now is on the scouting staff of the NHL's Tampa Bay Lightning. . . . Ritchie now will be working to sign a new head coach — David Anning's contract wasn't renewed after last season — and a director of scouting. . . . The Wheat Kings' news release is right here.
Chad Harden's 2019 Calgary Stampede is over and he could be looking at a lifetime ban. That was the verdict Friday after Harden was involved in an incident during Heat 7 of Thursday's Rangeland Derby chuckwagon races in which one horse was killed and three others suffered minor injuries. . . . Harden was disqualified from the final three days of the 2019 Stampede and fined $10,000 for his role in what happened. He also must pay $10,000 to Evan Salmond, the driver whose horse was killed. . . . Harden, who scouts for the WHL's Calgary Hitmen, won't be invited to compete in future Stampedes, but he is able to appeal by Sept. 1. . . . Harden went into Thursday night in third place in the aggregate standings and with a real chance to be competing for the big money on Sunday. But he was hit with 30 seconds in penalties after the heat and fell to 33rd. Later, of course, he was disqualified. . . . Sammy Hudes and Alanna Smith of the Calgary Herald have more right here.
At the same time, other chuckwagon drivers are of the opinion that, considering Harden's record, there was some over-reaction here and that the punishment was too harsh. Hudes has that story right here.
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The NHL's Edmonton Oilers have hired Tyler Wright as their director of amateur scouting and Archie Henderson as director of pro scouting. Both had been working for the Detroit Red Wings. Ken Holland, the Oilers' new general manager, joined Edmonton from the Red Wings. . . . Wright played four seasons (1989-93) with the Swift Current Broncos. He had been Detroit's director of amateur scouting for six seasons. . . . Henderson played three seasons in the WHL (Lethbridge Broncos, Victoria Cougars, 1974-77). . . .
Q and A with 2 Blazer legends at 13th annual Kamloops Coaches Conference pic.twitter.com/xiTZlCM0BH
According to a Facebook post by former NL radio sports director Rick (The Bear) Wile in Kamloops, former Blazers' general manager Stu MacGregor "has parted ways" with the NHL's Dallas Stars. . . . MacGregor signed on as the Blazers' GM on Oct. 13, 2015. He lasted until May 20, 2018, when he was reassigned to the Stars' scouting staff. Dallas owner Tom Gaglardi is the Blazers' majority owner. . . . MacGregor and ex-Blazers head coach Don Hay are spending this weekend at the Kamloops Coaches Conference.
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Porcellio medinae es una especie de crustáceo isópodo terrestre de la familia Porcellionidae.

Distribución geográfica
Es endémica de Tenerife (España).

Referencias

 Dalens, H. (1984): Isopodes terrestres rencontrés dans les cavités volcaniques de l'île de Tenerife. – Travaux du Laboratoire d'Écobiologie des Arthropodes édaphiques 5: 12-19.
 Arechavaleta, M., S. Rodríguez, N. Zurita & A. García (Coord.) 2010. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias (hongos, plantas y animales terrestres) 2009. Gobierno de Canarias. 579 pp.

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Crustáceos de Canarias
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The lawyers of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia have filed separate petitions with the High Court (HC) seeking her bail in three cases.
Among the cases, two were filed in Cumilla on charge of plotting to carry out subversive acts and another in Narail on charge of defamation, said Advocate Khandaker Mahbub Hossain on Sunday.
Earlier in the day, a HC bench of Justice AKM Asaduzzaman and Justice JBM Hassan granted permission to Khaleda for filing the bail petitions after her lawyers sought for it, reports UNB.
Later, the HC bench fixed June 7 to hear the bail pleas of the two Cumilla cases, Khaleda's lawyer said.
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the High Court order that had granted bail to convicted BNP chief in Zia Orphanage Trust graft case.
However, Khaleda was not freed from jail as she was shown arrested in the cases filed with different police stations in Cumilla, Dhaka, Narail, and Panchagarh.
Two cases -- one under the Explosive Substances Act and another for murder -- were filed against Khaleda in connection with the incident.
On December 21, 2015, Khaleda Zia at a discussion at the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh raised questions about the actual number of Liberation War martyrs saying, "There're controversies over how many were martyred in the Liberation War."
Reacting to Khaleda's remark, a defamation case was filed against her with a Narail court on December 14.


"Your little lad, your Elihu?"
"What little lad? what ship?"
What little lad, do you say?
The Gray Swan sailed away."
"The other day? the Swan?"
His heart began in his throat to rise.
The jacket he had on."
"And so your lad is gone?"
For a month, and never stir?"
A sight to remember, sir."
All this was twenty years ago?
"Lawless! the man is going mad!
Be sure he sailed with the crew!
What would you have him do?"
To say he was alive?"
And could he write from the grave?
Tut, man, what would you have?"
The kerchief. She was wild.
My little lad, My Elihu?
My blessed boy, my child!


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The Writer Shed
Musings from Inside and Out
Memoirs: My favorites and what I've learned.
June 29, 2019 June 29, 2019 / DavidWBerner
The other day the New York Times' book critics compiled a list of what they thought were the best fifty memoirs of the last fifty years. The critics said they were looking for books that gave them "whiskey, not whiskey and water." Books that felt like they were bringing a reader along on an "adventure" and had an "unsparing self awareness." All good qualities for any book, not just memoir.
I write memoir. None of mine made the list. I'm laughing as I write that here in the shed and look around the books on my shelves. Not that I would ever expect to be on such a list, although some of my memoirs have won prizes. They were apparently on someone's list, right? At least for a short time.
All of this got me thinking. What memoirs are my favorites? What are the ones that I've read that knocked me out, pushed me places I have not been or experienced, or made me consider how good the genre can be when the story of the memoir's theme is in the write hands?
Things to consider.
I think of memoir in the broad sense. Memoir can be thematic or about a specific framework of time, and that can manifest in many ways. But what it must be is honest and authentic, and teaming with reflection and self discovery. I am not a fan of what some call the dysfunctional memoir—focusing on tragic illness, physical or mental, or horrific family events, for instance. I am not a fan of the recovery memoir—the story of redeeming one's life after drugs or alcohol. There are many that are wonderfully written and important,. They are just not my cup of tea. And lastly, autobiography is not memoir. There is a difference.
So, my all time favorites? But only five.
A Moveable Feast. Hemingway's account of life in Paris when he was a young and emerging writer. A classic.
The Solace of Open Spaces. Gretel Ehrlich beautifully written story of the author's personal relationship with Wyoming, her adopted home. Part travelogue; part meditation. She is a master.
Minor Characters. An incredible portrait of the Beat era told from a woman's perspective. With great insight and extreme clarity, Joyce Johnson's story is the best about that generation of poets and writers because she was right in the middle of it, observing like a documentarian.
This Boy's Life. The first chapter of this book by writer Tobias Wolff is one of the best in the memoir genre. The book is a textbook on how to use the craft of fiction in memoir.
Just Kids. A stunning and tender look at the life of artists in gritty, bohemian New York City in the 1970s. Patti Smith is simply one of the best writers I've read in the last five years. You should also read M Train. Marvelous.
Runners up: Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt, The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion, and The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer, a moving story of a young boy's romance with a neighborhood bar and his struggle to become a man.
I could go on and on, but I needed to limit myself to five just because, well, I could go on and on. Overall, good memoir allows the reader to see themselves in the stories of others without making the story all about the writer. Great memoir includes the element of transformation. What has the author become and how and why did they get there? It doesn't have to be fantastical (sailing the globe), it only has to be meaningful in some human way. Memoir must sink deep into the reader's heart to reveal a bigger truth.
What is your favorite memoir and, maybe more importantly, why?
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4 thoughts on "Memoirs: My favorites and what I've learned."
Rita Dragonette
A moveable feast also my favorite. Did you see Patti Smith when she spoke at the CHF when Just Kids came out? Fascinating
DavidWBerner
I didn't. But a big fan! She really is a tremendous writer.
I will cite three, writing I have returned to over the years for its sheer beauty and revelatory power.
The first is Henry Miller's "The Colossus of Maroussi." Written in 1939, as Europe was on the eve of another world war, it is ostensibly about spending time in Greece with his pal Lawrence Durrell. Of course, it becomes much more, chiefly a paean to the country and its people. And explores in often stark terms, Miller's disaffection for his native land, its cities, its conventions and all the myths and trappings of the modern world. It is vintage Miller. His prose dances and sparkles. He deemed it his best book, and who am I to argue?
The other two favorites of mine are both by James Baldwin, "The Fire Next Time" and "Notes of a Native Son." Anyone who has read Baldwin knows so well the sheer potency of his writing, its ferocity, its refusal to allow us to ignore the strength of the indictment that is part of our racial legacy. Baldwin has always forced me to see with his unsparing light. It is rarely comfortable, but I am compelled never to look away.
I must read the Miller work. Although not necessarily memoir, Miller's THE AIR-CONDITIONED NIGHTMARE is a favorite. More a travelogue but also a sharp commentary of American culture.
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The World's Last Steam Locomotives in Industry: The 20th Century
Kerry Mayo
A pocket-sized, illustrated history tour of Whitstable showing how the town has changed across the decades.
'Whitstable is a stirring little town, with strong business proclivities, and a history stretching far back into the remote past.' So wrote a Kentish Gazette correspondent in 1873, although he could have been describing the north Kent seaside town today. Over the years, the lives of townspeople have been sustained by sea salt production, diving, smuggling, shipbuilding and fishing, along with copperas mining and tourism.
In this pocket-sized guide, author Kerry Mayo takes readers on a fascinating tour around Whitstable's streets and buildings, showing how its famous landmarks used to look and how they have changed over the years, as well as exploring some of its lesser-known sights and hidden corners. With the help of a handy location map, readers are invited to discover for themselves the history and the changing face of the town.
Whitstable & Herne Bay Pubs
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Q: cannot find -lgoto while compiling on Ubuntu 12.04LTS My Dear All the Greatest Lords,
It's most simple to install software packages in common use. But by means of such oversimplified routines lost control of varieties under different context of developing environments. After downloading, unzipping, plugging in the openblas2, I expect to enjoy the fortunate linear algebra computing functionality provided.
Having succeeded in compiling a bunch of codes based on them, gcc broke off by encountering the following error,
"cannot find -lgoto"

Thanks in advance for the slightest hint is the greatest bestowment to the most humble myself.


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Q: I used Bootstrap tour on my site. The tour works for the first time and then, it stops working. How do i resolve this error? It works for the first time. So, i must have all my dependencies correct.
Here's my tour code.
var tour = new Tour({
    name: 'First Tour.'
    steps: [
    {
        element: "#no1",
        title: "NUMBER",
        content: "Enter the no. of codes needed."
    },
    {
        element: "#no2",
        title: "TYPE",
        content: "Enter the type needed."
    }
    ]
});

tour.init();
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A: Remove the data in your local storage to force restart. In Chrome -> Console -> Resources -> Local Storage -> YOUR_URL -> remove all keys related to the tour:
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Playing career
Fujita was born in Osaka Prefecture on April 10, 1973. After graduating from Kindai University, he joined Japan Football League (JFL) club Kawasaki Frontale in 1996. In 1998, he moved to JFL club Albirex Niigata. The club was promoted to new league J2 League from 1999. In 2000, he moved to J2 club Ventforet Kofu. He played many matches and retired at the end of the 2000 season.

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1973 births
Living people
Kindai University alumni
Association football people from Osaka Prefecture
Japanese footballers
J2 League players
Japan Football League (1992–1998) players
Kawasaki Frontale players
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How to use the 168 website
168 Watchmen
The Seven Pillars
City-wide ministries
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Home » City-wide ministries
Click on the ministry titles below for more information and specific prayer requests.
Cedar Housing
Cedar Housing Nottingham exists to help young women escape homelessness.
http://www.cedarhousing.org.uk/
Faith Action Network
Faith Action Nottingham is a group of faith-led community projects - committed to welcoming and supporting marginalised and vulnerable people in our city by providing projects which offer hospitality, holistic care and support to people of all faiths and beliefs or none.
http://www.cuf.org.uk/transforming-notts-together/faith-action-nottingham
Globe Café
Globe Café focuses on International students, and is all about having fun, meeting people from different cultures and discussing some of the big questions of life while enjoying hot drinks and cakes.
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/chaplaincy/internationalstudents/globecafe.aspx
Hope into Action
Hope into Action is an award-winning charity set up to fight homelessness initially in Peterborough, now across the country. Our dream is to change the lives of the most disadvantaged in our society by finding them homes rather than a bed for the night.
http://hopeintoaction.org.uk/locations/nottingham/
HOPE Nottingham
HOPE Nottingham supports the local church to speak and live its mission, in unity, to see spiritual change in individuals and communities transformed.
http://www.hopenottingham.org.uk/
Jericho Road Project
The Jericho Road Project is a joint church initiative supporting those involved in the sex industry in Nottingham.
http://www.jerichoroad.org.uk/
Money Advice Services: CAP
CAP are passionate about lifting people out of debt and poverty through their award winning debt help service and money management course, the CAP Money Course.
https://www.capuk.org/
Money Advice Services: King's Money Advice Centre
King's Money Advice Centre provides free, confidential debt advice and support.
http://www.k-mac.org.uk/
North Nottingham Healing Rooms
The healing rooms are a safe place where people in need of healing can come and encounter the healing power of God through Jesus Christ.
http://www.nnhr.org.uk/
Nottingham Arimathea Trust
The Nottingham Arimathea Trust provides housing and support for people who have had their first claim for asylum refused. We work to raise awareness of their plight and dispel the myths and stereotyping. Click here to find out more.
http://nottinghamarimathea.org.uk/
Nottingham Citizens
An alliance of faith communities, unions, charities, housing associations & educational organisations working for justice and the common good of Nottinghamshire.
http://www.citizensuk.org/chapters/nottingham-citizens/nottscitizens/
Nottingham Foodbanks
Every day people in the UK go hungry for reasons ranging from redundancy to receiving an unexpected bill on a low income. Trussell Trust foodbanks provide a minimum of three days emergency food and support to people experiencing crisis in the UK.
http://www.nottinghamcvs.co.uk/files/citywide%20foodbank%20map%20DEC%202014.pdf
Nottingham Nightstop
Nottingham Nightstop is an initiative to prevent youth homelessness, born out of the desire to ensure that all young people have access to safe and secure accommodation appropriate to their needs.
http://www.58i.org/Nottingham-Nightstop/overview.html
Rally works with the homeless and vulnerably housed in the city of Nottingham, and is run in partnership with a number of Nottingham churches. Rally is a gateway project, offering immediate food and support, and assisting the homeless to access the help they really need.
http://www.stnics.org/Groups/225667/Rally.aspx
Street Pastors is a multi-church response to urban problems; over 80 volunteers representing 24 city churches go out onto the Streets of Nottingham on a Friday and Saturday between the hours of 10pm to 3am.
http://www.maltcross.com/charity/street-pastors
Tea'n'Toast
Tea'n'Toast exists to give a cup of tea, some toast and a chat to clubbers who might want a bit of space to think and talk. We are open at St Nic's from 12 midnight to 3:30am every Friday during term time. We want people to know that God loves them.
http://www.teaandtoast.org/
The Arches Project is a practical resource and support centre for those in need across the city of Nottingham. We aim to provide an environment of compassion and care, where people feel that they belong and are accepted; where they can build a sense of self-worth and confidence. We want to be a place where we can be generous with our time, energy and practical resources; where we can go the extra mile.
http://www.trentvineyard.org/serving/the-arches-project
The Malt Cross
The Malt Cross is a Christian charity and café bar in the heart of Nottingham, aiming to support and serve the people of Nottingham through the charitable outreach work of Street Pastors, Safe Space and historic preservation. The much-loved café bar is a place where relationships and community are built as we host a diverse and vibrant programme of Arts, Events, Artistic Communities and Live Music.
http://www.maltcross.com/about-news
Transforming Notts Together
We are building capacity to tackle Poverty in Nottinghamshire. We partner with churches, charities, community workers and other faiths to transform lives.
http://www.cuf.org.uk/transforming-notts-together
Youth for Christ
Nottingham Youth for Christ aims to take Good news relevantly to every young person in Nottingham - by serving local schools and churches, as well as connecting with young people through various sessions throughout the week.
http://www.nottinghamyfc.co.uk/
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Q: How can I view my public and private SSH key in Github? I am new in Github. I have generated SSH key and now can see it in the SSH Keys. Is it the public or private key?
I have sent the SSH Key (which I saw under SSH Keys) to my client. He asked whether it is public or not? He wants my private key.
Is there any need of Private SSH key? If so, how do I retrieve it?

A: TL;DR
You can't retrieve a private key from a GitHub account, but you can if you explicitly add the key file to a published repository. GitHub also limits you to seeing the fingerprint of public keys attached to an account; to my knowledge, you can't view an account's public keys on GitHub, either.
Private vs. Public Keys
An SSH public key is stored on a single line, and starts with a key-type field such as ssh-rsa or ecdsa-sha2-nistp256. A private key has multiple lines, and a header that identifies the key block. For example:

-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----

GitHub Only Accepts Public Keys
You can't actually add a valid private key to a GitHub account anyway. Currently, GitHub only accepts RSA and DSA public keys for this purpose. If you try to add a different key-type, or an invalid public key of any sort, you receive an error like the following:

Key is invalid. It must begin with 'ssh-rsa' or 'ssh-dss'. Check that you're copying the public half of the key

Private Keys Are Not Stored Server-Side in GitHub Accounts
The upshot of all this is that--quite aside from the fact that you should never store your private keys server-side anyway--it isn't possible to attach a private key to a GitHub account. Therefore, there's no way to retrieve the private half of a key-pair from a GitHub account.
Of course, while you can't add SSH private keys to a GitHub account, you can add them to a published repository. As an example of this, the Vagrant project publishes a full key-pair, but it's a special case.
Publishing your secret key is inherently insecure. Don't do it unless you understand the implications.

A: Private keys being... private, they are only stored on your side, to help authenticate you. What is exported is the public key, stored on a public site (github.com)
In addition of https://github.com/<username>.keys to list your public SSH keys stored on GitHub, you also have the command-line gh ssh-key list, using the GitHub CLI.
And since gh 2.6.1, that command adds header and id column to the list output as discussed in #6136 (comment). (PR 6270 )

In TTY mode, the header is displayed.
In non-TTY mode, the id column is appended at the end to maintain the order of existing columns.
Example output:
$ gh ssh-key list
TITLE     ID        KEY                                                                               ADDED
Test Key  70929690  ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIEuZpG/RQ20C4NxoyhuS4D6+LmSB+ma9eVbeauBaf68l  4d
Test Key  70929824  ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIA1dxiSc/vhYD7QRAxTL67BguPioiDRYPtptoSy9NCHd  4d


Attended New York University School of Medicine, where I became interested in cardiothoracic surgery. Began research during my time as a preclinical student. Matched into the integrated cardiothoracic surgery program at IU.
Political science and economics due to my interest in supplementing my pre-medical coursework and desire to learn more about government, finance, and politics.
Southeast provided a very competitive scholarship package and showed itself to be a friendly, accessible, and active campus. I could see myself excelling in my time there.
Michele Irby was a phenomenal mentor and advisor through Student Government. Dr. Jeremy Walling of political science was a fantastic educator and mentor. Dr. Willie Redmond of economics was also an outstanding educator and leader in extracurricular activities.
My time on Student Government and in Lambda Chi Alpha were the best periods of my college career. I enjoyed working with other students, faculty, and staff to achieve common goals. And homecoming is, of course, an unforgettable tradition.
The education I received in the departments of political science and economics prepared me for the research conducted in medical school. And the faculty in those departments were very supportive of my plans to attend medical school.
Medicine is an outstanding field, but it is a nebulous, large, hard-to-navigate one. Make sure you obtain all the information you can about medical schools/residency programs, and don't just rely on what others tell you. It is important to pursue the things you care about, and success in extracurriculars and non-science courses are just as relevant as science knowledge.


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Romain Duquesne: "For men who are boys, a cry to connect"
by Global Photography News August 13, 2020
Duquesne's first photobook is a sensual and comical exploration of performed acts of masculinity
"For men who are boys, a cry to connect": So begins Romain Duquesne's debut photobook, the statement scrawled across the bottom-right corner of the publication's first blank-page. "This is for men who put on the performance," says the London-based photographer, tracing his interest in 'masculinity' back to his upbringing in a small Australian town, where certain acts and behaviours were hyper-normalised and encouraged. "Men who [perform 'masculinity] show a lack of confidence, because they don't have a healthy relationship with their masculinity," says Duquesne. "A lot of men are still boys. They don't know how to process their emotions. This is for the kind of men who feel the innate need to dominate physical spaces."
Duquesne began photographing aged 14 and quickly decided he would pursue it as a career. However, he was somewhat of an anomaly in his hometown. "When you left school, if you were a girl, you became a secretary, and if you were a guy you worked in trade," he explains, "I knew I wanted to get out and do something different". After studying photography at a technical college in Perth, Duquesne moved to London in 2015, establishing a career in commercial and editorial photography.
"When you start working as a creative, it's easy to produce work that people expect of you, in order to get paid. When that mentality runs through, it's hard to stand out and do your own thing," Duquesne reflects. "I started to realise that I didn't like the images I was making, and that was when I began to ask myself, 'what am I trying to say?'"
A few years ago, the photographer sat down and wrote out a list of frustrations with the world, which he hoped he could channel in his work. "One of them was the idea of masculinity," he says. "Australia has a hyper-masculine culture, and there are a lot of negative undertones that come with that. I wanted to work through those themes from a photographic perspective, in both a literal and metaphorical way."
In the photobook, which is titled Hi, Hello!, Duquesne's visual language it both sensual and playful. Some of the photographs present male interactions through a softer lens, where bodies graze one another, and fingertips touch tentatively. Others capture typically "masculine" gestures — a strong handshake; a clenched fist; a flexed bicep.
But, underlying the images is a sense of awkwardness: of bodies captured mid-motion, for example, which speaks to the tensions that may arise from a failure to perform these normalised gestures. Duquesne address this in a way that is both confrontational and comical, taking visual cues from images of primates, and sports like wresting, which the photographer describes as "homoerotic and hilarious" — "the idea of aggression mixing with that at the same time was quite comical to me," he explains.
Another element of irony is introduced in images that incorporate fruit, a nod to the childish act of employing bananas or grapes in place of genitalia. "It's so juvenile," says Duqesne. "I wanted to work on that metaphorically, by showing nudity in a way that wasn't sexualised or too suggestive, but almost awkward because it deconstructs the idea of what a penis and a man is meant to look like."
Despite the negativity that accompanies normalised illusions of masculinity, Duquesne does not see this work as a critique. Rather, he regards it as a way of opening up conversations. People should embrace their masculinity or femininity, he says, "but when it reaches the point where it becomes a performance, the heart of it becomes eclipsed, and I don't think there is any point to that. I want to help people talk more about this, so that as a society we can progress and have the kind of dialogue that I did not have growing up."
Hi, Hello! by Romain Duquesne is available to purchase from Donlon Books.
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Our inchie tour scoots us across to globe from Japan to The Republic of South Africa...the southernmost and largest country in Africa. It has a widely multi-ethnic population of around fifty six million people. This is composed of eighty percent sub-Saharan African and the rest being of European, Asian, or multiracial ancestry. As a result, the country has eleven official languages, amongst the highest number in the world, with Afrikaans and English amongst these.
I clearly remember the country's struggles with Apartheid which occurred during my childhood and early adult years, it was not until the early 1990's that the repeal of discriminatory laws was begun in South Africa.
I had a South African friend of Indian ancestry when living in Sydney, who spoke to me a little of the sadness and disruption of the turbulent years she and her family had lived through, which resulted in their migration to Australia. She has wonderful embroidery skills and a small floral embroidery she gifted me when I left to return home sits beside me as I write. Another Dutch friend from the Sydney years, who returned to live in The Netherlands around the time I returned to Tasmania, has since relocated permanently to South Africa with her husband and she loves the lifestyle they have found there, just south of Cape Town.
For my flower this week I was overwhelmed again with choice...the climate being what it is I am very familiar with many of the South African endemic plants as many of them are grown here also. Blue and white Agapanthus, delightfully drought resistant and tough plants, often seen growing on steep banks or lining country driveways, Amaryllis belladonna, (one of my mother's cherished favourites), Dieramas, Clivias and of course, the Proteas, South Africa's National flower, also the name taken by the National Cricket Team.
I decided to use the Strelitzia reginae for this weeks flower because the colours and sheer dramatic impact of the plant always reminds me of South Africa.
Wonderfully colourful, with delightfully architectural leaves, these plants are very common in public garden areas in Sydney where they thrive. I enjoyed photographing them as they are not common here in cooler Hobart. A friend often brought me a gift of the flowers and leaves when visiting...I even had to buy a large glass cylinder vase especially to keep these beauties in.
The text mat for this week is a portion of the document called "The Freedom Charter", a mission statement that documented the aims and aspirations of those people of South Africa opposed to apartheid and wanting equality, this and subsequent actions, resulted in the leaders, from all the ethnic groups apart from the ruling clique, being tried for Treason. This group included Nelson Mandela, amongst many others.
With the arrival of cooler, longer nights, (finally!), I have been making more soups. My friend Ann sent me a recipe for Sweet and Sour Cabbage Soup, a delicious but simple vegetable soup which has the addition of lemon juice and brown sugar added to taste at the last moment before serving...we have all taken to it with gusto. Amazing how delicious this little tweaking of the flavours can be...I also made a wholemeal flour and rolled oat soda bread to eat with the soup, both recipes have been entered into the file as keepers!
Anns' friend Suzanne's Sweet and Sour Cabbage Soup with toasted cheese on soda bread...yummo!
Tim is "supposed" to be the steak and kidney pie maker in our household...a very long story for which we would all need a nice glass of pinot to support us through the telling of it, so I won't go there just now...this time however, despite repeated and pointed promptings, the basic ingredients sat in the fridge for two days before I gave up and made it myself.
The pie looks a little bare. Mum always added pastry leaves and roses to the top of her meat pies, for some undisclosed reason...as a small child I always thought they would have been better placed on sweet fruit pies, but one simply didn't argue with my mum about her culinary decisions...the crunchy brown decorations were far to delicious to risk having them awarded to my older brothers instead of me!
In this instance I stingily cribbed enough of the single measure of pastry I had made, to make an additional small pie for my brother, who loves steak and kidney. I knew if I had made a second amount of pastry I would have ended up also making a few jam tarts or fruit pies...and none of us need the additional kilojoules this would have entailed. Therefore the decorating of the pies was left minimal, but Dudley texted me to say he enjoyed his, so all good.
We went for a short drive last Sunday...the power being off all day for planned local maintenance. In the afternoon we drove to Dodges Ferry and stopped for a short beach fix at Park Beach, which has good easy access, and also at Carlton beach. Actually these are just opposite ends of the same beach located in Tiger Head Bay.
Well, that's about it from here...still working busily on the digital projects.
Lovely inchie! I also love all the photos you include. The food looks yummy! Set an extra place at your table please!


Matt begins by introducing his npm package, and giving an overview of the setup necessary to utilize it.
>> Mathew DesLauriers: So, if you guys would all open up your terminal or your command line application, and we'll try and all install this together. First thing would be to just make sure that you have the right version of Node and the right version of npm. I'm not gonna make that bigger.
[00:00:21] It doesn't need to be six, it can five for npm. And then we're gonna install the command line tool globally. So we're gonna use npm install canvas-sketch-cli, which stands for command line interface, then we can do -g or --global. It just means let's install the tool globally so that we can use it again from our command line.
[00:00:50] And it's gonna take a little while to install cuz it has a whole ton of dependencies in it, and I went kinda liberal on the dependencies. I'm still working to make it a bit faster. Hey what's up?
>> Speaker 2: They just need node over Version 8, right?
>> Mathew DesLauriers: Yes, 8 or above, that's all.
>> Mathew DesLauriers: And hopefully it will all install for you guys. And just, it might take a minute or two, but once it installs, I think the best way for us to test it out and to start using it is just to go to somewhere like your desktop or your documents and I'm just going to go to my desktop.
[00:01:28] I'm going to create a new folder using rmkdir and when we work with the Canvas Sketch tool, we generally want to start in an empty folder because it will scaffold some stuff in that folder. So I'm just gonna call it shaders, or you can call it whatever you want, genart, or something like that.
[00:01:49] Maybe I'll call it genart and then we move into the folder.
[00:02:42] And then we're also gonna use the flag --open and that's gonna launch the browser immediately when we do that. So what it'll do is it's gonna write this new file, there's a whole bunch of things. It writes this file that we're saying is scaffolded. It also creates a package JSON which is gonna hold the dependencies that our project needs and as we go today, we're gonna start to install more dependencies.
[00:03:08] It has this package-lock json, which is just gonna lock down all the versions of our dependencies, and has node modules, which is actually just all the dependencies we need for our project today. So, if everyone could try doing that and if there's any issues. If you guys run into any problems, just raise your hand.
>> Speaker 2: Was that a NPM module?
>> Mathew DesLauriers: Yeah, so what you can do is I'm gonna sorta restart here. Did you run NPM install canvas-cla?
>> Mathew DesLauriers: Okay, no worries. And you'll notice that there's this sort of server running. It should be running on your local IP.
[00:03:47] So you could actually type in localhost and then 9966 in your browser, and you should see a sort of white box. And it's very hard to see on this screen, but on your own laptop, you might notice a bit of a drop shadow. That's basically just the border of the canvas that we're gonna be working with.
[00:04:10] And so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna open this folder up in my editor and I'm just gonna make sure that it's working and that we have the development server running properly.
>> Mathew DesLauriers: So generally when I'm doing this kind of creative code stuff I just I have one window which is the browser and the other which is the editor.
[00:04:37] And you'll see this is the file that got created the sketch touch s file and if you open it up in your editor and you try changing some code like for example changing white to red as soon as you save it should immediately update within the browser as well.
[00:04:54] And you can just test that by changing it to some other color. This is just like a CSS color string. And if that's all working, then you should be getting different colors every time.


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Villanova gets ready for showdown with Montana
Villanova coach Andy Talley has become an extraordinarily popular guy along the Main Line lately. Taking your football team to a national championship game will do that for a football coach.
by By Keith Pompey, Inquirer Staff Writer
Villanova (13-1) will face Montana (14-0) for the Football Championship Subdivision crown at 8 p.m. Friday at Finley Stadium in Chattanooga, Tenn.
Montana, which will make its second consecutive NCAA final appearance, advanced by defeating visiting Appalachian State, 24-17, yesterday in snowy Missoula. The Wildcats recorded a 14-13 victory over William and Mary at Villanova Stadium on Friday to advance.
Less than five minutes after the Wildcats' win, Talley was being swarmed outside his team's locker room.
Villanova's president, the Rev. Peter M. Donohue, and former Wildcats greeted him with hugs and handshakes.
As of last night, the well-wishers had not stopped.
"I would say that I received maybe 100 e-mails and 100 text messages," Talley said yesterday. "There has been a lot of excitement."
But don't confuse the Wildcats' excitement for satisfaction with reaching the championship.
Villanova expected this. The goal is to win the NCAA title.
"I don't think our guys were celebrating [yesterday]," Talley said. "This was so much of a business venture."
A venture that's one victory away from being completed.
Looking to rest his players, Talley gave them the day off yesterday.
The Wildcats, who already have game film of Montana, resume practice and team meetings today.
The team will fly to Chattanooga Tuesday night. Once there, the Wildcats will participate in two more days of practice and media engagements before Friday's final against the Grizzlies.
"We are finally here," wideout Matt Szczur said. "We are going to see what happens next week. We are ready."
By Keith Pompey, Inquirer Staff Writer


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Paulo Cesar Tabares-Velasco wins ASHRAE Distinguished Service Award
Tabares-Velasco worked with Mines Facilities Management during the pandemic to strengthen HVAC systems to reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission.
Paulo Tabares-Velasco
Paulo Cesar Tabares-Velasco, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Colorado School of Mines, has been honored with the Distinguished Service Award from the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE). Tabares-Velasco will be presented the award virtually at ASHRAE's 2021 annual conference in June.
ASHRAE gives out the Distinguished Service Award to recognize members who have served ASHRAE faithfully and with distinction on committees or otherwise giving freely of their time and talent on behalf of the society.
An expert in building energy simulation, thermal storage and green roofs, Tabares-Velasco leads the Advanced Multiscale Building Energy Research (AMBER) Group at Mines. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he worked closely with Mines Facilities Management to strengthen the school's heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems to help reduce the risk of airborne COVID-19 transmission in campus buildings in line with the latest ASHRAE guidelines. He also helped lead an effort to collect and analyze data on the HVAC changes, to calculate the overall probability risk of airborne transmission in specific rooms.
Before coming to Mines, Tabares-Velasco was a research engineer at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), where he developed the simulation environment for NREL's Smart Power Lab. He holds a PhD in architectural engineering from Pennsylvania State University, a M.S. in mechanical engineering from Colorado State University and a B.S. in engineering physics from the Monterrey Institute of Technology.
ASHRAE, founded in 1894, is a global society advancing human well-being through sustainable technology for the built environment.
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