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Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment to celebrate 'Sign Language Day' tomorrow
Documentary on 'Indian Sign Language Journey' to be presented on the occasion
Dr. Virendra Kumar will interact with the winners of the 4th Indian Sign Language Competition, 2021
Posted On: 22 SEP 2021 6:22PM by PIB Delhi
The New Delhi- basedIndian Sign Language Research and Training Centre (ISLRTC), an autonomous body within the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (Divyangjan) under the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, will be celebrating 'Sign Language Day' tomorrow at the Dr. Ambedkar International Centre, 15 Janpath, New Delhi.
Minister of Social Justice & Empowerment, Dr. Virendra Kumar will be the Chief Guest and Ministers of State for Social Justice and Empowerment, Km. PratimaBhoumik and Shri A. Narayanswami will be the Guests of Honour. Smt. Anjali Bhawra, Secretary, DEPwD, Sh. Santosh Sarangi, Additional Secretary, Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Education and Dr. Prabodh Seth, Joint Secretary, DEPwD& Director, ISLRTC, Sh. V. Gopala Krishnan, General Secretary, All Indian Federation of Deaf will also grace the occasion.
Ever since the United Nations declared 23rd September as the International Sign Language Day, the ISLRTC has celebrated it every year. The objective of the program is to sensitize the general public about the importance of Indian sign languages, and the information and communication accessibility for persons with hearing disabilities. Sign language not only plays an important role in educating people, but also is vital in creating employment and vocational training for persons with hearing disabilities.
During the programme, the Centre will present a documentary on the 'Indian Sign Language Journey', and also announce the winners of the 4thIndian Sign Language Competition, 2021 – a national-level competition held for students with hearing disabilities. The Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment is also likely to hold live interactions with some of the winners from various parts of India to share their experience.
ISLRTC signed an MoU with National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) on 06th October, 2020 for converting NCERT textbooks from Class I to XII into Indian Sign Language (digital format) to make the textbooks accessible to children with hearing disabilities. First phase of the project for conversion of Class I to V textbooks has been completed and e-Content thereof will be launched during the programme.
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Sybil Peacock Harmon, then a 24-year-old nurse, started working for Delta in 1940.
Photo: Delta Air Lines
Delta throws 102nd birthday bash for one of first flight attendants
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COBB COUNTY, GA. —
(Begin old-timey announcer voice) The war was in its second year. Bugs Bunny has just made his debut. Ted Koppel was born. The year? 1940. (End old-timey announcer voice)
And Delta is hiring its first class of stewardesses, now called flight attendants. Among them was Sybil Peacock Harmon, then a 24-year-old nurse. Delta recently threw a 102nd birthday party for her at her Acworth retirement home, the airline giant said in a news release last week.
"Flying was special because I was going places," she said. "When I was 9, I told everyone, 'I'm going to go all over the world.'"
Harmon said that Delta flew many young World War II pilots back to their bases after they had ferried war planes to North Africa.
"When I was 9, I told everyone, I'm going to go all over the world -- And I did." – Sybil Peacock Harmon, 102, graduate of Delta's first Flight Attendant class in 1940. Thank you to Sybil and all of our employees for paving the way for the next generation of the Delta family. pic.twitter.com/u0EHgtSMH3
— Delta (@Delta) July 16, 2018
"We called them 'War Babies' because they were so young," she said. " ... I was amazed these young men actually flew huge bombers and fighters. Most of the War Babies slept on flights because they had just come in from North Africa and were exhausted. When they couldn't sleep, we'd play poker with them in the back of the plane."
She said she "felt like a celebrity" as a stewardess; kids asked for her autograph.
At the party, there was a display of Harmon's original flight log books, a stewardess uniform from that time and a life-size cutout of Harmon from a 1940 Delta marketing photo shoot.
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She worked there three years and ended up marrying a U.S. Army captain who went on to be a director for Delta in Dallas. Their daughter worked for Delta for 35 years.
"It's a whole new world now," Harmon said. "I am proud to have paved the way for the next generation."


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Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) ruled out any chance there would be a new round of base closures in the next couple of years during comments he made last week to the Nortex Regional Planning Commission in north central Texas.
The remark built on earlier comments by the new chairman of the House Armed Services Committee revealing a strong reluctance to consider authorizing a BRAC round. In January, Thornberry said the nation needed to better define the future roles and missions of its military before shuttering military bases.
"We are still having a discussion in this country about what the role of the United States is in the world and about what sort of military capabilities we need to fulfill that role," he told CQ.
At Thursday's presentation in Wichita Falls, home of Sheppard Air Force Base, Thornberry said he didn't know when Congress would approve the next BRAC. But he reassured the commission it wouldn't occur without his say-so, reported the Times Record News.
"It's not going to happen unless I agree to it," he said. "That's the bottom line."


Although a great deal of exceptional German harpsichord music is left to us, especially the music of J.S. Bach, very few German harpsichords have survived into modern times.
Rather than traceable national traditions, German harpsichord making was more closely tied to the individual maker or family, and their style of building.
If you have an interest in a particular German harpsichord, please do not hesitate to inquire.
In no other country was the clavichord given higher regard than in Germany. It is mentioned in many treatises, being the ideal instrument to perfect one's keyboard skills, and revered by many famous composers of the time.


The Nâzım Hikmet Culture and Art Foundation, was established by the poet's sister, Samiye Yaltırım, who became its first President. The founders completed all legal formalities and initiated activities on May 22, 1991.
To build a Centre which will house a collection of books, periodicals, articles and other published works by or about Nâzım Hikmet, as well as the originals or copies of manuscripts, letters, photographs, drawings, paintings, statues, films, music pieces, monuments, etc., concerning the poet.
To research and publicize his works.
To make a contribution to the advancement of art, culture and education in Turkey and throughout the world by supporting relevant creative efforts in those fields.
a) Establishment of centres of culture, art museums, institutes, research and development units.
c) Meetings, seminars, conferences, lectures, panel discussions, symposia, etc., for cultural and artistic purposes.
d) Prizes to encourage creative efforts in art and learning.
e) Competitions in those fields.
f) Educational courses, support for institutions of learning and research.
g) Co-operation with individuals or institutions in Turkey and throughout the world in all endeavours of a cultural and artistic nature.


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The ASGA represents the interests of Alberta sand and gravel operators on key industry-related issues and proposed regulatory changes while promoting and educating today's aggregate consumers. Advocating environmental responsibility, the ASGA believes in the orderly development of this valuable non-renewable natural resource.
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Formed in 1975, the Alberta Sand & Gravel Association (ASGA) has grown to represent over 125 member companies that produce over 80% of Alberta's processed aggregates.
The ASGA is committed to the orderly and responsible development of Alberta's aggregate resources, promoting high standards of workmanship and accountability related to environment and safety within the aggregate industry.
While increasing the profile of the aggregate industry and raising public awareness, the ASGA is dedicated to supporting its membership and providing timely information that affects their business interests.
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The major solutions provided by the Warehouse Management Service Unit include; bonded warehouse management, distribution center, production logistics, cross-docking, value added services, and return management.
Customers from various sectors are served under a single umbrella at shared warehouses. AKTUR answers various requests of its customers with its staff equipped with sector-based know-how, and synergy as well as cost and operational flexibility achieved in terms of resource utilization through shared warehouses. Order management, inventory management, and vendor management services are offered at AKTUR Distribution Centers.
AKTUR basically offers two distinct services with its bonded warehouses at various locations, operating with connection to a lot customs. These services include warehousing during the customs procedures of the products received from abroad, and order preparation and shipment of the products for transit trade, in line with the requests of the customer.
The conventional logistics methods entail separate shipment planning for each outlet of different suppliers. Modern cross-docking operations, on the other hand, the production of all suppliers are brought together at a central location, and sorted there for delivery to outlets with the lowest possible transportation cost. Thanks to fast cross-docking services AKTUR provides to its customers, the products are sorted to ensure the fastest delivery times to outlets, and availability costs are thus minimized. AKTUR's substantial success in sorting ensures the highest level of customer satisfaction.
Return management included in the reverse logistics service structure is provided by the Contract Logistics Service Unit. Within the framework of return management, the acceptance, handling and sorting, quality control of the returns delivered to AKTUR's warehouses, the return of the acceptable ones to the inventory, and destruction of required ones in accordance with disposal procedures.


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Home Edu Events Grammy-nominated quartet Hiatus Kaiyote to perform in India for the first time
Grammy-nominated quartet Hiatus Kaiyote to perform in India for the first time
Jazz India Circuit International Festival Goa DEC 1st and 2nd, 2018
New Delhi: Jazz has always been about freedom, pushing boundaries and deconstructing traditional techniques to produce contemporary interpretations that redefine the future of music. Bringing the magic of this inherently evolutionary and experimental genre, Teamwork Arts' Jazz India Circuit is back with the 2018-19 season featuring path-breaking contemporary jazz musicians from India and around the world who continue to push the boundaries of the genre today.
The Jazz India Circuit (JIC) is like a modern-day speakeasy, giving music-lovers and jazz aficionados the freedom to dream and live their music the way they want to. The circuit is also a fantastic platform for both young talent from India and world-renowned legends with scintillating performances strewn across the past decade.
The Jazz India Circuit International Festival Goa is an experimental, up-tempo, funky celebration of jazz juxtaposed with diverse genres like punk, funk hip-hop, R&B and other forms of music. On their maiden tour in India, two-time Grammy-nominated Australian soul quartet Hiatus Kaiyote are set to headline the JIC International Festival Goa along with Indian and international jazz powerhouses like keyboardist Jerome Klein from Luxembourg, Goanese drumming legend Lester Godinho, one of Europe's most exciting jazz groups OZMA, Indian guitar prodigy Rhythm Shaw and his band Orjazzmic, French Afrofunk ensemble Supergombo and finally WorldService Project, leading specialists of British 'punk-jazz' and arguably one of the finest and most exported live acts in Europe.
Talking about what's in store for audiences, Sanjoy K. Roy, Managing Director, Teamwork Arts, said, "The Jazz India Circuit is your one-stop destination to hear the hippest cats in jazz today. Mix that in with a groovy, completely immersive, almost dizzying, experience that Teamwork Arts is best known for creating, and you've got yourself no reason to miss even a riff. We're enormously excited about the line-up for JIC Goa. Watch this space as Jazz India Circuit counts off the very best from both the contemporary and the classic jazz scene."
Here's the download on artistes featuring at the Jazz India Circuit International Festival Goa – Dec 1st and 2nd at the International Centre Goa (ICG) in Panjim
Hiatus Kaiyote is a two-time Grammy-nominated future soul quartet formed in Melbourne in 2011 with Naomi "Nai Palm Saalfield" (on vocals, guitar), Paul Bender (on bass), Simon Mavin (on keyboards) and Perrin Moss (on drums, percussion). In 2013, they were nominated for a Grammy for Best R&B Performance for their song "Nakamarra", performed with Q-Tip. The song appears on their debut album, Tawk Tomahawk. The band released their second album, Choose Your Weapon on 1 May 2015 juxtaposing the acoustic and electronic over 18 tracks and a 70-minute musical adventure. After taking a much-needed hiatus (pun intended!) to recharge and refresh in 2017, the band is now in the process of recording their hotly anticipated third album forging ahead to their own beat.
It's in his live performances, in an almost pure setting, that Jerome Klein's music surprises with loud splinters of light, explosion of energy and even frenetic ecstasy when the musicians let their passion take over. After studying classical piano and percussion at the Luxembourg Conservatory, Jérôme was drawn towards the freedom of improvisation and jazz. He devoted himself to drums, vibraphone and piano. He has played with musicians such as Benny Golson, Herb Geller and John Ruocco. In his new project, Jerome works on an array of contrasts in a minimalist setting, slipping into a misty mood of melancholy and dark tones.
Lester Godinho, the Still Waters lead, began his rendezvous with music at the age of six, studying violin up to Grade 8, before switching to drums which was natural since his father, Leslie Godinho, is one of India's most illustrious drummers. Lester's passion for music has covered diverse genres encompassing pop, rock, funk, Latin, gospel, jazz, fusion, Western/Indian classical, opera, Bollywood and even hip-hop! Besides being a great performer, Lester is also a good teacher and most of his students are now established drummers.
Improbable is the essence of OZMA, a creative, joyous and adventurous mix, risky and captivating. The quintet is 15 years old with passionate projects which marry music with images. One foot in the liberty of jazz, the other in electro's trance, both hands covered in greasy rock, OZMA features Edouard Séro-Guillaume on bass and composition, Stéphane Scharlé on drums and composition, Julien Soro on saxophones, Guillaume Nuss on the trombone and Tam de Villiers on guitar. At times soothing, at times powerful, these five seasoned jazzmen put their sense of drama and timing at the service of a new narrative music.
A bona fide child prodigy, Rhythm Shaw is widely regarded as the best guitarist in the country. Rhythm is the guitarist for Ameet Trivedi's band and occasionally for AR Rahman's too. He has been touring South Africa, Bangladesh, more recently the UK and Germany, where he's the highest-selling artiste in terms of CD sales for the last couple of years. Shaw performs at Jazz India Circuit with his band Orjazzmic.
Supergombo is an exciting new offshoot of a cultural blend from France. Their Afrofunk sound probably comes from the Tout Puissant Orchestre Poly-Rythmo and the Headhunters, blended with influences such as Senegalese Mbalax, Congolese Soukous, funk and jazz. Their music is not really "World" although they do retain its frenzied, uncontrollable rhythm. Supergombo's seven musicians borrow influences from genres, styles, even neighbourhoods such as la Guillotière, a lively Lyon neighbourhood known for its own cultural mix. Their music is distinct and gets people on the dance floor.
WorldService Project, the leading specialists of Brit 'punk-jazz', are one of the most exported live acts in their field. Their energetic live shows have taken them to festivals across the world, touring in 18 countries and releasing four highly-acclaimed studio albums. In spring 2018, WorldService Project launched their highly anticipated fourth album, Serve on Rare Noise Records. Fresh off the back of mammoth tours across America, Europe, and Asia, the epic and anthemic live sound of WorldService Project is both thrilling and heart-wrenching, with a theatrical live performance thrown in for good measure, making them one of the finest live acts in Europe.
What: Jazz India Circuit International Festival Goa
When: December 1st and 2nd, 2018
Where: International Centre Goa (ICG) Panjim
Entry: Tickets available at www.jazzindiacircuit.com
Early Bird Prices – Single Day: Rs.1,200/- , Festival Pass: Rs.1,750/-
Full Price – Single Day: Rs.1,600/-, Festival Pass: Rs.2,100/-
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I'm Turning into a Local Here at Gold Beach
It's funny the way things work – we have been hanging out in the ten mile stretch of beach on the south Oregon coast for almost a month now, and we are starting to get visitors, not just Roadtrekers who follow the Facebook group stopping by, but locals who recognize me, and have always been wondering who this guy is.
Astute observers notice that I show up year after year, even though I switched Roadtreks two years ago. They know it's the same guy because of the satellite dishes. After seeing me moving back and forth for week after week curiosity gets the better of them, and they pull in and strike up a conversation.
About a week ago I talked to one of the local bar owners in Gold Beach. Bob Butterworth. he rides his motorcycle up and down the coastal highway for entertainment, and so had seen me more than most people, and decided to pull in and say hello and ask a few questions. Like most people, it's the satellite dishes that he's wondering about. I explained that we haul these around so we can always be connected, and no, we're not doing research or monitoring the whale migration or work for NOAA or any of the other hypotheses I have entertained over the years.
Bob's a friendly fellow, and I tell him I like his town. I'm not just being nice: Gold Beach is a great place and has the small scale small town charms that are all to rare in today's world. They have a local high school of which they are very proud, with a coach who puts together a team from the small pool of local talent and performs well in football and other sports. I had a conversation with the laundromat operator a few years ago, who pointed out that coaching is easy in schools with 2000 kids – you just hold tryouts, send 99% of the kids home, and coach the ones with developed talent. In small towns where you only have a few dozen kids, you develop whatever talent they have. It takes work, but it's very rewarding work.
There's always kids running a bake sale or car wash or something at the local grocery store. The funniest thing, though, was when we went into town just at dark on the 4th of July one year, and the single checkout cashier was a very disconsolate high school student, who got the bad schedule and was moping around. All of her friends were out having fun at the fireworks display down at the harbor, and she was stuck at work. I think she had a point – there are only so many summers in your youth, and once they're gone you realize how special they really were.
I got another visit out here from Fred, who works for the Curry County maintenance department, who was lobbying me to visit Alaska. I told him I hadn't gone yet. He was born here in Gold Beach, and has returned from Alaska after a dozen years up there. He has fond memories of his time in the great wild north, and may be feeling a little tied down now that he's back working a job in his old hometown. I told him about fulltiming, and he was very receptive to the idea of being able to go wherever you want.
It's all a tradeoff – I get to sample these small town communities for a few weeks, and then I'm off to the next one. Sharon grew up in a small town, and when we visit, there are the same people she grew up with. It's slightly scary to me to be around people who know every single stupid thing you ever did in your whole life, but maybe that's just me. I like to keep moving.
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Our Bachata Taster class is an introduction to our progressive courses and it is a great way to experience the teaching and atmosphere and the vibe of this dance style before committing to a full course.
You can expect the learn some the basic Bachata steps, turns and a practical combination for the social dance floor which you can develop and improve in our beginners Bachata course.
We thoroughly enjoyed the class, thank you. The teacher was excellent and the location is very convenient. We've already signed up for a beginner's course!


Millwood, by the plank road leading to Memphis and Glencoe, often flooded in the Big Creek area merged to form Millington around 1875. to stay near the railroad, Glencoe accepted George Millington's land donation if the town be named after him. Incorporated in 1903 with W. E. Polk as the 1st mayor. The school was the first accredited in Shelby County. National searches chose the town as the site for a WWI aviation training school at Park Field; world's largest inland Naval Base; and, the 1st USA baseball training site in 1985. Declared the state's "Flag City" in 1986."


What is Volunteers In Mission (VIM)?
For the last thirty-nine summers, our congregation has sent between 35 to 60 teens and adults to help folks living below the poverty level in rural, western Maine. The roots of the program date from 1970, when small health teams spent a summer week in the coal regions of West Virginia and Ohio.
Since 1979, the program has served the elderly, disabled, single parent families, and low-income families in a 1000 square-mile area coordinated by Mission at the Eastward. The Mission was created in 1954 to help rural churches survive in this region of constant economic struggle. Flemington, in its 39mr-year journey with the Mission's housing rehabilitation program, has completed some 350 worksites.
Our volunteers spend one full week in Maine hammering, sawing, painting, and sweating to build ramps, roofs, and sheds. They insulate, replace siding, windows and doors, close in porches, add railings, paint houses, and build steps, decks, and bathrooms. From 15 to 20 sites are completed in that one week every year. They also run a vacation Bible school for youngsters of the area, a week which those children look forward to every year and remember forever.
The richness of the Spiritual benefits brought about by participation in VIM has been discussed for over three decades. They are born of passion, devotion, and fellowship; of adults bonding with teens and parents strengthening bonds with their own children. Taken together, they have brought new members to our church and held others here. They are the Good Work that helps to create "community," a community which reaches from Central Maine to Central New Jersey.
For questions about VIM, contact the VIM Team (VIMTeam@flemingtonpres.org) or the church office.
The cost of the trip is offset by donations in the form of "stock sales," fundraising breakfasts, and fees for individual members to participate.
The annual VIM dinner and multimedia show celebrate the prior summer's mission. Over 125 people come and enjoy a delicious dinner and 90 minute thrill-packed show! If you want to learn about VIM, copies of the shows are available on a thumb drive for a donation of $15. You may contact the church office to request a thumb drive of the VIM multimedia shows.
Applications for the July 20-27, 2019 VIM trip are available below. All applications are due by May 15. Please note that the youth application must be signed and notarized.


Do you really want your high res 4k cinematic wedding on a DVD? A DVD is an ancient format, the lowest quality delivery available today, and nearly extinct. It's 720x480 native resolution. We're filming your wedding in 3840x2160 Ultra HD! A DVD will not future proof your wedding.
So to answer your question, you can burn as many DVD copies as you want. We'll include the DVD disc image on the hard drive that we deliver to you so you can duplicate as many copies as you'd like. Yes, we'll also include the Bluray version well.


Doug Baldwin of the Seahawks turns 30 today. He's one of the NFL's best receivers, catching everything that gets near him. It's why he doesn't get a flu shot.
Nicole Richie, turns 37 today. Yes, that's Lionel's daughter. She earned her fortune the old-fashioned way -- by being best friends with Paris Hilton.
Liam Gallagher, formerly of Oasis, turns 46 today. Oasis was one of those groups that, as you get closer to them, slowly disappeared.
Luke Wilson -- I always get him confused with his brother -- turns 47.
Faith Hill turns 51 today. Probably do a duet with her husband, Tim McGraw for the Happy Birthday song. I'm reminded of the old country song, "If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me?"
Bill Murray's birthday today. The old Ghostbuster turns 68.
Don Felder turns 71 today. He was member of The Eagles... but he does occasionally make it to a Kiwanis meeting, too.
Stephen King turns 71 today... unless those twin girls from the 1920s driving a possessed while riding with a devil dog don't get him first. Somewhere along the line, I'm imagining a killer clown entertained at one of his parties.
St. Matthew's Day -- Legend says if there's a strong wind today, it means a warm fall. If there's a loud wind, the guy next to you will blame the dog.


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UTSA introduces its new head football coach, Jeff Traylor, in a public announcement at the Alamodome on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019. With introductions by UTSA President Dr. Taylor Eighmy and UTSA Vice President for Intercollegiate Athletics Lisa Campos, Traylor spoke with fervor about the path that led him to UTSA. With past and present players in the audience, Traylor also touched on his coaching philosophy and the steps he will take to help the Roadrunners succeed under his helm. Traylor is the third coach in the school's eighth year in collegiate football.
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As he began his last drive to the office for the foreseeable future Friday, UTSA football coach Jeff Traylor started making phone calls to the 10 players he hoped to reach that day.
Before the end of the night, he also wanted to touch base with five Texas high school football coaches, five UTSA boosters, a group of recruiting targets and some family members of current Roadrunners.
Such is the new routine for the first-year coach amid the coronavirus pandemic, which led Conference USA to cancel spring football and UTSA to suspend all athletics activity indefinitely. Starting Monday, Traylor and his staff will be working from home, looking for ways to digitize recruiting and the spring practice experience.
"We're going to do a lot of FaceTiming and a lot of video conferencing in the next ... however long this lasts," Traylor said.
On March 3, a week before the coronavirus began to upend life in the United States, Traylor outlined his spring plan. The Roadrunners were installing a new up-tempo offense and 3-4 defense and hoping to entrench a new culture in the process.
UTSA was set for five weeks of practice — from March 17 through the spring game April 18. The Roadrunners would learn their new formations in a classroom, implement them on the field, and isolate mistakes on film.
Now, Traylor and his staff are overhauling that strategy. Teaching will be done by video conference, starting with Traylor and his coordinators sending out messages that span five minutes or less. The core instruction will come from position coaches, as the small groups allow players to have a voice during the 30- to 40-minute sessions.
To gauge retention, Traylor said he'll be texting the players quizzes on the topics covered each day — a practice he's been using since he first introduced his staff to the team.
"The very next time we had a test, and we put our pictures on the paper and they had to write down our names," Traylor said. "I'm not sure half of them got my name right, much less anybody else. They learned quick that we mean what we say."
Unable to review film of their own play, the Roadrunners will watch clips from Traylor's previous assistant coaching jobs at Texas and Arkansas.
UTSA's staff considered executing the plays themselves and distributing that video, Traylor said, but the group decided clips from former stops would be more effective.
"Our kids can learn off that video," Traylor said, "instead of me out there running a corner route."
In many ways, Traylor hopes to maintain the intended five-week routine, with the video conferences sliding into the morning time slots that were reserved for practice.
Each week, Traylor wants to emphasize a different pillar of what he hopes will become UTSA's culture. Last week was mental toughness, and this week is physical toughness — both of which Traylor highlighted as valuable skills in the face of this new challenge.
"If you're a tree, and your root system doesn't go very, very deep, this is going to blow you over," Traylor said. "You're going to find out who you are as a human right now. Our players are going to find out who they are."
Traylor said "probably the most tedious task" through all the changes has been ensuring that each player is equipped for the new system. UTSA is moving all academic instruction online beginning Monday, and students have been directed to return home for the rest of the spring semester.
For Traylor, that means confirming that all 91 players on the roster have internet access, a place to study, a workout plan and even somewhere to sleep. He said those questions have been answered for all but about four players.
Many of the Roadrunners were excited to embrace a fresh start on the field, Traylor said, and the group is "crushed" to have to put that opportunity on hold.
The spring also was viewed as the staff's first chance to appraise UTSA's roster, with coaches wanting to rely on a live assessment rather than diving into the Roadrunners' old game film.
"For a first-year head coach, I can't imagine there being worse timing," Traylor said. "We saved four scholarships to evaluate our roster for grad transfers and potential replacements or additions. So to not be able to do those evaluations, for roster management, it's terrible timing."
The recruiting process also has been thrown into disarray, with the NCAA establishing a dead period that allows for only phone calls and text messages until at least April 15. Traylor said UTSA was scheduled to bring "35 elite players" to campus for visits March 28, plus a larger group for the Roadrunners' spring game.
Instead, Traylor said the staff will be leaning more on film in the scouting process, working to secure full games rather than just highlight tapes. In-person evaluations will have to wait for the fall, when coaches will look to make high school visits after the Roadrunners complete their morning practices.
With the new set of challenges facing every program across the nation, Traylor emphasized during Thursday's staff meeting that the Roadrunners shouldn't expect sympathy. The expectations for his first season, which begins Sept. 5 at LSU, won't be any different.
"There's not going to be one fan from UTSA who stands up in the middle of the second quarter of the LSU game and says, 'Hey, this isn't fair, our guys didn't get to have spring ball,'" Traylor said. "No one is going to care. It's very unfortunate, but we can't control it."
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Traumatic Brain Injury: The Science Moves Forward
by Richard E. Vollertsen
There has long been a debate in medicine, and consequently one in the law, about whether a concussion caused by trauma can lead to structural brain tissue damage and functional deficits. While many recover from such injuries without lasting deficits, it is estimated that over 30 percent suffer from the traditional hallmarks of traumatic brain injury, such as personality changes, deficits in short-term memory, or deficits in executive functions involved in the ability to make decisions, organize, or plan.
As recently reported in the journal Radiology, researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine have now demonstrated objectively the areas of the brain injured when concussion occurs. The study subjected patients who had sustained concussions to tradition MRI and CT scans, which routinely demonstrated that no structural injury had occurred. When neuropsychological testing showed effects upon their executive functions, however, the patients were then given a more sophisticated type of MRI scan known as diffusion tensor imaging (DTI). DTI can detect subtle changes in the brain by measuring the diffusion of water in the brain's white matter. The DTI studies in these patients showed the presence of major areas of structural damage located mainly in the brain's prefrontal cortex, a part of the brain essential for normal executive function. It is this area of the brain that is susceptible to injury in concussion, and such structures are involved in the cognitive processes that cause the functional deficits the patients were experiencing.
It is unfortunately the case that many people suffering mild traumatic brain injury are not properly advised about the possibility of functional deficit by either their medical or legal practioners. It is often the case that problems do not disclose themselves until a patient returns to more full function after orthopedic injuries have healed. It is when they try to reengage life at their former level of function that deficits begin to take shape. Using DTI as an adjunct to clinical evaluation will likely help identify those patients who should receive rehabilitation earlier when it is more useful to the patient.
We previously wrote about the advances DTI brings to this field, and that entry may also be of interest, January 22, 2008 entry.
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Basic definition: "Reiki is a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that also promotes healing. It is administered by 'layng on hands' and is based on the idea that unseen 'life force energy' flows through us and is what causes us to be alive. If one's 'life force energy' is low, then we are more likely to get sick or feel stress, and if it is high, we are more capable of being happy and healthy.
There are numerous lineages of Reiki Traditions. I have been attuned and teach the Usui Reiki Tradition. Attunement is ordaining or initiating a student into the Reiki lineage. As always in my teachings, I allow and encourage the beauty of you and your intuition to come forth as I teach how to hone your own life energy to assist in the healing of yourself and those around you.
I teach, attune and certify three levels of Reiki.
The fee for a Reiki Level One class is $150. It includes being aware of and finding your Universal Life Energy and honing your use of it. You will be taught how to position and use your hands to connect to your Universal Life Energy and to another, (be it plant, animal or another person). In that connection, you will learn how to find your own center bringing you to a place of peace and balance. In this action, the person you are sharing Reiki with can also find peace and balance. This action may promote healing. When the body is at peace, healing is easier.
Also included in your Reiki One training is basic knowledge of the body's Chakra system. Our chakras directly impact our body, mind and spirit. Chakras are particular energetic points within our bodies that when freely opened and balanced, promote clarity and full breath.
The fee for a Reiki Level Two class is $250. It includes learning the sacred Reiki symbols that connect us to our lineage and help to create a more powerful charge. Learning the art of focus, you will be practicing how to exchange Universal Life Energy over long distances. A person does not need to be physically in our presence to have this precious energy exchange.
Reiki Level Two students also learn how to use Divinity Tools to assist in the Universal Energy exchange. Singing bowls, pendulums, mantras and environment all help to create at atmosphere conducive to a loving, peaceful and powerful experience for the client and the practitioner.
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Host Dan Loney is joined by Priscilla Ocen (Professor of Law, Loyola Law School), Maynard Webb (Author), Paul Heaton (Senior Fellow; Academic Director, Quattrone Center for the Fail Administration of Justice; University of Pennsylvania Law School), Lawrence White (Robert Kavesh Professorship in Economics, NYU Stern School of Business), James Hines Jr. (L. Hart Wright Collegiate Professor of Law, Co-Director, Law and Economics Program, Michigan Law; Richard A. Musgrave Collegiate Professor of Economics, Dept of Economics; Research Director, Office of Tax Policy Research, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan), Judith Younger (Professor of Law, University of Minnesota), and Lisa Cook Ph.D. (Associate Professor Economics and International Relations, Michigan State Univerisity) on the Friday, September 7, 2018 edition of Knowledge@Wharton.
Featuring: Lawrence White, Lisa Cook Ph.D.
Priscilla Ocen is a Professor of Law at Loyola Law School, where she teaches criminal law, family law and a seminar on race, gender and the law. Her work examines the relationship between race, gender and systems of punishment. Her work also explores the ways in which race, gender and class interact to render women of color vulnerable to various forms of violence and criminalization. In particular, Ocen's work draws attention to the ways in which criminalization and incarceration are used to police the reproductive choices of poor women of color. Her work has appeared in academic journals such as the California Law Review, the UCLA Law Review, the George Washington Law Review, the UC Davis Law Review and the Du Bois Review as well as popular media outlets such as the Los Angeles Daily Journal, Ebony and Al Jazeera.
Ocen is the co-author of the influential policy report, Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out, Overpoliced and Underprotected. The report was part a larger effort co-organized by Ocen and others to highlight the various forms of discipline and punishment experienced by Black girls, which are often overlooked in mainstream advocacy efforts and policy initiatives. As part of this effort, Ocen co-hosted a community hearing on the status of Black women and girls in Los Angeles.
Ocen has applied her work to broader advocacy efforts, as she has served as a trainer for federal public defenders, assisted with the development of new programs in domestic violence centers in South Los Angeles, and strategized with community groups regarding efforts to monitor conditions of confinement in the Los Angeles County women's jail. Most recently, Ocen was appointed to serve as a member of the newly established Los Angeles Sheriff's Oversight Commission.
Prior to joining the faculty at Loyola Law School, Ocen was a Critical Race Studies fellow at UCLA School of Law, where she taught a course on Critical Race Theory and a seminar on Race, Gender and Incarceration. Additionally, Ocen served as a law clerk to the Honorable Eric L. Clay of the U.S Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Following her clerkship, she was the Thurgood Marshall Fellow at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, where she worked on various racial justice issues including voting rights, police misconduct, and conditions of confinement in women's prisons. Additionally, Ocen spearheaded the creation of a Black Women's Reentry Project.
Ocen is also active in the community as she serves as a member of the board of directors for the Equal Justice Society, an organization dedicated to transforming the nation's consciousness on race through law, social science and the arts.
Bestselling author Maynard Webb is a 40-year veteran of the technology industry. An active leader in the technology and business community, Maynard serves as a board member, investor, philanthropist and mentor to young entrepreneurs.
As the founder of the Webb Investment Network (WIN), a seed investment firm dedicated to nurturing entrepreneurs, Maynard brings his experience developing and leading high-growth companies.
He is a co-founder and board member of Everwise, a talent development startup, and a board member of Visa and Salesforce. Previously, Maynard served as Chairman of the Board of Yahoo!, CEO of LiveOps, COO of eBay, and held executive roles at Gateway, Bay Networks, and Quantum.
Maynard has also served on several public and private boards including Yahoo!, Gartner, Niku, Extensity, Hyperion, Peribit (acquired by Juniper Networks), Baynote, and AdMob (acquired by Google) where he was also one of the first investors.
In 2004, he and his wife created the Webb Family Foundation, which provides underprivileged, motivated young individuals access to quality education and supports individuals who are struggling against the odds to make a positive impact on the world through innovation and hard work.
Maynard is the co-author of the critically acclaimed book, Rebooting Work: Transform How You Work in the Age of Entrepreneurship (Jossey-Bass, 2013).
His second book, Dear Founder: Letters of Advice for Anyone Who Leads, Manages, or Wants to Start a Business, will be released by St. Martin's Press on September 11, 2018.
Paul Heaton is a Senior Fellow and Academic Director of the Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice. Much of his research aims to apply methodological insights from economics to inform issues in legal and criminal justice policy. An expert on legal and regulatory program and policy evaluation, Dr. Heaton's criminal justice work spans a wide range of areas, including measurement of impacts of criminal justice interventions; applications of cost-benefit analysis to CJ programs; and evaluations of the CJ implications of public policies related to controlled substances. His work on policing, courts, and drug offending has been widely cited by policymakers and the media. He has also published numerous empirical studies of tort law and insurance regulation. Dr. Heaton's work is strongly cross-disciplinary, and he has co-authored papers with legal scholars, psychologists, statisticians, physicians, criminologists, and sociologists. His research has been published in leading scholarly journals such as the Yale Law Journal, New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of Law and Economics, American Journal of Public Health. Prior to joining Penn Law, Heaton served as the Director of the RAND Institute for Civil Justice and Professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. He received his PhD in economics from the University of Chicago.
Lawrence White has been with New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business for more than 35 years. His primary research areas of interest include financial regulation, antitrust, network industries, international banking and applied microeconomics.
Professor White has published numerous articles in the Journal of Business, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Political Economy, American Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and other leading journals in economics, finance, and law. He is the author of The S&L Debacle: Public Policy Lessons for Bank and Thrift Regulation, among other books, and he is the co-editor (with John Kwoka) of the 6th of edition of The Antitrust Revolution. He contributed chapters to both of the NYU Stern books on the financial crisis – Restoring Financial Stability and Regulating Wall Street. He is the co-author (with Stern's Viral Acharya, Matthew Richardson, and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh) of Guaranteed to Fail: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Debacle of Mortgage Finance.
James R. Hines Jr. is the L. Hart Wright Collegiate Professor of Law and codirector of the Law and Economics Program at Michigan Law. He is also the Richard A. Musgrave Collegiate Professor of Economics in U-M's Department of Economics and serves as the research director of the Office of Tax Policy Research in U-M's Stephen M. Ross School of Business.
Professor Hines's research is focused on various aspects of taxation. He taught at Princeton and Harvard universities prior to joining the Michigan faculty in 1997, and has held visiting appointments at Columbia University; the London School of Economics; the University of California, Berkeley; and Harvard Law School. He is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, research director of the International Tax Policy Forum, former co-editor of the American Economic Association's Journal of Economic Perspectives, and once, long ago, served as an economist in the U.S. Department of Commerce. He holds a BA and MA from Yale University and a PhD from Harvard, all in economics.
Professor Judith T. Younger is recognized for her professional work in the areas of family and property law. She came to Minnesota in 1984 as a Visiting Professor. She became Professor of Law in 1985 and the Joseph E. Wargo Anoka County Bar Association Professor of Family Law in 1991. In 2010, she was named the Stanley V. Kinyon Chaired Teacher of the Year.
Younger is a product of the New York City public schools, including the internationally renowned High School of Science. There, she met her late husband, Irving Younger. After separate college careers, and their marriage, the two became classmates again when they entered New York University Law School together. At law school, they shared one set of books because they couldn't afford two, served together on the law review, and competed fiercely with each other.
After graduation from law school, Younger clerked for a federal judge (Hon. Edward Weinfeld of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York), was an associate in the litigation department of a Wall Street law firm (now Chadbourne & Parke), was a partner in her own law firm, and was an Assistant Attorney General of the State of New York. She began her law-teaching career on a part-time basis at her alma mater, New York University Law School. She became a full-time academic after she had two daughters, joining the founding faculty of Hofstra Law School. She has now taught at a total of six law schools (New York University, Hofstra, Syracuse, Cornell, American University, and Minnesota) and served in various administrative capacities including that of law school dean. She is especially proud of some of the accomplishments her students have made under her supervision. For example: in New York, Younger and her students drafted legislation that was enacted to equalize the relations between spouses in the state; here in Minnesota, Younger and her students created a course in The Law of Reproductive Rights. Younger has taught The Law of Reproductive Rights annually since 2008. Minnesota has thus become one of the very few law schools to offer such a course on an ongoing basis. She also teaches first-year Property, Wills and Trusts, Remedies, and Family Law.
Younger has served on the Minnesota Board of Professional Responsibility and been of counsel to a Minnesota law firm. She is a member of the bar in New York, the District of Columbia, and Minnesota. She is also a member of the United States Supreme Court bar and the bars of several other federal courts. She is a life member of the American Law Institute. She acts as adviser to the student-run Theatre of the Relatively Talentless (TORT), and is a regular performer in its productions.
Dr. Lisa D. Cook is an Associate Professor (with tenure) in the Department of Economics and in International Relations (James Madison College) at Michigan State University. She was the first Marshall Scholar from Spelman College and received a second B.A. in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Oxford University. She earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to this appointment and while on faculty at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, she was Deputy Director for Africa Research at the Center for International Development, Managing Editor of the Harvard University-World Economic Forum Africa Competitiveness Report, and contributed to the Making Markets Work program at Harvard Business School. She was also a National Fellow at Stanford University.
Among her current research interests are economic growth and development, economic history, innovation, and financial institutions and markets. Dr. Cook is the author of a number of published articles, book chapters, and working papers, and her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Bureau of Economic Research, Harvard Business School, the Economic History Association, and the National Poverty Center at the University of Michigan, among others. Based on her research, she was appointed in 2013 to the Advisory Boards of the Smithsonian Institution's Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation and of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth.
With former colleague and co-author Jeffrey Sachs, she advised the governments of Nigeria and Rwanda, and, as a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow, she was Senior Adviser on Finance and Development at the Treasury Department from 2000 to 2001 and is currently a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. During the 2011-2012 academic year, she was on leave at the President's Council of Economic Advisers and worked on the euro zone, financial instruments, entrepreneurship, and innovation. In February 2015, she began serving as the president of the National Economic Association. She is a guest columnist for the Detroit Free Press and a regular contributor on MSNBC. She speaks English, French, Russian, Spanish, and Wolof.


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Q: How do I get startActivity() to play the finish() animation? I have an activity that I'm currently overriding the back button on in my app (as to update the list in the prior activity with the information inserted at the current activity). To achieve the desired effect I'm using an AsyncTask which starts an activity. Functionally it works as desired, but the animations are unfortunately off (considering that the "slide" that plays when changing activities is in the wrong direction, as if a new acitivty was started instead of the desired animation that plays when finish() is called).
How would I go about solving this problem?
EDIT: The solution to the problem:
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A: I hope this is what you need
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//Set the transition -> method available from Android 2.0 and beyond
overridePendingTransition(R.anim.push_left_in,R.anim.push_up_out);

The rest of the code here: Changing the animation between Activities

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Warwick Franks dwells in 1999 on Woodward's Windies and Sri Lankan Crosscurrents by Roberts & James
Warwick Franks, in a dual book review in Spotting Traditions • vol. 15 no. 2 • May 1999 = of Ian Woodward: Aussies versus Windies: A History of Australia-West Indies Cricket. Walla Walla Press, Petersham, 1998. Appendices, illus., scorecards, stats. pp. vii + 260. $29.95…. & Michael Roberts and Alfred James: Crosscurrents: Sri Lanka and Australia at Cricket.Walla Walla Press, Petersham, 1998. Illus., scorecards. pp. $50 hardback, $19.95 paperback…. with footnotes and illustrations inserted here by Cricketique.
These two books represent a welcome widening in the perspectives on Australian cricket writing. While the enthusiastic crowd response to the 1998-99 Ashes series underlined the special position of these matches in the ethos of Australian cricket, it is also obvious that there are many ways in which English cricket is increasingly marginal in the development of the world game. Yet such has been the concentration of Australian cricket writing on the Anglo-Australian game that Mike Coward's Cricket Beyond the Bazaar(1990) has been one of the only books to go beyond the Lord's-MCG axis. Read the rest of this entry ?
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Double Hundreds as Double Trouble
Bill Ricquier, 26 February 2016, courtesy of The Stands and .http://www.espncricinfo.com/thestands/content/story/976823.html
When Ben Stokes made 258 against South Africa in Cape Town in January 2016, he became the second Englishman in three months to have made 250-plus in a Test innings. Alastair Cook scored 263 against Pakistan in Abu Dhabi in October 2015. This is very unusual for England. The last time two of their batsmen made such big scores in such a short period was in the home series against West Indies in 1957, when Peter May made 285 in the first Test and Tom Graveney 258 in the third.
Ben Stokes, left, reacts as he makes a hundred runs, with Jonny Bairstow, right, during their second cricket Test against South Africa in Cape Town, South Africa, Sunday, Jan. 3, 2016. Schalk van Zuydam / AP Photo
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Chance in Cricket: Where Luck assists Poor Captain's Choices
Sankaran Krishnan, coutresy of ESPNcricinfo.com, February 2016
In sport, luck plays a big role in determining whether a tactical move on the field will pay off or not
One that got away: had Graham Gooch been caught on 36 at Lord's in 1990, would Azharuddin's decision at the toss been questioned as much? © Getty Images
Sports fans are constantly reminded that it's easy to talk from the comfort of their armchairs while it's very difficult out there on the field. No doubt, that's true. However, there are occasions when it seems that players, either wittingly or otherwise, are unable to see things that are obvious to those watching the game. I'd like to mull on a few such instances – not to score points one way or another, but just to air them and evoke some reactions.
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Some Joy at last for West Indian Cricket Fans
Tony Cozier, courtesy of ESPNcricinfo, 14 February 2016, where the title is "U-19 success heart-warming in desolate West Indian landscape"
But where can these players go from here? The A team is nearly defunct, the first-class league weak, and the contracts issue is destroying the senior side. Their teenaged team has brought a welcome, long overdue whiff of optimism to West Indies cricket. In advancing to today's final of the Under-19 World Cup in Bangladesh, they have demonstrated a resilience that, for multiple reasons, has been repeatedly beyond their seniors. It will be severely tested in the showpiece climax by India, the one remaining unbeaten team in a tournament otherwise marked by its unpredictability.
Alzzari Joseph tipped for a bright future-Pic from ICC
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Shamar Springer surprises Bangladesh in U19 Semi-Final
Shamar Springer had plenty to dance about after an incisive spell with the ball and a match-winning unbeaten 62 © Getty Images
Vikal Dikshit, for ESPNcricinfo, 11 February 2016
West Indies Under-19s ended up stunning over 10,000 fans at the Shere Bangla Stadium by chasing down 227, with three wickets in hand, in an anxious fashion against Bangladesh Under-19s in the semi-final of the Under-19 World Cup. West Indies were cruising at 147 for 3 and seemed to be buckle under pressure after captain Shimron Hetmyer fell for 60. They lost two more wickets for 34 runs but were salvaged by Shamar Springer's unbeaten 62 after his incisive spell of 10-0-36-2. West Indies will make their second appearance in an Under-19 World Cup final when they take on India Under-19s in Mirpur on Sunday. Read the rest of this entry ?
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Andrew Fernando's Readings of the T20 at Pune
Andrew Fidel Fernando
I. "Sri Lanka's pole-thin co-operative," ESPNcricinfo, February 2016
The pole-thin co-operative: Sri Lanka unearthed a skinny quick with serious potential in Dushmantha Chameera last year. In this match, Chameera may have played a role in finding another just like him. The second ball of Kasun Rajitha's career stopped slightly on Rohit Sharma, who spooned the ball just wide of the bowler. Chameera made quick ground moving to his right from mid-off, and dove athletically, both feet off the ground, to secure the catch. That first wicket sent Rajitha into raptures, and he would go on to set the tone for the innings with four more excellent balls in that over.
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Kasun Rajitha
Photo by: Ron Gaunt / BCCI / Sportzpics
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The Kasun and Dasun Show? Sri Lanka topple India at Pune
Kasun and Dasun. Two raw young and unknown pacemen. They sliced the formidable Indian top-order of batsmen apart, spiking a poor total of 101 which Sri Lanka reached in relative comfort. That line of emphasis is striking… eye-catching and sensationalist. It is only a part-truth. As with most cricket outcomes it took many factors to come together to craft Sri Lanka's unexpected win – unexpected because Lanka were/are without Mathews, Dilshan and Malinga.
Many will point to the crucial winning of the toss and the Sri Lankan think-tank's wise decision to bowl first. Yes, two crucial elements in the final outcome.
Kasun Rajitha of Sri Lanka celebrates the wicket of Shikhar Dhawan of India during the first Paytm T20 Trophy International match between India and Sri Lanka held at the MCA Cricket Stadium in Pune on the 9th February 2016
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This survey will determine the quality of your life at King's. OK, not exactly, but quite a big chunk of your undergrad life will be spend in King's bar (which currently acts as our 'JCR', or dedicated common room) and the coffee shop.
It's often been discussed that King's lacks a proper JCR, which many other colleges have as well as their bars.
As the college is currently considering making changes to the coffee shop, we want to get your opinion about whether we should campaign to convert this space into a JCR.
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Spirit Gala Raffle car winner glad to support Niswonger Children's Hospital
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From left: Tiffany Willis, Ballad Health Foundation coordinator; Clay Rolston, executive
director of Ballad Health Foundation; Andy Dietrich, co-owner, Champion Chevrolet Cadillac;
raffle winner Martin Bailey and his wife, Diane; raffle cash winners Lisa Phillips, Bill Pearce
and Mona Norton; Tim Copenhaver, co-owner, Champion Chevrolet Cadillac; and Todd Norris,
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. – Like almost all the participants, Martin Bailey bought raffle tickets so he could support Niswonger Children's Hospital – but he didn't really expect to win anything.
The pharmacist from the small community of Parrottsville got a lot more than he bargained for, though. Bailey was the grand prize winner of the Mountain States Foundation's Spirit Gala Raffle, which landed him a 2018 Chevy Traverse donated by Champion Chevrolet Cadillac. This was the 11th year the dealership has donated the grand prize.
"I wanted to support the hospital and I thought, 'What's the best way? Buy a raffle ticket,' " Bailey said. So he bought two tickets at $50 apiece shortly before Christmas. Then, like all past winners, he didn't know whether to believe it when he received the news he'd won. It came in the form of a phone call on Jan. 27 when the raffle drawing was held during the annual Spirit Gala.
"We were already in bed when the call came," Bailey said, recalling it fondly. Because of spotty cellphone phone reception in his area, he didn't take the call, but then representatives from the Spirit Gala texted him and were able to get him on the land line. Even then, with the loud live music playing in the background of the call from the Spirit Gala – being held at The Venue in downtown Johnson City – Bailey said he wasn't 100 percent sure it was all for real.
"I thought, 'I might have won a car,' but then I didn't know if it was a prank," he said. "I was on pins and needles for a while, wondering for sure if it was legitimate. It wasn't until Monday when I talked to the foundation again that I was sure.
"I don't excite easily," he added with a smile, "but I was excited."
"He didn't even tell me he'd bought a raffle ticket," said his wife, Diane, with a laugh, "so it was a total shock to me."
Bailey co-owns two pharmacies, located in Greeneville and Newport. Parrottsville is a small community situated between the two cities. Diane, now retired, was a high school teacher and medical transcriptionist in Texas, but she grew up in East Tennessee and went to East Tennessee State University.
Bailey got to choose from a 2017 Chevrolet Silverado Double Cab 2WD, a 2018 Cadillac ATS or a 2018 Chevrolet Traverse FWD from Champion Chevrolet Cadillac.
"We're proud to sponsor the raffle again," said Andy Dietrich, co-owner of Champion Chevrolet Cadillac. "Our community is very fortunate to have a children's hospital that can treat our kids locally where families don't have to travel or be separated from one another for treatment. Helping raise money for such a great cause is one of the ways we give back."
The dealership has given away seven new cars and $100,000 in cash over the life of the raffle.
"We're so grateful for the long-time support of everyone at Champion Chevrolet Cadillac," said Clay Rolston, executive director of the Ballad Health Foundation. "Their generosity has been amazing, and it truly makes a difference in the lives of the children we take care of at Niswonger Children's Hospital."
The raffle and Spirit Gala were the final events for Mountain States Foundation, which recently joined with the Wellmont Foundation to create the new Ballad Health Foundation. This was a result of the merger of Mountain States Health Alliance and Wellmont Health System into Ballad Health.
The raffle sold about 1,900 tickets, grossing $95,000 to support the children's hospital.
There were also drawings for three cash prizes from the raffle:
$2,500 – Lisa Phillips, RN, of Jonesborough. She is a house supervisor at Johnson City Medical Center, where she has worked for 24 years.
$1,500 – Bill Pearce. He's been buying tickets for the last four years and almost missed out this year, but visited Champion Chevrolet Cadillac the day before the drawing to buy his winning ticket.
$1,000 – Mona Norton, Limestone. She's retired from Eastman Corporation and said she's been buying raffle tickets and supporting the hospital for the last 10 years.
For more information about the Ballad Health Foundation, visit www.BalladHealth.org/foundation or call 423-330-8550 or 423-302-3131.
Ballad Health, Appalachian School of Law and Virginia Tech create Medical-Legal Partnership
Ballad Health partners with the Appalachian School of Law and Virginia Tech's Pamplin College of Business to help those in need get legal assistance ... read more about Ballad Health, Appalachian School of Law and Virginia Tech create Medical-Legal Partnership.
Niswonger Children's Hospital secures Tennessee Highway Safety Office funding; expands car seat safety programs
Children in the Appalachian Highlands can travel more safely, thanks to funding from the Tennessee Highway Safety Office ... read more about Niswonger Children's Hospital secures Tennessee Highway Safety Office funding; expands car seat safety programs .


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Kazakhstan: Union Leaders Jailed, ITUC Takes Case to ILO
The ITUC has lodged a formal complaint with the International Labour Organisation over the unjustified imprisonment of two oil industry trade union officials, as well as government refusal to recognise the rights of workers in a range of sectors to organise independent trade unions.
The two officials concerned, Amin Yeleusinov and Nurbek Kushakbayev, have been sentenced to two and two-and-a-half years' jail respectively, in trials conducted without due process. The authorities attempted to make Yeleusinov sign a false confession, and he has fallen ill due to the conditions in his prison cell and the harsh detention regime.
Kushakbaev has been ordered to pay 75,000 Euros in compensation to Techno Trading Ltd on top of his prison sentence, and he has been banned from any "public activities" for two years after his sentence is served. The charges against the two arose from a hunger strike of some 300 oil workers in protest at the government's decision to dissolve their national trade union centre, the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions of Kazakhstan. Many of the workers were arrested, tried together on the same night, and made to pay fines of over 500 Euros each – more than the average monthly salary.
The protest followed a series of administrative actions by the authorities starting in 2015 to deny registration of unions in the oil, health, construction, media and education sectors along with regional union bodies, as well as the independent trade union centre at the national level, depriving workers of their legitimate rights to union membership and collective bargaining. The Chairperson of the national centre, Larisa Kharkova, has been subjected to administrative and judicial harassment since the beginning of this year, and she is now facing a series of bogus criminal charges.
Sharan Burrow, ITUC General Secretary, said "the authorities have been systematically violating Kazakhstan's own laws and Constitutional guarantee of freedom of association. This is damaging to the country's international reputation. Workers who simply want the right to union representation have been subjected to harassment, judicial persecution and clandestine monitoring. We are again calling on the government to respect its obligations under domestic and international law, and in light of its refusal to do so to date, we are taking this case to the ILO in a further effort to see that fundamental workers' rights are respected."
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