The before and after school program at Brookside, Cranbury, Jefferson, Kendall, Marvin, Rowayton, Silvermine, Tracey and Wolfpit Elementary Schools is administered by Norwalk Public Schools and called After The Bell. We extend a warm welcome to each family enrolling in After the Bell and look forward to having your child with us as we start the new school year.
After the Bell was developed because we believe that an excellent before and after school program, managed by committed and skilled professionals in a safe, nurturing learning environment, is a key component of realizing every child's potential. After the Bell is exempt from licensing by the OEC to provide childcare services.
Norwalk Public Schools will provide a high quality before and after school program that supports and challenges our elementary school students academically, physically, and socially.
Please share the following information with your child.
In order to ensure a comfortable and safe environment for all the children in the program, we require the following standards of good conduct for continuing participation in After the Bell.
Follow the directions of the childcare staff.
If the problem persists, the child meets with staff to develop a plan to promote a positive change in behavior.
If the problem continues, parent will be notified and staff will work with parent and child to develop strategies to modify behavior.
then your child will be suspended from the program for a specified period of time. Please see Policies, Plans and Procedures.
Parents and childcare staff are partners in helping children to develop good habits. We need your support when children are behaving in a way that physically or emotionally endangers others. Please let your children know that you want them to obey childcare workers while they are in the program in the same way they are expected to obey you when they are at home. If you are having discipline problems at home, please let the Program Manager know. We can help establish common strategies to provide your child with consistent rules and responses to misbehavior at home and in the program and connect you to parenting classes if you wish.
We seek to provide a level of discipline that maintains order while encouraging children to make their own decisions about the activities in which they want to participate.
If your child is having a problem with another child in the program, please speak to the staff and ask them to intervene. It is NOT appropriate for you to try to discipline another parent's child.
Our program, as well as Brookside, Cranbury, Jefferson, Kendall, Marvin, Rowayton, Silvermine, Tracey and Wolfpit Schools, tries to reinforce the values of respect, responsibility, trustworthiness, kindness, caring, and citizenship in all of its activities.
Participants must be students enrolled in Brookside, Cranbury, Jefferson, Kendall, Marvin, Rowayton, Silvermine, Tracey and Wolfpit Elementary Schools during the 2018-2019 academic year. You may register your child for full time morning, afternoon or both the before and afterschool program. You may enroll your child for 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 days a week, but we ask that if you attend less than 5 days a week that you be specific which days of the week you will use the program. A Registration Form must be completed before any child can take part in the program because we must have information it provides in case of an emergency.
It is very important that you notify us if there is any change in home or workplace information. Please do not jeopardize our ability to reach you if there is an emergency by forgetting to give us new phone numbers or addresses.
If you are registering by mail, a check or money order covering the first month's fee and a $50.00 non-refundable yearly registration fee per family must accompany the registration form. At the open registration evenings, you may pay cash, check, or money order - the dates and locations are below. There will be staff on site to collect monthly fees one per month. All payments must be made to After the Bell/Norwalk Public Schools central office at City Hall.
· Your check should clearly identify your child's first and last name in the memo line.
· You check should include a $50 non-refundable registration fee per family. If you are registering more than 1 child, you just pay a singe $50 registration fee.
· We will be happy to verify payments to employers for dependent care spending accounts or other child care assistance or to the IRS for child care tax credits.
· We also accept payments from the Connecticut Care 4 Kids program if you qualify. If you are a previous Care for Kids enrollee, it is your responsibility to make sure your paperwork is up-to-date at the time of registration. Otherwise, full tuition rates may apply.
REGISTRATION FORMS MAY BE DELIVERED TO NORWALK CITY HALL, ROOM 324 OR TO YOUR SCHOOL OFFICE.
Financial Assistance: Our ability to provide financial assistance is reflected in our fee schedule. Discounts are available for families whose children qualify for free or reduced lunch. If your family qualifies for free or reduced price lunch, please let us know on your registration form.
Withdrawal Policy: If you elect to withdraw your child from the program, payments previously made are not refundable.
Changing Arrangements: If changes in your work schedule mean you need to make different arrangements with us, please ask the staff for a Change of Enrollment Form so that everyone is clear what is happening and you are charged the appropriate amount for care. It is your responsibility to inform us of a change of enrollment.
Monthly Tuition: Tuition is calculated on a full 181-day school year, divided by 10 school months (Sep-Jun). This is the reason that tuition remains the same from month to month, even though some months have more school vacation days. If there are snow days, they will be made up and we will provide service for 181 days.
Care 4 Kids Payments. Let us know if you need help with this or if you need documentation for an employer's Dependent Care Spending Account Plan or Childcare Tax Credits.
The monthly payments are due by the 10th of the month. Payments will be due from September through June. We will provide you with a monthly invoice to help you remember. Payments may be made at the Norwalk Public Schools central office at City Hall; Room 324 or may be given to your program coordinator.
If we have not received your payment by the 25th of the month, your child may be discontinued from the program.
We will provide morning care from 7:00 am to start of school, at which time young students will be escorted to their classrooms for the first few weeks. We resume service when children are dismissed from class at the end of the day and are open until 6:00 pm.
When schools have a delayed opening, before school programs operated in Norwalk Public Schools will also have a delayed start for the same amount of time as the schools. Please visit http://www.norwalkps.org/ for example, if an elementary school open 2 hours late due to snow (opening at 11 am instead of 9 am), the afterschool program will also start late (opening at 9 am instead of 7 am).
When there is early dismissal due to bad weather or any other unsafe conditions, afterschool programs are cancelled.
When there is a scheduled early dismissal as shown on the school calendar (e.g. professional development, parent conferences, etc.), afterschool programs will begin as soon as school is dismissed and will be open until the regularly scheduled closing time of 6 pm.
A late fee will be charged to any parent arriving after 6:00 pm. The fee will be $10.00 per child for each extra ten minutes and must be paid at the time of pick up or when the child returns to program. If late fee is not paid your child will not be able to return to the program and school will contact parent to pick up child. Please call us if you know you will be late. Calling does not excuse you from the late fee. Parents who are consistently late will be asked to find other care to better meet their schedule. When you are late, it not only means that two staff members have to stay when they may have other plans, it is also very hard on your child who has already had a long day.
It is essential that we know who is under our care at any given time. Therefore, we REQUIRE the child's parent or guardian or other adult designated by you to sign the child into the program in the morning and sign them out in the afternoon. We will not release a child to someone under the age of 12 (state law) and you are not allowed to drop your child off without signing in. If a high school student will be frequently or consistently responsible for picking up a child, we must have a note to that effect and they should be listed on your enrollment form.
The After the Program staff has the right to deny admittance of any child to the program at any time for reasons of obvious illness. We may insist upon early departure should symptoms of illness emerge during the course of the program. Upon notification that your child is ill, we expect you to either pick up your child yourself or arrange for someone else to pick him/her up within 30 minutes. If a child has not attended school on a given day because of illness, the child may not attend the After the Bell Program.
Healthy snacks will be provided by Whitson's, the same company that provides school lunch. Please let us know if your child has any food allergies as we may ask you to provide an additional nut free snack.
A portion of each afternoon is devoted to doing homework. During this time children must do homework, read or work quietly on worksheets we will provide. Kindergarten students are often read to during this period. Please make sure your child understands that he/she must cooperate with staff and not bother other children.
We welcome and encourage parental involvement. You are free to visit the program at any time as well as volunteer any special skills and talents you have to enrich our program. Please contact any member of the staff to let them know that you have something you would like to share. You will need to undergo a background check and be fingerprinted.
From time to time the staff will create a wish list of items you may have around the house for craft projects. We can always use books, games and puzzles in good condition that your children have outgrown or no longer care to play with. Please think about us as a place for things you might otherwise throw away.
The most important way you can be involved with the program is to establish a partnership with the staff, to communicate to one another how things are going in your child's life. It is helpful for the staff to know about the celebrations and disruptions in your child's life like a new baby, serious illness, or death of someone close, as they often change your child's behavior. And you need to know if something has happened in the program that may have upset your child or given them reason to feel good about themselves so you can comfort or celebrate as is most appropriate. We can help you connect with expert help in the community if your family is experiencing special problems (as examples: health insurance for your children, divorce, a death in the family, housing issues, etc.).
We look forward to working with you and your child this year and hope you will let us know how we can help you and your child enjoy our program.


What caught my eye was the bok choy-several sellers offered it and it was nearly all of the "baby" styled young plants. I love that stuff and I bought more than I should have it was so inexpensive.... Can you freeze bok choy? Yes, you can! Learn how to freeze it without it turning into mush in today's post. This is part of a ongoing series on how to freeze and preserve your vegetables.
Freeze Celery & Green Onions - What? This is one of those things that can make or break a recipe, but we don't use it enough to always have it on hand, so freezing it is awesome!
Make an Asian-inspired stir-fry using chicken, snow peas, peppers, onion and bok choy. Clean the stalks, then give them a rough chop before adding to the wok. Clean the stalks, then give them a rough chop before adding to the wok.
Can you freeze bok choy? Yes, you can! Learn how to freeze it without it turning into mush in today's post. This is part of a ongoing series on how to freeze and preserve your vegetables.
Our website searches for recipes from food blogs, this time we are presenting the result of searching for the phrase how to freeze bok choy without it turning mushy.
We've been using it in a variety of recipes, but are finding it impossible to make it through the bag fast enough. Can we freeze it? Can we freeze it? I've seen mixed advice regarding the freezing of regular bok choy (blanch, don't blanch, gets soggy, etc.).


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The Use of Vitamin D in the Complex Treatment of Children with Allergic Diseases and its Quantitative Dynamics in the Blood in Different Periods of the Disease
Authors: Tyazhka O.V., Selska Z.V. - National Medical University named after O.O. Bogomolets, Kyiv; Central Children's Polyclinic of Desnyansky District of Kyiv, Ukraine
Introduction. In recent years the statistical information about extension of allergic diseases among the population as a whole is disconsolate. Comparing with the previous years the allergic disease frequency increases eight times faster. From 20 to 40 % of the World population is suffering from these diseases.
It is known nowadays, the lack of vitamin D in blood serum may stimulate the progression of different diseases in human body in which allergic ones are. It is already found that participation of vitamin D in contraction of allergic diseases is through its effect on immune system. It is also known, that the mechanism of the allergic disease progression is bacause of the response of immune system to antigen.
According to P. Pludovsky recommendations for the Central Europe, the preventive and curative doses of the vitamin D are put for the general population on, not taking into account existing diseases in adults and children what's development, in part, may be related to insufficiency of vitamin D in human body.
It is evidently, that for patients whom vitamin D may help in their curing it is very handy to prevent the individual measures and include vitamin D in the complex therapy. Paying attention to this, patients with allergic diseases may form a group of suffering from such ones and they are needed to be put vitamin D medication on with preventive and treatment goals in complex therapy.
Methods and materials. The research was carried out on the base of the Children's Central Polyclinic of the Desnyansky district of Kyiv City. There were examined 53 children with allergic diseases from which 17 were in exacerbation of disease and the rest 36 — in remission.
By clinical entity, patients were subdivided in such way: bronchial asthma was found in 23 patients, in 5 was atopic eczema, in 2 patients was allergic rhinitis, 10 ones were diagnosed with the bronchial asthma and atopic eczema. The children were examined in the age from 3 to 16. In the patients were studied in detail the medical and life history, the clinical trial was carried out, detected the level of vitamin D in blood serum. Identifying the 25-hydroxyvitamin D was carried out with the help of the ECL method on Elecsys 2010 analyzer (Roche Diagnostics, Germany), the test of Cobas-system in State Institute of Gerontology AMS of Ukraine named after D.F. Chebotaryov. Assessing the vitamin D supporting was carried out according to M.F. Holick et al. (2011) classification, according to which, the vitamin D deficiency is fixed by the level of 25-hydroxyvitamin D lower than 50 nM/l; vitamin D shortage is diagnosed by a norm of 25-hydroxyvitamin D between 75 and 50 nM/l; concentration of the 25-hydroxyvitamin D from 75 to 150 nM/l is considered to be a norm.
Investigation results. In 53 children (they are 100%) in whom was detected the vitamin D level in blood serum, it was fixed the 25-hydroxyvitamin D deficiency, the index of vitamin D in blood serum ranged from 37.68 nM/l to 8.69 nM/l; the average index was 22.54 nM/l. 31 children with allergic diseases were treated with vitamin D. During the vitamin D administration period the 13 children were in remission, 18 had exacerbation disease episodes. Patients got 2000 international water-soluble vitamin D3 units every day during 2 months. Level of vitamin D was fixed before and after the course of treatment by its medication.
The diseased children, which were administrated of vitamin D the average index of this vitamin in blood serum before treatment was 21.51 nM/l. Children in remission of disease were put monotherapy on with vitamin D medication or in complex with background therapy by topical glucocorticoid medication, if children were in exacerbation period of disease, the given complex therapy included the medication of vitamin D. After 2-months course of vitamin D administration the average index this vitamin in blood serum was 36.54 nM/l, in 27 children the level of vitamin D was in the range of deficiency index, in 4 children was established shortage of vitamin D, it was not come up to the normal level of vitamin D in blood serum in any child. The total increase of vitamin D was 15 nM/l. It should be noted that vitamin D increase was lower in children with exacerbation of disease during the initial examination or they had episodes of disease exacerbation during the administration of vitamin D medication. The total increase of vitamin D level in blood serum in children in remission of disease and those who was in exacerbation period of disease accordingly was 26.24 and 6.93 nM/l. At the same time the survey of patients revealed that during the led therapy with vitamin D medication the exacerbation of disease proceeded in milder case and less long than before prescription of this vitamin in the complex therapy.
Conclusions. Administration of water-soluble vitamin D medication for children with allergic diseases such as bronchial asthma, atopic eczema and allergic rhinitis at a dose of 2000 international units during 2 months period is insufficient for coming up to the normal level of vitamin D in blood serum, which is used for human body needs.

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 Dejan Ilić (trubač) (1977),трубач.
 Дејан Илић (научник) (1957), физикохемичар, проналазач.
 Дејан Илић (песник) (1961), преводи са италијанског и француског.
 Дејан Илић (фудбалер) (1976), фудбалер Црвене звезде.

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Wade Shows also carries a wide selection of bright, attractive, color-coordinated concessions to each of our events. Our games and food stands have won numerous awards of excellence at many major events throughout the country. Our state of the art equipment adds to the fun and excitement of any visit toour midway. We also set ourselves above the competition by providing our customers with a park like atmosphere through the use of landscaping, shaded rest areas, midway signage, and a complete guest relations center.
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So you've created a comic or graphic novel. You've handed some copies to family and friends, and the feedback was fantastic. They're urging you to get your comics out to a wider readership.
If you thought the sweat and blood you put into your comic book was the hard part, you've lots to learn! Let me break it down for you, without being demoralizing. Yes, be prepared to read some hard truths.
How can an unknown and unpublished writer find a publisher? If you're looking to publish and distribute with Marvel or DC, good luck. If you don't know people who work there "respected artists, writers etc., – or have a very, very savvy agent" it's impossible. It's not enough to be a talented creative. You have to sell your work, and to the right people. You have to make publishers want to invest in your work. DC currently doesn't want any work from people they don't know.
What DC does say instead is: attend Comic Cons. That's where you'll meet publishers, editors and other professionals in the industry, receive feedback and maybe come away with a deal or two. If you can afford it, of course.
If it cannot be part of DC or Marvel, you can always turn to smaller publishers. There's some advice on finding them here. Make sure they publish in your genre. Then pore through their submission guidelines. This is a MUST.
If you're a writer, it's going to be harder to break into the industry. Try to team up with an artist. Though, there will be takers for good writing, publishers are more likely to give your writing a chance if it's already been laid out in a sequential layout.
Know your genre and the format for comics in the genre well. Find out from the publisher what they're looking for. If it's a graphics novel, prose or screenplay format is usually not acceptable.
Hope for the best. If there are six rejections, send to six other publishers.
Most newbies start small. They share their work on a website, on social media, in order to build up their reputation. There are no setup or printing costs involved. There are other advantages as well. Of course there's nothing that beats a comic in print that you can hold, smell, and drool over.
When you've gained a large enough following, you can get your own website with a dot com after the name of your work! Get inspired by the creator of Lunarbaboon, who started out publishing on places like Webtoons.com, quickly got very popular, and now even gives interviews about his work!
Many comic creators also make some money from serialized installments of their popular web comics.
Sure, it's easier to find readers for your comics today, given the Internet. But it's also tougher to get published in print. As a struggling comic book artist who turned to self-publishing, I know exactly why it can be easier to self-publish, with the help of on-demand publishers.
You borrow some money from your uncle and the rest from your tax returns. Then you use the cash to print 3000 copies. Then you print ads and send out packets to major local presses. If you're lucky, the media bites and your printed copies sell like hotcakes, like it did for the creators of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
If not, you add up the cost of printing and the table cost of displaying at conventions, and you barely manage to break even. Promoting and distributing your comics is really tough. There are a lot of distribution restrictions that will make it tough for you to get your books on the shelves. If the public can't see it, how can they buy it?
That's where crowdfunding can help. There are some fantastic comics that managed to raise thousands of dollars through crowdfunding. Maybe you can too!
Only, make sure that you follow standard comic book printing formats.


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There are a range of Jewish publishing houses in American and around the world, each one of them doing remarkable things. It has been my intention to link to them for years, and I intend to in the coming weeks.
One cannot mention Jewish publishing in America without first talking about Mesorah Publications, Ltd., best known by the name of its primary imprint of religious texts, Artscroll.
Artscroll has since its founding in 1975 done something profound and extraordinary: among many other works, it has created siddurim, a chumash, translations of major Torah commentaries, biographies of Tzaddikim, and translations of both the Babylonian and Palestinian Talmuds that have only served the core Orthodox community, but that have provided non-observant Jews a textual pathway to teshuvah.
Whenever I travel I carry at least one Artscroll Siddur and an Artscroll Stone Edition Chumash, sized to fit my briefcase. These are my touchstones, and when I cannot carry my 72 volumes of the Talmud Bavli with me wherever I go, I know they are waiting for me at home.
If you have not already, bookmark their site. I try to buy from them directly: it costs a bit more, but this little publishing house in Brooklyn has become s0 important to American (and world) Jewry that I figure a few extra dimes out of my pocket are well worth the hope that they will be around for my grandchildren.
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Erik Dodier '92 poses with products created by PixelMEDIA's clients.
Whether in ventures they've started themselves or by bringing a fresh perspective to an existing company, these Paul College alumni are changing their industries—and the world—with their innovative ideas.
Erik Dodier '92 knows that to be successful in a business that deals in technology, you have to be ready to evolve. He started PixelMEDIA in 1994 with business partner Thomas Obrey to design and develop custom presentations on CD-ROMs and diskettes that companies could mail to their customers instead of printed catalogs or brochures. But as technology evolved, so did PixelMEDIA.
"Today, we focus on helping lifestyle brands in footwear, apparel, sporting goods and specialty foods industries launch, manage and grow their ecommerce businesses," said Dodier.
How did they go from CD-ROMs to ecommerce? The company evolved to meet the changing needs of their clients.
"By 1995, most of our clients and prospects needed services to build websites, so we adjusted our business model to begin designing and developing websites," he said.
The company kept up this trend of evolution, bringing them to the present day's focus on ecommerce.
"The Internet has matured incredibly over the past 20 years, yet there is still continued innovation happening every day. Our most successful innovation has been our ability to keep pace and still be relevant today given all this change," said Dodier.
Dodier feels that "the best way to predict the future is to create it." He has emphasized making goals and plans visual for everyone to see.
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Todd Boucher '03 works in areas of innovation that can go unnoticed when they are working well: technology and facilities.
In 2007, he founded his company, Leading Edge Design Group, to help organizations create modern, energy-efficient facilities. This can mean designing, installing and supporting everything from data centers to smart buildings and networked-connected systems.
Leading Edge Design Group's client roster is as diverse as they come, proving that the need for facility and technology innovation exists in all industries. The company counts among its clients New Balance, Anheuser Busch, TJX Companies, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard University, and UNH.
Data centers, in particular, are a need in today's economy, Boucher said.
Boucher's role in the company deals with developing Leading Edge Design's long-term strategy: how can the company position itself to remain in a place where it can take the latest designs and trends in technology and create effective products for clients?
As the creator of a company specializing in innovation in a fast-moving field like technology, Boucher has a knack for knowing what his clients will want next.
"The trend I expect to see is disparate systems becoming fully integrated across common network-based platforms. This integration will enable a true intelligent building," he said.
Two years after Sumner Vanderhoof '06 graduated from WSBE, the economy crashed, forcing him to rethink his career path. So he got to work absorbing everything he could about technology, applying his business knowledge to what he learned.
"I started to focus on emerging technology trends and jumped into cloud computing," he said.
He quickly became an expert in the field, starting his business, Landscape Digital, in 2013 to provide cloud-based technology expertise to business clients. But as his clients' projects got bigger and more complex, and enterprise software programs came into play, it became harder to make requested client changes in the middle of the work.
"It came to a point where requirements were constantly changing in the middle of projects and we found ourselves doing a lot of rework. As you can imagine, rework gets expensive," he said.
This was the start of addapptation.
"We realized if this process is working for us, it can probably work for others as well. We started addapptation to build a community of developers that can use our technology to build micro apps and sell them on the addapptation marketplace," he said.
As a result, Vanderhoof has created a new digital market that didn't exist before.
What he learned at WSBE pulls it all together.
"It is not enough to have a technological innovation, you also need a strategic innovation that resonates through your business," said Vanderhoof.
Sam Warach '17 has known he wanted to be an entrepreneur since he bought bulk amounts of Silly Putty online and sold them for a small markup to his middle school friends. But his idea of what that means has changed greatly.
Growing up in New Hampshire, a state greatly affected by the opioid crisis, Warach has loved ones suffering from addiction. He knows all too well that access to treatment for addiction is fraught with obstacles—addicts sometimes can't find vacancies in treatment centers when they need them, and often relapse as soon as they leave.
He resolved to address those issues with a web and mobile app, called NextStep, which helps people suffering from substance misuse connect with available treatment centers and also provides them with virtual sponsors to make sure their recovery process continues after they leave.
"NextStep is a passion project that I know needs to be made," he said.
Others agree: NextStep was a finalist in a national undergraduate entrepreneurship competition, Entrepreneur and Innovation Exchange's (EIX) E-Fest, as well as a finalist in the 2017 Paul J. Holloway Prize Innovation to Market competition in the spring. And NextStep wasn't Warach's only entry into the Holloway Prize competition—he and physics major business partner Max Miller '20 also took home the competition's top prize for their second entry, social messaging app Droppn (then called Droppit).
Droppn is a location messaging app designed to enhance a user's community experience and drive foot traffic to local businesses and events. Droppn utilizes location-based technology to create an enhanced meetup experience for users that integrates with business services like Uber and Lyft. The goal of Droppn is to use a social platform to help people meet up face-to-face. Warach and Miller have just released both iOS and Android versions of the app on the App Store and Google Play.
With Droppn and NextStep, Warach is pursuing entrepreneurial success through two businesses that provide innovative ways to help connect people with those who can improve their community experience and quality of life.


Thousands of cancer survivors have developed terrible conditions as a result of the radiotherapy treatment that helped save them. Radiation treatments do, in the short run, save people and children's lives yet often at a terrible cost in the future. What is unforgiveable is that they do not try safer things first.
One of the worst consequences of radiation therapy is the development of a secondary cancer because increased radiation exposure leads to more incidences of cancer. The cancer epidemic is getting worse but it is a survivable disease; yet the treatments cause considerable collateral damage – including initiating new, second cancers, terrible burns, and a long list of other problems depending on the target area of treatment.
That is exactly what oncologists do; they use radiation that causes cancer to diagnosis and treat it. Not exactly the most intelligent treatment approach. Then when you consider that in radiation therapy, they are administering lethal or near lethal dosages (see below) we begin to understand the cruelty of oncologists and how the analogy of voluntarily stepping in front of a firing squad is real. Most patients feel backed up against the wall by their oncologists whose licenses would be ripped away if they dare to suggest safer, less expensive alternative treatments first.
Doctors themselves sometimes refer to the risk of a second cancer as "friendly fire" – that is treatment for one cancer resulting in the initiation of a second cancer. Oncologists routinely fail to mention to their patients the possibility that second cancers can be created by the very cancer treatment they are administering.
The American Cancer Society acknowledges that chemotherapy and radiotherapy are carcinogens and may increase risk for developing a second cancer, and that the risk is even higher when both therapies are given together. Secondary cancers are lethal so they are admitting that you are in front of a nuclear firing squad when taking radiation, just might take a few years before you drop to the ground. Slow motion death. Death by radiation exposure.
Dr. Walter Russel was right, nuclear radiation is the death principle. He wrote Atomic Suicide before most of us where born and it is suicidal to expose yourself to diagnostic and treatment procedures that pump in the death activating radiation. It is not the only way to treat cancer successfully.
Every physician knows that radiation can lead to cancer but their recklessness is so great that they continue to expose their patients even after the Fukushima accident, which should be telling doctors to slam on the breaks at radiation departments. The last thing patients need after being exposed to radiation from Fukushima is exposure to more radiation.
Dr. Edward Golembe, who directs a hyperbaric oxygen chamber at Brookdale University Hospital in Brooklyn, said he had treated serious radiation injuries to the jaw and called them "a horrible, horrible thing to see." When we deal with radiation we deal with death for it is the death principle that doctors are trying to harness with terrible results. Most people who employ radiation in their treatments for cancer suffer horribly though it might save their life in the short term.
Radiation hazards have been grossly underestimated because they have to be. If they were not then both the medical industry and the atomic power industry would be vulnerable to staggering liabilities. "Radiotherapy damage has not been a priority in the treatment of cancer," says Dr. Paul Cornes, who runs clinics for patients with radiotherapy damage.
When just one of these nuclear particles or rays goes crashing through some material, it collides violently with atoms or molecules along the way. . . . In the delicately balanced economy of the cell, this sudden disruption can be disastrous. The individual cell may die; it may recover. However, if it does recover, after the passage of weeks, months or years, it may begin to proliferate wildly in the uncontrolled growth.
Radiation consists of several types of subatomic particles, principally those called gamma rays, neutrons, electrons, and alpha particles, that shoot through space at very high speeds, something like 100,000 miles per second. They can easily penetrate deep inside the human body, damaging some of the biological cells of which the body is composed. This damage can cause a fatal cancer to develop, or if it occurs in reproductive cells, it can cause genetic defects in later generations of offspring.
Radiation takes place when the atomic nucleus of an unstable atom decays and starts releasing ionizing particles, known as ionizing radiation. When these particles come into contact with organic material, such as human tissue, they will damage them if levels are high enough, causing burns and cancer.
An undiscussed danger of radiation therapy to the head is increased risk of stroke. A study of head and neck cancer patients who received radiation therapy found that stroke rates were five times greater than expected. This elevated stroke risk was found many years after administration of radiation. The average time between radiation treatment and stroke was 10.9 years, but the increased risk of stroke persisted for 15 years after radiation therapy.
Late side effects occur months to years after finishing radiation. They can include: lymphedema of the arm; weakening of bone; fibrosis of the lung; accelerated atherosclerosis of the heart; and, secondary malignancies. Radiation can also affect salivary function, thyroid function and gonadal function long term.
Lowered sperm counts and reduced sperm activity from radiation therapy to the testes or prostate. This may affect the ability to father a child.
Infertility, which is the inability to conceive a child or maintain a pregnancy, if both ovaries receive radiation.
Radiation therapy seems to create cancer stem cells and that means instead of treating cancer they are causing cancer. The news has published about the undesirable effect of helping to create cancer stem cells—cells that researchers say are particularly adept at generating new tumors and are especially resistant to treatment. The medical media is saying that this might help explain why late-stage cancers are often resistant to both radiation therapy and chemotherapy.
We know that cancer stem cells give rise to new tumors. These stem cells are ultimately responsible for the recurrence of cancer or the dangerous spreading of it throughout the body. Scientists also have found that cancer stem cells are more likely than other cancer cells to survive chemotherapies and radiation therapies, probably because their "stemness" allows them to self-replenish by repairing their damaged DNA and removing toxins.
"Radiotherapy has been a standard treatment for cancer for so long, so we were quite surprised that it could induce stemness," said study researcher Dr. Chiang Li of Harvard Medical School in Boston. An amazing statement considering these doctors have all along been playing around with super-toxic chemotherapy poisons and radioactive death-inducing rays—and now they are surprised that this is the mechanism of death?
If children are exposed to X-rays while still in the mother's womb (in utero), their risk of all cancers increases by 40 percent, of tumors of the nervous system by 50 percent, and of leukemia by 70 percent. Today there are thousands of people with damaged thyroid glands, many of them with cancer, who were radiated with X-rays on the head, neck, shoulder or upper chest 20-30 years ago. Ten X-ray exposures at the dentist's office are sufficient to produce cancer of the thyroid. Multiple X-rays have been linked with multiple myeloma – a form of bone marrow cancer.
A chest x-ray results in a dose equivalent of about 10 millirem; a mammogram about 200-300 millirem; an abdominal examination about 400 millirem); and a CT examination (computed tomography, also called "CAT scan"), between 2,000 and 10,000 millirem.
Perhaps the best way to understand this is to compare it with natural radiation — the 15,000 particles from natural sources that strike us each second throughout life. One millirem of exposure corresponds to being struck by approximately 7 billion particles of radiation. Do the math if you have a calculator that goes up that high. That is five to ten million mrem multiplied by 7 billion particles slamming into patients during their radiation treatments.
We are constantly bombarded from above by cosmic rays showering down on us from outer space, hitting us with 30 mrem per year. Combined with other natural source we are all exposed a total average dose of about 85 mrem per year from natural sources, or 1 mrem every 4 days.
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Renovation/Preservation
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CalCo Crape Myrtle Project
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State Park & Conservation Area
Annual River Fest
Community Day Gala
Black History Month Banner Project
Free Little Libraries
Community Crisis Fund
Ralph N. (Shorty) Donaldson was born on September 12, 1937 in Holmes County Florida and graduated from Holmes County High School in 1956. Following graduation he enlisted in the US Army and served in Korea. Upon his return home in 1959 he met Evelyn Mitchell from Caryville and they were married in 1960.
Together they had 3 children. In his later years he would be known as G-Daddy to 5 grandchildren, and 3 great-grandchildren.
He joined the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission (which later became the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission) in 1962. Aside from his regular duties he worked security details, natural disasters, the Youngstown train derailment, the race riots in St. Augustine, and the Democratic National Convention in Miami.
"When I was about 13 or 14 years old it was pretty common on Friday and Saturday nights that we would all go coon hunting and could always expect to see Shorty Donaldson and/or Al Carpenter not long after we got started. They stayed after us. We'd be shining lights and have a 22 rifle with us and here they'd come. We would always run. One night we saw them coming so we put out our fire and all scattered in different directions. I decided to run thru a cypress pond about 12-14 inches deep and Shorty laid after me.
There was an old hollow cypress stump in the middle of that pond about 3-4 ft off the ground...I circled the pond and he was right on my heels hollering for me stop. I was always tiny so I jumped inside that hollow log and sat still. Shorty walked all around me, shining his light, telling me to come on out...among a few other things.
He finally left and I jumped out and ran to the house about 100 yards away. I went to bed and the next day he pulled up to the house and told my daddy that he got after us…he said he knew we wasn't doing anything wrong but he loved to stay after us just so we wouldn't. I think they enjoyed the chase more than we did.
Daddy would tell him to keep an eye on us boys and I didn't know until years later that was all in their plan to keep us out of trouble." - A mischievous teenage boy from years ago who has requested to remain anonymous on account of having sons and grandsons of his own now.
Shorty took great pride in his work. He truly loved working for the people of Calhoun County as well as the surrounding counties. He is remembered for his fairness and his use of "good common sense" as a law enforcement officer. He was often commended for the immaculate condition of his uniform, vehicle, and boat. He was known to carry a toothbrush, a dust rag, and a whisk broom in his work vehicle to keep it tidy. Shorty was named Florida's Outstanding Wildlife Officer of the Year in 1972.
He worked as a Law Enforcement Officer for 38 years, 9 months, and 4 days. He served under eight elected and two appointed governors before retiring in June 2001. A little known fact about Shorty is that he kept a journal for every day of his career. He also served his entire Wildlife Officer career in Calhoun County, never once firing his service weapon in the line of duty.
Fellow officers Arnold Lloyd and Roy Burnsed share stories of their time working alongside Shorty for his retirement farewell video.
In his retirement years, he enjoyed spending time with his children and grandchildren. He was so proud of all of them and their accomplishments. He also enjoyed traveling to Belize, Guatemala, Alaska, and Montana to fly fish. Ralph "Shorty" Donaldson passed away on October 24, 2015 at the age of 78. Community members tell his family often stories of how he helped them throughout the years. Always lending a hand or giving of himself in some way. A truly caring person. G-Daddy is missed by all who knew him but he will forever live on as a Calhoun County Local Legend.
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In Germany the entrepreneurial spirit is most advanced in Berlin and Hamburg while the federal states of Brandenburg und Saxony are at the bottom end of the ranking. Other northern federal states like Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern are also at the top end. The researchers explain this with the spirit of the Hanseatic League. The Hanseatic League was a commercial and defensive confederation of merchant guilds and their market towns that dominated trade along the coast of Northern Europe in the middle ages.
In Great Britain it is most notably the region around London and East of England, where a particularly high number of people with an entrepreneurial personality structure can be found. This is in contrast to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland where the smallest number of people with an entrepreneurial personality structure reside.
Regarding the USA, the researchers found out that a particularly large number of people with an entrepreneurial personality structure live in the Western States (e.g. in Colorado and Utah). In comparison, this personality structure is on average particularly rare in the so-called Rust Belt of the United States and in the East South Central States (e.g., Mississippi). Moreover the researchers found substantial correlations between the geographic distribution of the entrepreneurial personality structure and the regional distribution of the actual entrepreneurial activity (for instance the number of start-up businesses in the region).
For their study the psychologists analyzed data about the personality structure of more than half a million of US citizens, about 20,000 Germans and approximately 15,000 British citizens. The psychologists then put them into correlation with information about the economic situation in the respective region.
You find the press release of the University of Jena by clicking here.
You find the full study (for a fee) by clicking here.


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While attending the University of Michigan in 1974, Niagara and Mike Kelley formed Destroy All Monsters. The band, known to fans as DAM, was active until 1985, earning international recognition due largely to the presence of former members of The Stooges and the MC5. Later, she fronted the supergroup Dark Carnival (with Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton and his brother Scott Asheton, Stooges drummer).
Niagara utilized art school experience in creating album and promotional art for Destroy All Monsters, Dark Carnival, and other acts. Combining collage and pop iconography, Niagara's style began to take shape, and by the early 1990's she presented her work in galleries and cafes around Detroit.
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With critical recognition for her painting established, Niagara teamed up with the Detroit gallery CPop in 1996. Her first exhibits "All Men Are Cremated Equal" (1996) and "Faster Niagara, Kill...Kill" (1997) were breakout shows that fostered national recognition. Juxtapoz (art journal) heralded her as "The Queen Of Detroit." Successful exhibits in other cities followed, including Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Sydney, Tokyo and others.
"The Niagara Girl" - in many guises - represented feminist swagger with drop-dead-gorgeous looks and a dangerous demeanor. She offered hard-boiled, tough talking women who would rather dispatch a man than put up with rude antics. Her bold, colorful, comic-strip-styled dames in various scenes of malfeasence parallel the modern tone of Callie Khoury's Thelma and Louise. Common ancestors include pin-up girls like Bettie Page and the dark side of 40's and 50's film icons such as Bette Davis, Lauren Bacall and Jane Greer.
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On the back of her first single of 2021 'Joy', which was supported by The Independent, Wonderland, Earmilk and Vacancy Magazine, among others, Canadian Nigerian singer, songwriter, and producer FALANA is set to springboard into her long-anticipated sophomore EP titled Rising. Arriving on October 15 via AWAL, the Rising EP is themed around women's empowerment, according to Falana. It's a journey of the different emotions and stories that we all experience – stories of self-love, personal struggle, romance, black girl joy, and chasing your dreams – told from a woman's perspective, and told through song and music. She sat down with Complex to discuss the new EP and more.
Through her own lens of living and experiencing different cultures around the world, from Nigeria, Canada and the UK, to Cuba, Denmark and America, Falana has crafted a record with a unique perspective and a sound that is truly global. The producers and contributors that she has collaborated with to bring the Rising EP to life also reflect this global story, including KingBjmn (Future, DJ Snake, Kranium) and Tyler Richards, both from the US, Canadian beatsmith Lord Quest (SchoolBoyQ, Raekwon, Bosco), Jamaican native Dale Virgo (Rihanna, Drake), British producer Tboy (Burna Boy, Serani), and Davey O (Adekunle Gold) from Nigeria.
The Rising EP, which is the long-awaited follow-up to her self-produced 2019 EP Chapter One that was described by The New Yorker as "changing the sound of global pop", is the result of collaborations that started before the global pandemic – a process that has seen Falana recording in Jamaica, England, Canada, USA, Portugal, Ghana and Nigeria. The process has been one of healing and self-discovery; each trip unveiling a new layer that allowed her to write from a different perspective. "I feel that I'm in my spirit position to be able to speak to different people, because I've experienced so many different places", she says about the 7-track Rising project.
With the sounds of her Rising EP spreading their tentacles across the genres that have influenced her own journey – from soul and pop to R&B and afrobeat – Falana has been able to hit the balance she's been searching for her whole life, with the Canadian Nigerian native observing, "It's funny how things fall together slowly and then all at once. I feel like I've really found my voice. And I think once an artist finds their voice, they become unstoppable". With more creative confidence than ever before, Falana has the foundation with which to dig deeper and give more of herself to listeners. "I am really excited about the artist I am becoming, and I never want to stop evolving", she says.
Born and raised in the Ontario suburb of Brampton, Falana's upbringing was soundtracked by a diverse music selection that has shaped her penchant for genre-defiance. As soon as she was able to, she moved to Toronto to pursue music, and after a year of balancing day jobs and relentless gigging at night, Falana departed once again to Lagos in Nigeria. As she says, "In Lagos, everything started to make sense in my songwriting, even down to how I express myself with style and my hair", and she began to use her sense of style as an extension of her artistry more than ever before. Having recently moved to London where she has begun writing for her debut album, she believes she has come full circle and completed her musical journey.
Hailed as "Nigeria's coolest front row star" by Vogue, Falana stands out not only with her music, but also with stylistic expressions, and is known for her distinctive braid pom-poms, which have fans tagging her in fan art and pictures of their own hair, to which she says, "I feel like it's become this signature for me that's so powerful now". Falana knows the importance of disrupting the often-one-dimensional view of women that we're constantly shown by our newsfeeds. Falana says, "I think one of my main motivators is just being a different reference point – for African women, and women in general. I'm sexy, but I'm not selling sex. I'm different, but I'm still beautiful. I'm strong, but I'm soft. I care about how I am presented because what you see is what you know".
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Grave mistake: Dlamini-Zuma denies mass burial preparations in Gauteng
6 months ago read comments by Samantha Riddle
- Citizens learnt with shock that the Gauteng government had made provisions for the mass burial of 1.5 million citizens
- With Covid-19 expected to reach peak infections later this year, the nation is on edge
- Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has raised a few eyebrows by denying this already-controversial plan
Gauteng has officially overtaken the Western Cape as the new epicentre of South Africa's Covid-19 pandemic.
Health MEC Bandile Masuku has confirmed that the province is hoping for the best but preparing for the worst:
"We are preparing over 1.5 million grave sites and it's an uncomfortable discussion. As a medical practitioner, it becomes… not something of my great topics but it's the reality we need to do here. We need to be prepared."
This drew Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma out of her social media slumber. The politician dismissed this plan outright:
"The government's response to Covid-19 is informed by the imperative to prevent infections and save lives. We are not, therefore, expecting and preparing for one million Covid-19 related deaths in the country. Stay safe."
Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has denied the plan for mass burials in Gauteng
READ ALSO: Covid-19 update: Gauteng new epicentre, 1.5 million graves prepared
This earned Dlamini-Zuma a fierce clap-back from Economic Freedom Fighters official Mbuyiseni Ndlozi:
"Don't mislead us, Minister Dlamini-Zuma: It was always the government's plan to prepare for burial. What we did not know it that you are preparing over for over one million deaths, waiting for more of us to die. This shows all of you have given up the fight against Covid-19."
Citizens weren't sure what to make of this comment from the minister tasked with responding to the crisis in SA.
Briefly.co.za reported that the minister had earned fierce criticism for supporting one of the most controversial lockdown regulations, the tobacco ban.
Reports had indicated that Dlamini-Zuma had personally pushed for the ban to remain firmly in place despite the restrictions on alcohol lifting with the migration to Level 3.
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A Native Indian family of five, including a papoose (swaddled baby) living on the side of the river in their teepee, this play set reflects a traditional life style. The wooden canoe adds a wonderful element to the felt set. Component sizes: Felt River Mat - 67cm, Wigwam - 30cmH, Canoe - 26cm, Buffalo - 20cm, Dolls range from 12 to 19cm and Swaddled Baby is 8.5cm.


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Q: What does `impl` mean in Kotlin? I didn't find any explanation in the reference, but when I type impl in IntelliJ IDEA, I get an error:

It seems that it's treated as a reserved word, but what's it for?
I tried putting many kinds of stuffs after impl but I get the error every time.
Update: It's renamed to expect after Kotlin 1.2.

A: It's for future multiplatform project support, and it's the pair of the header keyword which @hotkey explained in their comment here. It appeared in one of Andrey Breslav's presentations which you can find here, this specific topic starts at the 14:25 mark.
To sum it up briefly, the basic idea he presents is that you could have a common module shared between your platforms, in which there are some functions that are declared but not implemented, and are marked with the header keyword. Then, for the different platforms (JVM, JS, etc) you could have separate modules that implement these functions in platform specific ways - these actual implementations are where the impl keyword would be used.

He says that this whole system is just an internal prototype for now, so this presentation is probably all the public info we have about it. I'd also be interested in more details about this mechanism though :)

Update: as of the Kotlin 1.2 Beta, these keywords have been now replaced with expect and actual.

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To bring attention to the new Nike uniforms created for the Sacramento Kings, the Kings + Golden 1 Center app has been updated to offer an AR jersey preview for the 2017 and 2018 NBA season.
With the app, users will now be able to see the all-new Icon Edition uniform in augmented reality, and learn more about the details of the new features of the basketball jerseys. With the AR app, fans may even customize their own sports jersey, as well as frame and hang it on their wall. Fans will also have the chance to virtually photograph themselves along star players from the NBA.
The Sacramento Kings maintains that it is one of the most forward-thinking teams when it comes to embracing new technologies. As such, the team has even been called out as "The Most Innovative Company in Sports" by Fast Company.


Ann Neumann takes us on an exploration of dying in America in this episode of The WeCroak Podcast. We talk about how death in America today is a system fraught with contradictions and failures that don't serve the dying. We also talk about some of the movements trying to change the system for the benefit of all of us.


The Keysight (formerly Agilent) U1240 Series handheld digital multimeters feature true RMS readings on a 10,000 count display. The adjustable backlighting allows you to complete your jobs even in subdued lighting conditions, and prolongs the battery life. Your maintenance tasks are greatly simplified with its built-in switch counter which can be used to check for intermittent faults on switches, relays and circuit boards.
The U1242 adds harmonic ratio measurement of AC waveforms, dual temperature and differential temperature measurements with just the press of a button.


Hate the monotony of digital photography? Good News! Rip Curl and The Lomographic Society have teamed up to produce a special edition camera. 'The Fisheye 2 X Rip Curl' Camera features a lens that enables 180° images and is ruggedly designed to allow on mountain use. A multiple exposure switch provides the option for unlimited shots on 1 frame, whilst a bulb function enables long-exposure pictures. The effects make use of regular 35mm film, reminiscent of a world before Photoshop.
2000 of the cameras will be produced, which are available now for RRP £65.


Hopefully, none of the winter sports fails in this video will take place at Sochi, which has enough sh-t going on already. Also, why were people performing ski stunts while naked?
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These media sources are moderately to strongly biased toward conservative causes through story selection and/or political affiliation. They may utilize strong loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes), publish misleading reports and omit reporting of information that may damage conservative causes. Some sources in this category may be untrustworthy. See all Right Bias sources.
Overall, we rate The Telegraph Right Biased based on story selection that strongly favors the right and Mixed for factual reporting due to poor sourcing of information and some failed fact checks.
Factual Reporting: MIXED
World Press Freedom Rank: UK 35/180
The Telegraph was founded by Colonel Arthur B. Sleigh, in June 1855, as The Daily Telegraph and Courier. Joseph Moses Levy, the owner of the Sunday Times, was the first publisher of the newspaper. Later, Levy became the owner of the paper. In 1937, after merging with the Morning Post, it became the Daily Telegraph and Morning Post, and in 1969, it became The Daily Telegraph, sometimes referred to as The Telegraph. The Telegraph covers news, politics, sports, technology, business, money, opinion, lifestyle, and travel. Chris Evans is the editor, Nick Hugh is the CEO of The Telegraph and David King is the Executive Director at Telegraph Media Group (TMG). The Telegraph is headquartered in London, UK.
Read our profile on UK government influence on media.
Funded by / Ownership
Telegraph Media Group (TMG) owns The Telegraph, which is owned by Press Acquisitions Ltd., which in turn owned by Sir David and Sir Frederick Barclay. In 2004, Twin Brothers Sir David and Sir Frederick Barclay acquired the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Telegraph from the Canadian media company, Hollinger Inc. for £665 million. For a complete list of Board members see here. The Telegraph Media Group's 2017 Financial results can be found here. The Telegraph is subscription-based and only subscribers have unlimited access to Premium articles. They also rely on advertising to generate revenue.
Analysis / Bias
According to The Financial Times, in 2015, The Telegraph urged its readers to vote Conservative, via email from its editor Chris Evans. As a result, the paper was fined £30,000 by the data regulator, which is the independent office that regulates the organization's use of data. Further, The Telegraph is strongly biased in favor of the Conservative party, earning the nickname "Daily Torygraph". During the 2017 elections, The Telegraph backed Theresa May ( Prime Minister and Leader of the Conservative Party since 2016): "Vote Conservative for an independent, prosperous Britain." Here is a quote from the article demonstrating conservative bias "Only Theresa May has the attitude and the experience necessary to get the job done – and to get it done in the cleanest, most comprehensive way. Jeremy Corbyn is not only incompetent and wrongheaded but dangerous." They also publish articles strongly biased against the Labor party such as this: "A Corbyn government would be a calamity – everything else is just noise".
The Telegraph also republishes stories from credible news media such as Reuters and the Associated Press.
The Telegraph regularly utilizes emotionally loaded language in their headlines and source poorly, either through quotations or self-referral sourcing to themselves. They also routinely publish clickbait tabloid-style news such as "Is this workout the secret to Jennifer Aniston's youthful physique at 50?" and crime stories in their News section: "Libby Squire suspect charged with stealing sex toys and knickers from other women months before the disappearance of student."
Recently, The Telegraph issued an apology letter to Melania Trump for publishing false statements regarding her family and her modeling career and also agreed to pay substantial damages' over the article they published about the First Lady.
The U.K's independent fact-checker, Full Fact, has found several false claims by The Telegraph. Climate Feedback has also found misleading information regarding human-influenced climate change.
Overall, we rate The Telegraph Right Biased based on story selection that strongly favors the right and Mixed for factual reporting due to poor sourcing of information and some failed fact checks. (7/19/2016) Updated (M. Huitsing 06/05/2020)
Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk
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This poll is for entertainment purposes and does not change our overall rating.


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Charles Suonne Davis, Jr. (born March 13, 1983) is a former American football tight end. He was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the fifth round of the 2006 NFL Draft. He played both college football and college basketball at Purdue.

Davis has also been a member of the New York Giants, Carolina Panthers, Jacksonville Jaguars, New York Sentinels and Hartford Colonials.

Professional career

San Diego Chargers
Davis was signed by the San Diego Chargers on August 1, 2009. He was released on September 5.

New York Sentinels
Davis was drafted by the New York Sentinels on the UFL Premiere Season Draft in 2009. In 2010, Davis played for the Hartford Colonials of the UFL after New York ceased operations. He was re-signed for the 2011 season by Hartford. He became a free agent on August 10, 2011 when the Colonials were contracted.

Return to San Diego
On August 17, 2011, Davis re-signed with the San Diego Chargers.

References

External links
Just Sports Stats
Jacksonville Jaguars bio
Purdue Boilermakers bio
San Diego Chargers bio

1983 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Metro Detroit
Players of American football from Michigan
American football tight ends
Purdue Boilermakers football players
Purdue Boilermakers men's basketball players
Pittsburgh Steelers players
New York Giants players
Carolina Panthers players
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Tetrick Funeral Home is pleased to offer a wide variety of both on-going and seasonal events. We invite you to return often to see what's coming up on our calendar. If you'd like to keep up-to-date, we invite you to visit our social media pages.
Being a good community neighbor, Richard and Tyler Tetrick and Tetrick Funeral Services presented a check for $500.00 to the "Save the Seagrave" restoration campaign. The Johnson City Fire Fighters Association is raising funds to restore the Johnson City Fire Department's 1928 Seagrave 6.W.T fire truck.
Pictured in the photo are District Chief, David Bell, Johnson City Fire Department, Tyler Tetrick and Richard Tetrick, Tetrick Funeral Services; Avery Knapp, Johnson City Firefighter; and Nathan Carrier, Johnson City Professional Firefighters Association Vice-President.


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Q: How can I run code once per second, on the second? I was writing a command line utility for Mac which should print out status information every second, on the second. Obviously, I don't want to poll a zillion times a second. The only other way I can think of is to get the current time and use select to wait the difference. Is there a better way?

A: Any wait you do is guaranteed to wait at least that amount of time, not exactly.  OSX is not a real-time OS -- I don't think there is any way to guarantee anything like that.
If you just want it estimated, then sleeping the difference between now and the time you want (perhaps a little less to give time for the log) will work.

A: Usually scheduling a method with timer does the trick. However important to remember, the precision is not the best with simple timers.

A: Here's what I have:
#import <stdlib.h>
#import <stdio.h>
#import <time.h>
#import <sys/time.h>

#define TIME_LENGTH 9

int main ()
{
    struct timeval now;
    struct timespec wait;

    time_t seconds;
    char str[TIME_LENGTH];

    wait.tv_sec = 0;

    for (;;) {
        gettimeofday(&now, NULL);
        wait.tv_nsec = (1000000 - now.tv_usec) * 1000;
        nanosleep(&wait, NULL);

        seconds = now.tv_sec+1;
        strftime(str, TIME_LENGTH, "%T", localtime(&seconds));
        puts(str);
    }
}

It works to "eyeball" precision, which should be good enough. It looks like it's updating in sync with the built-in menubar clock. Evidently, there's a function in time.h, clock_nanosleep, which can wait until a time rather than wait for a period of time, but this usage is not supported on the mac.


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Squirrel monkeys
Squirrel monkeys are one of the smaller species of primates. They are fairly common in the pet trade in the UK.
Where do squirrel monkeys come from?
Squirrel monkeys naturally live in the canopies of the tropical rainforests of Central and South America and coastal forests of Brazil.
What do squirrel monkeys eat?
Squirrel monkeys eat different types of flowers, leaves, buds, nuts, insects, lizards and eggs.
Do squirrel monkeys make good pets?
Squirrel monkeys spend 99% of their lives in trees in the wild, in dense tropical rainforests and wetlands. As such, it's impossible to recreate an environment close to their natural habitat if kept as a pet.
They are one of the cleverest monkeys, which means they need a lot of intellectual stimulation to prevent distress caused by boredom. In the wild they live in 'troops' of up to 500, but usually more like 50. They scent mark their territory by spreading urine on their hands and feet which marks the path where they walk. They live for up to 20 years.
For these reasons, we don't consider squirrel monkeys suitable to be kept as pets.
Are squirrel monkeys legal to buy in the UK?
Unfortunately it is technically legal to keep squirrel monkeys as pets in England and Wales. Which is why we're campaigning for the governments to impose a ban.
Taken from the wild to be kept as a pet
Charlie's Story
Charlie is a squirrel monkey who was three years old when we found him. He was confined to a bird cage in a cold, dark office on an industrial estate in West London.
His entire cage was filthy - covered in dried faeces and urine. It measured just 121cm high by 85cm wide and 54cm deep with no outside enclosure nor access to natural sunlight. There was a broken heat lamp on the top of the cage that Charlie could reach - but it had clearly stopped working some time ago.
Being on an industrial estate, there was constant background noise. Monkeys have very delicate hearing - this constant noise caused Charlie great distress.
The owner admitted to taking Charlie for walks in London's Hyde Park using a harness and extendable lead. For a primate who naturally lives high in the trees, this would have been incredibly stressful for him.
Charlie suffered terribly due to inadequate care and inappropriate environment
Charlie's tail was bent at the end and he had balding spots. He was scratching and rubbing the end of his tail a lot indicating that he was suffering from urine burns on the skin of his tail.
Although underweight and starved of company when he was removed, Charlie put on weight and in time was introduced to other squirrel monkeys at Monkey World, where he moved into a large enclosure with two female squirrel monkeys for company.
Charlie is one of the lucky ones. Sadly there are many more primates who aren't so lucky.
Join us in calling for the end to primates as pets.
Capuchins
Capuchin monkeys are one of the more common primates in the pet trade.
Marmosets
Marmoset monkeys are the most commonly kept and traded species of primate as pets.
Primates as pets
We believe that primates are not suitable pets. Find out why and take action now.


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Bospar To J.K. Rowling: Petrificus Totalus!
Bospar uses spell and survey to temporarily freeze author after transphobic posts
SAN FRANCISCO – June 15, 2020 – Bospar, the boutique PR firm that puts tech companies on the map, released its first study for LGBTQIA Pride in response to J.K. Rowling's anti-trans comments and Twitter commentary.
"J.K. Rowling – Petrificus Totalus," said Bospar Principal Curtis Sparrer, invoking Rowling's Harry Potter spell that temporarily freezes its subjects. "We are hoping the author stops maligning the transgender community with her wrong-headed words and ideas and takes the time to talk to transgender men and women to truly understand them. We hope she will reflect and change her thinking accordingly." He added that an overwhelming number of those in the United States are supportive of transgender individuals.
According to Bospar's research from June 10 and June 12 of over 1,000 Americans:
80.4% do not care about their coworker's gender expression
78.1% believe trans people should be equal to non-trans people
68.7% believe trans people are equal to non-trans people
"I am happy to see that such a large percentage of those in the United States believe trans people should be equal to non-trans people and don't care about their coworkers' gender expression," said Julian Sanjivan, Co-President of InterPride. Sanjivan, who uses the pronoun they, cautioned that there is still a lot of work that needs to be done to ensure that transgender individuals are treated truly equally. "The alarming number of deaths, especially among transgender women of color, is an example of just how much more work there is to be done," they added.
On Friday, June 12, 2020, the Trump administration today finalized a rule that would remove nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ people when it comes to healthcare and health insurance. But according to Bospar's research, overwhelming majorities of both Democrats (88.5%) and Republicans (67.3%) believe trans people should be equal to non-trans people. In fact, majorities of Democrats (83.2%) and Republicans (73.5%) say they don't care about their coworkers' gender expression.
"These results show that the American public is not behind rolling back rights for the transgender community, as we are seeing right now from the Trump administration during Pride Month," said Bospar principal Tom Carpenter. "Just this week we saw health protections reversed, and it's clear this will not be the last fight to face. It's nice to see the American public is on the right side of history."
About Propeller Insights
Propeller Insights is a full-service market research firm based in Los Angeles. Using quantitative and qualitative methodologies to measure and analyze marketplace and consumer opinions, they work extensively across industries such as travel, brand intelligence, entertainment/media, retail, and consumer packaged goods. Propeller conducted its national online survey for Bospar of 1,014 U.S. adults between June 10, 2020 – June 12, 2020. Survey responses were nationally representative of the U.S. population for age, gender, region, and ethnicity. The maximum margin of sampling error was +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence.
About Bospar
Bospar is a boutique tech PR firm featuring a team of highly seasoned professionals who exist to put tech companies on the map. Bospar's principals include a long-time PR and tech industry guru, a former broadcast TV producer and award-winning media maven, a standout PR agency manager from the corporate side of a leading global law firm, and an experienced executive with both agency and public company credentials. Bospar's larger team includes experts in both social and traditional media, as well as financial and analyst relations and public affairs.
Bospar is the award-winning "politely pushy" tech public relations agency. The firm provides clients with national support thanks to its distributed agency model, which it launched in 2015. Bospar's staff includes marketing and PR experts and veteran journalists from top-tier tech and business media. The agency's strategic and creative thinkers excel in earned and social media, analyst and investor relations, and public affairs. Leaders from brands including Marqeta, Snowflake and Unisys trust Bospar to drive category leadership for disruptive technologies and solutions.
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The Rev. Kevin P. VonGonten received his education at St. Francis College, Brooklyn, NY, earning a Bachelor's Degree in Religious Studies; Fordham University, Bronx, NY, earning a Master's Degree in Historical Theology; and The General Theological Seminary, New York, NY, earning a second Master's Degree in Liturgy. He has served various Episcopal churches in Brooklyn, NY; New York City; Parsippany, NJ; Port Washington, NY; Stony Brook, NY; Garden City, NY; and Center Moriches, NY.
He was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, and was employed in the Retail and Wholesale photo equipment field, and was also a part time commercial photographer prior to answering the call to Ordained Ministry. He was also an Adjunct Professor of Theology at St. Francis College while pursuing his degree at General. Following Ordination, he was Professor of Liturgical Studies at the George Mercer School of Theology in the Diocese of Long Island.
Kevin accepted his current position as Priest in Charge of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in 2015. He and his wife, Christine, have lived in Delaware for more than a few years. Prior to his service at St. Paul's, Fr. Kevin served as supply clergy to the Delaware Diocese at parishes in Wilmington and Selbyville. They came to Delaware from the Diocese of Long Island.


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Chicago served as a muse for awe-inspiring local band Oux
By Britt Julious
Dec 12, 2019 | 9:49 AM
Oux is Indigo Finamore (top) and Manae Hammond. (Maren Celest)
Chicago is more than just a homebase for Indigo Finamore and Manae Hammond, who perform as Oux (pronounced like "awe"). For this art-pop duo, the city also became a catalyst for reaching the next level of its musical output.
Finamore and Hammond met halfway across the country at Whittier College in Los Angeles. Despite its small size and positive reputation, the private liberal arts school became a creative hindrance for Finamore and Hammond. One of the few positives of their experience at Whittier was the near-instant connection the two had.
"It was really exciting to be around somebody I wasn't afraid of. All of a sudden, it was like I was alive again," Finamore said. "Getting that gateway into having a relationship again, where I could actually talk to someone … all of a sudden, I wanted to make more music and get a new laptop, and get a new audio station. Basically get back on who I want to be and what I want to do as a person."
Transitioning their friendship into a romantic relationship and later into a musical relationship, was easier than the two expected. Music had always been the only thing they wanted to do with their lives since childhood. On their decision to make music together, Finamore said, "Well we both make music, and we both have a hard time finding people to be in bands with right now. This makes sense. And then we just kept doing it."
And the pair has flourished creatively ever since. Where working together may be tricky for other people, the two like to think of their creative partnership in more familiar terms. "People are always like, 'Don't date people you're in a band with,' but they're never like, 'Don't start a family business'," Finamore said. "A lot of the time, I think of it like, 'Oh, we're a couple that owns a furniture store, but the furniture is just music.'"
Hammond, a Chicago native, eventually left Whittier for financial reasons. The duo released its first single the day Hammond moved home. The decision seemed fitting. Although the foundation of their musical experiment may have begun on the West Coast, the heart of Oux could only ever be in Chicago. Hammond took a year off from her education before enrolling at Columbia College. Finamore soon followed.
The change in community and opportunity was immediate. "You can't stop making art (in Chicago)," Finamore began. "Like, somebody will come to your door and be like, 'Excuse me! I heard you were down! You're not doing that today.' It's something really cool about Chicago."
Since relocating to Chicago, Oux has released multiple EPs. Now, Finamore and Hammond are ready to embark on their first full-length album. "A long-term, ambitious project is something we both need," Hammond said. "Something that we've both really put the time into, because we put almost a year and a half into the EP we just released, and we still felt like we could have done more and better." Their earlier releases had latent, but enjoyable nods to art rock and pop artists like Kate Bush and Bjork. But now, according to Hammond, their new music has taken an "even poppier, but slight(ly) dark direction."
"Our last release kind of doesn't have a theme. Like we wrote these songs, and each song in themselves led to another song," Hammond added. "But now, it's like, what's the story we're trying to tell over the arc of a lot of songs?" Perhaps it's one of connections, partnership, and the long journey it took to get here? Finamore agreed. "(Oux) went from being something where we we're like, 'Oh, we'll just combine our creative faculties to make some tunes' to, 'Oh, this is seriously our main project'," Finamore said. "That's been the big way we've changed."
Britt Julious is a freelance writer.
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