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U.S. Needs To Dominate Future Tech: Biden
NEW DELHI: In his first address to Congress on Wednesday, U.S. President Joe Biden took deliberate aim at China, warning that "China and other countries are closing in fast. We have to develop and dominate the technologies of the future. There's simply no reason the blades for wind turbines can't be built in Pittsburg instead of Beijing."
He said his administration will "stand up to unfair trade practices that undercut American workers and American industries…. the theft of American technology and intellectual property."
Biden promised to maintain a strong military presence in the Indo-Pacific, "just as we do for NATO in Europe—not to start a conflict but to prevent one."
The U.S. President has been pressing Congress to pass a package of legislation that would tighten the screws on China's human rights record, address the trade imbalance and boost funding of new technologies that would challenge China.
"America won't back away from our commitments to human rights and fundamental freedoms and our alliances," he said.
He also turned his attention to Russia, saying that President Putin had been warned that his cyber attacks on the U.S. and interference in the elections process would have consequences. But Washington does not seek escalation. As for Iran and North Korea, the U.S. would work with allies to counter the threat posed by their nuclear programmes.
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Prayer service celebrating Dr. King set for Jan. 17
Lay parish leaders live out vocation, help others do the same
Local pro-lifers doing 'amazing things' for life at all stages
Digital archives show local Catholic life from generations past
Tech firm donates $50K to archdiocesan hunger relief agency, with matching gift challenge
On feast day, St. John Neumann parishioners rally around Eucharist
Archdiocese counters false rumors about financial component to review process
The Philadelphia Archdiocese today put to rest rumors that schools requesting a review of the Blue Ribbon Commission's recommendations would need to raise money in order to obtain a meeting.
A statement from the archdiocesan Office for Communications denied any financial component to the review process.
"As outlined earlier in the week," the statement read, "pastors, elementary school principals and high school presidents seeking an appeal were asked to contact the Office of Catholic Education to request a meeting. Making that request is the only action needed to take part in the appeal process."
The office issued details of the review process in a press release Jan. 10
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Michael Skiendzielewski says:
Archbishop Chaput:
I want to thank you for providing the information about the members of the Finance Council of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. As a life-long member of the Philadelphia archdiocese, I would like to know (and I'm sure many others would as well) what input and access is available to members of the archdiocese with respect to the proceedings, decisions and financial matters conducted by the Finance Council of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Do the parishioners have any rights or say in the matters undertaken by the Finance Council of the archdiocese? If the parishioners are entitled to input and information relative to the council, then how is this accomplished? Are the individual members of the Finance Council permitted to speak directly with archdiocesan parishioners about the financial matters of the archdiocese? Are the parishioners permitted to contact a Board member directly with a question or concern?
Archbishop, one of the more important concerns is the publication of an annual financial report by the Finance Council of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. The last one I see available on the Internet is from 2003 and this report does not include important financial information related to assets, holdings and real estate. When will the parshioners of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia receive such an annual financial report from the Finance Council?
Re archdiocesan financial matters, who are the members of the Finance Council of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia? Who is the Chairman of the Finance Council of the Philadelphia Archdiocese?
I have made repeated requests for this information via archdiocesan offices and 17th St. office personnel are either unwilling or unable to help me retrieve the above requested information re Finance Council.

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In Minnesota, the state government is known for its dedication to social services and its residents' quality of life. That is why healthcare is such a significant priority in this area.
As healthcare standards and laws have evolved over the years, many facilities have grown rapidly to improve access to care. Management is the key to success for many of these facilities, ensuring that patients can be seen when they need care and that care is not overwhelmingly expensive for insurance companies, patients, or the state government.
If you are interested in contributing to this field's overall growth, this is the time to learn more about becoming a health care manager.
Contact Minnesota health administration programs now to find out how you can get started.
An Associate's degree is a two-year degree that combines theory and practical skills. Over the two years you spend earning your degree, you should earn approximately 60 credits in general education classes, healthcare theory courses, and practical skill coursework.
There are several ways you can get practical experience in Minnesota. If your school has a working relationship with local healthcare employers, you may complete an internship.
Keep in mind that some schools require strong academic performance for an internship, so you need to do well in your early classes to get this opportunity. Even if you earn your healthcare administration Associate degree online, try to find a local internship.
Connecting with local employers at this stage of your career can help you learn about job openings, find out how you can improve your employability, and develop a strong professional reputation for yourself.
Discover how you can earn an Associate's health administration in Minnesota by getting in touch with schools below.
Depending on your financial need and your academic performance, you may have several financial aid options to consider in Minnesota. First, make sure you fill out the FAFSA to find out which types of federal aid you may qualify for.
You can also apply for private scholarships and grants through Minnesota employers and healthcare organizations. The Minnesota Health Information Management Association sets aside funds for health management students each year. Local employer CentraCare Health supports future healthcare professionals with grants and scholarships.
Across the board, healthcare is a stable and reliable industry in Minnesota. Between 2014 and 2024, O*Net expects job openings for health information technicians to increase 10% in this state (2016). Administrative services managers may see job openings jump 7% during this time (O*Net, 2016). Demand for patient representatives may swell 4% by 2024 (O*Net, 2016).
Average salaries in Minnesota are in line with Midwestern averages. Currently, health records technicians claim an average annual income of $44,890 (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2016). The average salary for an administrative services manager is $89,670 (BLS, 2016). Minnesota patient representatives earn an average of $38,210 per year (BLS, 2016).
As you explore current topics in Minnesota healthcare, it becomes clear that this is an excellent place to start your career as a healthcare administrator. A recent analysis of national healthcare found that Minnesota is number one in the country in healthcare quality and accessibility (Biz Journals, 2016).
If you are ready to make an impression in one of the fastest growing industries in Minnesota, get more information on health administration programs now.
Use the list of schools below to contact healthcare administration schools near you.


All Things Slobbery : That's A Big Belly!
Here is just a comparison between this pregnancy and when I was pregnant with Bo. My stomach seems so huge already! I don't like this stage though because I just look pudgy.
This is 13 weeks with #2. Yikes!
This was 18 weeks with Bo.
Oh man, I've been going through my pictures and doing the same thing. It's so scary!!! That's ok. Just try to remember it's normal. We can remind each other.
No pudge, that's all adorable baby bump!


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Why Mosimane is confident he will thrive at Al Ahly
Pitso Mosimane entered the lion's den when he took over the coaching job at Al Ahly, the Club of the Century. But the former Mamelodi Sundowns coach isn't daunted by the pressure of his new post.
By: Matshelane Mamabolo
1 October 2020: Pitso Mosimane bids farewell to Mamelodi Sundowns supporters at OR Tambo airport in Johannesburg on his way to Egypt to take up his position as head coach of Al Ahly. (Photograph by Lefty Shivambu/ Gallo Images)
Though long retired from playing, Pitso "Jingles" Mosimane hardly had a beard back in 2001 and the fat content in his body was miniscule. His was a typical football story of a former star trying to break into coaching. Only he was not typical.
Whereas many an ex-star took it for granted that their success on the field would automatically translate to glory on the bench, Jingles knew it would take more than simply telling his players about his success with Jomo Cosmos, Mamelodi Sundowns and Orlando Pirates, or boasting of his time in Greece, to succeed as a coach.
The fire in his flat belly burned just as hot then as it does now in his 56-year-old protruding tummy, which threatens to send the buttons on his crisp white shirt scattering as we sit down for the interview at his house on the eve of his departure for Egypt.
That he is now the coach of Al Ahly is neither through chance nor luck. Since he replaced Bruce Grobbelaar to become caretaker coach of a SuperSport United side floundering on the brink of relegation in the middle of 2001, Mosimane has dreamed big.
The three pillars of Mamelodi Sundowns' success
During an interview at the SuperSport offices in Randburg long before he won his first trophy in 2004, Mosimane let me in on his ambitions. "Of course, I want to win trophies. Why coach if you don't dream of titles? But I want more than that. I want to coach in Africa. I want to experience football on the continent. And even if it means I start with a club in Swaziland, that would be fine."
It was an answer from left field. After all, then – and to a large extent now – local coaches only wanted to coach the traditional big two or, for the more ambitious ones, the national team.
Jingles, though, dreamed differently. That he turned the hitherto unheralded SuperSport into local cup specialists and championship contenders, who even had a good run in continental competitions, should be common knowledge. Ditto for the fact that Mosimane coached Bafana Bafana.
26 October 2016: Pitso Mosimane holds the trophy aloft as Mamelodi Sundowns arrives at OR Tambo airport after being crowned the 2016 CAF Champions League champions. (Photograph by Ihsaan Haffejee/ Anadolu Agency/ Getty Images)
The road to Club of the Century
It was while he was the national team coach that Patrice Motsepe began making overtures.
During a lunchtime interview in Sandton at the time, the Mamelodi Sundowns president came into the restaurant we were at for a chat. He directed his parting words at me: "Talk to him, man. You're his friend. Convince him to come join Sundowns."
Pitso chuckled.
"Would you go?" I asked.
He chuckled again and tucked into his meal.
In almost eight years at Sundowns, Mosimane has established himself as one of the continent's foremost coaches. And his appointment as coach of Africa's foremost club is not a fluke. The man has earned his spurs.
Granted, he was helped by the fact that he worked for a club with means. This much he admitted during our recent interview. "Of course, the president made his resources available for us, and without that we would not have achieved this."
But he worked his socks off to ensure that success. Those who have worked with him speak of how he often called them late at night or in the early hours of the morning for a discussion about a play that went wrong in a match or a result that didn't go their way.
Sundowns players analyse their play, the team's game and the opposition individually, because they dare not be found wanting in discussions with the coach. Once, Mosimane told me how he sometimes envies many of his Premier Soccer League (PSL) counterparts, particularly the ones from Europe.
"These guys are on holiday. They spend time at the malls or in restaurants. Some are at golf courses most of the time. That's the life, hey. I wish I had that. But I cannot. I have got to work. Who is going to find out about our next opposition in the preliminary round of the [CAF] Champions League if I don't do the research myself?"
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It is for that reason that there are no less than four DStv decoders in his house, most of which are low on memory, filled as they are with recordings of matches from all over the continent as well as lots of basketball matches and documentaries. He loves basketball, does Mosimane.
"I'm a big fan of Phil Jackson. The man is a legend. I'd love to be at that level some day. But it takes hard work, hey. You don't just wake up and get there," he said in an interview a few years ago.
We were in his study then, and the bookshelf could easily have been that of a top public library, it was that full. He gifted me one of the books, Phil Jackson's Eleven Rings.
That he admires the legendary coach of the Chicago Bulls and the Los Angeles Lakers confirms that he dreams big.
And as he opened up about his move to Ahly, he spoke of how he wishes to see the likes of his protégé Rhulani Mokwena making it big in Europe.
"I always tell Rhulani that they are the generation of local coaches to go to Europe. And how does Rhulani go to Europe? Pitso must go to Egypt and show that we can take on the big jobs. Of course, it is difficult. I was talking to [former Manchester United striker] Dwight Yorke the other time when we were analysts together and he was saying how difficult it is for them [black coaches] to enter that space [the English Premier League]. But [white] guys who didn't even play get the chance. Look, it has taken over 100 years for Ahly to hire a black coach. But those of us who get these chances, if you win games, that might help [open the doors for others]."
21 May 2016: From left, Rhulani Mokwena and Pitso Mosimane celebrate during the Absa Premiership match between Mamelodi Sundowns and Platinum Stars at Lucas Moripe Stadium in Pretoria. (Photograph by Lefty Shivambu/ Gallo Images)
Entering the lion's den
Of all the reactions to Mosimane's appointment as coach of Al Ahly, perhaps the most telling was a tweet by an Egyptian-American by the name of Hosam Gabr. "You guys gotta be proud he's the first African coach outside Egypt to take charge," @SamGabr14 tweeted.
Granted, a section of Sundowns fans expressed disappointment and anger at Mosimane for having ditched their club like a hot potato. This, after all, was a man who had just led them to a third successive domestic championship title, a fifth in his tenure and 10th overall for the Brazilians since the advent of the PSL.
That he had also just signed a four-year extension to his deal would have made his sudden departure that much more difficult to bear for Masandawana.
But there can be no denying that Jingles' move is a moment of which to be proud, and not only for the South African football fraternity but for the rest of sub-Saharan Africa. For the huge institution that is the 103-year-old African Club of the Century to pick a coach from this region to revive their fortunes says to black coaches that there is nothing to stop them from dreaming big. Surely, if Pitso can make that huge step up, so can they.
Cecilia Molokwane had a tough trek to the top
There was a second part to Gabr's tweet, though. One that essentially sums up best the kind of cauldron in which Jingles now finds himself: "I believe if he doesn't win the Champions League in one month, he will be back."
A bit exaggerated, perhaps, for surely Ahly would not judge Mosimane's abilities in a mere three matches, would they? The Red Devils are in the Champions League semifinal, where they will face off against Mosimane's big rivals, Wydad Casablanca of Morocco, in a two-leg clash next month for a spot in the final against either Zamalek – Ahly's sworn enemies in Cairo – or Raja Casablanca.
Do I hear South Africans say Chippa United in reference to the premiership club from the Eastern Cape whose boss is renowned for his trigger-happiness?
Granted, Ahly have signed Mosimane for the main purpose that he leads them to continental glory following an uncharacteristic seven-year dry spell since their last victory over Orlando Pirates in 2013. But while failure to win the Champions League will put the former Bafana Bafana coach on the back foot in a big way, Ahly chairperson Mahmoud El Khatib is a football man – a legendary Ahly star from the 1970s and 1980s – and would most likely exercise some patience with his new coach.
1 October 2020: Pitso Mosimane says goodbye to Sundowns fans as he departs for Egypt from OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg. (Photograph by Lefty Shivambu/ Gallo Images)
Not that Mosimane is unaware of what he has gotten himself into. "This is like coaching [Real] Madrid or Barca in Europe. It's like coaching Flamengo or Santos, or River Plate or Boca Juniors in South America. It is as huge as that. So you say to yourself, let me go there.
"Of course, you know the risks are big in those big clubs. If you look at the record of the team itself, you won't be going easily because coaches don't last in that space. But I could say the same thing about when I came to Mamelodi Sundowns. The lifespan of coaches at Sundowns was not even a year; it was about eight to nine months before I came in. And I said to myself, do I want to go to that environment? But look what came out – almost eight years came out. So, it's either you go there and believe you can succeed.
"I don't go to a space where I don't think it can work out. I believe it will work out because I've played against Zamalek, I've played against Al Ahly. And not once. Those are the dominant teams that win the league in that space. So, what else should I be afraid of in that space? And they are competing against Wydad that I've played against, I think, 10 times."
He always has been a can-do guy, Pitso Mosimane. And while it really is a cauldron into which he has dived, if ever there is a local coach who can make a success of his two-year contract with the continent's biggest club, it is Mosimane.
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I got a new iPad this week. I've been using my trusty original wifi only iPad (with that huge 16 GB of storage!) for over two years now. While the new device is infinitely more beautiful to read and look at, the striking thing is that now, I can actually have apps and data that I've been having to leave in the Cloud on my previous machine. Also, I don't have to worry that the application RAM will get full and cause an app to hang or quit mysteriously.
I'm still amazed by how thin this unit is compared to my original. I rarely took the original out unless it was in a case, but the smart cover on this new iPad is giving me just enough grip and protection for the screen, and it's a svelte package, I must say.
I thought my original iPad would not be worth much on the wholesale market, and I was right. Gazelle wanted to give me $150 for it. I figured eBay would be a little more generous, but I think I actually underestimated the market. I posted it at 1:40 in the morning with a "Buy It Now" price of $199 plus shipping. Figured it would take a day or two to close. I got the listing email, and two minutes later, no lie, it was sold. Crazy!
So, as I tweeted just after that, I think there's a huge market out there for used iPads, but I don't think used "tablets" are in much demand, except from the geekiest of folks. Sure, new, fire-sale-priced Android tablets will make headlines, but a current-OS-running machine is what folks really want, without the hassle of rooting it and forcing it to do something other than what it was built to do.


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When Boston public schools introduced a new standard map of the world this week, some young students felt their jaws drop. In an instant, their view of the world had changed.
From the BBC: How US students get a university degree for free in Germany.
Across the US parents are preparing for their children to leave the nest this summer, but not many send them 4,800 miles (7,700km) away – or to a continent that no family member has ever set foot in.
I love this, and wish all countries would follow Germany's lead. I was particularly interested in the What's in it for Germany? section of the article.
Have you ever landed in the hell that is standardized testing? Do names like Pearson appear in your nightmares? If so, or if you're just interested in twisty tales and educational quality, you'll want to read this: A prof debunks standardized testing and Pearson strikes back.
A Globe and Mail article explains that Queen's University has hired conversation cops to interrupt conversations that aren't up to politically correct standards.
Your friend's new fuchsia fedora might be hideous. But don't call it gay, or you might get a language lesson from the conversation cops. [continue].
The end of the article includes "a sampling of some behaviour that could warrant attention" from one of these interlopers. One of the examples is "if a student avoids a classmate's birthday party for faith-based reasons." So making decisions based on one's faith is now a problem that requires official intervention? Sheesh.
From the New York Times: Reaching an Autistic Teenager.
From the New York Times: Training Young Brains to Behave.
But just as biology shapes behavior, so behavior can accelerate biology. And a small group of educational and cognitive scientists now say that mental exercises of a certain kind can teach children to become more self-possessed at earlier ages, reducing stress levels at home and improving their experience in school. Researchers can test this ability, which they call executive function, and they say it is more strongly associated with school success than I.Q.
"We know that the prefrontal cortex is not fully developed until the 20s, and some people will ask, 'Why are you trying to improve prefrontal abilities when the biological substrate is not there yet?' " said Adele Diamond, a professor of developmental cognitive science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. "I tell them that 2-year-olds have legs, too, which will not reach full length for 10 years or more — but they can still walk and run and benefit from exercise."
From The Guardian: Teach magic lessons in school, says professor.
From the New York Times: Idaho Turns to Chess as Education Strategy.
Michael Tiemann gave his 8-year-old daughter an XO laptop for Christmas, and blogs about how that's working out: Risks–and rewards–of XO laptop.
…the real fun began after we started to explore the XO's games. I told her to open Pippy and we played the "guess the number" game. In Pippy, the source code appears on the top half of the screen, and the interaction window (where you enter your name and guess the number) appears on the bottom half. She played the game three times, averaging about 7 guesses per try, and then said "I want to play another game." I suggested she try playing a different game by modifying the parameters to guess a number between 1 and 1,000,000, instead of between 1 and 100. She looked at me with wide eyes. I explained that on the top was a program, the program of the game, and that if she changed a single number in two places, she could change the game itself. She went from a look of "no way" to a look of "OK! What are we waiting for!" in about 200 milliseconds. She started to enter a million, decided that was just a little too large, and changed it to 1,000. She hit "run" and sure enough, the prompt asked for a guess between 1 and 1,000. She looked at me excitedly. I told her to guess, and after 11 guesses, she got it. She looked at me again, somewhat amazed. I told her she had just programmed the computer. I might as well have told her we were going to spend a week in Cinderella's castle — she jumped up, shrieked, and yelled "HEY MOMMY! GUESS WHAT!? I JUST PROGRAMMED THE COMPUTER!"
Meanwhile, physorg has an article about how kids are doing with the XO laptops in Peru.
From the New York Times: The Residential Collage.
On a Monday in April, a dozen or so Cornell students living at the Alice Cook House had dinner with the legendary White House reporter Helen Thomas. They had been invited by Ross Brann, a professor of Judeo-Islamic studies, who also happens to be dean of Cook House, where his apartment has a spacious room meant specifically for this kind of entertaining.
The Freshman Commons at Vanderbilt, in Nashville, is to open in fall 2008 as the first stage of a campuswide conversion to a residential college system.
Meanwhile, a university vice provost was holding an open meeting, on the subject of diversity at Cornell, in the Cook common room, the setting the next night for a panel discussion on "Women in Islam." Before it began, in the seminar room next door, Cook residents studying Middle Eastern languages held their weekly "Jeopardy" competition in Arabic; then, two graduate fellows led a study session for students seeking help in chemistry.
On Wednesday, all 350 or so residents — students and graduate fellows — had dinner together. (The food was Southwestern.) On Thursday, Jewish and Muslim students met for their weekly discussion group, and on Friday, Professor Brann was the host of a tea, where Dr. Stephen Ajl, a pediatrics professor with the State University of New York, held forth on the politics of health care. At the same time, Cornell's director of undergraduate studies in French joined students in a seminar room for their weekly viewing of "X-Files" reruns.
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One of the most talked about and controversial videos on the internet at the moment.
Difficult to know what section to put it as it encompasses so many things.
Interesting video. The graphics are really well done and this must have taken the creator a lot of effort.
The meaning of it all is up to the interpretation of the viewer, but it's certainly a dark view of humanity. It seems to be begging the questions regarding separatism leading to constant warfare. Ironically, the re-poster of this vid insists on asserting that Youtube censorship is some kind of Zionist conspiracy.
The creator is the guy who created the animation for Gollum in the Lord of the rings movies. The movie is really big in conspiracy theory circles. Infirno is going to love it.
What was amazing. What a piece of art. I'll comment further when I've watched it once or twice more.
I believe the meaning is that a shadowy group are manipulating religion for their own aims.
Notice that Bin Laden is wearing a CIA ops uniform.
The goat represents baphomet. He is swirling his head and goat the masses in a trance.
Satan is holding the strings.
And our leaders are under His spell and are puppets.
Did you see the horns being thrown up?
The girl representing Eve as the taking the forbidden fruit.
I did not get the 7 and 0 on the floor!
Notice the black and white floors! Meaning opposites merging!
We seen the apple spliting into opposites and then they merge into a flower!
The american flag swept away in the wind!
We have the twin towers crumbling.
We see the praise of Allah with a cresant moon.
We see the blood dropping in the water.
We see the six pointed star, which means triangle up and triangel down, as above so is below.
We see the fetus with the serpent. The antichirst and satans seed. The serpent has a all seeing eye.
We see Horus, Horus was a fusion of God and man, a hybrid.
The hybrid child has a illuminated eye.
We are controled. We are told what to think and do.
The statue of liberty represents, Isis, Mary, Juno and all those pagan goddess.
We the represtntation of the hybrid child- the sntichrist as the messiah.
We satan falling from amoungst the stars.
We the combination of opposites. male and female.
False prophets. Only ones surviving are controlled.
The entering and existing of the same chambers as Mosque and Cathedrals. The abyss.
Stars, a.k.a. angels, falling down.
The false messiah, antichrist, standing about in fire.
The links above are an analyses of I pet goat II, by some Christian Group.
They have hit on a lot of the points made in the film but get bogged down in their own faith. I know that the creator Louis Lefebvre does not agree with their analyses.
I added the above links because they include the book reading on 9/11. That is so creepy.
Also their comments on the Norway spiral I find interesting.
The film appears to represent different things depending on the persons beliefs.
I would be interested in an Islamic view point. Islam is featured throughout the film.
If anything it is a beautiful piece of symbolic animation.
Watched this earlier and it was trippy!
I liked it, but I don't see the artist has anything in particular to say..


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When Taking a Walk At Night Was an Act of Civil Disobedience
Seventy-seven years ago today, Oregon's Minoru Yasui defied the government's curfew on Japanese Americans in a brave act of civil disobedience at the start of World War II.
March 28, 2019 Immigrants' Rights
Beware the Tech Industry's Latest Privacy Trojan Horse
Did you hear the story about the do-gooder tech company that is pushing new state "privacy" bills across the nation?
VIDEO: The 2019 Liberty Dinner was spectacular!
The energy in the Oregon Convention Center, with 700 freedom defenders and civil rights advocates in one room, was electric last Friday. Thank you to everybody who made this year's Liberty Dinner so special!
Too Poor to Pay: The Harms of Debt-Based Driver License Suspensions
Debt-based driver's license suspensions are a poverty penalty that punish people solely because they are poor. It is time to end this harmful practice in Oregon.
There Is No 'National Emergency' at the Border, and Trump's Declaration Is Illegal
After more than a month of threats, a government shutdown, and bipartisan action by Congress, President Trump has finally declared a national emergency to spend billions of taxpayer dollars on his border wall obsession.
Progress in the fight for humane conditions at the Douglas County Jail
Today, we announced a settlement with Douglas County in our federal lawsuit that challenged the inhumane conditions in the county jail. Terri Carlisle, our client, was denied pain medication and subjected to foul conditions and cruel treatment in the jail.


Studies show that schools that use outdoor classrooms and other forms of experiential education produce significant student gains in social studies, science, language arts, and math. So let's cure our children's "nature-deficit disorder."
In my generation, this was the stereotypical rant of the parent who wanted some peace and quiet. So the woods were where my neighborhood tribe played. Just across Merriam Street, past the abandoned car graveyard, were mysterious paths through white pine groves, streams and ponds with frogs and pickerel, and the lore we invented for our redoubts and rambles. But it wasn't play: it was serious exploration, time for ingenuity with sticks and stones, time and space, quiet. Time to observe and, most importantly, to be unobserved. In the woods, we suburban kids could decant our school and family activities and roles—and stretch.
Apparently there was more going on in our outside play than even we woodland orcs knew. Recent commentaries suggest that contemporary American society is in danger of losing some of the critical benefits of time spent in natural surroundings. Here at school, we've been picking up on recent articles about the loss of rapport with the world outside. In his 2005 book, Last Child in the Woods, Richard Louv coined the term "nature deficit disorder" to describe the alienation of kids from pine woods experiences.
According to a range of studies, children in outdoor-education settings show increases in self-esteem, problem solving, and motivation to learn.
In our rural setting, we tend to take at face value the beauty, wonder, and learning to be had on a stroll by the shore or a walk in "Wiggly" woods, or just a lazy afternoon flopping around on the town common. E.O. Wilson says that we are all still hunter gatherers, "and there is something in us, which we do not fully understand, that needs an occasional immersion in nature." Louv questions the leave-no-child-outside movement in schools and its test-centric focus on learning. "When we challenge schools to incorporate place-based learning in the natural world," he writes in Orion Magazine, "we will help students realize that school isn't supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a portal to the wider world." Kids need real wild things and experiences, as well as information.
We who live on the shore of the mighty Penobscot River take awe and wonder at nature for granted. Physical benefits to playing outside and breathing fresh air? Preaching to the choir! But I was struck by this data: "Studies of students in California and nationwide show that schools that use outdoor classrooms and other forms of experiential education produce significant student gains in social studies, science, language arts, and math.
Studies of students in California and nationwide show that schools that use outdoor classrooms and other forms of experiential education produce significant student gains in social studies, science, language arts, and math.
"And the benefits go beyond test scores. According to a range of studies, children in outdoor-education settings show increases in self-esteem, problem solving, and motivation to learn…Research also shows a positive correlation between the length of children's attention spans and direct experience in nature," according to Louv.
It seems natural that a school with its own timber frame nature center, built with timber that kids helped harvest and mill, sees an opportunity to do more with its natural surroundings. Place-based learning is for us—we have a unique place as base. Sim City is not, since you don't get pine pitch on your hands.
Research shows a positive correlation between the length of children's attention spans and direct experience in nature.
Our student council would like to grow vegetables for the school lunch program. We'll get our seed order in pronto and do some planting as soon as mud season relents out at Nelson Acres. We have already purchased our monster pumpkin seeds and we've been composting manure since fall. Imagine Adams kids harvesting crops that they chose to grow and preparing them for lunch. What would that kid know and understand about food that mere consumers of school lunch can't? It's our own roots and shoots program.
Our middle-level science teacher, Bill McWeeny, had the honor of hearing Jane Goodall speak in Cambridge recently. She is, of course, the real founder of "Roots and Shoots," and the kind of inspired naturalist who bridges science and play. Her path in life is a great model, since her inquiry and powers of observation began as a young child in the family chicken coop, and led to defying the received wisdom of her professors at Cambridge University, followed by her famous field study in Gambia. Nature was her greatest teacher, in the guise of chimpanzees whom she dared to name and socialize with. But her arc of nature studies began in that backyard chicken coop, waiting to see exactly where an egg comes from. Her mother was panicked; they searched high and low. Where was Jane? But her mother had the good sense to listen to Jane's entire, passionate description of her discovery without overwhelming the child naturalist with her personal alarm. If you say, "Go outside and play," you have to expect "interesting" consequences.
What we're discovering is a field of study, a field of endeavor, a conservation trust field outside of town, a field growing giant pumpkins that we take to the county fair—a field of dreams, with kids and their pocket magnifying glasses examining rare butterflies and wild flowers. We may be on the verge of fields where such quantum leaps of inquiry and imagination take place, that mere test score increases seem paltry measures. We'll embrace the consequences. I think there just might be room for a hen house behind the nature center….


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Divided Decade
Once "too small to thrive," now some banks are "too big to fail"
Sabri Ben-Achour Sep 11, 2018
https://www.marketplace.org/2018/09/11/once-too-small-thrive-now-some-banks-are-too-big-fail/
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Ten years ago this week, investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed. Unlike similar financial institutions, it collected no government bailout. It was not too big to fail.
"Too big to fail" is closely associated with the financial crisis of a decade ago. It was used as a justification for those government bailouts.
The idea behind "too big to fail," of course, is that some institutions are just so massive and interconnected that their failure would mean disaster for the economy.
And today? Lots of firms seem to fit that classification.
Let's just take JPMorgan Chase. It manages $2.8 trillion. That's more than the gross domestic product of Canada, Italy or Brazil. Just six banks manage more than half the assets in the whole banking industry. Most of them would be considered too big to fail.
There was a time when banks were small and plentiful.
"At the all-time peak in the United States, around 1921 or 1922, there were 31,000 or 32,000 banks," said Richard Sylla, New York University financial historian and professor emeritus.
The Great Depression wiped out thousands of banks, but for about 40 years after that, the number was stable. Until it wasn't.
"There's been a tremendous amount of consolidation during the last four decades," Sylla said. "The American banking system went from about 13 or 14,000 commercial banks four decades ago down to closer to 5,000 now."
One reason there were so many banks is because state laws ensured it. Federal law left the regulation of bank branches up to states. Different states had different rules, and rules within states could be pretty restrictive.
"For most of American history, banks were not able to cross state lines," said Frederic Mishkin, Columbia University professor of banking and financial institutions. "In some states you could only have only one branch."
Some banks lobbied for it to be this way, Mishkin said.
"This actually was a way for banks to not be as competitive, and particularly if you're a bank in one state you don't want to have people from other states come in and take away some of your business. So you'll fight like hell to keep them out," he said.
Just because there were a lot of banks back in the '70s and '80s does not mean they were good banks.
"I lived in Chicago in the 1980s, and the service was just horrendous because the competition was just terrible," Mishkin said. "I had a case where they had a check that that was forged. They cashed it and they're supposed to give me the money back. I never got it back. So it was a different world."
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But the real problem for banks of that era was that because they were small, they were fragile, said Robert Hendershott, hedge fund portfolio manager and Santa Clara University associate professor of finance. "Having tens of thousands of tiny little banks is economically insane," he said. "It is not an efficient way to organize a banking system."
Today we talk about banks being too big to fail, but back then they had the opposite problem.
"The U.S. banking industry was too small to thrive," Hendershott said.
He points to Texas, where oil was king in the '80s. Texas had more banks than any other state. Regional banks, like those in Texas, were not diversified. They were tied to the local economy. So when the price of oil fell to $10 a barrel, hundreds of Texas banks failed. The number of banks in the United States also shrank during the thrift crisis in the late '80s and the recession in the early '90s.
It's at this point that Congress started to take notice, and in 1994, it passed the Interstate Banking and Branching Efficiency Act.
"That was where Congress tore down all the barriers and banks became free to merge and grow across state lines," Hendershott said.
And that is exactly what banks did. Through the Great Recession, banks consolidated even further as some failed and were bought up by others. And more banks went from "too small to thrive" to "too big to fail."
This story is part of Divided Decade, a yearlong series examining how the financial crisis changed America.
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Peabody Ragtime Ensemble
More About The Peabody Ragtime Ensemble
Peabody Ragtime Ensemble, an acoustic Baltimore-based septet, is a "little big band," that was founded in 1974 as an informal student group at thePeabody Conservatory of Music when Ragtime was the rage. Since then, the Ensemble has evolved into a professional jazz ensemble dedicated to preserving America's historic Jazz tradition through performance of the vintage repertoire in concert, party and dance settings. Today, under the direction of Ed Goldstein, Peabody Ragtime Ensemble has performed over 4500 engagements, including more than 1650 school concerts during a 28-year partnership with Young Audiences of Maryland, Inc.
APPEARED IN CONCERT WITH:
Hal Linden
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Louie Bellson
Artie Shaw Orchestra
PERFORMED & OPENED FOR:
Eubie Blake
Alberta Hunter
The Smothers Brothers
Roberta Flack
Governor's Citation, recognizing 25 years of musical service to the State of Maryland
"Baltimore's Best"—Baltimore Magazine: Jazz Band; Dixieland Band; Wedding Music; Party Music
"WAMMY" Award for Best Dixieland Band by the Washington Area Music Association
Maryland Music Educators Award for Distinguished Service
Winners of the Baltimore City Jazz Quest Competition
Performed in concert with Baltimore's legendary Eubie Blake
A program of All-American music from 1880 to the 1950s including:
Ragtime — Compositions of Scott Joplin, Eubie Blake and their contemporaries
Dixieland — New Orleans-style improvisation and foot-stomping choruses
Big Band and Swing — Lush arrangements celebrating the superstars of Jazz
Novelties, Ethnic, Latin, etc. — Vocals, standards, special requests, show tunes
Concert tour of the Soviet Union, in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institute
Featured artists at the 7th Annual Copenhagen Jazz Festival
Annual New England tour for nine consecutive years
Ragtime, Dixieland and All That Jazz
Ragtime Band, featuring the music of Scott Joplin and Eubie Blake
Tiger By The Tail
Live At The Homecoming
Instrumentation for the Ensemble features: Flute, Piccolo, and Tenor Sax; Clarinet doubling on Soprano and Alto Sax; Trumpet and Cornet; Trombone; Tuba; Piano; Percussion; and Vocals.
C Jam Blues (video)
A Selection of Our Performance Venues
What To Expect at a Peabody Ragtime Ensemble Concert
In Memory of Joe Rinaldi


When you're dealing with cancer, it can be hard to stay focused and cope day after day. But for many patients and caregivers, having a mantra can help. And sometimes the best mantra -- the one that really speaks to you -- comes from someone else who's walked in your shoes.
This past year, dozens of our patients and caregivers shared great mantras and words of wisdom on our Cancerwise blog and in video interviews.
Adele Hartland says that if anyone can handle breast cancer, it's her.
"Who else has 20 wigs in her garage and lives 10 minutes from MD Anderson?" she says jokingly as she passes out candy canes to fellow patients in Mays Clinic.


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Northam says next phase of reopening at least a week away
Ralph Northam
By ALAN SUDERMAN - Associated Press - Thursday, May 28, 2020
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Looser restrictions on businesses and social gatherings during the coronavirus pandemic are still at least a week away in Virginia, the governor said Thursday.
Gov. Ralph Northam said current coronavirus-related trends are "encouraging" but more data is needed before the state can start its second phase of reopening. He said the earliest the state would move into Phase 2 would be June 5.
"We want to be very careful and deliberate as we move forward," Northam said.
The governor has previously indicated that the second phase of reopening would allow for social gatherings of no more than 50 people. He also has said he would loosen other restrictions in Phase 2, but hasn't provided specific details.
After two months of being largely shut down amid the coronavirus, most of Virginia began the first phase of a gradual reopening on May 15. Retail stores have reopened with limited capacity, but indoor gyms remain closed and restaurants are prohibited from offering dine-in service except for in outdoor spaces.
Northam later allowed Virginia Beach to reopen its beaches with social distancing measures in place and on Thursday announced that every other public beach in the state can reopen Friday. And he announced that he would allow NASCAR to run single-day events without any spectators present. A June 10 race is currently planned to take place in Martinsville.
Also on Friday, Northern Virginia, Richmond and Accomack County will join the rest of the state in starting the first phase of reopening. Those areas delayed reopening after local officials expressed concerns they weren't yet ready.
At his news conference Thursday, Northam also defended his recent order requiring that masks be worn in stores and other public spaces. Republicans and some businesses have expressed concerns that the mandate will put an unfair burden on businesses by making them have to enforce it.
Northam said he doesn't want businesses to feel compelled to enforce the policy and urged them to contact the Department of Health or a local health office is someone is refusing to wear a mask.
"The intent of this is to do the right thing and to take care of those around you," Northam said. "It's not to lock people up in jail."


JEROME, Idaho (KLIX) – Two Idaho State Police troopers were recognized on Friday for actions they took that saved a man's life last summer.
ISP Senior Trooper Robert Allred and Trooper Jonathan Demcak were awarded the agency's Silver Star for their lifesaving actions while responding to a multi-vehicle crash on July 3, 2018, on Interstate 84.
According to ISP spokesman Tim Marsano, the troopers were assisting another motorist on July 3 near milepost 187 in Jerome County when one of the officers heard a loud crash and explosion about a half-mile away. As they soon found out, the noise came from a crash between two commercial vehicles.
When the troopers arrived on scene, they found that one of the drivers was trapped inside his vehicle, which was lying on its side and on fire, Marsano explained in information sent to News Radio 1310. The two troopers, with the assistance of civilian bystander William Thompson, worked to dislodge the driver from the burning wreck and pull him to safety before flames engulfed the vehicles.
Marsano said the Silver Star is the second highest award for heroism in the face of danger that may be presented to a sworn officer. Thompson, a truck driver from Texas, also was recognized for the role he played in helping to save the man's life.