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Friedrich Engels as a newspaper reporter... The Real Issue in Turkey...
NEW YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, April 12, 1853 This is an interesting issue, and an opportunity to own an original, 19th century newspaper containing an article written by Friedrich Engels, who along with Karl Marx became the most recognized communist revolutionaries of all time. Prior to becoming known for the political efforts, both men were foreign correspondents for the New York Tribune.
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The Missouri Compromise... Missouri and Maine Statehood...
Mordecai Noah & his Jewish refuge island (near Niagra Falls)...
NILES' WEEKLY REGISTER, Baltimore, March 11, 1820
* Missouri Compromise
* Maine and Missouri become states
* Mordecai Manuel Noah... Grand Island... Jewish settlement
The top of the front page has an article which announces the approval of the Missouri Compromise: "The bills for the admission of Maine and Missouri into the union have been respectively signed by the president... See More
Item from Catalog 290 (released for January, 2020)...
Karl Marx as a newspaper reporter (with signature)... The Berlin Conspiracy..."
THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE, April 19, 1853
* Karl Marx - German revolutionary socialist
Article begins on pg. 7 and continues for roughly 3/4 of a column. The article is titled "THE BERLIN CONSPIRACY-" which is written by Karl Marx, and is appropriately signed in type: Karl Marx. See images for portion.
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Karl Marx as a newspaper reporter (with signature)... The Berlin Conspiracy-London Police..."
Article begins on pg. 7 and continues for roughly 3/4 of a column. The article is titled "THE BERLIN CONSPIRACY-LONDON POLICE-MAZZINI-RADETZKY" which is written by Karl Marx, and is appropriately signed in type: Karl Marx. See images for portion.
Note: This is an interesting issue which... See More
THE DAILY DELTA, New Orleans, Louisiana, Jan. 23, 1862
* Rare Confederate title from the deep South
* News from Richmond, Pensacola, forts Henry & Donelson
Front page has: "Letter From Richmond" "From Pensacola". Inside has: "The Government & the War" "Late Northern Intelligence""From Our Army in the West" "Affairs at Forts Hen... See More
Karl Marx as a newspaper reporter (with signature)... "Achievements of the Ministry..."
NEW YORK SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE, April 29, 1853
Article begins on pg. 6 and continues for roughly 1.5 columns. The article is titled "ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE MINISTRY" which is written by Karl Marx, and is appropriately signed in type: Karl Marx. See images for portion.
Note: This is an interesting issue which provides the opport... See More
The 28th Indiana Colored Regiment from 1866...
A rare document for the 28th Indiana Colored Regiment dated January 9, 1866.
"Quarterly Return Of Ordnance & Ordnance Stores received, issued, and remaining on hand in Company G, 28th Regiment, U.S. Colored Infantry."
This document has a lengthy list of military ordnance and accoutrements with penned notations of the quantity accounted for (see photos). The front panel notes th... See More
From southwest New Mexico (Hidalgo County)...
WESTERN LIBERAL, Lordsburg, New Mexico, Jan. 20, 1893
* Very rare title
* Hidalgo County
This would seem to be our last issue of this scarce title. Lordsburg was founded in 1880 along the Southern Pacific Railroad in southwest New Mexico, close to the Arizona border. Today the population is less than 3500. Nineteenth century issues are held by only one institution in the United States... See More
Karl Marx as a newspaper reporter (with signature)... "The Rocket Affair-The Swiss Insurrection......"
NEW-YORK SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE Tribune, May 17, 1853
An article begins on pg. 1 and continues for roughly 1 column and is titled: "THE ROCKET AFFAIR-THE SWISS INSURRECTION", which is written by Karl Marx and is appropriately signed in type: Karl Marx. See images for portion.
Note: This is an interesting issue which provides the op... See More
On the arrest of Medary, the publisher of this newspaper...
THE CRISIS, Columbus, Ohio, June 1, 1864
* Samuel Medary arrested
* Best title to be had (rare)
A notable issue as the front page has good content reporting on the arrest of Samuel Medary, the publisher of this newspaper. The first article is: "Is It Revolution! -- More Arrests" followed by: "Liberty Lies Sunned & Bleeding From Assassin Blows & Wounds!" whi... See More
How cartoons are made...
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, Oct. 14, 1916 The entire front page is taken up with an illustration captioned: "Animated Cartoons In the Making: Filming the Successive Drawings." showing a man doing just that. An inside page is entirely devoted to: "Animated Cartoons in the Making--How 16,000 Drawings are Prepared & Photographed in Producing 1000 Feet of Motion Picture Fil... See More
The first successful magazine in the country...
THE CHRISTIAN HISTORY, Boston, Massachusetts, July 30, 1743
* Rare colonial periodical
This was the very first successful magazine in America, preceded by just a few magazines which lasted but a couple of issues--one of which was by Ben Franklin. Even this title lasted but a few short years.
As the subtitle reads: "Containing Accounts of the Propagation & Revival of Religio... See More
Jesse James & Younger brothers gang... Sitting Bull...
THE NEW YORK TIMES, July 10, 1876
* Jesse James Gang... Younger Brothers
* Otterville, Missouri Train robbery
The front page has: "The Missouri Railroad Robbers" with subheads: "Bodies of Men in Pursuit of the Outlaws--Their Capture Hourly Expected--The Adams Express Company's Loss" with some details, and closing with: "...There is reason to believe that t... See More
The death of Jesse James...
FITCHBURG DAILY SENTINEL, Massachusetts, April 4, 1882
* Jesse James assassination
* Robert & Charles Ford
* St. Joseph, Missouri
Page two contains a significant report of the shooting of noted outlaw Jesse James by two former James Gang members, Charles and Robert Ford. The report is headed: "Jesse James Killed" and reads in part: "...from St. Joseph says: &... See More
Fall of New Orleans to the Yankees, in a Confederate newspaper...
DAILY RICHMOND EXAMINER, Virginia, April 30, 1862
* Fall of New Orleans, Louisiana
* Admiral David Farragut
* From the capital of the Confederacy
A very historic report as page 3 contains an early account of the fall of New Orleans to the Yankees, which obviously was a solemn admonition for a Confederate newspaper. The report is taken from Yankee sources with the top of a page 3 colu... See More
Boston newspaper with Loyalist leanings...
THE BOSTON CHRONICLE, Dec. 26, 1768
* Pro-British American publication
* Boston is causing trouble
The publisher of this newspaper had Loyalist leanings, causing its demise before the formal outbreak of the Revolutionary War.
All of pages 1 & 2 are taken up with a continued report on: "Voltaire on History". Page 3 has: "The Opinions of the Ministers of the colony o... See More
a rare mention of women pirates...
MIST'S WEEKLY JOURNAL, London, May 28, 1726
* Very rare mention of Woman pirates
* Rare 18th century title
The back page contains a neat advertisement (see) for a book just published, which is: "A General History of the PYRATES, from their first settlement in the island of Providence to the present time; with the remarkable actions and adventures of the two Female Pyrates Ma... See More
The horrors of the Johnstown flood...
MEMPHIS APPEAL, Tennessee, June 4, 1889
* The great Johnstown flood of 1889
* South Fork Dam collapse
Most of the front page it taken up with reports on the historic Johnstown [Pa.] Flood with first column heads including: "NO END TO IT" "The Story of Johnstown Not Half Told" "The Mind of Man Cannot Conceive the Horrors of It" "The Press Acknow... See More
PENNSYLVANIA EVENING POST, Philadelphia, Dec. 23, 1775 Front page report mentions the meeting of a Provincial Congress in Charlestown, South Carolina. Interesting ftpg. letter concerning a runaway slave on board a British ship. Pg. 2 has political reports from New York & Philadelphia, including mention that: "...pursue every measure which the Congress may recommend to them a
An Abraham Lincoln speech...
Charleston newspaper after Yankee occupation...
CHARLESTON COURIER, South Carolina, April 21, 1865
* Post death report of a speech given by President Lincoln
* Coverage of his
An early issue of this newspaper under Yankee control, as Sherman occupied this significant Confederate city on February 18. This is "new series" volume 1, number 48.
The front page has: "Our Victories" "Important Speech of Preside... See More
Early and rare newspaper from Tucson...
ARIZONA CITIZEN, Tucson, Pima County, A.T. (Arizona Territory), October 28, 1871
A very early & rare title from Southern Arizona, published 41 years before Arizona would become a state. Our records indicate this is the earliest date of this title we have offered in memory, the previous earliest dated 1874.
Inside has: "The Apache War" "Colyer's Canad... See More
Early Taxidermy In 1875...
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, March 13, 1875. This 16 page issue is in nice condition and contains illustrations of the latest inventions of the day including the following inventions: EARLY TAXIDERMY - ANIMAL TRAP - SAFETY GOVERNOR - STEAM TRAP & Much More. These illustrations also have text that goes along with them. Very interesting advertisements as well, back in the day when many of the ... See More
Professor Reuss invented the telephone?
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, March 4, 1876 The ftpg. shows: "An Australian Man-Of-War" with a related article. Inside print: "Professor Reuss' Telephone" with article; "the Invention of the Telephone" , a crane mounted on a railroad car, and various other articles with prints.
Sixteen pages, good condition.
1993 World Trade Center Bombing...
DAILY NEWS, New York, NY, February 27, 1993
* 1st attack on World trade Center
* Terrorists
* In a NYC paper
This 32 page newspaper contains news of the day and interesting advertisements throughout including the following featured material: Reports on the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing which was the first act of terrorism against the buildings which failed.
Nice to have from a New Yo... See More
Formation of the Mormon Church...
NILES' WEEKLY REGISTER, Baltimore, July 16, 1831 Page 17 has a fine and very early account of the formation of the Mormon church, headed: "Mormonism".
The bias against the Mormons is revealed in the report, which includes: "...certain knaves, pretending to have some holy writings hidden under a stone in Ontario county...started a new religion! The leaders make bold pretensi
Charles Darwin in 1867... Randall's Island...
HARPER'S MONTHLY, New York, NY, December, 1867
* Lengthy article re: Charles Darwin
* Children's nurseries on Randall's Island w/ illustrations
The two most noteworthy items within this issue are: "DARWIN AND DOMESTICATION" - a 5+ page article regarding Charles Darwin, and "THE NURSERIES ON RANDALL'S ISLAND" - a 16 page article with multiple images provid... See More
1938 Voder invention... speech synthesis...
CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, January 6, 1939
* Early Voder invention
* Bell Labs - Homer Dudley
* Speech synthesis machine
The front page has a one column heading: "Machine Talks in 23 Human Voice Sounds" (see) related photo is on the back page. Nice to have in this World famous publication.
Complete with all 34 pages, rag edition in great condition. A few small binding holes along th... See More
Rumrunner Larry Fay assassination....
THE NEW YORK TIMES, January 2, 1933
* Rumrunner Larry Fay killed
* Prohibition era rum-running
* NYC bootlegger - gangster
The top of the front page has a one column heading: "LARRY FAY IS SLAIN IN HIS NIGHT CLUB; DOORMAN IS HUNTED" with subheads. (see) Lengthy first report coverage continues on page 3 with photo and list of his prior offenses.
Other news, sports and advertiseme... See More
Gertrude B. Kelly death... feminist...
THE NEW YORK TIMES, February 17, 1934
* Gertrude B. Kelly death
* Women's rights feminist
The top of page 15 has a one column heading: "GERTRUDE B. KELLY, SURGEON, 72, DEAD" with subheads and photo. (see) First report coverage on the death of Gertrude B. Kelly, women's rights advocate.
Other news, sports and advertisements of the day. Complete in 32 pages, light toning a... See More
Last public execution in American photo....
THE DETROIT NEWS, August 14, 1936
* Rainey Bethea's famous hanging photo
* Last public execution in America
The front page has a infamous photo of the last public execution in the United States. This photo measures 10 x 5 1/2 inches and has the heading: "Death Makes a Holiday in Kentucky and Wirephoto Catches the Gruesome Carnival" with brief text underneath. This photo was pu... See More
Review & premiere of "Gettysburg", in a Los Angeles newspaper...
LOS ANGELES TIMES, October 8, 1993
* Best "Gettysburg" movie advertisement
* Grand Opening Day premiere & review
* Epic American Civil War film
* Demolition Man
A terrific issue on the premiere of the motion picture hit "Gettysburg" and perhaps no better newspaper could be found than this, the leading newspaper from the home of the entertainment industry - the Hol... See More
Texas Guinan death... queen of the night clubs...
BOSTON EVENING TRANSCRIPT, Nov. 6, 1933
* Texas Guinan death (1st report)
* "Queen of the night clubs" - actress
* Prohibition era speakeasy fame
The front page has a one column heading: "Tex Guinan's Death Symbolizes Dying Era" with subhead. (see)
Complete with all 20 pages, light toning at the margins, some small binding holes along the spine, generally very nice... See More
1946 Baruch Plan... Atomic energy - bombs...
* Bernard Baruch Plan
* Atomic energy - bombs
* America & Russia
The front page has a nice banner headline: "U.S. WILL TELL ATOM SECRET, DESTROY BOMBS, IF U.N. ESTABLISHES CONTROLS WITHOUT A VETO" with subheads. (See) Complete text of Baruch's speech is on page 4.
Complete with all 36 pages, rag edition in nice condition.
wikipedia n... See More
Color cover showing birds by C. Coles Phillips... "The Cooking Lesson" by W. V. Cahill...
THE LADIES' HOME JOURNAL, Philadelphia, April 1, 1911 The cover has a decorative, displayable, color cover of birds in flight from a painting by C. Coles Phillips. It would look great framed. The inside of the cover has a full page ad sponsored by the Cream of Wheat Co., "THE COOKING LESSON", from a painting by W. V. Cahill. Also found within is page of color doll cut-outs (not... See More
1910 cut-outs for dolls...
A finely dressed young lady... Kellogg's Corn Flakes......
THE LADIES' HOME JOURNAL, Philadelphia, September 1, 1910 The cover has a decorative, displayable, color cover of a young woman dressed for an outing by Harrison Fisher. It would look great framed. The back cover has a wonderful full page ad for Kellogg's Corn Flakes. The inside has period color cut-outs for dolls. Other prints are found throughout.
The issue measures approx. 11&quo... See More
Color print of a young woman... Turn-of-the-century hats...
THE LADIES' HOME JOURNAL, Philadelphia, October 15, 1910 The cover has a decorative, displayable, color cover of a young woman by Henry Hutt. It would look great framed. For those who appreciate turn-of-the-century fashion, located within are 4 pages of vignettes showing various woman's hats of the era. Additional color and B&W prints.
The issue measures approx. 11" by 16&q... See More
Displayable color print of a young girl...
THE LADIES' HOME JOURNAL, Philadelphia, January, 1912 The cover has a decorative, displayable, color cover of a young girl. It would look great framed. Additional color and B&W prints are found within. See images for details. For those who appreciate turn-of-the-century advertising, the full page Gold Medal flour ad is particularly nice. An interesting article for a Girl's Club s... See More
Interesting title from the 17th century...
THE WEEKLY PACQUET OF ADVICE FROM ROME: OR, THE HISTORY OF POPERY, London, May 2, 1679
* Newspaper from the 17th century
* Rare variant title
An unusual anti-Catholic newspaper which has a short life before being suppressed. Attached at the back is a single sheet headed: "The Popish Courant" with the same date. The double date is due to the use of two calendars at the time.
Compl... See More
Corregidor Surrenders in 1942....
MINNEAPOLIS MORNING TRIBUNE, Minn. May 6, 1942
* United States surrender Corregidor (day of)
* Manila Bay, Philippines
* World War II - WWII
The front page has a nice headline in bold lettering: "JAPS INVADE CORREGIDOR" with subheads. Nice for display.
Complete with all 18 pages, light toning and minor wear at the margins, small binding holes along the spine, generally nice. ... See More
1979 Tensions between Iran & America...
LOS ANGELES TIMES, Dec. 1, 1979
* Iranian hostage crisis
* Tensions w/ America
* Shah of Iran & Egypt ?
The top of the front page has a two column headline: "Iran Warns U.S. and Egypt, Boycotts U.S." with subheads. More inside regarding the Hostage crisis.
Complete with 36 pages, nice condition.
1952 Bakersfield earthquake disaster...
HERALD EXPRESS, Los Angeles, Extra, August 23, 1952
* Bakersfield, California
* Earthquake disaster
The front page has a banner headline above the masthead: "STIFF QUAKE JOLTS L.A.L Bakersfield Damage Mounts" with subhead and related photo. Nice for display. More inside. Nice to have in this West Coast title, rare as such.
Complete 1st section only with 16 pages, nice condition.... See More
King Umberto II of Italy to abdicate...
* King Umberto II of Italy
* 1946 Italian institutional referendum
The top of the front page has a one column heading: "FULL RULE OF ITALY GIVEN TO PREMIER; HUMBERT SNUBBED" with subheads. (see) Report continues on page 3 with a few related photos.
Other news, sports and advertisements of the day. Complete in 46 pages, this is the rare rag editio... See More
Chamberlain foolishly believes "it is peace for our time"...
CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, Oct. 1, 1938
* Chamberlain's "it is peace for our time"...
* German annexation of Sudetenland begins
* Nazis - Adolph Hitler enters Czechoslovakia
The day prior British Prime Minster Neville Chamberlain gave a speech concerning the Munich Agreement and the Anglo-German Declaration and assured the British people that: "...it is peace for our ... See More
1930 Ocilla, Georgia Negro lynching...
CHICAGO SUNDAY TRIBUNE, February 2, 1930.
* James Irwin Negro lynching
* Ocilla, Irwin County, Georgia
The top of page 23 has a one column heading: "Negro Lynched For Slaying Of White Girl, 14" (see) First report coverage on the lynching of Negro, James Irwin, in Ocilla, Georgia.
Complete 1st section only with all 28 pages, rag edition in nice condition. A few small binding hole... See More
1945 Attack on Yokosuka, Japan....
* Attack on Yokosuka - Japan
* United States Navy air raid
* Imperial Japanese Navy
The front page has a great banner headline: "CARRIER PLANES LASH REMNANTS OF FOE'S NAVY AS OUR WARSHIPS SHELL TOKYO BAY ENTRANCE" with subheads. Nice for display. Always nice to have notable events in history reported in this World famous publication.
Comple... See More
Attacks on Kure and the Inland Sea in 1945
* Attacks on Kure and the Inland Sea - Japan
* United States Third Fleet - air raid
* Imperial Japanese Navy sinkings
The front page has a five column headline: "20 JAPANESE WARSHIPS DAMAGED" with subheads. Always nice to have notable events in history reported in this World famous publication.
Complete with all 34 pages, ... See More
Big three meet in 1945...
MINNEAPOLIS MORNING TRIBUNE, February 13, 1945
* Franklin D. Roosevelt - Churchill - Stalin
* Yalta Conference re. Germany & post war Europe
The front page has a banner headline that announces: "DESTROY NAZIS, BIG 3 AGREE" with subheads and related photo.
Complete with all 16 pages, some stray pen notations on unrelated inside pages, light toning at the margins, otherwi... See More
Republic of China recognized by U.S....
CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, September 28, 1928
* Republic of China (Taiwan) recognized
The top of page 16 has a one column heading: "ADMIT U. S. HAS RECOGNIZED NEW RULERS IN CHINA" (see) First report coverage on the United States recognizing the Republic of China (Taiwan) for the 1st time. Nice to have in this World famous publication.
Complete with all 40pages, rag edition in great co... See More
Cherbourg, France captured...
CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, June 24, 1944
* Capturing Cherbourg, France
* Post D-Day - Normandy landings
The front page has a great banner headline in bold lettering: "RIP CHERBOURG LINES" with subheads. Nice for display. Coverage continues on page 5 with related map. (see)
Complete with all 22 pages, light toning at the margins, small library stamp within the m... See More
1st bombing mission in Europe... First Report...
THE SPRINGFIELD UNION, Mass., July 5, 1942
* 1st ever American bombing mission in Europe (1st report)
* World War II - WWII - United States Air Force
The front page has a three column heading: "U. S. JOINS RAF IN HOLIDAY RAID ON DUTCH OBJECTIVES" with subhead: "...Six of 12 Bombers Manned by Americans" This was the very 1st use of the United States Air Force over enemy o... See More


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B&B Studio Joins the 'Delicious Protest' Against Fruit Waste with Rebrand of Snact
By Newsroom on October 2, 2017 Comments Off on B&B Studio Joins the 'Delicious Protest' Against Fruit Waste with Rebrand of Snact
Snact, a fruit snacks manufacturer on a mission to reduce food waste in the UK, has unveiled a distinctive new brand identity, with design by B&B studio.
Every day, 4.4 million apples and 1.4 million bananas are thrown away in the UK, often for being an unusual or 'ugly' shape. Snact rescues as much of this fruit as possible and transforms it into tasty and nutritious fruit jerky and banana bars.
This proactive environmental mission is the foundation of the Snact brand but was previously lost in a low-impact identity that lacked punch and personality. B&B studio worked closely with Snact to turn up the volume on their activist messaging, injecting a playful tone that catches the consumers' eye and draws attention to Snact's mission against food waste in a delicious way.
#DeliciousProtest
Harnessing the power of social media to drive a change in how fruit is used or discarded in the UK, Snact has generated a disruptive campaign under the hashtag #deliciousprotest which acted as an inspiration point for B&B studio. Snact is not a passive brand; it is a strong and powerful force that is challenging established food retailers and drawing attention to food waste.
B&B studio created a rip that sits in the centre of the brand identity and splits the name into its two constituent parts – 'SN' for snack, and the call to 'ACT'. Visually this represents the rebellious brand purpose, combining the two driving forces of Snact: delicious fruit snacks depicted with bold, vibrant fruits; and the protest element shown through witty, creative slogans.
Shaun Bowen, Creative Partner at B&B studio, says: "Snact is a brand on a mission; they are hungry for change and this social purpose should come through in everything that they do. For us, it was important that the vibrancy and enthusiasm within the company was visible at every touchpoint of the brand, so we both visualised and verbalised their playful, progressive tone, helping raise awareness for this worthy cause."
Ilana Taub, one of Snact's founders, adds: "Working with B&B studio has been a real meeting of minds. From the outset, they understood the power and potential of our campaign against food waste and bland fruit snacks, and captured the energy of our team in the dynamic and colourful branding that embodies our underlying message of 'more taste, less waste."
Punch and Personality
B&B studio's strategic repositioning of the Snact brand is expressed across all touchpoints, from website design and social media graphics to vibrant packaging for jerky and banana bars, whose vivid colours reflect the bold personalities of the Snact team and the tastiness of the product.
Every pack is created using fully home compostable packaging – the first of its kind in the UK – meaning it can biologically decompose at home and become usable fertiliser, similar to banana or orange peel, supporting the brand's purpose to promote sustainability and reduce waste.
Snact fruit jerky is available online and from selected retailers, including Amazon, Ocado, Planet Organic and Selfridges. Banana Bars are available to pre-order now from the Snact website.
Source: B&B studio
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B&B Studio Joins the 'Delicious Protest' Against Fruit Waste with Rebrand of Snact added by Newsroom on October 2, 2017

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Ed Koch ז'ל story
I haven't read this story before, nor had I heard about the globe (or I'd forgotten). I think it's well worth sharing. It's from aish.com
Mayor Ed Koch, who passed away Friday at the age of 88, understood that all Jews are connected. Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, the former chief rabbi of Israel tells the story.
Years ago, Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau visited his brother in New York. The two brothers were in Buchenwald together, and miraculously survived while the rest of their family was wiped out. Rabbi Lau, following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, became a rabbi, continuing his family's unbroken chain of 38 generations of rabbis. His brother, Naphtali Lau-Levie, became a noted author and was appointed Israel's consul general to New York.
Ed Koch, New York City's brash, outspoken, overtly Jewish leader, asked Naphtali to introduce him to the great Rabbi Lau – then Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv – if his illustrious brother was ever in town.
Rabbi Lau visited New York and Naphtali arranged a meeting. When Mr. Koch walked into the room, he announced to a surprised Rabbi Lau, "I'm a Holocaust survivor too." Rabbi Lau turned to his brother in puzzlement; this was not the information he'd received about the American-born Koch.
Mr. Koch explained. He was born in the Bronx, and grew up an American. He only went to Europe for the first time as a GI.
Years later, though, after he'd been elected mayor, he had the chance to travel to Germany as part of an international delegation of mayors. There he met with officials in Berlin and was shown various artifacts. One piece made the greatest impression on him: a globe that had once belonged to Adolph Hitler.
This globe was special. Hitler asked his assistants to determine the Jewish population in every country on earth, and to write this number under each nation's name on his globe.
Poland, Hungary, Germany, Austria…. The Jewish population of each country was recorded, waiting – in Hitler's twisted mind – for extermination. There was even a number 1 written under the city of Tirana in Albania, Ed Koch told Rabbi Lau. That lone Jew in Tirana was offensive to Hitler; even he was worthy of being remembered and targeted by the Nazis.
Ed Koch also saw a number under the "United States." It was a special number, Mr. Koch remembered: 6,000,000.
"I was recorded in that number," Ed Koch said to Rabbi Lau. "I was one of Hitler's intended victims too."
Ed Koch not only acknowledged and felt their pain; he realized that their pain was his pain too. In his mind, there were no distinctions between him and other Jews.
Rabbi Lau realized that Mr. Koch was right – he was one of Hitler's intended victims; he was a survivor of the Holocaust too.
Ed Koch wasn't just an onlooker; he was a survivor. He saw himself as part of history, as a vital member of the ongoing narrative of the Jewish people. One way to honor his memory is to follow his example, to look at our fellow Jews not as foreigners divided by language, religious observance, geography or time. Like Mr. Koch, let's try to look at other Jews around the world and see ourselves.
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Over the past five years, China has made a lot of efforts in improving people's livelihood, and there are notable achievements.
China's grain output exceeded 600 million tons for four consecutive years.
The retention ratio of nine-year compulsory education reached 93.4 percent. Also, the nation is working on the world's largest basic healthcare network.
In the meantime, average life expectancy has reached 76 years, five years longer than the world's average. And China has increased the pension fund for 12 straight years.
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Cal Vilaró és una masia de Lluçà (Osona) inclosa a l'Inventari del Patrimoni Arquitectònic de Catalunya.

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Masia orientada a migdia amb teulada a dues aigües. Adossat a la façana principal hi ha un altre cos de la mateixa alçada que està conformat per dues arcades i que comuniquen amb la pallissa on antigament hi havia un oratori. Al darrere de la casa hi ha un pou-cisterna. Una galeria a la façana esquerra comunica amb una masoveria feta el 1941.

A l'oratori es conserven tres talles de fusta que representen a la Verge del Roser, Sant Antoni i Sant Josep.

Història
Pere Vilaró fou canonge de Lluçà entre els anys 1238 i 1242. El Vilaró entra en la llista de masos que pagaven cens a la batllia de Lluçà segons consta en el capbreu de l'any 1434. Segons la documentació que existeix en el mas des del 1632 hi vivia la família Jordà. A l'any 1792 hi ha un escrit en què es concedeix permís per tenir un oratori.

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Background: A systems neurophysiologist, studying plasticity and interaction between the spinal circuits and their modulators – the sensory inputs from periphery and descending inputs from brain. PhD – University of Cambridge; Postdoc – Columbia University, NYC; Spinal Cord Research Centre, Winnipeg, Canada; Visiting Associate Professor – Panum Institute, University of Copenhagen; Research Associate Professor – Columbia University, NYC
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Neurophysiology of Motor control
Motor action and role of spinal interneurones
A motor act is successful when an organism evades a predator, catches a prey, plays the violin or hurls insults. Motor action is only possible when the spinal motor effectors or motoneurones are active. To actively adjust their output depending on the need during a task, requires that these motoneurones are modulated, from moment to moment, either by feedback from the periphery or feedforward commands from the higher brain structures.
These regulatory inputs and their effect on the motoeneurones is what we study in my group, for both walking and reaching in humans and in animal models of developmental disorders and ageing. The ultimate goal is to decipher the underlying operating principles, which can then be used to better the therapies and interventions towards restoring motor control in people suffering from movement disorders.
CHANGES IN INTERNEURON POPULATION AFFECTS MOTOR OUTPUT. Examining the role of changing interactions between excitatory and inhibitory pospulatins of neurons within the spinal cord and its effects on segmental motor output.
Previously, we have shown that changing neuron counts and phenotypes in the spinal cord affects the motor output from the spinal segment during development. We are examining if this is true in disease states and ageing.
BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH exploring new diagnostic tools for neurologists and undertsanding neurological dysfunctions like Cerebral Palsy (http://www.fbs-wp.leeds.ac.uk/cpres/)
MATHEMATICAL MODELS OF BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS. We are using the data generated from our biological experiments and developing a stochastic model. This allows to examine likely interactions between populations leading to changing motor outputs which are then verified experimentally.
APPLICATIONS. We work with Engineers to develop better smarter prosthetic devices and micro-electro-mechanical (MEMS) electrodes to facilitate recording and stimulation towards the same.
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Big-picture bromance: why Saudi Arabia wooed Trump confidant Kushner
Khashoggi case
By David D. Kirkpatrick
December 9, 2018 — 12.19pm
Washington: Senior US officials were worried. Since the early months of the Trump administration, Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and Middle East adviser, had been having private, informal conversations with Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the favourite son of Saudi Arabia's king.
Given Kushner's political inexperience, the private exchanges could make him susceptible to Saudi manipulation, said three former senior US officials. In an effort to tighten practices at the White House, a new chief of staff tried to reimpose long-standing procedures stipulating that National Security Council staff members should participate in all calls with foreign leaders.
But even with the restrictions in place, Kushner, 37, and Crown Prince Mohammed, 33, kept chatting, according to three former White House officials and two others briefed by the Saudi royal court. In fact, they said, the two men were on a first-name basis, calling each other Jared and Mohammed in text messages and phone calls.
The exchanges continued even after the October 2 killing of Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi journalist who was ambushed and dismembered by Saudi agents, according to two former senior US officials and the two people briefed by the Saudis.
As the killing set off a firestorm around the world and US intelligence agencies concluded that it was ordered by Crown Prince Mohammed, Kushner became the prince's most important defender inside the White House, people familiar with its internal deliberations say.
Kushner's support for Crown Prince Mohammed in the moment of crisis is a striking demonstration of a singular bond that has helped draw President Donald Trump into an embrace of Saudi Arabia as one of his most important international allies.
Jared Kushner, senior White House adviser, raised US security forces' concerns when he established unofficial communications lines with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Credit:Bloomberg
But the ties between Kushner and Crown Prince Mohammed did not happen on their own. The prince and his advisers, eager to enlist US support for his hawkish policies in the region and for his own consolidation of power, cultivated the relationship with Kushner for more than two years, according to documents, emails and text messages reviewed by The New York Times.
A delegation of Saudis close to the prince visited the United States as early as the month Trump was elected, the documents show, and brought back a report identifying Kushner as a crucial focal point in the courtship of the new administration. He brought to the job scant knowledge about the region, a transactional mindset and an intense focus on reaching a deal with the Palestinians that met Israel's demands, the delegation noted.
Even then, before the inauguration, the Saudis were trying to position themselves as essential allies who could help the Trump administration fulfil its campaign pledges. In addition to offering to help resolve the dispute between Israel and the Palestinians, the Saudis offered hundreds of billions of dollars in deals to buy US weapons and invest in US infrastructure.
Trump later announced versions of some of these items with great fanfare when he made his first foreign trip: to an Arab-Islamic summit in Riyadh, the Saudi capital. The Saudis had extended that invitation during the delegation's November 2016 visit.
US President Donald Trump shows a chart highlighting arms sales to Saudi Arabia during a meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington in March, 2018. Credit:AP
"The inner circle is predominantly deal-makers who lack familiarity with political customs and deep institutions, and they support Jared Kushner," the Saudi delegation wrote of the incoming administration in a slide presentation obtained by the Lebanese newspaper Al Akhbar. Several Americans who spoke with the delegation confirmed the slide presentation's accounts of the discussions.
The courtship of Kushner appears to have worked.
By March, Kushner helped usher Crown Prince Mohammed into a formal lunch with Trump in a state dining room at the White House, capitalising on a last-minute cancellation by Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany because of a snowstorm.
"The relationship between Jared Kushner and Mohammed bin Salman constitutes the foundation of the Trump policy not just toward Saudi Arabia but toward the region," said Martin Indyk, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a former Middle East envoy. The administration's reliance on the Saudis in the peace process, its support for the kingdom's feud with Qatar, a US ally, and its backing of the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen, he said, all grew out of "that bromance".
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner watches a ceremony where President Donald Trump was presented with The Collar of Abdulaziz Al Saud Medal, at the Royal Court Palace, on May 20, 2017, in Riyadh. Credit:AP
Top aides to Crown Prince Mohammed met Kushner on a trip to New York in November 2016, after the election. The Saudi team included Musaad al-Aiban, a Cabinet minister involved in economic planning and national security.
Kushner was clear about his priorities, the report said. "The Israeli-Palestinian conflict was among the most important issues to draw Kushner's attention," the delegation reported, and therefore the best way to win him over.
To cultivate ties with the Trump team, the Saudis had prepared a long list of initiatives they said would help Trump deliver for his supporters. Several of the proposals were evidently welcomed.
One was a "joint centre to fight the ideology of extremism and terrorism." Trump helped inaugurate a Saudi version of the center on his trip to Riyadh the following May.
US President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka, left, and White House senior adviser Jared Kushner attend the opening ceremony of the new American embassy in Jerusalem in May. Credit:AP
Another Saudi proposal outlined what the Trump administration later called "an Arab NATO". In their presentation, the Saudis described it as an Islamic military coalition of tens of thousands of troops "ready when the president-elect wishes to deploy them".
Other initiatives appeared timed to Trump's first term in office, like proposals to spend $US50 billion over four years on US defence contracts, to increase Saudi investment in the United States to $US200 billion over four years, and to invest, with other Gulf states, up to $US100 billion in American infrastructure.
And the delegation urged Trump to come to Saudi Arabia himself to "launch the initiatives as part of a historic welcome celebration".
Within weeks of Trump's move into the White House, Kushner had embraced the delegation's proposal for the president to visit Riyadh, convinced by then that the alliance with Saudi Arabia would be crucial in his plans for the region, according to a person who discussed it with Kushner and a second person familiar with his plans.
By the time of the inauguration, Kushner was already arguing that under the influence of Crown Prince Mohammed, Saudi Arabia could play a pivotal role in advancing a Middle East peace deal, according to three people familiar with his thinking. That would be the president's legacy, Kushner argued, according to a person involved in the discussions.
Ivanka Trump and husband Jared Kushner, both White House advisers, at the Royal Court Palace in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia during US President Donald Trump's visit. Credit:AP
It was around the time of the White House visit in March 2017 that senior officials in the State Department and the Pentagon began to worry about the one-on-one communications between Crown Prince Mohammed — who is known to favour the online messaging service WhatsApp — and Kushner. "There was a risk the Saudis were playing him," one former White House official said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.
One former White House official argued that Kushner's personal ties to Crown Prince Mohammed had sometimes been an asset. At one point, for example, the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen had blocked a critical port, cutting off humanitarian and medical supplies. The national security adviser at the time, Lieutenant General HR McMaster, suggested that Kushner call Crown Prince Mohammed to address the issue, the official said, and McMaster believed Kushner's intercession had helped persuade the Saudis to loosen the restrictions.
Few of the Saudi promises have amounted to much. The effectiveness of the counterterrorism centre in Riyadh remains doubtful. After offering $US50 billion in new weapons contracts, the Saudis have signed only letters of interest or intent without any firm deals. After proposing to marshal up to $US100 billion in investments in American infrastructure, the Saudis have announced an investment of only $US20 billion.
Inside the White House, Kushner has continued to argue that the President needs to stand by Crown Prince Mohammed because he remains essential to the administration's broader Middle East strategy, according to people familiar with the deliberations.
Whether Crown Prince Mohammed can fulfil that role, however, remains to be seen. His initial approaches to the Palestinians were rejected by their leaders, and their resistance stiffened after the Trump administration recognised Jerusalem as Israel's capital without waiting for a negotiated agreement on the city's status.
Now the crown prince's father, King Salman, 82, who is still the official head of state, has appeared to resist Kushner's Middle East peace plans as well.
"The Palestinian issue will remain our primary issue," the king declared in a speech last month, "until the Palestinian people receive all of their legal rights".
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Q: What is a red bone in skeleton in Unreal Viewer? I'm learning Unreal Engine and Maya. I've imported my character mesh and skeleton into Unreal. It mostly looks fine, but I see a red bone in the Unreal skeleton Viewer.
What does this red bone indicate?

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The pivot point of a Skeletal Mesh is always located at the Root Bone/Root Joint of the skeleton. This means it doesn't matter where the root of the skeleton is located within the scene. It will be thought as if it is at the World Origin (0,0,0) when exporting from a 3D modeling application.

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with which the course has provided you.
likely to face in global health in the next decade or so.
about both those challenges and what can be done to address them.
I'd like to begin by suggesting there are five main challenges in global health.
child health, maternal health, and communicable diseases.
The second is addressing the growing burden of noncommunicable diseases.
re-emerging infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance.
the unfinished and emerging agendas.
Let's speak briefly now about each of these.
Despite enormous progress, the unfinished agenda, as you know, remains a large one.
an unacceptably large number of child deaths in the world.
More than 6 million children die in the world each year.
And this is about 17,000 under five child deaths a day.
There's still about 300,000 maternal deaths in the world.
concerning tuberculosis, HIV, malaria, and the neglected tropical diseases.
and about 1.5 million tuberculosis deaths a year as well.
Almost all of these deaths are preventable.
they could save an important share of the illness and deaths that occur now.
do not require complicated interventions from the health system.
So let me pursue some of these topics a little bit further.
child health, we know it's important to take a kind of life course perspective.
delivery and the early years of the child.
We need to try to ensure that the mothers are healthy.
That there's a skilled attendant at birth.
That breastfeeding is immediate and exclusive for six months.
That the child is immunized.
when they succumb to diarrheal disease.
malaria are actually sleeping under a bed net.
We actually want to see that all people in those areas are sleeping under bed nets.
perspective and again we want to see that young women are well-nourished.
We want to see that when they are pregnant, they get prenatal care.
That they get the nutritional supplements that they need during their pregnancy.
Again, we want to be sure that delivery is attended by skilled personnel.
die as a result of a complication of pregnancy.
services for addressing the complication from which she suffers.
that there's a so-called rapid impact package for addressing them.
several times per year to communities, working closely with those communities.
can in fact prevent the further transmission of some of these diseases.
to try to address neglected tropical diseases more effectively and efficiently.
9 million new cases of active tuberculosis disease each year.
And about 5% of those cases are drug resistant.
tuberculosis control programs and to cure them effectively using the existing drugs.
that are tuberculosis control programs must also address resistant TB.
as well to have much shorter course therapies that are much easier to take.
more effectively, more efficiently and still in very cost effective ways.
great progresses has been made over the last decade or so.
since malaria can take such a terrible toll on women who are pregnant.
efficiently as possible to continue driving down the burden of malaria.
in selected places where the burden is close to elimination, for example.
effectively and more rapidly keep pushing down the burden of malaria.
to promote information, education and communication.
therapy as soon as one understands that they are in fact HIV positive.
highlight before we end the importance of the social determinants of health.
It's going to be important to take the measures that I mentioned.
enhance nutritional status, particularly of young children and young women.
societies to change for the better and for the healthier and in sustainable ways.


I have an app connected to a peripheral and as such running in the background. Sometimes when there is a low memory situation, jetSam decides to close my app even though according to the jetSam log it is not the largest running process. So far my app didn't get any memory warnings so it is not even possible to respond to such event by releasing resources.
Second, what are the keys in the log? for example the state key - does it represent the current state of the process, i.e. when it is suspended, it means that the app was closed by jetSam?
Can several processes be closed? Because when I look at all JSONs, only one process has the killDelta key, and it doesn't always happen to be the largest one, and even so I can see that several processes are suspended, meaning again that not only one was closed?
The exact algorithms used by jetsam are not documented and change from release to release. However, you shouldn't expect jetsam to always terminate the most memory intensive process. Jetsam will try to avoid terminating the foreground process because that has user-visible consequences.
eventhough we are not exposed to jetsam's algorithms themselves i would be glad for some information about the keys in the jetsam log.
For example the state key which is an array - does it represent the current stae of the app after a jetsam event or it is a value set in the plist for the ios to decide if the app should run in the background? what does "bluetooth" state mean? What does it mean that my app's state is set to "bluetooth" in most jetsam logs but in one case it was set to "suspended"? the killDelta is actually the ExitTimeOut key for which i can set a value in the plist? Is it shown in the log only for the process which was closed by jetsam? (i guess that if yes, then because it is the only process this data is relevant for).
As far as i understand the "purgable" key represent the memory amount which could have been purged from the RAM for the process, so should i expect the process which has the highest value to be closed since it is the worst memory citizen?
One last question - looking at the jetsam log i see no hint that my app was also closed, i can see that SpringBoard was closed and maybe other processes in the state of suspended if this is their current state (my app's state according to jetsam log is "bluetooth"). After 1.6 seconds i can see in my app's log that it crashed, does it mean that for the moment the jetsm log was created my app was still running, but 1.6 seconds after that it was also closed and a new jetsam log file wasn't created because of proximity of events (by event i mean jetsam sending kill to a process)?
even though we are not exposed to jetsam's algorithms themselves i would be glad for some information about the keys in the jetsam log.
Ah, I see what you mean. Alas, I don't know enough about jetsam to answer those questions.
by the way, i figured that you're an apple staff member, could you please share the quesion with someone who happened to deal with this issue?
could you please share the quesion with someone who happened to deal with this issue?
No, sorry. Instead I recommend you open a DTS tech support incident and request formal support for this.


The sky's the limit when a great idea takes root. Whether it's a new business start-up or a community-wide initiative, when the right ingredients are cultivated…magic happens.
Lifelong local friendships inspired Decatur's newest craft brewery, opening later this fall with an expansive taproom, loft area, food truck court — and plenty of Colorado karma.
Longtime Central Illinois agriculture expert Stu Ellis hops aboard to share a little-known tale of how the trolley helped land the Farm Progress Show for Decatur.
She wasn't born in one, but after spending four days in a beautifully renovated barn in Waupaca, Wisconsin, Contributor Kelly Wingard decided she could probably live in one.
The homegrown and homemade movement is alive and well in Decatur, with more men learning the art of preserving seasonal flavors for use in their favorite recipes.
Your guide to great entertainment is inserted in this issue on page 17 and features the entire performing arts season with dates, details, how to order tickets and a handy 12-month planning calendar.
Downtown Decatur residents delight in a unique camaraderie: They grocery shop on Sundays; swap parking spots; network with friendly waves; and can't imagine living anywhere else.
The price is right, but the flavors are priceless. Contributor French MacLean discovers that the daily home-style lunch specials offered at local restaurants rival what Mom used to make.
Once upon a time, she was just a small-town girl from Casper, Wyoming, who wanted to perform on stage. Now she's Dean of the College of Fine Arts at Millikin University where student artists are learning to thrive professionally.
A sneak peek at must-see performances coming to the stage in Decatur this season, starting with Labor Day Pops in downtown's Central Park.
Known for her wide smile and boundless energy, Decatur Area Arts Council Administrative Director Stella Carnahan chats about the "stretches" that came with her 22-year career — and what's ahead.
Contributor Kathy Schanefelt visits an historic country where castles, abbeys and lochs define the landscape and a passion for sports — particularly "football" — characterizes the culture.
Challenged to put creativity, vision and penny-pinching to work, a local design team collaborates to transform a living room using only "treasures" discovered at garage sales and thrift shops.
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The Environmental Protection Agency has joined forces with DaimlerChrysler and UPS in a US government industry partnership to put hydrogen-powered fuel-cell delivery vehicles on the road.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has joined forces with DaimlerChrysler and UPS in a US government industry partnership to put hydrogen-powered fuel cell delivery vehicles on the road.
Later this year, a passenger-sized fuel cell test vehicle based on the DaimlerChrysler Mercedes-Benz A-Class will be used as an express-delivery vehicle by UPS. In 2004, one or more fuel-cell powered Dodge Sprinter vans will be delivered as the first commercial medium-duty fuel-cell vehicles to be put in service in the US.
The DaimlerChrysler fuel-cell vehicles will be used in typical UPS delivery operations on established routes to enable all the companies to evaluate the fuel economy and driving performance of the vehicles.
EPA's Ann Arbor laboratory will provide a hydrogen refuelling station to fuel the UPS delivery vehicles.
Designed and built by Air Products and Chemicals of Allentown, PA, the station will store up to 1,500 gallons of hydrogen as a liquid in a specially designed cryogenic tank. The liquid hydrogen will be converted to gaseous hydrogen, compressed and then stored in pressurized tanks which will be connected to a fuel dispenser.
The station will have sufficient capacity to fill four to five hydrogen vehicles back-to-back and up to eight per day.
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Exceptional customer service is vital to maintaining a satisfied client base in any business. Exceptional customer service turns a one-time customer into a loyal one; bad customer service results in loss of clients, revenue, and brand loyalty. This training teaches participants strategies and techniques for meeting or exceeding customer expectations in order to achieve satisfaction, retention, and repeat business. Learning objectives include understanding how valuable listening skills are for providing good customer service, important dos and don'ts, how to go the extra mile even if it's not required, real-life examples of exceptional customer service, and understanding how essential empathy is when dealing with an upset or irate customer.


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The JPA was pleased to welcome Bianca Shiu as their 2019 Urban Leaders Fellow. She was selected to work with Education, one of the JPA's five critical Impact Table areas. The Impact Table work being done in the areas of health, education, wealth, housing, safety, informs the JPA's systems change recommendations which are focused on improving outcomes for Oakland's children, youth and families experiencing the highest disparities. Here are the goals of each of the Impact Tables:
Health - Children and youth are physically, socially, and emotionally healthy.
Education - Children and youth thrive in school and are prepared for college, career, and community success.
Wealth - Families are economically stable and youth succeed after high school.
Housing - Families have quality, affordable, stable housing.
Safety - Families live in safe, vibrant communities.
The JPA employs a collective impact approach in their government and community partnerships to amplify systems change. After much work in their respective areas, the Impact Tables started assessing points where they could begin to align their data to tell a bigger story. Chronic Absence (CA) was an area of signficance that surfaced, and the Education Impact Table was tasked with reporting to the JPA on the scope of this problem. One of the discussions covered the opportunities for collective impact to address CA. Bianca was given the task of assembling a case study and interviewed several systems leaders, gathering their insights on operationalizing collective impact in their organizations. At the conclusion of her seven-week fellowship, she shared some of her impressions:
Why did you choose the Urban Leaders Fellows Program over others? Please say a little about how your goals and background contributed to this choice and direction? What are your plans after you complete this fellowship?
As a middle school teacher in East Oakland, I see on a day-to-day basis just how important it is to support our children, and I truly believe that our youth are the city's most valuable assets. I chose to do the Urban Leaders Fellow program because I wanted to gain a deeper understanding of how citywide policies, specifically policies that impact my students, are decided on and implemented. Now that the fellowship is over, I have returned to the classroom to continue empowering Oakland's youth to advocate for themselves.
Describe your fellowship project with the JPA and deliverables.
During my time with the JPA, I wrote a case study on how to effectively operationalize collective impact in order to inform the JPA's work as it transitions to the Oakland Thrives Leadership Council. By interviewing five collective impact initiatives located domestically and abroad, I gleaned best practices and insights around key areas including governance, funding, and community engagement. This case study was sent to impact table co-chairs and project managers to inform their input on the upcoming transition.
What was the most unexpected or surprising thing you discovered from this experience, and how has this affected the way you view the policy process, including the pre-policy work?
I realized how important it is to have systems and processes in place, especially for larger organizations. While it seems intuitive that more people means more power, having a big group can overcomplicate and slow down the work unless there are established working agreements.
The mission of the JPA is to improve outcomes for children, youth, and families experiencing the greatest disparities in the City of Oakland. Given your experience here, what do you believe a child, youth, or family needs to be whole and healthy from a high-level systems perspective?
Our youth need access to the resources that allow them to focus on being the best versions of themselves. It's hard to be the best version of yourself when you're hungry. It's hard to be the best version of yourself when you don't have a home. It's hard to be the best version of yourself when you have to walk around with your guard up all the time. Our kids need to know that they matter, and they know they matter when they see the city investing in them and their future. They need to have their basic needs met, and they need to have opportunities to explore what makes them come alive.
What advice would you give or what would you say to inspire someone thinking of serving in government or some aspect of public policy work?
Making systems-level changes can be slow, but it's not impossible. People created systems, so people can change systems. You just have to find the right people to reimagine and create with.
The JPA thanks Bianca Shiu for her service and wishes her the best for any endeavors she may undertake!
Grieving the Loss of an Oakland Son
The Trustees and Staff of the Youth Ventures Joint Powers Authority mourn with Oakland City Councilmember and JPA Trustee Lynette McElhaney and her husband Clarence McElhaney, on the loss of their son Victor McElhaney, a victim of gun violence, on Sunday March 10, 2019 while away at school.
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'Equestrians in Hampshire – a reference guide for Transport, Planners, developers and other decision makers' is the result of a couple of year's hard work by Gail Johnson, a carriage driver and BHS Hampshire Access Officer, and Gill Plumbley, BHS Access Officer in Hampshire, as members of the Hampshire Countryside Access Forum.
The Forum decided that a specific guidance document was required to raise the profile of horse riders and carriage drivers in the County.
Aimed at decision makers, it places an emphasises on meeting safety needs for equestrians in accessing public rights of way now and in the future, as well as demonstrating the scale of the horse industry in Hampshire.
The content simply brings together information which is currently not readily available in one place.
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The NEM.io Foundation, creators of the peer-to-peer NEM blockchain platform, today announced that Metaps Plus will adopt NEM's blockchain technology into their existing payment infrastructure.
Seoul-based Metaps Plus, a leading Korean fintech company and mobile marketing platform developer, said that they are discussing ways to try to integrate NEM's blockchain technology to usher in more efficient, seamless payment processes. NEM will also collaborate with Metaps Plus on the launch of its digital currency exchange, Coinroom, which will be the first Korean exchange to list XEM beginning November 11, 2017.
The two companies also plan to collaborate to integrate NEM's API technology into Metaps Plus and its current operations with Kchain, NEM's official development partner, working as a strategic system integration partner.
Metaps Plus recently introduced its Ethereum-based token, PlusCoin (PLC), which has raised over 32,623 ETH in an ongoing ICO, ending on October 10, 2017. It has also recently announced that it has partnered with Tech Bureau's COMSA and will list COMSA token (CMS) on CoinRoom.


I just love when somebody like the real deal takes away all the fuss created by media and by explorers like me, who often, I hope I don't(!), forget that local people have done what we explorers claim to do as "firsts". For the locals, this can be as a normal as a work day. This is also one reason I want to do this journey -to put emphasis on this reality. One of the four herders that will join us, I didn`t get his name in the cold, had two really bad and infected cold sores on his cheeks. He didn´t whine or complain, just said it was normal…..Damage he picked up on his way to join us for this crossing that I found out today is a historical route where local people back in the 19th Century used to ship goods from Okhotsk to the inner part of Sakha/Yakutia.
-50 degrees below zero this morning in the village of Yuchyugei!
But at first I didn´t get it, because we spent the night indoors in a heat which felt like a sauna! Probably 33-34 degrees Celsius! This is how most people have it here and you can´t do much about, since the heating is centrally controlled. For this reason, going to the outdoor loo is quite nice, at least you can breathe!
From the last dispatch, we have traveled 900 km:s east from Yakutsk to this village where our 4 members of the team, the reindeer herders have been staying. The camp is a few kilometers away where the 25 reindeer await us. And, a surprise to me, is that the herders have "demanded" that we bring one of the herders wife as a cook! See what I mean! Normal job for these fellas!
This is also new to me. This time I am in front of the camera, which is so much harder than being behind it, I have never had a translator before in this capacity, and, well, I have always said more than 3 people on a trip is a crowd. And I am not doing the organizing…scary!
So there´s no doubt, this trip is probably the biggest challenge I ever had and I believe the cold will be much tougher for all of us, except for the reindeer herders.
Today we went to what is cold the Pole of Cold, Oymyakon and also did some interviews with some horse breeders of the famous, but quite unknown Yakut/Sakha horse. And when talking to local people, they say things are easier today, in the modern era, compared to earlier when school kids walked 7 kilometres to school and the same distance back in these low temperatures. They however did suffer bad cold sores. Today there are school buses. Local people just stay indoors when temperatures go below -55 degrees Celsius. Except,of course the reindeer herders!
I hope we are off tomorrow, I am eager to get out into the "real" cold world!


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New York Times: 2 New Yorkers Erased $1.5 Million in Medical Debt for Hundreds of Strangers
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Carolyn Kenyon, left, and Judith Jones, both of Ithaca, N.Y., raised $12,500 and sent it to a debt-forgiveness charity, which then purchased a portfolio of $1.5 million of medical debts on their behalf. Credit Heather Ainsworth for The New York Times
If a slim, yellow envelope with a Rye, N.Y., return address lands in your mailbox this holiday season, don't throw it out. It's not junk.
Some 1,300 such envelopes have been sent to New Yorkers around the state, containing the good news that R.I.P. Medical Debt, a New York-based nonprofit organization, has purchased their medical debt — and forgiven it.
Last spring, Judith Jones and Carolyn Kenyon, both of Ithaca, N.Y., heard about R.I.P. Medical Debt, which purchases bundles of past-due medical bills and forgives them to help those in need. So the women decided to start a fund-raising campaign of their own to assist people with medical debt in New York.
Over the summer months, the women raised $12,500 and sent it to the debt-forgiveness charity, which then purchased a portfolio of $1.5 million of medical debts on their behalf, for about half a penny on the dollar.
Ms. Jones, 80, a retired chemist, and Ms. Kenyon, 70, a psychoanalyst, are members of the Finger Lakes chapter of the Campaign for New York Health, which supports universal health coverage through passage of the New York Health Act.
"The way sort of opened," Ms. Jones said. They cast a wide net for donations, she said, explaining to people that the campaign was only a short-term fix for the larger problem of out-of-control medical costs.
Many people take on extra jobs or hours to afford health care, and 11 percent of Americans have turned to charity for relief from medical debts, according to a 2016 poll conducted by The Times and the Kaiser Family Foundation.
The 1,284 New Yorkers who had their debts forgiven live in 40 of the state's 62 counties, from Westchester to Chautauqua. The sources of the debt were some 130 hospitals and branches that had provided medical services, R.I.P. Medical Debt said.
"I like doing this much more than I liked doing collecting," Mr. Antico said.
R.I.P. Medical Debt had its first star turn in 2016, when John Oliver did a segment on his HBO show "Last Week Tonight," in which he paid $60,000 to forgive $14.9 million in medical debts through the charity. About 9,000 people received the yellow forgiveness envelopes as a result.
Since then, other high-profile efforts to forgive debts through the charity include fund-raisers sponsored by NBC and Telemundo affiliates.
In all, the organization says its donations have forgiven $434 million in medical debt so far, assisting some 250,000 people. That remains only a fraction, though, of the more than $750 billion in past-due medical debt that it says Americans owe.
"It is a drop in the bucket," Mr. Antico said.
R.I.P. Medical Debt specifically seeks to buy the debts of people who earn less than two times the federal poverty level, those in financial hardship and people facing insolvency.
It purchases the portfolios at a steep discount, a penny or less on the dollar. These bills have typically passed through several collection agencies and months or years of collections. The people, who do not know they have been selected, receive the debt relief as a tax-free gift, and it comes off their credit reports.
Mr. Antico said he thought of his charity as a "resolutionary, not a revolutionary" effort, one that offers people relief, but that cannot solve underlying issues like high medical costs. Through personal data associated with the debt accounts, they are able to target specific classes of people, such as veterans, to relieve their debts.
"I do like the idea that people do not have to ask for help," he said. "The random act of kindness is kind of a cool thing."
The envelopes from Ms. Jones and Ms. Kenyon's gift went out in November, but new letters are going out all the time. And don't worry. Even if you throw your yellow letter out, your debt is still forgiven. You just might not know about it until the next time you run your credit.
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JUMBO TURNS UP NOSE FOR APOLLOS NEWS ABOUT AMSTEL IN GREECE page5 LOTSTODO ATICHNUSA page 8 Heineken International Magazine Contents: Page 1986 was a satisfactory year 3 Expansions at Amstel in Greece 5 Primus Award for better quality 6 Alfred Heineken Tulip christened 7 Pedavena brewery generates its own power 8 Two options Heineken operates world-wide and has breweries in many countries. This means that spectacular transport missions involving enormous tanks, such as Apollos, are a regular occurrence. Recently the airport near Luxembourg city was the scene of a novel and unusual Heineken feat of heavy-lift transport. Four Apollo tanks - dismantled into parts - were loaded into a Boeing 747 (Jumbojet). The tanks were destined for our brewery in Congo Brazzaville. Against the superb scenic backcloth of Western Peleponnesos the tanks and silos of Athenian Brewery's Amstel brewery suddenly loom into view, nestling between the hills. Here, some fifteen kilometres from Patras, engineers are busy at work bringing the brewery to its maximum capacity. INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE Published four times a year by the Corporate Public Relations Department of Heineken N. V. P.O. Box 28,1000 A A Amsterdam. Tel. 020/702268. The Amstel brewery in Patras is regarded by many as Europe's most modern. And this is certainly reflected in the impressive array of instruments in the brewing hall. Amstel brewery in Patras working hard to boost capacity The brewery in Patras, originally commissioned by Mr. Koumandalos, a Greek businessman, was built in 1981 by a German brewing company. The intention had been that it would not only produce but also sell the German brewer's beer. But the Greek consumer's interest in the brand on offer was not enough to support a viable brewing operation. A couple of years ago the shortage of production capacity at Amstel was becoming increasingly critical. Since Despite the costs of the whole opera tion, this air-lift still proved by far the cheapest method of transport. At Luxembourg airport it took three hours to stow the 75 tons of parts into the plane (see photos). But, after thatjfcvas all systems go: the new brewery or taking over the Patras brewery which had meanwhile been put on the market. Athenian Brewery plumped for the second option. Why? Because it allowed the start-up of brewing very soon after the acquisition. And also because it would not entail any redundancies amongst the brewery personnel. On the contrary: today, some eighteen months after the takeover, personnel numbers have risen from 270 to 330. Heineken's transport employees had to rack their brains and do a lot of prepara tory work before the tanks could be shipped. All the component parts were shipped on pallets. A drawing had to be made of each pallet to enable an accurate calculation of the plane's load. But after this job had been done it suddenly turned out that the palleted batches would not fit inside the Jumbo. And so all the parts had to be rearranged on the pallets. Jumbo, chock-full of the parts for four Apollo tanks, took off and set course for Africa. Because of arrears in technical work it hadnever been possible to operate at full capacity in Patras over the past eighteen months. But Athenian Brewery technicians, assisted by staff from Heineken Technical Services, are now working hard to achieve that goal: maximum capacity output this year, which means brewing more than one mil lion hectolitres of Amstel per year. output could scarcely keep pace with the soaring demand for Amstel beer, Athenian Brewery started looking for possibilities to expand. Two options were studied: building a completely
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I gained access to this book free, via the sponsor of our non-profit's first year of operations, or I would not have bought it. It is a "great work" in the classic sense, and merits total respect. It must certainly be in the library of any university or college with ambitions to educate those who will lead the next wave moving us toward Web 3.0 and Web 4.0.
The publisher has been responsible about posting useful information (see inside the book, the second active link below the cover on this page) so I urge anyone thinking about this work, at this price, to print and attach the table of contents to their requisition.
The book does NOT make the leap to geospatially-referenced data or infinite end-user tagging of data, but it is certainly a foundation endeavor and I recommend it on that basis.
Most of what we are reading these days are research reports that are outrageously priced and really should be affordable books and also free online, but most authors are too willing to give away their intellectual property for a pittance at tis time. Personally, I am betting on humans linked with low cost information sharing and group sense-making tools, and I am NOT holding my breath for automated fusion, machine learning, artificial intelligence, or machine sense-making.
I admire, very much, the more affordable books on visualization offered by Amazon, and urge the individual reader to spend on more of those than on this one overly expensive basic reference (I would have priced it at $90).
See the image I have loaded under book cover for a sense of the nuances Earth Intelligence Network is exploring.