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BHCC Faculty and Staff Welcomed Back at Convocation 2019
On Thursday, August 29, 2019, Bunker Hill Community College (BHCC) faculty and staff members convened in the gymnasium for the College's annual Convocation celebration to kick off the 2019-2020 academic year.
Following a welcome by BHCC President Pam Eddinger; keynote address by Dr. Karen Stout, President and CEO of Achieving the Dream, Inc.; and updates from vice presidents John Pitcher, CFO, and James Canniff, Provost; new faculty and staff members were introduced and welcomed to the BHCC community.
New faculty and staff members (beginning May 1-September 1, 2019) include:
Dennis Burke
Associate Professor, Biology and Chemistry Department
A.S. Excelsior College; B.S.; Ph.D. Palmer College
Dennis is an avid Boston sports fan originally from Charlestown, MA. His professional career in health care began as a nurse and a chiropractor; most recently, he was Dean of Natural and Health Science at Quincy College. He is interested in the use of digital and online education in the life sciences.
Amy Clinard
Assistant Professor, Behavioral Science Department
B.A. College of the Holy Cross; M.A. Sacred Heart University
Amy grew up in Massachusetts and lives on the North Shore. She has two sons, 7 and 9, and a newly-adopted puppy. She has been teaching Psychology for about five years now, mostly here at BHCC, and her specific areas of expertise center around Child & Adolescent Development.
Melissa Colon
B.A. Boston College; M.P.P., Ph.D. Tufts University
Melissa was born and raised in the Boston area. As a child, she had the amazing opportunity to live in a rural community in Puerto Rico where her family has lived for generations. Her work largely employs feminist, critical race and sociocultural perspectives to examine what the educational lives of Black and Latinx students can teach us about how ideologies, policies, and practices are mechanized.
Assistant Professor, Mathematics Department
B.S., M.S., Ph.D. Stony Brook University; M.A.T. Northeastern University; M.A. Simmons College
Emily Healy
A.A. William Rainey College; B.S., M.S. Illinois State University
A Chicagoland native, Emma is a sociologist with a background in community development. She moved to Boston in 2014 and taught her first class at BHCC that same year. After five years as an adjunct faculty member, she looks forward to her new role in the Behavioral Sciences department. Emma's experience as a community college student shaped her deep love of both learning and teaching. From 2010 to 2012, she served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in a small village in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia. She returned with a greater understanding of intercultural engagement and her cat, Kago.
Joli Kane
B.S. San Diego State University; M.S. University of Texas, Arlington
Joli and her husband have recently moved to the Boston area to be closer to their son. Prior to living in Boston, they lived in Virginia Beach and San Diego. Her hobbies include hiking, kayaking, the beach, reading and spending time with family.
Marc Lapierre
Assistant Professor, Criminal Justice and Public Safety Department
B.A. UMass Lowell; M.S. Fitchburg State College
Marc grew up in Central Massachusetts. He has two college-aged children that he loves spending time with, along with a newly adopted yellow Labrador Retriever. He enjoys cycling, swimming and yard work. Marc spent twenty four years in the field of corrections with the Worcester County Sheriff's Office, and specialized in staff training, inmate programs, harassment prevention, facilities and custody.
Assistant Professor, Nurse Education Department
A.S. Northern Essex Community College; B.S. Fitchburg State College
Abouhamed Saberi
Assistant Professor, Engineering and Physical Sciences Department
B.S. The Isfahan University of Technology, Esfahan Iran; M.S. Tehran Polytechnic, Tehran, Iran; Ph.D. University of Maine
Two years ago, Hamed moved from Long Island, NY, to Boston, MA, to start his Adjunct position at BHCC. He loves hiking the scenic areas in New Hampshire and Maine. His research interest is: smart materials, structures and systems; biomechanics and biophysics of cancer cells; Biologically-Inspired Engineering Systems (BIES); and Biologically-Inspired Robotic Devices and Systems (BIRDS).
Harris Williams
Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department
B.A., M.B.A. Boston College
Alicia Gallego Zarzosa
Associate Professor, Foreign Language Department
B.A., M.A., Ph.D. Complutense University of Madrid
New Professional Staff
Mary Booth
Learning Specialist, Center for Self-Directed Learning
B.A. Marlboro College; M.A. UMass Boston
Molly grew up on the North Shore and is a BHCC alumna. She loves teaching, Shakespeare, taking care of her two cats and dog. Her areas of expertise and interests include self-directed learning, dramatic literature/Shakespeare and pedagogy, with a newfound interest in trauma theory.
Robert Carvajal
College Transition Assistant, High School and Community Partnerships
A.A. Bunker Hill Community College; B.A. Salem State University
Rob's family emigrated from the Dominican Republic to Boston's South End neighborhood. He attended Boston Public Schools and later became a first-generation college student at BHCC. He is currently a graduate student at BU studying Educational Leadership & Policy Studies.
Bethany Croteau
Instruction and Research Support Librarian, Library and Learning Commons
B.A. Emerson College; M.S. University of Kentucky
Beth spends much of her spare time reading or cooking and is working towards her goals of visiting all 50 states (37 so far) and all 61 national parks (only 16 so far). As an Instruction and Research Librarian, she sees her role as being an advocate for information literacy education, for teaching in the library and for student success. She is particularly interested in active learning and excited to collaborate on innovative ways of delivering library instruction.
Richard Doria
Success Coach (Transfer Counselor), Advising and LifeMap
B.A. Suffolk University; M.A. Northeastern University; M.Ed. UMass Boston
Molly Hansen
Special Programs Coordinator, Food Pantry, Student Services
B.A. University of Arizona; M.Ed. UMass Amherst
Molly has worked on developing and managing campus food pantries at both the University of Arizona and UMass Amherst. She wrote her Master's thesis on how basic needs insecurity impacts college students and the sustainability of campus food pantries. Originally from Tucson, Arizona, Molly enjoys yoga/meditation, exploring Boston, and volunteering in the community.
Kelsy Martinez
A.A. Mesa Community College; B.A. Arizona State University; M.L.S. Simmons College
Kelsy grew up in the Arizona desert, and loves to hike and practice yoga, and travel—she has been to 20 countries so far. She specializes in reference/instruction within library science and is passionate about preparing students with critical information literacy so that they will succeed in school and beyond.
Rebecca Tumposky
Special Programs Coordinator, Advising, LifeMap and Assessment
B.A. Oberlin College; M.A. Tufts University
Becca was born and raised in Boston, and has also lived in Oakland, California. She worked at BHCC in 2016 supporting the GPSTEM grant, and is happy to be back. She served most recently as a first year experience coordinator at UMass Boston in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences. She is excited to fuse her interests in student learning and success with institutional engagement in urban/regional justice.
New Administrators
John Deehan
Business Analyst, Academic Records
B.S. Stonehill College
Jake is a Massachusetts native who grew up on the South Shore. He has 16+ years of experience in enrollment/institutional research. In his free time, he enjoys playing hockey and hopes to resume practicing drums soon.
Robyn Gurria
Research Assistant, Institutional Effectiveness
B.S. University of Wisconsin
A recent graduate from the University of Massachusetts-Boston Applied Sociology Master's program, Robyn grew up in Minnesota and went to undergrad in Wisconsin before relocating to Boston. She enjoys being outdoors with her dog.
Edith Kwok
Budget Director, Administration and Finance
B.S. Bentley University; M.B.A. UMass Boston
Edith grew up in North Andover. She enjoys spending time with friends and family. Some of her hobbies include traveling and indoor cycling.
Associate Registrar of Services, Academic Records
B.S. Houghton College; M.S. Alfred University
Jenne Powers
Director, Learning Communities
B.A. College of William and Mary; M.A., Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jenne grew up outside of Richmond, VA, but has lived in the Boston area for 13 years. Her primary hobby has always been reading—mostly fiction–but in recent years she has taken up birding. Her academic background is in Russian literature. Her research and professional interests include pedagogical and academic support interventions that ensure equity in student success.
Director of TRIO, Student Success Program
B.S.; M.A.; Ph.D. Eastern Michigan University
Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, Cheryl's research dissertation focused on the lived experiences of African American students attending a predominately white institution and their perceptions, and identification, of challenges, barriers and successes encountered throughout their college experience.
Cynthia Smith Forrest
Interim Associate Provost, Academic and Student Affairs
B.A., M.Ed. University of South Carolina; M.Ed., Ed.D. Harvard University
Cynthia grew up in South Carolina. Her love of travel and the arts has led her all over New England and the world. Her interests include research design and methods; student success, retention, academic progress and graduation rates examined by gender, race and SES; and building higher education organizations' capacities for success and responses to rapid change.
Vengerflutta Smith
Assistant Dean, Student Services
B.S. Highland Park Community College; M.A. Michigan State University
Vengerflutta is committed to student success and proudly shares with students that her community college education was her foundation for completing her master's degree. Vengerflutta's experience in higher ed includes residential life, student activities, veterans services, disability resources, admissions, recruitment, enrollment services, and judicial affairs while also serving as adjunct faculty and lecturer for Human Services, Sociology, Psychology, Biology, and Math. Vengerflutta most recently served as Director of Student Activities and Code of Conduct Administrator at Northern Essex Community College.
Juan Venegas
Associate Registrar of Operations, Academic Records
B.A. California State University; M.A. SIT Graduate Institute
Juan grew up in San Diego, California, and moved to the Boston area about six years ago. He is an avid cyclist and hopes to commute by bike to work. He enjoys traveling abroad whenever he has time.
New Classified Staff
Katerina Chlupacova
Clerk VI, Student Central
A.S. Bunker Hill Community College
Patrick Clark
Campus Police Officer I, Public Safety
A.S. Bristol Community College
Marc-Anthony Cousins
EDP Systems Analyst II, Technology Support Services
B.S. Syracuse University
Alba Diaz
A.A. Northern Essex Community College; B.A. Worcester State University
A.S. Bunker Hill Community College; B.S. UMass Boston
Jonathan Seaton
HVAC Mechanic I, Facilities Management
Keesha Taylor
Clerk V, Test Proctor, Disability Support Services
A.A. Laguardia Community College; B.A.The City University of New York, Hunter College; M.A. The City University of New York, Baruch College; Ed.D. Northeastern University
Keesha was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She spent most of her life there, and attended three colleges within the City University of New York (CUNY). She is interested in identifying best practices in test proctoring and exploring how we can decrease test anxiety among community college students.
Tin Than
Laboratory Technician I, Science and Engineering Department
B.S. UMass Boston


Here the PECAN researchers address a few top questions about nighttime thunderstorms.
In what parts of the U. S. and during what time of the year do thunderstorms most often occur during the night rather than during the day?
In the plains of the U.S. during June and July, thunderstorms most often form during the night around midnight when most people are sleeping and it is much cooler than during the day. The loud thunder can jolt you out of bed!
Are thunderstorms at night more dangerous than thunderstorms during the day?
All thunderstorms produce dangerous lightning, both during the day and at night. Storms that form at night are likely to produce hail, damaging winds, and flooding rain. Tornadoes, however, are much more likely during the day, especially during the late afternoon and early evening, not at night. Tornadoes are also much more common in the spring than in the summer in most parts of the country.
What are the main weather hazards from nocturnal thunderstorms?
Nocturnal thunderstorms that occur in large complexes or lines are capable of producing damaging winds, hail, and torrential rainfall that can result in flash flooding. Tornadoes, however, while possible, occur much less frequently at night. Lightning is also a significant hazard.
What should people do to prepare for nocturnal thunderstorms?
Be sure to secure all outdoor patio furniture and other things that can be blown around by strong winds. Park cars in garages or under shelters if possible to protect them from hail or falling tree branches. Make sure electronic devices such as computers and televisions that are plugged into the wall are protected from electrical surges or are simply disconnected. If you live in a flood-prone area, be prepared to evacuate if a flash flood warning is issued. A NOAA weather radio with an alarm tone and a cell phone with alarm capability are useful for being awakened and warned while you are asleep.
What role does geography play in nocturnal thunderstorms?
It appears as if the Rocky Mountains and the gentle slope of the land downward to the east and southeast toward the Gulf of Mexico are important. The sun heats the land unevenly during the day, and when the heating from the sun stops at night, changes occur in the atmosphere that force a strong "jet" of air just above the ground. It blows northward from the Gulf of Mexico, bringing lots of moisture that can fuel thunderstorms in the Plains.
Is it more difficult to forecast thunderstorms that form at night?
Thunderstorms are most likely to form when the temperature of the air decreases with height pretty rapidly; for example, when it's hot at the ground and cold aloft. Thunderstorms that form at night occur in the absence of heating at the ground by the sun. Consequently, the storms that form at night are usually "elevated," meaning that they form aloft above the cooler air near the ground, rather than near the ground, which only during the day can get warmer. There aren't nearly as many measurements available of temperature and moisture, which is needed to fuel thunderstorms, above the ground as there are at the ground, so predicting where storms will form at night is much more challenging.
Learn more about the PECAN project here.


The study of Cambodian Buddhism has less clearly coalesced as a field than studies of Buddhism in the other major Theravada countries of Sri Lanka, Burma, and Thailand, although this is beginning to change. A lack of coherence may have to do with the ruptures in Cambodian Buddhism itself: the odd combinations of Buddhism (often Mahayana) in the Angkorean period and the subsequent arrival of Theravada institutions; the effect of French colonialism on the practice of Buddhism, followed by the social experiments of postcolonial Cambodia, including the radical Pol Pot period during which, for three years, Buddhism was effectively outlawed. Related to this is the apparent rupture in scholarship from the French traditions with roots in colonialism to the sometimes rather different focus and style of non-French scholars who began to study Cambodian Buddhism as well, gaining momentum as the country opened up politically in the 1990s. Despite important work on Khmer texts by several scholars, we perhaps still lack a clear overview of the Buddhist textual tradition in Cambodia. There have also been relatively few attempts at overviews of the country's Buddhism. Nevertheless, as this bibliography shows, important work has been completed, and this has gained momentum in recent years.
The two major attempts at an overview of Cambodian Buddhism, Leclère 1975 (originally 1899) and Harris 2005, are separated by a century and very different in approach. Leclère was French resident to several provinces of Cambodia starting in 1886 and over the course of his career wrote about a variety of aspects of Cambodian society; here he writes about doctrine and ritual practice, with virtually no citations of sources. Harris, a trained Buddhologist and well-versed in the French literature on Cambodia, does not neglect doctrine or ritual practice but, in the end, draws principally on published sources, meticulously cited, to construct an overview of Cambodian Buddhism heavily focused on the historical record. Harris's book appeared at a time of renewed interest in Cambodian Buddhism, and coincided with other publications which also attempted to take a broad perspective: two edited volumes (Marston and Guthrie 2004 and Kent and Chandler 2008) and an issue of the journal Siksācakr devoted to Cambodian Buddhism (Edwards 2006–2007).
Edwards, Penny, ed. Special Issue: Buddhism. Siksācakr 8–9 (2006–2007).
A solid work of scholarship, which, like other overviews published in the 2000s, helped redefine Cambodian Buddhist studies. Gives particular emphasis to the colonial period, but also includes work on women in Cambodian Buddhism and the relation of Buddhism to political conflict.
Harris, Ian. Cambodian Buddhism: History and Practice. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2005.
The most complete overview of Cambodian Buddhism we have to date. An impressive synthesis of the body of literature on Cambodian Buddhism, drawing well on the French tradition. It works well as a narrative history, with many telling, interesting details. The book also includes chapters summarizing the ethnography of Cambodian Buddhist practice. Very helpful, complete bibliography.
Kent, Alexandra, and David Chandler. "Introduction." In People of Power: Reconfiguring Religion, Power and Moral Order in Cambodia Today. Edited by Alexandra Kent and David Chandler, 1–15. Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, 2008.
Introduces a volume which, like others published at the time, attempts to see the larger picture of Cambodian Buddhism. In addition to summarizing contents, this introduction provides a brief historical account. It emphasizes that Cambodia is "attempting to recover moral order after violent conflict both in relation to indigenous values and experience and as embedded in social relations and history" (p. 2).
Leclère, Adhemard. Le buddhisme au Cambodge. New York: AMS Press, 1975.
Originally published in 1899, this was for a century the key overview of Cambodian Buddhism. The book is broad in its scope and includes chapters dedicated to general Buddhist beliefs and doctrines (cosmogony, the inhabitants of the universe, ontology, the Buddha and his disciples, the basis of the doctrine, the doctrine) and chapters more about the specific practices of Cambodia (ritual, the sangha, art and architecture, ethics). In French.
Marston, John, and Elizabeth Guthrie. "Introduction." In History, Buddhism, and New Religious Movements in Cambodia. Edited by John Marston and Elizabeth Guthrie, 1–5. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2004.
A brief survey of the literature on Cambodian Buddhism and introduction to the works in this volume. Introductions to the book's four sections, "Cambodian Religion and the Historical Construction of Nation," "The Icon of the Leper King," "The Ethnography of Contemporary Cambodian Buddhism," and "The Transnationalism of Cambodian Religion," further frame the discussion and clarify the different traditions which study Buddhism in Cambodia proper and the diaspora community.


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Sanyo MBC-55x Series
Sanyo launched their Personal Computer (PC) range in 1982 with the MBC-550 series (in Japan it was simply MBC-55). The MBC-55x series was designed to compete with IBM's PC-XT. It featured the same Intel 8088 CPU and ran a version of MS-DOS. It was famously the first of the IBM PC-compatibles that retailed for under $1000 (see our page on 1982 PC prices for comparison).
To reach this price point though meant compromise. It wasn't 100% IBM-compatible at the hardware level, and it was actually the only PC that clocked slower than the original IBM PC at 3.58 MHz (the IBM PC system clock ran at 4.77 MHz), giving it a Norton SI rating of 0.8. It's also a misnomer that the MBC-55x was a 16-bit computer. The Intel 8088 microprocessor works internally with a 16-bit bus, but external to the CPU it can only work on an 8-bit bus. This was part of the shrewd PC clone marketing that wasn't uncommon at the time.
The package looked quite sleek and unusual in silver (the majority of clones were in bland light grey/light brown cases) - the system unit measured 380 x 112 x 360 mm and the keyboard was 442(W)x45(H)x174(D) mm.
The series comprised the following models:
MBC-550 : 1 x 5.25" disk drive (160 KB)
MBC-555-2 : 2 x 5.25" disk drive (360 KB)
There was a choice of two monitors:
CRT 70 Colour monitor - supported 8 colours including black and white, 640 x 200 (in 8 colours), 8x8 character box, 6x7 character font, 80x25 character lines on-screen, 15.75 kHz horizontal frequency.
CRT 30 Monochrome monitor - 640 x 200 dot graphics, 8x8 character box, 6x7 character font, 80x25 character lines on-screen, 15.75 kHz horizontal frequency.
All models in the series came with the following ports on the back of the system unit: Centronics parallel port, Keyboard socket (5-pin DIN which is not IBM compatible), two video connectors (8-pin DIN socket for RGB, and a coaxial connector for composite video).
From initial launch you could also purchase some optional accessories including an RS-232c serial card which provided 1 socket and supported 150-1200 baud asynchronous serial communication. Another optional extra was the expansion RAM card which added 128 KB system RAM (in 8 x 4164 chips).
Whilst easily being mistaken for a true IBM PC-compatible computer, it was not hardware compatible. The MBC-550 had no BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) like the IBM did, instead having only a minimal bootloader in ROM which accessed the MBC's hardware directly in order to load a BIOS that remained in RAM while the system was switched on.
Outside of Japan, all units shipped with two system disks: MS-DOS v2.11 and SANYO BASIC, plus an 'Applications' floppy disk with productivity software from MicroPro - WordStar, SpellStar, and InfoStar. In some cases a different word processor was shipped - EasyWriter in place of WordStar.
They were manufactured between 1983 and 1988, with over 10,000 known to have been sold worldwide.
Retail Prices
In the USA, the MBC-550 with amber monitor cost $999.00.
The MBC-555 Mainboard
Hardware - BIOS
Rather than doing what other clone manufacturers were doing, which was duplicating the IBM PC's circuitry and ROMs, Sanyo Business System designed their own circuitry and their own BIOS, part of which was on an 8 KB ROM chip and part was on floppy disk to be loaded at boot time. The character set was also in ROM. This meant the Sanyo MBC-55x series was the first of the "legitimate" clones of the IBM Personal Computer.
In Japan, the MBC-55 came with the Kanji character set and CP/M-86 operating system.
Note that the system will not display anything on the screen until a boot disk has been inserted, so if you are testing one of these for the first time don't be too concerned if you get a blank screen on startup! At this time it is constantly attempting to read the boot sector from a disk in Drive A:. Before the operating system has loaded, the CGA circuitry cannot output a signal containing the sync needed to display anything because the CRTC (basically the video controller chip) has yet to be initialised.
Hardware - FLOPPY Drives
The MBC-55x series came with 5.25" floppy drives sized from 160 KB to 800 KB. One thing the machine had that was odd was a floppy controller that could support up to 4 floppy drives - you simply chained them and adjusted the DSx jumper on the drives. The drives were labeled A,B,C, and D so if a hard drive was added it became E: even if you only had 2 floppy drives as the BIOS reserved A: to D: for floppy drives. The floppy drives in these models were from TEAC - the 160 KB drives were model FD-55A. It's assumed the double-sided sibling of this, the FD-55B was fitted to the MBC-555-2 variant.
Interestingly, the drive lights always stayed on when the door was closed. They did not go out even if the drive was not currently being accessed. This was because the drives report the "drive ready" signal on pin 34 and the MBC depends on this. Most PC-compatibles instead report "disk changed". Note the floppy cable also lacks a twist, similar to the Amstrad PC1640.
The floppy disk controller was integrated into the motherboard, and could not be disabled (in case of failure with a view to replacing it with an expansion card).
If a Sanyo MBC-55x only has a single floppy disk drive, rather than just providing a blanking plate over the empty bay, Sanyo thoughfully provided a handy disk storage area!
Hardware - Hard Disks
The mainboard had a pin header which supported the connection of a 5 MB hard disk !
Hardware - Video Output and Memory Access
Its video output was loosely based on IBM's CGA (Colour Graphics Adapter) standard but was proprietary. Whilst CGA was capable of displaying 4 colours at 320x200 or 2 colours at 640x200, the MBC-550 could display 8 colours at 640x200. Sanyo's out-of-the-box graphics were easy to use: three straight 640x400 bitplanes, R, G, and B. There was no text mode, so stock IBM PC apps that bypassed the video BIOS did not work. The MBC-55x series all had 48 KB of on-board video RAM.
The main add-on card was a Sanyo CGA color card, that transformed the original Sanyo into about a 90% PC IBM compatible computer (a lot of "IBM PC" software at the time accessed the address of the video cards directly - B800:0000 for color and B000:0000 for monochrome, since the Sanyo had no video card at this address the video output was never seen. Sanyo offered the CGA board that was present at this address for direct memory writing). Two CGA boards were available - the first provided just the CGA compatibility, and a larger version contained a 256 KB RAM expansion as well.
HARDWARE - MEMORY
The standard MBC-55x motherboard came with 128 KB of 4164 DRAM chips in two socketed banks. It could be expanded to a maximum of 256 KB on the motherboard.
HARDWARE - KEYBOARD
The MBC-55x computers used a proprietary keyboard interface, so a standard PC/XT keyboard will not work. The keyboard was manufactured by Fujitsu and uses leaf springs under the key cap for a solid, full-stroke clicky feel. It comprises 81 keys including 5 programmable function keys (holding SHIFT provides F6-F10)
Hardware - POWER SUPPLY
The MBC-55x came with a linear power supply.
To make the computer run MS-DOS, Sanyo commissioned Microsoft to write a special version of MS-DOS (v2.11) and its command interpreter (COMMAND.COM) that would work on the MBC series. The special support for the Sanyo is contained within the file IO.SYS, where it reports video on interrupt 10h, disk on interrupt 13h, keyboard on interrupt 16h etc. All software making PC "ROM BIOS" calls are then redirected to this "RAM" BIOS (since IO.SYS is loaded into RAM).
The MBC series came bundled with productivity software from MicroPro: WordStar 3.3, CalcStar, DataStar, MailMerge, and EasyWriter. It also came with BASIC. These applications were specially rewritten to work with the Sanyo MBC series.
While the mixed text-and-graphics video made it incompatible with many programs intended for the IBM PC (Lotus 1-2-3 and Microsoft Flight Simulator were the benchmark for IBM PC compatibility at the time), WordStar worked just fine, as did Microsoft Excel (the original MS-DOS version) and also Borland's Turbo Pascal compiler. If your consideration was more for file interchangeability (it ran MS-DOS 2.1) than for software compatibility, the Sanyo was a solid, workhorse system at a very reasonable price.Discontinuation
By August 1985 InfoWorld reported that Sanyo "has initiated a campaign to sell off" its MBC-550 inventory. The company's newer computers were, an executive claimed, 99% PC compatible.
The basic MBC-550 came with 128K in sixteen 4164 RAM chips, all soldered in. There were sockets for another 16, to make 256K in total. Over the years, a number of memory expansions were devised. Sanyo themselves came out with the VB-512, which added another 256K in 41256s and also provided an IBM-standard CGA output (but the Sanyo's native 640x200 8-colour RGB looks much nicer). It stacked on top of the horizontal 62-pin header. You could add another bank of sockets and chips to the VB-512 and bring the
total to 640K, or 736K with a bit more work (read: hardware hacking). However, the VB-512 would not work with either of the two speed-doubler boards which were developed for the Sanyo by Tampa Bay Digital and by Jack Farrow.
Tampa Bay Digital produced a board called the Missing Link, which added 512K to give a total of 768K in native Sanyo video mode or 736K if using imitation-IBM video. This board also used the 62-pin header, and you also had to move one of the 4164s from the motherboard to the Missing Link and plug a ribbon cable DIP header into its original socket. The Missing Link included a battery-powered real-time clock, and a software emulation of IBM video (very slow). I have a Missing Link in my Sanyo.
The Northeast Electronics 960K upgrade, along with several others, employed "piggy-backing" of chips (three high!) on the motherboard, along with lots of cutting and soldering of chip pins and trace-cutting on the underside of the motherboard. I don't know the details, or how much of that 960K memory was actually usable, because the video had to be put someplace although it could be relocated during bootup.
Various people came up with ways to replace the socketed 4164s with 41256s, with additional wiring and devices to handle the addressing etc. Some of these could take you to 640K without any trace-cutting.
As of a few months ago, there was still a Sanyo 550 Hackers Newsletter (using the term "hackers" in its original non-derogatory sense), run since the beginning of time by Victor Frank in California. He also tries to help out people with other older (CP/M) Sanyo machines such as the 1100/1150, 1200/1250, 4000/4050, etc.
And AFAIK, the legendary Jack Farrow is still offering his full range of Sanyo 550 upgrades, including 640K and 896K memory upgrade kits, a speed-doubler board, a new BIOS ROM, an IBM-compatible serial board, a simulator board for IBM video and an operating system to run it, and an operating system called ANYDISK which can handle all of the third-party 40- and 80- track disk formats which were used in the Sanyo over the years. I have most of his stuff, along with more than nine years of the Newsletter
and three years of Soft Sector magazine.
CGA Board
The CGA board came with a Sanyo Video Board Boot Disk. If you boot the system using this system disk, you will not be able to see the regular display but only the CGA output.
Hard Drive Support
There was a pinout on the motherboard for a ribbon cable that would accept a 5 MB hard disk. Since the stock power supply only had capacity for ~ 90W, a common upgrade was to replace this transformer/linear PSU with a more modern switching power supply that could cope with more current draw. Later, hard disk capacities up to 20 MB were found to be possible.
Math Co-Processor
The MBC-55x motherboard also included a socket for an Intel 8087 math coprocessor, which helped with spreadsheet applications that supported it, such as Lotus 1-2-3.
At least two replacement operating systems are known to have been developed for the MBC-55x series: Michtron''s DS-DOS and A-OK's OK-DOS.
Other users found ways to read and write 1.2 MB 5.25" disks and 720 kB 3.5" disks on these computers.
A monthly magazine called 'Soft Sector' was written exclusively for the MBC-55x series community.
Computer Shopper magazine ran a column specific to the MBC-55x series, called "The Silver Box".
From 1984, there existed the Sanyo 550 Hackers Newsletter, edited (and largely written) by Victor R. Frank based in California, USA. He also was custodian of a disk library of over 500 5.25" disks of software that would run on some version or other of the Sanyo MBC-55x series computers. He has a pretty complete collection of pre-1985 Sanyo Business Systems computers!
There was also the Sanyo Users' Group in New York, run by Patrick Yanez. SUG provided a disk library service where you could obtain software that would run on the MBC-550 series.
In New Zealand's Bits & Bytes Issue 2-8, the retail price of each model variant was as follows:
MBC-550 $2,395.00 (includes MS-DOS, BASIC, WordStar, CalcStar - not including monitor, but does include 40% sales tax)
MBC-555 $3,295.00 (includes all above plus MailMerge, InfoStar and SpellStar - not including monitor, but does include 40% sales tax)
Gerry Brophy maintains a Sanyo MBC-55x disk image archive of MBC-compatible software at his website at http://www.eriscreations.com/sanyo/index.html
The disk archive has two formats of disk images:
.img were compressed using DSKIMAGE program here (should be in the middle of the list) running on MS-DOS 6.22 (not on a PCJr) to make the images, using the settings 40 tracks, 1 head, and 8 sectors.
.td0 were compressed with teledisk 1.15
Gerry can be contacted gerry@eriscreations.com

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A state of disaster has been declared in Victoria, with harsh COVID-19 restrictions on movement across Melbourne and an overnight curfew to be enforced by police. The lockdown, effective from 6pm Sunday, grants officers additional powers to ensure people comply with the strict public health directions. The shock move to enforce a rare health-related curfew came as the state recorded 671 new cases on Sunday - its second-highest daily total - and seven further deaths. The new 'stage four' restrictions will run until September 13, with Premier Daniel Andrews adamant the six-week strategy is preferable a lockdown lasting six months. "I'm not prepared to accept that or accept days and days and days of hundreds of cases and more and more death," he said on Sunday. "These are significant steps and not taken lightly. If we don't make these changes, we're not going to get through this. We need to do more." Victoria's chief health officer Brett Sutton credited 'stage three' restrictions with averting 20,000 cases but admitted it hadn't been enough. "Numbers have to change," he said. Under the tighter restrictions, Melbourne residents will only be allowed to exercise for an hour a day and can't travel more than 5km from home for shopping or exercise. Only one person per household can shop for groceries each day, while recreational sports such as tennis and golf will be banned altogether. Metropolitan Melbourne will be under a nightly 8pm to 5am curfew from Sunday night, albeit with some exemptions for those providing care and travelling to and from work. Anyone caught breaking curfew or outside a 5km radius of their principal place of residence will be handed a $1,652 on-the-spot fine. "The time for discretion, the time for accepting some of this bad behaviour is over," Mr Andrews said. From midnight on Wednesday, weddings will not be permitted in Melbourne unless granted an exemption on compassionate grounds. Rules for funerals remain unchanged. All school students, including Melbourne-based VCE pupils, will learn from home apart from some "special school" attendees and those whose parents have work commitments. The change will come into effect from Wednesday, with Tuesday a statewide pupil free day. Regional Victoria will move to 'stage three' stay-at-home restrictions, with restaurants, cafes, bars and gyms to shut from midnight on Wednesday. People will only be allowed outdoors to shop for food and essential items, provide care and caregiving, and for exercise, work and study. While acknowledging the drastic moves were necessary, the Victorian Chamber of Commerce said they would undoubtedly mean the end for many businesses. Peak tourism body, the Victoria Tourism Industry Council, also weighed in saying the latest restrictions will further devastate the state's ailing tourism and event industry. The premier flagged further announcements on workplaces on Monday, including some closures. "I want to ensure all Victorians supermarkets, the butcher, the baker, food, beverage, groceries, those types of settings, there will be no impact there," he said. Meanwhile, Mitchell Shire to Melbourne's north has been reclassified as a regional municipality meaning it will remain under 'stage three' rules. Victoria's latest deaths take the national toll to 208, with six of the seven connected to the age care sector. Seventy-three of the new cases are linked to known outbreaks, 598 remain under investigation and 760 "mystery cases" are yet to be traced to an original source. Australian Associated Press
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August 2 2020 - 6:44PM
Virus-hit Vic enters 'state of disaster'
Callum Godde
The city of Melbourne will be under curfew from 8pm Sunday until the early hours of Monday.
A state of disaster has been declared in Victoria, with harsh COVID-19 restrictions on movement across Melbourne and an overnight curfew to be enforced by police.
The lockdown, effective from 6pm Sunday, grants officers additional powers to ensure people comply with the strict public health directions.
The shock move to enforce a rare health-related curfew came as the state recorded 671 new cases on Sunday - its second-highest daily total - and seven further deaths.
The new 'stage four' restrictions will run until September 13, with Premier Daniel Andrews adamant the six-week strategy is preferable a lockdown lasting six months.
"I'm not prepared to accept that or accept days and days and days of hundreds of cases and more and more death," he said on Sunday.
"These are significant steps and not taken lightly. If we don't make these changes, we're not going to get through this. We need to do more."
Victoria's chief health officer Brett Sutton credited 'stage three' restrictions with averting 20,000 cases but admitted it hadn't been enough.
"Numbers have to change," he said.
Under the tighter restrictions, Melbourne residents will only be allowed to exercise for an hour a day and can't travel more than 5km from home for shopping or exercise.
Only one person per household can shop for groceries each day, while recreational sports such as tennis and golf will be banned altogether.
Metropolitan Melbourne will be under a nightly 8pm to 5am curfew from Sunday night, albeit with some exemptions for those providing care and travelling to and from work.
Anyone caught breaking curfew or outside a 5km radius of their principal place of residence will be handed a $1,652 on-the-spot fine.
"The time for discretion, the time for accepting some of this bad behaviour is over," Mr Andrews said.
From midnight on Wednesday, weddings will not be permitted in Melbourne unless granted an exemption on compassionate grounds.
Rules for funerals remain unchanged.
All school students, including Melbourne-based VCE pupils, will learn from home apart from some "special school" attendees and those whose parents have work commitments.
The change will come into effect from Wednesday, with Tuesday a statewide pupil free day.
Regional Victoria will move to 'stage three' stay-at-home restrictions, with restaurants, cafes, bars and gyms to shut from midnight on Wednesday.
People will only be allowed outdoors to shop for food and essential items, provide care and caregiving, and for exercise, work and study.
While acknowledging the drastic moves were necessary, the Victorian Chamber of Commerce said they would undoubtedly mean the end for many businesses.
Peak tourism body, the Victoria Tourism Industry Council, also weighed in saying the latest restrictions will further devastate the state's ailing tourism and event industry.
The premier flagged further announcements on workplaces on Monday, including some closures.
"I want to ensure all Victorians supermarkets, the butcher, the baker, food, beverage, groceries, those types of settings, there will be no impact there," he said.
Meanwhile, Mitchell Shire to Melbourne's north has been reclassified as a regional municipality meaning it will remain under 'stage three' rules.
Victoria's latest deaths take the national toll to 208, with six of the seven connected to the age care sector.
Seventy-three of the new cases are linked to known outbreaks, 598 remain under investigation and 760 "mystery cases" are yet to be traced to an original source.
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Would love to play more challenging roles: Rajkummar Rao
National Award winning actor Rajkummar Rao, who is receiving a positive response for his new look in the upcoming film 'Judgmental Hai Kya', says he would love to play characters that challenge him to work harder.
Mumbai: National Award winning actor Rajkummar Rao, who is receiving a positive response for his new look in the upcoming film 'Judgmental Hai Kya', says he would love to play characters that challenge him to work harder.
On his role in the film, Rajkummar said in a statement: "I want to play characters that are challenging, and that push me to work harder every time. I like characters who are edgy and quirky, and Keshav is one such character. The look is in sync with the personality of my character Keshav in the movie. That's fun."
In the film, he is paired with Kangana Ranaut and the story revolves around a murder. Both of them are suspected killers.
The recently launched trailer has been lauded widely on social media.
Rajkummar is flattered with the response.
"When I said 'yes' to the film, I knew I was getting into something that is quite unusual and never heard of or done before in movies. That's exactly what the challenge and thrill were as an actor. The thriller genre really excites me. I had an amazing experience shooting for 'Judgmental Hai Kya' because it is the first time I'm doing a film like this," he added.
Directed by Prakash Kovelamudi, the film also features Brijendra Kala, Jimmy Sheirgill and Amyra Dastur. It will release on July 26.
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As actors, we become numb to consuming other works: Arjun Kapoor
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Our faithful readers will surely remember that some years ago we made a meandering musical tour with Két Sheng, where we accompanied the history and parallels of the song The rooster is crowing, from the encounter of the Hungarian folk song and the medieval French Jewish piyut in Nagykálló through the Messiah-nightingale of the Sephardic song to the nightingale greeting the Christian Easter night. And this tour was started with the performance of Márta Sebestyén and the Muzsikás Ensemble, who – as we recounted earlier, when searching for the Eastern European roots of Bella ciao – tracked down those old Gypsy musicians who used to play on the feasts of the Hasidic Jewish communities of Maramureș, destroyed in 1944, and collected from them the songs of these communities.
Márta Sebestyén and the Muzsikás Ensemble: The rooster is crowing (3'06"). From the CD The rooster is crowing. Hungarian Jewish folk music (1992). - The CD was released outside of Hungary under the title Máramaros: The Lost Jewish Music of Transylvania.
But the road meanders further. This evening we received an invitation for tomorrow, Wednesday evening at 18 o'clock to the Bálint Ház (Budapest VI. Révay utca 16), where under the title "Forgotten Jewish village music – The Rooster Is Crowing" the Muzsikás Ensemble will give a presentation about their collection tour in Maramureș, and then a concert with the songs collected. The invitation specifically stressed that the readers of Río Wang are especially welcome. Come with us. And for those of you who can not, we will try to report about the evening.


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Almost 160 guests attended and enjoyed dancing, culinary treats, and refreshing Crystal Head Aurora cocktails well into the night.
The launch party featured a number of local renowned artists, who morphed our bottles into pieces of art. These beautiful creations were auctioned off and the funds will be donated to the Room to Read program.
Thank you all the artists, who participated: Jeremy Henrickson, Jeff Burgess, Taka Sudo, Kayla Katastrophe, Arden Marow Ross, Jace Junggyu Kim and James Ritchie.


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# gulp-rev-absolute

Rewrite occurences of filenames which have been renamed by gulp-rev.
重置gulp-rev处理后的文件的引用路径,在css中的路径为相对路径,在js中的路径为绝对路径

## Install
```bash
$ npm install --save-dev gulp-rev-absolute
```

## Usage
```javascript
var domain = '//test.example.com';                        // 静态域名
var sourcePath      = 'public';                           // 前端代码根目录
var buildPath       = 'build';                            // 输出目录

var srcImg  = sourcePath + '/**/*.{jpg,jpeg,png,gif,bmp}';// img 源码
var srcCss  = sourcePath + '/**/*.css';                   // css 源码

// 图片md5 处理
gulp.task('img', [], function(){
    return gulp.src(srcImg)
        .pipe(rev())
        .pipe(gulp.dest(buildPath))
        .pipe(rev.manifest('imgManifest.json'))
        .pipe(gulp.dest(buildPath));
});
gulp.task('css', ['img'], function(){
    var imgManifest = gulp.src(buildPath + "/imgManifest.json");
    return gulp.src(srcCss)
        .pipe(revAbsolute({manifest: imgManifest, base: baseUrl}))
        .pipe(gulp.dest(buildPath))

});
```

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is an antiphon and a responsory from the common of confessor bishops in the Liturgy of the Hours and in the Graduale Romanum, and the Epistle in their proper Mass. It belongs to Sir 50,1.

Contents
Its words are, , which means "behold the great priest, who in his days, pleased God".

In certain cases, those words are followed by: , meaning "and has been found just".

In others, the response is:  (no one has been found to be like him in the keeping of the laws of the Most High)[Sir 44:20].

The following is a complete text and translation of a different version, which may be used at the procession of a bishop at a solemn celebration of ordination:

Behold a great priest who in his days pleased God:

Therefore by an oath the Lord made him to increase among his people.

To him He gave the blessing of all nations, and confirmed His covenant upon his head.

Therefore by an oath the Lord made him to increase among his people.

Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit. . .

Meaning and Usage
The priest mentioned in the hymn refers to Christ, the high priest, in whose place the bishop stands.

It has been often set to music by composers, including Anton Bruckner, Edward Elgar and Jules Van Nuffel.

Christian liturgical music

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The Common Wheel in Lancaster received $25,000 to support six different five-week sessions of its Earn-A-Bike hands-on, mechanical courses for children.
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Queer Voices
This Incredible Place Helps LGBT Foster Kids When There's Nowhere Else To Turn
The latest in the Let Love Define Family series.
James Michael Nichols
HuffPost Queer Voices Editor
Today's RaiseAChild.US Huffington Post Gay Voices "Let Love Define Family®" series installment, required an approved court order from the California Superior Court, County of Los Angeles Juvenile Division. As a result, RaiseAChild Founder and CEO, Rich Valenza, takes us behind the scenes of a facility that has served thousands of foster children, but seen by few adults.
Tucked away, at an address that you won't likely find on your GPS, is a facility that functions as the last resort for foster children in Los Angeles County. Each night, starting at about 6:30 p.m., the place begins to buzz. Social workers pull up in reserved parking spots right in front of the building. I watch as they unload their cars of children of all sizes, shapes and colors. Some workers enter the automated doors carrying babies, or holding the hands of young sibling groups. Others walk behind teenagers who don't need help with the routine they know all too well.
Regardless of the age of these children, they all have unfortunate similarities. Each child is likely to have experienced serious episodes of neglect or abuse. Fear, bewilderment, and anxiety are easy to read on each of their faces. Everyone of these children have been delivered to this facility because there are not enough foster parents in Los Angeles County to take them. Not even for one night.
Let Love Define Family Series
Upon arrival, all foster children are ushered down a long sterile hallway and processed through a medical clinic for an initial screening. From there, their social workers separate the children according to their age. Babies to 11-year-olds are delivered behind a secured blue metal door with a large sign that reads "Children's Welcome Center." It's a large room that echoes from linoleum floors and sparse furnishing. By 9:30 each night, it is "lights out" as cribs and folded cots have been rolled out from the storage closet and lined up across the floor. Because sound carries across this room, one restless baby can easily wake all of the other children. But usually these children sleep soundly as this safe space likely provides the first sense of security in their lives for some time.
Foster teens are walked to a different end of the facility and check in at a security guard's station near an overhead sign that reads "Youth Welcome Center." But this hardly seems like a welcoming place when each teen is then screened more carefully to insure that drugs, alcohol and weapons don't find their way in.
On the cold December night that I visited the Children's Welcome Center, there were five children between the ages of one and nine expected to spend the night. The months of November and December, I am told, turn out smaller numbers of younger children to this Welcome Center because the holiday season generally generates more compassion for younger foster children. But starting in January, the nightly numbers of children begin to climb again. Typically, March and October are peak months with the number of children 11 and under rising to 20 or more. Teens in the foster system are not as lucky. It is exponentially more difficult to find foster homes willing to take in a teen. Each night up to 25 foster teens enter in the Youth Welcome Center for a hot meal, a fresh change of clothes, a clean shower and safe place to sleep. There are about fifteen "regulars" at various ages between 18 and 20 that show up at the door most every night. During the day these "regulars" fend for themselves on the streets of downtown Los Angeles but return at night to the one staple thing in their lives.
"We have an unlocked policy here at the Youth Welcome Center," said Valerie Coleman-Brown, a seasoned Youth Supervisor with a gentle manner. "At any time during the night, these teens are free to leave and return. We do our best to counsel them to stay safe and inside with us. We share stories of the streets that are so truthfully bad that we hope it changes their minds about walking out the doors. Sometimes it works. Recently, we developed a detailed form and ask them to complete and sign it. The form even asks them to describe their clothing and identifying marks all in an effort to really make the teens stop and think about risk and the decisions they make."
The main room of the Youth Welcome Center is cavernous and noisy from a television that is turned up too high. Three overstuffed naugahyde couches are pushed to the side to make room for the night's roll out of cots. I am introduced to Bryana, a foster youth with a pure innocence about her. She agrees to sit with me for an interview. I start nervously by saying that she doesn't have to answer any of my questions that she doesn't want to. She acknowledges softly.
"How long have you been in foster care," I ask.
"Since I was 13," Bryana answers.
"And how old are you now?"
"I'm 15," she said shyly.
"My son is 15 and I have a daughter that is 14," I offer in hopes of breaking the ice. "I adopted them from the county."
Suddenly, she spoke up. "It would be a big help if more parents would come in, not just for me, but for a lot of other kids that don't have anywhere else to go. There are kids that have been here for like five weeks."
"And how long have you been here," I ask.
"Five weeks. No school. No nothing. I'm just here waiting."
"Let me ask you," I said. "What would be your ideal home? Who would you hope to go with?"
She paused and looked straight in my eyes and answered, "My mom."
I flush with embarrassment for asking the question.
"But really," she covers my awkwardness. "I would like any house. Any parents with brothers or sisters. It doesn't matter to me."
"May I ask about your mom," I ask. "How is she?"
"She's fine," Bryanna answered and offered nothing more.
"Do you have brothers or sisters?"
"I have two brothers," she said. "They were in the foster care system when they were babies. Me too. Eventually, we all got out of foster care. But then I got put back in when I was 13."
I was at a loss of words. "Is there anything else you want to add?"
"Well, DCFS (Department of Children and Family Services) is really good. I've been here so long that now they are like my family."
As I thanked Bryanna, I was struck by her last statement. This 15 year-old taught me a lesson. She opened my eyes. For in that moment, I realized that while I was judging the facility by its cold linoleum floors and institutional florescent lighting, I was totally missing what the foster children recognize and value as the true heart of the facility. It's not the building structure, but it is the people who work there. That heart is all of the staff that show up night after night to help and care for these kids.
I pass through another doorway. I met four women whose sole job is to work the phones throughout their entire eight hour shift. They are members of the Accelerated Placement Team and each of them log thousands of calls a week. Their shared purpose is to find available foster homes and beds for the 35,000 children in the foster system of Los Angeles County.
"Wow, I am impressed how dressed up everybody is here," I say. "Does this happen all the time?"
"Actually, tonight is a casual day," says Princess Rojas with a laugh and big smile.
"Whatever movie you saw with frumpy social workers," comments Rhonda Towles, "that is definitely not our group!"
"So you are here to interview for a gay newspaper," asked Michelle Fenison.
I'm surprised by the directness of the question and stumble a bit on my reply. "Um, yes. I'm writing an article for the Huffington Post Gay Voices section."
"Well good," Marocka Covington said. "Cause we have some things we would like to say to the LGBT community."
"Ok," I say, unsure of where this is going.
Marocka starts.
"We understand that many foster youth who may self-identify as LGBT or questioning, feel that they aren't accepted in some foster families and foster homes. That's why we want to make sure we have a good representation from every community. Even if we have a good home for a foster youth, some of these teens are asking for a match with a parent or parents that mirrors their own demographic. We have more transgender children coming forward because society is changing. That is the next challenge for us, even though we have made in-roads in the gay community, we are not yet seeing that we have yet made that progress in the transgender community."
"We need a lot of help, especially from the transgender community," Rhonda says. "It would be nice to have more resources for our transgender youth. We want more accepting foster homes. We find that the LGBT community is more accepting of children of all kinds."
"Some people think that teens in foster care are trouble," said Marocka. "Truth is that many times, the foster kids are not really angry at their foster parents -- they are angry at the world for their predicament. But the biggest benefit to adopting from foster care is that you have these wonderful children to will love you for the rest of your life."
"You know," I say, "several transgender people have expressed their concerns that they fear they won't be permitted to foster and adopt."
"Well, they need to be reminded that there is a California law that they be accepted," Marocka says forcefully. "So please let the transgender community know that they are welcomed and we are here to bring children to them, if they want them. Because transgender and gay people can love and care for children like anyone else."
"In my experience," Marocka continues, "over 40 years now, I've seen successes in all kinds of family structures. On the flip side, we have many different kinds of children that really need to know that there are parents and homes out there that will that them and care for them. I tell you, these LGBT children are not aware that there are good foster parents out there that want them. Even when these children arrive here, many aren't sure if we are going to accept them. They are very subtle about how they want to come out to us."
"I can understand that," I answer. "Plus, I've heard of many instances when foster children who are questioning their own sexuality do come out to some foster parents, it creates a lot of havoc for themselves. As a result, 40% of homeless youth in Los Angeles identify as LGBT."
"We try to avoid that by letting the foster parents know in advance," said Rhonda. "I say, that if that is something that you don't think you can do, then let's move that child on to someone who can support that child."
"So, you have been doing this for 40 years," I ask Marocka.
"If I can help even just one child in one year, then its been successful year," admits Marocka. "I have the heart for it and the attitude. I think I will keep doing this for the rest of my life. I love all these children. I want to help them all. That's why I am asking you to tell your readers that we need each and everyone of them to step up now."
While the Children's and Youth Welcome Centers are unique to Los Angeles County, the challenge of finding enough good people to foster and adopt the 415,000 children of our nation's foster system is not. RaiseAChild.US is the nationwide leader in the recruitment and support of LGBT and all prospective parents interested in building families through fostering and adoption. It would be our honor to help you build a family of your own in 2016. RaiseAChild.US recruits, educates, and nurtures supportive relationships equally with all prospective foster and adoptive parents while partnering with agencies to improve the process of advancing foster children to safe, loving and permanent homes. Please. Take the next step to parenthood at www.RaiseAChild.US.
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Tort reform has been hot topic for decades. Tort reformers and their opponents have been arguing their sides heatedly, and in many states the reformers have implemented some big changes. The basic idea behind tort reform was that the ease with which patients were able to file lawsuits was creating a number of crises in the medical fields. These crises included financial drains on hospitals, financial and time drains on the courts systems, and doctors providing poor, overly cautious care as a result of their fear of lawsuits.
Now that many states have actually passed tort reform laws, we are able review the successes and failures of those reforms. We will break our findings down by crisis: hospital finances, court finances and time, and medical care.
One big issue with tort reformers was that lawsuits were so easy to use that citizens were draining hospitals of their finances. Frivolous lawsuits, the reformers claimed, were dragging medical money through the mud and into the pockets of sleazy, opportunistic lawyers and their greedy, insincere clients. Tort reform advocates argued that if the law changed to make it more difficult to sue hospitals, the medical field would save millions of dollars year, which it could then spend on improved care.
So did it work? Doesn't look like it, according to many legal and medical experts. In states that have passed tort reforms laws and made malpractice suits more difficult to file, budgets didn't budge much. Medics did save some money, mind you. Just not as much as reformers had hoped.
Another goal of tort reformers was to clear up time for the courts. According to this argument, the court systems were clogged by frivolous lawsuits which wasted time and taxpayer money. Make it harder to sue, and law professionals will have more time to spend on other things.
Has this worked? Well, fewer suits certainly means less time judges spend in court. But lawyers need more work, not less. The United States is experiencing a glut of law graduates, many of whom spent years and small fortunes to get where they are. There are plenty of well-trained people around who are capable of practicing law. Tort reform may have cost them their jobs.
This was supposed to be another big one. Tort reformers felt that doctors and nurses were practicing something called defensive medicine. Defensive medicine is the term used to describe the overly cautious practices doctors engaged in order to protect themselves from potential lawsuits. Doctors, this argument goes, over-prescribe medicines and other treatments in order to treat every possibility; this over-treatment becomes incredibly expensive, in some cases, the extra treatments could actually do damage to the patient.
Tort reform was supposed to put an end to all this waste. But has it? Recent research, conducted in places in which tort reformers got their way, demonstrates that the so called defensive medicine menace was a much smaller part of medical expenses. Sure things have gone down a bit, but reform has not been the big fix that advocates forecasted it to be.


The Central Park was packed with children and families as ABC Preschool hosted its 2nd Annual Easter Show on Saturday, April 8th. Usually organized as a fundraiser for the preschool, Principal of ABC, Wil Alamilla hosted the show free of charge for the entire public to enjoy. The fun-filled show had various live entertainment, featuring some beloved TV and Disney characters via actors from Mérida, Yucatan, Mexico.
Master of Ceremonies Jorge Aldana welcomed all of the children and guests. Although there was not an entry fee, Aldana encouraged the crowd to support the school's toy, food, pastry, and drink sale. Funds from the sales would go towards more school supplies and a photocopier.
Opening the show was the Easter Bunny and his friends. Between dances and giveaways, children were enraptured. After the bunny's performance, the San Pedro Dance Academy provided intermission entertainment with a cultural dance selection. They were followed by "Despicable Me" villain Gru, along with his mischievous Minions from and back up dancers onstage. The audience was delighted, laughing and singing along to the "Banana Song".
Next onstage were the popular Disney princesses Cinderella, Belle from Beauty and the Beast, Elsa from Frozen, and Princess Sophia. They charming characters had the youngsters smiling and cheering loudly.
On course, no show would be complete without superheroes! Wonder Woman, Super Man, Spiderman, Joker, and Batman all came to life at the park, to the delight of their screaming fans.
During intermission, the San Pedro Dance Academy performed another cultural piece before the final presentation. Personalities from Paw Patrol, a television series about six rescue dogs and a tech-savy boy, Ryder, had youngsters super excited and singing along.
MC Aldana acknowledged and thanked all sponsors who made this event possible: The San Pedro Town Council, Portofino Resort, Athens Gate, Victoria House, Matachica Resort, Sandy Toes Beach Bar, Mata Rocks Resort, Rick's Golf Cart Rentals, Moncho's Golf Cart Rentals, The San Pedro Sun, Ambergris Today, Reef Radio, and Neri's Tacos. Thanks also goes to all of the parents who helped with food donations, and businesses who helped with the food. See you next year!


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