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Facing a stigma, many ex-convicts in the U.S. struggle to find work
More than 19 million Americans have a felony conviction on their permanent record.
A Virginia bill that would require transgender athletes in public schools to play on teams that match their biological sex passed in the House.
Virginia school where 6-year-old shot teacher reopens with metal detectors, upgraded security
The school in Newport News, Virginia where first-grade teacher Abby Zwerner was shot by a 6-year-old boy on Jan. 6 has reopened Monday.
In VA, 4 juveniles charged in the death of a 16-year-old
A group of juveniles have been charged with second-degree murder after a 16-year-old boy was shot to death in Virginia. They were also charged with robbery and use of a firearm.
The Virginia elementary school where a 6-year-old boy shot his teacher has reopened with stepped-up security and a new administrator.
Murder suspect Virginia Hayden talks to police – and talks, and talks ...
Virginia Hayden was set to stand trial for murdering her husband when a surprise witness came forward.
Convicted sex offender arrested in Atlanta after 17 years on the run
A convicted sex offender who has been on the run for 17 years for attempted rape was arrested in Atlanta. He dragged a woman into the woods and tried to rape her in 1995.
Independent voters wary of investigations, want House GOP to deliver results
In several focus groups in battlegrounds, independents worry the new House majority's focus on investigations is just part of a "get-even" culture.
This week on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," Jan. 29, 2023: McCarthy, Warner, Rubio
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Sen. Mark Warner and Sen. Marco Rubio will appear on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" this Sunday.
Search for Virginia and Tennessee jail escapees continues
Authorities are continuing their search for Virginia and Tennessee inmates who escaped from a regional jail. The two escaped Thursday afternoon from the recreational yard.
Virginia library paying '1619 Project' creator $35,350 for 'hour-long' speech on controversial work
"1619 Project" creator Nikole Hannah-Jones is set to receive over $35,000 just for one Virginia county library speaking engagement next month.
Virginia thieves break in, steal 10 handguns from shooting range: surveillance videos
Virginia authorities released the surveillance videos after two people broke into a shooting range and stole 10 handguns.
Biden slams critics who don't think U.S. can lead the world in manufacturing
President Biden slammed critics on Thursday, who do not believe America can lead the world in manufacturing, after boasting the creation of 750,000 jobs during his first two years.
Virginia man convicted of supporting ISIS accused of meeting with 'American Talban'
A Virginia man previously convicted of trying to help ISIS is accused of meeting with 'American Taliban' John Walker Lindh.
American Airlines beats fourth-quarter profit expectations as higher fares buoy revenue
As it heads into its first quarter of 2023, the airline carrier expects capacity to be 8% to 10% higher than the first quarter of 2022.
Virginia teacher shot by 6-year-old student to sue school district, alleging administrators were warned of gun
The Virginia teacher shot by one of her first-grade students earlier this month plans to sue the school district that reportedly downplayed warnings before the incident took place.
Lawyer: Admins were warned 3 times the day boy shot teacher
Concerned teachers and employees warned administrators at a Virginia elementary school three times that a 6-year-old boy had a gun and was threatening other students in the hours before he shot and wounded a teacher, "but the administration could not be bothered," a lawyer for the teacher said Wednesday. Diane Toscano, an attorney for Abigail Zwerner, said during a news conference that she has notified the Newport News School Board that the 25-year-old teacher at Richneck Elementary School plans to sue the school district over the Jan. 6 shooting, which left Zwerner with serious injuries.
Rocket Lab establishes new U.S. foothold with successful launch after years of delays
The mission was Rocket Lab's 33rd to date, but the first from U.S. soil. The company has been regularly launching from private launchpads in New Zealand.
Virginia superintendent faces termination for trio of school shootings over 18 months
Newport News Superintendent George Parker III could be fired on Wednesday, over shootings in the district over the past 18 months, the most recent involving a 6-year-old boy.
Rocket Lab launches 1st Electron booster from US soil in twilight liftoff
The small satellite launch company Rocket Lab aced its debut liftoff from American soil on Tuesday (Jan. 24)
Rocket Lab launches for first time from Wallops, Va.
The company, based in California, had previously launched rockets from its facility in New Zealand, but it hopes to fly more frequently from the United States.
Rocket Lab launches 3 satellites in first mission from U.S. soil
After 32 launches from Rocket Lab's New Zealand facility, the company is now set for regular flights from Virginia's Eastern Shore.
Board voting on superintendent departure after teacher shot
A Virginia school board is scheduled to vote this week on the departure of its superintendent after a 6-year-old student shot and wounded his teacher.
Rocket Lab Successfully Launches Its First Electron Rocket From U.S. Soil
A new era of rocket launches from NASA's facility on Wallops Island in Virginia began tonight with the much-anticipated launch of Rocket Lab's Electron small-lift launch vehicle.
Confederate general's remains moved to VA hometown
The remains of Confederate Gen. A.P. Hill were moved to his hometown in Virginia. His statue, which was also removed, was Richmond's last standing Confederate monument.
Confederate general's remains moved to Virginia hometown
The remains of a Confederate general unearthed from beneath a monument at the center of a Virginia intersection have been reinterred at a cemetery in his hometown.
The remains of a Confederate general unearthed from beneath a monument at the center of a Virginia intersection have been reinterred at a cemetery in his hometown. Last month, Richmond, which served as the Confederacy's capital for most of the Civil War, removed the statue of Confederate Gen. A.P. Hill and the general's remains buried beneath after a court battle. On Saturday, hundreds of people, including Confederate reenactors, gathered to pay their respects to the general at a ceremony in Fairview Cemetery in Culpeper, Hill's hometown, The Free Lance-Star reported.
Republican Governor Nixes Thousands of Green Energy Jobs, Fearmongers About Communism
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Rocket Lab now targeting Jan. 24 for 1st-ever launch from US
Bad weather has pushed Rocket Lab's first-ever launch from U.S. soil back a day, to Tuesday (Jan. 24).
Transcript: Sen. Tim Kaine on "Face the Nation," Jan. 22, 2023
The following is a transcript of an interview with Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia that aired Sunday, Jan. 22, 2023, on "Face the Nation."
Winsome Sears slams teachers unions over Virginia merit mayhem: 'Making education in their own image'
Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears calls out "rogue educators" and teachers unions over the merit awards scandal, criticizing the push for woke ideology in schools on "Cavuto Live."
Virginia school downplayed warnings from teacher before she was shot by 6-year-old boy
Officials at the Newport News elementary school in Virginia reportedly downplayed concerns voiced by the first-grade teacher before she was shot by her six-year-old student.
Virginia student allegedly sexually assaulted in Fairfax County school bathroom
A female middle school student was allegedly sexually assaulted in her school bathroom earlier this month. Police are investigating the incident.
Virginia jury rejects Costa Rica woman's claims about sex trafficking ring
A Virginia jury did not believe a woman who claim police officers protected a prostitution ring that threatened her if she stopped working.
Jury rejects woman's claims against 4 police officers
A jury on Friday rejected a woman's allegations that a former police chief in Virginia and three other officers protected a prostitution ring that she said trafficked her. The eight-person civil jury found that the woman, identified in court only as Jane Doe, was not a victim of trafficking but was instead a willing sex worker. Once the jury reached that conclusion, it did not have to consider the question of the officers' alleged involvement in protecting the prostitution ring.
Virginia's Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine announces bid for third Senate term
Kaine stepped into the national spotlight when he ran for vice president with Democrat Hillary Clinton on a ticket that lost to Donald Trump and Mike Pence.
Around 10,000 flights were delayed because of the outage of a pilot-alerting system.
NPR uncovered secret execution tapes from Virginia. More remain hidden
Four tapes mysteriously donated to a library reveal uncertainty behind the scenes of the death chamber — and indicate the prison neglected to record evidence during an execution gone wrong.
Jan. 6 defendant convicted on separate weapons charges
A jury has convicted a Navy reservist from Virginia accused of storming the Capitol on Jan. 6 on separate charges that he illegally possessed silencers disguised to look like innocuous cleaning supplies. The conviction Wednesday night against Hatchet Speed in U.S. District Court in Alexandria comes a month after a jury failed to reach a verdict in his first trial, resulting in a mistrial.
Army lieutenant pepper-sprayed in Virginia traffic stop receives $3,685 in damages
Caron Nazario filed a lawsuit in 2021 saying he was pepper-sprayed, struck and had his car illegally searched by two officers with the Windsor Police Department in Virginia.
Virginia mom shreds 'equity warriors' after son's merit award was kept secret for 2 years
Fairfax County, Va. mom Asra Nomani called out her son's merit notification delay and voiced her concerns about the agenda of 'equity warriors' on 'The Story.'
VA Democrats introduce bill to allow minors to get 'medical care' without parental consent: 'Slippery slope'
Democratic Virginia lawmakers introduced a bill that would grant minors access to medical and health care without requiring parental consent.
Anger grows in Virginia city where first-grader shot teacher
When a 6-year-old shot and wounded his first-grade teacher in this shipbuilding city near Virginia's coast, the community reacted with collective shock. During a three-hour school board meeting dedicated solely to public comment, Newport News teachers and parents said students who assaulted classmates and staff were routinely allowed to stay in the classroom with few consequences. "Every day in every one of our schools, teachers, students and other staff members are being hurt," high school librarian Nicole Cooke told the board.
Shooting by 6-year-old raises complex cultural questions
"However, this is exactly what our community is grappling with today." "I never thought elementary students being the shooter was a possibility we would ever see," says Kendra Newton, a first-grade teacher in Florida. Jennifer Talarico, a psychology professor at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, believes the case hits differently in part because it violates society's expectations for both school shootings (of which there were two others elsewhere in the country that day) and childhood itself.
Greg Gutfeld breaks down the difference between equality and equity: One is about peace, the other about war
'The Five' co-host Greg Gutfeld shared his take on why it is important to notice the difference between equality and equity.
Virginia AG expands probe after more than a dozen schools withheld merit awards during 'equity' push
Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares expanding his human rights investigation outside Fairfax County after it's revealed at least 14 schools withheld merit awards from students.
Ex-Virginia police chief, cops accused of covering up sex-trafficking ring, procuring prostitutes: reports
The former chief and three ex-officers in Fairfax County, Virginia, are facing a civil lawsuit from an illegal immigrant and alleged trafficking victim alleging they paid for sex acts.
Virginia county to stop prosecuting several crimes
A Virginia prosecutor said in a letter that her office will not be involved in the prosecution of some misdemeanor crimes, deferring to law enforcement.
A School Official Searched The Backpack Of The 6-Year-Old Who Shot His Teacher After Someone Reported That He May Have Been Carrying A Gun
The first-grader's backpack was searched, but there was no weapon found inside, Superintendent George Parker said.View Entire Post ›
Virginia city where student shot his teacher to install metal detectors
A city in Virginia where a 6-year-old student shot his teacher will be installing metal detectors. There was no struggle before the gun was fired at the first-grade teacher.
Woman accusing 4 ex-cops of aiding sex trafficking testifies
The woman known to jurors only as Jane Doe shook her head Thursday when her lawyer asked her a question she knew was coming but clearly dreaded — could she describe the injuries she suffered during five years in a Virginia-based sex trafficking ring? It was the most dramatic moment thus far in a trial focused on blockbuster allegations that the former police chief in Fairfax County and the three officers were clients of the prostitution ring and that they served as its protectors by tipping off the head of the enterprise, Hazel Sanchez, when stings and undercover police would be in the area.
Flight disruptions ease after FAA outage, as officials vow to investigate system failure
More than 400 U.S. flights were delayed on Thursday following an FAA ground stop that delayed thousands of flights.
Virginia parents of 6-year-old suspected school shooter could face charges: expert
The 6-year-old Virginia boy who shot his first grade teacher will likely not face charges, according to experts. However, the parent's of the boy could under gun safety laws.
Police: 6-year-old shoots teacher in Virginia classroom
Police in the Virginia city of Newport News say a 6-year-old student shot and wounded a teacher at his school during an altercation inside a first-grade classroom.
Fuel leak in Virginia shuts down part of Colonial Pipeline
The Colonial Pipeline says a diesel fuel leak in Virginia has shut down part of the nation's largest fuel pipeline, but it is expected to restart Saturday.
Virginia state Sen. McClellan wins Democratic nomination
Virginia state Sen. Jennifer McClellan has overwhelmingly won the Democratic nomination to succeed the late A.
Light week for Top 25 headlined by Virginia-Miami in ACC
There are just 26 games involving ranked teams in the AP men's basketball poll over the next week.
Walker leads No. 5 Houston past No. 2 Virginia, 69-61
Jarace Walker scored 17 points and No. 5 Houston used runs in each half and the nation's best scoring defense to beat No. 2 Virginia 69-61.
2 cities pursued more school for kids. Only 1 pulled it off.
Facing massive pandemic learning loss, the superintendent in Richmond, Virginia, tried to remake one of the most untouchable aspects of school – the academic calendar.
Bidens spread holiday cheer at Toys for Tots event
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden helped pack presents for children and encouraged holiday cheer as the White House marked the 75th anniversary of Toys for Tots at an event hosted by the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve.
Richmond removes its last city-owned Confederate monument
The city of Richmond _ the capital of the Confederacy for most of the Civil War _ has removed its last city-owned Confederate statue.
This program is combating the foster care crisis by connecting families in need
Since CarePortal launched in Central Virginia in 2020, they've served served more than 3,000 children with an economic impact of $1.3 million.
Confederate monument set to be removed from Virginia capital
An official says work to remove the final city-owned Confederate monument from Richmond, Virginia, should start this week.
Deputy in California slayings killed self with service gun
Authorities say a Virginia sheriff's deputy who they believe traveled to California to kill three family members of a 15-year-old girl he tried to sexually extort online killed himself with a government-issued firearm.
AP WAS THERE: Supreme Court legalizes interracial marriage
With the passage of the the Respect for Marriage Act, which protects same-sex and interracial marriages, The Associated Press is republishing its 1967 story by reporter Karl R.
Youngkin's early shine faces test as he eyes White House bid
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin swept into office as a Republican revelation with a fresh formula for victory as the GOP contemplated its future beyond Donald Trump.
Virginia Rep. McEachin dies at 61 after cancer battle
Congressman A.
City holds vigil, honors 6 dead in Virginia Walmart shooting
Hundreds gathered in Chesapeake, Virginia, to honor six people killed in a mass shooting at a Walmart.
Black pastors group holds vigil for Walmart shooting victims
Five days have passed since Lorenzo Gamble was killed in a mass shooting at a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia.
Walmart shooting raises need for violence prevention at work
The mass shooting Wednesday at a Walmart in Virginia is only the latest example of a workplace shooting perpetrated by an employee.
Police: 6 people and assailant dead in Walmart shooting in Virginia
Police and witnesses say a manager at a Virginia Walmart pulled out a handgun before a routine employee meeting and began firing wildly in the break room, killing six people and injuring at least six others.
AP Top 25: Virginia climbs to No. 5, UNC and Houston are 1-2
Virginia climbed 11 spots to No. 5 in this week's AP Top 25 following a difficult week.
No. 16 Virginia beats No. 19 Illinois to cap emotional week
Reece Beekman and No. 16 Virginia capped an emotional week by going on a late 13-point run to defeat No. 19 Illinois 70-61 to win the Continental Tire Main Event.
Virginia honors slain players in memorial service on campus
Thousands of people have joined Virginia's football team, coaches and staff in honoring three players who were shot dead as they returned from a field trip last weekend.
With heavy hearts, No. 16 UVA beats No. 5 Baylor in Vegas
Armaan Franklin scored a career-high 26 points, and No. 16 Virginia used a big second-half run to knock off No. 5 Baylor 86-79 in the team's first game since three Cavaliers football players were killed in a campus shooting.
Virginia basketball back on court, honors shooting victims
Virginia's basketball players wore sweatshirts in warmups for Friday's game against Baylor that honored three Cavaliers football players who were fatally shot nearly a week ago.
Virginia students were prepared for shooting, not aftermath
Students hid inside laboratory closets and dorm rooms across the University of Virginia after getting warnings of an active shooter.
Coach: Slain Virginia football players 'were all good kids'
Three University of Virginia football players killed in an on-campus shooting were remembered Monday by head football coach Tony Elliott as "all good kids.".
Pitt gets two pick 6s in 16 seconds against Virginia
Pittsburgh has gotten off to as fast a start as a defense can at Virginia.
Mass transit extension to Dulles Airport opens at tough time
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Veterans 'best of America,' VP Harris says in laying wreath
Under gray clouds and pouring rain at Arlington National Cemetery, Vice President Kamala Harris has told the nation's veterans their work makes America stronger.
Solar panel trouble on cargo capsule bound for space station
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Luria makes final case for democracy, vies for Black voters
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Medals, mementos from Colin Powell estate go up for auction
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Free community college? How this solution is working for in-demand industries
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Yellen boosting Biden's agenda in Virginia as midterms near
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Social Security boost seen as unlikely to help Dems at polls
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Virginia AG punts investigation of child abuse allegations
The office of Virginia's attorney general has handed off jurisdiction in a long-running investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct and other abuses at a hospital that serves vulnerable children.
Oath Keepers jury hears about massive weapon cache on Jan. 6
A member of the Oath Keepers who traveled to Washington before the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol testified Wednesday about a massive cache of weapons the far-right extremist group stashed in a Virginia hotel room.
Sniper denied parole, 20 years after terrorizing D.C. area
Virginia has denied parole to convicted Washington, D.
See something, say something: Anonymous tip lines successful in stopping possible school threats, attackers
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Judge tosses suit that tried to deem books obscene for kids
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Gender dysphoria covered by disability law, court rules
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Man gets 12 years in case that tested broad search warrants
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Virginia research beagles aboard HSHV's 'Love Train" headed to Ann Arbor
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Beagles relocating to West Michigan after living in 'prison-like conditions'
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Former Va. Lt. Gov. Fairfax: FBI asks about 2019 allegations
Former Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax says he recently met with the FBI to discuss his concerns about the two 2019 sexual assault allegations against him.
GOP AGs ask Google not to limit anti-abortion center results
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Hask or HASK may refer to:

 HAŠK, Hrvatski akademski športski klub, Croatian football club
 Hask (periodical), official publication of the Armenian Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia (Holy See of Cilicia)
 Hask Armenological Review, an academic publication in Armenian studies
 Hayastani Azgayin Scautakan Sharjum Kazmakerputiun, the Armenian Scout movement
 Hask, the (disputed) mathematical category of Haskell (programming language) types and extensionally identified Haskell functions as morphisms

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Q: How to do api call request to get data of a set of objects in nodeJs Giving a partner API backend, where are stored un set of object with their informations.
I can get by an api request information of one object in format JSON.
My problem is how can I get all information of all objects.
The code below is built to get information of one object:
module.exports.getBackendData = function (request, response) {
    var deviceid = request.params.id_device;
    var id = request.params._id;
    var points = [];
    var optionsget = {
        host: 'hostname', //here only the domain name
        port: 443
        , path: '/api/partner/' + id + '', //the rest of the url parameters if needed
        method: 'GET', //do GET
        auth: 'username:password'
    };
    var myRequest = https.request(optionsget, function (myResponse) {
        var myData = '';

        myResponse.on('data', function (d) {
            myData += d;
        });

        myResponse.on('end', function () {
            str = JSON.parse(myData);
            var lat, long, statut, timestamp;
            for (var i = 0; i <= str.reports.length - 1; i++) {
                lat = str.reports[i].latitude;
                long = str.reports[i].longitude;
                timestamp = str.reports[i].ts;
                statut = str.reports[i].move;

                locations.push({
                    long: long
                    , latitude: lat
                    , move: statut
                    , timestamp: timestamp
                });
            }

            response.json(points);
        });
    });
    myRequest.end();
    myRequest.on('error', function (e) {
        console.error("error:", e);
    });
}

As api call is done asynchronously I don't know how to get one time response of all objects.

A: This is a classic "how to deal with nodes asynchronous nature in a loop" questions.
Look at library's like async or steed, Promises, Async / Await.
In any case your "list of objects IDs" is missing, if I can infer this right from your question.
Likely the most performant and friendly way for the API is to do them one by one.
I'd go for
const steed = require('steed')()

const ids = [1, 2, 3]

function makeHttpRequest (id, cb) {
  // as in your example
  return locations
}

steed.mapSeries(ids, function (id, cb) {
  makeHttpRequest(id, cb)
}, (err, result) => {
  if (err) return console.log(err)
  // result is an array of all the resutls of the single calls
  console.log(result)
})

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we won our Roller Derby season opener last night!!
We beat the visiting team 229 to 74.
I just thought I would share a simple card I made based on something I saw on Pinterest!!
I actually want to try out this technique of printing out silhouettes onto old book pages. I just love the effect!
sketch to share with you today.
Sadly, I had some trouble using my own sketch!!
I looked through my entire stamp collection and finally decided on this apple stamp & set by PTI.
I do hope you will play along with us this week.
Head on over to the RetroSketches blog to take a peek at what the girls have to inspire you with this week. They are amazing!
Then go get your crafty apron and play along.
I just wanted to thank you all so very much for your kinds words and encouragement, about my new challenge DT role!!
I am so very excited and honoured to be working alongside some amazing talent!!
I thought I would share the last few cards I submitted.
This one was made for my co-worker's girlfriend, he told me she likes blue!!
Well there you have it! Thanks again so much for the well wishes!
Thanks for stopping by, I hope you all have a fabulous weekend.
But don't forget to check back tomorrow for another RetroSketches sketch.
I made the Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge design team!!
I am still in a slight bit of shock I think!!
Check out her blog, she always has something fabulous to share.
She does amazing things with beautiful papers!!
Also she is one of the new Girl Fridays!!
learn a bit more about the super cool changes to the way the challenge will be set up.
The best part is......challenges EVERY week!!
I wanted to share a couple of my favourite cards that I submitted for the design team call.
I think this one may be my favourite card EVER!!
It's a bit of a CASE from a birthday card I made, here, for my FIL.
Thanks so much for stopping by and sharing in my wonderful news!!
Maybe not to create with, but in general. Getting the blue in there, I found a bit difficult.
The bravo burgundy & calypso coral just look so great together.
This card didn't turn out exactly as planned but I am mostly happy with the end result anyway!
I used a flower from Paper Smooches "Reflections" set, my new HA/Studio Calico background stamp, and coloured in some pearls to match the bravo burgundy.
Please head on over to the ColourQ blog to see all of the gorgeous inspiration to be had there. Then get inky and play along with us!
You have until Sunday April 29th to link up your creations.
I have been having a bit of trouble sleeping, I'm trying to switch over from days to nights. So what better to do than create a card!!
I was perusing the sketch challenge blogs and came across this week's CAS-ual Fridays challenge.
What a lovely little sketch!
I used some PTI dies and Paper Smooches stamps. I mixed a couple of sentiments together to create this one sentiment.
I also used my Hero Arts evelope stamp to give sometexture to that frame.
It's Saturday which means another fabulous sketch from RetroSketches.
You've got to check out Jackie's original card here.
I didn't stray very far from the sketch, i just love the banners!
I used my silhouette to cut out the banners, my PTI text style background to ink them up and a sentiment from Paper Smooches.
Head on over to the RetroSketches blog to see the amazing samples Arielle, Laurie and Jackie had made. I love the way their minds work!!
You guys are blowing us away every week. Great work.
I miss you and think of you every day!
I hope wherever you are you are having a party.
Instead of doing something productive tonight like doing laundry, cleaning up my craft room, maybe even reading, I made another digital layout!
Now, those of you that saw my first one may see some similarities, but I actually tried to base the layout on the most recent RetroSketches sketch.
I wanted to see how it would look in scrapbook page form!
I just LOVE taking pictures of my pup!!
Be sure to check out the RetroSketches blog, you have one more day left to play along!
I have a fun card to share with you today.
I'm sure you all know how much I LOOOOOVE Paper Smooches stamps.
Well, they have a Sparks Challenge DT call on right now and how could I NOT try out.
The sparks challenge for these past two weeks has been to be inspired by this photo.
So....I know I could have gone with the text theme or the blues & orange for the colour scheme, and I was going to, but then I got reading the quote and was inspired by the word MILLIONAIRE.
I thought millionaire's have money, where do you get money, your job.
Now I have to admit, this took a while to create. I used a whopping seven, yes seven, Paper Smooches sets to create it.
I won't tell you about the obvious ones but I thought I would share the maybe not so obvious!
I used the "towel" from Hang Ups, and the "$" symbol from Santa Paws to create the dollar bills in the background, and I used the "ribbon tie" for the kite from the Sunny Side Up set to give the little monster a bow tie. I thought, you need to look presentable for a new job, what better way than a bow tie!!
I am also adding this to the CAS-ual Fridays current challenge, Opposites Attract since red & green are opposite on the colour wheel.
Click on the pictures to go to the challenge sites!
Thanks for stopping by and for following me through my though processes!!
see my ColourQ post here.
and decided to play around with the faux letterpress technique.
I was really impressed with how it turned out!
Now I have tried this technique before and been less than impressed with how things turned out. Now, chances are it was user error!!
This time I used chalk ink and just sort of rubbed it along the raised section that I wanted to impress. I also used the folder as a "plate" instead of a folder, like how you would use the PTI embossing plates.
I ended up working more of than I'd liked but since the weather isn't that great right now, I may as well be getting paid to be inside!!
Of course it's Tuesday, so I have a ColourQ colour combo to share with you.
The colours are so mod! I love them!
I was thinking this would be a great Halloween combo, don't you think?
But I did not go in that direction!
I simply drew on some lines with my copics to make this "patterned paper".
I decided to add a bit of felt using the brighter of the colours, and thought they helped a bit with the sentiment.
Please head on over to the ColourQ blog to peruse the plethora of inspiration you will find when you get there!
I got to enjoy some fabulous rollerderby this weekend.
Calgary is hosting a tournament at the Olympic Oval, and we are lucky to have teams from all over the west. We even have a team from Spokane that came up to play. There is also a men's tournament and the juniors got to scrimmage and show us what they've got.
Oh my are they ever cute! I think the age range was 6 to 17.
Anyway, I have a cute cuddly card to share with you. I was inspired recently by some of Debby Hughes' layouts, like this one.
And decided to try one of my own.
Thanks for stopping by, have a great rest of your weekend!
Today's sketch is brought to you by non other than the fabulous Arielle!
You can see her original card here.
I know so many people with birthday's on April & May, so I needed to load my stash full of some birthday cards.
I recently got my April release Paper Smooches stamps in the mail and I absolutely LOVE this butterfly. It's just so pretty!
The papers are from My Mind's Eye, Darling Dear paper pack.
Please do take a quick pop over to the RetroSketches blog to ooh and aah over what Arielle, Laurie and Jackie have to share with you.
Then get out your tools and play along.
The weeks seem to go by faster and faster lately!
I have a really simple, quick card for you today.
I was inspired by a picture on Pinterest (surprise, surprise!!) and had recently purchased some really cool digital paper.
I absolutely LOVE this paper, it's by Jen Allyson, from Design House Digital, the set is called Picket Fences.
So I printed it out, embossed a sentiment from my PTI Happy Trails set, and there you have it!
p.s. Thanks so much to Aimes for suggesting I post this to the Passion for Papertrey blog for their "knock on wood challenge" - go check it out!
Good day, and happy Tuesday!
It's time for me to share another lovely ColourQ colour combo with you.
This week's colours are so bright and vibrant, I found them a little bit difficult!
So I took some inspiration from the picture for my card, and broke out my newish set from PTI "lighten up".
Please take a quick trip over to the ColourQ blog to admire what Arielle and the rest of the DT have to share with you today. Then go get crafty!
Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you have a wonderful week!
RetroSketches #6 be our guest!
I am excited to share this week's RetroSketches sketch with you.
Joining us this week to be our guest designer, is Lynn, from the mango boys and me.
I found these felt stickers in the sale bin at Michaels and just had to use them. Kind of unconventional colours for a wedding/anniversary card, but I liked how bold the colours are together!
I used my PTI Background Basics: Houndstooth to make the background, and a sentiment from a Paper Smooches set, word up.
Head over to the RetroSketches blog to check out Lynn's re-do (It's gorgeous!) and more inspiration from Arielle, Jackie and Laurie!
I can't wait to see what you all do with this wonderful sketch.
colour combo with you today.
I pulled out my PTI Background Basics: Retro set, which hasn't been used in a while, and used the stripes.
I had seen some beautiful invitations on Pinterest that had the corner blocked off like this to put in the information. I loved how it looked so I thought I would try it myself.
These colours are just fabulous! I do hope you will play along with us this week. Please head over to the ColourQ blog to get some seriously awesome inspiration.


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2020-21 Premier League Week 5: Manchester City vs. Arsenal How to Watch Live
Mikel Arteta's Arsenal revolution can enter a new phase with a second straight win over City.
Manchester City and Arsenal face off in Week 5 of the English Premier League. Justin Tallis/EPA
Manchester City find themselves in the unfamiliar position of playing catch-up to the Premier League elite ahead of Saturday's clash against Arsenal, who can take top spot with a win at the Etihad Stadium.
The Citizens know they'll be without talisman Kevin De Bruyne after the Belgian was injured during the international break, but striker Sergio Aguero could be fit enough to make his first appearance of the campaign, per Sky Sports.
Pep Guardiola's side suffered a 2-0 defeat to the Gunners when these teams met in last season's FA Cup semi-finals, a trophy Arsenal would go on to lift after beating Chelsea in the decider.
Speaking ahead of Week 5 in the Premier League slate, Guardiola's had high praise for his Arsenal counterpart and former assistant, Mikel Arteta, via Football Daily:
🗣 "Maybe we should clarify who is the master and who is the apprentice"
Pep Guardiola is complimentary of the job Mikel Arteta is doing at Arsenal pic.twitter.com/DBWK1HxbII
— Football Daily (@footballdaily) October 16, 2020
What TV Channel is Manchester City-Arsenal on?
Arsenal's visit to Manchester City will be available via NBC at 12:30 p.m. ET. You can live stream Premier League matches on fuboTV.
The loss of De Bruyne is a hammer blow to the City midfield, while Arsenal could be boosted by the potential debut of Thomas Partey, a deadline-day signing from Atletico Madrid. The north Londoners may also be allowed to welcome left-back Kieran Tierney back into the fold after Sam Dean of the Telegraph wrote Arsenal had succeeded in reducing his period of self-isolation after coming into contact with international team-mate Stuart Armstrong, who had tested positive for COVID-19.
Arsenal may have got the better of City when they collided at Wembley in July, but it's City who have had the run of luck during their recent Premier League history, per Sky Sports Statto:
📊 Man City have won the last 6 PL matches v Arsenal. The Gunners haven't had a longer losing run against a single opponent in the League since 7 defeats v Ipswich, 1974-77
📺 Live SNF: Man City v Arsenal
⏲ Saturday from 5pm, @SkySportsPL pic.twitter.com/nDNOcy8X8T
— Sky Sports Statto (@SkySportsStatto) October 16, 2020
How to Watch Manchester City vs. Arsenal
When: Saturday, October 17
Where: Etihad Stadium, Manchester, England
Time: 12:30 p.m. ET
TV: NBC
Guardiola's side have posted one win, one draw and one loss from their first three games this season. Although they've played one game fewer than most of their peers, a home win on Saturday will only be enough to lift the team—currently 14th—up to an unlikely sixth at best.
The short-term possibilities are far more grand for Arteta & Co., who have a realistic chance of usurping Everton's perch if they can seal a second win in as many meetings with City, a feat the club hasn't managed since 2007-08.
Phil Foden is likely to keep his place in City's XI as De Bruyne watches on from the sidelines, while Fernandinho and Bernardo Silva will be strong contenders to stat.
More in English Premier League
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January 15, 2021 – 7 min read
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January 6, 2021 – 10 min read
2020-21 Premier League Week 17: How to Watch Live New Year's Weekend Fixtures
2020-21 La Liga Week 6: Getafe vs. Barcelona How to Watch
Almost nine years have passed since Getafe last collected a win against Catalonia's collosus.
Tom Sunderland October 18, 2020 • 2 min read
NLCS Game 6: Atlanta Braves vs. Los Angeles Dodgers Preview, Betting Odds, How to Watch Live
The Los Angeles Dodgers forced a Game 6 against the Atlanta Braves. How far can they come back in this already wild postseason?
Ben Macaluso October 17, 2020 • 3 min read

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Precise Imaging Solves Horse's Chronic Lameness Issue
***HorseTalk coverage of this story***
***HorseDVM coverage of this story***
Bella, a 16-year-old American Quarter Horse mare, has historically suffered from chronic hind limb issues. She was previously diagnosed with bilateral osteoarthritis of the lower tarsal joints (hock), but intra-articular medication had failed to significantly improve her lameness on the right hind. Bella had been ridden by two small children for the past three years and is an integral part of their family. Due to the severity of this lameness, however, she could no longer be ridden. Committed to improving Bella's condition, her family brought her to the UC Davis veterinary hospital.
Upon being presented to the Equine Surgery and Lameness Service, Dr. Larry Galuppo and his team performed an exhaustive lameness exam with diagnostic analgesia and used a computerized lameness locator system to confirm that the area causing her pain and lameness was the right hock. A possible surgical intervention consisting of fusing some of Bella's tarsal joints was considered, but additional information to determine the exact location of the lesion and plan for the surgery was needed.
To determine this, Bella was enrolled in a clinical trial offering advanced imaging techniques unique to the UC Davis veterinary hospital. More than a year ago, UC Davis became the first veterinary hospital in the world to offer Positron Emission Tomography (PET) for its equine patients. Combined with Computed Tomography (CT), this state-of-the-art imaging process can pinpoint locations of lameness with more accuracy than CT alone or other forms of imaging.
A team of veterinarians and technicians from the Anesthesia/Critical Patient Care and the Diagnostic Imaging services assisted Bella's equine veterinarians to perform a PET/CT scan on her under general anesthesia. The PET/CT revealed that the main cause of pain in Bella's hock was osteoarthritis of the talocalcaneal joint, rather than the degenerative changes in her distal intertarsal and tarsometatarsal joints identified with radiographs and MRI. This joint is rarely affected in horses, and its location and configuration make diagnostic and therapeutic procedures quite challenging. The PET/CT findings explained why the previous treatment had been unsuccessful and suggested that surgical intervention to the distal tarsal joints was not needed. While Bella was still under general anesthesia, a CT guided injection of the talocalcaneal joint was performed. Bella recovered well from the anesthesia following the procedure.
Four weeks after the PET/CT and the CT guided injection, Bella's condition significantly improved, and she could be ridden again. The owners were completely satisfied with the therapeutic and diagnostic procedures performed, and were thrilled to have Bella returned to a healthy state.
For Bella, PET/CT was an absolute game changer since it allowed precise identification and a targeted treatment towards the affected joint.
UC Davis veterinarians, led by Drs. Mathieu Spriet and Pablo Espinosa, are continuing to see successes in their discoveries of the diagnostic capabilities of PET through this clinical trial and other research focused on advancing the clinical applications of this new modality.
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Q: Why isn't it enough to enforce $w \in A \Rightarrow f(w) \in B$ before allowing a reduction from A to B? From my textbook, I can see that
A language A is mapping reducible to language B if there is a computable function such that for every $w$, $w \in A \Leftrightarrow f(w) \in B$.
Now, what I fail to grasp is on why it isn't just enough to enforce that for every $w$, $w \in A \Rightarrow f(w) \in B$. Intuitively, it seems that this would be enough. With this, we know we can map every element of $A$ onto $B$. Shouldn't this be enough? Why is it not?
I guess the $\Leftarrow$ part must have something to do with not allowing elements outside of $A$ to be mapped onto $B$. Is that it? What would be the problem that would originate?

A: Gadi A has the right answer, but I want to point out that things go spectacularly wrong without the "if and only if". Suppose that $B$ has any element $b$ and let $f_b$ be the function such that $f_b(n) = b$ for all $n$. Then $f_b$ would be a reduction in your weaker sense from any set $A$ to the set $B$. So, in particular, any two nonempty sets would be reducible to each other in the weaker form of "reducibility".

A: Let's take $B=\{0\}$. Now define a function $f(w)=0$. This is a reduction satisfying your condition, but it's useless since it can't differentiate elements of $A$ from nonelements of $A$, which is the whole point of reductions.
In reductions we try to move from the problem of deciding if something is in A, to deciding if something is in B. With a reduction we are able to say "if it's in B, the original was in A; and if it is not in B, the original was not in A". Your type of reduction enables us to say only the second statement, not the first.

A: The word problem for groups was shown unsolvable by (computably) associating to each Turing machine $M$ a finitely presented group $G_{M}$ such that $M$ halts on input word $w$ if and only if $w$ is equivalent to the identity in $G_{M}$. More precisely, let $A_{\text{TM}}$ be the accepting language for Turing machines (also known as the halting set) and let $\text{Ident}$ be the language of words $\langle{G,w}\rangle$ such that $w$ is equivalent to the identity in the group $G$. A computable function $f: A_{\text{TM}} \to \text{Ident}$ was constructed so that $\langle{M,w}\rangle \in A_{\text{TM}}$ $\Longleftrightarrow$ $f(\langle{M, w}\rangle) \in \text{Ident}$. Thus to decide if machine $M$ accepts input $w$ (i.e. if $\langle{M,w}\rangle \in A_{\text{TM}}$), it suffices to compute $f(\langle{M,w}\rangle)$ and decide if that is in $\text{Ident}$. But $A_{\text{TM}}$ is undecidable, so $\text{Ident}$ must also be.
However, this argument wouldn't work if we only had $\langle{M,w}\rangle \in A_{\text{TM}}$ $\Longrightarrow$ $f(\langle{M, w}\rangle) \in \text{Ident}$, because then, as Gadi and Carl pointed out, even if we could decide if $f(\langle{M,w}\rangle) \in \text{Ident}$, it would give us no information about whether or not $\langle{M,w}\rangle \in A_{\text{TM}}$ because in the case where $f(\langle{M,w}\rangle) \in \text{Ident}$ holds, we could still have $\langle{M,w}\rangle \notin A_{\text{TM}}$.
It is worth noting that, conversely, if we only had $\langle{M,w}\rangle \in A_{\text{TM}}$ $\Longleftarrow$ $f(\langle{M, w}\rangle) = \langle{G, w}\rangle \in \text{Ident}$, the case where $f(\langle{M,w}\rangle) \notin \text{Ident}$ gives no information.


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Tambuwal Intensify War Against Coronavirus, Inaugurates Response Team
By Our Correspondent:
Sokoto state Governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has inaugurated 40 response volunteers team to help the state in it's fight against the novel Coronavirus.
The Governor, while inaugurating the forty man volunteers group expressed his appreciation to members of the state taskforce committee on Covid-19 for the job well-done.
Members of the response team
He said, the sacrifice made by members of the taskforce was highly commendable when compared with the attitude of some health personnel in other States of the federation where some of them abandoned their duty post for fear of the unknown.
According to him the state government would adequately support members of the volunteer group financially and otherwise so as to be able to perform their voluntary assignment.
He further expressed his determination to fight the spread of the Corina virus and other communicable diseases with all available tools to keep the state safe.
He explained that the rate at which the virus is claiming lives in the state is very alarming, saying all hands has to be on deck to free the state of the dreaded virus.
Tambuwal however, stated that the state government has procured face masks for distribution free to the people of the state.
He said, the state government has already set aside two major Hotels in the state to serve as isolation centers in the event the number of patience suffering from the virus keep rising.
He applauded the leadership of Catholic Diocese of Sokoto under the leadership of Archbishop Mathew Hassan Kukah for given out to the state their guest house also to serve as isolation center in case the need arises.
" the state government is willing to partner with individuals, groups and corporate organizations in the fight against the common enemy Covid-19," he said.
He said the Lockdown imposed by the state government is only a replica of the federal government that gave the directives to States to place the curfew.
Earlier in his remarks, the state commissioner for health, Dr Muhammad Ali Inname expressed appreciation with the level of support the taskforce committee enjoyed from the state government.
He said since when the fight against the virus started in the state , the Governor has been up and doing in trying to contain the spread of the virus in to urban and rural areas of the state.
He said with the inauguration of the volunteers , the fight against the virus would achieved a great success especially among the rural populace.
Inname further said each of the volunteers would be paid a motivational allowance of 15000 naira daily.
He commended the volunteers who were mainly health personnel for their courage and determination to help the state this trying moment.
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On December 1, hours before Texas' social media law, HB 20, was slated to go into effect, a federal court in Texas blocked it for violating the First Amendment. Like a similar law in Florida, which was blocked and is now pending before the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, the Texas law will go to the Fifth Circuit. These laws are retaliatory, obviously unconstitutional, and EFF will continue advocating that courts stop them.
In October, EFF filed an amicus brief against HB 20 in Netchoice v. Paxton, a challenge to the law brought by two associations of tech companies. HB 20 prohibits large social media platforms from removing or moderating content based on the viewpoint of the user. We argued, and the federal court agreed, that the government cannot regulate the editorial decisions made by online platforms about what content they host. As the judge wrote, platforms' right under the First Amendment to moderate content "has repeatedly been recognized by courts." Social media platforms are not "common carriers" that transmit speech without curation.
Moreover, Texas explicitly passed HB 20 to stop social media companies' purported discrimination against conservative users. The court explained that this "announced purpose of balancing the discussion" is precisely the kind of government manipulation of public discourse that the First Amendment forbids. As EFF's brief explained, the government can't retaliate against disfavored speakers and promote favored ones. Moreover, HB 20 would destroy or prevent the emergence of even large conservative platforms, as they would have to accept user speech from across the political spectrum.
HB 20 also imposed transparency requirements and user complaint procedures on large platforms. While these kinds of government mandates might be appropriate when carefully crafted—and separated from editorial restrictions or government retaliation—they are not here. The court noted that companies like YouTube and Facebook remove millions of pieces of user content a month. It further noted Facebook's declaration in the case that it would be "impossible" to establish a system by December 1 compliant with the bill's requirements for that many removals. Platforms would simply stop removing content to avoid violating HB 20 – an impermissible chill of First Amendment rights.
Source: Victory! Federal Court Blocks Texas' Unconstitutional Social Media Law
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My LA2050 Ideas Archive My LA2050
connect / 2019
Novelly
Idea submitted in the My LA2050 Grants Challenge by Novelly
We are currently developing Novelly, a reading app that doubles as civic education for young people. We use relatable and engaging young adult novels as a starting point for discussion and action with young people around some of the most challenging and pressing issues affecting them and their communities. Over the next year, we will partner with schools, libraries and youth-serving organizations in order to pilot the app with 5,000 young people across Los Angeles County.
Briefly tell us a story that demonstrates how your organization turns inspiration into impact.
Since 2015, our Founder and CEO, Anna Gabriella Casalme, has been captivated by a simple idea: reading stories sparks empathy and critical thinking among youth with regards to complex issues. This, combined with spaces for dialogue and action, can spark social change. This is rooted in her undergraduate honors thesis, which found that Wonder by RJ Palacio can generate thoughtful and critical discussions on disability among middle school students in the Greater Los Angeles Area. In her work with schools, she noticed how fiction can make it easier for us as a society to talk about tough topics with young people, giving her immense hope. She wondered how she could find a way to have these conversations with thousands of young people. Now, four years later, Novelly is building an app, so that any young person with access to the internet can also access virtually unlimited opportunities for civic education and civic engagement from their phones.
Which of the connect metrics will your submission impact?
Attendance at public/open streets gatherings
Rates of volunteerism
Total number of local social media friends and connections Angelenos have
In which areas of Los Angeles will you be directly working?
County of Los Angeles
How will your project make LA the best place to connect?
Novelly is a free web app that provides civic education directly to young people. It is a pipeline to genuine civic engagement that young people can participate in at their own pace, on their own terms and on their mobile phones and computers. The Novelly app catalyzes the civic engagement process for youth through the following features:
*Read a young adult fiction story that touches on a social issue
*Complete embedded learning activities critically engaging with the story from the lens of the issue
*Participate in community discussions
*Respond to calls to action from partners
*Organize in-person with their peers
Every quarter, the stories and issue themes available on the app will change, ensuring that our young users will always have access to dynamic content and community.
First, we will partner with authors, publishers, and other content creators to produce original stories for the Novelly platform or make existing published content temporarily available for that quarter. This content will reflect a diverse range of backgrounds, perspectives, and issues. Second, we will partner with existing non-profit organizations, initiatives, and influencers whose work is related to the quarterly theme to share calls to action, co-create educational content and moderate discussions on the app.
By bringing these partners with a vested interest in an issue and in youth together in a single platform, Novelly can create a unique civic education experience for young people. By starting with entertainment, Novelly can first connect social issues to young people's lives and communities, then connect them to a community of peers and opportunities to take action. Through the app, users can do all of this without gatekeepers, daily and over a sustained period of time.
Over the course of the 2019-2020 academic year, we will pilot the app with 5,000 young adolescents ages 13 to 15 in Los Angeles County.
As young people who grew up in Los Angeles, we remember hanging out at the school library or spending summers in the local library. We remember how books inspired lively and deep conversations when we were kids. We believe that technology can amplify the power of reading to connect young people to each other, their communities and issues that they care about. According to the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, adolescents in California who are civically engaged (have high civic efficacy, are involved in social impact clubs or organizations, and volunteer) are more likely to have better health, better grades and greater motivation to attend college. Beyond the benefits of civic engagement to individual young people, there is the far-reaching and long-term positive impact on the vibrancy of communities.
The Novelly app will make LA the best place to CONNECT by increasing rates of volunteerism among young people, increasing attendance at public and open streets gatherings, and increasing the total number of connections that Angelenos have.
In what stage of innovation is this project?
Pilot project (testing a new idea on a small scale to prove feasibility)
Please explain how you will define and measure success for your project.
We will be piloting the web app with students in schools in libraries during the fall and spring semester of 2019-2020 school year in the Greater Los Angeles Area. By the end of this grant period, we are successful if we achieve the following milestones: (1) pilot the web app with 5,000 adolescents, (2) collect data from the pilot on the efficacy of the web app, (3) refine the web app and integrate new features based on the pilot, and (3) launch the web app so that any young person can access it. We are also successful if the data from the pilot shows that students who use the web app over the course of the semester demonstrate improvements in their skills, knowledge, and motivation as they relate to civic engagement. Based on the UNESCO framework for global citizenship education, we will measure progress in the following global citizenship competencies for students ages 13-15: (1) empathy (2) critical thinking/problem solving (3) ability to communicate and collaborate with others (4) conflict resolution (5) sense of security and identity (6) shared universal values (7) respect for diversity/intercultural understanding and (8) recognition of global and local issues as well as their interconnectedness. User engagement with the app will be measured by the number of daily active users, retention rate, and contribution rate. User engagement with the issue will be measured by the rate at which users: complete the novel, complete embedded learning activities, participate in discussions, engage with partner content, and complete calls to action.
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Textile Stocks' Research Reports Released on Canada Goose, Lululemon Athletica, Under Armour, and V.F. Corp.
By: Wall St. Equities via PR Newswire
NEW YORK, Jan. 8, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- WallStEquities.com strives to bring the best free research to the investment community. Today we are offering reports on GOOS, LULU, UAA, and VFC which can be accessed for free by signing up to www.wallstequities.com/registration. Pre-market today, WallStEquities.com monitors Canada Goose Holdings Inc. (NYSE: GOOS), Lululemon Athletica Inc. (NASDAQ: LULU), Under Armour Inc. (NYSE: UAA), and V.F. Corp. (NYSE: VFC). These stocks are part of the Textile Apparel Clothing space, which is engaged in the design, development, and production of apparel and accessories. They sometimes also retail this apparel under many different brand names. All you have to do is sign up today for this free limited time offer by clicking the link below.
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Canada Goose Holdings
Last Friday, shares in Toronto, Canada headquartered Canada Goose Holdings Inc. ended the session 0.51% lower at $33.43. The stock recorded a trading volume of 1.38 million shares, which was above its three months average volume of 802,750 shares. The Company's shares have surged 21.12% in the last month and 62.68% in the previous three months. The stock is trading 27.35% and 61.57% above its 50-day and 200-day moving averages, respectively. Moreover, shares of Canada Goose, which designs, manufactures, and sells premium outdoor apparel for men, women, youth, children, and babies in Canada, the US, and internationally, have a Relative Strength Index (RSI) of 80.04. Get the full research report on GOOS for free by clicking below at:
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Vancouver, Canada-based Lululemon Athletica Inc.'s stock declined slightly by 0.53%, to close the day at $79.43 with a total trading volume of 1.59 million shares. The Company's shares have advanced 19.70% in the past month, 28.61% over the previous three months, and 15.57% over the past year. The stock is trading 14.90% and 32.39% above its 50-day and 200-day moving averages, respectively. Additionally, shares of Lululemon Athletica, which together with its subsidiaries, designs, distributes, and retails athletic apparel and accessories for women, men, and female youth, have an RSI of 73.20.
On December 19th, 2017, Lululemon Athletica announced that Stuart Haselden, COO, will be presenting at the ICR Conference 2018 on January 08th, 2018, at 11:00 a.m. ET at The Grand Lakes Orlando in Orlando, Florida. The audio portion of the presentation will be webcast live under the Investor Relations section of the Company's website.
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Experimental filmmaker Roger Beebe's 2015 touring program of multiple-projector performances and single-channel HD video includes the premiere of his latest multi-projector mayhem, Sound Film. These works take on a range of topics, from the forbidden pleasures of men crying and the secret logic of the book of Genesis to Las Vegas suicides and companies jockeying to be at the start of the phone book. "Beebe's films are both erudite and punk, lo-fi yet high-brow shorts that wrestle with a disfigured, contemporary American landscape" (Wyatt Williams, Creative Loafing).
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Roger Beebe is an associate professor in the Department of Art at Ohio State University. He has screened his films around the globe at such unlikely venues as the CBS Jumbotron in Times Square and McMurdo Station in Antarctica (and in more likely ones like Sundance and MoMA). Recent solo shows of his work include the Laboratorio Arte Alameda (Mexico City), the Wexner Center for the Arts, and Anthology Film Archives. Beebe is also a film programmer: he ran Flicker, a festival of small-gauge film in Chapel Hill, NC, from 1997-2000 and was the founder and artistic director of FLEX, the Florida Experimental Film Festival from 2004-2014.
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Ezra Levant's Failed Bid to Change Canada
The fallen darling of conservative rage will rise again—even if it means plying his trade outside our borders
August 21, 2017 July 13, 2021 - by Jonathan KayJonathan Kay Updated 10:30, Jul. 13, 2021 | Published 14:26, Aug. 21, 2017This article was published over a year ago. Some information may no longer be current.
Photograph by Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press
On September 15, 2010, a right-wing media star appeared on CBC radio to promote his new book extolling the wonders of Canada's oil industry. The show was styled as a debate between the author and a skeptical environmentalist. But more important than who won or lost was the fact that a hardcore conservative author had made it into the heart of the CBC's daily lineup.
The author was Ezra Levant. And the bestselling book under discussion was Ethical Oil: The Case for Canada's Oil Sands. It went on to pick up the $20,000 National Business Book Award, whose jury was chaired by the dean of the University of Toronto business school and included such talking heads as Peter Mansbridge and Pamela Wallin. The accolade was announced at a downtown Toronto luncheon hosted by two of Bay Street's bluest chips, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and Bank of Montreal. "We are very proud to be involved," gushed the head of BMO's human resources unit.
It was Ezra's high point. If ever he were going to cash out—get a cushy public affairs job, maybe with media stints as the resident conservative—this was the time. Instead, his career became one long series of rants, lawsuits, and festering grievances. Today, as Levant's radical right-wing website strains at the bolts amid mass defections and allegations of financial impropriety, it's easy to forget that, for a brief moment at the start of the decade, he was given a taste of mainstream respectability. He rejected it: a decision that serves as the baseline for everything that followed.
Ezra always has been a true believer—not only in the substance of the fringe material he broadcasts, but in his own power to bring Canadians over to his radical views. The fierce backlash he's suffered following the tragedy in Charlottesville reflects the limits of that belief.
I worked with Levant in the early days of the National Post, where he was a subject of fascination and grief in equal parts. Even in this early incarnation, Levant would say and publish the most outrageous stuff. Yes, there'd be the correction or retraction in the next day's edition. But it never seemed to stick. Instead, he kept rolling from one high-profile gig to another.
In the spring of 2011—just as Ethical Oil was being fêted—Levant began his run as the primetime star of the freshly minted Sun News Network. SNN flamed out after less than four years—during which time Levant became a sort of Voldemort figure to the Canadian left. But at the point of conception, no one knew how the experiment would turn out. South of the border, Fox News was destroying CNN and MSNBC. In Canada, Stephen Harper had just won his first majority—with Conservative voters complaining loudly about the liberal bias they detected in mainstream news outlets. It wasn't so crazy to imagine that SNN could transform our media landscape in the way Fox had transformed America's, with Levant assuming the role of Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, and Sean Hannity rolled into one.
This was 2011, still the era of Peak Ezra. With SNN, Levant seemed to sit at the nexus of conservative media, party politics, and big business. Power was shifting west in the country, and Levant was one of the few nationally prominent media figures with a pedigree going back to Preston Manning's Reform movement. Kory Teneycke, Levant's boss at SNN, had run communications in Harper's PMO. And with Ethical Oil getting so much press, Ezra seemed destined to be the toast of Calgary's C-suites, allowing him to spin his connections and charm into oil-industry ad buys.
None of this happened. And most of the blame lies with Levant, whose acts of on-air self-destruction were epic. He once called the Roma "a culture synonymous with swindlers." During a monologue about a banana company's decision to stop using fuel from the oil sands, he told one of the company's executives, in Spanish, to "go have sex with your mother."
But his fall from grace also says something about our country and its power structure. The type of public figure whom Levant yearned to become—an outspoken ideologue who also fronts a corporate brand and inserts himself into grownup politics—simply doesn't exist in Canada. It can't. Ezra's arc isn't just about Ezra. It's also, in a way, about us.
As Richard Warnica notes in his admirably exhaustive account in Saturday's National Post, one of SNN's most obvious problems was that it never had the culture of professionalism required to properly report the news—even when the Harper government dropped scoops gingerly into Levant's lap. The network failed to develop the symbiosis that exists between, say, Fox News and the Republican Party. Nor did Harper and Levant ever build the kind of personal trust that undergirds this kind of symbiosis. (Think Donald Trump and Hannity, or Brexiteers and the publishers of England's tabloid press.) Just the opposite: their relationship had curdled back in 2002, when Levant briefly defied Harper's demand that he back down from his run for a Canadian Alliance nomination in a Calgary-area riding.
But even if the pair had managed to patch things up, it's not clear that the story would have ended any differently. SNN aspired to be the Canadian version of Fox News. But Sun, like the Rebel, had to operate as an isolated enclave of red-meat conservatism in a country where even the "Conservative" party stands for universal health care, official multiculturalism, and the welfare state. Fox News, on the other hand, exists within a densely populated conservative ecosystem of pundits, fundraisers, scholars, think tanks, activists, lobbyists, and GOP politicians and functionaries—almost all of them reading from the same core catechism on abortion (evil), taxes (bad), Islam (dangerous), gun rights (sacred), and anthropogenic global warming (fictitious). These true believers fight with each other, and subdivide into factions (as is now especially evident in the Trump era). But within those factions, they also create a climate of mutual accountability and support, giving each other news tips, air time, jobs, and retweets.
In Canada, on the other hand, structural barriers make the creation of this kind of conservative ecosystem impossible. Our restrictive campaign-finance laws mean we have no Sheldon Adelson, no Koch Brothers, no PACs. Canadian thinktanks are small and wonky, and tend to studiously avoid the slightest hint of partisanship. Our universities are so monolithically leftist that stray outliers such as Jordan Peterson have become objects of horror. Moreover, our parties don't hold primaries, which means there are few real dissidents or even meaningful intra-party debates. Power is tightly controlled by control-freak leaders, who set down every jot of official policy, and punish misbehaviour with instant excommunication.
What American political leaders truly crave from their allies is mobilization—which is why there is so much room in that system for Levant-style gadflies, who can get money, votes, or tweets out of their own sub-tribe. Our own Canadian system, on the other hand, rewards predictability, unified messaging, and top-down party discipline—the very opposite of what Levant brings to the table, either as pundit or political operative. I wonder whether anyone at SNN understood this when they set up their network.
Spurned by Harper, Levant soon realized that his only path forward was to flip off the Conservative establishment, go rogue, and aim his SNN show at ordinary viewers—whose most acute appetites went to the issues that mainstream politicians and media outlets wouldn't touch. His most provocative segments became little boreholes into the brittle crust of political life, venting the accumulated off-gasses of anger and nativism lying beneath.
In one notorious 2014 episode, Levant used his Sun platform to promote the false claim that Muslim students in an Ontario school district were being singled out for permission to opt out of Remembrance Day ceremonies. "It's a disgrace that any family would object to [such ceremonies]—especially an immigrant family who came here to benefit from our country," Levant wrote, in denouncing the completely fictional school board behaviour. "And even if some old bigot from a backwoods village in Pakistan or Somalia doesn't want to respect Canada, that's where our schools come in and teach those bigots' kids and grandkids what it means to be Canadian."
But those words were tame by the standards of what Levant would serve up once he started up the Rebel. At SNN, Levant had some nominal oversight, and the network occasionally would even formally apologize for his most egregious stunts (such as when Levant referred to Pierre Trudeau as a "slut" who "banged anyone"). But at the Rebel, Levant was the boss. (His formal, self-conferred title was "Rebel Commander.") And so there was no one to keep him in check when his site became a clearing house for cherry-picked horror stories about Muslim life. In January, when police charged a Canadian-born white nationalist with murdering six worshippers at a Quebec City mosque, he promoted the conspiracy theory that the attacker was actually a Muslim congregant, and then shamelessly used the story to solicit donations to the Rebel.
The big numbers on the Rebel's YouTube site attracted attention-seeking sensationalists such as Faith Goldy and Gavin McInnes, who in turn pushed the numbers even higher. It was a cycle, though not a virtuous one. And in this way did Ezra go down his dark path.
Levant has a habit of turning friends into enemies. And a lot of his public appearances now consist largely of him reading lists of people he doesn't like. While his attacks are too hyperbolic to be credible, it's easy to understand the source of his persecution complex.
Again, go back to 2011 and Ethical Oil. Levant was carrying water for some of the most maligned corporations in Canada. The book made the novel argument that oil shouldn't be seen as a generic commodity—at least, not in moral terms. The proceeds from our oil sands go (mostly) to Canadians, while the proceeds from Saudi oil fields are reaped by a dictatorship that bankrolls a militant and socially retrograde brand of Islam, oppresses women, and has supported terrorists.
Never mind the flaws in the argument. Just by making it, Levant helped shift the focus of the oil-sands discussion from black goo and dead ducks to the glories of our socially progressive Western democracy. And he did it a crucial time, following a series of ugly PR disasters involving dead animals and a steady stream of attacks by celebrated environmentalists.
In the United States, where Republicans, oil companies, and industry-funded think tanks have actively collaborated for decades to spread propaganda (and sometimes outright misinformation) about the harms caused by fossil fuels, Levant would have been able to write his own ticket. But here in Canada, it's notable that Ethical Oil got a muted reception in corporate circles. The amateurish "EthicalOil.org" website created by a former Conservative staffer got little traction, and doesn't seem to have been updated since 2014. To my knowledge, no one at Syncrude or Suncor objected publicly when Greenpeace went after Levant's "Ethical Oil Institute" as a possible front for government-coordinated oil-sands agitprop. A list of the institute's principles suggested no corporate involvement.
One reason for this is that in mid 2010, around the same time Levant was publishing Ethical Oil, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers unveiled a new, warm and fuzzy public relations strategy that was light on scientific specifics and big on wilderness photography. Levant's fiery claims about Islamic oil producers were completely off message. So was Levant's ongoing global warming denial in his media appearances. The CAPP website doesn't mince words on this subject, stating flat out: "Greenhouse gases from human activities are a significant contributor to climate change."
Much of Levant's career has been spent as an apologist for some of the planet's most controversial corporate actors, such as tobacco companies. And he's good at it. But by the time SNN started in 2011, and certainly by the time the Rebel began operation in 2015, his aggressive debating-society messaging fell out of step with modern marketing practices—which is all about enlisting activists as allies, rather than challenging them. Despite all the plaudits Levant received for Ethical Oil, he already was yesterday's man within the very industry to which he'd addressed his book-length love letter.
That's why Levant's attacks often seem so bitter. In his telling, Canadian politics is a centrist oligopoly run by vote-grubbing whips whose only goal is to perpetuate their hold on power, while corporate shills pay cynical homage to the false claims of leftist advocacy groups; all while ordinary Canadian patriots are stigmatized as idiots and racists for speaking their mind about the cultural forces threatening long-cherished values.
That's not how I see the alt-right's kampf in this country. But if it were, I'd be bitter and agitated, too. Just like Ezra.
Despite all the high-fiving being done by the media party on Twitter, Ezra's not finished. Even if the Rebel goes dark, he'll plot his next resurrection. His most valuable capital asset always has been the donor mailing list that he's curated since the 1990s—a catalog of core Canadian conservatives who can be counted on to ante up for new campaigns. Their climate-change denial and stealth-sharia fantasies aren't going anywhere. And Levant always finds a way to monetize their furies. It's what he does.
But having become disillusioned with the elites who once air-kissed him at Toronto luncheons, he may try plying his trade outside our borders. If I had to predict Levant's next move, it would be that he'll join an American counter-jihadist outfit such as the Gatestone Institute, or Pamela Geller's Freedom Defense Initiative, which would allow him to say and write exactly what he's saying and writing now—but with access to levels of financial support and political cover that Canada can't supply.
And when that happens, I wonder if the next nemesis to have earned a spot on that ever growing enemies list he keeps at the tip of his tongue will be Canada itself.
Jonathan Kay
Jonathan Kay (@jonkay) is a journalist, book author and editor, and public speaker.
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College Aid Director Discusses Student Loan Woes Students and families face stiff challenges as more banks withdraw from the private student-loan business. Bill Spiers, director of Financial Aid at Tallahassee Community College in Florida, outlines ways that schools are trying to adjust.
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Students and families face stiff challenges as more banks withdraw from the private student-loan business. Bill Spiers, director of Financial Aid at Tallahassee Community College in Florida, outlines ways that schools are trying to adjust.
It is the season when college acceptance letters are landing in mailboxes and that means it's also the season when parents worry about fat tuition bills.
This week, that anxiety may have risen a few notches when Bank of America announced it was getting out of the private student loan business, and Citigroup has said it will stop issuing some loans.
This news has further jolted a college loan market that was already experiencing chaos. Yesterday, the House passed a bill to make sure there's sufficient money available for student loans. For families trying to pay for college, this landscape can be pretty confusing.
Bill Spiers is the director of financial aid at Tallahassee Community College and he told me what's causing this trouble.
Mr. BILL SPIERS (Director, Financial Aid, Tallahassee Community College): The problem that we're faced with in the student lending market is the fact that the subprime crisis has crept into student loans.
Student loans are traditionally less secure, in some people's eyes, paper, whereas they're really a very secure document and that they're guaranteed by the Federal Government, unlike your commercial paper. And so, when the subprime situation hit, the availability of funds basically dried up for many of the student lenders. And the amounts that they had to pay to borrow money just went through the roof.
NORRIS: Well, for years, student loans have been among the easiest loans that one could secure. Even if you had black marks on your credit history, you're able to secure a student loan at a fairly good rate. Are those days over?
Mr. SPIERS: No. As a matter of fact, you'll still be able to secure the federal insured student loans. There are actions within the Department of Education to ensure that every student has access to the student loans. And if they're not available through the Federal Family Education Loan Program, then there is the direct lending program.
The loans that are going to be the most difficult to obtain, at this point, are the private loans that families borrowed to fill in what I would refer to as the gap. Parents will still be able to use the Federal Plus Loan Program, but the parents are borrowing instead of the student.
NORRIS: And for the parents and the students who are borrowing, what are the primary differences between the private loans that are available and these government-backed loans?
Mr. SPIERS: One is - the primary difference is the interest rate. You suddenly shoot up from 6.88 percent to an amount that's determined by credit worthiness. And many of the banks…
NORRIS: In the case of the private loans?
Mr. SPIERS: In the case of the private loans are going on credit worthiness, whereas the federal loans are based on demonstrated need. But again, we always need to stress that loans are going to be available, it's just that students should start earlier, looking for the available funds.
And some of the lenders that they thought they may be able to use could leave the market place before they begin classes in the fall. One of the problems we're faced with, right now, is there's several lenders that are not loaning to students at community colleges because they consider them higher risk paper -even in the federal program.
NORRIS: Is this likely to continue? More than 50 banks have cut out or scaled back programs. If you're in the process of applying for financial aid, looking at lenders, how do you assess whether they're likely to be in business in the future?
Mr. SPIERS: The best thing to do is to contact the school you're attending to see which lenders they're working with at that time. Remember that the federal rates are the same regardless of lenders. You can compare benefits, but most of those benefits are going away.
So what you need to ensure is that the school you're attending has a lender that they're working with - or lenders - because they need at least three that you know you can get a loan from. So your school is your best source of information.
NORRIS: Is there any kind of ranking of these firms or these lending institutions if you're looking at these, as a family, right now. How do you know - how do you know of if they're solvent?
Mr. SPIERS: Right now, you really do not. I was on a conference call today with a very large organization and we were looking at their profitability. It was a conference call, because they were providing information to schools about what's going on within their organization. And right now they're operating in the red in the program - and they were telling us we have to turn this around and make our company profitable again or we don't know where we'll have to go.
Again, it's all hinging on action by the secretary of education and the secretary of treasury, and that's a short term fix. Then the long term fix has to be in the Congress, where they need to look at what they've allowed the lenders to make on the loans to see if that needs to be modified.
NORRIS: Mr. Spiers, thanks so much for your time.
Mr. SPIERS: Thank you.
NORRIS: Bill Spiers is the director of financial aid at Tallahassee Community College, that's in Florida.
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