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Preview: Bucheon FC 1995 vs FC Anyang
George Slade May 14, 2020 read ( words)
It's matchday two in the K League 2 and this Saturday features Gyeonggi-do rivals doing battle after starting their season with contrasting results. The hosts, Bucheon FC 1995, started strongly as they opened their campaign with a win for the sixth season in a row. Visitors FC Anyang, meanwhile, will be hoping to not make it two successive derby defeats after last week's disappointing Line 4 Derby result.
Chungnam Asan 0-1 Bucheon FC 1995
Last Sunday two teams that had preseasons filled with change faced each other in the opening day of the season. Home side Chungnam Asan made the complete transition to a citizen club and signed their first ever foreign signings in the club's history. Bucheon FC 1995 came into the match after completely transforming their defence and attack due to having multiple departures in the winter. Both clubs had a lot to prove and it showed in the aggressive nature of the match. Asan made eight fouls compared to Bucheon's 11, but Asan's fouls resulted in three yellow cards compared to only one for Bucheon.
Bucheon had almost two-thirds of the possession and seven corners compared to Asan's zero, but it did not translate into more opportunities as both teams had four shots on target each. The game's only goal came in injury-time as the referee took four minutes to consult with VAR to award a penalty for Bucheon. New signing William Barbio was fouled in the penalty area, and when the penalty was finally awarded Barbio stepped up and calmly slotted the ball into the bottom left-hand corner in the 92nd minute. The last time Bucheon failed to win the opening match of the season was in 2014 and they will be hoping to keep this momentum going for as long as possible.
You can watch highlights of the match here.
FC Anyang 0-1 Ansan Greeners
The K Leagues 2's four Gyeonggi-do teams of Bucheon, FC Anyang, Ansan Greeners, and Suwon FC produce some of most compelling matches and storylines in the division. However, the biggest rivalry among these clubs is definitely the Line 4 Derby between FC Anyang and Ansan Greeners, named after the subway line that runs through both cities. The two neighbours finished in third and fifth respectively last season, though they were only separated by five points, and every derby match played a crucial role in the fight for promotion.
In a match that had a total of four yellow cards - two for each team - Anyang thought that they took the lead from a free-kick in the 32nd minute. After Ghanaian new signing Boadu Acosty was fouled on the wing, the resulting free-kick from 25 year-old attacking midfielder Lee Jeong-bin was swung in and met the head of defender Yu Jong-hyun. His header hit the post and rebounded to last year's Brazilian defender Nilson Junior, who fired in from close-range. The new Anyang signing was, however, correctly judged to be offside and the goal was disallowed. Ansan took advantage of this brush with danger, and scored the game's only goal in the 51st minute. After an Ansan corner ricocheted around the box, new signing Lee Rae-jun struck a left-footed shot low from the edge of the penalty area through the crowd of bodies into the bottom right-hand corner of the goal. Despite having slightly less possession, Ansan would go on to hold on to win their opening match of the season for the first time since 2017.
It would be difficult to find a more evenly split rivalry than that of Bucheon and Anyang. In the 30 matches that have been played between the two teams their have been 10 Bucheon wins, 10 Anyang wins, and 10 draws. Both clubs have won six of their matches away from home, so the odds do slightly favour Anyang in that regard. Anyang, however, have been the slightly lower scorers in this fixture, with a total of 36 goals compared to Bucheon's 40. Bucheon were the more successful team last season as they won twice - 1-0 at home and 2-1 away - while Anyang could only achieve two regular season draws, both of which were 2-2. A 1-1 draw in the promotion play-offs was enough to knock-out Bucheon and see Anyang progress to the next round, though.
As well as wanting to avenge that result, Bucheon may have the psychological advantage going into the match. Along with last year's dominance in the fixture, Bucheon can add the fact that they have won the first match between these two sides for the last two seasons. In 2018 Bucheon won 3-0 away, and in 2019 they were victorious 1-0 at home. Coincidentally, both of these matches happened in the second round of games in the season, just as this weekend's match will be. Both of those matches also followed Bucheon victories in the opening match of the season, so if Anyang are superstitious then they may have cause for concern.
Bucheon started the Chungnam Asan match with a 3-5-2 formation, which was used regularly with mixed success last season. This was done by having Brazilians Barbio and Baiano leading the line, with rookie 21 year-old Gu Bon-chul playing just behind as an attacking midfielder and Jang Hyun-soo and Guk Tae-jeong on the wings. Later on in the match the coach altered the formation to a 4-5-1, with Baiano as the sole striker and Guk Tae-jeong dropping into defence as a left back, allowing Barbio to move onto the wing. As it is the early stages of the season it is unclear which formation the coach will use for the FC Anyang match. Ansan Greeners defeated Anyang while playing as a 3-4-3, which was a very successful formation for Bucheon last season and is another contender for possible formation this Saturday.
The main concern from last weekend's match was the attacking midfielder position. Goo Bon-chul was substituted 54 minutes into his competitive debut for 24 year-old Incheon United loanee Ju Jong-dae. However, Ju himself was substituted just 27 minutes later after receiving Bucheon's first yellow card of the season, meaning that long-serving 24 year-old Lee Jeong-chan was brought on as a replacement. While Ju does not need to worry about suspension until he receives his fifth yellow card, the coach will need to have a think about who is best for starting in this position on Saturday. It could even provide an opening for new signings Suh Myeong-won or Lee Hyun-il, who were left out of the squad entirely on Sunday. As there are no injuries to report, the coach at least has a full squad to tinker around with.
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Anyang may have lost against Ansan, but they did create chances and could cause Bucheon problems on Saturday. Similarly to Bucheon, Anyang have had to completely overhaul their squad in the transfer window and there will naturally be some teething problems in the process. Attacking midfielder Lee Jeong-bin stood out and can provide great service for the forwards, and even be a threat himself. Ghanaian winger Acosty was effective on the ball with lots of pace and good movement, and could definitely cause Bucheon some problems.
Bucheon's former player Nilson Junior was played as a central midfielder but did not adapt well to the position due to his lack of pace. Despite his surprisingly high goal-scoring figures from last year, he is better suited as a centre-back or as a defensive midfielder. Two of Anyang's defenders - Choi Ho-jung and Yu Jong-hyun - picked up yellow cards in the Ansan match. The threat of suspension may be far away, but Anyang's lack of depth in many positions may cause the coach to encourage the players to be more cautious. Like Bucheon, Anyang have a full squad to experiment due to having no major injuries to report.
The battle of the Brazilians is likely to be crucial, as each side has two players from the South American nation and they will be key to deciding the outcome. Bucheon forwards William Barbio and Jefferson Baiano worked well as a pair in their first competitive match together. Baiano had a positive performance on what was actually his 25th birthday, while Barbio scored the game's only goal and made it onto the K League 2 team of the week, alongside Bucheon's Guk Tae-jeong and Kim Young-chan.
They will be directly competing against compatriot and former Bucheon player Nilson Junior. Nilson was an incredible performer for Bucheon last year - playing in every match of the season, scoring 10 goals (making him the club's joint-top scorer), and being named the club's Player of the Year. Anyang is his third club in Korea after Bucheon and Busan IPark and how he performs will depend on the position that he plays in. As previously mentioned, he does not have the pace to play as a central midfielder. If Anyang decide to play him in his preferred positions of centre-back or defensive midfielder, then it is more likely that he will reach the performance levels of last season.
At the other end of the pitch is his teammate Maurides Roque Junior. The 26 year-old forward is making his debut season in Korea and second in Asia after playing for China League One outfit Changchun Yatai last season. He has been tasked with helping to rebuild Anyang's attack, but as someone who's season best goal's tally is nine (2018-19 at Bulgarian club CSKA Sofia), it is unclear if he will be able to do so. Fellow forward Acosty looked more dangerous against Ansan, but some players are able to come to Korea and play their best ever football, so time will tell if Maurides is one of them.
Matches between these two have been quite high-scoring in the past, though a lot of the players that contributed goals for both teams last season have since departed. It is still early in the season with plenty of experimentation still to come, so it is unlikely that one team will have perfected their tactics enough to dominate the other. The last time that a team won this match with a lead greater than one goal was in 2018, and it is likely to remain close between the two sides on Saturday. Looking at how both clubs started the season, it looks as though Bucheon will edge it.
Bucheon FC 1995 1-0 FC Anyang
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Ever wonder what happens when good Photoshop goes bad? Check out how to keep your photo editing in check and on the right track!
You wake to find an e-mail in your inbox titled "Photoshop: When photo editing goes bad." As these things are always amusing, you click on it only to find it is YOUR IMAGES people are mocking. Your beautiful works of art went viral in the very worst way and now you feel like a laughing stock.
This is the nightmarish stuff that keeps us photographers up at night.
Don't believe me? For a quick peek at some really heinous but hilarious family photos, check out this article from the USA Today. It's the story of what I lovingly call the "ham family." The photographer, an Adobe Photoshop photo editing software novice, did such a poor job in the editing room the family looks like a cross between ghosts and people with slices of ham wrapped around their faces. This story has a happy ending, but editing in Photoshop can be a slippery slope from WOW to WHAT?!? Before you fall off the cliff, read on below for some basic advice on keeping your edits true to life and flattering to your clients.
If you take the time to listen, most clients will clue you in on their insecurities without any prompting. Men will ask about eliminating their double chin, women will ask about hiding their booty. Listen to what your clients are telling you and pose them with that in mind. Learn what poses make men appear more masculine and what poses to avoid for women who want to downplay their curves. Strong posing that flatters a client's natural form should be your go-to, not the liquefy tool.
Awkward posing isn't the only thing that can have you spending hours editing photos that would be better spent hanging out with your family or binge-watching Netflix. Take a few minutes to really study your location and notice what's going on in the background. Is there a different angle you can shoot from to clean up the background? Can you use this location for tighter shots and a less cluttered area for pullbacks that include the environment?
There is a lot to think about any time you are shooting. But solid posing and an eye for details can save you hours in the editing room later.
This is probably the most important piece of advice there is when it comes to using Photoshop. Clarify the expectations of what you will and won't do in post-production with your clients before you ever start shooting.
Most clients will have at least heard of Photoshop. Many will believe that through the magic of PS, you can make them 10 years younger or 20 pounds lighter. And those are the more reasonable requests! I once had a client ask if I could give her pants in all her photos because she didn't like how her legs looked in the shorts she wore to our shoot. While clients talk about Photoshop, few actually understand the time and skill it really takes to complete complicated requests.
How much post-session retouching you do is entirely a personal decision. I know photogs who do no retouching and some who strive for total perfection. My personal style falls somewhere in between. I often retouch that which is temporary: acne, eye bags, wild hairs, stains, a weird pucker in a shirt, etc. If it won't be around in a week and was out of the client's control, I'll fix it in post-production. But beyond fixing facial blemishes and sharpening eyes, I leave well enough alone.
Whatever your philosophy is, discuss it with your client BEFORE your session. If something comes up in the editing room you haven't discussed already, call your client BEFORE you begin editing. No matter how awkward it might feel talking about it beforehand, it is A LOT less painful than being chewed out by your client afterward. Scars, freckles, birthmarks, moles, bruises, stretch marks, fat lips…what you consider a flaw might be your client's badge of honor. Have an honest convo with your client about what and how much retouching your provide. You'll save some heartache and a bad review.
Even when you get the go-ahead from your client, proceed with caution. Techniques like sharpening, face smoothing, teeth whitening or body shaping with the liquefy tool are easily overdone. The idea is to enhance your images, not manipulate them into a false reality.
Once you have the image retouched to your liking, do a side-by-side comparison with the original. Check to see if anything stands out at you and if the retouched image is an enhanced version or looks too over-the-top.
In the example above of my headshot, when an edited version is placed side by side with the original photo, it's easy to spot bad Photoshop. On the left is the unedited version. On the right is a more youthful but unrealistic version of me. My eyes look too bright, my face is too smooth (I'm 40, I'm supposed to have wrinkles) and my teeth are so white planes could land in the night by their light.
It seems silly, but these are just a few of the ways photo editing goes bad using Photoshop.
It sounds crazy, but it happens. A little clone here, some copying of layers there and you wind up with someone missing a hand. Or you eliminate a bystander's head in the background, only to ignore their feet and your groom looks like he has an extra appendage.
Whenever you do any extensive editing, a great final step to take before flattening those layers is to count the limbs. For every subject in your image, ensure they have the accurate number of eyes, ears, arms, legs, fingers, and toes. Then make sure that all limbs that appear in the image match up with a subject.
I once completed an extraction for an athlete for a sports poster and somehow left off his ear. I caught it as I was creating my print order. It looked like this football player had spent some time in the ring with Mike Tyson. I was going for a tough, gritty look sure, but missing appendages screams Photoshop Fail, Epic Level!
The photo above proves that even high-end magazines sometimes fail at Photoshop. This photo, taken from an inside page of Vanity Fair, has a 3-handed Oprah. Oops.
Taking different elements from different photos and blending them into one seamless scene is called compositing. Scroll through social media these days and you don't have to go far to find some seriously amazing composites, like the above ad from Nike. Little girls kissing unicorns, a newborn in a pirate ship on the ocean, a young boy leading a tiger on a string in the jungle. Newborn photographers often make use of composites to achieve those adorable poses while keeping baby safe. A well-executed composite is nothing short of a beautiful, amazing work of art.
A composite also requires some advanced Photoshop skills, is incredibly time-consuming and is not easy to master.
Some composites are fairly straightforward, such as using an overlay to fix a washed out sky or head swapping. Both of those techniques use compositing to take an element from one image and add it to another. Adding a digital background is another example of a composite. And some photographers take it to the max and use five or six or even seven photos!
The challenge with compositing is that most of the time each photograph varies wildly from the next. Different lighting, different light temperature, different direction of light, different size of scale, different depth-of-field, different levels of noise. Each element must be masked out of its original photo with a deft hand, then edited to make the complete scene seamless and believable. Well, as believable as a little girl riding a polar bear can be. But you know what I mean.
The key to composites is practice and feedback. Practice on simple composites like head swaps and sky overlays. Then move on to using digital backgrounds. Get feedback from fellow photographers on your progress. Only when you feel like you really have the process down solid should you ever offer it as a service to your client. Never over promise unless you are confident you can also over deliver.
So what is Photoshop Good For?
If you've made it this far, you might be thinking if Photoshop is so bad, why even use it at all? Isn't Adobe Lightroom Enough?
Having a working understanding of this very powerful software can be a huge asset to your business. Knowing how to touch up faces, enhance eyes and clone out unwanted elements of the background can make a good image great. More advanced skills that let you put a 10-year-old soccer player in the middle of the World Cup Finals or a baby on a lilypad kissing a frog can allow you to create a premium service that can command premium prices.
Confused about Lightroom vs. Photoshop? Read This!
The secret to keep good Photoshop from going horribly wrong is to start with the best RAW image possible and practice your technique until it looks like you were never there at all.


Start 10:05am., at cross of Pettway St. & Hwy.1., 27c, clear & light wind. Finish 16:30pm., at cross of Avenue H & Hwy.1 in Ft. Pierce, 32c, humid & same.
30 miles & a hair-cut !
Its 3 days since the 50mile trail competetion down in the Everglades (2.place/ 8:45h.) and the first day that the legs are back to full strength. The two previous days I've had some troubles w. a broken toe from the race - its been broken before so it happens easily by now as for example when hitting stones or rocks in a trail race. Late last evening I got myself together to put it into place (see yesterdays photo's ;-) and today was absolutely painless and once again the daily run was a Joy !!
- Also much more down to earth things than exercising my academic background are part of the daily running. As for example getting a much needed haircut ;-) At about 25km after the start in Hobe Sound I saw a "Barber Shop" sign right at the roadside in Palm City. I took the oppotunity and stopped for a 20min. haircut wich surely make it easier to continue the run in the humid weather down here in Florida !


Meditating at dawn, in the living presence of the rising sun, is the method the Master urged all disciples to practice; it lies at the heart of his teaching.
He gave it the name ≫Surya Yoga≪ from the Sanskrit, ≫Yoga of the Sun≪ and it is practised at all brotherhood centres between the Spring and the Autumn equinoxes.
By concentrating all our thoughts and forces on the sun, the centre of our solar system, we gradually reinforce our connection with our spirit, the centre of our own being. In this way a bridge is formed between our higher and lower natures allowing paths of communication to be established.
The rays of the sun and the ≫€˜prana≪€™ that is present in the air at sunrise are able to renew and transform us.
As the sun rises over the world, so may the sun of truth, freedom, immortality and Eternity, rise in my spirit.
As the sun rises above the world, so may the sun of love and immensity rise in my soul.
As the sun rises above the world, so may the sun of intelligence, light and wisdom rise in my intellect.
As the sun rises above the world, so may the sun of gentleness, kindness, joy, happiness and purity rise in my heart.
As this luminous, radiant sun rises over the world, so may the sun of strength, power, force, dynamic energy and activity rise in my will.
And as this luminous, radiant, living sun rises over the world, so may the sun of health, vitality and vigour rise in my body.
Amen. So be it, for the Glory of God!
Collective meditation in brotherhood centres begins with 10 to 15 minutes of inspiring music, usually choral pieces by the great classical composers such as Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven. The music is an aid to relaxation and stimulates the work of the imagination, enabling everyone present to project luminous, beneficial images for the good of their immediate environment and the good of humanity.
Meetings include a short period of intense, silent meditation during which everyone present is united in concentrating on the same image, a dazzling white light, or the sun.
When everyone meditating concentrates on the same image at the same time they also vibrate at the same wavelength, like a laser, and therefore project a more powerful light.
Master Omraam stressed that the power of spiritualists lies in their unity and concentration. By projecting light out towards the world we are able to counteract negative forces and currents.


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The enduring status of a Massachusetts Durable Power of Attorney in circumstances where the Principal becomes incapacitated is one of the defining features of this legal document. By virtue of its "durable" nature, an Agent elected by an individual (called the Principal) is required to continue handling the Principal's affairs, as per usual, if the Principal becomes incapacitated. This contrasts to a General Power of Attorney, which demands that an Agent relinquish his or her powers in such circumstances.
State Laws – Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code
Signing Requirements – Although there are no state mandated signing requirements for a Durable Power of Attorney, it is generally recommended that the Principal signs the document in the presence of a licensed Notary Public, and, if possible, two (2) witnesses as well.

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Q: Calculating the limit $\lim \limits_{n \to \infty} \sqrt[n]{4n + \sin \sqrt{n} + \cos (\frac{1}{n^2}) + 17}$ I am trying to calculate this limit:
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\lim \limits_{n \to \infty} \sqrt[n]{4n + \sin \sqrt{n} + \cos (\tfrac{1}{n^2}) + 17}$$
I understand I should use squeeze theorem but I am having some trouble applying it to this particular formula.

A: $n>6:$
$$n^{\frac{1}{n}}\leq(4n+15)^{\frac{1}{n}}\leq \left(4n+\sin \sqrt{n}+\cos \frac{1}{n^2}\right)^{\frac{1}{n}}\leq (4n+19)^{\frac{1}{n}}\leq n^\frac{2}{n}$$

A: This limit goes to 1.  If you have any polynomial $P$ then
$$\lim_{n\to\infty} |P(n)|^{1/n} = 1.$$ Since your radicand is bounded by a polynomials above and  below, your limit is 1.

A: $\lim \limits_{n \to +\infty} \sqrt[n]{4n + \sin \sqrt{n} + \cos (\tfrac{1}{n^2}) + 17}$
$4n+15 \le 4n + \sin \sqrt{n} + \cos (\tfrac{1}{n^2}) + 17 \le 4n+19$
$\sqrt[n]{4n+15} \le \sqrt[n]{4n + \sin \sqrt{n} + \cos (\tfrac{1}{n^2}) + 17} \le \sqrt[n]{4n+19}$
$\lim \limits_{n \to +\infty} \sqrt[n]{4n+15} \le \lim \limits_{n \to +\infty} \sqrt[n]{4n + \sin \sqrt{n} + \cos (\tfrac{1}{n^2}) + 17} \le \lim \limits_{n \to +\infty} \sqrt[n]{4n+19}$

A: $$
\begin{aligned}
\lim _{n\to \infty }\left(\left(4n\:+\:\sin \sqrt{n}\:+\:\cos \left(\frac{1}{n^2}\right)\:+\:17\right)^{\frac{1}{n}}\right)
& = \lim _{n\to \infty }\exp\left[\frac{\ln\left(4n\:+\:\sin \sqrt{n}\:+\:\cos \left(\frac{1}{n^2}\right)\:+\:17\right)}{n}\right]
\\& \approx \lim _{n\to \infty }\exp\left[\frac{\ln\left(4n\:\right)}{n}\right]
\\& = \color{red}{1}
\end{aligned}
$$

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A Celebration of Pete Seeger's 100th Birthday!
Featuring the Vanaver Caravan & special guests Happy Traum, Tom Chapin, Maria Muldaur, Kairos and the Southern Dutchess Coalition Choir. Includes more than 20 of Pete's beloved songs, from children's tunes to activist anthems, including We Shall Overcome, Big Muddy, Wimoweh, Where Have All the Flowers Gone, and of course, Turn Turn Turn. The show features a variety of dance styles, from clogging to swing and Zulu gumboot dancing, and uses historical photos and recordings to take viewers on a journey through American history. Audiences leave the theater humming Pete's timeless songs, moved by his enduring message, and inspired to make our world a better place.


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Bose's next-generation Sleepbuds will help you sleep faster
Written by Surbhi Shah
Jul 22, 2021, 07:03 pm 2 min read
Bose Sleepbuds II offers over 35 free relaxing sounds
Bose has launched its latest bedtime wearable, the Sleepbuds II, in India. It comes with a 'clinically proven' technology that can make people fall asleep faster. Priced at Rs. 22,900, the Sleepbuds II offers a new acoustic design, a lightweight form-factor, over 35 free relaxing sounds, and up to 10 hours of battery life. Here's our roundup.
It has an IPX4-rated sweat and water resistance
The Bose Sleepbuds II features an IPX4 rating for sweat and water resistance, an anti-friction coating, and a new acoustic design. Each earbud measures about a quarter-inch deep - the size of a pencil's eraser - and has a new pressure equalization design with soft silicone tips. The ear tips come in three sizes. The carry-cum-charging case has an anodized aluminium finish.
The case provides up to 30 hours of battery life
The Bose Sleepbuds II packs a Nickel-metal Hydride (NiMH) battery that can last up to 10 hours on a single charge. The case provides up to 30 hours of additional battery life. The earbuds are also equipped with a minuscule storage that can save up to 10 audio files. The Sleepbuds II can be connected to a phone or tablet via Bluetooth.
It offers 14 noise-masking tracks
The Bose Sleepbuds II can be controlled via the Bose Sleep app. It has three content categories and allows you to change the volume and set alarms. The app provides 14 noise-masking tracks that match the frequencies of night-time surrounding noise and then replace them with soothing and relaxing sounds. It also has 15 'Naturescapes' and 10 'Tranquilities' tracks that help calm racing thoughts.
Bose Sleepbuds II: Pricing and availability
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Through music, support, Voices of Hope event helps with the healing
Published 12:10 am Monday, November 6, 2017
By Mark Wineka
Mark Wineka/Salisbury Post Balloons are passed out in the Voices of Hope crowd prior to their release at the event's finish.
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SPENCER — Sunday was All Saints Day and a birthday for Tanner Pierson.
Tanner died two days into his life 17 years ago, but Renee Pierson never allows his birthday to pass without making a cake and visiting his gravesite at City Memorial Park. It just so happened Sunday she could travel from the cemetery to the Voices of Hope concert at Library Park — something she never misses.
Parents and others left behind develop their own ways of coping after a child dies, but for 16 years now Voices of Hope has celebrated the lives lost, while also offering some collective healing through music.
Renee Pierson is never alone in her birthday tradition for Tanner. Tanner's younger siblings, 15-year-old Cameron and 13-year-old Angelina, always join her.
Angelina actually made Tanner's birthday cake Saturday night, and the family left a slice at the cemetery Sunday. In the park, as the concert came to a close, the Pierson family waited for Tanner's name to be called out.
When it came, they released their white balloons to the sky in his memory.
"They love him and like doing things for him," Renee said of Cameron and Angelina. "He has really touched their lives, though they never met him."
Voices of Hope began in 2002, a year after Lori and Steve Yang's son Michael died when he was 23 months.
The annual afternoon of singers/musicians, food, games, socializing, door prizes and a traditional balloon release at the end goes to support the Michael Yang Foundation. The foundation supports many things such as Kindermusik, college and camp scholarships.
But maybe its biggest outreach is the Circle of Hope support network created for bereaved parents — something the Yangs saw a glaring need for when they were trying to cope with Michael's death.
Circle of Hope meets at 7 p.m. on the second Thursday of each month at Steve Yang's dental office, 2290 Statesville Blvd. But many other individual or group counseling sessions for parents are available beyond the regular Circle of Hope meetings.
Julie Gainer serves at the main facilitator.
Renee Pierson has helped through the years with parents, such as her, who are trying to deal emotionally with the loss of a baby. And many other bereaved parents who turn to Circle of Hope for help become important support systems themselves later.
Steve Yang said Lori remains the backbone for Voices of Hope and she'll never stop wanting to help other grieving parents.
"It's a meaningful event for us," Steve said.
Lori said the Voices of Hope gathering gives her a chance to see many of the Circle of Hope participants, recognize "how far we've all come" and hear testimonies on how Circle of Hope has worked.
Every year, Lori's grandmother, Dot Honeycutt, hand sews a quilt that's given away as one of the top door prizes.
"And I've got a couple stored back for when I'm not here," Honeycutt said Sunday. She also has never missed a Voices of Hope event.
Abby Robinette flew back home from her freshman year at the Belmont University School of Music in Nashville, Tennessee, to sing at Voices of Hope — something she has been doing since the eighth grade.
Robinette returned to Nashville Sunday night. She sang three songs in Spencer with the help of mentor Blaine Smith on the guitar. Robinette said she sang for the first time at Voices of Hope after her younger brother had lost one of his best friends, Lillie Edwards.
She has not missed singing at a concert since.
Robinette, who is majoring in music therapy and commercial music performance, said music can offer a sense of peace and healing for everyone.
"I really believe music can do a lot and change a lot," she said. "It's a whole other language, really."
Other performers Sunday included Ava Morris, Amery Barton, Shelly Galloway, Adam Broyles, Leanne Kluttz, Destiny Stone, Angel Paez, Dustin Chapman and Kaleigh Allen.
Behind the performers was a continuous slide show 0f 71 photographs of children, whose names were among the many also spoken during the balloon release.
Roger Campbell, speaking on behalf of BRAKES (Be Responsible and Keep Everyone Safe) told of the nonprofit's efforts — through professional racers — to save lives by educating and training teenage drivers. The program is an advanced car control school for teens 15 to 19.
At the end of the two hours of performances, Lori Yang read from two pages — each four columns wide — of names and spirits to be remembered. The names also were scrolled on the screen.
Some 150 balloons went skyward this year with names tied to many of them.
This year, Michael Yang would have been a high school senior.
His parents will never forget Michael and will forever be thinking of various benchmarks in life he would have been experiencing.
It's what parents do.
Tanner Pierson probably would have had his driver's license and be talking about visiting colleges, Renee said.
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Cruciferous vegetables like broccoli sprouts contain sulforaphane, a natural plant compound that offers several health benefits. According to a study, this unique compound can be used to naturally lower the blood glucose levels of individuals with Type 2 diabetes.
The study, which was published in the journal Science Translational Medicine, was conducted by researchers from the Lund University Diabetes Centre (LUDC) in Sweden.
Sulforaphane is a sulfur-rich compound found in cruciferous vegetables like broccoli and cabbage. However, in these vegetables, the compound comes in the inactive form glucoraphanin that belongs to the glucosinolate family of plant compounds.
Sulforaphane is activated when glucoraphanin comes into contact with a family of enzymes called myrosinase. These enzymes, which are involved in the defense response of plants, are only released and activated when a plant is damaged. This means cruciferous vegetables need to cut, chopped, or chewed to release myrosinase and activate sulforaphane.
Raw vegetables are full of sulforaphane. According to a study, raw broccoli had ten times more sulforaphane than cooked broccoli. To optimize sulforaphane levels when cooking, steam vegetables for only one to three minutes.
Always cook cruciferous vegetables below 284 degrees Fahrenheit (140 degrees Celsius). Exceeding this temperature may decrease the levels of glucosinolates such as glucoraphanin, so don't boil or microwave cruciferous vegetables. Eat these foods raw or lightly steamed to maximize their sulforaphane content.
In the LUDC study, Annika Axelsson and her colleagues first observed the effects of sulforaphane on rats. The researchers noted that once the compound was applied to cultured liver cells, sulforaphane reduced the production of glucose. After the compound was administered to rats with Type 2 diabetes, the compound helped improve liver gene expression and shifted it to a healthier state.
The test results suggest that sulforaphane helped lower the amount of glucose produced by cultured liver cells. The compound also helped reverse abnormal gene expression in the rat livers.
Once the animal study concluded, the LUDC researchers then observed the effects of broccoli sprout extract on 97 obese participants with Type 2 diabetes. The volunteers had poor control of their blood glucose levels. The extract was administered in a powdered form that had 100 times the amount of sulforaphane is found in broccoli.
The individuals who were given broccoli extract "showed a significant reduction in fasting blood glucose levels compared to those who didn't consume it." The fasting blood glucose in the participants given the extract was reduced by 10 percent, unlike the individuals in the other group.
Anders Rosengren, an assistant professor at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, believes that the results of the study can be used to develop new treatments for Type 2 diabetes.
Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of diabetes and it makes up over 90 percent of diagnosed cases. When left uncontrolled, Type 2 diabetes may result in complications like heart attack, kidney failure, and strokes. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also warned that Type 2 diabetes may cause blindness and nerve damage.
The sulforaphane in cruciferous vegetables offer the following health benefits.
Sulforaphane and other related phytochemicals may help prevent cancer. Studies suggest that phytochemicals help treat and prevent different types of cancer.
The Breast Cancer Research Program reports that sulforaphane can boost the production of other enzymes in the body that can eliminate carcinogens before they damage healthy cells.
Oxidative stress, which is often caused by exposure to free radicals from pollution, sunlight, and toxins, can damage healthy cells. Sulforaphane in cruciferous vegetables can help protect cells against normal oxidative injury.
Additionally, sulforaphane protects DNA from cancer-causing molecules. The compound can change the DNA structure to reduce the risk of mutations, which is beneficial because DNA is vulnerable to mutations. When left unprotected, DNA mutations may combine and cause cancer.
These cruciferous vegetables are full of sulforaphane.
Brussels sprouts – Brussels sprouts are rich in sulforaphane. Steam Brussels sprouts with a bit of water to reduce the loss of the beneficial compound.
Cabbage – There are many varieties of cabbage, but red and Savoy cabbage have the highest amount of sulforaphane. Cooking results in loss of the compound and it is best to consume cabbage raw. Add raw cabbage to salads or sandwiches.
Kale – Aside from sulforaphane, kale is chock-full of vitamins A, C, and K. Add kale to salads and sandwiches or make kale chips if you want a healthier alternative to potato chips.
Consume cruciferous vegetables rich in sulforaphane to naturally lower your blood sugar if you have Type 2 diabetes.


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The president of the United States has too much power
Trump is merely the continuation of an unsettling trend
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By Greg Fournier, Collegian Columnist
If you are concerned that President Trump has gone or will go too far in overstepping his bounds as the leader of the executive branch, consider yourself part of a very large group that agrees with this sentiment. This consensus makes sense; after all, our country was founded on the principles of limited executive power, a result of years of oppression of the colonies by King George III, and those who wrote the Constitution were as wary of tyrannical leaders as modern-day people are of cockroaches. Despite this ideological harmony among the American people since the beginning of the Union, the country has been drifting away from the notion of legislative supremacy as the powers of the president have grown unnecessarily large.
The Constitution lays out the powers granted to the president. Those powers include being Commander-in-Chief of the military and being able to nominate officials including heads of executive offices, as well as Supreme Court justices. The Constitution also gives the president the ability to grant pardons except for those involved in impeachable offenses, the ability to make treaties with foreign nations subject to a two-thirds majority approval in the Senate and the ability to fill vacancies when the Senate is not in session. Almost every one of these powers has been overstepped by presidents in the past.
Take, for example, the first power: the president is the Commander-in-Chief of the military. However, the document gives conflicting directions regarding war-making powers. Article 1, Section 8 allows Congress to declare war. In theory, this means that any time U.S. troops are involved in some sort of conflict, Congress should have voted to send said troops to participate in the conflict. This, alas, has not been true for some time.
The last time Congress declared war was in 1942, denoting the entry of the U.S. into World War II. However, the U.S. has been involved in no less than 14 international conflicts since World War II. The Cold War conflicts of Korea and Vietnam come to mind, as well as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, when thinking about how much power the president has in sending troops internationally. While some of these wars may have been granted approval by Congress had they been given the chance, there is a good case to be made that the president should not be able to unilaterally decide to send troops wherever he pleases.
The apparent contradiction in the Constitution regarding the military is solved by Alexander Hamilton, who wrote in Federalist Paper No. 69 that "the President will have only the occasional command of such part of the militia of the nation as by legislative provision may be called into the actual service of the Union." The executive office has extrapolated far too much out of its limited powers in wartime granted by the Constitution, and the power of making war should be returned solely to the legislature. Another instance in which the presidency has made a mockery of the Constitution is in the realm of treaties. As stated before, the president has the power to make treaties with other nations provided two-thirds of the Senate agrees to ratify them.Since two-thirds of the Senate is a large number (67 out of 100) to get to agree on anything, Franklin Delano Roosevelt often circumvented this idea by not calling his agreements treaties. In other words, he employed a bit of jargonistic gymnastics in order to avoid the arduous process of Senate ratification. While I have to give FDR credit for this relatively ingenious trick, it does not excuse the ideas that this move grabbed more power from the legislature than he should be forgiven for. The president should make treaties agreeable enough to get the Senate to ratify them.
Perhaps the most egregious form of presidential power-grabbing is the rapid increase in the writing of executive orders since the early days of the Union. An executive order is "a directive from the President that has much of the same power as a federal law." There is no mention of executive orders in the Constitution, and for good reason: The legislature is supposed to make the laws, not the Executive Branch. In the early days of the Republic, presidents hardly used them: Jefferson, for instance, only issued four in his eight-year tenure. Contrast that with President Obama's 276 in the same amount of time and you begin to get a picture of executive supremacy that is troubling. President Trump, by the way, is on track to issue 416 if he remains in office for eight years. While these numbers are down from the Roosevelt-era highs (FDR issued 3,721 executive orders in just over 12 years, an average of 307 per year), it is still far more than one would hope.
The U.S. executive branch has gained significant power over the years. While it is not quite as powerful as, say, King George's excesses, it is still much more independently powerful than the Founders intended. I believe that this power-grab was an effort, perhaps exemplified most clearly in FDR's era, to take over the powers of the legislature because of the perceived expertise of the president. But Congress represents the voice of the people and after all, this country was founded by the people, for the people. The president needs to recognize that Congress does a better job of representing the people than he does. The executive branch needs to take a step back and return to merely enforcing the rules, rather than making them.
Greg Fournier is a Collegian columnist and can be reached at [email protected]
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NITZAKHON	• Sep 24, 2018 at 3:49 pm
After President "I have a pen and a phone" and you people said nothing, you lack the moral or ethical standing to make this argument.
Being lectured by a liberal on the Rule of Law, checks and balances, and pretty much anything having to do with adherence to the Constitution is like being lectured about abstinence and fidelity by a hooker.
https://dailycollegian.com/2018/09/the-president-of-the-united-states-has-too-much-power/#comment-1844165
amy	• Sep 24, 2018 at 9:57 am
Beverly sounds like a lliberal Alex Jones; millions of people are brainwashed by the president? Is it through twitter? Is it through the food? Fox news?
Also this attempt to label americans as trump supporters is misleading; 65 million americans voted for trump and those who statistically at least in terms of wealth and income were more successful than Clinton voters.
Those who hate and resist the president refer to the american people as if they are small radical group of 'supporters', but in reality 65 million mainstream americans from every walk of life voted for the president and support him.
Beverly Reed	• Sep 20, 2018 at 8:55 pm
What is most scary to me are Trump's supporters, the ones who voted him in and gave such power to an obviously mentally imbalanced man.
Most concerning to this writer are the millions of vulnerable people who allowed him to brainwash and manipulate their minds, many still supporting him even after watching his despicable, indecent, unpatriotic, prejudiced and unethical actions.
amy	• Sep 20, 2018 at 6:41 pm
Are you kidding? President trump's powers are severely limited by democrats; so many of his exeuctive decisions have been undermined, democrats/liberals like to cheat the people and undo legislation they supported by using the court system; the crimnial justice system is abused as a tool of political persecution, a large number of the president's nominees have been delayed by democrats.
President trump doesn't have enough power; he was elected by over 65 million americans as president of the united states and part of the reason he was elected was to restore America and get rid of/destroy the left, globalism and socalism.
If anything President Trump needs more power and the american people should figure out a way to make sure he gets it.


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Spitzer je doktoriral leta 1939 na Univerzi Princeton pod Russllovim mentorstvom.

Po njem se imenuje Spitzerjev vesoljski daljnogled (SST) in asteroid 2160 Spitzer. Izumil je stelarator, napravo za zadrževanje vroče plazme.

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Law Professor researching Energy Siting and Sustainable Development; teaching Business Organizations, Property, Energy Law, Environmental Law, and Environmental Justice
Off to the City That Care Forgot
On 2 Jan 2019 2 Jan 2019 By Nadia Ahmad
Getting ready to head out to "The Big Easy" or "The City That Care Forgot." It will be my first time in New Orleans. It's the setting of The Pelican Brief.
More so, it's where Hurricane Katrina landed in 2005, the year I graduated from law school. By the time Hurricane Katrina came, I had already undergone three hurricanes the summer before. Yet the disparity of how populations were displaced and dislocated cannot be blamed on a single water hazard event, but based on centuries of inequality in housing, infrastructure, access to education, employment, and other opportunities.
The AALS Minority Groups Section is hosting the following programs.
Thursday, January 3rd at 1:30 pm
Disaster Response, Recovery, and Relief in Minority Communities
Rebecca Bratspies, City University of New York School of Law
Maxine Burkett, University of Hawaii, William S. Richardson School of Law
Victor Flatt, University of Houston Law Center
Susan Kuo, University of South Carolina School of Law
Cliff Villa , University of New Mexico School of Law
Moderator: Kalyani Robbins, Florida International University College of Law
Critical Pedagogy in the Era of Diversity
Meera Deo, Thomas Jefferson School of Law
Nadia Ahmad, Barry University School of Law
Mae Quinn, University of Florida Levin College of Law
Teri McMurtry-Chubb, Mercer University School of Law
Moderator: Sahar Aziz, Rutgers Law School
Friday, January 4th at 1:30 pm
The Legal Consequences of Living a Long Life: Differential Impact on Marginalized Communities
Donohon Abdugafurova, Emory University Islamic Civilizations Studies
Anne L. Alstott, Yale Law School
Jalila Jefferson-Bullock, Duquesne University School of Law
Beverly I. Moran, Vanderbilt University Law School
Nancy E. Shurtz, University of Oregon School of Law
Jessica Dixon Weaver, Southern Methodist University, Dedman School of Law
Moderator: Browne C. Lewis, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law at Cleveland State University
Section on Minority Groups Cocktail Reception at The Palace Cafe
Saturday, January 5th at 10:30 am
Bias in the Courtroom
Christine Chambers Goodman, Pepperdine University School of Law
David A. Harris, University of Pittsburgh School of Law
Brooks R. Holland, Gonzaga University School of Law
Colin Miller, University of South Carolina School of Law
Christian Brook Sundquist, Albany Law School
Moderator: Tamara F. Lawson, St. Thomas University School of Law
Saturday, January 5th at 12:15 pm
Section Luncheon, Awards Presentation, and Business Meeting
Sunday, January 6th at 8:30 am
Racial and Ethnic Segregation and the Widening Opportunity Gap
Mehrsa Baradaran, University of Georgia School of Law
Devon Carbado, UCLA School of Law
Sheryll Cashin, Georgetown Law
Rachel Moran, UCLA School of Law
Moderator: Akilah Folami, Hofstra University Maurice A. Deane School of Law
Sunday, January 6th at 10:30 am
Race, Gender, and Socio-Economic Justice
Deleso A. Alford, Southern University Law Center
Robert Ashford, Syracuse University College of Law
William K. Black, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law
June Rose Carbone, University of Minnesota Law School
Martha Albertson Fineman, Emory University School of Law
Philip L. Harvey, Rutgers Law School
Tayyab Mahmud, Seattle University School of Law
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Overcoming Becoming: Much Ado About Disaster Capitalism


No hate plz ... I just pretty annoy by my friends... So I hope I don't cause any drama.
My friends is asking money from me every single DAY! I tried oning airplane mode to avoid them but they just won't lemme go!... Every time I on my wifi or airplane mode I just got spammed ... I gave them money over and over again but I really can't give anymore I don't even have enuf cash to eat... They are gamble freak but I dun know what to do now ... If I don't give them money they will keep begging me with their innocent eye ... I think I shouldn't give in at all in the first place ... The first time they ask for $5 which is a small amount and I could help but now they request $30 ... My daily pocket money is only $20 ... $20 SGD is not a lot ... Some time I can't even have dinner with that amount of money ... Can someone gimme advice what should I do to stop them from begging money from me?
Um, just don't give them money and tell them to piss off. Not a good friend, it seems.
Just tell them straight that you're not gonna give them any money.
They're not your friends. They're freeloaders.
a person who takes advantage of others' generosity without giving anything in return.
Friends? Yeah right. They're basically stealing from you. If all they do is ask for money, tell them to back off. If they ask for money, but are actually your friend, tell them that you won't give them any more money.
Don't give into fake people. Don't give them money because it's yours. It's better to not have friends than to have friends that constantly take advantage of you.
No hate plz ... I just pretty annoy by my friends... So I hope I don't cost any drama.
Anyways... Learn to say no. As soon as you say no, they would think of you as a human and not a money dispenser. They'll least likely ask you for money. You stated that your friend had a gambling problem? Notify someone you know who could help (Teacher etc..) As soon as your friend loses his gambling habit, he'll no longer need the money to feed his addiction.
Tell him to find money somewhere else.
Ah, the word no. A powerful, yet simple word. Being capable of mastering that word is like knowing an entire martial arts verbally.
To all people saying they're not your friends etc. are wrong. First try to understand the situation. they might be your friends that you have for a long time, I'm assuming that they're friends that you have for a long time? If yes then Politely explain that you can't give the money or you need it, or just say no.
gg my friends ask me out every day and if i don't go they'll rage and come to my house.
They're not true friends. They're just taking advantage of your friendship. Say no the next time they ask you for money.
As you already know by now they're not your "true friends" so why do you care about leaving them? Chances are they already gossip about you money or no.
Dont hang out with those who don't tolerate who you really are.


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Congressman Scott Peters asked the state schools superintendent this week to consider giving funding to the San Diego Unified School District for homeless students even though its grant application was missing a signature.
The San Diego Democrat sent the letter to the superintendent four days after inewsource revealed that the district was disqualified for a grant that could have provided $250,000 annually for San Diego Unified homeless students over a three-year period. State education officials said the application was disqualified because of a missing signature from a finance official.
Click here to search homeless student enrollment by district and charter school in San Diego County.
In his letter, Peters requested Superintendent Tom Torlakson reevaluate how the state Department of Education reviews grant applications and notifies districts of problems with them.
He specifically asked the department whether it contacts districts "with otherwise-promising applications" if they are incomplete. He also said he wanted to know if a missing signature disqualifies applicants for any other grants.
Peters said the district "acknowledges they made an honest mistake, but flat out denial of (a) much-needed grant on this basis is a drastic penalty." He also asked if the district could apply for homeless student funding over the next three years if some awards go unused.
Jennifer Coronel, who oversees San Diego Unified's homeless student programs, accepted the blame for not obtaining the signature on the 43-page application. She said new protocols are in place now to ensure grant applications don't go unsigned.
She also said the district has restructured her office to ensure its homeless students get the assistance they need. The district had the third most homeless students in the state last year, behind Los Angeles Unified and Long Beach.
State education officials did not respond to requests from inewsource on whether Peters' plea to help San Diego Unified might succeed.
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As I thought the rain had dissipated for a bit and it was a fairly hot today for the 100kms ride from Tra Vinh to Can Tho. We crossed the 100th bridge Cau Can Tho over the Mekong River and just on the edge of Can Tho being a milestone of the journey since leaving Ho Chi Minh City with Troy and Giles 5 riding days ago.
We hit some fairly nice road earlier on with a wide verge for motor bikes and cyclists allowing easy and fast riding for about 50kms. Opposed to route 1, known as hell's highway this was excellent to ride on, so we were able to put the pedal to metal and move on a bit. However, I have to keep reminding myself that it's a journey, not the Tour De France. Andrew Nicholson (around the world record holder for the fastest time cycling 123 days) recently sent me an email to wish me the best for the long ride home, he also wished that he was doing a similar journey like mine, in other words; taking the time to ride the journey and taking it all in.
Therefore, I'm constantly looking for opportunities to meet people, seeing things that I cannot possibly see if racing along. The good roads are a dream to ride on and to move along at speed but opportunities are missed. Unless you're on the back roads and slowing down to capture the moment it's a wasted trip.
We have certainly hit the Khmer region with lots of Cambodian Temples, Khmer people on the move and young Khmer kids selling raw honey in honeycomb on the side of the road.
We no sooner hit the back roads and some of those opportunities came up. I hadn't been invited inside to see a Vietnamese style house since I started my journey, but after seeing a group of Vietnamese men working on a grass thatched roof I hit the skids yet again to explore into something that caught my eye.
The workers were very friendly so we asked if we could enter the front of the garden and see the trade work. Not quite the occupational health and safety rules that you would expect in Australia, but they had their own way of getting the job done. I noticed an elderly gentleman in the doorway of the house who had brought a bunch of coconuts out front to offer us a drink. He was the owner of the house and had that military demeanor about him, so I asked my guide to ask him; had he served in the military in the past? He replied that he had served a brief time with the South Vietnamese Paratroopers at Cu Chi , but didn't like jumping out of a perfectly good aircraft. Small talk led onto being invited in for coconut juice and a look inside his house and the kitchen activity that was going on at the time (Vietnamese style cooking).
We finally got to meet the whole family; Mr. Nguyen Trong Tien and his 96 year old mother Nguyen Thi Son (born 1921). Now Mrs.Nguyen according to good luck in Vietnamese culture had 10 children and a very healthy life. She immediately grabbed Gile's and my hand like we were long lost sons. She obviously sadly missed 4 of her children who live abroad in the USA and Australia, and continued holding our hands until it was time to say goodbye.
After a lovely and lively chat with Mrs.Nguyen and her family we had to sadly decline a lunch offer to hit the road for another 45kms in the midday heat. Facing a rougher road now but also allowing that precious time by slowing down and taking the time to look and listen to the many xin chao/ hellos from friendly Vietnamese and to reciprocate their friendly gestures along the route. To them, who haven't seen two many foreigners if any at all out in this part of the Mekong Delta, it means a lot to be friendly.
Crossing more big and small bridges on route to Can Tho taking the time for the odd photo was now the mission. Small boats laden with fruit for the Can Tho markets to ship building yards making the new and larger boats for the Mekong Delta way of life and other aspects of life in the Mekong Delta further came our way, so taking every opportunity to capture it all became critical. With only 3 more days before crossing into Cambodia, Troy, Giles and me will be taking what will be the last opportunity (since I started riding in Vietnam 12th May) to summarise on a journey that most certainly for me has been an extraordinary adventure, lifetime experience and one of closure to a chapter of my life here during the war as a combatant over 45 years ago.


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Three formally charged over murder of Maltese journalist
Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed in a car-bomb attack in 2017.
Tobacco law in disarray after Dalli resignation
Scandal puts behaviour of lobbyists in the spotlight.
Dalli accuses Barroso of forcing him to resign
The invisible hand of big tobacco?
Who might replace Dalli?
Frozen policies?
By	Ian Wishart and Dave Keating
10/17/12, 11:01 PM CET
Updated 5/21/14, 11:38 AM CET
The European Commission is struggling to contain the damage from a bribery scandal that precipitated the resignation of John Dalli as European commissioner for health and consumer policy.
As Dalli hit back against the allegations, accusing José Manuel Barroso, the Commission president, of forcing the resignation, the Commission was last night fending off claims that its planned tobacco legislation had been ambushed.
Dalli, a former finance and foreign minister of Malta, categorically denies the case made by OLAF, the European Union's anti-fraud office, that he was aware that an entrepreneur from Malta was trying to extract money from a Swedish tobacco company in return for persuading Dalli to change his tobacco proposals.
OLAF submitted its report to the Commission on Monday (15 October) and Dalli's resignation was announced the next afternoon. Dalli later said that Barroso had threatened to sack him and that he not been given the opportunity to respond to the allegations against him. The Commission said that Dalli chose to resign to defend his and the Commission's reputation. He became the first European commissioner ever to resign for reasons of impropriety.
Malta must now nominate a replacement to send to Brussels, who will have to win the approval of the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers. Amid signs that this could be a difficult process, the future of Dalli's policy portfolios in the Commission is unclear.
Barroso announced on Tuesday that Maroš Šefcovic, the commissioner for inter-institutional relations and administration, would take temporary charge of Dalli's dossiers. But yesterday the Commission said that Šefcovic would not be replacing Dalli on a planned trip to India next week (25-28 October).
A Commission spokesman also said that the new Maltese commissioner might not be given responsibility for the same dossiers that Dalli had had – raising the possibility of a re-shuffle. It would be the first change to the line-up of commissioners since the Barroso II Commission took office in February 2010.
The Commission said yesterday that Dalli's resignation would not affect work carried out on draft legislation in the areas of health, food and consumer policy. Dalli was planning to announce stricter rules on cigarette packaging before the end of the year and there is now some doubt about whether this will happen.
The report by OLAF will now be sent to the public prosecutor in Malta who will decide on whether to take action.
The scandal has put the behaviour of lobbyists in the spotlight. The tobacco industry has been involved in intense lobbying to try to stop Dalli from proposing tough rules on cigarette packaging. The allegation against Dalli was brought by Swedish Match, a manufacturer of the smokeless tobacco product snus, raising suspicions among anti-tobacco campaigners that Dalli had fallen into a trap.
Giovanni Kessler, the director-general of OLAF, said yesterday that his office had investigated the possibility that Dalli had been set up but concluded that this was not the case.
Nevertheless, cigarette companies used the opportunity of his resignation to call for the proposal on tobacco products to be delayed.
A statement released by the Commission said that the OLAF investigation "found that the Maltese entrepreneur had approached the company using his contacts with Mr Dalli and sought to gain financial advantages in exchange for influence over a possible future legislative proposal on snus".
It added: "No transaction was concluded between the company and the entrepreneur and no payment was made."
"The OLAF report did not find any conclusive evidence of the direct participation of Mr Dalli but did consider that he was aware of these events."
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Idaho State University Creates Innovative Program in History and GIS
Detail of city of Pocatello, Idaho, and vicinity, 1934, showing Central West Side, which has been nominated for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places.
The History Department at Idaho State University (ISU) has received approval from the Idaho State Board of Education to launch its Master of Arts Program in Historical Resources Management. In fall 2007, the first class of four to six students will enter the program, which combines an emphasis on the use of emerging technologies, especially GIS and related information technologies, with strong traditional historical training in content, research, and historiography.
All students will complete an internship that emphasizes skills in the appropriate use of historical sources; critical thinking; collaboration; and written, oral, and visual communication. Strong preparation in the organization and analysis of complex historical data will enable graduates to compete successfully for a wide variety of jobs with state, national, and international businesses and educational, government, and private agencies and to strengthen K-12 and higher-education teaching in an increasingly technological instructional environment.
ISU's program is currently the only one of its kind in the United States, and its creators "can find no similar history graduate program anywhere in the world," according to the program's development coordinator, Dr. Kevin Marsh. The program's emphasis on using digital technology to raise significant historical questions and analyze sources sets it apart from other applied history (also known as "public history") programs that rarely emphasize information technologies and from other GIS-related programs that are not generally linked with the humanities and social sciences. Its focus on historical analysis and methods makes this degree distinct from programs in historical geography.
ISU's GIS Training and Research Center, which is an Esri-licensed facility, will support the program. All of the faculty members involved in the program have been trained to use ArcGIS.
Geographically Integrated History
In recent years the field of historical GIS has developed a set of common techniques to solve problems both geographic (spatial) and historical (temporal). But program cocreator Dr. J. B. "Jack" Owens is quick to point out that "I refer to what my ISU colleagues and I do as geographically integrated history. Our practice likely goes beyond the standard emphasis on spatial analysis in geographic information science, which is often carried into the concepts of GIS history or historical GIS."
ISU's program can be characterized as geographically integrated history because students will learn to use GIS and related information technologies to manage historical resources of any type on the basis of type of resource, period, and location (both of the production of the resource and its current location) in standardized data formats. These resources can then be discovered quickly and utilized in whatever combinations seem appropriate to the user for data exploration, visualization, and presentation.
Early trails and railroads in and around southern Idaho, 1942.
This type of management of historical resources will permit the aggregation of data on the basis of place; examples include relational databases of tabular data (including environmental data), digital images (of the built environment, objects, aerial and historic photographs, maps, manuscript documents, historic publications), transcriptions of documents, and audio and video materials. This form of data organization will facilitate data exploration, the enrichment of the context within which historical questions can be answered, and the linking of the place to other locations. Such research corresponds better (than to what is done now) to the new emphasis in the field, and especially in comparative and world history, on "connected histories," which involve concentrations on more complex, multivariate, and multidimensional historical processes.
"Historians can make significant contributions to the application of GIS," says Owens, "by pushing GIS software developers to adapt their products to our needs, particularly in terms of giving us better ways to deal with change through time." Moreover, he adds, information technology specialists are currently seeking solutions for the management of information that does not fit easily into a tabular database, and in this area, historians will have an opportunity to take the lead in discovering ways to represent the degree of uncertainty caused by the variable, incomplete, imprecise, "fuzzy" nature of historical source material.
Many examples exist of the kind of research the program will emphasize including the North American Religion Atlas (www.religionatlas.org) of The Polis Center (www.polis.iupui.edu), Salem Witch Trials Archive (etext.virginia.edu/salem/ witchcraft/home.html), the China Historical Geographic Information System (www.fas.harvard.edu/~chgis), and the International Dunhuang Project (idp.bl.uk). The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (www.ecai.org) lists hundreds of projects on its Web site as affiliates. However, ISU's program will be the only master's program to use these research methods to train historians.
The program's unique curriculum requires graduates to acquire master's-level capability in both GIS and history, emphasizes program cocreator Dr. Laura Woodworth-Ney. For admission, candidates must have taken 18 semester credits of coursework in history at the upper-division level and ISU's upper-division course Principles of Geographic Information Systems or its equivalent. Beyond the required core graduate courses, which include Geographic Information Systems in Historical Studies, Cartography: History and Design, and Research Resources in History, master's students must take at least 12 credits of elective coursework in history to ensure that they meet the program's goal of graduating students capable of using primary sources and understanding contemporary historiographical debates.
The program's creators (left to right): Laura Woodworth-Ney, J.B. "Jack" Owens, and Kevin Marsh.
"Because the program deals with a rapidly changing field," notes Woodworth-Ney, "a student must complete all requirements for the degree within four years of the beginning of coursework." The program is designed for completion within two years but can be extended to accommodate part-time students.
To meet its goal of initiating the program in 2007, the History Department must procure additional resources through external funding. Marsh, a specialist in environmental and Pacific Northwest history, will serve as the program's development coordinator. The Department of History at ISU will seek support from agencies that have not been traditional targets for historical funding, including both public and private sources. Thus, the program creators request input regarding funding possibilities and will, through this process, chart a new path for the support of future programs.
For more information, visit www.isu.edu/~owenjack/grad.html or contact Dr. Kevin Marsh, assistant professor of history, Idaho State University (e-mail: marskevi@isu.edu); Dr. J. B. "Jack" Owens, professor of history, Idaho State University (e-mail: owenjack@isu.edu); or Dr. Laura Woodworth-Ney, associate professor of history, Idaho State University (e-mail: woodlaur@isu.edu).
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Posted on December 31, 2014 by C.C. Ekeke	No Comments ↓
Hi folks!
Instead of doing a recap of 2014, I decided to recap my favorite shows old and new for this year. Not sure if you noticed, but I watch A LOT of television. It at times helps inspire my writing so I like to enjoy a diverse array of the small screen (except for reality programming). Let's get started.
Freshman Shows
A two-episode backdoor pilot on Season 2 of CW's Arrow launched the new series 'The Flash' as an extension of DC's TV Universe. As opposed to its grim and gritty (yet increasingly awesome) Starling City counterpart, The Flash is bright, optimistic and fun. We see a superhero who has endured tragedy in his life, but still enjoys being a superhero. I know, what a concept!
In its first season, The Flash has learned from any shortcomings Arrow's freshman season encountered and is fully embracing its comic book origins, introducing metahumans (DC's version of mutants) into the fold. Even better, in the mid-season finale, Barry came face to face with his ultimate nemesis aka the man who killed his mother years ago, Reverse Flash. As expected, it was awesome. Barry encountered a foe who not only possesses the same speed-based powers but has a superior mastery over them. But what really excited me about this show is how much it has fans guessing and debating over the Reverse-Flash's identity as well as what are the true intentions of the uber shady Harrison Wells. Even the most entertaining shows nowadays have not evoked such intrigue and supposition. I honestly can't wait until the show returns in 2015 to see what directions they take the titular character and his journey.
I initially had little interest in watching Netflix's newest original series about the historic figure that inspired the famous swimming pool game. But after seeing a favorable review, I binge-watched the show over the Christmas holiday weekend.
My thoughts? It was awesome. How refreshing was it to see a show highlight a modicum of China's rich history that was not just localized to the Asian continent. While Marco is an important figure in the battle between the Song Dynasty and Kublai Khan's vast Mongol empire, he is not at the center of every story, which allows us to truly explore other characters on the show, like the Khan of Khans himself Lord Kublai and the blind yet deadly monk nicknamed 'Hundred Eyes'. Not only that, the women on this show are all bad-asses in their own way, capable of handling themselves politically and/or in a fight. Definitely worth a watch. Trailer is below:
This show solidified Shonda Rhimes's dominion over ABC's Thursday night slate. Starring the ridiculously talented Viola Davis, we are privy to the darker, sexier side of law while trying to piece together a season-long mystery that involves five law students trying to literally get away with murder. While certain aspects of the judicial process are skewed or ignored altogether, the show does what its supposed to – it entertains me. Enough said.
Madame Secretary
I usually ignore CBS shows save Person of Interest and The Good Wife. But I was curious to see what this show could offer. It turned out to be surprisingly enjoyable, featuring a former CIA operative (Tea Leoni) turned college professor tapped by her former boss-turned-POTUS (Keith Carradine) as his new Secretary of State. Along with interesting international dilemmas of the week, West Wing power struggles with the President's surly Chief of Staff (Zeljko Ivanek), balancing work with her family and a budding serial mystery over who killed the previous Secretary of State, Madame Secretary has grown into an engaging hour of television each Sunday.
Returning Champs
After a rather lackluster Season 3, this show truly reinvented itself in Season 4 with a renewed focus and a brand new plot that took Carrie Mathison to Pakistan. Plot twists, new enemies, life and death scenarios and the willingness to kill off even beloved characters put this show back on track.
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
This show is an interesting case study. Agents of SHIELD started its freshman season with great promise and high-ratings, only to flounder around for most of its 22 episodes, then stage a late fourth quarter comeback (thanks to the Captain America 2 tie-in). Now the show has established itself as a standalone fixture in the ever-expanding Marvel Cinematic Universe. Whether its embracing some lesser known Marvel characters with ties to the show's eponymous organization (like Bobbi Barton aka Mockingbird) or melding a main character's origins with that of another Marvel character (Skye actually being SHIELD agent Daisy Johnson), the show has finally found its groove, which promises nothing but great things for us as viewers.
What more can be said about this show that hasn't been explained, analyzed and deconstructed? Its awesome to see an epic fantasy show so embraced by the mainstream. The show is what got me reading the Song of Ice and Fire books. And as good as this season was, with its shocking moments and epic fights, the biggest concern myself and other fans have is how the show has nearly caught up with the books. This next season will completely catch the show up with the ASOIAF series. Plus, there are some major book-to-TV changes coming to main characters which will not benefit certain story arcs in the long-term (ie all things Dorne). We shall see come April 2015.
OITNB continues to entertain with its showing the travails of a waspish inmate doing time in a women's prison. What made this season work so well was how Piper's storylines did not intersect that much with a lot of the other women, which allowed us to get to know about the more interesting inmates and their motivations. In fact, Piper was really off in her own world while the main plot involved a showdown between Red (Kate Mulgrew) and a new more deadly nemesis (Lorraine Toussaint). Should be interesting to see where they go with Season 3.
The Kevin Spacey-led drama returned with a bang, literally! For a moment I thought it was a dream sequence, but yes, that really did happen. But the show continued Frank Underwood's ruthless ascent to power with barely a look back at this incident. The show returns for a third season with Frank literally in the driver's seat of the US as its president, so where to go from here? There's only so far this show can take Frank's crazy schemes before his 'house of cards' comes crumbling down. Not only that, who will be the one to finally bring down Underwood given how he's dispatched of even his most powerful obstacles?
Either way, I'll be there in 2015 (or should I saw a few months time).
Since we will never see a live-action Batman on television (Gotham doesn't count), the more obscure Green Arrow seems to be the closest we'll ever get. This show that started off decently good and rose to my must-watch list each week. Now in its third season, Arrow continues to up the ante each week, deepening its character's mythology with flashbacks of his five years away from Starling and introducing more characters recognizable to DC Comic fans (Ray Palmer aka The ATOM and Ra's Al Ghul). Plus, we continue to see Oliver Queen struggles between his role as the Emerald Archer protecting Starling City and having some form of a normal life.
On another note, between the supporting heroes popping up on Arrow and Flash they could literally have a Justice Society team, which would make me a very happy geek!
At first I was glad that all the Original vampire siblings left The Vampire Diaries. But after watching The Originals come into its own instead of just coasting on being a TVD spinoff, I realized how wrong I was. Now in its sophomore season, The Originals continues to pit the supernatural species of New Orleans against one another along with diving deeper into the history of the Original family and their twisted bloodline. So far, I'm enjoying the ride. Let's hope that continues as the show returns in 2015.
I've been watching this show since it began over seven years ago. SOA has always produced quality, entertaining television and found a way to shock me and make me laugh even after the darkest story lines or goriest character deaths. Ending the series after seven seasons, the show will be missed and re-watched by more fans than just me.
I've watched this show off and on over the years, but became a more loyal viewer during its third season. Now POI is in the middle of Season 4, having expanded beyond its original premise with a sterling mix of action/adventure, science fiction, espionage thriller and even dystopian future. And on CBS no less!
The heroes are facing impossible odds as an rogue AI (ironically named Samaritan) has secretly taken over the world and they are the only deterrent against its absolute control. Again, the conclusion to how this story arc ends will be a must-see event!
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