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Československé divize ledního hokeje 1975/1976 byly hokejové soutěže na území Československa, která byla v rámci České socialistické republiky  čtvrtou nejvyšší hokejovou soutěží a třetí nejvyšší v rámci Slovenské socialistické republiky.

Systém soutěže
Soutěž se skládala ze 6 skupin po 8 resp. 6 účastnících. Ve skupinách se všech 8 (6) klubů utkalo čtyřkolově každý s každým (celkem 28 (20) kol). Vítězové jednotlivých skupin následně utkaly o postoupily do dalšího ročníku 2. české národní hokejové ligy. Poslední týmy z každé skupiny sestoupily do krajských přeborů.

Před začátkem soutěží odstoupily TJ Prazdroj EX Plzeň, TJ Bižuterie Jablonec nad Nisou a TJ CHS Chotěboř, které nahradily TJ ZKL Klášterec nad Ohří a TJ Baník SHD Most.

Česká socialistická republika

Skupina A

Skupina B

Skupina C

Zápas TJ Kovohutě Povrly -  TJ Stadion Teplice nebyl sehrán, protože na konečné pořadí nemělo vliv.

Skupina D

Týmy TJ Baník Příbram, TJ Vodní stavby Tábor a TJ Lokomotiva Pramet Šumperk postoupily do dalšího ročníku 2.ČNHL. TJ Spartak Opočno postup odmítla.

Týmy TJ Slavia Kroměříž, TJ Baník Švermov a TJ Konstruktiva Praha sestoupily do krajských přeborů. Nahradily je kluby, jež uspěly v kvalifikaci TJ Karbo Benátky nad Jizerou, TJ Technické služby Děčín, TJ Modeta Jihlava, SK Mariánské Lázně a TJ Slavoj Český Krumlov.

Slovenská socialistická republika

Skupina západ

Skupina východ

Tabulky nejsou úplné.

O postup
TJ Lokomotíva Bane Spišská Nová Ves - TJ TS Topoľčany ?:?

Tým TJ Lokomotíva Bane Spišská Nová Ves postoupil do dalšího ročníku 1. SNHL. Nahradil je sestupující tým TJ Spartak BEZ Bratislava.

Z důvodu rozšíření nikdo nesestoupil, pz krajských přeborů postoupily týmy TJ Slávia Ekonóm Bratislava, TJ Slávia Ekonóm Bratislava, TJ Poľnohospodár Brusno, TJ ZVL Považská Bystrica, TJ Iskra Partizánske, TJ Jarovnice a  TJ Slovan Solivar.

Externí odkazy
 Historie československého a českého hokeje
 hockeyarchives.info
 Přehled sezón

Reference

2. česká národní hokejová liga
Lední hokej v roce 1975
Lední hokej v roce 1976


We had the opportunity this past weekend to see several different rooms at Disney's Port Orleans Riverside – including the Royal Guest Rooms in Oak Manor (below, left), which are the most impressive. The rooms have an elegant and sumptuous feel to them (below, right).
We went to the Magic Kingdom in hopes of getting into the soft-opening today of the new Backstage Magic with Mickey Mouse meet and greet – and it was open all day! The newly renamed Town Square Theater (formerly Exposition Hall) is the setting for this new attraction (below, left) that also includes a meet-and-greet with the Disney Princesses. The lobby is beautiful with tile that includes "1901", the birth year of Walt Disney (below, right).


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Syria now has a good opportunity to reach a political solution to its devastating eight-year war as ceasefires have brought calm to many areas of the country, Syria's chief opposition negotiator said on Saturday.
"I think now that we have an opportunity, because nearly in Syria we have a ceasefire now, in the northeast of Syria and the north of Syria, and the efforts of fighting terrorism has achieved good results," Nasr Hariri told Reuters in an interview.
Hariri, the opposition's chief negotiator in UN peace talks, met with the newly appointed United Nations Special Envoy to Syria Geir Pedersen on Friday.
"Now it is time to invest all of these developments: the ceasefire, fighting terrorism, the belief of the majority of the Syrian people that the only solution to the Syrian crisis is the political solution," Hariri added.
In December, Russia, Iran and Turkey - supporters of the main sides in Syria's complex civil war - failed to agree on the makeup of a UN-sponsored Syrian Constitutional Committee but called for it to convene early next year to kick off a viable peace process.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, whose forces have reclaimed most of Syria with Russian and Iranian support apart from the northern province of Idlib, has clung to power throughout the conflict and is widely seen as being loath to yield power after it ends.
Arab states, including some that once backed rebels against Assad, are seeking to reconcile with him after decisive gains by his forces in the war, aiming to expand their influence in Syria at the expense of non-Arab Turkey and Iran.
"All the countries... Turkey, to some extent Russia and the Arab countries believe ... that without a political solution, the normalization with the (Assad) regime would be impossible," Hariri said.


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Paint Encinitas column: 'When art inspires conversation, it's doing its job'
By Jax Meyers
Feb. 13, 2015 12:45 PM PT
Artist Micaiah Hardison had been working at home on his new mural installation, "Encinitas Harmony," now displayed at the Moonlight Beach 7-Eleven at 105 W. D St. It's a 40-foot-wide triptych, unified by redwood heart-shaped framing.
People have admired and been attracted to the mural since its Jan. 17 debut — and it has also stirred up a wealth of good conversation. Hardison wanted to represent his hometown in a way that felt honest to him, and he didn't hold back or water down his perspective of Encinitas.
The center image depicts an iconic Encinitas sunset. It was painted directly on the rough-textured stucco wall during the one-week installation.
This image is flanked by fine art paintings that were applied to linen inside Hardison's studio, and then transferred to giclee on 60-inch- by-96-inch aluminum panels.
The right panel depicts two "hippies" enjoying a sunset in front of multi-million dollar homes on the bluff in Leucadia, the northernmost community of Encinitas.
"Leucadia is marketed as a funky hippie town, but in reality most of the hippies got priced out of the community decades ago, and the funk no longer meets the city code," Hardison said.
Hardison's work shows the disparity between the thriving multi-millionaire "haves" and the tenacious "have-nots" who actually can't afford to live here, but still do. These are the locals that Hardison relates to, having slept in a truck for a considerable portion of his life just to be able to "stick around."
The left image in the triptych art installation depicts Mexican fishing panga boats making a predawn beach arrival on the shores of Cardiff, the southernmost community of Encinitas.
According to Hardison, this intrepid group of hopeful immigrants is eager to get to work building a better future for themselves and their families.
"I have always been inspired by the bravery, humility, honesty and work ethic of this segment of our community," he said.
For the models, Hardison asked a few friends who had themselves crossed the border illegally and are now productive locals with growing families and businesses. He even built a faux panga in his yard for reference.
When art inspires conversation, it's doing its job. The uncomfortable truth is that, whether we turn a blind eye or embrace them, Encinitas has undocumented workers.
Living in Encinitas is an amazing experience. Whether you are rich or poor, white or brown, local or migrant, there is something that beckons all of us to live, work, and play by this ocean, an ocean that belongs to everyone.
Hardison has courageously captured a heartfelt, human and distinctly homegrown perspective. We at Paint Encinitas, a group I started to bring about more murals, are honored to have unveiled "Encinitas Harmony" as our third mural project.
"The beautiful thing I wanted to convey," Hardison concluded, "is that, especially at sunset, we come together to marvel at God's beauty and are all equals sharing undeserved blessings, connected with nature and appreciating the common reason we are here."
Paint Encinitas column: New mural brings a message of unity
Paint Encinitas column: Reflecting on a year of murals
Paint Encinitas column: Farm Lab reaps more than art appreciation
Paint Encinitas: Mural disappears from wall, but new art coming

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Lynn Hodges has recently written a book called Living with Bipolar Disorder.
The book is about her personal journey living and working with bipolar disorder.
This book was created because the author wanted to give a positive light on living with the illness. She recognises the disorder has to be managed but she can see the positive aspect of the illness. She also wanted to give comfort and hope to families of bipolar loved ones.
The book would also make good reading for newly diagnosed patients of bipolar disorder and health professionals who would like more insight into the illness.
Lynn Hodges now delivers workshops on What it is Like to Live and Work with Bipolar Disorder. This programme is a one day course that can be delivered to a maximum of 20 people.
Lynn also offers presentation and interviewing techniques for individuals and groups.


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"Annihilation," starring Natalie Portman, is a hypnotically beautiful and unsettling adaptation of the first novel in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy.
"Annihilation," a mind-bending foray into the unknown from the British writer-director Alex Garland, leaves you in an entrancingly beautiful daze. That may be an odd thing to say about a movie with mutant crocodiles, killer bears and an unflagging sense of menace, but for all its surface perils the picture also has a disquietingly serene core. It broods, stalks and sometimes pounces, but mostly — not unlike the five intrepid women who venture into its heart of darkness — it's content to observe, almost as though it were studying itself through the lens of the camera. It gives itself, and the audience, an awful lot to see.
Freely adapted from the first novel in Jeff VanderMeer's "Southern Reach" trilogy, Garland's movie tracks an expedition into a swamp where an enormous translucent canopy called "the Shimmer" has descended, inexplicably warping all plant and animal life in the vicinity. It's a story with eerie echoes of science-fiction novels like J.G. Ballard's "The Crystal World" and Stephen King's "Under the Dome," though I confess that an early shot of a meteor crashing into a lighthouse put me briefly in mind of a dystopian Nicholas Sparks.
Maybe that's no accident: This grave, moody, unapologetically cerebral thriller is not without its tortured romantic side. At the heart of the story is a Johns Hopkins University biologist, Lena (Natalie Portman), who hasn't seen her husband, Sgt. Kane (Oscar Isaac), since he left on a top-secret military mission a year earlier. But when Kane mysteriously returns one day, coughing up blood but no answers, government officials suddenly appear and whisk the couple off to a research facility in a remote coastal territory known as Area X.
The subject under scrutiny is the Shimmer, which hovers ominously in the air nearby, pulsing iridescently like a fog made from plastic wrap. Several parties have gone in to investigate over the years, but were never heard from again; Kane is the only one who ever made it out alive, and only then just barely. With the Shimmer already threatening to expand, Lena decides the best thing she can do for her deathly ill husband is to find out the truth for herself.
And so she joins an expedition led by a tetchy, cynical psychologist named Dr. Ventress (Jennifer Jason Leigh), along with a paramedic, Anya Thorensen (Gina Rodriguez); a physicist, Josie Radek (Tessa Thompson); and an anthropologist, Cass Sheppard (Tuva Novotny). Together, armed with rifles, wits, gallows humor and unimpeachable credentials, they march into the Shimmer, where they quickly lose all communication with the outside world.
As the women make their way toward the elusive lighthouse at the Shimmer's point of origin, Sheppard observes that nearly all of them have endured some life-altering trauma, whether it's a terminal illness or the loss of a loved one: They have everything to offer their mission and nothing to lose. Lena, for her part, must do her mourning in private, as only Dr. Ventress knows that Kane is her husband — a strategic deception that affirms Lena's detached professionalism, even as it adds to the mounting sense of dread and unease.
In confronting an extraterrestrial presence through the gaze of a human female, emphasizing her intelligence and composure while sneakily teasing out her emotional history, "Annihilation" at times suggests a more ferocious companion piece to Denis Villeneuve's 2016 thriller, "Arrival." It's a connection that Garland reinforces aesthetically in the absorbing but unhurried pace established by Barney Pilling's editing, the muted grays and sudden eruptions of color in Rob Hardy's sun-streaked cinematography, and, above all, the pulsing, otherworldly drone of Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow's score.
But "Annihilation" is very much its own beast, so to speak, as becomes clear when its heroines stumble on an old hut partially submerged in a lake. Marveling at the genetic anomalies apparent in the area's brightly hued vegetation — the Shimmer, it seems, basically makes your DNA drop acid — Lena and her colleagues soon find themselves face to face with a litany of half-concealed horrors, the scariest aspect of which may be their curious indifference to the group's survival. In the cold, rational, beautifully decaying world of "Annihilation," death isn't just a violent end; it's another state of being.
A veteran screenwriter with strong roots in speculative fiction ("Sunshine," "28 Days Later … "), Garland made a knockout directorial debut with "Ex Machina" (2014), which gave us the gift of Alicia Vikander playing a sinuous female robot, plus the equally unforgettable image of Isaac tearing it up on the dance floor. Isaac is sadly immobilized for much of "Annihilation," but that only makes it easier for Garland to put women matter-of-factly front and center: Portman's Lena shoulders the dramatic burden with unsurprising ease, but her four formidable colleagues provide their own invaluable assist.
At first, the movie suggests an unusually cerebral variation on the doomed-mission template: Despite the actresses' variable screen time, Rodriguez's outspoken intensity, Novotny's quiet sensitivity and Thompson's riveting calm all register so vividly that you regret knowing some if not all of them will be eliminated. That's not a spoiler; nor is it even half the story. With the exception of one genuinely breathtaking, blood-curdling ambush, "Annihilation" has little interest in the conventional mechanics of suspense and surprise, as evidenced by an array of flashbacks and flash-forwards that reveal at least one outcome of Lena's journey (she lives!) in the very first scene.
['Annihilation's'] most impressive achievement may be how easily it welds the mechanics of genre and the cinema of ideas.
Grounded by the grainy recurring image of a cell rapidly dividing, "Annihilation" is itself a fluid exercise in genetic mutation: It begins with scenes from a marriage, then quickly evolves into a wilderness adventure, an environmental horror flick and a striking depiction of physical and psychological entropy (emphasis on the "trippy"). Its most impressive achievement may be how easily it welds the mechanics of genre and the cinema of ideas. Garland's movie has its grisly flourishes, but unlike so many thrillers that preoccupy themselves with spectacles of death, it's more interested in pondering the strange, inextricable link between creation and destruction.
That Stanley Kubrick colossus, you may recall, was drawn from an Arthur C. Clarke novel that later spawned several sequels, the implications of which scarcely diminished the movie's looming sense of mystery. Garland and his collaborators, intent on making their own stand-alone picture, deliberately avoided reading "Annihilation's" two sequels — a purist approach that resulted in at least one awkward if unintended departure from the source material. As a result of VanderMeer's deliberately cryptic play with narrative, it isn't revealed until "Authority," the second book in the trilogy, that the character who inspired Lena is of Asian descent, while the character who inspired Dr. Ventress is half Native American and half white.
Given the movie's own not-insignificant strides for inclusive casting, it's all the more disappointing to see it become the latest case study in Hollywood's ongoing struggle with "whitewashing" — a crude catch-all term for an industry-wide problem with its own endless strains and variations. The representational confusion here scarcely negates the picture's effectiveness, but neither does it exist in a vacuum. "Annihilation" is a remarkable movie, a skillful and ingenious sophistication of a standard B-thriller template, but it also bears the flawed genetic imprint of the industry that spawned it.


The rain was coming down hard while I debated whether to run or rest today. I put in a good workout on Saturday and could have legitimately skipped today's workout, especially with the weather we were having. I figured the rain and strong winds would continue throughout the day and before lunch I'd made up my mind to run three miles on the treadmill. I figured it would be easy to cover a few slow miles, less than a third of the distance that I'd run the day before.
There's something about the treadmill that brings out the worst in me as a runner. I had the TV on with an NFL pre-game show, figuring the action might provide some distraction from the tedious process of running about 30 minutes while going nowhere. Almost from the start, the activity felt difficult. I had a bad attitude about the process and as I grew warmer my mood grew worse. At the 20 minute mark I was self-negotiating a shorter span but once I was within the last mile of my distance goal I sped up the belt and got it done. I ended up running about 28 minutes and disliked every one.
Later in the afternoon I went out for an errand and the skies had cleared. The wind was gone and the temperature was a balmy 54 degrees. I would have loved to do my recovery run under those conditions but my running was done for the day. I was pleased that I got in a hard workout and could now relax for the rest of the day. My dislike of the treadmill drove me to run faster than I would have had I done my run outdoors. I guess thinking negatively can sometimes yield positive results.


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Gorgo este un film SF cu monștri, britanic, din 1961 regizat de Eugène Lourié. În rolurile principale joacă actorii Bill Travers, William Sylvester, Vincent Winter. Filmul împrumută elemente din alte filme cu monștri, cum ar fi Godzilla și King Kong

Prezentare
Un vas de salvare este aproape scufundat în largul coastelor irlandeze de un cutremur submarin. Câteva seri mai târziu, un monstru marin trage de bărcile de pescuit și intră în oraș. Nava de salvare îl capturează pe Gorgo și-l duce la Londra pentru a fi arătat oamenilor. Mama lui Gorgo, foarte supărată, se duce la Londra pe urmele acestuia, distrugând totul în calea ei.

Actori
 Bill Travers este Joe Ryan
 William Sylvester este Sam Slade
 Vincent Winter este Sean
 Christopher Rhodes este McCartin
 Joseph O'Conor este Professor Hendricks
 Bruce Seton este Professor Flaherty
 Martin Benson este Mr. Dorkin
 Maurice Kaufmann este Radio Reporter
 Basil Dignam este Admiral Brooks
 Mick Dillon este Gorgo

Note

Legături externe

 Gorgo as a cartoon
 Gorgo - The Irish Connection at Where's Grandad?

Filme din 1961
Filme britanice
Filme în limba engleză
Filme regizate de Eugène Lourié
Filme SF din anii 1960Filme cu monștri
Filme cu acțiunea în LondraFilme cu dinozauri
Filme MGM

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Dan says: "I have to tell you, I would have preferred to learn some of those lessons BEFORE we sold the house, put all our worldly goods in storage, hopped in the car with our dog, and headed into the unknown.
Suzan and Dan have lived in various countries in Latin America, where they have enjoyed a perfect climate, great health care and a low cost of living. Right now, they live in Ecuador and their utility bills… water, gas, electricity, everything…amounts to less than $40 per month. And best of all, Dan says, the air is pure and the water is clean, and they get all the exercise they need and then some simply walking around town each day.
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One of my colleagues, Tiara, is getting married this coming June. She and her husband to be have been planning for their wedding since they got engaged last May.
Since they do not intend to have a very huge wedding reception they can afford to make the occasion extravagant just for their close family members and friends. To get more ideas and information of having a wonderful and memorable wedding banquet, they started to search through the internet and inquired many hotels wedding packages with the hope that they can find one that best suit their needs, however, after numerous inquiries and site visits, they are very disappointed that none can actually fit in what they are looking for, they even thinking of hire a wedding planner to do the job for them which will cost them dearly.
As the date draws nearer, they started to search the internet again, they are very pleased to come across the La Jolla banquet room at Trattoria-Acqua where they can offer a wedding banquet that suit them perfectly. The banquet dinner menu pricing is very reasonable and they love the restaurant buyout idea that allows exclusivity for their special occasion.
I am very honor to have received their wedding invitation card yesterday and very much looking forward to this exclusive banquet of a taste of the Mediterranean in the village of La Jolla.
I don't understand, how would you have something in KK that resemble a banquet in CA, USA?


Tony Smith had just arrived at work. He took off his suit coat and hung it carefully in a closet at the back of his spacious office on the third floor of the Oakland Unified School District building in downtown Oakland. Light streamed through the arched windows. Besides the light and the space, nothing about the superintendent's office suggested special privilege. Smith's large desk was cluttered, and the meeting table strewn with data sheets.
There are many people still waiting to see how this year turns out for Superintendent Smith, the first Oakland superintendent to be appointed by a local, independent school board since the state takeover. Smith, a Cal graduate (he played football for the Bears) and most recently the San Francisco school district's deputy superintendent for instruction, innovation, and social justice programs, faces a stark achievement gap in Oakland, where African American and Latino children perform on average well below their white peers. The district is also losing $25 million in funding next year, after just having trimmed $69 million out over the past few years.
Smith will be participating in an open town hall this Wed, Sept. 30, at 7:00 PM at Oakland's International High School, 4521 Webster St. He spent an hour last week with Oakland North's Lillian R. Mongeau.
Q: You were never a teacher, right? Has anybody ever made noise about that?
You know, I understand that people think you need to walk in their shoes to be able to represent them. I just think, through a whole series of events in my life, that I've put myself in a position to take responsibility for things I really care about. And creating the conditions for all of the kids, in particular those who have been less well-served to be better served–that's what I feel really committed to. I will support teachers, and paraprofessionals, and anybody in the system, to be good at that.
Q: You seem to enjoy a surprising level of support right now across the political spectrum in Oakland education, even among different groups of teachers–union teachers, "reform" teachers, and so on–who don't often agree with each other. What have you done from the beginning to make sure you're working with everybody?
A. I've communicated pretty clearly that I trust teachers. The people who are in classrooms working with kids every day know the most about the conditions they're working in. Regardless of your political leanings, or where you're at on that continuum you described, every one of those folks should be around the table and we should be thinking together about the best way to improve the conditions for teaching so that every one of our kids gets what they need. I pretty much say that wherever I am.
GO Public Schools presentation last week, Timothy Daly, of The New Teacher Project, described a study concluding that in most districts, teachers are evaluated poorly and rarely. The study calls for more rigorous evaluation to recognize excellence and encourage professional development, and says consistently low-performing teachers need to be removed from the classroom. But it also suggests alternatives to firing in most cases. What is Oakland doing, if anything, to improve teacher evaluations?
A. (Smith nods; he's familiar with the study.) That's something we need to work on, for sure. The measure, "What does it mean to be a good teacher?" is a mercurial pursuit. It's slippery. People haven't clearly defined it. We have a metric right now, the California Standards Test, that's a reductive, narrow, and very fixed multiple choice test. I don't think it's a great measure.
We need some images of what "high quality" teaching looks like. That's going to be a big push for me, in talking about high quality instruction, so that every young person is engaged, connected, and supported to pursue their own, unique gifts and talents, and they get to learn the core content. That's the ultimate.
Now, how do we get there? How do you develop the staff you have, to become better every day?
Because we haven't had that, there are a lot of folks who have been teachers for a long time, who are just "good teachers." For some of those folks, parsing that apart once we have some sort of definition, might be a bit of a shock. Our understanding of good teaching is actually going to help us differentiate our support for teachers. The evaluations are to support the improvement of the profession.
I am not a person who thinks we need to persistently find better, younger, different teachers. I also don't think we need to spend our time just trying to fire those that are not adequate. Most of the work we need to do is to develop and support the talent we have, and that takes the right kind of pressure and the right kind of support. Getting that ratio right is the future of our work.
Q. Is this something you think you'll start by the end of this year?
A. Absolutely. It's already in motion, but to really codify and clarify what the plan is, that's a big deal.
Q. Many people throw around the term "achievement gap" without really understanding it. Could you define the concept, as you understand it in Oakland?
A. Sure. If we just take the California Standards Test and the performance measured by the Academic Performance Index (API), the performance levels of our white students is in the neighborhood of 900. Our African American students are at 630.
That's an unconscionable gap that's just predicted by race. This isn't causal. Having worked with many African American children who are completely gifted, wonderful, and high-performing, I know the gap is not racially predicted–and yet performance in the aggregate is. For me, that says that we have significant structural issues. This is not a kid issue. It's a pattern that plays out city by city, district by district, state by state, across the country. The system is producing the specific and exact outcomes that it is designed to produce if it's this consistent across all districts.
You could say, "All kids have the opportunity here." But do they really? If you go into some schools and there are no or very few black and brown students in the Advanced Placement classes, do they have access to high quality instruction? Are there gatekeepers? Are there things that prevent them from getting in there?
We have to be really aggressive about looking at what we're saying kids need to know and be able to do. Have we created a set of hurdles and hoops that advantage or privilege some and oppress or limit others? If so, how are those things built into the system? It's a tremendous waste of human potential to keep sorting and selecting the way we do, and to have this kind of predictable gap over and over and over again. We've pushed out so many kids from the system, [and because of] that we've lost so much hope and so much potential.
We're not set up, we're not funded, all the ways we're not, not, not: true. But I think this is the future of democracy. If we can't figure this out, then you're talking about murder rates like we have in Oakland, talking about a fractured city, talking about places where adults won't go in the city. All of Oakland isn't available to all of its citizens because we have not cared for and nurtured all of our children and families. That is again, not a kid issue to me. That's a system issue.
Q. You said, "We need to think differently about how we need to set up our schools to change the achievement gap. " What is some of that different thinking?
A. Well, first of all, we have to really talk about the issues that we're dealing with. Pretty consistently people say, "The system is fine, it's the kids that are deficient." I'd like to talk about what that "kids being deficient" means. If we're going to continue to blame kids and families for not being "ready to learn," what are we gaining from that? Are we seeking justification, and for whom? Is it for a particular class and race identity, a dominant culture identity, that says, "This is what you should know and be able to do, and if you can't or don't want to do these things, you're deficient and less than"? At what cost is that justification?
We need to be a system that is always about putting the needs of children and families first, and then designing backwards from the needs that they have. The Japanese term is, kaizen, we have to "become what's necessary." That means a rethinking of structures, systems, contracts, always in service of the desired outcome. If you become rigid or unwilling to change, then it's unlikely that you are going to continue to meet the new challenge. I mean, if you look at education, it's not that different in the last 150 years. It's just not.
I'm incredibly committed to thinking about new kinds of relationships with local communities. We have to become beacons, and be able to infuse into those neighborhoods expectations and ways of being. That takes partnership, and leadership, and expectations, and being honest about how hard it is. We have teachers who are suffering from post-traumatic stress. They are absorbing, every day, the effects and the pain of our community violence and what's happening to kids. I really do think that in order to get to this next place, community members have to not blame kids, and they also have to develop a deeper understanding of what it means to be a teacher in these places.
This is not somebody else's problem. This is Oakland's issue. If we're going to be a healthy, connected, safe, awesome city, we had all better take responsibility for the well-being of our children. That's what I think will interrupt that pattern.
Q. You said there should be as many high quality options as possible. There are a lot of charter schools here in Oakland, and the small schools movement started here almost ten years ago. Do you think having those options, and letting parents direct their kids to the place they want, is enough? Or should there be some investment at the elementary levels by teachers who are sort of shepherding kids to the option that is best for them?
This is part of the story I need to help tell. This district has done extraordinary work to both create new options and to improve in the context of those new options. The district is one of the most improved, if not the most improved urban district over the last five years.
I do think there is a lot of merit in what you say, that once you make connections with young people, shepherding them to the next best choice is something we probably don't do well enough. We can't simply say, can you survive the system as it is, and then make a judgment of the quality of children based on their ability to navigate the system. Figuring out how to shepherd, nurture, direct, expect, and push kids — that's work we have to do.
Equity to me is not equal. If you're talking about the kinds of support necessary right now for white children to find successful pathways through Oakland — they have it. At a roughly 900 API, if you're white in Oakland in our public schools, you are generally high-performing. There are exceptions on both ends, right? It's not monolithic. However, when your aggregate score is approximately 900, the variance is pretty small.
If you are African American, again, it's not monolithic, but if your aggregate score for African American children in Oakland is 630, that means they're generally performing lower than white children. So, the support necessary for African American children to find high quality options and pathways needs to be different.
High quality options across the spectrum are a must. Right now we have some schools that have gotten way better, and we have some extraordinarily high- performing and good schools. But we don't have enough.
Q. Many Oakland parents choose to send their kids to parochial schools or other private schools. Do you think that that helps or hurts the public school system in any way?
A. As long as the private school has a commitment to prepare young people to be civic-minded, socially-engaged, and thoughtful, then there is a public good to private school. And many of the parents of those children have chosen that because they think that's the very best thing they can do for their kid –and I am completely in support of parents making the best choices for their kids. As a parent, where you put your kids is one of the most important things you can do.
I would love nothing more than to have the Oakland public schools in every neighborhood be the first, best choice for children. And I know there are children with unique gifts, needs, attributes, and that there are other schools that will meet those needs. I want all of our schools to be in that conversation.
I don't think there will ever be a point when every child in Oakland goes to an Oakland public school. We have to get better, though. We have to be a better option for more families.
Q. You have a daughter in public school right now, right?
A. Yep. I have two daughters, six and four. Kaelen is at Crocker and Addison is in a Montessori pre-school.
Q. You mentioned earlier that you don't think the solution to improving teaching is just finding new young teachers. Teach For America, which has been here since 1991, along with Oakland Teaching Fellows and a number of other programs like them do recruit recent college graduates to be teachers. What do you think is the long-term effect of those programs on Oakland?
So there's a value judgment. But I think that's also about how we value, or, I should say, how we don't value teachers in this society.
I think if we did a better job of keeping teachers once they're in, and in supporting and helping every teacher become a high quality teacher, there would probably be a decreased need for the numbers we're currently getting from these programs. There's a lot that's good about the partnerships we have, and I think there's something about them that is not yet calibrated right.
Q. With all the budget cuts, what you are doing with construction and facility improvements this year? And what about extracurricular activities? Will they be cut and how important do you think they are?
A. The money for construction and facilities is different than the money for programs. Honestly, there are two very distinct, different buckets.
We have money for facilities, fortunately, through bonds, and the good work of our facilities department. Tim White, the Assistant Superintendant for Facilities, is awesome. We are really fortunate in this district to have someone who is fiscally savvy, who thinks about construction and the buildings really well, and also has a really deep and strong commitment to sustainable development. Our facilities department is one of the strengths of the district. It's pretty exciting, because the built environment is crucial to some of these other issues that we're talking about. Tim gets that.
The other bucket's a problem. We are not funded at the rate necessary to truly meet the needs of every child. I am going to be leading the process, over the next few months, where we have to reduce next year's expenditures by $25 million. Over the last two years, the district expenditures or budget has been cut by $69 million, so we're about to have to cut another $25 million.
We can't just keep trying to do the same things with that much less money. When you start cutting zeros off the budget, you have to increase your creativity pretty intensely. I believe, more than ever, that partnerships are the key. Extracurricular activities, mentoring, internships — the city has to be the classroom. How do you foster that? What are the connections necessary? I don't have a total answer. I do know that we cannot eliminate our music, extracurricular activities and sports. If we go about eliminating all of the things that animate young people in schools, we will have failed.
Tony Smith at his desk.
I think Smith's approach and character are inspiring. He's right: the kids are not deficient. I like this concept of kaizen, to "become what's necessary." More power to Tony Smith and his team.
I heard Tony Smith plans to return 6th grade students to elementary schools: to improve child safety, child retention, and the quality of education for pre-teens. This I am told will also lighten the middle school load and let the district focus on improving education for 7th and 8th graders.
Why wasn't this proposal addressed it's the best idea I have heard come from the OUSD in years.
I hadn't heard about that plan. It does sound interesting. I will ask around and see if that idea is for real and whether it is still on the table. Where/When did you hear about it?
Excellent interview, Lillian. Thank you.
I'm not sure how Dr. Smith's ideas will work out in practice, but he has been much more open with his underlying philosophy than other superintendents have been.
At least some of the improvement shown by the two maps you posted represents changes in the way the API is computed by the state, not actual improvement. In 1999 the lowest 20% of students on the SAT9 were considered Far Below Basic. As the California Standards Tests replaced the SAT9, the definition of Far Below Basic was changed to the lowest 15%. That change by itself would move most schools out of the red (lowest) category.
Ann, I would be very surprised if the district moved to return 6th grades to elementary schools, if only because of the overcrowding that would create at many popular elementary sites. Most hill schools would be unable to accomodate all the neighborhood children, much less any open-enrollees.
Our organization, Experience Corps, works in several of these underperforming, underserved schools, predominantly low income children of color. We are trying to "do our part" to help Oakland education by mobilizing our 55+ population and training them to be tutors and mentors for these students. It's an untapped resource in our society but can make a huge difference once mobilized.
While we've seen great strides in the kids we work with, we also see – in support of what Dr. Smith discussed – a systemic problem of unequal access to "options for success" and support Dr. Smith in his mission to change the way OUSD serves its children.
We are also always in welcome of more Experience Corps members, who can give as little as 2 hrs/week to serve kids. For more information about our program, to see what schools we serve, and/or if you know of another program we can/should partner with, please get in touch with us. (510) 495-4966, dmoren@aspiranet.org, or http://www.experiencecorps.org. Great interview!!


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Virginia Governor Henry Lee Signs Land Over to Major William Croghan a Revolutionary War Hero
LEE, Henry (1756-1818) Major-General Henry "Light-Horse Harry" Lee III was an early American Patriot and politician. He served as the ninth Governor of Virginia and as the Virginia Representative to the United States Congress. Lee's service during the American Revolution as a cavalry officer in the Continental Army earned him the nickname by which he is best known, "Light-Horse Harry". He was the father of Robert E. Lee, commander of the Confederate armies in the American Civil War.Document Signed "Henry Lee" as Governor of Virginia, 15-1/4"x12-1/4" on vellum, April 24, 1792, beign a land grant for 2,665 acres of Virginia land issued to William Croghan. Fine condition.William Croghan (1752-1822) secured a captaincy for him in the British Army's 16th Regiment in 1771. At the start of the Revolutionary War in 1775, 23 year old Croghan sold his British commission to join the American Revolution as a captain in the 8th Virgina Regiment, he crossed the icy Delaware River under the command of General George Washington, and was commissioned Major at the conclusion of the grim Valley Forge winter. He served with Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton, and James Monroe at the battles of Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine, and Germantown. Shortly after his parole as a prisoner of war in 1781, along with Lt. Col. Jonathan Clark and Lt. Edmund Clark, he witnessed Cornwallis' surrender. Croghan travelled with the two Clark brothers to their family's home in Virginia.In 1784, after gaining a surveying certificate from the College of William and Mary, William Croghan and George Rogers Clark were named principal surveyors to the Virginia State Line and moved to Louisville. They were responsible for overseeing the measuring, mapping, and recording of deeds for all Virginia state line bounty lands. They were able to claim land in payment for their surveying services, and as a result, the men acquired ownership of vast tracts.


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US sanctions Iran's central bank, fund after Saudi oil attack
Reuters | Published: September 21, 2019 12:19:54 | Updated: September 23, 2019 11:25:45
US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announces sanctions on the Central Bank of Iran as he stands behind US President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump in the Oval Office during a meeting with Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison at the White House in Washington, US, September 20, 2019. Reuters
The United States on Friday imposed another round of sanctions on Tehran, including on Iran's central bank and a development fund, following last week's attacks on oil facilities in Saudi Arabia that Riyadh and US officials have blamed on Iran.
President Donald Trump outlined the action to reporters at the White House on Friday after first announcing his plan for further sanctions earlier this week on Twitter.
Iran denies involvement in the attacks, which initially halved oil output from Saudi Arabia, the world's largest petroleum exporter. Responsibility was claimed by Yemen's Houthi movement, an Iran-aligned group fighting a Saudi-led alliance in Yemen's civil war.
Analysts cast doubt on how hard the new measures would hit Tehran given that earlier sanctions have already dried up Iranian oil revenues and cut Iranian banks' ties to the financial world.
And Republican Senator Lindsey Graham called on the Pentagon to present Trump with a wide range of options that would punish Iran and warned that the United States has "lost deterrence" with Tehran.
The fresh sanctions target the Central Bank of Iran, the National Development Fund of Iran and Etemad Tejarate Pars Co, an Iranian company that US officials said is used to conceal financial transfers for Iranian military purchases, the US Treasury Department said in a statement.
"These are the highest sanctions ever imposed on a country," Trump said. "It's too bad what's happening with Iran. It's going to hell, doing poorly, practically broke, they are broke," he said. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said Washington had now cut off "all source of funds to Iran."
Trump pulled the United States out of a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran last year and ramped up sanctions to strangle oil exports, a mainstay of the economy. The move dismantled part of former President Barack Obama's legacy and upset US allies who were party to the agreement, which was designed to restrict Tehran's pathway to a nuclear bomb in exchange for sanctions relief.
Amir Paivar, a London-based market analyst, said that while targeting a central bank seems important the latest move was mostly cosmetic.
"Iran's oil export proceeds are usually deposited in Central Bank accounts around the world, therefore the bank has central importance," Amir Paivar, a London-based market analyst said.
"But with Iran's oil exports at a minimum, and with global banks not working with Iranian counterparts, designating the Central Bank again is little more than cosmetic."
Trump's wide range of sanctions are part of a US campaign to increase economic pressure on Tehran over its nuclear programme and regional ambitions and was championed by former national security adviser John Bolton, who was ousted this month.
Previous US sanctions have also targeted Iran's foreign minister, its Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, space agencies, and various networks Washington has said helped boost Iran's nuclear programme, among others.
"Regardless of transparent attempts to shift blame, the evidence points to Iran—and only Iran," US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement following the announcement.
Limited impact
Trump, who spoke to reporters at the White House alongside visiting Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, has said he wants a peaceful solution following the weekend oil attacks. Pompeo had called the attacks an "act of war."
Asked about the possibility of a military response on Iran, Trump said the United States was always prepared and that a military strike was always a possibility. He is expected to meet with his national security team on Friday.
"This was an understandable action to take but is unlikely to have much impact," Samantha Sultoon, visiting senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. "Most transactions were already prohibited because the Iranian central bank was already designated under the other sanctions authorities," she said.
"Redesignating the Central Bank under counterterrorism authorities will have limited, though perhaps some, impact," she added.
Senator Graham, who is close to Trump, wrote on Twitter he hoped "that Pentagon planners are giving President Trump a wide range of options that would punish Iran and restore deterrence.
There are steps between being weak and total war."
In recent weeks, Trump had weighed the possibility of easing sanctions on Iran as he sought to meet with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, who is scheduled to attend the UN General Assembly in New York next week.
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It's been a while. I have been ill, but considering it has nothing to do with my writing, I can only leave an honest, from the heart apology here and hope for the best.
If I'm honest, I'm doing this to get over the fear of letting others read what I write. It might sound silly, but I have been stalling like crazy because I'm terrified.
It has come to the point I need to 'just do something' and the result is self-publishing Mine. I haven't got the specific date yet, but that should be solved soon.
Legends of Messina's first book 'Carved Souls' is now 65% into the first draft and book two has gotten its official title! I'm happy with the progress.
So, get ready! Because soon I'll be around like a nervous wreck to announce the release date of Mine. It will be available as an EBook.


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Commoditization of Spreadsheets = Office Express?
With the release of Google's new free spreadsheet service targeted at low–end, home users, will we see the commoditization of spreadsheets? Microsoft has recently made free "Express" editions of their programming environments. Perhaps Microsoft will release kind of "Office Express" – a cut down version of Office – for free?
Google Spreadsheet still feels very green and lacks some of the key features which even low–end users may want e.g. Charting. I know they will keep rolling–out features, but being stuck in the browser does have its limits.
However, paying top dollar for MS Office when there are free alternatives will certainly start to make people think (at least in the SOHO and academic environments). An Office Express would certainly slow the desertion to other free products (especially Open Office).
1. Alcohol is the language of madness.
2. Everything around us can be represented and understood through alcohol.
3. If you drink this alcohol, patterns emerge. Therefore: there is alcohol everywhere in madness.
Who's coming to Rootes Bar this evening for another random blogger gathering? I could really do with a drink or 5, so I'll be by the bar or hunched over a pint slurping furiously!
If you have never been to one before please don't be scared! I know it's totally weird and damn difficult to walk up to a group of total strangers, but please make the effort. We're a friendly (if not slightly odd) bunch really! We tend to sit on the sofas by the second set of stairs in Rootes Bar. I'm planning to get there for about 20:30.
OK, I've not had a proper angst post in a while now. Today though, I had a proper angst-worthy experience.
So far, so good – Surprisingly, I was in a really good mood! Listening to some up-beat, happy, drum-n-bass and smiling to myself on the bus. I got on to campus with time to spare and had a relatively interesting concurrent programming lecture.
OK, now fast forward a few days. Sarah says I should go back round and say hello to X, ask her out or something. I was not convinced, but got the old "what's the worst that could happen?" So today I decided what the hell! Go round and see if she wants to go for coffee. Here is a rough transcript of the conversation.
Me: Hi, is 'X' in?
Random Girl: Which 'X'? Blonde hair 'X' or brown hair 'X'?
Random Girl (to people in kitchen): Is 'X' in?
Random guy (who I can't see): My 'X'?
Random Girl: (shouts up stairs) 'X'!
Me: Er, Hi, dunno if you remember me, but we met last Saturday at the union.
X: (momentary puzzlement) Oh yea, Hello!
Me: So, I've just skipped a lecture and was wondering if you fancied getting a coffee or something?
X: Oh, um, I can't really. I've got a load of work to do.
Me: A first year with lots of work! How come?
X: Well my boyfriend has been visiting, so I've not been doing much work lately. Trying to catch up now.
Me: Ah, OK, that's cool. Well I'll let you get back to it then. See you round maybe.
X: Yea OK. Drop by any time.
Me: Sure, well, bye then.
Blog Social – This Friday?
It's Crash (link) this Friday, so how about a blog social in Rootes Bar again?
Quite a few turned up to the last one, so it would cool to meet some more of you crazy people!
I came across these wonderful weirdos the other day! I strongly suggest checking their page for a daily dose of delicious dementia!
It arrived today at 08:15, or there abouts, I was still half asleep when I scrawled a close approximation to my signature on some piece of paper the man shoved under my nose.
Ripping open the carefully packaged box I revealed lots of bubble wrap (fun for later…), some long cables, and, at the bottom (wrapped in more bubbles!) the projector!! WOO HOO!
I need to find a white sheet to serve as a temporary screen until I get a proper one. But everything works great!


West Chester, PA, July 8, 2016 – Spruce Alley Press today announced the release of In Remembrance of the Life, a chapbook by Jane Rosenberg LaForge.
The book consists of 25 elegiac and unflinching poems that harvest a transformative beauty from the fields of memory and loss.
"Poetry at its best engages with the realities of life. Some of the biggies are death, loss, and memory. Jane's poetry meets these subjects head-on, with refreshing honesty and insight," said James Esch, publisher at Spruce Alley Press.
—Chella Courington, author of The Somewhat Sad Tale of the Pitcher and the Crow and Love Letter to Biology 250.
Also distributed through Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, and independent bookstores worldwide.
Spruce Alley was founded in 2013 by James Esch in West Chester, Pennsylvania. The press is a micropublisher of independent literature, audio, and artwork in print-on-demand and digital formats. Contact James Esch (sprucealley@gmail.com) or go to www.sprucealley.com.


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King's University confers doctorate on V M A Hakkim
Blog Editor May 21, 2018
The award was presented to Hakkim by the university specialists at the Annual Conference of the Council held at National Harbour, Marriott Hotel in Maryland, US. The meet was attended by big quantity of delegates from different walks of life. Mayor of Maryland, Thomas Axley, and Dr Olga Sokolova, well-known Russian Architect, had been also present at the function.
For Hakkim, it is a dream come accurate. Interestingly, a Doctoral degree evaded him twice in the previous due to his commitment to construct up a productive profession as an entrepreneur.
Soon right after his Masters with a university initial rank, he had began his Doctoral analysis in Cochin University of Science and Technology, on a fellowship from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research of India. But he had to discontinue as Kerala State Government provided him a District level position by direct recruitment.
He persisted in his ambition in his 40s to do analysis and get a PhD. He pursued it once again by registering for PhD in Applied Economics with the effectively-recognized JNU, New Delhi.
However, he had to temporarily abandon the analysis project and conclude with an MPhil Degree in favour of an employment supply from Gulf area.
His Gulf journey started from Saudi Arabia, then Dubai and lastly settled in Oman. Over the final 25 years, he went by means of a series of enterprise initiatives and a number of socio-financial neighborhood programmes. While performing so, he usually had his passion for creating his profession academically.
Currently, he is the chairman and managing director of Al Hakkim International, founder companion of KIMS Oman Hospital, founder director of Ideal Marine Products, apart from his initiatives in educational field.
In the social arena, his recognition in Oman contains vice chairman of the World Malayali Council, president of Muslim Educational Society, patron of TEAM (Trivandrum Expats Association in Muscat) and handful of other neighborhood organisations catering to social rewards.
Dr Hakkim mentioned, "My current initiative focused on establishing a charity trust referred to as 'The Heritage Trust' back in Kerala.
"My intention is to serve my native neighborhood as effectively in my humble way with what ever small understanding, exposure and encounter I have gained abroad in the course of practically 3 decades of my Gulf journey. Dr Hakkim believes that the present title, D Litt, will boost his credibility.
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Bud Light is coming out with hard seltzer
Posted November 6, 2019 1:14 p.m. EST
Updated November 6, 2019 1:58 p.m. EST
CNN — Bud Light Seltzer is joining the battle for spiked seltzer supremacy.
Anheuser-Busch InBev's newest addition to its spiked seltzer lineup is coming early next year. Although it's named after its bestselling beer, Bud Light Seltzer will taste like hard seltzer. The beer conglomerate hopes the recognizable Bud Light brand will give it an edge in the rapidly growing segment of the alcohol business.
Bud Light Seltzer, which will debut in the first quarter of 2020, is made from cane sugar and natural fruit flavor. One can has 100 calories, 2 grams of carbs and 5% alcohol by volume. It will be available in four flavors, including black cherry, lemon lime, strawberry and mango.
The beverages will be sold as 12-packs in variety or single flavors and as individual 25-ounce cans.
"Seltzer has brought excitement to the entire category and brought consumers back to beer," said Andy Goeler, Bud Light's vice president of marketing in a press release. "We are looking forward to leveraging the power of the Bud Light brand to help grow the category."
Bud Light Seltzer is Anheuser Busch's third spiked seltzer brand, joining a beer-and-fruit flavored Natural Light seltzer and its original Bon & Viv brand. The company will continue to sell those two brands in addition to Bud Light Seltzer.
An Anheuser-Bush spokesperson told CNN Business that Bud Light Seltzer "falls in a spot in between our other seltzer brands," meaning it will be more expensive than Natural Light and cheaper than Bon & Viv.
"This portfolio approach and the power of the Bud Light brand will help us lead growth of the category," the spokesperson said.
Spiked seltzer surges
Beverage companies are looking to dethrone White Claw, which is the United States' top-selling spiked seltzer brand. The drink commands 58% of spiked seltzer sales, according to analysts at Guggenheim Partners. But the Mark Anthony Brands-owned beverage, best known for Mike's Hard Lemonade, is still experiencing a shortage.
Then there's Truly, which is produced by Boston Beer. An analyst recently raised the company's earnings estimates for the next three years because of demand for the spiked seltzer. Last month, Truly rolled out a new recipe for the beverage for all of its flavors.
Plenty of other alcohol companies have their own spiked seltzers, too, including Smirnoff and Two Roads Brewing Company. The influx of growth is the result of customers seeking drinks with fewer calories and less sugar.
Demand is still growing
Sales of hard seltzer surpassed $1 billion for the year ending in August, according to Nielsen. But Jim Watson, an analyst from Rabobank, predicts the category could grow even more and reach $3 billion over the next three years
In a recent note to clients, Watson said that the beverage has staying power because people are shifting away from light lager and craving low-calorie drinks, which appeal to both genders equally.
"Indulgence drinks still abound in the marketplace, but hard seltzers are winning on flavor without extra calories and carbs, positioning it extremely well for the long haul," he said.
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PITTSBURGH, Aug. 6, 2015 – Thomas Kensler, Ph.D., professor of pharmacology and chemical biology and co-leader for the Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Program at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI), was awarded a $6.3 million Outstanding Investigator Award from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). This new award acknowledges experienced researchers and provides them with long-term support for their exceptional work.
Dr. Kensler's research focuses on chemoprevention, or how food can be used to lower the risk of developing cancer caused by unavoidable environmental toxins.
The seven-year grant is one of just 60 awarded in its inaugural year.
Research has shown that controlling diet, increasing exercise and quitting smoking can decrease the risk of developing cancer; however, environmental toxins such as fossil fuel combustion products are more difficult to mitigate. Past studies by Dr. Kensler's team in China, where environmental controls are less rigorous, have examined the bioactive molecules in broccoli and how they may help people there detoxify air pollutants.
"Pollution is a global problem and its effects are seen most often among the elderly, disabled, children and minorities. We need effective and affordable interventions, and using food-based strategies could be the ideal way to address this," Dr. Kensler said.
He and his team will focus on a biological pathway known to play a role in detoxification, identify and validate biomarkers of its activity, and examine the molecular consequences of its chronic activation.
"It's truly an honor for Dr. Kensler to be among the first to receive this prestigious award. He has pioneered our understanding of how chemically reactive constituents in foodstuffs can profoundly and positively impact tissue defense and repair mechanisms. We're proud of the work he is doing to try and lessen the burden of cancer, not only in western Pennsylvania but around the globe," said Bruce Freeman, Ph.D., UPMC-Irwin Fridovich Professor and Chair of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology.
Research reported in this publication was supported by the NCI under award number 1R35CA197222-01. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.


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Join us on May 25th 2019 for the Annual Members Meeting and Potluck for the Parkdale Neighbourhood Land Trust (PNLT). We've had a hugely successful year and we want to celebrate with you!
Vote to elect other residents to serve on the board of directors, the community controlled decision making body of this organization.
Proof of membership will be required. Please bring photo ID.
Doors open at 2:30:00 p.m.
Childcare will be available. Tibetan interpretation will be available.
***In case of rain, the event will move to Church of the Epiphany and St Mark @ 201 Cowan Ave.


The Growing Up Gamers crew is getting ready for Christmas! As usual, our gift giving is heavily influenced by our gaming hobby. Sadly, I'm not going to ruin any surprises for people on our list (but we'll post pictures after the holidays of some fun game-inspired projects we've been working on!). But I will say that I hope those of you reading are enhancing your holidays with games. For parents out there, you're probably on board already if you are reading this blog, but in case you do need some convincing, here's 10 Reasons to Game With Your Kids.
You're probably already giving someone some games, though. And even if you aren't, you still may be playing some games with family members. Maybe for the first time! Julian wrote a great post about teaching games to people. It's full of useful tips for getting people to the table and gaming, and making that experience fun.
If you're gaming with the kiddos, the above tips are great, but this article by Angie is where it's at. She gives some excellent advice and considerations for gaming with the little ones. We've been playing games with our kids for years, starting very early and Angie really has some great observations to share. Common sense + teaching experience = WIN.
And also, if you happen to be into Magic: The Gathering (like us!!!), and introducing that game to others in on your agenda, you should check out this other article by Julian about Do's and Don't's For Teaching Someone To Play Magic the Gathering. Magic can be a complex game, but it doesn't have to be. I'm of the opinion that one of the Duel Decks sets would make a great gift, but make sure you take a look at that article first. Supplementing that with a couple tailor-made simple training decks could really get them up and running before introducing them to the wonderful complexity of the game.
And I want to wrap things up with a shout-out to our pals at the Wired GeekDad blog. I recommend following them (as well as our friends at GeekMom). GeekDad Jonathan has 5 Gaming Tips for the Holidays you might want to check out. The GeekDads & GeekMoms always have some great & geeky stuff up, so pop over sometime.
I hope each and every one of you has a wonderful holiday season! Spend some great quality time with your family and friends. We encourage you to play some games while you're at it (make it a new holiday tradition!) but whatever you do, have fun and be safe. And if you have some holiday gaming tips of your own, please share them with us!
The Pathfinder character below is one that I custom-made for the winner of an auction for the Jack Vasel Memorial Fund that ran on BoardGameGeek. After winning the auction, he challenged me to make a character that had different powers during the day and at night. He seemed to like what I came up with, which is a Mystic Theurge with an interesting but integrated dual nature. I hope he gets a chance to play this character, and I hope you all like it. During the process of making this, I made use of the D20 PFSRD, an excellent resource for open-source Pathfinder material. For those counting, Devin is a 20-point buy.
The Separatist archetype for clerics' Forbidden Rites feature allows the character to take a domain not normally available to his deity, which is how this character has the Night domain (Night is a subdomain of Darkness), but loses automatic proficiency with Sarenrae's chosen weapon, the scimitar. The Shadowcaster archetype for wizards allows the wizard to store a few levels of spells in their shadow in place of the arcane bond feature.
Devin's grandmother Calla was a shadowcaster and a casual worshipper of Zon-Kuthon. A twisted person, she sought to infuse shadowstuff into herself to gain power, but was unsuccessful. Or so she thought. She eventually married and had children, all of whom were a bit sickly and only one of whom survived until adulthood, Umbra. Umbra had little love for her mother, for Calla was aloof and neglectful.
Umbra came to learn that she manifested some slight powers over shadow, which initially frightened her. She eventually came to accept this as harmless, but it did worry her enough to seek counsel from the local temple of Sarenrae. Umbra appreciated their kindness and converted, eventually developing a personal philosophy about the symbiotic relationship of shadows and light, which she later imparted on her son, Devin.
Devin grew up worshipping Sarenrae, and influenced by his mother's beliefs. Though he found his views to not be entirely aligned with the clergy of their provincial temple, he was allowed to study there and eventually become a cleric. Upon ordination, he had all but abandoned his heretical views, but a couple things happened.
First, Devin started to manifest the powers over shadows his mother had. And shortly thereafter Calla died, and he inherited a book from her which turned out to be her spellbook. He sought answers in that book, some of which he found. He also found that he had a knack for the incantations he discovered there. To reconcile this with his faith for Sarenrae, he fell back on his mother's beliefs with fervor, believing himself to be a living embodiment of Sarenrae's dual nature as both the light, and the shadows she creates.
And with that, Devin has taken to wander to seek evidence of his revelations and spread his message. He has already seen in a vision that the chosen weapon is the sickle (which he refers to as "the eclipse"). To this date, he still is unaware of his grandmother's Kuthonite faith, though it would matter little to him. His daily routine, which may differ on the road, is to pray to Sarenrae at dawn and study at dusk.
Good Causes & the Value of "Quirky"
A couple weeks ago I wrote about an auction on BoardGameGeek for the Jack Vasel Memorial Fund. The Growing Up Gamers/Escapade Games crew stepped up and contributed a couple things, and we're proud to say that with the help of the generous buyers, we were able to raise a little money for this great cause. We hope the JVMF is able to be a force for good and help many gamer families in need for years to come. I hope you all take a moment to look at the JVMF and its mission, and if you are the type who plans charitable giving for your year in advance, consider this as a recipient.
So what did we put up? Well, first, and probably the most interesting, Angie and Julian offered up an opportunity to contribute to their game, Story Realms. The winner of that item is going to be designing a custom Enemy or Ally Lore Card for the game... in addition to getting a copy of the deluxe set (available for preorder here). How cool is that? Not only an awesome game... but one they got to contribute to!
And second, a generous guy took my offer to create a custom-made Pathfinder RPG character to his specifications. I had a lot of fun with this one! I just love making characters. You can see the results of this one here. He gave me permission to share this with everyone, and I hope you find it entertaining. In addition, I want you to consider one more thing.
Everyone has their own skills and passions, and these things are not always easy to put a price on (should one even want to). Sometimes, though, like in the case of this auction, it may be worth the effort to offer up one of your skills as a service, or something you have made, or something else along these lines. I saw a few amazing-looking handcrafted things up for auction, for instance. I just want to point out that you don't need something from a store shelf nor be a game designer to participate in something like this.
I want to challenge our readers a bit, too. When was the last time you made something for someone else, or offered a minor service? How about you try doing that in the next month or so? A lot of people I know are doing handmade holiday gifts. For that matter, many are also offering a variety of services from the practical to the absurd online at Fiverr. Take a little inspiration from that the next time your child's school has a fundraiser auction, or a birthday is approaching, a friend or online acquaintance needs a hand, or even just to make an extra few dollars. And then tell us about it!
What I'm trying to say is that not everything of value has a price, and not everything with a price has a value. We are all unique, special beings with our own quirky skills. Gamers, especially... some of us have been rocking "quirky" for decades. Let's enrich each others' lives, and the ones around us. So... what have you made lately?


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The William W. Ker was a 19th-century Pennsylvania pilot schooner built in 1889 in Wilmington, Delaware. She was designed by Edward Burgess for the Pennsylvania pilots and was built for speed. She was a favorite with the pilots and was considered the fastest pilot boat on the coast. The Ker was hit and sank by a steamer off the Five Fathom Bank in 1900.

Construction and service

The two-masted pilot schooner W. W. Ker was launched on November 27, 1889, from the Jackson & Sharp Company at Wilmington, Delaware for the Pennsylvania pilots. She was designed by Edward Burgess and took the place of the Enoch Turley, which was lost with all on board in the April 6, 1889 storm.

The W. W. Ker was named in honor of the Assistant District Attorney of Philadelphia Captain William W. Ker, under George Scott Graham.

Pilot James R. Kelley from the Turley was present at the launch. A bottle of champagne was broken on her bow by Mary Conner, a granddaughter of pilot George H. Conner. As she broke the bottle she said: "I christen thee W. W. Ker." Her dimensions were 88 ft. in length; 22 ft. breadth of beam; 9 ft. depth of hold; 72 ft. mainmast and 64 ft. foremast. She was built for speed.

By August 1893, the Committee on Navigation and Pilots of the Board of Port Wardens recognized only four pilot boats for the Port of Philadelphia, the E. C. Knight, John G. Whilldin, W. W. Ker and J. Henry Edmunds.

On 19 Mar 1897, the William W. Ker and the John G. Whilldin cruised near the  Fenwick Island Light vessel, waiting to board ships coming from the Caribbean. She was a favorite with the pilots and was considered the fastest pilot boat on the coast.

End of service

On February 18, 1898, due to the introduction of steam service at the Delaware Breakwater, the schooner William W. Ker was bought from the Philadelphia pilots to Captain Redman for mackerel fishing. The Ker would often fish on the banks off Cape Henlopen.

On June 27, 1900, she was hit and sank by a steamer off the Five Fathom Bank by one of the old Dominion Line, the Hamilton steamers bound from New York to Norfolk, Virginia. Captain Redmond of New York was in command of the Ker when she went down. Sixteen men were rescued and taken to Norfolk.

See also
List of Pennsylvania Pilot boats
Pilots' Association For The Bay & River Delaware

External links
 Lewes Historical Society

References

Individual sailing vessels
Service vessels of the United States
Schooners of the United States
Ships built in Wilmington, Delaware
1889 ships
Pilot boats


This morning our family started reading the Book of Exodus. I'm excited for us to recall the amazing story of God's rescuing Israel from slavery in Egypt. What a wonderful picture of the sovereign work of God on behalf of sinners. God's faithfulness to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is carried forward to a people who, if we're honest, does not necessarily "deserve" to be rescued (if you read through Exodus, you'll understand why I say that).
In chapter one, we find that "the people of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them" (v.7). I wonder if this is the author's way of demonstrating that the commission given to the Patriarchs to be fruitful and multiply was continuing to take place (cf. Gen. 1:28; 9:1, 6-7; 12:2-3; 17:2, 6, 8; 22:17-18; 26:3-4, 24; 28:3-4; 35:11-12; 47:27; also see G. K. Beale's JETS article, "Eden, The Temple, and the Church's Mission in the New Creation").
At any rate, Israel's numbers was increasing, and when a new king (Pharaoh) arose over Egypt, he did not find this comforting. In fact, his worry was that the growing number of Israelites would join the forces of Egypt's enemies in the event that war broke out (Ex. 1:8-10). Pharaoh's solution?
"Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and, if war breaks out, they join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land" (v.10).
Egypt's new position towards Israel caused them to "set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy burdens" (v.11). Thus, slavery begins and the plight of God's people starts. This is a great way to start a book, by the way. We're set looking for a plot resolution from the moment we start reading!
"But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And the Egyptians were in dread of the people of Israel" (v.12).
Evidently the oppression actually brings about the opposite effects. Sorry, Mr. Pharaoh, your persecution of God's people, with the aims of afflicting them in order to keep them in check does not work!
This reminds me of what we read in the New Testament. Persecutions, trials, and suffering produces positive characteristics in the lives of God's people.
"Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness" (James 1:2-3).
"For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal" (2 Cor. 4:17-18).
There are positives to living in a fallen world. Though there are trials, persecutions, and sufferings, for followers of Jesus, those negatives have positive affects. They are God's way of refining us. Our apostolic witness is that our character is refined, we share in Christ's sufferings (cf. Phil. 3:10), and we are being prepared for and given a greater expectation for future glory.
When Joseph confronted the brothers who had sold him into slavery, he said to them, "you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good" (Gen. 50:20). This is a great picture of God's providential hand.


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Edmund Mortimer McDonald (September 29, 1825 – May 25, 1874) was a Nova Scotia journalist, publisher and political figure. He represented Lunenburg in the House of Commons of Canada as an Anti-Confederate and then a Liberal-Conservative from 1868 to 1872.

Early life
He was born in West River, Nova Scotia in 1825.

Before politics
He worked as a journalist with Joseph Howe on the Novascotian during the 1840s. In 1847, he became the owner of the Eastern Chronicle at New Glasgow. He served as Queen's Printer for Nova Scotia from 1860 to 1863. In 1863, he founded the Halifax Citizen with William Garvie; the paper favoured a maritime union but opposed Confederation. McDonald and Garvie also helped found the Anti-confederation League, which had the same aims.

Political career
In 1867, he was elected to the House of Commons and lobbied for the removal of Nova Scotia from the union and for repealing of the British North America Act for Nova Scotia. When Howe was able to negotiate better terms for the province in 1869, McDonald threw his support behind Sir John A. Macdonald.

Later life and death
In 1872, he was named customs inspector for the port of Halifax. He died at Halifax in 1874.

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1825 births
1874 deaths
Anti-Confederation Party MPs
Conservative Party of Canada (1867–1942) MPs
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Nova Scotia
Canadian newspaper journalists
19th-century Canadian journalists
Canadian male journalists
19th-century Canadian male writers