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FILE - In this Oct. 5, 2019, file photo, shows The Salt Lake Temple, at Temple Square, in Salt Lake City. Membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has slowed in Utah and dropped in the faith's home base of Salt Lake County, the Salt Lake Tribune reports. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Membership growth in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has slowed to its lowest level in decades.
The church added just 4,900 members in Utah in between October 2018 and September 2019, according to statistics it provided to The Salt Lake Tribune. Utah's total population grew by 53,000 people over the same period, according to estimates.
The church grew by fewer than 10,000 people in a year only one other time since 1989, the first year the newspaper had access to membership data. That was in 2018, when membership rose by just over 9,000 people.
By comparison, the faith widely known as the Mormon church added more than 40,000 new members in 2013, which was the high mark of the last decade.
In Salt Lake County, the state's largest, the number of Latter-day Saints fell by 6,710 even as the county's total population grew by 10,000 people.
The largest increase came in Utah County, home to church-owned Brigham Young University, which grew by 8,487 members.
Church officials did not provide an explanation for the slowdown and declined the newspaper's request for an interview. Outside demographers and church observers say the slowdown is likely due to a combination of factors, including a rise in people resigning their church memberships. Many recent resignations were people who were put off by a now-rescinded church policy on homosexual relationships.
Other factors include non-Mormons moving into the booming state for jobs and families having fewer children. To a lesser extent, officials said, excommunication and fewer baptisms also could affect the demographics.
"I would likely argue that 2019 represents a statistical anomaly in which a variety of factors combined to create a 'bad' year for membership growth," said Matt Martinich, a Latter-day Saint and independent demographer based in Colorado.
Pam Perlich, with the University of Utah's Gardner Policy Institute, said new residents who are flocking to Salt Lake County tend to be younger and are less likely to be Latter-day Saints. Meanwhile, families, and presumably many Latter-day Saint families, are moving from Salt Lake County to suburban areas, including fast-growing Utah County.
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The complexities of measuring newspapers in the digital age
Last week the Media Research Group held their annual conference in Berlin. The organisation is 50 years old and they have stoically refused to change the word research in their name to insight. If you noticed your "insight" department thinned out a bit last week; that's where they were.
These are people unafraid of slides entitled "methodology". There was a whole paper on the methodological effect of online research. There was a rude joke about rim weighting.
The conference featured presentations from the insight departments of The Guardian and News UK's Insight departments. The very different approaches taken by the two newspapers highlighted just how complex measuring what a newspaper does in the digital age has become:
Complexity One: Newspaper content is available on many platforms. There is more to measure and the number is growing. As research and analytics companies are just getting to grips with mobile, newspaper companies are experimenting with wearable devices. The FT has a smartwatch app while the Guardian has a Google Glass app.
Complexity Two: Newspaper content is appearing in forms less obviously qualified to be part of a newspaper's cross-platform reach. There are many grey areas. The Guardian encourages developers to use Guardian content in their own applications. Newspaper content appears, unbundled, in social media streams.
What about your columnists tweeting under their own names? Is that part of your reach or not? If a person attends a live Guardian event in a Guardian owned event space should they be part of your reach (because someone watching the footage on the Guardian website next day sure is)?
The Guardian's G360 research project shows just how challenging this makes it to track everything a newspaper produces. It covers 30 Guardian content areas on 11 different platforms (including 3rd party apps). Working on the project, analysts Kantar Media used a mix of methodologies, incorporating 10,000 face-to-face interviews, an online panel of 1,426. It carried out 4,112 online interviews with Guardian readers and re-contact diaries.
That's four methodologies just to quantify the way content from one newspaper is read.
Complexity Three: We are going to have to get used to mixed methodologies. A much used quote at the conference was attributed to media research figure, Richard Marks:
"Media researchers are moving from being farmers, lovingly designing and tending their own samples, to being chefs, creating insights from high quality ingredients."
Mixed methodologies are also harder for the people using that information to understand, especially as they require modelling, fusion and advanced statistical techniques.
Complexity Four: One experienced delegate told me that two decades ago it was common for senior people from media agencies who were not researchers to attend the conference. Perhaps that belongs to a different era when there were fewer media conferences, larger expense accounts and larger teams back home to delegate to. It is a shame because methodologies are becoming more complex but the 'how and why' conversations are being held only between researchers.
Complexity Five: Researchers are finding they need to introduce new metrics to explain how content works on new platforms. News UK head of insight Sean Adams discussed the way Times tablet app readers read The Times vs. the way Times print readers read their newspaper. On the surface Adams found many similarities. Both groups recalled the same number of articles and they often remembered the same specific articles too.
Adams borrowed a metric from neuroscience to help him draw out differences. Memory encoding, he told us, is the most important description of engagement because it describes the way information ends up in our long-term memories. It is driven by personal relevance, emotional intensity and narrative. It is measured via electrical activity in the relevant parts of the brain.
Reading via a tablet triggers more electrical activity so it encodes into memories faster than print. Print is a less stimulating though less tiring way to read and so it ends up encoding as much into our memory as tablet reading does but over a longer period. What this means, says Adams, is that dwell time isn't a reliable measure of engagement. Less dwell time on a tablet is as good as longer dwell time with a newspaper.
That's a hard message for the industry because dwell time sounds intuitively right as a measure of engagement. In fact the Financial Times' attention minutes initiative, which makes a virtue of dwell time, has attracted interest and praise. Only chunks of time where an ad is in full view for more than five seconds can count towards the hour-long blocks the FT is offering advertisers in cost-per-hour deals.
The FT believe that ads in-view for 5 seconds or more deliver double the favourable responses (recall, purchase intent) compared to those in view for less time. Add Adams' finding to that thinking and a likely conclusion might be that what is five seconds for one platform might be just three seconds on a different platform that triggers more electrical activity yet commands less dwell time.
In previous years, others have talked on similar themes. In the mid naughties Robert Heath delivered an MRG paper on behalf of News International in which he described how he'd measured media consumption using the metric 'fixations'. Some mediums trigger more 'eye fixations' than others. He quoted the German psychologist Kroeber-Riel, 'Eye fixations… serve as a behavioural measure of information processing'.
Two things have changed since then. It has become less expensive to measure electrical activity and fixations because kit (eye cameras etc.) is cheaper and methodologies have evolved. Heath had conducted a handful of interviews; Adams based his finding on 150 in the quantitative part of his research. It would, however, be expensive to extend it to ten, fifteen, twenty plus platforms. It would be more costly still to compare the content of different newspapers across those platforms.
Secondly, the imperative is greater. Tablets and smartphones are plentiful now and electrical activity and eye fixations seem well suited to drawing out their potency. Heath had used his mid 2000s paper to highlight the advantages of old school print over old school television. Quaint.
Yesterday seems quaint and today seems complex. Mixed methodologies are now unavoidable as new platforms and formats for newspaper content add to the complexity. New metrics might be required but they might be hard to measure at scale and are potentially less intuitive than old favourites like dwell time.
But getting to grips with this complexity is all the more important because it reflects the reality newspapers are dealing with. Those attending the conference in Berlin may be the experts, but everyone working in newspapers needs to understand how what they produce is being consumed.
Update 23/11/2014: This story has been amended to replace a description of memory encoding being measured in 'flicks' with more specific references to electrical activity in the brain.
Neil Sharman is a research and insight consultant who has worked with media brands including News UK, the IAB and Centaur. You can find his website here and blog here.
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More Than 500 Well-structured and –run Juvenile Drug Courts are Reducing Recidivism and Alleviating a Range of Individual, Family and Community Problems
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Because four of five juvenile crimes involve drugs, the first juvenile drug court program began operations in Key West, Fla., in October 1993. By June 2009 there were approximately 500 juvenile drug courts operating in the United States, and the number of them has continued to grow.
A National Institutes of Justice Report on Juvenile Drug
Courts found that in studies of 70 courts, recidivism went down for participants.
A major report from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention observed:
Professional personnel involved with these programs agree that juvenile drug courts exercise more intensive supervision over juvenile offenders than do traditional juvenile courts. It is believed that the rigorous monitoring of participants and the treatment and rehabilitation requirements of juvenile drug court programs promote a greater likelihood of success in reducing drug use and delinquent activity than can be achieved through most existing juvenile court processes.
Frequently established within juvenile courts, juvenile drug courts are intensive treatment programs that provide specialized services for drug-involved youth and their families. Service areas include substance abuse treatment, mental health, primary care, family assistance and education.
The DOJ report cites eight key elements of an effective juvenile drug court program:
Its team should include, at a minimum, a judge, prosecutor, defense attorney, treatment provider, evaluator and school representative, working collaboratively to meet the needs of the juvenile and his or her family.
Intervention by the court should be as soon as possible following the juvenile's initial contact with the justice system and there should be continuous judicial supervision through frequent (often weekly) status hearings with the juvenile and his or her family.
There should be development of a court-supervised program of substance-abuse treatment and other core services to address the multifaceted issues that the juvenile and his or her family face (such as the juvenile's substance use, family and educational needs and behavioral problems as they affect his or her ability to lead a drug-free life).
There needs to be effective coordination of treatment and other services.
Ongoing monitoring of the youngster's progress in the program through frequent random urinalysis, continuous supervision and proactive case management is important.
Essential is immediate judicial response to the progress of each participating juvenile or his/her noncompliance with the court's program conditions.
The judge should be concerned about juveniles and their families, sensitive to cultural and other factors unique to each participant and interested and trained in adolescent development and behavior, substance abuse and pharmacology.
The program philosophy should focus on capitalizing on the strengths of each juvenile and his or her family.
Juvenile drug court services should also promote competency development (e.g., writing, computer literacy, and artistic skills) and the ongoing interaction between treatment and court processes.
Among the special attributes of juvenile drug court treatment services are:
Early and extensive assessment of the juvenile and his or her family situation.
Provision of developmentally based, gender-specific and culturally appropriate treatment and other core services.
Significant focus on family therapy and other services to assist and improve the capacity of the family and juvenile to work together to achieve program goals.
Sustained attention to each juvenile participant's school performance, peer relationships, development of competencies and self-esteem.
Ongoing case management of services to ensure that the program meets each participant's current needs.
The initial period of juvenile drug court operations brought to light a number of other special issues that were not readily apparent at the start. The nature of juvenile drug court participants' substance use and other problems is complex, requiring the provision of an array of family services, specialized treatment, and other core adolescent services. Programs frequently report not only considerable substance use by youth but significant percentages of participants with mental health problems (particularly depression, fetal alcohol syndrome or effects, and learning disabilities) and physical difficulties. In many instances, the nature and extent of these problems do not become apparent until a juvenile has been involved in the program for some time. Ongoing and updated assessments are therefore essential.
The initial experience of juvenile drug courts strongly suggests that services need to be family-focused and complemented by a sound program of other core adolescent services. In addition, individualized treatment services usually need to be developed for participants. Programs also must enable participants to develop the capacity and the self-confidence to fill time previously devoted to drugs and crime with productive activity, thereby increasing the likelihood that they will lead drug- and crime-free lives.
The DOJ report examined seven "exemplary" programs serving 1203 teens, aged 12-18, in FL, CA, NM, MO and MT communities. They each had retention rates of 56% to 77%.
In addition, a number of juvenile drug courts have been adopting the Multisystemic Therapy (MST) approach, which is designed to provide family-based treatment to reduce or eliminate the need for out-of-home placement. MST's "family preservation" model of service delivery is based on the evidence-supported belief that the most effective strategy for helping substance-involved juvenile offenders is through improving intra-familial relations and assisting the family in providing the support structure that can function during and after the period of the court's intervention.
The MST approach was developed in response to the lack of scientifically proven, cost-effective strategies designed to treat adolescent substance abuse. Preliminary evaluation of MST programs has indicated that, compared with traditional service, MST has been significantly more effective in reducing long-term rates of criminal behavior and also is considerably less expensive. Additional evaluations now in progress appear to corroborate these results.
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Alan Waldman | July 19, 2013
"Transformational Campus" Programs Move Homeless from Streets to Multi-service Facilities
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In June 2010, San Antonio's $125 million "Haven for Hope" program opened the largest and most comprehensive "transformational campus" in the U.S. It now has 15 buildings on 37 acres and nearly a half million square feet under roof. More than 80 faith-based, non-profit and government service partners work together to holistically and proactively help the nearly 2,100 residents daily. Robert Marbut was the founding President and CEO.
Haven for Hope provides hundreds of services to homeless people, including medical, dental, vision, substance abuse , mental health and podiatry clinics; classrooms for job and life skills training; and housing, legal, childcare, veterans , case-management and pet-shelter services. It also provides food, exercise, clothing, banking and transportation services. It has safe outdoor mat-sleeping zones for those not yet ready for the program. Of those who have utilized the outdoor sleeping courtyard, 797 have moved to the Transformational Campus and 126 have gone into permanent housing.
Seven hundred people live on campus and work toward jobs, homes and independence. Since the program opened three years ago, there have been 383 job placements, including 100% employment for those in the dental hygienist training program and those completing the first culinary training class. The In-House Recovery Program, which provides housing and support for those with drug and alcohol addictions, has had a 60% success rate, with a total of 240 graduates.
More than 500 individuals have completed various transformation programs and are now living independently. So successful is Haven of Hope that leaders from nearly 200 cities from 44 states have visited the campus, in hopes of implementing similar programs in their communities.
According to its brochure:
The campus is near downtown, close to existing social service facilities. It is funded through a combination of public funds (city, county and federal) as well as private donations. It represents tremendous cost savings, since it is much less expensive to treat the homeless in a center of this kind than it is through publicly funded emergency rooms or other care facilities. Haven of Hope is managed by an independent board, free of political red tape.
"Effective treatment also keeps the homeless out of the legal system and jail, and additional research shows that up to 80% of people who become homeless within a given year can exit homelessness quickly–if they get the assistance they need.
A similar, though somewhat controversial transformational center, is the 500-bed St. Petersburg Safe Harbor program. Robert Marbut, who has studied homelessness in hundreds of cities, was its paid consultant, and Sarasota is contemplating hiring him for a similar approach there.
St. Petersburg's huge homeless problem became national news when a video of its police officers with box cutters slashing up a makeshift tent city near downtown went viral.
To promote his centers, Marbut has backed panhandling bans, spoken of limiting the frequent public feedings downtown by churches and charities that had become a magnet for the homeless, and supports sending those caught sleeping on sidewalks, having open alcohol containers or relieving themselves in public to Safe Harbor—instead of jail.
Most controversial is the revelation that St. Petersburg—which has seen the homeless population downtown drop from hundreds to only a few dozen—has been giving homeless people bus tickets to other cities. So, while its homeless count has dropped, Sarasota's has increased.
According to Sarah Snyder, executive director of the Pinellas County Coalition for the Homeless, a group that develops policy and determines how federal grant money is distributed countywide:
I think Safe Harbor is part of the answer, but I don't think it's the whole answer. We can't force people to become better. We can only show them how much better their lives could be if they made some changes.
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Category: Humane Exposures | Tags: homelessness, Hope, Pinellas County Florida, Safe Harbor, Saint Petersburg, San Antonio, St. Petersburg, substance abuse
Alan Waldman | May 9, 2013
Mental Health and Substance Abuse Counseling are Woefully Inadequate for Most Youths in Custody
Abused (Photo credit: Andrea Marutti)
The first national survey of kids aged 10-20 in state and local juvenile custody, the Survey of Youth in Residential Placement (SYRP), released in 2010, found that most of them had experienced trauma and suffered from one or more mental health or substance abuse problems, yet a majority of them (particularly those with the severest needs) received no counseling.
The report found that:
Thirty percent of confined young people had experienced sexual, physical, or emotional abuse, 67 percent had seen someone killed or severely injured, and 70 percent reported that something bad or terrible had happened to them. Only 15 percent reported no trauma incidents in their past.
A large share of juveniles in custody reported behaviors that make it difficult to succeed in a conventional classroom, such as having a hard time paying attention in school (45 percent), having a hard time staying organized (40 percent), and being unable to stay in their seat (32 percent). Surprisingly, all three behaviors were reported at a higher rate by girls than by boys.
Anger problems were also rampant, with 68 percent reporting being easily upset, and 61 percent saying they lost their temper easily. Here, too, girls were more likely than boys to report problems.
Signs of more serious mental illness were also widespread. One in six confined youth suffered hallucinations, one fourth had elevated symptoms for depression, and substantial percentages reported: having suicidal thoughts (28 percent), feeling that life was not worth living (25 percent), or wishing they were dead (19 percent). Girls were far more likely than boys to report each of these symptoms. And, alarmingly, 44 percent of confined girls reported that they had attempted suicide, compared with 19 percent of confined boys.
Sixty-eight percent of confined children reported an alcohol or drug problem in the months preceding custody: 49 percent reported drinking many times per week or daily, and 64 percent reported taking drugs this frequently.
Despite these grave and widespread needs, only 53 percent of the 7,073 youngsters sampled in the SYRP report received any mental health counseling in their facilities, and only 51 percent got any substance abuse counseling. Youth with elevated symptoms for depression, anxiety, anger and hallucinations were less likely than kids with fewer symptoms to receive mental health counseling.
Moreover, 38 percent feared being physically abused in their facilities, 35 percent said staff used force against them when it wasn't necessary, nearly half of them reported that staff in their facilities conducted strip searches, and one-fourth of the youth reported being held in solitary confinement.
A 2010 Justice Policy Institute research review on trauma-informed care for court-involved youth found that:
Confinement has been shown to exacerbate the symptoms of mental disorders, including post-traumatic stress disorder, and the risk of abuse by staff or other youth can be traumatizing.
In particular, characteristics of correctional facilities such as seclusion, staff insensitivity or loss of privacy can exacerbate negative feelings created by previous victimization, especially among PTSD sufferers and girls. Youth in correctional facilities are frequently exposed to verbal and physical aggression, which can intensify fear or traumatic symptoms.
The survey also found that more than one-fourth of confined youth nationwide were held in facilities that did not routinely screen them for suicide risk, and more than half were in places that did not screen or assess all residents for mental health needs. In addition, suicide and mental health assessments were often completed by unqualified staff, and nearly 9 of every 10 confined youth nationwide resided in facilities that relied on unlicensed staff to deliver some or all counseling services.
Several organizations are today striving to rectify these problems.
Building Blocks for Youth
Findings from the First Ever National Survey of Juveniles in Custody
Traumatic Pasts, Urgent Counseling Needs, Inadequate Services: Findings from the First Ever National Survey of Juveniles in Custody
Category: Juvenile Justice, Prison Reform | Tags: Anger management, health, Mental disorder, mental health, Percentage, Prison, substance abuse, SYRP
Correctional System: Responding to Juveniles with Substance Abuse and Mental Health Needs
In order to provide effective treatment and programming to youth with behavioral health needs, juvenile justice authorities and their partners must be equipped to quickly identify individuals who may have these needs, make referrals for full assessments and appropriate services, and provide services both while the youths are in custody and during the reentry process. Presenters focus on the use of assessment tools and other treatment needs, and matching youths to appropriate and effective programs and supports.
Randy Muck, Senior Clinical Consultant, Advocates for Youth and Family Behavioral Health Treatment, LLC
Valerie Williams, Research Instructor and Co-Director, National Youth Screening and Assessment Project, Center for Mental Health Services Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School
CDPHP Launches In-House Behavioral Health (prweb.com)
Violence and Mental Illness (peerwork.wordpress.com)
President Obama signs order to increase behavioral health services for veterans (pattidudek.typepad.com)
A Collaboration of Behavioral Health Care Plus Addiction Treatment is a Turning Point for Two New Jersey Organizations (paramuspost.com)
Category: Criminal Justice, Health, Juvenile Justice, Mental Health, Substance Abuse | Tags: incarceration, juveniles, mental health, rehabilitation, substance abuse, video
A Conversation with Jeanne McAlister
Today our resident blogger had the opportunity to talk with Jeanne McAlister, Chief Executive Officer and founder of McAlister Institute. The conversation was enlightening to say the least!
Jeanne McAlister, the Chief Executive Officer and founder of McAlister Institute, has been a pioneer in the field of recovery. She has constantly advocated for responsive and needed treatment services and developed programs which could easily be replicated by others. Recognizing that drug abuse negatively affects all aspects of the individual, family, and community life, the goal of McAlister Institute programs is to assist individuals in regaining their lives by supporting the recovery process. As a result, tens of thousands of youth and adults have successfully regained their lives through her vision and with the help of McAlister Institute's wide variety of programs.
Category: California, Interview, Substance Abuse | Tags: California, Jeanne McAlister, McAlister Institute, recovery, substance abuse
Alan Waldman | September 27, 2010
The Link Between Prostitution and Homelessness
Among the significant number of homeless teens on the street there are many who have been reduced by circumstances to prostitution. It's a grim and ugly reality.
One of the factors that makes this issue less visible, in addition to the blind spot many develop towards the homeless in general, is the fact that it does not always adhere to the expectations. The classic stereotype of "hooker and pimp" is only one of many permutations possible on the streets. Prostitution does not always involve an exchange of favors for currency.
Laura Rillos, KVAL News, reports:
[Chris] Mirabal [program manager of Looking Glass New Roads, a day shelter dedicated to homeless youth] said the most common is called 'survival sex.' Typically, a person will offer a homeless youth a place to stay and expect sexual activity in return.
Sometimes, said Mirabal, the teen is not aware of the arrangement until after they've stayed with a person for a few days or weeks.
This form of predatory behavior is not confined to targeting the female gender. Homeless males find themselves being pushed into these compromising situations as well:
'They wanted to have, like me have sex with her, while I'm staying on their couch, as part of rent,' said a young homeless man who wanted to be identified as Brain. 'I was like, I can't do that. I'm sorry.'
Brain is 21 years old. He acknowledges his age and gender made it easier for him to say no and leave that situation.
Lack of resources can drive people to desperate measures. Add in the possibility of mental health or substance abuse issues, and the situation gets rapidly worse. When you don't know where your next meal is coming from it become easier to rationalize things like this.
The escalating harshness of life on the streets over the recent years is also a factor. Young homeless girls in particular are at risk of rape, assault, and descent into prostitution. Without the normal support infrastructure provided by family and friends their vulnerability escalates.
Wendy McElroy, editor of ifeminists and someone who has herself been homeless, has commented on this aspect of the situation back in 2001:
The situation confronting homeless teens is worse today than when I ran away. It was the dead of winter when I left, and for the first nights I slept on the pew of a church whose doors were always open. Today, those doors would probably be locked. I was at one point 'discovered,' which was my greatest fear, but the person simply put a blanket over me and left without waking me up. Today, society is numbed to homelessness; we are overwhelmed with compassion fatigue and acts of gratuitous kindness seem to be fewer. We avert our eyes from the hand-painted signs and ignore the rattling cups.
McElroy's position in the column is a controversial one. She advocates loosening of the child-labor restrictions so that the underage homeless can work and develop their own resources. Her reasoning is that most of the homeless in that age range are fleeing an abusive environment at home, and most programs are geared to return them to that home. Obviously, it is an idea that has gained little traction in the near decade since.
Source: "'Survival sex' lures homeless teens into prostitution," KVAL.com, 02/09/10
Source: "Homelessness and Prostitution," ifeminists, 05/15/01
Image by Franco Folini, used under its Creative Commons license.
Category: Homelessness, Humane Exposures, Mental Health, Prostitution, Substance Abuse | Tags: assault, homeless teens, homelessness, ifeminists.com, KVAL News, Laura Rillos, mental health, prostitution, rape, substance abuse, survival sex, teen prostitution, Wendy McElroy
San Diego's School Board: A Long and Winding Road to Change
So many of our societal ills can be traced back to failures in the American educational system. Thus it is vitally important that we take an interest in that system and how it's functioning.
In San Diego, one of the obvious problems is the continuing changes in the school superintendent's office. The electoral process for the school board in San Diego is both archaic and unusual, and, in addition, it is unlike any other electoral process in the city.
Emily Alpert, a blogger for Voices of San Diego, recently presented an in-depth analysis of that odd system as well as the critiques it has drawn from both sides of the political aisle. Here is a small sample:
Here is how the unusual system works: Candidates like Rosen and his opponents have to survive two elections. In the June primary, they battle in one of five smaller subdistricts. The top two candidates then advance to the November election, where the entire school district votes.
The system might seem strange: No other K-12 school district in San Diego County is elected this way. It is a hybrid of district elections — in which voters in a small slice of a city or school district elect their own representative — and at-large elections in which the whole area votes.
But it was actually the same way that San Diego used to elect its City Council. Even though the city has no power over the school district, schools' election rules have been laid out in the city charter since 1939.
Voters scrapped that system for City Council 22 years ago, replacing it with district-only elections to ensure that minorities had a better shot at being heard.
But the system stayed the same for the school board — and attracts the same criticisms.
Alpert then goes into a detailed examination of views on all sides of the equation. Here are a few that she shares in her article:
San Diegans 4 Great Schools, a group that includes philanthropists, business leaders and parents, argues that the existing school board system is outdated and blames it for the revolving door of superintendents that San Diego Unified has suffered in recent years.
Organizer Scott Himelstein says a small school board with five members can swing too easily in a single election, changing the whole direction of the school district in a snap. His group has quietly discussed the idea of adding four new, appointed members to the board.
This would bring it more in line with the rest of the state:
Most school boards in California have five members, but almost all of the large school districts elsewhere in the country have larger boards with seven or nine trustees.
Anyone interested in social issues should take a look at Alpert's article (link below under "Sources"). Most social ills seem to be rooted in childhood, and education is a vastly important part of that. Issues at that level all too often blossom later in life into homlessness, criminal activity, and substance abuse. As a result, examination of the system and exploration of the methods that can improve it are vital.
Source: "The Unusual Road to the San Diego School Board," Voice of San Diego, 09/06/10
Image by Adam Pieniazek, used under its Creative Commons license.
Category: Education, Humane Exposures, Public School, San Diego | Tags: American educational system, childhood, crime, education, electoral process, Emily Alpert, homlessness, San Diego, Sand Diego school board, Sand Diego school district, school board, school superintendent, substance abuse, Voices of San Diego
How To Become Homeless
As we watch the economy spiral seemingly out of control, the specter of homelessness looms disturbingly close for people of all socioeconomic strata. Add in the chaos in the American housing market, and the picture becomes starkly unpleasant.
It's a simple fact that we are seeing the number of the homeless grow, and it is disturbingly easy to end up on the streets. Right now, in Colorado, thousands face this possibility as the wildfires ravage the state. I know that feeling well from personal experience. You see, I am a native of New Orleans.
Just over five years ago, hurricane Katrina hit the city, and then the next morning the levees failed, flooding New Orleans. My wife and I had just emptied our savings account to pay for our wedding and honeymoon, and the checking account was low because it was a few days before payday. We ended up evacuating across the country with a total of about $200 and no vehicle.
With our friends, family and support network also scattered across the U.S., things became scary in very short order. Thanks to a few friends in other states we did not lack for a roof, but, as the weeks dragged on, the situation became more and more uneasy. I had a broken hand at the time, and so most earning opportunities were not viable. I was able to pick up a few bucks here and there, but nothing resembling enough income for a fresh start.
It was weeks before we had any inkling of whether we would be able to return to the city, much less whether anything we owned had survived. My then fiancee and I had a backpack of clothes each, a laptop, and our five cats. Things looked bleak.
"What about those legendary FEMA checks for $2,000 that everyone got?" you might ask. Not everyone got assistance, I know I sure didn't. The Red Cross in New York helped us out with some clothes and a few hundred dollars. Let me tell you, you've never seen just how little $300 really is until it is all you have.
I will never forget having to swallow my pride and extend my hand for aid. We made it through thanks to the generosity of friends and strangers in Indiana and New York, but the awareness of the precipice was never absent from my thoughts. A few days before, everything was great: the wedding expenses were paid, I had a great new job, and we had just moved into a new apartment. Then, suddenly, it was all gone, taking all of my social resources with it.
We were very lucky. We made it back to NOLA six weeks after the disaster had struck — to find that most of our stuff had survived. It could easily have gone the other way, leaving us homeless. For many, it did. I will never forget the fear in my heart during those times.
Just about anyone is susceptible to the whims of Mother Nature, and she can take the roof from over your head in a heartbeat. Whether it is the levee failures in NOLA, wildfires in Colorado, or some other species of disaster — it can happen to you.
Of course, due to my experience, this is what I think of first, but there are many other causes of homelessness. The Walk For The Homeless website enumerates a number of factors, including job loss:
As someone who has been homeless, I can tell you that loss of employment is one reason people, even whole families, become homeless. This is more likely to occur when there is only one wage earner in the family, if employment is seasonal such as construction or lawn maintenance, or if you both work and each earns only minimum wage. While there is usually a combination of reasons why people become homeless a particular one often stands out: illness. Injury, sickness, and even mental illness can lead to being fired, laid off or replaced. Most of the time if you're not able to do the work, you are out of a job. When you live from paycheck to paycheck, sometimes all it takes is to miss one or two paychecks and you can end up homeless. This is especially true if you have no friends or family to turn to for help.
Drawing on this information, Drea Knufken at Business Pundit boils things down into the Five Ways to Become Homeless, a list of things and situations that can leave you living on the streets. She also makes a very apt cultural observation:
Homelessness in the United States has always struck me as particularly painful. Penury is not well tolerated in the Land of Opportunity. People think money is easy to come by here, giving extreme poverty an especially powerful stigma.
In some countries, the homeless are seen as being cursed. In America, we do the cursing ourselves, labeling homeless people as lazy — one of Calvinistic capitalism's direst sins.
The truth is that most homeless people know how to work hard.
This cultural perception is often borne out by observing the way that the majority of people treat the homeless when they encounter them on the streets. Not always, thankfully, but quite often.
Illness, job loss, foreclosure, or natural disaster — all can be harbingers of an upcoming life on the streets. It is worth remembering that these faces could be your own, and it would not take as much as you might think to end up there.
Source: "Why Do People Become Homeless?," Walk For The Homeless
Source: "5 Ways to Become Homeless," Business Pundit, 08/15/08
Category: Homelessness, Humane Exposures, Mental Health, Poverty, Substance Abuse | Tags: Business Pundit, Colorado, Drea Knufken, FEMA, foreclosure, homeless, homelessness, housing market, Hurricane Katrina, illness, job loss, mental health, natural disaster, New Orleans, Red Cross, substance abuse, Walk For The Homeless, wildfires
eHow Covers Alternatives to Imprisonment for Women
The issue of imprisoned women is the elephant in the room. A quick Google search reveals that it is a well-known problem, and one that is getting steadily worse. There's even an article about alternatives to incarceration for women on the popular "how-to" website eHow.
The site includes simple directions on how to do a wide variety of things. From making a better paper airplane to instructions for electronics projects, there is a mass of instructional material there that has become a standard destination for web surfers. It is therefore interesting to see eHow's approach to this delicate but important subject.
Kristine Paglio, an eHow contributing writer, sets the stage for her article on the subject with some quick background notes:
Women currently constitute the fastest-growing subset of offenders being incarcerated. In the United States, women make up 7 percent of the total prison population. Incarcerated women are usually convicted of non-violent or drug-related offenses, or as accessories to a crime. Due to the lack of their participation in violent crime, many women can be considered for alternatives to incarceration, as they do not pose a threat to society. Offering them alternatives to incarceration allows women to care for their children and acquire education and job skills, as well as participate in needed counseling or therapy.
Once more, we see the common thread that is turning up more and more frequently, an emphasis on reintegration with society rather than on meting out punishment. Several of our recent posts have touched on that very theme. The similarities continue when one looks at the specific approaches that address this issue. Paglio lists a number of them in her article:
These alternative programs include, but are not limited to: electronic monitoring (i.e., home confinement); parenting classes; educational programming (including G.E.D. acquisition); employability programs (which impart skills like cooking and data entry); abuse and victimization therapy (which teach offenders to break the cycle of relationship violence); supervised living (e.g., halfway houses); and day supervision (in which the offender must submit to drug testing, perform community service and observe a mandated curfew).
Trauma and substance-abuse issues must also be considered, since almost 60-70% of incarcerated women have been abused or victimized, have a substance abuse problem, and have children. Skill- and confidence-building programs such as those suggested above provide additional tools for the inmate to use in her reentry into larger society.
What are your thoughts on these alternative programs? Do you think that a more socially utilitarian approach, where reintegration into the greater whole is the main objective, is the way to proceed? Let us know!
Source: "Alternatives to Incarceration for Women," eHow, undated
Image copyright Susan Madden Lankford, from the book "Maggots in my Sweet Potatoes: Women Doing Time." Used with permission.
Category: Prison, Women's Issues | Tags: alternatives to incarceration, community service, counseling, curfew, drug abuse, drug testing, eHow, Google, halfway house, home confinement, how-to, incarcerated women, Kristine Paglio, non-violent crime, parenting classes, Prison, reintegration, substance abuse, supervised living, therapy, women in prison
Poehlmann Studies Effect of Incarcerated Parents on Children
Having a parent in prison is a hard to bear for a child, I think we all can agree on that. Is there a way to quantify the effect this can have on a child's social development though? It's an important question because of the sheer number of children it affects.
Julie Poehlmann, a professor at the School of Human Ecology and investigator at the Waisman Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, estimates that 1.7 million (about 2.3%) children across America have a parent in prison. A truly staggering number.
David Tennenbaum, a freelance writer, recently published a piece on the University of Wisconsin website, in which he interviewed Poehlmann on the subject:
Although a definitive cause-and-effect relationship has not been established, children of incarcerated parents tend to have more arrests, and more problems with behavior, relationships, school, and substance abuse. 'It's all the things you would expect,' says Poehlmann.
Problems are particularly acute when the mother is in jail or prison. 'It's more likely that the child will move out of house, and be placed with grandparents,' she says. 'They are more likely to change schools and have a higher risk of substance abuse, and the father is also likely to be incarcerated.'
Bleak, but not unexpected. A child with an incarcerated parent is at a pronounced disadvantage compared to his or her peers in many ways. There is possibility of mitigating these circumstances though:
Poehlmann, who has studied mothers, substitute caregivers and children in Milwaukee, Racine, Green Bay, Beloit and other parts of Wisconsin, finds that a strong, close attachment with the alternative caregiver can mitigate the harm of incarceration.
Since it is during childhood that we shape the adults of tomorrow, this is a subject of no small gravity. Do you have experience as a parent, child, or caregiver in this sort of situation? If so, we would love to add your perspective to the conversation, please leave us a comment and let us know your thoughts.
Source: "Research examines the price of prison for children," University of Wisconsin-Madison News, 08/09/10
Category: Maggots in My Sweet Potatoes, Not Raised, Prison | Tags: behavioral problems, caregiver, cause-and-effect relationship, children at risk, David Tennenbaum, incarcerated parents, incarceration, Julie Poehlmann, mother in jail, parent in prison, parenting, Prison, School of Human Ecology, substance abuse, Susan Madden Lankford, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Waisman Center


Here is another tea cup from my collection. It is made by Royal London.
It features blue flowers with hints of yellows and reds.
I think it's handle is in quite a unique shape!
Tara, I love your blog and this teacup is so beautiful. I'm a big fan of all things blue and china patterns are no exception; the handle is so unusual and the shade of blue are exquisite!
Oh I do love this cup! The blue and white design is so pretty and look at that fancy handle! Thank you so much for sharing it with us today.
I just noticed that Royal Albert produced a un-named Malvern shaped cup with this same design.


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Want To Make Money Off Cape Town's Hipsters? Import Some Of This Silicon Valley Milk
14 Sep 2017 by Jasmine Stone in Berry & Donaldson, Health, Lifestyle
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If you're thinking almond milk then shame on you, you're a dinosaur living in the past. Get ready for this – yellow pea milk is where it's at.
We're not yanking your chain (or milking your…never mind), because a company called Ripple Foods has been backed by $44 million (R578 million) from Google and Silicon Valley venture capitalists and they're flying.
Since launching in April 2016, the company has sold well over two million bottles of product and raked in $20 million (R262 million) in revenue – and all of that is from selling milk made from simple yellow peas.
According to Bloomberg, sales of dairy milk decreased by 7% ($17.8 billion) in 2015 alone, and they are projected to fall an additional 11 percent through 2020.
Almond milk sales grew more than two-fold from 2011 to 2015, but it only has one-eighth the protein of dairy milk and requires huge amounts of water to produce.
Looks like Adam Lowry and co-founder Neil Renninger have found the sweet spot, although it did take them a while to settle on the yellow pea:
In 2014, the two friends saw an opportunity to change the dairy industry. "The food system represents 20 percent of the world's carbon emissions, and dairy is one-quarter of that," said Renninger via telephone. "The impact is massive. More than beef, more than chicken, dairy is actually the largest contributor to emissions by volume. That challenge scratched my sustainability itch."
…Using Renninger's technology, they began to experiment extracting protein from from different plants that had a notable amount of the biomolecules. "You name it, we screened it," says Renninger. Most of them tasted terrible.
Then the pair tried yellow peas, which are inexpensive to grow and don't yield a strongly flavored product. The result was a drink that has a hint of concentrated powdered milk taste and a smooth, creamy texture.
"It's not that we have the only pea milk on the market; what makes us unique is that, thanks to technology, we have the purest plant protein in the world," says Renninger.
Yellow pea milk actually delivers the same protein punch as traditional dairy milk, but it's the product's eco footprint that really puts the competition to shame:
According to their research, each 48-ounce bottle of Ripple (made from 100 percent post-consumer recycled material) represents a savings of 3.5 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions and 925 gallons of water, versus dairy milk. The 2.5 million bottles Ripple has sold adds up to nearly 7 million fewer pounds of CO2 emissions—the equivalent of taking more than 600 cars off the road for a year. And getting the same amount of protein from almond milk would require 66 billion gallons of additional water.
Just think of the lessons you could deliver your next yoga class.
"I know you grow your own veggies, Pixie Moonchild, but your milk intake is an environmental disaster. You need to switch to yellow pea milk. Namaste".
Then you flit off into your mommy SUV and make your way home to trawl through Facebook, still buzzing from that moral high.
Sadly the product isn't yet for sale in South Africa, but here's what's on offer in the US:
Currently, five kinds of Ripple milk are on sale at such places as Whole Foods and Target Corp. stores: Original unsweetened milk is the best seller, along with flavors like chocolate milk and vanilla milk, plus half-and-half and kids' packs. Meanwhile, Ripple is expanding its product base: This winter, the brand will enter the burgeoning yogurt business with a plant-based, Greek style yogurt.
Does anyone else smell an investment opportunity? Sure, but who the hell wants to deal with the million issues that comes with dabbling in the imports / exports game.
No one, especially not Seth. His Malawi Cane furniture business uses Berry & Donaldson, and he can tell you why:
One thing I've learnt about import / export over the last three years is shit happens, WAY more often than you would think. Not partnering with a very good freight forwarding company is the biggest mistake any entrepreneur in this game could make.
Berry & Donaldson handles it all – every detail of getting my goods around the world – without all the hassle and paperwork and customs and other things that ruin living the holiday.
We won't stop you from starting your yellow pea milk empire around these parts, but you better get cracking because you know someone is already eyeing this one out.
Ripple Food's Facebook page has a couple of South Africans begging for the product to be shipped out this side, and once the health nuts catch wind of this it's surely going to blow up.
Don't say we never do anything for you.
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Q: Switching from MySQL ADO.NET libraries to MySQL connector issue I have switched my C# project from MySQL ADO.NET libraries to MySQL connector since there was a bug in MySQL libraries.
Previous Question related to the aforementioned issue: StackOverFlow Question
I have used MySql Connector documentation as the reference for switching libraries.
Following the change of the libraries, there were some new errors triggered for the MySQL keywords in the existing project.
1) MySqlConnection in private MySqlConnection connection; line.

Error: Represents an open connection to a MySQL Server database. This
  class cannot be inherited. The type 'MySqlConnection' exists in both
  'MySql.Data' and 'MySqlConnector'.

2) MySqlException in  catch (MySqlException ex) line.

Error: The Exception is thrown when MySQL returns an error. This class
  cannot be inherited. The type 'MySqlException' exists in both
  'MySql.Data' and 'MySqlConnector'.

3) MySqlCommand in MySqlCommand cmd = new MySqlCommand(); line.

Error: Represents a SQL Statement to execute against a MySQL database.
  This class cannot be inherited. The type 'MySqlCommand' exists in both
  'MySql.Data' and 'MySqlConnector'.

4)  MySqlDbType in cmd.Parameters.Add("?jobNo", MySqlDbType.VarChar).Value = (values[0]); line.

Error: Specifies MySQL specific data type of a field, property, for
  use in a MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlParameter. The type
  'MySqlDbType' exists in both 'MySql.Data' and 'MySqlConnector'.

Any suggestions on how to mitigate the above errors?

A: The primary error is:

The type 'MySqlConnection' exists in both 'MySql.Data' and 'MySqlConnector'.

It appears that your project is referencing both MySql.Data.dll and MySqlConnector. Uninstall the MySql.Data package using NuGet Package Manager, and make sure the MySql.Data.dll reference is removed from your csproj, packages.config etc.
(In advanced scenarios, you can use an extern alias to reference both libraries, but I would strongly discourage it: it can cause two connection pools to be created, two cleanup threads to be started, etc.)

A: The type 'MySqlConnection' exists in both 'MySql.Data' and 'MySqlConnector' indicates the type has present in both assemblies, which causing ambiguous reference. Normally you can simply remove MySql.Data.dll references using NuGet package manager with Uninstall-Package MySql.Data command (and removing all possible traces of that assembly) then reference issue should be resolved, but in certain conditions you can do steps below:

*

*Go to reference properties and set alias MySqlConnector for assembly before all using statements, e.g. extern alias MySqlConnectorAlias;.

*Use reference from the alias on step (1), e.g. MySqlConnectorAlias::MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlConnection.

*(For .NET Core only) Before using steps (1) and (2), edit the .csproj file which contains ChangeAliasesOfStrongNameAssemblies like this:
<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Web">

   <!-- other stuff -->

   <Target Name="ChangeAliasesOfStrongNameAssemblies" BeforeTargets="FindReferenceAssembliesForReferences;ResolveReferences">
       <ItemGroup>
           <ReferencePath Condition="'%(FileName)' == 'MySqlConnector'">
               <Aliases>MySqlConnectorAlias</Aliases>
           </ReferencePath>
       </ItemGroup>
  </Target>

  <!-- other stuff -->

</Project>


Bretagne was 2 years old when the Twin Towers fell on that fateful day in 2001. She went with her owner to Ground Zero to assist in the searches. She was one of the 9/11 heroes, along with all the brave firefighters.
Bretagne was the last surviving rescue dog from the attacks. She recently passed away at the age of 17.


The present issue brief provides a synthesis of impact findings and identifies interventions which seem to have worked more effectively.
The present "Effectiveness of Entrepreneurship Development interventions on Women Entrepreneurs" issue brief is the result of an in-depth review of six meta-evaluations and twenty three rigorous impact studies undertaken during the past 10 years in women's entrepreneurship development initiatives around the world. It provides a synthesis of impact findings and identifies interventions which seem to have worked more effectively. The brief corroborates for example that combining finance and business training –although more costly- seems to be more effective in supporting women's business start-up than either finance or business training alone. Also, training packages that combine business and gender knowledge are more likely to lead to women's empowerment. While more evidence is still needed, the brief concludes with a series of recommendations for future interventions and impact evaluations including providing more than access to skills and finance, by also addressing gender-based barriers and women's strategic needs, in order to ensure the business success and consolidation of women entrepreneurs.


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class Posting < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :bio

  filterrific default_filter_params: { sorted_by: 'created_at_desc' },
              available_filters: %w[
                sorted_by
                search_query
              ]

  scope :search_query, lambda {|query|
    return nil if query.blank?
    # condition query, parse into individual keywords
    terms = query.downcase.split(/\s+/)
    # replace "*" with "%" for wildcard searches,
    # append '%', remove duplicate '%'s
    terms = terms.map { |e|
      (e.gsub('*', '%') + '%').gsub(/%+/, '%')
    }
    # configure number of OR conditions for provision
    # of interpolation arguments. Adjust this if you
    # change the number of OR conditions.
    num_or_conditions = 4
    where(
      terms.map {
        or_clauses = [
          "LOWER(postings.position) LIKE ?",
          "LOWER(postings.post) LIKE ?",
          "LOWER(postings.district) LIKE ?",
          "LOWER(bios.name) LIKE ?"
        ].join(' OR ')
        "(#{ or_clauses })"
      }.join(' AND '),
      *terms.map { |e| [e] * num_or_conditions }.flatten
    ).joins(:bio).references(:bio)
  }

  scope :sorted_by, lambda { |sort_option|
  }

  def self.options_for_sorted_by
    []
  end

end

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Casper City Council to vote on proposed annexation Sept. 17
By Max Cotton |
Posted: Mon 6:46 PM, Sep 09, 2019 |
Updated: Mon 6:47 PM, Sep 09, 2019
CASPER, Wyo. (Wyoming News Now) Casper City Council members will decide whether to annex the Green Valley Mobile Home Park at their Sept. 17 meeting.
Mobile homes in Green Valley Mobile Home Park in Natrona County, Wyo. on Monday, Sept. 9, 2019.
The land is located near Southwest Casper near Robertson Road. It's currently a part of unincorporated Natrona County.
Under state law, Casper can annex the land without the residents' agreement because the city surrounds the area.
"This part of our community is actually surrounded by the limits of the city and so effectively they're an island of limits, of jurisdictions, if you will, within the city's limits," Casper City Manager Carter Napier said.
Green Valley residents already receive some city services. If annexed, Napier said a potential change could be adding them to the city's garbage collection service. Casper Police would also become the first responders in an emergency. Currently, the Natrona County Sheriff's Office responds first there.
The city would also increase its population. Napier said this is very important for Casper's financial stability.
"Cities and towns can't raise revenue. That's not an option available to them. And so therefore, they have to look at ways in which they can stabilize their population in order to demand a larger share of what comes into the geographic area," he said.
However, not all Green Valley residents are completely sold on the idea.
Anita Witten has lived in Green Valley since 1985 and said she has mixed emotions about the potential change. She said she's concerned about Natrona County potential losing revenue from the proposed annexation.
She said she also wishes city council members had done more to reach out to Green Valley Residents. They hosted a forum for residents, which she said isn't enough. She wishes they knocked on doors in Green Valley to gauge residents' opinions.
The proposed annexation will be on its third and final reading at the Sept. 17 meeting. It previously passed the first two readings.
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You can't be blamed for wanting to have sufficient security for your home. In fact, you are free to use any additional security measures that will make you feel safer. The best motion sensor light bulbs will provide you with that and so much more.
The bulbs use electronic, mechanical and digital controls to read movements. They are basically the best way to surprise or get knowledge of intruders or even unwanted guests. You will instantly become aware and alerted when such happens.
The best motion sensor light bulbs can also be used indoors. Aside from that, they have endless applications in homes, industries, and offices as well. They are also a great means to help lower your energy consumption.
Lohas provides you with a 4 pack of motion sensor light bulbs. Their performance is great, making them one of the best home lighting solutions. They have 5000k daylight white and are 500 lumens. If you want a cozy type of illumination, you are in the right place. These bulbs work well with dusk to dawn sensors, thanks to their E26 medium screw base. The design in itself makes it multifunctional.
If you are tired of constant re-lamping, you really should consider these bulbs. One provides about 30,000 hours of lighting. No mercury or lead was used while making it.
The motion sensor bulbs are very reliable.
They come with a 1-year warranty.
Lawnko offers a more state of the art option. Compared to other bulbs that use infrared sensors, you will be steps ahead. This motion sensor bulb uses radar sensors instead. That is why; it is much more responsive and sensitive. The bulb even offers more penetration as well. Whether its glass, veneer or even walls, this motion sensor bulb can penetrate through all of them. Its sensing range is about 19-26ft, while the sensing height is 7-13ft. They tend to go on automatically during detection, and off 25 seconds later if there's no movement.
The bulbs have a 2-year warranty.
They consume only 20% of energy.
You definitely need to replace any 50W traditional incandescent bulbs, with these ones. They are energy saving and produce very warm bright light. What makes them popular is the fact that they can be used in various applications. They perform great both indoors and outdoors. You can use them in the downstairs, hallway, Pantry, closet, outdoor porch, upstairs, basement, patio, garage, elderly room or even your pet's room.
They come with a 12-month warranty.
WITH Amorno, you get a cool white type of lighting and a 180 beam angle. The motion sensor light bulb uses quality PIR infrared sensor. You will get a detection range of about 10 feet and a long illumination life. The bulb provides about 730lm and is very easy to install. To ensure that the motion detection range is not interfered with, do not place it with a shade on an outside fixture.
It comes with a 100% satisfaction guarantee.
The customer service responds within 24 hours.
You are going to be impressed with this Smartsense LED bulb. It has an outstanding integrated sensor. Thanks to it, the bulb has a 100-degree vision field. The detection range is great as well at 30 feet. Unlike other motion sensor light bulbs, this one produces light for 90 seconds after detection. It has 2 modes where it can be used for motion detection or just regular lighting.
The bulb's standby power consumption is low.
It requires very little maintenance.
When you make this purchase, you will get 3 Minger PIR Activated Light Bulbs. They are equivalent to 60W bulbs and will completely transform your home's lighting. Having them as a light source is definitely an eco-friendly decision. They have a medium E26/E27 screw base, with an A19 shape. The motion sensor light bulbs are made from Aluminum and PC.
The bulbs have a 120-degree detection angle.
They have a 600lm Luminous Flux.
You will be pleased to find out that these motion sensor light bulbs do not contain any mercury. They have an input voltage of about AC85-265V and are 600 lumens. The lights are made such that they turn on and off automatically. At dusk, they switch themselves on, while they do the opposite at dawn. What also makes them a great buy is the fact that its installation process is a breeze. You will not even need any additional motion detection fixtures.
The bulbs have 90 Days 100% Satisfaction Guarantee.
Their beam angle is 180degrees.
Aukora offers a motion sensor light 2 pack with 810lm each. All you have to do is to ensure that the ngle is appropriate and the light is in the right direction. The E27/ E26 bulbs are very safe and work in a steady manner as well. You can rest assured that you are getting motion sensor light bulbs of the highest quality. With their 30 days money-back guarantee and an A+ energy class, Aukora stands out among its competitors.
Their detection range is 10 ft.
The motion sensor light bulbs have a 30,000hr lifespan.
Luxon offers you a newly designed motion sensor light bulb. The purpose of the new design is to improve on the bulb's performance. You will definitely note this when it comes to the lifespan of the bulb. Their detection range is between 13 to 19 feet and they are also able to detect pets. As far as energy saving lighting goes, Luxon has pretty much made a name for itself. It is a radar sensor bulb, giving it a great advantage over the competition.
The bulb can be used both indoors and outdoors.
The installation process is effortless.
Sengled takes the #1 position, in the top 10 best motion sensor light bulbs list. The bulb is Amazon's preferred choice for motion sensor bulbs. You'll just need your existing fixtures and won't have to spend on any extra hardware. Personally, I find that quite convenient and economical. Extra wiring could cause you to spend more money, which could be troublesome.
What makes it even more popular, is the fact that it is weatherproof. This motion sensor light bulb is able to withstand the elements while providing 25000hrs worth of lighting. It has been wet rated and will not cause you to worry about it getting damaged.
It uses 0.2w of energy on standby.
The bulb's detection range is 30ft.
It's important to figure out the range in which you wish the bulb to cover. For a wider coverage, get a bulb with a large detection range as well.
How much brightness do you want? Before deciding on this, also check the room and application you need the bulb for. For outdoor purposes, the brighter the better.
Some motion sensor bulbs have simpler installation processes than others. If you can't afford to take on any wiring and such, get one with convenient installation for you.
The best motion sensor light bulbs have more advantages than you can count. It is definitely time that you upgrade to these LED alternatives. They make you spend less on your energy expenses while offering you great security simultaneously. Add one to your cart today and experience a world of difference. In this review, we recommend the Smartsense by Sengled PAR38 1 Pack. Given the quality, you can't go wrong.


Are you in the mood for an Italian soup? Specifically, we're talking about the beloved Zuppa Toscana. This is a soup that takes inspiration from the region of Tuscany and commonly uses toasted Tuscan bread. However, we don't want the usual variant since it's high in carbohydrates. Luckily, we've come up with 5 low carb keto Zuppa Toscana with cauliflower recipes.
Are you short on time for preparing your favorite soup? Well, this keto-friendly Zuppa Toscana soup requires only half an hour. Potatoes are packed with carbohydrates, so they've been replaced with cauliflower instead. Other ingredients such as kale, minced garlic, diced onion, sausage are brought together by the superb creaminess of the broth.
Now, this Zuppa Toscana soup recipe is enough for six people. Each serving has 260 calories, 19g protein, 18g fat, and a mere 7g net carbs. Plus, there are only five steps necessary to accomplish the soup — just remember to add the crispy sliced bacon and the parmesan cheese at the end!
Here's a recipe that's great enough to be followed by your favorite local Italian restaurant. Similar to the first recipe, this one uses cauliflower florets to reduce the overall carb count. We do recommend using fresh cauliflower instead of the frozen type — the latter could affect the texture.
What makes this variation special is how it's made with a slow cooker. Thus, you'd need to dedicate four to eight hours. Still, we know that the resulting Zuppa Toscana soup is worth it. Every serving is best consumed hot, with each of them having 246 calories, 19g fat, 14g protein, and just 7g carbohydrates.
As the name implies, this recipe is meant to replicate the beloved Zuppa Toscana soup of the popular casual dining restaurant. Preparing and cooking will take 50 minutes, but you'll have eight servings! Each one is pretty hefty at 472 grams and 508.5 calories — 414 of which are from fat.
Likewise, every serving has 46.1g fat, 9.5g net carbs, and 13.5g protein. To ensure that you won't have any additional carbs, pick half a pound of bacon that doesn't contain sugar. Cut them into bite-sized pieces before placing them in the pot along with the sausage and cauliflower.
Do you have 40 minutes to spare? Here's a very easy way to create a keto-friendly Zuppa Toscana soup. Aside from the Italian sausage, this recipe uses a lot of cauliflower in place of the high-carb potatoes. On a similar note, spinach is a more desirable option than kale since the latter has more carbs.
This is good for six people, with every serving packing 438 calories, 40g fat, 15g protein, and only 3g net carbs. The cauliflower needs 15 minutes to become tender. On the other hand, the soup needs five minutes to simmer to achieve the preferred thickness.
Lastly, we've got another recipe that's good for eight people. Each serving of this low-carb Zuppa Toscana soup has 243 calories, 21g fat, 9g protein, and a mere 3g net carbs. While this recipe doesn't use any bacon slices, it does have a pound of Italian sausage along with vegetables like garlic, kale, cauliflower, and red peppers.
To ensure that the sausage meat won't get stuck to the saucepan, simply add some chicken stock. Afterward, you can add the water and the crushed red pepper. The amount of salt and pepper depends on your preference.
With these five amazing ketogenic recipes, you can always have a lovely serving of Zuppa Toscana soup. Most of them can be prepared in under an hour, or you can go for the slow cook variant. No matter your choice, there will be a lot of protein and fat to sustain your diet. And if you have any queries, feel free to send us a comment!


+ most noticeable is that there are notifications in the app now, so you get to know when sb left their workplace because of either bad payment or age.
+ also you can now see your money growing in real time :D.
+ I doubled the amount of buildings I myself added to the game :).
+ some small fixes and improvements.


Avon Little League offers various softball levels for girls Little League Age 5 to 12 beginning with the Farm level and progressing up to the Majors level. Little League softball uses a calendar year January - December to determine league age. For 2019, girls born between January 1, 2006 and December 31, 2014 are eligible to play softball. All girls who wish to participate in softball in 2019 must register and girls new to the league must provide a birth certificate.
Safety is of paramount importance. Therefore, no child, regardless of age, will be allowed to play in a league deemed by the player agent to be beyond his/her demonstrated skill level.
For questions regarding Avon's Softball program, contact , Avon LL's Softball Coordinator or - Softball Vice President.
Click here for an overview of Avon Little League's, tournament selection process for managers and coaches.


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1. Do you provide all your service features to customers in Japan?
2. Do you think I can install webGUI on VPS plan?
I know that there are some other customers with WH who are not in North America that use SSH and all the other services WH offers so I don't think you would have a problem there. I have heard that for some that overseas the connection is slower.
I took a look at the program you mentioned and most likely you would be able to install it. I do think that it would be a really big task and even they mention this in their introduction of things. The Perl Modules that it is reliant on I know we have some but they may not be the version you need for this and would have to update them. Some of them I do not recognize so you may have to install them. THere are a lot of great folks on the forum here that are willing to try and help you figure things out if you get stuck with such a project.
Yes you can use SSH from outside North America. Or, at least, it works for me!
Has anyone tried WebBUI or any other CMS using WH?


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Lake Shawnee's use of herbicide to combat Eurasian milfoil draws criticism
Josh Rouse @RouseOutdoorsKS
Lake Shawnee has been identified time and again as one of the most idyllic locations in Shawnee County, leading county commissioners to invest heavily in the area in recent years with new walking paths and other features.
But maintaining that beauty, and more importantly, what's under the water, can be challenging and at times controversial.
Blue-green algae is probably the most prominent issue with aquatic vegetation that many Kansas lakes and reservoirs have dealt with, often making headlines when a new case of the toxic algae springs up. But another type of difficult-to-control vegetation rarely garners much attention from the media — Eurasian watermilfoil.
Labeled an invasive species of plant, the submerged vegetation forms a dense canopy at the surface of the water. It is commonly found in 1 to 15 feet of water, but can be as deep as 30 feet if the water is clear.
Lake Shawnee is one such area where Eurasian watermilfoil has flourished, leading the county to use herbicides in recent years to combat the spread of the weed.
"Our plan for Lake Shawnee has been to do a treatment of the full lake every several years with bump treatments in between to control the growth and spread of the watermilfoil," said Mike McLaughlin, communications and public information supervisor for Shawnee County Parks and Recreation.
But despite being listed as "invasive," Eurasian watermilfoil can actually be a beneficial plant in many ways to aquatic wildlife, providing food and shelter for several species. Predators like bass and walleye in particular use the weeds as cover.
"I have been an angler since 1948," said iconic outdoors writer Ned Kehde, of Lawrence, "and across those many years and around the many waterways where I have pursued largemouth bass and smallmouth bass, I have found that Eurasian milfoil has been a godsend to those reservoirs that are blessed to have it growing upon its underwater terrains."
To be frank, Kehde's opinion on this issue carries water with a lot of anglers.
Kehde, a forefather of finesse fishing — he is the namesake of the popular Ned Rig used by so many anglers today — has been an outspoken opponent of using herbicides to kill aquatic vegetation. He became vocal about the issue when Douglas County decided to stop using the herbicide Ecomazapyr to kill vegetation after 20 trees died near the shoreline of Lone Star Lake, apparently of herbicide poisoning. However, the county continues to use another herbicide, Navigate, to control Eurasian milfoil.
Kehde spoke before Douglas County commissioners in July, saying he would prefer the county stop using the herbicide. Kehde told that commission that watermilfoil helps increase fish populations in lakes, and that some of his best fishing experiences have been at lakes where the plant grows, according to an article in the Lawrence Journal-World.
In Topeka, Kehde said he believes the introduction of herbicides to Lake Shawnee in past years has been detrimental to the bass populations, as well, and said mechanical or manual removal of excess weeds would be a better option.
"When the caretakers of Shawnee Lake deposited an invasive and toxic chemical into Lake Shawnee, they rationalized this poisoning by saying that they needed to rid the water of Eurasian milfoil," Kehde said. "This bountiful and helpful aquatic vegetation was castigated as an invasive species even though it has been in the United States for more than a century. So, when is a species no longer invasive? For example, bluegrass is not native to the United States. House sparrows are not native. In fact, there are scores and scores of non-native species flourishing and relished by Americans.
"In fact, we have seen folks from the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism stock grass carp into Gardner Lake, Kansas, and grass carp are not a native species. It looks as if this castigation is ill-informed and surrounded by prejudiced reasoning. I cannot understand why Eurasian milfoil is being poisoned."
Shawnee County disagrees with the assessment that herbicides are the culprit, saying that while the bass population has indeed declined, it wasn't related to the use of herbicides — at least not directly.
"We have a recollection that the decline in the bass population was evident before any treatments were done and that the decline was attributed to an illness," McLaughlin said.
Kehde takes meticulous notes of all of his fishing expeditions, as he uses that information to give a quantitative assessment of his trips for the stories he writes about fishing. He said the decline in the bass population first began in 2010, with the population rebounding by 2015 before declining again after the lake was treated in 2016.
McLaughlin said the Eurasian watermilfoil first arrived in Lake Shawnee in 2011 and was treated in 2012 and 2016. A single treatment usually lasts three to four years, he said.
Invasive species?
While the "invasive" label sounds menacing, some researchers are quick to point out that isn't always the case.
It's a complex issue. Even clearly harmful species such as Asian carp may offer some unexpected benefits, such as potentially controlling blue-green algae.
Zebra mussels are another prime example of invasive species where the end result of their presence may have both positive and negative consequences. In Lake Michigan, for example, zebra mussels infested the once-murky waters and had some interesting effects. The water became crystal clear — a welcome surprise for swimmers and beachgoers— as the super-powered mussels filtered the water at a much higher rate than other mussels.
For anglers, however, the clearer water was seen as a negative, especially as the base of the food chain — phytoplankton — was decimated in the process, leading state managers to scale back the annual stocks of predators such as king salmon. Clear water also causes vegetation to grow at a much higher rate as more sunlight filters down to the bottom of the lake.
However, in nearby Lake Erie, where zebra mussels are plentiful and the water is clear, the walleye population has unexpectedly boomed. The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported in July that after decades of boom and bust with the walleye population, the harvest of walleye in Lake Erie increased from 417,000 in 2011 to almost 2 million in 2018.
Depending on the layout of each lake, there is a careful cost-benefit analysis to each new species introduced in an ecosystem that must be carefully considered by wildlife officials. Because while the introduction of zebra mussels in Lake Erie has so far worked out, the walleye in Minnesota's Lake Winnibigoshish reacted differently, with the larger fish thriving while smaller ones all but disappeared. And in nearby Mille Lacs Lake, a University of Minnesota study found that an explosion of zebra mussels in 2005 decimated the walleye population.
Kehde recommended people who want to know more about invasive species read "The New Wild: Why Invasive Species Will Be Nature's Salvation," by Fred Pearce.
"Here is hoping we can find a way to stop poisoning our waters and landscapes," Kehde said. "The most effective and economical way to prune some of the aquatic and terrestrial vegetation is to do it manually."
Soliciting bids
The county hasn't scheduled a chemical treatment yet this year, but the Shawnee County Commission agenda shows the topic is set to be discussed at the next regularly scheduled board meeting, which takes place at 9 a.m. Monday in Room B-11 of the Shawnee County Courthouse, 200 S.E. 7th St. According to the agenda, Shawnee County Parks and Recreation will seek approval of a request to solicit bids at an estimated cost of $130,000, with funding from the 2019 operating budget.
The state, which helps manage the lake's plants and wildlife, also has recommended chemical treatment, though a KDWPT biologist has said manual removal is possible with proper manpower.
"I did recommend controlling Eurasian watermilfoil (EWM), as it can become too abundant and can interfere with lake user activities, including swimming, boating, rowing and fishing," said district fisheries biologist Richard Sanders, of Lawrence, who manages the fishery for the KDWPT as part of a Community Fisheries Assistance agreement with Shawnee County. "Since EWM can spread by fragmentation, mechanical control must also remove any cut EWM plant to keep from spreading the plant.
"An aquatic vegetation harvester might be an option. It would require a dedicated workforce to continue mowing and removing EWM periodically throughout the growing season. Application of an approved aquatic herbicide can provide some control (sometimes long-term with a whole lake treatment of fluridone) and is generally less labor intensive than mechanical control."
Kehde said that during past applications, significant patches of American water willows were killed, as were burgeoning patches of American pondweed, coontail and bushy pondweed, which were not invasive species.
"In fact, these four species of aquatic vegetation are very important and much venerated plants, which help keep our reservoirs clean and help protect and propagate fish populations," Kehde said.