I love food and I mean I live to eat. Good thing I love my veggies. But I have to say that bread is my top fave, I had to shed some extra pound this fall and bread at to go . Also cheese , butter , and sugar. I became angry for a few month. now I am stable but boy oh boy , if i did not love veggies I would of been in a reals sate of depression. That looks like a great salad dressing, you can use cashew to make the creamy parts if you are vegan.
Nameless nice to read that you are into learning the cards. Keep it simple , your are a pro at it , it's in you to write and share your knowing. We are going to have fun with this. hang in there T-man , your cards are still on my table. Collecting dust mind you but that's the rules of my games, nothing moves until I process the info. You will understand how I work , slow but devoted on this journey.
My amplifier is a flying saucer shape , I guess you can say it is in relation to the crop circles project I had in mind , but also I think deep down it was about making contact , what a perfect object to represent travelers. Yup , Crop circles...Still in my future dreams in some way for now , taking a little break and having fun with the crystals and friends ,there is a time for every thing.
Very interesting subject crystals I know nothing about these beautiful rocks, but I can see that others may share their passion here , that would be great .
Ok I am posting here one photo that Lumaza send me last year. this one fits also in the crystal communication theme IMO. Not sure who it was but we can all see a face .
and yes T-man I saw that second one just to the side. A funny expression , like a curious being , sweet looking and innocent. maybe it is the magician apprentice , then again who is the magician . That could be the look of wonderment which key to see. Could also be the same person reflecting many expression of itself. Just fascinating... no need to dissect this just play with it and when a message is important i am sure it will reveal itself.
I like that it has a feeling of some hands giving with a very focus intent in the expression.
Oh! nameless it so funny how this is so complicated for some and at time so simple. For now its working , cross our fingers and lets not push the wrong buttons. I am taking photos of this process for karin. I think this will change the face of the AP new thread with great people here , all in the name of having fun and sharing.
the one most important scene would certainly be how the wizard was just this ordinary little man behind the curtain to make you think that he is much more serious and powerful. But really when the fears are seen for what really they are, we can see how much potentially powerful we are. I also saw the Lord of the ring , might be just the first one I think ... but boy oh boy that made an impact on me:roll: which made me do lots of thinking about the power that ring has and how you can fall into the scene you focus.
I hear that there is many types of dragons and some may be call " Rainbow Dragon" here is a photo that Karin posted on my birthday on Facebook. This will only be a start to show the incredible connection we have create with the help of Lumaza. A true magician and artiste that knows how to consciously connect to those realms that we all want to explore and maybe it is where Dragons exist. And with the crystal we get the amplifiers.
We had already some strong bond that we nurtured over the few years on the EIC and still do through Facebook. Having an amplifier just makes it even more fun and why not have fun with tools and toys if they create the right frequency.
You may see above somewhere in this thread a photos of my amplifier sitting in a portal ( which is at my retirement home) this is a place Karin and I use for focus . Mine is In Canada and Karin's in the south of USA, also in a port at the base of a tree in her backyard . So far its been more then I had expected, then again we both rarely put to much importance on expectations ...now that could be because we are to busy having fun to be bother.
On my birthday Karin focus on this little crystal that she held between her fingers, took photos and posted this following image. I should also say that maybe birthdays may be an important ingredient to this. I gave Karin an amplifier for her birthday and also a little Dragonet from Lumaza. Many time the amplifier , dragonet or a card reading gets posted , with some story attached revealing just the fantastic world of synchronicity, connection and love to play with what calls for attention.
I hope everyone here know about the Crystal communication THREAD FROM CASEY that ALONE will blow your mind if you go check out the posting, not to be miss and this is just a start, I truly think this out of this world and also in this world for us to see.
Have an open mind and enjoy my journey here sharing with you these images that I or some friends have captured.
Wait ...want to find out my genius way , Yes I was having problem to have it appear in between those two image brackets don't ask me why SO... I press again on the icon and again both brackets appeared right next to that incredible long bunch of info and here is the move that change my world , I deleted the first bracket And now the long brutal info was in the right place, magically looking like it was suppose to be , right where that silly cursor was at first when I tried so many time to paste there and ruined it each time . it all looks good now... Still can't believe that it actually work WOW!!!! I am in heaven!!! I swear this is big in Plume world with my Ordinateur.
I think its all about being in good company, Thanks so much friends , it looks like I need to come and do some reading with the Tarots cards now that I know how to post no pro.
I see them both very strange indeed. what is the browser bar?
You know its strange this whole thing , I do see it clear. you just posted the crystal but where did you get the picture from?
Ok here is the deal, I am going to post them here or try and then will have anyone have fun doing this , now I have no idea how you all got this pictures but your are my wizzards... both of you. I am going to go read some of your cool post and come back with more details to the why I want to show the Crystals here. Thanks so much Nameless And hight five for sure!!!!
BUT...T-Man where did you get that ?


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Global Agora Announces Launch Of Maximus Live -- 21st Century Media Buying Software
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NEW YORK, Jan. 22, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Global Agora, a venture capital fund founded and operated by entrepreneurs, is pleased to announce the rollout of Maximus, a 21st century media buying software that puts native advertising strategies on auto-pilot. Maximus interfaces with the major advertising platforms of Yahoo Gemini, Outbrain, Taboola, and RevContent. The benefit is a geometric gain for media buyers by providing a meaningful increase in time efficiency while increasing degree of profitability per human hour invested.
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Saturday, April 6, 2019 • 8:30 a.m. – 3 p.m.
The Education Department invites preservice and inservice educators to attend the Fifth Annual Charles Chadwell Special Education Institute on Saturday, April 6, 2019 at Presbyterian College. Dr. Eric Moore, a Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and Accessibility specialist at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, will host a workshop about Universal Design for Learning. After learning about the concept of UDL, participants will analyze learning outcomes for a lesson, evaluate assessments, and consider UDL teaching and learning strategies. Participants should bring an upcoming lesson plan to use for planning how to incorporate UDL principles.
Registration is free and includes and continental breakfast and outdoor lunch. Seating is limited to the first 60 participants.
This event is made possible by the Charles Chadwell Endowment for Special Education. The endowment was established in 1984 by Francis E. Cothran and his wife Jean Syminton Cothran in recognition of Dr. Charles Chadwell's service as superintendent of the Whitten Center in Clinton. Billy Cothran, Mr. and Mrs. Cothran's only son, was a resident of the Whitten Center. The endowment is designed to be used for scholarship awards for students who plan to continue their education in the field of special education, and is also in place to "provide seminars, lectures, or workshops led by recognized authorities in fields related to Special Education, which will promote a better understanding of the circumstances" faced by individuals with disabilities and their families.
Dr. Katherine McKnight is a dynamic presenter, dedicated teacher, and award-winning author. In addition to speaking at professional development conferences, she is a regular consultant in schools and classrooms all over the country and in Europe. Administrators and teachers welcome her expertise, witty good humor, and hands-on approach to education.
She has authored many books that support teaching strategies to engage all learners. Her titles include the best-selling The Teacher's Big Book of Graphic Organizers, winner of the 2013 Teachers' Choice Award. She's also written The Second City Guide to Improv in the Classroom, Teaching Writing in the Inclusive Classroom, and the twin volumes: Common Core Literacy for Math, Science, and Technical Subjects, and Common Core Literacy for ELA, History/Social Studies, and the Humanities: Strategies to Deepen Content Knowledge (Grades 6-12). Dr. McKnight edited and contributed to the 2016 book Addressing the Needs of All Learners in the Era of Changing Standards: Helping Our Most Vulnerable Students Succeed through Teaching Flexibility, Innovation, and Creativity. She is the recipient of numerous teaching awards.


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Lamont quarantined as spokesman tests positive for COVID-19
Peter Yankowski
Nov. 13, 2020 Updated: Nov. 14, 2020 3:17 a.m.
In an Aug. 7 photo, Gov. Ned Lamont addresses the media in Westport
John Minchillo / Associated Press
Gov. Ned Lamont is in a two-week self-quarantine after his chief spokesman, Max Reiss, tested positive for COVID-19.
"The governor will immediately begin the process of self-quarantining, as will multiple members of the governor's senior staff, including [Chief of Staff Paul] Mounds and Chief Operating Officer Josh Geballe," Lamont's office said in a news release sent late Friday night.
The release did not name the person who tested positive, but Reiss confirmed his diagnosis in a tweet after the news release was publicized and said he is not experiencing symptoms.
I'm sharing with all of you the message I sent regarding my COVID positive test result to Connecticut journalists who have done an exceptional job covering this pandemic for the public. In the meantime, send any and all toddler activities ASAP. pic.twitter.com/FtQFsQv1wu
— Max Reiss (@MaxReiss) November 14, 2020
The governor's office has been operating largely remotely except for public events Lamont attends, which occur most days. Reiss, the communications director, is at some but not all of those events.
Friday's announcement represents the first reported case of COVID-19 to affect the governor's staff.
"The individual who tested positive has not exhibited any symptoms and is home in isolation," according to a written release, attributed to Mounds. It added that Lamont and his senior staff continue to be tested twice weekly for the virus.
Contact tracing is underway to determine which members of the administration were in close contact with Reiss.
"We are taking this case seriously and observing all protocols to keep the governor, his family, and all of our staff members and their families safe," Mounds said in the statement. "While this is the first case within our administration, tens of thousands of
Connecticut residents have experienced COVID-19, and thousands of others have lost their lives."
Two or three times a week, Lamont appears in a COVID-19-related media briefing lasting 45 minutes to an hour, produced on the CT-N network in a Capitol hearing room converted to a studio. Geballe and Mounds often appear live with the governor, often with other administration officials and advisers in-person or remote, with Reiss off-camera moderating questions. It was unclear Friday night whether those briefings would continue entirely remotely.
In a 7-paragraph statement that he later tweeted, Reiss told reporters he wanted them to hear the news straight from him.
"I don't know how or where I contracted COVID-19, but I did," he said. He noted that his family had been self-quarantining "due to an exposure my children had at school."
Reiss said he had received two negative test results in the past 10 days.
"None of us are experiencing any symptoms. We all received follow-up tests this weekend, but will quarantine for the next two weeks. I also wear a mask during any and every public interaction, but as you all know, transmission can happen anywhere," he added.
Mounds said the case is a reminder of masking and social distancing.
"As we continue to see positive cases, test positivity, and hospitalizations rise in Connecticut, this is a clear reminder that everyone must continue to take proper steps to mitigate the spread of the virus. We must continue to wear masks, socially distance, and avoid large gatherings," he said.
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Peter Yankowski is a breaking news reporter for Hearst Connecticut Media. He previously reported for the Danbury News-Times and, before that, the Ridgefield Press.


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Industrias Pampero, C.A. es una destilería de ron establecida en 1938 en Venezuela. Pampero está compuesto al 100% de ron oscuro venezolano, una mezcla de varios rones en barrica de roble blanco durante un mínimo de  años. Junto con el ron Diplomático, Ron Cacique y Ron Santa Teresa, han contribuido a que Venezuela se haya convertido en uno de los 10 mayores productores y exportadores de ron del mundo. Los principales mercados de Pampero son Italia, España y la propia Venezuela. Su principal planta de producción está situada en la "Hacienda La Guadalupe", de propiedad familiar desde el siglo XIX, hoy conocido como el "Complejo Licorero del Centro", en Ocumare, en el estado de Miranda, en la región de los valles del río Tuy, cercano a los fértiles llanos centrales.

"Ron Pampero" se conoce en Venezuela como "Caballito Frenao", en referencia a su popular logotipo, un llanero a lomo de un caballo salvaje blanco de los Llanos venezolanos, una escena comparable al del gaucho en las llanuras argentinas o pampas, de ahí su nombre, "Pampero".

Historia
Pampero fue creado en 1938 por Alejandro Hernández, hijo de un pescador de la Isla de Margarita.

Pampero es conocido por haber establecido los estándares de la producción de ron en Venezuela, y fue el primer ron en ganarse el calificativo 'Añejo' por el gobierno venezolano. Alejandro Hernández se dedicaría más tarde a la política llegando a ser gobernador del estado de Nueva Esparta y fue incluso candidato presidencial.

A pesar de la creencia de su larga tradición, las Industrias Pampero, C.A. ya no es una empresa venezolana. Después de haber pertenecido a United Distillers durante unos años, pasó a formar parte de Diageo, el mayor holding de bebidas alcohólicas del mundo.

Los rones Pampero han conseguido galardones internacionales de importancia, incluyendo el Gold Award Premium durante varios años, y más recientemente, el premio como mejor ron de la Séptima edición de la San Francisco World Spirits Competition.

Productos
Todos los rones de Pampero, siendo añejos, suelen tener un color dorado (excepto el Pampero Blanco, el cual es incoloro) debido a la maduración en barricas de roble durante varios años, dependiendo del tipo de ron.

 Pampero Oro (Gold)
 Pampero Ron Añejo Especial
 Pampero Ron Añejo Aniversario, conocido por su botella con forro de cuero
 Pampero Blanco
 Pampero Selección 1938 Ron Añejo

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Página web oficial de Diageo
 Colección de etiquetas de botellas

Empresas fundadas en 1938
Marcas venezolanas
Destilerías
Ron de Venezuela

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Board Play Guide
Main objective of AFRINAISSANCE
Afrinaissance is primarily a practical response to Mbeki's call.
Motivation for AFRINAISSANCE
Africa's rebirth faces great odds. Not least is the continent's own history. The slave trade and colonialism took a dreadful tool on its people.
Dismantling a colonial AND SLAVE mindset
AFRINAISSANCE aims at dismantling a colonial and slave mindset by telling African people a story different from
The timing of AFRINAISSANCE
Afrinaissance is primarily a practical response to Mbeki's call. Its objective is to accelerate the process of the continent's rebirth by stirring up and sustaining an intellectual interest in things African.
Africa's rebirth faces great odds. Not least is the continent's own history. The slave trade and colonialism took a dreadful tool on its people. Both events created the distorted mindset that underpins many of the continent's problems. As slaves and colonial subjects, Africans were constantly reminded that they were subhuman, incapable of anything good. Out of such propaganda and brainwashing arose the mental slave. Any propaganda designed to make people feel inferior only thrives where there is self-ignorance. Ask many Africans about Shaka Zulu or Hannibal and all you get is a blank stare. But as soon as it is Napoleon Bonaparte, they start to spin endless yarns, with precise names and dates of each battle the Frenchman fought. They may never ever have heard of or read about Antonio Maceo or even Collin Powell. Their education is one in alienation. Yet, African history is replete with great people and achievements.
It is a history with names such as Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Jr., Booker T Washington, Dedan Kimaathi, Cetewayo, Cheick Modibo Diarra, Mathew Henson, Noah Samara, Ahmed Kathrada, Michaelle Jean, Wole Soyinka, Fela Kuti, Pele, Michael Jordan, Ronaldinho, Tiger Wood, Guion Bluford, Oprah Winfrey, Abebe Bikila, CJ Walker, Cleopatra, Ruth First, Gamal Nasser, Nardine Gordimer, Arthur Lewis, Bob Marley, Stevie Wonder, Denzel Washington, Charles Drew, J.J. Okocha, Steve Mokone, Barack Obama, Cheik Anta Diop, Manu Dibango, Hugh Masekela, Miriam Makeba, Hassan al Bana, Anwar Sadat, Naguib Mafouz, Harriet Tubman, Toni Morrison, Christiaan Barnaard, Frederick de Klerk, Desmond Tutu, Ibrahim Njoya, Menes, Empress Taitu, Menelik II, Louis Armstrong, Jimi Hendrix, Michael Jackson, Alexander Dumas, Alex la Guma, Alexander Pushkin, Leopold Sedar Senghor, Aime Cesaire, Osei Tutu, Nzingha Mbandi, Seretse Khama, Steve Biko, Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Du Bois, Kofi Annan, Benedita da Silva, Percy Julian, George Washington Carver, Thabo Mbeki, Oliver Tambo, Duke Ellington, Joe Slovo, Yusuf Dadoo, Seewoosagur Ramgoolan, Helen Joseph, Ruth Hayman, Daniel Hale Williams, Mohammed Al Amoudi, etc.
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With the fall of apartheid, the political liberation of Africa is complete. The way forward now is reconstruction.AFINAISSANCE provides Africans with an essential tool to coordinate their efforts and learn about themselves.
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When did the A.A. Family Groups begin using the name Al-Anon?
In May of 1951, Anne B. and Lois W. wrote a letter to the original 87 A.A. Family Groups (including some Lone Members). One of the questions asked, "Do you approve of the name A.A. Family Group? If not, what do you suggest?" By March of 1952, the members selected the name Al-Anon Family Groups.
What does the name Al-Anon mean?
Which day in May of 1951 did Al-Anon begin?
Is the Al-Anon logo approved by the Conference?
The circle within the triangle was approved at the 1968 World Service Conference.
Where can I find the history of Al-Anon in Conference Approved Literature?
Are there any historical A.A. events listed in Al-Anon literature?
A few historical events of A.A. are listed in the timeline in Lois Remembers (B-7).


Pub Walk 6 is a circular route, beginning and ending at the Poachers Inn. In Bollington, near to the start of the walk, there is a short climb up a steep lane. There is also a fairly steep climb up the side of Kerridge Hill, to the White Nancy. Apart from this, the walk is fairly easy. Strong shoes or walking boots are essential – there are some potentially muddy footpaths.
From the Poachers, the walk initially heads away from Bollington, up the side of Billinge Hill, and on to Rainow. After Rainow, the walk takes you up onto the ridge of Kerridge Hill, to the White Nancy .
From the main road, the walk leads up the hill to the north of Bollington. There is quite a steep climb up the lane here, but this is quite short, and is worth it! From the lane (Long Lane), a footpath leads across fields (from where this photo was taken). This view is from the highest point of the north side of this walk, over to Kerridge Hill, to the south (the White Nancy monument may be seen on top of Kerridge Hill). The higher hill up to the left of the path is Nab Head, but this is not accessible from our route. The walk then descends back down to, and crosses, the main road out of Bollington to Pott Shrigley (Shrigley Road). A short walk across a field leads to Ingersley Road and back to the Poachers.
(6) Cross another stile, and bear right, slightly uphill, along a bridleway (not the bridleway which bears left and downhill). Follow the bridleway, which passes under some trees, and then goes downhill to a metal gate.
(9) Eventually the bridleway forks. Take the left fork. This is the continuation of the "Restricted Byway". Follow the bridleway (which becomes Jumper Lane) past houses, down past Clarke House (on the left) to a fork.
(10) Bear left at the fork to follow the lane which emerges at the main road (B5470) behind the Robin Hood pub in Rainow.
(11) Bear right along Stocks Lane. Stocks Lane soon meets the main road (B5470) again.
(12) Bear right, to walk along the main road down to the centre of Rainow, passing the Holy Trinity church on the left, then uphill again. Look out for the sign for the Gritstone Trail to the right.
(13) Turn right down the Gritstone Trail, and follow the 'G' signs. Ignore a bridleway to the left.
(14) Pass through a gate and bear left.
(15) Pass through another gate and bear left uphill. This is a fairly steep, grassy path now. This will eventually take you up onto the 'saddle' of Kerridge Ridge.
(16) At the top of the hill, cross a stile and turn right. Keep following the 'G' signs along the top of Kerridge Ridge until you come across the White Nancy at the end of the ridge.
(17) After admiring the view across Bollington, continue straight on to follow the paved path down hill to Kerridge. There are other paths down hill here, but our path is the only one that is paved with stone slabs.
(18) When the path reaches a concreted bridleway, turn left. This descends to meet a road at Redway House (which used to be the Redway Tavern pub).
(19) Turn right along the road (Redway).
(24) Eventually, Clarence Mill is reached (on the right). Cross the footbridge (26A) over the canal to Clarence Mill, then turn right down the road.


Last year, our effective savings rate was 72%!
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The greatest benefit of calculating your effective savings rate is to compare your spending habits from year to year to make sure it aligns with your financial goals. Of course, you can compare it with others sharing their savings rate, but it often is a false comparison given that there are many ways people calculate this number.
Knowing this number motivated us to analyze our spending and determine the value (if any) of our purchases.
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This year we will be taking a more intentional approach to our spending.
To do this, I have created a tool for helping with intentional spending called the Money – Time Conversion Calculator.
For those heavy savers, I have some good news for you!
In 2019 the IRS has increased contribution limits for retirement plans and health savings accounts. Now you can shelter more of your hard earned money.
As of January 2019, 401(k),403(b) and TSP limits have increased from $18,500 to $19000. The $6,000 catch up for those about 55 ½ remains unchanged.
IRA contributions have also increased for the first time since 2013. It is increased from $5,500 to $6,000 with the catch-up contribution remaining at $1,000.
Finally, the health savings accounts (HSAs) have increased contribution limits from $3,450 to $3,500.
Of course, if you cannot contribute to the maximum limit or are choosing not to, these increases won't matter to you.
This year we're not only working on becoming even more financially fit, but we are also working on becoming more physically fit.
One way we're doing this is by tracking the amount of time we spend exercising per week. The World Health Organization recommends 2.5 hours of physical activity per week to improve cardiovascular and musculoskeletal health.
When breaking it down, it amounts to a little over 20 minutes per day. However, the challenge for most people is finding the motivation to build 20 minutes into their day and make it as much of a priority as putting on clothes in the morning.
I am glad my wife and I are finding the motivation to exercise more frequently.
I'm super proud of my wife who has been exercising more regularly. Initially, the goal was to exercise at least 5 minutes per day right before bed to help with consistency. That 5 minutes quickly turned to 10 and 20 + minutes.
We just have too much fun learning couples oriented exercises. Without fail, it ends up with us laughing our hearts out.
By far, this has been the most rewarding change this year and I do believe our desire to better ourselves will pay dividends for years to come.
Lastly, to all those who have taken an active approach to bettering their lives this month, congratulations! You know who you are. Keep up with it and work towards meeting your goals.


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100 Amazing Facts About the Negro
'Plessy v. Ferguson': Who Was Plessy?
by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. | Originally posted on The Root
'How many mysteries have begun with the line, "A man gets on a train … "? In our man's case, it happens to be true, and there is nothing mysterious about his plan. His name is Homer Plessy, a 30-year-old shoemaker in New Orleans, and on the afternoon of Tuesday, June 7, 1892, he executes it perfectly by walking up to the Press Street Depot, purchasing a first-class ticket on the 4:15 East Louisiana local and taking his seat on board. Nothing about Plessy stands out in the "whites only" car. Had he answered negatively, nothing might have.
Instead, as historian Keith Weldon Medley writes, when train conductor J.J. Dowling asks Plessy what all conductors have been trained to ask under Louisiana's 2-year-old Separate Car Act — "Are you a colored man?" — Plessy answers, "Yes," prompting Dowling to order him to the "colored car." Plessy's answer started off a chain of events that led the Supreme Court to read "separate but equal" into the Constitution in 1896, thus allowing racially segregated accommodations to become the law of the land.
Here's what happens next on the train: If a few passengers fail to notice the dispute the first or second time Plessy refuses to move, no one can avoid the confrontation when the engineer abruptly halts the train so that Dowling can dart back to the depot and return with Detective Christopher Cain. When Plessy resists moving to the Jim Crow car once more, the detective has him removed, by force, and booked at the Fifth Precinct on Elysian Fields Avenue. The charge: "Viol. Sec. 2 Act 111, 1890" of the Louisiana Separate Car Act, which, after requiring "all railway companies [to] provide equal but separate accommodations for the white, and colored races" in Sec. 1, states that "any passenger insisting on going into a coach or compartment to which by race he does not belong, shall be liable to a fine of twenty-five dollars, or in lieu thereof to imprisonment for a period of not more than twenty days in the parish prison."
It takes only 20 minutes for Homer Plessy to get bounced from his train, but another four years for him to receive a final decision from the United States Supreme Court. He is far from alone in the struggle. The 18-member citizens group to which Plessy belongs, the Comité des Citoyens of New Orleans (made up of "civil libertarians, ex-Union soldiers, Republicans, writers, a former Louisiana lieutenant governor, a French Quarter jeweler and other professionals," according to Medley), has left little to chance.
In fact, every detail of Plessy's arrest has been plotted in advance with input from one of the most famous white crusaders for black rights in the Jim Crow era: Civil War veteran, lawyer, Reconstruction judge and best-selling novelist Albion Winegar Tourgée, of late a columnist for the Chicago Inter-Ocean who will oversee Plessy's case from his Mayville, N.Y., home, which Tourgée calls "Thorheim," or "Fool's House," after his popular novel, A Fool's Errand (1879). Even the East Louisiana Railroad, conductor Dowling and Detective Cain are in on the scheme.
Critically important to the legal team is Plessy's color — that he has "seven eighths Caucasian and one eighth African blood," as Supreme Court Justice Henry Billings Brown will write in his majority opinion, an observation that refers to the uniquely American "one drop rule" that a person with any African blood, no matter how little, is considered to be black. That Plessy's particular "mixture of colored blood" means it is "not discernible" to the naked eye is not the only thing misunderstood about his case.
Drawing the Racial Dividing Line
In Should Blacks Collect Racist Memorabilia?, we saw the impact that "Sambo Art" had on stereotyping African Americans at the height of the Jim Crow era. So devastating was it in drawing, and deepening, the color line, I venture that most of us, whenever we hear of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), immediately think of the slogan "separate but equal," and, because of it, wrongly assume that the two named parties in this famous court case had to have been, on the one hand, the darkest of black people and the most Southern of whites. At the same time, as my colleague at Harvard legal historian Ken Mack has pointed out in the Yale Law Journal, we err in seeingPlessy through the prism of the case that undid separate-but-equal a half-century later, Brown v. Board of Education (1954), so that the struggle becomes only one of securing civil rights in an integrated society instead of through multiple and sometimes contradictory paths: equality, independence, racial uplift, to name a few.
The truth is that no one involved in Plessy knew they were on a longer march to Brown, or that their case would become one of the most recognizable in history, or that the "sentence" that the Supreme Court handed down would take up less than a sentence — really, just three words — in the American mind. But, thanks to historians like Mack and especially Charles Lofgren (The Plessy Case: A Legal-Historical Interpretation), Brook Thomas (Plessy v. Ferguson: A Brief History With Documents), Keith Weldon Medley (We as Freemen: Plessy v. Ferguson) and Mark Elliot (Color Blind Justice:Albion Tourgée and the Quest for Racial Equality from the Civil War to Plessy v. Ferguson), whose works provided indispensable research for this article, we know that what is most amazing about Plessy's backstory is how conscious its testers were of the false stereotypes undergirding Jim Crow and the just-as-false binary posed by its laws ("white" and "colored") in real time, without any clear definition among the states of what "white" and "colored" actually meant, or how they were to be defined.
As Lofgren shows in his watershed account, the question was, did a man at the time of Plessy have to be one-fourth black to be considered "colored," as was the case in Michigan, or one-sixteenth as in North Carolina, or one-eighth as in Georgia; or were such judgments better left to juries as in South Carolina or, better yet, to train conductors as in Louisiana? Whatever a jurisdiction's rule, to men like Plessy, Tourgée and his legal associates — Louis Martinet, a Creole attorney and publisher of the New Orleans Crusader, and white attorney and former Confederate Army Pfc. James C. Walker — it was clear that a man's race was so essential to his reputation that it approximated a property right. Take it away without due process, based on a train conductor's casual and arbitrary scan, and you rob a man, "colored" or "white" (at the time, especially "white"), of something as valuable to him as his education, income or land.
They knew their climb was uphill; everywhere they turned, it seemed, new theories of racial distinction and separation were being constructed. While today we might call proponents of those theories "quacks," they were regarded (for the most part) as leading scientists of their day — men with college degrees and titles who, even in those rare cases when they were sympathetic to black people and their rights, felt strongly that mixing too closely with whites would lead either to black extinction through a race war or dilution by way of absorption. Of course discerning minds like Tourgée saw through such theories, but, as Lofgren illustrates in a table summarizing a 1960 study by historian of anthropology George W. Stocking Jr., among 50 social scientists publishing journal articles in the years leading up to Plessy, 94 percent believed in the existence of "a racial hierarchy" and in "differences … between the mental traits (intelligence, temperament, etc.) of races." (I'll let you guess which race almost always came out on top.)
Reinforcing their views on race were legislators and judges. As highlighted last week, the legal history of Jim Crow accelerated in 1883, when the Supreme Court struck down the federal Civil Rights Act of 1875 for using the 14th Amendment to root out private (as opposed to state) discrimination. As Justice Joseph Bradley wrote for the majority,"there must be some stage in the process of his elevation when he ['a man who has emerged from slavery'] takes the rank of a mere citizen and ceases to be the special favorite of the laws."
The Civil Rights Cases opened the floodgates for Jim Crow segregation, with transportation leading the way, and not just on ferry lines. As Lofgren writes, Tennessee, having passed the Reconstruction era's first "equal accommodations law" in the South, had already become the first to subvert it with an "equal-but-separate" transportation law in 1881. Florida followed suit in 1887; Mississippi in 1888; Texas in 1889; Plessy's Louisiana in 1890; Arkansas, Tennessee (again) and Georgia in 1891; and Kentucky in 1892.
Attaching a Value to One's Race
To say Plessy was a long shot on such terrain is an understatement. Yet there Tourgée and his legal team were — determined to use their test case to dismantle the legal scaffolding propping up Jim Crow. Elated by Homer Plessy's flawless execution of the East Louisiana line plan, the Comité des Citoyens bailed him out before he had to spend a single night in jail.
Five months later, on Nov. 18, 1892, Orleans Parish criminal court Judge John Howard Ferguson, a "carpetbagger" descending from a Martha's Vineyard shipping family, became the "Ferguson" in the case by ruling against Plessy. While Ferguson had dismissed an earlier test case because it involved inter-state travel, the federal government's exclusive jurisdiction, in Plessy's all-in-state case, the judge ruled that the Separate Cars Act constituted a reasonable use of Louisiana's "police power." "There is no pretense that he [Plessy] was not provided with equal accommodations with the white passengers," Ferguson declared. "He was simply deprived of the liberty of doing as he pleased."
A month later, the Louisiana Supreme Court affirmed Ferguson's ruling. Now Plessy's lawyers had what they'd hoped for: an opportunity to argue on a national stage. They filed their appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 5, 1893.
Contrary to popular memory, "The gist of our case," they wrote in their brief (as quoted in Lofgren), "is the unconstitutionality of the [Separate Cars Act's] assortment; not the question of equal accommodation." In other words, if train conductors could be authorized to classify men and women by race, according to visible and, in Plessy's case, invisible cues, where would the line-drawing stop? "Why may it [the state] not require all red-headed people to ride in a separate car? Why not require all colored people to walk on one side of the street and the whites on the other? Why may it not require every white man's house to be painted white and every colored man's black? Why may it not require every white man's vehicle to be of one color and compel the colored citizen to use one of different color on the highway? Why not require every white business man to use a white sign and every colored man who solicits custom a black one?" (Little did Tourgée or his fellows know just how absurd the use of signs in the South would become.)
While the constitutional arguments of Tourgée et al are best left to legal experts, I continue to be fascinated by the one they crafted about the indeterminacy of race and the reputational risks (and rewards) posed to those who couldn't (and could) pass for white. As they expressed in Plessy's brief: "How much would it beworth to a young man entering upon the practice of law, to be regarded as a white man rather than a colored one? Six-sevenths of the population are white. Nineteen-twentieths of the property of the country is owned by white people. Ninety-nine hundredths of the business opportunities are in the control of white people … Indeed, is it [reputation] not the most valuable sort of property, being the master-key that unlocks the golden door of opportunity?"
I'm sure there's little suspense around the fact that a majority of the Supreme Court's then-serving justices chose against opening the door to the Plessy team's arguments. In his opinion for the Court, handed down on May 18, 1896, Justice Henry Billings Brown explained that, as a technical matter, he didn't have to address Homer Plessy's particular "mixture of colored blood," because the appeal his lawyers had filed challenged only the constitutionality of Louisiana's Separate Car Act, not how it had been applied to the actual sorting of Plessy or any other man. At the same time, for the sake of argument, Brown wrote, even if one's color was critical to his reputation (and thus constituted a property right), he and the Court were "unable to see how [the Louisiana] statute deprives him of, or in any way affects his right to, such property." (Perhaps this was because attorneys for the state had already conceded that the law, as written, could be interpreted as having a crack in its immunity shield for erring rail lines and conductors.)
Accordingly, if the wronged party "be a white man … assigned to a colored coach," Brown wrote, "he may have his action for damages against the company for being deprived of his so called property. Upon the other hand, if he be a colored man and be so assigned, he has been deprived of no property, since he is not lawfully entitled to the reputation of being a white man." As a result, the Court held, Louisiana's Separate Car Act passed constitutional muster as a "reasonable" use of the state's "police power," preempting consideration of Tourgée's hypotheticals about paint and signs and such. As far as "separate but equal" went, Jim Crow had seven justices' blessings.
The Evolution of "Reasonable"
Perhaps what is most amazing about Plessy v. Ferguson is how un-amazing it was at the time. As Lofgren and others have shown, contemporary newspaper editors were much more concerned about the nation's most recent economic crisis, the Panic of 1893, its overseas forays to the South and West, and the relative power of unions, farmers, immigrants and factories. (For similar reasons, some of those tracking the two affirmative action cases pending before the current Supreme Court are concerned that those cases may get drowned by more pressing headlines.) For most, Plessy v. Ferguson only acquired its notoriety years later as a result of the Brown school desegregation cases and of future lawyers like Charles Hamilton Houston and Thurgood Marshall, who found inspiration for their strides against Jim Crow segregation in Plessy's lone dissent by Justice John Marshall Harlan — of all the justices a Southerner and a former slave holder.
"Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens," Harlan had reminded the Plessy majority (ironically using the same inkwell the late Chief Justice Roger Taney had used in penning the infamous Dred Scott decision of 1857, at least according to legend). Making the Louisiana law even more absurd, in Harlan's view, had been the sole exception the statute had carved out for "nurses attending children of the other race." In other words, it was OK for black "Mammies" to ride white cars with white babies, but not with their own (or with white adults, for that matter), because in those instances alone, the unspoken racial hierarchy was clear: Black nurses, at least as a matter of perception, still bore the markings of slaves.
With Jim Crow still ascendant between Plessy and Brown, babies born in New Orleans like future jazz great Louis Armstrong (1901) would have to grow up in the shadows of the color line that Plessy's lawyers were unable to erase — or even blur. Also, in between, all the main players in the case died: Walker in 1898, Tourgée in France in 1905, Ferguson in 1915, Martinet in 1917 and Homer Plessy in 1925 (in case you're wondering, a few months after the Supreme Court's ruling, Plessy pled "guilty" to defying the Louisiana Separate Cars Act and paid his $25 fine).
Then as now, Americans remain fascinated with the "one" — or a few — "drop(s) rule." Tourgée himself dramatized the phenomenon of passing in his 1890 novel Pactolus Prime, Mark Twain more famously in The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) and, in our own time, there's Philip Roth's The Human Stain in print (2000) and on screen (2003).
But white authors aren't the only ones counting. Reclaiming the one drop rule served as an important motivator for the original "Amazing Facts About the Negro" explorer, Joel A. Rogers. And as another of my colleagues at Harvard, law professor Randy Kennedy, has said more recently in an interview online: "A lot of black people have come to like the one drop rule because, functionally, it is helpful in many respects. If you think about some of the most important leaders in African-American history, W.E.B. Du Bois … in other regimes, in other nations, he might not be viewed as 'black.' Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass' father was white. The great Frederick Douglass, but you know, one drop rule … 'black.' "
As we've seen in the past two weeks, everything about Jim Crow art and law was meant to turn the spectrum of race into easily identifiable stereotypes. As valuable as collecting to remember can be, it is far more important for us to tell and retell the stories of the men and women who saw just how naked the emperor was. Along these lines, I'm happy to note that descendants of the two named parties in Plessy v. Ferguson, Keith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson, along with historian Keith Medley, have established the Plessy and Ferguson Foundation (notice their use of "and" instead of "v.") to "create new and innovative ways to teach the history of Civil Rights through understanding this historic case and its effect on the American conscience." With their help, the state of Louisiana now marks every June 7 as Plessy Day, and since 2009, a plaque commemorating the dramatic story that began with "A man gets on a train" has stood in the same spot where our man was arrested.
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Paige Hargrave, JSRCC's Commonwealth Legacy Scholar for 2012-2013
Paige Hargrave
On November 13th the Virginia Foundation for Community College Education, whose mission is to help Virginians across the commonwealth better their lives through education, held its annual Scholarship Luncheon to honor the 2012-2013 Class of Commonwealth Legacy Scholars. Scholarships were awarded to twenty-five outstanding students throughout Virginia's Community Colleges, and each holds a scholarship that bears the name of a philanthropy leader at their college or foundation.
Paige Hargrave, of Mechanicsville is the recipient of the Anita and Craig Waters Commonwealth Legacy Scholarship at J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College. Paige is a goal-minded young woman who began taking steps to achieve her goals while still in high school. As a dual enrollment student at J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College and Thomas Nelson Community College, she completed fourteen college credits with a 4.0 grade point average while still in high school.
Paige's goal is to become a trauma surgeon. There are few experiences in life more difficult than watching a close family member endure a medical crisis while you stand by helplessly and watch. After witnessing her mother and sister endure several medical emergencies, these life-changing moments steered Paige on a path towards a career in emergency medicine. To that end, a few years ago Paige earned her EMT-B license and a lifeguard license so that she no longer sits on the sidelines during medical emergencies. These skills allowed Paige to provide life-saving assistance to her mother during a third heart attack two years ago.
After completing an Associate in Science degree at Reynolds, Paige plans to transfer to VCU to pursue a bachelor's degree in Biology, and then go on to medical school. One day she hopes to work with organizations such as Doctors without Borders and travel to foreign countries to treat children with deformities and/or life-threatening illnesses.
In addition to being a full-time student, Paige works part-time to help cover her expenses. In her free time Paige has been in training to run a 10k race to raise money for cancer research, learning Spanish, and writing a novel.
The Commonwealth Legacy Scholarship Program was created in 2006 to make the community college experience available to bright, hardworking young men and women who want to attend college but do not have the means. These merit-based scholarships are awarded to first-time students attending one of Virginia's 23 community colleges who exhibit academic excellence, effective leadership, mentoring skills, and the potential to become ambassadors for community college education. For more information on this and other scholarship opportunities at JSRCC please visit www.reynolds.edu.
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JSRCC's Around the World through Movies
Sponsored by the Multicultural Enrichment Council, JSRCC's "Around the World through Movies" recently presented Salmon Fishing in the Yemen.
A faculty panel that included Shalini Upadhyaya, Janet Adams, Jason Lira, and Lily Mirjahangiri led a pre-movie discussion that highligted the U.K and Yemen's history, geography, political structure, and highlighted recent statistics and pictures on the societal and political roles of Yemeni women inside and outside Yemen. The audience also learned about the environmental challenges of importing water and Salmon to the deserts of Yemen, interesting facts about Salmon, and the powerful messages of the storyline through symbolism and metaphors.
Attendees included JSRCC students, staff, faculty and guests from the Richmond community who enjoyed a variety of refreshments representing Middle Eastern cuisine. The movie was followed by a post discussion and trivia questions where many students and staff won prizes.
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen featured a British leading fishing expert who was approached by a consultant to help realize a Yemeni sheikh's vision of bringing the sport of fly-fishing to the desert; he immediately thinks the project is both absurd and unachievable. However, when the Prime Minister's overzealous press secretary latches on to it as a 'good will' story, this unlikely team put it all on the line and embarked on an upstream journey of faith and fish to prove the impossible, possible.
"We are thrilled to see a promising turn out from our college and the community, and we stay motivated and energized to plan the future movie events," said Lily Mirjahangiri, Around the World through Movies subcommittee Chair.
The subcommittee is celebrating the Black History Month at their next movie event:
6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
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JSRCC Celebrates International Education Week
In celebration of International Education Week, the Office of Student Life along with JSRCC English as a second language (ESL) students and international students hosted a food and fashion event recently in the commons area of Burnette Hall on the Parham Road Campus.
Students from more than 70 countries including Iraq, Egypt, Senegal, Sudan, the Philippines, Cameroon, Congo, Brazil, India, and Bangladesh currently attend Reynolds. During the event as food from a variety of different countries was being served, students in their native costumes shared their homeland's customs and traditions - one student from Vietnam even donned her classmate's Uzbekistan traditional dress!
Annual Counselors Update
Each year the dual enrollment office hosts its annual Counselors Update. Approximately 40-50 school counselors from surrounding areas visit the JSRCC campus each November and are given updated information regarding the dual enrollment program as well as exposure to academic programs at JSRCC. This year's focus was an entirely "dual enrollment" focused agenda. After a Dual Enrollment "Nuts & Bolts" session, counselors were able to learn about two of the newest dual enrollment programs such as New Kent County's Bridging Communities Career & Technical Training Center where we are offering their students an extremely comprehensive Diesel Mechanics program. Also, they were given information regarding Henrico County's Advanced College Academy program which is scheduled to enroll its first cohort of students this summer.
Susan Roach from the office of Student Accommodations shared extremely valuable information regarding students with disabilities and how they should navigate their transition from high school to college. The day ended with a "tag team" which included, Karen Pettis-Walden from A&R, Kiesha Pope from Financial Aid, and Nichole Page from the JSRCC Scholarship Program. They shared how students should transition from dual enrollment high school students to JSRCC full time students. The counselors received a wealth of information at the Update and through the evaluation process, were able to give very valuable feedback to the Dual Enrollment office as well as place their "orders" for next years topics!
Who loves "stinky chemistry"?
Who loves "stinky chemistry"? More students than ever, thanks to new fume hoods at the Downtown Campus. The pristine new science labs on the Sixth floor of the Downtown Campus have been fully renovated and equipped with the kind of equipment found in labs all over the world. This transformative gift to the college was made possible through contributions from local businesses, community partners, and private individuals.
"Donors make the difference," said Vice President for Institutional Advancement, Bess Littlefield. "In 2007, we appealed to the community to help fund lab and technology upgrades. With challenge grants by the Cabell and Mary Morton Parsons Foundations, we secured additional contributions, ultimately raising $750,000. Really, the power of philanthropy to improve instruction and learning is what you see as you tour the Sixth Floor. Our donors are incredible."
The labs were on full display during a recent open house. So, what's the buzz? Hear what faculty and student are saying about the new space in this appreciation video for supporters of the project: link.
Kristopher Cox honored by Symantec Corporation at Annual Symposium
Congratulations to Kristopher Cox, JSRCC's information security officer, who was recently named one of the 2012 Cyber Award Winners by Symantec Corporation at their annual Government Symposium on November 7, 2012 in Washington, D.C.
Symantec is one of the world's largest software companies providing security, storage and systems management solutions to help their customers secure and manage their information-driven world against more risk.
The annual Cyber Awards recognize leaders who exemplify government cyber security excellence through their contributions to programs that protect national and global data and systems. The awards also recognize thought leaders who have developed and operationalized innovative strategies or programs to address government cyber security challenges.
The Symantec Government Symposium Advisory Group selected winners based on their strong leadership, innovative approaches and willingness to go "above and beyond" to make a difference in government cyber security. The awards recognize winners in five categories:
U.S. Congress/Capitol Hill
International - Civilian
National/Federal - Civilian
National/Federal - Defense
Regional/State and Local Education
Cox was selected as the winner in Educational category.
Through his leadership and direction, Cox blazed the path for JSRCC to host its first U.S. Cyber Challenge (USCC), which aims to significantly reduce the cyber workforce shortage by serving as the premier program to identify, attract, recruit and place the next generation of cyber security professionals. Through his tireless efforts over the course of a year, Cox successfully coordinated everything from catering to press interviews for JRSRCC's USCC, and ultimately enabled 40 students to secure jobs and scholarships. The Cyber Awards recognize Cox for his continued efforts to raise awareness of the importance of cyber security to the next generation of IT leaders.
Downtown and Goochland campuses unveiling new renovations
New DTC student services offices and lobby staircase to be ready for start of Spring Semester
Rome wasn't built in a day. But, we're making progress! 2013 will bring a fresh look, better use of space, and facility improvements to the Downtown Campus. Among the changes are newly renovated and relocated student services offices. These include the Success Center, Office of Student Accommodations, the Career, Employment and Transfer Center, the Business Office and the Academic Computing Center. The offices should be relocated and ready to serve students in their permanent locations prior to commencement of the Spring semester.
Between December 10th and 20th the large construction wall in the Downtown Campus lobby is scheduled to come down and be repositioned. This will result in access to the new lobby staircase that will lead students, faculty and staff to the second floor. When the construction wall is repositioned, the front entrance by 7th street will be closed and the entrance by 8th Street will be the only front entrance utilized to enter the building from Jackson Street.
All student services, along with the cafeteria and Department of Police will maintain their current locations through the end of the fall academic semester.
>>See photos of the Downtown Campus renovations below.
>>view important DTC office locations and service points.
Goochland Student Commons and Community Room renovations to add comfort and access
More space and more comfort – that's what students, faculty, staff and visitors will enjoy on the Goochland Campus through the current renovations.
The new student commons will be where the existing community room is located. The commons will provide students with a lounge, eatery area, vending machines, tables and recreational space. In order to complete these renovations, the current student commons has been relocated to Room 107 in Building C01.
The new community room will be relocated into the existing student commons area space. The Goochland Campus renovations should be completed by January 26th, 2013.
"We appreciate everyone's support and patience," says Mark Probst, JSRCC Director of Facilities Management & Planning. "The faculty and staff have been fantastic with being flexible throughout the changes, as all of the renovations are improvements to provide students with a better learning environment."
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Phi Theta Kappa Induction Ceremony
J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College's Chapters of Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society held their Annual Fall Induction Ceremony on Saturday, November 3, 2012, in the Lipman Auditorium, of the Massey Library Technology Center at the Parham Road Campus.
Established in 1918, Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society serves to recognize and encourage the academic achievement of two-year college students and provide opportunities for individual growth and development through honors, leadership and service programming. Reynolds has two chapters at the college. The Alpha Iota Beta chapter represents members enrolled in programs at the Parham Road Campus and the Alpha Gamma Omicron chapter represents members enrolled in programs at the Goochland and Downtown campuses.
Students who have completed 12 transferable credit hours and have a 3.3 cumulative GPA at the college are invited to join PTK every fall and spring semester.
Alpha Iota Beta Chapter President Corey Hancock, Jr. opened the festivities and Dr. Gary Rhodes welcomed the audience, composed of members, their families, campus faculty and staff. One hundred and twenty-four new members were inducted, many of whom participated in the ceremony.
Mark Smith, community activist and owner of four Midas Auto Service Experts locations in Central Virginia served as Key Note Speaker. Mr. Smith has been recognized by a variety of media and community organizations for his commitment to the community and efforts on behalf of organizations such as FeedMore (Central Virginia Food Bank), Meals on Wheels, and the Virginia Blood Service.
AIB Chapter President Corey Hancock, Jr. noted, "The Phi Theta Kappa Induction Ceremony was a great success. Everyone who participated did a wonderful job; our keynote speaker Mark Smith put on an exhilarating performance. In fact, I spoke with several students after the ceremony who only wanted to talk about how motivated they felt to push even harder and do more for the community after hearing him. Overall I was very proud of how the ceremony turned out and I look forward to working with our new members."
Reynolds hosts online education conference
Approximately 140 higher education professionals and faculty from across the Commonwealth, and a few from beyond Virginia, recently attended J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College's The Art & Science of Online Education Conference. Faculty, staff and technology professionals collaborated during this two-day conference to discuss quality in online education, student success, faculty development and engagement, and emerging technologies.
A virtual conference was held in tandem with Reynolds' conference on online learning. Avaya, the company that hosted the virtual conference, was on site to show attendees how virtual meeting space can be used for education.
Conference highlights included a keynote address from Anne Arundel Community College Dean Jean M. Runyon and a panel discussion with JSRCC online students. Dean Runyon highlighted the nationwide efforts that are being made to develop and improve online education opportunities; these efforts range from developments in quality course design, training and support for faculty teaching online, and expanded support services for online learners. At the student panel session, conference participants listened and learned from students as they shared their experiences with online education and how they developed their skills in time and resource management, and how they engaged with instructors and peers through digital technologies.
The conference was supported with grants from the U.S. Department of Education Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) and the U.S. Department of Energy. The FIPSE grant has significantly supported the College's Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP), The Ripple Effect: Transforming Distance Learning, One Student & One Instructor at a Time. J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS). The College's QEP is part of SACS accreditation process.
Presentations from the conference will be posted soon to www.reynolds.edu/conference.
Respiratory Care Week 2012
National Respiratory Care Week, held each year during the last full week in October, is set aside to honor respiratory care professionals and their dedication to increasing awareness of lung diseases and improving the lives of their patients.
It's also a good time to highlight JSRCC's degree program in Respiratory Therapy, the only distance education respiratory care program in Virginia. The Associate in Applied Science program, offering courses in both traditional and distance learning formats, is designed to prepare students for roles as contributing members of the modern health care team concerned with treatment, management, and care of patients with breathing, cardiovascular, and sleep abnormalities.
Currently approximately 80 students are enrolled in the two- year program, split equally between first year and second year students. Of the 80, about 32 students are distance learners hailing from as far away as Danville. While most of their courses are online, laboratory courses are taken on-site at the Virginia Community College closest to their residence. For clinical practice, hospitals in the student's local area are utilized.
Megan Miller lives in Fredericksburg and is a first year student in the program. As a stay-at-home Mom the convenience of being physically able to stay home while attending college is important to her. She travels to JSRCC each Wednesday for labs, and often gets together with other students in study groups. She said that even as a "distance" student she feels very connected to her classmates and very much a part of the class.
Krystale Garrison, another distance learner from Caroline County, also chose distance learning for convenience and is happy with her decision. She also attends labs at JSRCC, but utilizes Germana Community College in Fredericksburg for testing.
For more information about JSRCC's Respiratory Care programs as a traditional on campus student or distance learner, please visit www.reynolds.edu.
15th Annual Scholarship Luncheon
The 15th Annual Scholarship Luncheon was a heartwarming affair for J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College's scholarship recipients and generous benefactors and friends who attended the event on Thursday, October 18th.
With 190 guests in attendance, it was the perfect opportunity for donors and student recipients to meet each other, many for the first time. Spirits were high and smiling faces lit up the room.
Speakers included Andrew Gibb, benefactor of the Gibb Family Scholarship. The scholarship, established in the memory of his mother, provides assistance to active or honorably discharged military members. Mr. Gibb spoke of his fearless mother and relayed the frightening story about how her life was saved in 1979 by U.S. Marines when the U.S. Embassy in Pakistan was attacked and set on fire while she and other Embassy staff members were locked in a vault inside the building.
Two scholarship recipients were also given the opportunity to speak. Charlie McDonough, a 2011 Valley Proteins Fellow, started his relationship with JSRCC in 1994, returned in 2003 to pursue becoming a Licensed Practical Nurse and most recently completed his RN last December. He noted it was the inspiring teachers that kept bringing him back to Reynolds. His advice to current students was not to chase a paycheck, but rather chase their dreams.
Sierra White, recipient of the Reynolds Family Scholarships in memory of J. Sargeant Reynolds told the audience that without her scholarship she would not be able to attend school. Although she had always dreamed of attending a 4 year university far from home, she now realizes that her friends who followed that path have not had the variety and depth of experiences that Sierra has enjoyed at Reynolds. She said her scholarship gave her hope, a push towards the future that says, "You can do it."
The luncheon was a great opportunity to thank JSRCC's donors for their shared vision and support of our students, giving them the opportunity to reach their potential and achieve their dreams.
For more information about available scholarships, how to apply and important deadlines, visit www.reynolds.edu/scholarship.
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Top Places to Visit on a Rwanda Safari
Elena J.Others, Recent Post February 15, 2019
1 See the gorillas at Volcanoes National Park
2 Check out the Akagera National Park
3 Climb Mount Karisimbi
4 Explore Nyungwe Forest National Park
5 Visit the Genocide Memorial Sites
6 Go cycling on the Congo Nile Trail
7 See the Marvel that is Lake Kivu
Have you ever dreamed of going on an African safari? Here's what you need to know about where to go when you visit Rwanda.
Rwanda has made a remarkable recovery since the 1994 genocide and civil war that ravaged the country and her economy. One of the most admirable transformations is in the tourism sector.
The current government has used all resources at its disposal to position the country into a leading tourism destination in East Africa. The infrastructure within and outside the National Parks have been given a facelift with the goal of attracting more tourists to the country. The quality of hotels and lodges that have sprung up in every part of the country compare favorably with those in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania, too.
The Rwanda Tourism Board has reintroduced animals that had been wiped out from parks like Akagera due to poaching and the refugee crisis of 1994. New attractions like the Congo Nile Trail and the Musanze caves have been launched while gorilla trekking has been promoted relentlessly to global audiences.
All these hotels and developments have led to a significant increase in the number of tourists visiting the country per year to over one million. This is a great achievement for a relatively small country like Rwanda.
Although most tourists still visit the country with the aim of seeing the mountain gorillas, other activities have gained popularity like hiking Mount Karisimbi, cycling, chimpanzee tracking, golden monkey trekking, bird watching, games drives, and cultural and genocide memorial visits. Let's look at some of the best places where you can do these activities in Rwanda.
Photo by Tetyana Dotsenko/Shutterstock
See the gorillas at Volcanoes National Park
The Volcanoes National Park (VNP) is the most visited park in Rwanda. It has a picturesque landscape with thick rain-forest and mountains. The park has golden monkeys, forest hogs, forest elephants, buffaloes, and over 220 species of birds.
The main attractions, of course, are the mountain gorillas. About 300 of the world's remaining 1,000 mountain gorillas are found here. The gorillas attract thousands of visitors every year with the aim of seeing man's closest relatives up-close and in the wild.
There are 10 habituated gorilla families in the park open to tourism. Gorilla trekking tours can be combined with a visit to the tomb of Dian Fossey and her former Karisoke research center up in the mountains. Other activities within and around the national park include visiting the Musanze caves and going for a cultural visit to Rwanda's largest cultural center, the Iby'iwacu cultural village.
Check out the Akagera National Park
Akagera National Park is one of Rwanda Tourism Board's true success stories. This is the only savannah park in Rwanda where visitors can go and spot the big five mammals (lions, elephants, rhinos, leopards, and buffaloes).
During and after the 1994 genocide, hundreds of thousands of refugees settled or used the park as an escape route to other countries. Over half of the animals in the park were lost to poaching.
The new government launched an ambitious plan to restock the park with the lost animals, curb poaching, stop encroachment, and turn the park into a leading destination that can compete with those found in other East African countries.
The plan has worked and Akagera is now one of the leading tourist attractions in Rwanda. The park authorities have worked closely with international wildlife organizations to reintroduce lions, rhinos, and other creatures that had been lost.
The park is now a favorite getaway for both local and international tourists who wish to relax over the weekend while spotting mammals like elephants, hyenas, zebras, buffaloes, jackals, giraffe, baboons, leopards, and antelopes.
Climb Mount Karisimbi
Mount Karisimbi is found within the VNP and is a unique and popular attraction on its own. It is the 6th highest mountain in Africa.
Climbing up and down the mountain takes two days and begins with a briefing at the Volcanoes National Park. Hiking to the top of the mountain requires good mental and physical preparedness for inexperienced hikers while seasoned mountain climbers may find it an easy climb.
When at the summit, hikers are rewarded with great views of the national park, the Virunga ranges, and volcanoes like Bisoke, Nyiragongo, and Sabyinyo.
Explore Nyungwe Forest National Park
Nyungwe forest is the largest forest in East Africa and perhaps the world. It is the best place to spot primates in Rwanda. You can find chimpanzees here, as well as golden monkeys, colobus monkeys, baboons, and blue monkeys.
The Angolan Colobus which got extinct in Angola can be sighted here. The Congo Nile Trail also passes through certain sections of the forest, allowing cyclists to stop and explore the forest and its creatures.
Nyungwe forest is not all about primates, though. The park has remarkable biodiversity with over 1,000 species of trees and 240 of birds. Bird watching and canopy walks are very popular with tourists. The canopy walks allow visitors to spot the tree tops and forest creatures on raised platforms/walkways.
Unfortunately, Nyungwe doesn't have the gorillas. Had it been the case, Nyungwe forest would be a top destination for primate lovers.
Visit the Genocide Memorial Sites
Like any other country on earth, Rwanda has had a difficult past. In 1994, over 500,000 of Rwandan citizens were massacred, leaving many traumatized.
The government built several memorial sites around the country to allow the citizens and visitors come to terms with what happened. The most visited site is the Gisozi Genocide Memorial Center in Kigali and the Nyamata Church.
International and local visitors can visit one of the genocide memorial centers to learn about the sad episode in the country's history while also remembering the victims and lost loved ones. Visiting the Nyamata Church is particularly moving because it has been left relatively intact with human bones, clothes, and blood stains still on the church pews.
Go cycling on the Congo Nile Trail
The Congo Nile Trail is one of the most recent attractions introduced by the government in an attempt at making Rwanda a top destination for cyclists.
The trail traverses areas near the shores of Lake Kivu, small towns, schools, plantations, Nyungwe forest, and the beautiful hills and valleys in the countryside. Biking or walking through the Congo Nile Trail is the best way tourists can get to understand the culture of the people of Rwanda.
This trail provides opportunities for close contact and interaction with the locals while also understanding how they go about with their daily life.
See the Marvel that is Lake Kivu
Photo by Gavin Morrison/Shutterstock
Lake Kivu is found at the border between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Lake Kivu intrigues scientists because of the boiling carbon dioxide and methane gas that sometimes erupts from its depths. Only two other lakes in the world experience this phenomenon.
There has been no recent or serious eruption to be afraid of. Tourists, couples, and honeymooners alike frequent Lake Kivu because of its natural beauty consisting of white sand beaches, clear waters and islands. The lake is suitable for relaxation after completing activities like gorilla trekking or climbing one of the country's volcanoes.
These are just some of the places you can visit when going on a Rwanda safari in Africa. Have you been there? Would you like to go?
Featured photo of a baby gorilla by Asaf Weizman via Shutterstock.
Elena J.
Elena is a professional writer based in Sacramento, CA. She graduated with a BA in Marketing, took a gap year to travel around the world (95 countries so far! Yay!), and finally settled down to put up her own digital business. She loves surfing, Crossfit, Keanu Reeves, and cats.
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