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Q: Powershell Form Button onclick event doesn't work as expected I need to build a prototype of a GUI with powershell.
The OnClick $Bcancel.add_click({$form.Close}) event doesn't start when clicked.
Here is a shortened version of my script.
# Version: 2.0              #
# Stand: 12. September 2017 #
#############################

Import-Module ActiveDirectory

# Deklarierung

$ActiveApp = "FIS"
$ComboBoxApp = @("eGov","FIS","VI","DV","Axioma","Liegenschaften","HR Portal","Tutoris")
$ComboBoxUrgency = @("Geringe Dringlichkeit","Mittlere Dringlichkeit","Höchste Dringlichkeit")
$ComboBoxPrioT = @("Geringe Prorität","Mittlere Priorität","Höchste Priorität")
$ComboBoxCategory = @("Systemausfall","Unerklärliches Systemverhalten")
$ActiveUser
$CoordinatorGroup = "BFO Management"

# Declaration for POB
$CaseType
$Description
$CDAChangetyp
$Urgency
$CaseCategory
$ContactOrganisation
$ContactCustomer
$ContactNotifyby
$IsOkForWeb
$Coordinator
$Responsible
$Reference
$memo
$XMLBuffer = "*********** XML Buffer ***********"

 #Recognizes the active user

    $ActiveUserNP = Get-WMIObject -class Win32_ComputerSystem | select username
    $ActiveUser1 = $ActiveUserNP.username

    ############################################# Fenster #############################################

    Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Windows.Forms
    Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Drawing

    $Form = New-Object system.Windows.Forms.Form
    $Form.Text = "VRSG | Support Ticket - $ActiveApp"
    $Form.TopMost = $true
    $Form.Width = 600
    $Form.Height = 570

    ############################################# Linke Reihe #############################################

    $labelTitel = New-Object system.windows.Forms.Label
    $labelTitel.Text = "VRSG |"
    $LabelTitel.ForeColor = "#009454"
    $labelTitel.AutoSize = $true
    $labelTitel.Width = 25
    $labelTitel.Height = 10
    $labelTitel.location = new-object system.drawing.point(20,20)
    $labelTitel.Font = "Arial Narrow,16,style=Bold"
    $Form.controls.Add($labelTitel)

    $labelTitel2 = New-Object system.windows.Forms.Label
    $labelTitel2.Text = "Support"
    $labelTitel2.AutoSize = $true
    $labelTitel2.Width = 25
    $labelTitel2.Height = 10
    $labelTitel2.location = new-object system.drawing.point(85,20)
    $labelTitel2.Font = "Arial Narrow,16,style=Bold"
    $Form.controls.Add($labelTitel2)

    $label2 = New-Object system.windows.Forms.Label
    $label2.Text = "Application Incident"
    $label2.AutoSize = $true
    $label2.Width = 25
    $label2.Height = 10
    $label2.location = new-object system.drawing.point(20,80)
    $label2.Font = "Arial Narrow,14,style=Bold"
    $Form.controls.Add($label2)

    $LabelAllg = New-Object system.windows.Forms.Label
    $LabelAllg.Text = "General Information"
    $LabelAllg.AutoSize = $true
    $LabelAllg.Width = 25
    $LabelAllg.Height = 10
    $LabelAllg.location = new-object system.drawing.point(20,120)
    $LabelAllg.Font = "Arial Narrow,12,style=Bold"
    $Form.controls.Add($LabelAllg)

    $LabelBet = New-Object system.windows.Forms.Label
    $LabelBet.Text = "Title *"
    $LabelBet.AutoSize = $true
    $LabelBet.Width = 25
    $LabelBet.Height = 10
    $LabelBet.location = new-object system.drawing.point(20,155)
    $LabelBet.Font = "Arial Narrow,10,style=Bold"
    $Form.controls.Add($LabelBet)

    $tbBetreff = New-Object system.windows.Forms.TextBox
    $tbBetreff.Width = 250
    $tbBetreff.Height = 20
    $tbBetreff.location = new-object system.drawing.point(20,175)
    $tbBetreff.Font = "Microsoft Sans Serif,10"
    $Form.controls.Add($tbBetreff)

    $LabelCat = New-Object system.windows.Forms.Label
    $LabelCat.Text = "Description*"
    $LabelCat.AutoSize = $true
    $LabelCat.Width = 25
    $LabelCat.Height = 10
    $LabelCat.location = new-object system.drawing.point(20,315)
    $LabelCat.Font = "Arial Narrow,12,style=Bold"
    $Form.controls.Add($LabelCat)

    $LabelCat = New-Object system.windows.Forms.Label
    $LabelCat.Text = "Please describe your Problem"
    $LabelCat.AutoSize = $true
    $LabelCat.Width = 25
    $LabelCat.Height = 10
    $LabelCat.location = new-object system.drawing.point(20,335)
    $LabelCat.Font = "Arial Narrow,11"
    $Form.controls.Add($LabelCat)

    $textbox4 = New-Object system.windows.Forms.TextBox
    $textbox4.Width = 540
    $textbox4.Height = 100
    $textbox4.location = new-object system.drawing.point(20,360)
    $textbox4.MultiLine = $True
    $textbox4.Font = "Arial Narrow,10"
    $Form.controls.Add($textbox4)

    ############################################# Right side #############################################

    $LabelAdm = New-Object system.windows.Forms.Label
    $LabelAdm.Text = "administrative information"
    $LabelAdm.AutoSize = $true
    $LabelAdm.Width = 25
    $LabelAdm.Height = 10
    $LabelAdm.location = new-object system.drawing.point(350,120)
    $LabelAdm.Font = "Arial Narrow,12,style=Bold"
    $Form.controls.Add($LabelAdm)

    $LabelUser = New-Object system.windows.Forms.Label
    $LabelUser.Text = "Ticket opened by"
    $LabelUser.AutoSize = $true
    $LabelUser.Width = 25
    $LabelUser.Height = 10
    $LabelUser.location = new-object system.drawing.point(350,155)
    $LabelUser.Font = "Arial Narrow,10,style=Bold"
    $Form.controls.Add($LabelUser)

    $LabelUser = New-Object system.windows.Forms.Label
    $LabelUser.Text = "$ActiveUser1"
    $LabelUser.AutoSize = $true
    $LabelUser.Width = 25
    $LabelUser.Height = 10
    $LabelUser.location = new-object system.drawing.point(350,175)
    $LabelUser.Font = "Arial Narrow,10"
    $Form.controls.Add($LabelUser)

    $LabelUser = New-Object system.windows.Forms.Label
    $LabelUser.Text = "Affected application"
    $LabelUser.AutoSize = $true
    $LabelUser.Width = 25
    $LabelUser.Height = 10
    $LabelUser.location = new-object system.drawing.point(350,205)
    $LabelUser.Font = "Arial Narrow,10,style=Bold"
    $Form.controls.Add($LabelUser)

    $LabelUser = New-Object system.windows.Forms.Label
    $LabelUser.Text = "FIS (Finance Suite)"
    $LabelUser.AutoSize = $true
    $LabelUser.Width = 25
    $LabelUser.Height = 10
    $LabelUser.location = new-object system.drawing.point(350,225)
    $LabelUser.Font = "Arial Narrow,10"
    $Form.controls.Add($LabelUser)

    $LabeApp = New-Object system.windows.Forms.Label
    $LabeApp.Text = "Coordinator-Group"
    $LabeApp.AutoSize = $true
    $LabeApp.Width = 25
    $LabeApp.Height = 10
    $LabeApp.location = new-object system.drawing.point(350,255)
    $LabeApp.Font = "Arial Narrow,10,style=Bold"
    $Form.controls.Add($LabeApp)

    $LabelUser = New-Object system.windows.Forms.Label
    $LabelUser.Text = "$CoordinatorGroup"
    $LabelUser.AutoSize = $true
    $LabelUser.Width = 25
    $LabelUser.Height = 10
    $LabelUser.location = new-object system.drawing.point(350,275)
    $LabelUser.Font = "Arial Narrow,10"
    $Form.controls.Add($LabelUser)

    ############################################# Buttons #############################################

    $Bcancel = New-Object system.windows.Forms.Button
    $Bcancel.Text = "Cancel"
    $Bcancel.Width = 90
    $Bcancel.Height = 30
    $Bcancel.location = new-object system.drawing.point(370,490)
    $Bcancel.Font = "Arial Narrow,12,style=Bold"
    $Form.controls.Add($Bcancel)

    $Bsend = New-Object system.windows.Forms.Button
    $Bsend.Text = "Send"
    $Bsend.Width = 90
    $Bsend.Height = 30
    $Bsend.location = new-object system.drawing.point(470,490)
    $Bsend.Font = "Arial Narrow,12,style=Bold"
    $Form.controls.Add($Bsend)

    ############################################# Button Events #############################################

#Add Button event
$Bcancel.add_click({$form.Close})

 [void]$Form.ShowDialog()
$Form.Dispose()

I've seen some guys with similar problems on stack overflow, but their solutions didn't work for me.
Does somebody know what went wrong here?
Thank you!


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Dec. 13-14: High School hoops showcase comes to First Flight starts tonight
By Tom Hoggard | Outer Banks Voice on December 11, 2019
Good Guys Vs. Cancer is brainchild of Chad Williams
This coming weekend, high school and college basketball fans will be turning out to see some great young talent taking the court at First Flight High School.
The 2019 Good Guys Vs. Cancer showcase will tip-off its two-day event on Friday Dec. 13, and will feature local teams like the hosting Nighthawks, Manteo, Hatteras, Ocracoke, Pasquotank, Hertford County, and Camden, as well as other powerhouse programs from all over the state. In total, there will be 21 different schools traveling to Kill Devil Hills for the basketball showcase.
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Pulling off such an event requires a commitment from numerous sponsors and volunteers. While there are certainly many people who have helped contribute to this event over the last two years, it's safe to say that the showcase is the brainchild of First Flight Athletic Director and basketball coach Chad Williams. Yet while it may have been his idea, it was his father, Guy Williams Jr. who served as the inspiration for it all.
It began with the sad news of Guy Williams being diagnosed with cancer back in February 2018. Not too long after, First Flight was invited to participate in the annual Coaches Vs. Cancer event in Asheville. One of the requirements for teams to take part in that event is that they first hold a fundraiser of their own to go toward the cancer initiative. Coach Williams immediately knew what he would do to raise the necessary funds — hold his very own showcase here in Dare County.
With lots of work to be done, and no time to waste, the task may have seemed daunting to some. Williams however never doubted his ability to pull it off. It was through the work ethic he inherited from his father that it would all come together.
When asked about his father, Williams says that, "I never recall him taking a sick day growing up. Even after being diagnosed, he remained committed to his work instead of retiring." And he always found a way to juggle his schedule to incorporate his son's athletic events.
"Not only was he my little league coach," Williams notes, "but he attended every single game that I played in my high school career, even those as many as three hours away."
Guy Williams would eventually lose his battle with cancer, but not until the First Annual Good Guys vs Cancer Showcase had been played. Now the life and legacy of Guy Williams lives on, both with his son and with the showcase that he inspired.
This year's 2nd Annual Good Guys vs Cancer Showcase promises to be an even bigger deal. Not only will area fans be showing up to help raise funds, but with the elite talent that will be featured, I'd venture to guess that you may even bump into a college scout or two.
Coach Williams has outdone himself this year by shooting for the stars, or at least the future stars. Take Raleigh's Word of God, (alma mater of John Wall) which is ranked 42nd nationally and features two Division 1 talents, including the No. 7 prospect in the 2019 recruiting class, Isaiah Todd. Todd, who has already committed to Michigan, is joined on that team by PoBoigh King, member of the 2022 class who already has offers from Arizona State and Ole Miss.
Trinity Episcopal makes the trip from Virginia and brings with it a loaded roster led by the likes of Duke commit Henry Coleman. Then there's 2021 NC State Wolfpack commit Terquavion Smith who will lead Farmville Central in their quest for a second consecutive 2A NC State Championship. Overall there will be more than 25 Division 1 talents, and countless other future college players on display.
Other programs hailing from North Carolina include Kinston High School, South Central, East Carteret, Pender and Washington County. Of course, the First Flight Nighthawks hope to make an impression on those in attendance as well. With Williams serving as the driving force, and his father Guy watching over it all from high above, this has the makings of a bigtime event in 2019 and for years to come.
General admission tickets, at $10 apiece, will go on sale the day of the event and will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis. Limited VIP reserved seating will be offered online, with sales starting November 15. Those tickets, at $40, will include free come-and-go access, reserved seating and concession tickets. Click here to order tickets.
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Harvey Job Matusow (October 3, 1926 – January 17, 2002) was an American communist who became an informer for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and subsequently a paid witness for a variety of anti-subversion bodies, including the House Un-American Activities Committee, before eventually recanting the bulk of his testimony.  These activities led to his own perjury conviction and a prison sentence.  His McCarthy era activities overshadowed his later work as an artist, actor and producer.

Background
Harvey Matusow was born on October 3, 1926, in the Bronx, the son of Russian immigrants.

Career
Matusow served in the U.S. Army during World War II. On returning to New York he worked in various creative fields, including journalism and stage and radio acting. He became a member of the Communist Party USA in 1947.

HUAC
In 1950, Matusow, a young and low-ranking party member employed as a clerk in the Communist Party bookstore in Manhattan, walked in to the FBI and offered his services as a paid informant. During a 1950 summer road trip to the West Coast, he made a prolonged stop at the San Cristobal Valley Ranch, a resort near Taos, New Mexico, directed by musician Jenny Vincent and her husband and favored by progressives, and filed detailed reports with the Albuquerque office of the FBI there, which paid him $75 a month; he listed the license plate numbers of cars in the resort's parking lot and noted the comings and goings of people he recognized as party members or he alleged were members. Notable visitors to the ranch during his stay included Jessica Mitford and Virginia Durr, but he does not appear to have identified them in his reports. In December, Matusow was abruptly summoned to New York and expelled from the party; soon afterward, the FBI, deciding that he was of no further use, dropped him from the rolls of its paid informants.

Matusow, freed from FBI supervision, went, on his own initiative, to HUAC and offered to testify in upcoming trials and hearings as a paid expert witness by providing information on his former Communist Party comrades and people he claimed to have known or met in party circles. He also became an editor of the anticommunist bulletin Counterattack and worked as a campaign aide to Joseph McCarthy. While working as an informant, Matusow provided information against folksingers associated with People's Songs, where he had briefly worked, including Pete Seeger, and later claimed to know that 126 communists worked for the Sunday New York Times even though the total number of employees was alleged to be 100. Matusow also claimed that he had known Clinton Jencks, an officer of the Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers Union to be a member of the American Communist Party; that resulted in Jencks being sent to prison for perjury for having signed, as a union official, a required affidavit of nonmembership in the Communist Party under the Taft-Hartley Act.

Seeger's band, The Weavers, went from a hit record with "Wimoweh" to being blacklisted and finding no work. Seeger was later sentenced to one year in prison for contempt of Congress after he was subpoenaed to appear before HUAC and refused to testify, citing the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of speech as his justification (the sentence was vacated on technical grounds); Seeger eventually forgave Matusow for his youthful mistakes and noted that Matusow never did more than cost Seeger a few jobs.

Harvey Matusow met fellow FBI informer, Elizabeth Bentley, on October 3, 1952, at the offices of her publisher. Matusow began a relationship with Bentley. He later claimed that she was self-medicating for depression and anxiety: "She used alcoholism to ease her pain and she had a lot of pain." At the end of the evening, he would take her home and "pour" her into bed. Every couple of weeks, they would sleep together, but usually, she was too drunk. Matusow claimed that she was upset at her "frivolous treatment" in the press. "She didn't understand the hostility.... She never got to the point where she could handle it." Bentley complained about the way she had been treated by the FBI: "She felt that she'd been used and abused."  Matusow also said:   Contrary to what Miss Bentley thinks and says, I did have dinner with her on October3 , 1952, and she did cry in her beer and say she did not have new information.  She said she did not have any new information.  She is a liar, and she admitted so in substance that night.

False Witness
In 1955, he came clean with a book, False Witness, in which he disclosed that he had been an FBI agent and was paid to give information about members of the Communist Party. He also claimed in the book that McCarthy and Roy Cohn had encouraged him to lie. Because of the book, Matusow was found guilty of perjury, jailed for nearly three years, and ultimately blacklisted.

Exile
After leaving prison Matusow sought, through a variety of artistic and cultural projects, to put the past behind him. However, having alienated people across the political spectrum (some hated him for his McCarthyite activities, some for his subsequent recantation), he found it impossible to move on. The breaking point came when, having painstakingly compiled a record of more than 200,000 works of art created under the Federal Art Project, he was told by a charitable trust that publishing funds would be made available only if he would withdraw from the project. Matusow responded by dumping all his research material in the Hudson River. Shortly afterwards, he went to live in England, where he was based from 1966 to 1973, living first in London then in the Essex village of Ingatestone.

During his time in England, he was involved with the London Film Makers Cooperative and worked with the composer Annea Lockwood, who appeared on record under the name Anna Lockwood.  In 1972, he produced a festival of contemporary music called the International Carnival of Experimental Sound.  The event's highlights included performances by Charlotte Moorman (in the Roundhouse and in the Richard Demarco Gallery in Edinburgh) and John Cage's HPSCHD, for eight harpsichords and projections of the American space program.  A train was hired to take participants and public to Edinburgh, to link with the Edinburgh Festival; Charlotte Moorman performed Nam June Paik's TV Bra in the Richard Demarco Gallery.

Matusow's activities also included managing the experimental band Naked Software, attempting to market a toy called the Stringless Yo-yo, making records as part of Harvey Matusow's Jews Harp Band, and broadcasting occasionally for BBC radio.

During his period in the England, he donated his papers to the University of Sussex.  The donation has since been organised into two archives, one dealing with Matusow's adventures in McCarthyism, the other dealing with his various artistic activities.

International Society for the Abolition of Data Processing Machines
Matusow founded the International Society for the Abolition of Data Processing Machines, which claimed 1500 members in 1969. He stated, "The computer has a healthy and conservative function in mathematics and other sciences," but "when the uses involve business or government, and the individual is tyrannized, then we make our stand."

Magic Mouse
Matusow returned to the United States in 1973 and, on the advice of attorney Paul Marshall, attached himself to the large Renaissance Community commune in Turners Falls, Massachusetts, and marrying the ex-wife of the commune's spiritual advisor, the Aquarian Age mystic Elwood Babbitt. He eventually settled in Tucson, Arizona, where, working with the Magic Mouse Theatre, he developed a clown person named Cockyboo for stage and television. Matusow began Magic Mouse as a radio show in Tucson, Arizona, and slowly it grew into a traveling theater troupe, and in 1979, became the television program Magic Mouse Magazine. This led to the creation of The Babysitter's Magic Mouse Storybook, a self-published book done in collaboration with Hilda Terry, creator of the popular newspaper strip Teena. "Some people wanted to revive the Magic Mouse stories," said Terry, "and he wanted me to illustrate them with my teenagers, from when young girls were more innocent. Teena started as a babysitter during WW2."

Conversion
Later, Matusow converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and moved to Glenwood, Utah, to start the state's first Public-access television cable television program.  For a time in the 1980s, after his conversion, he was known as "Job Matusow" and lived with his wife, Emily, in Warwick, Massachusetts.  Job and Emily sparked controversy when they allowed members of the Unification Church to live on their land.  He made chimes out of melted ammunition and bomb shells during this time and also became involved in collecting clothes for the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in South Dakota.

Later life and death
In 2001, Matusow moved to Claremont, New Hampshire, to run the town's public-access television studio. On January 2, 2002, he was involved in a car accident, and died from complications of the resulting injuries at his home on January 17, at the age of 75.

Personal life
Matusow was married "around a dozen" times, according to his obituary in The New York Times. His first wife was Arvilla Peterson Bentley, a McCarthy supporter, and his last wife was Irene Gibson, who he married in the fall of 2001. He had a daughter.

Legacy

The Trials of Harvey Matusow is a one-man play by Robert Cohen, premiered by its author at the 2010 Brighton Fringe. Based on a year's research in the Matusow archives at the University of Sussex, the play depicts Matusow during his seven-year period of self-imposed exile in England, pursuing a variety of artistic activities while looking back on the McCarthy years.

See also
Jencks v. United States

References

Further reading
 Caballero, Raymond. McCarthyism vs. Clinton Jencks. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2019.

External links
Further biographical information
Voice from the Whirlwind: Footnotes from the Book of Job by Stefene Russell
 Matusow interviewed by Charles Amirkhanian with selections of electronic music by composers featured at the carnival.
 Brief biography of Matusow with MP3s of his album War Between Fats and Thins.
Matusow Papers I and Matusow Papers II, University of Sussex Special Collections at The Keep

1926 births
2002 deaths
20th-century American memoirists
American Latter Day Saints
American expatriates in England
American military personnel of World War II
American perjurers
Converts to Mormonism
Federal Bureau of Investigation informants
Male actors from Tucson, Arizona
McCarthyism
Members of the Communist Party USA
Military personnel from New York City
People from Claremont, New Hampshire
People from Glenwood, Utah
People from Warwick, Massachusetts
People from the Bronx
Road incident deaths in New Hampshire

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Tagging online videos with information about colors, surroundings and even emotions in order to enhance search could soon become easier with Nvidia's new machine-learning graphics processors.
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The GPUs will sit in servers where videos are stored and then served to computing devices over the Internet. Software models, analytics and algorithms assist the machine-learning GPUs in classifying, tagging and resizing images.
Known for graphics processors, Nvidia already has a reputation for improving the gaming experience on PCs and mobile devices. The company's graphics products also help drive research on the world's fastest supercomputers. The Tesla M40 and M4 are Nvidia's first GPUs specifically for hyperscale servers, which primarily are used for Web hosting and serving.
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Billions of videos are being served every day through sites like Youtube and livecast services like Periscope. The videos will look better and shake less with help from the new GPUs, Buck said.
A batch of eight M40 GPUs can be used on high-performance servers where videos and images could pass through algorithms and analytics tools. Video could then be served through hyperscale servers with Tesla M4 GPUs, where post-processing could help enhance color, resize and stabilize videos.
The Tesla M40 has 3072 cores, offers a peak performance of 7 teraflops, has 5GB of GDDR5 memory and draws 250 watts of power.
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The GPUs will be loaded by server makers into products, and won't be available directly through stores.


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A fading strategy bets against any move that takes the price out of a normal range. Another way of putting it is that fading is a bet on mean reversion.
A squeeze is where the market is moved to an extreme value in a short space of time. These moves are often temporary, and so they can create some good trading opportunities for turning a quick profit.
A bullish breakaway is a chart reversal pattern that can appear in either a bullish or bearish market. In cases it can also be profitable to trade it on the sell side, as a contrarian trade.
The basic aim of "the turtle" is to enter trends at the early stages - it uses range breakouts to time these entries.
In the early 1980's an experiment took place to find out if it is possible or not to take a bunch of ordinary people off the street and turn them into trading moguls.
The descending broadening wedge is easily spotted on a chart. It looks like a megaphone with a downwards tilt. It's equally likely to appear in downtrends as well as uptrends.
The ascending broadening wedge is a chart pattern that can be traded in several ways; either as a bullish/bearish breakout or with a swing trading strategy.
When using channels it's good to know how spot the first signs of a price channel breakout - either if you are trading the range or the breakout itself.
When a falling wedge pattern appears in a forex chart it hints at bullish sentiment. Like the rising wedge, this pattern is quite common at all time scales.


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Healthy Living after Cancer
8 August 2018 | Website Administrator
It can be easy to assume that once you've survived cancer, life simply returns to normal, but what you do after cancer is just as important, if not more.
Cancer Council offers a range of support services for patients throughout their cancer journey, but we are aware that support is also needed to adjust to life after cancer
To meet this need, a free pilot program, Healthy Living after Cancer, led by the School of Public Health at the University of Queensland in partnership with Cancer Council NSW, VIC, SA and WA, was created.
The free program was designed to help people who have completed treatment for cancer and wanted help to make healthy lifestyle changes.
A Healthy Living after Cancer Consultant will work with you to make healthy lifestyle changes by setting goals for physical activity and healthy eating.
The program offers 12 telephone health coaching calls over a six-month period and can help you get more active, eat better and feel better. Throughout the pilot, participants have achieved an average of:
A two-point decrease in their Body Mass Index (BMI).
An improvement in daily vegetable consumption from an average of three serves per day to four serves per day.
An improvement in overall physical fitness levels.
Current participant, Alexander George, says: "This program has helped me feel happier, my mental stress has decreased, I feel more confident, and my weight has dropped by eight kilos. I have to thank my healthy diet for this."
Past participant Robert Frank appreciates the accessibility to the program. He travels across Western Australia in a caravan with his wife, so it can be hard to access services. The Healthy Living after Cancer Program is just a call away, all you need is a phone.
Through the program, cancer survivors can develop good habits of eating well and exercising regularly. Tailored health coaching motivates participants to gradually work up their strength and provides a range of advice from proper strength training to useful stretching.
Past participant, Peter Dunn, says: "The program gives you good council and direction. Having a workbook that allows you to look back where you started and see how far you've come. I don't really think much of my weight, but looking back I can see that I've lost some kilograms."
Recruitment for the three-year pilot program is open until September 30 and is available to adults living in NSW, VIC, SA, ACT, TAS, WA and NT, who have been treated for any type of cancer and have completed active treatment.
To take part in the program, call 13 11 20 Information and Support Service, email hlac@nswcc.org.au, or you can click here to fill out our online registration form.
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Online retailer, Asos, is shifting its focus away from Australia to drive growth in other global markets.
Nick Beighton, who was promoted from CFO to CEO in September, said Asos would focus far more on the UK, which is still its biggest market, Europe, US and China under his leadership.
Asos posted a £47.5 million pretax profit for the year to August 31 with sales up 17 per cent to £1.12 billion. UK sales rose 27 per cent while international sales were up 11 per cent.
When asked about proposed changes to apply GST to all goods purchased overseas, Asos CFO, Helen Ashton, said they were confident costs would be covered if need be.
"We are mindful that it may hit us in 2017. How large a proportion of our sales Australia will be by that point in time I'm not convinced," she said.
He said Asos will have two options, to pass on the cost or absorb it and offset it elsewhere in the business. "But until it becomes actually firm there's no point speculating what we would actually do," he said.
Beighton said the online retailer's mission to be the number one fashion destination for twenty-somethings, remains the same. The new CEO won't be changing the Asos culture or the way the business does things, but he acknowledged the world Asos plays in is changing fast.
The online retailer's strategy is made up of four key pillars: great fashion at a great price, be awesome on mobile and, deliver engaging content and experience, supported by best in class service (ie. a friction-free experience from logistics through to customer care).
"This really has been another year of mobile," Beighton said.
Another key market for the brand is China which was described as "still in start up mode" and "all about planting the seeds for future growth." Asos expects losses of £5 to £7 million over the next 12 months in China as it builds its offering.


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Fitness firm in peak condition thanks to carbon-cutting audit
7th January 2020 | Case Studies
Commercial fitness equipment supplier Fitness Warehouse is eyeing sustainable savings in surface water drainage charges, thanks to the University of Central Lancashire's (UCLan's) Making Carbon Work (MaCaW) project.
The Preston-based business is researching the potential for re-using rainwater captured from its roof space as a result of bespoke advice from experts at MaCaW, which was set up to help Lancashire SMEs move to a low carbon model.
Fitness Warehouse is also looking into the possibility of installing LED lighting and is in the process of applying for a grant, with match funding from MaCaW, as well as implementing recommendations to reduce energy usage through behavioural changes such as implementing a formal energy management plan.
Enabling Fitness Warehouse to cut energy usage
Formed in 2004, the business has a workforce of 25 employees and is based on Preston's Roman Way Industrial Estate.
The project saw MaCaW Business Engagement Officer Mark Nelson and Auditor Peter Burn working with the business to produce a carbon assessment audit. This enabled them to calculate the company's carbon footprint and identify the most effective ways to cut its energy usage, a combination of behavioural and process changes with niche recommendations for suitable equipment purchases.
A number of surprising points were brought to the attention of the Fitness Warehouse team, including the impact of using small fan heaters. In addition, the automatic flush on toilets was working too frequently and so this was amended to reduce the water used. The project has also inspired the team to look at ways of making savings in other areas of the business including fuel costs and hybrid vehicles.
The benefits of seeking bespoke advice
Tom Gerrard, Warehouse Manager at Fitness Warehouse, said: "The MaCaW team were great to work with. They did all the heavy lifting and kept business disruption to a minimum. They then produced a detailed, jargon-free report that enabled us to understand our carbon footprint and how we could shrink it.
"Some really interesting points came from the survey. A key recommendation was looking into the possibility of capturing rainwater from the roof space of our premises and re-using the water in our business, for example to jet wash our vans. This could lead to major cost savings for surface water drainage services and is something we never even knew was possible.
"We had always assumed costs relating to water rates were something you couldn't really do anything about so it was surprising to find out how installing a water system on the roof could make such a big impact. It's a niche recommendation that we will research more in detail with an expert, but it shows how the MaCaW team can find ways to think outside the box to deliver bespoke solutions.
"The steps we are taking will help the environment and save the business money, a win-win scenario, and something that always goes down well with our customers."
Mark Nelson said: "The expertise within the MaCaW team has helped Fitness Warehouse to identify carbon-saving opportunities that could be achieved through straightforward changes to operational activity – in particular cutting service charges by potentially capturing and re-using rainwater.
"Furthermore, the grant for LED lighting will help Fitness Warehouse to purchase technology designed to reduce electricity bills. In addition, establishing the carbon footprint baseline will help the company to win more business, as it will represent hard evidence that they have implemented strategies to reduce their carbon footprint."
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import { alertsReducer } from '../reducer'

import type { AlertId } from '../types'

const MOCK_ALERT_ID: AlertId = ('mockAlert': any)

describe('alerts reducer', () => {
  it('should handle ALERT_TRIGGERED', () => {
    const state = { active: [], ignored: [] }
    const action = Actions.alertTriggered(MOCK_ALERT_ID)

    expect(alertsReducer(state, action)).toEqual({
      active: [MOCK_ALERT_ID],
      ignored: [],
    })
  })

  it('should handle ALERT_TRIGGERED if alert is already triggered', () => {
    const state = { active: [MOCK_ALERT_ID], ignored: [] }
    const action = Actions.alertTriggered(MOCK_ALERT_ID)

    expect(alertsReducer(state, action)).toEqual({
      active: [MOCK_ALERT_ID],
      ignored: [],
    })
  })

  it('should handle ALERT_DISMISSED', () => {
    const state = { active: [MOCK_ALERT_ID], ignored: [] }
    const action = Actions.alertDismissed(MOCK_ALERT_ID)

    expect(alertsReducer(state, action)).toEqual({
      active: [],
      ignored: [MOCK_ALERT_ID],
    })
  })

  it('should handle ALERT_DISMISSED if alert is already ignored', () => {
    const state = { active: [], ignored: [MOCK_ALERT_ID] }
    const action = Actions.alertDismissed(MOCK_ALERT_ID)

    expect(alertsReducer(state, action)).toEqual({
      active: [],
      ignored: [MOCK_ALERT_ID],
    })
  })

  it('should handle ALERT_TRIGGERED if alert is already ignored', () => {
    const state = { active: [], ignored: [MOCK_ALERT_ID] }
    const action = Actions.alertTriggered(MOCK_ALERT_ID)

    expect(alertsReducer(state, action)).toEqual({
      active: [],
      ignored: [MOCK_ALERT_ID],
    })
  })
})

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GMB Southern's Regional Equality Forum Receives President's Leadership Awards at GMB Congress in Brighton
4 June 2018 Download as PDF
Many of the members of the forum work incredibly hard, often in their own time to promote equality and diversity in the union and in workplaces across the region, says GMB Southern
GMB Southern's Regional Equality Forum has received a President's Leadership Awards for Equality today (Monday 4 June) at the GMB Congress in Brighton.
The role of the Regional Equality Forum is to promote equality and diversity across the GMB Southern region. The forum has been very active over the last year in developing training and resources for GMB activists to be able to support their diverse membership.
The equality forum has been running a campaign to put pressure on the government to end the blood donation ban on gay men, they promoted that campaign at pride events across the region and we are hopeful that the government has listened and will be changing the legislation.
They are currently developing on a project on how the menopause impacts on people in the workplace. We have held our 3rd annual women's conference engaging over 80 GMB women who want to get more involved in their union.
They have organised a one-day training course for workplace representatives on how to support LGBTI+ members in the workplace, with specialist training on how to support trans members. They have also actioned improvements in the way disabled members can engage in the union by improving disability access. They have recently formed a race network for BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) members to talk about the issues facing them.
The 101st GMB Congress, comprises of 500 elected lay members and 300 visitors and guests. GMB Congress delegates were elected from the GMB membership to represent over 640,000 members from every part of the UK and Ireland and every sector of the economy. Congress is the supreme policy making body in GMB
Michelle Gordon GMB Regional Equality Officer said:
"It is great that the national union has recognised the outstanding work of the regional equality forum. Many of the members of the forum work incredibly hard, often in their own time to promote equality and diversity in the union and in workplaces across the region.
"It is because of these inspirational activists that GMB members are given such a high standard of support on issues such as discrimination.
"I wish to send my congratulations to all those who have been involved in the equality forum over the last 12 months, the award is well deserved."
Contact: Michelle Gordon 07866 369 259 or GMB Southern Press Office 07970 114 762
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11,678 kilometres away: Protests mount against Museveni
The independent February 9, 2010	ARTICLES 2008-2015, Features, In The Magazine Leave a comment
By S©verine Koen
The arrest, on January 18, of about 35 women who were protesting at the Electoral Commission (EC) headquarters in Kampala, is just one recent example of the difficulty and danger of staging a demonstration in Uganda. Yet, in this pre-election year, the ability to voice ones opinions, whether for or against the current government, is an absolute necessity for a well-functioning democracy.
On January 22, only four days after the botched protest at the EC and four days before NRM Day, a demonstration was held against President Musevenis government. The march proceeded unimpeded. No police interrupted. Nobody was arrested. How could this demonstration go so smoothly? The answer lies in the simple fact that the protest took place some 11678 kilometers from Kampala: in Washington D.C.
Under the coordination of Ugandans in Diaspora (UDII), about 200 Ugandans and Americans staged a demonstration in the United States capital, and two other protests followed in Boston on January 23 and New York City on January 26. The demonstration in Washington D.C. started in front of the Ugandan embassy and ended in front of the White House, passing in front of major international and American institutions such as the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and Capitol Hill. Some protestors chanted: Save, save Uganda, Museveni must go! whilst other protestors denounced the Western governments for their continued funding of Musevenis administration. At the end of the protest, a petition against Museveni and the NRM regime was delivered to the U.S Congress.
In todays globalized world, no country can conduct an election completely hidden from the watchful eye of the international community. In particular, most countries increasingly have citizens living and working abroad, who are still deeply engaged in the issues affecting their home countries. This can be evidenced by their online engagement. For instance, blogs such as Ugandans at Heart and Facebook groups such as Ugandans abroad offer platforms where Ugandan issues can be discussed regardless of your location in the world.
Thus, Uganda's 2011 elections will not only be closely followed by resident citizens of Uganda, but also by Ugandans living outside of Uganda, not to mention many interested foreigners in and outside of the country. The case of the D.C. protest is a great example of how communities in the diaspora maintain strong ties with Uganda and still have a vested interest in fighting for what they think is best for their homeland.
The Independents Séverine Koen got in touch with Deogratias Kawunde Miti, coordinator for UDII, to learn more about Ugandan pre-election mobilisation outside of Uganda.
How was the idea of demonstrations against Museveni in NYC and DC born?
The idea of organising demonstrations under Ugandans in Diaspora (UDII) against oppressive regimes is not new in Uganda's political history. Our grandfathers pioneered this during the colonial times as an effective tool of civil disobedience. It's partly due to that reason that Uganda won her independence without a protracted war, unlike other African countries like Kenya. However the pacifist means of challenging the government were upstaged by Gnassingbe Eyadema of Togo and Milton Obote of Uganda, among others, who schooled the likes of Museveni and other self-styled revolutionaries in the militarisation of politics. Our current wave against Museveni's dictatorship and his NRM military regime began at the beginning of last year and gained more urgency following the Kampala Massacres of September 2009. Realising that our colleagues in Uganda may not be granted their right to lawfully oppose Museveni's military regime in the near future, we decided to hold demonstrations where they can be held and where we can shame the international community into action against the Ugandan dictatorship that had enjoyed a free pass from the world powers despite its bloody record.
Is this your first time organising a demonstration?
Since last year, we have had other protests against the NRM's tyranny over Uganda and General Museveni's bloody hand in Buganda, Teso, Acholi, Rwanda, DR Congo, Sudan and beyond. The demonstrations in Washington D.C, New York City and other cities mark a week of protests in and outside of Uganda, against the regimes continued abuse of human rights, militarisation of politics, corruption and nepotism, persecution of political opponents, excessive brutality against dissenting citizens, land grabbing, muzzling of the press and suppression of indigenous kingdoms.
How large is the Ugandan community in your area? Do you have a leadership role within that community?
The Ugandans community on the Eastern coast numbers in several thousands, with the biggest concentrations around Boston, Massachusetts, Washington D.C. Metro area, the New York Tri-State Area, Raleigh, North Carolina, Atlanta, Georgia, and around Jacksonville, Florida. These are Ugandans from all parts of Uganda, with different ethnic backgrounds and different political affiliations. We are all brought together to stop Museveni and the NRM from plunging our beloved Uganda into further economic decline, social decay and political turmoil. The leadership of Ugandans in Diaspora (UDII) is derived from office bearers of the different Ugandan political and civil organisations, some independent and others affiliated with the traditional political parties in Uganda.
How easy was it to get permission from the necessary American authorities to have the demonstration?
With particular reference to Washington D.C, General Kale Kayihura and the Uganda Police have a lot to learn. In this capital of the United States, we only need to notify the designated Police department of the purpose of our demonstration, the planned date and the desired time. Once Police verifies your lawful identity, the permit is issued and Police escort is automatically provided for the route, venue and duration of the demonstration. That's what Police in a democratic state should do: secure the demonstrators and the venue. Compare that to Uganda's case: When the Kabaka intends to visit Bugerere, Museveni refers him to Kimeze and instead accuses Mengo of trying to cause trouble. It's ironic that it was Kimeze who threatened violence in Bugerere, yet Mengo gets the blame from Museveni. Why not simply provide Kabaka and his entourage with security to visit his subjects instead? That could have averted the September disturbances in Kampala.
What do you hope to achieve through these demonstrations?
Our purpose is to build, support, expose and put a face to the growing lack of democracy and high level of corruption in Uganda at the international level. We do this by organising political, civic and social awareness of the situation in Uganda at the local, national, and international level. The substantial part of UDII activities will consist of campaigning for democracy, educational, governance, and human rights awareness for the people of Uganda.
Who do you hope to impact through these demonstrations?
We have already achieved a lot by fixing the spotlight on Museveni and NRMs actions in Uganda and Ugandans should prepare for the imminent collapse of Museveni's regime.
Its through our efforts that on January 13, the US Congress directed the State Department to ensure that electoral reforms are implemented in Uganda and to ensure that the political opposition is protected and allowed to exercise their full rights in the lead to Uganda's elections in 2011.
On two occasions Museveni and his henchmen have been hounded out of the USA by our demonstrations, first in Boston, MA in October 2009 and most recently on December 4-5, 2009 in New York City.
We have also managed to frame the Anti-Gay Bill in Uganda's Parliament as part of a broader human rights issue and forced it on the agenda of the US Congress.
We have also worked with US partners to place Northern Uganda back on the international agenda and Ugandans will soon hear the US Congress pronounce itself on justice and rehabilitation for the people of Northern Uganda who have suffered untold atrocities under Museveni's regime.
Why is it important for you to be involved in Ugandan political affairs even from abroad?
Uganda is our country and we in the Diaspora, having experienced the benefits of life in true democracies, cannot leave Uganda to rot under the evil NRM regime. Leaders of different opposition groups, both in and outside of Uganda, chose to coalesce under the umbrella of Ugandans in Diaspora (UDII) to make the plight of Uganda's democracy and human rights more visible on the international agenda. We hold demonstrations in the USA, UK, Scandinavian countries and South Africa. Those venues were chosen as starting points for our demonstrations due to their respect for human rights, which contrasts with the situation in Uganda where Museveni and his goons routinely employ brutality to deny our people the freedom of expression, the right to organise politically and the right to peaceful assembly. Also, the USA, UK, South Africa and the Scandinavian countries hold enormous power and can lean on Museveni and force his regime to respect Uganda's Constitution and international conventions on human rights.
What are you predictions/feelings about the coming Ugandan elections?
If the 2011 elections are held under the current electoral law and commission, then we cannot expect a legitimate result. However, we still have time to cause the regime to change or to collapse before the elections of 2011, especially by demanding that General Museveni immediately withdraws his candidature for a 4th term of his presidency.
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The streaming services' ownership is down to two companies, Disney and Comcast. It's not certain how AT&T being out of picture will affect the platform. Disney owns 60 percent of Hulu while Comcast owns 30 percent. With AT&T out, the bundles and content strategies on the platform could vary moving forward.
AT&T being out shouldn't come as a surprise. WarnerMedia has been working on its own streaming service, which is expected to be similar to Hulu. Having a financial stake in a competing service could be problematic for AT&T. Now that the company is out of Hulu, it can focus on its own streaming service plans.


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What Is Critical Race Theory? Start Here
When my father called recently and asked me to explain critical race theory (CRT) to him, I initially balked. He voted for Donald Trump in both 2016 and 2020, a choice that caused a rift between us. I've since tried hard to reconcile Dad's politics with what I know of him as a person.
He is a loving man and always supported my intellectual pursuits. He also knew that I'd studied race and racism in graduate school and that the issues were foundational to my dissertation and teaching at the college level. Finally, he knows that I make no apologies about my anti-racist and social justice-oriented identity, something he seems to simultaneously admire and abhor. Still, I couldn't tell whether Dad was making an honest effort to learn about CRT, a field of study that I knew he'd never heard of until it became politicized. Was Dad truly on a path to learn, or was he just antagonizing me?
"Is this question in good faith?" I asked him. He'd said yes and explained that he wanted to help teach the concepts to a friend of his—someone I didn't know and who, according to Dad, held extreme and unyielding views about race.
Dad next asked me to educate his friend about CRT, an invitation I politely declined in the name of self-preservation. "I'm going to have to pass on this opportunity," I'd told him, "but your friend is free to locate the many resources that exist on the topic." I forwarded him an article I'd written on CRT and told him to start there if he was serious about understanding my perspective.
Dad respected my decision to bow out of the discussion, but I still felt unsettled. As a white person, I firmly believe it is my responsibility to engage other white people in these discussions—especially when their politics diverge from mine. After this exchange, I began a quest for resources in the spirit of working through a dilemma that I believe a lot of allies, activists, and teachers can relate to: wanting to protect ourselves from engaging in those circular and fruitless discussions with bad-faith questions about why CRT and anti-racist goals matter, but also feeling a responsibility to guide people toward useful tools in the event that they are genuinely interested in learning about causes that have been weaponized and distorted in political discourse.
In considering my own education, I found it useful to start from the ground up.
What Is CRT?
Based on recent reports, those most opposed to critical race theory seem to know the least about it. But as writer and activist Scott Woods points out, "Students in K-12 classes aren't being taught critical race theory … They aren't being given any textbooks with such theories. They aren't hiring guest speakers to come in and talk about how to use critical race theory in their science fair projects, even during Black History Month." (You can follow him here.)
According to Georgetown Law professor Janel George, in writing for the American Bar Association, "CRT is not a diversity and inclusion 'training' but a practice of interrogating the role of race and racism in society that emerged in the legal academy and spread to other fields of scholarship." In other words, CRT is more accurately a way of thinking and being than a series of lessons. To borrow from legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw, "CRT is not a noun, but a verb."
So what is critical race theory and why is it under attack? This Education Week explainer offers a definitional perspective on CRT and would be one place to start. In addition to helpful definitions, the piece covers the history of the debate and is an accessible primer for laypeople and experts alike.
When I want to learn more about something—anything—I never begin with politicians or tabloid news (unless I'm morbidly curious about how they're spinning an issue to their own advantage). I begin with carefully vetted nonprofits, activists, teachers, and educational institutions that have demonstrated a clear investment in studying, understanding, and teaching about the issues I'm interested in—in this case, critical race theory and anti-racism.
Learn & Unlearn: Anti-racism resource guide is a resource published by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. This outlet offers multimedia lessons, complete with video lectures by scholars like Keith Stanley Brooks and Gloria Ladson-Billings, and concludes with such thought-provoking reflection questions as "Racism and racial hierarchy have continued unchallenged. Why haven't things changed?"
Finally, with Critical Race Theory: an introduction, Purdue Online Writing Lab offers an accessible discussion of the history of CRT and includes an extensive reference list for those interested in books on the topic.
After arriving at a definition, it always helps to learn more about how to productively discuss issues that have been scapegoated and spun for political gain. In my own work as an educator, I've often turned to Racial Equity Tools to enhance my thinking and teaching. This nonprofit offers a curriculum of fundamental and theoretical discussions about race, categorized under Anti-racism, Critical Race Theory, Racial Capitalism, Racial Identity Development, and Targeted Universalism.
Multimedia/Visual Tools
Back when I taught a course on race, racism, and racial identity, one of my students discovered the University of Virginia's Racial Dot Map, a tool that allows users to visually assess the racial demographics of a given location, including the racial and ethnic disparities of state prisons. This interactive resource was created by the University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service and added a great deal to our understanding of the racialization of geography.
For those who prefer film, The Power of An Illusion is a three-part PBS documentary that challenges people's understanding of race. According to John Powell, a professor of law at UC Berkeley, "While race, as a biological concept, is an illusion, racism is a sociological fact … the film helps people see that it's not just an idea; it's inscribed in our schools, in our churches, in our neighborhoods and housing. And it's inscribed in the way we see each other" (as quoted in an interview with PBS).
Finally, Code Switch is a wildly popular podcast published by NPR that deals candidly with race and racism. Code Switch is my personal favorite source for smart and current takes about how to talk about race, but also for keeping up with ever-evolving language around race, as with senior producer and cohost Shereen Marisol Meraji's discussion of outdated labels, words, and phrases that continue to be assigned to people who do not identify as white.
Opportunities for Activism
As I've taught my students, learning about critical race theory, race, racism, and how we are all situated in this nation's racist past is not quite enough. Action is often called for, and I encourage students to donate and contribute to causes that align with themselves and their goals.
The Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History & Culture is a tremendous resource for those who want to learn more about race and current conversations, but also for anyone ready to take action. According to the museum's website, it is "the only national museum devoted exclusively to the documentation of African American life, history, and culture." Curators have compiled a comprehensive multimodal curriculum titled Talking About Race that is conveniently divided into discussions about individual, interpersonal, and institutional forms of racism and how to work toward anti-racist change at all levels of society. This resource encourages a "questioning frame of mind" and includes such provocative questions as "Why do you want to be anti-racist? Considering the breadth and depth of racism, committing to being anti-racist may feel overwhelming, yet small choices made daily can add up to big changes. Reflect on choices you make in your daily life (i.e., who you build relationships with, what media you follow, where you shop). How do these choices reflect being antiracist?" This resource features the work of heavyweights such as Ibram X. Kendi, author of the groundbreaking and wildly popular book How to Be an Antiracist, and activist and speaker Verna Myers.
Finally, there are plenty of organizations that would welcome contributions and activist support. From the aforementioned resources, there's the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture donations page and the Boston University's Center for Antiracist Research (founded by Kendi). And I've pointed my students toward myriad other ways to contribute to social change in the name of racial justice.
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration In the Age of Colorblindness, for example, is a documentary based on the groundbreaking work of Michelle Alexander and both the film and written work are essential for anyone interested in learning about what have become central tenets of critical race theory.
According to the work's website, royalties from the 10th anniversary edition of The New Jim Crow will be donated to the MOSAIC Fund for Justice. The MOSAIC fund seeks to end mass incarceration, an issue that disproportionately affects Black populations.
In How to Be an Antiracist, Kendi writes that "to be antiracist is a radical choice in the face of history, requiring a radical reorientation of our consciousness." This sentiment, to my mind, is the "verb" of CRT and the action I hope these resources inspire.
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The October flight of flavors currently at Ruby Jewel's.
We've been pretty lucky this Fall to have such beautiful sunny days. And what's better to celebrate the autumn sunshine than with October-inspired ice cream? Let's keep the spirit of summer alive as long as we can. One of Portland's favorite ice cream shops, Ruby Jewel, is scooping up tasty flavors reminiscent of the season and, naturally, The Paper Airplane flew over to the newest location on SE Hawthorne to investigate.
Located in modern The Hawthorne building, the latest edition to the Ruby Jewel family is a neat and sweet scoop shop with friendly service and unique flavors. It's a fun space to grab a fresh waffle cone or an ice cream flight to share with friends. What I love about Ruby Jewel's ice cream is its rich consistency and the subtle, new twists on classic flavors. Ruby Jewel prides itself on supporting the local community and economy through utilizing only the best of the best ingredients found in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest for it's one-of-a-kind artisinal ice cream. This month, the Ruby Jewel is also featuring a lineup of seriously delicious seasonal flavors.
While taste testing, I made a new friend who eagerly answered a few questions for me on the popularity of Ruby Jewel's October flavors for those under 8 years-old. She was very curious as to why I had an entire flight of ice cream to myself and had lots of expert opinions on which flavors I should write about, including but not limited to the new Pumpkin Pie flavor.
Me: "You seem like an ice cream expert?"
Me: "If you could pick any flavor, which one would you write about?"
Me: "What's your favorite thing about Pumpkin Pie?"
I will confirm for those over the age of eight that, yes, Pumpkin Pie is really good. The flavor is incredibly natural as if eating a homemade pie reincarnated in ice cream cone form-- and not at all like Pumpkin Spice this or that. Plus, there were flaky pieces of pie crust interwoven. In my humble opinion it was so much better than actual pie.
All of the October flavors are equally tasty in their own right. Seely Mint Cookies & Cream is like a refreshing peppermint Oreo, Red Ape Cinnamon tastes just like Grandma's snickerdoodle cookies, then there's decadent Chocolate and Candied Orange, rich Peanut Butter Krispy Crunch and Candy Bar Explosion (awesomely self-explanatory.) With flavors this good, you can't go wrong. Forget the candy this Halloween. I'll take a pint of Ruby Jewel, please.
Note: Thank you to Ruby Jewel for the super sweet taste test! Dear readers, as always, all thoughts and words are all mine.


Guillermo Solovey, Brian Maniscalco, Dobromir Rahnev, Hakwan Lau; Inflation of subjective perception in peripheral vision. Journal of Vision 2013;13(9):621. doi: 10.1167/13.9.621.
There is a compelling subjective impression that peripheral vision is colorful and vivid. However, peripheral visual processes carry less information than foveal vision: it is associated with low spatial resolution, low color sensitivity and in general receives little attention compared to the foveal location. How does this low information capacity account for the subjective vividness in peripheral perception We have previously shown that at identical eccentricity, the lack of covert spatial attention can inflate subjective perception, making detection criterion liberal (Rahnev et al 2011 Nature Neuroscience). Our computational model suggests that this is because under the lack of attention, the internal perceptual response may be more variable. Under a somewhat inflexible detection criterion set commonly for both the attended and unattended locations, high variability may mean that the internal response can exceed the criterion more frequently, leading to a liberal detection bias. We hypothesized that the same mechanism of subjective perceptual inflation may be at work in peripheral vision. We investigated this possibility in psychophysical experiments in which subjects detected the presence of Gabor patches in either the fovea or the periphery. Confirming our hypothesis, we found that subjects tended to use a more liberal detection criterion in the periphery than in the center (that is, subjects reported seeing the target more frequently in the periphery). In trying to understand the neurobiological mechanism behind this phenomena, we developed a neuronal model which takes into account the fact that peripheral vision involves a relatively fewer number of neurons with large spatial uncertainty (receptive fields). Assuming the overall sensory response is reflected by pooling information over many neurons, the model gives a plausible explanation as to why peripheral vision produces sensory responses with larger variability, and thereby inflated subjective perception.


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Dem. challenger claims Wisconsin wages low under Gov. Scott Walker
By Mason Muerhoff Updated April 11, 2018
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Democratic gubernatorial candidate Matt Flynn charges that Wisconsin lags behind other states in wage growth, and that residents earn less now when adjusted for inflation than they did before Gov. Scott Walker took office in 2011. The Observatory examines those claims — finding just one of them is true. Flynn is seen here at a forum at La Follette High School in Madison, Wis., on Jan. 28, 2018.
In response to Gov. Scott Walker's State of the State address in January, Milwaukee attorney and Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Matt Flynn released a statement claiming that "Wisconsin still lags behind the rest of the country in wage growth. Adjusted for inflation, median wages today are lower than they were before (Walker) was elected."
The Observatory checked both claims by the Democratic candidate: That Wisconsin's wages have grown more slowly than the rest of the country and that our median wages are lower today than in 2010.
According to Flynn, Wisconsin's wages are not growing fast enough to match or surpass the U.S. average. Reviewing data from the Census Bureau shows that the since 2010, the median wages in Wisconsin have lagged behind the U.S. median wage.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey
But Wisconsin's median wage has grown closer to the national median since 2010, and in 2016 was just $139 a year behind. Because Wisconsin's numbers do continue to lag behind the national average, The Observatory rates this claim as Verified.
Flynn's second claim stated that "adjusted for inflation, median wages today are lower than they were before (Walker) was elected."
Source: http://www.governing.com/gov-data/wage-average-median-pay-data-for-states.html
According to the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Employment Statistics program, in 2010 when Walker was elected, the median wage in Wisconsin was $15.78. Every year since 2010 has seen an increase in median wages adjusted for inflation, rising to $17.43 in 2016.
The Observatory rates the claim that median wages adjusted for inflation are lower today than before Walker was elected to be False.
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Mason Muerhoff is a journalist from Kenosha, Wisconsin.
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Footage from a live cookin' demonstration at the 2018 Rock 'n' Ribsfest, July 4th, Union County Fairgrounds, Marysville, Ohio. Most people think delicious, falling-off-the-bone ribs takes hours of slow cooking in a smoker or oven, but imagine if you could have it ready in under one hour! Sound too good to be true?!
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GERMANY: Refrigeration compressor manufacturer Bitzer is to wage war against what it sees as a rising tide of product piracy.
While incidents of product counterfeiting have been plaguing air conditioning and refrigeration manufacturers for some years, many companies have been reluctant to talk about the problem in the past. Bitzer says it will be taking a more proactive approach to dealing with counterfeiters in the future
"For some time now, Bitzer has been observing an increase in product piracy among the company's compressors, spare parts and pressure vessels," the world's largest independent compressor manufacturer said in a statement from its headquarters in Sindelfingen, Germany.
"This development now has a negative impact on the entire industry and refrigerant manufacturers. This is unacceptable because, unlike with counterfeit watches or handbags, technical applications can be very dangerous when pirated products of poor technical quality are used."
Aside from safety, Bitzer complains that the performance is also unlikely to match an original product and the low-quality components significantly reduce both the service life and reliability during operation.
Product piracy has achieved highly sophisticated and professional results in the air conditioning and refrigeration industry. Most, if not all, the counterfeiting activity centres on China where unscrupulous product counterfeiters even go as far as copying catalogue data and packaging to mislead buyers.
"Experienced counterfeiters copy Bitzer compressors with a level of perfection that makes it nearly impossible to tell them apart from the original," says Bitzer.
"While they may look the same, when it comes to quality, the poorly constructed components cannot withstand the high demands and will likely experience limited functioning after a short period of time or be completely defective and require repair."
In addition to complete compressors, Bitzer also warns about copied spare parts and the well-publicised issue of fake refrigerants which led to injury and death in the container refrigeration industry in 2011.
The manufacturer also warns of the risk of motor damage, liquid slugging, heat damage and short circuits, which are often irreparable and can only be identified with in-depth analysis. It also warns that the use of counterfeit spare parts also voids the warranty for the entire product.
Bitzer strongly advises against accepting unusually cheap offers for compressors, spare parts or refrigerants.
"Counterfeits have become a mass phenomenon, and Bitzer is increasingly taking legal action," says the company.
"Suppliers of such products are always thrown out of trade fairs and have to remove Bitzer logos immediately. That's because we're dealing with a network of counterfeiters and distributors who sell very authentic-looking copies all over the world. The criminals pretend to be Bitzer partners and thus harm both the company and the customers."
Recognising that it's difficult to differentiate between an original and a copy visually, Bitzer says it is now introducing a diverse range of measures to make it possible to clearly tell them apart. While Bitzer's statement does not detail what these measures are, the Cooling Post believes that they include anti-counterfeit labels and the use of QR codes to check authenticity.
Enduring problem
Some of the consignment of nearly 8,000 counterfeit filter driers seized by Danfoss in Dubai in 2010
While the most high profile and well-publicised anti-counterfeit activity has been that taken by the refrigerant manufacturers DuPont and Honeywell, many of the big refrigeration and air conditioning component suppliers have also been affected. It has been a problem for 10 years or more and if Bitzer's experience is to be believed, despite Chinese government attempts to stamp down on the illegal activity, the problem is getting worse.
Emerson, with both its Copeland compressors and Alco valves, is known to have been targeted by counterfeiters as has Danfoss but many manufacturers appear reluctant to talk about the problem, perhaps for fear of affecting sales of its legitimate products.
At the end of last year, Chinese authorities raided a wholesale market in Guangzhou and found two companies selling fake Bitzer compressors. There are also reports of seizures in Shanghai in 2008 of fake Emerson compressors, filter driers and expansion valves. The same year, in the Xicheng district of Beijing, authorities seized "several hundred thousand dollars" worth of counterfeit Danfoss and Emerson brand refrigeration parts from 13 companies.
In July 2012, police seized 40 fake Danfoss Maneurop compressors and a number of semi-finished products and finished parts from a remanufacturing workshop in Beijing. More fake Danfoss product was uncovered in May and June last year when Shanghai Customs seized 170,000 thermostats in two consecutive shipments bound for Iran.
Danfoss has added special cavities in the body of its valves in a bid to beat the counterfeiters
There were incidents of product being confiscated, injunctions and stands being closed at major European exhibitions like Mostra Convegno and IKK throughout the 2000s. At the IKK show in 2006 both Honeywell and Emerson were granted injunctions against Chinese manufacturers. Danfoss was also affected. German Court bailiffs removed counterfeit R410A and promotional material from three Chinese stands and Emerson had to take similar action for infringement of copyright on one of its Alco valves.
The internet has been a prime area of activity for many counterfeiters, although these more overt operations make the counterfeiters easier to detect. In 2011, Danfoss won a trademark infringement lawsuit against an internet sales operation in Sichuan selling counterfeit Danfoss brand industrial products.
Counterfeits appear to have been a particular problem for Danfoss in Russia last year when a large number of counterfeit copies of its expansion valves, solenoid valves and coils, filters, dryers, sight glasses, ball check valves and pressure switches appeared on the market. One of the suppliers of the fake product turned out to be one of its own distributors.
In May 2010, police and government officials seized more than 10,000 fake Danfoss products in Dubai. The products were seized from 20 different Dubai companies which were trying to sell them at the same price as original Danfoss products. The seized products included 7,800 filter driers, 1,565 expansion valves, 1,575 orifices, 212 compressors, and 1,625 product labels.
Air conditioning manufacturers have also been affected. In 2005, Korean manufacturer LG was forced to introduce an anti-counterfeiting programme after fake LG air conditioners started appearing in the Middle East and Africa. Refrigeration tools manufacturers are also known to have been targeted.