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I apologize for not making time to publish the past several episodes. I'm playing catch-up as we wind down 2017...so you'll see them all coming down the pike.
Episodes 167: RoMaCraft Aquitaine Anthropology
December 27, 2017 By Kip Fisher
RoMaCraft Aquitaine Anthropology
Tonight, we're revisiting a cigar we've smoked, enjoyed, and talked about. A lot. The RoMaCraft Aquitaine line, in the Anthropology (corona gorda) vitola. This line features an Ecuadoran Habano Ligero wrapper over Cameroon binder and Nicaraguan filler blend, with tonight's cigar coming in at 5.75" x 46. Skip joined us way back in Episode 028, and I even reviewed this cigar back in 2014. We have a long history with the line, and I especially admire the commitment to excellence Skip & Mike bring to the industry…let's see if the Aquitaine still lives up to the storied reputation in my mind….
The big story for tonight is legislative in nature – the fact that yesterday the Make America Secure and Prosperous Appropriations Act of 2018 (H.R. 3354) passed the House of Representatives. What does this mean? A lot. And not much…. Before we all start lighting those celebratory cigars, let's take a look at what has specifically transpired. It's true that this is the furthest the cigar industry has gotten a process that has been tried repeatedly over the past several years. H.R. 3354 does include language that exempts premium cigars from the FDA regulations we've been talking about for so very long – by restricting the FDA from using any funds to enforce the rule. This is huge in principal – but not a fully completed piece of legislation. The House and Senate now have to iron out any differences and bring a similar Senate bill to pass (and, of course, the President will have to sign said agreed-upon language). None of the existing Rule has changed as of now – and may not. This Act is essentially the guiding document for budgeting/spending in 2018. So, its duration ends in October 2018. To be furthered beyond that date, the process would have to be once again approved before. While I remain hopeful, I know that these types of add-on riders are very difficult to be brought to fruition for both houses to agree…however, if it does make it through the process this time around, it is also very difficult for it to be removed later on. Should both houses come to agreement and the language remain, this would at least postpone enforcement of the deadlines currently set for 2018 (warning label additions, user fees, etc.), and new products could be introduced through the involved timeframe. I'm going forward with the belief and hope that the cigar industry came away with a win, and hope the plan can come together with something workable for the industry. We shall see…..
Since our last show, Hurricane Irma made its presence known throughout the Caribbean and Florida. While it was a devastating storm, and one of the largest known in this hemisphere, it did not impact the cigar industry in a catastrophic manner. Most of the Lesser Antilles which were hammered by the storm are non-tobacco producing territory, and the industry impact was dampened on the affected islands by the fact that most do not have tobacco in the fields at the moment. Here in the DR, much of the country's non-essential operations were closed for a day, but except for the far eastern portion of the nation most of us only experienced a rainy day with limited wind and localized flooding. Cuba took more damage. The extent of the damage to its cigar industry is yet to be seen. Many factories were temporarily closed for flooding and windy conditions. It is not yet known how extensive the damage is, as much of the country's north coast is still flooded and without power. Florida took a serious (but less so than expected) hit from the storm, but thankfully it was diminished more quickly than forecast as it moved the length of the state. The southwestern portion of the state bore the brunt of the storm, which caused quite a bit of flooding in addition to wind damage. However, returning to cigar industry specific news, most Miami based companies avoided significant damage. Most lost a few days of work and shipping.
Craig –
Leon Jimenez from DC – Cedar, smoke, alcohol – There's a story here…
Casa Cuba – Very harsh. What gives?
Bonus cigar….Fuente Destino al Siglo (2005 edition)
Camacho Criollo – a cigar I'd overlooked after the company's revamp a few years back. Frankly, the blue (Ecuador) was offputting to me, and I never looked back. DC sent me one of the Criollo while I was stateside this past summer, and I smoked it last week. I have to admit to enjoying it far more than I expected. It was spicy early on, but softened considerably during its second half. It remained interesting throughout. There aren't many Camacho products I reach for; this one is on the list now.
Nica Rustica – the cigar that snatched my interest a few years back because it originally was to have some Nicotiana Rustica in the blend. That particular leaf did not work out for them, and the cigar fell out of the limelight for me personally. DC also sent one of these, and it has revived my interest as well. It was very, very smoky – in flavor and literally. Tons of charred oak flavor and perfect construction were winning characteristics. I have added this to my list of cigars to bring back on my next trip to the US.
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Extremist Arrested after Knife Attack Near Tunisia's Parliament
On: 1 november 2017 By: KhamakarPress
An AFP file photo shows a policeman in Bardo square in Tunis
A suspected militant was arrested on Wednesday after wounding two policemen in a knife attack near the parliament building in the Tunisian Capital, the interior ministry said.
The assailant was known to authorities and said after the attack that he considered the police to be "tyrants", according to the statement.
One of the policemen was taken to hospital for treatment after being injured in the neck, while the other was only lightly wounded, it said.
Large numbers of police were deployed to Tunis' Bardo square in the aftermath of the attack, a witness said. Blood could be seen on the ground in the square.
The square is opposite the parliament building and close to the Bardo museum, the site of a militant attack against foreign tourists that killed 21 people in March 2015.
An official at the police station where the man was taken after being detained said the attacker was in his 20s and appeared "very aware of what he did".
"He spoke calmly and showed no remorse," the official said, asking to remain anonymous.
Tunisia suffered two other major attacks that year, one against tourists at the beach resort of Sousse and the other against presidential guards in the capital.
Since then, security has been boosted at strategic sites while Tunisian authorities have cracked down on militants, dismantling dozens of networks.
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DC road closures planned Saturday for movie production
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February 22, 2020, 11:10 AM
Several major roads in downtown D.C. will be closed for part of the day Saturday during a movie production and filming.
It is unclear what movie is being filmed — but an avid WTOP listener noticed what appeared to be a motorcade staging near the FBI headquarters on Pennsylvania Avenue:
A "motorcade" scene. They had a "presidential" limo and a big camera following it on a truck. There were also two suburban and an mpd cruiser with lights on. Presumably they weren't a part of the scene. Drove out to 7th and did a u turn back westbound on penn
— Dave S (@daves_32) February 22, 2020
Between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m., the following streets will be closed:
Pennsylvania Avenue between 14th Street, NW & 3rd Street, NW
Independence Avenue between 14th Street, SW & 7th Street, SW
Constitution Avenue between 7th Street, NW & 3rd Street, NW
12th Street between Constitution Avenue, NW & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
3rd and 4th Street, NW/SW, between Pennsylvania Avenue, NW & Independence Avenue, SW
D.C. police said the public should expect parking restrictions and refer to posted emergency and parking signage.
Cars parked in violation of such signs will be ticketed and towed.
For the latest road and traffic conditions, see WTOP's traffic page or listen to updates every 10 minutes online or on the air at 103.5 FM.
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Diffusion Essay
Lab Report #1: Diffusion
The human body undergoes a variety of processes throughout each and every day in order to sustain life. Tasks such as walking, breathing, and digesting what has been eaten are sometimes considered mundane, even taken for granted. One such process that is necessary to maintain life is diffusion. Diffusion is a key factor in moving ions, fuels, and other molecules into and out of the blood. It is one of the most important components in supplying oxygen to the alveoli and removing carbon dioxide. Without diffusion, substances would find it very difficult to pass through membranes and could cause detrimental effects to the human body.
The paradox scientists have drawn is related to glucose molecules and the directions in which the molecules "know" to move. No single molecule should diffuse in any particular fashion, but should diffuse randomly. This report looks at four simulations attempting to solve the problem presented, how do the molecules know which way to diffuse?
In order to understand the obtained research, it is necessary to present and identify the key components of Fick's Law of Diffusion:
F = -D * A*dC/dx
F = the flow of material across a real or imaginary plane
D = the diffusivity of the diffusing molecules
(the ease in which the molecule diffuses in the surrounding medium)
A= area of the plane
C= concentration of the molecules
X= distance
dC/dx = the concentration gradient
There will be four simulations conducted in order to apply Fick's Law and determine if molecules do in fact know which way to diffuse. The first simulation will look at a single molecule in an open area, the second looks at the movement of several molecules, the third looks at molecules diffusing in a box, and the fourth looks at molecules diffusing through a pipe between two boxes. Understanding the movements of the molecules in each of these simulations will allow the problem to be solved.
Materials/Methods:
In order to properly experience each of the simulations it is necessary to have access to Microsoft Excel and MatLab, a program designed allowing scientists to view data in a visual format.
The first simulation, as mentioned, dealt with a single molecule randomly moving in an open area. It is assumed that the molecule will move from a higher...
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First of all AKS is not the name of any rifle. A means Anna K means Kumar and S means Sonu, 3 students who cleared IIT JEE 2010 and made it to IIT ROPAR.
Now these students were selected by the Indian Government using the services of the topmost Indian Astrologer who had predicted that if trained properly they can serve as the greatest weapons against crime in the country. He said they have special powers which were unknown even to them. What were they? ……we'll find out as we move on.
Okay let's start from the moment we met for the first time .It was outside IIT Ropar at a Punjabi Dhaba that I (Sonu) was standing when I saw a fat 17 year old (Anna) coming towards me. I said hello to him to start a conversation and we talked to each other for a long time .I got to know that he was a Punjabi but he changed his name to Anna because he was a big fan of Rajnikanth movies and also that he was kidnapped 3 months before the JEE but nobody knows how he was kidnapped .I noticed that he used to live very nearby.. may be a journey of 1-2 hrs from here.. Because he was carrying very less luggage which meant that he could be from somewhere where he could go back every week. Suddenly the cook served a parantha and Anna just got mesmerized (at least that's what it looked like).He closed his eyes and started walking towards the parantha that was being served. I actually had to slap him on the face to get him back to normal….having no idea as to what had happened to him…Couldn't say anything about before.. but now surely he was kidnapped…. And that too by a parantha.
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At the time of his death in 1984, Sekou Touré was the dean of African heads of state. His native Guinea achieved independence in the fall of 1958. Until his death 26 years later, Touré was the absolute ruler of that West African republic. His political success has been credited to his organizational ability, his talents as a theorist and orator, his keen sense of perception, and his determination to deal with opposition swiftly and mercilessly. Sory Kandia Kouyaté, a Guinean epic singer, described Sekou Touré as "a dangerous leader with whom one should play very cautiously," according to Africa Report. He was known as "the Elephant" in his native country because of his strength and distinction.
Guinea was the second African nation to achieve independence, following the lead of Ghana, which had shed colonial rule a year and a half earlier. Guinea is located in what was formerly French West Africa, with the former French colonies of Senegal lying to the northwest and the Ivory Coast bordering it to the southeast. Its capital city, Conakry, is situated on the Atlantic Ocean. Guinea-Bissau, a former Portuguese colony, lies to the northwest along the coast just south of Senegal.
Independence came to Guinea rather suddenly in 1958 when the country voted against accepting then-French president Charles de Gaulle's proposal of membership in a community of French overseas territories. Among the French colonies polled, Guinea was the only one to cast a negative vote. At the time, Touré was secretary-general of the Parti Démocratique de Guinée (Guinea Democratic Party; PDG), which had won 57 of the country's 60 representative seats in elections held under French colonial supervision in 1957.
Touré's refusal to lead his country into the French community stemmed from his belief that black equality and colonialism could not coexist. He championed freedom among African nations—no matter what the cost—and looked to the groundbreaking example of Kwame Nkrumah, the leader of Ghana, for his model of action. Unfortunately, Touré's idealistic aspirations led to economic chaos in Guinea.
First employed by Niger Franáais (a business firm), 1940; entered Post and Telecommunications Service, 1941; subsequently assigned to the Colonial Treasury Office. Active in labor unions; became secretary-general of the Post and Telecommunications Workers' Union, 1945; helped found Federation of Workers' Unions of Guinea; secretary-general of the Treasury Employees' Union, 1946; elected secretary-general of the territorial union of the Confédération Générale de Travail (CGT), 1948; became secretary-general of the coordinating committee of the CGT for French West Africa and Togoland, 1950; elected president of CGT, 1956.
Held many political and government positions; founding member of the Rassemblement Démocratique Africain (African Democratic Rally; RDA), 1946; member of the Guinea Legislative Assembly, 1950; became secretary-general of the Parti Démocratique de Guinée (PDG); mayor of Conakry, 1955; elected to seat in National Assembly in Paris, 1956; territorial counselor, Conakry, grand counselor, French West Africa, and vice president of Government Council of Guinea, beginning 1957; became vice president of RDA, 1957; prime minister of Guinea, 1958-72; president, October 1958-March 1984.
Awards: Lenin Peace Prize, 1960; Grand-Croix, French Legion of Honor.
with the formation of the Rassemblement Démocratique Africain (African Democratic Rally; RDA) by Félix Houphouet-Boigny of the Ivory Coast. Touré would split with Houphouet-Boigny and the RDA in 1958 over the issue of joining the French community.
After serving in a number of government positions, Touré was elected mayor of Conakry in 1955. The next year, he won a seat in the National Assembly in Paris, where his oratorical gifts became known to a wider audience. He continued to be active in labor unions in the 1950s as well. In 1957 he was named vice president of the Governmental Council of Guinea, a post equivalent to that of prime minister under the French governor. As council vice president, he revoked the power of ethnic chieftains and replaced them with more than 4,000 village councils that were elected by the people.
Immediately following the 1958 referendum, Guinea became independent of France; a few days later, Touré was named president of the new republic. With the PDG as the only legal political party, Guinea emerged as a one-party, totalitarian state. France and all of its allies quickly withdrew support and would not provide the country with any aid. The French were particularly vindictive in their break with the country, destroying valuable equipment and files, suspending all aid and technical assistance, and stopping almost all investment in Guinea's mining operations.
The French withdrawal following independence created great bitterness in Guinea. It was seen as nothing less than an imperialist plot to destroy the newly independent state. With the country desperate for outside aid to replace what France had been providing, Touré turned to his friend and ally Nkrumah. The two leaders shared the ideals of Pan-Africanism, a doctrine that stressed the unity of all African nations above and beyond each nation's own self-interest. Ghana quickly loaned Guinea some $28 million.
Touré also appealed to the Eastern bloc countries—the Communist states of Eastern Europe—for assistance. In 1960 he traveled first to China, then to the Soviet Union, where he was honored with the Lenin Peace Prize. The Soviets were willing to provide aid—establishing a bond that damaged relations with the United States and other countries in the West—but Touré's exclusive association with the Communists was shortlived. In 1961 he expelled the Russian ambassador for interfering in the internal affairs of his country, accusing the Soviets of plotting a Marxist revolution.
Following this episode, the United States became a significant source of aid. In 1963 Touré met with President John F. Kennedy, and the United States subsequently loaned Guinea $400 million to develop its bauxite (a source of aluminum) industry. Throughout the 1960s, Touré maintained a stance of "positive neutrality" with respect to the Cold War conflict between the superpowers, accepting aid both from the United States and the Soviet Union.
Following the break with France, Touré imposed a socialist blueprint on Guinea's economy. He stopped traditional trade and put an end to private ownership of industry. Consequently, many Guineans migrated to neighboring countries, such as Senegal and the Ivory Coast, which had less centralized economies. For two decades, these neighboring countries were home to large numbers of Guineans who were opposed to Touré. Touré later accused both Senegal and the Ivory Coast of training mercenaries to invade Guinea.
During the 1960s, waves of emigration from Guinea occurred because of insecurity and poor economic conditions there. But three factors contributed to Touré's ability to remain in power: first, he dominated all of the central government's activities; second, he relied on a close group of trusted collaborators; and third, he was able to balance the authority of the Guinean army against the PDG's "people's militia." Touré used his party's militia, which grew to some 30,000 in the mid-1960s, to enforce new modes of justice and production throughout the country.
Further tension between Guinea and its neighbors was caused by the discovery of plots against the government. A conspiracy in April of 1960 was blamed on France and other colonial powers. Another plot against the government was announced in November of 1961. And an alleged plan to assassinate Touré resulted in the arrests of former ministers and army officers in 1965. (Touré named President Houphouet-Boigny of the Ivory Coast as a conspirator in this last plot.) Also in 1965, an opposition group, Front pour la libération nationale de Guinée (FLNG), began organizing under the leadership of exiles in Abidjan, Ivory Coast; Dakar, Senegal; and Paris, France.
By the late 1960s, Touré was preoccupied with FLNG activity and the fear of impending invasion. Army unrest seemed to point to a plot to separate Guinea's Labe region, located in the western central part of the nation, from the rest of the country. In June of 1970, Radio Conakry reported on an impending invasion of Guinea by forces that were being trained in Portuguese Guinea, now known as Guinea-Bissau. A few months later a group of mercenaries was arrested in Labe.
Touré had given support to the long anticolonial struggle being waged in Guinea-Bissau. For generations, the fascist Portuguese government had held the tiny African province in its grip. Touré provided freedom fighters in Guinea-Bissau with base facilities and diplomatic support. Portugal countered by conducting a major propaganda campaign within NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization) against Touré, characterizing his regime as a "Marxist dictatorship." And in 1970, the Portuguese helped mount a mercenary invasion of Guinea. This invasion led Touré to believe that the conspiracy against his government was universal.
The Portuguese invasion of Guinea took place on November 22, 1970. At least 350 troops, consisting mainly of Guinean exiles in the Portuguese-led army, landed from the sea off Conakry. As destructive as it was, the invasion failed to unseat Touré; instead, it led to a reign of fear, suspicion, and violence in Guinea. Public figures suspected of holding opinions critical to Touré and his government were classified as subversives and arrested. Secret mass trials and executions followed. The bodies of the condemned were later displayed in public places.
Many political prisoners were held in Boiro camp near Conakry. The camp became notorious for the torture and inhumane treatment of its prisoners. The repression grew as more plots against the Guinean government, real and imaginary, were discovered and announced. More refugees settled in West Africa and Europe, especially in Paris. According to French estimates, 2 million out of a population of 5.5 million chose to live in exile.
Among those affected by purges were such groups as intellectuals, traders, state employees, civil servants, the military, and members of the Fulani ethnic group. Africa Report noted the effect of these mass arrests: "Scores of competent officials, well-trained managers and officers, able businessmen, intellectuals, and diplomats have been sent to prison, torture, or death." These practices resulted in a loss of talented individuals and crippled the administration of the country. Many of the exiles and relatives of the victims of Touré's purges responded by establishing powerful anti-Touré pressure groups.
The terror brought on by the Guinean government alternated with periods of relative calm, as suspicion of further attacks against the government subsided briefly in 1972. But by the next year, the assassination in Conakry of a leader of the Portuguese Guinea liberation struggle prompted renewed fears. Relations with neighboring countries crumbled once more due to exile activities there.
Meanwhile, an internal reform that gave village-level executive bodies a new role in the production and marketing of local commodities met with some resistance from the Fulani population in the north of Guinea. A nomadic people who felt that their way of life clashed with the doctrine of socialism, the Fulani were accused of plotting against the government in 1976. One of their leaders was arrested and later died, apparently of starvation, in a prison camp.
Repression in Guinea had reached such proportions that a 1977 report was submitted to the United Nations detailing the mistreatment of Guinean political prisoners. The next year, Amnesty International, a worldwide human rights organization, cited cases of imprisonment without trial and examples of torture and execution. Subsequently, the Guiñean government claimed the abuses had been stopped, and many political prisoners were released.
By the mid-1970s it was clear that Guinea had been left behind economically. Guineans were accustomed to scarcity, yet neighboring countries had bountiful markets, luxury shops, and factories that were fully operative. The growing popular discontent hit a fever pitch in 1977 over the country's economic policy and shortage of food. Workers with low incomes were facing starvation, and foreign debt was crippling the economy.
The economic liberalization of 1978 coincided with new diplomatic efforts that Touré had been undertaking since 1975. That year he was actively involved in a regional peace effort involving a border dispute between Mali and Upper Volta. It was the first time he had traveled outside Guinea since the invasion of 1970, and it gave him a sense of how the world was changing.
In 1976 diplomatic relations were reestablished between Guinea and West Germany and France under the auspices of the United Nations. The French agreed to curb dissident activities in Paris, and French business people were allowed to pursue trade and investment opportunities in Guinea. Guinea compensated nationalized French companies, while the French agreed to pay the pensions of 20,000 Guinean ex-servicemen. Guinea also released Europeans imprisoned in Conakry for allegedly plotting to overthrow the government.
In 1978 Touré also achieved a detente with Senegal and the Ivory Coast, two consistently pro-French neighbors. He signed a reconciliation without preconditions, abandoning his position that Guinean exiles opposed to his government be returned to Conakry. Following this, Touré traveled frantically to 16 countries in Africa and the Middle East, including several rich, oil-producing states. In addition, he attended his first Organization of African Unity (OAU) summit in 11 years.
According to Africa Report, Touré "reappeared forcefully on the African political scene with a 'new image' to create confidence among potential investors." As he became aware of the limitations of the rhetoric of revolution and socialism, economic development became an imperative. He looked specifically to the United States, Canada, and Great Britain for support, using the country's rich mineral resources as his main bargaining chip.
In the years prior to his death, Touré was actively engaged in African and international affairs. According to the New Statesman, he opposed the Arab nation of Libya and supported Morocco in the Western Saharan land dispute. In 1982 he successfully opposed Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Qaddafi's bid to host the OAU summit and become the organization's chair for 1982-83. Touré was able to convince enough African leaders to stay away from the scheduled Tripoli summit, thus depriving the meeting of a quorum.
Prior to his untimely death from a heart attack in March of 1984, Touré had been actively pursuing the chairmanship of the OAU. But the OAU summit, originally scheduled to be held in Conakry in 1983, was delayed until 1984 because of expected Libyan opposition. Despite his efforts to attract foreign investment, Touré died leaving Guinea in a state of economic collapse; he had ruled the nation for 26 years. In April of 1984, the army staged a coup and took over the country, filling the political void left by his death.
Adamolekun, Ladipo, Sekou Touré's Guinea: An Experiment in Nation Building, Methuen, 1976.
Africa South of the Sahara: 1993, 22nd edition, Europa, 1993.
Africa Report, May-June 1981, p. 53; November-December 1993, p. 11.
Black Scholar, July-August 1974, p. 23; March 1975, p. 33.
Journal of Modern African Studies, June 1976, p. 201.
New Statesman, April 6, 1984, p. 19.
New York Times, March 28, 1984, p. A-6.
"Touré, Sekou 1922–1984." Contemporary Black Biography. . Encyclopedia.com. 22 Apr. 2019 <https://www.encyclopedia.com>.
Sékou Touré (1922-1984) was president of the Republic of Guinea after its independence and an exponent of radical socialism. His decision to oppose the De Gaulle referendum in 1958 was the key event which destroyed the old French West African Federation.
Sékou Touré was born in Faranah, Guinea. His father, a poor farmer, was a member of the Soussou tribe, and his mother was a member of the Malinke tribe; Touré's father was a grandson of the great ruler Almami Samory. Touré was educated at the village Koranic school and primary school at Faranah. At 14 he enrolled in a technical school in Conakry but was expelled in 1937 for organizing a student strike, and he completed his secondary education by correspondence.
Touré was employed by a commercial firm in 1940 and in the following year qualified for a position in the posts and telecommunications department. He was very active in union affairs and became the head of the Postal Union in 1945 and was one of the founders of the Union Cégétiste des Syndicats. He became its secretary general in 1946. He was discharged from his job and spent a brief time in jail in 1947.
Touré had been a founder member of the intraterritorial Rassemblement Démocratique Africain (RDA) in 1946. However, his prime interest was not politics but trade unionism. The leading political figure in Guinea at this time was a moderate former schoolteacher, Yacine Diallo. In 1948 Touré became secretary general of the Confédération Générale des Travailleurs (CGT), dominated by the French Communist general union. Two years later he became secretary general of the Coordinating Committee of the CGT for French West Africa. By 1952 Touré had also risen to the post of secretary general of the Parti Démocratique de Guinée (PDG), the Guinea branch of the RDA.
The year 1953 was crucial for Touré's career. He led a two-month general strike against the government which forced the governor general to capitulate, and he was also elected a member of the Territorial Assembly. Touré was the acknowledged leader of the young radicals who were dissatisfied with the increasingly moderate policies of the RDA. In 1954 Yacine Diallo died, and Touré contested the election to fill his vacant seat in the French Assembly. He lost to Barry Diawadou, the leader of the Bloc Africain de Guinée party. His stature was, nevertheless, increased because it was widely believed that the French authorities had tampered with the election. Touré became a member of the Coordinating Committee in 1954 and was chosen mayor of Conakry the following year. His conversion to political action was completed by his election to the French Assembly in January 1956.
Touré had begun to change his attitudes toward the successful application of doctrinaire Marxism to the problems of Africa. He also questioned the continued association of African unions with their metropolitan counterparts. Thus he helped establish the Confédération Générale du Travail Africain (CGTA), which was not affiliated with the CGT or any other European movement. The new union was so successful that the local CGT merged with it in 1957 to form the larger, intraterritorial Travailleurs d'Afrique Noire (UGTAN), which soon attracted most of the unionized workers in French West Africa. Touré was at first secretary general and then president.
The loi cadre of 1956 devolved a major portion of authority to the assembly of each territory and gave the vice president, the chief elective officer, great power. Before the elections of 1957 the PDG appealed to the intelligentsia and also urban workers and villagers. It won a solid victory, and Touré became vice president. He began immediately to implement government plans for improvement of industry, roads, and railways. He moved to establish cooperatives and village councils to further undercut the power of traditional authorities. Touré was still cooperative with the French as long as it was to the advantage of Guinea. In 1957 he became a member of the Grand Council, the highest advisory body in the federation, and was elected vice president of the RDA.
Discussions within the RDA over future political evolvement of the territories presaged the destruction of the party. Felix Houphouët-Boigny of the Ivory Coast emphasized the development of individual territories within the French community. Touré and many other leaders believed it necessary to continue the federal structure. In 1958 Touré inexplicably shifted his position. Three days before his meeting with Charles De Gaulle on August 28 to discuss the coming plebiscite to decide the future of the French community, Touré appeared to support a vote in favor of association with France.
However, pressures within Touré's own party and the radical unions forced a change, and in September Guinea voted overwhelmingly against continued association. France announced on September 30 that Guinea was independent and cut off all financial aid, withdrew its technicians and advisers, and removed all equipment possible. Guinea entered into independence as a bankrupt nation. No Western power was prepared to help, and Touré concluded four trade agreements with the Eastern bloc countries.
Two months after independence, Touré negotiated a £10 million loan from Ghana which enabled him to stabilize Guinea's economy. Touré's government became more centralized, and he required all Guineans to participate in the economic and social development of the country. The PDG was declared the only legal party, and a system of political committees was established on all levels up to the National Committee to help Touré direct the state.
Touré's meeting with Kwame Nkrumah resulted in a declaration of a Ghana-Guinea union in 1959. This association, which Touré hoped would be the beginning of a larger political union, envisioned a gradual uniting of the political and economic institutions of the two states. In July 1961 the union was expanded with the addition of Mali. Despite the theory, no specific changes were made in the political institutions of the member states. The union's major contribution was to provide a base for a common foreign-policy approach. It formed the nucleus of the radical, anti-Western Casablanca bloc of the early 1960s. However, even in foreign policy there was a significant difference between Touré's and Nkrumah's attitudes—witness their policies concerning the United Nations in the Congo.
Touré's emancipation from more radical elements within the PDG and the Soviet Union did not come until 1961. In November the Teachers Union, in conjunction with officials of the Soviet embassy, precipitated a crisis throughout Guinea. Touré arrested the strike leaders and expelled the Soviet ambassador and his key aides from the country. Later discussions with the Soviet Union restored good relations, but it was apparent that Touré was not a captive of the Communist bloc. In 1962 he began to seek more contacts with other African states and increased aid from Western powers.
In 1964 Touré reorganized the government, naming four resident ministers in four major regions of Guinea who were directly responsible to the central executive. He also restricted membership in the PDG to the more militant socialists who had proved their worth. Thus the party reflected more clearly the desires of the executive. In January 1968 elections were held for the National Assembly and for president. Touré was unopposed in the election, and the prospective members of the Assembly had previously been nominated by the PDG.
After the overthrow of Nkrumah in January 1966, Touré became more aggressive in his attitudes toward the West, Senegal, the Ivory Coast, and the new Ghana regime. He declared Nkrumah honorary president of Guinea and threatened to restore him to power by force. Houphouët-Boigny replied to Touré's threats by sending troops to his borders and promising to invoke French aid, and Touré did not follow up his threat with action against the Ivory Coast. In May 1967, on the twentieth anniversary of the PDG, Touré denounced Western missionaries and ordered all foreign clergymen deported by June 1.
Touré attempted to end Guinea's self-imposed isolation in 1968. Nkrumah's sanctuary was continued, but his public statements and appearances were limited. Touré even moderated the degree and type of denunciation of the Ivory Coast and Senegal. He attended the Monrovia Conference in April; Guinea became a member of the Organization of Senegal River States; and he restored diplomatic relations with Britain, which had been severed in 1965.
Guinea's economic development continued more slowly than the potential wealth of the state would have indicated. However, after 1965, Touré received aid from Britain, France, the United States, the Soviet Union, and China. Plans were approved for a dam and hydro-electric plant on the Konkouré River and for the construction of a smelting plant, railway, and harbor to exploit the Boké bauxite deposits.
By restricting a legal, open opposition, Touré gained unchallenged control of Guinea, but he assured that some rivals would attempt to end his rule by violent means. In November 1965 a plot was discovered to assassinate Touré; a former army lieutenant and cousin, Mamadou Touré, was implicated. In February 1968 another major coup directed against the President was discovered, and a further assassination attempt was foiled in 1969. Despite all his problems, Touré's hold on his country after 12 years of independence was firm. The coups that occurred during this period against other political leaders in Africa only underscored the stability of his regime.
Touré held his position as president of Guinea until his death on March 26, 1984. He died in Cleveland, Ohio. Socialist in economic outlook, Touré ruthlessly suppressed dissent, and after his death the government of Guinea acknowledged that numerous human rights violations had occurred during his regime.
"Sékou Touré." Encyclopedia of World Biography. . Encyclopedia.com. 22 Apr. 2019 <https://www.encyclopedia.com>.


Jared Leto and Thirty Seconds to Mars announced an ambitious new project today called A DAY IN THE LIFE OF AMERICA, a filmed portrait of the country that will capture 24 hours in the life of the USA on Independence Day – 4th of July, 2017.
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Our goal is to create this portrait based on footage captured on a single day – July 4th, 2017 – but if there are events that transpire or images we feel we need to tell our story, we will include those.
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I apologize for not posting in awhile. I have been one tired momma lately being 33 weeks pregnant and chasing a toddler all day long. So after I put her to bed, I am usually curled up on the sofa in a coma for some much needed relaxation time and no time for blogging.
But, yesterday I was so excited to witness my child's first real play therapy experience during her imaginative play!
It all started a couple of weeks ago when my toddler was climbing our wooden outdoor playground with my husband. He comes inside and tells me he thinks she has a splinter in her foot. I have no idea why she was climbing barefoot, but apparently she was and somehow got a tiny piece of wood lodged on the bottom of her foot.
So I get the needle, sterilize it, and while my husband holds her, I quickly prick her foot and got the splinter out. Of course she was crying and not happy, so I told her she had a booboo from the playground and mommy had to fix it. I kissed her foot and told her it was all better. She didn't want to walk on it for a few minutes but then was okay.
Weellll, the next week she constantly kept saying, 'booboo' and wanting me to kiss her foot and then held out her other foot for me to kiss. Each day I was kissing her foot. I think the poor thing was a little traumatized by it (okay I am exaggerating here), and she wanted reassurance.
But yesterday as we were playing together, she grabbed one of her dolls and brought it over to me. She held out the baby's foot and asked me to kiss it! She said, "booboo" and held out the foot! It was so adorable. She then held out the other foot and wanted me to kiss that one. She then walked away to put a diaper on the baby doll and that was it.
As I was sitting there a few minutes later, it dawned on me that she had just had her real first play therapy experience!!! She had been through a little stressful experience of having a splinter removed, and she released her anxiety by playing it out with her baby doll! She has not asked me to kiss her foot or the doll's since.
And that my friends, is what play therapy is all about.
Children communicate through their play. They use toys as their words and play is their language. Children can expresses themselves and any anxieties, worries, changes in the home (new baby), etc. through their play. And play therapy doesn't have to be for the super serious trauma inflicted children either. It is great for all children as they grow through life and have new experiences, they can safely play out what they have learned and witnessed through their play.
So what was my response to her play and how was it more play therapy vs just pretend play? In play therapy we reflect feelings and do not judge or make long explanations. So I reflected the baby's feelings of feeling hurt and sad and that she was now feeling better: "Baby feels sad and hurt.....You want mommy to kiss the baby's booboo." And I also 'enlarged the meaning' by stating, "sometimes we get booboos and they hurt but then they go away. Band aids and kisses can help make them feel better."
And in case you were wondering, no, I don't recommend using play therapy responses all day long with your child when the time comes. I do make feelings statements with my toddler though here and there so she learns her feelings and use non-directive play at times (not labeling her toys but letting her do the labeling) and letting her guide the play. Usually it's a lot of mommy being silly and having fun with my child kind of play all day long, but when the opportunity comes like yesterday, it feels so good that I can help her along. So cute!
rewarding to see this in action with your own child!!


Tens of thousands of sermons have been preached against self-righteousness, and yet it is as necessary to turn the great guns of the law against its walls to-day as ever it was.
So with my hesitation at writing this rather long blog removed, I continue.
Who is a self-righteous person?
We are all aware that a self-righteous person is a person wrongly and deceptively assured that he, or she, is full of right feelings, right thinking, and right doing. Self-righteous people have made themselves seem right to themselves, and therefore superior, at least in their own opinion.
These people we negatively characterize as self-righteous, or smug, or conceited, or preachy, or hypocritical, or prideful – pride is always a byproduct of self-righteousness. We might say they are goody-goodies, usually with a sneer on our faces, not because we think they really are but because we know they think they are. We easily see the not so righteousness of their lives while they are quite oblivious of it.
The opposite of self-righteousness is humility.
The opposite of self-righteousness of course is humility, a trait quite foreign to the self-righteous. I say this because a self-righteous person cannot experience humility while they are under the priggish pride-producing spell of self-righteousness. I know this because I have been under that curse all to often only to emerge from it, quite filled with shame and quite surprised that it has taken me in again, and so I swear never to yield to its deceptive tentacles again.
My resolve doesn't always hold though, and I'm sure the gateway into this insidious self-righteous snare is by means of comparison. (Obviously the comparison is not between God and me.) Rarely, it may begin when I compare myself to a murderer, or a thief, or a drug addict or a child abuser. More often it may begin when I compare myself to someone who simply dresses, thinks, speaks, looks, or acts differently than me. By "differently" I mean to imply that I don't approve. Even more often it may even begin when I compare myself to a self-righteous person; it is easy enough to find one after all.
Warning: This comparison is a trap.
Be warned that if you are not just now self-righteous, it is a trap to compare yourself to the self-righteous. It is a tricky backdoor trap since, in the comparison, you easily become one of the self-righteous by assuming you are more righteous for not being so smug. Self-righteousness can creep in of course in any comparison where I, or you, come out the winner.
though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse, Job 9:20, ESV.
You really can be truly righteous.
Of course one can really be righteous without being self-righteous. But, if true righteousness does not originally spring from inside self, and here I am assuming the doctrine of total depravity and taking the Apostles' (John and Paul's) word for it, then real righteousness must begin with someone outside of self. In his essay, Two Kinds of Righteousness, the great reformer Martin Luther said there are two true kinds of righteousness.
Alien righteousness is Christ's righteousness.
Alien righteousness as Luther explains is Christ's righteousness. It is all that Christ spoke, did, and suffered – his suffering was in obedience after all. It is Christ's perfect doing of God's perfect will. It is the fullness or completeness of Christ's right doing in God's opinion. This alien righteousness, the reformers explain, is imputed to us from outside of us.
Another way to say that God regards us as righteous is to say that God justifies us. In a real, binding, legal way, God counts us, reckons us, declares us just. God does this because from his perspective, we are truly righteous. We get this alien righteousness, Christ's righteousness, imputed to us, thought of by God as ours, by means of our faith in Christ.
Temptation may creep in from unexpected places.
At this point, you might be tempted to feel a little proud of your faith or your repentance. Faith implies repentance after all. You might even be tempted to feel a bit puffed up about your humility and let self-righteousness rise again. After all, you have it and you have noticed that others don't.
If you feel the pull of this temptation, remember that your faith and your repentance are gifts from God. You wouldn't have either if God didn't give them to you. And your humility comes from the Spirit's work in your life that transforms your nature (your character) into the nature of Christ.
All this should be reassuring since Christ's righteousness, once yours is yours forever. Because it is yours through an irrevocable faith given to you and because it belongs to Christ who through faith you are united to, you can never loose it (John 10:27-29). Also, because it is Christ's righteousness, you can never do anything to make it imperfect (Romans 8:1). You can't mess it up!
Just as real sins, verses Adam's sin imputed to you, are real acts that you do that God does not approve of, righteous deeds are real acts that you do that God does approve of. Righteous deeds are evidence of your moral or justifiable qualities – your righteousness. Righteous acts have some righteousness in them. They are things you actually say or do or suffer that are right in God's opinion. They are the result of faith in Christ and serve as practical evidence of your faith.
You cannot have actual righteousness unless you also have imputed, alien righteousness. True actual righteousness (I am giving the Protestant understanding here) in our actions is only possible because of God's sanctifying work in our hearts that begins at the point of regeneration – new spiritual birth- the point in time when, through the instrument of faith, the Spirit begins to dwell in us. The indwelling Holy Spirit sanctifies us; he changes, sometimes slowly and sometimes quickly, our moral nature to be more like Christ's holy nature.
What About People Who Obey the Law or a Law?
I have a friend who has intentionally chosen a specific set of moral laws to obey. Her personal laws are good things. I would even say they are biblical things that mirror God's character. They are things like: doing your best; helping those in need; telling the truth; not stealing, cheating, or murdering; and being dependable and faithful. Despite all her good moral qualities, my friend is not a believer – she does not have faith that Christ's work will save her. Instead she justifies herself by maintaining positive daily checks on her list of self-imposed laws.
… the all-pervasive fault in every sin is its character of unbelief. … Unbelief is what mainly displeases God in every sinful act. … A failure to delight and trust in the promises of God is the greatest insult you can pay to God and therefore the primary offense in all sin.
… do not say to yourself, "'My sins are slight, or my sins are few." For according to Romans 14:23, everything you do is sin. If you are not trusting Christ for forgiveness and are not resting in his daily work on your behalf, then none of your actions comes from faith, but every one of them (even the most noble) is sinful and an insult to the infinitely trustworthy God.
For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven, Matthew 5:20, (ESV).
It is the penitent sinner, not the self-righteous Pharisee who leaves the temple justified in the sight of God (Luke 18:9-14).
What About the Righteous People in the New Testament?
In the New Testament God's righteousness is connected to his salvation and to faith.
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealedfrom faith for faith,as it is written, 'The righteous shall live by faith' Romans 1:16-17 (ESV).
But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus (ESV).
In the Old Testament righteousness is connected to God's salvation.
So why does this deliverance provide evidence of God's righteousness in particular? Does it not, indeed, pose a problem for God's righteousness, calling it into question?
Although the cause of the afflicted is righteous, compared to that of their oppressors, God delivers them, not because of their own good works, but because they cry out to God for mercy. They are, therefore, justified by faith in God's righteousness, not their own. In Isaiah 45:24, they confess that 'in the LORD alone are righteousness and strength' [underlines mine].
We will never be perfectly holy in this life.
Unlike alien, imputed righteousness, our actual righteousness is not perfect since it is not Christ's righteousness but our own produced by the power of Christ in us. In this life, though we grow in holiness, we will never be fully sanctified in the sense that we are totally holy (without sin) until we see Christ (Romans 6:12-13; 1 John 1:8). However, as Grudem points out it does not mean that you are doomed to be forever ruled or defeated by a particular sin or by a particular pattern of sin (Romans 6:14).
What about the Scriptures that say we are already sanctified?
Just as there is a sense in which you are already righteous (imputed righteousness) there is also a sense in which you are already sanctified (set apart as already holy). See 1 Corinthians 6:11 and Acts 20:32. I am not talking about this 'already' sense.
All this is important because you will die.
Either you will die or you will live to see the return of Christ. In either case only a perfect righteousness will give you peace with God (Romans 5:1). Imperfect righteousness brings God's wrath (Romans 1:18). Comparisons between your goodness and the goodness of others will not do. Explanations of all you've suffered will not do. Lists of all your good deeds will not do. Even evidence of improvements in your moral character will not do.
Well, I believe I am as good as others, and that this fuss about a new birth, imputed righteousness, and being washed in blood, is all unnecessary,' but in the loneliness of your silent chamber, especially when death shall be your dread and grim companion, you shall not need me to state this, you shall see it clearly enough yourselves; see it with eyes of horror; and feel it with a heart of dismay, and despair, and perish because thou hast despised the righteousness of Christ.
Blessed privilege of the believer! But if you live and die unbelievers, know this, that all your sins lie on your own shoulders. Christ did never make any atonement for you; you were never bought with blood; you never had an interest in his sacrifice. You live and die in yourselves, lost; in yourselves, ruined; in yourselves, utterly destroyed. But believing—the moment you believe, you may know that you were chosen of God from before the foundation of the world. Believing, you may know that the righteousness of Christ is all yours; that all he did, he did for you; that all he suffered, he suffered for you. You do in fact, in the moment you believe, stand where Christ stood as God's accepted Son; and Christ stands where you stood as the sinner, and suffers as if he had been the sinner, and dies as if he had been guilty—dies in your room, place, and stead.
Carson, D.A., Expositor's Bible Commentary: Matthew, chs. 1-12, Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1995, pp. 146-147.
Carson, D.A., Right With God: Justification in the Bible and in the World, Eugene: OR, Wipf and Stock, 1992, p. 30.
Frame, John M., The Doctrine of God: A Theology of Lordship, vol. 2, Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing, 2002, pp. 451, 455.
Grudem, Wayne, Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine, Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1994, p. 726.
alien righteousness: Psalm 31:1; Romans 3:21-22; Philippians 3:9; 1 Corinthians 1:30.
faith and repentance as gifts of God: Acts 5:31; Acts 11:18; John 6:29; Ephesians 3:14-17; Hebrews 12:2; Romans 10:17; Romans 12:3; Titus 3:7.
transforming work of the Spirit: Matthew 11:29; Philippians 2:5-8; Titus 3:5; 1 John 3:9; Romans 6:11,14, 18.
works of righteousness that serve as practical evidence of your faith: James 2:18, 26; 2 Corinthians 13:5; Galatians 5:19-24.
Propitiation: If you want to know more about propitiation there is a free lesson available in the Creating Art from Theology Artist's and Leader's Guide.
More about sanctification: Grudem points out, p. 749, that "sanctification involves the whole person, including our bodies" (2 Corinthians 7:1; 1 Thessalonians 5:23) and so "will not be entirely completed until the Lord returns and we receive new resurrection bodies" (Philippians 3:21).


In short, there was no top-down policy directive to focus national attention and inter-agency Federal funding on winning the quantum supremacy race.
Personally, I am excited to see how the fierce competition at the academic, industrial and now international level will lead to a race for quantum supremacy.
Shor's, systems with tens of entangled qubits that may be of interest for early-stage research in quantum computer science will likely be available within 5 years. Developing a universal quantum computer is a long-term challenge that will build on technology developed for quantum simulation and communication. Deriving the full benefit from quantum computers will also require continued work on algorithms, programming languages, and compilers. The ultimate capabilities and limitations of quantum computers are not fully understood, and remain an active area of research.
With so much govt research money at stake, do you think that any prominent physicist is going to throw cold water on the alleged promise of quantum computers?
I do not think that we will have interesting quantum computers within 5 years, as I do not think that it is even physically possible.


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package org.rioproject.impl.service;

import com.sun.jini.landlord.LeasedResource;
import net.jini.id.Uuid;
import net.jini.id.UuidFactory;

/**
 * Leased service resources to be used with LeaseDurationPolicy and/or
 * LeaseManager
 *
 * @author Dennis Reedy
 */
public class ServiceResource implements LeasedResource {
    private Uuid cookie;
    private long expiration;
    private final Object resource;

    /**
     * Create a ServiceResource
     *
     * @param resource The resource being leased
     */
    public ServiceResource(final Object resource) {
        this.resource = resource;
        synchronized(ServiceResource.class) {
            cookie = UuidFactory.generate();
        }
    }

    /**
     * Returns the expiration time of the leased resource.
     *
     * @return The expiration time in milliseconds since the beginning of the epoch
     */
    public long getExpiration() {
        return expiration;
    }

    /**
     * Changes the expiration time of the leased resource.
     *
     * @param expiration The new expiration time in milliseconds since the beginning of
     * the epoch
     */
    public void setExpiration(long expiration) {
        this.expiration = expiration;
    }

    /**
     * Returns a unique identifier that can be used by the grantor of
     * the resource to identify it
     */
    public Uuid getCookie() {
        return cookie;
    }

    /**
     * Returns the resource that is being leased
     *
     * @return The actual resource
     */
    public Object getResource() {
        return resource;
    }

    /**
     * Overrides equals() to be based on the value of the cookie attribute
     */
    public boolean equals(Object o) {
        if(o instanceof ServiceResource) {
            ServiceResource sr = (ServiceResource)o;
            return(cookie.equals(sr.cookie));
        }
        return false;
    }

    /**
     * Overrides hashcode() to be based on the hashcode of the
     * cookie attribute
     */
    public int hashCode() {
        return cookie.hashCode();
    }
}

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Land-based STEM consensus found after national forums
This week over 100 Indigenous and non-Indigenous educators and representatives from across the country convened to work on setting the stage for systemic change in Indigenous land-based education. The Actua network, a self-professed leader in land-based STEM education, hosted the gatherings.
STEM is a curriculum based on the idea of educating students in four specific disciplines — science, technology, engineering and mathematics — in an interdisciplinary and applied way.
As parents and educators nationwide struggle with how to make education work in a pandemic environment, Indigenous students, particularly in northern remote parts of the country, have headed back to the land.
"We really found that there is a national consensus on the importance of bringing this into the school system. Certainly there are challenges, but the benefits far outweigh those challenges and that there is huge opportunity here for Indigenous learning to actually really contribute to the future classroom," Doug Dokis, Actua's Director of Indigenous Youth in STEM (InSTEM) program, said.
According to Dokis, grounding lessons in Indigenous knowledge provides Indigenous students with a sense of pride in their identity and shows them that their cultural perspectives are valued.
A press release said that as Indigenous Elders and Knowledge Keepers take the lead, there is an opportunity to work with Indigenous communities, education authorities, industry and post-secondary institutions in reshaping the classroom of the future for Indigenous youth and for all Canadian youth.
Dokis explained that with COVID-19 shutting down schools and creating other problems the education system is scrambling to find ways to create safe classrooms.
"A lot of those conversations are revolving around more outdoor experiences for kids and what we are saying is that Indigenous land-based … models are ideal for aligning with school systems and existing programming and building that out," Dokis explained.
"It would be beneficial not only to Indigenous kids but all kids."
Actua is a national non-profit whose membership consists of 42 universities and colleges across Canada.
"We deliver our STEM outreach through those networks of undergrad students at those universities an colleges. So we are present in all of these regions and territories across Canada," Dokis said.
The member organizations in the province include the University of Regina who hosted through their EYES (Educating Youth in Engineering and Science) program; the other member organizations are the University of Saskatchewan and First Nations University of Canada.
Actua works with over 200 Indigenous communities, also building partnerships with the local education sector.
"I reached out to a lot of the contacts that I have at a national level in these high level Indigenous or education portfolios and began to build a list of people that were and are actively involved in Indigenous education at the provincial level. From there we also got suggestions from existing relationships," Dokis explained.
The national forum set the groundwork for what is hoped will result in vastly improved educational outcomes for Indigenous students and a real path forward towards reconciliation.
"We looked to address some of the systemic problems and challenges within the education system," Dokis said.
"Part of that is that Indigenous knowledge is not recognized or included in or inclusive of mainstream education systems. So we wanted to create an opportunity to better integrate and align Indigenous knowledge and education within the whole system across the country," Dokis explained.
Typically teams from Actua go to communities and work on coding or robotics or other STEM activities. With land-based STEM they work with what is happening at the cultural level around things such as land management.
"We would build STEM activities to support the local cultural knowledge and cultural aspects (such as) harvesting fish or harvesting game. Then we would build activities to support that within the land programming."
Students that participate get high school credits.
"That helps address high school graduation rates and encourages more Indigenous youth to participate or to follow into STEM careers."
The program has been working in Indigenous communities for over 25 years and the credit component has been around for four years.
A national forum held this week presented the outcomes of a series of seven regional roundtable events on Indigenous land-based STEM education.
"Part of our outreach consists of Indigenous communities doing workshops in school programs. So the roundtables were primarily focused on Indigenous leadership, Indigenous educators, education authorities, school boards and regional or provincial or territorial ministries that are responsible for that segment of education," Dokis said.
"We are producing a discussion paper from all of these roundtables and the national forum and this discussion paper will be circulated widely across the country. And then we are moving towards the next steps of facilitating some of the conversations that would need to happen around curriculum development, curriculum assessment, all of those kinds of things," Dokis said.
He explained that he didn't know how long the process would take.
"We really are wanting to see systemic change and systemic recognition that this is valuable to the education system in this country,"
Dokis said there needs to be recognition at all levels of government in order to make these ideas spread through the education system.
"We will continue to advocate and continue to build out this at a local level with the idea that we have recognized through these conversations that these can move quite quickly in the sense of how systems typically move. Certainly the COVID situation with the classroom has kind of opened the door and the conversation more targeting outdoor education or land based learning opportunities," Dokis said.
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WASHINGTON — As the U.S. enters "what may well be the toughest and deadliest period of the virus," President Joe Biden is putting forth a national COVID-19 strategy to ramp up vaccinations and testing, reopen schools and businesses and increase the use of masks — including a requirement that they be worn for travel. Biden also will address inequities in hard-hit minority communities as he signs 10 pandemic-related executive orders on Thursday, his second day in office. "We need to ask average Americans to do their part," said Jeff Zients, the White House official directing the national response. "Defeating the virus requires a co-ordinated nationwide effort." But Biden officials say they're hampered by lack of co-operation from the Trump administration during the transition. They say they don't have a complete understanding of their predecessors' actions on vaccine distribution. They're also depending on Congress to provide $1.9 trillion for economic relief and COVID-19 response. And they face a litany of complaints from states that say they are not getting enough vaccine even as they are being asked to vaccinate more categories of people. Biden acknowledged the urgency of the mission in his inaugural address. "We are entering what may well be the toughest and deadliest period of the virus," he said before asking Americans to join him in a moment of silence in memory of the more than 400,000 people in the U.S. who have died from COVID-19. Biden's top medical adviser on COVID-19, Dr. Anthony Fauci, also announced renewed U.S. support for the World Health Organization after it faced blistering criticism from the Trump administration, laying out new commitments to tackle the coronavirus and other global health issues. Fauci said early Thursday that the U.S. will join the U.N. health agency's efforts to bring vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics to people in need, whether in rich or poor countries and will resume full funding and staffing support for WHO. The U.S. mask order for travel being implemented by Biden will apply to airports and planes, ships, intercity buses, trains and public transportation. Travellers from abroad must furnish a negative COVID-19 test before departing for the U.S. and quarantine upon arrival. Biden has already mandated masks on federal property. Although airlines, Amtrak and other transport providers now require masks, Biden's order makes it a federal mandate, leaving little wiggle room for passengers tempted to argue about their rights. It marks a sharp break with the culture of President Donald Trump's administration, under which masks were optional, and Trump made a point of going maskless and hosting big gatherings of like-minded supporters. Science has shown that masks, properly worn, cut down on coronavirus transmission. Biden also is seeking to expand testing and vaccine availability, with the goal of 100 million shots in his first 100 days in office. Zients called Biden's goal "ambitious and achievable." The Democratic president has directed the Federal Emergency Management Agency to begin setting up vaccination centres, aiming to have 100 up and running in a month. He's ordering the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to begin a program to make vaccines available through local pharmacies starting next month. And he's mobilizing the Public Health Service to deploy to assist localities in vaccinations. Some independent experts say the administration should be setting a higher bar for itself than 100 million shots. During flu season, the U.S. is able to vaccinate about 3 million people a day, said Dr. Christopher Murray of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in Seattle. "Given the number of people dying from COVID, we could and should do more — like what we're able to do on seasonal flu," he said. 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Surveys have shown vaccine hesitancy is high among African Americans, a problem the administration plans to address through an education campaign. But Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, the top White House health adviser on minority communities, said she's not convinced that race should be a factor in vaccination. Disparities seem to have more to do with risky jobs and other life circumstances. "It's not inherent to race," she said. "It's from the exposures." There's also support for states in the package. Biden is ordering FEMA to reimburse states for the full cost of using their National Guards to set up vaccination centres. That includes the use of supplies and protective gear as well as personnel. States would also be able to tap FEMA's Disaster Relief Fund to help them get schools back open. ___ Associated Press writers Collin Binkley and Josh Boak contributed to this report. Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, The Associated Press
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As Chief of the GMD Aerosol Group, Dr. Sheridan's primary responsibility is to oversee the operation and data flow of the NOAA ESRL Global Federated Aerosol Network. The goals of this surface aerosol monitoring program are to characterize means, variability, and trends of climate-forcing properties of different types of aerosols, and to understand the factors that control these properties. The measurements from this network provide critical ground-truth for satellite measurements, as well as key aerosol parameters for global-scale models. The Federated Network consists of aerosol monitoring systems located at the six NOAA Baseline Observatories and over 20 regional monitoring stations operated around the world by collaborating scientists. In this network, NOAA supplies proven designs and protocols for aerosol sampling infrastructure, standard operating procedures, GMD-developed and supported data acquisition, processing, visualization, editing, and archiving software, and technical expertise and troubleshooting assistance. The collaborators cover all of the long-term station costs (e.g., site, power, internet, instruments, technicians, etc.). The result is a long-term, cooperative program with shared data access, making high-quality atmospheric measurements that are directly comparable with the other stations in the network and following established aerosol sampling protocols (e.g., NOAA, GAW).
Current research interests of Dr. Sheridan include working to improve and simplify the measurement of aerosol optical properties to better determine their effects on aerosol radiative forcing, efforts to reduce the uncertainties in aerosol black/brown carbon and aerosol light absorption measurements, investigation of water uptake and cloud nucleation properties of atmospheric aerosols, and working to better incorporate aerosol measurements from surface monitoring stations into global climate models. Dr. Sheridan currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Journal of Aerosol and Air Quality Research (AAQR). He was presented with the NOAA Administrator's Award in 2006, the Department of Commerce Silver Medal in 2014, and the NOAA Technology Transfer Award in 2015.
The NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) maintains four Baseline Observatories to monitor the atmospheric background levels of trace gases and aerosols. Measurements at these remote sites permit us to determine to what extent the global backgrounds are changing over time. Since aerosols are perturbed near their sources, these remote Observatories are in good locations to assess global baseline changes to the atmospheric aerosol. They are, however, in sub-optimal locations to assess human influences on climate. In order to better understand anthropogenic aerosol radiative forcing and its effects on climate, and to reduce the uncertainties associated with extrapolating relatively few discrete observations up to regional or global scales, many more stations in different climatological regions were necessary. To accomplish this ESRL has over the past two decades significantly expanded its network of stations to include locations that are at times influenced by anthropogenic emissions. This was done through collaboration with many international science organizations and universities, with the result being the creation of the NOAA Federated Aerosol Network (NFAN). The goals of this surface aerosol monitoring program are to characterize means, variability, and trends of climate-forcing properties of different types of aerosols, and to understand the factors that control these properties. The measurements from this network provide critical ground-truth for satellite measurements as well as key aerosol parameters for global-scale models. NFAN data permit estimates of how much of the aerosol radiative forcing at these locations is caused by human activities and sheds light on whether changes in policy can influence the effects of these aerosols. The NFAN consists of aerosol monitoring systems located at the Baseline Observatories and about 30 regional monitoring stations operated around the world by collaborating scientists. In this network, NOAA supplies proven designs and protocols for aerosol sampling infrastructure, standard operating procedures, ESRL-developed and supported data acquisition, processing, visualization, editing, and archiving software, and technical expertise and troubleshooting assistance. The result is a long-term, cooperative program with shared data access, making high-quality atmospheric measurements that are directly comparable with the other stations in the network and following established aerosol sampling protocols (e.g., NOAA, GAW). This presentation describes the NFAN, highlights some of the technology and software that have been developed for use in the network, and presents some scientific results from these collaborations.


We know a hospital visit or stay is rarely convenient. But at Scotland County Hospital, we make patient care as comfortable as possible — whether you're here for a few hours or a few days.
Even before you arrive, we are making preparations for you. We will do everything we can to make your visit with us comfortable, pleasant and informative for you and your family. When you arrive, please check in at the Admissions/Registration Desk (south entrance, Hospital Drive - off Watkins Street), unless otherwise directed by your Physician. A parent or guardian must accompany children under age 18.
There are many parking lots that allow access to the Hospital and Memphis Medical Services. When you have a need to use the services of Scotland County Hospital or Memphis Medical Services, there are many paved and gravel lots for convenient parking, plus a covered area at the Emergency Department/Admissions entrance for drop-off (on Hospital Drive, off Watkins Street).
from the parking lot). This area is for you to enjoy, while you or your loved one is in our care. We believe you will find this area to be very peaceful.
The Courtyard is a non-smoking area.
The new construction at Scotland County Hospital has afforded ample waiting areas for many departments, including Emergency, Surgery, Women's Center, Memphis Medical Center and more. Please ask staff to direct you to the most convenient waiting area for your particular needs. Most waiting areas offer a coffee service (free of charge), vending machines and restrooms for your convenience.
Outpatient ('same day surgery') surgery patients may have one family member accompany the patient in the room. Pediatric patients may have both parents accompany them. All other family and friends may wait in designated waiting areas. Inpatient (requiring an overnight hospital stay) surgery patient families may wait in the patient room or designated waiting areas.
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Feel free to visit our website at www.sunrise-motel.com or give us a call at 660-465-8541 for reservations.
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