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On this page you will find a series of documents and links to helpful sites that cover the subjects of child welfare and safeguarding. You can read the School's Safeguarding & Child Protection Policy here.
Centre 33 offers a range of support for young people (up to the age of 25) in Cambridgeshire. They can help with a range of issues from housing, to family problems and bullying, no matter how big or small the problem is. Centre 33 offers a drop-in service and free youth counselling services, with sessions available in Cambridge, South Cambridgeshire, East Cambridgeshire and Huntingdon.
They provide information and advice to young carers and their families, giving young carers a much needed break from their caring role, supporting families in planning ahead and enabling young carers to have the same choices as other children and young people through the Carer Choices Fund.
http://centre33.org.uk/
hello@caringtogether.org
Ormiston Families take early and preventative action to support families to be safe, healthy and resilient; all their services help people to build stronger networks, learn from experience and feel in control of their own wellbeing.
https://www.ormiston.org/
The YMCA offers a variety of services, especially their Counselling Service, a free and confidential one to one counselling service for young people aged between 13 and 25 in Peterborough.
counselling@theymca.org.uk
https://www.ymca.org.uk/
https://www.ymca.org.uk/location/ymca-peterborough
Being the eyes and ears: The Children's Society can help you to spot signs of abuse and neglect during the COVID-19 lockdown.
https://www.childrenssociety.org.uk/news-and-blogs/our-blog/being-the-eyes-and-ears-spotting-signs-of-abuse-while-schools-are-closed
BBC article 'How do you talk to your children about sexual abuse?'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38129733
Childnet have released six new easy-to-follow videos for parents and children to work through together. The 10-15 minute videos offer simple, clear online safety advice using fun activities, games and discussion. There are optional follow-up activities to extend children's learning. The videos can be found here:
https://www.childnet.com/resources/video-lessons
From setting up parental controls, to advice on sexting, online games and video apps, the NSPCC can help you to understand the risks and keep your child safe:
https://www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/online-safety/
The Government recognises that many parents may feel concerned about the activities and content their children have accessed during the COVID-19 lockdown. Their guidance outlines resources to help keep children safe from different risks online and where to go to receive support and advice.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-keeping-children-safe-online/coronavirus-covid-19-support-for-parents-and-carers-to-keep-children-safe-online
Safeguarding Adults from Online Abuse (Cambs & Peterborough)
Safeguarding Children from Online Abuse (Cambs & Peterborough)
Safeguarding for Community Volunteers Online (Cambs & Peterborough)
South West Grid for Learning is a not-for-profit charitable trust specialising in supporting schools, agencies and families to affect lasting change with the safe and secure use of technology with a wealth of resources.
https://swgfl.org.uk/resources/
Choosing the Right Online Tutor
Internet Safety Advice for Parents & Carers
The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Healthy Child Programme has recently launched ChatHealth, a secure and confidential text messaging service for young people aged 11-19 across Peterborough who are struggling to cope with a wide range of health issues, such as bullying, emotional health, relationship problems, alcohol and drugs.
https://www.cambscommunityservices.nhs.uk/what-we-do/children-young-people-health-services-cambridgeshire/cambridgeshire-0-19-healthy-child-programme/school-nursing/chathealth
CHUMS Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing Service for Children and Young People provides therapeutic support in a variety of ways. CHUMS has developed a unique service delivery model to ensure that children and young people are able to access a service that supports their individual needs.
http://chums.uk.com/cambs-pborough-services/
Embrace Counselling Centre offers a professional therapy service to individuals, couples and children in and around Peterborough, from only £10 per session.
https://www.counselling-directory.org.uk/counsellors/embrace-counselling-centre
Arts on Prescription is a series of friendly, weekly art workshops for people experiencing depression, stress or anxiety. Led by a professional artist and a qualified counsellor, they offer the chance to experience working with a wide range of materials and techniques, including drawing, printmaking and sculpture. Sessions last for two hours and are open to all abilities - no experience necessary.
http://artsandminds.org.uk/
http://artsandminds.org.uk/projects/arts-on-prescription/
Hey!Cambridge is a not-for-profit social enterprise providing early intervention support for children who are experiencing mental health difficulties such as anxiety, depression, phobia, attachment, adjustment, self-harm or eating difficulties. They bring together qualified and experienced Psychologists, Paediatricians, Speech and Language Therapists, Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists to provide integrated assessment and support.
http://www.nascambridge.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Hey-Cambridge-Leaflet.pdf
Growing up and moving into adulthood can be challenging. It can affect how you feel and have an impact on your well-being and mental health. Keep Your Head brings together good, reliable, up-to-date information on mental health and wellbeing for children and young people, parents/carers and professionals.
https://www.keep-your-head.com/cyp
Kooth provides free, safe and anonymous online help for young people.
https://www.kooth.com/
Mental Health First Aid (England) offers expert guidance and training to support mental health, in the workplace and beyond.
https://mhfaengland.org/
Mind provides advice and support to empower anyone experiencing a mental health problem, and campaigns to improve services, raise awareness and promote understanding.
NHS Choices has a hub of information on young people's mental health which has information on when to seek support for low mood and information on specific topics such as self-harm and bipolar disorder.
https://www.nhs.uk/using-the-nhs/about-the-nhs/your-choices-in-the-nhs/
The Reading Well for Children scheme was launched in Cambridgeshire, with a range of books that have been recommended by young people and health professionals about mental health available in public libraries. The books are aimed at 13- to 18-year-olds with advice and information about issues like anxiety, stress and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), and difficult experiences like bullying and exams.
https://readingagency.org.uk/news/media/new-national-reading-scheme-to-support-young-peoples-mental-health.html
The Rethink Asian Mental Health Helpline is a free (from BT landlines) and confidential service specifically for Asian communities affected by mental illness, staffed by volunteers who speak a variety of Asian languages. Open 4pm-7pm Monday and Wednesday, and 12pm-3pm Tuesday and Thursday.
https://www.rethink.org/help-in-your-area/services/advice-and-helplines/rethink-sahayak-asian-mental-health-helpline/
Relationship & Sex Education
Dhiverse provide high quality sexual health and HIV support, education and information for all. They are inclusive, caring, non-judgmental and committed to upholding our organisation's values. Through service user involvement, campaigns and collaboration they challenge stigma, prejudice and inequalities.
https://www.dhiverse.org.uk/
Childline is free, confidential and available any time, day or night, and can help anyone under 19 in the UK with any issue they're going through. You can talk about anything; whether it's something big or small, their trained counsellors are there to support you.
Telephone 0800 1111
https://www.childline.org.uk/
The Samaritans are available, day or night, for anyone who's struggling to cope, who needs someone to listen without judgement or pressure. They give people ways to cope and the skills to be there for others, and encourage, promote and celebrate those moments of connection between people that can save lives.
Telephone 116 123
STOP Suicide is an award-winning suicide prevention campaign which reaches across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. It started life in 2014 as one of four different NHS England-funded pilot campaigns across the East of England and is now continuing via other funding streams.
https://www.stopsuicidepledge.org/
Young Minds Helpline offers free confidential online and telephone support, including information and advice to any adult worried about the emotional problems, behaviour or mental health of a child or young person up to the age of 25.
http://www.youngminds.org.uk
Make Do and Mend provides workshops for people who experience mental distress. These workshops aim to promote recovery by developing self-esteem through developing skills. Workshops include areas such as candle making, guitar and cookery. There is a small membership fee to join Make Do and Mend.
http://makedoandmendcambridge.co.uk/
Anti-Radicalisation
Children can be exposed to different views and receive information from various sources. Some of these views may be considered radical or extreme. NSPCC Learning shares best practice about recognising, responding to and preventing radicalisation and extremism.
https://learning.nspcc.org.uk/safeguarding-child-protection/radicalisation
Messages of hate can take many forms. Extremist groups use them to recruit young people. Parents can find answers to common questions and resources to help protect their children at Educate Against Hate.
https://educateagainsthate.com/parents/
The NHS Apps Library offers a list of Android and iPhone apps and online tools to help you manage your health and wellbeing.
https://www.nhs.uk/apps-library/
Cambridgeshire Police Cyberland Initiative
The Cyber Security officer for Cambridgeshire Police would like to make secondary schools aware of CyberLand, a learning opportunity created by the National Crime Agency and Cyber Challenge UK.
CyberLand is a series of 16 fun, interactive online games that help teachers and after-school club leaders introduce key concepts in cyber security. CyberLand is suitable for all ages and levels of technical ability (recommended ages 12-17 years).
By working their way through CyberLand's immersive activities, physical games and practical challenges, students will:
learn about key cyber concepts such as the use of firewalls, public Wi-Fi and phishing emails
understand how to stay safe online
discover some of the key roles in the cyber security industry and how different individuals work together to protect our systems from attack
strengthen the skills they'll need for a career in tech or information security
Any interested teacher and student can find out more here:
https://www.cybersecuritychallenge.org.uk/what-we-do/schools-programme/cyberland#
There are many other exciting opportunities for young people with an interest in computers. CyberFirst (11-17 years) has the government agency GCHQ behind it, and there are competitions supported and sponsored by international tech giants. For more information please visit:
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-virtual-cyber-school-gives-teens-chance-to-try-out-as-cyber-security-agents-from-home
Safer Schools Officer


I've been meaning to paint the TV armoire for almost 3 weeks but there was something about the paint color on the weathered nightstand that wasn't jiving with the rest of the room and it was totally throwing me off. Well, this past week inspiration finally struck and I was able to get them both finished. Here's a peek at how we transformed an armoire meant for the TV into a one stop wardrobe and solved an ongoing problem along the way….


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import javafx.event.ActionEvent;
import javafx.fxml.FXMLLoader;
import javafx.scene.Parent;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.control.Menu;
import javafx.scene.control.MenuBar;
import javafx.scene.control.MenuItem;
import javafx.scene.control.SeparatorMenuItem;

import de.codecentric.centerdevice.MenuToolkit;
import javafx.scene.layout.BorderPane;
import javafx.scene.paint.Color;
import javafx.scene.text.Font;
import javafx.scene.text.Text;
import javafx.stage.Stage;
import javafx.stage.StageStyle;

import java.io.IOException;

/**
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public class MacMenuBar {

    String appName;

    public MacMenuBar(String appName) {
        this.appName = appName;

        MenuToolkit tk = MenuToolkit.toolkit();

        MenuBar bar = new MenuBar();

        // Application Menu
        // TBD: services menu
        Menu appMenu = new Menu(appName); // Name for appMenu can't be set at
        // Runtime
        MenuItem aboutItem = new MenuItem("About " + appName);
        aboutItem.setOnAction(this::aboutHandler);
        MenuItem prefsItem = new MenuItem("Preferences...");
        appMenu.getItems().addAll(aboutItem, new SeparatorMenuItem(), prefsItem, new SeparatorMenuItem(),
                tk.createHideMenuItem(appName), tk.createHideOthersMenuItem(), tk.createUnhideAllMenuItem(),
                new SeparatorMenuItem(), tk.createQuitMenuItem(appName));

        // File Menu (items TBD)
        Menu fileMenu = new Menu("File");
        MenuItem newItem = new MenuItem("New...");
        fileMenu.getItems().addAll(newItem, new SeparatorMenuItem(), tk.createCloseWindowMenuItem(),
                new SeparatorMenuItem(), new MenuItem("TBD"));

        // Edit (items TBD)
        Menu editMenu = new Menu("Edit");
        editMenu.getItems().addAll(new MenuItem("TBD"));

        // Format (items TBD)
        Menu formatMenu = new Menu("Format");
        formatMenu.getItems().addAll(new MenuItem("TBD"));

        // View Menu (items TBD)
        Menu viewMenu = new Menu("View");
        viewMenu.getItems().addAll(new MenuItem("TBD"));

        // Window Menu
        // TBD standard window menu items
        Menu windowMenu = new Menu("Window");
        windowMenu.getItems().addAll(tk.createMinimizeMenuItem(), tk.createZoomMenuItem(), tk.createCycleWindowsItem(),
                new SeparatorMenuItem(), tk.createBringAllToFrontItem());

        // Help Menu (items TBD)
        Menu helpMenu = new Menu("Help");
        helpMenu.getItems().addAll(new MenuItem("TBD"));

        bar.getMenus().addAll(appMenu, fileMenu, editMenu, formatMenu, viewMenu, windowMenu, helpMenu);

        tk.autoAddWindowMenuItems(windowMenu);
        tk.setGlobalMenuBar(bar);
    }

    public void aboutHandler(ActionEvent event) {
        Parent root;
        try {
            FXMLLoader loader = new FXMLLoader(getClass().getResource("about.fxml"));
            root = loader.load();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
            return;
        }

        Stage stage = new Stage(StageStyle.UNDECORATED);
        stage.setWidth(600);
        stage.setHeight(400);
        stage.setResizable(false);

        Scene scene = new Scene(root, 600, 400);
        scene.setOnMousePressed(mouseEvent -> {
            stage.close();
        });

        stage.setScene(scene);
        stage.show();
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}

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Dutton has no regrets over leadership spill as he becomes home affairs minister
By Fiona Willan • Political Reporter
4:09pm Aug 27, 2018
Peter Dutton says he has no regrets about the events that brought about the downfall of Malcolm Turnbull as Prime Minister.
Today, Mr Dutton was sworn back in as Home Affairs Minister, after failing in his bid for the Liberal leadership last week.
He said he was happy to be serving in Scott Morrison's cabinet - claiming he would provide whatever support he could to the new PM.
Liberal MP Peter Dutton is sworn in as Home Affairs Minister by Australian Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove during a ceremony at Government House in Canberra. (AAP)
"I think the Australian public will warm very quickly to Scott Morrison," Mr Dutton said.
The Australian public will need to warm to Mr Morrison very quickly if the government is to survive the next general election.
Today, the Prime Minister is visiting Quilpie in south-west Queensland, making good on an early promise to put drought at the top of his agenda.
But the visit was overshadowed by talk of the latest Newspoll, published in the Australian, which shows support for the Coalition has plummeted to its lowest point in a decade, following the leadership coup.
The biggest stories of 2018, in the words of those on the frontlines
Malcolm Turnbull's leadership spill: 'It was a terrorist's bargain'
Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten hold discussions on National Energy Guarantee
Labor is leading 41 to 33 in the Primary vote, and 56-44 in two-party preferred terms.
And for the first time in three years, Bill Shorten is the preferred Prime Minister.
The new Prime Minister has vowed to rebuild the divide in the Liberal party, following recent events.
"It's been a pretty tumultous time, and I think Australians would welcome the fact that period of time is over," he said.
'The age of bitterness has come to a close, and the age of working together and focusing on the future has come."
leadership spill
Peter Dutton
federal politics
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Councilmember Vanessa L. Gibson visits The QUESTion Class at BCSM!
Home/News, QUESTion/Councilmember Vanessa L. Gibson visits The QUESTion Class at BCSM!
On Wednesday, April 16, 2019, The QUESTion Project at Bronx Center for Science and Math (BCSM) had the extreme honor of hosting Councilmember Vanessa Gibson of District 13th. The visit was marked by Councilmember Gibson's interest in The QUESTion Project at one of the highest performing high schools in NYC, but ultimately her desire to hear directly from students about why they believed that the program was beneficial to them. The students at BCSM shared with the councilmember the many different opportunities of introspection that The QUESTion Project has provided them to find and define their purpose and responsibility to themselves and others to. Additionally, students shared that they recognized that The QUESTion Project provided them the space and opportunity to explore who they were, are and who they aspire to be. One graduating senior shared that when he looks back over his high school career the one class that he feels has been most impactful has been The QUESTion Class. Council Member Gibson shared with the class her quest towards her own purpose. She left the class encouraging students to continue be curious about BIG life questions. For all who gathered, the visit was truly an inspiring one for the collective to ensure that all students have access to social-emotional learning starting in District 13.
By OFI Staff|2019-04-22T15:13:15-04:00April 22nd, 2019|News, QUESTion|0 Comments
The QUESTion Project Welcomes Students – and Teachers – to their First Day of School
QUESTion Project Expands to New School in Los Angeles.
"One expression of freedom together, is to be prepared to take responsibility for the culture of the future. So many things that we see as fate is because we don't dare to take responsibility. The QUESTion Project is taking a promising step towards impacting the culture of education."
- Dr. Joe Duffey, Former Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities
Open Future Institute Goes West to Partner with Alliance MIT
Student Blog (12)
Check out what our students have to say about the impact of our most recent QUESTion Classes! pic.twitter.com/ymlRAmmPp6
Our target age just got younger! Elementary school children have BIG questions, too. openfutureinstitute.org/to-reach-a-you…
What's bigger than ourselves? Our 14-year-olds say: death, religion, family, love, tech, comedy, nature... & more pic.twitter.com/nQaxPi6vKB
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Nederman DX 6000 TR Reverse Jet with centrifugal fan and motor.
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Posted by Edwin Ritter in Miscellaneous, Trends.
The old saw about what gets measured gets managed comes to mind when I think about blog metrics. When you collect and analyze measurements, that is part of the management. You watch for changes; learn what works and repeat those. You also learn what does not work and avoid repeating those.
So it was interesting to me watching the traffic for this blog grow over the past few months. I was measuring and managing very well for quite a while. Then, the floor on the blog traffic measures fell out. My blog posts stopped for a time. While I was measuring, I was not managing. Perhaps I had a few too many spinning plates and some fell and broke. I was managing other things but not the blog and there was a definite impact on traffic.
I also managed comments to this blog. Some real genuine comments submitted, many other comments that are just spam. The spammers are amusing in that they repeat themselves. Or, better yet, they repeat each other. Verbatim. So I manage the spam by deleting it. The positive comments are accepted and shown. Thank You to all who take the time to submit those.
Since this blog started, I have been measuring using the metrics provided by WordPress. I also use tools from Google Webmaster and Bing webmaster (which looks quite different these days) to measure and then manage. From these tools and managing the comments, I learn what works and watch the traffic.
Perhaps this post will bring traffic back to more recent levels. I'll be measuring and then manage from there.
Here's one way to put big data to good use – saving lives. Taking all that information in collecting, managing and making decisions in real time to assess risk profiles for imminent danger is why we use technology. What other ways have you seen where big data is put to use?
Rice University researchers have built a web-based calculator that predicts the risks associated with hurricanes for a specific address in Houston. The tool uses historical and meteorological data to generate a risk profile for residents of the city in real-time (hat tip Discovery News). As a former Houston resident who has lived through several hurricanes, this is a pretty nifty combination of a variety of data sources into a tool that helps regular people makes decisions.
The tool, which is limited to Harris County, was inspired by the mass evacuations that occurred during Hurricane Rita in 2005. Millions of Houstonians fled the storm and blocked major roadways. Not all of those who left needed too, but absent hard data it's hard to know what to do if you're reading about a Category 5 storm heading your way.


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CONTRIBUTION · 13th August 2012
A FIRST FOR TERRACE AND THE FIRST IN CANADA
Provincial Networking Group
Provincial Networking Group Inc. (PNGI) is very pleased to announce that our Clinical Director, Mr. Chris Arnold recently traveled to Washington DC where he wrote and passed the national certification exam for the new "Certified Employment Support Professional" designation. Chris is proud to be the first Canadian to receive this designation.
The CESP credential was established by the Employment Support Professional Certification Council (ESPCC). National certification is earned by passing a comprehensive examination based on national standardized competencies and administered by an independent professional organization. To maintain certification professionals are required to earn continuing education (CE) credits over time. The Certified Employment Services Professional (CESP) is being developed in compliance with the guidelines of the National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA), the accrediting body of the Institute for Credentialing Excellence.
"The test was a challenging one that dug deep with some specific scenarios and situational questions that really made you think about the values and practice of Supported Employment with a wide range of individuals", said Chris Arnold. There were some questions that were specifically related to USA political initiatives, programs or policies but despite this, Chris was able to successfully pass the exam.
Chris is excited to share this process and information about the development of the credential with colleagues in the employment field in BC & across Canada.
The CESP exam was included in the pre-conference day for the Association of Persons in Supported Employment (APSE) National Conference in Arlington VA, which Chris also attended.
Keynote speakers included Temple Grandin, and the conference sessions covered a very wide range of top notch presentations.
PNGI has been a leader in providing supported employment services in BC for over 18 years and is actively involved in provincial and national initiatives around employment.
For more information on APSE or the CESP credential you can go to:
http://www.apse.org/certification/
For more information on PNGI:
Our website: www.pngi.ca
chris,,,pngi.ca
Comment by Maureen on 18th August 2012
Congrats to you and pngi!
Is there a Canadian association?
Comment by Manion Denise on 13th August 2012
Way to go Chris! Your hard work, dedication and love for helping people really helps the community in general. You're an inspiration!
Comment by Stacey Tyers on 13th August 2012
Well done Chris, your passion and dedication to your field but more importantly to people is always refreshing!
PNGI
Comment by Me on 13th August 2012
Way to go Chris!! the Provincial Networking Group is a very supportive and helpful organization for Special needs individuals. Keep up the good work, your hard work is paying off.
email Provincial Networking Group


Six Stones ministries (209 N Industrial Blvd #241, Bedford, TX 76021) is the site of the Mid-Cities summit from 10:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 18th. This summit features city code, fire, police, and development officials from the cities of Hurst, Euless, Bedford, and Grapevine. It is an excellent opportunity to learn about each city's unique programs and initiatives, and a chance to learn how the cities in northeast Tarrant County work together. The Mid-Cities summit will conclude with break-out sessions with each city's Neighborhood Patrol Officers (NPO).


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BREVIN KIM DROP THEIR LONG-AWAITED SINGLE "NAPLES"
Brevin Kim are an unstoppable force within the music industry right now, as these two brothers from Massachusetts have finally unclenched their grasp around their long-awaited single "NAPLES".
Mass Music Radio has included many selections from Brevin Kim's discography on our radio stream for years now, and everytime the pair releases something new, it's cause for celebration. Both Cal and Bren balance one another with a truly balanced precision, and as their catalog reaches new levels of depth, they manage to unearth an entirely new side of their musical capabilities.
"NAPLES" largely circulates around self-expression within an environment that's incredibly overbearing. They've spoken on this in the past, with specifically this tweet from April emphasizing what they've endured in terms of ridicule and hatred from their hometown peers.
apparently me painting my nails is a big topic of discussion in our conservative hometown □□□□
— KEVIN BRIM (@BrevinKim) April 12, 2021
I, for one, am incredibly grateful that Brevin Kim have stood for something greater themselves, while at the same time have attributed a great deal of respect with regard to the reputation associated with music in Massachusetts. This pair of brothers is really special, and is more than well-deserving of whatever success comes their way.
Watch the official music video for "NAPLES" below:


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North Korea snubs Abe's summit proposal
U.S. President Donald Trump, left, and Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe react during delivering a speech to Japanese and U.S. troops as they aboard Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force's (JMSDF) helicopter carrier DDH-184 Kaga at JMSDF Yokosuka base in Yokosuka, south of Tokyo, May 28. AP-Yonhap
By Kim Yoo-chul
North Korea rejected a summit proposal by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, calling the suggestion a "brazen-faced" move, Monday.
A spokesman from the Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee said: "If Japan wants to talk about 'the right judgment and decision,' then that's exactly what we want to tell them," citing recent remarks by Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono.
Kono hinted at supporting "sanctions-easing" only after the North made "the right judgment and decision,"
The spokesman continued: "Now, Japan is required to make a bold decision. They need to write a new history, and admit to the wrongdoings that Japan committed. The thickness of the skin of Abe's group is like a bear's paw as Japan wants to hold a summit with us without preconditions."
The remarks, made in an interview with the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), were released Monday.
"Abe is tirelessly knocking on Pyongyang's door by promoting his voice just like the Japanese government's principle on nuclear talks with the DPRK has changed. But not even small changes or adjustments were made to Japan's deeply hostile policy toward our country as Kono is talking about increased sanctions pressure," he said.
The spokesman was referring to North Korea by the acronym for its official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
This is the North's first official response to last month's proposal by Abe for a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Abe is the only major regional leader who hasn't met with Kim.
At that time, Abe has said he was willing to meet Kim "without conditions," and wanted to "break the current mutual distrust," softening his previous stance. Before, he said a summit would have to be preceded by the return of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korean agents in the 1970s and 80s.
During his recent visit to Tokyo, U.S. President Donald Trump told Abe that Washington supported a possible Abe-Kim summit as a means to revive the nuclear diplomacy, which has been stalled since the failure of the summit in Hanoi.
Intelligence sources in Seoul said Japanese officials may hold discussions with North Korea on the sidelines of a Northeast Asian security conference to be held in Ulaanbaatar on June 5 and 6.
"Simply, it's useless to cry out for an advancement of relations, unless Japan abandons its wicked character," the KCNA quoted North Korean official as saying.
Japanese government officials have been pursuing the abduction issue, asking Trump to raise it during his summits with Kim. Tokyo has framed it as a key precondition for improved relations with Pyongyang, according to political analysts in Seoul.
North Korea is believed to have kidnapped 17 Japanese citizens during the 1970s and 1980s. Five were repatriated, leaving the fate of the other 12 "in doubt." Pyongyang has so far refused to admit to some of the kidnappings while claiming other missing abductees died in the country.
yckim@koreatimes.co.kr More articles by this reporter


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Five Reasons the Zombie Apocalypse Will Never Come to Pass
Aside from the fact that no actual virus/infection exists that would turn living people into soulless, plodding flesh-hungry beasts, there are five reasons the zombie apocalypse will never come to pass.
4 January,2012By Justin Brown
Just after watching the pilot episode of The Walking Dead, I decided that while I could still watch (and enjoy) any and all zombie films and television shows… I could no longer truly abide them. There's too many questions logged in my head from years of viewing this particular genre and here, at the end of 2010, I now feel a responsibility to myself and the world to completely unravel any semblance of the well-accepted cultural delusion that zombies could actually take over the world, if they existed in the form presented in popular modern media.
Aside from the fact that no actual virus/infection exists that would turn living people into soulless, plodding flesh-hungry beasts, I believe there are five reasons the zombie apocalypse will never come to pass.
(For the purposes of this dissertation, I am choosing to disregard any zombie tale in which zombies are created by some indefinable Biblical prophecy wherein all dead people rise from the grave and any person who dies after a certain point becomes a zombie whether or not they've been "infected" in any way. Because… come on, that's just ridiculous.)
You know how you have separate clothes for winter and summer? That's because getting extremely hot or cold is bad for the human body (you may have gleaned this, over the years). Extended exposure to harsh summer sun and/or the frigid temperatures that normally accompany snow and ice will absolutely kill fully nourished and healthy humans. So how would people with open wounds, no shelter, and rapidly decaying flesh and bone respond to being out in the sun for hours or days or weeks at a time?
With an intermittent diet consisting only of human/animal flesh, their bodies would quickly become dried out and malnourished, and they would soon turn to sticky puddles of death on a hot stretch of highway. And if any zombies were caught in a frigid climate, their likelihood of survival would be even further reduced. Frostbite on the limited remaining blood and fluid in their bodies would quickly eliminate motor function, reducing them to mildly cool heaps of flesh itching to be plowed into snowdrifts.
4. They're already dead
Humans may be relatively fragile but at least we can fix ourselves, more often than not. Human beings can get stabbed, shot, hit by cars, dropped from great heights, drowned, and poisoned and STILL SURVIVE (though to be honest, I don't know if anyone's sustained all of those in quick succession). We have science, medicine, and — above all — functioning immune systems. Zombies would have none of these. In addition to the aforementioned problems that zombies would encounter via the elements, they have no way to solve any other physical problem that may pop up. Oh, a zombie stepped off a curb at an awkward angle and broke his/her ankle? Have fun on the asphalt. A stray dog attacks them? Done.
Anything that happens to a zombie is final. Their life support is largely already unplugged. They cannot patch themselves up or seek help at a zombie hospital and their body can't do anything on its own. The hard work in killing them is done. There's no right or wrong way to go about ending a zombie's tenure. It's one move based purely on physics: impale the brain and walk away.
3. Disease control
Remember when everyone freaked out about SARS? How about the big Bird Flu scare, at the beginning of this century? And then the big Swine Flu business last year — remember that? The total combined deaths of those three recent outbreaks worldwide was under 20,000 people (and an overwhelming majority of those were from swine flu, which is odd considering that that form of influenza is not usually very deadly). Even with a decade and three different battlefronts, the result was far from global eradication of our species. Further, do you know how many SARS/Bird Flu/Swine Flu deaths happened in the United States? About 3,400, and those were ALL Swine Flu related (and nearly half of them were in Florida, Texas, New York, and California… meaning quarantine would've been relatively easy to implement).
Now you may be saying: "well, the death toll in those three instances was small because SARS and the flu are treatable and thus, not 100% lethal. So, the number of people who were infected with SARS/the flu is a lot higher than the number of people died by them. But with the zombie infection, once you're infected, survival is not possible." And you'd be right. If the zombie virus spread like the Swine Flu, over 600,000 people would be zombies. Or would they? No, they wouldn't.
See, there is one HUGE difference between something like swine flu and the zombie virus beyond existing suitable medical treatment: transmission. The reason that influenza (in all its forms) has hung around so long and killed so many (thousands of people per year in the U.S. alone) is because it is very contagious. Whether it's through direct contact with fluids, aerosol germs, or touching a contaminated surface, if you believe someone around you has the flu, you basically need to avoid everyone and everything. Once the flu's in the area, it's very difficult to remain flu-free.
But one unchanging part in nearly all of the zombie mythos is thus: you can only become a zombie if you are bitten by a zombie. So to avoid becoming infected with the zombie virus… all you need to do is not get bitten. How hard could that be? Well, for real-world comparison, how many times have you contracted rabies? Exactly. On average, less than 3 people die of rabies in the U.S. annually. The lack of rabies-related death can be attributed to effective vaccinations but also because, at this point, people know not to get within biting distance of wild animals. So, if you knew a zombie virus was out there, would you get within biting distance of any person you didn't know to be zombie-free (to say nothing of getting within biting distance of any person who looked like a zombie)? Wouldn't you wear long sleeves and pants and denim and leather all the time just to ensure no zombie could even accidentally pierce your skin? Seriously, one aspect rarely dramatized in zombie stories is that — based on how difficult it is to contract the zombie virus — becoming a zombie would be embarrassing more than anything, as it is a clear message that you're just a total idiot.
Anyway, my point is this: we don't live in 14th-century Europe. Zombification isn't the Black Death. And even if the zombie virus was transmitted by rats or fleas like Black Death… again, it's not the 14th century anymore. When a disease (of any kind) threatens us in the year 2010, we immediately hear about it. A video of zombies would be on TwitVid within an hour of being filmed. We learn about it. We can handle it. We close borders and set up mobile clinics. We may not solve it immediately but you know those two places, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization? They're more than a couple of offices with fluorescent lights and file cabinets. They figure out how diseases work. And even if it took a month or a year or even ten years to figure out how to treat the infected, these national/global groups would have no qualms about running PSAs every 19 seconds proclaiming "hey, just a reminder: don't let dead people bite you!".
2. They're mindless
Whether you believe they can run or not, one inescapable truth about zombies since their introduction to pop culture has been that they are conclusively no longer human. They can't speak. They can't avoid danger. They can't use tools. They can't hide and wait until your back is turned. They can't organize and design an effective plan of attack. They can't conserve their energy. They can't defend themselves. Translation? Make sure there are none hiding in your house and then just shut your doors and windows. That's literally all you ever need to do.
Zombies could pile up against the sort of door used as the main entry in a home or building but it probably wouldn't do much good as those doors are designed to keep people out. Zombies have no muscular strength or logic to organize "1… 2… 3… push!" so it would be long, sustained light pressure on your front door. I think by the time that loosely assembled plan came together for the zombies (if it ever did), you would've had more than enough opportunity to slip out the back door and drive anywhere else in the country.
Put it this way: how many able-minded criminals have broken into your residence when the doors were locked? Take it back another step: how many ANIMALS have outsmarted you enough to enter your house? And zombies are conclusively dumber and less capable than both of those groups. Our whole world is already full of objects erected to keep things apart — anybody who didn't have brainpower or muscular ability enough to use a sledgehammer or turn a door knob would have endless amounts of trouble breaching these barriers. And that's before you factor in people nailing two-by-fours across every entrance, piling up sandbags along the sidewalk, and buying tank spikes from the Army surplus store (I already have a line of credit there, just in case).
If you're going to take over the world, you need to at least be as smart as my dog. Zombies don't make that cut.
1. The military.
I would argue that no genre has disrespected the military quite like zombie cinema. At least when aliens or monsters or robots devastate armed forces in movies, it is usually hilariously explained within the context of the story (aliens have technology, monsters are bulletproof and very large, robots take over our computers and become omnipresent). But when zombies supposedly overrun the world, we're rarely given an explanation as to how these zombies could possibly trump a force with greater numbers, strategy, technology, and firepower. Zombie fiction (in film and literature alike) tells us that these military forces were simply defeated and that's about it. We'll see the occasional abandoned tank and helicopter, with bloody fatigued bodies nearby but we're never really offered any reasonable logic as to how this could have happened. That's because it wouldn't happen. It's dumb.
[Even worse, most zombie media will usually add another insult to the military by depicting at least one or two sequences wherein our protagonist ragtag band of survivors (or even a single survivor) — traditionally armed only with melee weapons — successfully wipe out a dozen or so zombies while rarely enduring any casualties on their side. How does this make any sense? A bunch of untrained civilians can hold this menace at bay but no military can? Pssh. Anyway, back to my point.]
Using America's military for comparison, do you realize that even when facing multiple well-armed foreign militaries overseas nearly non-stop over the last 90 years, the entire American military has never even come close to being totally annihilated (also relevant: America won nearly all of those wars). And those were multiple-year struggles against organized groups with rifles and jets and tanks — not a bunch of uncoordinated, slow-moving morons in wide open spaces.
On top of that, one of the biggest issues in winning a war is finding and subsequently neutralizing the opponent. This would never ever be a problem with zombies because zombies would be the only opponent in the history of living things to:
a. repeatedly try to get very close to their greatest predator
b. have absolutely no defense against their greatest predator
c. not flee their greatest predator even as their greatest predator is obliterating all other zombies
d. not be able to increase their numbers without step A
So if this unlikely outbreak somehow started, as long as every healthy human being stayed indoors, all the military would need to do is drive down the street and capture/kill those stumbling around, looking for flesh. It would be easier than Duck Hunt.
In conclusion, the zombie-induced end of the world as depicted in films, television shows, and comic books would never happen. Could zombies wreak some havoc in a small, isolated town full of the dumbest people on Earth? Sure. But once anyone with a functioning brain heard about it, the clean-up would take like 9 hours.
The Chain Restaurant Is The Worst Deal in America & 4 Easy Ways to Stop Eating Out
Jack Busch 29 January,2012
We're not telling you anything new when we say we all eat out too much. The bill is always higher than estimated, and we feel stuffed to death after. We'll prove to you it's a bad deal, and give you 4... [more]
How to Negotiate Your Job Offer from Harvard Business School Professor Deepak Malhotra [video]
Andrew Snavely 20 March,2013
Award-winning Harvard Professor Deepak Malhotra covers 15 important tips for getting what you want.
The Work-cation: Finish Your Project, Jumpstart a New Fitness Routine, Achieve Your Goals
Work-cations combine the best things about vacation with your most productive times at home. Primer's complete guide to the Why, How, and Where.


The links for the Marketing Graphics Toolkit have been updated to reflect the latest v4 release, which now includes even more premium modules.
Who wouldn't want their sales to skyrocket?
But what are you actively doing to ignite your sales?
Like many beginning Internet Marketers, you are likely operating on a shoestring budget and cannot afford to create slick sales pages full of fancy graphics like you see so many of "gurus" use. Chances are you're not an expert graphic designer either, I know I'm not!
Limited funds…lacking graphical talents…is there any chance to be successful?
I recently had the opportunity to purchase a marketing graphics toolkit that provides all of the tools that you need to easily build a killer looking sales page or promotional items for your product.
With this marketing graphics toolkit, you get 21 ready to use modules of premium graphics content. And not only does the toolkit come with layered PSD files for those with Photoshop, you also get Sumo Paint (an outstanding free graphics application) templates along with web ready image formats.
For a more thorough listing of everything you get, I've provided a snapshot image of the package below but I highly recommend visiting the main page to really appreciate the value.
Using this marketing graphics toolkit you can easily put together a great looking site, even without knowing how to use Photoshop. As an example, I put together Remarkable PLR in no time at all by utilizing just a few of the modules available in the toolkit.
Sounds great, but what's the price?
Without getting into too much of a "salesy" mantra, and quite honestly I don't need to because the value in this toolkit is easily recognizable by anyone that has put together a website, you can grab this marketing graphics toolkit for less than $20 bucks!
The toolkit easily saved me hours of futzing around with Photoshop to put together that Remarkable PLR website, and that is no doubt worth much more than the few dollars it cost me.
So, if you've ever found yourself wanting to put together an outstanding website but had your hands tied due to budget or your abilities, I highly recommend you give this toolkit a try. You'll quickly have a professional looking site that will most likely lead to a nice surge in your sales or conversions.
As always, give me a shout if you have any questions that I can try to help answer and then be sure to grab your copy now!
All these tools for less than $10 ! a complete graphics kit. I'm surely gonna give it a try.
That is really cheap, I will certainly give it a try, thanks for sharing!
What a great little tool kit everything you need in one place great value.
It sounds too cheap to be true. But I can afford $ 10 so why not. Many similar tools to those have I already, but some seem new for me.
That's a very awesome tool for an affordable price. I'm sure gonna tell my friends about it. Thanks!
Several months into my online business, I realized I am not at all talented in graphics, even if the software is easy to use. So I had to outsource this job to someone who is actually skilled. After a while, thanks to the great designs, my business took off, and now I have 5+ employees, and I am using an employee monitor software to check up on them, because they work from home. I will show them this package, they might find it useful. Thank you!
I think that this would be an excellent product for people who don't have much skills with Photoshop. I will make sure to tweet my followers about this.
I like the price of this toolkit, and if it includes "mini site" templates then then that's an added bonus. My biggest problem is the actual layout/template. How is the learning curve? Is it easy to work with?
Kat, I haven't used the mini site templates so I cannot really speak to how easy they are to work with. I just took a quick look at them now and it is really pretty straight-forward. But, the template is really for a sales type page where you are promoting something – think typical marketer sales page. That might be different than your definition of a "mini site" template. It does include all of the images and everything, all you need to do is really add your own text and any unique product related images and you should be set.
This is great! Getting all those modules for only $10 is really tempting. I'm not really an expert when it comes to Photoshop and having this seems like a great way to increase my sales. I'll definitely grab a copy of this.
But your link for the tool kits is death, please fix it. 404 Sorry, there is no page at this url. I'am very like your blog style.
Thanks for letting me know! The creator of the toolkit is no longer offering that version as he has since released a new version that includes a number of new premium modules in addition to the original modules.
However, the price has also gone up slightly but he produces great work and I still think this is a bargain for what you actually get – plus he likes to send out freebies to his customers from time to time.
But now it is 30 tools instead of 21 and the price has just gone up to 19.95 dollars, which is still a cheap price for the whole package.
That is correct; Max has released an updated version of the product and now includes more modules but the cost has gone up as well. But I have to say that I've been using his graphics for a lot of different things and am really happy.
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Q: How to configure envoy proxy for 2 grpc services? I am using a envoy proxy for grpc-web and everything was working fine with one service but now I am registering other services I ran into problems. I thought a routed configuration would work but when I try to hit the endpoint it gives me a DNS resolution failed in bloomRPC.
Should I just move to a sidecar envoy mesh configuration? I've been avoiding this because it adds complexity to development, but in my research to fix this problem it came up a lot.
I'm running it with docker-compose in MacOS Catalina.
admin:
  access_log_path: /tmp/admin_access.log
  address:
    socket_address: { address: 0.0.0.0, port_value: 9991 }

static_resources:
  listeners:
    - name: listener_0
      address:
        socket_address:
          address: 0.0.0.0
          port_value: 9911
      filter_chains:

        - filters:
            - name: envoy.filters.network.http_connection_manager
              typed_config:
                "@type": type.googleapis.com/envoy.extensions.filters.network.http_connection_manager.v3.HttpConnectionManager
                codec_type: auto
                stat_prefix: ingress_http
                route_config:
                  name: local_route
                  virtual_hosts:
                    - name: local_service
                      domains:
                        - "*"
                      routes:
                        - match:
                            prefix: "/service1"
                          route:
                            cluster: service1
                        - match:
                            prefix: "/service2"
                          route:
                            cluster: service2
                      cors:
                        allow_origin_string_match:
                          - prefix: "*"
                        allow_methods: GET,PUT,DELETE,POST,OPTIONS
                        allow_headers: keep-alive,user-agent,cache-control,content-type,content-transfer-encoding,custom-header-1,x-accept-content-transfer-encoding,x-accept-response-streaming,x-user-agent,x-grpc-web,grpc-timeout,access-token
                        max_age: "1728000"
                        expose_headers: custom-header-1,grpc-status,grpc-message,access-token
                        allow_credentials: true
                http_filters:
                  - name: envoy.filters.http.grpc_http1_bridge
                    typed_config: { }
                  - name: envoy.filters.http.grpc_web
                    typed_config: { }
                  - name: envoy.filters.http.cors
                    typed_config: { }
                  - name: envoy.filters.http.router
                    typed_config: { }

  clusters:
    - name: service1
      connect_timeout: 0.25s
      type: strict_dns
      dns_lookup_family: V4_ONLY
      http2_protocol_options: { }
      lb_policy: round_robin
      load_assignment:
        cluster_name: service1
        endpoints:
          - lb_endpoints:
              - endpoint:
                  address:
                    socket_address:
                      address: host.docker.internal #0.0.0.0
                      port_value: 50101

    - name: service2
      connect_timeout: 0.25s
      type: strict_dns
      dns_lookup_family: V4_ONLY
      http2_protocol_options: { }
      lb_policy: round_robin
      load_assignment:
        cluster_name: service2
        endpoints:
          - lb_endpoints:
              - endpoint:
                  address:
                    socket_address:
                      address: host.docker.internal #0.0.0.0
                      port_value: 50102

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Bond. James Bond in the cinema again for the 23rd time in 50 years. This time for a change he does not drink martini but… Review of interesting internet marketing campaign in the style of Her Majesty's 007 Agent called Unlock 007 in you. Unlock James Bond in you and let the adventure begin.
Do you know what was the most favorite drink of James Bond for years? Stirred, but not shaken martini fot hose who did not remember it. Well, that was years ago, now modern Bond reaches for beer rather than Martini after action. Heineken beer to be more accurate, which has already offered a limited edition Star Bottle with famous James Bond themes.
Again Bond is not without another well known franchise – Coca Cola. By promoting Coke Zero they revered latest Bond Skyfall with an interesting internet promotional campain.
On each floor hostess was showing time left and there were musicians with different instruments playing Bond theme. True 007 adventure till the end. And that was not all, at the end they have to sing Bond theme, but likely they have a little help from Acapella broup.
During the first 13 days is already over 7 million views on youtube. In just the first two days the video became viral as the second most shared at this time on Youtube.
Great promotional video was made for the purpose of promoting the premiere in London on 26 October 2012. Recorded by the Belgian Ad Agency Duvall Guillaume Modem belgium at the main railway station in Antwerp. Digital marketing campaign is totaly success story.
As always with the viral video is dilemma is it real or fake with actors in it. Of course, like all coke Zero promotion was all well planned before, but because in each of us is the desire to become a spy even just for a moment and desire to least 007 in yourself, we don't care much about is it fake or not, we just enjoying in Bond adventure.
Skyfall movie is record breaking worldwide and has earned almost 300 million in short tame.
Have you already thought where to go for a holiday in 2013? If you have in mind Turkey, please hurry to book. The movie certainly draw big interest in Turkey's destination, especially Instanbul and Fethiye.


HealthlinkOnline is a web-based application providing for the secure transfer of patient information in real time. Message files are formatted in HL7 which is an internationally recognised standard for exchanging information between healthcare applications. Patient information is generated on the source hospital system and transferred to and from our servers using secure network connections. Users login to the HealthlinkOnline website with a unique username, password and PIN plus a digital client certificate to verify your identity.
The application is also accessible via web service calls, meaning the accredited Practice Management Systems can integrate patient information automatically without opening the website. Web service calls are also used to generate referral messages from within the Practice Management System which are then sent on to the hospital via Healthlink.
Healthlink's core remit is to provide a messaging service that allows patient information to be securely transferred between Hospitals and General Practitioners. Over the years we have expanded the range of messages sent to GPs though Laboratory and Radiology results remain the most popular.


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Nextant Aerospace Inducts 15th Pro Line Fusion® 604XT Aircraft for Flight Deck Upgrade
Nextant Aerospace, a global leader in aircraft and component remanufacturing and the builder of the 400XTi, G90XT, and 604XT, announces the induction of the fifteenth aircraft to obtain a 604XT Pro Line Fusion® cockpit upgrade.
The Nextant supplemental type certificate (STC) for the 604XT Pro Line Fusion® was received in late November 2018. With 30 scheduled to be completed by the end of 2019, the Advanced Technology Flight Deck phase of the multiphase 604XT remanufacturing solution is significantly ahead of expectations. The ramp-up in completions is also timely given the recent field-support discontinuance bulletin noting the end of support roadmap for the Pro Line 4 CRTs.
The 604XT Pro Line Fusion cockpit upgrade features a standard-package 3-display configuration with high-resolution, 14.1" widescreen touch displays and synthetic vision technology. In addition, the solution includes ADS-B Out, WAAS/LVP and the option to include Safe Flight AutoPower® and FANS-1A. The upgrade provides exceptional economical value when compared to stand-alone costs and longevity to interim Pro Line 4 ADS-B Out and FANS alternatives.
The feedback from pilots on the 604XT Flight Deck Upgrade has been extremely positive. Steve Bruce, Nextant Aerospace 604XT program director, says, "As I have talked with numerous owners and operators over the past two years, the one thing that is consistent in every conversation is they understand Pro Line Fusion is the only way to operate their Challenger 604 into the future. At the center of that conversation is the imminent Pro Line 4 CRT obsolescence. Challenger 604 owners clearly see their opportunity to trade in their obsolete avionics for a reasonably priced, 21st-century flight deck that ensures efficient flight operations for many years to come."
The Pro Line Fusion is Phase I of the 604XT Nextant Aerospace remanufactured aircraft. Additional phases include modernized interior-cabin design configurations and refurbishments (Phase II) followed by aerodynamic enhancements for improved performance that are designed to deliver a 500-nautical-mile range improvement with a service-ceiling expansion to FL410 (Phase III).


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How to Love a Country
Author: Richard Blanco
A new collection from the renowned inaugural poet exploring immigration, gun violence, racism, LGBTQ issues, and more, in accessible and emotive verses
As presidential inaugural poet, memoirist, public speaker, educator, and advocate, Richard Blanco has crisscrossed the nation inviting communities to connect to the heart of human experience and our shared identity as a country. In this new collection of poems, his first in over seven years, Blanco continues to invite a conversation with all Americans. Through an oracular yet intimate and accessible voice, he addresses the complexities and contradictions of our nationhood and the unresolved sociopolitical matters that affect us all.
The poems form a mosaic of seemingly varied topics: the Pulse Nightclub massacre; an unexpected encounter on a visit to Cuba; the forced exile of 8,500 Navajos in 1868; a lynching in Alabama; the arrival of a young Chinese woman at Angel Island in 1938; the incarceration of a gifted writer; and the poet's abiding love for his partner, who he is finally allowed to wed as a gay man. But despite each poem's unique concern or occasion, all are fundamentally struggling with the overwhelming question of how to love this country.
Seeking answers, Blanco digs deep into the very marrow of our nation through poems that interrogate our past and present, grieve our injustices, and note our flaws, but also remember to celebrate our ideals and cling to our hopes. In the landmark poem "American Wandersong," which forms the center of the book, the poet reveals himself to readers in a disarming and kinetic sequence of stanzas, striving to find his place amid the physical and emotional landscapes of our country.
Through this groundbreaking volume, Blanco unravels the very fabric of the American narrative and pursues a resolution to the inherent contradiction of our nation's psyche and mandate: e pluribus unum (out of many, one). Charged with the utopian idea that no single narrative is more important than another, this book asserts that America could and ought someday to be a country where all narratives converge into one, a country we can all be proud to love and where we can all truly thrive.
"This clear-seeing and forthright volume marks Blanco as a major, deeply relevant poet."
—Booklist, Starred Review
"Generous and deeply felt, the long prose poems in this moving new collection from presidential inaugural poet Blanco (after Looking for the Gulf Motel) help us understand what it means to cross a border . . . . Submit to the fierce pleasure of Blanco's art."
"Blanco's power as a poet lies in the singular intimacy, structural craft, intoxicating imagery, and inner rhythms of his verse."
—New York Journal of Books
"Blanco's contributions to the fields of poetry and the arts have already paved a path forward for future generations of writers . . . Our Nation was built on the freedom of expression, and poetry has long played an important role in telling the story of our Union and illuminating the experiences that unite all people."
"At a time when we are once again debating our identity as Americans, this splendid collection of poems from a great storytelling poet is an absolute treasure that speaks to the things that hold us together despite the things that split us apart."
—Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of Leadership in Turbulent Times
"From a country courting implosion, a country at odds with its own brutal and breathless backstory, a country with a name that sparks both expletive and prayer, rises Richard Blanco's muscular, resolute voice—sounding stanzas of the confounded heart and clenched fist, of indignation and insurrection. This is an urgent gathering of sweet, fractured, insistent American noise—the stories that feed us and the stories we'd rather forget—re-teaching us all the right ways there are to love a country that so often forgets how to love us back."
—Patricia Smith, author of Incendiary Art
"This new collection is vibrant, tragic, exhilarating, deeply in love with people and their stories and heartbreakingly engaged with our struggling nation. These are poems for every season, for large and small moments and very much for our time."
—Amy Bloom, author of White Houses
"A frank and wonderful collection that calls America a work in progress, that describes the poet himself as a grade school bully who loved the other boy he hit and one could readily cry with him now, everything is alive here in his book: the Rio Grande as sentient and knowing, all this with a jazz musician's timing. Richard Blanco writes about the elusive poundingness of love."
—Eileen Myles, author of Evolution
"In these times of hate, we need poets who speak of love. Richard Blanco's new collection is a visionary hymn of love to the human beings who comprise what we call this country. Whether he speaks in the voice of an immigrant who came here long ago, or the very river an immigrant crosses to come here today, Blanco sings and sings. This, the song says, is the way out—for all of us."
—Martín Espada, author of Vivas to Those Who Have Failed
"Richard Blanco has risen to the challenge of writing poetry that serves our nation. This is both a responsibility and an honor. I am moved, proud, overjoyed, and inspired."
—Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street
"Powerful, personal, and full of life, these poems delve into the complex intricacies of what it means to call the United States home. A masterful poet who is clear-eyed and full of heart, Blanco explores the country's haunted past while offering a bright hope for the future."
—Ada Limón, author of Bright Dead Things
"In this timely collection, Richard Blanco masterfully embraces his role as a civic poet, confronting our nation's riddled history in the light of conscience. At once personal and political, these lyric narratives decry injustice and proclaim our hopes."
—Carolyn Forché, author of The Country Between Us
"There is a uniting oneness to these passionate and remarkable poems, each finely wrought line a bridge from one heart to another, a love song of this burdened earth and all its flawed inhabitants. Richard Blanco is this century's Walt Whitman."
—Andre Dubus III, author of Gone So Long
"My Father In English"
First half of his life lived in Spanish: the long syntax
of las montañas that lined his village, the rhyme
of sol with his soul—a Cuban alma—that swayed
with las palmas, the sharp rhythm of his machete
cutting through caña, the syllables of his canarios
that sung into la brisa of the island home he left
to spell out the second half of his life in English—
the vernacular of New York City sleet, neon, glass—
and the brick factory where he learned to polish
steel twelve hours a day. Enough to save enough
to buy a used Spanish-English dictionary he kept
bedside like a bible—studied fifteen new words
after his prayers each night, then practiced them
on us the next day: Buenos días, indeed, my family.
Indeed más coffee. Have a good day today, indeed—
and again in the evening: Gracias to my bella wife,
indeed, for dinner. Hicistes tu homework, indeed?
La vida is indeed difícil. Indeed did indeed become
his favorite word, which, like the rest of his new life,
he never quite grasped: overused and misused often
to my embarrassment. Yet the word I most learned
to love and know him through: indeed, the exile who
tried to master the language he chose to master him,
indeed, the husband who refused to say I love you
in English to my mother, the man who died without
true translation. Indeed, meaning: in fact/en efecto,
meaning: in reality/de hecho, meaning to say now
what I always meant to tell him in both languages:
thank you/gracias for surrendering the past tense
of your life so that I might conjugate myself here
in the present of this country, in truth/así es, indeed.
Declaration of Inter-Dependence
Dreaming a Wall
Complaint of El Río Grande
Como Tú / Like You / Like Me
Staring at Aspens: A History Lesson
Letter from Yí Cheung
Leaving in the Rain: Limerick, Ireland
Island Body
What We Didn't Know About Cuba
Matters of the Sea
Mother Country
My Father in English
El Americano in the Mirror
Using Country in a Sentence
American Wandersong
Imaginary Exile
November Eyes
Let's Remake America Great
Easy Lynching on Herndon Avenue
Poetry Assignment #4: What Do You Miss Most?
St. Louis: Prayer Before Dawn
Until We Could
Between [Another Door]
One Pulse—One Poem
Seventeen Funerals
Remembering Boston Strong
America the Beautiful Again
What I Know of Country
St. Louis: Prayer at Dawn
Now Without Me
And So We All Fall Down
Cloud Anthem
"Our Gay Poet Laureate Wrote a Beautiful Work About Pulse," The Advocate, poetry reading by author and interview
"How to Love a Country and other best poetry collections to read this month," The Washington Post, included in poetry reading roundup
"9 Contemporary Poets On Craft And Inspiration," Chicago Review of Books, online interview
"Poet Richard Blanco On His New Book, How To Love A Country," WBUR/Radio Boston, live interview
"Poet Richard Blanco writes about America's triumphs and tragedies," WCSH-TV/News Center Maine, interview
"Poem by Richard Blanco: 'El Americano in the Mirror,'" The Advocate, excerpt
"Richard Blanco on How to Love a Country (and Write a Poem)," The Advocate, Q&A
"Boston Public Radio Full Show: April 25, 2019," WGBH/Boston Public Radio, live interview
"Inaugural Poet Richard Blanco On How To Love A Country," WGBH-TV/Greater Boston with Jim Braude, live interview
"Poetry: For National Poetry Month, Notable Maine Poets Discuss Their Work and The Role of Poetry," Maine Public Radio/Maine Calling, in-conversation interview with Betsy Sholl
"17 of the Best Poetry Books, as Recommended by Acclaimed Writers for National Poetry Month," O (Oprah Magazine), included in poetry reading roundup
"In new book of poetry, Richard Blanco reflects on an ever-changing America," Portland Press Herald, Q&A
"Interrogating Injustice, Celebrating Ideals: An Interview With Richard Blanco," Poets & Writers, Q&A
"Poet Richard Blanco," WHYY/Radio Times (Philly), live interview
"#NPRPoetry Month: Richard Blanco Reads Your Twitter Poems," NPR/All Things Considered, interview
"The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #170: Richard Blanco," The Rumpus, Q&A
"Richard Blanco and I sit down as he reads How to Love a Country," Univision, Facebook Live interview
"Richard Blanco on His Poem 'Mother Country' and His Work Today," American Poet's Magazine, adaptation of author's note
"The Role Of Faith In Climate Change, Bufo Toads In South Florida & Poet Richard Blanco," WLRN/Sundial (South Florida NPR), interview
"Essays encourage personal quests; Yale Series of Younger Poets winner," Boston Globe, included in roundup of New England literary news
"In turbulent times, Richard Blanco creates 'bridges of empathy' in new poetry book," NBC Latino, cover story
"Richard Blanco: 'I Don't Subscribe to the Notion of Writer's Block,'" Literary Hub, Q&A
"Getting to Know Richard Blanco and his Forthcoming Book, How to Love a Country," MASS Poetry, Q&A
"Como Tú / Like You / Like Me," Poem-A-Day (Academy of American Poets newsletter), excerpt
"Poet Richard Blanco On The First Ammendment And Freedom Of Speech," WGBH News, feature interview
"Seventeen Funerals," The Poetry Foundation/Poetry Now (podcast), reading of poem "Seventeen Funerals"
"My Father in English," The New Yorker, excerpt
"66 Books Coming In 2019 That You'll Want To Keep On Your Radar," BuzzFeed News, listed in reading roundup
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We have three shows this weekend; the sky rocketing Jawbone will be performing songs from their debut album on Thursday evening, followed on Friday by Clearwater Creedence Revival; the best CCR tribute in the UK and finally on Saturday we have the future of folk in Sam Carter.
If that wasn't exciting enough we're offering you 20% discount on large bottles of wine. Just order at the bar as you usually would!


What did episode five tells us about the Spellmans?
So much of "Dreams in a Witch House," the fifth chapter of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, happened while the Spellmans were asleep. As I wrote about yesterday, you can file this episode away as a standalone feature — inconsequential to the show's overall storyline but for Ms. Wardwell's role.
Ambrose's is the most surreal dream, which would make you think it's the simplest one in which to realize you're sleeping — and that something's screwing with you. It starts with him heading to the cellar to carve up another corpse, led down by his aunt Hilda. The thing is, the corpse is his own body. Hilda does not recognized the resemblance, but of course he does. This spooks him, but he goes for it — tears out and takes a bite of out his own heart.
Then, Hilda comes to fetch him. Father Blackwood is upstairs with some good news: The spell that's bound him to the house has been lifted. He's free to go out into the world. But when he's cheerfully on his way out the door, the demon jumps on him and stabs him a bunch of times.
WHY: One part is obvious: Ambrose's greatest desire in life is his freedom. Lately, he'd like to be able to go out and visit Luke without the threat of death catching him. The rest is a little less clear, but I think his distaste of his own heart speaks pretty loudly. He may fear that he is either emotionally unable to give love or can never be loved by someone.
WHAT: Hilda's dream is certainly the most dynamic. There's a lot going on in so little time. While attending Sabrina's Parent Teacher Conference alone*, a meeting with Principal Hawthorne, she's admired by Hawthorne for how she's raised her niece. Hawthorne invites her to his place to cook her dinner. At dinner, she's wooed, for sure, and drinking. She's letting loose.
The strange thing is that Hawthorne is telling Hilda about his twin brother, whom he consumed while in their mother's womb. But the brother is still very much there, on his stomach with eyes and everything. This spooks her and seemingly rattles back into Hilda's head memories of her sister, Zelda.
The demon's spin on it literally ties Hilda and Zelda together at the waste, siamese twin style. They wrestle to get away from each other but can't because, well, they're attached. Forever.
WHY: Hilda wants a life beyond the mortuary. It comes up later, in Zelda's dream, that Hilda, apparently, was hesitant ever to sign the devil's book in the first place, all those years ago — and it makes sense why. She wants her own life. She wants to find love and wants to be an individual, to be Hilda, not just known as her sister's sister. That's her greatest fear; simply put, that she'll always been in her sister's shadow or never be able to get out from under her sister's command.
WHAT: Here's the least surprising dream of all. Zelda's teaching the devil's bible to a bunch of witch kids when the weird sisters arrive to tell her that she'll have the opportunity to dine with the devil on this evening. This excites her, more than maybe anything ever. She'll make him his favorite meal. It'll be a great night. But it isn't. It all goes horribly wrong. The devil doesn't like the Zelda had to kill the warlock little boy to prepare the meal (numbers are down lately) and, worse, he takes quickly to Hilda instead.
So frustrated with the way the evening went and that her sister was such a hit, Zelda does her usual thing: She hits Hilda over the head with a shovel, knocking her dead to the ground, buries her outside and gets some peace and quiet time to reflect. Only this time, Hilda's not going to come back to life, as the devil tells Zelda when he returns looking for her sister. So now, she's murdered her sister. For real.
The demon doesn't have a specific spin on this one; merely, Batibat tries to take advantage of Zelda's general unhappiness and emotional fragility.
WHY: If you hadn't already known, Zelda desires recognition and commendation, from one person in particular. She's fiercely loyal to the dark lord and would just like get some damn credit for it. But her greatest fear is that she won't be, or, worse, that the dark lord doesn't really care anyway.
Maybe fearing that you'd screw up the meal plan for dinner with the devil is a small, quirky part of it, too. But killing her sister also brings a certain sadness she maybe wasn't expecting. It's pretty evident, the morning after this particular night, Zelda's rattled by the things she felt in her dream. She's worried, too, that Sabrina's seen them.
Small oddities are all around her. Her dad walks her down the aisle. Father Blackwood is there to officiate the wedding. Nick is there, offering Sabrina one last chance to fly away (on a broom!*) with him forever.** Saucy is Sabrina's dream. Spicy!
But then (catch the trend), it all goes wrong. Harvey's dad and brother show up and start chanting to kill the witch. Off with her head! Harvey starts to choke Sabrina to the ground and blames her, telling her it would've been easier had she never told him she was a witch. Then, she's shoved into an iron maiden and, well … you know what happens inside one of those.
WHY: All the little things going right in her dream are all dreams we've known of Sabrina's. Altogether, it's a future that sees Sabrina freely and successfully living both of her lives. Does the school crowd insinuate a dream of the witch and human worlds coexisting far beyond her? Sure, maybe. Does the proposal suggest she's still devoted to Harvey over Nick?? Of course. Does it mean she's a daddy's girl that her mom is nowhere to be found? Probably. Does the fact that Salem's not the ring bearer mean HE WON'T BE THE RING BEARER AT HER WEDDING?!?!?!?! God, I hope not!
What about where tiny things go wrong? What does that say about Sabrina's fears, specifically what she doubts about the dream of her perfect life?
Rejection, that's the big one. Not only is she rejected by Harvey's family, but Harvey himself attempts to choke her to death, and, worse, he blames her for being honest with him, which is still the biggest hangup she has about telling him the truth. She doesn't want to be hated by him. She also fears what could happen to her as an openly-witching witch in the human universe is something similarly as bad as what happened to John Doe. She doesn't want to see the pitchforks come out.
Subtly, something else happens. No one in her family does anything to try to help her as she's being shoved into the iron maiden. That's a nugget to think on, if you catch it.
What I take from it is this: All this time, she's gone against the wishes and advice of everyone in her family and those in the witching world. Would they still protect her, if she were to get into trouble in the mortal world? Would they have her back? Or, at this point, are they trying to tell her: You're on your own, kid. You think you're so smart. Figure it out yourself. Has she outsmarted even herself? Has she played with fire, and won, too many times?
Overall, I take this little nuance back to rejection. But rejection from those she's supposed to have in her corner, by blood.
That she's trapped in an iron maiden? That's too specific a device not to stem from a deep-rooted fear of chests lined with spikes on the inside.
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Q: Dropwizard : Ignore PropertyNamingStrategy in one resource class The following way,
environment.getObjectMapper().setPropertyNamingStrategy(PropertyNamingStrategy.CAMEL_CASE_TO_LOWER_CASE_WITH_UNDERSCORES);
we can set PropertyNamingStrategy for all resources apis in Dropwizard project. We have used this in our project.
What I wanted to do is that in case of 1 resource file, I do not wanted to use any PropertyNamingStrategy. In all other resource, I wanted to use it. Is it possible to do in Dropwizard?

A: You cannot do it on resource level AFAIK but you can do it on DTO class level. I'm assuming you're using an existing DTO class for that particular resource. As a solution you can extend that class.
@JsonNaming(value = PropertyNamingStrategy.LowerCaseWithUnderscoresStrategy.class)
public class MyDtoWithUnderscore extends MyDto {

   public MyDtoWithUnderscore(){}
}


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Jirka Wartenberg (né le  à Berlin-Pankow) est un chanteur est-allemand. Il chante et joue notamment les Atlantics, les Alexanders, les Berolina Singers, le Reichert Combo ou le Gerd Michaelis Chor.

Biographie
Wartenberg joue dans divers groupes dans sa jeunesse. Après avoir réussi l'abitur, mais pas la formation d'ouvrier qualifié, il ne peut pas continuer des études. Il fait diverses professions, notamment comme vendeur d'électricité et de gaz ou d'instruments de musique. En parallèle, il va à l'école de musique de Friedrichshain. À partir de début 1968, il fait partie du Gerd Michaelis Chor et se produit avec lui au Friedrichstadt-Palast. Il rencontre dans le groupe la danseuse soliste Elke Rieckhoff, qu'il épouse en  et dont il adopte le nom. Pour la naissance de sa première fille, il écrit Nun bist du da, qui sort en single.

En , son épouse et sa fille ne reviennent pas en RDA après un voyage à l'étranger en consultation avec lui. En conséquence, ses disques sont retirés des magasins et aucune production pour la télévision, la radio ou l'enregistrement n'est plus possible. Les concerts continuent d'être autorisés. À partir d', il joue avec les Atlantics, notamment avec Hansi Biebl. Sa tentative de quitter la RDA au début de 1973 avec l'aide d'un passeur est trahie. Wartenberg est arrêté et condamné à trois ans et quatre mois de prison pour franchissement illégal de la frontière. Même ses parents, au courant du plan, sont condamnés à des peines d'emprisonnement ; la mère est en probation. Le  1975, il est racheté par la République fédérale et expulsé.

Jirka Wartenberg vit dans le sud de la France depuis 1976. Il est à son quatrième mariage. Il a travaillé en France en tant que camionneur et antiquaire.

Singles
 1969 : Sag, wo gehst du hin / Wirst du gehn (Amiga) (en duo avec Horst Krüger)
 1970 : Nun bist du da / Es ist eine uralte Weise (Amiga)

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Chanteur de schlager allemand
Naissance en septembre 1945
Naissance à Berlin-Pankow

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ESSEX FREE PRESS
73's split back-to-back games
- Essex prevails over the Flyers, loses to the Sharks -
Photo by Laurie Beaten: Quinn Fazekas skates away from Sharks' defenceman Alex Anastasakos in Essex's 4-3 loss on October 2.
by Garrett Fodor
Coming off their first win of the season under new Head Coach Danny Anger, the Essex 73's hoped to extend its winning ways, with two games on the schedule last week.
On October 1, the 73's hosted the Petrolia Flyers. The 73's were quick to welcome the Flyers in, as they peppered goalie Chaska Thiel early and often. Just 75 seconds in, Curtis Jackson beat Thiel, as he used his speed and hands to get in tight and lift the puck over the Flyers' goalie.
Two-minutes later, defenceman Trevor Klee doubled the lead, as he used his speed to capitalize on a bad change by the Flyers. And closing out the frame, the 73's increased the lead to three, as Conor Dembinski forechecked the Flyers hard and forced a turnover and made no mistake in finding the twine behind Thiel.
After 20 minutes, the 73's led 3-0 and outshot the Flyers 23-7.
In the second period, the Petrolia players woken up a bit as they put up 14 shots and held the 73's to just 21 and one lone goal. Quinn Fazekas scored his first goal of the year.
In the final frame, the 73's continued to roll offensively, notching two more goals from Jacob Cruickshank and Michael Ruttinger. Essex held the Flyers to just five shots in the final period.
Connor Meyerink turned aside 26 shots to earn his first shutout of the season in the 6-0 win for Essex.
Less than 24 hours later, the 73's were on the road to face the Wheatley Sharks.
After a scoreless first 20-minutes, the teams looked nearly identical. The hometown Sharks had a one-shot edge, but both teams exchanged quality chances and played with tempo.
During period two, however, things quickly changed. Essex got into penalty trouble, and the Sharks quickly made them pay as Drew Denomey beat goalie Jax D'Hondt, just over seven-minutes into the frame. Closing out the period, the Sharks scored two goals in 27 seconds to increase the lead to three heading into the final intermission. The Sharks outshot the 73's 28-22 after two periods.
In the third period, the 73's began to show new signs of life and resilience. In the dying seconds of a man-advantage, Conor Dembinski banged home a shot past Sharks' goalie, Kyle Metson. Just three-minutes later, it was Dembinski's linemate, Jack Sanko, who beat Metson to cut the lead to one.
With momentum in hand, the 73's continued to press and just over a minute later, Captain Riley Meyerink scored for Essex. With 75 seconds left, it looked like the game would head to overtime. That was until Denomey beat D'Hondt for the second time of the night, lifting the Sharks by one. Despite pulling the goalie, the 73's were unable to beat Metson in the 4-3 loss to Wheatley.
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Owners of a Civil War-era Brooklyn building started demolition without proper permits to clear the Red Hook plot for an Ikea furniture store parking lot, lawmakers and preservation groups charged yesterday.
The 1864 pump house for the New York Shipyards in Red Hook was still under review by the Army Corps of Engineers after a request came from Ikea to begin demolition work.
But that didn't stop workers from tearing down the parapet and other features of the historic structure, activists said.
"Somebody jumped the gun," said Lisa Kersavage, of the Municipal Arts Society.


With hydroponics, complete, balanced nutrition is easy. In fact, that's what hydroponics is all about - delivering nutrients directly to the plant without the growing media getting in the way.
Ordinary growing materials (such as bark, moss, etc.) change over time. As these potting materials breakdown, their chemistry is altered and important elements your plant needs for healthy growth can be blocked. You have no way of knowing what your plant is actually getting because the growing media is getting in the way.
And the growing media (LECA pebbles) are cermaic and never breakdown or decompose. That means your plant hydroponic fertilizers always contain the entire group of nutritional elements plants need - in a form the plant can use immediately.
Don't get overwhelmed with all the nutrient concoctions you see for hydroponics on the Internet.
You can grow prize winning plants without them.
Conventional media such as bark and moss compact and deteriorate over time. Decaying potting materials trap impurities. This alters the chemistry at the roots and blocks many nutrients from getting to the plant. Your plant is not only robbed from getting what it needs - the unused nutrients turn to salt and eventually become harmful to the roots, whic can kill your plant.
If your growing media is bark or moss, your fertilizer could actually be harmng your plants! The only solution is replacing the media.
Hydroponic Advantage: In our system, LECA pebbles replace all other media. LECA pebbles are a sterile ceramic that will never compact or decompose. You'll never get "exhausted media" with LECA, eliminating the "trapped nutrients syndrome".
Removing impurities from the grow pot is just as important as adding nutrients. The only way to remove the impurities with traditional growing methods is repotting the plant with new media. This disturbs the plant's roots and quickly becomes time consuming as your orchid collection grows.
Hydroponic Advantage: Removing impurities at the roots is easy with hydroponics. Simply take your plant to the sink every couple of months (or use the garden hose if outdoors) and leach the pebbles thoroughly. The relatively smooth outer shell on the pebbles allows any foreign matter to wash away. This is impossible with bark or moss.
Decaying roots trap impurities and block air flow, making balanced nutrition impossible.
3. Return plant to outer pot for a fresh start.
Many fertilizers rely on the growing materials to provide some of the nutritional elements needed for growth. (Read the label - there should be 16 elements inside.) Relying on the media for nutrition is risky because the chemistry of the potting media is constantly changing (decomposing) and ther's no way of knowing what your plant is actually getting.
Hydroponics doesn't rely on the potting mix for any nutritional value. That means hydroponic fertilizers have all 16 nutritional elements plants need for healthy growth.


I wouldn't be a true first-year Glendon fangirl if I didn't dedicate a blog post to Glendon and its Autumn scenery… so this is the post that solidifies my "on a scale of 1-10, how much do you love Glendon" level of 100. It's also somewhat of a continuation of my last post because I wanted to share why I chose Glendon as the institution that would help me reach my goals!
The judge panel of 3 people (myself & two friends LOL) want to send out BIG props to all SC users for their participation and FLYY photography skills. Grand mercii aux participants, you are all my Fall loving soulmates!
Because of the concentration on bilingualism at Glendon, I have a greater chance of bettering my skills in French. Being in an environment where bilingualism is a requirement would allow me to become a better learner by default. And, there's always someone looking for ways to help others in language skills on campus, so that's why I say pronunciation! My pronunciation in French will be significantly better after 6 years at Glendon than if I were to attend any other university in Toronto.
I won't be Joey anymore!
The Con. Ed. and French Studies program has been said to be one of their most popular and competitive programs for students who want to become teachers in the future. There's a scarce number of universities that offer the Concurrent Education program in Ontario, and if they do they're probably miles away or they don't offer the program in French.
The number of people who attend Glendon is probably double my high school population, which is amazing. The fact that I have easier access to resources and better communication with my profs is one of the main reasons I chose Glendon. I once saw my friend's snapchat of her 2000 student biology class… can you imagine trying to ask your professor a question? Glendon doesn't even have a hall that fits more than 200 people.
The type of people you meet at Glendon are some of the most amazing human beings you'll ever encounter in your lifetime. Everybody is incredibly compassionate, helpful, and accepting. The diversity that exists is so liberating! You can be yourself and you're bound to find a twin on the way. I can honestly say I love everyone I've met at Glendon.
I knew I would gain a wider understanding of issues and different causes because of the people I would meet and the opportunities I would have to be involved on campus. It's only been 2 months into University, but I can already begin to see myself growing and becoming more open-minded. I love the new perspectives on life I'm gaining everyday, and I can't wait to evolve throughout my time at Glendon.
Stay tuned for the later weeks to learn about an event I was brought to be part of by a good friend at Glendon, which taught me a life lesson!
True fandom. I love the love!


Free Reading and Open Mic 6:15 to 8:00 p.m. : Featured Poets: Matthew Brouwer and Christopher J. Jarmick.
It's the Third Saturday Poetry is Everything Free Workshop and Reading at BookTree Series. A workshop taught by a renowned poet and workshop facilitator followed by a reading and open mic featuring two Poets and an opportunity to read a poem or two on the open mic. You're invited to listen, learn and participate.
Reading Circle Bookclub 4th Tuesdays!


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Ernst Krüger (ur. 12 lutego 1906, zm. 1 lipca 1981) – SS-Obersturmführer, komendant Obozu przesiedleńczego (niem. Umsiedlungslager) przy ul. Hutora 32 w okupowanej Łodzi (Litzmannstadt). Zastąpił na tym stanowisku dotychczasowego komendanta SS-Untersturmfuhrera Ludwiga Witthinricha.

Życiorys
 Numer NSDAP 716 316. SS-Untersturmführer - awans w dniu 20.04.1935 r. Nr SS 30 946.

Przypisy

Członkowie SS
Urodzeni w 1906
Zmarli w 1981


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Boomer & Carton escalate feud with Mike Francesa over false Zack Wheeler report
2016By Alex Putterman on 06/24/2016 06/24/2016
The fiercely petty, Capulet-and-Montague-like feud between fellow WFAN radio hosts Mike Francesa and Boomer & Carton has heated up this week in a big way.
The escalation began with Francesa's entertaining goof about Zack Wheeler's year-old elbow injury, which provided Boomer Esiason and Craig Carton endless fodder to mock the king of New York sports talk.
On Thursday, Boomer and Carton counted how many times Francesa asked whether the Wheeler news "was a new report or an old report" (16 times)…
Boomer & Carton bust Mike's balls for believing that a 15-month-old story is breaking news.https://t.co/Y2MXaiAavK
— Funhouse (@SportsFunhouse) June 23, 2016
… then Francesa fired back that Boomer and Carton were just jealous of his superior ratings (though he wouldn't know because he doesn't listen to their show) and were being unfair because he had corrected his mistake within 30 seconds…
Mike corrected that Wheeler misunderstanding within 30 seconds, okay?
(Unless it actually took five minutes).https://t.co/Bebh0NeDC8
… which brings us to Friday. Naturally, Boomer & Carton were unwilling to allow that Francesa's "30 seconds," might have been more idiomatic than literal and went about counting how much time passed between Francesa's initial false report and his correction.
Carton announced he would give Francesa some leeway and give Mike credit if he had corrected himself within a minute (an act of graciousness for which he vigorously patted himself on the back) and then whipped out the stop watch in search of a told-you-so.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZodKglEw6k
So yeah, Francesa's confusion lasted a little longer than 30 second. In fact it lasted longer than three minutes. But you know what, let's cut Mike a break. The poor guy suffered his worst embarrassment since Al Alburquerque, and he's trying to save some face by playing it down a little bit. Let him live!
We'll see if Francesa claps back this afternoon. Boomer & Carton don't seem inclined to let this one go, so it might be up to Mike to (temporarily) squash the beef.
[The Big Lead]
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