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Il Chiostro di Santa Lucia al Monte è un chiostro monumentale di Napoli ubicato in via Santa Lucia al Monte.

Di impianto cinquecentesco, fu fondato dai Minori Conventuali Riformati.

È il più piccolo chiostro esistente, con due arcate per lato.
Degni di nota sono i due stemmi gentilizi sotto il porticato nord e alcuni resti di affreschi.

Oggi il chiostro è integrato in una struttura alberghiera.

Bibliografia
Maria Rosaria Costa, I Chiostri di Napoli, Tascabili Economici Newton, Roma, 1996. ISBN 88-818-3553-3

Voci correlate
Napoli
Chiostri di Napoli

Lucia al Monte, Chiostro di Santa

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DJ, Scratcher and Dot Joiner. DJing and collecting records since 1990, Jerome has always had the knowledge and skills to rock a crowd and is well known for mixing the unmixable and playing the tunes other DJs won't. Playing his first gig at the legendary Wag club on Wardour street, then holding a long term residency on infamous London sound system JIBA throughout the 90's, jump forward to now, with gigs all over the place he works hard and has a respect for the music that won't allow him to cut corners or fall into line with current scenes and trends.
Respected as much for his scratching and mixing skills as for his track selection, and shunning the image of the modern laptop DJ, Jerome is Vinyl all the way and loves challenging himself and the crowd on the decks.. be sure, there'll always be a surprise just around the corner..
Jerome is kept busy running the "Don't" label since the year 2000 (fighting against the blandness and sheep mentality that pollutes the techno scene) – All releases are on vinyl as standard , the love for plastic coming in part from his 8 year stint managing London's "Dragon Discs" & "Trackheads" record shops. After co-running the wildly eclectic "Swerved" night for 5 years, 2012 saw the birth of the "Don't" club night, dedicated to showcasing real techno in the capital and bringing over guests who rarely get to perform in the UK. As active in the Hip hop scene as in the Techno,You can catch him providing the scratching as part of UK Old skool legends "The Criminal Minds" and running the Fat Hop record label, also producing under the pseudonym "Itsu Uno" Jerome maintains a hectic DJ schedule, touring Brazil once a year and playing regularly at seminal clubs and festivals around the world such as Tresor (Berlin), House of God (Birmingham), Fervo (Sao Paulo), Circuito (Sao Paulo), FierceHeads (Tokyo), Bangface (London), Glade Festival (UK), Bloc Weekend (UK) as well as staying true to his roots in the London free party and DIY club scene.
A self confessed sufferer of multiple music personality disorder he plays it all from Techno through to Hip Hop, Old Skool, dancehall, funk depending on the party and sometimes all of it mashed up together – but always peppered with a few nutty ones that you won't be expecting! His versatility allows him to be the only DJ to play at both Raindance (the rave) and Raindance (the London film festival) during the same year ! As well as hosting a weekly 'Rave history' show on London's legendary Kool FM and being a regular musical contributor on BBC Radio London! 2012 saw him invited to play both London megaclub Fabric and the Spiral Tribe 23rd Birthday on board the MS. Stubnitz ship and It's this clash of underground/overground that helps to ensure things are kept fresh and are never the same twice. This year (2014) has also seen the birth of a new label (Super Rhythm Trax) and the release of his and Mark Archer's (Altern-8) Mix CD entitled "1 Night In 88"
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Jerome+Hill
http://www.discogs.com/label/Don%27t
http://www.discogs.com/label/Fat+Hop
www.swervingthecommunity.com
TUNE IN every wednesday 11.00-13.00 GMT to www.koollondon.com for his old skool show, playing more than the usual anthems but digging deep into the historic rave and pre-rave scene of the last 30 years.
← Hughesee
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Q: Custom query for wp_posts in Wordpress I created a custom query for wp_posts from wordpress and i need to know if its right because i received an error on this line:

 the_title()

The error sounds like this: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '<'
Good. My code looks like this, i mean my "custom" query for wp_posts:
$results=$wpdb->get_results("SELECT * FROM `wp_posts` WHERE post_title LIKE '%$name_query%' OR post_content LIKE '%$instit_query%' OR post_content LIKE '%$spec_query%' OR post_content LIKE '%$zone_query%' ORDER by post_title");
$myposts = get_posts( $result);
foreach( $result as $post ) : setup_postdata($post);

 the_title()

endforeach;
wp_reset_postdata();

I dont think that will do what i want it to do so i need some help, please, how can i display the posts that i queried in the $results variable?

A: In order to output html you need to either stop processing the php at the output part, or you need to echo it as a string.
echo '
 ' . get_the_title() . '
'

or
foreach ($result as $post) {
    setup_postdata($post);
    ?>
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"> <?php the_title() ?>
<?php
}

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Q: Sybase query optimization I'm seeing how we can improve the performance of the following sybase query. Currently it takes about 1.5 hrs.
 CREATE TABLE #TempTable
 (
 T_ID numeric,
 M_ID numeric,
 M_USR_NAME char(10),
 M_USR_GROUP char(10),
 M_CMP_DATE datetime,
 M_CMP_TIME numeric,
 M_TYPE char(10),
 M_ACTION char(15),
 )

select
T.M_USR_NAME,
T.M_USR_GROUP,
T.M_CMP_DATE,
T.M_CMP_TIME,
T.M_TYPE,
T.M_ACTION
from #TempTable T, AUD_TN B
where T.M_ID=B.M_ID
and T.T_ID in
(
   select M_NB from TRN H where (M_BENTITY ="KROP" or M_SENTITY = "KROP")
)

UNION

select
A.M_USR_NAME,
A.M_USR_GROUP,
A.M_DATE_CMP,
A.M_TIME_CMP,
A.M_TYPE,
A.M_ACTION
from AUD_VAL A, TRN H
where A.M_DATE_CMP  >= '1 May 2012' and A.M_DATE_CMP <= '31 May 2012'
and A.M_ACT_NB0=H.M_NB
and (H.M_BENTITY ="KROP" or H.M_SENTITY = "KROP")

UNION

select
TR.M_USR_NAME,
TR.M_USR_GROUP,
TR.M_DATE_CMP,
TR.M_TIME_CMP,
TR.M_TYPE,
TR.M_ACTION

from TRN_AUD TR, TRN H
where TR.M_DATE_CMP  >= '1 May 2012' and TR.M_DATE_CMP <= '31 May 2012'
and TR.M_ACT_NB0=H.M_NB
and (H.M_BENTITY ="KROP" or H.M_SENTITY = "KROP")

DROP table #TempTable

Any help is greatly appreciated. Please note the following
The only table which is not indexed above is AUD_TN
Cheers
RC

A: Presumably the temporary table is populated, and with a lot of rows?
The temp doesn't need to be indexed but all joins in that part will need to use indexes.
Why not try each part of the UNION separately to find if one of them's slow?
Are you okay using SET SHOWPLAN ON?  I think you need to be able to do that as well probably - you need to be able to check that Sybase is using indexes to join right.
TRN BENTITY and SENTITY - indexed?  If not your IN is going to be a bit slow, although it might be okay, doing a single table scan into a worktable that Sybase'll index internally.  Use an EXISTS instead as well - that might/should work better.
2nd part - both have SARGS (look up in Sybooks if you don't know - search arguments.)  I don't know what proportion of rows is found by them but assuming it's a small fraction, you should see an index used on a SARG for whichever table is scanned first, then you should see index join (or perhaps merge join) to the 2nd - but using indexes.
3rd part - similar discussion to the 2nd.
I reckon it'll be the 2nd or 3rd part

A: How about using cache for these tables. if the query is used kn a regular basis. Its better to get a named cache and bind the tables to it. Also bind the tempdb to cache. This will greatly improve the process execution time.  If the temp table is huge then you can create a index on it which may help with performance but i need some more details for that.

A: If you still have this issue open :
1) Try this  at top of sql batch
    set showplan on
    set noexec on
See if the expected indexes are being picked up by SQL optimizer.  If no indexes exist on the columns in where clause, please create one.  Create clustered index if possible.
2) In the first query you can replace the subquery in where clause with
create table #T_ID (
 M_NB   datatype
)
insert into #T_ID
select M_NB from TRN H where (M_BENTITY ="KROP" or M_SENTITY = "KROP")
and modify the where clause as :
where T.M_ID=B.M_ID
and T.T_ID = #T_ID.M_NB


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Q: Responsive menu Materialize doesn't collapse after clicking please if you can help me to make the menu functioning when clicking on mobile, sidenav works but not disappearing when clicking on a link. It remains open the overlay covering the page loaded.
I paste the code, it could be messy (i know), but not prepared, and I've just made some attempts (sorry for my English, I'm Italian).

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Our fascination with Africa is matched by our ignorance. I say this from experience. When I was 19, I spent the summer of 1962 in Senegal, seduced by the excitement of the newly independent state, by the drums, by the colours, by the noise, by the markets, by the promise of an infinite future, by the magic. And yet, four years later, when it came time to pick a topic for a doctoral dissertation in development economics, I sadly decided to look elsewhere than Africa, because I knew so little about it and had no realistic chance of altering that unfortunate condition.
Myth and reality in Canadians' involvement in African mining.
Canada and South Africa once seemed the closest of allies. What happened?
Half a century has passed, and much has changed. The decades have brought rapid political, economic and cultural developments in sub-Saharan Africa, including both fulfillment and betrayal of the promises inherent in the independence movements. Still, some things have not changed. Although we have access to much more data and scholarship than we did 50 years ago, we still struggle to understand the most basic facts of that continent.
In two new books, Canadian academics David R. Black of Dalhousie University and Morten Jerven of Simon Fraser have set themselves the task of casting new light on Africa and its place in the world. Black focuses on Canadian foreign policy in the continent, Jerven on the record of economic growth. Both make significant contributions to our understanding, while showing why it is so difficult to expand our understanding. One attribute they share—an attribute that makes their books come alive for the reader—is a transparent enthusiasm for and commitment to the varieties of the African experience.
Black has two goals in Canada and Africa in the New Millennium: The Politics of Consistent Inconsistency. The first is to establish a framework capable of explaining the inconsistent, fluctuating engagement of Canadian foreign policy toward Africa. The second is to predict whether the Harper government's relative withdrawal from engagement with Africa represents a permanent change, or is instead just another oscillation in what Black calls a "consistently inconsistent" Canadian foreign policy.
They are important goals, and the fact that he is not totally successful in either is a consequence, I think, not of a weakness on his part but of the intractability of the issues.
Black proposes three possible perspectives: first, Canada and Canadians as "good international citizens," accepting well-established norms of international behaviour and contributing appropriately to common, agreed-upon international projects; second, Canada as a participant in western hegemonic aspirations in Africa, taking its place as a middle power, without a history as a colonialist there, in support of a world order dominated by the United States; and third, Africa as a location for Canada to demonstrate its high moral standards and idealism.
The perspectives may seem distinct, but Black is too good a scholar to allow himself to be constrained by them. For example, from the very beginning of his book, the first category, Canada as a good international citizen, dissolves into two. The first he calls "pluralist," and it consists largely of states respecting the sovereignty of each other and declining to intervene in their domestic affairs. The second he calls "solidarist," which consists mostly of ignoring state boundaries and instead protecting the human rights of individuals wherever they are located. They are opposites, and it is hard to see them as comfortable joint occupants of a single category.
Moreover, he adds additional perspectives when compelled to do so by the stories he tells. The most obvious is "international realism," a doctrine well established over centuries, according to which states act internationally in support of their economic and security interests. The main story here is that historically Canada has had only the weakest of material interests in Africa, until the most recent years when investments by Canadian-based mining companies have grown explosively.
In sum, there are at least six perspectives in the book, and a close reader might find more. Furthermore, it is difficult, perhaps impossible, to test one against another on the basis of evidence, of actual policy. Take, for example, foreign aid.
Black devotes a full chapter to Canadian foreign aid in Africa, demonstrating that it has fluctuated in both amount and focus, and that in sum it has come to less than has often been claimed for it. Although the commitment to African aid has been reduced by Harper's government, one should not make the mistake of thinking this represents a huge break with the policies of previous Canadian governments. Does this record tell us anything about Black's three principal theories? No, as it turns out, because the record can easily be made consistent with all three. First, aid is an indicator of good international citizenship, of either the pluralist or the solidarist variant, as the country joins in good will with international cooperative ventures. Second, it is consistent with a hegemonic view, as western countries seek to secure the support of potential allies. And finally, it is an obvious indicator of Canadian idealism, of the country's commitment to help the least advantaged in a post-colonial world, even if, as Black points out, this narrative is often self-congratulatory, rather than focused on the usefulness of the aid for the recipients.
The same could be said of military peace operations on the continent, a subject to which Black devotes another full chapter. In each case, exactly the same military operations can be understood equally well as manifestations of international citizenship, hegemony or idealism.
The book's subtitle is "The Politics of Consistent Inconsistency," and Black succeeds in showing how Canadian engagement with Africa has fluctuated over time, seemingly randomly, accelerating, decelerating, changing in substance, changing in geographical concentration, changing in public relations. Whatever the reasons for the fluctuation, they do not seem to have much to do with shifts between the different explanatory theories. Black makes it clear, for example, that Harper's de-emphasis on Africa was not a matter of shifting away from idealism and international cooperation and toward hegemony. To the contrary, it was marked by a turning away from all three.
Black's second purpose is to determine whether the changes in policy toward Africa under Harper "portend a decisive long-term shift in, and diminution of, Canada's involvement with the continent." Of course, he admits immediately, there is no way to know with certainty; only the future will tell—but he speculates intelligently.
The following is not quite the way he puts it, but it is consistent with his presentation. The future of Canadian policy toward Africa depends at least partly on which party is in power. With one exception, Black can find no sign in the views of the current Conservative party that would suggest a more intense engagement, even to the inconsistent levels seen under predecessor governments. The attractions of good international citizenship, participation in the global hegemonic project and moral idealism all are weak within the party. The one possible exception is the pull of international realism, as Canadian mining companies establish stronger positions in Africa. It is an open question, however, whether support of those mining companies will redound to the benefit of ordinary African workers and citizens. If and when the Conservatives lose power, however, all bets are off. We might well see a change in rhetoric, and even possibly a change in policy, a re-engagement in terms of aid and other forms of partnership with Africa. Not necessarily, however. The facts on the ground have changed since the pre-Harper years, most dramatically in the growth of mining. It is hard to imagine any Canadian government being indifferent to the welfare of Canadian mining companies in Africa, and this could lead to reduced concern for, say, environmental values, sustainability and workers' rights.
Morten Jerven's self-appointed task in Africa: Why Economists Get It Wrong is to understand the record of economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa. He takes an iconoclastic position—a position that makes his book entertaining reading, even for a non-specialist—trying to show that both foreign economics researchers and African statisticians have gotten the story wrong. The standard narrative is that Africa is an economic disaster, that it has remained mired in poverty since the days of independence while much of the rest of the world has emerged into self-sustaining growth. Not so, says Jerven. From the 1960s through the early 1970s, African economic growth was quite respectable, roughly comparable to world economic growth. However, the oil price increases of 1973 and 1979 hit Africa particularly hard, and the continent regressed economically for the next two decades. In the new millennium, economic growth resumed.
Why is this record not obvious? Jerven puts much of the blame on quantitative economic methodology, particularly what he calls the "growth regression literature." Economists use regression equations to compare, statistically, the experience of as many countries as possible. Each year is a separate observation, and the equations will likely have a stronger fit, that is to say, better explanatory power, the more observations are used. Moreover, the equations are usually linear, presuming steady, unchanging growth over the full period. In other words, asserts Jerven, the methodology uses data going back as early as the 1960s, if possible, and then presumes that the experience over the full period is uniform.
It is, of course, true that over the 50-year period, average African economic growth has been weaker than world economic growth. It is an artifact of the methodology, however, says Jerven, that economic researchers fail to understand that African growth falls into three distinct periods, two of which have been relatively successful. Instead, they speculate that unchanging factors inherent to Africa (factors such as failed states, lack of property rights, weak infrastructure, etc.) necessarily handicap African growth.
The problem is economic methodology, says Jerven, not the actual African economic performance. To understand that performance, he recommends abandoning the shortcut of regression models that assume that the process of economic growth is essentially the same in all countries and turning instead to the hard, detailed work of economic history, country by country. The experience of economic growth is decidedly different in different places, and needs to be understood on its own terms.
This is a fundamental insight, and I think Jerven is right. It was one of the intellectual privileges of my life to study for a few years with a man who was at the time the developing world's greatest living economist, Sir W. Arthur Lewis of St. Lucia and Jamaica. A decade earlier, in the mid 1950s, he had proposed a "two-sector" or "labour-surplus" model for understanding the growth of low-income economies. The model's details do not much matter now; they have been largely superseded. What still matters is his insight that the process of economic change in low-income countries may be quite different from the process in already-developed countries. If one uses methodology invented for the rich countries, Lewis showed, one may systematically misunderstand the process of economic change in the poor countries.
This is not to say that Lewis abandoned economic theory; to the contrary, he was a well-trained neoclassical economic theorist. He insisted, however, that the structure of low-income economies differed from that of the rich, and that therefore explanatory models had to be adjusted accordingly.
This is the essence of Jerven's critique. The use of methodologies developed for a different purpose run the risk of distorting the understanding of African economies. One would think we had learned that lesson a long time ago from thinkers such as Lewis, but evidently not. The attraction of high-powered econometric models developed in the universities of Europe and North America is hard to resist.
Jerven is appropriately modest, however, about how well he, or anyone, understands the true record of African economic growth. In his last substantive chapter he summarizes the findings of his previous book, showing basic and perhaps fatal weaknesses in the national income accounting systems of most African countries. In Canada and most developed countries, we take it for granted that we know the levels of gross domestic product, unemployment, inflation, money supply, exports, imports and all the rest, within a narrow margin of error. Not so in Africa, and as a consequence we remain uncertain about the facts on the ground.
Taken together, the two books give one optimism for the state of African studies in Canada. The authors are deeply engaged with the continent and its place in the world, they believe in its importance, and they are part of a scholarly movement that is successfully blowing away the fog of ignorance.
John Isbister is a professor of economics at Ryerson University.


DONNA, RGV – Both the mayor and city manager of Donna are predicting major economic development projects in their city as a result of the commercialization of the Donna-Rio Bravo International Bridge.
Mayor Rick Morales and City Manager Carlos Yerena gave exclusive interviews to the Rio Grande Guardian at a recent groundbreaking ceremony at the bridge. The celebration was held to promote a project that will see empty trucks cross southbound into Mexico for the first time.
Soon afterwards, the bridge will be able to handle northbound empty trucks and then, finally, fully loaded trucks going northbound and southbound.
"This is the beginning, the first step in commercializing the bridge, so I'm excited about it," Morales said.
Asked if he remembers all the naysayers a decade or so back who said the Donna bridge will always be a financial drain on the city, Morales nodded in agreement.
"It'll be a net positive not only for Donna, but for the whole region, Rio Bravo and the Mid-Valley," he responded.
In anticipation of this, Morales said representatives working for Donna have already started marketing the bridge in Mexico.
"We already have people interested just by announcing this. They want to start passing their empty trucks here. I would say within the next six to nine months you are going to see warehouses start popping up all over the place," Morales said.
Yerena, Donna's city manager, said the southbound commercial traffic project is costing about $4.6 million with a letting date of Aug. 14.
Yerena said commercializing the port of entry is going to have an impact on the quality of life of Donna residents because it will help city leaders attract economic development. He acknowledged that there were many critics in the city who thought the cost of paying for the bridge would be too much for Donna to handle.
The visiting congressman from California was Tony Cardenas, a Democrat from Los Angeles. He was a guest of Congressman Vela.
One development that has already occurred in Donna in readiness for the commercialization of the international bridge is a new Love's travel store.
The store, located near Interstate 2 and Hutto Road, has brought 82 jobs and 94 truck parking spots to Hidalgo County.
The more than 11,000 square-foot facility offers an Arby's restaurant for Customers to enjoy. The store also offers brand-name snacks, gourmet coffee, Fresh to Go options, fountain drinks, electronics and more. Professional drivers can take advantage of 94 truck parking spots, eight showers, laundry facilities and a Love's Truck Tire Care center.


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Tammy Murphy's "All In"
New Jersey's Activist First Lady is also a Big Fan of Drumthwacket
By Wendy Greenberg | Photography by Tom Grimes
Tammy Snyder Murphy became aware of climate action some 24 years ago while living in Frankfurt, Germany, where her husband worked in financial services. "I was stunned," she recalls. "People took cloth bags to grocery stores. They recycled trash, just as a matter of course. It opened my eyes."
The personal commitment to sustainability was a lesson that is still with her today, as first lady of New Jersey. In fact, Tammy Murphy is a passionate advocate for several key issues,
the environment among them.
Since her husband, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, took office just over a year ago, Murphy has channeled a "can do" attitude, which she attributes to her parents, to support the agenda of her husband and Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver. She sees herself as a "convener," and says, "There are four people in this office," referring to three staff members and herself. "Tell us what you need. We'll help get it done."
Nevertheless, there are some things that are close to her heart. In addition to the environment, Murphy has been front and center on the issues of maternal and infant mortality. She is present at events and visible on social media (check Twitter: @FirstLadyNJ). In her office down the hall from Gov. Murphy's — now at 225 West State Street, while the statehouse is undergoing renovation — she spoke about where she can make a difference, including her passion for making Drumthwacket, the official governor's residence, a symbol of a state that welcomes diversity.
The modest office features art she selected from the New Jersey State Museum, such as the colorful Skyway Breakdown (1975) by Peter Homitzky from Hoboken, and the pastoral Farmer's Field by George A. Herquet Jr., of Penn's Neck. A model of the state bird, the American goldfinch, sits on some books, and a sofa pillow with a small map of New Jersey reads "Home." The office has been her working home for the past year, a base from which to cover the state.
Murphy delivered the keynote address last fall at a Princeton University Andlinger Center for Energy and Environment conference, "Accelerating Climate Action in the United States: What Are We Doing and What More Can Be Done?" She said she and Gov. Murphy want New Jersey to become a "magnet for innovations and solutions" in climate action. She also spoke at the Governor's Environmental Excellence Awards in Trenton last December.
All environmental issues are on the table. "I'm interested in it all," she says. "I'm tangentially involved in all that is going on in environmental issues, at the intersection of how we fix clean energy on one hand, and involve social justice on the other. To lay out the table for future generations, you can't just attack one piece." She has considered issues from solar energy to horseshoe crabs as endangered species.
New Jersey, she points out, had pulled out from Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, but has now started the process of rejoining. The state has also joined the U.S. Climate Alliance, opposes offshore drilling, and has a goal of 100 percent clean energy by 2050.
"It's not true that being green means more expense, as some have said," Murphy points out. Economic benefits go hand in hand with environmental protection efforts, she says. For every $1 invested in offshore wind, New Jersey will realize $1.83. Moving to an offshore wind economy will create more than 4,300 jobs and a total economic impact of $700 million, she notes.
Murphy has some credentials here. For more than a decade she has been secretary and a charter member of the Climate Reality Action Fund founded by former Vice President Al Gore. The Climate Reality Project, a nonprofit organization involved in education and advocacy related to climate change, was established in July 2011 after the joining of two environmental groups, The Alliance for Climate Protection and The Climate Project, both of which were founded in 2006 by Gore.
In the early 2000s, when the Murphys were holding dinners in their Middletown home, they connected with Al Gore. Gore soon invited Tammy Murphy to join the Climate Reality Project. She has spoken on the organization's behalf and is excited about its progress. "We are training the next generation of leaders who can change the world," she says. "We trained [in] more than 150 countries so far."
Family influence
Her interest in community service probably goes back to her paternal grandmother, who was "always involved in something in Virginia." Her British mother, who she describes as a "force to be reckoned with," told her, "never let anyone tell you no."
"I never felt impeded," Murphy says.
She is the youngest of five siblings. Her father, Edward B. Snyder, died this past fall, and the funeral program lists some 75 diverse organizations he supported in some way, from the American Red Cross to the Boy Scout of America, from the March of Dimes to several health centers, along with museums and cultural organizations.
Growing up in Virginia Beach, Va., (where she then aligned with the Republican party), Murphy thought she might have a career in media after she graduated in 1987 from the University of Virginia with a degree in English and communications. But she became interested in finance, and was hired by Goldman Sachs. She later worked in Europe for Investcorp. She became friends with Phil Murphy, but it wasn't until seven years later that they went on a date and became engaged. They are the parents of four children, ages 21, 19, 17, and 15, and she emphasizes that she is "a mom first" and tries to communicate with her family throughout the day.
Poverty and Health Issues
Because of her interest in family, Murphy is also highly involved in the issues of maternal and infant health and mortality. She noted that New Jersey is 45th out of 50 states in mortality. "It is particularly bad if you are a black child," she says. "Your chances of dying in the first year of life are three times greater, and for black women, the maternal mortality rate is more than four times higher than it is for white women."
Murphy has crisscrossed the state meeting with coalitions, doulas, foundation members, and other stakeholders. "I've learned that the problem is not just prenatal care but poverty, a lack of access to transportation and medical care, opiate use, and much more." It's a problem that is so large and complicated, she said, that originally the health department was involved and "now there are 13 cabinet members involved in this issue."
Murphy proudly reports that the New Jersey Black Maternal & Infant Health Leadership Summit last October at Drumthwacket resulted in 120 guests communicating with each other and brainstorming short- and long-term solutions. "It was pretty effective," she said.
But she notes that "one of the biggest challenges is connecting people with resources." Family festivals, such as one held in Trenton in December, are an effort to bring residents and resources together. The first was in Paterson and there were 60 providers and some 300 community residents. More than 90 providers were on hand in Trenton, and some 500 people attended. The next one will be held in March in Camden.
Drumming up Drumthwacket
As an activist first lady, Tammy Murphy explains that she and Gov. Murphy "have always been a team. We have always brought our combined perspectives. There are so many areas that can use a little bit of help. I'm all in."
Not one to shy away from involvement, Murphy has served on the boards of several schools and organizations, including the board of visitors at the University of Virginia, the advisory board of Tisch College at Tufts University, Phillips Academy Andover (Mass.), the Monmouth Medical Center Foundation, Rumson Country Day School, the Monmouth Conservation Foundation, and the Count Basie Center for the Arts.
As president of the Drumthwacket Foundation, another major initiative is the effective use of the official governor's residence in Princeton as a symbol of a New Jersey that people want to invest in, and a source of pride for state residents.
As such, she sees herself as a caretaker for the "incredible history" and for inspiring state citizens to appreciate the culture and history of the residence. Look for rotating exhibits by New Jersey artists, and for only New Jersey wines served at functions. Last year events hosted by the Murphys at Drumthwacket included a Black History Month reception, a Women's History Month reception, a Passover Seder, an Asian American Pacific Islander Month reception, a Pride event, the recent the Marine Corps anniversary, and menorah lighting. Drumthwacket saw its first Diwali celebration, a Hindu festival, this past fall.
Murphy says she was taught that "everyone is worthwhile. Someone always brings something to the table. Everyone deserves to have his voice heard." Between multitasking and a whirlwind schedule, Tammy Murphy intends to keep listening.


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Today in Food History > MAY > May 5
MAY 5 - Today in Food History
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1719 Andrew Meikle was born (died Nov 27, 1811). A Scottish millwright, he invented the first successful drum threshing machine which separated the grain from the cobs, stalks or husks. He patented the machine April 9, 1789.
1809 Mary Kies of South Killingly, Connecticut, received a patent for a technique for weaving straw with silk and thread. The first woman to receive U.S. patent.
1865 Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Jane Cochran) was born. In 1889 Bly successfully completed an attempt to beat the record of Jules Verne's fictional Phileas Fogg to go 'Around the World in Eighty Days'. Bly was a U.S. newspaper reporter and completed the journey in 72 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes and 14 seconds.
1893 Panic hit the New York Stock Exchange and the stock market crashed. By year's end, the country was in a severe depression; over 15,000 businesses go bankrupt and more than 600 banks close.
1903 James Beard, culinary expert and cookbook author was born (died Jan 21, 1985). Quote: "The kitchen, reasonably enough, was the scene of my first gastronomic adventure. I was on all fours. I crawled into the vegetable bin, settled on a giant onion and ate it, skin and all. It must have marked me for life, for I have never ceased to love the hearty flavor of raw onions". [James Beard Foundation]
1925 John T. Scopes was arrested for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution in a Tennessee public school.
1926 Ann B. Davis was born. She played the role of Alice the housekeeper and cook on the TV show 'The Brady Bunch' (1969-1974).
1936 U.S. patent No. 2,039,345 was granted to Edward Ravenscroft of Glencoe, Illinois for the first bottle with a screw cap and a pour lip.
1961 Jim Gardner and Leonard Rawl opened the first franchised Hardee's fast food restaurant, in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. (see also Sept 3, 1960)
1978 Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield opened Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream and Crepes in a former Burlington, Vermont gas station. Their business will grow to compete with Haagen-Dazs.
2008 Irv Robbins died (born Dec 6, 1917). Co-founder, with Burt Baskin, of the Baskin-Robbins ice cream parlor chain in 1946 in Glendale, California.


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Man faces new marijuana charges while considering plea | Joseph M. Horn, Esq.
The indictment came after a hearing in which the prosecutor said that the Sussex Borough would have 90 days to consider an agreement to resolve the July case and another outstanding case. The prosecutor noted at that time that he expected to formally bring the more recent drug charges to a grand jury. The July arrest came after the man was accused of giving marijuana to an undercover cop after the police officer claimed interest in buying a car from him. The man offered a small amount of marijuana to the cop for free after taking a test drive. After he was arrested, marijuana, THC wax, a grinder and THC oils were found in his home.
In 2016, the man was accused of running a home-based factory to produce edible marijuana candy. Police found $15,000 in cash, 10 pounds of marijuana candies and 8 pounds of cannabis. He shared the home with another man, who accepted a plea deal and a sentence of 10 years in state prison; however, the 33-year-old refused the deal.
Despite increasing support for marijuana legalization, people in New Jersey continue to face serious charges with the threat of hefty prison time for cannabis-related offenses. Someone charged with drug crimes can work with a criminal defense lawyer to challenge police and prosecution evidence.


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Who is Rachelle Terry? Wiki, Biography, Age, Family, Incident Detail
December 4, 2022 by readinfos
Rachelle Terry Wiki – Rachelle Terry Biography
Rachelle Terry, 43, a Georgia school administrator, was arrested and charged with ten counts of feeding alcohol to minors during a Halloween party and having a sexual relationship with one of her underage students. According to the Daily Mail, Terry is the director.
Data Collections and Federal Programs enrollment form for the Murray County school system. Terry is a well-paid employee with a salary of $110,000 per year. Meanwhile, she has been serving the system for 22 years. Terry appeared in front of the police during the investigation and was taken into immediate custody on Wednesday, November 23.
Rachelle Terry Age
Rachelle Terry is 28 years old.
Incident Detail
The age of consent with which she had a sexual relationship is 16 years. Meanwhile, the ages of the students she offered alcohol to. are not yet disclosed. The investigation against the administrator became popular when The Dalton Daily Citizen reported that some students were given alcohol during a Halloween party.
Meanwhile, one of the parents of the affected students filed a complaint with the school authorities about the party. Murray County Schools Superintendent Steve Loughridge contacted Sheriff Jimmy Davenport to investigate the same.
However, the case was later transferred to the Conasauga Prosecutor's Office to avoid conflicts at a later time. District Attorney Bert Poston told Fox News: "We did and we ultimately took the charges of providing alcohol to minors (5 counts) and contributing to the delinquency of a minor (5 counts)."
In addition, he added: "During the course of that investigation, information came to light that we turned over to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and asked them to follow up, which led to additional charges of statutory rape and child molestation." .
A school spokesperson told Fox News: "These are extremely serious charges. The safety and well-being of our students is always a top priority for Murray County Schools." Derichia Lynch, communications coordinator for Murray County Schools, told the Daily Mail: "
She is placed on paid administrative leave upon her return from the Thanksgiving holiday and prior to her arrest on Wednesday night. Because you have a contract, your leave must be with pay." until a hearing can be held."
Poston also stated, "Sheriff Davenport asked me to lead, so my investigator in Murray County conducted that investigation and took those charges. The GBI will not go in investigating misdemeanor charges in those circumstances, so we agreed to take a look after the initial complaint came in."
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Sr. Dede Byrne Leads LIVE Election Night Rosary – Pray With Her Here!
by ChurchPOP Editor - Nov 3, 2020
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Get out your Rosary beads! 🙏 📿 🙏
Sr. Dede (Deidre) Byrne of the the Community of the Little Workers of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary lead a LIVE election rosary via YouTube at 7:30 pm ET on Nov. 3.
She will also presents a pro-life talk.
Sr. Byrne is a retired United States Army colonel and surgeon. She gained national attention after her powerful speech about the "horrors" of abortion.
She also encourages the country to pray, using "our weapon of choice: the rosary."
Here's the video below:
Click here if you cannot see the video above.
Our Lady of Grace parish in Lancaster, South Carolina is hosting the event.
"It's a great blessing to host Sister Dede for this Rosary on Election Night. Sister's entire life has been an oblation of service to the sick and vulnerable. She is a champion of life!" Our Lady of Grace pastor Fr. Jeffrey Kirby, STD told ChurchPOP.
"There is no better way to spend our Election Night than praying the Rosary for our nation!"
Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, patroness of the United States, please pray for us!
[See also: Sr. Deirdre Byrne at RNC Holds Up Rosary, Calls Out Biden for Supporting "Horrors" of Abortion]
[See also: 13 Saint Quotes that Reveal the Supernatural Power of the Rosary]


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Solar Orbiter spies a 'hedgehog' during close pass of the sun
The spacecraft, which flew by the sun on March 26, has returned a treasure trove of new images and insights after coming within one-third the distance from the sun to the Earth. Solar Orbiter's heat shield reached about 932 degrees Fahrenheit (500 degrees Celsius), but functioned as expected and protected the spacecraft during its historic first flyby.
Solar Orbiter comes equipped with a multilayer heat shield, a special coating called "Solar Black" made using burnt bone and sliding doors that protect its instruments. The spacecraft also has solar arrays that can tilt away from the worst of the heat and cooling elements in its interior. Together, these keep the spacecraft from melting as it studies the sun.
The mission, a joint effort between NASA and the European Space Agency, captured views of powerful flares and coronal mass ejections and perspectives of the unexplored solar poles. the orbiter even spied a new feature nicknamed the "hedgehog."
Scientists are just beginning to analyze the full data set captured by the orbiter's 10 science instruments, but the insights will deepen our understanding of the sun's behavior and how it affects space weather, which impacts Earth.
The sun is getting more active, and Solar Orbiter has been watching its temper tantrums as the sun heads toward solar maximum.
It's important to understand the solar cycle because space weather caused by the sun — eruptions like solar flares and coronal mass ejection events — can impact the power grid, satellites, GPS, airlines, rockets and astronauts in space.
Every 11 years, the sun completes a solar cycle of calm and stormy activity and begins a new one. the current solar cycle, Solar Cycle 25officially began in December 2019, and the next solar maximum, when the sun is experiencing peak activity, is predicted to occur in July 2025.
Over the course of a solar cycle, the sun transitions from a calm period to one that is very intense and active. This activity is tracked by counting sunspots and how many are visible over time. Sunspots, or dark spots on the sun, are the origin point for the explosive flares and ejection events that release light, solar material and energy into space.
This puts Solar Orbiter, and another mission called Parker Solar Probe, in perfect position to watch as we head toward solar maximum.
As Solar Orbiter takes detailed new images of the sun, scientists are trying to determine what they are seeing, comparing them with past solar observations from previous missions to determine if these are known features or unknown phenomena. One of these unexpected finds has been dubbed "the hedgehog," a feature that stretches for 15,534 miles (25,000 kilometers) on the sun and has spikes of hot and cold gas.
Currently, there is no explanation of what it is or how it formed in the sun's atmosphere.
Solar Orbiter also captured a movie of an active area on the sun where the magnetic field releases loops that rise int the atmosphere. Gas moves around the loops, cools and creates "coronal rain" on the sun's surface. The science team also saw "coronal moss," where bright gas creates lacy patterns on the sun.
"The images are really breathtaking," said David Berghmans, principal investigator of the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager instrument at the Royal Observatory of Belgium, in a statement. "Even if Solar Orbiter stopped taking data tomorrow, I would be busy for years trying to figure all this stuff out."
Unraveling solar mysteries
The Solar Orbiter mission is designed to study the sun's outer atmosphere, called the corona, and determine how the sun interacts with the heliosphere, a bubble full of charged particles released by the sun that extends beyond the planets in our solar system. Space weather is created when the sun releases its stream of charged particles, called the solar wind, as well as activity by the solar magnetic fields.
The corona can reach a million degrees Celsius (1.8 million degrees Fahrenheit), while the surface is 5,000 degrees Celsius (9,000 degrees Fahrenheit). Solar Orbiter could help determine why the temperature seems to rise away from the sun's core, rather than drop.
The spacecraft's instruments record data from the solar wind and magnetic fields and try to trace them to their origins through the complex, magnetic environment and back to the sun. Each instrument is responsible for observing and recording different aspects of the sun. Combining these insights could one day be used to help scientists forecast space weather from Earth.
In the lead-up to the close flyby, Solar Orbiter was essentially upstream of Earth and observed solar wind and coronal mass ejections that may head for Earth. Sending data back in real time at the speed of light alerted stargazers to look out for auroras on Earth.
But monitoring space weather in this way could also help us to better protect our technology infrastructure and even astronauts on the International Space Station. A future ESA mission, Vigil, will eventually be placed at a point to one side of the sun and observe coronal mass ejections heading for Earth.
Solar Orbiter is now getting into position for a third flyby of Venus in September and its next close pass of the sun in October.
More flybys will bring the spacecraft closer and closer to the star in the coming years. Gradually, the spacecraft will raise its orientation to study the sun's polar regions more directly than ever before.
This never-before-seen view of the poles could help scientists understand the sun's complex polar magnetic environment, which could reveal the true heart of the solar cycle.


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GCDP Quarterly Newsletter, Issue 1, 2019, with Special Addendum
Posted by Charles Hailey 518.80sc on April 26, 2019 · Add your reaction
Galveston County Democratic Party is adding a newsletter to our communication toolbox. It's a place where we can provide new information and include updates available elsewhere, all in one place. It's a work in progress and any suggestions are welcome. For now, we plan a quarterly publication.
County Chair Welcome:
On behalf of the Galveston County Democratic Party, I want to welcome you to the premiere issue of our new newsletter. Your County Party has a lot of activity going on, all focused on our core mission of electing more Democrats to public office in Galveston County. Please join us as we continue to build our County Democratic Party for our next big gains in November 2020. Our time is now. Don't wait; time is short and there is much to do. We cannot let this unparalleled opportunity pass us by. - John Young
A Message from our Communications Director:
Our digital communications team has grown in terms of people and ideas. The team now includes Mindy Westphal and Shadan Larki. Mindy suggested we start a newsletter and helped gather content. Shadan has pulled it all together and delivered it to your inbox. We will also post an edited version to the GCDP website blog. – Andy Hailey
Local Candidate Names/Links, Elections are May 4, 2019:
For a Complete List of Candidates for May 4 election go to GalvestonVotes
Ann Hammond, CCISD At Large Postion B
Edward Munoz, College of the Mainland, Position 4
Rhonda Hart, Dickinson ISD Board of Trustees District 5
Calendar/Events:
Our current meeting list is available at the Pinned Announcement in the Galveston County Democrats Group on Facebook:
First Tuesday of the Month: Galveston County Democrats Club
First Thursday: GCDP Field Ops planning team
Second Monday: Neighborhood Democrats Club
Second Tuesday: Texas Democratic Women
Second Saturday: Coalition of Black Democrats
Third Tuesday: Young Democrats
Fourth Monday: Friendswood Democrats
MobilizeAmerica also lists our club and GCDP meetings - Web based meeting sign up.
Generic Democratic Google Calendar
Don't forget early voting is going on NOW and election day is May 4th!
Email notifications are also provided. Get on mailing list.
Fundraising Links
GCDP has doubled its budget for the 2019/2020 campaign and needs your help. Major donors should contact our county chairman, John Young.
Donate via ActBlue:
GCDP, P.O. Box 756, Friendswood, TX 77549-756
Other fundraising links are provided via email, Twitter, Instagram and Facebook for fundraisers as they are scheduled.
GCDP Leadership Positions Need Filling:
GCDP needs someone to organize and help manage voter registration events with our deputized voter registrars.
GCDP needs someone to coordinate volunteer activation, phone banking and block walking.
GCDP needs someone to organize and coordinate major fundraising events to bankroll our 2019/2020 campaign efforts
Check our List of opportunities
Club Updates and Member Spotlight
Texas Democratic Women Galveston County
TDW-GC is proud to have finished our second year as an organization. We have elected our new executive board for our 2019-2020 year and are ready to be progressive in our actions. Many of our members participated in Blue Ribbon Lobby Day on April 2nd and learned how to lobby our state representatives. We lobbied Representative Mayes Middleton, Representative Greg Bonnen and Senator Larry Taylor on issues such as healthcare, education and equal pay. We also participated in an Equal Pay for Equal Work rally on the capitol steps and immersed ourselves in the capitol experience. We hosted an Annie's List Run to Lead training on 4/13 at College of the Mainland. TDP Vice Chair Carla Brailey was our keynote speaker. Currently we are doing canvassing for our local candidates between now and the May 4th election. Please sign up for a shift here.
We're proud to announce our new executive board:
President: Heidi Gordon
Vice President: Lauri Dibrell
Recording Secretary: Kristie Powers
Corresponding Secretary: Roxy D. Williamson
Treasurer: Angela Wilson
Parliamentarian: Claudia Hilton
Membership Committee Chairwoman: Bengisu Abramsky
Communication/ PR Committee Chairwoman: Mindy Westphal
Fundraising/ Events Planning Committee Chairwoman: Mimi Montgomery
*If you're interested in joining us and our cause please reach out to Bengisu Abramsky at babramskypc167@gmail.com or to tdwofgc@gmail.com. TDW-GC meets at 7:00 pm on the second Tuesday of the month at the IBEW Local 527 in Texas City so come and check us out.*
Member Spotlight: Kathy Nixie
Kathy was featured in the New Yorker wearing her suffragette attire and Votes for Women sash. She is looking for more women to dress similarly with her at activist events, parades etc. Read the New Yorker article.
Notes from Active Members:
Getting to know your County Commissioner's Court
-Submitted by Joyce Townsend
It's unusual for citizens to know the full scope of the County Commissioners Court. In Galveston County, with just over 349,000 residents, the volume of business has grown in recent years. Commissioners Court is, perhaps, the most important governing body of the county. The following is a partial explanation of the duties and roles for the Commissioners Court as explicitly defined in detail by the State of Texas in the Texas Elections Code.
Each county in Texas is structured the same with one County Judge and four County Commissioners. The County Judge presides over the meetings of the Commissioners Court and sees that the meetings are conducted in an orderly manner. The Judge does have the authority to hold in contempt those who try to disrupt the proceedings of the court in the conduct of its business. The court may ask the Sheriff to maintain order and the Sheriff must comply.
The main functions of the County Commissioners Court are:
■ supervise and control the county courthouse, county buildings and facilities;
■ adopt a county budget;
■ determine county tax rates;
■ determine county precinct districts (redistricting);
■ fill vacancies in elective and appointive positions;
■ let contracts in the name of the county;
■ build and maintain county roads and bridges;
■ administer such services as libraries, county hospitals, welfare programs, parks and playgrounds;
■ make other decisions relating to county welfare, such as county hospitals, county jails, libraries, parks, relief to the indigent, and civil defense.
The County Judge is also head of civil defense and disaster relief. The County Judge is voted on by the entire county. Each of the four commissioners is directly elected by the voters of their respective precincts. As a member of the Commissioners Court, each Commissioner participates in all the decisions and work of that body. The law requires the Commissioners Court to meet at least once each month in a regular term. The day of the regular meeting is set by the Commissioners Court itself. The court can meet in special session at any time, as long as proper notice is given and there is proper posting of such notice. Any three members of the court may constitute a quorum for the transaction of all business with the exception of levying county taxes.
A Galveston resident, Joyce Townsend brings a unique approach to the Galveston County Commissioners Court coverage. Townsend has a strong background in demography and economics so the numbers pertaining to budgetary expenditures are an area of focus. However, as an activist for many years she will also bring us information from the meetings regarding the protection of our most marginalized communities. Please feel free to comment to Townsend at 210.887.1753.
Shoutout to Recruitment Team
We would like to give a huge shout out to our recruitment team who is diligently working on special projects for our upcoming elections. Our committee is busy preparing to get Democrats elected and it couldn't happen without our team leads and our wonderful volunteers. It's great to see such a dedicated group of people come together and work toward a common goal.
-Carol & Michael
Candidate Messages:
I'm Rhonda Hart and I'm running for Dickinson ISD Board of Trustees, District 5. I've lived in Galveston County for almost 10 years. I'm an Army veteran and former school bus driver. The presidential campaign in 2008 is what moved me to be a Democrat. I'm running because I want to support the families of DISD, find some property tax relief for my voters, support the teachers and improve school safety. I live in Texas City with my son, a cat and a dog.
Edward Muñoz
I'm originally from Galveston County. I am currently a 22-year-old, and a current resident of Bacliff, Texas. I was supposed to graduate in 2015, but since I took an extra mile in my education by going through additional classes during the summer. I was able to graduate a year early from Texas City High School in 2014. In January 2015, I began to pursue my associate of arts in general studies here at College of the Mainland. I was very active while being a student, and I was the president of the Hispanic Student Alliance Club for two consecutive terms. I worked for Student Support Services and Upward Bound where I tutored first-generation college students in U.S. History, and Government and with Upward Bound. I was able to help our local students of Dickinson High School, Hitchcock High School, and La Marque High School to introduce them to college life. In 2017, I graduated from College of the Mainland with my associate of arts and made the dean's list. In the fall of 2018, I started attending the University of Houston Main Campus to work on my Bachelor of Arts in political science with a minor in Spanish. While attending the University of Houston, I got appointed as an Associate Supreme Court Justice. I then started on my second associate degree in criminal justice at College of the Mainland where I got elected to President of the student body. I currently work for College of the Mainland and the Department of Student Life, where I can continue serving and representing our students.
How/why did you decide to run for the board?
The reason I decided to run for the board is that I noticed that my opponent was a hand-picked candidate. I feel that the community of Dickinson and Bacliff deserves more. Another reason I decided to run is because I was in the shoes of the students as a first-generation college student. I struggled to find the resources that the College of the Mainland said that they offered to their students. I want to be in a leadership position so I can hold others accountable for making sure our students succeed at College of the Mainland.
What pertinent experience do you bring to the board?
The experience that I'll bring to the board is a fresh new mindset as a graduate student of College of the Mainland. Serving as the president of the student body, I devoted my time to work with the students and administration. I asked them what I could do for them, how can I serve them. I also made sure that I'm listening to every complaint the students tell me. Having worn those same shoes as other students, I know how it feels. I'm willing to devote my time to the community of Dickinson and Bacliff and listen and hear the community's thoughts and how we can improve our community college for all students. As an employee, I know what it takes to help these students by identifying the resources that the college offers. I know my purposes is to serve our students and community members. I will help draw in a variety of students to our excellent community college which offers them fantastic opportunities to enhance their future. I have been training myself for this position for a very long time. I've served our students by listening and helping every single one.
What do you see as key issues facing College of the Mainland in the upcoming years during your term as a trustee?
The critical issue that I'll be facing as a trustee is the low retention rate. Another fundamental issues that I'll be facing is that we need to expand and fund our resources in specific programs to make sure that every student is successful in their endeavors.
What qualities do you bring to the job that may or may not already be in evidence on the board?
What I bring to the job is a fresh mind, a connection to the student body, and an understanding of how policies affect them.
Are you actively campaigning in your district? Will you be debating your opponent?
I'm currently campaigning in my district. I am meeting new faces and getting to know the community members and students that I hope to represent as College of the Mainland Board of Trustees Position 4. There is no a debate schedule between my opponent and myself, however, I'm ready to debate my vision for the district.
I am Ann Hammond, and am running again for my At-Large, Position B school board seat as this is an especially important time for education in Texas and in CCISD because of what the Legislature is doing with funding in the areas of teacher pay, benefits, Special Ed and GT funding, to name just a few issues. Experience is what I bring to the table in dealing with these issues. I am honored to have served nearly 12 years as a Trustee, and not only feel education is important for our students, but for me as well, so that I can understand what is being proposed for our future generation and create a vision for CCISD students. Since I've been on the board I have earned nearly 600 hours of CEC by attending classes and seminars related to education and spent a year in a Leadership program where I earned my certificate as a Master Trustee in 2012.
I am an advocate for our students and teachers. I have voted to add dual language program to additional campuses, add another Science Magnet Campus, create and expand STEM campuses, as well as additional CTE programs; these are a few of the great things our current board has supported.
CCISD is a fiscally responsible school district and has a 4.45% efficiency ratio for administrative-cost ratio. This high-functioning board voted to present a Bond in 2017 and, because we're caretakers of taxpayer funds, voted to refinance some bond debt and saved $35M, and have not had to raise the I&S rate for that bond.
Personalized Learning is an important issue for me as a result of my study for Master Trustee certificate and am happy to say the District is also making that a priority. I voted with the rest of the Board to accept the Community School Safety Committee recommendations and that means we do not have teachers armed in the classroom – only our campus liaison officers (and we've already hired 15 additional officers). We have also hired 15 additional counselors which was a Safety Committee recommendation. The District will also be implementing the recommendations of the Special Ed audit that the Board voted to have conducted on our Special Ed Processes.
I am dedicated to serving the community and our students through many philanthropic organizations that I belong to that support their needs.
I want to continue working with our great group of Trustees who are all student focused and want to keep our District moving forward as the exceptional district it is. Please vote for me on May 4th, or early vote, starting April 22nd.
Links to Inform Our Readers:
See our Contact information on GCDP web site.
Find Contact information for GCDP and local clubs.
Like our GCDP Facebook Page.
Help someone register to vote: Register2Vote.
Check the status of your voter registration: Texas Registered Voter Database.
Check if you have a precinct chair: County Elected Officials.
See who represents us in Austin (See SD-11)?: TDP Executive Committee.
Check out TDP's stand on the issues: TDP 2018-2020 Platform.
Have ideas on how to make this newsletter better?
Contact us at: gcdpnewsletter@gmail.com
Local AFL-CIO Needs Our Support
These local USW profit makers need our support after their employer has locked the out of the plant and stopped paying them.
The AFL-CIO has supported the GCDP numerous times in numerous ways to elect Democrats. Now it's our turn. Here's an except from the AFL-CIO email to labor supporters:
"The company has insisted on ridiculous concessions in bargaining and given a last and final offer that rolls back significant protections for the workers. 98% of the workers voted NO on this contract, and so the company has responded not by continuing to negotiate, but by locking them out. These workers are fighting one of the largest and most powerful corporations in the world. They are on the front lines fighting not only for a fair contract but in this fight against corporate greed, they are fighting for all of us.
"Now more than ever these union brothers and sisters need our support. The company has cut off their paychecks, but let's show Dow that they can never cut off the solidarity and support of the labor movement in Texas."
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Where the tech world meets
Our trip to Web Summit
Lisbon. The capital of Portugal. Famous for its Fado music, ornate and colourful buildings, bustling nightlife and yummy custard tarts (known as Pastel de Nata).
Lisbon is also home to the world's largest tech conference (according to the Financial Times). In November, around 43,000 people including tech experts, start-ups, media, cultural icons, investors and plenty of the tech industry's biggest players including Microsoft, Facebook (Meta), and Apple, descended on the city to attend Web Summit.
We were fortunate enough to be among them.
Scale, speakers (and sneakers)
The first thing to note is the sheer scale of this event. It's massive, featuring an arena, five pavilions and so many food stalls you are spoilt for choice. (And yes, trainers are essential footwear for an event of this magnitude.)
With 23 onstage tracks covering every slice of the tech industry from healthtech to SaaS and deep tech to robots, there were plenty of topics to choose from to keep us busy over the three days. All in all, some 700 speakers took to the stage over the course of the event.
We heard from Craig Federighi, SVP, Software Engineering, Apple, who spoke about the perils of sideloading and why enforcing it is so dangerous to people's security.
Brad Smith, President, Microsoft, explained why 'carbon accounting' is necessary and that 'carbon math' doesn't go far enough.
Sir Martin Sorrell discussed marketing in 2022, including automation, #AI, and content.
As you might expect, the World Wide Web was one of several recurring themes at Web Summit. We heard about how the web is moving forward, Web 3.0, and the metaverse. Tim Berners-Lee spoke about the critical failure of the web as it stands today – how it handles data (and he apologised for it!) Tim's working on a solution (or specification, rather) called Solid, which lets people store their data securely in decentralised pods, so users can control access to their data and decide what to share and with whom.
The metaverse, unsurprisingly was one of the hottest talking points at the event, especially because Facebook (Meta) and Microsoft both recently staked their claims on it. We had so many questions, including the basics like 'what exactly is it?' Well, Web Summit had the answers, and yes, it does certainly seem like we will all be living, working, playing, shopping and travelling in a digital world in the not-too-distant future. It might sound like virtual insanity but trust us, it's going to become a reality and will be a core part of our lives.
Purpose and sustainability was high on the agenda, which made total sense while COP 26 was simultaneously taking place in Glasgow. Purpose is critical to the success of so many tech companies today. Various speakers talked why having a strong sense of purpose and emotional reason to exist is crucial in the tech space. But more than that, having a sense of purpose should be an obsession that companies should live and breathe (well, it certainly worked for Patagonia, which, although not a tech brand, is revered by techies all over the world).
The fourth theme we wanted to shine a spotlight on is cryptocurrency. Although crypto isn't new, the recent rise (hitting an all-time high on 5 November), and more recently fall in the price of Bitcoin has reignited the crypto convo. Despite crypto's price volatility, its proponents are super confident in its future. Key takeaway – the potential benefits of blockchain for business and society should not be under-estimated.
It's easy to see why brands would want to partner with Web Summit. Yes, of course they can generate brand awareness, network with peers, position themselves as thought leaders, and generate leads, but there were also almost 2,000 media representatives there to showcase your brand to.
Lisbon, it was a blast. Thank you and see you next year, Web Summit!
In the meantime, keep an eye on the Fox Agency social feeds as we head to a whole host of the other biggest tech events in the world! From CES to SXSW, join us on our travels as we immerse ourselves in tech. And if you want in on the action, head over to our careers page.
Breaking back into in-person events with TechEx London
FOX X landed at last and it was well worth the wait


Over 70 eminent authors including those from India gathered today in Boulder for the third-edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) in the US state of Colorado.
The three-day festival beginning today at the prestigious Boulder Public Library examines the human experience through the reflections and imaginations of distinguished contemporary authors from across the globe, organisers said today.
The prominent authors include author-columnist, diplomat and India's Ambassador to the US Navtej Sarna; Michael Rezendes from the Boston Globe's famed 'Spotlight' team who exposed the Catholic church scandal and Suki Kim, the only reporter to have gone undercover in North Korea.
Iconic poet Anne Waldman; diplomat and author Vikas Swarup of "Slumdog Millionaire" fame; Christina Lamb author of "The Africa House" and "I Am Malala", co-authored with Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai; Emmy Award-winning writer Kayhan Irani and Alberto Ruy-S?nchez, fiction and non-fiction writer, poet and essayist from Mexico City are among other eminent authors attending the festival.
"As the world goes increasingly digital, we find that it is becoming all the more important to keep the love for the written word alive. Today's youth are less likely to spare time to actually sit down and read a book even if it is in the form of a Kindle Edition or an audio podcast," said Sunil Buch, CEO Zee Live and Xee Talent.
In this digital age, it is initiatives like the ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival that are helping to revive the passion for the written word amongst the youth and to nurture the spirit of love towards literature, he said.
"Zee JLF at Boulder is a rooted, local festival. An essential, grounded sense of community combines with a deep cosmopolitanism, reaching across oceans and continents and cultures, bridging Jaipur and Boulder," said Namita Gokhale, one of the festival directors.
William Dalrymple, another festival director, said for the third time, they present at Boulder a mini taster platter -- a sort of pocket-sized Jaipur?transplanted from the Aravallis to the Rockies.
"ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival is a unique celebration of writing that has grown into something bigger and more wonderful than anything we could ever have hoped for when we first conceived this festival nearly a decade ago," he said.
Zee JLF at Boulder features art and cultural showcases including an exhibition from the awardees of the Ojas Art Award 2017 for traditional Bheel Art from one of the many tribal communities from India.