The Sufi poet Rumi said, "Criticism polishes my mirror." He taught me that everyone is my teacher. If you are trying to be a better human being, then look for teachers. They might be your colleagues, your family, and even your pets. My family, nurses, and patients have always been my teachers. They tell me when I could be a better doctor, father, husband, and so on.
The people who I worry about are the ones that always blame everyone else, never do their homework, and do not accept the fact that they have anything to learn or that they can ever do anything wrong.
Once a teacher has led you to understand how to improve at what you are doing and at being who you are, do your homework and ask them to continue to grade you on your progress. Life is a school, and teachers are everywhere if you are willing to attend the class called Life 101.
See your day as a classroom and be aware of the different subjects and teachers available to you for your further education.
While traditional medical care, treatments, and medication are all vital components of care for cancer patients, the thing that ties them all together is your own personal self-care. By keeping yourself well — mentally, physically, and spiritually — you boost the effectiveness of your traditional cancer care. Although cancer often makes us feel out of control, practicing self-care is one way to take that control back. Here's how.
The three most important things you can do to put your body and mind in the right place to heal are eat right, get some exercise, and sleep well. What is considered a good diet for cancer patients can vary, but it's smart to start with foods that are high in protein and healthy fats, as well as fruits and veggies of all colors. Eating better with cancer also involves knowing how to get enough nutrition through bouts of nausea and other illness (for example, try oatmeal, crackers, rice, and plain pasta, for example).
The American Cancer Society notes the following benefits of moderate exercise for cancer patients: improves balance, keeps muscles from wasting due to inactivity, lowers the risk of heart disease, improves blood flow to your legs and lower the risk of blood clots, lowers the risk of being anxious and depressed, lessens nausea, and many more. Exercise provides a body and mind boost that you need every single day.
Additionally, cancer patients often struggle with sleep. Eating right and exercising will, in turn, help you get better-quality sleep. You should prioritize sleep whenever you feel tired, as your body needs it to heal. Don't feel guilty about sleeping whenever, wherever you need to.
There's a reason hospitals keep the air quality in their rooms clean: Polluted air can interfere with the healing efforts of cancer patients and make them feel worse. That's why you should invest in an air purifier for your home. It will take care of the pollen, dust, mold, dander, and most airborne pollutants that invade the home. A good air filter to consider is a MERV 13, which traps 98 percent of the particles in the air. Make sure you replace the filter every 90 days to maintain healthy air quality.
Self-care often means making yourself a priority, and one way to do that is to let people help you. You are worth it, and you are not a burden. Being social not only boosts your mood, but research also suggests that having friends and family support can help your cancer battle.
That companionship doesn't have to be human either. The benefits of support/therapy dogs for cancer patients are numerous. Beyond the obvious emotional support that a dog can provide, your four-legged companion may be able to help you with relaxation, distraction, and socialization. Service dogs can even help you with things around the house.
Spiritual doesn't have to mean religious (though it can). Having spiritual wellness simply means being connected and integrated with the self, others, nature, art, and possibly a higher power. It's about meaning, purpose, and tranquility. Cancer patients, who often struggle with finding this meaning and purpose, need to focus on improving spiritual wellness more than anybody. Some tried and true ways to do this include prayer, meditation, and positive visualization.
It's not selfish to practice self-care, especially if you're fighting cancer. Practicing self-care isn't necessarily prioritizing yourself over those you love, it's prioritizing yourself in a way you haven't before. It's giving yourself that ability to do things solely for your own benefit, and that's okay. Part of this means saying no to others when you need to take time for yourself.
Psych Central notes that "being unable to say no can make you exhausted, stressed and irritable. It could be undermining any efforts you make to improve your quality of life." For the good of your overall wellness, don't be afraid to be self-focused (not selfish).
The bottom line is that your mind and body need to be in tip-top shape in order to deal with your cancer, your treatments, and the side effects. You are fully in control of yourself, and you must focus on improving your overall wellness on a daily basis. This is how you fight.
This article was contributed by Scott Sanders, creator of CancerWell.org.
Great opportunities to help others seldom come,but small ones surround us daily.
We all need coaches, someone to point out our errors in technique, improve our skills, and not take credit when we do something well. A good coach brings out the talent in others and doesn't take all the glory for what the team does.
Think of yourself as a coach and help your friends, family, and all God's creatures to bring out their latent talents and develop their skills. People just need the right nourishment to grow; the potential is already within them. You can help it to grow. Support others when they need it and watch what you produce: a winner!
Notice who could use a coach today, then step up to the plate.
Quantum physics awakened me to the nature of life and the true relationship between quantity and quality. One normally thinks of a quality product, like a fine automobile, as being desired by many and therefore as being produced in quantity. The number sold, in this case, depends on its quality.
Many of us spend our lives accumulating dollars and objects to impress others with all we possess. But what does this do to or for us as human beings? Ninety-five percent of lottery winners will tell you, five years after winning, that it ruined their life. Quantity is not the solution to life's problems.
Now enter the world of quantum physics and watch what happens when I add an electron to an existing atom. By changing the quantity of the atom, I change the quality as well.
And so it is with human beings. When we increase or alter the quantity of meaningful information, beliefs, and activities in our life, rather than the objects, we change the quality of our life for the better.
Unlike the atom being altered by a scientist we have a choice what to add to our personal universe. Choose wisely.
If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you. If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you.
Our oldest son organized a band when he was young. One of the songs they often played was "Feelings." I loved the song then, and it still means a lot to me now.
As far back as one can go in our history, people have written about the importance of feelings. On a personal level we know how feelings drive us to do things, from numbing ourselves when we can't handle a situation to performing acts of great courage or destruction when we're motivated by them.
I've also heard people say that while learning to think, they almost forgot how to feel. Our training and instruction does not teach us how to use our feelings properly. Feelings are meant to protect and guide us; they are not something to be obliterated. We destroy ourselves when we stop feeling. If you bury your feelings within you, you become a graveyard. I know I was doing that as a physician when I couldn't deal with what I saw people going through.
So bring forth your feelings. Live each day allowing them to surface and guide you. Feel your feelings. What you bring forth will save you.


Ask any Sea customer what she loves most about the label and she'll likely mention the charming eyelet blouses, lace dresses, and embroidered jackets. Those embellished pieces are always a hit at retail, but designers Sean Monahan and Monica Paolini aren't too restless to completely stay that course. Their Sea collections are expansive—stockists include familiar names around the globe like Barneys New York, Net-a-Porter, and Le Bon Marché, and buyers always want exclusives. With signatures that are so established and commercially successful, the big question each season is how to move forward without losing their dedicated shoppers.
For Pre-Fall, it was all about mixing textures that didn't feel too crafty. White jeans were patchworked with cream-color satin; military coats were spliced with curly shearling and leopard-spotted fur; crepe skirts and trousers looked crisp, but felt a bit raw thanks to unraveling edges. Paolini's own experience influenced the collection, too: She was pregnant when they designed it, so she wanted to make clothes you could wear before, during, and after carrying a baby, like a low-slung denim wrap skirt or a critter-embroidered striped shirtdress—one of Sea's preppiest (and most surprising) items to date. Why buy maternity clothes when you can just wear head-to-toe Sea?


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Ligature resistant, group shower (pre-mixed water supply) provision for new build, refurbishment, retrofit and temporary installations in sport, leisure and secure settings or where water conservation is a key requirement. Multiple shower columns should be supplied with pre-mixed water from a suitably sized Horne TMV such as the Horne 15 or Horne 20. For assistance choosing the most appropriate size of valve please use our VALVE SIZER TOOL.
The S110BLR is named on the Water Technology List (efficient showers) thus is eligible for Enhanced Capital Allowances (tax relief).


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Sixties Scoop survivors lament lack of support during compensation application process | CBC News Loaded
Sixties Scoop survivors lament lack of support during compensation application process
Shayne Metraux, a Sixties Scoop adoptee who grew up in Winnipeg, has filled out the application for compensation but says he has been triggered by the personal experience option.
'It's not as simple or straightforward as people think,' says survivor Shayne Metraux
Lenard Monkman · CBC News · Posted: Aug 30, 2019 5:00 AM CT | Last Updated: August 30, 2019
Shayne Metraux was adopted when he was a baby. Without any supports around him, he says he has had difficulties finishing the application for compensation. (Walther Bernal/CBC)
Shayne Metraux started working on his Sixties Scoop compensation application months ago. He got through most of the application easily, but has struggled to finish filling out the required paperwork.
"It's an optional part, but it also asks how has it impacted your life, and that's the part where I'm having difficulties," he said.
"I've written a bit, but it's not easy."
Metraux isn't alone. Others have also struggled to share their stories on the application, leaving some to question why the federal government hasn't offered some form of emotional or mental health support as part of the process.
"We're hearing that there's a lot of trouble applying online," said Katherine Legrange, the founder of a group called Sixties Scoop Legacy of Canada, which now has more than 1,200 members.
A Sixties Scoop survivor herself, Legrange said she's been hearing from people who have been triggered by the application, which invites people to reflect on the trauma they've experienced.
"The healing foundation is just starting to form," she said, "and it hasn't really mobilized in terms of linking people up with the community health or mental health supports from their area."
Katherine Legrange, right, would like to see Sixties Scoop survivors like herself and Jeannie Red Eagle, left, given the opportunity to share their experiences in a respectful and culturally appropriate manner. (Lenard Monkman/CBC)
Despite the lack of supports, Metraux has written a couple of paragraphs about his personal experience and said he planned to finish the application before Friday's deadline.
"I think that it's important for people to realize … how that actually has impacted people, and it's not as simple or as straightforward as people think," he said.
The compensation flows from an $875-million class action settlement agreement with the federal government, which set aside $750 million to compensate status First Nations and Inuit children who were removed from their homes and placed with non-Indigenous foster or adoptive parents between 1951 and 1991 and lost their cultural identities as a result.
Adoption took three hours
Metraux's biological family is from Norway House Cree Nation. He is one of eight children and was adopted in 1979 by a white family when he was only three months old.
He was adopted by a wealthy couple who had just arrived from Europe and the process of adoption only took three hours, he said.
"Why they adopted me? I don't even know, because my [adopted] father seems to be very racist against Indians," said Metraux.
He grew up hearing from his adopted dad about how lucky he was to be adopted, and also hearing that his mother was a prostitute.
"When I found my [biological] mother, he was very upset … he was hoping that wouldn't happen because my mom is Native."
'Time is running out,' say '60s Scoop advocates as deadline to apply for compensation approaches
Saskatchewan family seeks sibling separated in Sixties Scoop as deadline looms
Metraux is now 40 years old. He lived with his adoptive parents for the first 12 years of his life, becoming a temporary ward of Child and Family Services when he moved out of his adopted home.
After a few years in care, he slipped through the cracks in the system, he said.
The application for compensation brings up traumatic experiences, but he still intended to finish it, even if he couldn't fully write out the difficulties he lived with.
"People need to recognize that, whatever amount of compensation that they're giving us … I think it's nothing [compared to what we've been through]," said Metraux.
Survivors won't get more money for sharing
Legrange said the amount of settlement money applicants will receive doesn't depend on them sharing their adoption experiences.
"A lot of people are struggling to share their stories and what we've been saying is that in that application, that part is really optional, and there's no obligation to share any kind of details or abuse that people went through."
Like the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Legrange would like to see Sixties Scoop survivors given the same opportunity to share their stories, as long as it's done in a respectful and culturally appropriate environment.
She plans to host a healing event for Winnipeg Sixties Scoop survivors on Sept. 25.
Supports and possible extension
In an emailed response to the CBC, the federal government said the application process is being handled by a third party, Collectiva.
Anyone experiencing difficulties with the application can call the 24-hour Hope for Wellness Help Line at 1-855-242-3310 or connect with a counsellor in an online chat at hopeforwellness.ca.
Mental health counselling services are also available through Indigenous Services Canada's non-insured health benefits program.
There is no indication whether the application deadline will be extended, but the settlement agreement has a grace period for applications made between Aug. 31 and Nov. 28. Applications will be considered by Collectiva, based on whether a person has disabilities or if the application was delayed by undue hardship or exceptional circumstances.
For more information, applicants can reach out to Collectiva by email to sixtiesscoop@collectiva.ca or by phone at 1-844-287-4270.
Lenard Monkman
Lenard Monkman is Anishinaabe from Lake Manitoba First Nation, Treaty 2 territory. He has been an associate producer with CBC Indigenous since 2016. Follow him on Twitter: @Lenardmonkman1
'I'm home': Brothers separated by Sixties Scoop reunite after 50 years apart
'We were wronged': Class action says Sask. should have sought compensation for kids harmed in foster care

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Art Buchwald was a great satirist. Back when we had quality journalists. It does show that people did not get that upset about wife spankings back in the day.
I believe there was a law in Arkansas that a man could beat his wife once a month, whether she deserved it or not.
I am not so sure the precedents were dodgy. Even before the Rump Parliament of 1648, English maritime law recognized the use of spanker sails on square-rigged ships, which, of course were always referred to using feminine pronouns.
The best actors and actresses draw on personal experiences to bring something to the characters they play. It would not surprise me if Ms. Cannon did likewise, when she played the part of Judge Jennifer 'Whipper' Cone on the TV show, Ally McBeal.


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Firebrand reggae star Peter Tosh receives gov't honor 25 years after his death
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Twenty-five years after his murder, Jamaica's government on Monday honored the contributions of firebrand reggae musician and songwriter Peter Tosh, one of the Caribbean island's musical giants.
Tosh's daughter Niambe, an educator from Boston, Massachusetts, received the posthumous "order of merit" - the country's third highest honor - on behalf of her late father during an annual national awards ceremony on the lawns of King's House, the residence of Jamaica's governor general.
Tosh was a founding member of the Wailers, forming the three-man core of the group with Bob Marley and Bunny "Wailer" Livingston. Hard-hitting solo albums like "Equal Rights" and his work with the Wailers helped make homegrown reggae music known internationally. He was cut down at age 42 in 1987, murdered by robbers in his Jamaican home.
The always outspoken, defiant Tosh was known for forcefully denouncing apartheid, government corruption and calling for the legalization of marijuana. Musical colleagues and fans say the lanky, baritone singer and guitarist was a mesmerizing performer with a charismatic, larger-than-life personality.
Tosh is perhaps reggae's most controversial figure. During the government-organized One Love Peace Concert of 1978, Tosh publicly accused Jamaica's political leaders and the middle class of backing police brutality and politically charged gang warfare amid a legendary 20-minute diatribe. The Jamaican media severely criticized Tosh for the speech, delivered to an audience that included 200 foreign journalists and the prime minister.
For his uncompromising views and his insistence on openly smoking marijuana, the Rastafarian musician was severely beaten by police on several occasions, sustaining 32 stitches in his head, a broken rib, a fractured arm, and a punctured spleen during these altercations, according to former manager Herbie Miller.
For Miller, who is also curator of the Jamaica Music Museum, the honor for the former Wailer was a long time coming. He lobbied Jamaican administrations for years to formally recognize Tosh's accomplishments.
"When you are about truth and rights and bucking the system, government recognition comes after a long wait," Miller said Monday.
Roger Steffens, a noted reggae historian who interviewed Tosh on several occasions, said the musician believed that awards from "Babylon" - the Rastafarian religion's unflattering term for the Western world and the inadequate realities of life - were meaningless to him during his lifetime.
Like Marley, Tosh "believed that 'Babylon have no fruits' and awards from the oppressors were meaningless. Whether the past 25 years would have mellowed (him), or made him even more unyieldingly militant, is difficult to predict," said Steffens, who described Tosh as the "Malcom X of reggae."
But for his family, the Monday ceremony was a big deal. Andrew Tosh, a veteran reggae musician who was 20 when his father was killed, said the award will help keep his musical and cultural legacy alive.
"I'm feeling really good that he's finally getting honored," said the younger Tosh.
With the Wailers, Tosh co-wrote the black power anthem "Get Up, Stand Up" and penned songs like "400 Years," a scathing song about slavery. After he left the group in 1973, just as the Wailers' album "Catch a Fire" was winning reggae a global audience, Tosh formed his own band - Word, Sound and Power - and wrote more songs filled with political content. "Mama Africa" denounced apartheid in South Africa; "Legalize It" called for the legalization of marijuana.
Receiving lesser government awards on Monday were reggae luminaries Toots Hibbert, Lee "Scratch Perry, and Tosh's former Wailers bandmate Bunny Livingston.


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Justin Clancy Can't "Run From The Devil"
Run From The Devil
Justin Clancy
An alt-pop and rock tune that reminds us of our humanity.
The Massachusetts-based musical creative, Justin Clancy, is an artist who sees music as an opportunity. In Clancy's case, this is to create something bigger than himself. As a result of his hard work, the artist has become a quickly-rising star in Boston's music scene. Clancy's music is "deeply personal, genre-blending, and unique." His alternative pop/hip-hop sound takes influence from artists like Radiohead, Stevie Wonder, Frank Ocean, Mac Miller, and BROCKHAMPTON. Justin Clancy's latest drop is the EP Broken Parts, which features the track "Run From The Devil." The song is additionally accompanied by an official music video.
Instead of an R&B-heavy hit, "Run From The Devil" is pop-rock to the max. It's the kind of song that would play as a "greatest hit" on any radio station. It's wild and explosive, and the video reflects those qualities exactly. However, the most important thing might be Clancy's approach. Lyrics like "I told my baby I'll be back when I'm better. I been gone tryna shoot my devils down" and "Ain't no such thing as an innocent soul. You can't run from the devil, can't run from the devil. And he called my name" are delivered with a dose of attitude. There's every reason to believe that the devil might have gotten hands on Clancy in the end, but in the meantime, the track is fun. It provides passion, enjoyment at the risk of possible sin, and encompasses the human experience. So, press play on Justin Clancy's "Run From The Devil" and prepare to run yourself.
Shari Hirsch
Chicago based writer and creative. Fan of 80's horror, fancy coffee drinks, and late night drives.


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Q: Celery 2.5 Starting Multiple workers to handle different types of Job We need to enable background processing in our Heroku App. There are two kinds of Job i.e Job A and Job B.
After creating this we scaled the worked using the command heroku ps:scale worker=1
Both seems to work but issue is if we queue 100 jobs of type A then one job of type B,
job B waits until all of the jobs of type A has finished. But we want to do it like as follows
Create two workers ie worker A, worker B which will process jobs A and B respectively. While queuing jobs we want to ensure that worker A only handles Job A and worker B only handles Job B. And these workers should execute independently. i.e worker A should not wait for worker B to finish its job and vise versa.
Can we do this in Celery.
Currently I'm looking at the doc in Routing Tasks. But i'm not sure how to start two separate instance of workers for Job A and Job B.
Please help. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

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Helping Those Who Hurt: A Handbook for Caring and Crisis is a purse/backpack/satchel-sized treasure trove of practical, biblical information for reaching out in the name of Christ to those in very difficult situations. Barbara Roberts, the author, has more than two decades of experience in crisis ministry and offers readers concise and wise counsel for ministering in a variety of crisis situations, including: hospital visits, death/dying, aging, relationship problems, addiction, and abuse. Potential readers should not let the books small size mislead you–this book is jam-packed with practical information to help you understand what the troubled individuals are going through as well as godly, Christ-centered advice on how to reach out and provide care.
In addition to this immediately helpful information, Ms. Roberts provides over twenty pages of bibliography, organized by topic, to give readers additional resources for study and preparation. With the multitude of books out there on counseling and caregiving, it is hard to overestimate how valuable this listing can be. While not familiar with every book in her list, it appears she has given us a fantastic listing of counseling's "Greatest Hits" from a conservative, Evangelical perspective.
As one who has counseled in hospital, local church, and military chaplaincy settings, this is one book I highly recommend for vocational and lay counselors alike. Even those who would not consider themselves "counselors" could benefit greatly from Helping Those Who Hurt, using it to prepare themselves to be used of God to provide words of comfort, encouragement, and hope to those in crisis.


What drives you to be you,everyday? What drives you to get up before anyone else to get to the gym, before anyone else? What drives you to push past your comfort zone? What drives you to crank out those last 2 reps or that last 30 seconds? What drives you to […]?
For Women: Fitness RX. Written by Skye Taylor. Read more >> 10 Tips to Stay Motivated.


A list containing the names of priests who allegedly were abusive in New Jersey is expected to be released by the Archdiocese of Newark on Wednesday. Some priests showed up in Newark Tuesday expecting the list to be revealed, but it never was. State officials launched a massive investigation into sexual abuse by priests.


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Confirmation Preparation Class for Adults
(05/12) - (05/13)
Pastoral Center - Archdiocese of San Francisco
This format is offered to catechized adults (18 years or older) who need preparation for the Sacrament of Confirmation.
Dates for classes:
Session One: Friday, May 12, 6:00 to 8:30 p.m.
Session Two: Saturday, May 13, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Classes are offered in English and Spanish
Note: Attendance for both days are required.
All classes will be held at the:
Archdiocese of San Francisco - Pastoral Center
One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, CA 94109
Cost: $60.00 per person. This covers the cost of materials, supplies and refreshment.
Role of the Parish
Since sacramental preparation is formation, we expect candidates to have active participation in their parish community. To ensure that this takes place outside the class, the following involvement of the parish with the candidate for Confirmation is expected:
Conduct a preliminary interview with the candidate (to be done by the Pastor or his representative from the parish staff).
Provide the candidate with a parish sponsor * who shall maintain weekly contact with the candidate throughout the preparation time.
Secure from the candidate all documents necessary for the reception of Confirmation e.g. Baptismal Certificate.
Conduct an exit interview with the candidate (to be done by the Pastor or assigned personnel) for the candidate's final discernment of the Sacrament
Inform the candidate and sponsor of the time/ place, date of the celebration of the Sacrament. If the Sacrament will be celebrated at St. Mary's Cathedral, send a parish representative to attend the ceremony in support of the candidate.
After the ceremony, provide Confirmation certificate to the newly confirmed and record the sacrament received in the parish Confirmation register.* The Parish Sponsor represents the parish community. The Parish Sponsor acts as a companion who guides, prays with and encourages thecandidate to live out the Christian life of a disciple in the parish community.
Role of the Candidate:
Attend both interviews with the Pastor or his representative.
Provide sacramental information on their Baptism and First Eucharist to the parish contact.
Attend both sessions for catechetical formation at the Archdiocesan Pastoral Center
Choose a sponsor who is at least 16 years of age, a practicing Catholic and fully initiated (had received Baptism, Confirmation and Eucharist)
When can the Sacrament of Confirmation be received?
After the catechetical preparation for the Sacrament of Confirmation, the Sacrament may be received in the parish when the Archbishop or Bishop comes to the parish to celebrate the Sacrament of Confirmation with the faith community.
The Sacrament may also be received at the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption at Pentecost, May 28, at the 11:00 am Mass with the Archbishop.
The Office of Faith Formation will notify the parish that the candidate has completed the course work.
Registration form must be signed by parish representative before sending to the Office of Faith Formation.
PLEASE FILL THIS REGISTRATION FORM
Website: https://sfparishconnect.com/faith-formation-sacraments/
Sr. Celeste Arbuckle, SSS


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Apparent Terror Attacks Hit NYC, DC
Lance Fiasco September 11, 2001 • 12:00 am
The Pentagon was struck by aircraft, a car bomb exploded outside the State Department and agents patrolled outside the White House with automatic weapons Tuesday as an apparent coordinated terrorist attack spread fear and chaos in the nation's capital.
The enduring symbols of American power were evacuated, the Capitol, White House and more shut down, and the nation's air traffic system ordered shut down. Billows of smoke drifted from the Pentagon over the Potomac River toward the capital.
"Terrorism against our nation will not stand," vowed President Bush. He spoke moments after two planes had flown directly into the twin World Trade Center towers in New York.
"This shows what an uncontrollable world we live in. This is crazy, wild and crazy," said Sen. Herb Kohl, D-Wis., as the disruptions hit Washington within an hour after two planes flew directly into the World Trade Center towers in New York.
Bush, in Florida when the attacks hit, termed the disaster in New York "an apparent terrorist attack on our country." He said he would return immediately to Washington.
In Washington, a senior government official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the FBI suspects the events in New York and Washington were part of an organized terrorist campaign.
A senior U.S. intelligence official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said, "We don't know who's doing it. Clearly, it's terrorism related, a carefully coordinated attack. It's not the work of an unsophisticated enemy. It's too soon to say who."
Paul Begala, a Democratic consultant, said he witnessed an explosion near the Pentagon.
"It was a huge fireball, a huge, orange fireball," Begala said in an interview on his cell phone.
He said another witness told him a helicopter exploded. AP reporter Dave Winslow also saw the crash. He said, "I saw the tail of a large airliner…. It plowed right into the Pentagon."
Gen. Richard Myers, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that prior to the crash into the Pentagon, military officials had been notified that another hijacked plane had been heading from the New York area to Washington. He said he assumed that hijacked plane was the one that hit the Pentagon, though he couldn't be sure.
Meanwhile, one of two planes that crashed into the World Trade Center was hijacked after takeoff from Boston, a U.S. official said, citing a transmission from the plane.
The second plane may have flown out of Newark, N.J., the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Asked if there was any possibility the crashes were anything other than deliberate, the official said it appeared not to be an accident, the official said.


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Q: C# - Assigning user input into a list in a for loop I'm trying to assign user given names into name variables (Player1, Player2, etc).
The amount of players the program asks for is dependent on the amount the user gives (int TotalPlayers). So if the user says the total to be 5, then the for loop would ask for 5 names and not more.
Im trying to achieve this by first adding all user inputs into a list and then assigning the names in the list into Name Variables later but I can't seem to make this work.
Can someone help me fix the errors or is there a better way to go about doing this?
Thanks!
Console.WriteLine("Write amount of players");
int TotalPlayers = Convert.ToInt32(Console.ReadLine());

List<string> PlayerList = new List<string>();

for (int players = 0; players < TotalPlayers; players++)
{
    Console.WriteLine("Enter player {0}'s name:", players + 1);
    PlayerList.Add(Console.ReadLine());
}

Console.WriteLine(PlayerList);

A: Looks like it's the Console.WriteLine(PlayerList); that is causing you problems.
This uses the built-in ToString method from the base object which will give you
System.Collections.Generic.List`1[System.String]

Or similar.
You can try Console.WriteLine(string.Join(", ", PlayerList)); to get a simple string list.
Most of the time, the default string generation in .Net is not what you want, and you will need to loop over your list and build the string yourself.

A: the code above looks to be executing correctly but I think we need some more information. What does your name variable look like? if you wanted you can just create a list of those through the loop like so.
say NameVariable is some simple object.
public class NameVariable
{
   public int id {get;set;}
   public string Name {get;set;}
}

Then your code would look something like:
public static void Main()
{
      Console.WriteLine("Write amount of players");
            int TotalPlayers = Convert.ToInt32(Console.ReadLine());

            List<NameVariable> PlayerList = new List<NameVariable>();

            for (int index = 0; index < TotalPlayers; index++)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Enter player {0}'s name:", index + 1);
                PlayerList.Add(new NameVariable(){
                    Name = Console.ReadLine(),
                    Id = index
                });
            }

    foreach(var player in PlayerList)
    {
        Console.WriteLine(player.Name);
    }
}


This month we have our Remembrance Day talk on the 11th of November with Yvonne McEwen, and our St. Andrew's Day talk on the 28th of November with Gordon Findlater.
And finally, Our exhibition Words and Deeds; Weapons and Wounding makes its way to Leith Library as part of the "Previously... History Festival" for November.
We hope that you can join us this month at Surgeons' Hall Museum.


Great War Portraits started in 1984 when I travelled with twenty Great War veterans to the battlefields of France and Belgium, the old Western Front. During the week long trip I photographed them, listened to their stories and shared a beer or two. On returning home I visited some of them in their homes, taking photographs of them surrounded by their homely effects.
Over the next twenty years I managed to meet and photograph other veterans, many over 100 years old. On the death of Harry Patch, the last British Infantryman who had served in the trenches, I went to his funeral in Wells, Somerset. The final photograph in my book Great War Portraits is of Harry's coffin being carried into Wells Cathedral. A fitting conclusion to this photographic project.


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Living in the Shadow of the Halifax Explosion
By Matthew Halliday
My neighbourhood doesn't look like a place where, a century ago, hundreds of people were incinerated, and that's exactly the point.
Matthew Halliday
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Nova Scotia is a peninsula, 13,000 kilometres of rocky coastline tethered to North America by a twenty-five-kilometre strip of marshy lowlands called the Isthmus of Chignecto. Seen from above, the whole province looks like a bit of stray geographic punctuation left over at the end of the continent—if some forgetful cartographer left it out when drawing up a map, you might not even notice.
Halifax is a peninsula upon that peninsula, a metropolitan remainder dangling way out in the North Atlantic. In 2013, I moved here; in 2015, I bought a house. At the time, I thought about eastern Canada the way a lot of Canadians who are not from here probably do—that it's a small place, at the edge of things rather than the centre, where you can live with one foot in the 21st-century maelstrom and one comfortingly outside of it. I thought about Nova Scotia the way I imagine Americans think about Maine—where the license plates, after all, bear the slogan "Vacationland."
The house that I bought here is two-and-a-half storey tall rowhouse, built around 1920, and it exists only because of one of the world's most famously disastrous navigation errors. On December 6, 1917, a cargo ship called the Mont Blanc, its holds swollen with a ludicrously combustible assortment of First World War-era munitions, collided with an army-supply ship called the Imo in the nearby city harbour—then one of North America's big-deal wartime ports. The collision ignited a fire on board the Mont Blanc, which drifted north, listing and smoldering, into the narrowest part of the harbour, until it came to rest about 600 metres northwest of where my back door is today. At 9:04 a.m., with some critical threshold of temperature and pressure achieved, the ship—at that point essentially a bomb with a crew—erupted.
The explosion instantly vapourized the ship and everyone on it. It displaced enough water to expose, for a few seconds, the harbour floor, eighteen metres deep. It generated a mini-tsunami within the narrows, stripping clean the banks on either side and dragging into the churning harbour the smashed remains of houses, factories, and wharves. It destroyed a small Mi'kmaq village on the harbour's east side—a community that persisted through more than a century at the doorstep of a colonial capital, only to be absurdly washed away in a few moments.
In a city of 60,000 people, the explosion killed about 2,000, most of them in and around the neighbourhood where I bought my famous little house. If I want, I can walk out my front door, head a block east, and climb up a steep hill there called Fort Needham Memorial Park, just recently re-landscaped in anticipation of the explosion's 100th anniversary. There I can sit on a bench in front of a huge, angular concrete slab, split down the middle into two structures. Through the gap between the memorial's two pillars, I can look down to the harbour below, lining up as if in a gunsight exactly where the burning ship, drifting north and pregnant with 2.9 kilotons of explosive potential, finally burst.11Actually, the view of the harbour is now partly obscured by the newly built assembly hall for the Halifax Shipyard, recently expanded to accommodate a government contract for the provision of warships.
That's how Halifax ended 1917: one-thirtieth of its population exterminated, and a considerable chunk of its urban landscape as mangled as any European theatre of war. The explosion was the only real violence visited on the North American mainland during either of the world's self-titled 20th-century altercations. Until a July morning in New Mexico in 1945, it stood as probably the largest human-caused detonation in history.
But within months the ruins were cleared, and soon a new neighbourhood was being built: The Hydrostone, 324 storybook-cute little rowhouses on 10 spacious east-west blocks, fronting streets lined with newly planted baby elms and maples. And just as suburban builders in 2017 erect kitsch recreations of historic styles—Arts & Crafts, Victorian, farmhouse, neo-classical—and cram them into jarringly inapt geographies from the Florida panhandle to the Canadian prairie, the builders of the Hydrostone were happy to emulate, in a grim little garrison town at the edge of a dead empire, a mock-Tudor village in a style even then past its sell-by date.
The Hydrostone is an Anglophilic fantasy of suburbia, and the fantasia is most evident on Young Street, the main boulevard, a monumental block-long pile of superfluous dormers and chimneys all dolloped needlessly on top of one another. At Christmas, the garlands and lights and bunting along Young stretch from the yarn store to the French bakery, and limn a triangular pocket park in which sits a perfect, postcard-worthy Christmas tree. It looks like a model Christmas village, but it's real.
What it doesn't look like is a place where hundreds of people were incinerated, crushed, or burned alive within the reach of living memory, where windowpanes decapitated people in their living rooms, where shards of bulleting glass caused the largest mass blinding in Canadian history. The Hydrostone was an act of civic erasure, obscuring the enormity of recent tragedy beneath twee lintels and dormers. It also created a neat little paradox between what is and what was, complete with an easily resolvable tension between them, suitable for trivia and tourist brochures.
There is one thing that betrays the paradox, if you know what you're looking for. Most of Halifax is built of wood, but within the Hydrostone's ten blocks, every single house is built of the same hard, grey, blank-faced stone. The steeply pitched peaks and tudor-patterned stucco put a cute face on it, but they don't obscure the true origin of the neighbourhood: these are bomb shelters disguised as dollhouses.
When big things happen in little places, they come to define them. The explosion's oversized place in our civic backstory is, in part, a result of how small the city still was when it happened. But Halifax was not supposed to be small. For a while, in fact—before the explosion, before the wars, before Canada—Halifax looked like it might get pretty big.
In 1860, Halifax had about 25,000 people, Toronto 40,000. The city had a real shot at becoming a northern Boston, a millions-strong metropolis encircling Bedford Basin. The essentials of that metropolis—its physicality, its lasting civic institutions, its deep history—were hardwired in this ambitious era. It was a city of rowhouses, streetcar suburbs, grand hotels, a financial district, and a globally meaningful port. Its population was, for the time, a relatively polyglot mix of Scots-Irish, Acadian, African Nova Scotian, Mi'kmaq, German, Dutch, and others.
And then, according to popular history, Canada happened. In Warden of the North, the once-seminal, now-dated, and intermittently racist history of the city first published in 1948, historian Thomas Raddall writes: "On Dominion Day, 1876—nine years after confederation—the promised Intercolonial Railway was opened for traffic from the Great Lakes to the sea at Halifax. And that was just the trouble with it. The traffic seemed to flow in that single direction by an inexorable law of gravity, like the waters of the St. Lawrence itself."
Newly imposed tariffs between Canada and the United States massively reduced Maritime trade with nearby New England, and demand for Nova Scotia's wooden shipbuilding fell off a cliff. Even if the reasons for the region's downturn are complex, the simplified and popularized history holds that the new nation of Canada forced the east coast to turn away from the world and inward to a country obsessed with westward expansion.
So, 50 years after confederation, in 1917, Toronto's population had swelled to half a million people, while Halifax had barely eked out any gains at all. Its 60,000 people still lived in a little port and garrison town, grinding out a hard living from the harbour, where they were especially susceptible to things like exploding munitions ships. The explosion could have happened in a hypothetical, larger Halifax—but it wouldn't have been as relatively obliterating, it wouldn't have wiped out such a huge proportion of the city's buildings and neighbourhoods, it wouldn't have killed one-thirtieth of the population. One hundred sixty-eight years after the city's founding, its golden age seemingly past, the explosion was injury on top of insult.
Today, 150 years after Canada, and 100 years after the explosion, Halifax's accidental smallness has come to seem inevitable—and in the same way, the rurality and smallness of the Maritimes and its communities is seen as eternal, a part of who we are, sometimes almost defiantly held in opposition to the bigness to be found at points west.
But if things had turned out the way we might have hoped, if we'd fared better in that new entity called Canada, that cherished smallness would have long ago given way to something bigger.
A paradox creates tension, and the paradox of the Maritimes—that the prosperity we longed for would inevitably have undone what today defines us—is felt nowhere more keenly than in Halifax, where the postcard ideal of the city keeps butting up against that vestigial metropolis laid out two centuries ago. Unlike the neat-and-tidy paradox of the Hydrostone, this one is unresolvable.
It might be easier to resolve if people would stop moving here, but they keep showing up, more than 8,000 in 2016, a growth rate proportionally greater than Toronto or Vancouver that year. The result is an urban building boom that this city, after decades of slow and mostly suburban growth, is totally unprepared for. Destruction and regeneration is what cities do, but Halifax's urban churn is aimless, un-guided, damaging. The amount of historic fabric this city has lost in the past few years is staggering, and its future shape is coming together almost entirely by accident. No wonder: We can't decide how to grow because we can't even decide if we should grow. Haligonians are locked in a pitched battle between growth-at-all-cost boosterism and the postcard vision of smallness which we've never comfortably inhabited.
In the 1970s, songwriter Stan Rogers imagined himself standing at the top of our hilly downtown and casting his eyes down to the harbour, lamenting the high-rise office buildings under construction: "Upper Canadian concrete and glass down to the water line." His complaint was that these buildings were ugly, that they were big, but most of all, not Nova Scotian. Too Toronto-y. Impostors.
But they were as much a part of Halifax as the town clock on the hill behind him, as the Victorian rowhouses, as the Hydrostone's twee erasure of trauma, as the trauma itself. They were the latest manifestation of the international urban ideal, and we can look back and decry their ugliness and feel bad about what they replaced, but there was nothing foreign about them, just as there is nothing inherently un-Halifax about today's tall buildings or grander civic designs, though they're often spoken of in just those same terms, as unwelcome impostors. Mini-Toronto.
The ideal of the Maritimes—an easily knowable history, a comfortable sureness about our place in the world, even if that place is at the edge of things—lets us step outside of history, outside that maelstrom. It is comforting. It feels true. But it's based on a collective memory that goes back only far enough to reinforce itself, and not far enough to reveal the its own falsity.
The Hydrostone is a neat encapsulation of one paradox. A fantasy of almost pastoral domesticity, it was built in response to an act of devastating violence. It was an act of civic denial. But if you know what you're looking for, you can see it for what it is—look at those stones.
Today, as apartment towers rise along the Hydrostone's edges, as the young move in to houses vacated by the old, as this former suburb is engulfed by the city, the city's more intractable paradox becomes glaring. The ways in which it holds us back from realizing whatever potential we may have become more obvious. And still, the new comes to share ground with the old, and a city neither big nor small continues fumbling toward whatever it may yet be, away from what it never was.
Matthew Halliday is a writer and editor based in Halifax, and co-founder and executive editor of The Deep, a magazine of Atlantic Canadian longform journalism.
The Year in Cultivation
One thing I love about many types of guardianship in food is that it requires you watch, but not too closely.
Chasing Ghost Signs
Searching for fading words in London, New York, Melbourne and San Francisco.
Women Between the Wars
Sophie Atkinson
'My Only Real Loyalty is to the Truth': An Interview with Patrick Radden Keefe
Naben Ruthnum


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USC CREATE studies impact of customs, border protection inspections on US economy
The National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE) at USC completed a study that estimates the impacts of wait times at major ports of entry on the U.S. economy due to changes in customs and border officers staffing.
The study concludes adding 33 customs and border protection officers (1 at each of the selected 33 land and airport locations studied) will potentially lead to an increase in GDP of $61.8 million and employment gains of 1,053 jobs in the U.S.
"We estimate that every additional officer, if placed at ports of entry with high traffic volume would, on average, lead to 33 additional jobs being stimulated indirectly in the U.S. economy," said Adam Rose, principal investigator of the study and Professor of Public Policy at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy. He also noted this outcome is not a standard "multiplier," which pertains to ordinary economic activity, but instead refers to the gains from alleviating potential bottlenecks at peak times.
Inspection of people and vehicles at U.S. border crossings are vital to homeland security. The benefits of these activities include the avoided losses in terms of lives, property and economic activity resulting from a terrorist attack. However, inspections, which are part of U.S. Customs and Border Protection's mission of enforcing hundreds of U.S. laws, generate various spillover effects relating to the delays in the flows of passengers and cargo across U.S. borders.
On the passenger side, delays decrease the amount of tourism and business travel into the Country, and thus an associated loss of spending stimulus. On the freight side, delays translate into increases in various explicit transportation costs, such as additional fuel. Implicit costs such as the value of lost time impact both.
Reducing wait times for passenger vehicles and trucks at land-based U.S. ports of entry and for airline passengers at U.S. airports, through the addition of customs and border officers, will reduce these negative spillover effects and generate a significant savings to the U.S. economy.
In turn, reduced wait times at land crossings increase the number of visitors from Canada and Mexico, whose spending stimulates the U.S. economy. Also, the reduction in wait times results in lower transportation costs, which makes goods imported from Canada and Mexico cheaper. This not only expands trade from these countries, but helps U.S. companies who use these goods as inputs into their manufacturing processes increase the competitiveness of U.S. exports worldwide.
Operations research and economic analysis methods were used to translate changes in security expenditures into changes in wait times and then to changes in travel demand, business transportation costs and to the value of an individual's time. Other major contributors to the study were outside consultant Bryan Roberts and CREATE team members Isaac Maya, Nathaniel Heatwole, Dan Wei, Misak Avetisyan and Oswin Chan.
Established in 2004 as a Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence and funded by the DHS Science and Technology Directorate, CREATE is an interdisciplinary national research center based at the University of Southern California in the Sol Price School of Public Policy and the Viterbi School of Engineering. The Center is focused on risk and economic analysis of homeland security-related topics.
The complete study can be viewed online at: create.usc.edu/2013/04/create_releases_new_economic_s.html
LAPD officers present capstone projects, focus on building trust with vulnerable populations through USC training program.
USC Price Professor Jorge De la Roca wins international dissertation prize
Safe Schools Digital Summit brings survivors, experts together for new understanding of school safety
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CFP® professionals are required to complete a CFP Board approved Ethics program every two years. Ethics programs are renewed annually with the curriculum valid for a 2-year cycle. CFP Board assumes responsibility for updating the learning objectives and content for each program cycle.
CE Sponsors interested in offering an Ethics program must follow the instructions for requesting CFP Board's Ethics curriculum. CFP Board will review each request before providing the CE Sponsor with the link, made available through the CE Sponsor Portal, to review and download course materials.
The CE Sponsor will abide by the 2018 CE Sponsor Terms and Conditions as well as the additional requirements outlined below.
After three (3) consecutive unsuccessful assessment attempts the student will be required to retake the program and/or there will be a pre-determined waiting period.
The CE Sponsor agrees to incorporate any curriculum updates provided by CFP Board within 30 days of receipt.
The CE Sponsor will aggressively promote and encourage completion of an online program evaluation for Live Ethics CE; Sponsors offering Self-Study Ethics will require participants to complete the program evaluation before providing access to the Certificate of Completion.
All self-study Ethics programs will be audited before their go-live date. Any deficiencies and/or required changes must be made before the program will be accepted.
Secret Shoppers may audit Live Ethics programs.
CFP Board reserves the right to require program changes; additional instructor training and/or replacement based on the results of these audits and the program evaluations. CFP Board will share audit results and Live program evaluations with the Sponsor in a timely manner.
The PowerPoint must maintain the CFP Board branding, masthead and official course title. Sponsors can provide the program a sub-title and otherwise provide their branding information in the footer of the presentation. All slide content must be covered. It is an expectation that all Ethics programs will involve an interactive component with a choice of vignettes and polling activities properly inserted as part of each learning objective. Only pre-approved content can be used.
CE Sponsors will identify the instructor(s) presenting Ethics in a Live format at the time of program submission. CFP Board requires a minimum of 14 days to complete the Instructor verification process. CE Sponsors will be responsible for ensuring their instructors meet and follow thru on the following requirements before they lead an Ethics program.


Information about 2019-2020 class registration for rising 6th-12th graders will be emailed shortly. The deadline to complete the registration form is Wednesday, Jan. 23.
Summer Camps Listing Now Available!
Be the first to see what summer camp options CCS will be offering this year. Our summer camp listings are now available at www.ccsk12.com/summer. This year we are offering a variety of camps (over 60!) for all students Pre-K through 12th grade, including a NEW Middle School Day Camp. Check out what your student may like to participate in. Registration opens February 1, 2019!
Spirit Week is NEXT Week, Jan. 22-25!
We're excited about Spirit Week! See below for dress-ups days and how you can help support some great local organizations. For additional information and guidelines, please view the letter from Student Life here. To find out more about our partner organizations, click here.
Current families will receive an email on February 1 to re-enroll their students. The deadline for re-enrollment for the 2019-2020 school year is February 15. The cost of re-enrollment is $185 per child (max of $370 per family). If you applied for financial aid on or before December 31, you will receive your award decision on February 1 via email. If you have not re-enrolled by February 15, your space may be given away to a new student.
Substitute Teacher: We currently have an opening for a Substitute Teacher. If interested, please click here: Substitute Teacher.
Boys Soccer Coach MS Varsity Head: We currently have an opening for a Boys Soccer Coach MS Varsity Head. If interested, please click here: Boys Soccer Coach MS Varsity Head.
Financial aid award decisions for currently-enrolled families who submitted their aid application and required documents on or before December 31 will be emailed to families on February 1.
Details: An internationally used, acclaimed online test prep program (course value is $300) has become available to CCS students for free. Access codes are available from Mrs. Honeycutt and will open the portal until next October. The program has hundreds of hours of test prep, instructional videos and test taking tips. Here is the link for more information, but don't pay to register. It's the Combo Pro package.
Independent or small group ACT online test prep (described above) will be be available in the Learning Commons from 3:45 - 5:00 PM three days a week (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday) for those registered for the course. Contact Mrs. Honeycutt khoneycutt@ccsk12.com for access to the online course.
Math and English/Reading prep classes will be taught after school at CCS the week of the national test date (February 9). Please email the instructors to register.
Private tutoring ACT Prep is available after school for $35-$40 with Ms. Michelle Goette. Contact Ms. Ellie Smoak Austin at esmoak@ccsk12.com to schedule dates and times. Students interested in private tutoring specifically for English and Reading ACT prep should contact Mrs. Vos at jvos@ccsk12.com for more details.
Seniors who want to practice interviewing skills and gain confidence in self-presentation should consider signing up for a mock interview. A mock interview is an opportunity to gather feedback on how well you present and to be better equipped for a strong interview with college admission counselors. Mock interviews will be held a few times throughout the next two weeks. Sign up with Mrs. Honeycutt at khoneycutt@ccsk12.com reserve your spot.
On Tuesday, February 19, the National Association of Christian Colleges will host a Christian College Fair at Silverdale Baptist Academy. To get a barcode online and save time registering at the fair, go to www.ChristianCollegeFairs.com.
Khan Academy offers several free full-length practice SAT tests and other prep resources here.
If an account is more than 30 days behind on February 1, your re-enrollment will be blocked until your account is current and you risk losing your child's space for the 2019-2020 school year. Contact Catherine Byars in the Business Office for any questions at parentaccounts@ccsk12.com.
Winter Break is scheduled for February 15-18. Interim Week is scheduled from February 19-22. Please remember that Interim participation is mandatory for all students. We are asking all parents to not submit planned absence requests during Interim Week.
For 5th Grade Parents: Information about 2019-2020 class registration for rising 6th-12th graders will be emailed shortly. The deadline to complete the registration form is Wednesday, Jan. 23.
The deadline for the Lower School Father/Daughter Dance has been extended. The dance will be held on Saturday, January 26, from 6:00 - 8:00 PM. Reservation forms can be downloaded here.
Here are a few guidelines to follow to help make the dress up days fun for everyone!
All clothing choices must be appropriate and related directly to the day's theme. This includes appropriate pictures, words, and symbols on articles of clothing. Anything considered to be a distraction could lead to a student being asked to change.
Boys may not wear skirts or dresses.
All clothing must have obvious slack (no leggings or tights unless CCS length shorts or skirts are worn over top). Clothing must also meet the length requirements found in the CCS Dress Uniform (no more than 5" from the back of the knee).
No tank tops or muscle shirts (no armpits showing please!).
Please no tutus; they are not needed for this week's dress days.
Blue jeans work...Jeggings do not work.
Please remember that we will ask you to change and/or require you to wear CCS uniform the remainder of the week if you are not dressing according to the day's theme or if you are not cooperative with the specs listed above.
The Academic Committee will meet for our first academic review of the semester on January 25. Students with failing grades or excessive 8th hour reports will be placed in appropriate levels of concern which can lead to Academic Probation. If your student is showing signs of academic need, please contact Laura Daugherty at ldaugherty@ccsk12.com (6th-7th grade) or Greg Davick at gdavick@ccsk12.com (8th grade) in the MS Guidance Office for information on tutoring and support.
The 2019 Geography Bee is on Wednesday, January 23 from 3:30 - 5:00 PM in Mr. Wharton's Room in the 7th grade hallway. This is a great extracurricular activity for students. The school winners have the chance to compete at the state level and beyond. The first place winner will receive $25, the second place winner $15, and the third place winner $10. For those who win the state level competition, a significant scholarship prize is offered. Additionally, champions at the national level are given significant scholarship prizes. Please consider this opportunity. If you are interested, please check in with Mr. Wharton, Mr. Huffaker, or Mrs. Bodine.
Please know that RenWeb is set to send out automated notifications at specific numbers of tardies and absences. These numbers reset at semester break so students begin the new semester with a clean slate. The notifications are intended to be a helpful reminder of the total number of student absences so that students do not exceed the allowable number of eight in any one class. Please note that absences trigger for each class and that we take "period" rather than "day" attendance. Tardy notifications are sent to notify parents that their child is nearing five, ten, fifteen, or twenty tardies, thus triggering work period and work day follow-up by the school. Thank you in advance for your patience and understanding regarding these contacts.


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Category Archives: Queen Elizabeth I
Should you murder me, remember you murder your sister… and you murder your queen! Queen of France at 16 and widowed at 18, Catholic Mary Stuart (Saoirse Ronan) defies pressure to remarry. Instead, she returns to her native Scotland to reclaim her rightful throne with the aim of also taking the English throne which is her birthright, guided by her adviser Bothwell (Martin Compston). However, Scotland and England fall under the rule of her cousin, the compelling Elizabeth I (Margot Robbie) the illegitimate daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. Each young Queen beholds her 'sister' in fear and fascination. Mary has to deal with the ambitions of her bastard half-brother James Murray (James McArdle) and succumbs to the charms of the bisexual Lord Darnley (Jack Lowden) in order to become a mother but his father (Brendan Coyle) has designs on power. Her reign attracts the hatred of Protestant reformer John Knox (David Tennant) who stirs up the natives against their tolerant Catholic ruler and calls her a whore. Elizabeth's adviser Henry Cecil (Guy Pearce) carries out her bid to assist in driving a civil war designed to remove Mary from the throne… Do not play into their hands. Our hatred is precisely what they hope for. I know your heart has more within it than the men who counsel you. Adapted from John Guy's biography by Beau Willimon, it may seem hasty to declare that despite its raft of historical inaccuracies this still has a lot to recommend it, even if its PC multiverse of many races and choose-your-own-perversion plays into the right-on millennial world rather than the well documented dour backdrop of sixteenth-century Scotland (things are ever thus there…). Willimon is of course responsible for Netflix's House of Cards and knows his way around politics and other games of thrones so the focus on the women struggling against the counsel of conniving men drives the drama forward while the plotting literally gallops apace. With Tennant doing Knox as the Comical Ali of fundamentalist Protestantism the odds of us supporting the bastard English Queen are low to zero, despite the crosscutting suggesting links both emotional and physical between these young rivals. The Virgin Queen is in fact more in touch with the reality of both of their situations, surrounded by controlling men, as the fabricated meeting between them (a liberty also taken in the 1971 version) clarifies: she recognises that Mary's beauty, bravery and motherhood are both her greatest assets and her deepest flaws and have led to her downfall. She herself is more man than woman, she declares – her reign has made her thus. Ronan plays Mary as a variation on Joan of Arc – a sharp military mind with a conscience as transparent as her pallor and bright blue eyes (albeit Willimon writes her as a feckless Marie Antoinette a lot of the time), while Robbie's Queen is the one beset with the miseries of the pox and a devious court craven by her power. They are both tremendous but this is really Ronan's show, as the title suggests. Pearce, Lowden and Compston are particularly good in their treacherous sideshows. Nonetheless it's wonderful to see two of the best young actresses in the world leading a film of such affecting performances. The final contrasting shots of Mary's meeting with destiny and Elizabeth's costumes and cosmetics literally solidifying into a stony inhuman edifice linger in the mind. Directed by Josie Rourke. I know your heart has more within it than the men who counsel you
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Fire Over England (1937)
Forgive him, Excellency. His father's ashes blow in his eyes and he cannot see. Queen Elizabeth I (Flora Robson) is dealing with her country's deteriorating relationship with Spain. Michael Ingolby (Laurence Olivier), a naval officer whose father was killed fighting the Spanish, volunteers to go undercover in the Spanish court when Hilary Vane (James Mason) is killed while spying but before the names of the conspirators are revealed. He learns plans are afoot to send an armada to ambush the British navy. Meanwhile, the aging Elizabeth, who has fallen for the dashing Ingolby, struggles with his fixation on one of her beautiful ladies-in-waiting Cynthia (Vivien Leigh). In Spain things get complicated when Ingolby tells Elena (Tamara Desni) of his real identity and she tells her husband palace governor Don Pedro (Robert Newton)… In the Old, power. In the New, gold. The first time that Leigh was paired with Olivier in a vehicle tailored for her by Alexander Korda, this wonderful production is unfortunately shot in monochrome – a shame because the colour production stills of this gorgeous pair in each other's arms are just swoonsome. Adapted from A.E.W. Mason's novel by Clemence Dane and Sergei Nolbandov, this has a deal of wit, particularly a wonderful dinnertime disquisition on prudence by Ingolgy. Robson is superb as Queen Bess and Raymond Massey is excellent as Philip II. It's effectively shot by James Wong Howe and scored by Richard Addinsell but languishes in comparison with the following year's Technicolor Hollywood production The Adventures of Robin Hood. Directed by William K. Howard. Everybody should come to me first
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Mary, Queen of Scots (1971)
You are Queen of Scotland by birth, Queen of France by marriage and Queen of England by right. There was a swathe of period dramas in the wake of the 1968 riots – perhaps there was something comforting about a retreat into the past, no matter how bloody or violent. Director Charles Jarrott made something of a specialty of this in British cinema and this somewhat by-the-numbers evocation of one of the great rivalries for the crown boasts stellar performances by Vanessa Redgrave as the eponymous Catholic beauty and Glenda Jackson as Protestant Elizabeth I, the bastard daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. It doesn't trouble with a lot of truth although Patrick McGoohan has a field day playing Mary's half-brother James, the wannabe Scots ruler, and there's some interesting bed action between Timothy Dalton as Lord Darnley, planted by Elizabeth to seduce and destroy Mary, and her Italian advisor, Ian Holm, in a tale rife with adultery and bisexuality. The last twenty minutes focuses on a fabricated meeting between the two women, all the better to sweeten the dramatic pill, to a swoony John Barry score and delicious photography by Christopher Challis. Off with her head! Written by John Hale.
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For the Spanish film actor, see José Canalejas (actor).
This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Canalejas and the second or maternal family name is Méndez.
José Canalejas y Méndez (31 July 1854 – 12 November 1912) was a Spanish politician, born in Ferrol.
Canalejas graduated in 1871 from the University of Madrid, took his Galicia doctor's degree in 1872 and became a lecturer on literature in 1873. He later studied railway problems, but continued his literary work, publishing a history of Latin literature in two volumes.
In 1881 Canalejas was elected deputy for Soria. Two years later, he was appointed under-secretary for the Prime Minister's department under Posada Herrera; he became minister of justice in 1888 and finance from 1894 to 1895. A brief spell as Minister of Agriculture, Industry and Commerce from March to May 1902 ended after only two months, when he resigned as he regarded the Sagasta Ministry weak and "incapable of safeguarding the Sovereignty of the State in view of the encroachments of the Vatican".
He served as President of the Congress of Deputies (the equivalent to the Anglo-Saxon office of parliamentary Speaker) from 1906 to 1907.
While in office, Canalejas (with the support of his sovereign, Alfonso XIII) introduced several electoral reforms that aimed to win working-class support for moderately conservative policies; to curb the power of independent political bosses, quite common at the time, especially in rural areas; to weaken excesses of Catholic educational clericalism without threatening the Catholic Church as such; and to turn Spain into a true democracy. These policies successfully faced the social turmoil that radicals had been creating within Spain (and which had led, in 1909, to a brief but bloody unrest in Barcelona).
Canalejas's end was tragic. On 12 November 1912, while he was window-shopping the literary novelties of the day from a bookstore in central Madrid, he was fatally shot by anarchist Manuel Pardiñas.
Canalejas believed in the possibility of a monarchy open to a thoroughgoing democratic policy both in economic and in civil and political matters. Salvador de Madariaga, the liberal historian, argued that the disasters Spain experienced during the 1930s could be traced to Canalejas' murder, given that this murder deprived King Alfonso of one of his few genuine statesmen.
José Canalejas Méndez Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - Biographical page in Spanish about "José Canalejas"


Hint: Final livery will be different, since it can't appear that dad did all the work. But shape is one thing I can influence.
Update: A couple hours later. On a whim, I cut an extra block of wood into fenders — we're now at the max allowable width! And it looks much more accurate. Lots of fine tuning to go.


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Here's what international students think about ILLC's cafeteria food
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By Julia Ranney
If you've ever been to the International Living & Learning Centre (ILLC) cafeteria, you're usually greeted with bright, smiling faces and equally bright-looking dishes that range from hot, prepared meals and grab-and-go salads to an action station where students can build their own stir-fry, noodle bowl, pasta or nacho creations. Built in 1987 and previously functioning as a hotel, the 11-story ILLC residence accommodates 252 students and is usually where international students reside.
The ILLC cafeteria works on a rotating three-week menu catered to cuisines from around the world. Vegetarian, vegan and Halal choices are offered and aimed at making your taste buds dance. How does Thai tofu cakes with sweet chilli dip sound? What about chimichurri barbecue chicken or lemon coconut linguine?
Yet, actual thoughts on the taste of ILLC food is divided.
Grejdi Meta, a first-year business management student from Albania, said, "The food is dull. I miss the seafood from home…shrimps, fish, calamari, cod. The whitefish is something I'd never eat again if served."
First year mechanical engineering and international student Shadman Zuhayar Haider agrees, saying the food is average in terms of cafeteria variety. "It's rather bland for the most part," he said. "I was expecting a bit more flavour. I wish the foods were a little spicier like back home." Although he wishes the food tasted differently, Haider does believe different dishes are served every day to cater to the international student population.
The International Living & Learning Centre. Photo: Jacob Dubé
Adding to the debate, Chehek Vohra, a first-year graphic communications management and international student from Dubai, is displeased and misses the "authentic" food she ate in Dubai. "I don't think ILLC cafeteria really caters to international students," she said. "Although they have many options of international food, it's usually nothing similar to the home-cooked food and spices back home. What sucks is that there isn't a great variety of healthy vegetarian meals to choose from."
It's evident angry students are pressing new demands for maximum value, flavour and nutrition from students purchasing food at Ryerson is on the rise.
General Manager of Ryerson's Food Services, Walter DaSilva, said that his team tries "to provide a general variety of dishes and cuisines to cater to as many students and tastes as possible." He explains that each academic year, RU Eats modifies the menu, updating it with new trends and products such as chicken and waffles and pho noodle bowls.
When asked about what they would improve about ILLC food, Vohra said the timing of meals. "Dinner ends way too early—in my family we didn't have dinner until after 8 [p.m.], or have lunch before 3 [p.m.] and by these times there is no food in the cafeteria," she said.
As students are dropping thousands on mandatory meal plans, students want to feel like their residence is a home away from home, and a way to make that happen is by incorporating traditional dishes and flavours from the varying countries they come from.


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Nastopila je na olimpijskih igrah leta 1980 in tam osvojila naslov olimpijske prvakinje v štafeti 4×400 m. V teku na 400 m je osvojila bronasto medaljo na evropskem dvoranskem prvenstvu leta 1980.

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Three days of terror in Mumbai has made me think of the futility of life, not for those who lost their loved ones, not even for those who lost themselves but for those who sit on the golden chair and call themselves people's leader. For life has lost its value in this day and age because of the attitudes of these leaders.
Killing people for no reason has become a fashion. Especially in India people are killed not only by the natural calamities like Tsunami but also by these terror attacks most of the time. On top of that the leaders leave no stone unturned to make extremists kill people for stupid reasons like regional or religious differences. Where is the stop to this? Why don't people get united and once for all put an end to these leaders who have been playing politics for such a long time that they have forgotten they are human as well and even they come with an expiry date.
In other countries one life lost is a huge loss but in India hundred lives lost is a way of life because for us life goes on?! The city revives, bounces back, off course it does, who wouldn't but other countries make small issues so big so as to avoid it ever happening again. India makes big issues look so small and result, it happens again and again and again and no one is bothered. The pain has reached a stage where it itself has become the medicine.
My heart goes out to all the people in Mumbai and I hope this time they are not known for their resilience but for their anger and courage to dethrone the anarchists of the country and put their faith on someone who comes true to their expectations.
My salute to the city and its people.


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Ethics Assignment: Is it morally unreasonable to withhold cochlear implants from profoundly deaf children because their parents wish their child to be a part of the Deaf community?
My succinct answer is no. It is not morally unreasonable. People can do whatever the hell they want to.
But, in the interest of fleshing out this blog, below lies the full version which I handed in last monday. The first of our assessments. Which is bizarre considering that we've been at uni for 19 weeks already. All critical comments welcome. Tear it to pieces. Feedback is good.
The debate surrounding cochlear implants (CIs) in children covers informed consent, physicians' obligations, the concept of deafness and parental right to autonomy. Conflict has emerged between medical and media portrayals of the CI as a 'miracle device', versus the contrasting social, cultural and linguistic views of many Deaf people (Hyde & Power, 2000). This paper discusses the importance of belonging to a culture versus the importance of overcoming a disability, the autonomy of the parent versus the physician's obligation to protect the autonomy of the child and, most importantly, the right to an informed consent process.
Assumptions & Semiotics
This article assumes the morality in question is that of the physician advising the parents.
Proponents of the implant refer to the need to intervene as young as eighteen months to capture the child's neurologically critical period for the development of spoken language (Hyde & Power, 2000; Hagan, 2004; Watson, 2008). The debate would be moot if age was insignificant as surgery could be delayed until the child is competent (Hladek, 2002). This paper, therefore, assumes the children in question are pre-lingual, thus not of age to consent or 'Gillick' competent (Kerridge et al, 2009).
This article does not assume parental auditory ability. It should be noted that ninety percent of deaf children are born to hearing parents (Brusky, 1995). Also, within the Deaf community, ninety percent of deaf people have a deaf spouse. Hagan (2004) attributes this to the advent of sign language in the 16th century and deaf schools. It is considered the reason why the incidence of the commonest form of genetic deafness has roughly doubled in the past 200 years (Hagan, 2004). Both the hearing and deaf parental perspective is considered in this paper.
In terms of semiotics, the word "withhold" connotes heavily that a CI is necessary, which is a biomedical, hearing opinion. It should be noted that the necessity of any medical procedure is subjectively determined by an individual's cultural context (Galanti, 2008).
The importance of belonging to a culture
Intolerance for diversity arises when an individual makes a judgement concerning the normality of an individual with a different series of cultural and ethical norms (Hladek, 2002). Healthcare professionals tend to emphasise the importance of cognitive and physical function to quality of life, whereas non-health professionals emphasise the importance of social relationships (Kerridge et al, 2009, p. 319) While to a hearing, health professional, the choice to forgo a CI may seem morally unreasonable from an etic (outsider) perspective, they must try to see the emic (insider) perspective (Galanti, 2008, p. 17). There are two perspectives to be considered: the medical community's, and the Deaf community's.
The medical community conceptualises deafness essentially as disability and abnormality (Crouch, 1997, p. 15). The ethical concept of the Capabilities approach considers "being able to use the five senses" a functional capability necessary "for a good human life" (Kerridge et al, 2009, p. 28). Hearing parents following this ethos would find their child deficient, and strive to overcome the disability.
Even if parents were open to Deafness as a cultural trait access to Deaf culture may not be logistically possible for some families, due to distance, lack of deaf schools, and lack of access to sign language. The relatively small numbers of deaf individuals makes community building difficult (Hladek, 2002). For some families, a viable deaf community is either out of reach or non-existent. Thus, they strive for their child to overcome their disability and access the hearing world.
Deaf community representatives, however, see Deaf people more as a cultural, linguistic minority (symbolised by their use of sign language) than a disability group. They are only'handicapped' when the conditions and restrictions of the majority community institutions and attitudes make them so (Hyde & Power, 2000). The decision to forgo cochlear implantation for one's child, far from condemning them to a world of meaningless silence, opens the child up to the Deaf community's rich history, language and value system (Crouch, 1997, p. 14). Within the Deaf culture the child has a context.
The Deaf community has been recognised by the Commonwealth's Australian Language and Literacy Policy. It is now recognised that signing Deaf people constitute a group like any other non-English-speaking language group in Australia, with a distinct sub-culture recognised by shared history, social life and sense of identity, united and symbolised by fluency in Auslan. (Hyde & Power, 2000)
Will respecting parental autonomy limit the child's future options?
The majority of literature regarding parental consent for CIs focuses on the parents right to consent rather than their right to refuse treatment. Whilst hearing parents may believe that deafness is truly an infirmity, deaf parents may not. Deferring to parental autonomy, each set of parents should have the right to decide what is best for their child in light of their own subjective values and beliefs (Brusky, 1995, p. 261). Parents enjoy a common law and right to raise their children as they think best and to make important decisions on behalf of their children (Brusky, 1995; Crouch, 1997).
However, the choice not to implant during the neurological critical age of oral language development is considered by advocates of the CI to limit the child's options. The decision will relegate the child to a specific culture and a specific language (Crouch, 1997). Not to implant will certainly limit employment opportunities that require auditory-verbal skills (Hladek, 2002). Any decision that narrows the scope of the child's choices in adulthood violates their future autonomy (Hladek, 2002). Without a cochlear implant, a deaf child is resigned to deafness. With an implant, however, the hearing world becomes another option in addition to the deaf community (Brusky, 1995, p. 263). An implanted child may eventually choose not to wear the implant's external parts and decide to follow the deaf cultural lifestyle. At least, the implant will provide the child with the advantages of biculturalism and the opportunity to function in both worlds (Brusky, 1995, p. 263).
The informed consent process
The moral obligation of the physician is to facilitate informed consent (Hladek, 2002; Brusky, 1995). In order to give consent properly, the legal requirements are that the person giving the consent be fully informed, mentally competent and under no duress (Kerridge et al, 2009, p. 83). The idea of informed consent is premised on the assumption that decision making about medical care should take account of patient's values, preferences, goals and needs (Brusky, 1995, p. 266). The informed consent process requires an explanation of the purpose and nature of the intervention, the benefits, risks, discomforts, alternative options, outcomes, and consequences of not having the proffered option. Based on this process, parents or patients consent to or refuse a proposed surgery or treatment (Berg, 2005).
When consent is being sought for treatments that have an effect on quality of life, social interactions and cultural commodity, informed consent should be expected to extend beyond medical issues (Berg, 2005). Hyde & Power (2000) found that informed consent documents pertaining to cochlear implants (CIs) for young children are almost exclusively based on the medical aspects of deafness, often omitting the social, linguistic and cultural perspectives. In this particular case, the physician in question has obviously included cultural aspects in his/her informed consent process, and has therefore, provided a thorough informed consent process.
Failure to provide complete information, even when inadvertent, can create stress and is ethically questionable (Berg, 2005). Health care professionals may interpret cases and make moral judgements in a manner that reflects their own biases, value systems or ignorance and this is not a satisfactory basis for moral judgements. If a physician uses the casuistry framework of ethics they may exhibit strong paternalism as a means of influencing decision-making (Kerridge et al, 2009, p. 22). As the decision to implant a child is not a life-or-death choice but rather a preference for one lifestyle over another, mere disapproval of a particular family's lifestyle or values or disagreement with a particular decision is insufficient to justify overriding parental autonomy (Brusky, 1995, p. 269). Thus, the only situation in which a physician should be concerned with the morality of a decision is if that decision was based on an incomplete informed consent process.
However, it could be argued the physician has more knowledge and perhaps insight into the child's future than the parents. Parents may not realise how difficult it will be for their child to learn oral language past the critical neurological period. Hearing parents may be unaware that members of the Deaf community rarely move outside their cultural community (Hladek, 2002). The Deaf community readily admits that many deaf individuals do not intimately know their biological parents or other members of their families because of communication difficulties (Hladek, 2002). Hladek (2002) argues that we can't educate a child into a deaf culture and expect for that child to return to his/her biological hearing parents without serious consequences to the family bond. Implantation of a CI gives the family an opportunity to develop a degree of shared oral language.
Though there are sound arguments for each side, this paper finds that it is morally reasonable for a physician to withhold a CI from a profoundly Deaf child because their parents wish them to be a part of the Deaf community, on condition that that the physician has provided the parents with a thorough informed consent process. The informed consent process should outline medical and social information clearly and thoroughly, without paternalistic bias from the physician. The moral obligation of the physician ends at the informed consent process. Parental autonomy should be respected due to a parent's legal right to consent or forgo treatment on behalf of their child for a non-life threatening condition. Furthermore, in this case, the parents' expressed desire for their child to be a part of deaf culture demonstrates an insight into the importance of belonging to a culture, suggesting that they have been provided with a thorough informed consent process.
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ethics, informed consent and parental decision making. Journal of Clinical Ethics 16(3):239-59
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Crouch, R. (1997 July/August) Letting the deaf be deaf: reconsidering the use of cochlear implants in prelingually deaf children, The Hastings Center Report v27.n4:pp14(8)
Galanti, G. (2008) Caring for patients from different cultures, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 3rd Edition.
Hagan, P. Wilson, C (2004 August/September) Falling on deaf ears. New Scientist. 183(2462):36-9
Hladek, G. Cochlear implants, the deaf culture, and ethics: a study of disability, informed surrogate consent, and ethnocide. Monash Bioethics Review 2002; 21: 29-44,
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Watson, L. Cochlear Implants and Ethics – when do we listen to the voice of the child? British association of Teachers of the Deaf Online Magazine, 2008
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Nice essay… I wouldn't have said "No" so succinctly but you may have convinced me…


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