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Christy Cartwright and her son Carlos review child abuse complaints filed by the school district. Don J. Usner / Searchlight New Mexico
By Ed Williams | June 11, 2019
When schools abuse CYFD hotline, families suffer
Carrizozo is a windswept town just north of the Sacramento Mountains, a tiny place of 936 souls, where everybody knows everybody else. So when a state investigator showed up at Christy Cartwright's doorstep in January, the mother of five was horrified to learn that an employee of Carrizozo Municipal Schools had reported her for child abuse.
Her kids had attended the district's three schools for the past 15 years. Despite a spate of run-ins with the high school principal and special education staff, Cartwright called Carrizozo home. How, she wondered, could anyone there believe she was capable of hurting her children?
Then, less than a month later, another investigator from the New Mexico Children, Youth & Families Department came knocking — this time with two new reports filed by an anonymous school employee.
The first report accused Cartwright of abusing her grandson — who earlier that year had moved to Texas. The second said that Cartwright's kids had missed more than two consecutive weeks of school: a clear case of educational neglect. It also accused her and her partner, Harold Burch, of giving the children marijuana, suggested the parents were high on meth, and charged them with "brain washing the children to say they are bullied at school."
Two months later, CYFD sent Cartwright an official letter concluding that all allegations made by the school were baseless. The state tossed out the case.
By then, Cartwright had a pretty good idea of what — if not who — was behind the complaints. For years, she and Burch had been embroiled in arguments with school administrators over a wide range of issues, from ongoing bullying to special education services.
"I'm a pain in their ass because I won't leave them alone until they provide accommodations for my kids and stop the bullying," said Cartwright, ticking off a litany of complaints:
When 16-year-old Carlos became the target of homophobic bullying, the parents demanded that the school put an end to it. When a special education teacher drove Marcus, who has schizophrenia and autism, up into the mountains and left him to wander lost and alone for hours, Cartwright went ballistic. When Ashley, an 8th grader at Carrizozo Middle School, struggled for two years without a legally required update to her individualized education plan, the parents complained. Loudly.
Now, the way Cartwright sees it, the school was fighting back.
"They think I'm harassing them, but I just want my kids to get a damn education," Cartwright said, her voice accented with a Southern drawl from her native east Texas. "They're using CYFD as a weapon to get rid of parents like us."
Sarah Burch, Christy Cartwright and Marcus Campbell at home in Carrizozo. Don J. Usner / Searchlight New Mexico
A handy intimidation tool
A knowingly false report of child abuse is illegal, and many states impose strict penalties against any person who files such a report. In New Mexico, failure to report a case of child abuse is a misdemeanor punishable by a year in jail and a fine of $1,000. But filing a false report effectively carries no punishment whatsoever.
Parents, attorneys, advocates and CYFD employees agree that such malicious reports by school personnel are widespread, both here in New Mexico and across the country.
Searchlight New Mexico has spoken with 28 parents who shared personal stories of retaliation by school employees. Almost invariably, those instances of alleged retaliation followed arguments with the school over special education programs or student behavior problems in class.
"The CYFD reporting system is a handy dandy way to intimidate parents," said Gail Stewart, an Albuquerque attorney who has represented dozens of parents of students with disabilities who have had CYFD reports filed against them.
"It's anonymous, it's very, very serious, and it's very, very intimidating. You want people to come forward if they have a suspicion, but the system really can be abused."
Though Stewart's practice does not specifically focus on cases involving false CYFD reports, she said she repeatedly comes across instances of straightforward vendettas against parents who dare to complain about their kids' schooling. And virtually every one of them, she said, is a parent of a disabled child.
"I just can't be any more clear: the root of this is the school district's exclusion of the child," Stewart added. "Districts do intimidate parents so that parents pick up and leave or home-school their children …but the root of it is a prejudice against children with disabilities."
In New Mexico, reports of child abuse or neglect are routinely referred to law enforcement, regardless of whether CYFD believes the allegation to be true or false.
With no system in place to track and prosecute malicious calls, those who make such reports rarely face any consequence. But their action comes with a price. A malicious accusation can traumatize families and muck up the gears of the state child-welfare system, wasting resources and sending protective service workers into dead-end investigations.
An unwarranted visit from police may destroy all trust between families and school staff, frightening parents away from participating in special education planning or even forcing them to transfer their children to another school out of desperation.
After Carrizozo school employees filed their accusations against Cartwright and Burch, tensions grew so high that the parents requested that a police officer sit in on meetings with the principal over ongoing bullying.
"Everything's 'bully, bully, bully,' that's all you ever hear about," Principal W. Todd Lindsay said in one such meeting on Feb. 20, as recorded by a police officer's lapel camera. "I'm telling you for a fact, there is no bullying at this school.
Ashley Burch, Marcus Campbell and Harold Burch at home in Carrizozo. Don J. Usner / Searchlight New Mexico
"They just hate us," Lindsay later told Searchlight, referring to Cartwright and Burch. "I don't know who filed those CYFD reports, but teachers are mandated by law. If they see something, they have to report it."
Lindsay insisted that the calls to CYFD were not retaliatory in nature. Still, Cartwright and Burch were so shaken by the abuse investigations that they still hesitate to send their kids to school each morning.
"Having a child in special education is already an uphill battle," said Andrea Leon, director of programs for Parents Reaching Out, a nonprofit statewide organization that helps parents navigate their children's healthcare, education, and other needs, including advocating for families of children with disabilities.
"These retaliatory CYFD calls can really freak parents out," she said, noting that the impact is especially frightening for immigrant parents, who need a clean record to gain citizenship. "Parents have a legal right to participate in their kids' special education plans, but when these calls happen a lot of parents will just give up and leave the district."
Leon, who helped Cartwright and Burch respond to the false abuse reports, said the impact of retaliatory reporting tends to be greater in rural areas, where parents often have no alternative to local public schools.
"Where else are we going to go?" Cartwright asked. "We got no choice but that school. That's why we're going to fight tooth and nail until they give our kids an education."
Christy Cartwirght with a binder documenting her disagreements with the Carrizozo school district. Don J. Usner / Searchlight New Mexico
Abusing a system set up to prevent abuse
Officials at CYFD have been raising concerns over malicious use of the abuse and neglect reporting system ever since the department unveiled its #SAFE hotline eight years ago.
As soon as the phones started ringing at the Statewide Central Intake call center in 2011, it became apparent to CYFD employees that the hotline, though a valuable tool for identifying children in danger, could also be used for vindictive purposes. Reports started coming in that were clearly false, and often malicious or retaliatory in nature.
"Every hour we spend sorting out false and malicious allegations is an hour taken from a frightened child who truly needs our help," said then-Secretary Yolanda Deines, during a press conference shortly after the hotline's launch.
"Please find a healthier way to express your anger, and don't take time away from a child who might be in danger," Deines said.
Eight years later, CYFD employees say that the Statewide Central Intake office, or SCI, continues to receive malicious reports on an almost daily basis, most commonly from school staff and divorced couples in the midst of custody battles. A lack of data, however, has led to questions within CYFD about the frequency of such calls.
"We don't want our agency to be used as a mean guard dog" to bully parents, said SCI manager Paul Williams. "But I see it all day long."
In 2018, the call center received 40,643 reports of abuse and neglect. Around 6,000 of those callers, or 14.5 percent, self-identified as school employees.
And according to multiple CYFD employees, that number reflects a small fraction of the actual calls from school personnel, since most of them report anonymously. Williams estimates that between 40 percent to 50 percent of calls actually come from schools when class is in session. Of the calls that CYFD goes on to investigate, only 28 percent are substantiated.
"I think part of the low substantiation rate is that not everything coming through is a legitimate concern about child abuse, but they say the right things on the phone so we can't call them a liar from the intake," Williams said
Policing the reporting system is exceedingly difficult. Suspicions of child abuse are often highly subjective, making it nearly impossible for a parent to prove that a call was made in bad faith.
False reports will continue
Educators are in a unique position to spot children in danger, and they play an indispensable role in the state's child welfare system. Following multiple high-profile child abuse cases in recent years, CYFD has strongly encouraged teachers to report their suspicions, however small.
Many teachers have students who are at high risk of danger — from hunger, drug abuse or domestic violence — and are acutely aware of the signs of potential abuse and neglect, as well as the consequences of not reporting. If there's a question, teachers interviewed for this story said, it's better to err on the side of caution and call CYFD.
"The pressure on teachers to report is enormous," said Ellen Bernstein, president of the Albuquerque Teachers Federation. "It's my duty to report. If I'm wrong, that's for the investigator to decide. But I can't imagine a teacher reporting a family for abuse without any evidence."
Like nurses, physicians, psychiatrists and certain members of the clergy, teachers and school administrators are legally required to report suspected child abuse to authorities. If they do not report their suspicions and a child ends up getting hurt, they can face legal consequences — and a media firestorm.
And given the extent to which CYFD and law enforcement rely on educators to warn of possible abuse, officials fear that any attempt to dissuade bad-faith reporting risks discouraging potentially valid calls — a chance the agency is loath to take given the prevalence of child abuse in New Mexico.
"There is a potential for the system to be abused, and CYFD could take a proactive role," said CYFD Deputy Secretary Terry Locke. "But the tradeoff is that we might dissuade people from making [valid] calls. The question I have is, have these calls been enough of an issue for us that we would consider an action like that?"
Given this hands-off policy, special education advocates say false reports like the ones filed against Christy Cartwright and Harold Burch in Carrizozo will surely continue.
Principal Lindsay recently informed the parents that he "can't guarantee" they won't get any more school-based CYFD reports, according to a police recording obtained by Searchlight. The principal has filed a harassment complaint against them with local police and requested a restraining order.
The police department says there are no legal grounds to pursue the complaint.


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Computer generated photo of completed towers. Photo: Sagrada Familia Foundation.
Plans have been unveiled that will make Barcelona's Sagrada Familia the tallest church in the world when it is finally completed in 2026.
Work was begun on the breathtaking masterpiece envisioned by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi in 1882, and now 133 years after the first stone was laid, the architects are ready to embark on the final phase.
With work on 70 percent of the building complete, chief architect Jordi Fauli on Wednesday outlined plans for the final stage; raising the central tower that will surpass even the height of Germany's Ulm Minster to make it Europe's tallest religious building.
"The central Tower of Jesus Christ will be 172.5 metres (566 feet) tall, making it the tallest cathedral in Europe, because the tallest church tower in Europe is Ulm, at 162 metres (531.5 feet)," Fauli said in a press conference on Wednesday.
The central tower will be the tallest of six spires and will complete a structure that despite being unfinished is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Spain, drawing in more than three million visitors a year.
Fauli confirmed that the project is on schedule to have the building work finalized by 2026 in time to mark the 100th anniversary of the death of Gaudi, who was crushed beneath a tram in the Catalan capital at the age of 73.
He was so impoverished by the time of his death that he was mistaken for a tramp and laid unidentified in the city morgue for several days.
The finishing touches to the ornamentation covering the basilica, which was consecrated by Pope Benedict XVI in November 2010, could take even longer.
"It's difficult to predict but we can say that it will be completed by 2030, 2032," Fauli said at the press conference.
The project has been plagued with difficulties, including the destruction of Gaudi's original plans in a fire set by anarchists during the Spanish Civil War.
Gaudi, who is referred to as "God's Architect" and who is the subject of a petition for beatification, expected his "cathedral of the poor" to take two centuries to construct.
"My client is in no hurry," he famously said, referring to God.
When Gaudi was once asked why he was bothering to make the details at the tops of the spires so elaborate when they wouldn't be visible from the ground, he responded: "The angels will see them".
The entrance fees finance the construction budget of around €25 million ($28.38 million) a year.


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Veteran GOP Strategist Takes On Trump — And His Party — In 'It Was All A Lie'
Published August 11, 2020 at 11:03 AM MDT
Drew Angerer
"I've never heard any Republican officeholder speak of President Trump as if he should be president," says GOP strategist Stuart Stevens.
Veteran political consultant Stuart Stevens has spent years working as a strategist for Republican campaigns, including the presidential bids of Bob Dole, George W. Bush and Mitt Romney. But Stevens didn't support the party's candidate in the 2016 presidential election — and he wasn't alone.
"In 2016, when I went out and attacked Trump on television," he says, "I would say maybe a third of the party hierarchy would email me and thank me for doing this."
But Stevens notes that many of the Republicans who had privately voiced concern about Trump changed their tune on election night. "I started getting emails like, 'Could you maybe delete that email?' " he says.
"It's an extraordinary contradiction," Stevens tells Fresh Air in an Internet interview.
He notes, "I've never heard any Republican officeholder speak of President Trump as if he should be president. ... They know he shouldn't be president. [But] he is president, and they still support him."
In his new book,It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump,Stevens argues that the party's support for Trump isn't just a pragmatic choice. Instead, he says, it reflects the party's complete abandonment of principles it long claimed to embrace, such as fiscal restraint, personal responsibility and family values.
Stevens acknowledges his own role in the party's shift: "One of the things that drew me to the Republican Party was the concept of personal responsibility. So I don't know where to begin with personal responsibility except to take responsibility personally."
On why he believes the leaders of the Republican Party became more extreme and anti-intellectual
It's an abdication of leadership on behalf of Republican Party leaders that have allowed these kooks and lunatics and anti-intellectuals to become dominant in the party.
I think one of the conclusions you have to come to is that leaders really matter in helping shape the party. And I think that it's an abdication of leadership on behalf of Republican Party leaders that have allowed these kooks and lunatics and anti-intellectuals to become dominant in the party. It didn't have to be that way.
There was a time when there was an intellectual core to the Republican Party. We used to say we were the party of big ideas and there was some truth to that. And one of those big ideas was opposing Communism. One of those big ideas was the role of society in helping people become less dependent on government. ... So you can make a good case that the Republican Party was a victim of its own success: We won the Cold War. Bill Clinton passed welfare reform.
And so around 2000, it was a question of how do you formulate a new policy? And we never really came to grips with that. And it has allowed those with the loudest voices to become dominant in the party. I compare it to sports teams. Who is it in the stands that gets the most attention? It's the person that takes their shirt off and runs out on the field. And that's really what's happened in our politics, but particularly in the Republican Party. And the leaders have not stepped in and stopped it.
On the GOP doing an "autopsy" after the 2012 election when Mitt Romney lost to Obama
I think Reince Priebus, who was the chairman of the party then, and there's a lot of credit for initiating that so-called autopsy. It's always difficult to be self-critical. And what's fascinating about that is the conclusions were fairly obvious. You had to appeal more to nonwhite, yet appeal more to younger voters who had to appeal more to women. But it was presented not only as a political necessity to win elections — because we'd only won the popular vote once since [the] 1988 presidential votes — it was presented as a moral mandate, that if you are going to deserve the right to be the governing party of this big, confusing, loud, changing country, you needed to reflect that. So then Donald Trump comes along, and you can almost hear this audible sigh of relief and all that got thrown out and go, "Well, thank God we don't have to pretend we care about this stuff. We can just win with white folks and we can just be comfortable with that." And I mean, it just showed how phony it was.
On Trump's campaign strategy for the fall
It is going to be the ugliest campaign we've ever seen by a desperate man.
It's going to be a racial grievance campaign unlike we have ever seen on the national stage. I think it is going to be the ugliest campaign we've ever seen, by a desperate man. So Donald Trump is behind now and he's talking about suspending the elections. Think about a week out if he's behind: If I was a Canadian minister of defense, I'd be worried he's going to invade Ottawa. This is an unstable man who is headed to potentially a historic defeat. And I think he's going to wave the bloody shirt and try to scare white voters, and I think they're going to do everything they can to suppress nonwhite votes. Legal, illegal, quasi-legal. That's what they're going to try to do because they think that's the only way they can win.
On what he believes is next for the Republican Party
I really am extraordinarily negative on the prospects of the party, and it's an unusual position for me because I've always been sort of the eternal optimist and always thought that we could come back from any deficit. I came across a statistic recently that just absolutely blew my mind:Of Americans 15 years and under, the majority are nonwhite. ... And what does that mean for the Republican Party? It's just a stage 4 cancer warning and the party gives no reason that it's going to change.
So I see the Republican Party, [what will] happening nationally, as what happens to the Republican Party in California. So California was the beating heart and soul of the Republican Party. It was an electoral citadel that we based all victory on. And now where's the Republican Party? It's in third place, not second, third [in registration]. ... And the Republican Party, really, for the most part, became irrelevant in the debate of policy in California. They've made themselves irrelevant. And I see the same thing happening with the national Republican Party.
There is a market for a center-right party and a need for it in America. I think something else will evolve. But to get a sense of how deep Trumpism is instilled, there's another Republican Party out there and that's these governors. So if you look at these very popular governors in blue states like [Larry] Hogan in Maryland, Charlie Baker, Massachusetts, Phil Scott here in Vermont, I work for all these guys. And if the Republican Party had any sense, I'd say, look, these guys are wildly popular in the hardest market. What can we learn from them? Instead, the party kind of treats them with benign neglect. But each of these governors, wildly popular as they are, they can't pick their own party chairman. They're Trump people, and the idea that a governor couldn't pick a party chairman is so mind-boggling, it just shows how deep Trumpism has become in the party.
Sam Briger and Seth Kelley produced and edited this interview for broadcast. Bridget Bentz, Molly Seavy-Nesper and Meghan Sullivan adapted it for the Web.
Corrected: August 13, 2020 at 10:00 PM MDT
In the audio version of this story, we suggest that the vote on the 1964 Civil Rights Act represented a change in how the parties addressed race. A higher percentage of congressional Republicans voted for the law as compared with Democrats. However, that year the Republican Party nominated Barry Goldwater, who voted no, for president and saw the start of a migration of pro-segregation Southern Democrats to the GOP

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To celebrate five years of OpenStack releases and our community, we've designed stickers for each release of OpenStack—from Austin all the way through Ocata. At the OpenStack Summit in Austin, where it all began, we have plenty of stickers—and some choice swag— to give away.
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For each Mirantis partner you visit, you can collect a sticker. Each partner has a unique sticker; supplies are limited. For each sticker, you'll get a point, and you can unlock extra points via social media challenges. Redeem your points at the Mirantis booth.
AND you will be entered to win a free OpenStack certification by Mirantis Training!
Arista Networks (will have a technical team at the summit to speak with customers about deployment of OpenStack with its cloud networking platforms for automated provisioning and configuration of the network elements using its ML2/neutron integrations.
Supermicro® will be showcasing its portfolio of OpenStack Cloud Solutions, including live demonstrations of their Unlocked Cloud Appliance and Scalable Reference Architecture based on the Mirantis OpenStack Platform.
Cumulus Networks will be talking about #NetDevOps, which enables cloud admins, network engineers, and system administrators to speak the same language using standard DevOps tools like Ansible, Puppet, Chef, and Git. Also, using Layer 3 networking in the entire rack all the way on the host, eliminating VLANs and IP address bookkeeping in an OpenStack solution.
Quanta QCT is showcasing QCT QxStack Mirantis Unlocked Appliance for Cloud Native Applications. Learn the architecture design of the appliance .
FusionStorm will be showing how to simplify your OpenStack deployment with an OpenStack Appliance from Dell, Juniper, Supermicro, Quanta, Arista, and others.
NetApp and Solidfire are now one company, and they're talking about how CI/CD workflows, containers, and enterprise applications are all accelerated with NetApp technology.
EMC's focus is SDS/Hardware on a highly available platform, and will be showing how it enables OpenStack-based SDDC by providing Integrated Solutions for IaaS & PaaS.
Talligent will be showing its billing and capacity management solution for Openstack, and will be showing for the first time a new feature to compare AWS costs alongside Openstack private cloud cost.
During the Summit, PLUMgrid will cover production deployments, micro-segmentation, Docker container networking, group-based policy for microservices, SDN monitoring, LBaaS with F5 Networks, virtual CPE, and policy-based service insertion such as port mirroring. PLUMgrid will demonstrate its latest portfolio, Open Networking Suite 5.0 and CloudApex™, and offer free consulting engineering sessions its booth.
Big Switch Networks will be talking about next generation networking with Open SDN Fabrics. Visit Big Switch Networks to learn more about the latest in OpenStack, VMware private clouds and NFV deployments at Verizon and others.
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How did Kiri Te Kanawa became famous?
Where did Dame Kiri Te Kanawa come from?
When did Kiri Te Kanawa change her name?
Is Kiri Te Kanawa married?
What church was Princess Diana's funeral?
Is Kiri Te Kanawa divorced?
How old is Kiri Te Kanawa from New Zealand?
When did Kiri Te Kanawa retire from opera?
As a soprano, Te Kanawa shot to stardom in the 1970s with a series of appearances at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, and the enthusiastic support of conductors such as Colin Davis and Georg Solti. Her first big success was as the Countess in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro in 1971.
What does Kiri Te Kanawa do?
Opera singer
ActorJazz musician
Kiri Te Kanawa/Professions
Gisborne, New Zealand
Kiri Te Kanawa/Place of birth
What did Kiri Te Kanawa sing at Charles and Diana's wedding?
Let the Bright Seraphim
Dame Kiri performed Handel's Let the Bright Seraphim at the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer in 1981.
In November 2019, the ASB theatre in the Aotea Centre was renamed the Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre in acknowledgement of the work she has done on the world stage and to mark her 75th birthday. Te Kanawa unveiled a plaque with the change before a gala held in her honour.
What did Kiri Te Kanawa sing royal wedding?
Desmond Parkm. 1967–1997
Kiri Te Kanawa/Spouse
After a master class at the Centre, it was the celebrated Australian conductor, Richard Bonynge, who told Te Kanawa that she was a soprano, not a mezzo soprano. In 1967, she married Desmond Park, an Australian engineer whom she met in London, and within seven years, her life would be utterly transformed.
Is Kiri Te Kanawa adopted?
Opera singer Dame Kiri Te Kanawa was adopted as a baby by Tom and Nell Te Kanawa (left and centre right). Dame Kiri's birth mother was Pākehā and her birth father was Māori, ethnicities that were mirrored by her adoptive parents.
The official ceremony was held at Westminster Abbey in London and finished at the resting place in Althorp. Two thousand people attended the ceremony in Westminster Abbey while the British television audience peaked at 32.10 million, one of the United Kingdom's highest viewing figures ever.
Who is Kiri Te Kanawa second husband?
Kiri Te Kanawa/Husband
After a serious bout of illness that forced her to quit performing for three months, Te Kanawa and her husband adopted a daughter, Antonia. Three years later, they adopted a son, Thomas. But the marriage ultimately could not hold; she and her husband divorced in the late 1990s.
What did Dame Kiri Te Kanawa do for a living?
Her passion these days is the Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation she set up in 2004 to help young New Zealand opera singers when they start out on their careers. Kiri mentors the young singers and the foundation works to support them, but Covid was very bad news for the 18 singers she had been looking after.
Kiri Te Kanawa. Dame Kiri Jeanette Claire Te Kanawa ONZ CH DBE AC (/ˈkɪri təˈkɑːnəwə/; born Claire Mary Teresa Rawstron, 6 March 1944) is a New Zealand soprano.
When did Kiri Te Kanawa first appear at Covent Garden?
After first appearing in Carmen in New Zealand, and Otello in Britain, the young Te Kanawa was marked for Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, first at Santa Fe, USA, then at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in 1971.
Though she rarely sang opera later in her career, Te Kanawa frequently performed in concert and recital, gave masterclasses, and supported young opera singers in launching their careers. Her final performance was in Ballarat, Australia, in October 2016, but she did not reveal her retirement until September 2017.
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I always wonder what keeps My Foodcourt going?
I am not someone who is very good with words , and so the writeup on posts are usually quite small and only occasionally elaborate. My food-photos are ok but not exceptional;I get on an average 5-7 minutes to photograph any of my recipes, before my little one decides it is high time he took charge of the camera!
Of course I love your feedback and encouragement, the most important thing that keeps me going.
And then there are recipes like these which I love to share with you all! And that's what I love the most about food-blogging; Posting recipes which you will usually not find documented on the internet or maybe even cookbooks, passed on from one generation to the other, which are very close to my heart and my palate, of course. Usually these are my mom's or Mom-in-law's recipes and hence can be called authentic.
This Ridge Gourd with Jowar-wheat flour dumplings is one such recipe- very authentic (since my mom makes it J ) and which you would usually not find on any Hotel menu card or maybe even in any cookbooks.
Dumplings of Jowar flour (sorghum/white millet)-wheat flour spiced with some chillies and ajwain (carom seeds) are cooked along with Ridge gourd. These dumplings just transform the simple, humble Ridge Gourd curry into something very exotic and utterly delicious, not to mention very very healthy. You can substitute Ridge Gourd with Silk Squash (Dodka) or Cluster beans (Gavar) or any such vegetable.
Mix all the ingredients and knead into a firm dough. It maybe a little sticky but its ok. Shape small lemon sized balls of the dough into cylindrical croquette shaped dumplings. Keep them aside.
Do the tadka (tempering); Mustard seeds-cumene seeds-garlic- turmeric powder.
Fry for a few seconds and add the Ridge gourd pieces.
Add salt and Red chili powder, mix nicely and cook covered till the Ridge gourd is almost half done. Add about xbd cup water.
Place and spread the Jowar-Wheat flour dumplings one by one on top of the Ridge gourd. Do not stir or mix. Cover and cook on low flame till the dumplings are nicely steamed.
Only after the dumplings are properly cooked, stir the curry nicely so that the dumplings and Ridge gourd mix nicely.
Serve hot with Bhakri or Roti. I had it just like that!
my first time here. You have a simple and authentic blog going here 🙂 great job. keep it coming..
@ Thanks Nags for dropping by and for your encouragement.
Sahi! This sounds a great recipe for the ridge gourd. I am so tired of cooking them in the usual ways I know. Will surely give this a try.
It sure looks a real authentic recipe.
@ Yes Sandeepa this is great for non ridge gourd fans!
I have never heard of this before. Thanks for sharing. Nice pic too.
Thank you thank you so much for a recipe with jowar flour apart from roti!
This is a very unusual recipe. I am sure they taste amazing. I will have to giveit a try soon….bookmarking it,,,thanks a lot.
WOOW that is authentic. Never heard this bf4. Will definitely try this. Thanks for sharing.
Totally totally new receipe and the photo looks so amazing as well. Bookmarking this as must try.
@ Thank you. I am glad you liked it. do let me know whenever you try it out.
Btw, ridge gourd is "dodka" right? ..and silk squash is it "ghosavale" ??
@ thanks anupreeta. yes ridge gourd is dodka and silk squash is ghosavale or gilka as we call it.
Your mum s gotta be awsome cook 🙂 What keeps you blog runing in my opinion? It is foremostly your exceptional sweet and friendly attitute. You re always full of cheers and pretty words.
@ thanks priyanka and pls. let me know whenever you make it.
Madhuli, I made your turai-dumplings today, and it was so delicious! I just loved the concept of adding the little dumplings to the greens while they are cooking. A huge thank you for this recipe!
@Thank you for that feedback. And those dumplings make a huge difference to the turai don't they?
you are welcome.glad that you tried it and liked it.


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Indiabulls Housing Finance board approves raising Rs 3,997 crore
The proceeds from the issue will be used to fulfil the capital adequacy requirements and funding needs of the company
Its board has cleared a proposal to raise Rs 1,400 crore from qualified institutional investors (QIP) and issue 925,000 preferential shares to Bajaj Finserv.
NEW DELHI: Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd (IHFL) said the company board on Tuesday approved an allotment of over 5.6 crore equity shares worth Rs 3,996.79 crore to qualified institutional buyers (QIBs).
"...Securities Issue Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company has, at its meeting on September 15, 2015, approved the issue and allotment of 56,934,372 equity shares to eligible qualified institutional buyers at the issue price of Rs 702 per equity share, aggregating to approximately Rs 39,967.9 million," it said in a filing on BSE.
At its Annual General Meeting held on September 7, the board of the company had approved to issue and allot the said number of shares to QIBs on preferential basis.
Company's board had approved to raise up to Rs 6,674.45 crore (equivalent to USD 1 billion) through a qualified institutions placement to QIBs.
The proceeds from the issue will be used to fulfil the capital adequacy requirements and funding needs of the company.
Besides, the proceeds will also be used to meet company's general corporate purposes, investment of funds in interest or dividend bearing instruments and securities, including deposits with banks and investment in mutual funds.
Shares of the company today closed at Rs 749.70 apiece on BSE, down 2.01 per cent from the previous close.
Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd
Mumbai company set to get nod to raze Supertech twin towers as SC watches
Several high-value property transactions in Delhi put on hold
New MahaRERA rule will help home buyers be updated on project status
Gurugram: More ground coverage likely to be allowed in plots to curb violations


National Cooperative Grocers Association is a business services cooperative for retail food co-ops located throughout the United States representing 136 food co-ops operating nearly 180 stores in 37 states and a powerful advocate for food co-op issues. NCGA provides members with operational and marketing resources, professional development and training as well as product selection and sourcing.
The Challenge: A complex existing development project that had stalled.
NCGA came to Drupal Connect seeking a technology partner to audit a partially developed website. The ncga.coop/ website is primarily a library of resources for the members of the cooperative. There's very little content that's exposed externally but mechanisms were required to give registered site users tools to navigate to content that could address their needs.
The common complaint from site users was their frustration with being unable to locate certain resources. It was clear to website stakeholders that a significant number of the NCGA membership were simply not using the website. The existing structure was not conducive to the kind of multifaceted search that could help users reach resources using various types of queries and search techniques.
After a thorough site evaluation that included an information architecture review, Drupal Connect recommended starting from scratch with an all new content model that could leverage faceted search using Apache Solr. Programs and services content employed a nested hierarchical display so that the resource categories could be scanned quickly and efficiently.
Leveraging a complex user access model, the site offers a wide range of site users - from NCGA staff, to Co Op general managers, to Co Op Marketers - differing levels of access to various types of content.
The NCGA store houses both NCGA merchandise (logo hats and posters) as well as resources available for purchase.
The site offers custom administrative reporting tools, such as the Contact Mailer which allows for creating mailing lists by position, corridor and chapter, as well as searchable directories for member organizations each with a hierarchy of group members.


While we are eagerly, anxiously and frankly somewhat impatiently awaiting more new music from Natalia Kills, producer Kat Krazy satisfies some of our immense pop cravings with a brand-spanking new remix of Natalia Kill's "Problem." Krazy does what Krazy does best and adds a massive new club vibe to Kill's gritty original that without a doubt will be embraced on and off the dancefloor.
When Kat Krazy (aka Ben Preston) first heard "Problem" he was instantly inspired to remix the track and give it a unique spin of his own. "The original was dark, dirty and edgy," he tells me. "I wanted to keep these elements but build an uplifting remix with a cool twist on the original that didn't take itself too seriously."
He adds, "Instead of filling out the drop after the chorus with layers, I decided to keep it stripped back and bass driven to give the remix a different impact."
Kat Krazy is a bonafide expert at creating pop-savvy remixes that pack a mighty dancefloor punch while never straying too far from the original tune. He previously remixed tracks for artists like Robyn, Far East Movement, Rihanna, Coldplay, Pixie Lott, Stooshe, Little Mix, Imagine Dragons, The Good Natured and many others.
This new remix for Natalia Kills came together rather quickly for Kat Krazy (who is a ferociously skilled multi-tasker). He tells me, "I took me around a week between other projects to finalize this remix. No fretting and it came together sooner than expected."
Listen to the remix exclusively below. Make sure to check out the original version of Natalia Kills "Problem" here, and look out for the release of Kill's highly-anticipated LP "Trouble" later this year.


Service sales. This account is used by organizations that provide services to their customers, such as consulting services or tax advice. This type of revenue is typically billed on an hourly basis to customers, or is a fixed fee in exchange for services (such as a $100 flat fee to repair a washing machine).
Product sales. This account is used by companies that sell goods to their customers, such as automobiles or consumer electronics. This type of revenue is typically billed based on a flat fee per unit shipped.
Revenue accounts may be subdivided in many ways. For example, service sales could be stored in separate accounts for each regional office of a consulting firm, and then aggregated into a single service sales line item for the entire company. Alternatively, product sales could be stored in separate accounts for each product, and then aggregated into a single product sales line item for the entire company.
These non-operating revenue accounts may be stated lower in the income statement, to keep them from being confused with the main operating revenue accounts.
Sales discounts. This account stores any discounts given to a customer in exchange for early payment.
Sales allowances. This account stores any discounts given to customers from the regular price of an invoice.
Sales returns. This account stores the reserve for returned products that are expected to be received from customers.
The operating revenue accounts are paired with their associated contra revenue accounts to derive net sales, which is reported in the income statement.
The amounts stored in these accounts should be recorded as of the dates when services are delivered or goods shipped (subject to more specific revenue recognition rules) under the accrual basis of accounting.


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Marjorie Bonner (23 de febrero de 1893-16 de febrero de 1979) fue una bailarina y actriz estadounidense que formó parte de las Ziegfeld Follies de 1908. Producidas por Florenz Ziegfeld, las Follies se presentaron en junio de 1908, en el Jardín de Paris, sobre el New York Theatre.

Nació como Marjorie Daw Collins en Brooklyn (antes de que se consolidara la ciudad de Nueva York). Apareció en el teatro en A Parisian Model (1906-1908), Miss Innocence (1909), A Winsome Widow (1912), y más tarde apareció en algunas películas mudas.

Vida personal
Se casó con William H. Power el 14 de noviembre de 1908 en Cincinnati, Ohio, y solían aparecer juntos en el teatro.

Se dice que Bonner ganó dinero invirtiendo en acciones petroleras. En 1911, se informó de que "Miss Marjorie Bonner, miembro de la compañía Anna Held Miss Innocence, tiene la distinción de ser la corista más rica del mundo. Mientras hacía una gira por Texas hace siete años con Anna Held en The Little Duchess, Miss Bonner invirtió una pequeña cantidad de dinero en acciones petroleras de Beaumont. Recientemente, cerró sus participaciones con un beneficio neto de 40.000 dólares, que ahora posee, además de un sustancioso saldo bancario acumulado en los últimos años. Como Miss Bonner aún no había tomado el hábito del automóvil, y no es una dispensadora liberal de dinero, otros miembros de la organización se refieren a ella como "Hetty Greely".

Muerte
Quedó viuda en 1942, y murió en Tampa, Florida, el 16 de febrero de 1979, y fue enterrada en el Royal Palm Memorial Gardens de West Palm Beach, Florida.

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Majorie Bonner's New York Times photo (from Follies of 1908)

Bailarinas de Estados Unidos
Actrices de Estados Unidos del siglo XX
Actrices de teatro de Estados Unidos
Personas de Brooklyn
Actrices de Nueva York

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Jake Rusnock
Producer | Announcer
Jake joined VPR in 2016 as a producer and announcer. He spends much of the day working with the programming team, producing podcasts, directing Vermont Edition and coordinating membership drives. Jake also guides you through VPR's programming between 9 a.m. and noon on weekdays and can sometimes be heard during Morning Edition and All Things Considered.
Before coming to VPR, Jake was a host and digital content manager at The Point (WNCS) in Montpelier. Prior to that, he hosted morning shows and programmed radio stations in Hartford, CT, Worcester, MA, Wilmington, DE and Scranton, PA.
Jake is also a voice-over artist, string bass player and dog lover, and aspires to eventually become a man of leisure. He lives with his wife, two children and dog along the western slopes of The Greens.
VPR Cafe: Summer Food And Drink Adventures
By Ric Cengeri & Jake Rusnock • Jun 21, 2019
Melissa Pasanan, courtesy / Seven Days
Working up an appetite often makes a snack or meal taste just a little bit better, so combining Vermont's many flavors of summer with an outdoor adventure is bound to be a perfect pairing.
VPR Newscast for 9/5/2017 at 5 p.m.
By Jake Rusnock • Sep 5, 2017


Hudson City Democratic Committee screens Selma. Admission is free. Seating is limited and on a first come basis.
In 1965, an Alabama city became the battleground in the fight for suffrage. Despite violent opposition, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his followers pressed forward on an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, and their efforts culminated in the Voting Rights Act of 1965.


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Attombri: the Impiraresse's Heritage
Two brothers in Venice keep alive the impiraresse's craft tradition with style and innovation. Sitting in small circles right in front of their doorsteps, young and elderly women called impiraresse used to practice one of the most traditional and less paid handicrafts in the history of Venice. The activity, common till the beginning of 1900 in the sestieri of Cannaregio and Castello and on Murano island, consisted in threading colorful glass beads in order to create necklaces
Battiloro: Story of a Golden Leaf
A family in Venice keeps alive the ancient craft of gold beating, rethinking the future through innovative projects. In the twenty-first century, being born in a family of craftsmen and living in a dreamy city such as Venice, in someone's eyes may seem the weirdest thing. And choosing to learn your father's profession in order to preserve the artisanal heritage must not be the easiest decision. Yet, the young Eleonora, who's working with her family in Mario Berta Battiloro's
Perenzin: How to Become a Cheesemaker, and a Lot More...
Emanuela was born in a family of cheesemakers, inherited her ancestors' passion and, with her family, brought Perenzin dairy to be an international benchmark for cheese lovers and professionals. The first documented proofs of Perenzin dairy's existence trace back to the early 1900s, although we know that the family used to collect milk even before 1906. Emanuela Perenzin, who currently leads the company along with her husband and with the help of her sons, was able to put tog
Carmelina: the Queen of Venetian Biscuits
"Flour, egg yolks, butter, milk, vanilla, rum, lemon zest: there are no secrets about the bussolai recipe, as long as ingredients are genuine" Carmelina Palmisano doesn't have much time, as she's greeting at the lab a group of students that came to Burano specifically to visit her historical pastry shop. She's actually been very busy all life long, losing her mother when she was still a child and starting to work in the family's workshop at the early age of 8. Shortbread cook
Pure Tradition at Osteria Al Cicheto
As of today, through a superficial lens, Venice swarms with touristy eateries, ordinary (and expensive) pizza places, average wine bars that offer commercial wines and costly menus. But if you learn some off the beaten path routes, you'll realize that this city, despite the overwhelming tourists' flocks, didn't forget its typical recipes and significant oenological tradition. Osteria Al Cicheto, managed by Simone Salin and his two brothers, is a great example of quintessentia
Wine & Poetry at Gregoletto Winery
In the sleepy village of Premaor, nestled in the Prosecco verdant valleys, the Gregoletto family has been cultivating vines since 1600. Their work from the vines to the bottling is done by hand, artisanally, carefully and patiently, based on oral traditions passed down over the centuries. While the 83 year-old father Luigi represents the tradition, his two dynamic sons, Giovanni and Giuseppe, work hard on innovation. Get caught in conversation with Giovanni, a wonderfully ecc
Venice on the Perfume Route
On How Venice is Rediscovering the Antique Passion for Perfume Making. When you enter The Merchant of Venice boutique in San Fantin, your first impression is that you've stepped into a colorful, alchemical museum, far back in time, away from the current crowd of tourists swarming the narrow streets of Venice. As a matter of fact, in the mid-17th century, the recently restored ground floor of the building was home to an apothecary. Later, in 1846, it became a famous pharmacy,


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Pan-European University network is growing
The European University of the Seas (SEA-EU) welcomes three new partners: The Parthenope University of Naples (Italy), the University of Algarve (Portugal) and Nord University (Bodø, Norway). Growing from six to nine partners, the alliance is sowing the seeds to seize the challenging second phase.
SEA-EU sets sail for an enhanced pan-European academic growth and cultural exchange. The alliance adds three new European partners to its network: Italy, Portugal, and Norway. Hereby SEA-EU increases its diversity of coastal universities, strengthens its representation across Europe and sets a strategic landmark to foster outstanding education and research. "This step ties in our ambitious goals to bid for further funding from the European Commission for the next 4 years", Francisco Piniella, current head of SEA-EU and rector of the University of Cádiz. On the 9th February 2022 he officially welcomed the new members at the Executive Committee meeting: the Parthenope University of Naples (Italy), the University of Algarve (Portugal) and Nord University (Bodø, Norway).
"We are pleased about our three new partners", says Francisco Piniella. "They bring enthusiasm, experience and excellence to our team and expand our network into Scandinavia, South and South-West Europe – a notable improvement of SEA-EU´s geographical balance". Growing from initially six coastal universities to nine allows SEA-EU to enlarge the current community of 150,000 students by another 27,000. They will be able to benefit from the transformation that SEA-EU brings to Higher Education.
The unique aspect of SEA-EU´s approach: The Sea unites all partners
The members of SEA-EU share a vocation for sustainability, inclusion and innovation. The journey of this alliance – one of the first ones launched by the European Commission – began in 2019 thanks to the ERASMUS+ European Universities Initiative.
The members are committed to exemplify a flagship role in the creation of a European Education Area. They aim at offering and secure outstanding education and research on an international level and strengthen European identity and values. "Our students and staff across the partnering universities have access to a series of free courses covering a wide variety of subjects", says Jonathan Durgadoo, Coordinator of SEA-EU activities at Kiel University. "We are fostering virtual mobility in teaching; scientists and lecturers are offered a platform to deliver a mini-course, based on their research-topics." Furthermore, the SEA-EU team started designing joint degree programmes for bachelor and master students.
Until now, six universities constituted the alliance: the University of Cádiz, coordinator of the alliance, the University of Western Brittany, Kiel University, the University of Gdanśk, the University of Split and the University of Malta. During its first phase of 3 years, the European Commission aimed to boost this initiative by expanding horizons, objectives and number of partners. Towards the end of March 2022, a proposal for the second phase of SEA-EU together with the three new partners will be submitted to the European Commission.
A short statement about the vision and joint strategy of the European University of the Seas (SEA-EU) by the general coordinator, Professor Fidel Echevarría.
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The Parthenope University of Naples (Italy), the University of Algarve (Portugal) and Nord University (Bodø, Norway) are the three new partners of the European University of the Seas (SEA-EU). Hereby, the alliance increases its diversity of coastal universities, strengthens its representation across Europe and sets a strategic landmark to foster outstanding education and research. The founding members of SEA-EU are the University of Cádiz, coordinator of the alliance, the University of Western Brittany, Kiel University, the University of Gdanśk, the University of Split and the University of Malta.
About SEA-EU – European University of the Seas
The vision of the European University of the Seas (SEA-EU) is to establish a distinctly international, pluri-ethnic, multilingual and interdisciplinary European University. SEA-EU aims to strengthen links between education, research and innovation, knowledge transfer, as well as to foster social engagement and environmental responsibility. The joint strategy is to pursue the building of a true university alliance dedicated to the creation of a European campus where all students and staff can experience Europe through a rich and varied offer of activities and cooperation.
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Regulator's report shows increases in rent arrears and the number of lets being made
The Scottish Housing Regulator today published February's monthly dashboard report. This report is designed to help the Scottish Government and social landlords to understand the continuing impact of the Coronavirus pandemic and to support the work of the Social Housing Resilience Group.
February's dashboard shows that aggregate rent arrears have risen to 6.46%, the highest level since the Regulator started collecting monthly returns from social landlords in April 2020. There has also been a 40% increase in lets being made by social landlords, after the Regulator had reported that lets had fallen by more than a third in January, with 42% of lets in February to homeless households – the highest level since June 2020.
Due to planned changes in its recording system, City of Edinburgh Council could not provide figures for the homelessness indicators in time for publication. Given this, the dashboard does not show figures for the change from the previous month for the homelessness indicators. Excluding Edinburgh, there were small drops in the number of people who applied to local authorities as homeless (this fell by 2%), and in the number of households in temporary accommodation (this fell by 0.4%).
Since April 2020, all social landlords have provided the Regulator with a monthly return of a small set of key measures that focus on the main areas of impact on landlords' operations. On 5 March 2021, the Regulator wrote to all landlords to advise them that, after the next return which is due on 9 April 2021, the frequency of the returns will change from monthly to quarterly.
Read the published dashboards and full data set here.


If you have been arrested and charged with operating a marijuana grow house/cultivation of marijuana and the accompanying charge of felony possession of marijuana you can be facing very serious consequences in State court or Federal court.
Under the "Marijuana Grow House Eradication Act" Florida Statute Section 893.1351 passed into law in 2008, this law increases penalties for the possession of marijuana in certain larger quantities. The Grow House Eradication Act increases penalties for possession of 25 or more plants or more than 25 pounds of marijuana; the court must impose a 3 year minimum mandatory (min man) prison sentence for a second degree felony which is ultimately punishable up to 15 years in incarceration. If children are present on the home or property where the marijuana plants are being grown makes it a 1st degree felony. The penalties are also increased for larger cache' of marijuana: possession of over 2000lbs can net a 7 year min man sentence. Possession of over 10,000 pounds can net a 15 year min man sentence.
There are many defenses for the charge of operating a marijuana grow house. First to search a home police need a warrant signed by either State or Federal judge, that is based upon legally obtained evidence that creates probable cause to perform a search. The legitimacy of the probable cause must be based upon the statutes and appellate court decisions. A warrant signed by a judge still must withstand a legal challenge if evidence for the warrant was illegally obtained. For instance the United States Supreme Court has ruled that police cannot use an infrared camera at night to detect heat leakage from a home that indicates intense lighting in a home to facilitate plant growth as probable cause for a warrant. Also police cannot bring a drug detection dog up to the entrance of a suspected grow house that alerts them to the illegal content as probable cause. This can happen when there is either not enough evidence or the evidence included in the warrant request turns out not to be accurate.
Another defense to grow house cases is whether the government can show constructive possession. If you did not know that the marijuana was there, had no control over the area of the property where the Marijuana was found, the government may not be able to prove you had constructive possession of the contraband. The key to a constructive possession defense is that the marijuana must be found in a small limited area and you did not know it was there. If the illegal substance was found on you or if the police find you living inside a grow house and you had full access to the entire grow house operation, this defense may not work. If the grow house was in a separate area of the home or was in a outbuilding or shed where you did not know it was there or had any access or control of those areas then the government may not be able to show constructive possession and your charges cannot be proven.
When the government carries out unlawful searches or seizures, evidence derived from that search is subject to suppression (exclusion) from the Government's case against you. Warrant and search and seizure defenses can be denied and the search upheld if an authorized person who lives at the residence freely and voluntarily allows a law enforcement officer without a warrant to conduct a search. This term for this is "consent to search". If a person consenting to a search did so due to threats or coercion however the evidence of the search can be suppressed as well.
Any dwelling, whether occupied or not, or its contents.
If a "fire is caused while in the commission of a felony" ie. grow house operation fire investigators will likely charge you with arson if they can prove your responsibility for the operation. Arson is a 1st degree felony punishable by a maximum of 30 years in prison with a minimum of 36 months in prison according to the sentencing guidelines. Growing several plants in your closet which causes a fire can also get you charged with arson, but again the government has to prove your responsibility. Also remember that because there is a fire, fireman and police can enter your home without a warrant under exigent(emergency) circumstances to fight the fire and to save human life and if they see illegal evidence, the police may apply for a warrant to then search, collect and preserve the evidence.
At the Law Offices of Darren D. Shull we have extensive knowledge regarding the defenses if you have been arrested for the operation of a grow house and the surrounding charges that my come from that arrest and investigation. Please call for a free consultation so that your rights can be fully explored and all proper defenses can be raised to defend you. Marijuana grow house attorney Darren Shull Tequesta, Jupiter Farms, Palm Beach Gardens, the Acreage, Loxahatchee, West Palm Beach, Palm Beach County, Martin County, St. Lucie County and Okeechobee county.
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Q: Smooth zoom formula I recently tried to find a way to zoom into an image with a smooth animation. When my initial scale is $1$ and is rising up to $1000$, a zoom from $10$ to $20$ has a higher graphical impact than a zoom from $20$ to $30$. I found this excellent formula to calculate a smooth zoom here, but the author didn't really tell me what it was.
$k=e^{ln(\frac{endvalue}{startvalue}) * iterations^{-1}}$
Each time calculating the formula, the previous zoom gets multiplied by that formula. I don't know why this gives me a smooth zoom, because I am not a mathematician, but I hope you can help me. Thanks in advance.
Zoom calculated 1 to 20, 5 iterations with said formula:
1 / 1.82 / 3.31 / 6.03 / 10.99 / 20 > "smooth zoom"

A: Make the zoom-factor such that, from image to image, you are zooming by the same factor.  This means you want a geometric progression of zooms, not an arithmetic one.
More specific, if you want to achieve a zoom factor of $Z$ in $N$ steps, then you need to perform $N$ zooms where each one has a relative zomm factor of
$$F=Z^{1/N}$$
Relative to the initial size, the zoom factors will be
$$1=Z^{0/N}, Z^{1/N}, Z^{2/N}, \ldots, Z^{N/N}= Z$$
For example, if you want to zoom from 1 to 1000 in 100 steps, each step will zoom by a relative factor of
$$ F = 1000^{1/100} \approx 1.0715 = 107.15\%$$
and you reached the "half way" at 50 steps and a zoom factor of $\sqrt{1000}\approx 31.62$.
If you are given two zoom factors $F_1$ and $F_2$ and want to determine the proportion of $F_1\cdots F_2$ relative to the final zoom $Z$, that proportion is given by
$$P_Z(F_1, F_2) = \frac{\ln F_2 - \ln F_1}{\ln Z} = \frac{\ln (F_2/F_1)}{\ln Z}$$
For example, if you have a 1000-fold zoom, then
$$P_{1000}(20,10) \approx 0.100 = 10\%$$
but
$$P_{1000}(30,20) \approx 0.059 = 5.9\%$$
where the %-value refers to the progress of the zooming process.
And that's exactly what you experienced:  Zomming from 10× to 20× is more than zooming from 20× to 30×.

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The preamble of the Indian Constitution aims to secure to the people of India justice – socio, economic and political. Article 39A of the Constitution of India provides that State shall secure that the operation of legal system promotes justice on the basis of equal opportunity, and shall in particular, provide free legal aid, by suitable legislation or schemes or in any other way, to ensure that opportunities for securing justice are not denied to any citizen by reason of economic or other disability.
Articles 14 and 22(1) also make it obligatory for the State to ensure equality before law and a legal system which promotes justice on the basis of equal opportunity to all.
Pursuant to achieve the aforesaid objectives, the Legal Services Authority Act, 1987, was enacted by the Parliament to constitute Legal Services Authorities to provide free and competent legal services to the weaker sections of the society to ensure that opportunities for securing justice are not denied to any citizen by reason of economic or other disabilities, and to organize Lok Adalats to secure that the operation of the legal system promotes justice on a basis of equal opportunity.
State Legal Services Authority is constituted with The Chief Justice of the High Court as Patron-in-Chief, a serving or retired Judge of the High Court, to be nominated by the Governor in consultation with Chief Justice of the High Court as Executive Chairman and such number of other members, possessing such experience and qualifications as may be prescribed by the State Government.
The functions of the State Authority is to give effect to the policy and directions of the Central Authority; give legal service to persons who satisfy the criteria laid down under the Act 1987; conduct Lok Adalats, including Lok Adalats for High Court cases; undertake preventive and strategic legal aid programmes & perform such other functions as the State Authority may, in consultation with the Central Authority, fix by regulations.
Legal Services Authority strives to ensure that constitutional pledge is fulfilled in its letter & spirit and equal justice is made available to the poor, downtrodden and weaker sections of the society.


Our EXCLUSIVE Freda Bravot wig for our Jumeau, Barrois or Huret or any antique or reproduction doll of your choice is a beauty. This wig is named for the loved Fred Patton, UFDC Region 7 Director as well as joint commentator for the French Fashion Doll Sewing Club (FFDSC) at Groups.IO. Fred is someone who has devoted his time and knowledge of the French Fashion dolls and costuming to the doll world and has decided on this style as being one that perfectly captures the antique look of yesteryear. With curls framing the doll's face and an exquisite braid across the top of the back of the head, this wig captures a look that is soft and delicate but yet makes a statement. The detail on its flowing hair as it drapes down the back of the doll is elegant and gentle. Like our other exclusive Bravot wigs, FREDA is available in larger sizes and colors at standard Bravot pricing.


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A team of researchers from the University of Gothenburg (Sweden) has developed a new sequencing technique that is able to detect tumor DNA in blood in cancer patients before the tumor itself has been identified through imaging techniques. This non-invasive technique could potentially lead to earlier cancer diagnoses through a simple blood test.
The technique works by detecting DNA from tumor cells circulating in blood that are present in extremely low concentrations in patients with cancer. By introducing a molecular barcode that can tag target DNA sequences, the team were able to increase the sensitivity of the technique by reducing background sequencing noise.
The method, which utilizes equipment that is usually readily available in most labs, provides an efficient and cost effective method to identify cancer. It is hoped with the current investment into this innovation that the method can be implemented across the healthcare system and lead to more research within the field.
In addition to leading to an earlier diagnosis of cancer, the team indicated the potential for the technique to monitor treatments, such as chemotherapy, as well as detect relapse and response to different types of treatment.
You can view the full news story here.
Further Reading: Ståhlberg A, Krzyzanowski PM, Jackson JB, Egyud M, Stein L, Godfrey TE. Simple, multiplexed, PCR-based barcoding of DNA enables sensitive mutation detection in liquid biopsies using sequencing. Nucleic Acids Res.44(11), e105 (2016).


Unfortunately with a twin pregnancy even if everything is going smoothly and the babies are doing well and so are you, the pregnancy will automatically be considered high risk. This means you will have more antenatal appointments, be under a consultant and generally be prodded and poked a bit more than low risk single pregnancy. But on the up side, you are getting almost constant care throughout your 9 months.
As your bump is likely to bigger than many single pregnancies and from earlier on, you may find getting maternity clothes isn't easy.
You've not just got one baby taking all your nutrients, but 2! This means double the tiredness so make sure you book yourself out for a nap on a daily basis!
Not only is your bump bigger, but it will be heavier too so it could be worth investing in a maternity band to take that pressure off a little.
As you have more monitoring than single pregnancies, this also means you will have the excitement of more ultrasounds which is more opportunities so see your little angel on this screen!


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Q: Irreducibility of compositions of polynomials I was wondering whether it is not very difficult to see the following:
for a nonconstant irreducible polynomial $p(x) \in \mathbb{Q}[x]$ does there always exist a polynomial $q(x) \in \mathbb{Q}[x]$ of degree at least $2$ such that the composition $p(q(x))$ is irreducible in $\mathbb{Q}[x]$?
Thank you,
Albertas

A: Yes, there does. In fact, we will show that a polynomial $q(x) = x^2 + d$ works for some $d \in \mathbb{Q}$. The conclusion will follow from Hilbert's Irreducibility Theorem once we show that $p(x^2 + d)$ is irreducible (as a polynomial in two variables).
Suppose, therefore, that $p(x^2 + d) = (d^a f_a(x) + \dotsb)(d^bg_b(x) + \dotsb)$ splits. Both $a$ and $b$ are positive (else you could plug in some value of $x$ in $\mathbb{C}$ to make the RHS vanish regardless of $d$, which is impossible by starring at the LHS). But then $f_a$ and $g_b$ are nonzero and so there is a rational $x$ which is a zero of neither of them. Plug it in and get a nontrivial splitting of (a shift of) $p(x)$. Contradiction, as $p(x)$ was assumed to be irreducible.


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Home Economy Region reaps more the second time around
Region reaps more the second time around
John Golden
Dr. Alan Kadish, left, New York Medical College president, and Dr. Leonard Schleifer, co-chair of the Mid-Hudson Regional Economic Development Council, at the construction launch of the college's iBio-NY biotech incubator project.
The Mid-Hudson Regional Economic Development Council did it better the second time around, as judged by Albany officials, presenting a strategic plan with a beefed-up list of priority projects for the seven-county region that recently earned a top award in the state's 2-year-old regional economic development funding competition.
A total of $92.8 million in state agency funds will be awarded to 84 private and municipal projects in the region. That is a nearly 39 percent increase from the region's share of state funding a year ago, when Gov. Andrew Cuomo launched a consolidated interagency funding application process and created 10 economic development regions to compete for winner's shares of state capital grants and employer tax credits. The mid-Hudson region was a runner-up with its strategic plan in 2011.
In addition to grants for individual projects, the region as a best-plan award winner in 2012 can tap up to $21.5 million in tax-exempt federal industrial development bonds that state and local government entities can issue to finance economic development, infrastructure and community revitalization projects. The region also will have $4.5 million in Excelsior Jobs Program tax credits for businesses in targeted industries that invest in facilities in the region and create or retain jobs.
The state's largest awards will support construction and rehabilitation projects to provide affordable housing for older residents in two counties.
In Westchester County, the New Rochelle Industrial Development Agency was awarded $9.5 million to rehabilitate Maple Terrace, a 100-unit low-income housing complex for senior citizens.
In Orange County, the Newburgh Housing Authority will receive $10 million for the purchase and renovation of Burton Towers, a 126-unit apartment complex for low-income seniors. The Middletown Industrial Development Agency was awarded $7 million for a development project to acquire and rehabilitate Southeast Towers, a 106-unit apartment complex for seniors. Eighteen of the 22 priority projects backed by the mid-Hudson council this year in its strategic plan were awarded funding. In 2011, the council recommended only three priority projects and only one of them, a biotechnology business incubator at New York Medical College in Valhalla, was funded.
Two priority projects denied state funding a year ago were among 20 projects that recently won awards of $1 million or more.
Marist College President Dennis J. Murray, who co-chairs the mid-Hudson council, returned to Poughkeepsie from a Dec. 19 awards ceremony in Albany with word that the Cloud Computing and Analytics Center that Marist plans to develop on its campus in partnership with IBM Corp. was awarded a $3 million grant. It was the council's second attempt to secure funding for the estimated $42.4 million project.
The center at Marist will give businesses access to emerging technologies and enable their growth through three components: a workforce development cloud to provide information technology education and training, a cloud computing incubation and analytics center to nurture startup companies in the region, and an analytics cloud that will make advanced business IT tools available and affordable to companies. The center also will be a part of the New York State High Performance Computing Consortium.
In the town of Thompson in Sullivan County, The Center for Discovery, the county's largest employer, was awarded a $2.5 million grant for its proposed $36 million Regional Children's Assessment Center, a 60-bed specialty hospital for children with autism, severe developmental disabilities and medically complex conditions. The health care development is expected to create 300 permanent and 120 construction jobs. The private institution's project was denied state funding last year.
The sole repeat award winner in the region was New York Medical College in Valhalla, which will receive $1 million for its iBio-NY incubator for startup biotech companies. The college received $4 million in last year's inaugural funding round for the initial stages of the project, estimated to cost $14 million.
Two days after the Albany awards were announced, New York Medical College officials and faculty were joined by state and county officials and Westchester business leaders for the construction launch in a vacant laboratory and research building on the Grasslands campus. The renovated building also will house a federally funded regional biotech business training center that the college will operate with the Hudson Valley Economic Development Corp. and Westchester Community College.
In New Rochelle, White Plains and Yonkers, health care and urban redevelopment projects were among the region's million-dollar award winners.
The city of White Plains was awarded $2 million to redevelop the Post Road corridor, a project that includes improvements at White Plains Hospital, renovations to the Winbrook housing complex, a mixed-use development and parking garage.
The city of New Rochelle was awarded a $1 million grant for Sound Shore Medical Center's approximately $35 million project to construct a medical office and ambulatory services building and a parking structure on the hospital campus.
New Rochelle also will receive a $1 million grant for infrastructure improvements needed for Forest City Residential Group's planned redevelopment of industrial land on Echo Bay as residential, retail and public space.
In Yonkers, first-year Mayor Mike Spano's push to revive stalled redevelopment downtown and on the city waterfront was boosted by approximately $5.1 million in state funding awards.
Developer Glenwood POH L.L.C. was awarded $1 million for an initial $50 million project to stabilize buildings at the long-vacant Glenwood power plant on the Hudson River. The developer has proposed to create 256,475 square feet of hotel, restaurant and entertainment space in the existing historic buildings. The estimated $175 million project is expected to create 1,800 construction jobs and an estimated 955 permanent jobs.
The city of Yonkers was awarded $2 million for the first phase of a private developer's planned $22 million rehabilitation of five commercial properties on downtown Mill Street as residential and retail space. Developer Nick Sprayregen, managing member of Yonkers Rising Development L.L.C., has said he wants to create a music and arts destination on the downtown cul-de-sac.
In tandem with the Yonkers Rising project, the city was awarded $921,425 to uncover another segment of the Saw Mill River in the Mill Street area and create a new downtown public space.
Manufacturing, once the mainstay of employment in Yonkers, will be assisted by a $1.15 million state grant to Kawasaki Rail Car Inc. at i.Park Hudson, the former Otis Elevator factory complex. Kawasaki will invest $16 million to expand its manufacturing operation there and create 80 jobs.
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Museum trust gives staff extra holiday in January to bolster health and wellbeing
By Adrian Murphy
York Museum Trust staff will have an extra week off in January to rest and recuperate from a busy year
York Museums Trust will close to the public and pause all activities behind the scenes for one week in early January 2022 in support of the health and wellbeing of its staff.
The charity, which operates museums such as York Art Gallery, York Castle and Yorkshire Museum, says that like many cultural institutions and charities, The Trust has had a challenging 18 months surviving the pandemic.
Extra responsibility
In the past two weeks the new Omicron variant has increased the severity of the risk to COVID-19 and has typified another year where staff have had the extra responsibility of managing and adapting to the pandemic for theirs and visitors' safety.
The Trust has looked ahead and sees 2022 also being a challenge with the pandemic still with us and has therefore created an extra week after the holiday celebrations, which themselves can be busy periods, for staff to rest and recuperate.
It says January is normally a quiet time for the museums and the decision has been taken to close all sites completely for one week so that all staff, many of whom work rota patterns, can benefit from a complete break from work ahead of what is likely to be another busy and stressful year."
Not affect annual leave
Reyahn King, chief executive of York Museums Trust said all staff will be off and not sending emails and the extra week off will not affect staff annual leave.
"We are most grateful for the continued support received from our visitors and supporters," she said. "All our work to inspire, to care for and to share York's wonderful art and heritage is dependent on our people who have gone the extra mile consistently throughout the pandemic.
"Staff health and wellbeing is of utmost importance to York Museums Trust and all staff will be encouraged to take time to rest and recuperate. We hope people will return to work revitalised and ready to tackle the new year ahead."
Staff will return to work as normal from Monday 10 January.
About the author – Adrian Murphy
Adrian is the Editor of MuseumNext and has 20 years' experience as a journalist, half of which has been writing for the cultural sector.
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, plus connu sous le nom de Ken, est le personnage principal du manga et anime Ken le Survivant, ainsi que d'autres œuvres associées. Il est le  de la technique du Hokuto Shinken (Poing divin de la Grande Ourse), un kung-fu d'assassins transmis de génération en génération depuis plus de 2000 ans. Succédant à son père adoptif Ryûken, il est considéré comme un des plus grands maîtres de l'histoire du Hokuto grâce à sa maîtrise de techniques légendaires comme la .

Concept et création
L'auteur Tetsuo Hara, dans une version prototype en deux parties de Hokuto no Ken, a d'abord dépeint Kenshiro comme un adolescent qui combattait l'école rivale du Taizanji Kenpō dans le Japon des années 1980. Cette première version du personnage avait reçu le nom de , son surnom signifiant « Quatrième Fils du Poing ». Dans ce contexte, Kenshiro était le  du Hokuto, suivant son père inconnu, qui lui-même a reçu son art du , Maître . Il était d'un caractère plus joyeux que le Kenshiro du manga, n'ayant pas encore subi les épreuves du début de la série et ne portant pas ses fameuses sept cicatrices. Lorsque sa fiancée est tuée et qu'il en est porté à tort responsable, Kenshiro devient un fugitif qui tente de renverser le Taizanji. Il est également connu sous les noms de  et du . Sa phrase fétiche est .

Le personnage fut modifié par Buronson lors de la diffusion hebdomadaire de Hokuto no Ken. Buronson a expliqué qu'il avait basé le nouveau Kenshiro sur l'acteur d'arts martiaux Bruce Lee et le personnage de Max Rockatansky de la série de films Mad Max. Le personnage, désormais adulte, ne porte plus que le nom de Kenshiro, toujours écrit en katakana en japonais. Le nom complet Kenshiro Kasumi fut réutilisé pour le héros de la série Ken - Fist of the Blue Sky, un prédécesseur du Kenshiro de Ken le Survivant. Ce dernier, bien que son orthographe soit légèrement différente ( au lieu de ), fut nommé en l'honneur de ce prédécesseur.

Le personnage

L'héritier du Hokuto Shinken
Kenshiro est le plus jeune des quatre fils adoptifs entrainé par le précédent héritier du Hokuto, Ryuken. Ses origines sont révélées dans la deuxième partie du manga, où l'on découvre qu'il fut envoyé au Japon, avec son futur ennemi Raoh et Toki, le frère de Raoh, pour fuir leur pays d'origine, Asura (ou Shura), déchiré par la guerre. Ceci est décrit différemment dans le premier chapitre de Ken - Fist of the Blue Sky : un nouveau-né est amené au dojo de Ryuken au Japon, qui décide de donner à l'enfant le nom de son grand frère (Kenshiro Kasumi, le héros de Blue Sky), du fait de sa marque de naissance en forme d'étoiles de la Grande Ourse sur la tête, même si des chapitres suivants du manga font également référence à la fuite d'Asura de Kenshiro, Raoh et Toki.

Disciple de Ryûken, il a été formé en même temps que Raoh, Toki et Jagi. La décision de Ryûken de faire de Kenshirô le successeur du Hokuto Shinken a été très mal perçue par Raoh et Jagi, qui se rebellent. En effet, seul un héritier pouvant être choisi parmi les élèves, les autres pratiquants malchanceux se voient interdire l'usage du Hokuto Shinken, les plus récalcitrants pouvant se voir effacer la mémoire, ou même briser les poings. Raoh va même jusqu'à tuer son maître.

En réalité, le choix de Ryûken est mûrement réfléchi : lorsque le maître demande à Raoh comment il utiliserait le Hokuto Shinken en tant qu'héritier, celui-ci fait part de son ambition démesurée de conquête par la force, ce que Ryûken désapprouve. Ryûken teste également les réactions de Raoh et Kenshirô face à un tigre : alors que Kenshirô maîtrise l'animal par sa force mentale, Raoh préfère lui trancher la tête et proclame que le tigre n'a même pas reconnu Kenshirô comme adversaire, le maître n'étant pas de cet avis. Quant à Toki, devenir l'héritier du Hokuto ne l'intéresse pas. Enfin, Jagi est tenu en échec par Kenshiro qui préfère retenir ses coups contre son aîné. Kenshiro lui inflige de sérieux dégâts, défigurant Jagi à tout jamais, ce qui explique la haine que lui voue ce dernier.

Kenshirô est ainsi autant désigné pour ses qualités humaines que pour sa force et sa maîtrise technique.

L'histoire
Après la guerre nucléaire, Kenshirô essaie de vivre en paix avec sa fiancée Julia (ou Yuria), jusqu'à ce que Jagi ne pousse Shin, un rival jaloux de l'école du Nanto Seiken, à affronter et vaincre Kenshiro. Shin lui grave alors les fameuses sept cicatrices sur la poitrine et le laisse pour mort. Auparavant, Ken faisait preuve de davantage de clémence vis-à-vis de ses ennemis, comme lors de la tentative d'assassinat de Jagi. Lorsqu'il les affronte à nouveau, ses ennemis comme Shin et Raoh ne manquent pas de remarquer à quel point il est devenu impitoyable.

La première partie de l'histoire raconte la quête de Kenshiro pour libérer Julia des mains de Shin. C'est ainsi qu'il rencontre dans le premier chapitre Batt, un jeune voleur, et Lynn, une jeune fille qu'il sauve. Cependant, les ennuis le suivent partout où il va, c'est pourquoi il ne reste jamais nulle part très longtemps. Tout au long de la série, Kenshiro utilise son art pour protéger les innocents dans ce monde dévasté par les gangs de pillards. Il finit par gagner le surnom de "Sauveur de la Fin du Monde". Sa technique progresse au travers de ses rencontres avec les membres du Nanto Seiken et ses frères du Hokuto. À la fin de la première partie, il finit par affronter et vaincre son grand frère Raoh, et est enfin réuni avec Julia, avec qui il vit jusqu'à ce qu'elle succombe à la maladie.

Dans la deuxième partie du manga (et l'adaptation en anime correspondante Hokuto no Ken 2, qui n'a jamais été diffusée en France), Ken se joint à Batt et Lynn désormais adultes, qui ont formé l'armée du Hokuto pour combattre les guerriers corrompus du Gento Kōken. L'histoire envoie finalement Ken au pays d'Asura, où il découvre son héritage Hokuto Sōke et combat les seigneurs de guerre qui contrôlent le pays: Han, son frère de sang Hyoh, et Kaioh, l'autre frère de sang de Raoh. Tous les trois ont été formés par Jukei dans l'espoir de sauver son pays du chaos. Mais Jukei regrettera sa décision car le Hokuto Ryuken rend fous ses pratiquants, comme il a lui-même pu le constater dans sa jeunesse. En effet, il tua sa famille sous le coup de la folie avant d'aller défier Ryuken, maître du Hokuto Shinken, qui lui rendit la raison. La fin du manga (qui n'a pas été adaptée en anime) voit Kenshiro adopter le fils orphelin de Raoh, Ryûken, afin d'en faire son héritier, et poursuivre sa route.

Bien que d'un naturel stoïque et masquant ses émotions comme la plupart des héros masculins des années 1980, Kenshiro se distingue dans la culture anime par sa sensibilité et son grand cœur qui ont mis à mal la tradition des "hommes qui ne pleurent pas" de l'époque. Il est connu pour sa tristesse, voire ses larmes face à la souffrance des innocents et la mort de ses amis ou quelques ennemis respectables. Bien qu'édulcoré dans l'adaptation en anime des années 1980, ce trait de caractère revient lors des adaptations en films et OAV à partir des années 1990.

Sa phrase fétiche lorsqu'il assène le coup fatal à son adversaire est .

Doublage
La voix de Kenshiro fut celle d'Akira Kamiya dans la série télévisée originale et dans le film de 1986, Ryō Horikawa ayant fourni la voix de Kenshiro enfant lors des flashbacks. Ce fut ensuite Takehito Koyasu qui l'interpréta dans la série d'OAV de 2003 Shin Hokuto no Ken, puis Kunihiro Kawamoto dans l'adaptation en jeu d'arcade de 2005 Fist of the North Star, le court-métrage en images de synthèse Hokuto no Ken: Legend of Heroes et le jeu mobile. Dans la série de fils Shin Kyūseishu Densetsu, la voix de Kenshiro est interprétée par Hiroshi Abe et Eiji Hanawa pour Kenshiro enfant (premier film), Yuko Gibu (OVA Yuria Den) et Hiro Shimono (film, les héritiers du Hokuto). Dans le jeu vidéo Ten no Haoh sur PSP, Kenshiro n'ayant aucune parole dans l'anime, se retrouve doublé par Hideo Ishikawa. Dans la série des Hokuto Muso (Ken's Rage), le jeu J-Stars et Jump Force c'est Katsuyuki Konishi qui prête sa voix à Kenshiro. Plus récemment, en 2018, dans Fist of The North Star: Lost Paradise (Hokuto ga Gotoku au Japon), Kenshiro est doublé par Takaya Kuroda, qui double Kazuma Kiryu dans la série Yakuza.
Voix françaises : Philippe Ogouz (série et film animé), Marc Bretonnière (épisode 35), Luc Bernard (voix de remplacement), Philippe Valmont (épisodes non doublés), Arnaud Léonard (Shin Hokuto no Ken), Frederic Souterelle (Raoh Den)

Popularité
Kenshiro fait partie des personnages mythiques des séries de manga japonaises des années 1980, au même titre que Seiya des Chevaliers du Zodiaque ou Son Goku de Dragon Ball. Lors d'un sondage mené par Oricon en 2007 sur 1000 personnes, Kenshiro est classé troisième parmi les plus grands personnages de manga de tous les temps, derrière Son Goku et Doraemon.

Notes et références

Personnage de Ken le survivant
Artiste martial de fiction


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January 12 at 6:37pm
Housing 1000 in Action: Brian's Story
Brian had been working in retail for over 20 years when he found himself unemployed after losing his job at Brookstone due to post-holiday layoffs. It was January of 2017 and very few of the companies Brian was researching were hiring at that time. After reaching out to family members for assistance, Brian became increasingly worried about his future. "That's when I started stressing," said Brian. "It was difficult to find a job because of my stress and because of the timing".
Around this same time, Brian lost both his mother and beloved pet cat; these losses had an extreme effect on his mental health. Reality continued to set in when he was asked to leave his apartment, forcing him to find both storage for his belongings and housing within a short period of time. Unable to find a new place to live, Brian and his remaining cat, Nala, found themselves homeless and sleeping in a partially wooded area in rural Escondido. "I had never experienced it before and I thought the worst," said Brian. "Everything races through your mind like 'What are people going to be like on the streets?' or 'What am I going to do?' But I knew I needed to find a job. Period."
Before Brian had resorted to sleeping on the streets, he had already begun the intake process for Interfaith's Haven House Year-Round Shelter. He was homeless for a little over a week when he received the news: that there was a bed available for him in Haven House, however Nala would not be able to live in the shelter with him. Entrusting a close friend with Nala, Brian moved into Haven House and lived there for seven months, creating very special bonds with his fellow Interfaith clients and staff members during that time.
"Interfaith has been just amazing," said Brian. "I am so incredibly grateful for everybody there. Just getting into the shelter made such a huge difference for me. You have a place to sleep. The bed is comfortable. And yes, there are 48 other beds in there, but I liked that. I liked the people; I got to know everyone in there."
During the seven months Brian lived in Haven House, he was learning to cope with the traumas he had endured, while also working with his case manager to find both a job and permanent housing. Brian had previously completed several trainings and orientations with the North County Inland Career Center and was excited about getting back into the workforce.
"While in Haven House, I was able to apply for more jobs," said Brian. "I was able to do laundry easier; I was able to take a shower easier. That type of thing helps prepare you and give you the confidence you need for job interviews." Soon thereafter, Brian found a job working at a local gas station, which proved to be a great start for his new life.
Shortly after obtaining this position, Brian's case manager informed him that he had qualified for Interfaith's Rapid Rehousing program. With this exciting news, Brian searched diligently for an appropriate room to fit his needs; he soon found the Charlotta Hotel, a historic hotel that had been converted into affordable housing in Escondido. In early December, Brian moved into his room at the Charlotta and was ecstatic to be reunited with Nala.
"It's been bittersweet!' said Brian. "Interfaith has been so incredible and I miss going back there every day. It feels like a family".
To learn how you can change the lives of people like Brian by supporting Interfaith's Housing 1000 campaign, please contact Robert Adams, Chief Development Officer, at radams@interfaithservices.org or by calling (760) 489-6380 ext. 206.