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Restaurants Are Turning Their Parking Lots into Drive-In Movie Theaters
It's the perfect socially-distanced outing.
By Naomi Tomky
Credit: AJO AL'S
As the coronavirus pandemic closes businesses and shuts people into their houses, it seems that everything old is new again: chain letters, sourdough baking, and puzzles.
A few savvy restaurants, devoid of customers and looking for new ways to bring in business without putting people in danger, found the logical intersection of nostalgia, social distancing, and good eating: turning their parking lots into drive-in movie theaters.
"When the world is shutting down, we have to go back to our roots for entertainment," posted Clint Gibson, owner of BJ's Restaurant and Bar in Mingus, Texas, announcing the first movie showing in their parking lot, of The Sandlot, complete with car-hops.
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The classic drive-in theater is having a moment during the pandemic, too (and the New York Times is on it), but with only around 300 facilities in the country, few people can take advantage of this prime way to watch movies on the big screen without sharing space with strangers. So restaurants, as they so often do, have stepped in to find a way to keep people entertained and well-fed.
In Omaha, The Corner Kick brought out about 35 cars to their parking lot earlier this month—some people in their cars, others perched in their trunk with the tailgate open, all watching The Three Amigos on three different screens on the side of the building, with the audio broadcast into cars via FM radio. After a successful first run, they've since made movie night a weekly event; this week will be their fourth.
This Saturday, Ajo Al's, a group of Mexican restaurants in Arizona, took the concept for a test run, setting up inflatable screens in each location's parking lot and showing the Pixar movie Coco to guests, with all cars parked six feet apart. It's not exactly the blast from the past of 1950s drive-in theaters, where concession stands doubled as social hubs and people perched on mattresses in truck beds, but it's a version that adapts an old tradition to the difficult modern circumstances—now with takeout tacos.
The idea of finding safety from sickness at the drive-in is nothing new. The first drive-in theater opened in 1933, but the polio vaccine wasn't developed until 1955, so the intervening 22 years offered opportunity for drive-ins to expand their reputation from "passion pit" to family entertainment. Drive-ins ran ads to appeal to parents "who fear to expose their children or themselves to local epidemics," and noted that they were a place to "be flu and polio protected."
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Houston restaurant The Butler House looks to bring back that passion pit mentality, though, creating date night-worthy events. They started their movie nights a month ago, showing Ferris Bueller and serving arugula walnut pesto chicken straight to people's cars and have now evolved to offering "Vintage nights" that combine old movies with wine tastings. Servers deliver Malbec short ribs and the paired wines to the car, wine reps walk guests through the pours, and films like Some Like It Hot show on the big screen.
Popping up a movie theater in the middle of a pandemic hasn't been without a few challenges for restaurants giving it a try, though. Not every studio is stoked on the showings—BJ's had originally planned to play Top Gun and A League of Their Own this weekend, but both Paramount Pictures and Sony pulled back on allowing screenings.
For V Pizza in Cary, North Carolina, the entire operation got shut down. After their first showing, complete with HD picture and surround sound, the local police made them stop the events. The state's stay-at-home order restricted openings to essential businesses, which movie screenings, apparently, were not. But for any customers—especially those hoping to have a drink while watching a movie—there remains just one big problem: since dining rooms are closed, most of these places have no available bathrooms.
This article originally appeared on FoodandWine.com.


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- A set of 6pcs dinosaurs children toy.
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Located just east of Bali, and a 20 minute journey by plane, Lombok has beautiful beaches, enchanting waterfalls and the large looming volcano of Mount Rinjani combined with relatively few tourists, making it substantially calmer than Bali.
There are pros and cons to this from the visitors point of view - unspoilt, deserted beaches, islands, waterfalls and mountain views abound, but on the other hand it can be a very long journey to find a good meal or even a bar.
The dominant Sasak culture in Lombok and the very reserved and quiet nature of its people may help explain why Lombok is less popular in terms of shopping, cuisine, and nightlife than predominantly Hindu Bali.
Lombok is however becoming increasingly popular with tourists and honeymooners who want to relax in an inexpensive, tropical, un-crowded atmosphere, with many natural treasures and majestic scenery. Nothing happens quickly in Lombok, and visitors who are stressed from their daily lives may find Lombok a delightful place to unwind.
A new international airport the Bandara Udara in central southern Lombok opened in 2012, as part of an effort by the Indonesian government to promote islands other than the ever popular Bali to the outside world. The main tourist hub for those arriving in Lombok is Sengiggi, a small town about 90 minutes' drive from the international airport. There are a few restaurants and bars along Sengiggi's main road. I tried two of these, but found them nothing to write home about. There many large resorts around the town too, and a few tourist offices where it is possible to book private excursions or hire a moped or bicycle.
We took the short flight to Lombok after nearly two weeks in Bali, and spent four days on the northern coast near the three tiny but beautiful Gili islands.
Hotel Tugu Lombok is a stunning place located on the extensive, pristine white sand beaches of Sire, a 45 minute drive from Sengiggi on the northwest coast of the island. Neighbouring it is an 18-hole golf course, forests, traditional thatched roofed huts and green fields where local life continues today much the same as it has done for centuries.
The hotel's land comprises six hectares of mature palm plantations, facing the ocean and the majestic Mount Rinjani, with the hotel lying several miles from the nearest village.
Surprisingly, although it was built as recently as 2009, the hotel features hundreds of ancient original artworks and antiques which makes it look as though it had been there for centuries.
The reception house is a particularly striking one, purchased by the owner of the Tugu Group in Sumatra before relocating it to Lombok. Thought to be around 200 years old and made entirely of tropical hardwood, it once belonged to a Malay man, who rented it to a Chinese family in the 19th century, giving it a complex mixture of Malay, Chinese and Dutch influences reflecting the history of migration and colonisation in this part of Asia.
There are several other original wooden buildings including the beautiful Lara Djonggrang bar close to the dining area, and the 200 year old wooden Chinese temple in the gardens - the Sang Hyang Barong Temple. This was saved from the Dutch assault on Lombok in 1894, and is now used for weddings, yoga and meditation classes and occasionally for guest dinners (see below). There is also a fine Hindu temple which houses the Hening Swarga Spa.
There is also a magnificent gallery and shop at the hotel selling a variety of excellent examples of Indonesian antiques.
The grounds are extensive and immaculately maintained, and during our stay we saw dozens of employees pruning the plants, cleaning the pool and generally keeping the place in top condition for the guests.
The beach is beautiful to look at, but it and the sea bed are covered by large fragments of coral which make it uncomfortable to walk on or swim in, given that the sea comes up only to waist height even 100 metres from the shoreline. The hotel provides flippers and goggles which make it easier to get out to sea.
There are three categories of rooms for guests to stay in, and eighteen in total. The simplest are the Kampongs, bungalows with a private terrace, as well as indoor and outdoor bathrooms. The Aloon-Aloon villas have 125 sq metres of space, and their own garden.
We were fortunate enough to stay in one of the seven Bhagavat Gita villas, each being enormous at 350 sq metres, with a large private courtyard garden leading to the front door of the villa, and a veranda opening onto a lawned garden with a private plunge pool and a stunning view across the sand to the sea.
The interior had an enormous, elaborate king-sized four poster bed, beautiful antiques, and a semi-outdoor bathroom with rainwater shower, and a bathtub carved out of a boulder. It was a magnificent place to spend a few nights.
The fine buildings, art, sculpture and furniture that are a feature of the Tugu Hotel Lombok are a reflection of the passions of the owner, the Indonesian businessman and major art and antique collector Anhar Setjadibrata. He built his first hotel in Malang, East Java, in 1990, in a similarly eclectic style.
Over the years, he opened further hotels in Blitar, Java, and on Bali at Canggu beach, as well as restaurants in Jakarta. If you fancy a luxurious hotel that does not feel like a bland corporate, but is full of local character, this is a fascinating place to stay.
Breakfast is not always included in the room rate. It was good, with a range of cut fruit, juices, cereals, as well as traditional, Indonesian, western, 'healthy' and à la carte options, and a variety of teas and coffees. I particularly enjoyed their own brand Tugu Java tea.
I almost always make an effort to find good places to eat or drink outside the hotels I stay in, and I did at the Tugu Hotel but without success. The nearest town with restaurants is Sengiggi, a 45 minute drive away, where we had two meals but didn't find anything worth writing about. The only other spot near to the Tugu is the Oberoi Hotel, another luxury resort.
The food on offer at the Tugu Hotel was fortunately of a consistently high standard, and the staff were admirably flexible about where they served it. The dining room is lovely, overlooking the infinity pool, a statue of a Hindu god, and the sea, but other options include a romantic table for two on the beach, or guests' rooms or gardens, or the Chinese temple at no extra cost.
Afternoon tea is offered free of charge to all guests at the hotel. We had a selection of cakes and savoury snacks during our stay, accompanied by some very fine teas.
Of note was a fantastic Indonesian version of "Ice Kacang", made from coconut milk, jelly, beans, bananas and ice. It was one of the most deliciously indulgent treats I had during my stay at Tugu.
On our first night at the hotel's restaurant, we had a delicious Gado Gado salad (£5), similar to the Malaysian version, including steamed potatoes, boiled eggs, bean sprouts and cabbage among other ingredients and served with peanut sauce. The Thai Roast Duck Salad (£6) was also excellent - light, refreshing and well flavoured, it had roast duck, glass noodles, vegetables and nuts tossed with a Thai ginger coriander dressing.
Ayam Taliwang is one of Lombok's most famous dishes, and is made with spring chicken basted in a local shrimp paste and roasted. Tugu's Pleceng Ayam Taliwang (£10) served with stir-fried morning glory (water spinach) was very flavoursome and with a deliciously crispy skin. The dish was accompanied by an aubergine and tomato relish.
The Aromatic Oxtail (£10), wrapped in pandan leaves and cooked with a variety of local spices was however the best dish of the evening. The meat was tender, succulent and yielding - utterly, blissfully unctuous.
For the second night, we opted to take our dinner by candle light on the beach - a really beautiful setting I would heartily recommend. We started with "Daging Tum" (£5), a dish of minced beef marinated in grated young coconut and steamed in banana leaf which was a very good start to the meal.
We followed up with Bebek Betutu (£11), another very popular Indonesian dish made from 24-hour slow cooked Balinese-style duck in banana stem stuffed with cassava leaves, which was zinging with rich gamey flavours and spice.
The Rendang Daging (£11) - was a marvellous slow-cooked Sumatran-style tenderloin of beef, which had been simmered in a reduced coconut sauce. The flavours were concentrated and the beef tender - a great example of this classic south-east Asian dish. It seemed churlish not to enjoy a bottle of bubbly for such an event, despite the exorbitant alcohol taxes in Indonesia, and we found a very passable sparking Italian Pinot Grigio for £30.
The hotel offers free rental of bicycles to its guests, and can also arrange a number of excursions, including boat trips to the nearby Gili islands, and drivers to accompany guests on tours of the waterfalls and villages below Rinjani, guided hikes up the mountain itself when the climate is right (not the rainy season), and visits to the southern Sasak villages to see the traditional houses and handicrafts.
We took a couple of bikes for a ride along the coastal road, passing stunning views of Mount Rinjani, and numerous paddy fields where local farmers were engaged in the back-breaking work of planting rice, and working the land mostly by hand.
We also took a taxi to the west coast resort town of Sengiggi. This has a cluster of five star luxury hotels, beach side bars with happy hours ideal for enjoying an ice cold beer with a view of the Java sea, but precious few restaurants that offered anything particularly appealing. It felt very low key in comparison to towns in Bali. However, it is also a good place to arrange tours similar to those available at the hotel, but at very competitive prices. There are numerous travel agents along the main road with whom it is worth haggling.
Having got rather sunburnt backs snorkelling in Amed, we didn't take up the usual option of visiting the Gilis because snorkelling and diving are the main activities there, but it is highly recommended as an excursion and I am sure worth a visit if you would like to view the coral and fish. I would recommend you wear a T-shirt while snorkelling though, unless you are not susceptible to sunburn.
We did consider hiring a car on Lombok like we did in Bali. However, the insurance cover on offer was minimal, and we were also concerned at the lack of road signs regarding points of touristic interest. It seems more sensible to hire a driver who can not only drive but also take visitors to the best sites. It is surprising that there are no car-hire companies at the international airport.
Rooms cost from £200 to £450 per night, and must be reserved for a minimum of three nights. There are a number of packages offered on their website, some including golf and spa options.
Suddenly, I want to go to Lombok :) Much appreciation for the post, I like how you've structured pictures interspersed with text, definitely something to take away with me.
Hotel Tugu and the whole area and Tanjung Sira as well as the three islands of Gili beyond are absolute paradise. It is a pity that the new airport down the south make it a bit more painful to get to the area from the airport. Nevertheless, once you get there you would not want to leave.


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2018 Physics of Cooking Video Recording
Joined by acclaimed local chef Tai Lee and chocolatier Mitch Siegert, owner of Truman Chocolates.
Do you want to understand how chefs make, and use foams? Do you want to understand how chefs make a drop liquid into a solid that bursts with flavor when you eat it? Did you know that eggs cook best at a temperature much less than the boiling point of water? Modern cuisine is filled with fascinating new dishes and this talk will explore some of the physics behind them. Two local chefs will team with a physics professor to demonstrate some of their favorite cooking techniques and to explain the science that underlies the cooking. The talk is based on a popular course offered at Harvard University that is a collaboration between science professors and chefs.
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David Weitz is a Canadian/American physicist and Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics & Applied Physics and professor of Systems Biology at Harvard University. He is the co-director of the BASF Advanced Research Initiative at Harvard, co-director of the Harvard Kavli Institute for Bionano Science & Technology, and director of the Harvard Materials Research Science & Engineering Center.
Dr. Weitz received his B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Waterloo and his PhD in superconductivity from Harvard. He worked as a research physicist at Exxon Research and Engineering for nearly 18 years. He then became a Professor of Physics at the University of Pennsylvania, before moving to Harvard in 1999. At Harvard Dr. Weitz teaches an extremely popular course "Physics or Cooking" that is collaboration between science professors and chefs.
About Tai Lee
Chef Tai Lee was born in South Korea and moved to the States to live with his grandparents and uncles at the age of 13. He moved to College Station to attend Texas A&M University, majoring in Business. While Chef Tai attended school, he started working in a local Japanese restaurant and finally realized that he had a true passion for the culinary arts and enough conviction to pursue a career in restaurant industry.
Chef Tai has established himself as one of the most prominent players on the College Station culinary stage with his renowned elegant cuisine of Veritas, the award winning Chef Tai's Mobile Bistro food truck, and a taste of New York City with Paolo's Italian Kitchen. Never settling, he continues to bring a unique culinary flair to the Brazos Valley with the infusion of several new dishes onto the menu of the popular Madden's Casual Gourmet. Chef Tai is currently planning to open a new contemporary American restaurant called Urban Table, which should be available to our palettes this summer.
About Mitch Siegert
Mitch Siegert graduated from the Culinary Institute of America with two degrees: one in Culinary Arts and another in Baking & Pastry Arts. He has worked for many unique food establishments, including The Food Network and The Ritz Carlton, Naples. He moved back to Bryan/College Station to open Truman Chocolates. The chocolates he produces require a delicate and time-consuming process that take about days to complete. Truman Chocolates has won many awards and been featured in countless articles.
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August 15, 2017 (Houston/Columbus) - AgriClear, North America's premier online cattle transaction and payment platform, together with United Producers Inc. (UPI), one of North America's largest farmer owned and operated livestock marketing cooperative, today announced a collaborative agreement to benefit livestock farmers across the Midwest. UPI will now utilize AgriClear as its digital marketing solution for online cattle transactions, which will bring innovative livestock marketing technology to current and future UPI members.
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What a Year That Was
By Deroy Murdock
About Deroy Murdock
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The first anniversary of the Trump Era finds Americans great again
Are you better off now than you were one year ago?
From the Potomac to Puget Sound, President Donald J. Trump and other Republicans should ask voters this exact question. Their answers should buoy GOP prospects for the November 6 midterm elections.
Saturday marks one year since President Trump's inauguration. Starting January 20, 2017, Trump and the GOP Congress have mopped up much of the previous management's mess. Obama's hectoring, anti-business tone has been hushed. His class warfare, "global warming" fetish, and lead-from-behindism are neutralized. Some 1,500 absurd and intrusive regulations, many of them Obama's brainchildren, have been junked. And Obama's taxaholism has been replaced with the deepest tax cuts since 1981.
These Trump/GOP reforms have over-delivered on all expectations. As President Trump told factory workers Thursday at H&K Equipment in Coraopolis, Pa.: "The good news keeps pouring in."
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‐Since President Trump replaced Obama, GDP growth has climbed from 2.1 percent to 3.2 percent, a 52 percent acceleration in output.
‐The Dow Jones Industrial Average has soared from 19,827 to 26,071 as of Friday's close, up 31.5 percent. This is the Big Board's best first-year performance for a president since FDR. This is splendid news for the 54 percent of Americans who own stocks, including everyone with a retirement account.
‐The number of Americans employed has increased by 1.8 million, up 1.2 percent.
‐Unemployment has fallen from 4.7 percent to 4.1 percent, down 13 percent — the lowest rate since 2001.
‐Black unemployment has slid from 7.9 percent to 6.8 percent, down 14 percent — the lowest rate of black joblessness ever recorded.
‐The Labor Department announced on Thursday that 220,000 Americans sought first-time unemployment relief last week, the lowest such figure in almost 45 years.
‐The home-ownership rate has risen from 63.7 percent to 63.9 percent.
‐The Consumer Confidence Index has advanced from 113.7 to 122.1, up 7.4 percent.
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Unlike the triumphant Republicans, Democrats achieved nothing last year. They are visionless and idea-free, other than to "Resist!" Trump.
Meanwhile, the Left's serial anti-Trump narratives have imploded, one after another:
‐Trump is a Kremlin puppet! After digging for 18 months, the FBI and, later, special counsel Robert Mueller have unearthed zero evidence that Trump colluded with Moscow to win the White House. Meanwhile, Trump has yanked Vladimir Putin's chain far more than Putin has pulled Trump's strings. Sending offensive weapons to Ukraine, which might aim them at Russian troops, is hardly the behavior of Moscow's marionette.
‐Trump's tax cut won't help the middle class!
Each and every congressional Democrat battled the tax cut that has unleashed rampant economic growth.
"Let them eat crumbs!" cried Maria Antoinette Pelosi. As tax-cut-fueled bonuses erupted within days of the federal corporate-tax rate's plunge from 35 percent to 21 percent, the House Democrat leader mocked "the crumbs that they are giving to workers to kind of put the schmooze on." She added: "It is insignificant."
Crumbs, perhaps, if, like Nancy Pelosi, you enjoy a Napa Valley vineyard, six other properties, and a net worth of $29.35 million, according to Roll Call.
Meanwhile, since the Trump/GOP tax cut kicked in, Americans for Tax Reform calculates that at least 200 companies have reported paying their workers bonuses of up to $3,000, boosting their pension deposits, and hiking base hourly wages up to and beyond $15. Some 2.2 million employees are savoring these $1 billion–plus in benefits, as surely are many others at companies that have not publicized such payments.
"Over time, we expected employment and take-home pay to increase nationally," said ATR president Grover Norquist, "but this response is stronger and faster and more widespread than anyone I spoke to expected."
CNBC's Jake Novak observed Thursday: "Apple's blockbuster announcement that it will repatriate almost all of its $250 billion in overseas cash, create 20,000 new U.S. jobs, open a new U.S. campus, and add $350 billion to the U.S. economy ends any serious debate about the new tax reform law."
‐Trump is a racist! His alleged "sh**hole countries" remark about El Salvador, Haiti, and certain African states — reported by Senator Dick Durbin (D., Ill.) — now is disputed by GOP senators Tom Cotton of Arkansas and David Perdue of Georgia and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, the latter under oath before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. They all say that they did not hear Trump make that comment at a White House immigration meeting last week.
Moreover, the Donald J. Trump Foundation gave the University of Utah's Moran Eye Center $10,000 to support Senator Rand Paul, M.D.'s free cataract surgeries for poor Guatemalans in 2014. Private citizen Trump donated another $10,000 for the Kentucky Republican ophthalmologist's similar mercy mission to treat some 200 visually impaired Haitians in 2015.
Democrat Andrew Stein, former New York City Council president, has known Trump since 1973. "This guy doesn't have an ounce of racism in him. He judges people on the merits," Stein told Fox News anchor Laura Ingraham on Tuesday.
Stein gathered medical supplies after a 1980 storm slammed Haiti, but he needed a plane to deliver the aid. "I called Donald Trump," Stein said. "One-two-three, he gave us a plane to take all the supplies over."
Stein remembered about Trump, "On the first night he took over Mar-a-Lago, I think it was'85, he said to me, 'It's crazy that they don't admit blacks in any of the fancy clubs in Palm Beach, and I'm going to change that.'" Trump's lawsuit integrated those establishments.
Stein recalled that a church in Queens sought funds for its poorest, largely black congregants. "I called a lot of liberal friends in Manhattan. They couldn't care less," Stein said. "I called Donald Trump, and right away he wrote a check."
What a racist.
‐Trump is mentally ill! Tuesday's marathon press conference by nonpartisan White House physician Ronny Jackson, M.D., defanged Fire and Fury author Michael Wolff's much-echoed claim that Trump is one Twitter storm away from being wheeled off in a straitjacket. On Trump's insistence, Dr. Jackson administered the Montreal Cognitive Assessment. Trump scored a perfect 30 out of 30.
"The president is mentally very, very sharp; very intact," said Jackson, a U.S. Navy rear admiral. The doctor, who also treated presidents Obama and George W. Bush, dismissed accusations of Trump's instability (by those who have not examined him) as "tabloid psychiatry."
‐The cheeseburger-chomping Trump is too sick to lead!
Jackson said Trump needs to lose 10 to 15 pounds. Nonetheless, "the President's overall health is excellent." His blood pressure is 122/74, and "he's fit for duty," Jackson concluded. "I think he will remain fit for duty for the remainder of this term and even for the remainder of another term, if he's elected."
One year into the Trump/GOP Era, everyday Americans are better off than they were when Obama left town. Washington Democrats? Not so much.
Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News contributor and a contributing editor of National Review Online.


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SGA to hold annual Middle School Leadership Conference soon
Yulee Kang
The annual MSLC provides SGA a fun and interactive way to engage seventh graders in leadership and providing them with a novel perspective of TJ that not many middle schoolers can experience. "Last year, because of this things that SGA was managing, MSLC fell through and we did not have it last year, but the SGA tries to have it ever year and that's what we're trying to bring back this year despite the one-year gap." Ranjan said.
Yulee Kang, Staff Writer
SGA's (Student government association) annual Middle School Leadership Conference (MSLC) will be held on Saturday, March 14th from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at TJHSST.
Each year, SGA hosts MSLC to introduce middle school students to the importance of student leadership or develop leadership skills in students who already have interests in being a student leader. Various activities such as competing to build a contraption that goes the farthest distance or creating your own group dance are provided for middle schoolers along with opportunities for TJ students to work with middle schoolers and earn service hours.
"I remember participating in MSLC as a seventh grader, and that's actually what first got me interested in TJ as a middle school student." senior and SGA president Ronith Ranjan said, "I was amazed by what TJ's facilities had to offer and meeting some of the students here [was a really positive experience]. The [then] SGA president did a really good job of getting us excited about the workshops."
All schools across Fairfax, Loudoun, Arlington, and Prince William county were invited to choose two seventh graders each to attend the conference. This year, SGA is expecting about 60 seventh graders to be in attendance.
"[The goal of] MSLC is both to come to TJ and look at TJ but also to look at leadership in action and see if this is something you're interested in the future." Ranjan said.
Although the deadline for filling out interest for volunteering at MSLC was Feb. 15, you can find more information about the conference on SGA's Facebook page, or email [email protected] if you have any questions.
"TJ students will lead small groups with the students to run workshops, team-building activities, leadership activities, and also tour the school." Ranjan said, "It's just a great outreach opportunity for our SGA team and TJ."


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Nowyj Rosdil (; ) ist eine ukrainische Stadt mit etwas mehr als 28.000 Einwohnern (2019).

Geografische Lage

Die Stadt befindet sich in der westukrainischen Oblast Lwiw am nördlichen Ufer des Dnister und südlich des Barwinok-Sees () auf einer Höhe von  etwa 48 km südlich der Oblasthauptstadt Lwiw und 37 km nordöstlich von Stryj.

Geschichte
Der Ort wurde 1953, auf Grund des Schwefelabbaus in der Region, gegründet und war von 1959 bis 1965 eine "Siedlung städtischen Typs". Am 26. Dezember 2002 wurde sie unter Oblastverwaltung gestellt.

Bis zum 24. März 1992 trug der Ort den Namen Nowyj Rosdol () und wurde dann in den heutigen Namen umbenannt. Der Name bezieht sich auf die "Siedlung städtischen Typs" Rosdil, die 8 km westlich der Stadt liegt.

Verwaltungsgliederung
Am 12. Juni 2020 wurde die Stadt zum Zentrum der neu gegründeten Stadtgemeinde Nowyj Rosdil (Новороздільська міська громада/Noworosdilska miska hromada) im Rajon Stryj. Zu dieser zählen noch die Siedlung städtischen Typs Rosdil sowie die 8 in der untenstehenden Tabelle aufgelistetenen Dörfer; bis dahin war sie Teil der Stadtratsgemeinde Nowyj Rosdil direkt unter Oblastverwaltung der Oblast Lwiw.

Folgende Orte sind neben dem Hauptort Nowyj Rosdil Teil der Gemeinde:

Söhne und Töchter der Stadt
 Wolodymyr Borodjanskyj (* 1974), Medienschaffender und Minister für Kultur, Jugend und Sport

Partnerstädte
  Police (Pölitz),  Polen

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Ort in der Oblast Lwiw
Gegründet 1953
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Like most writers and entrepreneurs, I have a bulging to-do list. It's like a bottomless cup of coffee; it stimulates, comforts and raises blood pressure all at once.
My to-do list runs my life. I've tried many different options from Outlook flags to via my iPhone with TaskTask. At the moment, I'm really learning to love Taco. Really love it. It's one of those brilliant tools for writers.
It does two important things.
First, it pulls in tasks and to-dos from all the apps I already use and displays them in one place.
It supports a ton of apps. I use it with Basecamp, Zendesk, Office 365 and Salesforce. So, instead of four open windows, I have one for all my tasks.
The second, and in many ways more important, thing that Taco does is make it easy to prioritise your tasks and focus only on the few tasks that matter today.
It has two columns: 'for later' and 'up next'. You can drag items from one column to another and up and down within the columns. Hide the 'for later' column for a short list of the stuff that matters now.
This is the answer to task-anxiety. Instead of drowning in dozens or hundreds of tasks, now you know that you have all of them in sight and that you're focusing on the top priorities (and temporarily hiding the rest).
If you use more than one app to store tasks and you have more tasks than time to do them, then you need Taco.
It's a nice idea. A bit of a dream, really. It is the complete opposite of my way of working. It's about being rather than doing and it has an attractive Zen in-the-moment flavour to it.
But it's also impractical. My clients wouldn't thank me if I missed my deadlines because I decided to do somebody else's work first. To-do lists help me prioritise, schedule and filter. It's good to concentrate on one thing at a time but it's also essential to pick the right thing.
But it did make me ask if my to-do list was too much at the mercy of other people. Things other people want me to do rather than things I want to do. Things I am excited about. It's got me thinking and I'd really like to get some feedback from other people?
So, dear reader, how do you manage your life? Is it to do or to be? How do you balance your passions with your duties? What tools do you use? Do you have a 'system'? Is it useful?
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And while he didn't say it directly, his disdain for either Hillary or Donald leaves the option for a third party, or candidate, wide open in his view.
You can almost hear the howling beyond the fence….
Outside the horse race – this has always been up to Ann Romney and her health, not just now but in the future. Incredible as it may seem, she means more to him than any position or reward. He talked about running, and then decided against it. If it would be too hard on her, even Donald Trump can't provoke him.
Donald Trump, the individual, has uniquely found a way to REMOVE-ALL-THE-OXYGEN from topical conversation to force a 'digital-media' confrontation. Is the GOP flummoxed? YES! Does it exist? With fragility. MOST importantly who is it's spokesperson? Mitch McConnell? Lindsey Graham? WHO and WHAT by the way IS THE "Grand Old Party"? Marco Rubio? Ted Cruz? Mitt Romney (referenced adroitly recently as "Mittens" by the Boston Herald) is instantaneously flammable. (THEN let's compare notes with his dad George vis a vis Barry Goldwater, pre-convention; '64). A sad congruence. End point? Where has Mitt Romney been recently(?), as the 'Godfather of 'ObamaCare', articulated in its add-on, middle-class TAX CONSEQUENCES, and its inherent mandate to same. THEN there is the Orange-clad Hillary, and loose-cannon BILLary. (Files to be open later).
A presidential election or the Gong Show?
Mitt Romney seems on a Mormon Mission he failed to complete when he was in his twenties. Correct me if I'm wrong… but didn't Mitt run for a Senate seat? For President? For President, a second time? WHAT is he running for today… the lead in Les Miserable? Trumps failures; yeah there are BUNCHES OF THEM! Mitt… Bain Capital… failures(?)… yeah there are BUNCHES OF THEM as well! Speak YOUR mind… however 'coarse' you wish it do be. America is a tough breed, and the past few years, particularly for the MIDDLE CLASS has been conned into believing our early works may hold solid for the next one-two decades. These clowns — Dems/Repubs have been squandering ALL of our efforts. God Save, and Thank the military!
Term limits for the lot!


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Democratic lawmakers are bringing a hefty policy agenda into the legislative short session that starts in February, including an ambitious climate change policy, stricter gun laws, preparing the state for an earthquake, changing the way wildfires are fought and funneling millions toward the state's housing crisis.
But first, they must convince Republicans to stay in the building.
Looming over the 35-day legislative session is the prospect that Republicans could once again stop all business by fleeing the state.
Related: Oregon Senate Republican Leader: 'Nothing Is Off The Table' In Climate Fight
When Senate Majority Leader Ginny Burdick, D-Portland, walked into a room full of reporters at the Associated Press legislative preview on Friday, she immediately took note that her counterpart who led the walkout in the 2019 legislative session, Sen. Herman Baertschiger, R-Grants Pass, was not present.
"Senate Democrats: We show up," Burdick quipped.
Senate Republicans left the state in the 2019 legislative session in order to prevent a vote on the controversial climate change proposal. A measure to curb carbon emissions is once again at the top of Democrats' priority list, and Republicans have signaled that another walk out is not off the table.
Newly elected House Republican Leader Christine Drazan, R-Canby, said a walkout is a "breakdown of the process," but she didn't rule it out as an option to block the climate change bill.
Democrats have proposed changes to the bill since the previous legislative session, but there was little evidence that the political and cultural differences over the measure have changed.
"It is not yet time for cap and trade because we cannot prevent these costs from being passed on not to big companies, not to utilities but just straight down the line to Oregonians," Drazan said.
One of the measures that was scrapped to entice Republicans back to work during their first of two walkouts last legislative session was a bill requiring gun owners to secure their firearms when not in use. That idea will be back into play this legislative session.
Burdick, a longtime champion of tighter gun laws, said she also plans to introduce a bill allowing local governments to have gun-free workspaces if they choose. The Portland Democrat said it's currently a felony to bring a gun in a public building, but there are exceptions for concealed firearms. Her bill would change that.
So, she said, the Capitol could become gun free.
Lawmakers will also be grappling with how to spend roughly $1 billion dollars, according to the governor.
Gov. Kate Brown, D-Portland, said she would like to see at least half of that set aside and put into savings.
"Our economy has been really good for the past several years, we have the lowest unemployment rate on record, but we don't know when that's going to end," she said.
Brown said she hopes to see $150 million to $200 million put toward helping the state adapt to wildfires and change how they are fought.
"The way we have been fighting fires no longer suits the type of fires we're seeing," the governor said. "We're using last century's fire (fighting) techniques for last year's fires."
Brown's proposal calls for land-use planning changes, new building codes and new jobs in the Office of Emergency Management to help handle wildfire emergencies.
Brown also wants lawmakers preparing for another emergency: a possible earthquake.
"We are the only state on the entire West Coast that hasn't funded the Shake Alert," she said. "We need to get this done. Oregonians deserve it." Shake Alert is an earthquake early warning system.
Another certain focus this legislative session will be addressing the state's housing crisis.
House Speaker Tina Kotek, D-Portland, has called for declaring a statewide emergency that would allow cities around the state to more easily site homeless shelters. Kotek estimates the price tag could be about $120 million, split between affordable housing initiatives and addressing those who are living without shelter.
"It is a crisis. We are at crisis level," Kotek said.
Lawmakers were more tepid about any major campaign finance overhauls this legislative session. Oregon remains only one of a handful of states that has no limits on contributions to state and local races.
On Friday, key lawmakers said they want to see what voters do with a November 2020 constitutional amendment before passing any major legislation. If voters approved the constitutional amendment, it would allow limits on political contributions and clear a major obstacle for those pushing for tighter controls on the role of money in politics.
The dynamics this legislative session could be interesting. Drazan replaced Rep. Carl Wilson, R-Grants Pass, as the leader of House Republicans. And Rep. Barbara Smith Warner, D-Portland, replaced previous House Majority Leader Jennifer Williamson, another Portland Democrat who resigned her seat to run for secretary of state.
Oregon Senate President Peter Courtney, the longest-serving legislator in Oregon history, is currently in the hospital for hip pain but is expected to return to work for the session.
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EMPLOYERS WILL NOW FACE STRICTER DEMANDS AND HIGHER COSTS
New Labour Code 'Worker-friendly'
FRIENDLIER for employees and more demanding for employers is the official slogan of the revision to the country's Labour Code that parliament approved on June 28.
A revamped code was part of the deal that Smer leader Robert Fico made with trade unions shortly before the parliamentary elections last year in return for a massive unionist endorsement. The unions said they were content, even though not all their demands made it into the final version of the code.
Ministers say workers will have greater protection under the new Labour Code.
"We are glad that, despite all the complicated negotiations with employers and the government, we have managed to push through the changes, though some only in a compromised form that does not entirely match the original demands of trade unions," Miroslav Gazdík, the President of the Confederation of Trade Unions (KOZ) told The Slovak Spectator.
However, business associations and employers said that the new code might make the labour market less flexible and lay a heavier financial burden on companies.
The Labour Code, which was supported by 83 and rejected by 61 members of parliament, will come into effect on September 1. The new code gives more powers to the unions, limits overtime work, toughens conditions of fixed-term employment contract and limits the use of trial periods before signing a permanent-status contract with the employee. The new Labour Code also bans the employer from terminating a fixed-term work contract without a legal reason and guarantees severance payments for employees who are fired due to restructuring. However, employees now have more power and can, for example, immediately terminate a work contract when their employer refuses to cover the costs of a foreign business trip.
Businesses with less than 50 union members have to grant at least one trade union representative four hours every month for union-related work and pay them for their time. Companies that have 100 unionists will have to grant the union representative 12 paid hours while the union representative in businesses with over 100 union members will have 16 hours a month.
Fico said that all this finally brings the country's labour legislation up to par with European Union standards. Fico thanked his ruling coalition partners for their "maximal correctness" during the law-making process.
"It is important that Slovakia passed a Labour Code that is in favour of the people," Fico told the SITA newswire, adding that the new legislation will not endanger the country's economic growth.
However, Viola Kromerová, General Secretary of the Slovak Trade Industry Federation, which shelters small trades and craftsmen in Slovakia, said that "paradoxically enough, just when the European Commission prefers a flexible labour market, we are going to adopt some measures that will in fact slow down this trend."
It was a success a couple years ago when the socialistically-tuned Labour Code was finally adjusted to the requirements of the market economy, Kromerová said.
"However this [current] revision is a step backwards and a continuation of legislative instability in Slovakia," Kromerová told The Slovak Spectator. "Each change affects the weakest units of the economy, private tradesmen, the most. It is very difficult to build up a company when the laws are changing two or three times a year."
"There is far too much protection for employees just when we are fighting for a qualified and competent work force," Kromerová said.
"Labour flexibility is important and tradesmen cannot afford to employ someone full-time for every activity," she said. "Also, many are still trying to find their position on the market and just one trade does not earn them a normal living. They themselves have to be flexible, but can they if the law binds them?"
However, trade unions say that employers have still not submitted any definite arguments to support their claims that the flexibility of the labour market will suffer.
"We see their statements as unjustified protests against the actions of the government, which has been trying to return to employees the legal status that the original Labour Code guaranteed them before it was amendmended in 2003," Gazdík told The Slovak Spectator. "In some areas the code strengthened the position of the employees just to what it is in other countries."
Former prime minister and Chairman of the Slovak Democratic and Christian Union Mikuláš Dzurinda said the new Labour Code could have been much worse, adding that his party might still try to amend the code that has just been approved.
The ruling coalition's Jozef Halecký of the Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (HZDS) also said that further amendments were a possibility. It was Halecký, chairman of the Parliamentary Social Affairs Committee, who pushed for changing the originally proposed 48-hour work limit for the health care employees to 56 hours and the proposal made it into the approved version.
"I don't think this is the final version," Halecký told newswire TASR. "If we discover that something harms labour flexibility, we're ready to change it."
KOZ chief Gazdík said he is convinced that such statements are unjustified, adding that the revision presents a European standard and many of the changes were made to harmonise the law with EU legislation.
However, the National Union of Employers (RÚZ) said it is not giving up the fight for what they believe would be a more just Labour Code.
The employers tried to meet with President Ivan Gašparovič to make him veto the law. Their chances seem to be rather feeble since Gašparovič has already said that the law is the best that Slovakia could have possibly produced under the given conditions.
"The Labour Code is inimical to the business environment and incompatible with the necessity of catching up with the developed world as quickly as possible," reads the joint declaration of the RÚZ and the Slovak Association of Employers (AZZZ).
The Slovak Association of Entrepreneurs (ZPS) also disagrees with the revision of the Labour Code. The amendment represents higher costs for employers, restricts contractual freedom and does not secure a balanced legal relationship between employers and employees, ZPS president Ján Oravec said.
The employers have also said that the unions often present themselves as victims rather than partners of the employers and businesses, which, according to them, creates an unhealthy relationship between the two.
"We disagree that the relationship between unions and employers is hostile in essence," Gazdík told The Slovak Spectator. "It is clear for the unions that the relationship is mutually dependent and the one cannot exist without the other."
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In a Chinese carpenter's mind, cabinets are miniature houses that must have a sense of balanced proportions and last for generation after generation. The flourishing of designs and styles over the centuries abide by this belief. Some designs are striking with their unadorned elegance highlighting their line and timber grain, whilst others use rich colours symbolising good wishes and fine paintings and carving, telling stories from popular folklore.
In our modern homes the appeal of cabinets is that their presence provides an artistic focus as well as their obvious practical use. Cabinets have a combination of drawers and shelves for storage convenience and versatility.
Stools were widely adopted in the house for their practicality, being primarily used as a portable seat both inside and outdoors. Another common use was as a step to reach a higher point. So the structure and joinery of the stool is designed to be weight bearing. All stools have a through transverse brace fitted under the seat using a mortise and tenon joint.
The traditional ease of use is just as relevant today. Because of their generous size, stools make excellent lounge room side tables and bedside tables. Pull two together for an instant coffee table. Being portable is an additional benefit when entertaining a large number of guests.
Stands were crafted for serving specific purposes, often associated with important social needs in the household.
The most common types are tea stands and plant stands.
Tea stands were one of the more formal pieces of furniture as they were generally used in the reception hall of the home. These stands were placed beside the chairs and used for serving tea and complementary treats. Tea stands often have storage compartments, such as drawers and shelves. As the chairs were mostly arranged in pairs, so too are the tea stands.
Plant stands were decorative pieces keeping in with the style of artistic interior settings. They were often seen in scholar's homes, placed in areas of significance in the house to display bonsai plants, floral arrangements and other items of beauty.
Plant stands are generally taller and slimmer with a focus on proportion and aesthetic appeal. These pieces and more can be seen in our Fyshwick antiques gallery.
Tables are the centre of attention in the room. Their variety reflects a rich daily life as well as artistic and spiritual needs of the time. While some tables were made for a specific purpose and position, the majority were flexible in placement. Most tables are finished and decorated on all four sides to show their best at all times.
It is the diversity and convenience of use that keeps them continually popular today. Each table has its own unique characteristics that presents a particular appeal in a space. A table can be placed in an entry, a lounge area or a bedroom and used to suit a purpose. Moving it around the house is a way to refresh the look of a room.
Chairs are status symbols displaying the prestige of the owner. The designs evolved over centuries making chairs an icon of Chinese culture.
In our modern homes chairs are an adaptable piece for alternative seating. They also make a stunning interior display to add life and style to a room.
Baskets and other pieces were used to carry fruit, vegetables grain and water as needed. Like jewelry boxes they were also often decorated with auspicious motifs.
The lamps are our own designs, each is a unique creation that will add light and colour to your room. The lamp bodies are handpicked artistic porcelain or bronze and the handmade linen lamp shades are customised to match the colour and style of the vessels. Lamps with wooden bases are also handmade to match.
A thoughtful gift or an elegant addition to your own home, an original hand painted porcelain vase is an attractive, functional piece of art that will instantly add colour and style to any room.


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Real People, and Common Themes: Using Trade Books to Counter Stereotypes
Jo Sullivan
For students who need to be exposed to global perspectives, one of the most enjoyable and informative means is through trade books with social studies value. The right choice of trade books can offer an opportunity for teachers to spread knowledge and understanding of the world outside. Trade books leave vivid impressions and stimulate students' curiosity for further knowledge. Using them is also a serious responsibility. In the best books, the images, themes, and characters portrayed will expand and enhance the understanding of other peoples and countries. However, the wrong selection of books can reinforce the more common stereotypes found in the books, magazines, movies, cartoons and toy packages that surround our students from an early age.
Choosing the Right Framework
In using trade books to enhance global understanding, it is essential, first, to keep in mind the formal and informal context in which students learn about other cultures and, second, to have clear goals and use them as the guides to our choices. In selecting books for young learners, I suggest that the criteria should be:
1. Does the book show our common humanity? Our students need to understand that real people, who live and work in other countries, share our interests and aspirations.
2. Does the book provide a sound knowledge base when it deals with the geographic, social, historical, political, economic, and/or religious aspects of life in other societies?
3. Does the book show that other peoples have different but valid approaches to our common human concerns and needs?
4. Does the book increase understanding and empathy for others and the potential to learn from other peoples and cultures?
Putting the Framework into Practice
Teaching with trade books requires careful planning to ensure that these global educational objectives are met. Trade books should be selected that bring real or realistic people and the events of their lives to students and also avoid common distortions of other cultures. Some of the most important principles of using trade books that challenge or counterbalance global stereotypes in the classroom are the following:
1. Make Appropriate International Comparisons. First, we can ask ourselves some guiding questions: do I teach this topic, issue, or concept when I teach about North America or Europe? If the answer is no, then we should think twice before introducing this issue in a discussion of Latin America or Africa. For example, if we want to examine endangered species in Kenya or Brazil, are we presenting Kenyans or Brazilians as the poachers and European or American environmentalists as heroes? We could look at the debates about the spotted owl, or local debates that show the differing points of view of farmers, loggers, and environmentalists in the U.S., and transfer that complexity and understanding to our approach to Kenya or Brazil.
Second, we can ask ourselves at the end of a unit/lesson whether students will say, "I would really like to visit Mexico some day" or "I would like to meet/talk with Ghanaians." We have made a serious error if our students finish the lessons relieved that they do not live in the country portrayed in the book.
2. Use Thematic Studies with Caution. To its credit, the global studies movement has produced comparative thematic and interdisciplinary curriculum material. But when those themes are poverty, overpopulation, underdevelopment, the status of women, human rights or disease, our students often get their first, or only, exposure to other countries through an emphasis on problems. Unless we are prepared to be truly comparative and examine these issues in the United States at an appropriate grade level, I suggest that we not address these themes.
3. Avoid Problems. Our choices should avoid focusing on problems, unless we are prepared to address such themes in our own culture (divorce, child abuse, homelessness), history (slavery, corruption, treatment of Native Americans), and politics.
4. Integrate Global Studies Content into our Existing Curriculum. The soundest and most practical approach for busy teachers is to examine our current curriculum themes and to expand on these. Do we teach cities in third grade? Does our geography curriculum look at human interaction with the environment? Is second grade studying families and community? Does our fifth or sixth grade study world history or ancient civilizations? Trade books can add a global perspective to the current curriculum.
5. Choose Appropriate Themes. It is best to choose themes we teach already, such as city and country life, continuity and change, the struggle for democracy, or human interaction with the environment. Especially appropriate are themes that reflect our common humanity, such as friendship, family and community, religion, shelter and architecture, coming of age, or children's roles in the family.
6. Relate to the Daily Lives of Children. Most readers of any age enjoy and care about issues that relate to their lives. Select books that relate to the issues, concerns, and activities of our students. Characters, dilemmas, and dramas familiar to children will pique their interest and communicate the message that people all over the world struggle with similar issues.
7. Acknowledge that We Have Something to Learn From Other Peoples and Cultures: To name just a few important issues, how have other cultures raised children, handled adolescence, cared for elders, honored ancestors, or struggled with emerging democracies?
8. Avoid Non-Typical Peoples and Lifestyles. Are we drawn to groups that appear "colorful," but are untypical of their own countries or continents? We do our students a disservice by repeatedly focusing on exotic lifestyles. The Maasai, for example, are as typical of Kenya as the Amish are of the U.S. We must choose books that show real people and realistic characters whose lives and experience reflect the complexities and diversities of their country or era.
9. Be Consistent with Vocabulary. If it is a cottage in England, then it is a cottage (not hut) in Guatemala. If we meet "the French" in France, then it should be "the Nigerians" (not natives) in Nigeria.
The following three books are among my favorites. One is suitable for the primary grades, one for intermediate grades, and one for the young adult levels of the children's trade book range.
Boundless Grace by Mary Hoffman, the sequel to the award-winning 1991 book, Amazing Grace, is the story of a lively and energetic African-American girl's visit to her father and new step-family in Banjul, the capital city of The Gambia, West Africa. A central theme of this book is the importance of family, and the idea that "a family is what you make it." The author takes on the issue of step-families and the challenges that arise, especially when geography-and in this case culture-separates children and their parents. The vibrant illustrations challenge stereotypes because they reflect the richness and diversity of an African city and play a major role in increasing the reader's knowledge base. The book depicts African urban life, which is rarely shown in children's books. It portrays the typical housing, lifestyles, economy, markets, accurate clothing and variety of dress.
This book could be approached in several ways. As a means of linking students with African geography, students could be asked: Where is west Africa? The Gambia? Banjul? What is unique about this small country? What is the significance of its location? What is the role of the river Gambia? What are the historical reasons for the origins of The Gambia? Why is Grace's father living there? A teacher could also focus on families and the central theme, "What makes a family?" What are Grace's feelings about traveling to see her father? Why is she hesitant? What changed her mind? How did she handle meeting the new branch of her family? Students could chart or diagram comparisons of similarities and differences in their communities, or between U.S. cities and life in Banjul.
Days of the Dead by Kathryn Lasky, with photos by Christopher Knight, is a photo essay that focuses on a Mexican family preparing for and observing the Days of the Dead honoring their ancestors. These are real people with real names, a sense of place and a history. The reader joins them and their neighbors as they prepare to celebrate the lives of their grandparents, Juan de Jesus and his wife Domatilla. The author provides a comparative context by a discussion of rituals honoring the dead from several cultures, including our Celtic origins of Halloween, and Egyptian and Aztec burial and death customs and rituals. Themes of family, children's roles in the family, religion and religious preparations, and daily life are emphasized. Readers get to know the family as its members prepare food, make offerings, and clear grave sites, in this annual event. Daily life is interwoven through the preparations for the special occasion. The photos follow the theme, while also showing housing, fields, farms, markets, and churches. This intermediate book deals with history, geography, and religion.
Days of the Dead is rich in teaching possibilities. A teacher could focus on customs honoring the dead in numerous cultures, including our own. How do we honor our ancestors? What roles do different family members play in these rituals? What are children's responsibilities? If the focus is the environment and/or geography, the daily life of the family can be examined: how do they earn their living? feed themselves? How do they depend on their environment? In what ways is this similar to our own students' community?
The African Mask, by Jane E. Rupert, is a fictional account of a young woman Layo's betrothal, coming of age, and relationship with her extended family. It takes place in the Yoruba (Nigeria) kingdom of Ife nearly 1000 years ago. The characters are believable and are presented in an accurate historical context.
The volume addresses our common humanity through its themes of family, coming of age, and a young person seeking her own identity. It shows how people in other cultures make choices about their future-about marriage, crafts and skills. Rupert increases our knowledge base by writing a carefully researched historical novel situated in the area now known as Nigeria 1000 years ago. We can learn about ancient history, ideas about art forms and Yoruba religious beliefs. As the reader becomes engaged in the fate of the young heroine, we learn about marriage and betrothal customs and the differences between those and our own expectations for young people today and in our own past. Because the book's fictitious characters are so well-drawn, young readers can easily empathize with the dilemmas, dramas and choices of the heroine.
The African Mask can be used as a way of beginning a discussion of life and culture in ancient west Africa, or it could be used to understand the common experience, and specific circumstances, of coming of age in an ancient culture. It can also provide background on Nigerian and west African history, the significance of Ife as an ancient religious center, the economy of pre-European Africa or the role of art in Nigerian culture and family life. As a personal story, it is a way to discuss adolescence, emerging identities of young people, and loyalty to family, career choices and marriage customs.
We can teach about faraway peoples and cultures in a way that avoids stereotypes. By careful selection of high quality trade books, our choices of characters like Grace, the children of Juan and Domatilla, and Layo can challenge and change the images our students and our society hold.
Annotated References
Crofts Marylee, "Teaching About Africa in Elementary Schools, " in Helping Boys and Girls Discover the World: Teaching About Global Concerns and the United Nations in Elementary and Middle Schools, Leonard S. Kenworthy, Editor, 1978. Much of my thinking on these issues has been shaped by Marylee Crofts and other colleagues involved in African Studies Outreach Programs. This handout is still relevant-and needed-today.Randolph, Brenda, ed., Africa Access Review of K-12 Materials, Africa Access, Silver Spring, MD, 1992. Brenda Randolph and colleagues in African Studies and K-12 education have reviewed hundreds of books with African themes and give clear criteria for their evaluations. The 1996 review is now online at http://www.inform.umd.edu/mdk-12/homepers/africa and is updated frequently.Randolph, Brenda, ed., Afrophile, Africa Access, Silver Spring, MD, 1994. This compilation is a listing of all the recommended books that are reviewed in the above collection. Online: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Proceedings_Rev/men_Afrophle.html Trade Books Recommended:Hoffman, Mary. Boundless Grace. (Sequel to Amazing Grace) illustrated by Caroline Binch. New York: Dial Books for Young Readers. New York. 1995. 24 pp. Primary. Lasky, Kathryn. Days of the Dead. Photos by Christopher Knight. New York: Hyperion, 1994. 48 pp. Intermediate. Rupert, Jane E. The African Mask. New York: Clarion. 160 pp. 1994. Intermediate and Young Adult.
Jo Sullivan is Principal of Federal Street School, Salem, Massachusetts. She is a former member of the Book Review Committee that selects the annual notable children's trade books in the field of social studies on behalf of National Council for the Social Studies and the Children's Book Council.


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Q: rails3 has_one association model creation I'm new to Rails3, and I'm just trying to get one last thing to work before I call it a night. The situation is the following (please if the code is horrible, just let me know, still learning):
I want to log a dive. I might have a new location on that dive at which point I have to create a new Location, and then create the dive. A dive has_one location. A location has_many dives. Currently the foreign key is on dive as location_id.
How do I properly, in my dives_controller, generate the location, get the ID, and pass it on to my new dive? It would be nice to have the constructor of Location called, but if it doesn't work that way, then that's okay too.
My code is below:
class Dive < ActiveRecord::Base
    belongs_to :user
    has_one :location

end

require 'json'
require 'net/http'
require 'uri'

class Location < ActiveRecord::Base
    has_many :dive

    def initialize(location)
        @name = location[:name]
        @city = location[:city]
        @region = location[:region]
        @country = location[:country]

        url = "http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address="+location[:city].sub(' ', '+')+"+"+location[:region].sub(' ', '+')+"+"+location[:country].sub(' ', '+')+"&sensor=false"
        resp = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse(url))
        googMapsResponse = JSON.parse(resp.body)

        @latitude = googMapsResponse["results"][0]["geometry"]["location"]["lat"]
        @longitude = googMapsResponse["results"][0]["geometry"]["location"]["lng"]
    end

    def to_str
        "#{self.name}::#{self.city}::#{self.region}::#{self.country}"
    end
end

class DivesController < ApplicationController
  def create
    @dive = Dive.new(params[:dive])

    if params[:location][:id] == "" then
        @location = create_location(params[:location])

        @dive.location_id = @location.id
    else
        @dive.location_id = params[:location][:id]
    end

    @dive.user_id = params[:user][:id]
  end
end

A: Actually, your modelling needs some work and you should look at nested_attributes.
class Dive < ActiveRecord::Base
    belongs_to :user
    has_one :location
end

class Location < ActiveRecord::Base
    has_many :dives

    def to_str
        ...
    end
end

class DivesController < ApplicationController
  def create
    @dive = Dive.new(params[:dive])

    if params[:location][:id] == "" then
        # Create new Location
        @location = Location.new(params[:location])
        url = "http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=" +
            @location[:city].sub(' ', '+') + "+" +
        @location[:region].sub(' ', '+') + "+" +
            @location[:country].sub(' ', '+') + "&sensor=false"
        resp = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse(url))
        googMapsResponse = JSON.parse(resp.body)

        @location.latitude  = googMapsResponse["results"][0]["geometry"]["location"]["lat"]
        @location.longitude = googMapsResponse["results"][0]["geometry"]["location"]["lng"]
        @location.save

        @dive.location = @location
    else
        @dive.location_id = params[:location][:id]
    end

    # This can be improved
    @dive.user_id = params[:user][:id]

    if @dive.save
        # do something
    else
        # do something else
    end
  end
end

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Bolsonaro wants to expose health officials who approved Covid vaccine for kids
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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has announced his intention to reveal the identities of the officials who authorized vaccinations for children, despite them having received death threats.
In October, the country's health regulator, Anvisa, said its five directors had received emails threatening them with death if Covid-19 vaccines for children aged five to 11 were approved. Anvisa underlined that "given the seriousness of the fact," it immediately notified the police and the government, asking them "to adopt the appropriate measures."
On Thursday, the same day that the regulator approved Pfizer's shot for young children, Bolsonaro, known for his consistent opposition to anti-Covid measures, said the public should know who made the decision.
READ MORE: Brazil's health portals hit by hackers
Noting that Anvisa is not subordinate to him, he claimed, "We want to publicize these people's names so that everyone knows who these people are and, of course, forms their own judgment."
"You have the right to know the names of people who have approved the vaccination from five years old for your child," he said during a live broadcast on social media.
There has been no reaction from Anvisa so far.
More than 617,000 lives in Brazil have been lost to Covid-19.
Bolsonaro's handling of the pandemic has been widely criticized both within the country and from abroad. According to a September poll by Datafolha, the approval rating for the president's administration dropped to 22%, "the worst result since the beginning of his administration."
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Currently we are living in a world where most the people call themselves to be well mannered, but no one follows at least the basics. Therefore it is worth to get an idea about some good manners that we should follow while having a meal, especially at a restaurant. As we all know, there are no strict rules and regulations to follow while dining. But as civilized people, it essential to have proper etiquette while dining at a restaurant.
Most restaurant have arrange the tables according to a plan and most probably they have sectioned the tables. Therefore all the waiters get equal chances of serving similar number of customers making it easier to distribute the earnings equally at the end of the day. This is the reason why a hostess will direct you to a table. That may not be your preferable seating but you should follow that.There are some situations where you see open tables that you would like to seat, but the hostess direct you to a different table. This may be due to those tables have prior reservations.
If you go to a restaurant at a peak time, you might have to wait for a while to order. But you shouldn't get frustrated because of this. You might have gone on a busy time such as a Saturday night or New Year's Eve which is literary the busiest of all the time. Therefore it is important to have some patience till the waiters come and get the order for you.
It isn't a good thing to get mad at workers if you get a wait estimate. If it is busy time and you have ordered extraordinary amount of things, it is normal for you to wait a bit longer. Therefore you shouldn't complaint the waiters about how long you had to wait for the food.
You should not stand aimlessly staring at empty space or keep your chair in a way that it blocks the pathway. This will disturb the pathway of servers making it hard for them to serve food. It also ruins the peacefulness of other diners. It is also important that you don't let your kids to run wildly in and around the restaurant.
Even though it feels good to be served by someone else that doesn't mean the servers are inferior to u and u can treat them badly. That is just their job to serve u. You should not whistle, snap at, grab or try to touch your server. Comparing them negatively with another server is also a bad thing to do. Servers are also people just like you and are not to be treated disrespectfully.
You should not try to split the bill into many ways and try to confuse. This may make you wait longer and also the confusion might lead to make you overcharge. Therefore it is easy for you as well as the workers if you try to split the amount when you go out of the restaurant.
Above mentioned points are the very important things that you should avoid when you go to a restaurant. But it doesn't limit to that. It is not a good thing to get phone calls talking loudly while dining. This may ruin the peacefulness of the other diners. You should not smoke unless you are in a smoking corner. It is also not a good thing to talk to the server while you are chewing. This will make a bad impression about you. A simple way of showing gratuity is by giving a tip to the server. Therefore you should not refuse to tip.
So these are some of the things that you should avoid while you are at a restaurant to make the moment a nice experience for you as well as for the rest of the people around you (especially the waiters & hostesses).


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The champion of the World Cup in Russia-2018 will win a prize of $38 million, a figure that represents 12 per cent more compared to Brazil 2014, FIFA said.
The second place will win $10 million less than the champion will.
Both amounts are part of the $400 million destined to participating teams and belong to the common fund of monetary funding of the football entity.
The countdown to the beginning of the expected date of the orb is already in only 37 days.
The contest is programmed from June 14 to July 15, 2018 in 12 stadiums in 11 cities of the Eurasian country: Moscow, Kaliningrad, St. Petersburg, Volgograd, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, Saransk, Rostov, Sochi and Yekaterinburg.