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Lonnie is a beloved art teacher at a local high school, an improv performer, and maker of fantastical clay creations which showcase his taste for humor and whimsy.
Lonnie utilizes various techniques (sgraffito, raku, horsehair raku) for the creation, decoration and firing of his fanciful ceramics. His work is often colorful, comical, dramatic or a combination of the three. Strange creatures, bugs, animals, plant forms and baseball players populate Lonnie's ceramic world.


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Q: Why index is out of bouds? I have this text Hello, {between brackets 1}and{between brackets 2}, I want to color the text between brackets with a certain color, here is what I did:
String text = "Hello, {between brackets 1}and{between brackets 2}";
String output = "";
while(text.contains("}")){
    output = output + text.substring(0, text.indexOf("{"));
    output = output + ""+text.substring(
    text.indexOf("{")+1, text.indexOf("}")-1)+"";
    text = text.substring(text.indexOf("}"), text.length()-1);
}

but I got an indexOutOfBoundsException in line 10 which is:
output = output + ""+text.substring(
text.indexOf("{")+1, text.indexOf("}")-1)+"";

A: in your text = text.substring(text.indexOf("}"), text.length()-1); you not deleting closing bracket. So text is "}and{between brackets 2".
Try this:
text = text.substring(text.indexOf("}") + 1), text.length());

PS: learn how to use debugger. It is easy and very helpful in such situation.

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Follow along as Budd Coates shows us a workout designed to teach us to run faster over tough inclines. The workout is called Sixes and Sevens. -After a 15-20 minute workout on the treadmill increase the incline of the treadmill to 6%. We are going to do this at a Marathon Pace for 90 seconds. -Then take a one minute recovery at 0% incline. -Then boost the incline up to 7%, do this at a Marathon Pace for one minute. -Then take another recovery for two minutes at 0% incline. -That is considered one cycle, your goal should be about four cycles during your first workout. Add another cycle every couple of weeks. -In case you do not know what a marathon pace is, it is the pace at which you completed your last marathon. -At the end of every workout do a cool down for 10-15 minutes. Just follow this workout and you will be running faster over tough inclines in no time.


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List of Gods : "America" - 278 records
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Deities name
"Chiccan" Mayan / Chorti, Mesoamerican / eastern Guatemala	 Rain gods. Giant reptilian deities whose blood is cold and who evolved from snakes. They form a quartet, each living at the bottom of a deep lake situated in the four cardinal directions. They are believed to churn the waters which rise as clouds. The AH PATNAR UINICOB gods then beat the Rain from the clouds with stone axes....
Goddess name
"Chicomecohuati" Aztec / post Mesoamerican	 Maize goddess. [Mexico]. Her festival was held in September when a young girl was sacrificed having taken on the role of the deity for a period of time during the celebrations. She was decapitated on a heap of maize fruits and her blood was collected in a large bowl before being poured over a wooden figurine of the goddess. Finally the victim's skin was flayed off and worn by a dancing priest.See also XILONEN....
God name
"Chicomexochiti" Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico	 God of painters. Also described as a god of solar pleasure....
With the costs of higher education at an all-time high, the American Dream of a college education can seem like just that — a dream.
However the reality is that there are lots of things a prospective student can do to help offset the high costs of higher education.
If you're trying to figure out how to go to college for free, we have some advice that might help you on your way.
We've covered a wide range of options from how to get free tuition through a grant to various service opportunities.
Take a look at these and other ways you might be able to score a free college education.
"Chiconahui" Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico	 Hearth goddess. A household guardian deity personified by hearth fires. One of the deities collectively clåśśed as the XIUHTECUHTLI complex....
"Chiconahui Itzcuintii-Chantico" Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico	 God of lapidiaries. Chikara...
"Chiconahuiehecati" Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico	 Minor creator god. One of the deities collectively clåśśed as the QUETZALCOATL complex....
"Chul Tatic Chites Vaaneg (holy father, creator of man)" Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico	 Creator god. Thought to be the Mayan name of the Christian god....
"Cipactonal" Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico	 Creator god. One of the deities collectively clåśśed as the OMETEOTL complex....
"Cit Chac Coh" Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico	 God of war. Identified as a red puma....
"Citlalatonac (glowing star)" Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico	 Creator god. One of the deities collectively clåśśed as the OMETEOTL complex. His consort is CITLALICUE. Between them they created the stars of the night sky....
"Citlalicue (her skirt is a star)" Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico	 Creator goddess. One of the deities collectively clåśśed as the Ometeotl complex. Her consort is Citlalatonac. Between them they created the stars of the night sky....
"Cizin (stench)" Mayan / Yucatec / other tribes, Mesoamerican / Mexico	 God of death. The most important death god in the Mayan cultural area. Said to live in Metnal, the Yucatec place of death, and to burn the souls of the dead. He first burns the mouth and åñuś and, when the soul complains, douses it with water. When the soul complains of this treatment, he burns it again until there is nothing left. It then goes to the god Sicunyum who spits on his hands and cleanses it, after which it is free to go where it chooses. Attributes of Cizin include a fleshless nose and lower jaw, or the entire head may be depicted as a skull. Spine and ribs are often showing. He wears a collar with death eyes between lines of hair and a long bone hangs from one earlobe. His body is painted with black and particularly yellow spots (the Mayan color of death)....
"Co(co)chimetl (soporific)" Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico	 Minor god of merchants and commerce. One of the deities collectively clåśśed as the YACATECUHTLI complex....
"Coca-Mama" South American Indian / Peru	 Goddess of the coca plant. Minor goddess who oversees the harvest of the coca crop. Models of the deity were made from the leaves of the plant and kept for a year before being burned in a ritual to ensure a good coca harvest....
"Cocijo" Zapotec / Mesoamerican / Mexico	 Rain god. Known to have been worshiped by the Monte Alban culture of Zapotec-speaking peoples in the Valley of Oaxaca....
"Colel Cab (mistress of the earth)" Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico	 Chthonic earth goddess. This may be another title for the IX ZACAL NOK aspect of the goddess CHIBIRIAS....
"Colop U Uichkin (tears out the eye of the sun)" Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico	 sky god. Said to live in the midst of the sky, but with a night avatara of the same name who lives in the underworld land of the dead, Metnal, and who is the bringer of disease....
"Coyolxauhqui (golden bells)" Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico	 Astral goddess. A deification and incarnation (avatara) of the moon. According to tradition she is the half-sister of the Sun god HUITZILOPOCHTLI. The god sprang, fully armed, from his decapitated mother, COATLICUE, and engaged all his enemies who, by inference, are the 400 astral gods, his half-brothers. He slew his sister and hurled her from the top of a mountain. Alternative tradition suggests his sister was an ally whom he was unable to save, so he decapitated her and threw her head into the sky, where she became the moon. She was represented in the Great Temple at Tenochtitlan, where she was depicted in front of successive Huitzilopochtli pyramids. She is also a hearth deity within the group clåśśed as the XIUHTECUHTLI complex....
"Čú𝔪 Hau" Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico	 Chthonic god of death. One of several names for a death god listed in the codices....
Spirit name
"Cururipur" S American	 spirit of the jungle that brings destruction to tortoise hunters. South American
1. Grants and scholarships
Financial aid — the traditional way of eliminating college costs — is still available. To increase the odds of landing grants and scholarships, Doug Hewitt, co-author of "Free College Resource Book," advises students to fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, and then focus on local prizes.
"There are more scholarships you'll qualify for in your home state than nationally," says Hewitt. "Look at local organizations and talk to your high school (guidance) counselor."
And remember to start your search early. You won't be the only person wondering how to go to college for free and scholarships can be limited to a first come, first served basis. You should also keep in mind that you don't need to wait for your senior year to start hunting for scholarships. There are grants and awards available at all high school grade levels.
2. Give service to your country
The U.S. Coast Guard, Air Force, Military (West Point), Merchant Marine and Naval academies offer free college opportunities to students who serve after college, but cash is also available through ROTC programs closer to home.
Service requirements for ROTC programs vary, but all require students to complete military training on campus and commit to up to 12 years, depending on the branch of service. Students leave with training, a guaranteed job and opportunities for more free education.
AmeriCorps, a national service organization that offers education awards in exchange for community work, provides an award of up to $5,730 for each full year of service. Maximum years of service vary among AmeriCorps programs. Members also receive a living stipend while serving in the program.
3. Work for the school
Schools charge students tuition, but their employees often can get a free education. "This is a great option, especially for older students with job experience," says Reyna Gobel, author of "CliffsNotes Graduation Debt." "If you're 18, you might not qualify for a job that provides (tuition) benefits."
Schools typically provide benefits for full-time workers and sometimes require a certain level of experience, Gobel says. Future students can find out about their school's policy by calling the admissions office.
4. Waive your costs
Some students can get a free pass based on academic performance or other factors.
The North American Council on Adoptable Children in St. Paul, Minnesota, reports that Connecticut, Kentucky, Virginia, Maine, Massachusetts, Texas, Florida and Maryland offer waivers at certain public schools for adopted and foster care children.
Other schools offer waivers for Native American students, senior citizens and dislocated workers. To find out what your school offers, call the financial aid office.
5. Become an apprentice
An apprenticeship is another solid option when you're determining how to get free tuition. They can also open you up to job opportunities post-college.
Overall, your average apprenticeship program will take 1-6 years. You will probably be required to put in that time along with at least 2,000 hours of field work annually. The good news is that there are apprenticeships in more than 1,000 occupations, which can give you more options.
In exchange, the sponsoring employer pays for college or technical training and provides a salary. A list of available programs is available at the ApprenticeshipUSA website.
6. Have your employer pick up the costs
Another way you might receive a free college education is through your employer. Often given in the form of an employee reimbursement, there are plenty of employers that can help curb the cost of higher education.
7. Be in demand
Another great way to find out how to go to college for free is to determine if your field of study is "high-needs." Will your studies result in a career that's high in demand? Ask yourself this before you even enroll if you're trying to cut the cost of college.
Generally, schools will offer incentives to anyone focusing their studies on math, science, nursing, teaching, and social work. There are also additional opportunities available through organizations like Teach for America, the Nurse Corps Loan Repayment Program and the National Institutes of Health.
The nursing program at the University of Portland in Oregon has offered scholarships covering approximately 80% of the final 2 years of undergraduate study, if students sign a 3-year employment contract with the local health system, Fabriquer says. "There are similar programs in (high-needs) fields across the country," he adds.
8. Choose a school that pays you
Last on our list of ways on how to get free tuition, and probably the riskiest. There are, indeed, schools that will pay you to focus your studies in a single subject (which they dictate). Schools such as the Webb Institute and the Curtis Institute of Music offer a select range of academic programs and pick up the tuition cost for every student. Just think long and hard about your decision before you commit to this course.

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The firesale at the Miami Marlins is apparently not over yet. The rebuilding continues as outfielder Marcell Ozuna is traded to the St. Louis Cardinals.
Ozuna is having a career year this season with 124 RBIs as he increased his batting average to .312 along with 37 homeruns. He also won the Golden Glove and Silver Slugger awards in left field.
In the trade, the Marlins picked up two minor-league pitchers along with prospects Sandy Alcantara and outfielder Magneuris Sierra.
Marlins co-owner Derek Jeter has been preaching his intention to rebuild the team this season. Jeter recently lightened the load of the team's payroll by trading Dee Gordon to the Mariners and Giancarlo Stanton to the New York Yankees.
Meanwhile, Marlins general manager Don Mattingly defended Jeter, saying that the former Yankee received undeserved criticisms over his handling of the team. Mattingly also said that the team has been rebuilding since last year, even before Jeter came on board.
Despite trading so many top players, the GM claimed that he's very excited about the future of the team.


Nancy (pictured above), a psychotherapist, describes the different concerns and stresses of people in age groups from 30 to 90.
Mary and Doug cope with his long recovery from multiple strokes and her battle with pancreatic cancer.
Shirley, a widow, sets and achieves high goals while raising her family and finds a new career along the way.
Kathy returns to school to obtain her masters degree in public health and helps her community's poor and homeless.


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Smart 50 Award Goes to San José Business Registration, Tax Calculation, and Amnesty — A Partnership With GTY's CityBase
More than 2,000 San José Businesses Have Benefitted from Newly Digitized Process
AUSTIN, Texas & CHICAGO & SAN JOSÉ, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Government technology company CityBase announced today that its client the City of San José was named a recipient of this year's Smart 50 Awards for its Business Registration, Tax Calculation, and Amnesty initiative. CityBase is a business unit of GTY Technology Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq:GTYH) ("GTY"), a leading provider of SaaS/Cloud solutions for the public sector.
The initiative fully digitizes the process for San José–based businesses to register business tax with the City, calculate amounts owed, and pay — or to apply for a business tax exemption. It is the first time the process has been fully digitized, which has automated the recordkeeping and supported processes that manage exemption requests.
"Our vendor-partner CityBase played a critical role in delivering this solution. In past amnesty program periods, there wasn't an online registration process, there weren't online payments available. Online exemptions were not an option. This resulted in a disjointed registration and payment process, as well as long lines," said Rick Bruneau, Deputy Director of Finance for the City of San José.
Bruneau added that from October 2019 through January 2020, "over 2,000 businesses have benefited from this program. About 1,500 are new accounts that had never registered with the City previously, and now are registering with the City because of our amnesty program." Watch a video excerpt here of Bruneau's presentation to San José's Smart Cities and Service Improvement Committee detailing the initiative and its results, and the full video showing the solution here.
The automated processes drastically reduces staff time for manual work and follow-up on incomplete form submissions. The business tax amnesty program is expected to generate $1 million for the City.
The improved technology is an initiative of San José's Smart Cities and Service Improvement Committee, which prioritizes a "User Friendly Government" as one of the City's top goals for civic innovation. The City's priorities for the initiative included streamlining the process and speeding the time it takes for businesses to gain compliance, and for the City to collect tax revenue.
"We're honored to partner with San José, and applaud their important achievement in creating tangible process improvements for their residents and staff," said Mike Duffy, CEO and Founder of CityBase. The company works with cities and counties around the country to streamline the way people interact with their government, and how local government staff manage those interactions, including for things like business permitting and business taxes.
Smart 50 Awards, in partnership with Smart Cities Connect, Smart Cities Connect Foundation, and US Ignite, annually recognize global smart cities projects, honoring the most innovative and influential work. This year, primary categories included community engagement, digital transformation, smart mobility, urban infrastructure, and urban operations. San José was recognized in the digital transformation category.
About CityBase
CityBase makes government and utilities easier for everyone. The company builds technology that unifies and modernizes the way people find, apply, and pay for public services. Its technology is not just better — it's radically better — because customer expectations are rising, and legacy systems are suffocating progress. Today, more than 100 agencies, utilities, cities, and counties use CityBase software to bring hassle-free payments and online services to their customers. Learn more at thecitybase.com.
About GTY Technology Holdings Inc.
GTY Technology Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:GTYH) ("GTY") brings leading public sector technology companies together to achieve a new standard in stakeholder engagement and resource management. Through its six business units, GTY offers an intuitive cloud-based suite of solutions for state and local governments, education institutions, and healthcare organizations spanning functions in procurement, payments, grant management, budgeting, and permitting: Bonfire provides strategic sourcing and procurement software to enable confident and compliant spending decisions; CityBase provides government payment solutions to connect constituents with utilities and government agencies; eCivis offers a grant management system to maximize grant revenues and track performance; OpenCounter provides government payment software to guide applicants through complex permitting and licensing procedures; Questica offers budget preparation and management software to deliver on financial and non-financial strategic objectives; Sherpa provides public sector budgeting software and consulting services.
This press release includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The company's actual results may differ from its expectations, estimates and projections and, consequently, you should not rely on these forward looking statements as predictions of future events. Words such as "expect," "estimate," "project," "budget," "forecast," "anticipate," "intend," "plan," "may," "will," "could," "should," "believes," "predicts," "potential," "continue," and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements include, without limitation, the company's expectations with respect to future performance and anticipated impacts of the business combination. These forward-looking statements involve significant risks and uncertainties that could cause the actual results to differ materially from the expected results. Most of these factors are outside of the company's control and are difficult to predict. Factors that may cause such differences include, but are not limited to: (1) the ability to consummate any proposed transaction with respect to the previously announced review of strategic alternatives; (2) the lack of actionable alternatives being identified in connection with the strategic alternative review; (3) risks relating to the substantial costs and diversion of personnel's attention and resources due to the strategic alternative review; (4) the failure to generate sufficient cash flow from the company's business to make payments on its debt; (5) the ability to raise or borrow funds on acceptable terms; (6) changes in applicable laws or regulations; (7) the possibility that the company may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive factors; (8) the impact of the coronavirus outbreak, or similar global health concerns, on our operations and customer base; and (9) other risks and uncertainties included in the company's registration statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-229926), including those under "Risk Factors" therein, and in the company's other filings with the SEC, including the company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019. We caution you that the foregoing list of factors is not exclusive, and readers should not place undue reliance upon any forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made. We do not undertake or accept any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements to reflect any change in our expectations or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based.
Carter Glatt
Senior Vice President, Head of Corporate Development, GTY
carter@gtytechnology.com


Quiz: Can You Name These 16 1985 Grammy Nominated Songs?
80s music is a class all its own! Can you name these 16 Grammy nominated songs from 1985?
Pointer Sisters - "Jump (For My Love)"
Prince's _____ won for Best R&B Song (songwriter).
Merle Haggard - "That's The Way Love Goes"
Bill Withers - "In The Name Of Love"
Stevie Wonder - "The Woman In Red"
Pia Zadora - "Rock It Out"
Record of the year was ____ from Tina Turner.
_____ won for Best Country Song.
What was the Song of the Year?
A popular movie theme won for "Best Pop Instrumental Performance."
What song won for "Best R&B Song"?
Crystal Gayle - "The Sound Of Goodbye"
Janie Fricke - "Your Heart's Not In It"
Emmylou Harris - "In My Dreams"
Who won for Best (male) Rock Performance?
David Bowie - "Blue Jean"
:Prince & The Revolution - "Purple Rain"


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BALTIMORE — Keyonta Parnell has had asthma most of his young life, but it wasn't until his family moved to the 140-year-old house here on Lemmon Street two years ago that he became one of the health-care system's frequent customers.
"I call 911 so much since I've been living here, they know my name," said the 9-year-old's mother, Darlene Summerville, who calls the emergency medical system her "best friend."
Residents of this area visit hospitals for asthma flare-ups at more than four times the rate of people from the city's wealthier neighborhoods, according to data analyzed by Kaiser Health News and the University of Maryland's Capital News Service.
The supreme irony of the localized epidemic is that Keyonta's neighborhood in southwest Baltimore is in the shadow of prestigious medical centers — Johns Hopkins, whose researchers are international experts on asthma prevention, and the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC).
Both receive massive tax breaks in return for providing "community benefit," a poorly defined federal requirement that they serve their neighborhoods. Under Maryland's ambitious effort to control medical costs, both are supposed to try to improve residents' health outside the hospital and prevent admissions.
Hopkins, UMMC and other hospitals collected $84 million over the three years ending in 2015 to treat acutely ill Baltimore asthma patients as inpatients or in emergency rooms, according to the news organizations' analysis of statewide hospital data. Hopkins and a sister hospital received $31 million of that.
Science has shown it's relatively easy and inexpensive to reduce asthma attacks: Remove rodents, carpets, bugs, cigarette smoke and other triggers. Deploy community doctors to prescribe preventive medicine and health workers to teach patients to use it.
Ben Carson, secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, who saw hundreds of asthmatic children from low-income Baltimore during his decades as a Hopkins neurosurgeon, said that the research on asthma triggers is unequivocal. "It's the environment — the moist environments that encourage the mold, the ticks, the fleas, the mice, the roaches," he said in an interview.
"The cost of not taking care of people is probably greater than the cost of taking care of them" by removing triggers, Carson said, adding, "It depends on whether you take the short-term view or the long-term view."
Keyonta lives in a two-bedroom rowhouse on the 1900 block of Lemmon Street, which some residents call the "Forgetabout Neighborhood," about a mile from UMMC and three miles from Hopkins.
Hopkins's own research shows that shifting dollars from hospitals to Lemmon Street and other asthma hot spots could more than pay for itself. Half the cost of one admission — a few thousand dollars — could buy air purifiers, pest control, visits by community health workers and other measures proven to slash asthma attacks and hospital visits by frequent users.
"We love" these ideas, and "we think it's the right thing to do," said Patricia Brown, a senior vice president at Hopkins in charge of managed care and population health. "We know who these people are. . . . This is doable, and somebody should do it."
But converting ideas to action hasn't happened at Hopkins or much of anywhere else.
One of the few hospitals making a substantial effort, Children's National Health System in Washington, has found that its good work comes at a price to its bottom line.
Children's sends asthma patients treated in the emergency room to follow-up care at a clinic that teaches them and their families how to take medication properly and remove home triggers. The program, begun in the early 2000s, cut emergency-room use and other unscheduled visits by those patients by 40 percent, a study showed.
" 'Asthma visits and admissions are down again, and it's all your fault!' " Children's chief executive likes to tease him, Teach said. "And half his brain is actually serious, but the other half of his brain is celebrating the fact that the health of the children of the District of Columbia is better."
Half the 32 rowhouses on Summerville's block of Lemmon Street are boarded up, occupied only by the occasional heroin user. Late last year at least 10 people on the block had asthma, according to interviews with residents.
All three of Summerville's kids have asthma. Before moving to Lemmon Street two years ago, she remembers, Keyonta's asthma attacks rarely required medical attention.
The moldy basement has a dirt floor. Piles of garbage in nearby vacant lots draw vermin: mice, which are one of the worst asthma triggers, along with rats. Summerville kept a census of invading insects: gnats, flies, spiders, ants, grasshoppers, "little teeny black bugs," she laughs.
About a third of Baltimore high school students report they have had asthma, causing frequent absences and missed learning, said Leana Wen, Baltimore's health commissioner.
With numbers like that, West Baltimore's primary-care clinics, which treat a wide range of illnesses, are insufficient, as is the city health department's asthma program, whose three employees visit homes of asthmatic children to demonstrate how to take medication and reduce triggers.
The program, which an analysis by Wen's office showed cut asthma symptoms by 89 percent, "is chronically underfunded," she said. "We're serving 200 children [a year,] and there are thousands that we could expand the program to."
"Getting health-care providers to pay for home-based interventions is going to be necessary if we want to make a dent in the asthma problem," said Patrick Breysse, a former Hopkins official, who as director of the National Center for Environmental Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is one of the country's top public health officials.
Perhaps no better place exists to try community asthma prevention than Maryland. By guaranteeing hospitals' revenue each year, the state's unique rate-setting system encourages them to cut admissions with preventive care, policy authorities say.
But Hopkins, UMMC and their corporate parents, whose four main Baltimore hospitals together collect some $5 billion in revenue a year, have so far limited their community asthma prevention to small, often temporary efforts, often financed by somebody else's money.
UMMC's Breathmobile program, which visits Baltimore schools dispensing asthma treatment and education, depends on outside grants and could easily be expanded with the proper resources, said its medical director, Mary Bollinger. "The need is there, absolutely," she said.
Hopkins runs Camp Superkids, a week-long, sleep-away summer session for children with asthma that costs participants $400, although it awards scholarships to low-income families. It's also conducting yet another study — testing referral to follow-up care for emergency-room asthma patients, which Children's National long ago showed was effective.
"We either go forward to do what has been empirically shown to work or we continue to bury our heads in the sand and kids will continue to go to the hospital instead of the classroom," said Ruth Ann Norton, the nonprofit's chief executive.
"It's always a challenge to say, 'Where do we start first?' " said Dana Farrakhan, a senior vice president at UMMC whose duties include community health improvement.
Among other initiatives, UMMC takes credit for working with city officials to sharply reduce infant mortality by working with expectant mothers. The organization's planned outpatient center will include health workers to help people reduce home asthma triggers, Farrakhan said.
"What we do is perhaps not sufficiently focused," Brown of Hopkins said. At the same time, "we have to have revenue," she said. "We're a business."
After months of waiting, Summerville considered herself lucky to get an appointment with the city health department's asthma program.
One of its workers came to the house late last year, bearing mousetraps and mattress and pillow covers to control mites and other triggers. She helped force Summerville's landlord to fix holes in the ceiling and floor.
She urged Summerville to stop smoking inside and gave medication lessons, which uncovered that Summerville had mixed up a preventive inhaler with the medicine used for Keyonta's flaring symptoms.
"The asthma lady taught me what I needed to know to keep them healthy," Summerville said of her family. That was late in 2016. Since then, Summerville said last month, she hadn't needed an ambulance.
Naema Ahmed, Douglas Birch, Helen Lyons and Talia Richman contributed to this report. Methodology: Kaiser Health News and Capital News Service obtained data held by the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission on every hospital inpatient and emergency room case in the state from mid-2012 to mid-2016 — some 10 million cases. The anonymized data did not include identifying personal information. The news organizations measured asthma costs by calculating total charges for cases in which asthma was the principal diagnosis. Maryland's hospital rate-setting system ensures that such listed charges are very close to equaling the payments collected. To determine asthma prevalence, reporters calculated the per capita rate of hospital visits with asthma as a principal diagnosis — a method frequently used by health departments and researchers. This may exaggerate asthma prevalence in low-income Zip codes because of those communities' tendency to use hospital services at greater rates. However, other data also point to high asthma rates in 21223 and other low-income Baltimore communities — for example, asthma prevalence among hospital patients in a given Zip code.


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Are Obama and Ryan proposals for an EITC expansion pro- or anti-mobility?
Series: Social Mobility Papers
Joanna Venator and Richard V. Reeves Thursday, August 14, 2014
There's at least one policy that both parties agree has been successful in combatting poverty: the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). And rightly so – in 2012, the EITC pulled 6.5 million people out of poverty, including around 3.3 million children. Politicians on both sides of the fence have put forward plans for expanding the EITC to unmarried childless adults, including President Obama and Rep. Paul Ryan who propose very similar expansions. As Dylan Matthews of Vox.com puts it: "Ryan's proposal is almost identical to President Obama's, included in his current budget; the only difference is that Obama would also increase the maximum age one can claim the EITC from 65 to 67." There is however a large difference in the plans: how, and by whom, this expansion will be paid for.
Similarities in the Obama and Ryan EITC expansions
Created in 1975, the Earned Income Tax Credit is a refundable tax credit available to low income working Americans intended to both improve the lives of poor children and promote work. In keeping with these goals, families with more children are eligible for higher benefits and the credit increases as an individual's earnings increase before plateauing and then tapering off.
Recently, there has been a growing consensus that we should expand the level of benefits available to childless workers – including a proposal from our own Isabel Sawhill. Obama and Ryan have presented proposals to expand EITC to childless workers with the express goal of targeting groups with low or declining workforce participation such as low-income, low-education men and women without children. Both proposals double the maximum credit for childless adults to around $1000 and increases the income level at which the benefit begins to around $18,000.
Budget or Spending Neutral: Paying for the EITC
Obama and Ryan take different approaches to funding the proposal. True to their party lines, Obama's proposal is fiscally, but not spending neutral, whereas Ryan eschews higher tax rates in favor of cutting spending. Table 1 describes each plan's funding proposal:
Funding President Obama's EITC Expansion
The first portion of Obama's funding mechanism is taxing carried interest as ordinary income. What is carried interest? In short, managers of certain types of investment groups, such as private equity firms or hedge funds, are entitled a share of the profits of the investment fund in excess of the amount of capital they invest in the firm. That share, which makes up about one-third of the income that private equity general partners receive, is taxed at the lower rate assigned to capital gains.
Supporters of the current policy argue that carried interest should be treated similarly to capital gains from a non-managing partner's financial investment in the firm. In contrast, supporters of reform say that carried interest represents compensation for services (i.e., managing the fund), not a return on investment and should thus be treated like a salary for tax purposes. For a more thorough explanation of the arguments for and against this proposal, see the Tax Policy Center's explanation of carried interest.
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This change in the tax system would mainly impact the so-called One-Percenters – the average salary for a hedge fund manager is around $2.2 million a year. Taxing carried interest like wage and salary income would raise about $15 billion in revenue over five years, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation.
The second part of Obama's plan to fund the expansion of the EITC is to close a loophole in current tax law that allows individuals who own their own professional services business to avoid paying payroll taxes by classifying some of their income earnings as profits from pass‐through entities. This proposal is similar to one proposed by Senate Democrats which would require Americans with incomes over $250,000 a year who work in professional services firms, such as law, consulting, or lobbying, that derive over 75% of their profits from the service of 3 or fewer individuals to pay payroll taxes on all income from their partnership in that firm.
Funding Rep. Ryan's EITC Expansion
The first portion of Ryan's funding mechanism suggests cutting funding for the following programs, which he describes as "ineffective":
Table 1. Proposed budget cuts under Ryan's Poverty Proposal
Program Purpose
Social Security Block Grant Flexible funding source that allows states to allocate funds to vulnerable populations, primarily low- and moderate-income children and people who are elderly or disabled. Initiatives funded through SSBGs include daycare, health related services, substance abuse services, housing, and employment services.
Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Program Initiative that provides free fresh fruits and vegetables to students in participating elementary schools during the school day with the goal of improving children's diet and health by changing attitudes about healthy eating.
Economic Development Administration Government agency that provides grants and technical assistance to economically distressed communities with the goal of attracting private investment in these communities and job creation. Example initiatives include the Public Works Program and the Trade Adjustment Assistance for Firms.
Farmers' Market Nutrition Program Part of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, commonly known as WIC. WIC provides supplemental foods, health care referrals and nutrition education at pregnant and post-partum women, infants, and children up to 5 years of age who are found to be at nutritional risk. FMNP specifically provides WIC participants with coupons to buy fresh fruits and vegetables at farmer's markets
Though Ryan describes these programs as ineffective, many of them provide valuable resources to the communities they serve. Take for example, the Social Services Block Grant: it supports state services that reach 23 million people, about half of whom are children. Republicans have argued that "many of the services funded by the SSBG are duplicative of other federal programs," citing a Government Accountability Office report . But in fact, the GAO report makes no mention of SSBG other than to note that one area in which there are not enough federally funded programs to meet need is child care, an area in which SSBG is a key source of state funding. Eliminating SSBG would only increase this gap in funding.
The other programs Ryan proposes cutting, though smaller than SSBG in scope, have important impacts as well. An evaluation of FFVP by outside consultants finds that this program significantly increased children's intake of fruits and vegetables (both in school and at home) and increased children's positive attitudes towards fruits and vegetables and willingness to try new fruits and vegetables.
Ryan also proposes reducing fraud in the Additional Child Tax Credit by requiring the use of Social Security Numbers. Currently, individuals can use either a SSN or the individual tax identification number (ITIN) which is given to individuals who pay United States taxes but are not eligible to obtain a SSN, such as undocumented immigrants. Claims for the ACTC by ITIN filers amounted to about $4.2 billion in pay outs in fiscal year 2010 and enacting this proposal is estimated to reduce federal outlays by about 1 billion dollars each fiscal year.
House Republicans have repeatedly argued that having the IRS pay out tax credits to undocumented workers is fraud. They claim that children with undocumented parents should not receive benefits and that such credits encourage illegal immigration. But this is a misleading characterization and puts the burden of parents' immigration choices on the shoulders of low-income children. Eligibility for the child credit is tied to the child, not the parent and requires documentation of the child's citizenship or residency. 82 percent of the children whose parent files with an individual taxpayer identification number are citizens. Undocumented workers are not committing fraud by claiming this credit for U.S.-born or legally resident children of immigrant parents and requiring SSNs would likely result in benefits being taken away from low-income children.
Ryan's final source of funding is a reduction in "corporate welfare" such as subsidies to corporations for politically favored energy technologies and the Department of Agriculture's Market Access Program which subsidizes international advertising costs for agricultural companies.
Winners and Losers under Obama's and Ryan's EITC proposals
First, who benefits from expanding the EITC to childless workers? The Tax Policy Center's analysis of the EITC proposal finds that those in the bottom quintile are most likely to benefit:
Source: Tax Policy Center, 2014
As the above graph shows, this tax credit is pretty successfully targeted at those who need the most help: about one-quarter of those in the bottom income quintile would have lower taxes under the proposed expansion, but very few tax payers in higher income quintiles see any impact.
Next, who is paying for this expansion? In the graph below, we show the groups most likely to be affected by the proposed funding mechanisms, broken down by income quintile. In some cases, the group described is not necessarily a perfect match for those affected: for example, not everyone who reports capital gains is a hedge fund manager reporting carried interest as capital gains. But these populations can still give us a sense of the distributional effects of, in order, taxing carried interest as ordinary income; closing tax loopholes for owners of S Corporations; cutting the Social Services Block Grant; cutting the Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Program; cutting the Farmers' Market Nutrition Program; and requiring SSNs for the Additional Child Tax Credit.
The populations negatively affected by President Obama's proposal are mostly concentrated among the top two income quintiles. For example, 75 percent of those reporting S Corporation profits are in the top two quintiles. In contrast, the populations negatively affected by Representative Ryan's proposal are mostly concentrated in the bottom two quintiles.
Source: For data on means-tested benefits: Rector and Kim, 2008; For data on S Corporations: Tax Policy Center, 2011; For data on capital gains: Tax Policy Center, 2014
Ryan's EITC is pro-mobility…but funding it may not be
Paul Ryan seems to be thinking seriously about the issues of poverty and social mobility. He is a reformer as well as an authentic conservative.
While his willingness to embrace EITC expansion is welcome, his proposed funding methods raise serious questions. Paying for anti-poverty programs by cutting anti-poverty programs runs the risk of being self-defeating. No doubt some of them are not working as intended. But reform is the answer, rather than abolition. Many of these programs help those in the deepest poverty – who in many cases are those least likely to benefit from welfare-to-work policies such as the EITC, according to recent research from the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities and from the National Poverty Center.
Ryan's package is worthy of serious attention, not least from the perspective of social mobility. It is important, however, not to consider the impact of the EITC expansion alone, but also how – and by whom- it will be paid for.
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Q: Proper way to extract rows from a dataframe based on list values For a dataframe with label group of some integers, what is the best way to get the sub-dataframe based on a list of group labels?
map = [[9,13],[21,22]]

train

         group  feature1
id
0          24 -0.141691
1          22 -0.527684
2          13 -0.586026
3           9  0.233221
4          21 -0.545011

Currently I am using for loop which obviously is sub-optimal.
df = pd.DataFrame()
for i in map[0]:
  new_df = pd.concat([df,train[train.group==i]],axis=0)

new_df

             group feature1
    id
    2          13 -0.586026
    3           9  0.233221

A: I think you're looking for pd.Series.isin?
df[df['group'].isin(np.concatenate(map))]

    group  feature1
id
1      22 -0.527684
2      13 -0.586026
3       9  0.233221
4      21 -0.545011

If you want just the records associated with map[0]:
df[df['group'].isin(map[0])]

    group  feature1
id
2      13 -0.586026
3       9  0.233221


The health of a future baby depends on the back or side sleeping pregnant woman.
British scientists from the University of Huddersfield conducted a study in which analyzed the influence of various poses of sleep in pregnant women at risk of stillbirth. It turned out that there is a direct link.
After the first received data that the position for sleeping in pregnancy and the risk of stillbirth may be associated, the researchers initiated a large-scale international study that analyzed data collected in the UK, Australia, USA and New Zealand.
In total, the study involved 257 2 women with current pregnancy 851 and a woman who are faced with stillbirth. The researchers analyzed how women sleep. It turned out that those pregnant women who slept back after the onset of 28 weeks, risk of stillbirth increased from 2.6 times. And it was increased regardless of other risk factors.
As a reason why this happens, researchers call this the crushing weight of the uterus and subsequent reduction of blood flow to the baby when sleeping on your back. Thus, scientists came to the conclusion that pregnant women should sleep on their backs to avoid problems with health of the unborn child.
It should be noted that doctors often recommend pregnant women to sleep on their side and up to 20 weeks. Sleeping on your back is not recommended also for reasons of concerns about the health of the mother, this leads to back pain and poor sleep, in terms of pregnancy is a harmful factor.


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Ryan Murphy Wiki: TV Show, Net Worth, Screenwriter, 'Nip/Tuck' & Facts To Know
A brief biography on American screenwriter, producer and director, Ryan Murphy. From his net worth to his latest TV show, facts to know on the successful man.
Ryan Murphy: The Early Years
Ryan Murphy was born on November 30th, 1965, in Indianapolis, Indiana, and was raised in an Irish Catholic family. Murphy was born to a father who worked in the newspaper industry as a circulation director and his mother, J. Andy Murphy that Ryan Murphy has described as a "beauty queen who left it all to stay at home and take care of her two sons". J. Andy Murphy wrote five books and worked in communications for over 20 years before retiring. It would be safe to assume that Ryan Murphy got a lot of his talent from his mother and obviously followed in her footsteps as a writer, screenwriter and creator. Murphy saw his first therapist, after coming out as gay, the therapist found nothing wrong with Murphy other than him being "too precocious for his own good." Murphy attended Indiana University Bloomington, where Murphy majored in journalism and started working as a paid writer for publications such as The Miami Herald, New York Daily News, Los Angeles Times, Knoxville News Sentinel and Entertainment Weekly. He began life as a screenwriter in the late 1990s, when legendary director Steven Spielberg purchased his script, "Why Can't I Be Audrey Hepburn?"
Ryan Murphy: The Most Prolific Man In TV Show History
Ryan Murphy has quickly become one of the most powerful men in Hollywood. Murphy started with the TV Show Popular in 2001, which ran for two seasons and Murphy followed that up with the creation of the FX drama series Nip/Tuck. Nip/Tuck premiered on July 18, 2003 and in 2004, Murphy earned his first Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series. Nip/Tuck went on for 6 seasons and ended in 2010. This was only the beginning for Ryan Murphy; as a screenwriter, director and producer, Murphy would go on to create one massive TV Show hit after another. Murphy's musical comedy-drama series, Glee, premiered on Fox in May of 2009 and Murphy won his first Primetime Emmy Award as the director of the pilot episode.
Murphy next created what he is most known for, as far as ratings and awards as concerned. In 2011, Murphy created the anthology series American Horror Story, which premiered on FX on October 5, 2011. Most of the same cast has played different characters in a different setting each subsequent season, which continues to run today and is still extremely relevant and popular. Next for Murphy was the comedy-horror semi-anthology series Scream Queens, which premiered on Fox in September of 2015. Scream Queens only lasted 2 seasons, but Murphy did not miss a beat and created American Crime Story, which focused on the trial of O.J Simpson. The second installment of American Crime Story is focused on The Assassination Of Gianni Versace. American Horror Story is the gift that keeps giving and it seems as though American Crime Story will do just the same for Murphy and his usual suspects, almost every one of his main actors and actresses have won Emmy and Golden Globe Awards for their work on American Horror Story and American Crime Story.
Ryan Murphy: Net Worth & More
Murphy has also had a hand in movies as well, directing Eat Pray Love and The Normal Heart. Murphy was tapped to direct Eat Pray Love from the super successful book of the same name because of his great success with his TV show work. The Normal Heart is a television film adaptation of Larry Kramer's Broadway play of the same name and stars Mark Ruffalo, Julia Roberts and Alec Baldwin, amongst others. All of this success has not slowed him down one bit and the newest installment of American Crime Story, The Assassination Of Gianni Versace looks to be a smash hit, the same as the first season, featuring the O.J Simpson Trial.
Ryan Murphy has amassed a net worth of $20 million dollars and with new projects just around the corner, his net worth will only continue to grow. Murphy married photographer David Miller in July of 2012. Murphy and Miller welcomed their first child, a son named Logan Phineas, via a surrogate on Christmas Eve of 2012. The couple welcomed their second son, Ford in October of 2014.
Murphy is a prominent figure in charity work, philanthropy and the LGBT community. Murphy received the Award of Inspiration from the Foundation for AIDS Research for his contributions to TV and film as well as his work in the fight against AIDS in 2015. Murphy also serves on the National Advisory Board of the Young Storytellers Foundation. Ryan Murphy is one of the great storytellers and creators of our time and something like net worth means very little to him compared to telling great stories, whether as a screenwriter, director, producer or creator of some of the most intriguing and provocative shows in television. Ryan Murphy has many projects in development, including Dirty Tricks, a political comedy, and a sequel to The Normal Heart. All fans of great storytelling will be waiting to see what he does next.
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Women Demand Environmental Justice In Niger Delta
Some women in the Niger Delta region have demanded urgent steps to mitigate the devastating effects of climate change causing environmental pollution in the region.
The women under the aegis of Kebetkache Women Development and Resource Centre made the demand at an event on Tuesday in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital.
The executive director of the centre, Emem Okon, decried the delay by the government in proffering lasting solutions to the menace of environmental pollution.
She said, "Women do not have access to clean drinking water; women's health is being impacted by the oil extractive activities.
"There are increased incidents of cancer and increase the incidence of miscarriages among women."
According to Okon, this is why the women resolve to pick a day to come together to put pressure on the government and the relevant stakeholders to take drastic measures to clean up the Niger Delta.
A participant at the event, Dorathy Ijuwa, lamented that women now face many challenges due to the situation, including restrictions to carry out their business ventures.
"Women can no longer go for fishing as there is no fish for the women to support their husband; no everything there is bad because of oil spills," she said.
Similarly, there were more emphasis on environmental justice and the effects of climate change on both male and the female in the society.
The women, therefore, asked the government to immediately put measures in place to save the environment from its a dilapidated state.
Posted on January 7, 2020 January 14, 2020 Author Akinola AjibolaCategories environmentTags Environment, Niger Delta, womenLeave a comment on Women Demand Environmental Justice In Niger Delta
Niger Delta: LEDAP Files Suit Challenging Powers Of Godswill Akpabio
The Legal Defence and Assistance Project (LEDAP) has filed a suit at the Federal High Court, challenging the powers of the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, to constitute an interim management committee to run the affairs of the Niger Delta Development Commission.
The announcement of an interim management team had sparked outrage in the Niger Delta states as many see the move as a way to scuttle the development projects of NDDC.
The Minister was quoted as saying that the interim committee was to prepare ground for the new Board and supervise the forensic audit which the President had ordered weeks ago.
LEDAP in the suit, filed by its Executive Director, Chino Obiagwu SAN, is challenging the appointment of the interim board on the grounds that it is contrary to specific sections of the NDDC Act as amended.
READ ALSO: Court Adjourns Sowore's Trial
Joined as plaintiffs in the suit are some indigenes of the Niger Delta area, including Iruo Onoruvwe, Anatole Osuji, and Walter Abere.
Other defendants aside the Minister and the NDDC are Dr Gbene Joi Nunieh, Dr Cairo Ojougboh, and Chief Ibanga Basset Etang.
LEDAP specifically wants the four to declare that the purported appointment
by the first defendant of a three-man interim management for the second defendant is contrary to sections 2, 10, and 12 of the NDDC Act 6 2000(as amended).
A declaration that the purported appointment by the first defendant of the third defendant as the Managing Director of the second defendant, the fourth as Executive Director, Projects, and the fifth defendant as Executive Director, Finance and Administration of the second defendant are contrary to the provisions of section 12(1)c of the NDCC Act as amended, which provides that the Managing Director and two executive directors of the second defendant shall be appointed by the President, Commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces and confirmed by the Senate in consultation with the House of Representatives.
A declaration that by virtue of Section12(2) of the second defendant of the NDDC Act,the Managing Director of the second defendant performs his functions under the general direction of the board of the second defendant.
A declaration that the first defendant cannot validly appoint the 3rd-5th defendants as acting Managing Director; and Executive Directors of the second defendant while the list of nominated members of board of the second
defendant submitted by the President, pursuant to sections 2, 10, and 12 of the NDDC Act 2000 to the National Assembly is pending the approval of of the Senate.
An order nullifying the purported appointmentsof the 3rd-5th defendants as acting Managing Director and Executive Directors of the second defendant;
An order restraining the second defendant and its management from handing over, and, or permitting the 3rd-5th defendants to assume the office of the Managing Director and Executive Directors of the second defendant;
An order restraining the first defendant by himself or anyhow whatsoever from interfering in the affairs of the second defendant in manner inconsistent with the provisions of the NDDC Act.
The court is yet to fix a date for the hearing of the suit.
Posted on November 6, 2019 November 6, 2019 Author Soonest NathanielCategories PoliticsTags Godswill Akpabio, Niger DeltaLeave a comment on Niger Delta: LEDAP Files Suit Challenging Powers Of Godswill Akpabio
IYC Rejects NDDC's Interim Management, Threatens To Ground Activities
The Ijaw Youth Council has threatened to ground activities at the headquarters of the Niger Delta Development Commission in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State.
According to the IYC, it will back the threat with action if the NNDC's Interim Management Committee constituted by the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Mr Godswill Akpabio, is not disbanded immediately.
Addressing a news conference in Warri, Delta State, IYC President Eric Omare also demanded that the new members of the NDDC Board cleared by the Senate should be inaugurated immediately.
He added that the forensic audit ordered by President Muhammadu Buhari should be "directly supervised" by the President.
"If our demands are not met within a reasonable time from this moment, we will be forced to embark on mass action in the entire Niger Delta, especially at the NDDC headquarters in Port Harcourt to forcefully remove the interim management committee from the NDDC headquarters," the IYC President said.
IYC President, Eric Omare
Mixed reactions have trailed the constitution of the interim committee which is charged with the responsibility to oversee the affairs of the commission throughout the period of the forensic audit.
Mr Akpabio had announced the appointment of a three-man interim management committee expected to oversee the affairs of the NDDC until the forensic audit is completed.
Not only did the IYC reject the move, it also dismissed the idea behind it declaring it illegal.
"The reasons why we are against the committee set up by the Minister are as follows: Number one, it is illegal. Number two, the argument that the committee is to ensure unhindered forensic audit ordered by the President is unacceptable; it is weak and baseless," Mr Omare said.
Following shouts of "Enough is Enough", he added, "We are tired of people using our resources to run their bogus lifestyles."
He believes the youths of the Niger Delta are ready to hold everybody accountable and if the incoming board fails to do what they are supposed to do, they will "hold them accountable".
Posted on November 4, 2019 November 5, 2019 Author SimonCategories LocalTags IYC, NDDC, Niger DeltaLeave a comment on IYC Rejects NDDC's Interim Management, Threatens To Ground Activities
Senate Rejects Budget For Niger Delta Ministry
The Senate Committee on Niger Delta has rejected the 2020 capital budget of the ministry over the non completion of major projects in the region.
At the ministry's budget defense session in the national assembly, committee members expressed dissatisfaction over many abandoned projects across the Niger delta states.
READ ALSO: Ex-Niger Delta Agitators Protest In Abuja
The displeasure over unfinished projects in the region was disclosed by the Chairman of the Committee, Sen. Peter Nwaoboshi, when the Minister, Godswill Akpabio appeared before the committee to defend the ministry's budget of N25, 910,486,285.
Senator Nwaboshi stated that there is no state within the Niger Delta which does not have abandoned projects that should have been completed before now.
Posted on October 21, 2019 Author Soonest NathanielCategories LocalTags budget, Niger DeltaLeave a comment on Senate Rejects Budget For Niger Delta Ministry
PDP Condemns Alleged Mass Arrest Of Members In Niger Delta
The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned what it described as on-going mass arrest and detention of its leaders and members in Rivers, Delta and Akwa-Ibom states, ahead of the governorship and state Assembly elections on Saturday March 9, 2019.
In a statement on Wednesday, the party accused the Presidency and the All Progressives Congress (APC) of "turning the South South zone into a war zone".
It alleged that in Rivers State, leaders of the PDP were being hounded and forcefully picked up in a well-coordinated operation by military operatives.
The PDP called on Nigerians and the international community to note the development in the South South, adding that, "The tension in the Niger Delta has been dangerously stretched and there is a limit to what the people can stomach in the face of such aggressions".
Speaking further, the party stressed that the Niger Delta region remained a stronghold for it and no amount of intimidation and assault by the APC would change that.
"Our party, therefore, demands the immediate release of every PDP member arrested by the military as well as instant stoppage of military aggression in the region ahead of the elections."
The party warned that if the trend was not checked, it would destroy the relative peace in the region and destabilize the nation.
Posted on March 6, 2019 Author Rejoice EwodageCategories PoliticsTags Akwa Ibom state, Niger Delta, PDPLeave a comment on PDP Condemns Alleged Mass Arrest Of Members In Niger Delta
The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned what it described as on-going mass arrest and detention of its leaders and members in Rivers, Delta and Akwa-Ibom states, ahead of the governorship and state Assembly elections on Saturday, March 9, 2019.
In a statement on Wednesday, the party accused the Presidency and the All Progressives Congress (APC) of "turning the South-South zone into a war zone".
The PDP called on Nigerians and the international community to note the development in the South-South, adding that, "The tension in the Niger Delta has been dangerously stretched and there is a limit to what the people can stomach in the face of such aggression".
It added that the Niger Delta remained a stronghold of the PDP and no amount of intimidation and assault by the APC would change that.
The party warned that if the trend was not checked, it would destroy the relative peace in the region and destabilise the nation.
Posted on March 6, 2019 March 6, 2019 Author SimonCategories Local, South SouthTags Niger Delta, PDPLeave a comment on PDP Condemns Alleged Mass Arrest Of Members In Niger Delta
General Elections: Jonathan Warns Politicians Against Encouraging Violence
Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan has asked politicians in Nigeria to strive towards peace in the forthcoming elections, urging them to ensure that no one dies on their behalf.
The former President made the call on Monday at a meeting with Niger Delta Youth Leaders in Yenagoa.
He urged the young leaders to embrace peace and shun violence ahead of the rescheduled general elections.
"Let us conduct the election peacefully, people should vote based on their conscience".
Jonathan said everyone who is true to his or her conscience would be able to know where to pitch their tents.
READ ALSO: Dogara Criticizes Buhari, Oshiomhole Over Comments On Postponed Elections
He encouraged the young people not to be induced, stressing that nobody's ambition is worth the blood of Nigerians.
Admonishing politicians he asked, "why must another person die because you want to hold a political office?"
The former leader stated that no office is meant for one particular person, noting that the aim of getting into office should be solely for the service of the people.
Speaking about violence especially within the election period, Jonathan said peace is fundamental to growth and economic development, stressing that the nation loses value with any extra-judicial killing recorded.
"Anytime somebody is killed by a person, either by a youth or even security services that is extra-judicial, whether the police kill somebody or a military man kills somebody extra-judicially, it brings the reputation and the image of the country down," he said.
He said if security operatives in Nigeria are interested in the future of the nation, then they must do everything to suppress extra-judicial killings, because one person killed affects the entire country.
Posted on February 18, 2019 February 20, 2019 Author Soonest NathanielCategories Local, South SouthTags Buhari, Jonathan, Niger DeltaLeave a comment on General Elections: Jonathan Warns Politicians Against Encouraging Violence
Some Ex-Militants Declare Support For President Buhari
Some former Niger-Delta militants today declared support for President Mohammadu Buhari's re-election bid.
According to them, the President has done well for the people of the Niger Delta and deserves a second term.
The militants, under the aegis of the Peace Ambassadors of the Niger Delta (PAND), endorsed the President Buhari at a press conference in Port Harcourt, the Rivers state capital.
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According to the leader of the group Ebikabowei Ben (popularly known as Boyloaf), what the nation needs now is a man like Buhari who has shown commitment to the welfare of the Niger Delta.
He added that the commitment of the President has led to the prevailing peace in the region.
Posted on February 13, 2019 February 13, 2019 Author Soonest NathanielCategories LocalTags Boyloaf, Buhari, Niger Delta, RiversLeave a comment on Some Ex-Militants Declare Support For President Buhari
Taraba Govt Assures Residents Of Security During Elections
Taraba State Governor, Darius Ishaku (file)
The Taraba State Government has assured people of the state of their safety in case of any violence during and after the forthcoming general elections.
Governor Darius Ishaku gave the assurance on Wednesday when Niger Deltans, as well as Adamawa indigenes resident in the state, paid him a visit at the Government House.
On their paths, the two groups assured the governor that whatever happens, they would rather defend their territory as the state is not just home to them but also a source of their livelihood.
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They said they were fully behind the governor and promised to re-elect him while also voting for Atiku Abubakar as President.
According to them, one of the reasons for their endorsement of the governor is his peaceful disposition.
Posted on February 13, 2019 February 13, 2019 Author Rejoice EwodageCategories LocalTags Adamawa, General Elections, Niger Delta, Taraba StateLeave a comment on Taraba Govt Assures Residents Of Security During Elections
NDDC Urges US To Support Peace Efforts In Niger Delta
NDDC Managing Director, Nsima Ekere.
The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), has appealed to the United States government to support programmes that would enhance peace and security in the Niger Delta to facilitate sustainable development in the oil-rich region.
The NDDC Managing Director, Nsima Ekere, made the appeal when a delegation from the United States Consulate in Lagos, led by the US Consul-General, F. John Bray, paid him a visit at the commission's headquarters in Port Harcourt.
Ekere emphasized the need for an enduring peace in the region, stating that security was critical for development and growth.
Posted on December 12, 2018 December 12, 2018 Author Rejoice EwodageCategories LocalTags NDDC, Niger Delta, OIL, SecurityLeave a comment on NDDC Urges US To Support Peace Efforts In Niger Delta
Army Arrests 'Wanted' Suspect, Others In Niger Delta
The Nigerian Army says its field training exercise Operation Crocodile Smile III, which covers Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Delta and Rivers states, has continued to record more successes since its inception on October 22, 2018.
In a statement on Friday, Deputy Director of Army Public Relations, Colonel Aminu Iliyasu, outlined the feats the exercise has recorded so far by the participating troops.
He revealed that troops of 6 Division Garrison working on timely and actionable intelligence arrested a notorious criminal suspect, Ernest Ibekwe Alias "Tallest", on Tuesday in Rivers State.
The suspect, he said, has been on the Nigeria Police Force wanted list in connection to kidnappings and armed robbery operations along the East-West Road.
He added that troops located and destroyed four illegal bunkering camps with five ground reservoirs and 25 storage tanks containing stolen crude oil also on Tuesday.
According to Ilyiasu, the success was recorded during an anti-illegal oil bunkering operations conducted by troops of 16 Brigade at Ijawkiri and Sangasangabio creeks.
He said the troops also foiled an attempt to sabotage oil production by miscreants who intended to set fire to Riser 01 at Gbaraun in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State.
In Delta State, troops arrested two suspected drug peddlers, Nduka Ozigbundu and Mofi Ndubuisi, with large quantities of substances believed to be cannabis and other hard drugs on Tuesday along Cable Roundabout in Asaba.
"Suspects were handed over to the State National Drug Law Enforcement Agency for prosecution. In continuation of their aggressive patrol of the creeks, the troops also located and destroyed 15 Cotonou boats, five pumping machines, 17 rubber hoses, 30 iron pipes, two (8 HP) outboard engines and four dug out pits at Otumara and Ugboegugun in Warri South/West LGA Delta State," the statement read.
The colonel further highlighted some of the activities of Operation Crocodile Smile III in the civil-military exercise which held between October 25 and November 2.
He said the Army presented relief materials to flood victims at the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps in Bayelsa and Delta states on October 31 and November 2 respectively.
Ilyiasu said thousands of flood victims benefitted from the humanitarian gesture.
He noted that troops of 6 Division would remain resolute in clamping down on all criminals and criminal activities within the area of responsibility of the Division, to pave way for legitimate businesses and peaceful coexistence of the people of the Niger Delta.
Posted on November 9, 2018 November 9, 2018 Author Akinola AjibolaCategories Crime WatchTags Army, Niger DeltaLeave a comment on Army Arrests 'Wanted' Suspect, Others In Niger Delta
Ex-Militants In Delta Protest At Govt House Over Jobs
Former militants from several communities in Delta State have laid siege to the Government House protesting over an alleged attempt by some contractors to take over their jobs.
The youths, under the aegis of Host Communities of Nigeria (Oil & Gas), who are captured in the Federal Government's amnesty programme, marched out on Friday in their hundreds with placards to express their displeasure on the issue.
They barricaded the Government House, preventing movement in and out of the premises while chanting solidarity songs and calling on the governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, to come to their rescue.
"Your excellency, we feel that this is the point at which you, as the chief security officer of our dear state, must rise up to take steps to nip this madness in the bud to avert the impending danger that this greedy set of 'soldiers of fortune' is about to impose on not just our communities, but also our dear state.
"You may wonder how this is our concern. It has become our concern because we have sat down to imagine what the picture will look like when ocean marine successfully takes our jobs away from us, using either traditional rulers or president generals of our communities as fronts, how many youths with bustling capacities and abilities will be rendered jobless," they said.
The state's Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Peter Mrakpor, who addressed the protesters said their grievances would be communicated to the governor.
Posted on November 9, 2018 November 9, 2018 Author Rejoice EwodageCategories LocalTags Delta State, Militants, Niger DeltaLeave a comment on Ex-Militants In Delta Protest At Govt House Over Jobs


Published on October 28, 2004.
Little Rock, Ark.—Acxiom Corp. announced it has acquired ChinaLOOP, a Shanghai, China-based company that provides database management, list rental and other direct marketing services.
As a result of the acquisition, Acxiom expands its Asian footprint, while ChinaLOOP will be able to enhance its IT infrastructure with new technology products. Gabrielle Chou will remain CEO of ChinaLOOP.


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The Hotel Saranac is a historic hotel in Saranac Lake, New York, a town formerly served by the Adirondack Railway. Its full name is Hotel Saranac, Curio Collection by Hilton. The hotel has 102 rooms and 20 suites.

It was designed by local architects William Scopes and Maurice Feustmann in an austere Colonial Revival (or Neo-Georgian) style and built in 1927. The hotel is a symmetrically arranged, six-story building clad in brick veneer. In order to ensure fire safety, the hotel was built with steel framing and concrete floors. The large lobby on the second floor was modeled after the Grand Salon of the Davanzati Palace in Florence.

The hotel closed in 2013, underwent a $35-million renovation, and reopened in 2018. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.

It is a member of the Historic Hotels of America.

It claimed when opened to have been the first fireproof hotel in the Adirondacks.

It was owned and operated by Paul Smith's College from 1962 to 2006. It was used by the college for on-the-job training as part of its hotel, resort, and culinary management program.

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External links
Hotel Saranac, official site

Colonial Revival architecture
National Register of Historic Places in Franklin County, New York
Buildings and structures completed in 1927
Hotels in New York (state)
Saranac Lake, New York
Historic Hotels of America

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Small red- and blue-glazed bricks pattern the exterior of this house by Austin Maynard Architects, which replaces a garage in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond.
Located on a corner plot, hard up to a laneway on two sides, the red brick house acts as a bookend to a row of garages and outbuildings that extend down a hill.
The house, called Brickface, was built for the clients' daughter on the site of their former garage and studio space.
"Melbourne's property market is so inflated, that we're now seeing a generation that are not only unable to buy a home, but also struggling to find affordable places to rent close to their work, school and community," explained Austin Maynard Architects.
"Melbourne does have one trick up its sleeve that many parents are increasingly exploring. Melbourne is strewn with under-utilised laneways and many home owners are creating a second residence in their backyard with frontage to the laneway, where their adult children can live during university and early employment," the architects added.
"These second residences are becoming fully independent studio homes for adult children, allowing them to save and plan, whilst continuing to contribute to the essence of Melbourne's most vibrant and cultural suburbs."
The layout comprises a garage at ground level, a studio living space with bright blue walls on the first floor, and a roof deck that functions as a garden.
A new pool and entertaining space sits in-between the existing house and the new building, and a tall spiraling staircase made from galvanised steel winds up to the roof terrace from the water's edge.
"The clients asked for a new building at the end of their rear yard," explained the Melbourne-based architects.
"The previous garage, with studio above, was large – it dominated the garden and compromised their outdoor space. The new building, though taller, is smaller, tighter and more efficient. It minimises its footprint to maximise the rear yard."
Anticipating a future of driverless cars, the architects designed the ground floor with high ceilings and an easily replaceable door so that it can be adapted into a generous living or retail space when the garage is no longer required.
The building's recycled red brick facade, which provides a backdrop to the pool, features a slanting parapet, a pattern of contrasting red- and blue-glazed bricks, and round windows.
The architects explained that these unusual features help to introduce light and shadow, pattern and colour into the design while also "softening the solid block".
Other house extensions by the Melbourne-based practice include a timber-framed house with the living room in full view of the street and an intentionally incomplete metal-framed extension to a clapboard house near Melbourne.


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William Cuesta (born February 19, 1993) is a Colombian footballer playing for Deportes Tolima. From La Equidad, Cuesta was sold to Deportes Tolima along with new transfers Sergio Mosquera and Christian Alarcon.

Appearing twice in cup games with La Equidad, he knew Victor Giraldo before the transfer which helped him assimilate into the Deportes Tolima squad.

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La Equidad footballers
Deportes Tolima footballers
Colombian footballers
Association football goalkeepers
Living people
1993 births
Sportspeople from Antioquia Department


This easy walk takes advantage of the country roads around Kilmaurs to form a loop passing several of the village's largest farms, including High Langmuir, Laigh Langmuir, Knocklandside and Busbie Mains. The final section takes you along the traffic-free NCN73 cycle path and returns to Kilmaurs via the B751/Crosshouse Road.
Route: Exit the car park at the main entrance, turning left onto Fenwick Road. At the end of the street turn right onto Main Street/A735 and follow it along a short distance, turning left when you reach Habbieauld Road. This residential street soon becomes a minor road surrounded by fields, followed by a farm track after you pass Habbieauld Farm B&B. On reaching High Langmuir Farm pass through the gate then turn left behind the barn. Continue straight ahead at a junction in the road and enjoy the open countryside all the way down to Irvine Road. Turn right here and carefully walk along the roadside verge for 0.4 miles (this road can be busy with traffic). Take the first road on your left and enjoy this quieter section along past Knocklandside and Busbie Mains farms. After 1.2 miles look out for a track on the right which goes past a barrier and leads you gently downhill and onto the NCN73 cycle path. Turn left here and after 0.8 miles you will arrive in Knockentiber at which point you should leave the cycle path, turning left on B751/Crosshouse Road and use the roadside pavement for approx 1 mile to return to Kilmaurs. Emerging in front of the Primary School, turn right to reach A735/Main Street. Turn left onto this street and the car park where you started is behind the Weston Tavern.
I was impressed by the reindeer wood sculpture just outside Habbieauld Farm B&B!
Quiet single track road heading towards Knockentiber.


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Brunswick Preface
These volumes set out to document as fully as possible the recording made by Brunswick-Balke-Collender, its subsidiaries and subsequent corporate manifestations, between 1916 and 1931.
No attempt is made to refer (except in passing) to the recordings which appeared on the Brunswick label produced by the American Record Corporation (A.R.C.) from 1932 to 1938 as these records really belong in a volume devoted to the activities of A.R.C. Nor do these volumes cover the few Brunswick releases produced after A.R.C. was acquired by the Columbia Recording Corporation in December 1938. Columbia lost the rights to use the Brunswick name in May 1941. The Brunswick records produced by Decca from 1944 are also not covered here, as these are already noted in Michel Ruppli 's Decca Labels discography (also published by Greenwood Press).
Instead, the aim of the volumes you have before you is to reconstruct the diverse range and extent of Brunswick recordings during the first decade and a half of the label's existence. This period not only saw the emergence of Brunswick as it rapidly became one of the major labels in America (at one point around 1924 even challenging Victor as the bestselling label), but it also coincides with one of the most dynamic and fascinating stages in the development of the American record industry as well as what is definitely one of the artistic high points of popular music in the twentieth century (during which the work of so many great popular composers became known around the world).
Original recordings of works by Irving Berlin, Harold Arlen, Irving Caesar, Hoagy Carmichael, Sam Coslow, Benny Davis, Peter De Rose, Howard Dietz, Walter Donaldson, AI Dubin, Sammy Fain, Ted Fiorito, Cliff Friend, George Gershwin, Ray Henderson, Jimmy McHugh, Cole Porter, Ralph Rainger, Andy Razaf, Richard Rodgers, Thomas Waller, Harry Warren, Richard Whiting, Harry Woods and Vincent Youmans are prominent among the recordings detailed in these volumes, along with the work of many other less well-known composers. In the case of Irving Berlin, Harold Arlen, Hoagy Carmichael, Ted Fiorito, Ralph Rainger and Vincent Youmans, they are also included as performers of their own works.
These volumes also include the most diverse range of other types of music (as well as vocal, choral, spoken-word) including classical, jazz, blues, country music, ethnic, children's, religious and other recordings.
Another important aspect of the period covered by these volumes is that it saw the record industry develop from one essentially based in New York, which had only a limited presence elsewhere in the United States, to a situation were all the major companies had studios and/or pressing plants at various points (especially Chicago and Los Angeles).
The 1920s also saw the development of alternate markets aimed at racial and cultural minorities, and a huge number of recordings were made as a result. During this decade the number of recordings made outside the big cities also increased dramatically as the major companies competed with each other to find and record a wide range of music in remote locations by sending out mobile recording units to many locations never visited for recording purposes before. Brunswick was very active in this field.
The above remarks clearly establish that the recordings documented in these volumes are of the greatest interest, and not only for record collectors and those whose research interests include discographical information. As much of the data presented here has never previously been published, and given the wide scope of the recordings listed, those with an interest in many aspects of American culture or in many genres of music will find it an invaluable resource.
My aim has been to provide a resource, which, as far as possible, was based on first-hand examination of contemporary sources (both published and unpublished). If the data provided here is at variance with information shown in previously published sources, I believe it will be found that these volumes are simply correcting errors, omissions and mistaken interpretations in existing books and discographies. The large quantity of new information published here for the first time, or which corrects material previously published will mean that very few works including any Brunswick/Vocalion recordings from the period covered by these volumes will, at the very least, require significant revision.
The discographical listings are (as far as possible) a reconstruction of the chronological sequence of the actual activity in the recording studios. The Brunswick master series was initially a model of simplicity which easily facilities a straight numerical sequence by matrix number. However, [as] the rapidly expanding Brunswick operation grew and developed a large number of variations, modifications, and extensions were made to the master numbering system, so that by the mid-1920s it had become extremely complex.
Not only was a new matrix series introduced after the Brunswick acquisition of Vocation (which was applied to all material intended for release on that label), there were also a large number of additional matrix series introduced for various regional locations. In addition many selections were renumbered into other matrix series as required (for example, when released on a different label from the original). Also, once Brunswick was using more than one studio in a particular location, blocks of master numbers were allocated to the various studios. This had the effect that before long these numbers no longer ran in sequence and the cumulative effect of all these complications is that it was necessary that these volumes be organized chronologically and by location as follows:
Vol. I New York sessions 1916-1926
Vol. 2 New York sessions 1927-1931
Vol. 3 Chicago & regional sessions
Vol. 4 Other non U.S. recordings and indexes
An introductory survey in Volume 1 covers Brunswick's corporate history to assist the reader in understanding the many changes and developments that are reflected in the discographical listings. Developments in the U.S. company are covered in as much detail as possible. Basic details have also been provided for Brunswick branches and affiliates outside the United States, but this information is far from comprehensive.
Every attempt has been made to provide the most detailed and accurate discographical data possible and where the original company documents have survived the listings published here are taken directly from these sources. The other primary source used has been copies of the actual recordings. Any corrections, additions or further information in relation to the material covered in these volumes would be gratefully received by the author at GPO Box 22, Canberra, A.C.T. 2601, Australia.
Ross Laird,
Forward to Acknowledgments
Christian Mathisen
(tenor vocal)
You taught me how to love you, now teach me how to forget (Brunswick Matrix E26091-E26092, take E26092 was recorded by Buell Kazee in New York, New York. 799 Seventh Avenue, Room no. 1)


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Congressman Joseph Kennedy III joined protesters in Texas over the weekend to draw attention to the Trump administration's zero tolerance policy on illegal immigration. The policy has sparked controversy, as it has resulted in children being taken away from their parents. Congressman Kennedy talks about what he saw and what he was told by officials at the "tent city" in Tornillo.
Joseph Kennedy III, congressman serving the 4th district of Massachusetts. He tweets @repjoekennedy.