One thing that's essential for my happiness is being grateful. I always try to make a point to take a step back and remember the little things that I have so much to be thankful for. I try to bring my mind back to this positive place when I find myself being cynical or having depressed moods. I'd be a liar if I said that none of us had bad days. It's so normal, but I have found over the years that switching your thinking when you're having a bad day can do wonders.
You all know I had to make that my number one. 😉 There's something so refreshing about stepping outside in the warmth and being surrounded by everyone who is genuinely so happy to be outside as well. It's the best feeling.
Last Thursday I went to an event in Detroit with one of my best friends, Julie. We got to learn about an awesome beauty company, Beauty Counter. If you've never heard of them before (I hadn't), its mission is to get safer products into the hand of everyone—which I can appreciate. Anyway, Julie and I were able to enjoy a few glasses of wine at Vertical and had some heart-to-heart conversations that made my heart so full. My best girlfriends and I try to hang out as much as we can. It's so important to have close relationships where you can confide in other people and support them.
Last Saturday I picked up three bunches of fresh cut tulips from Trader Joe's while I was running my errands and once I got home and put them in vases I couldn't help but smile. Opening up the windows and adding fresh flowers to your home truly makes it feel like Spring.
Julie and I ate brunch at Iron Horse in downtown Royal Oak. This spot is starting to become one of my top favorites for brunch in Royal Oak! The menu is very unique (stuffed avocados, mexican corn cakes with eggs, etc.) Sitting down with close friends over a delicious meal always puts a smile on my face.
Julie also helped me with some home improvement over the weekend. I desperately needed a new rug in my living room as the old one was stained. I basically put off the task for a few weeks before I had enough and asked if she would go to Lowe's with me to grab a new area rug. She agreed and ended up helping me move ALL my furniture so we could get the rug laid out. (PS my couch is so heavy). I can't even tell you how grateful I was because it would have probably taken me twice as long to do by myself. When we take a moment to think about how much our friends and family do for us it's really pretty amazing.
Let's be honest, a few snuggles from any pet can turn any person's day around. I always get happy when I see my parent's dog after not seeing him for a long time. He's a labradoodle and the most loving creature ever! He can never get enough snuggles and attention.
Over the weekend I watched the sun go down over the water and it was so peaceful. Feels so good to step away from the craziness of life and watch something so breathtaking.
While my Mom was checking out at the grocery store, an older woman came up to me and said, "I hope you don't find this weird, but you look absolutely stunning!" I had just finished the shoot I did for this post so I was wearing the jumpsuit and hat with block heeled booties. I honestly couldn't believe how sweet she was and gave her a compliment back. Sometimes I forget how much power a small compliment has on someone's day!
Today, my landlord was in my apartment fixing some of my drains and at the end of the work day I got a text saying, "… Oh, and I took the trash out for you since it's trash day." How sweet is that?!? Something so small can have such an impact.


Of the approximately 8,000 children born with heart conditions each year in Colombia, 5,000 come from low-income families and need some sort of treatment in order to survive.
We provide free care for underprivileged boys and girls with heart conditions who don't have access to high-quality medical services and technology. To do this, we conduct an average of 11 cardiology brigades each year in different cities across the country, in which children are examined by our specialists to identify heart diseases, and if necessary, taken to the Foundation for treatment.
Thanks to the support of our donors and partners, we are able to cover the costs of treatment, lodging, meals and transportation to and from their places of origin.
Thanks to all the support of our donors and partners, we can have diagnosis brigades all around the country.
With Ecopetrol, we save hearts.
Rotary Club Neiva, Rotary Club Monteria.
Partners of Pasto, Barranquilla and Cucuta.
Partners of Manizales, Duitama and Yopal.
During the first half of 2014 we conducted five Brigades Cardiology where 1247 children were diagnosed, and so far 126 have been operated.
On February 21 and 22 of 2014, we examined a total of 257 boys and girls in El Meta.
31 children in El Cesar with heart disease received free services thanks to our Give a Gift of Life social outreach program.
About 13.6% of the diagnosed patients were selected for surgery or catheterization for free in Bogotá.
Thanks to the support and solidarity of the "Fundación Pequeño Corazón", 167 children were diagnosed in Manizales and around.
The sixth version Brigade detection of children with cardiovascular diseases in the Department of Nariño was performed.
Conducted in the city of Bogotá, the Brigade of Pediatric Cardiology in its first version, diagnosing total 363 children.
On 27 and 28 August 2014 diagnosed a total of 345 children from Bolivar and around.
In 2013 we visited 10 cities, over 5,000 children were assessed and diagnosed.
Between 2012 and 2013, 9268 children were diagnosed, making a significant extent in comparison with previous years.
Pediatric Cardiology: Del Rosario University.
Pediatric Cardiologist at the Cardioinfantil Foundation Institute of Cardiology Bogota – Colombia. -Pediatric Intensivist (rotations). Pediatric Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit The Cardioinfantil Foundation Institute of Cardiology.
Professor at National University of Colombia.
Medicine: Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla.
Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery major: University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).
Specialty: Pediatric Cardiology Position: Professor Sabana University, New Granada Military University, Universidad del Rosario, FUCS, Universidad El Bosque. Cardioinfantil Foundation-Institute of Cardiology.


Southwest Public Libraries trustees on Jan. 12 are expected to consider placing a one-mill library levy on the ballot in 2010.
Mark Shaw, SPL executive director, estimated the levy will generate $2.5-million annually for the library.
The trustees have taken the first step toward a levy, asking the Franklin County auditor to certify how much money one mill would raise.
The Jan. 12 meeting will be at 7:30 p.m. at the Westland Area Library, 4740 W. Broad St., Columbus.
The filing deadline for local issues on the May 4 ballot is Feb. 18.
SPL is the only library system in Franklin County that receives no funding from local property taxes, Shaw said. Overall, state funding for the library has fallen by 31 percent since 2007.
He said SPL's total budget in 2008 was $4.3-million. The budget fell to $3.2-million this year and is projected to fall further to $3-million by 2010.
Library trustees in July reduced staffing and operating hours, and imposed mandatory unpaid furlough days.
Shaw said the library has put seven levies on the ballot between 1986 to 2002. All have failed.
Kay Byard, library board president, said all past levies have failed easily because they were for permanent improvements.
"We have not come even within a prayer of winning," Byard said. "But this is the first one that we have ever run just to keep operating. It's not just adding some frills."
She said she's unsure if trustees should seek a levy in May or during the November general election.
"We (trustees) haven't really talked about it all that much," Byard said. "When we start talking about this, we're going to have to be as realistic as we can."
While the auditor's certification is preliminary, library trustee Jill Billman-Royer said trustees would not have sought the certification if they were not serious.
"You wouldn't pass a resolution like that unless you're seriously considering (a levy)," she said. "I would rather have us not delay the process because our funding situation is not going to improve anytime soon."


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Ole H Petersen
Ole H Petersen, CBE MD FRCP FSB MAE FMedSci FRS, is Medical Research Council Professor and Director of Cardiff University's School of Biosciences. Educated as a medical doctor at the University of Copenhagen, he has been Professor of Physiology at the University of Dundee and George Holt Professor of Physiology at the University of Liverpool.
Ole Petersen pioneered single channel and whole cell current recording in epithelial cells, characterizing the calcium-activated ion channels that control exocrine fluid secretion. He discovered hormone-evoked local intracellular calcium signals, as well as their mechanism of generation, and showed that they control exocytotic enzyme secretion.
He was elected Fellow of The Royal Society in 2000 and Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2010. He is also a Foreign Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences & Letters and an Honorary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He received the Nordic Insulin Foundation's Jacobaeus Prize in 1994, the Czech Academy of Sciences' Purkyn? Medal in 2003 and was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II in 2008.
In 2013, Ole Petersen was awarded The American Physiological Society's Horace W Davenport Distinguished Lectureship and delivered the Award Lecture at 'Experimental Biology' in Boston, USA. He has served as Vice-President of The Royal Society, President of The Physiological Society (UK), President of the Federation of European Physiological Societies as well as Secretary General of the International Union of Physiological Sciences.
Ole Petersen is now Chair of Academia Europaea's Nominations Committee and he also chairs the Biological Sciences Panel for REF2014, the UK Government's Research Excellence Framework in which all University-based research will be evaluated, forming the basis for the distribution of Quality-Related general research funding in the UK's Higher Education Sector.

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Just Because A Solid Chocolate F.P. Journe Vagabondage III – The Best Swag Of SIHH 2017
The Sports Section What's The Best Watch For Runners?
So F.P. Journe just gave out a few dozen Vagabondage watches to selected press. No joke. The freebie was handed out after a presentation of Mr. Journe's latest model, which you can read all about here, and they were carefully distributed by the man Francois-Paul himself. Ok, so technically speaking they're made out of chocolate, but that only makes them even cooler – and possibly even more Swiss.
Arthur Touchot
The chocolate bars were one-to-one scale models of the Vagabondage III, made from delicious milk chocolate, which we can confirm after having taken a large bite out of the left side of the case (all in the name of responsible reporting, of course). Each was elaborately decorated with edible gold leaf too, because this is a luxury chocolate watch we're talking about. They were also made in Switzerland, of course, just like the less edible watches bearing the FPJ signature.
I'm not sure if the chocolate watches were meant as a slight dig on another independent watchmaker which recently presented a piece made out of actual cheese (that costs more than $1 million to boot). I doubt it, but it's almost something out of a joke that SIHH 2017 saw watches made of both cheese and chocolate.
In any case, it was a very cool gift and it definitely wins the contest for the best swag this year's SIHH.
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Just Because A Unique Pink Gold F.P. Journe Sonnerie Souveraine, With Lapis Lazuli Dial And Eastern Arabic Numerals
By Arthur Touchot
Introducing The F.P. Journe Vagabondage III, The World's First Mechanical Digital Jumping Seconds Wristwatch
The Five Stories Of 2016 That I Enjoyed Writing The Most
Introducing The F.P. Journe Automatique Réserve And Octa Automatique Lune With The New Havana Brown Dials


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Detroit's housing crisis is only getting worse
by timuin | Jun 4, 2019 | Uncategorized | 0 comments
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In recent years, states, communities and families across the country have been struggling to cope as decades of stagnant or falling wages and rising housing prices have come to a head. America is commonly said to be in the midst of a nationwide housing crisis. If we look back through history, however, it's clear that this isn't a new problem—at least not for people of color, particularly African Americans—and Detroit may provide one of the country's clearest examples.
For people of color, Detroit's housing crisis began in the early 1700s with the arrival of European colonizers. The French and later the British enslaved indigenous and Black people, exploiting their bodies, skills and knowledge to establish farms and build a thriving international fur trade.1 In the centuries since then, systemic racism has evolved constantly. It has become more subtle in modern times but always worked to maintain White exclusivity in control over land, access to quality housing and the opportunity to build generational wealth through homeownership. As a result, today we see—in Detroit and other communities across the nation—appalling racial inequities in housing, health and wealth. Reversing the harmful impacts of historical injustice through community-driven, inclusive policy must be central to revitalization efforts in the city.
What is "Affordable"?
The median household income in Detroit is $27,838 per year—roughly half of the statewide median income—and the poverty rate in the city is twice the state poverty rate.2 Compounding the struggle for many households, the average rent in Detroit increased by 26% from 2005 to 2016.3 With so few financial resources at their disposal, Detroit families have a higher housing-cost burden (the share of income spent on housing) than families in many other Michigan communities. to read more,click here
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The International Surfing Association (ISA), Surfing's World Governing Authority recognized by the International Olympic Committee, is proud to announce that Greece became its newest member.
Located in southeastern Europe, surfing in Greece is practiced in the Ionian Sea, Aegean Sea, the Athens and Pelloponisos zone, Crete Island and the Greek Islands.
The ISA looks forward to seeing the Greece National Team in our World Championships.


Musician, composer, and producer Chris Schlarb has been a Bee Docs Timeline customer since November 2008.
As some of you may have experienced, we are a fan of sending people pleasant surprises in the mail. Well, we like receiving them too! Chris send us a couple of his CDs after becoming a customer which was an awesome surprise.
If you have an interesting story to tell about the way you are using timelines, please send Elise an e-mail. We would love to hear from you!
...and yes I am enjoying my bee docs timeline a lot.
I just used it for 2 presentations at school. Both on P.E. and in history. Both teachers were amazed by how good it looked. Especially the history teacher who is used to see a white line on the blackboard was stunned by the nice colours and 3D effects.
I also use it for personal notes on history. I think it is easier to get a good overview with this tool, and easy to edit, if the teacher suddenly adds something in the middle. It was so time consuming when I had to move my drawn timeline in Pages '09 to make space for the newly added event by the teacher.


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Hokusai Gallery
The Dream of the Fishermans Wife, ca 1814
The waterfall of Amida behind the Kiso Road, c1832. (1925). Artist: Hokusai
Ejiri in Suruga Province (Sunshu Ejiri), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount
Red Shoki, the Demon Queller, dated 1847. Creator: Hokusai
Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave
The Hanging-cloud Bridge at Mount Gyodo near Ashikaga... late 18th-early 19th century
Wild Geese and Water, 1839. Creator: Hokusai
Poem by Gon-Chunagon Sadaie, from the series One Hundred Poems
Poem by Ise, from the series One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu
The Dragon among Clouds, 1849. Creator: Hokusai, Katsushika (1760-1849)
Duck Swimming in Water, 1847. Artist: Hokusai
Peonies and Irises, from the album "Pictures after Nature", ca. 1814. ca. 1814. Creator: Hokusai
Banana Garden at Nakashima (Nakashima shoen), from the series Eight Views of the Ryuky
Ri Haku from the series Mirrors of Japanese and Chinese Poems (Shiika shashin kyo), ca
Mystical Bird (Karyobinga), 1820-33. Creator: Hokusai
Togetsu Bridge at Arashiyama in Yamashiro, from the series Remarkable Views of Bridges
The Dream of the Fishermans Wife. Artist: Hokusai, Katsushika (1760-1849)
Moon, Persimmon and Grasshopper, 1807. Artist: Hokusai
Ichikawa Ebizo (Danjuro V) in the Role of Mongaku Shonin Disguised as Yamagatsu from ..., 1781-1801. Creator: Hokusai
Parody of Ariwara no Narihiras eastern journey, c. 1803. Creator: Hokusai
Kyoto, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)
Ishibei, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)
Yoshida, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)
Numatsu, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)
Odawara, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)
Kambara, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)
Fujieda, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)
Totsuka, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)
Kuwana, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)
Miya (Mia), from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan)
Hakone, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)
Mishima, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)
Narumi, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)
Kanaya, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)
Sakanoshita, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan)
Okazaki, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)
Okitsu, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)
Mariko, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)
Hara, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido
Mitsuke, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)
Fukoroi, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)
Akasaka, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)
Minakuchi, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan)
Chiriyu, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)
Shimada, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)
Maisaka, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)
Bush Warbler and Rose (Kocho, bara), from an untitled series of flowers and birds, Japan
Hiratsuka, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan)
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CLEVELAND, OH/10/04/05—Harlequin Enterprises Limited, the world's leading publisher of series romance and women's fiction, announced today an agreement with OverDrive, Inc., the national provider of download Audiobooks and eBooks to libraries, that will make many of Harlequin's famous collection of novels available as downloadable eBooks through library websites. From the comfort of home, avid readers will be able to checkout, download, and read best-selling romance on their PCs, Macs, PDAs and Smartphones.
The agreement between the two companies makes dozens of Harlequin's most popular and captivating titles available to millions of library patrons at home, the office, or on-the-go. Harlequin eBooks include titles from their most celebrated series, such as New York Times Best-Sellers, like "50 Harbor Street," by Debbie Macomber; and popular titles from Red Dress Ink, HQN Books, Steeple Hill, Luna Books, Harlequin Blaze, MIRA Books, Silhouette Desire, Harlequin Presents, and more.
Each month, Harlequin will update the eBook collection with new titles. The library download editions will be available in Adobe PDF and other popular eBook formats, making it simple for patrons to read them on their PCs, Macs, PDAs and SmartPhones. At the end of the lending period titles automatically expire and are made available to the next patron.
"With OverDrive, Harlequin has the singular opportunity to join forces with a preeminent electronic book vendor for libraries and retailers," said Pam Laycock, Executive Vice President, Strategy and New Business Development at Harlequin. "This partnership allows us to share our entertaining and diverse women's fiction catalogue with both first-time and loyal readers in an exciting new format," she added.
"Our research has shown that romance novels are one of the most popular genre's of download eBooks at libraries coast-to-coast. OverDrive and our library partners are ecstatic to have 24/7 access to Harlequin best-selling authors and titles from the world-leader in romance," stated Steve Potash, CEO of OverDrive, Inc.
OverDrive and Harlequin look forward to making the books available early October 2005. For a list of libraries and consortia using OverDrive's Digital Library Reserve service, visit http://www.dlrinc.com.
OverDrive is the leading solution provider for trusted digital media fulfillment of audio books, eBooks, and other digital content to retailers, wholesalers, and libraries in the US and abroad. OverDrive offers customized, web-based solutions that enable libraries to loan best-selling digital books and other forms of digital media to their patrons. Current customers include Cleveland Public Library, King County Public Library, Denver Public Library, New York Public Library, and San Jose Public Library among many others. Strategic technology partners include Microsoft Corporation, Adobe Systems, Inc., SirsiDynix, and Mobipocket. The company is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, and has been producing digital document solutions since 1986. For more information on OverDrive, Inc., please visit http://www.overdrive.com.
HARLEQUIN ENTERPRISES LIMITED is the one of the world's leading publishers of women's fiction. Its books are published worldwide in 25 languages and sold in over 94 international markets. The company publishes over 115 titles monthly and publishes more than 1,300 authors from around the world. HARLEQUIN ENTERPRISES LIMITED is a wholly owned subsidiary of Torstar Corporation, a broadly based media company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TS.nv.b). The company's Web site is located at http://www.harlequin.com.


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What You Should Know About Politics . . . But Don't: A Nonpartisan Guide to the Issues That Matter (Paperback)
By Jessamyn Conrad, Naomi Wolf (Introduction by)
How Did We Get Here?: From Theodore Roosevelt to Donald Trump (Hardcover)
By Robert Dallek
Exonerated: The Failed Takedown of President Donald Trump by the Swamp (Hardcover)
By Dan Bongino
The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy (Compact Disc)
By Katherine M. Gehl, Michael E. Porter, Stephen R. Thorne (Narrated by)
Represent: The Woman's Guide to Running for Office and Changing the World (Paperback)
By June Diane Raphael, Kate Black
Politics Is for Power: How to Move Beyond Political Hobbyism, Take Action, and Make Real Change (Hardcover)
By Eitan Hersh
Abuse and Power: How an Innocent American Was Framed in an Attempted Coup Against the President (Hardcover)
By Carter Page
The Hidden History of the War on Voting: Who Stole Your Vote and How to Get It Back (Paperback)
By Thom Hartmann
We Are the Change We Seek: The Speeches of Barack Obama (Hardcover)
By E.J. Dionne Jr., Joy-Ann Reid
A Citizen's Guide to Beating Donald Trump (Hardcover)
By David Plouffe
Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America (Paperback)
By Stacey Abrams
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail--but Some Don't (Paperback)


Have this activate as your screen saver when your computer goes to sleep.
Show the countdown as a wallpaper on the home/lockscreen of a phone or tablet. i.e. Android Live Wallpapers. Not currently possible for iOS/iPad/iPhone.
create a downloadable version of your website, like a widget of sorts, that can work off the browser like a desktop clock.
If you run a facebook business/fan page, add a tab/app containing the countdown.
NOTE: It isn't currently possible to have a ticking countdown added to your facebook news feed or your friends/followers feeds as a post.
Leon is "Noel" spelled backwards. St. Leon day is June 25th which is six months until December 25th "Christmas". Start shopping now for your holiday gifts, etc.


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Home ABOMINATIONS US missile treaty withdrawal: "Prepare for nuclear war"
US missile treaty withdrawal: "Prepare for nuclear war"
by Patrice de Bergeracpas October 24, 2018
By Andre Damon, wsws.org
On Saturday, US President Donald Trump announced that the United States will withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty, which prohibited Washington and Moscow from developing short- and medium-range missiles.
Test launch of an LGM-25C Titan II ICBM from an underground silo at Vandenberg AFB, United States, mid-1970s.
It is difficult to overstate the criminality and recklessness of this action. The lives of billions of people in Europe and East Asia have been deliberately placed in the crossfire of Washington's nuclear buildup against Beijing and Moscow.
American military planners are intent on not only building, but using, nuclear weapons in combat. They aim to demonstrate to their potential adversaries that no humanitarian or moral constraints exist for them, and that Washington out-does its rivals not just in weapons, but in bloodlust.
These plans are being laid in secret. The New York Times has treated the US withdrawal from the treaty as a non-issue. It was not even front-page news, and the newspaper published no editorial or columns about it. Nor was it discussed on the Sunday talk shows.
The Democrats have been almost entirely silent on the consequences, and the danger of global war—or any opposition to war—has been excluded as an issue from the 2018 midterm elections, just two weeks away.
In the foreign policy press and the publications of think tanks, however, nuclear war is a preeminent issue. Even before the White House's announcement, Foreign Affairs dedicated its current issue to a discussion of nuclear war, with its cover featuring a missile launch.
The issue features a column by Elbridge A. Colby, one of the principal authors of the National Defense Strategy published by the Pentagon in January, which proclaimed the effective end of the "war on terror" and the beginning of "great-power competition."
Colby, the former deputy assistant secretary for strategy and force development, titled his article, "If You Want Peace, Prepare for Nuclear War." He writes: "The risks of nuclear brinkmanship may be enormous, but so is the payoff from gaining a nuclear advantage over an opponent."
"Any future confrontation with Russia or China could go nuclear," Colby warns. "In a harder-fought, more uncertain struggle, each combatant may be tempted to reach for the nuclear saber to up the ante and test the other side's resolve, or even just to keep fighting."
A sane person would see this as an argument for the abolition of nuclear weapons. But in the minds of the Pentagon's professional killers, it speaks to the urgent need to build and use such weapons.
"The best way to avoid a nuclear war," Colby writes, "is to be ready to fight a limited one." In this dangerous world, "US officials," Colby writes, must demonstrate that "the United States is prepared to conduct limited, effective nuclear operations."
In other words, Mr. Colby is advocating the use of nuclear weapons in combat, not as a doomsday scenario, but in an escalation of a conventional military conflict, whether in the Baltics against Russia, or in the Eastern Pacific against China.
There is an insanity to such arguments, but it is an insanity that has an objective basis. The capitalist world order, choking on the insoluble conflict between the nation-state and the global economy, is leading mankind toward a catastrophe.
The Soviets deployed hundreds of mobile, SS-20 intermediate force missile launchers in the 1980s–with three nuclear warheads on each missile and reloads for each launcher. These were targeted against Western Europe, China, and Japan. The highly accurate SS-20 had great mobility when field deployed to ensure survivability. (Info by US Dept. of War)
While the INF treaty is with Russia, a major calculation behind the Trump administration's withdrawal from it relates to the growing conflict with China. In an article hailing the decision, the National Interest called the move "China's New Nightmare." Washington, the journal wrote, risks "becoming significantly 'out sticked' in the ongoing 'range war' between military systems designed to safely control the increasingly unfriendly seas and skies of the Western Pacific."
"US withdrawal from INF, however, could help reverse this dynamic," it states, adding, "New American conventional systems… could be stationed in unsinkable, out-of-the-way locales" such as Japan, the Philippines and Australia.
But while these countries are "unsinkable," they are home to hundreds of millions of people. The populations living near such missile bases will be told, of course, that nuclear war is unlikely, even as policymakers, in secret documents, plan out exactly how many millions will die.
The driver of Washington's nuclear brinkmanship is the protracted decline of the global economic power of the United States relative to its rivals, principally China. But this process has entered an acute phase in recent years, with a concerted effort on the part of the Chinese ruling elite to promote the country's high-value manufacturing and high-tech sector.
In a speech announcing a new military and economic escalation against China earlier this month, US Vice President Mike Pence demanded that China cease its efforts to control what he called the "commanding heights of the 21st century economy," including "robotics, biotechnology, and artificial intelligence," making it clear that under the Trump administration, the United States is "defending our interests with renewed American strength."
"We're modernizing our nuclear arsenal," Pence threatened. "We're fielding and developing new cutting-edge fighters and bombers. We're building a new generation of aircraft carriers and warships. We're investing as never before in our armed forces."
The active preparations for nuclear war, which would be a total war complete with a police-state crackdown on all political opposition, are being made behind the back of the public, which overwhelmingly opposes it.
Far from opposing the military build-up, the Democrats have focused their criticism of Trump for the past two years on claims that he is insufficiently aggressive against Russia, which has been used as the pretext for imposing a regime of internet censorship aimed at silencing domestic opposition.
Only the working class can stop this insane policy. The International Committee of the Fourth International reaffirms the critical principles it advanced in February 2016, in its statement, "Socialism and the Fight Against War":
• The struggle against war must be based on the working class, the great revolutionary force in society, uniting behind it all progressive elements of the population.
• The new anti-war movement must be anti-capitalist and socialist, since there can be no serious struggle against war except in the fight to end the dictatorship of finance capital and put an end to the economic system that is the fundamental cause of militarism and war.
• The new anti-war movement must therefore, of necessity, be completely and unequivocally independent of, and hostile to, all political parties and organizations of the capitalist class.
• The new anti-war movement must, above all, be international, mobilizing the vast power of the working class in a unified global struggle against imperialism. The permanent war of the bourgeoisie must be answered with the perspective of permanent revolution by the working class, the strategic goal of which is the abolition of the nation-state system and the establishment of a world socialist federation. This will make possible the rational, planned development of global resources and, on this basis, the eradication of poverty and the raising of human culture to new heights.
—Andre Damon
Andre Damon is a senior analyst with wsws.org, a Marxian publication affiliated with the the International Committee of the Fourth International (a Trotkyist organization). The Greanville Post, though socialist and a user of Marxian historical analysis, is not affiliated with any Marxian party of faction. including Trotskyist tendencies or groups.
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Doctor Who's identity crisis
TV Feature | Iain Robertson | 17th October 2014
The current series of Doctor Who has been one of the most successful in recent years. The episodes have been pretty much universally praised by critics and fans alike, and the reaction to the latest incarnation of the Doctor, played by Peter Capaldi, has been unanimously positive. So why aren't I enjoying it as much as everyone else seems to be?
Sherlock: The Sign of Three
TV Review | Ed Williamson | 5th January 2014
The marked increase in comic touches in the New Year's Day episode pointed the way and tonight we got it: a flat-out Sherlock comedy. A wedding comedy, no less, with a bungling best man to boot. I enjoyed it a lot, but I couldn't help thinking it's hard to get away with this sort of thing when you're only doing three episodes every two years.
New Doctor Who trailer – but who IS the Impossible Astronaut?
TV Video | Matt Looker | 28th July 2011
A new trailer for part 2 of the new series of Doctor Who has been released, and it outwardly mocks those who haven't worked out how it's all going to end. Bastards.
Tackling the unanswered questions in Doctor Who
TV Feature | Matt Looker | 6th May 2011
WARNING: contains some real, but mostly pretend, spoilers written by someone with ill-informed opinions and no knowledge of anything related to Doctor Who prior to Christopher Eccleston. Welcome to Nerd-bait.
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The new Xbox is in the right place at the wrong time
Matt Gerardi
Back at E3, Microsoft announced that, after just three years of the console being on the market, two new versions of the Xbox One were already on the way. We've yet to hear more about Project Scorpio, which will feature a big technological upgrade over the original when it launches next fall, but the more modest update, known as the Xbox One S, is already in the wild. Microsoft sent one our way—specifically, the $300 bundle that comes with Battlefield 1—and I've spent the last few weeks toying with it on the fancy pants 4K-HDR TV I bought myself, after finally giving up on the hunk of junk that had been my stalwart screen for the last 10 years. Usually, we don't dive too far into the techy aspects of gaming, but with multiple versions of both major consoles set to be on store shelves in time for the holidays, it seems appropriate to take stock of this unprecedented console landscape in which we suddenly find ourselves—and in which Microsoft's new box is already threatening to become lost.
The biggest, most astonishing difference between the One S and the original is the size of it. Our own John Teti once described the old Xbox One as "a linebacker in ballet shoes," a hulking monstrosity of a console that looked especially ridiculous given the sleek design of its direct competition. The S, while a bit bigger than the standard PlayStation 4 and its new "slim" variation, is every bit as elegant as Sony's machines. It builds on its big brother's use of lines and asymmetry for a look that's way more attractive than the original's glossy, modern VCR chassis. There are plenty of other little changes that improve on some of the more boneheaded Xbox One design decisions—there's no giant power brick that hangs off the back; the front of the system now includes a USB port and a button for syncing controllers; and there's an actual power button to push, instead of a touch sensor to accidentally set off when you're dusting. Those might sound like silly changes to tout, but anyone who's owned an original Xbox One knows exactly how annoying they were in the last iteration.
What's different under the hood? For most people, not much. Unless you've taken the plunge on an "ultra high-definition" TV—the screens of which are twice the resolution of a standard 1080p HD set—the only tangible upside of the One S is its tiny body. This isn't an upgrade so much as it is a great, much-needed replacement for the Xbox One's clunky launch model, and it has the benefit of being relatively future-proof if you decide to upgrade your TV in the near future.
If you have sprung for a new display, there are benefits to using an Xbox One S, but those come with some caveats as well. It packs a 4K Blu-ray player that'll let you watch the newfangled ultra-HD home releases of the several dozen movies that have made it to that format. For some, that'll actually be a great selling point in itself, since standalone 4K Blu-ray players cost at least $250, only $50 less than a One S. The console doesn't have the horsepower to actually render games with the level of detail that can fully take advantage of a 4K screen—something Microsoft promises Project Scorpio will do—but it'll upscale all your games to 4K to match the higher resolution of your TV as best it can. This might seem superfluous, given that nearly all 4K TVs have built-in upscaling tech, but whatever magical upscaling gnomes Microsoft packed into every Xbox One S seem to do a better job. Although, your mileage may vary depending on your specific TV. Playing through Battlefield 1, I'd occasionally pause to take in a quiet scene and swap between a 1080p output (which my TV, a Samsung KS8000, would then blow up into 4K) and the Xbox's 4K output. There was an appreciable difference, with the latter helping to smooth out distant details that were just blurry smears in the former, for example.
65" Samsung QN800A 8K TV
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Its Neo Quantum processor enables AI upscaling, doubling the resolution of native 4K content. Sure, the difference is hard to make out, but at least you'll be entitled to bragging rights.
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The other big feature that only matters if you have the TV to use it is the support for high dynamic range (HDR). Basically, this is a new technology that lets TVs display a broader range of lights and darks, which results in greater contrast between hues and more vivid colors. While the benefits of 4K resolution are tangled up in the limits of what our eyes can see and depend on how far you sit from your TV screen, the benefits of HDR are easier to discern. Lighting looks more natural, and the brighter brights and darker darks mean colors and contours pop a little more. It's the kind of thing that's easiest to notice in scenes with cloudy skies or sun beams pouring through windows. There are only a couple of Xbox One games that currently support HDR, but it definitely makes a noticeable difference in the sun-drenched Australian byways of Forza Horizon 3.
Overall, the console is lovely piece of hardware and—for those with the TV to take advantage of it—a useful machine at a great price, especially if you want to dabble in 4K Blu-rays. But the Xbox One S comes at such a strange time. We're at the start of a new age of video game systems where, instead of letting their machines gestate for five to eight years before being released and bringing a technological leap—the NES to the Super NES or the PlayStation 2 to PlayStation 3—Microsoft and Sony seem intent on moving closer to Apple's iPhone model of frequent iteration. We won't be seeing new boxes released annually—at least, not anytime soon—but the console makers are exhibiting an urgency to upgrade their offerings without forcing players to jump to a brand new platform entirely.
It's all seemingly brought on by their own decisions to release systems without the hardware to compete with ever-advancing PC technology or take advantage of the new TVs that were waiting in the wings when the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 were first released back in 2013. 4K isn't a fringe technology anymore, and it doesn't seem like the kind of passing fad 3-D was a few years ago. If you're going to spend more than a couple hundred bucks on a TV anytime soon, it will almost definitely be a 4K screen, and Microsoft and Sony, rightfully, feel the need to keep up. The kind of people who might go out and buy an expensive television are the same kind of people who'd spend several hundred dollars for a new version of the same console they already own if it means taking advantage of their fancy screen.
But the question I kept coming back to is, at this moment, who is the Xbox One S for? The only answer I could come up with is someone who's only now deciding to buy an Xbox One and doesn't own a 4K TV or plan to buy one soon, because despite how well it plays with that technology, the looming Project Scorpio will do everything the One S does, but better. So unless you don't want to wait for that supposed super-machine or pay the premium price tag it's expected to carry, why bother dishing out for its kid brother?
In terms of its current competitors, Sony recently released a software update for all PlayStation 4 models that imbue them with the same HDR tech as the One S, and while its internal 4K upscaler might do a better job than the one inside your TV, it's not such a mind-blowing difference that a PlayStation 4's games would look awful by comparison. And that's to say nothing of the the $400 PlayStation 4 Pro, which is launching tomorrow and is Sony's big contribution to this unprecedented mid-life-cycle arms race. It's a step ahead of the One S when it comes to pure technical horsepower and produces better-looking games (though, despite its "premium" nature, it lacks the 4K Blu-ray drive the One S has).
So what's the point of the One S? The reality is, it's both the new baseline for a future that's yet to fully arrive, and an attempt to rewrite Microsoft's past. It's the physical embodiment of the company's changing of the guard, its new gaming regime's attempt to erase the mistakes of its old leaders—the ones who wanted the Xbox One to be so much more than just a really good machine for playing video games. That's what the company has produced with the One S. It's a fantastic, focused replacement for the old Xbox One, and compared to the slim PlayStation 4, its ostensible competition, it's technically the better bargain. But with Project Scorpio on the horizon, and the One S left to fend for itself as Sony establishes its two-pronged assault, it feels like a great little machine that's lost in the wild.
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Guest Post: Another Duke Energy coal ash spill discovered into the Neuse River
Guest Blog | October 19, 2016 | Coal, Energy Policy
This is a guest post from Waterkeepers Alliance. To read their original press release on the breaking story, click here.
By: Pete Harrison, Waterkeeper Alliance & Matt Starr, Upper Neuse Riverkeeper / Sound Rivers
GOLDSBORO, N.C. — Waterkeeper Alliance and Sound Rivers have discovered a large coal ash spill into the Neuse River from the Duke Energy H.F. Lee facility, 10 miles upstream of Goldsboro, NC. A substantial but undetermined amount of coal ash was found floating on the surface of the river in a layer over one inch thick. See video here.
The spill came from at least one of three inactive coal ash ponds containing more than one million tons of exposed coal ash. The ponds had been submerged by Hurricane Matthew flood waters for more than seven days until flood waters receded over the weekend. Fly ash coated tree branches as much as seven feet above the river surface, indicating the spill began no later than last Tuesday, when the water level reached a record flood stage.
Independent microscopic analysis confirmed the white material is fly ash particles known as cenospheres, a waste product of coal combustion.
Matthew Starr, Upper Neuse Riverkeeper, said, "This spill is easily visible to anyone in a boat. The area looks like a winter wonderland of toxic coal ash as it has coated the water and trees. It is hard for me to understand how both Duke Energy and state regulators failed to notice such a large area of coal ash contaminating the Neuse River when they claim to have inspected these very ash ponds on Saturday."
On Saturday, October 15, Duke Energy issued a press release stating:
"Site inspections at the H.F. Lee Power Plant in Goldsboro, N.C., today confirm there was only very minor erosion of material from an inactive coal ash basin on the site.
The majority of that material, which includes coal ash, remained very close to the inactive basin, on the berm or a few feet away on the basin roadway. The state team that inspected the facility determined that the amount of material that was displaced would not even fill the bed of an average pickup truck."
Video and Photo by: Pete Harrison, Waterkeeper Alliance & Matt Starr, Upper Neuse Riverkeeper / Sound Rivers
"When a raging river floods over one million tons of coal ash, you're obviously going to get more than a pickup truck's worth of ash polluting the river," said Waterkeeper Alliance staff attorney Pete Harrison. "It was very troubling to discover such a large amount of ash in the river, especially knowing that untold amounts of ash have been washing out of these ponds for more than a week now. It's baffling how Duke Energy could be so oblivious to such an obvious spill, and how state regulators continue to look the other way when it comes to Duke's coal ash problems."
Four of five retired coal ash ponds at the H.F. Lee plant near Goldsboro, NC were inundated for at least 7 days. The submerged ponds contain over one million tons of coal ash, spread in a layer between four and ten feet thick across an area the size of 130 football fields. In a 2015 site assessment, Duke Energy reported high levels of toxic heavy metals in the flooded ponds, including arsenic, antimony, and thallium.
Last week at the H.F. Lee facility, Duke Energy failed to identify a breach in a cooling pond dam the size of a school bus for as much as 24 hours before a local news helicopter spotted the collapsed dam and reported it to officials.
Waterkeeper Alliance and North Carolina Riverkeepers have conducted aerial patrols of eastern North Carolina for the last 7 days. Our photos of this most recent coal ash spill are available on Waterkeeper Alliance's Flickr page.
Matthew Starr: (919) 961-2240, upperneuserk@soundrivers.org
Pete Harrison: (828) 582-0422, pharrison@waterkeeper.org
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We are still yet to see a glimpse of Nokia's new line-up for the Windows Phone platform. There is some confirmation that some of them will pack a dual-core processor.
ST-Ericsson, a joint venture between Geneva-based STMicroelectronics and Swedish telecom equipment and services supplier Ericsson, has been admitted to the Windows Phone ecosystem. ST-Ericsson will now be one of two chip suppliers for Nokia's upcoming Windows Phones. The company's partnership with Nokia has taken place after Nokia teamed up with Microsoft.
The first ST-Ericsson chipset that will appear in a Nokia Windows Phone is said to be the the U8500 which is a dual-core system-on-a-chip that has been compared to Qualcomm's Snapdragon line because it offers multiple wireless technologies like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS and a fast, built-in HSPA+ modem, all in a compact format. Some later Nokia Windows Phones – the company had previously said it is planning to release 12 Windows Phone devices over the course of 2012 – will run on future versions of the U8500.


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In WashingTech's March 5 podcast, Sally Culley discusses the state of employment law regarding the classification of gig workers.
Culley speaks with host Joe Miller about California's Lawson v. Grubhub case. "It's become a big issue in the gig economy, or sharing economy, because many of the sharing companies, like Uber or Grubhub, classify their workers as independent contractors," she explains. In Lawson V. Grubhub, Raef Lawson sued Grubhub, claiming he was an employee and therefore entitled to minimum wage and other employee benefits under California law.
"The biggest issue in the case was the level of control that Grubhub had over the manner and means of accomplishing the work to be performed by Mr. Lawson in making food deliveries," Culley states.


Apprenticeship is the recognised means by which people are trained to become craftspeople in Ireland. SOLAS has statutory responsibility for the management of the Apprenticeship programme. For counties Galway and Roscommon, the GRETB have responsibility for administering the programme. There are currently 27 designated crafts within the Standards Based Apprenticeship System as listed below.
Please note: Crafts marked with * must Pass the ISHIARA Colour Vision Test. There is a Form for this purpose and it can be obtained from the GRETB Apprenticeship office.
Apprenticeship comprises of seven phases of training (Exceptions Aircraft Mechanics, Floor/Wall Tiling, Industrial Insulation and Print Media), three off-the-job and four on-the-job. Phase 2 training is generally delivered in ETB Training Centres throughout the country and Phases 4 and 6 are delivered by Institutes of Technology/Colleges of Further Education. The duration of an apprenticeship is a minimum of 4 years (except Print Media - 3 years).
1. Obtain a job with an employer as an apprentice in the chosen occupation.
2. The employer must be approved to train apprentices and must register the applicant as an apprentice within 2 weeks of starting in employment as an apprentice.
3. The minimum age at which employment of an apprentice may commence is 16 years of age and there is no upper age limit.
4. Pass the ISHIARA colour vision test as approved by SOLAS for certain trades.
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Please note that Apprentices may be scheduled to attend any ETB/educational location for the off -the-job training phases.
Apprentices are paid by the employer when they are on-the-job (Phases 1, 3, 5 & 7) and details of rates of pay should be sought from their prospective employer.
During off-the-job training (Phases 2, 4 & 6), apprentices receive a training allowance from GRETB or other ETBs.
A bursary is available to employers to encourage the recruitment of female apprentices into the designated apprenticeships.


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Hawaii DOE Has Struggled To Cope With The Pandemic. Can It Do Better? - Honolulu Civil Beat
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As the district debates reopening metrics and reels from a problematic online education platform, parents are left to pick up the slack so students can continue learning.
By Suevon Lee / September 29, 2020
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On March 15, the eve of a weeklong spring recess for 179,000 Hawaii public school students, Gov. David Ige announced the break would be extended by another week due to concerns that the coronavirus was spreading.
That was six months ago, when the case count in Hawaii was at just seven confirmed cases.
Students didn't return to the traditional classroom for the rest of the school year. And now, more than a month into a new school year, and 12,000 cases later, most public school students are still learning remotely — a sign of just how much the pandemic has upended traditional K-12 schooling here.
Much has fluctuated in the last six months. But as tensions flare over the best instructional model during a pandemic and scrutiny mounts over what some call "unclear, inconsistent" policies issued by state education leaders, the question remains: did the state Department of Education do all that it could to smartly plan for the transition from spring to fall?
"As the pandemic roared through our country and the world, we were lulled into feeling that Hawaii was going to avoid the worst of it, and all would be over by the fall," said Board of Education Chairwoman Catherine Payne.
"We did not use the spring shutdown to do the planning and training that was needed for the opening of school in August," she said.
Hilo High School is one of 257 DOE schools currently in all-distance learning at least until next month.
To be sure, multiple factors were at play. A virus whose spread around the islands has widely fluctuated as cases spiked and temporary shutdowns were ordered. A delay in the development of school reopening metrics from the state Department of Health. Disagreement between the DOE and the state teachers' union around basic safety protocols like 3 feet versus 6 feet spacing between desks.
This is part of a series of articles that analyzes Hawaii's experience with the coronavirus over the past six months. We're taking a collective deep breath and exploring what's transpired in a number of different areas — including leadership, communications and data, schools, hospitals, business and the economy, tourism and even with people themselves.
Today, frustrations are evident across all levels of the broader school community.
Parents frazzled by their kids' excessive screen time during remote instruction. Teachers worried about their health for having to work at school. Confusion over the patchwork of class time expectations and telework policies across DOE's 257 school campuses. And concerns the DOE doesn't seem to have a handle on student technological needs.
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In the midst of all this is a perception that the Hawaii DOE, the agency steering the state's single-district school system, did not produce a clear strategy to tackle this crisis head on.
"It seems there is no plan from the state level DOE. They're going week by week," Mililani High teacher Matt Calica said, shortly after the school year started Aug. 17. "I understand it's unprecedented, what's happening, but give us some kind of guidance."
Another shift may be coming. Under new state Department of Health guidance, Superintendent Christina Kishimoto said at a Sept. 17 news conference school complex areas can decide to return to a hybrid learning model — a blend of in-person and virtual instruction — as of Oct. 12, the start of the second quarter.
Included in the guidance is a chart indicating when it's safe to bring elementary or secondary students back to school based on the number of cases per 10,000 people over a 14-day period. Already, the metrics are drawing fierce pushback from educators and union officials.
Hawaii State Teachers Association President Corey Rosenlee said it's still unsafe to bring students back into the classroom and believes distance learning should keep going for the entire first semester ending Dec. 18.
"We're going to fight this. The numbers they came out with are so bad, they're not even CDC numbers," he said of the new DOH metrics, referring to the federal guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"What keeps me up at night is the death of a child or another staff member or teacher at a school," he said.
DOE Superintendent Christina Kishimoto has placed a lot of school reopening decisions on school and complex-area leaders.
Battle lines are being drawn all over the country between teachers' unions and school districts around the issue of classroom safety as the new school year starts up for other kids.
Failure To Communicate In Advance
One major criticism of the DOE's handling of the crisis here is its failure to take a long view of the situation.
Since Ige's joint DOE press conference March 15, state education officials have issued no fewer than eight changes to the school calendar or a shift in instructional delivery, often within mere days of each other.
The DOE initially said students would return to campuses on April 7 after the extended spring break. Then it later pushed back the date to April 30. Eventually, Kishimoto said all schools would close for the rest of the 2019-20 school year.
The fourth quarter of last school year, in which public school kids lost 46 days of in-person learning, was a trying, experimental time. Grades were not counted, attendance not tracked and schools were left scrambling to produce paper instructional packets for kids who could not easily connect online.
Kaneohe Elementary brought back some students for summer school, putting plenty of space between desks.
During the summer, some schools brought kids back to campus for catch-up learning, but enrollment was limited and didn't simulate a regular student body.
In the new school year, last-minute timing announcements by DOE have continued, leaving many confused.
After the union urged more teacher training, the state Board of Education approved a delay in the start of school from Aug. 4 to Aug. 17. DOE announced shortly before classes began that all schools would start in all-distance mode for at least the first month. By Aug. 27, the DOE said all distance learning would continue for the entire first quarter.
All the changes from up top have caused school principals to simply "trust their gut" on school reopening plans. The lack of consistency has caused angst for parents, as well.
DOE "could be better at planning ahead and communicating more clearly in advance what they think should happen, instead of saying, 'We're going to do this, no, we're going to do that,'" said Lera Broz, the mother of three, two of whom attend Mililani Uka Elementary.
"This constant changing of what will happen is very frustrating for parents and teachers," she said.
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What frustrates others is the lack of a unified teacher telework policy, an issue the Board of Education will address at a meeting on Thursday, in addition to the DOH metrics.
As a result, teachers across the islands are reporting denials of requests to work from home by principals or complex area leaders, despite fears of working in an enclosed school building with others nearby. That is stoking resentment among teachers and leading to stress, said Rosenlee.
"The superintendent should be creating policies that promote safety across the state. By doing it in a hodgepodge manner, (she) has put teachers and students at risk," he said.
At an Aug. 20 board of education meeting, Kishimoto, who was not available for an interview for this story, said she did "not agree with a unilateral approach from me, top down, telling principals how (telework) can be rolled out."
"I think we have provided enough guidance and structure," she said.
It's also a concern whether the DOE did a sufficient job collecting robust data on computer and mobile hotspot needs.
While the DOE said in late August it purchased 34,500 new computers and 4,000 hotspot devices between June and August, not all devices got here in time. Schools only surveyed parents on tech needs shortly before the start of the new school year.
Not all students have access to a Chromebook or even reliable internet to adequately log into their classes from home.
"These surveys are helpful but they're only one way of acquiring data," said Cheri Nakamura, an education advocate who had been seeking such data since April. "Even if it wasn't a pandemic situation, wouldn't you want to have that data at your fingertips anyway?"
"Data helps paint the picture of the true situation. Without that, you're flying blind," she added.
Hawaii students, according to a recent analysis by Education Week Research Center, are most at risk of learning loss during the pandemic compared with other states due to internet access issues and low level of student interactions with teachers based on a weeklong snapshot of data in May.
The DOE has been called out in recent days for failing to adequately analyze data for even a shortened, contained time period like the summer. Board members at a Sept. 17 meeting said a new summer learning dashboard the DOE created didn't tell much of a story.
That dashboard says 20,719 students were reached, but it fails to present more granular data.
According to Nakamura's own analysis, DOE summer school reached just 20% of "disproportionately impacted" students — defined as 11th- or 12th-graders needing credit recovery; failing students; those not meeting third-grade literacy; or the chronically absent, among others.
"DOE should be identifying students that will need summer help right now, track them, and get in touch with their families so when summer rolls around we will have a better chance of having them enroll," her written testimony read.
'This Was Just A Mistake'
Among the messiest situations facing the DOE is its decision to offer a distance learning program for families that has come under fire for its culturally insensitive and remedial content.
Many families who preferred not to send their kids back to the classroom this fall were asked to sign a contract to use Acellus Learning Accelerator for the entire first semester, in some cases the whole year.
Now, close to 80,000 DOE students are relying on Acellus, whose racist, sexist, outdated and age-inappropriate content caused some Hawaii school principals to dump the program. Other school districts in the U.S. have similarly canceled the platform, leading to critical national news coverage in recent weeks.
Board of Education Member Kenneth Uemura said at a Sept. 17 meeting he hadn't heard the DOE say Acellus was a mistake, "because you're still using it."
When the Board of Education met earlier this month, several board members grilled Deputy Superintendent Phyllis Unebasami on how the DOE could let such a program pass through to the hands of families.
"I think it's important to acknowledge this was just a mistake, this was a bad choice," board member Bruce Voss said.
Ken Uemura asked why a more thorough review of Acellus wasn't done between May and the time schools reopened in August.
"Why was there such a rush when you had more time to do it?" he asked.
DOE curriculum specialists were only given 10 days to review the program, which spans 300 courses offered across K-12. Beyond giving the program poor marks, they even urged administrators to look to other virtual learning programs over Acellus.
"We used what we had, and we knew we had to do a quick turnaround at that time," Unebasami said in more than 90 minutes of questioning from the board. "Nothing that I've seen so far tells me we took it through the type of review we need to take it through, that we will take it through, as we do our review."
Rather than pull the program, the DOE has pledged a comprehensive review of Acellus before the second quarter starts up in mid-October, even though many parents have reported their child can complete an entire week's worth of Acellus lessons in less than a day.
Virtual Learning Will Last 'Long Into the Future'
Payne, of the BOE, said moving forward, DOE officials need to be more open to assistance from nonprofits when it comes to wireless internet solutions and have a plan that "clearly aligns to health data and that is fully understood by all who are expected to implement it."
"It is likely that there will be some level of virtual learning for students long into the future," she said. "We need to build a plan to address this with training for teachers and access to appropriate, engaging and rigorous curriculum for students."
Already, some school complexes have announced they will continue distance learning through the end of December. One is the Kailua-Kalaheo Complex area.
The area superintendent, Lanelle Hibbs, said in a Sept. 22 letter to the school community that schools will continue to provide in-person instruction to students who require specialized learning services, are academically falling behind or lack internet at home, but that her complex will use the rest of the year to plan for spring.
Rosenlee worries about a rising teacher vacancy rate if school complexes choose to bring students back to the classroom before the pandemic is tamed.
HSTA President Corey Rosenlee has been leading the charge to give teachers more telework flexibility and health and safety protections once classroom instruction resumes.
Nerves are on edge following the Sept. 9 death of Dole Middle School office clerk, Dayna Inouye, whose sister, a counselor at the school, told the BOE she believed Dayna had contracted COVID-19 at work.
The DOE has reported 123 cumulative COVID-19 cases from schools in the week ending Sept. 25 but still is not providing more location-specific information for these cases.
The new school year already shows signs of a major shift. The DOE saw a 2.6% decrease in student enrollment this school year, caused mostly by a drop-off in kindergarten enrollment, with 1,971 fewer kindergarteners this year. It's not clear if the pandemic caused that decline for sure, but it's a trend happening nationally.
One thing is clear in the new school year: parents are stressed and willing to take a risk to send their kids back to the classroom. Many recently flooded the board with letters urging a return to in-person learning.
Candice Nakamura, whose children are ages 7, 10 and 12, said her kids are not learning much of anything on the i-Ready platform they use for distance learning. Besides, she has no choice but to leave them home alone during the day since she and her husband both have jobs and no extra child care.
"I just feel these kids lost so much," she said. "They got their sports taken away, their education, their social life. Where are these kids' outlets? They have nothing whatsoever."
The Honolulu resident said reopening classrooms is worth the risk, especially if proper safety precautions are followed.
"If we don't try it," she said, "we will never know."
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For Lali was very tired. There had been, not long since, a great and terrible storm, like the first one in the desert, and she'd been caught out in it. She'd had to drive all the way to the valley quickly, with very little water, for she was afraid the baby would come on the road, and then the sky had opened, the drops had fallen, not so heavy as the rain in her memory of life, but hard, lightning-like, almost vertical, and the rain had destroyed her suit, water-soaked it, clung to it. That was what she meant to say, clung to it like glue, like a forcing process, it seemed to her. But then there had been a problem, she couldn't explain, she was so tired and it had been called to her attention, this may be an alien, even a poisonous substance, by her old machines, and she'd had to stop the scene, and take care of that, and all sorts of difficulties came, everything seemed to be conspiring to prevent her from finding the information that would let her pass along, via the alien suit, this man who was the greatest. She was cooperating, she wasn't playing tricks.
"Don't get me wrong," I said. "It's not that I think you're crazy. It's just that there's something you're not telling me."
"How did you run into this man? How did you meet him? Where did you meet him?"
"I had just been returned to the time and place and state where the great man was. The machine had just been started."
"How'd you start it?"
"Honestly," she said, "I don't know."
"This sort of thing does happen," I said. "Anyway, go on."
And then Grew returned in great confusion; it had been two weeks only since he had left, not six years, he had been away for two weeks. And at once we discovered the vast change taking place in the poppies. We stepped forth, a great mist was rising out of the valley, and occluding the mountains beyond. One of my study said at once, "There is a remarkable phenomenon unfolding. It seems that the poppies have suddenly learned to talk. I can't understand. It's too fast." Then another said, "What I'm hearing can't truly be information, not composed of physical objects." But none of this was comprehensible to me anymore, because I had shifted back, hit the nexus between our own scattered signals and whatever radiation existed in the distant light that filled the sky, this unimaginable continuum which had tipped my switching so quick I could not consciously detect it.
"Where are the people?" I said.
"They've gone," said the data clerks.
"Gone," I said.
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"Be quiet," I said to him.
"What is happening?" I said, turning to an older man who had stood quietly, containedly near me all this time, with a little smile on his face.
"I think it's the end of the world," he said. And at the same moment I realized why I'd felt for all these years that we'd been canceled, that all the praise we'd ever earned as heroes who'd saved the core of humanity from turning from real information to the long loud dream of the computer was sentimental, that at some point in our life, the high point in fact, a key reversal had occurred. Instead of our soothing the tempest of time, time was soothing us, remolding our data, computing over us, a million-hands computation, itself formed of our computing, unravelling, taking everything, carrying the screen and the screen along, all the dream of civilization as it was moving, away, as someone was leading me along.
"Hey Lilulilly." I can hear my mother, my mother Lisa. "Hey Lilulilly. Everybody sure got married fast, didn't they?"
I lay in bed once again, it was night and I could hear the oil trucks coming from the elm; yes. Yes, it was night. This was the oil I was smelling, was it?
There were two small children in the bed next to mine: Lisa and William. They were five and six, or a little older, I'm sitting on the side of the bed one dawn, it's the winter the canary dies and we're not supposed to know, even though we wake up at different times and everyone is sad and tired and the lights turn on earlier and earlier in the morning, and I'm holding William's hand as he sits on the edge of his bed, we're holding each other's hands for comfort and we're just about to get up when we hear a crash and Father crying out, he's slumped over the dining room table, he's just dropped the blueberry pancakes on the floor, and we hear Mother say, "Gordon! Gordon, oh my god!" and there's a great thump and Father has fallen from the chair, there's blood on the floor, "Gordon! Oh my god," and Father rises, we can see him only but he's holding his chest, he doesn't move, "John, Gordon?" Mother cries and Father tries to say something, but John takes his shoulders and helps him to the couch, his feet drag in a pool of blood and wakefulness comes to us all, the little dark ones begin to cry out but Mother holds them tight and clamps their mouths shut, she looks at me and says, "Not yet! Not yet! Return to sleep, children," and …
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"That's because they're under there," says Lily dryly, from my bed. "It's not a girdle, it's a true foundation garment, built for a large full-figured woman, if I'm not mistaken."
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John Banks, a former Physics teacher at Kosciusko High School. A 30-year veteran teacher and retiree, Banks said he enjoys sharing the wonders of this world with his students, and he hopes he gets the opportunity to represent Mississippi on a national level.
Karen Lindsey, a 7th grade Algebra I, 8th Grade Compacted Math, and 8th grade Geometry teacher at Germantown Middle School in Madison County. She has beenteaching for around 13 years. She believes impactful mathematics learning should take place in an environment that is fun, engaging, and reflective of the world that is changing around her students. She said receiving this honor excites her but also challenges her to continue seeking meaningful mathematical activities to teach and lead her students in order for them to grow in their pursuit of education.


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Cowboys Linebacker Hollywood Henderson Had to Use His Beloved Super Bowl Ring to Make Bail
by Rick Thomas on August 30, 2020
Rags-to-riches stories fill NFL history. But there are a surprising number of rags-to-riches-back-to-rags stories, too. In other words, NFL players who lost their fortunes. Terrell Owens, Vince Young, and even the great Dan Marino have all struggled to manage their wealth. Another player who's struggled with money is former Cowboys linebacker Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson.
At one point, Henderson even had to sacrifice his Super Bowl ring in order to make bail. Let's look at the linebacker's career, drug addiction, and fascinating story of his lost-and-found Super Bowl ring.
Hollywood Henderson's NFL career
Dallas Cowboys linebacker Hollywood Henderson in 1979 | Ross Lewis/Getty Images
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The Cowboys selected Henderson with the 18th pick of the 1975 NFL draft. He spent his rookie year playing mostly on special teams. At one point, he returned a reverse handoff for a 97-yard touchdown. Henderson continued in that position in his second year before taking over as the starting strongside linebacker in 1977.
The Texas native earned a second-team All-Pro selection that year while playing a key role in helping the Cowboys clinch a championship victory over the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XII. Henderson also earned his "Hollywood" nickname thanks to his flamboyant and highly entertaining style of play, as well as his antics off the field.
At the time, many pundits predicted Henderson would continue with his successful NFL career. While he earned one Pro Bowl selection in 1978, his play began going downhill, due in large part to his drug problems. By the end of the 1980 season, Henderson's issues had caught up with him. Though an injury technically ended his career, drugs were the real culprit.
Henderson's drug addiction
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Drugs were a rampant problem for athletes in the '70s, and Henderson was no exception. He quickly adopted a hard-partying lifestyle, which crossed over into his NFL career as well. At one point, reports the LA Times, Henderson reportedly even kept a special inhaler filled with liquid cocaine inside of his pants, so that he could take snorts during games.
Meanwhile, his grandstanding antics earned the frustration of his coaches. During the 1979 season, coach Tom Landry deactivated Henderson for mugging for a reporter's camera during a tough Cowboys loss. That was the beginning of the end for Henderson as an NFL player. Unfortunately, his drug problems only intensified after he left the league.
Henderson hit his low point in 1983 when he was arrested for smoking cocaine with a pair of teenage girls, one of whom he was also accused of having sexually assaulted. Henderson was ultimately convicted and served a 28-month jail sentence. Before that, however, he used his Super Bowl ring as collateral in order to post bail.
Unfortunately, Henderson was also in significant trouble with the IRS, who was after him for $156,881 in back taxes, reports TwinCities.com. The IRS seized the Super Bowl ring and auctioned it off to help cover Henderson's debt. It was sold to a Cowboys fan in Texas in 1984, for a reported $11,000.
Henderson reunites with his ring
Following his arrest, Henderson finally cleaned up his act and weaned himself off of his self-destructive habits. Yet he had no hopes of ever being reunited with his beloved ring. But then, about 10 years later, a girlfriend of his gave him the ultimate surprise. While out to dinner one night at a restaurant in Dallas, she produced his long-lost ring, which she had bought back for him.
Henderson couldn't believe it, and by his own account he "bawled like a baby." At this point, the ring is Henderson's constant companion and serves as a vital reminder of his high-point as an NFL player, as well as the long road he had to take to recovery.
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The base unit of PPC where an advertiser pays the cost each time a web user clicks on a link that leads to their website. Many consider CPC as one of the most cost-effective forms of Cost-Per-Lead (CPL).
System where an advertiser pays an agreed amount for each click someone makes on a link leading to their web site. Also known as PPC or paid listings.
A media term used to describe the cost per single click-through of an ad to a client's Web site.
CPC) Online advertising payment model based on clicks.
Cost Per Click or CPC is an online advertising term which relates to how much an advertiser is charged for for a click on their ad.
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Online advertising payment process where payment is based on qualifying actions such as clicking on a banner or search engine listing.
A payment model in which advertisers pay only for the number of clickthroughs an ad receives rather than a flat rate or a per-impression model. This method has been popular with advertisers but not with Web site administrators, because banners serve a larger purpose than just getting people to click.