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"The Internet had Changed it All: The Impact of how Social Media has Transformed News Consumption" by Rachel Barks
The author uses a variety of her own experiences as well as the experiences of those around her to show and support how new consumption has changed due to social media and the internet. By showing a walk-through of how modern, young adults find and read their news, as well as research articles and scholarly texts, it well help readers better understand the current state of journalism in our world today and how the industry has had to change over the years to stay relevant and ethical. By using that mix of personal experiences, research and scholarly information, the author sets the stage for her personal stance of believing that the internet and social media can help the journalism industry more than hurt it.
As a journalism student and someone with an interest in news and media, I have grown up watching how the news and journalism industry has changed over time. When I decided to get my college degree in this industry, my interest in it grew, as I began hearing comments such as "isn't journalism a dying industry?", "how will you get a job?", "the news is full of lies."
At first it bothered me, and I took it to heart, worrying how I'd ever make it in a struggling industry. As I went through my classes though, I began to realize that the industry isn't dying, it's simply changing.
For this article, I first wanted to explore deeper how the industry is changing due to social media and how that has affected news organizations themselves and forced them to change to stay relevant.
After doing that, I want to offer a place for readers to see that the industry isn't dying because of social media and the internet. In fact, this type of media could revive it but we must see how it's affecting the industry for good, bad and what news consumers can do to be more involved.
The news industry will always be needed, but understanding how it looks different, can help us all to know where to go from here when looking for news to educate ourselves and going out on the search for ethical, quality journalism.
I remember growing up going to my Grandma's house while my mom worked midnights and my dad had to wake up immensely early for work. Every Sunday evening, we would read the newspaper together. Mostly, I would look at the cartoons while she read everything that was happening around town and as I got older I would skim the headlines and try to understand what I was looking at.
I grew up seeing newspapers all the time at her house, which maybe sparked my fascination for them and led me to where I am today. As I continued to grow up though, things began to change. I started to see computers everywhere, and I even started using phones and computers more than reading physical newspapers; there was even a chunk in my life where I stopped reading them whatsoever, between deciding to major in journalism and starting to use technology all of the time.
Plus, I felt like I was still getting my news. I saw stuff on Twitter, good enough right? I began to realize very quickly, that I couldn't trust those random tweets and went back to reading online publications.
When I decided on majoring in journalism, I began learning so much about online news and the importance of it through some classes I have taken here at Olivet. Today online news relies heavily on being snappy and quick, getting to the meat of the information as fast as possible to hold the attention span of everyone who is used to instantaneous, 24/7 information.
It also relies heavily on media such as photos, videos, audio, and infographics because that catches attention more than big blocks of text.
This began sparking a question in me: how did news organizations (especially newspapers) have to change the deliverance of their stories to keep up? How do news organizations fight for viewer's attention when there's millions of hilarious cat videos and TikTok dances out there?
I began diving in to figure this out.
Last summer I had an internship at a local newspaper called The Herald-News. At this internship, I was able to write many articles myself, interview people of the community, and pitch my own stories.
The Herald-News is very print driven although they do have an online website. Their demographic is mostly older individuals, though, who buy the physical copy of the newspaper. Their focus is more on that then their social media presences.
Having this internship taught me a lot about journalism, but also how a lack of social media presence can really disrupt a newspaper and make things harder on them.
News outlets must actively set and chase the agenda on different social media platforms, making their presence known.
What does setting or chasing the agenda mean, though?
This means who controls the news, which is a traditional journalism theory. Journalists, from the past up until now, are the ones who find what information is news-worthy and should be discussed to the public. This is referred to as chasing the agenda. Once journalists decide what information they will deliver to the public, they are setting the agenda of what's important. They control the news and what is spoken about to the public.
According to McCombs, who developed the Agenda-Setting Theory, he wrote in a 2000 literature review of agenda-setting studies, "The power of the news media to set a nation's agenda, to focus public attention on a few key public issues, is an immense and well documented influence."
Today, with the popularity of social media, this means that journalists don't blindly jump at any hyped subject on their Facebook feed. This takes careful consideration.
This also introduces another traditional journalism theory. Journalists act as "gatekeepers" who control what does or does not get covered in mainstream media outlets, according to Associated Press. This is the Gatekeeping Theory which was founded by social psychologist Kurt Lewin in 1943.
Social media makes traditional gatekeeping difficult for journalists as everyone has 24/7 access to information at the tips of their fingers. The public now assists journalists in their gatekeeping, which is why a presence on social media is so vitally important to thriving in the industry, according to Associated Press.
There is need for gatekeeping journalists, especially due to the high consumption rates of clickbait, fake news and non-journalistic social media pages. This is because professional journalists need to assert control over news construction, as there needs to be a regulated system which audiences can access for educational and topical news, according to Groshek & Tandoc.
The year of big shifting began occurring in 2009/2010, when newspaper began realizing, especially with the economy falling, that getting online is what would help save them.
A book called Making News at The New York Times by Nikki Usher is an excellent chronicle of this and how journalists and news organizations had to accept the internet as a means to help them thrive.
Usher walks us through how digital journalism means incorporating interactive graphics, interactive photos, videos, and information graphics. With the internet quickly sweeping the globe and growing technology creating things such as smartphones and tablets, attention spans are down, and people are less likely to comb through a hefty article to get the latest news. To keep users engaged, it now needs interesting graphics, punchier writing, and something to grab the shorter, more fleeting attention spans.
She explores how readers and audiences must interact with the content today for it to be successful. Storytelling through blocks of text is merely not enough; there has to be more, such as a video or slideshow of photos that connect to the user and speaks to them as well as break up the text.
Journalists must reckon with how to adjust to the demands of a 24/7 news cycle, an environment of interactive engagement, and a world where one-to-many has been upended. The result has been a restructuring of news routines, albeit in a contested way, which has led to the emergence of new news values: immediacy, interactivity, and participation (5).
The internet changed society, and many things in the world had to jump on board with it in order to survive.
As of August 2017, 43% of Americans report often getting news online, according to a study done by Pew Research Center.
As of spring 2017, 45% of U.S. adults often get news on a mobile device, up from 36% in 2016 and 21% in 2013 (Bialik, Matsa, 2017).
In 2017, two-thirds of U.S. adults get news from social media (Bialik, Matsa, 2017).
When browsing for my own news on a regular, everyday morning, my search often begins on Facebook and Twitter. Of course, I naturally follow some of my favorite news outlets, but I even see links to news shared by friends or people I follow.
These links were found by the same Pew Research Center article to be the biggest way that people see their news on social media. The link gets shared around and they follow it to the news organization's direct website.
My routine is pretty similar to other's consuming news, and maybe even similar to you, the one reading this. Finding news from a news organization website or app is equally as popular as seeing the links spread around on social media. These two ways drastically win out above finding news through search engines, or through friends and family (Bialik, Matsa, 2017).
When surveying different majors and students around campus, many were often thrown off guard at the question. They answered with a, "well how else would I find my news?" tone when answering that they use social media to find that information.
I surveyed one Multimedia Communications student, two art students, and one psychology student.
The Multimedia Communication student finds her news through a Snapchat news story shared daily. She reported that she liked this format for the fun, video delivery.
One art student explained that she stays away from reading the news as it is usually stresses her out and exhausts her emotionally and mentally. She also doesn't have social media anymore, so she doesn't see the news links that are shared.
The second art students reported that she uses social media to find her news. She sees what her Facebook friends share and will usually look into it if it interests her.
The psychology student was similar, explaining that he uses social media to see the news his friends are sharing. He grew up in a household where his father always read the newspaper, so he does buy the newspaper weekly on Sundays.
Even from my small survey and sampling, 3/5 of these college students get their news from some sort of social media platform.
I can remember clear as day when Donald Trump first became a meme for using the phrase "fake news."
According to BBC News journalist Mike Wendling, "President-elect Trump took up the phrase the following month, in January 2017, a little over a week before taking office. In response to a question, he said "you're fake news" to CNN reporter Jim Acosta. Around the same time he started repeating the phrase on Twitter."
But saying that Trump was the one who first used the phrase would be well…fake news.
On December 8th, 2016, Hillary Clinton mentioned "the epidemic of malicious fake news during a speech. Trump took up the phrase in January 2017, a week before election, then began using it continuously (Wendling, 2018).
It is estimated that about 25% of Americans visited a fake news website in a six-week period around the time of the 2016 US election, according to researchers at Princeton, Dartmouth and University of Exeter. 'Fake news' is now used as a term to describe multiple things: a sponsored post, an ad, a visual meme, a Twitter bot, a rumor, etc. (Wendling, 2018).
"People just use it against any information they don't like," says Clare Wardle of First Draft News, a truth-seeking non-profit based at Harvard University.
This has led to many people around the globe not trusting the news they are consuming. When they don't know what to trust, they often turn from it and give up completely as it seems too hard to try and differentiate between what is real and what is falsehood.
So, if false news is such a big problem, how can we tell what is false and what is true?
This is an important course of action that we news consumers must make in order to keep news organizations ethical and taking responsibility for presenting truthful information. We news consumers and news producers must work together to fight the demon of falsehoods.
News consumers must take the time and effort to spot misinformation.
There are four tips to help decipher this misinformation according to Fake News: How to Spot Misinformation by NPR.
Exercise skepticism. Take information with a bit of doubt as well as compare information from a number of different outlets to get a variety. Read more than just the headline. Know how to navigate the misinformation landscape. Keep an eye on how social media platforms are engaging with misinformation, and how that is constantly changing. Different social media platforms have evolving influence on misinformation as well: how is Facebook managing fake news, etc.
The last two tips are,
Be attentive when reading about emotional topics. Misinformation and fake news are most effective on hot/controversial topics. Ask yourself, is this emotionally triggering to me? Is it a breaking news story where all facts probably aren't assembled? If so be very skeptical. Investigate what you're reading. Ask questions of what you're reading: is the content paid for by a company? Is there good evidence?
The news plays a vital role in society as it did years and years ago. Humans will always have this need and hunger to know what is going on around them. Media and technology have changed what this looks like, has changed how news is reported on, and has changed how news is viewed by the public but has not killed the need for journalists.
Most of those in society have ran across a newspaper. Perhaps they enjoy reading them, maybe they have only seen their grandparents with them spread out over morning coffee. Our news has drastically changed since newspapers were the largest form of journalism and now we all live in a 24/7 news cycle where all of us can hit 'send' on a tweet and contribute. Humanity has gone from trusting nothing but news sources for their information before Nixon's presidency, to growing more and more distrustful of news sources today during Trump's presidency, according to the Columbia Journalism Review.
But even though this is because of the news changing, due to the birth of the internet and social media, it holds an immense hope.
When looking at the stats, journalism is not dying. It is still the vital information that society needs in order to keep going, it simply must change and use media to its advantage, creating a place for ethical, interesting information, like The New York Times, to catch the attention of those browsing the internet for cat memes.
Bergland, Christopher. "How Has News Changed Over the Past 30 Years?" Psychology Today, Sussex Publishers, 14 May 2019, www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-athletes-way/201905/how-has-newschanged-over-the-past-30-years.
Bialik, Kristen, and Katerina Eva Matsa. "Key Trends in Social and Digital News Media." Pew Research Center, Pew Research Center, 27 Aug. 2020, www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/10/04/key-trends-insocial-and-digital-news-media/.
"How the News Changes the Way We Think and Behave." BBC Future, BBC, www.bbc.com/future/article/20200512-how-the-news-changes-the-way-we-think-and-behave.
Personal Survey of Olivet Students: Hailie Rasmussen, Kylie Festen, Shelly Bogard
"Setting or chasing the agenda." Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute.
https://www.ap.org/events/smw/downloads/Report_setting_or_chasing_the_agenda.pdf
"The Future of Print: Newspapers Struggle to Survive in the Age of Technology." Harvard Political
Review, 6 Dec. 2014, harvardpolitics.com/future-print-newspapers-struggle-survive-age-technology/.
Tutheridge, Gabrielle. "What Is the Role of Gatekeeping Journalist's in Today's Media Environment?" Medium, Medium, 24 May 2017, medium.com/@gabrielletutheridge/what-is-the-role-of-gatekeepingjournalists-in-today-s-media-environment-2034a30ba850.
Usher, Nikki. Making News at The New York Times. University of Michigan Press, 2014. Ebook.
Wendling, Mike. "The (Almost) Complete History of 'Fake News'." BBC News, BBC, 22 Jan. 2018, www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-42724320.
Biographical Note: Rachel Barks is a senior Multimedia Communications/Journalism student at Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais, Illinois. An avid lover of storytelling, she has a passion for writing and reporting on the truth and hopes to work for a local newspaper after graduating in May 2021. On Olivet's campus, she is the Executive Assistant for the Olivet Gazette newspaper and staff writer for the Aurora Yearbook. Through studying multimedia alongside journalism, she has a passion for and has researched the vital relationship between social media and journalism for multiple projects including creating websites, writing articles, and crafting a senior speech on the subject.


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Zimbabwean immigrant speaks on starting a company in South Africa
Zimbabwean immigrant speaks on starting a company in South Africa. He left the country when the economy had just suffered a recession that started around 2007. Twelve years later, Chandagwinyira Chose is now an entrepreneur, an employer of note and a proud breadwinner for his family and a role model to his peers.
A Zimbabwean immigrant in South Africa has narrated how he skipped the country's borders in 2009 and eventually established a consultancy company in the neighbouring country.
Chose recounts how he navigated the forest and crossed the crocodile-infested Limpopo River, ending up in South Africa's sprawling economic hub of Johannesburg – without travel documents.
He now runs a successful consultancy in machinery and logistics and sales business he founded after hustling around to capitalise it through menial jobs.
He is the managing director of Investing In Africa Pty Ltd, a company he founded in 2016 after with the help of a South African friend, Betty Baby Ledwaba who is the company's sleeping partner.
Chose (62), son of the late former Police assistant inspector Jeremiah Tongai Mubaiwa of Hwedza, narrated: I am an irregular immigrant from Zimbabwe who is self-employed. I run a business, a machinery consultancy, logistics and sales here in Johannesburg.
Each country has rules and regulations for anyone forming a company and we were privileged to have a local member Ledwaba, a very honest and straightforward person to deal with. We do everything together without any problems and we are not even asking our banks to fund our business, our business is self-financing.
I am in the process of regularizing myself in SA. I wasn't going to expose myself with the system or the law enforcement. I have played low because of my status. Yes, the government of South Africa knows that I am here illegally hence the name Chandangwinyira Chose. I am not evading the immigration laws but I am within the system.
I have managed to avoid any illegal dealings with anyone and I stick to my straightforward business. Chose said his business had branches in other African countries, which include Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana and Eswatini.
There are many other Zimbabweans who, like Chose, have made it in business and are contributing to the economic development of both Zimbabwe and South Africa even though they may be in the neighbouring country irregularly.
Source – Pindula News
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Customs clearance facilities in the Gold Coast expected to increase superyacht traffic for the region.
The Gold Coast's customs clearance port which is now in operation has paved the way to drive growth in the superyacht and tourism industries.
The new port, which opened mid last year at Southport, means foreign superyachts and other international vessels are able to sail directly into the Gold Coast Seaway for customs clearance.
Until last year, Superyachts have had to clear customs elsewhere, which has meant the Coast has often missed out on the lucrative superyacht market.
Mark Riddell, Southport Yacht Club Waterfront Manager said, "Southport Yacht Club has had around 35 boats clear into the Gold Coast. The Border Force station at Southport Yacht Club has made a tremendous difference to the Gold Coast"
The decision to include the Southport Yacht Club on the list of approved international arrival points is the result of continuous lobbying by Superyacht Australia, government representatives and marine industry stalwarts.
At this stage, the message that this facility is available is being continuously promoted to the global superyacht fleet to confirm that international vessels are welcomed to the Gold Coast. If the much needed changes to the charter regulations for foreign flagged vessels come into force there will certainly be an increase in the number of superyachts clearing in on the Gold Coast.
Given that foreign flagged vessels make their cruising plans years in advance it will take at least 12-18 months to see the effects of this additional port of entry. Events like the Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast, the Australian Superyacht Rendezvous being held in April at the Gold Coast City Marina and Shipyard certainly help put a strong spotlight on the region.
Superyachts coming into the Gold Coast will prove a massive boon to the city as it is well known that the spend of a large superyacht can match that of a 2000 guest cruise ship.
More superyachts will mean more highly-skilled jobs for locals as many of these vessels will stay to have maintenance, refits and other work undertaken.
The region continues to be a premier superyacht destination from Southport to Brisbane as the sheltered and safe waterways make an ideal cruising ground for both experienced and less experienced sailors.
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Congratulations to Mohamed L. Sesay (Binghamton University) and Jasmin Senior (CSL Behring), 2018 EACE Diversity and Inclusion Scholarship Recipients!
Mohamed Sesay explored career paths in education, marketing and publishing, before returning to Binghamton University as as Career Consultant. A former student staff member in the Fleishman Center, Mohamed now supervises the Senior Peer Assistants, consults students and creates career-oriented programs for university partner offices. He is goal-oriented and wants to coach students to achieve their goals and successes.
Mohamed has a Bachelor degree in English, and is currently pursing a Master of Public Administration. During his free time he enjoys traveling, museum and art exhibits, and listening to podcasts.
Jasmin Senior Bostic is the Global Manager of University Relations at CSL Behring located in King of Prussia, PA. In her role, Jasmin is responsible for the implementation and execution of University Relations and Recruitment strategy in the US, Australia, Germany, Switzerland and Hong Kong. Prior to joining CSL, Jasmin spent 10 years in Campus Recruiting and Diversity at Comcast NBCUniversal and Ernst & Young.
Jasmin is passionate about community service and mentoring youth. She very involved in the Philadelphia area having recently served as the President of NExT (Network of Extraordinary Talent) Philadelphia, an affinity group of the Urban League of Philadelphia, Advisory Board Member of PHLDiversity, The Ivy Legacy Foundation and the Drexel University Employer Advisory Board. Jasmin resides in Philadelphia with her husband Atif.
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Currently, it's sitting at $140 million off a $100 million budget. That's hardly impressive, and with talks of those planned sequels possibly being cancelled, it looks like it might be one and done for the rebooted franchise. While the reasons for the low box office numbers can be traced back to a few things, director Dean Israelite believes a lot of it had to do with the PG-13 rating that was tethered to the flick.
Chatting with Screen Rant in a recent interview, the filmmaker said that had his movie received a PG instead, more parents would have felt comfortable taking their children to it, which would have resulted in more dollars at the box office.
Reflecting on the test screenings that were held for the film, Israelite said that he was disappointed in the PG-13 and feels it was unnecessary, as the young ones "came out of the movie enjoying it" when the studio previewed Power Rangers for children.
As mentioned above, Power Rangers sits at about $140 million right now, which is hardly anything to get excited about when it comes to a film like this. No one was thinking it would do MCU numbers, of course, but its current haul is still pretty underwhelming all things considered. Especially for a release that's supposed to be a franchise starter.
In regards to that sequel, it's definitely not looking too good then, though until Lionsgate makes an official announcement, fans can remain hopeful that Power Rangers 2 will somehow find itself with a green light. The chances are low, to be sure, but who knows? Perhaps the film will really take off on Blu-ray? Or maybe someone will come along with an idea for a second outing that's just too good to pass up?
Fine, we're probably pulling at straws here. For the time being, it looks like the franchise is all but done with the silver screen and barring any sort of miracle during its home video release, we can probably kiss those Mighty Morphin Power Rangers goodbye.


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Q&A with Rory Gawler '05
by Paulomi Rao | 7/27/17 11:30pm
Rory Gawler '05 found his passion for the outdoors during orientation weekend of his freshman year at Dartmouth. As the current assistant director of outdoor programs, Gawler has found working with students the most important part of his job and Robinson Hall to be a symbol on campus for community and family.
As an '05, what did the term "Dartmouth family" mean to you?
RG: One of the most interesting things about graduating in '05 was that I showed up for First-Year Trips when September 11 happened, and I think that was a wake up call for the whole country and the world. For us, it was a bit of a transition point in our lives, and a little bit of "seize the day." We are all the protagonists in our own stories, but it did seem like our class really did seize the day and take leadership roles in a lot of things and were particularly active, especially in the outing club.
Why Dartmouth?
RG: I came here because of the [Dartmouth Outing Club]. I'm from Toronto and I was bored to tears in the city, but I went to summer camp in the summers. When it became clear that I could go to school here, I was very excited. I showed up during orientation week and bought a lifetime membership for the outing club. Interestingly enough, I did not actually find my place in the outing club until freshman spring. But at some point, I went on a hike with Cabin and Trail and went to a woodsmen's meet, and realized that was my home there.
And your experience with community in the DOC?
RG: For me, I didn't particularly enjoy hiking, but I enjoyed canoeing. At that time, the Canoe Club did a lot of white water kayaking, so initially I didn't know my place. I eventually sort of figured out that Cabin and Trail was more than just hiking — it was cabin maintenance, trail work, camping and the woodsmen's team, which were really fun aspects of [Cabin and Trail]. The thing that really hooked me was the community. I found some friends just hanging out in Robinson Hall, eating lunch in Room 13, and just knowing that you can go to a physical place and, without having to make plans, you can drop in and see people there that you know and can hang out with. It's a low key, spontaneous drop in kind of atmosphere. I suspect that's what makes a lot of the sororities and fraternities successful, and I think it's what makes the outing club and Ravine Lodge so successful — just being able to swing into Robinson and hang out for ten minutes just because I had the time.
Robinson is such a special place on campus for many students. What does it mean to you?
RG: That's a lot of the reason why I have an office right off the hallway, which connects me with students. It's logistically and conveniently very useful, and working with students is what gets me out of bed in the morning. It the best part of my job and I just love the students in the outing club.
Are there specific outdoor events in the DOC that are geared towards community building?
RG: I think that all of the events are about social ties and about community building. I think outdoor activity is a medium upon which we build relationships, and I happen to think it's one of the better ones. It's hard to build meaningful relationships doing something passive, like watching a movie together or watching TV together, and I think it's really damaging to build social relationships through binge drinking. But I think it is really excellent, healthy and awesome to build those relationships doing wholesome outdoor activity, building life, leadership and confidence skills and building those social bonds between each other
Many of the programs at the DOC are student-let, do you feel like this makes the DOC unique?
RG: I think the outing club has been a huge community for people, and I often refer to it as the core of the alternative social scene on campus. I think other than the Greek system, it is the most significant community on campus, and it's a healthy and wholesome thing to do. There are some students, the lifers, who go to class, do the DOC, and that's it. They are here every day, and I see them and I know them all. There are a lot of students who come to do a couple things but have other stuff going on, and there are students who will do one outing club trip in their whole lives, and that's fine too. We do a lot of talking about being inclusive and welcoming here in the outing club, and I think the students work hard to make it happen. There's also value to being an organization that has quirks and inside jokes, that has culture and all of those things. While they are trying really hard to be inclusive, those things can seem not welcoming. But the club is trying really hard to find a balance between those things. For my peers, the ones that I had the most meaningful relationships with were all part of the outing club. When they came, we did a bunch of outing club type stuff together, we had a great time, and then they went home. And I think we would all consider that as feeling like a family.
What's one of your favorite experiences with the DOC?
RG: I think one of the neatest things I got to do with the outing club was build a cabin: the Class of '66 Lodge. I spent a lot of time out there, and the experience of building the cabin was amazing — doing something with my hands, building something beautiful that will last and people will appreciate, but for me, that was never the best part. The best part was being with a group of people who were working hard to accomplish a common goal. And I think that kind of experience builds a type of relationship that you just can't get any other way, and I think that's why people value team sports, projects, and why, when you are at a work place, working with a team is important. Because working as a team towards a common goals is hardwired into our genetics, that's what we should be doing, and it feels very satisfying and important. Those types of bonds and memories, you just can't get any other way. If I had to pick what the purpose of life was, it would be building relationships with people, and the DOC is one of the best ways to do it.
This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity and length.
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Eric John Paul Hunter was born in Monroe, Michigan on June 30, 1979. He was the son of Dennis John Hunter and the late Patsy Lynne Lynch. Eric graduated from Jefferson High School in 1997 and later joined the Air Force Reserves achieving ?Airman of the Year? while stationed at Selfridge AFB Michigan.
Eric ?O?Malley? Hunter was a joy to everyone he met, he was kind hearted and was always willing to lend a hand to anyone who needed it. He enjoyed fishing, time with family and friends, and hanging out at deer camp. He had a heart of gold and will be deeply missed by all who knew and loved him.
Eric John Paul Hunter age 33 of Monroe passed away at 6:26pm, Saturday, January 26, 2013 at Mercy Memorial Hospital in Monroe. In addition to his mother, his passing was preceded his grandfathers: Jack D. Hunter and James Martin Lynch; his grandmother: Mary Belle (Paul) Heaton; one aunt and four cousins.
Friends may gather from 2:00pm until 8:00pm on Wednesday, January 30, 2013 at Merkle Funeral Service, 2442 North Monroe Street (734) 384-5185. A Celebration of His Life will be held on 11:00am on Thursday, January 31, 2013 also at Merkle?s. Pastor Kenneth Spain, Associate Pastor from Monroe Missionary Baptist Church will officiate. Procession will follow to Roselawn Memorial Park with graveside services under the auspices of Monroe VFW Post 1138.


This is the first of a two part series comprising the National Intermodal Network Feasibility Study. Part I contains Volumes I thru IV, and Part II, Appendices 1 thru 4. Volume I is the Executive Summary. Volume II describes the current environment in which various land transportation modes compete for the movement of containerizable freight. It also describes the current patterns of operations of the significant land modes and presents an analysis of their service and economic capabilities. Special attention is given to a discussion of intermodal terminal operations. Finally, the report suggests opportunities for improvement of intermodal operations. Volume III presents the procedures and findings of the study phases that developed a network operating plan. It then compares the service and economic capabilities of an improved intermodal network with similar capabilities of efficient operations of competing modes. And finally it describes the network operations that were developed. Volume IV assesses the feasibility of a Nationwide Intermodal Network by reviewing the operating implications developed earlier. It compares these requirements with the capabilities of today's carriers. It then seeks to evaluate the financial feasibility, cash flow and investment requirement, which are of paramount concern in judging the reasonableness of this transportation alternative. The volume concludes with an examination of alternative organizational and management concepts.
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1/1/19 O&A NYC SONG OF THE DAY: Diana Ross- Missing You (In Memory of Hector)
By OutandAboutnycmag January 1, 2019 January 1, 2019 In Memorarium, Lifestyle, Music, Music Video, Out and About NYC Magazine, R&B, SONG OF THE DAY, Video
Missing You performed by Diana Ross and written, composed and produced by Lionel Richie as a tribute to Marvin Gaye shortly after his untimely death. Continue reading
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8/4/16 O&A NYC THROWBACK THURSDAY: We are the World- USA for Africa
By OutandAboutnycmag August 4, 2016 August 4, 2016 History, Inspirational, Music, Music Video, Throwback Thursday, Video
We Are the World is a song and charity single originally recorded by the supergroup United Support of Artists (USA) for Africa in 1985. It was written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie (with arrangements by Michael Omartian) and produced by Quincy Jones for the album We Are the World. With sales in excess of 20 million copies, it is one of the fewer than 30 all-time singles to have sold at least 10 million copies worldwide. Continue reading
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8/4/16 O&A NYC SONG OF THE DAY: USA for Africa – We are the World
By OutandAboutnycmag August 4, 2016 August 4, 2016 History, Inspirational, Music, Music Video, SONG OF THE DAY, Throwback Thursday, Video
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2/22/16 O&A NYC ENTERTAINMENT NEWS: Natalie Cole's Family Outraged Over GRAMMYs' 'Disrespectful' Tribute to Late Singer
By OutandAboutnycmag February 22, 2016 February 24, 2016 Entertainment, Music, R&B
Robert Yancy, Natalie Cole's son says the first African-American to win a Grammy for Best New Artist deserved a better tribute. Yancy says he's outraged his mom didn't get a star-studded tribute. "She has deserved so much more than that because she has done so much," he said. "It was really insulting," he added. Sisters Timolan and Casey Cole agreed. "Not even verbally mentioned. It was not something we felt was worthy of such an iconic star." Continue reading
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2/12/16 O&A NYC SONG OF THE DAY: Endless Love- Luther Vandross and Mariah Carey
By OutandAboutnycmag February 12, 2016 February 12, 2016 Music, Music Video, SONG OF THE DAY
Endless Love cover by Luther Vandross and Mariah Carey the duet was originally recorded by Lionel Richie and Diana Ross. The song appeared on Vandross' Epic Records-released album Songs, and it is known for being Carey's first "high-profile" duet. At the 1995 Gramwas with the then-unknown background singer Trey Lorenz). At the 1995 Grammy Awards, the song was nominated in the new category of Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals. Continue reading
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6/11/15 O&A Throwback Thursday: Missing You- Diana Ross
By OutandAboutnycmag June 11, 2015 June 11, 2015 Music, Music Video, Throwback Thursday
Missing You, written, composed, and produced by Lionel Richie as a tribute to Marvin Gaye, who had died earlier that year. The video includes, as well as still photographs and tribute clips of Gaye himself, tribute clips of former Supremes singer Florence Ballard and of Paul Williams of The Temptations, both Motown artists who had died in the 1970s. Continue reading
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Getting Crafty! - Foxy Possibilities - Two foxes. Endless possibilities.
Here are examples of my new work with some still in progress.
These next 2 are still in progress as they need clasps I have on order.
Enjoying getting back into crafting. Looking to hopefully get some space at conventions in the next few months to sell my work. Also looking to add in some leather accessories to my arsenal of crafts and maybe sell those too. Fingers crossed!


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Truth, like love, isn't always obvious.
Seventeen-year-old Ruby Brooks has never had a boyfriend. After moving to small-town La Luna, New Mexico following her mother's untimely death, boys aren't even on her radar. Ruby just wants to forget the last horrible year and blend in. But when she discovers an ancient pueblo ruin in the forest behind her house, and meets Ezra, a bitter recluse whose once-perfect face was destroyed in an accident he won't talk about; Angel, La Luna's handsome sheriff's deputy, and Leo, a stranger who only appears near the ruin, Ruby finds herself teetering between love, mystery, and other worlds. What happened to Ezra's face? And why is she so attracted to the one boy in town everyone despises? As Ruby unravels her own connections to both Ezra and the pueblo ruin, she'll learn surfaces are deceiving. Especially in the heart of New Mexico, where spirits and legends aren't always just campfire stories.
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Research ArticleORIGINAL ARTICLE
Marked Depletion of Glycosylation Sites in HIV-1 gp120 under Selection Pressure by the Mannose-Specific Plant Lectins of Hippeastrum Hybrid and Galanthus nivalis
Jan Balzarini, Kristel Van Laethem, Sigrid Hatse, Matheus Froeyen, Els Van Damme, Anders Bolmstedt, Willy Peumans, Erik De Clercq and Dominique Schols
Molecular Pharmacology May 2005, 67 (5) 1556-1565; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1124/mol.104.005082
Jan Balzarini
Kristel Van Laethem
Sigrid Hatse
Matheus Froeyen
Els Van Damme
Anders Bolmstedt
Willy Peumans
Erik De Clercq
Dominique Schols
The plant lectins from Hippeastrum hybrid (HHA) and Galanthus nivalis (GNA) are 50,000-D tetramers showing specificity for α-(1,3) and/or α-(1,6)-mannose oligomers. They inhibit HIV-1 infection at a 50% effective concentration of 0.2 to 0.3 μg/ml. Escalating HHA or GNA concentrations (up to 500 μg/ml) led to the isolation of three HIV-1(IIIB) strains in CEM T cell cultures that were highly resistant to HHA and GNA, several other related mannose-specific plant lectins, and the monoclonal antibody 2G12, modestly resistant to the mannose-specific cyanovirin, which is derived from a blue-green alga, but fully susceptible to other HIV entry inhibitors as well as HIV reverse transcriptase inhibitors. These mutant virus strains were devoid of up to seven or eight of 22 glycosylation sites in the viral envelope glycoprotein gp120 because of mutations at the Asn or Thr/Ser sites of the N-glycosylation motifs. In one of the strains, a novel glycosylation site was created near a deleted glycosylation site. The affected glycosylation sites were predominantly clustered in regions of gp120 that are not involved in the direct interaction with either CD4, CCR5, CXCR4, or gp41. The mutant viruses containing the deleted glycosylation sites were markedly more infectious in CEM T-cell cultures than wild-type virus.
Received July 16, 2004.
Accepted February 17, 2005.
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Molecular Pharmacology May 1, 2005, 67 (5) 1556-1565; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1124/mol.104.005082
The 73-kDa Heat Shock Cognate Protein Is a CXCR4 Binding Protein that Regulates the Receptor Endocytosis and the Receptor-Mediated Chemotaxis
Endogenous Regulator of G-Protein Signaling Proteins Regulate the Kinetics of Gαq/11-Mediated Modulation of Ion Channels in Central Nervous System Neurons
A Novel Cyclohexene Derivative, Ethyl (6R)-6-[N-(2-Chloro-4-fluorophenyl)sulfamoyl]cyclohex-1-ene-1-carboxylate (TAK-242), Selectively Inhibits Toll-Like Receptor 4-Mediated Cytokine Production through Suppression of Intracellular Signaling


Rocking dreadlocks doesn't mean you can't have fun and get your hair dyed to a different color. However, it usually requires a more intense formula for the dye to stick to your hair strands if you have dreadlocks than what regular hair would normally need.
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Prepare your hair beforehand. Do several hot oil treatments on your dreadlocks (at least four) before having your hair dyed at the salon. Coconut oil is proven to be beneficial to hair and helps strengthen it.
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You can do this if you want to save money from going to the salon or you want lighter hair but don't want to risk the damage from strong, permanent dyes. Of course, this has its own set of consequences.
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Use silk or satin pillowcases instead of the other common materials.
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If you are a vegetarian, beans and leafy, green vegetables are rich with protein and iron, plus Omega 3 and saturated fats (good fats) to boost the health and strength of your hair.
Keep your color treated dreadlocks clean. It goes without saying that cleansing your hair on a regular basis is important when maintaining dreadlocks--colored or not.


Hundreds of French police cleared a huge migrant camp in northeast Paris on Friday in a fresh sign of the government's determination to take refugees off the streets and into shelters.
The evacuation of 3,800 people from the Stalingrad area of the city came less than two weeks after the demolition of the notorious "Jungle" camp in the northern port city of Calais.
Starting at dawn, police arrived to wake people sleeping in tents or on mattresses under an overhead metro line, 15 minutes' walk from Gare du Nord railway station.
The area around Stalingrad, a gritty multi-ethnic part of the capital, is a magnet for migrants and police have repeatedly cleared camps there, only for them to spring back up days later.
But six months before elections, Socialist President Francois Hollande has said he is determined to take refugees off the streets and that France needs to offer a better welcome.
"We've got to grips with this issue. Their conditions were disgraceful, unbearable," Prime Minister Manuel Valls told reporters on Friday.
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said there was now "no humanitarian problem in Calais and there isn't one either in Paris."
While some activists welcome the fresh political will to tackle a long-standing problem, they stress that France has been slow to react to a crisis that has grown in intensity over the last two years.
It has lagged behind other countries, Germany in particular, in providing appropriate lodgings for refugees to seek safety.
"Our worry is always the same: that the facilities in the shelters are absolutely not the same standard," local activist Valerie Osouf told AFP, criticising the dirty and costly hotel rooms being used in some cases.
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo has announced the creation of the city's first refugee transit camp, which will have initial capacity for 400 men. It is set to open this month in a disused railway yard in the north of the capital.
In Stalingrad, the arrival of the first bus before dawn on Friday was greeted with cheers from a crowd of hundreds of Afghans who had gathered, bags packed, to take it.
"I don't know where we are going," said 28-year-old Khalid. "The important thing for me is to have my papers. I have been here in a tent for a month, it's good to leave."
Most of the people in the camp, which included hundreds of women and children, were from war-wracked Afghanistan and Sudan or the repressive African state of Eritrea.
The clearance, which finished around lunchtime when the last bus left, came after authorities dismantled Calais' Jungle camp and dispersed its 7,000 inhabitants around the country.
The squalid settlement, home to up to 10,000 at its height, had served for years as a jumping-off point for migrants attempting to stow away on trucks and trains crossing the Channel to Britain.
Plans to house migrants in public buildings across the country, including in rural areas, has created unease and resistance from some local mayors.
Many migrants, particularly those bussed to far-flung locations, have simply left and returned to Paris or gone back to the north coast to resume their efforts to slip into Britain, activists say.
Europe is facing its biggest migrant crisis since World War II. More than 1.5 million people have crossed the Mediterranean since 2014 to escape wars or poverty in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia.
France has welcomed a fraction of the number of asylum seekers who have headed to Germany, which registered 890,000 refugees last year.
France received 73,500 new requests in 2015, up 24 percent, according to interior ministry figures.


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Грејс Шервуд  (1660–1740) позната као вештица из Пунга је задња особа за коју се зна да је осуђена за вештичарење у савезној држави Вирџинија.

Била је пољопривредник и травар и била 1706. године је оптужена од стране комшија да се бавила вештичарењем и да је крива за уништавање усева и помор стоке. Пошто је више пута осуђивана за вештичарење суд је одлучио да се њена кривица, или невиност докажу на традиционалан начин, потапањем у реку који се практиковао у то време.

Процедура се састојала од тога да особу вежу за импровизовани крст и убаце у реку. Ако особа потоне сматра се да није крива, а уколико настави да плута онда се та особа сматрала вештицом. Грејс је плутала по површини воде и проглашена кривом, због чега је провела 8 година у затвору. Након изласка из затвора вратила се на породично имање где је живела до своје смрти 1740. године, у 80. години живота.

Касније је по њој написана и књига за децу у форми бајке која се базирала на неким историјским информацијама.

Тачно 300 година од њеног проглашења кривом, 10. јула 2006. године, тадашњи гувернер Тимоти Кејн је званично упутио признање да је неправедно осуђена након чега је постављена њена скулптура.

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Рођени 1660.
Умрли 1740.
Вештичарство

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The oldest known birds, classified in the genus Archaeopteryx, lived near the end of the Jurassic Period (145.5 to 150.8 million years ago). Although Archaeopteryx has a fully developed plumage its skeleton still retains many features of its dinosaurian precursors, one of which is jaws with teeth. With the exception of some Cretaceous-age forms, all later birds lack teeth.
In 1873 the Victorian paleontologist Sir Richard Owen described the incomplete skull of a new fossil bird from the early Eocene (48.6-55.8 million-year-old) London Clay of southeast England. What makes this fossil special is the presence of tooth-like structures along the margins of its bill, which led Owen to name the new bird Odontopteryx–"toothed wing." Its "teeth" are actually pointed projections of the jawbone.
Subsequently, fossils of such false-toothed birds have been discovered in other parts of Europe, Japan, New Zealand, and especially North America. In 1957 the American paleontologist Hildegard Howard reported an incomplete skeleton of a false-toothed bird, Osteodontornis, from Miocene rocks exposed in a quarry near Santa Barbara, California. She estimated its wingspan at an impressive 16 feet (4.87 m).
In the September issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, the German ornithologist Gerald Mayr and his Chilean colleague David Rubilar-Rogers have described much of an exceptionally well-preserved skeleton of a giant false-toothed bird. The specimen had been collected from a sequence of Miocene rocks in northern Chile, the top of which has been dated radiometrically at 6.8±1.3 million years before present. The researchers placed this remarkable fossil, along with all other Miocene-age false-toothed birds (including Howard's Osteodontornis), in the genus Pelagornis but classified it as a new species, Pelagornis chilensis.
Skull of Pelagornis chilensis in side view. Note the tooth-like bony projections in the upper and lower jaws. Length of skull 45 cm (1.48 feet).
Photograph by S. Tränkner; courtesy and copyright of Dr. Gerald Mayr (Sektion für Ornithologie, Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, Frankfurt am Main).
The new species attained a wingspan of at least 5.2 m (17.1 feet)–the largest wingspan of any known bird and rivaled only by the extinct teratorn vulture Argentavis. By comparison, present-day albatrosses attain wingspans of about 3.4 m (11.2 feet).
The structure of the upper arm bone (humerus) in Pelagornis rules out flapping of the wings. Mayr and Rubilar-Rogers suggest that takeoff relied on spreading those enormous wings against headwinds. The birds may have also held their wings horizontal during landing, using their short, robust legs for braking.
The bones of Pelagornis chilensis are remarkably thin-walled. Using various methods for calculating body weight from bone dimensions in birds, the researchers obtained weight estimates ranging from 15.6 to 28.6 kg (34.3 to 62.9 pounds)–not much heavier than the heaviest flying bird alive today, the mute swan, which can attain weights of up to 20 kg (44 pounds) in males. Together with the limb proportions, these figures suggest that Pelagornis was a highly proficient long-distance soarer.
Preserved elements of the skeleton of Pelagornis chilensis. Scale equals 1 m (3.29 feet).
The beak of Pelagornis chilensis has 22 variously sized tooth-like projections on the front three fourths of its upper bony cutting edge. Presumably the false teeth helped to maintain a grip on slippery prey such as fish and squid on which these giant birds fed.
A living Pelagornis must have been a truly spectacular sight as it cruised offshore, now and then plucking prey from the ocean surface with its "toothed" bill. Why these remarkable seabirds vanished cannot yet be ascertained. Perhaps climate change following the formation of the Isthmus of Panama and the resulting major changes in ocean currents accounts for the disappearance of these animals.


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South Slavic: August 4, 2005
HOW MUCH DO BALKAN ARMIES (STILL) COST?
Part I.
A program by RFE/RL's South Slavic and Albanian Languages Service broadcasters Srdjan Kusovac and Gezim Baxhaku.
RFE/RL: In 2004, some $1 trillion was spent worldwide on weapons and armies.
In order to understand this huge amount calculated by SIPRI [Stockholm International Peace Research Institute], one of the leading institutions for research on armed forces around the world, let us just say that an average of some $2.3 billion was spent each day on armies worldwide, or that every inhabitant of our planet spent more than $160 a day on armies and defense.
After a decade of wars, military spending is being reduced to a minimum in the former Yugoslav states. The armed forces of Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Serbia and Montenegro are making a painful transition from the tradition of the bloated Yugoslav People's Army [JNA] -- whose budget was not subject to public scrutiny -- into small, professional, and efficient armies. During the transformation process that has been going on for years, the military establishments have often clashed with young, modern politicians, like, for instance, Serbian Finance Minister Mladjan Dinkic, who has recently even sent financial police to military institutions.
Dinkic: It is irresponsible the way they use enormous resources from the budget out of the taxpayers' wallets. I am sending auditors to the financial department of the army. General [Dragan] Paskas, who is chief of staff of the Army of Serbia and Montenegro, publicly says that the army is in poor financial shape. Well, I say: "It is poor, but why? Because those people are not good at running it." The army would like to keep things unchanged, the way it used to be [in communist times], and they want the citizens to keep footing the bill. I am against it, and this is why I am ready to confront the entire army leadership if necessary. It is not an easy job at all to make a rigid army structure change its old habits.
RFE/RL: We will look at how far the armed forces in the region have gone in reforming, how much money they now spend, and what they plan to do in the future. Out guests are Fran Visnar, military analyst of Zagreb daily "Vjesnik"; Veljko Kadijevic of the Atlantic Movement in Serbia [editor's note: this is not the famous Yugoslav-era general of the same name], and journalist Antonio Prlenda from the Sarajevo daily "Oslobodjenje."
RFE/RL: Is the wider public in Croatia aware of the costs of the armed forces, or, in other words, is the financing of the army transparent?
Visnar: No, the wider public is not aware of it, but the information is available for those who want it. The current Croatian military budget is $599 million. It is slightly more than last year, but far less than what was spent in the1990s, especially in 1995 and 1996, when annual military spending exceeded $1 billion and when Croatia was at the very top of the list for military spending among all the countries of the region.
Therefore, transparency exists, although the Ministry of Defense is quick to add that the budget is too low and that two-thirds of what money they have is spent on salaries.
Although Croatia has made substantial progress in recent years, the structure of military spending is not yet up to NATO requirements. It remains uncertain when and if Croatia will be invited to join the alliance. Another thing that further complicates the situation is the fact that here, as in all the other countries of former Yugoslavia, the armed forces remain an important part of the state structure. They are quick to inflate their claims of what they have achieved and make bigger promises than they can really keep.
RFE/RL: When we compare Croatia with other states in the region, the progress that has been made towards European integration is much greater than anywhere else (except Slovenia). Why has Croatia not yet met the Partnership for Peace requirement of reducing its military costs below 2 percent of the GDP? What keeps preventing it from reaching that goal?
Visnar: Internal political reasons. Whenever cutting military costs is mentioned, Croatian conservative parties, such as traditional rightists like the HSP [Croatian Party of (Historical) Rights], exert pressure on the government to prevent it. At the same time, Croatia is reluctant to fire excess military and civilian staff from its armed forces. This involves quite a large number of people. From its current 21,000 active members, the army is supposed to fire some 8,000-9,000 employees by 2007-08. For the time being, there is no social program whatsoever for them. The situation is the same in Serbia, too.
As far as administration or bureaucracy is concerned, I consider the Ministry of Defense one of the most rigid institutions in Croatia, since when it comes to their internal structures no serious reforms have taken place. This is what NATO experts criticize the most when they come in Croatia. I am not only talking about the structure of the armed forces, in terms of infantry, etc. I am also talking about the civilian part that is trying to survive at any cost and maintains strong ties to those in power in order to preserve its privileges. Similar processes are taking place in other countries of former Yugoslavia, with the exception of Slovenia.
If Croatia did the impossible and created a professional army right now, it would have to spend immediately some $800 million-$900 million. The current foreign debt is higher than that of former Yugoslavia and stands at about $25 billion-$26 billion. It will thus require a solid national consensus to achieve serious military reform....
This, in turn, will depend on Croatia's future membership in NATO, namely whether it will join it or not, and whether it will join alone or with other states, especially with...Albania and Macedonia [with whom it has been linked by NATO since at least 2002]. However, I think that people in Brussels are very pragmatic and will want Serbia and Montenegro -- or those two states separately if they split -- to join as well because of their strategic and geopolitical importance.
Kadijevic: The military budget is proposed by the Ministry of Defense for the joint state's parliament to approve. Serbia provides some 96 percent of the budget, while 4 percent of the finances come from Montenegro. According to my information, Serbia is currently [in 2005] paying some $675 million, and it is well-known for what the money is earmarked. But it remains to be seen whether or not it will be spent as planned and not disappear into some "hole" somewhere....
RFE/RL: What we are talking about here is no longer considered top secret, as it would have been treated some 20 or more years ago.
Kadijevic: Of course; it is not a top secret anymore. Information about the budget and the armed forces goes out to many addresses worldwide. These matters were transparent even in Tito's time. It means that SIPRI in Stockholm and the OSCE in Vienna have always had very precise information about our defense system, from the number of spoons and rifles we have, to the number of planes. It might have been kept secret from the wider public in former Yugoslavia, but it has never really been secret for anyone anywhere who cares to look.


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Q: Alternate method to .hasNextInt? I'm new to java and I'm wondering if there is a different method that I can use instead  of has.nextInt() as this method messes up my scanner. For example
do {
    System.out.println("Please enter your full name: ");
    memberName = input.nextLine();
    if (input.hasNextInt()) {
        System.out.println("Your name cannot contain a number");
        input.next();
    } else {
        successful = true;
    }
} while (successful == false);

console
Create new member
Please enter your full name:
jack
jack

I have to enter my name twice before it moves on
I know theres questions out there like this but I've had no luck with any of there solutions. Thanks
EDIT
I'm trying to make sure that the input does not contain any number at all and if it does then
System.out.print("Your name cannot contain any numbers");

happens

A: The usage of if(input.hasNextInt()){ is wrong here. As you want to find numbers in your previous entered string which is memberName
You could use regex for this purpose:
Pattern digitPattern = Pattern.compile("\\d+");

And then you can use this to validate any string:
System.out.println(digitPattern.matcher("Marcinek 234").matches());

A: do {
    System.out.println("Please enter your full name: ");
    memberName = input.nextLine();
    if (memberName.contains("1234567890")) {
        System.out.println("Your name cannot contain a number");
    } else {
        successful = true;
    }
    input.next();
} while (successful == false);

You were using input in your if-statement to check, but you assigned memberName to the whole line.

A: Try creating your own method which will test if passed name is valid. It can look for instance like this:
private static boolean isValidName(String name){
    return name.matches("[a-z]+(\\s[a-z]+)*");//can be optimized with precompiled Pattern
}

Now your code can look like:
System.out.println("Please enter your full name: ");
do {
    memberName = input.nextLine();
    successful = isValidName(memberName);
    if (!successful) {
        System.out.println("Your name is not valid. Valid name can contain only letters and spaces. No digits are allowed.");
        System.out.println("Please try again: ");
    }
} while (!successful);
System.out.println("welcome: "+memberName);

A: If you want just read line from user input you can use:
hasNextLine()

Or you can just use:
hasNext()

And try to change this:
 while (successful == false);

With this:
  while (successful);

A: You could use: enteredName.contains("1") to check for numbers.
For example:
boolean containsNumbers = false;
for(int i = 0; i<9; i++){
if (name.contains(""+i)) containsNumbers = true;
}

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Today's my little brother's birthday! When I told him I would write a post about him, he said: "Finally! You only ever write about your little sister, never about me". He's got a point! My brother's so close to me in age, whereas my sister is around 10 years younger than me. The relationship I have with him versus her is so different. What remains the same is the responsibility I feel for them both, being the oldest, and how their happiness means everything to me. Happy Birthday Eric! I love, respect and appreciate you and hope you had the most amazing day. One day I'll be there to celebrate it with you!
Here's some of the memories I have of growing up with you as my annoying lil' bro.
Memory I: We're playing outside our grey timber house, it's summer. Daisy, our golden retriever pup, is hanging around looking after us like a proper childminder. On the side of the path leading into our house there's an abandoned Jungle Book juice box with its content sipping out. There are ants everywhere. In that house we dress up Daisy like a doll whenever our parents are sleeping. In that house you spin around in my dresses; your eyes sparkling of joy at the beauty that is your sister's spinning dress that you, too, get to wear.
Memory II: Some of our friends are over; they're mostly your friends. Kids seem to like you more, you're funnier, tougher, more playful than me. We're in a different house, sharing a room with a giant image of a forest as our wallpaper. We're jumping on our beds, playing with Smurf-toys. You mention to the other kids that I wet my bed at night, and sometimes I even wet my pants during the day. I hate you for saying that, for sharing secrets. Other memories from that house: us bathing together. Us in mom's bed listening to her reading Barbie books.
Memory III: We're at our dad's house, dad's out doing something in the garden, helping grandma and grandpa most probably. He says before he goes, be nice to each other. I don't know why, but we start fighting. You get a scissor and throw it at me, I run out of the house, over to grandma's. At the edge of her house there's a rake, I take it and start swinging it around me creating a border that you can't get through. You cry and scream till dad comes back. Other memories from that house: us playing with Star Wars lego, us playing bats after our shower with our towels as wings, us laying in the dark in our bunk beds listening to scary stories on the cassette tape, us putting "spider webs" all over the house, us creating a trap for dad - so that when he opens the door to our room an object will come flying towards him.
Today's your 27th birthday! You're almost as old as I am, you always are. You're the person I share the most memories with. We share trauma, we share joy. There are emotions grown from moments only you and I can relate to.
1. You're just as sensitive as me. You're connected to your emotions, allowing yourself to live life with both the ups and downs. You understand depth in film and music and literature, it comes easy to you. You understand depth, layers, in people, too.
2. You're a hard worker, both when it comes to your personal life and your work life. Most importantly maybe, you work hard at fighting for others. There's nothing that engages you more than equality for all and every person's right to live a better life.
3. You enjoy happiness. You take real pleasure in the small things in life. A cup of coffee, a song, the weather, a view, a good meal, travelling with friends, travelling alone, meeting new people, being by yourself, writing, reading, drawing, finding something nice for your apartment, cooking, etc.
4. Your ability to be independent. I've always admired how well you take care of things. Where I would fall apart, you persevere. You always seem to have projects going, apartments to move into, jobs to work at, a steady budget: things that I've been struggling with haha. You manage to build stability, no matter how rough things get.
5. Your social life. People love you, you've always had many friends. You treat your friends like family, you understand the importance of people coming together and collectively growing and not just doing this independently of others. You value "offline" gatherings more than "online" ones.
6. You're extremely funny, and no one can make me laugh the way you do because of what we share together. I'm guessing I'm the only one who could really laugh at some of your jokes as well, and I love that we share that.
7. You always seem to understand what people are going through, and even if you don't understand you respect the struggle. You listen without judgement, full of empathy and compassion.
I'm so incredibly proud of who you are and what you do. I'll always be your number one fan and defender. Love you, mean it.
On January 5th my grandma, my mormor, turned 80 years old. She lives far away down south, and we all went down for her birthday; mom, me, my sister, brother (+ his girlfriend), my stepdad, and my uncle. We brought coffee, cake and flowers. She didn't know what was happening, she probably didn't recognise us when we arrived, only in moments. Dementia. My auntie and one of my cousins joined us as we celebrated this matriarch, who will never fully know the impact she's had on all of us.
Growing up, my family was very female centred. My brother is really the only boy in the family. Otherwise we're all-female, looking very similar with our long blonde hair. Strong, opinionated women. Loud. Grandpa was there of course, and different boyfriends to mom and my auntie (including all our fathers haha) from time to time. Different males that helped with the house. But we all worshipped one person, and that was mormor.
We are all mini versions of mormor. We all love big dinners with family above all, the more the merrier. We set an extra plate on the table in case someone swings by. Mismatched everything. Things we find in garage sales, second hand shops. We love things hand made, just like she did. She hung onto everything, every little craft we did at school. She couldn't let go. Growing up with nothing, it was her goal to treasure it all. Screws, clothes, paper bags and bicycles. Her treasures, her kingdom.
Mormor wasn't into negativity. She never showed signs of being sad or angry. She celebrated every moment, she saw the good in it all. She believed the best in people. She took care of them, the vulnerable. She lived to please others, to spread joy. She gave up her own space so other people could fit it, could be seen. She found it hard to sit down, relax. There was always something you could do, for someone else, to be of service.
She despised gossip. People connecting over hating others, looking down on others. That's not connection, that's evil spreading like a virus in our hearts. She loved peace and quiet, except when it came to her family. Again, the more the merrier. The messier, the better.
I write this in past tense even though she's still here, with us. I wish I could repay her in some way. I guess me living my best life, me helping others and living out her values is repaying her. Ever since grandpa, morfar, left us she's been disappearing more and more. Into herself. I guess life caught up to her, all those years of focusing on others instead of herself. Now she's left very much with only herself, not remembering us too well. Not knowing how much she shaped all of us, how we're the image of her.
It pains me that I don't live closer to her, that I can't regurlary visit her for coffee and chats. My biggest fear is that she feels alone, after having such a rich life filled with a big family of mostly women just adoring her. For her to think that it's all forgotten now, that it meant nothing cause she's there alone. At the home. Far away from most of her family members.
Tell your elders you love them. Tell them everything they've done for you, how important they've been. Send pictures that they can hold, words they can read over and over again in case they forget. I'm writing this as a reminder to myself, to do more of just that.
Mormor, you're the most beautiful woman I know. Your beauty isn't just in your glorious face, but in your soul. Thank you for teaching me to be kind, to pray; feel the blessings of life even though you're not religious, to share with others, to walk around in old, beloved robes all day with bare legs and slippers. Thank you for showing me that with family and friends, you are personal and free. You pee with the door open, while conversating with your loved ones. You invite them in. Thank you for salty, yellow potatoes and the best sauces known to mankind. You matter. So much.


Making your own brown sugar – a tutorial!
If you are living in Switzerland, and you like to bake, one of the first things that becomes apparent is that soft U.S.-style brown sugar is not sold in the regular supermarket. Not only is this type of sugar a baking staple in the U.S., being used in cookies, cakes, crumbles, pies, fudge, etc…. but it is also used in many dishes that are part of the wonderful food culture of the U.S. like Boston Baked Beans, Southern BBQ sauce, traditional glazed ham, and on and on! So when it becomes something that you need to visit a luxury store in the big city to get, or order online from a pricey import shop, it takes on a bit of a different status.
However, as someone who really loves to bake, and is from the South, I was becoming increasingly frustrated at my options here and once I went mostly organic – I was bringing back (or begging friends to) big boxes of organic brown sugar from the United States. What a waste of my baggage allowance! Sugar, for crying out loud!!
Uh oh. I'm out of brown sugar!!
So I began Googling. What is brown sugar? How is it made? What can I use as a substitute? What is the difference between "Demerera" and "Turbinado" and "Sucanat" and "Muscovado"??
Well, I will get back to those in a minute. It turns out, that what we use in the United States and is called "Light Brown" and "Dark Brown" sugar, is simply white granulated sugar, mixed with molasses, until it takes on the soft sticky texture we know. It's just as simple as that. My mind was blown. And then, I followed up by googling "how to make brown sugar" – OMG you guys, there were recipes galore. Like, how had I not realised this??
I'm going to share it again, this time – with photos!
Step one: Buy your sugar — this can be regular granulated white sugar made from sugar beets (conventional), organic white sugar made from organic sugar beets, or sugar made from sugar cane (raw sugar/demerera). Whatever you like.
Bog standard white sugar and molasses. I was not feelin' fancy that day!
Step two: Buy molasses (Melasse). This can be found at most all Drogeries/Apothekes, Bio-laden or Reformhaus.
Step three: Mix 1/2 tablespoon room temperature or slightly warm (not hot!) molasses with 1 cup of sugar. (measurement s need not be exact). Mix with a fork until totally combined. Add more sugar or molasses until you get the lightness/darkness you like.
Now, are you curious about those other sugars? Turbinado? Muscovado? Demerera? Sucanat? (Do you remember when we talked about sugar beets??) Now it's time to talk about sugar cane!
Muscovado (or Barbados sugar) is the "OG" of brown sugar, in that it is made from sugar cane and minimally processed, retaining a lot of molasses. It has a sandy texture, a streong flavour, and can be used to replace 'brown sugar' in recipes.
Do you have a favourite use for brown sugar? Personally, I love it added to my oatmeal (porridge) and in soft cookies. It also helps cakes keep a moist texture. It's one of my favourite baking items!
Carrefour in Segny, France (near Geneva) sells La Poudre a Maurice Cassonade Douce (light brown) and Cassanade Corsee (dark brown) which are the same as brown sugar in texture and taste (I'm from the South in the US so use lots of brown sugar). The brand name is Daddy and sold in brightly colored pouches in the sugar section.
Thanks Adrianne! I'm not too close to France, but it's good to know in case someone reading along can use the info!
This is just what I was looking for! Thanks for the guide Stacy, I am off to bake a batch of pumpkin pecan pie bars, and found your tutorial in the nick of time!