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Many New Teachers in Louisiana Are Throwing In the Towel
By Joanna Richardson
Many new teachers in Louisiana are sending an alarming message to the state's education community: They are giving up.
After two years, only about half of the state's beginning teachers are still teaching in the districts that hired them, researchers have found. Fewer than two-thirds are teaching in other public schools in the state.
The study, issued last month by the Louisiana Education Policy Research Center at Louisiana State University, paints a picture of frustration and low morale among new teachers in the state's 64 parish school systems.
Student discipline problems, low pay, and a lack of support from school leaders are the novice teachers' primary complaints about their jobs.
Nationally, new teachers leave the classroom at a higher rate than their more experienced colleagues, education researchers have found.
But Louisiana's situation appears to be especially severe, the study found. The median attrition rate statewide is higher than for some single districts in other state studies.
"The reason Louisiana probably has more difficulty [with retention] than other states is the salaries are very low," said Carl D. Frantz, the director of the research center and the study's author.
"Some teachers feel it just isn't worth the aggravation," he said.
High attrition rates affect districts throughout the state.
But the study found that the attrition of new teachers was most acute in rural school districts--contradicting a common belief among educators that urban districts have the hardest time convincing teachers to stay on the job.
So Goes the Nation
Nationally, studies of novice teachers have turned up similar findings about why new hires decide to leave the field.
For example, a 1992 survey of 1,000 beginning teachers by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and Louis Harris & Associates found that many were disillusioned with their choice of work.
About one-fifth of new teachers completing their second years in the classroom said they were likely to leave the profession within five years.
Most cited a lack of support from parents and administrators, low pay, and the social problems of students as the main factors contributing to their desire to quit.
Sheila Kirby, a senior economist for the rand Corporation who has studied teacher attrition in other states, said the departure of beginning teachers "is definitely a problem in the profession."
But she said she was alarmed at the percentage of new teachers in Louisiana who appeared to be moving out of the field.
"We're in for some trouble if this is a new trend," Ms. Kirby added, pointing to the high number of veteran teachers who retire each year in most states.
Louisiana already has a shortage of special-education, mathematics, and science teachers. About 10 percent of the state's teachers in all subjects are teaching without a standard teaching certificate.
The state's rural school systems appear to be in the most danger of teacher shortages in the future.
In rural schools, new teachers are leaving at higher rates than teachers elsewhere, Mr. Frantz said, adding that some cited the quality of life as another factor in their decision to leave.
The center's study was based on interviews with district officials, teacher surveys, focus groups of beginning teachers, and other data on the state's parish school systems. Two districts with high attrition rates and two with low attrition rates were also studied in depth.
Some educators in Louisiana were not surprised by what the center discovered.
Two years ago, the Louisiana Association of Educators published a survey of new hires that found that many were dissatisfied with teaching.
Low pay, discipline problems, and student apathy were the most common complaints, union officials said.
"Many teachers don't believe they should have to go through that kind of suffering" without the benefit of high pay, argued Mary A. Washington, the president of the union.
Louisiana teachers' salaries are among the lowest in the nation--48th to be exact, Ms. Washington noted.
The national average for teachers' pay is $35,723; the state's average is $26,285.
Rural districts--and small school systems that border urban districts--have the hardest time retaining beginning teachers because they lack the money to pay them well, Ms. Washington said.
She speculated that some new teachers leave to seek jobs in neighboring Arkansas or Texas, where salaries tend to be higher.
Beginning teachers, many of them fresh out of college, are more likely to explore their options than veteran teachers, some teacher-educators have said.
"They just pick up and go elsewhere or move to another profession," Ms. Washington said.
But the battle is not lost for Louisiana's schools, the center's study found. It mentions several steps districts could take to help persuade new teachers to stay, apart from raising salaries.
First, districts should try to cut down on discipline problems by coming up with policies that support the teacher and, in some cases, remove disruptive students from the classroom.
The report also suggests that schools assign fewer students to new teachers and avoid assigning the teachers to difficult classes.
Districts should also offer a full orientation and training program, mentoring, and other professional support for new teachers, Mr. Frantz said.
Although some teachers said districts could not pay them enough to work under their current conditions, the study suggests that higher salaries might be effective in retaining unmarried teachers--and particularly those with other career options.
But the burden should be shared by the state, Mr. Frantz argued. State education officials, he said, should find ways to make local funding more equitable, improve teacher training and certification, and cut down on mandates that make it more difficult for districts to come up with creative solutions.


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Hector: Badge of Carnage - Episode 3: Beyond Reasonable Doom
Straandlooper/Telltale Games
Available now on PC, iPad, Mac, iPhone/iPod Touch (Coming Soon to PSN)
Review by Rob Wade
The mastermind behind the dastardly events in Clappers Wreake is finally known to Hector and his well-meaning but useless partner, Lambert. The problem? They're the only ones who know, and they're currently at the mercy of their tormentor! As Hector, it's up to you to escape your captivity, and save the town of Clappers Wreake!
From an opening scene, which parodies movies like Saw with the typical sense of humour that players will have come to expect from the series until now, the game gives you the impression that you're off to a flyer, and indeed you won't be disappointed in general. One nice thing about this section is how well it utilises both detectives in puzzle-solving, particularly as it relies on each detective for different things depending on their strengths and weaknesses.
The gags in this one are as strong as they've ever been in the series, with a lot of characters from previous episodes making a return for the series' grand finale. As before, too, there's the same quality of pop culture references, with a four year old baby called Kiefer with rotten teeth a particular highlight for me. Without going into too much detail, the gags during that particular exchange are pretty funny.
Of course, point and click adventure gaming depends so heavily on the quality of the puzzles available, and in this vein this episode performs pretty well. The puzzles are clever, without being so off-the-wall that it seems out of place. However, the puzzles in this one did seem a little easier than previous instalments, maybe because I'd become accustomed to the game's storytelling approach. Either way, the game felt a little bit more simple, mainly because the puzzles seemed a little too easy to follow.
Also, the episode seems a little shorter than previous episodes, and I was able to breeze through this one in an evening of play. This may have been more of a sense than actually a shorter episode, as I didn't actually keep track of my completion time on the previous two episodes, and may have been a symptom of the slightly easier-feeling puzzles. All in all, though, the episode ends really well, definitively while leaving many of the characters open for future returns. It should come as no surprise to regular readers that I've rather enjoyed this series, and as a result the fact that the episode is fun for me shouldn't really be a shock either.
The Emotionally Fourteen Games Rating
Graphics: Really sharp cartoon graphics that hold up even at top resolution, much like the other two episodes.
Sound/Music: Some excellent dramatic music and sound effects, and some good voice acting.
Gameplay: The same point and click gameplay expected from the first two instalments, with a sense of humour which makes things enjoyable.
Lasting Appeal: A few hours of gameplay, but if you're anything like me, you'll go back and play the set from start to finish again.
Summary: A strong end to what has been a great series. Roll on Hector's next adventure!8/10
WayForward/Sega
Available Now on Nintendo DS
Review by Brad Harmer
Aliens: Infestation pits players against the overwhelming Xenomorph hive using a vast selection of iconic weapons and tools from the series. Featuring character designs by popular comic artist Chris Bachalo and equipped with an upgrade and collectibles system, Aliens: Infestation aims to allow players to explore large-scale versions of some of the most fan-beloved environments of the iconic films.
When I was a kid, Alien 3 had a video game-tie in. It had very little to do with Alien 3, and was obviously based on Aliens, as you ran around a platform game with a pulse-rifle, flame-thrower, grenade launcher, etc, blowing up wave after wave of Xenomorphs and rescuing cocooned colonists. Imagine my surprise when I booted up Aliens: Infestation to discover that it is almost exactly the same game.
Aliens: Infestation is so retro that – apart from some very nicely animated sprites – it's like the past fifteen years never happened. It's a side-scrolling platformer from the mid-nineties, with all the clichés, difficulty spikes and frustration that that entails. It's a real shame, frankly, as the Aliens series deserves a good video game, and this certainly isn't it.
Now, onto the things that really annoyed me about Aliens: Infestation. I would say I'm much more a fan of Aliens, than I am a fan of "video games". So here's the fan disservice:
The game starts with your marines investigating the Sulaco, left drifting in space, following the events of the opening sequence of Alien 3. As you board the Sulaco, you bump into a load of killer robots, with no real explanation (Another hangover of 90s video gaming. Hell, I was surprised they didn't throw a construction site level in here...). After defeating them, you crawl into the ducting to discover, in the middle of the air-conditioning system...an Alien Queen! Difficulty spike ensues.
But where did this Alien Queen come from? One was blown out of the airlock, and one is inside Ripley. So, how did a fully grown Queen materialise, with no host body?
After that, you land down to investigate the Hadley's Hope colony on LV-426.
You know...that one that exploded.
Scratch that...that one whose impending explosion was THE MAJOR PLOT POINT OF THE SECOND HALF OF THE FILM.
So, maybe it's a prequel, right? I mean, that's possible?
Except you investigated the Sulaco, earlier...
Graphics: The sprites are nicely animated, with a good comic-book feel to them, but the backgrounds are very 1990s.
Sound/Music: Nothing good. Nothing bad.
Gameplay: This is like a platformer from 1996. Some nice little touches don't come even close to compensating for how outdated the bulk of it is.
Lasting Appeal: Pretty short, and you'll probably be bored long before then, anyway.
Summary: Retro in all the wrong way, full of plot-holes and difficulty spikes, this really isn't worth bothering with. 4/10
Serious Sam: The Random Encounter
Vlambeer/Devolver Digital
Available now on PC
Oh, gamers. I have such a hard time figuring many of you out. When Duke Nukem Forever was released earlier this year, it was met with such hate-fuelled vitriol that I wouldn't be surprised if the game's critical reception had put a serious dent in Gearbox's ambition for the franchise. Incidentally, I played it all the way through (something I doubt many of the critics actually did, if many of them even *attempted* it – one thing the Internet seems to love is a good hate mob), and didn't find it that bad at all. What's more, many of the criticisms aimed at the game could be just as easily applied, in my view, to the Serious Sam franchise, which has irked me in the past for monologue reasons, specifically the inanity of many of his "catchphrases".
Anyway, Serious Sam: The Random Encounter is part of an indie project to build some smaller games in the franchise to publicise the upcoming new release. Vlambeer have chosen to go for somewhat of a departure from the series' traditional routes, going with a 2D RPG in the vein of some of the old classics. Players play as Sam (and eventually, a pair of companions) and explore a temple in search of Mental, the game's enemy, while at the same time fighting off a considerable number of enemies. Pleasingly, this game is very easy to recommend, as it has turned out very enjoyable indeed.
The game's controls couldn't be simpler. Players manoeuver Sam through dungeons simply using the directional keys on the keyboard, and use Z and X to choose/cancel options. Sound familiar? Yeah, I thought it might, as it's essentially a Game Boy RPG's controls, the first that I can think of being Pokémon (tragic, eh?). It's really easy to learn, and the game never pressures you into rushing your decision, which helps.
When the player enters into battles, which in true RPG fashion are random and appear at any time (usually when you don't want them to), the menu system works in traditional RPG fashion, with the ability to fight and choose items. Players can also swap between a variety of weapons, all of which have different effects and strengths in different situations, at the cost of part of a turn (which lasts 5 seconds at a time before players can set up a new turn and choose some other options). What's nice about this is that the game adds in a layer of strategy, as players having different weapon types and choices allows for many different approaches.
If I have one criticism of the game (and it's more a result of the mechanics than anything technically poor), it's that the random encounters can lead to the game becoming punishingly difficult in a random turn. If your turn loads up, and you find yourself facing 20+ enemies, 5 of which are really fast and powerful, you're pretty much fucked. As a result of this, too, it's possible to lose interest very quickly if the random encounters make the game "cheap" for a short while, as the game employs a 3-life system, which can be frustrating when the game stacks the odds against you. Ultimately, though, the game is pretty good fun, and should definitely be tried out, particularly as the price is cheaper than your average magazine.
Graphics: Looks like one of the classic top-down games of yesteryear, with graphics to match. Can be run in letterbox and full screen modes, the latter of which makes the blocky textures all the more noticeable. Still, suits the style well enough.
Sound/Music: Sounds like more retro stuff, quite enjoyable.
Gameplay: An enjoyable blend of RPG and shooter with a decent learning curve and a nice hint of strategy.
Lasting Appeal: A few hours worth, but has an "Endless Mode" which will undoubtedly add a few hours to it.
Summary: A good fun game, although it can be punishing. 7/10
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Xeni Jardin / 4:04 pm Thu, May 16, 2019
Trump wants a goth brutalist border wall with black spikes (no, really)
Donald Trump reportedly wants his 'Border Wall' painted black and with spiky spikes. Read the rest
Border wall / donald trump / trump
Xeni Jardin / 6:27 pm Fri, Jan 11, 2019
Border Patrol union deletes 2012 anti-border wall web page that argued walls waste taxpayer money
A union that represents agents for the U.S. Border Patrol deleted a 2012 page from their website that said building walls or fences along the U.S./Mexico border to stop desperate migrants would be "wasting taxpayer money." Read the rest
#TrumpWall / #Wall / Border wall / donald trump / picks / politics / racism / trump / us news
Gina Loukareas / 4:17 pm Fri, Jan 11, 2019
GoFundMe shuts down Trump border wall campaign
On Friday, GoFundMe said it plans to close Brian Kolfage Jr.'s campaign to pay for Donald Trump's border wall. Read the rest
Border wall / donald trump / gofraudme / GoFundMe / News / picks / trump
Xeni Jardin / 8:49 pm Wed, Jan 9, 2019
Trump Border Wall: Texans vow to fight eminent domain, historic chapel threatened
Donald Trump's border wall vs. the historic La Lomita church in Texas, which dates back to 1852.
Border wall / donald trump / immigration / picks / racism / texas / trump
Jason Weisberger / 12:12 pm Fri, Jan 4, 2019
'Sanctuary city' picks up trash for Federal government shutdown over border wall
Blessed with an abundance of National Park attractions right in the midst of their metropolis, San Francisco leaders have decided not to let garbage pile up.
SF Examiner shares:
Trash has been piling up at San Francisco landmarks run by the National Park Service during the federal government shutdown, but city officials are now stepping in to pick up some of the slack.
Public Works started trash collection Wednesday at Lands End, which is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, picking up piles of refuse that had built up near garbage cans since the shutdown started Dec. 22.
Now, Public Works officials told the San Francisco Examiner, they'll also pick up trash at Aquatic Park.
The focus will be on servicing public garbage cans and the areas immediately around them "that we can immediately access," said Rachel Gordon, a spokesperson for Public Works.
That means city staff won't be making any long hikes through Lands End for pickups any time soon, but the department is asking people to remember to "pack it in, and pack it out," to help play a part in keeping the parks safe and clean.
"We're stepping in because it's still part of San Francisco," Gordon said. "We want a good experience for our visitors and residents there."
Pictured is Muir Beach, part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Volunteers have been picking up garbage in the GGNRA, but traffic in and out becomes a nightmare due to the lack of signage, narrow roads, locked parking lots, and lack of space for the many, many disappointed visitors to turn around. Read the rest
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Gina Loukareas / 10:00 am Thu, Dec 20, 2018
Triple amputee veteran starts GoFundMe for Trump's border wall
Brian Kolfage is an Air Force veteran who lost both legs and an arm in Iraq in 2004. He is the most severely wounded Airman to survive any war and has spent the past several years as a motivational speaker and supporter of Cadet Bone Spurs aka Donald Trump. Yesterday, Kolfage launched a GoFundMe to pay for Trump's border wall. "We The People Will Fund The Wall" aims to raise one billion dollars.
No, this is not The Onion.
From GoFundMe:
Like a majority of those American citizens who voted to elect President Donald J Trump, we voted for him to Make America Great Again. President Trump's main campaign promise was to BUILD THE WALL. And as he's followed through on just about every promise so far, this wall project needs to be completed still.
As a veteran who has given so much, 3 limbs, I feel deeply invested to this nation to ensure future generations have everything we have today. Too many Americans have been murdered by illegal aliens and too many illegals are taking advantage of the United States taxpayers with no means of ever contributing to our society.
I have grandparents who immigrated to America legally, they did it the correct way and it's time we uphold our laws and get this wall BUILT! It's up to Americans to help out and pitch in to get this project rolling.
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Native American Tribe to DHS: Keep your dumb border wall off our land
In 1853, the U.S. Government bought a 29,670 square mile chunk of dirt in a deal that, as history buffs will tell you, ended up being called the Gadsden Purchase. It was a dick move: purchasing the land meant bisecting the territory of the area's indigenous Tohono O'odham Nation. This left half of the Tohono O'odham in Mexico and the other half in the United States. Today, the Tohono O'odham are a federally recognized tribe, with somewhere around 34,000 members. This number includes around 2,000 Tohono O'odham who live in Mexico. It's not uncommon for the tribe to cooperate with Homeland Security where protecting the border is concerned. But guess what? A tribe that had their lands split up by the Federal government once isn't crazy about having it done again.
According to Splinter, the Tohono O'odham Nation controls the second largest land base in the United States. This includes a full 75 miles of the U.S./Mexico border. Given that members of their tribe live on both sides of the border, they're less than chuffed with the notion of allowing the National Guard onto their lands to surveil their territory or to allow a border wall to be built on their property. The reasons for their objections are sound: Having a wall thrown up in the middle of their land would keep members of their tribe from easily traveling to participate in culturally important events on their own frigging land.
From Splinter:
Tohono O'odham chairman Edward D.
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Researchers Recover Alan Turing's First Computer Music
By PremSeptember 28, 2016No Comments
There's something remarkable about hearing the first, sweet and slightly tortured tones conducted entirely through a computer, especially when you consider that they were generated 65 years ago.
Researchers at the University of Canterbury recently figured out how to restore a two-minute BBC recording of the first, known computer music, generated through a program developed by Alan Turing.
Somewhere between 1948 and 1951, Alan Turing, the legendary World War II code-breaker programmed a massive computer (the Mark I and then its successor, the Mark II) to make a sound — essentially a click — that it could repeat quickly enough to create a single tone. Altering the order of clicks created different notes. The result is something akin to a slightly broken violin or fog-horn. Turing was no musician, though, so computer scientist Christopher Strachey (then a student), whom Turing let work with the massive computer on his off hours, surprised everyone and programmed it to play, among other tunes, God Save the Queen.
A portion of an early original computer performance at the BBC in 1951 was captured, albeit poorly, on something akin to a 12-inch vinyl record.
Professor Jake Copeland and New Zealand composer Jason Long found the recording (the computer is long gone) but were disappointed to find that it had been poorly recorded. "The frequencies in the recording were not accurate: the recording gave at best only a rough impression of how the computer sounded," wrote the researchers in a blog post
The main flaw in the 1951 recording appeared to be speed.
"We found there was enough information in Turing's wonderfully pithy Programmers' Handbook to enable us to calculate all the audible frequencies that the Mark II could produce," wrote the researchers.
Once Copeland and Long figured out what the proper speed (and pitch) was supposed to be, they set about cleaning up the recording by removing any extraneous noise.
The result can be heard here, along with, one might assume, BBC engineers laughing about the computer music quality and the system's unexplained pauses. "She's not enjoying this. Gone on strike a bit," laughs one participant.


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U of O will unveil 12th straight year of tuition hikes on Monday, along with budget cuts
Eric Davidson
The university's Board of Governors will decide on 2017-18 budget on Monday, May 29. Photo: Eric Davidson.
Rates will rise across the board, with international students to see up to 15 per cent increase
On Monday, May 29, the University of Ottawa's Board of Governors (BOG) will meet to present and ratify the 2017-18 budget. This comes at a time where the university is predicting a deficit of $15 million, as discussed by president Jacques Frémont in a December 2016 memo.
The proposed budget will see cuts. In December of 2016, the Ottawa Citizen reported that the U of O had asked all faculties and services to determine how to cut their budgets by four to eight per cent. In September 2016, the university decided to cancel subscriptions to thousands of academic journals.
The university is also expected to raise tuition rates for the 12th consecutive year, with hikes projected to range from three to 15 per cent.
Robert Head, the former graduate students' representative on the BOG, posted an online petition that included the proposed tuition rate increases as they were set March 14, 2017. Sources familiar with the budget have stated that some minor modifications have been made since then, which will be seen at the May 29 meeting, but the rates shared by Head are close to those in the current budget.
According to the petition, tuition for domestic, incoming undergraduate students would rise by three per cent, the maximum allowed by the province. This was confirmed as correct by sources familiar with the budget. Head's document also states that domestic graduate students would see their tuition rise by five per cent.
As for international students, the numbers in Head's document varied from a five per cent increase for education students, to a 15 per cent increase for engineering students. These numbers are not far-fetched, as the university also raised tuition for some international students by 15 per cent last year.
Current graduate student representative Mark Ingham is worried about what kind of environment these hikes will create.
"If we continue jacking up tuition, is that going to cause it to be harder for students to access education, and thus keep dropping our enrollment?" he asked.
Ingham noted that higher tuition would also make lower-income students more vulnerable to future cuts in government grants. "We're setting up a kind of system that favours wealthy elites."
Ingham and undergraduate student representatives Jamie Ghossein and Carlie Boisvert have said that they will vote against a budget that proposes tuition increases. At last year's meeting, the student representatives, of whom Boisvert was one, were the only members of the board to vote against the budget.
Ghossein noted that he will also try to work with other board members this year by proposing amendments to the budget where possible.
Ghossein did note that high tuition rates are not unique to the U of O.
Statcan found that Ontario has the highest tuition rates, on average, of any province in Canada, when examining full-time undergraduate students. But even within Ontario, further tuition increases at U of O are becoming problematic, according to Ghossein.
"We're less and less compelling to go to compared to other universities," he said.
It's important to note that almost all of the U of O's income comes from either tuition fees or government grants, according to their last budget. Tuition fees and grants made up a combined 94 per cent of the university's total revenues, each accounting for around 47 per cent of total revenues.
An online memo from the university's administration committee discussing the upcoming budget looked at several factors which could cause the U of O's financial situation to continue to deteriorate even further.
One issue is "uncertainty related to the Ontario government's regulatory framework for provincial funding and tuition for Canadian students." The memo goes on to note that there has been a two per cent reduction in government grants compared to 2013-14 levels.
Another issue the committee listed is that the number of 18 to 20 year-olds is dropping both in Ontario and the rest of Canada. This is likely to mean declining enrollment rates going forward, which would lead to fewer people paying tuition.
What these two points show is that income from tuition and grants, which made up 94 per cent of the university's 2016-17 revenues, is in danger of falling in the coming years.
Another point the university listed is that "volatile financial markets" could impact its investment income, which accounted for 3.6 per cent of revenues last year, as well as the financial health of the pension plan.
Until Monday's meeting, it won't be completely clear exactly what cost-saving measures will be coming to the U of O next year.
The BOG meeting will take place in TBT 083 on Monday, May 29 at 5:30 p.m. and will be open to the public. As seating is limited, the meeting will be live-streamed into TBT C119.
You can contact your undergraduate student representative Jamie Ghossein at j.ghossein@uottawa.ca, and graduate representative Mark Ingham GradBoG@yahoo.com.
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U of O partners with acclaimed Chinese university
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The University of Ottawa will partner with Shanghai Jiao Tong University for a joint medical program to begin next fall, our Board of Governors decided at its latest meeting.
U of O lacrosse team stages major upset over McGill
Nico Laliberte
On Sunday, Oct. 30 the University of Ottawa lacrosse team pulled off what's being called the most stunning upset in Canadian University Field Lacrosse Association (CUFLA) history.
Continuum welcomes new generation of local photographers
Morgan Mackenzie McGhie
The Karsh Award is presented every two years to an Ottawa artist who displays great skill in photography and dedication to their artistic practice. It is named in honour of brothers Malak and Yusuf Karsh, talented Ottawa-based photographers active in the mid-1900s.
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INCOMING! Kids, and some adults, need their toys. This set of 4 toy grenades are battery-operated and are just as fun (Editor's note: real grenades are not fun,) as the real thing, less the explosion and shrapnel. When the pin is pulled and the trigger pressed, the timer on the grenade begins to sound for 10 seconds as the grenade audibly explodes. KABOOM!


Renowned Danish composer and classically trained multi-instrumentalist, Myrkur's, recent full-length release Mareridt was the recipient of Metal Hammer's prestigious Album Of The Year Award at last night's Golden Gods Ceremony, as chosen by the magazine's editorial staff! A full list of winners is available here.
Mareridt is available for purchase via Relapse.com HERE and on all digital retail outlets HERE.
A full collection of Myrkur's music videos and live performances is available AT THIS LOCATION.
On Mareridt (translation: Nightmare), Myrkur explores deeper into the mysterious and the feminine with 11 songs that further progress her visionary blend of metal with gorgeous, stirring melodies, dark folk passages, choral arrangements and superb, horrific beauty. The conceptual masterpiece includes lyrics in multiple languages, an unforgettable collaboration with Chelsea Wolfe and an array of special instrumentation including violin, mandola, folk drums, nyckelharpa (an ancient Swedish key harp), and Kulning (an ancient Scandinavian herding call).
Like a marriage of King Diamond's 'Them' with Tchaikovsky's 'Swan Lake', Mareridt is a carefully composed concept freed from genre - a profound manifestation of nightmares that demonstrates Myrkur as one of the truly exceptional artists of our time. The compositions sweep into one another like a soundtrack designed to guide the listener through emotional turmoil. Timeless, triumphant, powerful and hypnotic, Mareridt is a sonic nightmare that you never want to escape.
Amalie Bruun - all instruments and composition.
Galactic Empire release new video for 'March Of The Resistance' off new album Episode II, out now via Rise Records.
"While our debut allowed us to bring a new perspective to much-loved anthems, our latest technological terror is a darker, heavier and far more epic testament to the true power of the Dark Side of the Force. We are confident that any rebel strongholds that remain after the last cycle will soon bow before the Empire. There will be no one to stop us this time."
Galactic Empire are touring the EU this June.
Last Days Of Eden are proud to announce that Oviedo Filarmonía Symphonic Orchestra, conducted by Director Gaspar Muñiz will be recording a symphonic version of the new album. We are really looking forward to making this, and we thing that this is gonna be an amazing mix between classic, traditional and modern music. There´s no doubt that this is gonna be a really important step in our career!.
Influenced by bands such as Symphony X, Dream Theater, Haken, Plini, Rush along with classical, jazz and progressive rock, Montreal's instrumental violin prog metal Cydemind offer a refreshing take on progressive music that is sure to attract interest from a wide audience with their new album "Erosion". Teaming up with TheProgReport, the quintet is proud to premiere the full stream of the release, which consists of six compositions including a 27 minute masterpiece of the album's title track.
"Erosion" was recorded in Montreal at The Grid with producer Christian Donaldson (Cryptopsy, The Agonist, Beyond Creation, Neuraxis) along with additional recording of grand piano done at Studio 270. Album artwork was done by drummer and band co-founder Alexandre Dagenais along with lyrical poems included with the release written by pianist Camille Delage. The poems describe each composition as the album gravitates around the theme of nature and its persistence through time.
'Erosion' is available on iTunes, Bandcamp, Spotify and all other major online retailers.
In additional news, Cydemind's local CD launch in Montreal will be held June 17th at the Cabaret Lion D'Or with special guest progressive rockers No Ticket.
Tickets are available on www.lepointdevente.com.
Up-and-coming extreme metal label The Artisan Era is proud to announce the signing of Dark Matter Secret, a talented instrumental progressive death metal project started by guitarist and composer Denis Shvarts and fretless bassist Pavel Semin. Previously, the group released a challenging two song demo in 2015 called Xenoform that rightly drew attention and praise their way. Dark Matter Secret will be releasing their debut album this June, with more news regarding the album to be announced in the coming weeks.
"We are ecstatic to announce the signing of Dark Matter Secret. Hailing from Russia, the instrumental trio (with members of Arkona and Irreversible Mechanism) bring forth something fresh to the table with their truly progressive death metal sound. Be on the lookout for their debut album this summer!"
Galactic Empire have recently announced their self-titled album, to be released on 3rd February via Rise Records. Alongside the record, the band have just premiered 'Rehearsal One' which can be viewed here.
With a couple of singles that quickly captured the attention of music and sci-fi fans alike, the announcement of the band's highly anticipated debut album should be welcome news.
In a joint statement, the band says: "At long last! Our preparations are com...plete. The mighty Galactic Empire will unleash our ultimate weapon in the battle to bring heavy metal to your galaxy. The puny humans at Velocity and Rise Records have succumbed to the crushing power of the Dark Side and will release our debut full-length album on which we pay tribute to Supreme Sith Overlord John Williams with 11 tracks of pure sonic devastation. Join us, and together, we can rule the galaxy!"


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Exclusive: Chip Roy Fights D.C. Plan Allowing Foreigners to Vote by Introducing Bill Banning Funding
Rep. Chip Roy introduced a bill Wednesday to prohibit Washington, DC, from using federal funds to allow foreign nationals to vote in the city's elections.
Ashley Oliver
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Boston City Council Approves Petition to Allow 16-Year-Olds to Vote in Municipal Elections
The Boston City Council approved a petition on Wednesday to allow 16-year-olds to vote in municipal elections.
Ethan Letkeman
1 Dec 2022, 4:11 PM PST
Florida Counts Votes Swiftly While Other States Slow to a Snail's Pace
Florida closed out the midterm Tuesday night with swift vote results while other states slowed to a snail's pace.
Paul Bois
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Maher: It Shouldn't Take Days for Us to Get Election Results, We're Getting Beaten by Brazil
On Tuesday's edition of ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live," HBO host and comedian Bill Maher criticized how long it takes for votes to be counted in American elections and stated that "it's a little depressing, getting our ass kicked by Brazil."
Ian Hanchett
9 Nov 2022, 12:37 AM PST
Death of Houston City Employee Shuts Down Polling Site
The death of a Houston city employee Tuesday morning in the basket of a cherry picker shut down a polling location in north Houston.
8 Nov 2022, 3:10 PM PST
Exclusive — RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel: We 'Revolutionized Campaigning in Hispanic Communities'
The RNC has "revolutionized campaign in Hispanic communities" ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, Ronna McDaniel told Breitbart News.
Exclusive — Adam Laxalt on Early Voting, Growing Latino Support: 'We're Not Going to Take Anything for Granted'
"The early vote numbers are good. They're not a ten — they're an eight. The polling has consistently had us up, but it's all tight," he said.
6 Nov 2022, 12:18 PM PST
'The Dems Are in Trouble:' Early GOP Voters Enthusiastic in Nevada
Democrats' statewide lead on the last day of early in-person voting in Nevada came in at "just oen percent or 5,200 ballots."
Exclusive — Clark County, Nevada, Shares Poll Worker Data 'Less than 24 Hours' After RNC Files Lawsuit
Officials in Clark County, Nevada, have begun sharing poll worker data after the RNC filed a lawsuit against the county for denying public records requests.
22 Sep 2022, 1:58 PM PST
Democrat Ohio Candidate: I Want to See Non-Citizens Be Able to Vote
Democrat candidate for Cuyahoga County Executive Chris Ronayne said on a recent panel that he will support a mayor who believes that a resident "who may not technically be qualified as a citizen" should "be able to walk into a voting booth and vote."
Alana Mastrangelo
Social Justice: French Mayor Supports Giving Non-EU Foreigners the Vote
A French mayor backed a proposal to allow non-EU foreigners to vote in local elections and stand for office, citing "social justice."
Chris Tomlinson
'End of an Era': Hispanic Republicans Line Up to Run for Office
Republicans continue to expand the party's gains made with Hispanic voters under former President Donald Trump — paving the way for over 100 Hispanic conservatives running for Congress in 2022.
Jacob Bliss
16 May 2022, 5:00 AM PST
Ferdinand Marcos Jr. Leads Early Vote Tally in Philippine Presidential Election
Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. appeared to lead early vote tallies in the Philippine 2022 presidential election on Monday with 81.8 percent of eligible ballots counted, the Manila-based news website Rappler reported.
9 May 2022, 4:28 PM PST
Clyburn: I Think Biden Will Do 'Some Things on Voting That May Surprise Some' and Boost His Poll Numbers
During an interview with CBS News' "Red and Blue" on Thursday, House Majority Whip Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) stated that he believes President Joe Biden will do "some things on voting that may surprise some people," and this will help
24 Mar 2022, 6:59 PM PST
Ohio Secretary of State: May 3 Primary Ballot Should Not Include Congressional Races
Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose in a letter Thursday advised that the May 3 primary election should not include congressional maps on the ballots, citing the decision by the Ohio Supreme court to reject maps, sending the Ohio Redistricting Commission back to the drawing board for the fourth time.
18 Mar 2022, 12:05 PM PST
Report — St. Louis Woman Was Mailed Voter Cards Intended for Other People: 'It's a Concern'
A resident of St. Louis, Missouri, who lives alone, was reportedly mailed several voter notice cards intended for other people, sparking concerns about voter fraud.
Amy Furr
10 Feb 2022, 2:10 PM PST
Majority of Ballots Cast on Italian Presidential First Round Vote Blank, No Winner
67% of votes were blank in the electoral college, but among those who did get votes was a former Prime Minister who has been dead 22 years.
Manchin: We Already Have Laws to Ensure People Have Voting Rights, Voter Obstruction Is 'Not Going to Happen'
While speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) stated that there are already laws and rules in place to ensure people "have the right to vote. We have that." And even though people "act like we're going to
18 Jan 2022, 9:59 PM PST
Tuberville: Dems Are Trying to Shift to Voting and Away from Virus, Border, Inflation That They've 'Screwed Up'
On Tuesday's broadcast of "Fox Business Tonight," Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) said that Democrats know that unless they pass voting legislation, they'll get soundly defeated in the 2022 elections, "and that's the reason they're spending all this time on this
Philippines Election Commission Investigates Claim 'Server Hacked'
The Philippines' Commission on Elections (COMELEC) said Monday it was investigating an allegation its server was "hacked" after the Manila Bulletin published an article making the claim earlier that same day, Yahoo News Philippines reported.
NYC Democrats Grant Voting Rights to Nearly 1 Million Noncitizens
Up to one million noncitizens living in New York City will have access to the ballot box after Mayor Eric Adams (D) on Sunday approved legislation by the city council to automatically become law.
Simon Kent
9 Jan 2022, 3:41 AM PST
Dem Sen. Coons: Biden's Accomplishments 'Dwarf the First Year' of Many Other Administrations
Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) said Thursday on MSNBC that the accomplishments of President Joe Biden's administration in his first year in office "dwarf the first-year accomplishments of many other administrations."
Pam Key
Majority of French Believe Democratic System Does Not Work Well
More than half of the French public believe that the democratic system in France does not work well, while a plurality believes democracy has deteriorated during the presidency of Emmanuel Macron.
VIDEO: Former Democrat Legislator Charged with Harassing Voter in New York
Former Erie County legislator and Board of Elections worker Betty Jean Grant was recently charged with harassing a voter at a Buffalo, New York, polling place.
Vaccine Passport Regime Imposed on Wales After Law Passed by Just One Vote
Vaccine passports for nightclubs, stadiums, and other large venues have come into effect in Wales after regional legislation passed in the Welsh parliament by just one vote last week.
Pandemic Forces Canadian Voters Into Long Lines on Election Day
Lockdown has forced many Canadian voters into long lines to vote on election day due to the reduction in the number of polling places.
20 Sep 2021, 10:41 AM PST
Google, Apple Pull Navalny App from Stores at Kremlin's Urging
Russia's government on Friday praised Google and Apple for removing a "tactical voting app" designed by Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's team ahead of the country's legislative election.
Christian Pastors Urge Congregants to Vote for Larry Elder in Recall Election: Vote 'Their Biblical World View'
California pastors are urging their congregants to vote in Tuesday's recall election against Newsom and hope they vote for Larry Elder.
Penny Starr
Buttigieg: 'I Admire' Idea of Voter Protections Being 'a Kind of Democratic or Moral Infrastructure'
On Tuesday's broadcast of MSNBC's "The ReidOut," Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said that the idea of voter protections "being a kind of democratic or moral infrastructure" is something he admires. Host Joy Reid asked, "Sen. Klobuchar and Sen. Warren…they've talked
10 Aug 2021, 5:51 PM PST
Dem Rep. Escobar: Unless We Pass Voting Laws, 'We Are Going to Lose Our Democracy' When TX Dems Return
On Friday's broadcast of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-TX) said that unless federal voting legislation is passed, "we are going to lose our democracy" when the Texas House Democrats who are breaking quorum return to Texas. Escobar said, "In
30 Jul 2021, 7:11 PM PST
Barbara Lee: We Need H.R. 1 and H.R. 4 So People Aren't 'Totally Oppressed' and 'Not Part of This Country's Democracy'
On Saturday's broadcast of MSNBC's "Velshi," Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) stated that there are those who "want to keep others in a place where we're totally oppressed and totally not part of this country's democracy." She added that this goes
24 Jul 2021, 12:42 PM PST
Hank Johnson: 'Folks Are Trying to Kill Us' on Voting – Must Confront 'Evil' That 'Is Ready to Choke Us' Unless We Show We'll 'Seize Control'
On Friday's broadcast of MSNBC's "The ReidOut," Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) stated that "these folks are trying to kill us right now as far as our right to vote. They're trying to kill our democracy," and urged people "confront this
WATCH: Democrat Rep. Hank Johnson Arrested During Voting Rights Protest
Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) was arrested Thursday during a protest against Senate "inaction" regarding voting legislation and filibuster reform, Fox News reported.
Biden: 'Can't Stop' Americans from Voting, People Are 'Going to Show Up Again'
During a town hall on CNN on Wednesday, President Joe Biden argued that people can't be stopped from voting, as demonstrated by the fact that, in the middle of a pandemic, a record number of people, turned out to vote,
Democrats' Political Theater in D.C. Doesn't Stop Texas Senate from Passing Voter Integrity Bill
Democrats trip to D.C. did not stop Texas Republicans from passing a voter intergity bill on Tuesday with a 18-4 party line vote.
Durbin: For the People Act Helps Create 'Higher Standards' to Stop Ineligible Voters from Voting
On Tuesday's broadcast of CNN's "The Lead," Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) argued that if you want "to have higher standards for people to make sure that the ineligible folks don't vote" while making it easier for eligible voters
Stacey Abrams PAC Raises More than $100 Million in Two Years
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Kyle Morris
MSNBC's Reid: Republicans Trying to Block Black, Brown People Voting — 'It Is Apartheid'
MSNBC host Joy Reid claimed Thursday on her show "The ReidOut" that Republicans were pushing an apartheid voting system of racial segregation like South Africa once had.
8 Jul 2021, 4:59 PM PST
Dem Rep. Allred: Status Quo on Voting 'Untenable' – Don't Want to Go Into 2022 Knowing 'It's Not Going to Be a Free and Fair Election'
On Thursday's broadcast of MSNBC's "Ayman Mohyeldin Reports," Rep. Colin Allred (D-TX) argued that President Joe Biden needs to push harder for voting legislation "Because the status quo is going to be untenable. We do not want to be sitting
Blackwell: Supreme Court Turned the Tide in Election Integrity War
Election integrity recently won a pivotal battle against an attempt by Democrats to hijack the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) for partisan reasons. They failed when the Supreme Court in Brnovich v. DNC laid a foundation to restore Americans' confidence in their elections so that everywhere in this nation it can be easy to vote, but hard to cheat.
Ken Blackwell
8 Jul 2021, 6:58 AM PST
Lula's Brazil Welcomes Iranian Warships
California's Sierra Nevada Snowpack Highest Since 1995


The best way to get started with Hudson and PHP is Sebastian Bergmann's php-hudson-template, but there are also other good articles: Ladislav Prskavec's PHP and Hudson, and Goran Juric's Hudson on Debian Lenny.
I needed to get it running on Windows, so there were some additional hoops to jump through, such as some pear-installed tools hard-coding ./php.exe in .bat files, but almost everything else just works.
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RIO DE JANEIRO – The leader of Brazil's state-run oil company says she's declaring a war on production delays as the company's stock fell due to a sharp drop in profits.
Oil company Petrobras saw its third-quarter net income fall 12 percent in the third quarter to $2.9 billion, compared to the same period last year. That's largely because of falling production. Its stock dropped 3.4 percent Monday.
In September, Petrobras produced 1.8 million barrels per day, its lowest since April 2008. Executives blamed that on scheduled maintenance on offshore rigs.
But CEO Maria Gracas Foster says Monday that no matter the reason, production has to get back on track, saying any project delays are a "catastrophe."
Petrobras is racing to tap into massive offshore oil finds that could more than 50 billion barrels.


Now in its fifth year, the awards will see photographers submit their photos on the Kenya Photography Awards website (http://www.photoawards.co.ke/ ) between 26th March 2018 to 19th May 2018 under seven different categories.
The categories are: Creative, Portraiture, News, Sports, Nature, Daily Life and Humanitarian/Documentary.
The awards seek to recognize skill, talent and hard work among professionals and up and rising photographers in the country.
"We are glad to be back this year after missing out on last year's edition. So far, we have seen some significant growth in the photography industry and more in winners of past awards. These awards go a long way to ensuring that we not only appreciate and celebrate photography as an art but also support and motivate young and upcoming photographers to pursue the art," Njeri Mwangi noted, K.P.A Organizer, PAWA254.


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Taylor Swift made us tear up when she delivered a killer maid of honor speech at her BFF Britany Maack's wedding late last year, and it appears that she might be at it again very soon. As you may know, one of her other childhood best friends, Abigail Anderson, is getting married. We assumed Taylor would be in the wedding party, but a recent post on Abigail's Instagram story might just confirm it! Aww! We're sure she'll be an incredible bridesmaid once again!
Abigail posted the following on Instagram.
Taylor and Abigail met in grade school. Abigail even gets a shout out on Taylor's song, "Fifteen." Taylor sings, "You sit in class next to a redhead named Abigail, and soon enough you're best friends." Cute.
And now? They're still just as close. Taylor has taken Abigail as her date to the Grammys and even surprised her with a secret birthday concert featuring Abigail's fave, Dashboard Confessional singer, Chris Carrabba. She's also a staple at Taylor's parties.
"Tonight I answered the easiest question I've ever been asked. Without any doubt and without fear — I am so excited for this next chapter in our lives".
We can't IMAGINE what Taylor has up her sleeve for the wedding. But we can assume it will be epic.


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Joining the military is a competitive process. Not having a high school diploma will be a disadvantage to potential recruits applying to join any branch of service. Having a GED or General Education Development or also known as General Equivalency Diploma is an option if you were unable to graduate from high school, but the route is not easier than the traditional high school diploma.
Requirements for GED Holders
There are additional requirements for GED holders that high school graduates do not need. All of the services strictly limit the number of high school dropouts (which includes GED holders) who can enlist each year. It is because years of military enlistment statistics have shown that this category of enlistees fails to complete the entire first term of military service at about twice the rate of those with a high school diploma or those with college credits.
If you have a high school diploma or higher, you are categorized in Tier 1 classification, and if you have a GED without college credits, you are classified as Tier 2. However, if a student with a GED completes 15 college credits, that student is reclassified as Tier 1. The Tier 1 student has to perform in the 30th percentile and above on the ASVAB to be eligible for service. The Tier 2 student has to perform above the 50th percentile to be eligible for service.
The Air Force is the most strict on this matter. The Air Force allows less than one percent of annual enlistments to be recruits without a high school diploma. The Marines have the next highest standards. No more than five percent of Marine recruits can be GED-holders. The Army allows no more than ten percent each year, and the Navy limits GED enlistments to no more than five to ten percent each year.
There are always many more GED-holders who want to enlist than there are available slots, so — even to be considered — a GED holder must score much higher on the Armed Forces Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB), than a high school diploma recruit. However, if a recruit has 15 or more college credits, he/she is in the exact same enlistment category as a high school diploma holder. Thus having a GED with college credits is not an issue the recruiter has to deal with to help the recruit overcome.
Most recruiters will first test the GED holder in the ASVAB and see if he/she qualifies with elevated scores on the ASVAB. If not, the recruiter will recommend getting a semester of college that can be accomplished at local community colleges.
In the U.S., each state has its own GED requirements, and it can be difficult to locate on the state's website. Adult Education is sometimes handled by the Department of Education, the Department of Labor, or by the States departments of Public Instruction or Workforce Education.
GED - Not the Easy Way Out
The GED test may sound like a faster option to leave high school and join the workforce or leave home, but it typically is not a faster route to military service and not academically easier. The GED tests include the following subjects:
Reasoning through language arts (RLA)
To pass the GED, the GED student must score better than 60 percent of high school seniors across the nation. You have to study for the GED, and it is best to learn how to take the test as it is a series of multiple choice and short-form answers. The test also includes longer answers to questions in a short essay format. There are GED preparatory books, online assistance, and local adult education centers across the country.
Then after going through the channels to pass the GED, a student now must continue his/her education at a local community college and enroll in enough classes to earn 15 college credits.
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"For Hart House represented the university as a society; it dramatized the kind of life that the university encourages one to live: a life in which imagination and intelligence have a central and continuous function."– Northrope Frye, November 11, 1969.
Hart House was commissioned by the Massey family and gifted to the University of Toronto by the Massey Foundation as a gathering place for students to partake in co-curricular activities. The then 22-year-old Vincent Massey (who would later become Canada's first native-born Governor General) named the building for his grandfather, Hart, and chose architect Henry Sproatt, one of the last North American masters of the Gothic form, along with engineer Ernest Rolph, to design it. Construction began in 1911, and since its opening on Remembrance Day, 1919, Hart House has remained a crown jewel in the University of Toronto's architectural, academic and social history.
Hart House was one of the earliest and still is one of the most beautiful student centres in the world. An historic site, Hart House has been referred to as "the finest example of Beaux Arts Gothic Revival in Canada." Standing northwest of Queen's Park, this distinguished building is the visual icon of the University of Toronto.
Distinguished architect Henry Sproatt designed Hart House in the Collegiate Gothic style using the finest of materials. The grand interior of the House features high arched ceilings that vary from room to room. Italian travertine floors run throughout the building. Uniquely designed fireplaces and well-tread wood floors add warmth to the House's common rooms.
Sproatt's showpiece, The Great Hall, occupies the east wing of the House. A gilded inscription of Milton's Areopagitica, written in 1644 in defense of freedom of speech and thought, surrounds the 140-foot hall. The coats of arms of the Royal Family and degree-granting universities of the British Empire from 1919 sit below an enormous stained glass window on the south wall. Shields at the north end of the hall represent 74 universities of nations allied with Britain and Canada in 1919. Portraits of past Hart House wardens, as well as chancellors and governors of the university hanging in the hall are identified at the entrance way. The east windows are heavily leaded with a medley of pastel glass interspersed with clear glass painted with motifs. The upper gallery windows feature hand-painted caricatures of the scholars and eccentrics from the time of Hart House's origins.
The impressive Hart House Permanent Art Collection was established in 1922 with the purchase of Georgian Bay, November, by A.Y. Jackson, a member of the Group of Seven, for $200. The Art Committee went on to buy representative works by other members of the Group of Seven and their contemporaries, including Tom Thomson, Emily Carr, Charles Comfort, David Milne and Carl Shaefer, as well as works by the Automatistes and Painters Eleven. Today, the collection numbers over 600 works of art. The Permanent Collection is on view throughout Hart House and the historic core of the Collection is in constant demand by major exhibitions throughout the world.
In 1983, the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery opened at Hart House, and has since presented innovative exhibitions by up-and-coming Canadian artists, as well as historic Canadian and internationally renowned traveling exhibition.


About the author: Patrick Pianezza, MHA, has worked with the Studer Group and Johns Hopkins Hospital. In his most recent role, Pianezza's work drove organizational performance in Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems. to an all-time hospital best in the 90th percentile. He can be reached at ppianezza@gmail.com.


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Sport Sport Focus Lingerie football: We get what we deserve
9:20pm, Dec 15, 2013 Updated: 9:25pm, Dec 15
Lingerie football: We get what we deserve
Jonathan Horn Sports writer @JonathanHorn23
Newly rebranded and toned down, the Legends (cough, Lingerie) Football League, which kicked off on Saturday night in Melbourne, seems to have struck a nerve. Suffice to say, if every letter writer, Twitter linker and petition signee translated into a bum on a seat at a women's soccer or cricket match, their athletes would be well on the way to earning a liveable wage.
Consensus has it that the LFL not only constitutes a form of spiritual liposuction, but is emblematic of a country where organised sport is perched high on the misogynistic tree. The LFL however, is the symptom, not the malaise. It what's we get when the Federal Government, the Australian Sports Commission and our national sporting organisations drop their respective balls. It reflects a nation of women increasingly disinclined to compete in, volunteer at and fork out money to watch traditional sports. To ignore this and to zero in on the garter belts, the yahoos in the commentary box and the half-soused punters in the crowd, is to miss the point spectacularly.
The ASC, which recently bemoaned corporate Australia's lack of support for our female athletes, refuses to recognise Lingerie Football as a legitimate sport. But they – and the sporting organisations that come under its auspices – are equally loath to recognise their own failings when it comes to women's sport. The Federal Government, which took six years to respond to a Senate report into the state of women's sport in Australia, also stands accused.
The high drop-out rate of teenage girls in sport, the dearth of women on sporting Boards and the general health and fitness of the nation have never been ASC priorities. Their focus is on winning medals and producing world champions. This tunnel vision means they have lost touch with their grass roots. In the coming months, hundreds of thousands of Australian girls and women will line up for fun runs, open water swims, group bike rides and triathlons. But their links to the governing bodies of those sports will be tenuous at best. The potential talent pathways, commercial opportunities and incentive for TV networks to give these sports more airtime will thus be lost.
Suffice to say, if every letter writer, Twitter linker and petition signee translated into a bum on a seat at a women's soccer or cricket match, their athletes would be well on the way to earning a liveable wage.
This disconnect between the rank and file and our governing bodies continues to manifest. The way Australians exercise, particularly its women, has changed markedly. ABS statistics tell us that the boom sporting/fitness activity over the last decade has been in gym training. Many of the larger fitness centres boast childcare facilities, women's only areas and one-on-one training. They, more so than our sporting clubs, have tapped into what people really want. Likewise, there's been an explosion in non-mainstream pursuits such as Tough Mudder, the Spartan Race and Crossfit. For years, our national sporting organisations looked down on these 'fast food' sports. But they offer an interesting contrast. They market themselves shrewdly and manage to make women feel empowered and welcomed. There are some incredible stories in their ranks. Deanna Blegg, one of Australia's finest endurance athletes and this year's Tough Mudder winner, has lived most of her adult life with HIV.
But surely, the critics howl, this is a top-down problem, with television setting the national sporting tone? Indeed, if your daughter is blessed with a semblance of sporting talent, it would be disheartening to come home from a netball game, athletics carnival or swim meet and behold the LFL frat party on 7-Mate.
But there are bigger issues to ponder. Whether you're the Sports Minister, a male sports nut or a woman who couldn't give two hoots about sport, everyone has a role to play. Even, perish the thought, men like Mitch Mortaza, the founder of the LFL. Reptilian as he is, women's sport needs more people with his entrepreneurial flair. With sport increasingly at the mercy of clicks, advertising revenue and market forces, we need to think outside the square and position women's sport differently. We need marketing directors, TV producers and CEOs of national sporting organisations with an appetite for risk. We need to appeal to the better angels of the male nature, whilst producing a product that is empowering, inclusive and palatable to women.
Men are central to changing the national sporting mindset. It can be as significant as a coterie group opting not to bankroll an AFL player's rape trial after all. Or it can be simple as a journalist resisting the urge to unpack the adjectives and describe world champions as 'glamour girls' and 'statuesque'. We need to chip away at a sporting culture dominated by our male football codes. In a country where maternity wards, birth notices, bumper stickers, work pods and funeral caskets are plastered with footy paraphernalia, it's a colossal but not insurmountable challenge.
Women too, can affect bottom up change. The best way to support women's sport is to actually show up and help out. More Australian women attend motor sport and harness racing than tennis or netball. What's more, just 4% of girls/women over 15 are involved in a non-playing capacity, whether as a coach, scorer, timekeeper or administrator. Rather than scouring the sports pages for discrepancies or penning withering editorials anytime some dinosaur commentator makes a sexist remark, women need to buy tickets, join clubs, click on positive news stories and support our champions in a proactive and meaningful way.
Things change. In my lifetime, women weren't allowed to run marathons, saddle up on Australian racetracks and step into boxing rings. But some things – the missed opportunities, the pointed fingers, the shrugged shoulders, the outrage and the Government recommendations gathering dust – stay the same. In the absence of anything proactive, we get the Legends Football League. As is generally the case with Australian TV, we invariably get what we deserve.
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Counter-Terrorism: Turks Tell Europeans How It Is
September 1, 2014: Turkey and the European nations have stopped months of feuding over who is responsible for preventing European Moslems from illegally (according to European laws) going to Syria to fight (usually for Islamic terrorist rebels) and agreed to cooperate. The main cause of the dispute was the Turkish practice, after the Syrian rebellion began in 2011, to allow anyone seeking to cross to join the rebels to do so. Western nations, unlike Islamic ones, did not believe that supporting Islamic terrorists, even if they were fighting for the Syrian rebels, was a wise move. Turkey, Saudi Arabia and other wealthy Arab Gulf states disagreed and the Arabs armed and financed the Islamic terrorist rebels while Turkey looked the other way as young Moslem men travelled via Turkey to reach the Islamic terrorist rebels in Syria and took refuge in Turkey when they needed it.
European nations pointed out that their intel showed that many of these Islamic terrorist rebels saw the overthrow of the Shia Syrian dictator as only the first of many conquests. Next on the list was Iraq, Lebanon, Israel, Saudi Arabia and, eventually Turkey and Israel. Then the most extreme of these groups, ISIL (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, began fighting with the other Syrian rebels in early 2014 and then launched a major offensive in western Iraq. This led to the fall of the Iraqi city of Mosul in June and suddenly the more radical members of non-ISIL Islamic terrorist groups began deserting to join ISIL. Since then ISIL has appeared to be unstoppable and all the Moslems nations on the ISIL target list realized the Europeans were right and ISIL was a threat to everyone.
Turkey tried to tighten security on its Syrian border. Only three of the 13 official border crossings were kept open and those coming and going were carefully scrutinized. There were more air and ground patrols in areas where smugglers were known to operate. Turkey maintains a list of some 5,000 European Moslems European governments have requested be barred from crossing into Syria. Over the last year or so Turkey has caught over a thousand of these people and sent them back to Europe. Despite these efforts European governments believe that many of their Moslems still make it into Syria via Turkey. In response the Turks point out that they handle over 30 million tourists entering each year plus millions of people coming on business. Turkey points out that the European Moslems have European passports, as do the bulk of the tourists coming to Turkey. These passports are not scrutinized as closely as those from nations where passports can easily be bought. The Turks told the Europeans they should simply bar suspected Islamic radicals from leaving in the first place. Europe resisted that for years but now agrees it is the way to go. This is made easier by the fact that more frequently European police are warned (usually by the parents) that a young European Moslem is planning to go to Syria to fight.
The Turks also point out if they make it more difficult to keep European Moslems from crossing legally the wannabe terrorists can pay a smuggler to get them across. Despite more aggressive patrolling of the smuggler routes many of these European Moslems can still get into Syria. So the Turks keep pressuring the European nations to deal with the problem at its source and not pressure Turkey to fix European mistakes.
The cause of all this angst is European nations facing a growing problem with young Moslem men being recruited by radical Islamic clergy to go fight alongside (and often against) the Syrian rebels. European intelligence officials believe over 3,000 European Moslems (including at least 500 from Britain) have gone to Syria so far and about ten percent have been killed. More than ten percent have returned and these jihad veterans often seek out new recruits. These jihadis are very effective at attracting new volunteers, although so far only about 10 per 100,000 Moslems have been persuaded to go. As small as that portion is, a far larger percentage (over ten percent) of European Moslems will admit to admiring the goals and methods of Islamic terrorists. Most of those who did go to Syria are now more radicalized than when they left and police fear they may contribute to more Islamic terrorism in Europe. You can't do much to these men in Europe unless they actually commit a crime in Europe although in a growing number of countries it is possible to prosecute them for belonging to for an Islamic terrorist organization. But you have to prove it in court and that is often difficult. Nevertheless such prosecutions are underway and most countries monitor returning jihadis, ready to make arrests if any local laws are broken. Europeans are now changing their laws to make it illegal to have any contact or sympathies for groups like ISIL.
Turkey also has a personal interest in smashing ISIL. In June ISIL kidnapped 49 Turkish consular staff and dependents in Mosul and are still holding them hostage. Turkey refuses to give in to ISIL demands and wants to get its people back before ISIL losses patience. At the same time the Turks know that ISIL will not be happy if Turkish air bases are used to launch air attacks on ISIL. Meanwhile many Turks are enraged at ISIL attacks on Turkish cultural sites in Syria. The best solution for this mess is to get a ground offensive going against ISIL in Iraq and free the hundreds of hostages ISIL is holding. The Turks are also suggesting actual cooperation with the Syrian government to destroy ISIL more quickly. The Saudis are calling on the West to do more because ISIL will eventually turn its attention to making terror attacks in the West. The Saudis play down the fact that they are higher on the ISIL hit list than the West, Israel or Turkey.
This Islamic terrorist threat to the West is relatively recent. For centuries the non-Moslem world ignored Islamic terrorism, at least as long as it remained a dispute just among Moslems. But in the 1970s a new idea arose among radical clergy who believed that blaming the West for all the backwardness, bad government and general misery in Moslem nations was the way to go. That's when al Qaeda decided to take the war to the infidels (non-Moslems). This produced growing violence against Western targets in the 1990s and culminated in the September 11, 2001 attacks. The carnage of those attacks was immensely popular among Moslems although most Moslem governments condemned it. That was in part because these attacks against infidels were an indirect effort to overthrow Moslem governments that radicals did not believe were Moslem enough. That struggle continues and while many Saudi citizens still send cash and sons to al Qaeda, Saudi Arabia is very much opposed to al Qaeda.
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SAIL Youth Adventure Club to meet on Dec. 10 at Hames Athletic and Wellness Center | Get Out, Sitka!
The Sitka office of Southeast Alaska Independent Living (SAIL) will host events for its new ORCA Youth Adventure Club program from 3:30-5 p.m. on the second Wednesday of each month at various locations around Sitka. The winter activity for Wednesday, Dec. 10 will be indoors at Hames Athletic and Wellness Center.
The new ORCA Youth Adventure Club program in Sitka is for students in the second through eighth grades of all abilities and their parents. Participants will be exposed to a variety of outdoor activities. The club hosted a scavenger hunt in October at Halibut Point Recreation Area, and club members went hiking at Whale Park in November.
Each activity costs $10, and scholarships are available so no child is turned away because of cost. Transportation is available from the SAIL office (514 Lake Street), and snacks are available.
ORCA, which stands for Outdoor Recreation and Community Access, provides year-round recreation and community access programs for people of all ages who experience a disability. We focus on socialization, team-building, and having fun outside.
While the main purpose of ORCA is to provide a variety of opportunities for people with disabilities to get outdoors and enjoy life, several ORCA members from other Southeast communities have gone on to compete in local and even international events. A pair of former ORCA adult program athletes from Juneau (Joe Tompkins, Seth McBride, both paralyzed from the waist down) have gone on to compete in the Paralympics in skiing (Tompkins) and quad rugby (McBride). There also have been ORCA teams participating in events such as the Kluane-Chilkat International Bike Relay and local fun runs and cycling events. McBride recently completed a 10,000-mile handcycle trip from Portland, Ore., to Patagonia, Argentina.
To learn more about the Youth Adventure Club and other programs, contact Bridget Kratz of SAIL at 747-6859 or bkratz@sailinc.org. The calendar below includes hiking, biking, orienteering, kayaking, and other events for seniors, youth, and the disabled.
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