Happy new year everyone!!! As I did on my blog last year when it was hosted on Tumblr, I've reviewed three of my favorite albums released in 2014. There were many great albums that came out this year that I really loved (Jason Moran's All Rise: A Joyful Elegy for Fats Waller almost made this list!) but the following albums took the cake for me.
Have a happy, fun, and safe celebration of the New Year, and here's to 2015!
Aptly titled The Big Picture, Kat Edmonson's third album came to fruition out of her love for the cinema and film music – and that influence definitely shows. The album's main single "Rainy Day Woman" gives the impression of a 1950s-60s Audrey Hepburn film – an impression supported by the aesthetics of the delightful music video. "Oh My Love", the album's other single, is reminiscent of a Billie Holiday love song, both in the style of songwriting as well as Edmonson's singing. "The Best" sounds like a tune that could accompany a sweet romance between characters in a 1920s silent comedy film, complete with playful jazz scatting. "You Can't Break My Heart" and "For Two" sound as though they came straight out of a spaghetti western.
The soaring "Avion" is a favorite of mine because it celebrates the freedom in travel (and, in my interpretation, aviation) and "Crying" is another favorite that really hits me particularly because of its sincere refrain ("I don't know where you go/Whenever you leave/but you're happier there/I want to believe") and chorus ("In my heart, my heart/Where you stay, you stay/I've been crying over you everyday").
More than anything, this album showcases Edmonson's admirable songwriting skills, as she either wrote or co-wrote 11 of the 12 songs on the record. The Big Picture is sophisticated and fun, with both dreamy elements and realistic, relatable subject matter. Considering how much I loved Edmonson's previous album Way Down Low, this was one of the albums I anticipated most this year and she did not disappoint.
Even on her debut album Vows, it was apparent that Kimbra is an artist who's not afraid to take bold steps in her music, and her second album The Golden Echo is even more ambitious and adventurous. Kimbra has said that this album was inspired by Greek mythology (particularly the story of Narcissus; the title of the album is a homage to the Narcissus golden echo flower), and the ideas of mythology and even spirituality definitely come through on this record. What is so interesting about this album is the experimental and unconventional elements present on every track, even those that sound most suited for pop radio. There is simultaneously disjunction and cohesion present throughout the album and it is done beautifully.
The Golden Echo's blend of mature introspection and playful exuberance, as well as the juxtapositions of musical consonance and dissonance, make this an intelligent and engaging sophomoric effort.
The story surrounding jazz saxophonist Jimmy Greene's 2014 album Beautiful Life is a tragic, heartbreaking one – the album is dedicated to Greene's 6-year-old daughter Ana Marquez-Greene, one of the 20 children killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut that happened on December 14, 2012. This album is a celebration to the joyful life she lived and to the music that she loved.
The album contains recordings of Ana and her family in both the opening of the first track—with Ana singing the traditional "Saludos" a year before her death at a Christmas celebration in Puerto Rico with her mother's family—and closing—with another recording of Ana singing the hymn "Come Thou Almighty King" with her brother Isaiah on the piano. In between is a beautiful rendition of the hymn by Greene and guitarist Pat Metheny. Many of the songs on the album have a direct link to Ana – "Ana's Way" celebrates her joyful, loving spirit and features a children's choir comprising of many of her friends and classmates when the family lived in Winnipeg; "Seventh Candle" was written in April around the time she would have been celebrating her 7th birthday; "Maybe", from the musical Annie, was one of her favorite songs and a song she enjoyed singing often; and "Little Voices" features spoken word by actress Anika Noni Rose of whom Ana admired after hearing her voice Princess Tiana in the Disney movie The Princess and the Frog. "When I Come Home", "Where Is The Love", and "Prayer" tap into the feelings of grief and the turn to spirituality in such hard times.
Each song on this album is an outpouring of soul and love and therefore every song is poignant and touching. I'm constantly moved by music, usually individual songs, but never before has an entire album moved me so deeply. I was in complete tears the first time I heard this record. This is an album that sticks with you – it implores you to take a stand against violence and to remember all those lives we've lost over the years to senseless acts of violence. This album is a gorgeous tribute to a little girl who must have been such a lovely, wonderful soul to inspire such beautiful music.
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Very thoughtful, insightful review, Missy – thanks so much.
You're most welcome, and thank you so much for sharing your family's story and your beautiful music. Best wishes to you and your family.


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Saxophonist Ray Blue Celebrates The Release of His New Jazzheads CD "Work" Saturday, October 12th @ The Beanrunner Cafe 8:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.
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Saxophonist Ray Blue Celebrates The Release of His New Jazzheads CD "Work" Saturday, October 12th @ The Beanrunner Cafe 8:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.
Saxophonist Ray Blue Celebrates The Release of His New Jazzheads CD "Work" Saturday, October 12th @ The Beanrunner Cafe
8:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.
RAY BLUE QUINTET
BeanRunner Cafe
201 South Division St.
Peekskill, N.Y. 10566
Ray Blue – Saxophone
Sharp Radway – Piano
Santi DiBriano – Bass
Alvester Garnett – Drums
Neil Clarke – Percussion
Time: 8:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.
Tenor saxophonist Ray Blue enjoys his WORK, creating a straight-ahead jazz set filled with warm melodies.
A Well-Balanced Program Of Originals, Standards And Tunes By Nat Adderley, Jimmy Smith And George Coleman
Ray Blue "WORK" (Jazzheads JH1235) Street Date: October 12, 2019
Ray Blue – Tenor Sax, Ron Wilkins – Trombone, Neil Clark – Percussion, Steve Johns – Drums, Essiet Okon Essiet – Bas,s Belden Bullock – Bass , Jeff Barone – Guitar, Sharp Radway – Piano, Kirk Lightsey – Piano, Benito Gonzalez – Piano
UPC – 009818123528
1. WORK 4:22
2. LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SING 2:13
3. MY FRIEND AND I TOOK A WALK 4:17
4. SWEET EMMA 4:04
5. THAT'S ALL 8:25
6. MELLOW MOOD 5:05
7. AMSTERDAM AFTER DARK 6:46
8. TEACH ME TONIGHT 5:24
9. DON'T KNOW WHY 4:21
10. OUR DAY WILL COME 4:24
11. EVERYTHING HAPPENS TO ME 4:52
12. ATTITUDE 4:31
13. THAT'S ALL (DUO) 5:52
The New York based tenor saxophonist Ray Blue, who has a deep tone and a melodic style, is featured on WORK, a set of accessible yet quietly creative music. The program mixes together three of his originals with surprising versions of standards and lesser known but superior jazz songs. He and Randy Klein, head of Jazzheads Music Group, worked diligently to achieve the appealing Old School feel and sound that Blue's listeners want to hear.
Blue teams up with three pianists (Sharp Radway, Kirk Lightsey and Benito Gonzalez), guitarist Jeff Barone, bassist Essiet Okon Essiet, drummer Steve Johns and, on three songs apiece, the rambunctious trombonist Ron Wilkins and percussionist Neil Clark. Starting with the exuberant "Work," the program includes such surprises as an uptempo transformation of "Lift Every Voice And Sing," two versions of "That's All" (including a duet with pianist Lightsey), a playful rendition of "Don't Know Why," and a cooking "Everything Happens To Me" which is normally taken as a slow ballad. Blue, displaying a large tone that almost sounds like a baritone in spots, is heard at his best on his original ballad "My Friend And I Took A Walk" and "Our Day Will Come" which benefits from a shuffle rhythm. Trombonist Wilkins is quite boisterous on Nat Adderley's soulful "Sweet Emma," the Jimmy Smith minor blues "Mellow Mood," and George Coleman's "Amsterdam After Dark." Another highpoint is Blue's "Attitude" which, after an energized and surprising melody, becomes a hot swinger that features the composer.
Ray Blue has been an important saxophonist for the past 20 years, leading his own CDs on a regular basis since 2001. Among those who he has worked with through the years have been John Gilmore, Art Davis, Benny Powell, Eddie Henderson, the Charlie Persip Super Band, Wycliffe Gordon, Steve Turre, Ted Curson, and The Sun Ra Arkestra. The saxophonist, who has appeared at many international jazz festivals, has also been an influential educator and is the founder of Cross-Cultural Connection, Inc. a non-profit organization that promotes jazz culture, performance and education.
WORK is one of Ray Blue's most enjoyable outings to date, a melodic set that will appeal to a large audience, especially those who enjoy the Old School swinging jazz style and sound.
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Last night, H&M (Hennes & Mauritz), one of the world's largest retailers known for offering high fashion apparel, celebrated its collaboration with iconic artist, Jeff Koons at the opening of its new flagship store on Fifth Avenue.
Fashion and art fans alike visited the new store on Fifth Avenue at 48th Street to be the first to shop the new collection and the coveted Balloon Dog (Yellow) handbag. Team Grungy Gentleman enjoyed food, drinks and a special performance by British sensation, Birdy alongside Jeff Koons, Olivia Wilde and Ashley Benson.
"I'm very happy to be working with H&M. It's really exciting to be celebrating the opening of their flagship store and I'm very proud the bag," said Jeff Koons.
"ART IS SOMETHING THAT IS ACCESSIBLE, WE INTERACT WITH IT ALL THE TIME AND H&M MAKES FASHION THE SAME WAY."
Attendees had the opportunity to purchase the limited-edition leather handbag featuring the Balloon Dog (Yellow), one of Koons' most iconic works for $49.95. The Balloon Dog leather handbag will also be carried in select markets across the US including Los Angeles, Chicago and Dallas, as well as online at hm.com beginning July 17th, 2014. A select number of pieces will also be sold at the Whitney Museum of American Art during the Retrospective as well as on Whitney.org.
Guests also had the chance to preview the location's exciting 57,000 square feet interior. The new flagship store will be the first in the country to offer a full concierge service, creating a very unique shopping experience. It will also be the first store in New York to carry the full H&M Home collection. In addition, customers who bring garments to be recycled in H&M's Garment Collecting program before the store's opening tomorrow will be entered to win gift cards valued between $50 and $100.
The store will open to the public at 12:00 p.m. on Thursday, July 17th with a grand opening celebration. Enjoy the new store and be sure to visit the stunning Jeff Koons Retrospective at The Whitney Museum of American Art.


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Does Bioaccumulation of Toxic Elements Lead to Large Problems?
Bioaccumulation is the concentration of toxic substances by an organism over an extended period of time. This occurs in all species, and is magnified progressively up the food chain.
Toxic elements we consume in liquids and foods, breathe in from the air, or absorb through our skin are retained in the body for different durations, depending on their chemical properties. The amount of time it takes for the body to eliminate half of a specific substance is called its half-life.
Toxic heavy metals such as cadmium, mercury, and lead can accumulate over a lifetime and have long half-lives in different organs and tissues.
Cadmium is a toxic heavy metal that enters the body mostly through food consumption and tobacco smoke, as certain plants concentrate this heavy metal. Average cadmium absorption from food per day is around 1 µg, but those who smoke one pack of cigarettes per day (made from tobacco leaves) will take in an additional 1 to 3 µg. Although this amount may not seem like a lot, cadmium is slowly eliminated from the body with a blood half-life of 75-128 days and a body half-life of 7-16 years. Cadmium will primarily affect the kidneys, but also damages the nervous and cardiovascular systems, liver, lungs, pancreas, bones, and reproductive organs. High cadmium levels have been linked to cancers of the reproductive organs, including the breasts, prostate, and uterus.   Cadmium is believed to increase cancers of estrogen-sensitive tissues by acting as a metalloestrogen to activate estrogen-regulated genes.
Mercury is a well-known toxic heavy metal that is present in different forms including inorganic, organic, and elemental species. Inorganic mercury's target organs are the gut and kidney, while elemental and organic mercury primarily accumulates in fatty tissue such as the brain. The half-life of elemental and inorganic mercury in blood is 40–60 days, while the half-life of organic mercury in blood is about 70 days.   Organic and elemental mercury can penetrate the blood-brain barrier and enter the brain where the elimination half-life of the heavy metal may exceed several years. Mercury's toxicity is primarily through the creation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) which burn-down antioxidants such as glutathione, and react with selenium-containing enzymes involved in antioxidant actions (e.g., glutathione peroxidase) and thyroid hormone formation (thyroid deiodinases).
What can you do to determine current heavy metal exposure?
ZRT now offers dried urine testing for three of the most prevalent toxic heavy metals (cadmium, mercury, and arsenic) in combination with the essential elements iodine and selenium. Currently we are developing a similar test for lead and other elements using whole blood, the best biomarker of lead exposure. Cadmium, mercury, and lead are three of the top ten most hazardous substances according to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry's (ATSDR) Priority List of Hazardous Substances, and along with arsenic make up the top four most hazardous heavy metals.
It is important to know if you have been bioaccumulating heavy metals, as this could help identify and eliminate their source and help curb current or future health problems associated with their bioaccumulation.
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"Maternity care: A narrative overview of what women expect across their" by Kim Clark, Shelley Beatty et al.
Originally published as: Clark, K., Beatty, S., Reibel, T. (2015). Maternity care: A narrative overview of what women expect across their care continuum in Midwifery, 31(4), 432-437. Available here.
Objectives: to provide a narrative overview of the values schema underpinning women's expectations of public maternity-care services using an episodes-of-care framework. Design: focus-group discussions and in-depth interviews were undertaken with Western Australian women who had opted for public maternity care to determine the values schema apparent in their expectations of their care. Setting: public maternity-care services in metropolitan (i.e. Armadale, Osborne Park and Rockingham) and regional (i.e. Broome, Geraldton, Bunbury) Western Australia. Findings: women interviewed were found to have consistent values schema underpinning their maternity-care expectations and evaluations. Conclusions: the current study suggests that while women's choices and experiences of maternity care may differ on a range of dimensions, the values schema underlying their care expectations and subsequent evaluations are similar.The study findings resonate with past Australian research regarding women's expectations of public maternity care, but complement it by providing a coherent narrative of core underpinning stage-specific values schema. These may assist maternity-care policy makers, practitioners and researchers seeking to better understand and comprehensively respond to women's maternity-care expectations.


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The Lookout 1975 February-March (Vol. 66, No. 2)
Includes "The Sea… Some Thoughts on Its Future," "Young Cadet is Unexpected Friend of SCI Family," "Captain Billy, Brazil Traders and Ague," "A Penny Saved…," "Tall Ships," "Yia Sou, Greece Opens at Institute," "From Port Newark," "And Just Up the Street...," "From My Room... At 15 State Street," "Songs of a Drop-Out," "Deck Song"
1975 February-March
Seamen's Church Institute of New York, "The Lookout 1975 February-March (Vol. 66, No. 2)," SCI Digital Archives, accessed May 15, 2018, http://seamenschurch-archives.org/sci/items/show/1795.
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Cocktails and a discussion on aging well with Jeff Maurer, Jewelle Bickford, and Dr. Jacquelyn James. We'll consider the latest research on cognitive awareness and some strategies to embrace both the opportunities and challenges at this stage of life.
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Greetings and peace be upon you and all respected participants of this conference. The heave and unforgettable responsibility of Palestine rests upon the shoulders of the entire Muslim world.
Without a doubt, scholarly elites, clerics and politicians, as well as the officials of Muslim countries carry the heavier part of this responsibility; this is a sacred and well-ending Resistance. The Divine promise guarantees definite victory of the resistance.
Your congress today represents part of this vast, public movement. May God help you succeed on this path. I recommend all individuals, who feel the importance of this great responsibility, to continue different methods of fighting against the usurper Zionist Regime.


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The Good News Retires
The Good News, the official diocesan newspaper for the Diocese of Kalamazoo officially retired with its September 2018 edition. The Diocese launched a new magazine, Southwest Michigan Catholic, in collaboration with Faith Catholic in Fall 2018. The magazine features a range of engaging content from in-depth profiles to columns that teach about the faith as well as advice for daily living. The evangelization tool will be mailed to all registered households within the nine-counties of the Diocese of Kalamazoo in Southwest Michigan.
Approximately 22,000 copies of Southwest Michigan Catholic will be mailed to registered parishioners homes four times a year. The first edition will be mailed in mid-November 2018 in time for the Advent season. Advertising and sponsorship opportunities are available. Please Contact Terry Hageman for more information
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Weight loss is one tough issue we face. Well, maybe some of us don't, but they still work hard to maintain their slim. If popping a pill would make us loose weight, we'd all be thin as reeds. However, besides cutting down on carbs and working out, their are supplements that could help us reach our goal.
Even though there isn't a solid proof that Vitamin B-12 could be used as a dietary supplement for weight lose, It is believed that it could play a big role in how the body uses calories. Vitamin B12 may support energy production by helping the body convert food into energy. More energy will hopefully result in more exercise and greater motivation which will lead to safe and healthy weight control.Your body does need vitamin B-12 anyway to support the function of your nerves and blood cells. It is usually found in fish, chicken and beef.
Some studies found that overweight postmenopausal women who took vitamin D supplements and achieved healthy levels of this nutrient lost more weight than women who didn't reach these levels.
Vitamin D could be found in juices, and cereals that have been fortified with this nutrient. Fatty fish could also deliver modest doses of vitamin D. Your body produces it when you expose your skin to sunlight.
Some studies suggest that omega-3 fatty acids could help loosing weight. They are a great addition to your diet. tThey also may protect your heart and blood vessels from damage and disease. Consider eating fish a couple times a week, as part of your healthy eating plan.
It is believed that Calcium could play a role in weight loss management. There are different theories that support that. The first is that calcium may bind with fat in the intestines and prevent your body from absorbing it. The second theory is that calcium may inhibit the production of hormones that cause fat to accumulate in your body.
Magnesium is essential in digestive processes and activates enzymes that let your body absorb and use the food you eat. It helps to regulate your metabolism, which in turn may help you to burn more calories. Magnesium is also a good source of energy. It's possible that a diet that includes sufficient magnesium allows you to increase your metabolism and produce enough energy so you move more, thus helping to burn calories.
Curl up watching a nice movie with a cup of green tea sounds tempting. Green tea can help you lose fat, especially the abdominal fat. However, some studies don't think that green tea is not so significant when it comes to weight lose. But still,Green tea contains antioxidants that might help protect your heart.
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At the end, Vitamins alone will not serve as the magic solution for weight loss. You still need to exercise and, eat healthy food that are low in calories and rich in nutrients to lose weight and look great!


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Yes, you read that right: There's a brand new dating reality TV series called MILF Manor, and it's every bit as salacious as you'd expect. Here's everything you need to know about watching MILF Manor online.
What is MILF Manor about?
Proof that life imitates art—or at least, a certain episode of 30 Rock—MILF Manor is exactly what it sounds like. (For the uninitiated, the term MILF stands for "Mother I'd Like to F***.")
Eight "mature" women and eight younger men are grouped together in a beachside villa in the hopes of finding a lasting connection. Besides the dating age-gap premise, the show's producers have also promised a "shocking twist." Many have speculated that the male contestants will turn out to be the women's sons, but you'll have to watch to find out if it's true!
MILF Manor release date
MILF Manor will premiere on Sunday, January 15, 2023, at 10 p.m. ET, with new episodes dropping the same time each week.
Where to stream MILF Manor online
MILF Manor will air on cable network TLC, and episodes will be available to stream the same day on Discovery+. Prefer to watch each episode live, but don't have cable? You can also livestream TLC through cord-cutting services such as Philo, Hulu + Live TV, fuboTV, and Sling TV.
Watch MILF Manor on TLC
TLC (a.k.a The Learning Channel) is a U.S. cable channel that's home to the MILF Manor show. You can stream TLC online via go.tlc.com or with the TLC GO app—though you'll need to provide the credentials of a U.S. cable or satellite subscription, or a cord-cutting service.
How to stream MILF Manor on Discovery Plus
Discovery+ is the online streaming service of The Discovery Channel. Fans of MILF Manor can catch every episode on Discovery+ the same day it airs on TLC, and a seven-day free trial is available. Discovery+ is currently available in the U.S., the UK, Denmark, Finland, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, and Spain.
Watch MILF Manor on Philo
Philo carries over 60 live channels, one of which is TLC. Simply search for the channel to stream MILF Manor live as it airs. There's also a seven-day free trial!
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YouTube TV also includes several entertainment channels such as TLC. It's another way to catch every episode live, and there's a 14-day free trial. You may need to supply a valid U.S. ZIP code (e.g., 30301 or 11222).
How to watch MILF Manor on Hulu + Live TV
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British Academy Review
British Academy Review 36
A compassionate transition to sustainability
by Tim O'Riordan
This article is published in British Academy Review No. 36 (December 2019).
The print version of this article can be downloaded as a PDF file.
Tim O'Riordan is Emeritus Professor, School of Environmental Sciences, at the University of East Anglia. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1999.
A very visible pathway to sustainability is the rocky road to 'net zero' emissions of all greenhouse gases. These are the collection of human-created emissions which collectively heat the lower planetary atmosphere, leading to what is broadly regarded as climate change. In 2015, all the world's governments signed the historic Paris Agreement. This committed all nations to pursue their highest possible ambition, by collectively limiting the overall increase in the global average temperatures to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels, and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C, recognising that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change. Net zero has an even more demanding purpose. This is to remove all avoidable greenhouse gas emissions, and to create natural 'carbon sinks' of soils, plants and oceans to remove any residual emissions which remain in the inventory.
In the wake of the Paris Agreement, the UK Committee on Climate Change, which has a statutory duty to advise the UK government on how to meet this outcome, pressed for the net zero goal by 2050. Subsequently, the governments of England and Wales have endorsed this path, while Scotland plans to reach net zero by 2045. In one of her last acts of office, former Prime Minister Theresa May said that it was a 'moral duty to leave this world in a better condition than what we inherited'. In effect net zero is now national policy set in a moral and social justice context.
Two prominent social movements known as the Extinction Rebellion and Fridays for Future (formerly known as the Students' Strike) have activated public protests and resistance demonstrations to speed up the overall transition to sustainability and to achieve net zero before 2030. This date is very symbolic, as it marks the completion of the planet-wide endorsement of UN sustainable development goals, and the emergence of a global human rights endeavour that seeks to ensure that 'no one will be left behind', and that 'the furthest behind' will be reached first.
A survey of 1000 citizens commissioned by the non-governmental organisation Hope Not Hate, published in September 2019 in the UK, Canada, Germany, Italy, Brazil, France, Poland and the US, found that over three-quarters feel that the world is facing a climate emergency of extreme risk and high danger. The widely condemned encouragement of forest fires in the Amazon rainforest by the government of Brazil showed the enormous public resentment of failing politicians, who the survey found are universally regarded as being in the pockets of the fossil fuel, military and money lobbies. A more encouraging report by the Global Adaptation Commission calls for a decade of commitment to widespread adaptation planning and financing that will buttress the UN journey.
This article explores the extremely challenging processes of seeking net zero through a path leading to full sustainability. It examines how such a tortuous process of transition can embrace challenging features of compassion, of decency of treatment for all those affected, and of ensuring the long-term well-being of the human race. These pathways in turn must pay attention to enhancing the health and resilience of the vital planetary ecosystems which retain life on this unique globe. What is new here is the dawning realisation that arriving at net zero will alter substantially the jobs and livelihoods of many millions whose current prosperity and manner of living depend upon and create greenhouse gas emissions. To enable them to transfer to a sustainable society will require an extraordinary journey supported by compassion, empathy and well-being.
The compassionate transition
The Learned Society of Wales, in its third International Symposium organised in co-operation with the British Academy, looked at the mechanisms for interpreting the ethics of sustainable prosperity, drawing on the principles that underpin both The Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015, and the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The global 'commons' – conceived of as both a set of restorative processes and as a metaphor for collective human decency – are being progressively dismantled, leading to inequality, injustice, discrimination, ecocide, and the loss of well-being for increasing numbers of present and future generations. The moral role of humanism is in severe danger of being dismembered, enabling many individuals and inflexible institutionalised mind-sets to override any vestiges of personal responsibility for restraint. This hampers attempts to find collective solutions to the plight of the marginalised poor, notably women, children and ethnic minorities, both in developing countries and in rich nations.
Maintaining well-being and dignity at the community scale requires us to devise a common moral framework, from the local through to the global, even to the cosmic. We need to recognise our common humanity – adnabod in Welsh (recognise = know (someone)). Our localism and universalism require re-connecting, seeing the stranger as a neighbour in a true humanism. These sentiments embrace the notion of compassion, the kindness of self-aware generosity and the sympathetic joy of acting morally for the benefit of all. Compassion is linked to deep psychological feelings, and embraces attributes such as sympathy, care for well-being, empathy, sensitivity for others' distress and need, and mindful acceptance of the unattainability of the ideal. Acting compassionately reveals the need for interconnecting people and planet, and for unifying gainers and losers in a common morality.
Equality does not mean equalising. It applies to enabling, to respecting, to creating realistic opportunities for all, and to offering compensatory outcomes to the many who will otherwise surely lose out in the transformative paths to sustainability. There are four concepts of equality – distributive (access to resources); contributive (ability for fulfilment); restorative (rectifying past wrongs); and epistemic (recognising different forms of knowledge/having voice with power). These point to the need for a plural approach, interdisciplinary in assessment, creative in delivering institutions, and responsive to public debate. The question is how to move from these broad notions of justice to addressing the perverse power relations that generate inequality. This in turn requires recognition of longstanding north-south imbalances, rooted in the history of colonialism and neo-colonialism that underlie differing dialogues and attitudes to sustainability and climate change responsive action.
Society is only just beginning to pay attention to what is being termed the 'just transition'. They see this as the fusion of developmental processes – which encourage natural resources management and urbanisation, but with established political and economic institutional drivers – with the sustainability transition – which purports to create 'green economies' and to improve social justice. Here we take the notion of 'just' into the deeper framework of 'compassion'.
Exploring the just transition
There is as yet only limited assessment of the scale of social and economic dislocation and reconstruction needed to bring the world to carbon neutrality in the space of one generation. There is incomplete analysis of even the most clear-cut examples of this process, such as the 'removal' of some 7 million existing coal mining jobs if all new coal production is to be progressively curtailed by 2025. The International Energy Agency in its 2019 world energy outlook emphasises the long life of many new and soon-to-be-built coal-fired electricity stations which will result in almost no overall CO2 reduction before 2040. There is a connection here to the emergence of nationalistic 'populisms' which are becoming notably resistant political impediments to the formation of any global low carbon ethical case.
In West Virginia, for example, some 50,000 coal mining jobs have disappeared since 1983. Almost all of these have been on account of changes in coal quality, mining techniques, and competitive forms of new energy sources, such as shale gas from fracking and solar panels. Nevertheless, removal of coal as a big carbon emitter is playing an increasingly prominent role. The consequences for long-established coal-based communities are devastating, as pensions fall, older workers are laid off, and tax receipts atrophy. Here is one heartland for nationalist politics. Fresh jobs in renewables technologies and biogas creation are steadily becoming available. These attract the younger residents whose adaptability to training and to job mobility is vital. Yet such disruption in local economies and social relations is dramatic and painful. There is neither painless nor hurried transition. The savage politics of resistance is never far away. Compassion is not yet a clarion call.
In South Africa some 200,000 miners provide vital economic succour to their families and considerable economic propulsion for their regions. Some 10,000 coal miners have already lost their coal mining jobs in Mpumalanga in the heart of the coal mining region of South Africa. Another 77,000 are vulnerable, as South African electricity companies shift to renewable sources of power for both economic and environmental reasons. These are better paid workers with little educational qualifications, so are not easily or expeditiously transferred to 'greener' jobs. The just transition doesn't mean ignoring the cost of pollution to protect existing jobs. But the pain can't be systemically pushed onto people who already have very little to lose.
The South African case brings into focus the changing relationships between national and global well-being. The income and the economic propulsion of coal production surely contributes to the prosperity of local communities. Yet the prolongation of coal production results in all manner of climate-change-related perils for these same coal mining communities who face a current pernicious choice between jobs and eventual environmental and economic hardship. The impact of the additional global climate change resulting from continued local coal production is ethically very different from the dislocation of local prosperity caused by prematurely shutting down coal mines.
The World Coal Association calls for more participatory and inclusive procedures to identify those whose coal dependent livelihoods can be transformed with sensitivity and care. Any sudden removal of this labour force would surely result in considerable social and economic hardship, contrary to the ethics of sustainable prosperity for all. In 2018, Germany established a Commission on Growth, Structural Change and Employment, popularly referred to as the Clean Coal Commission. It represents a wide range of interested parties, including young people, but is spearheaded by the trades unions. Its work is bedevilled by devastating complexity, much internal dispute, ambiguity of recommendations, and sluggish phase-out of German coal and lignite production compared to the German commitment to the Paris Agreement. The German experience here is revealing how any just transition is proving painfully tortuous, and some distance away from incorporating compassion.
Another emerging example of this dilemma is the recent announcement by General Motors to close seven plants from its world-wide portfolio over the coming year. One of a number of reasons for this is the forthcoming shift to production of all-electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid cars, as well as self-driving vehicles. This will require retraining and redeploying the workforce. GM Canada plans to invest in excess of Can$170 million to support a transition of operations from vehicle assembly into a test track for autonomous and advanced technology vehicles. The company will also help to transfer employees to other plants, and will offer enhanced retirement packages. All of these arrangements are being co-ordinated by the trade unions involved. In addition, the company will donate a local park and wildlife preserve for the well-being of its citizen neighbours. This revitalised form of co-operation is a sign of many such labour-shifting transformations likely to afflict the automobile industry over the coming decades. But shifting whole communities around is very painful, and again compassion needs to be part of the supportive transition.
The just transition in Wales and Scotland
In 2015 the National Assembly of Wales created the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act. This innovative legislation established an Office of a Commissioner for Well-being of Future Generations. The Commissioner has a duty to ensure that the well-being of forthcoming citizens is properly and justifiably taken into account by all public bodies, working in ever closer collaboration with the civil and business sectors. Indeed, the blurring of these sectors and the progressive removal of their boundaries is a hallmark of the Welsh vision.
This process, which champions both sustainability and well-being in all decision-making, is based on seven well-being goals (Figure 1). These are required to follow five ways of working, transparent procedures of conducting their affairs, based on the practices of prevention, long-sightedness, integrated action, involvement, and constructive collaboration. The role of the Commissioner's Office is to create ways of thinking and acting across all forms of commitment, so as to ensure that the next cohorts of society are properly safeguarded and enabled to promote the moral values of sustainability.
Figure 1. The vision of future well-being and sustainability for Welsh society and culture.
There are procedures in place for enacting this imaginative approach to a more ethical governance for sustainability. All governing institutions, including local governments, public bodies, executive agencies, regulatory organisations, civic society groups, and citizens' associations are required to follow the five ways of working, and to create mechanisms which build in fresh moral mandates for all metrics for decision-making.
The background to the development of this exciting legislation was a two-year 'national conversation', with particular attention given to the views and aspirations of young people. This was conducted on the basis of a Wales-wide web of 'listening circles'. These were networked groups of active citizens who sought to clarify the purposes and the procedures of the Act, and to work through the moral aspects of successful delivery. An important aspect of this process is the learning for compassionate sustainable governance which is uniting institutions and their employees in fresh experiences and experiments. This learning will be shared through the re-energising of the listening circles. What is vital is that this whole process is re-evaluated in a few years' time, as is the intention.
In Scotland, a Just Transition Commission has begun to play an important role to help plan and deliver a just transition across Scotland that protects vulnerable workers, consumers and rural and island populations in the route to net zero. The Commission forms part of a more general drive to a well-being society spearheaded by the First Ministers of Scotland, New Zealand and Iceland. The aim is to focus on social support, mental health, and overall community nurture leading to personal contentment and happiness. The Scottish Commission will focus on the provision of environmentally and socially sustainable jobs with an emphasis on poverty alleviation, in order to leave no one behind. It will actively consider employment opportunities when developing net zero pathways, and design and deliver low-carbon infrastructure with the aim of creating decent, high-value work. The Commission will reach out to the trade union movement, to business communities, to the environmental and social civic organisations, and especially to the poverty support groups. In making its recommendations, the Commission will seek to mitigate risks that could undermine regional cohesion, equalities, poverty (including fuel poverty), and a sustainable and inclusive labour market. All of this cannot be at the expense of existing high value employment and the robustness of the overall economy.
The Commission is also innovating with regional meetings on regional topics with regional evidence. It has already convened these in the oil and gas sector of Aberdeen, and the coalfield communities of West Fife, and plans to visit the hill farming communities of the Southern Uplands. The Commission will publish an interim report in early 2020 to gauge its public and political interest, and will continue with its geographical perambulations over following year.
Such an innovation needs to extend to all parts of the UK, and indeed elsewhere. The Trades Union Congress has also called for a UK-wide Commission with a special remit to look at skills training and green economic transitions, again highlighting the involvement of young people. What is important here is to learn from the innovative ways of working initiated by the Scottish and Welsh experiments, and to tailor these to the more demanding English and Northern Ireland contexts.
Compassionate carbon contributions
In order to address the massive social, economic and ecological costs associated with mitigating and adapting to the climate emergency, a possible way forward is to price all greenhouse gases at the point of exploration, production and emission. While such a move would result in higher prices for any subsequent use of greenhouse gas incorporated consumption, not all of these costs would necessarily be passed on in a competitive consumer market. This would neither be a tax nor a levy, for such notions are toxic to those who would have to pay. Such a hugely controversial course of action would only be possible if the politically powerful interests, which maintain non-sustainability and which champion the subsidised support for fossil fuels, are confronted by a widening and deepening public demand for moral empathy for the future of humanness which is so tragically being lost. Hence the need for a more neutral purpose arising from such charges, which might be labelled in the form of a 'compassionate carbon contribution' from the present to future generations. Introduced slowly and ramped up carefully, such contributions would eventually create vast funds for enabling the low carbon transition and associated low carbon consumption to take place more justly all over the world. Resources of investment, people and training could be made available for a series of community-supported and not for profit-backed schemes – to help the poor become better off in a low-carbon economy and society, to offset the costs of adaptation and training, to supply investments in foresight preparedness for the global vulnerable, and to foster all manner of low-carbon lifestyles and technologies. The budgets and recommendations of the various Just Transition Commissions outlined here would benefit hugely from such contributions.
In the course of time, such contributions would have to be matched by additional provisions from direct greenhouse-gas-emitting consuming behaviour. Initially this would be necessary to get round the 'rebound' effect. This is the kick-back when consumers feel they are able to use any carbon-neutral technology with no sense of guilt. There is also the more politically touchy question of nudging diets toward more pulses, vegetables and fruit, and away from red meat which is linked to the loss of carbon-storing forest and new methane emissions from expanding livestock production. But in the course of time, dealing with consumption confronts a particularly difficult moral arena, as more and more the burden of the personal carbon rucksack will fall on the consumer of traded goods and services, not the consumer as a user of heat and mobility. As yet these is no international agreement covering these unexplored carbon heavyweights.
Yet there is the beginning of a reassuring precedence here. The Canadian government is levying a progressive carbon tax across the nation (but giving way to provinces already in the lead). This will be introduced at $20 per tonne, but will increase to $50 per tonne by 2022. The relevant aspect here is the decision to return most of the revenue in the form of an income tax rebate to all citizens, but to deploy about 15 per cent of the levy to industrial processes for investment in clean technology, carbon removal, and low carbon growth. This will include setting aside funds for retraining and relocating displaced employees. The policy provides for cap and trade arrangements for heavy carbon emitting businesses (through which there will be an allowable emission, designed to be traded, followed by a rising levy which cannot be avoided). A tax of $50 per tonne will amount to about $Can 11.3 cents per litre of gasoline, but will apply to all fossil-based fuels to varying amounts.
There is a degree of public support for the income-returning features of these arrangements, though initially only a few will connect higher prices in the pumps and fuel bills with a one-off annual tax rebate. There will also be questions about both the ethics of the levy which could fall more on carbon-dependent poorer families and rural communities. And there will be dispute over the prosperity impacts of returns on wealthy taxpayers compared to poorer taxpayers with very low levels of tax deduction on their incomes. On top of this, there are important political arguments over the respective roles of government in interfering with electors' behaviour, as well as the very concept of taxing a 'growth' product. Yet the Canadian experience is worth following, as it begins to tackle both the morals and the ethics of carbon contributions.
Public opinion polling in the US has shown that social communication, regular dialogue, reinforcement of positive messages about the economic, technological and social betterment of low carbon living, and the call to a moral consensus embracing all engaged citizens, could lead to the kinds of moral spreading that is currently being stifled. This research also finds that 'cautious conservatives' (open minded Republicans) respond positively to prompts from trusted social networks, where the moral advantages of redistribution for an overall just sustainability transition are widely and persistently shared.
The practicalities of any global-scale carbon contribution funding source would be almost impossible to manage on the large scale. The scope for corruption, syphoning off and embezzlement, and underreporting, would just be too tempting. If these funds could be channeled into community-scale not-for-profit schemes and subject to scrutiny and to accountability of delivery at the local scale, there might be a glimmer of hope. For this to be achieved, there would have to be a notable switch to compassionate humanness and decency of treatment on a universal scale.
Such a compassionate transition would need to be pursued on many fronts. One will certainly involve a more universal approach by 'good governments' to ground well-being for the already left behind and for future generations into basic law. Another will encompass many experiments with highly participatory just transition commissions, whose experiences need to be universally documented so as to become learning leaders. A third must be to embody citizenship and compassion into all forms of knowledge sharing, beginning with the primary schools, but embracing all professional training and retraining. A fourth has to be the recognition by the 'dark forces' currently promoting continued greenhouse gas emissions, that they face an intolerant public, deeply anxious about the environmental safety of their families and communities. A fifth may emerge in some form of eventual global carbon abolition law which would make it illegal to emit any carbon after the onset of a global net zero date. Such a law would be backed by moral force and could unleash a widespread burst of technological and cultural innovation. And a sixth may still have to be the continued expression of resistance by young people, garnering the support of their elders who are persistently prepared to disrupt non-sustainable activities. Above all, the trialling of compassionate carbon contributions needs to be given a fair wind, rooted in social prompting and community pride.
Reflections and proflections
This perspective arising from the Learned Society of Wales symposium is offered to open up important avenues for dialogue and examination. We feel that we have begun a journey towards ethically sustainable transitions which heretofore has not fully received the attention it deserves. We are well aware of the amazing pulse of both the activities of the Extinction Rebellion and of the Fridays for Future strikes. Here is a new form of protest and democracy where caring for and providing for the well-being of future generations is the key driver. It is notable that public response to both sets of protest has been largely sympathetic. Given scope for compassionate dialogue, it is possible that these movements may combine with the power of science-based knowledge and community-based reform of governing and regulatory institutions for the sake of human survival.
Maybe we are just not ready. Maybe our current forms of knowledge creation and imperfect blending are not easily united through our existing educational, theological, political and cultural arrangements, where well-being of future generations cannot sensitively and fully be identified and incorporated into our contemporary morals. There is a research agenda here involving fascinating interpretations of cultural identities, embracing history, geography and philosophy, linked to penetrative forms of learning and confidence building through which current and future generations can bond through fresh forms of compassion, empathy and sharing.
There is no time to wait. We realise that the famous clock is ticking even faster than real time suggests.
The following have contributed to the preparation of this article.
Matthew Quinn and Susan Baker, Sustainable Places Research Institute, Cardiff University.
David Boucher, Vice-President, Learned Society of Wales, and Professor of Politics and International Relations at Cardiff University and University of Johannesburg.
John Wyn Owen, Founding Fellow, Learned Society of Wales and RSPH Professorial Fellow, University of Wales, Cardiff.
The material buttressing this article comes from many sources. Here is a flavour of relevant references.
For the global picture please look at the report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Global Warming of 1.5 Degrees (2018), and Climate Change and Land (2019). Other global summaries are: UN Environment, Emissions Gap Report (2019); US Global Change Research Program, Fourth National Climate Assessment (2018); and the International Energy Agency, World Energy Outlook 2019 (2019). For the UK, see UK Committee on Climate Change, Net Zero: the UK's contribution to stopping global warming (2019). The report of the Global Adaptation Commission, Adapt Now: A Global Call for Leadership on Climate Resilience (2019) will initiate five years of considerable financial and political resources into planning, financing and coalition building.
For an analysis of the 'dark forces' opposing net zero, see N. Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate (Penguin, 2015), and D. Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth; Life after warming. (Allen Lane, 2019).
For the Canadian experience, see Canadian Department of the Environment, 'The carbon tax' (2018); CBC News, 'Trudeau vows to help get GM workers "back on their feet" as automaker stands firm on Oshawa closure' (26 November 2018)
For compassion read T. Cowen, Stubborn Attachments: A vision for a society of free, prosperous, and responsible individuals (2018); P. Gilbert, The Compassionate Mind (2009); F. Heidenreich, 'How will sustainability transform democracy? Reflections on an important dimension of transformation sciences', GAIA: Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, 27:4 (2018), 357-366; and Matthew T. Ballew, A. Leiserowitz, et al., 'Climate change in the American mind: data, tools and trends', Environment, 61 (2019), 4-8.
For the South African case, read N. Makgetla, 'Mpumalanga faces the reality of coal's demise: more than 10,000 jobs have already been cut with many more to come', BusinessLive (2018); M. Swilling, J. Musango and J. Wakeford, 'Developmental states and sustainability transitions: Prospects of a just transition in South Africa', Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning (2015) DOI: 10.1080/1523908X.2015.1107716.
For the coal case read: World Coal Association, 'World coal and sustainable development: report of a round table' (2018). The environmental think tank E3G is working on many examples of just transition, see: E3G, 'Just Transition: Regions, workers and communities in the transition to a net zero economy' (2019)
For new forms of democracy over net zero, look at D. Powell, Re-booting the green new deal (New Economics Foundation, 2019), and J. Rowson, A New Agenda on Climate Change: Facing up to stealth denials and winding down on fossil fuels (Royal Society of Arts, London, 2015); plus: 'Future lives matter', Economist (8 December 2018); Danish Institute for Human Rights, Human Rights and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2018)
Also take a look at Welsh Government, 2016. How to measure a nation's progress? National indicators for Wales. Cardiff.
For the meat removal theme, see T. O'Riordan and S. Stoll-Kleemann, 'The challenges of changing dietary behavior toward more sustainable consumption', Environment 57 (2015), 4-13; and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Climate and Land, Food Security (2019), pp. 56-82.
For a strong statement underpinning a global moral transition, see E. Beinhocker, 'I am a carbon abolitionist', Democracy (24 June 2019).


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Sabaneta é uma cidade e município da Colômbia, no departamento de Antioquia. Faz parte da região metropolitana de Medellín. A distância do município para Medellín, a capital do departamento, é de 14 quilômetros.

Atualmente é um dos territórios mais dinâmicos do país; Destaca-se não só como o menor município da Colômbia, mas também pelo seu progresso e desenvolvimento. Graças a esta transformação, foi passando de vila em cidade, tornando-se um destino turístico e religioso pela sua infraestrutura, seu desenvolvimento econômico, social e cultural, sua tradição religiosa e a qualidade humana de seus habitantes.

Origens
Sabaneta foi inicialmente habitada pelos índios Anaconas (aborígenes do outro lado do Ana), que se estabeleceram na encosta oriental, a partir do monte Pan de Azúcar. No ano de 1750, famílias de origem espanhola instalaram-se neste local. Os grupos Montoya, Restrepo, Vélez, Díaz, Díez, Vásquez, Guzmán, Garcés, Baena, Salazar, Mejía, Mesas, Álvarez e Soto constituem o segundo grupo populacional desta região. Em 31 de julho de 1858, a instrução pública para homens começou sob a orientação do professor Sotero Arango, que teria trabalhado como uma seção da Escola Masculina Envigado. Em 1865, a Sra. Adelaida Correa Estrada começou a trabalhar como professora na escola que, um século depois, leva seu nome Cidade de Envigado
Sabaneta foi constituída na aldeia de Envigado pelo Convênio Nº 11 de janeiro de 1899 e seu primeiro inspetor foi Dom Venancio Díaz Vásquez. Em 20 de julho de 1911, foi inaugurada a estação José Félix de Restrepo, dando lugar à Estrada de Ferro Antioquia e marcando a mudança de vida de muitos dos habitantes, que até então se dedicavam à mula e à agricultura.

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Judy Woodruff and the late Gwen Ifill, the award-winning co-anchors and managing editors of the "PBS NewsHour," were awarded the 2017 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism by Arizona State University on Thursday.
Woodruff, the anchor and managing editor of the "PBS NewsHour," received the 34th annual award, given by the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, at a luncheon ceremony in downtown Phoenix. Roberto Ifill accepted the award on behalf of his sister Ifill, who served with Woodruff as co-anchor and co-managing editor from 2013 until her death from cancer in November.
Woodruff reflected on how the news business is in flux from a changing business and technology landscape, and not necessarily for the better.
Technology, which has taken so many jobs away, has also provided a new source of news, she said.
Excellent reporting still can happen. Woodruff talked about the Weinstein scandal, which was broken by the New York Times and the New Yorker magazine, and the exposure of drug lobbyists worsening the opioid crisis by encouraging Congress to hobble the DEA by CBS 60 Minutes and the Washington Post.
Social media is not going to replace professional journalism, she said.
As part of Woodruff's two-day visit to ASU, she reported for the NewsHour from the Cronkite School. She sat down with Cronkite faculty member Jacquee Petchel and students Claire Caulfield and Jasmine Spearing-Bowen to discuss a major national investigation into water quality as part of the Carnegie-Knight News21 program at the Cronkite School. She also interviewed U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego as part of an ongoing NewsHour series on the future of the Democratic Party.
Woodruff's visit included an appearance on the public affairs program "Arizona Horizon" on Arizona PBS, which is operated by the Cronkite School. Woodruff fielded questions from host Ted Simons on a variety of topics ranging from her career and friendship with Ifill, to her memories of Walter Cronkite. After the taping, Woodruff, Simons and "PBS NewsHour" Executive Producer Sara Just took questions from Cronkite students in the audience. They discussed the convergence of media, fake news and the importance of journalism, among other topics.
The job of journalism is to be the public's eyes and ears, Woodruff said Thursday at the awards luncheon. Journalists are needed to find answers day after day.
Roberto Ifill accepts the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism in honor of his late sister Gwen Ifill on Thursday in Phoenix. Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff, award-winning anchors of the "PBS NewsHour," both received the award.
Judy Woodruff is honored by a standing ovation after accepting the Walter Cronkite award Thursday at the Sheraton Grand Phoenix hotel.
Judy Woodruff talks with host Ted Simons during a taping of "Arizona Horizon" on Wednesday at the Cronkite Building, a day before she received the award.
Journalism senior Nicole Gimpl takes notes as Judy Woodruff talks with "Arizona Horizon" host Ted Simons Wednesday.
Students control the taping Wednesday as Judy Woodruff and Ted Simons tape an episode of "Arizona Horizon."
After the Horizon taping, Judy Woodruff, Ted Simons and "PBS NewsHour" Executive Producer Sara Just took questions from Cronkite students in the audience. They discussed the convergence of media, fake news and the importance of journalism, among other topics.


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I will be running my first half-marathon on Sunday, November 13th and can't wait to start carb-loading. Carb-loading involves consuming large amounts of carbohydrates to provide extra energy during physically demanding exercise. Endurance athletes typically increase their intake to 2 to 5 grams of carbohydrates per pound of body weight (or roughly 70% of their food consumption) in the three days leading up to their event. I'm only planning on doing it for the two days before the race, because it's just a half-marathon. I pulled off my 12-mile practice run with one day of carb-loading, so I'm just adding an extra one to be on the safe side.
To start celebrating this accomplishment, I'm rounding up a few favorite carb-rich, healthy meals that I should definitely look into making in the next couple of days.
It's always nice to have an excuse to load up on carbs! Good luck with your race on Sunday and have fun!
Oh my gosh, I really need to take up running … I would LOVE to carbo load, lol.
Some delicious looking foods there! Good luck with the marathon!
Wow. That's a great carb mash-up!
I'll have pizza in the WordPress Wordcamp on Saturday for lunch and made plans to go to an Italian place with my parents and the in-laws to finish topping off my glycol reserves.
Great line up of carbs! Good luck with your run!
Wow. Good luck this weekend!
All of these dishes look delightful – especially the chicken and quinoa salad. Best of luck with the carbon loading.
Beautiful dish – I love quinoa! Wishing you and your family a Merry Christmas & Happy French Friday!


While the Mozilla Foundation is closing the "official" suite, it offers support for a possible community effort to develop it under a different name.
The Mozilla Foundation may be ending development of its application suite, but the open-source combination of a Web browser, e-mail client and Web-authoring tool appears likely to continue with the help of its friends.
Mozilla this week changed development course with the suite, announcing that it no longer plans to release Mozilla 1.8 despite earlier betas of the update. Instead, it will end suite development with the current Version 1.7 line and instead focus on its standalone Firefox browser and Thunderbird e-mail client.
While the foundation is retiring the official Mozilla suite, it is open to helping developers in the Mozilla community sustain it on their own.
As part of a Mozilla suite transition plan posted online this week, the Mountain View, Calif.-based foundation vowed to "provide infrastructure support … for community members who wish to continue to develop Seamonkey."
That support would provide open-source developers with access to Mozillas hosted development process, such as its Bugzilla bug-reporting system and online development tools, foundation president Mitchell Baker told eWEEK.com on Friday.
"Weve known that there are a set of users and developers who prefer the suite," she said. "And some are interested in putting in the energy to continue to maintain it. Theres a reasonable chance that suite development will continue."
Any continuation likely will involve removing the Mozilla moniker from the suite to avoid confusion that the foundation is supporting the future versions.
"We probably wont use the same naming conventions, as we need to be clear that this is not a Mozilla Foundation product release," Mozilla said in the transition plan.
By making the gesture to support outside development, the foundation appeared to be blessing the suggestion of Boris Zbarsky, a leading Mozilla programmer, and other Mozilla developers that a community-based project be formed to move Mozilla 1.8 forward.
The effort is beginning to coalesce around the Seamonkey wiki. "Seamonkey" is the nickname for the Mozilla suite. As of Friday, more than 70 individuals had signed on to help support and develop the community-based Mozilla.
But Seamonkeys future remains far from certain. Zbarsky said that his focus with Mozilla remains with development of the Gecko rendering engine that serves as the underpinnings of Mozillas software.
"It seems that there is a widespread misconception that Im somehow a driving force behind the Seamonkey developments, just because I was the one that sat down and wrote," he said.
Still, he offered some "educated guesses" as to how development of Version 1.8 of the suite might proceed. The initial steps likely will focus on organizing a team and working out infrastructure issues, he said.
"I expect a Seamonkey release based on Gecko 1.8, once the latter is declared final to be tested and shipped," he said. "After that point, I really dont know.
"In large part, it depends on the direction decided on by the leadership that emerges in this transitional period."
As recently as December, Mozilla officials were discussing plans to release a full version of Mozilla 1.8 by the spring. But the foundation decided this week to devote its resources to Firefox and Thunderbird.
Firefox, in particular, has challenged Microsoft Corp.s browser dominance by gaining user share since its full release in November.
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Mozilla 1.7 is considered a stable branch of the suite. The stable branches are used in third-party browser and Linux distributions, such as America Online Inc.s Netscape browser and Red Hat Linux. The foundation also advises organizations relying on the suite to use stable branches.
One risk of moving ahead with Mozilla 1.8 was that third-party distributions and organization would also upgrade and then require regular 1.8 updates, Baker said.
Mozilla instead plans to support Mozilla 1.7 with maintenance updates for security and bug fixes, she said. The foundation continues to plan a Version 1.7.6 release within the next few weeks.
"Trying to support the old Mozilla suite and the new products would be a use of resources we couldnt continue in long term," Baker said. "We needed to focus the resources we have on the new products and to be sure we had [a Mozilla suite] branch we could support well for the customers we had on it."
As for Firefox, it has faced recent concerns over its development path. Some within the Mozilla community, such as Mike Connor, a core Firefox developer, have publicly pointed out a lack of Firefox development support from the foundation.
Ben Goodger, Firefoxs lead engineer and now a Google employee, addressed those concerns in a Weblog posting this week. He wrote about efforts to "spread the load more evenly" with new roles and responsibilities for key contributors.
"Theres been some talk lately about the future of Firefox," Goodger wrote. "We believe Firefox has a bright future, and we are all working hard toward our short- and long-term goals."


Canadian television journalist and author Stanley Burke died Saturday at Kingston General Hospital. He was 93.
The veteran newscaster anchored CBC's The National News from 1966-1969 before it was re-branded as The National.
"That's why you see Canadians so involved when there's an emergency and a natural disaster in the world. Some people would date it back to those days."
Mansbridge was a young reporter when he met Burke and kept in touch with him over the years, describing Burke as "very sharp and very caring about journalism."
"I used to hear from him quite often over the last 10, 15 years," said Mansbridge. "He'd drop a line from his home in the Thousand Islands region of Ontario, with his comments on what we were doing on the newscast and more importantly, what we weren't doing."
After retiring, Burke wrote several children's books that satirized Canadian politics of the 1970s, including Frog Fables & Beaver Tales, a mythical tale about a northern swamp, and The Day of the Glorious Revolution, its sequel. The illustrations by editorial cartoonist Roy Peterson feature animal caricatures of figures such as Lester B. Pearson, Richard Nixon, René Lévesque and Pierre Trudeau.
A 2015 Father's Day blog post written by his daughter Holly Burke, a Vancouver-based musician, celebrated Burke while he was alive as a source of inspiration for their family.
"Many people join with me here to thank you for your many valuable contributions to this world of ours; your light, your love and your prevailing good humour through many trials not the least. We love you. We cherish you and everything 'Stanley Burke.'"
The funeral and memorial service will take place on Amherst Island near Kingston later this week.


The trouble with having one universal hub in Albion Online is that basically no one cares about the five other hubs in the game. That's what the game's next content update, Merlyn, is partly meant to address. While Caerleon will not be changed, each of the other five royal cities will be getting bonuses to refining certain types of goods and item production. Thus, players will be inspired to seek out the other cities with Caerleon as a fallback, rather than just chilling forever in Caerleon.


Learn the numbers 1-20 with this creative Incy Wincy Spider Game! In this dice game, your spider piece needs to be the first to get to the top. Preschoolers will love playing this nursery rhyme inspired game!
Is it Incy Wincy Spider? Or Itsy Bitsy Spider? Or Eency Weency Spider?! I'm familiar with Itsy Bitsy, but I know the nursery rhyme goes by any of the other names, too. How in the world did such a simple rhyme get called so many things?!
For our second week of Playful Preschool, I set up learning activities with a nursery rhyme theme. Other nursery rhymes activities were inspired by: Five Little Monkeys, Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, and Three Blind Mice.
This math game was inspired by Incy Wincy Spider.
This clever math game uses a paint stick (aka paint stir stick) as the "gameboard." The paint stick is the "water spout" in the nursery rhyme!
First, you'll need to decorate the "water spout," i.e. paint stick using markers. I drew raindrops and some flowers on our paint stick.
On a separate piece of paper I drew a sun, cut it out, and glued it to the top of the paint stick.
Our paint stick was long enough to make 20 marks, which I kinda eyeballed.. but you can choose what number you'd like to "race to" and fit the numbers on the paint stick accordingly.
Next stick the adhesive spider stickers to the clothespins.
Grab someone to play with and you are all set!
Simply roll the die and move that many spaces "up the waterspout" (ie. paint stick).
First to reach the sun, wins! Oh, and bonus that this math game is also working on fine motor skills!
I can see this game being made up for many more themes! Have fun playing!
** If working on basic addition skills, you could make a die with addition facts on them for your child to answer OR roll two dice and have your child add the numbers together to move up the paint stick waterspout!
** Now that you made it up the paint stick waterspout, "down comes the rain".... play the game backwards and see who makes it down the paint stick waterspout first!
** Don't forget to sing this simple nursery rhyme, too!
Sang 5 Little Monkeys Nursery Rhyme and wrote M's all over a chalkboard that Little Sis 'erased' with water and a qtip.
Borax and Glue Gak; we used black colored glue and sang "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star"
Fall Leaf Rhyme; as I said the rhyme all three kiddos threw leaves bought from the craft store into the air. We "raked" them up with our fingers, and did it all over again!
In case you missed it, check out our first week of Playful Preschool Spice Up Your Name Activity for our Five Senses theme!
Plan your preschool year, too with our Weekly Theme Ideas & Printable Planning Sheet!
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Among many other great activities will be the premier of Kevin Loring's Battle of the Birds.
It's only a week away and one of BC's best little festivals begins it's twelfth season in Lytton on Labour Day weekend.
With two Saturday afternoon stage performances followed by basic workshops, Circus West from Vancouver is back by popular demand. Best known for its youth training and performance program in the lower mainland, CircusWest offers children, teens, and adults an opportunity to explore Circus Arts in an encouraging, non-competitive environment.
The mini-workshops that follow their stage performances are an introduction to basic juggling – scarves, balls, rings – and balance games suitable for all ages.
Everyone who joined in the workshops last year was truly delighted with the performances and with how quickly they were able to pick up basic juggling skills in the workshops.
Lytton is also excited about a new First Nations event this year, and they are especially proud to see a popular celebrity back in town. Award winning playwright and actor Kevin Loring has come home to Lytton for this year's festival.
Born and raised in Lytton, Kevin's prestigious writing awards include the Governor Genera's Award for English-language drama, Herman Voaden Playwriting Competition and the Jessie Richardson Award for Outstanding Original Script for his play Where the Blood Mixes.
As an actor, his credits include roles in the television series Da Vinci's Inquest, Arctic Air and Health Nutz, and the film Pathfinder, as well as stage roles including Michel Tremblay's Saint Carmen of the Main, George Ryga's The Ecstasy of Rita Joe and Edmund in an all-First Nations production of William Shakespeare's King Lear at the National Arts Centre.
His Savage Society's production is the culmination of a month long community project that involved his team and dozens of participants from the community.
"It's great to be back home," said Kevin.
The Battle of the Birds will take place on Sunday Sept. 6 at 2:30pm.
Based on a traditional Nlakap'amux story about a community confronting the issue of domestic violence, Battle of the Birds is a story set in the mythical time before time, when animals appeared like humans with animal attributes and spoke a similar language. The Bird nation is alarmed because Bald Eagle is abusive to his wife. Golden Eagle convinces the bird nation to conspire with him to rescue Bald Eagle's Wife from him, but this means war.
Battle of the Birds is a community engagement theatre creation. This theatrical premiere is comprised of accomplished and award winning cast and is full of songs derived from collaborations with professional artists alongside community members.
Created and Directed by Kevin Loring, with Renae Morriseau, Sam Bob, Ron Dean Harris, Sandy Scofield and Kieran Wilson, and with the support of the Lytton Tribal Council and Western Canada Theatre (Kamloops). Supported by the BC Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, and First Peoples Cultural Council Aboriginal Arts Awards and New Pathways to Gold Society.
Three wonderful days of enjoyment and entertainment are only a scenic hour away from Ashcroft.
Look for your copy of the Lytton River Festival brochure in today's Journal.


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