PORT TOWNSEND — A 10-year old boy was treated and discharged from a Seattle hospital Sunday after he turned suddenly in front of a car and was hit, the State Patrol said.
Thailer J. Houke-Ball of Port Hadlock was riding a mountain bike on the northbound shoulder of state Highway 19 six miles south of Port Townsend when he turned suddenly in front of a Honda van driven by Kenneth D. Beard, 69, of Port Hadlock and was hit, State Patrol said.
He and his bicycle ended up in the southbound lane.
He was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center after the 11:31 a.m. collision. The nursing supervisor said at about 3 p.m that he was still in the emergency room but that his condition was rated satisfactory. By 5:30 p.m. Harborview reported he would not be admitted and would return home.
The State Patrol said that the cause of the wreck was that the boy failed to yield right of way.


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(covers information from several alternate timelines)
The 2380s decade covers the period from 2380-2389.
2.1 Alternate timeline events
2380 • 2381 • 2382 • 2383 • 2384 • 2385 • 2386 • 2387 • 2388 • 2389
The Romulan scout ship Shaenor is assimilated by a Borg cube. (PIC: "The End is the Beginning") The Borg ship is shortly thereafter crippled by a submatrix collapse, and is abandoned by the Borg Collective. (PIC: "Maps and Legends", "The End is the Beginning")
A new variant of the Starfleet uniform is introduced. (ST: "Children of Mars"; PIC: "Remembrance")
Jean-Luc Picard is promoted to admiral at some point in the decade if he wasn't promoted in 2379.
Alternate timeline events
The following event took place in an alternate timeline in which the USS Voyager was destroyed while navigating the quantum slipstream in 2375. (VOY: "Timeless")
2380: Starfleet officially abandons the search for Voyager.
The following event takes place in an alternate timeline when the USS Voyager did not return to Earth in 2378. (VOY: "Endgame")
2381: After she receives fatal injuries on an away mission, Seven of Nine dies on Voyager, in the arms of her husband, Chakotay.
The following events took place in an alternate timeline where Captain Benjamin Sisko was temporally displaced. (DS9: "The Visitor")
2382: Jake Sisko marries Korena.
2389: Benjamin Sisko briefly appears in Jake's house in New Orleans.
In "The Dogs of War", Benjamin Sisko predicted that if the Federation Alliance did not launch an assault against the Dominion in late 2375, they would re-arm themselves and launch an offensive in the early 2380s.
The false future seen in "Future Imperfect" was set in the year 2383.
2380: The post-"Endgame" portions of the FPS game Star Trek: Elite Force II take part in this year.
The last climactic missions of Star Trek: Legacy take place in 2380 also.
Events described in Taking Wing:
William T. Riker gets his own ship (the USS Titan); joining his crew are Deanna Troi and later Tuvok.
The crew of the Titan plays a crucial role in stabilizing the political situation on Romulus; the Klingon Empire becomes a protector of the Remans.
Events described in Resistance:
With Riker and Troi gone, Captain Jean-Luc Picard makes Worf his new number one.
Captain Picard, in an attempt to stop the Borg, becomes Locutus again - Dr. Crusher later is able to restore him.
Events described in Before Dishonor:
Kathryn Janeway is assimilated by the Borg, made the new Borg Queen and killed after this, according to official record; her ultimate fate remains unknown, it is hinted that she has become a companion of Lady Q.
The Borg reach their next step of evolution - instead of assimilating, they now "absorb" whole starships, with the ships becoming part of the absorbing Borg cube and the crew being assimilated.
Events described in Star Trek: Destiny:
2381 The Borg have declared war on the Federation and its allies with the goal of eradication over assimilation. By the end of the war, major colonies have destroyed, the core worlds nearly destroyed and more, but the Borg are no more either. They were reunited with an ancient civilization.
Events described in Unworthy:
Sometime after 2382, Chakotay seeks Icheb's assistance to undertake a vision quest to help a very sick Seven of Nine.
Countdown: "Number One" begins on stardate 64333.4, in 2387.
Beginning of the path to 2409, events leading up to Star Trek Online.
In the game Star Trek: Armada, the USS Premonition is supposedly built in an alternate timeline where the Borg have control of most of the Alpha Quadrant. Due to the Premonition's temporal drive, it went back in time to 2376 to stop the first Borg attack on Starbase 612. It returned to the future after a successful effort in defeating the Borg. (Star Trek: Armada)
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Noise causes stress. Here's why you need to seek out some silence
Away from it all at Canyonlands International Dark Sky Park.
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By Alene Dawson
Aug. 25, 2018 6 AM PT
With Labor Day here and stores already pummeling us with Halloween gear, these last few official weeks of summer are an opportunity to relax, renew and fortify your mind to reap the wellness benefits of peace and quiet — before the cacophony of holiday-related, nonstop busyness that the rest of the year can bring.
We chat with experts about the power of silence and tips on where to find it:
It's a noisy planet. So much so that research calls noise pollution a "modern plague" and a threat to our health and well-being. "Noisy, chaotic environments increase stress levels, and chronic stress has been shown to... suppress immunity, increase risk of heart disease and diabetes, while also increasing inflammation," says Dr. Brent Bauer, director of research at the Mayo Clinic's Integrative Medicine Program.
Spending time in a tranquil environment can repair some of the damage, and may even aid cell regeneration.
In researching the effects of silence on mice, "We found beneficial effects" on the brain, says scientist Imke Kirste, a researcher on a report titled in part, "Is silence golden?" The upshot of her findings is something that we need to be reminded of again and again: avoid that which causes stress.
And for many of us, that's endless noise of one kind or another.
Just finding a sliver of solitude is not enough.
"What happens in a silent environment is probably a more important question. In other words, if I go to a quiet place and ruminate about past mistakes or future worries, I am probably not much better off. But if I use the quiet environment to help set a different focus for my mind – to become mindful, focused on the moment, meditative – I can then begin to experience the relaxation response, the reverse of the stress response," says Bauer, who suggests engaging in meditation, guided imagery, yoga, tai chi, etc. "These mind-body practices have scientific evidence suggesting that, as part of a wellness lifestyle, they can improve... general well-being in a myriad of ways."
Once you start, there might be no turning back.
The Tassajara Zen Mountain Center is located northeast of Big Sur, away from city sights and sounds and it doesn't have Wi-Fi, to better enhance its practices and programs that revolve around finding moments of silence in a loud and chaotic world.
"The babble of constant communication that surrounds us needs a strong, silent container in which to dissipate…," says Susan O'Connell, former president of the San Francisco Zen Center, which includes Tassajara as one of its temples. "Most people, when they get a taste of this silence, realize how essential it is."
Silence is golden: Tips for finding it in the Golden State and beyond
Look for a dark destination
"Usually dark places are also silent places. In looking for relative quiet in California you want to go off the beaten path. Search for areas a little less traveled," says Dan White, author of "Under the Stars: How America Fell in Love with Camping, adding, for example, if you're in Yosemite, get away from most visitors and into the backcountry or head to less touristy California destinations such as Stanislaus National Forest and Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Other recommendations include Washington state's Hoh Rain Forest in Olympic National Park and International Dark Sky Park: Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico, Cedar Breaks Certified International Dark Sky Park in Utah and other parks that are Dark Sky Certified.
Research your campsite
"If people are looking for silence, you absolutely need to backpack into the spot. It makes a lot of sense to go onto Google Earth and see if there is infrastructure and highways near the camping area. You can even figure out if there are plane flyovers if you do your homework," says White. "When you're trying to camp silently the biggest threat isn't necessarily mechanized noise or even other campers. It's what's going on over your head that makes the biggest impact."
Get away from your smartphone ...
"These days, one strong component of silence is being unreachable in terms of your cellphone and Wi-Fi. For me that's an incredibly important part of silence," says White. "You can have a silent campground camping experience, but if your cellphone is going off and you're getting message icons all the time, it's almost as if you're in work mode and it almost invalidates the silence."
… and connect with others
When you pry yourself away from your smartphone and social media, interact with the real, live people in your life by spending time with them without the cyber-distractions.
Immerse yourself In shinrin-yoku
In California we're blessed with a wealth of outdoor space, and a contemplative walk in the woods has been shown to have immune-boosting properties. The Japanese call it shinrin-yoku. You'll see it on Instagram as oh-so-trendy "forest bathing" and you can give it a try at twice-a-month sessions at the Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanical Garden. You can also find out more at the Japanese Society of Forest Medicine.
Need help? Search for a silent retreat or workshop
Monasteries, such as Redwoods Monastery in Whitethorn, Ca. often host silent retreats. (Amenities may seem bare bones to those accustomed to more luxe accommodations, but that is kind of the point.) Silent retreats are offered all over the world. Some other locations in the U.S. that host silent retreats include: Spirit Rock in Woodacre, Ca, Green Gulch Farm Zen Center in San Francisco, Esalen in Big Sur, the Omega Institute in New York and Kripalu Yoga Center in Massachusetts.
Try noise-canceling headphones
Can't find or aren't near a quiet sanctuary in L.A., but you need silence stat? Try noise-canceling headphones that shut it all away. We like the Bose QuietComfort 35 headphones II, bose.com, on sale now at $299.95.
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Woman killed in horror fire that left four others injured including a child
July 13, 2022 ulsamporg News
A woman was killed when a huge fire tore through a terraced house in Blackpool.
The woman, in her 40s, was rushed to hospital but sadly died following the incident which left four other people injured – including two children.
A man in his 50s is in a serious but stable condition after being taken to a specialist burns unit at Wythenshaw Hospital in Manchester.
Three people, aged 13, 16 and 26, were taken to hospital but police have said their condition is not described as life-threatening. Another child, aged 15, escaped unharmed.
Firefighters were called to a blaze in a three-storey property on Hill Street in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
Despite the woman being taken to nearby Victoria Hospital, she sadly died.
Neighbours were evacuated from their homes as a result of the fire, which Lancashire Police say is not being treated as suspicious.
Six fire engines attended the Lancashire seaside town, with the blaze igniting just a couple of streets away from Blackpool's famous tower.
The police and fire service have started a joint investigation to establish the cause of the fire.
The Sun quoted a next door neighbour, who only gave her name as Kim, saying her family was woken by "screams and loud banging".
She added: "We opened the window and there was loads of smoke coming in, it was everywhere. We came downstairs and the flames were blowing out of the building.
"We saw a lady on the ground and we believe she jumped out the window to get out."
A fire service spokesman said: "At 12.50am, six fire engines from Blackpool, Bispham, St Annes, Fulwood and South Shore along with the drone team and the aerial ladder platform from Preston attended an incident on Hill Street, Blackpool.
"The incident involved a fire at a domestic property. Firefighters wore breathing apparatus and used two hose reels to bring the fire under control.
"Five casualties were treated by North West Ambulance Service."
Police have asked for any witnesses to come forward with information.
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Taxonomy use grows
By Michael Hardy
"Creating a Web directory"
Federal agencies are increasingly likely to use and understand taxonomies, the system of data classification that goes hand in hand with Extensible Markup Language (XML) in organizing data, according to industry experts.
Taxonomies are especially critical in making unstructured data -- e-mails, word processor documents and other sources where data items are not entered into predefined fields -- sensible to automated search tools.
Gartner Inc. analyst Rita Knox discussed the topic today at a forum hosted by Convera, which develops XML-based search technology for both commercial and government customers.
Standards bodies, like eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), created by the nonprofit XBRL INTERNATIONAL INC, can develop taxonomies. Its purpose is to set a common reporting platform for complex financial information, so that one company's XML documents will understand the language of another company's. Individual organizations can develop their own taxonomies as well.
Federal agencies are under mandates like the E-Government Act that taxonomies will help them meet, she noted. However, agencies should not underestimate the amount of work that goes into first creating, and then maintaining and updating, an internal system.
"You need [information technology] people, but you really need some business people, you need people who understand the business resources" available to an agency, Knox said.
Intelligence agencies, followed by law enforcement agencies, are ahead of others in implementing the technology, said Sean Alger, Convera's vice president and general manager of the federal sector. However, "I think there's still a huge education curve," he said.
Agencies could play a key role in showing commercial businesses the usefulness of taxonomies, Knox added. "If the federal sector does something, it tends to be more organized," she said. "It's often across bigger groups, and it's more public."


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Counteracting exclusion Completed
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In the model of work in Children's Homes adopted by the Society, the key principle is a supportive attitude of educators to the families of children, and engaging them in developing and implementing plans that allow for overcoming the crisis and return of the child to his or her family home. The survey of the needs of employees and heads of the establishments led by the organisation in the field of enhancing their competencies showed that they need support in their work with natural parents of children.
According to the Act of June 9, 2011, on supporting family and foster care, the care and education establishments should not house at one time more than 14 children. Still, not all existing establishments meet the condition. For several years, the Society has supported the process of transforming big children's homes into smaller institutions, and gathered a lot of experiences in this field.
The aim of the project was to improve the quality of the services provided by care and education establishments, and in particular the effectiveness of including natural families of children in actively developing plans to help children to return to their family homes, and to help big institutions in transforming into smaller, better functioning ones. The rules of work in children homes were verified and standardised, 79 workers from 16 establishments enhanced their qualifications, 284 plans for work with children and their families were prepared, as well as two strategies of transforming big care and education institutions into small establishments for foster care. A guidebook was also prepared.
A series of three-day workshops was organised (four reunions, 24 hours each) for 30 workers from 16 establishments on the work with the families of children remaining in foster care.
Consultations for educators working with families were led (108). Standards of operation for children's homes were developed, as well as evaluation tools and rules for supporting children and their families (two meetings, 9 and 15 participants). In the transformed institutions consultations were led for two heads (in all 26) and for the teams (10 in each institution), and in addition in one of the institutions a two-day training was organised.
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Nothing good ever happens when you fall asleep in class. There's a lot of different things that could happen. You could fall out of your chair...the teacher could embarrass you in front of the entire class...you could leave behind a giant pool of drool on your desk.
Now, if you're willing to risk those possibilities, hilarity could also ensue. In this case, we have a very sleepy 4-year-old boy who was catching a few zzzzzzs during school. His teacher tried not to disturb him while picking up his stuff. However, something spooked him. While still a little groggy, the little boy picked up the plastic chair next to him, put in on like it was his backpack and proceeded to walk out of the room.
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5. How do you envision your memoir contributing to both Mormon studies and Chicano studies?
While all of us want a legacy most of us never do enough to make it beyond a footnote or a family member?s sacrament meeting talk. So, speaking as someone who doesn?t know how he will fare in history, I will tell you how I wish this work could contribute to both Mormon and Chicano studies. The first and obvious way is to let people know that it is possible to be part of multiple communities, be loyal to them and prosper from their contradictions. Second, I want Mormons specifically to know that their history is incomplete until they deal with those they treated or allowed to be treated as stepchildren of God. As Joanna Brooks said in her endorsement of the book, ?the Mormon people have a great deal to learn by turning the time over to our brothers and sisters of color?. That valuable lesson from Saints of color comes not because we know or do better but because our experiences reveal the expansive parameters of our faith. We have dealt with complications all our lives and as white Mormons confront more and more challenges to their way of doing things, they could learn some valuable lessons from battle tested people of color. To Chicanos and other people of color, I want to say that they have much to learn about their struggles, and how these have often if not always had a spiritual underpinning. And I want them to know that no community is an island unto itself and that they must see themselves as part of a larger whole. My personal narrative in its most basic sense speaks to being comfortable with whom I am?though it was not always easy–while reaching beyond myself. I think Chicanos have to see themselves outside the barrio and Mormons ?in the world? in order to appreciate what they bring to the table.
6. How do you envision rank and file Latter-day Saints (both Latino/a and white) using the book?
I hope that Latino Latter-day Saints, especially those who have questions about living a Mormon life within their particular communities find renewed hope that it can be done, and that it is a clarion call to contribute more than tithes and children for the mission field to Mormonism. Our beloved church needs to deal with some difficult challenges and those of us who have had to be vigilant most of our lives have much to add to the changes needed. We have to build a theology that is more expansive and inclusive. The value of my memoir, at least I think so, is that it is about rank and file Mormonism and that Saints of all stripes can find something to learn from my experiences because they deal with so many of the challenges and circumstances of life.
In Chicano studies we need more personal stories beyond those of the ?heavy hitters? which tell how Mexican/Latino people live in the barrio and just as important how they navigate the larger world. Too often Chicano studies have been about activism, the struggle against the ?gringo? and about those whose lifestyles and personal narratives are often foreign to those of the barrio in which grew up. My story is about a very ?regular? person?in spite of some peculiar experiences–who was immensely blessed but who continues in many ways to be rather regular.
7. How did you decide on a publisher? What has been your experience with FDU press?
This one is easy. I was asked to submit my memoir to FDU by someone close to the process. At first I was a bit unsure that my work would fit a ?Mormon Studies Series? but after some coaxing I decided to give it a try. It was not an easy process and it took a while and though no one has told me anything about how it went down, I have this lingering suspicion that there was some doubt and maybe debate about whether it was appropriate. My ace up the sleeve were?I would find out later?the press director as well as Rachel Cope, the series editor, who seemed to have really liked it from the start, the former calling it ?beautifully? written, and also pointing out that what could be better than a Chicano writing a Mormon work. I think that sometimes the ?world? has a better sense of our need to break open the cocoon in which much of Mormon studies has lived. The manuscript received support for publication from the reviewers but not before confronting some rather critical and insensitive criticism that revealed to me that some people are not ready to let go of the current parameters in Mormonism. At the same time the work was better for it.
As for the press itself, I like Harry Keyishian the editor of FDU but they do most of their production and marketing through Rowman and Littlefield and that has been a more complicated situation. I found out only later that R&L caters more to libraries and so their prices are higher and their marketing efforts are geared toward institutions. Still, I?m confident that I will be able to have a paperback edition within a year as I did with my last book. So, I encourage anyone that would like to read the book to get their public and university libraries to buy it. And if they want to purchase it to go to the FDU or Rowman and Littlefield website and use the code UP30AUTH15 to get a 30% discount. I really believe that if you read it you will find it different than anything out there in Mormon nonfiction. I actually think it would also be good in the classroom but that may have to wait for the paperback.
8. In your conclusion, you note a desire to write about your later life, including your time at BYU. Can you give us a sneak peek at what that volume will look like?
I envision that my ?next? memoir will be a series of letters that I write to a friend and more thematic in nature, though to be honest I also would like to write about two phases of my life that dwarf all others and those are my time as bishop of two congregations and my years at BYU. During both I travelled abroad quite frequently and engaged in some of my most important research and activism. I don?t know that I would do another chronology?too many boring times in my adult life. I recently wrote a piece for a collection co-edited by Joanna Brooks in which I talked about my time as bishop and found that there were lots of opportunities in which to expand the talk on being Mormon and Chicano. And, of course, talking about BYU opens up a conversation on much of Mormonism. They could be two separate volumes or one titled ?Letters to Jesús from BYU?. By the way, when I speak about Jesús I?m talking about a colleague and not the one above. When he calls me and says its Jesús I always ask if it is the one from above or below and he gets a kick out of it every time. My hope is that my next memoir will transcend the boundaries of being both Chicano and Mormon. My life experiences, I believe, provided me the depth to speak to issues and ideas that transcend but without super ceding my ethnicity and my faith.
Thanks for your time, Ignacio! I look forward to reading your memoir.
"That valuable lesson from Saints of color comes not because we know or do better but because our experiences reveal the expansive parameters of our faith." This. Thank you!
This is fantastic stuff–important to both Mormon studies and the Mormon community.
thanks to all of you for your supportive comments. Putting one's life out there is a bit scary and risky but I hope it serves a purpose.


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Jerusalem, Old City, el-Jabsha Street
Evgeni D. Kagan
In April 2013, an excavation was conducted in the courtyard at 25 el-Jabsha Street in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem (Permit No. A-6749; map ref. 221781/631998; Fig. 1), following the discovery of ancient remains prior to construction. The excavation, undertaken on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority and financed by the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land (Custodia Terrae Sanctae), was directed by Y.D. Kagan, with the assistance of V. Essman and Y. Shmidov (surveying and drafting), N. Zak and E. Belashov (plans), B. Dolinka (pottery), C. Hersch (finds drawing), C. Amit (studio photography), D.T. Ariel (numismatics), H. Rosenstein (metallurgical laboratory) and R. Vinitsky (organic laboratory).
The excavation area (c. 8 × 9 m; Fig. 2) was located immediately southeast of the Old City wall, between New Gate and Damascus Gate and east of the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum. The area extends along el-Jabsha Street, to its north, at a level higher than that of the street. The excavation uncovered the remains of a cistern and two channels that were probably built between the seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries CE (the early phase), as well as the remains of a late nineteenth-century CE drainage channel (the late phase).
Remains of a medieval building had been discovered in a previous excavation conducted nearby, at the intersection between Al-Jabsha Street and Ha-Shelihim Street (Permit No. A-6714).
The Early Phase. A cistern (L117; c. 1.7 × 2.0 m, depth at least 2 m) was exposed in the north of the excavation area, adjacent to the Old City wall; the mouth of the cistern could not be located. The cistern was lined with medium-sized, roughly hewn stones and was not plastered. Its roof resembles a barrel vault. A surface of small stones (L103) was uncovered above the roof was probably part of its structure. Approximately 0.3 m above Surface 103 were remains of a flagstone paving (L102; Fig. 3). Identical flagstones were inserted in the stone lining of Cistern 117; they appear to have served a variety of purposes. To the west of the cistern, a deep plastered channel (L127; exposed length 7 m, width 0.5–0.6 m, max. depth 2 m; Fig. 4) built alongside the city wall was discovered following a collapse that occurred at the end of the excavation. The city wall served as the channel's northwestern wall, whereas its southeast wall was constructed of roughly hewn stones and fieldstones. Its floor was paved with stone slabs. No covering was preserved, but the city wall retains hewn sluts, into which flat covering slabs were probably inserted. Channel 127 apparently drained rainwater into the cistern. A pile of stones (L113) discovered to the southeast of the cistern was delimited on the north by a small step, which was built of floor tiles, probably when the cistern was constructed. To the south of Cistern 117, a northwest–southeast channel was discovered (L119; exposed length 4.3 m, width 0.45 m, depth c. 1 m; Fig. 5). Its walls were built of roughly hewn stones, and flat stone slabs covered its dirt floor; the channel was not plastered. It sloped to the southeast, toward el-Jabsha Street. The location, orientation and depth of Channel 119, all indicate that it joined Channel 127 and was probably used to drain excess water from Channel 127 when the cistern was filled to its maximum capacity. During the excavation, the channel was dismantled, and the area beneath it was excavated to a depth of c. 2 m; soil fills (L122, L124, L125) devoid of architectural remains were discovered beneath the channel.
The Late Phase. A channel covered with a barrel-shaped vault (L115; exposed length 6 m, width 0.55 m, depth 1 m; Fig. 6) was unearthed in the south of the excavation area. The channel floor was paved with flat rectangular stones, and its walls were built of large stones placed on the paving stones; the vaulted ceiling was built of small and medium-sized stones. The channel runs from west to east. To the west of the excavation area, the channel splits into two sections: one to the west, parallel to the Old City wall, and the other to the south and into the heart of the Christian Quarter residential neighborhood. The east end of the channel passes under the threshold of an entrance in the eastern wall of the courtyard where the excavation was conducted (Fig. 7); the channel probably joined the city's main sewage system beneath el-Jabsha Street. Channel 115 cuts into Channel 119 from the earlier phase. The construction of Channel 115 apparently canceled out the use of the cistern and the channels from the earlier phase.
Finds. Numerous ceramic finds (Dolinka, see below), including a large number of tobacco-pipe fragments, were retrieved from the excavation. Soil Fills 122, 124 and 125, beneath Channel 119, contained seventeenth–nineteenth-century CE potsherds. Pottery dating from the seventeenth–nineteenth centuries CE and a fragment of a later bowl, from the late nineteenth century CE, were discovered in the foundation trench (L111) of Channel 115. The pottery finds show that the cistern and channels from the early phase were built sometime in the seventeenth–nineteenth centuries CE, whereas the channel from the later phase was built in the late nineteenth century CE.
Two bone items were discovered in the soil deposits above the remains in the excavation area: a two-sided comb, one side of which has denser teeth than the other (Fig. 8); and a round, flat spindle whorl decorated with small circles (Fig. 9). A bronze medallion retrieved from inside Stone Heap 113 bears on one side the figure of a rider mounted on a camel (Fig. 10). An examination of the medallion shows that it is probably an imitation of an Ottoman-style ornament. The three objects may have been disposed of by a tourist souvenir shop opposite the excavation area.
Benjamin J. Dolinka
The excavation yielded a small corpus of ceramic vessels dating mostly from the seventeenth–nineteenth centuries CE. Presented here is a representative sample of the pottery from both phases. Bowls comprise the majority of the assemblage.
The Early Phase. The finds include two wheel-made bowls of red ware (Fig. 11:1, 2), which a protruding ridge at the carination point of the vessel's profile; a handmade basin (Fig.11:3) with light red painted decoration on its interior rim and an appliqué rope decoration on its exterior; a chamber pot made of red coarse ware (Fig.11:4); Hand-Made Geometric Painted (HMGP) wares, which included the neck and rim of a large, high-necked and wide-rimed storage jar (Fig. 11:5) and the base of a jug (Fig. 11:6). The latter two vessels bear a painted decoration of the same light-red color as does the basin in Fig. 11:3. A neck of an Ibriq made of Black Gaza Ware (Fig. 11:7) was also found.
The Late Phase. The finds include three glazed bowls: one bears a well-adhering green glaze (Fig. 12:1); another is a polychrome underglaze-painted Kütahya Ware bowl (Fig. 12:2), which was produced in Turkey and dates from the eighteenth century CE; and the third is a slip-painted bowl with a yellow transparent glaze (Fig. 12:3), which was imported from Thrace and dates from the end of the nineteenth century CE. Also found were a well-known type of a Black Gaza Ware bowl (Fig. 12:4), which appears in pink, red and buff wares as well; two Black Gaza Ware storage jars (Fig. 12:5, 6) bearing an appliqué rope decoration on the neck; and a slipped clay tobacco pipe made of reddish brown clay, with a large bowl and a prominent keel (Fig. 12:7), whose production began in the mid- or late seventeenth century CE, replacing the earlier and smaller variety made of gray ware.
Summary. The remains of a cistern and two channels were attributed to the earlier phase of the excavation: one (L127) fed rainwater to the cistern, and the other (L119) probably drained off any excess water. Based on the ceramic finds, this phase dates from the seventeenth–nineteenth centuries CE. In 2016, a channel similar to Channel 127 (not excavated) was discovered during development work c. 120 m west of the excavation area. It seems to be the continuation of Channel 127, which drained rainwater from the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land's land toward a cistern outside the excavation area.
In a later phase, a drainage channel (L115) was built and canceled out the cistern and the channels from the earlier phase. Based on the pottery finds, the later phase dates from the late nineteenth century CE. Channel 115 was probably part of a drainage system that was installed to the south of Damascus Gate in 1887 (Ben-Arieh 1977:111–112).
Tables for Figs. 11 and 12
Ben-Arieh Y. 1977. A City Reflected in Its Times: Jerusalem in the Nineteenth Century, The Old City. Jerusalem (Hebrew).
3. Flagstone Surface 117 with remains of Floor 102 above it, looking northwest.
4. Channel 127, looking southwest.
5. Channel 119 after removing the covering slabs, looking northwest.
6. Channel 115, looking east.
7. Channel 115 continuing beneath courtyard entrance threshold, looking west.
8. Bone comb (B1028).
9. Bone spindle whorl (B1029).
10. Bronze medallion (B1003).
11. Pottery from the early phase.
12. Pottery from the late phase.


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Roe v. Wade Has Been Overturned. What Will Abortion Access in America Look Like Now?
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The advocates we spoke to have a vision.
By Christine Grimaldi
Editor's note: This story was originally published on May 3, 2022. Roe v. Wade was officially overturned by the U. S. Supreme Court on June 24, 2022. While this story was written prior to the Supreme Court decision, the recommendations below are still relevant as ever—and offer a blueprint for how we can continue to advocate for the right to a safe and legal abortion in the United States.
If you're reading this sentence in the United States, your constitutional right to abortion will very likely come to an end by June. All signs point to the U.S. Supreme Court undermining or overturning 49 years' worth of precedent in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, a direct challenge to the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion nationwide.
The Roe ruling's original terms and conditions made it vulnerable to the very state-level attacks we've seen over the years. Roe's trimester framework, for instance, allowed for regulation of pregnancies that have passed the first trimester, which opened the door for states to restrict second-trimester abortions without outlawing them entirely through "fetal viability" (the point at which a fetus can survive outside the womb, generally considered to be around 24 weeks of gestation). At issue in the pending Dobbs case is a Mississippi 15-week gestational ban that would allow states to outlaw abortion before viability. For context, present-day newborn survival rates only begin to top 50% in the 24th week of pregnancy, according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG).
Playing to an arbitrary viability standard fails to account for the uniqueness of each pregnancy and birth, as well as disparities in medical care. But in 1992, the Supreme Court's Planned Parenthood v. Casey decision upheld viability while rejecting the trimester framework, which only invited further interference from states as long as their measures didn't create an "undue burden" on people seeking abortion care—even though any abortion patient will tell you that every burden, from medically unnecessary forced ultrasounds and waiting periods to unscientific state-mandated counseling, is undue. An initial Dobbs draft, which leaked late May 2 in an extraordinarily rare breach of Supreme Court protocol, explicitly overturns Roe and Casey. Even so, a modicum of abortion rights remains legal throughout the country until the Court officially rules in the case.
It's not just continued attacks on Roe that restrict abortion access, however. Even with the landmark case, a longstanding federal policy called the Hyde Amendment—which prohibits federal funding of abortion, thereby preventing anyone who relies on Medicaid or other public programs from using their health insurance for such services—also has a chilling effect. The Hyde Amendment has been used (often successfully) to stop generations of low-income people of color—disproportionately Black and Hispanic Medicaid patients, according to 2021 Guttmacher Institute data—from exercising their constitutional right to abortion, or has left them scrambling to access care through other means, like grassroots abortion funds that run on donations.
Many advocates are also frustrated with President Joe Biden's largely do-nothing approach to the end of legalized nationwide abortion, let alone his hesitancy to even say the word "abortion" in favor of the more nebulous "reproductive rights" or "women's health care." The Women's Health Protection Act—a bill by congressional Democrats designed to codify Roe into law with some expansions—passed the House in 2021. But it never stood a chance in the Senate, where in February it fell far short of the 60-vote supermajority necessary to advance.
Now, former President Donald Trump's three Supreme Court picks—Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett—have solidified an anti-abortion majority of justices. They're poised to fulfill the promise that former vice president Mike Pence made on the campaign trail and repeated the day before oral arguments in Dobbs: To send Roe v. Wade to the "ash heap of history, where it belongs."
So what's next? Eroding legality that never guaranteed abortion accessibility has shifted more attention to reproductive justice, to the framework created by Black women for pursuing people's right to have or not have children, and to parent children in safe and healthy environments—for example, those without police violence and with available clean air and water.
Reproductive justice exposes the gap between constitutionally protected care and care itself—Roe affirmed a right that remains abstract at best to people marginalized by race, income, immigration status, gender identity, and any other factor(s) that get in the way of abortion. To be clear, that right is important, particularly as some measure of protection against criminalization for marginalized people; the end of Roe is no cause for celebration in abortion-affirming movement circles. But abortion researchers and advocates are now proposing solutions in the vein of reproductive justice, ones that would reimagine abortion access rather than merely reinstate the doomed precedent.
Abortion restrictions are nothing new for millions of people.
Millions of people are already living in a de facto post-Roe reality in red states that cannot introduce and pass abortion restrictions fast enough. Last year, Texas dispatched private citizens to sue anyone who "aids or abets" an abortion as early as six weeks into a pregnancy—a bold move that remains the law in the state since September 2021, Roe be damned. Idaho's governor signed off on a Texas-style law that would allow an embryo's potential family members to collect a $20,000 bounty on an abortion provider after the earliest detection of cardiac activity (not a heartbeat, contrary to anti-abortion messaging) at about six weeks' gestation, the medically accepted definition of pregnancy counted from the first day of a person's last menstrual period. The Idaho Supreme Court has temporarily blocked the law from taking effect in response to a Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawai'i, Alaska, Indiana, and Kentucky lawsuit.
These laws, of course, invite a realm of life-threatening consequences, including the management of some incomplete miscarriages through abortion—the standard medical treatment to prevent complications like sepsis or hemorrhaging. In March, Missouri Republicans backed off their bid to prevent the first-line treatment of ectopic pregnancies with medication. Even proposed bans embolden anti-abortion lawmakers and can have disastrous consequences in clinical care. At least 26 states, including a dozen with "trigger bans" tied to a gutted or overturned Roe, are "certain or likely to attempt to ban abortion immediately" depending on how Dobbs goes, according to the Guttmacher Institute.
In a practical sense, as state-level abortion restrictions increase, traveling for an abortion has become a necessity for those who have the means to do so. A March 2022 report out of the University of Texas at Austin's Texas Policy Evaluation Project, for example, found that many Texans traveled between 200 to 450 miles to reach just four clinics in Oklahoma. Within weeks of the report, Oklahoma legislators passed two abortion bans: one threatening providers with 10 years in prison and a $100,000 fine, effective by August, and the other modeled after the Texas law's bounties for private citizens, effective upon the governor's signature. Together with a newly tightened state trigger ban, these measures are all but certain to widen the abortion desert to come after Roe.
Abortion travelers may find blue states to function more as a mirage with their own restrictions than as an oasis. Minnesota alone requires a 24-hour waiting period, a gestational cutoff, and mandatory parental notification for minors—and that's for people who can afford to take time off work, arrange childcare in their absence, and pay for gas, if they even have a car. Clinics everywhere anticipate an overwhelming amount of patients, pushing people later into their pregnancies and limiting their options under the remaining patchwork of state abortion rights.
"The post-Roe reality that folks are afraid of is currently the lived reality of many people here in the South," Oriaku Njoku, cofounder and executive director of Access Reproductive Care-Southeast, a reproductive-justice-structured abortion fund based in Atlanta, tells SELF. Njoku says that ARC-Southeast has supported abortion patients traveling for hundreds of (and even more than a thousand) miles from Texas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida.
"Folks have been trying to figure out ways on their own to navigate all of these various systems that were actually never intended for people like me to thrive," says Njoku, a Black, queer femme who uses she/they pronouns.
Proposed post-Roe solutions aim to increase abortion access through a reproductive justice lens.
On the federal government level:
David S. Cohen, Greer Donley, and Rachel Rebouché are a trio of Pennsylvania-based law professors behind high-profile op-eds and an academic paper, published by SSRN, filled with "creative strategies" should Roe fall as anticipated. For one, the Biden administration could sue states over medication-abortion restrictions that conflict with prevailing federal regulations, they say. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) late last year permanently lifted the in-person dispensing requirement for mifepristone, one of two types of drugs often used together to induce an abortion. Mifepristone is so safe, ACOG says, that the remaining regulations on it should go as well. But some states have heaped on anti-abortion policies that render the FDA's increased permissiveness moot; Arkansas, for example, requires two or more in-person visits on top of its telemedicine abortion ban, according to Kaiser Family Foundation data from earlier this year.
In another strategy, the professors say, the federal government could fund broadband infrastructure to increase telemedicine access in digital deserts while states enter into "licensure compacts" that allow a provider in one state to prescribe abortion pills to a patient in another state via the Internet. In addition, states that enact post-Roe abortion bans may have federal land—largely exempt from state-level civil laws and potentially from state-level criminal laws too—that Cohen, Donley, and Rebouché say Biden could try leasing to abortion providers.
Their objectives, the professors tell SELF in a joint interview, attempt to minimize damage— particularly for marginalized and rural communities—in the immediate aftermath of Roe's undoing while pursuing a reproductive justice vision. One of their long-term goals, for example, would end the Hyde Amendment's decades-long chokehold over federal Medicaid dollars for abortion. Reproductive justice groups over the past decade have shifted a majority of Democrats from accepting the Hyde Amendment as the cost of doing business on Capitol Hill to fighting its addition in congressional spending bills, and there's a proactive bill to end it for good.
Meanwhile, the 16 states that, by law or court order, put their Medicaid dollars toward patients' abortion services could raise their notoriously low reimbursement rates, the professors say. Biden's Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which approves each state's rate structure, could encourage those states to pay clinics more for Medicaid-covered abortion care and encourage clinics to serve more patients with low incomes.
On the local and state government level:
Local and state governments likewise can do much more than they're doing. In 2019, Austin became the first U.S. city to budget for residents' associated abortion costs, including childcare and travel expenses, excluding the abortion itself. In Atlanta, discussions have turned to municipal funding for abortion directly in addition to associated costs thanks to a city council-created advisory board, the Reproductive Justice Commission. "We know it can happen in the South because it happened in Austin," Njoku says. To that end, Cohen, Donley, and Rebouché urge blue states to fund abortion clinics instead of anti-abortion fake clinics—crisis pregnancy centers that routinely lie to coerce people into continuing their pregnancies. Pennsylvania, their home state, awarded more than $7 million to an anti-abortion program called "Real Alternatives" under Governor Tom Wolf, a Democrat, in 2021.
Outside of clinical settings, abortion researchers expect rising interest in and demand for self-managed medication abortions. Medical experts have long agreed that the method is a safe and effective way to end an early pregnancy, and perhaps those "beyond the first trimester—particularly in legally restrictive settings," according to a 2020 article in the peer-reviewed journal Contraception. But varying state legal rights and risks have led to prosecutions of people self-managing later abortions, miscarrying, and attempting suicide while pregnant.
Without Roe's legality, however threadbare, criminalization of these abortions will weigh the heaviest, as always, on pregnant people of color and visibly pregnant people further along in their gestation, stress Erika Christensen and Garin Marschall, codirectors of nonprofit organization Patient Forward, which works to decriminalize abortion and pregnancy outcomes. People already self-manage their abortions by choice or out of necessity due to restrictive state laws and booked-up out-of-state clinics. Later discovery of pregnancy, a common contributor to later abortion care, may push them beyond a state's gestational limits, according to Patient Forward's WhoNotWhen project.
"Prosecutors need to just decide they're not going to prosecute these cases," Marschall tells SELF. "Health care workers in hospitals, if someone shows up and they've clearly delivered, they need to not call the police. We need to get the cops out of care."
So, what's next after Roe?
Cohen, Donley, and Rebouché, the Pennsylvania law professors, admit their strategies haven't been tested and therefore may not work. Rebouché, the interim dean of Temple University's Beasley School of Law, says potential stopgaps all bring up the same question: "What is the reach of law?" In other words, can abortion supporters use it to protect and even expand post-Roe access in ways that will stand up to judicial scrutiny? They should be willing to try, the professors agree, to counter an anti-abortion movement that routinely pushes boundaries (as shown by the creativity employed to use private enforcement in the Texas law).
Njoku's essential policymaking question challenges federal officials to listen to the needs of their constituents, particularly Black women with disproportionately high maternal mortality rates across all income and education levels, instead of compromising those needs away. "How can we use an intersectional lens rooted in the reproductive justice framework to make the laws that we make?" she asks.
Christensen urges federal policymakers not to sacrifice later abortion patients like herself for the sake of political expediency: Every abortion is as valid as another, regardless of whether they're more winnable in court or palatable to the public. After all, Sarah Weddington, the attorney who argued Roe before the Supreme Court in 1973, didn't argue for the baked-in compromises—namely, the trimester framework and the viability standard—that would ultimately lead to Roe's demise. While congressional Democrats' Women's Health Protection Act eliminates Roe's trimester framework, the bill bootlegs the ruling's viability standard that doesn't distinguish between individual pregnancies and their associated care or lack thereof.
"All abortion bans have a chilling effect," Christensen tells SELF. "They're basically asking the government for more benevolent control instead of what we should be asking for, which is no state interference into our bodies when they become pregnant." Why should the future of abortion look like its grim past or, for that matter, grimmer present? "Roe is the floor, not the ceiling," is a common reproductive justice saying. It's becoming a more widely echoed refrain for abortion when—not if—Dobbs takes out Roe.
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Christine Grimaldi is a Washington, D.C.-based journalist and writer. She reports on reproductive policy and politics for outlets like VICE, Vogue, GEN Magazine, and The Texas Observer, and writes about culture for The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Counter, The Rumpus, and DAME Magazine, among others. She's working on... Read more
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Cyclically-adjusted annual economic growth slowed to 1.8% in December from 1.9% in November, representing the lowest growth rate since December 2013. This is according to the monthly index of economic activity (IMAE, Indice Mensual de Actividad Económica) published by the Central Bank of Costa Rica.
Growth in December was weighed on by contractions in the mining and quarrying, and agriculture, forestry and fishing sectors. On the other hand, economic activity growth was supported by solid readings in the ICT and financial services sectors.
In month-on-month terms when adjusted for working days, economic activity increased 0.2% in December, as it did in November. Year-on-year annual average growth slowed to 2.7% in December from 2.8% in November.
The Central Bank of Costa Rica forecasts economic growth of 3.2% in 2019 and 3.0% in 2020. FocusEconomics Consensus Forecast panelists expect growth of 2.8% in 2019, which is down 0.1 percentage points from last month's forecast, and 3.0% in 2020.


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Sirens – ballada rockowa amerykańskiego zespołu Pearl Jam, wydana jako drugi singel promujący album Lightning Bolt. To czwarty z kolei utwór na płycie długogrającej.

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Reżyserem wideoklipu jest Danny Clinch. Zdjęcia przygotował Vance Burberry, a za produkcję odpowiada Lindha Narvaez. Teledysk został zamieszczony na portalu YouTube 18 września 2013.

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LaLiga Joins Twitch
Posted on October 21, 2020 October 21, 2020 by soccer360magazineIn Feature, Latest, News2 Minutes Read
LaLiga is the first European sports league to join Twitch
Original programming and content will be published to the streaming service while LaLiga will develop new collaboration strategies for Twitch's global community of superfans.
LaLiga has opened an official account on Twitch, becoming the first major European sports competition to join the global streaming service.
With a focus on deepening connections with Twitch's highly engaged community of superfans, LaLiga will launch a new weekly series of compilations, clips and special programmes featuring LaLiga players, LaLiga Ambassadors and LaLiga Icons. It will also publish original shows produced by LaLiga North America, the league's operation covering the USA, Canada and Mexico.
Content launching this week will focus on this weekend's ElClásico between FC Barcelona and Real Madrid, including profiles, debates and the live warm-up from the world's biggest sports fixture.
As it continues its partnership, LaLiga will also work to develop new collaboration opportunities and experiences for the Twitch community on its network.
Having recently launched a dedicated sports channel, /twitchsports, Twitch continues to meet user demand for new and exclusive sporting content on its service, with football of particular interest. Through the LaLiga account, fans will be served regular new programming and content that provides both English and Spanish speaking audiences with exclusive insights into the competition, its clubs and its global influence.
New scheduled programming
Among the scheduled programming, a series of shows produced by LaLiga North America will be broadcast on Twitch.
LaLiga North America's new studio operation will deliver anchor shows in English and Spanish, hosted by recognised talent. These will include the matchday review show 'LaLiga Zone', the quickfire 'One minute with LaLiga' and 'LaLiga Previas', focusing on the week's upcoming action.
Special interviews with top athletes, conducted by women's football stars Allie Long and Vero Boquete, will also be shown. Other short- and long-form programming will also be created to provide further unique access and perspectives into the competition.
The league has already built a strong following on the Twitch service through its eLaLiga Santander eSports account. It has created high-impact events on the Twitch platform in recent months, including the #eLaLigaAllStar tournament held with leading gamers to celebrate the return of the league's official eSports competition, eLaLiga Santander.
In March 2020, LaLiga also organised #LaLigaSantanderChallenge alongside Spanish gamer Ibai Llanos, creating an 18-club tournament featuring star players from LaLiga Santander clubs to raise funds to fight the Covid-19 pandemic.
"As a global entertainment brand, LaLiga aims to offer the best product in the world," said Alfredo Bermejo, LaLiga's director of digital strategy. "After the good experience with eLaLiga Santander, the official LaLiga account on Twitch is an opportunity to take the next step in our content and social media strategy. Twitch is a service that allows us to reach a new type of audience and explore new content formats to reach our global fanbase."
Farhan Ahmed, Strategic Partnerships Manager at Twitch added: "LaLiga's approach to this collaboration, built around enhancing the fan experience through unique content, promises to be innovative, exciting and impactful. We can't wait to see how the community of superfans interact and immerse themselves in this content."
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Experiencing Falconry at Ashford Castle
Amidst the woodland and tranquil waterways of the sweeping Ashford Estate is the oldest falconry school in all of Ireland. It's here that guests can experience one of the world's most interesting ancient sports, the culturally rich art of falconry, which from its Chinese origins has a history spanning thousands of years. By taking the
Amidst the woodland and tranquil waterways of the sweeping Ashford Estate is the oldest falconry school in all of Ireland. It's here that guests can experience one of the world's most interesting ancient sports, the culturally rich art of falconry, which from its Chinese origins has a history spanning thousands of years. By taking the unique chance to experience falconry at Ashford Castle or The Lodge at Ashford Castle, guests can uncover the fascinating story behind this tradition, while being enthralled by the resident birds of prey.
Despite the fact that falconry began in the Far East, Ireland has a long history of the tradition too, with evidence dating back to the 7th century when hawks were used by the King of Tara for hunting. The idea of falconry being a sport was introduced later, in the 12th century, when the Anglo Normans arrived. In those days it was of course a pastime of the nobility, but this has long since changed as the ancient field sport has been upheld and enjoyed to this day.
One-hour guided Hawk Walks lead guests through the woodland of Ashford Estate, while flying one of the Harris hawks with an instructor. As guests stroll between the trees, the hawk follows their path, swooping down to land on the glove whenever they're called. The guide meanwhile gives participants more of an insight into this tradition, and a full appreciation of the hawks and their exceptional hunting skills.
The School of Falconry's resident birds of prey each have pride of place on the estate. Sonora, Beckett and Lima arrived as chicks in 2013; Lima, and a male called Andes are both the sub-species, Peruvian Harris hawks. These youngsters are then joined by the bigger Harris hawks: Joyce, Swift, Stoker, and Wilde who is one of the fastest flyer in the pack (or 'cast', as it's formally named). All of these hawks hatched in 2011, and found their home at the School of Falconry two weeks later.
Killary is a little older, having hatched back in 2005, so perhaps it's these extra years that have enabled him to master the art of flying low, skimming his talons across Ashford Estate's lake. Milly hatched in 2007 and was the first hawk to have been bred at the School of Falconry; Milly is the boss of the cast.
Not all of the birds of prey at the School of Falconry are hawks, though. Ashford Estate is also home to Dingle, a magnificent European Eagle Owl, who arrived in 1999. Naturally, any visit to the School of Falconry includes the chance to meet each of these characters.
After a walk through the woods with a Harris hawk for company, continue exploring the castle's sweeping grounds. Try fishing for salmon and trout in Lough Corrib, or set out along woodland trails by bicycle. Finally, after a day in the great outdoors, settle into the elegant George V Dining Room for a hearty meal that exhibits the best of local Irish fare.
Image credits: All photos of The School of Falconry at Ashford Castle © Red Carnation Hotels
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Jessica is a recent McGill graduate of Mathematics and a current distance student of Law at Queen's University. On a volunteer basis, she has remained involved in NJC event participation and organization since her '13 graduation, and is pleased to formally join NJC's Canadian Office team.
Highlights from Jessica's year abroad include independent travel to Nice and to London, and the spring trip to Greece and Italy. As a result of her own NJC experience, she loves to pursue new adventures and learning in multifaceted ways—most recently in returning to NJC as a full-time employee. Jessica is looking forward to learning about the admission and pre-departure processes to support NJC students and their families. She is keen to meet as many alumni as possible in her role, and is proud to be working alongside all people involved at NJC.


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Daina Ramey Berry & Kali Nicole Gross: Black Women's History of the US
February 4, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm PST
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KPFA Radio 94.1 FM and Marcus Books present:
A Black Women's History of the United States
With Sabrina Jacobs
Reaching from the year 1600 to the present day, A Black Women's History of the United States – written by renowned authors and historians Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross – provides a necessary, long-awaited re-centering of American history from the perspective of all those folks who have been left out of our history books. Wide-ranging and inclusive, this book examines a diversity of Black women, including cisgender and transgender women, rich and poor, educated and uneducated, reformers, enslaved women, artists, activists, imprisoned women leaders, and everyday people. A critical survey of their complex legacy, A Black Women's History of the United States considers not only the exploitation and victimization of Black Women, but also their undeniable and substantial contributions to the country since its inception.
"Remarkably comprehensive and accessible, introductory and sophisticated, two groundbreaking historians have come together to produce a new history of Black women in the United States." -Ibram X. Kendi, author of Stamped From the Beginning
Daina Ramey Berry is the Oliver H. Radkey Regents Professor of History and Associate Dean of the Graduate School at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author or co-editor of seven previous books, including The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation – winner of the 2017 SHEAR Book Award for Early American History.
Kali Nicole Gross is the Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Her previous books include Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Dismembered Torso: A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America, winner of the 2017 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Nonfiction.
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Millwall players including Steve Morison, David Forde, Shaun Williams and Lee Gregory paid their annual pre-Christmas visit to the children's wards at Lewisham Hospital on Tuesday afternoon.
Mascots Zampa and Bolina, as well as Millwall Lionesses star Ciara Sherwood, were also in attendance as the players raised some festive spirits by handing out gifts including scarves, calendars, posters, programmes and soft toys to youngsters across various wards, including the children's A&E. The group posed for photos and signed autographs throughout, including during a trip into one of the elderly wards as well.
Millwall boss Neil Harris said: "While this time of year is one to rejoice and enjoy precious family time, some people are less fortunate and are stuck in hospital for various reasons.
"The annual visit is a chance for the players, both as a group and individually, to cheer up the patients, especially young children and their parents during what is a difficult time for them.
"The players were really eager to go from the moment the visit was arranged and that is an example of the spirit in this group and the type of characters we have at the club."
A full gallery of photos from Tuesday's visit will appear here on millwallfc.co.uk this Friday.


Happy Spring Break New Haven! If you haven't signed up for camp yet--hurry! Spots are going fast. The musicals are almost full! There are still good spots left in the theater & arts camp. Look at all of these boxes that have already come in, full of camp supplies. Simba is getting ready. Are you?!