California State University-Los Angeles got an expensive lesson in constitutional obligations when it allowed a near-riot against a conservative speaker two years ago.
As a result of the First Amendment lawsuit filed against the taxpayer-funded institution, it pledged to follow its own free-speech policy that vows to treat speakers in a viewpoint-neutral manner and remove disruptive protesters from such events.
The target of their ire is Kristan Hawkins, the president of Students for Life of America, who is speaking on "the injustices of abortion" in the LA Room in the Student Union building on campus on Tuesday. Young America's Foundation is sponsoring the event.
The anti-choice agenda being pushed by Trump/Pence and their fascist movement is nothing less than preparing for the ground for a real-life "Handmaid's tale", with women completely enslaved and subordinated to a patriarchal order. NO! We refuse to accept this! Refuse Fascism will join all who despise this fascist agenda and unite with everyone who recognizes the grave threat to all women – and to everyone – that this fascist movement represents. In the name of humanity, we refuse to accept a fascist America! Drive the fascists off campus AND out of the white house!
Hawkins is speaking the next day at CSU-Fullerton, and the day after at UCLA. Refuse Fascism has pledged the same action at CSUF – "Look for the black and white NO! signs" – and UCLA.
A spokesperson for SFLA told The College Fix in an email that the UCLA and CSUF events are being hosted by those campuses' Students for Life chapters. Since an outside organization like YAF isn't sponsoring those events, "The only bill is travel and lodging, which we basically cover and then when [student] groups can, for example get funds from student government, they pitch in" to help with Hawkins' expenses, the spokesperson wrote.
Young America's Foundation said in an email blast Wednesday that since the near-riot against Ben Shapiro in 2016 (below), which led to YAF's lawsuit against CSULA, the conservative student organization has successfully hosted several other conservative speakers at CSULA without incident.
Since Young America's Foundation lawsuit again California State University, Los Angeles in the wake of their unconstitutional attempts to stifle the YAF lecture with Ben Shapiro, CSULA has had to enforce their free speech policy without regard for viewpoint. This proves again that when bold conservatives fearlessly work to advance their ideas, they can ensure their rights are protected, as well as the rights of anyone else on campus.
YAF and CSULA Young Americans for Freedom "call on CSULA to hold accountable anyone who attempts to disrupt the lecture," Brown said.
Read Refuse Fascism's plans for disruption at CSULA and CSUF.
UPDATE: Students for Life of America responded to questions about Hawkins' other appearances in California after this article was published. Information has been added about another speaking engagement at UCLA and protest of that event by Refuse Fascism.


The heart of the ModBio class is the laboratory project that we work on throughout the semester. The project that we do reinforces key concepts that students read about and discuss in class.
We spend the first two weeks learning about lab safety, finding where things are, forming teams and practicing some essential laboratory skills. Some of the important information that we share with students is below. The techniques that we perform during the first two weeks can be found on the "Getting to Know the Lab" page.
The lab procedures are listed in the order in which we perform them, and together they make a semester-long project that involves cell culture, microbiology, biochemistry and molecular biology techniques. Students develop a deep understanding of the concepts and tools used to study gene regulation and cell growth. However, it is not necessary to complete the entire sequence of activities to gain valuable laboratory experience. Many of the techniques can have short cuts in which resources are prepared or purchased ahead of time.
Keep your lab notebooks current.
Read ahead in the lab manual, both prior to the upcoming lab and during the lab itself.
Collaboration is encouraged! Real biologists collaborate extensively.
You will be working in teams of 2 or 3; however it is acceptable and encouraged to interact with other groups.
Always clearly label tubes, plates, flasks, etc.
Mix reagents appropriately: vortex, pipet and stir as directed (ask if you are unsure).
Sometimes one person's error is another person's data.
Don't blindly trust machine readings (spectrophotometer, luminometer, etc.), if they seem way "off". Double check by another means if possible. Take a second reading if your numbers are peculiar.
Remember your 'controls' (positive and negative) and what they indicate.
Measure volumes carefully, with the correct size pipettes.
Tape or staple your gel images into your notebooks, in the 'top to bottom' orientation.
Write it down, even if you think you can remember it.
Be courteous in lab- don't steal/borrow things from others without permission.
Don't leave the lab without making sure that everything is written down in your lab notebook.
Don't leave the lab without making sure that your prepared sample(s) are properly put away for safe storage!
Each team maintains a single lab notebook, which is a hand-written, dated log of your laboratory activities as they are performed. This is the notebook that will be assessed periodically by your instructors and TAs, resulting in a "team" grade, shared by each team member, that will count towards your final lab grade. In addition, we encourage each individual student to maintain notebooks for their own records, although their maintenance and upkeep will be left to the discretion of the student. The "team" lab notebook will contribute 10% toward your final grade.
You must use a traditional type of lab notebook (not a composition notebook used for writing stories). In our view, a hand-written lab notebook that is properly maintained represents the most 'tamper-resistant' chronicle of lab activities.
Beginning with the week that the cloning project commences, the maintenance of the team notebook is to be performed on a rotating basis by each team member. For example, during week one, entries in the notebook for that series of procedures will be documented as described below by one team member, who will sign and date the notebook at the end of his/her section (in addition to the dates at the top of each page). The following week, the maintenance of the notebook will be the responsibility of the next team member, and so on.
How to organize a lab notebook.
Date, title, rationale: Every page needs to have a date written (on top, preferably, can be on the left or right side). Write out the title of the experiment near the top of the page, followed by a brief rationale/objective (in your own words) for the day's activities. In brief, what are you setting out to accomplish, and why? On subsequent pages documenting the same experiment, include the date and at least an abbreviated title (eg. "Transformation, cont."). Make sure that you number each page, if they aren't numbered in the book already.
Protocol: In this section, make reference to the numbered protocol in the weekly document that you will receive; identify it by name and any other indicators available. As necessary, make note of any divergence from the original posted protocol, no matter how trivial it may seem to you initially (whether accidental or deliberate). Write down observations, questions, anything that seems relevant as you are performing the protocol. Drawings/sketches may be used to depict what you are doing.
Results: This section is for all your results, in whatever format they happen to be in; written observations, drawings, tables, charts, graphs, etc. Tape (or staple) all data printouts (e.g. pictures and luminometer readings) immediately into your lab notebook in the appropriate spot. Label and date your pictures directly so that it isn't necessary to refer back a few pages in your notebook to figure out what the photo represents.
Interpretation (as appropriate): Comment on results, while everything is fresh in your mind. State the obvious, but also try to see if there is any additional info that you can extract from the results.
For ex., rather than write, "it worked", write that you ..'saw DNA bands of the appropriate size for supercoiled plasmid DNA, and that there also appeared to be another band that may represent a different form of DNA'… Speculate on what it might be.
Make a note of any errors that were made during the procedures and any steps that were taken to correct the errors. These notes can be written in at the appropriate sections of the protocol, provided clarity is maintained.
Similarly, make a list of any questions you have about the procedures, at any appropriate section.
Questions: In most cases, we will prepare a few questions for you to answer in your notebooks, on aspects of each week's procedures. These will be designed to help you to think through what you are doing, and to demonstrate your understanding of the procedures. Even if you are not sure of the answers, write down something that represents your best current understanding. These can (and should) be a collaborative effort of all team members, regardless of who is 'in charge' of the current week's write-up!
All lab procedures and tips were created in collaboration with Sadie Aznavoorian-Cheshire, Ph.D. Each class of Modern Biology has made contributions to the laboratory portion of the course with helpful suggestions and ideas for improvement of experimental procedures and the written manual. Special mention goes to the inaugural class of Modern Biology for tirelessly testing protocols, reagents, equipment and schedules, and to the Modern Biology class of Fall '09 for helping us to brainstorm ideas for modification of the initial cloning project. The list of people to thank and acknowledge has now grown very long over the years, and any written list would almost certainly be incomplete. Rather than providing a long list, then, we would like to collectively thank and give special recognition to every former Olin Biology student who has played a role in making the laboratory experience a better one. The students' perspective is very important as we seek to develop the projects that provide the optimum learning experience, and for us this is an on-going process.


Dieses Buch führt in die wichtigsten Theorien des Alterns ein; es konzentriert sich auf Telomere, DNA-Schädigung, oxidativen pressure, die Rolle der Nährstoffversorgung bzw. -erkennung, das Zusammenspiel von Genen und Umwelt (Epigenetik) und die Proteinhomöostase und stellt einige Gene vor, die die Lebensdauer in Modellorganismen zu verändern in der Lage sind. Indem es die verschiedenen das Altern bestimmenden Faktoren mit Erkrankungen des Menschen verknüpft, sucht das Buch ihre vielfältigen Wechselbeziehungen und Abhängigkeiten aufzuzeigen und zu einer molekularen Matrix des Alterns zusammenzuführen. Von diesem Buch werden alle profitieren, die sich einen profunden Überblick über die Mechanismen der Zellalterung und ihre Verknüpfung mit altersassoziierten Erkrankungen des Menschen verschaffen wollen.
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The fundamental processes behind business and software development are very different, and it's often the reason why getting the two working together can be challenging.
In business, you're often able to test ideas quickly and without major costs, which means that an experimental approach to development is common. In software development, you aren't able to test your ideas as quickly, because you need things to be stable and that costs time and money. This means that software development depends on well-specified needs that business people have a hard time articulating, because they are not used to doing that.
There are many ways to go about improving this. One option is prototyping, and another option is for the business people to acquire a better understanding of how software development works, thereby improving the foundation for good communication.
I think learning Node.js with Express.js can be a great way for business people to gain an understanding of how software development works that lets them improve the relationship in two different ways: by building prototypes that can help them explain what they want, and by being better at speaking the language of developers.
It has a big and active community that builds awesome frameworks and modules, so when obstacles arise, chances are good that you can find a module or a fellow developer that can help you out. This keeps you moving forward.
Node can be used to a lot of other things too, like building a web or chat server, and that encourages you to try and understand how it all works together, and it makes you feel very empowered by just learning one language.
Next, change some settings. In the app.js file, change app.set('view engine', 'jade') to app.set('view engine', 'html').
Relaunch2 the app, go to localhost:3000, and it should display the title that is set in the route.
The framework doesn't make any assumptions in terms of how you want to structure your code, so you're free to do what makes sense to you for the current project. That can be a bit confusing at first, so let's look at an example of how you'd begin the development of an app.
Let's say that you want to have a page that shows some numbers about your business. To handle that, you'll need a new route and a view, and you'll have to tell the app where you want the page to be.
Add a numbers.js file to the routes directory, and paste in the code from the index route. Configure it to render the numbers view instead of the index view.
Add a numbers.html file to the views directory.
By adding this line of code, the numbers route will be called when /numbers is requested, and the route will then grab the data and render the view.
You can now start adding logic to the route that gets the data you need, but you'll soon need a model that can take care of pulling in data from other services such as a database. Express doesn't suggest a place to keep the models, but as long as you only have a few, just put them in the root directory. As you app grows, and you get more routes, views, and models, you can adjust the structure to your liking, and by that time, you'll know exactly what that is.
In summary, Node.js with Express.js is great for business people, because it's easy to learn, it can be used to do a lot of different things, and it encourages you to understand how the Web works. It empowers you to build things quickly and iterate until you're happy, which is a great way to prototype and demonstrate your ideas.
So, if you're a business person (we all are), and you have ideas that you'd love to see brought to life (we all do), consider Node.js with Express.js. It's awesome.


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HIDDEN HISTORY: Remnants of 'The Greatest Show on Earth' are hidden in the woods of one county
by: Mackenzie Stasko
SPRING HOPE, N.C. (WNCN) — Remnants of "The Greatest Show on Earth" are hidden in the woods in Nash County.
Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey Circus train cars that once toured the country are now parked on an unused rail line just outside of Spring Hope.
"These were dormitory cars for all of the staff of the circus," said NCDOT Rail Director Jason Orthner. "They were built in the 1960s."
The North Carolina Department of Transportation purchased nine of them for $383,000 when the circus closed in 2017.
"We don't have the space at our active yard to hold all nine cars," Orthner said of why they've been sitting there for so long. "So this was the best alternative."
Giant eye-catching tigers, elephants, and gorillas are still painted on the side. Orthner tells CBS 17 the original plan was to add the historic rail cars to the fleet that travels to Charlotte.
He added, "At the same time we were considering refurbishing those cars, we were awarded a federal grant to purchase new cars."
The $77 million federal grant is enough to buy at least 13 new rail cars. Orthner says refurbishing the old circus ones will cost $3.5 million dollars apiece. For now, they'll stay hidden until at least the end of this year.
The NCDOT is working on a study to determine the best way to spend the grant money.
"At this time we are evaluating our options as we look at the new cars, what we're going to do with the older cars that we bought."

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The year 2017 was huge for me. Despite it being my sixth year in business, in many ways it felt like my first. For the first time in the history of Meredith Hunt Photography, I began offering tangible products as opposed to just digital files. And you know what?…it was awesome!
I loved getting to see my clients view their images for the first time at their reveal appointment. It gives me so much joy to literally see parents fall in love with their baby's images -images that I had the honor of capturing for them! Seeing my client's excitement at viewing their beautiful finished products, like my luxury leather albums, hand-crafted farmhouse framed prints, and the linen-finished wood photo blocks has made this job that much sweeter. I'm excited about these products and love seeing my clients get excited about them too.
It does my heart good to know that my clients leave with tangible art as opposed to only a flash drive which we all know might just sit in a drawer with images possibly never to be printed. Life is busy in general, I get that. Add a newborn and it's suddenly SO much busier! I know from personal experience that the notorious "baby book" we all desire to have for our newborns can be a struggle to create on your own and is a time-consuming task to say the least. I have truly loved being able to take on that task for my clients and create for them a gorgeous newborn album to showcase their little one.
So thank you again to everyone that booked with me in 2017. I've loved meeting you all and your precious newborns! In total, I had the privilege of photographing 14 newborn clients, 2 newborn models, and 4 "sitter" models (6-9 month olds).
That said, if you are due in May or anytime thereafter, please don't hesitate to contact me now. I encourage expectant mothers to book a newborn session sometime during the second trimester. I only accept two due dates per month, so those spots can fill up quickly. The easiest way to get in touch is to fill out the contact form located on the right side of the menu bar on this page. You can also email me at MeredithGHunt@gmail.com.
This friendly competition is for all of my 2017 newborn clients. But anyone can participate by voting!
The winner will receive- An 11×14 styrene mounted print + 20% off any item on the a la carte list.
On my Facebook page, you will find the album entitled 6th year giveaway (just click this link to get there). There will be a photo from each of my newborn sessions.
That's it! The baby with the most votes wins. The competition will run for one week, ending at 8:00PM on Sunday, January 14th. Any votes cast after that will not be counted. Feel free to TAG yourselves, SHARE the post, and TELL your friends!
Please contact me ASAP to accept your prize and go over specific details of what you've won. In the unlikely event I don't hear from you in a week, the prize will be given to the runner up.


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ProContact rejected as German trademark for apps
The trademark protection for the term "ProContact" as trademark for apps was rejected before the German BPatG. The focus was on the broadly defined generic term and the question of whether the word creation ProContact is descriptive for Apps, although the brand terms ProFamila for family work and PRO WILDLIFE for animal protection are permitted.
By decision of November 2018, the German Patent and Trademark Office rejected the desired trademark registration for the term 'ProContact'. The DPMA explained that the word combination "ProContact" applied for was formed in accordance with linguistic usage and meant "professional contact" in German. As such, however, the term was descriptive for the claimed goods in Nice Class 9 "computer programs in the form of apps".
That was the objection raised by the trade mark applicant in its appeal. It argued that the DPMA bears the burden of establishing the existence of absolute grounds for refusal. In the present case, however, the trade mark office had made mere speculations which were not sufficient to reject the application. Rather, it was necessary to break them down into their constituent parts in order to analyse them individually in a next step.
BPatG confirmed lack of distinctiveness
Although the Federal Patent Court (BPatG) accepted the appeal, it confirmed the decision and the trademark refusal by the DPMA (25 W (pat) 518/19). The BPatG ruled that the registration of the term "ProContact" as a trade mark for apps was precluded by the ground for refusal of lack of distinctiveness under § 8 (2) No. 1 German MarkenG for the goods claimed in nice-class 9.
The court explained that terms which the relevant public associates only with a descriptive content in the foreground in connection with the goods and services claimed are devoid of distinctive character and cited 'Postkantoor' and 'FUSSBALL WM 2006' as examples of trade marks which were also refused for this reason. In addition, the term 'ProContact' is a direct indication of the intended purpose and scope of the apps claimed.
"Pro" has many meanings in German
The BPatG's comments on word marks containing the word element 'pro' are interesting.
The word "Pro" has many different meanings in German, explained the BPatG, and mentioned among other things : as a short word "Profi", as an adverb "for", as a preposition "per" and as an amplifier in word combinations to express a positive attitude towards the following basic word (pro-European = Europe-friendly etc.).
Company names may have identifying character
In addition, the preposition "Pro" is often used by organisations, associations or initiatives of a (socio)political nature, which thus already document in their name in which direction they are committed or what they are working for (the court mentioned "ProFamilia", "PRO WILDLIFE", "Pro Tierschutz", "ProVegan Stiftung" as examples). These designations have an identifying character, but they are allowed to do so according to the rules for Company names and corporate designations in the sense of § 5 Abs. 2 MarkenG.
General Generic term 'computer programs in the form of apps'
The BPatG – unlike the DPMA – did not consider it likely that consumers would be able to understand the term 'ProContact' applied for to any significant extent in connection with the goods claimed in the sense of 'professional contact'. Nevertheless, the court added that an understanding of the term 'for the management of contact details' is very close to that corresponding product context.
And since the chosen general generic term of the trademark application "computer programs in the form of apps" had been broadly defined, the term 'ProContact' was descriptive of the goods claimed. The generic term 'computer programs in the form of apps' also includes 'contact management apps', which must be taken into account here, according to the BPatG.
German Consumers are used to a language mix
Moreover, the average reasonably consumer in Germany is accustomed to being constantly confronted in advertising with new and not always grammatically correct terms which are intended to convey to him only factual information in a memorable form, the BPatG stated, in particular in English or mixed with English terms. A corresponding language mix as such could therefore generally no longer be perceived as unusual and could not be understood as characteristic and distinctive for this reason alone.
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Q: When to use Total Probability Rule and Bayes' Theorem. Consider the following information about travelers on vacation: $40$% check work email, $30$% use a cell phone, $25$% bring a laptop with them, $23$% both check work email and use a cell phone, and $51$% neither check work email nor use a cell phone nor bring a laptop. In addition $88/100$ who bring a laptop also check work email, and $70/100$ who use a cell phone also bring a laptop.
What is the probability that someone who brings a laptop on vacation also uses a cell phone?
I let $A$ represent check work email, $B$ represent use cell phone, and $C$ represent brings laptop. I have the following probabilities:
$$\begin{align}P(A)&=.4, \\P(B)&=.3, \\P(C)&=.25,\\ P(A\cap B)&=.23, \\P(A\cup B\cup C)&=.49,\\ P(A \mid C)&=.88, \\P(C \mid B)&=.7\end{align}$$
I found a solution online saying to use Bayes' Theorem to solve this part of the problem but I do not understand why to use Bayes' Theorem. Here is a picture to the solution I am referring to:
Bayes' Theorem does not look like what the solution says to use. In my textbook, the theorem looks like this:
Did the person that wrote the solution simplify something? It does not look like either of these two forms.
Also, for problems like these, is there a general rule on when to use Bayes' Theorem and the rule for Total Probability? I cannot figure out when to use what.

A: The law of total probability is used in Bayes theorem:
$P(A|B)=\frac{P(A\cap B)}{P(B)} \implies P(A\cap B) = P(B)P(A|B).$ This is just the definition of conditional probability.
Now, the Law of Total Probabiliyy can be used to calculate $P(B)$ in the above definition. The law requires that you have a set of disjoint events $D_i$ that collectively "cover" the event $B$. Then, instead of calculating $P(B)$ directly, you add up the intersection of $B$ with each of the events $E_i$:
$P(B)=\sum P(B\cap E_i)$ Of course, we can rewrite this using the definition of conditional probability:
$P(B)=\sum P(B\cap E_i)=\sum P(E_i)P(B|E_i)$
Thus, the following are equivalent:
$P(B|A)= \frac{P(A\cap B)}{P(A)} = \frac{P(B)P(A|B)}{P(B)P(A|B)+P(\neg B)P(A|\neg B)}$ Since $B$ and $\neg B$ are disjoint events.
In general, Bayes' rule is used to "flip" a conditional probability, while the law of total probability is used when you don't know the probability of an event, but you know its occurrence under several disjoint scenarios and the probability of each scenario.

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module Brightbox
  desc I18n.t("config.desc")
  command [:config] do |cmd|
    cmd.desc I18n.t("config.client_add.desc")
    cmd.arg_name "client-id secret [api_url, auth_url]"
    cmd.command [:client_add] do |c|
      c.desc "client alias (local reference)"
      c.flag [:a, "alias"]

      c.desc "auth url"
      c.flag [:t, "auth-url"]

      c.action do |_global_options, options, args|
        info "Using config file #{Brightbox.config.config_filename}"

        client_id = args.shift
        secret = args.shift
        api_url = args.shift || DEFAULT_API_ENDPOINT
        auth_url = args.shift || api_url

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        if client_id.nil?
          raise "You must specify the client-id"
        end

        unless client_id[/^cli-.{5}$/]
          raise "The client-id '#{client_id}' must match the format cli-xxxxx"
        end

        if secret.nil?
          raise "You must specify the client secret"
        end

        options = {
          :api_url => api_url,
          :auth_url => auth_url
        }
        Brightbox.config.add_section(calias, client_id, secret, options)
      end
    end
  end
end

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V International Congress of the John Gower Society 2023
"Gower in Contexts: His Words, His Books, His Heritage"
University of St. Andrews, Scotland
7-11 July, 2023
Originally scheduled for 2020 at the University of Notre Dame (and cancelled due to the global pandemic), the V International Congress of the John Gower Society is scheduled to convene at the University of St. Andrews on the Bay of St. Andrews, looking toward the North Sea, in Scotland, 7-11 July, 2023.
Local arrangements for "Gower in Contexts: His Words, His Books, His Heritage" are under the direction of Margaret Connolly, Professor of Palaeography and Codicology in the Schools of English and History, Professor Julian Luxford of the School of Art History, and Audrey Bruce, Events Manager.
Superior venues have been allotted to the Congress for sessions and social gatherings which will be ideally located on "Sallies Quad," the center of the United College of St. Salvator and St Leonard, the oldest part of the university and the heart of the campus. The facilities available for conference presentations throughout the meeting rooms are state-of-the-art.
Accommodation will be offered in a block of rooms set aside for the Congress in Agnes Blackadder Hall, a modern comprehensive student residence. All rooms are en suite, with full-size (double) bed. Breakfasts, lunches, and dinners are available, and there is a well-stocked pub in-house. A variety of hotels and bed-and-breakfast establishments are also available in St. Andrews. As St. Andrews is a renowned golf destination, and very popular in the summer, Society members desiring accommodation other than in Agnes Blackadder are advised to book private accommodation early. (Also worthy of note, for members who do golf, that very early morning tee times to play on the Old Course can be booked at a reasonable price, but this should be done soon.)
St. Andrews is a sea-side town, located on the broad Bay of St. Andrews, approximately thirty miles from Edinburgh and ten miles from Dundee. It has no airport, but is accessible via a range of public transportation from major airports in Edinburgh, London, Manchester, and other points in the UK.
Founded in 1413, St. Andrews is the oldest university in Scotland, and third oldest behind Oxford and Cambridge in the UK. It consistently ranks with those two universities in the educational league tables, besting both in 2022 to be named the premier institution in Britain. Its libraries are particularly strong in later medieval manuscripts, and early printed books. The town itself is, of course, world famous for its golf courses, and for the St. Andrews Golf Club. Founded in 1843 as St. Andrews Mechanics Golf Club, it is one of the oldest in the world.
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Very often people give up for Certain things..….
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Positivity over loaded here. Beautiful post. Never ever give up!!!!
Going on is the only way to get what you want.
That is so true, giving up leads you to regret and nothing else!
Never give up , how worse the conditions are.
Beautiful. I love this. I'm sharing.
I just love this. Please read and share with others. We need more of this in our world today!
Because God has always kept at least one secret door 🚪 open for you.
apka blog mahatvapurn hai kyoki yah logo ko prenna deta hai bahut achha vicharo ka samuh hai ………………!!!!!!!!
I will add one more point if you permit 😜 Never ever even wish anything bad fir your worst enemy….because it entices you for future repentance.
So so so true!!! When you keep focused on one bad chapter it seems like the next few write themselves in similar fashion. Gotta have compassion for yourself when you make mistakes and come out stronger so the past doesn't perpetuate!
Yes…been there and done that the last ten years. Hopefully, writing will change my Karma.
Such an inspirational post! Though giving up always seem to be the easy way out, we ought to rethink and give ourselves some time. Time is the remedy. Thanks for sharing.
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Cold, unsatisfying experiences. Catching an STI. One-sided feelings. "Catching feelings." Emotional drama. Gaining a bad reputation. Moments of intense loneliness.
These are only some of the negative associations of a friends with benefits, AKA "FWB," relationship. Having a non-committal, sexual relationship sounds exhausting, emotionally-draining, and nearly impossible for some. But with the rise of dating apps, exerting all energy towards school and careers, or simply not being ready for a serious relationship are all valid reasons to wonder what the FWB parameters are. With guidance from both professors and students, we will explore ways to have fulfilling, positive FWB relationships, how to maintain them, and if they're right for you.
When asking students whether or not they would engage (or have had) a FWB, there were a range of answers.
Mature relationships. Friendly, freeing experiences. Open communication. Easily satisfied sexual needs. Low pressure. Straight-forward. These are only some positive associations to take into account when figuring out if a friends-with-benefits relationship is right for you.


Year 5 have started our music lessons with Josh England. So far we have learnt some rhythms and warm up games and learnt about the different families of musical instruments. We are very excited and looking forward to learning how to play the violin!


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Impact Global Location: United States
REF impact found 1545 Case Studies
1 Accelerating the development of new chemotherapy drugs using bioluminescent bacterial biosensors
Novel bioluminescent bacterial biosensors developed at UWE, Bristol, and commercialised by Randox, have been used by a range of companies to demonstrate effectiveness of drugs and decontamination procedures. This has improved development processes at companies including Clavis Pharma, Purest Solutions and Dycem, leading to new manufacturing processes and quality control test methods. The biosensors are used in novel applications to give pharmacodynamic data on effectiveness of drugs and real time in-situ demonstration of effectiveness of decontamination processes. These biosensors, pioneered and developed by Vyv Salisbury's group, have been commercially adopted and used for evaluation by at least six collaborating companies.
University of the West of England, Bristol
Medical and Health Sciences: Medical Microbiology
Accessibility & User Needs in Transport for Sustainable Urban Environments (AUNT-SUE)
The case study captures and describes the outputs and impacts arising from cumulative research on the theme of accessibility in transport and urban design. Impacts are evidenced both through the research process in terms of end-user engagement, collaborative research and real world test bed research (local communities and neighbourhoods); and through intermediary and professional/ practitioner body validation, policy-making and take up of research findings and guidance/toolkits arising. Impacts have also occurred through wider dissemination, follow-up research and collaboration both nationally and internationally.
Built Environment and Design: Urban and Regional Planning
Access to Justice Through Education: Building a Law Clinic Culture in the UK and Beyond
The pedagogic research undertaken by the School of Law has produced an ambitious and innovative model of clinical legal education: the in-house live client model, which offers a university-based free legal service offering full representation to private clients and NGOs in the form of the Student Law Office. The Student Law Office integrates supervised legal service in the law curriculum, thereby delivering free access to justice to the wider community whilst benefiting the learning environment. Impact is three-fold:
a major contribution to voluntary legal services in a region with high social deprivation: over 1,000 clients secured access to justice and over £840,000 of compensation has been recovered for clients;
a national and world leading role influencing the legal profession, regulators and policy makers; and
building the capacity of law clinics in other HEIs to provide a free legal service.
Northumbria University Newcastle
Accurate diagnosis of pre-eclampsia in both hospital and rural clinic settings
Pre-eclampsia is a major contributor to death and disability in pregnancy. Diagnosis, based on accurate blood pressure (BP)/proteinuria determination, is limited by measurement errors and being late features of the disease. In collaboration with industry, King's College London (KCL) researchers have developed an inexpensive, accurate, simple BP device suitable for rural clinics. This device allows intervention to reduce mortality/morbidity and is currently being rolled out in a Gates Foundation project in Africa and Asia. KCL researchers have also helped the company Alere Inc. with the development of a diagnostically accurate test of placental growth factor (PlGF) in women with suspected pre-eclampsia: Alere Triage®PlGF. This demonstrates high sensitivity, superior to current tests, and following commercialisation is being adopted internationally. Their work is additionally reflected in guidelines of international standards for BP device accuracy.
Medical and Health Sciences: Cardiorespiratory Medicine and Haematology, Paediatrics and Reproductive Medicine, Public Health and Health Services
Accurate in vitro prediction of in vivo genotoxicity and cancer hazard; reducing costs to industry and the use of animals in research
Development of the human cell GADD45a assay enabled accurate identification of carcinogens in vitro, with a low rate of misleading positives. Through the spin-out company Gentronix, this research is reducing costs to industry and decreasing the use of animals in research. Industrial collaboration has enabled commercial adoption of the technology in many sectors. With a 10-fold increase in orders in 2012 versus 2008, Gentronix is a profitable business employing 17 people and with an annual turnover of £1.88m. During 2008-12, Gentronix released a series of new products, established testing services, and signed a product license agreement with GlaxoSmithKline. More than 100 companies worldwide are using Gentronix kits, including pharmaceutical, agricultural and health and beauty companies, along with manufacturers of food flavourings and household goods. The Gentronix assay is currently being reviewed by the European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods.
Biological Sciences: Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Genetics
A Contribution to Commemorating and Learning From the 1994 Rwanda Genocide
Hitchcott's research on the relation between textual and material commemorations of the 1994 Rwanda genocide has benefited survivors and rescuers whose experiences form the basis of the Francophone African novels on which she publishes. As a result of her leadership of a research collaboration between The University of Nottingham and The Aegis Trust, a leading Nottinghamshire-based NGO dedicated to the prevention of genocide through education, an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award has ensured that:
the stories of Rwandan survivors and rescuers are more accurately preserved in Genocide Archive Rwanda in Kigali
their stories are digitally available worldwide through the new Rwanda Archive and Education Programme of The Shoah Foundation (the American partner of Aegis), following the selection, translation and editing by Hitchcott's CDA-holder of 50 Rwanda genocide testimonies
authentic survivor testimonies can be accessed by school teachers for use in teaching about crimes against humanity
the quality of evidence available to historians of the 1994 Rwanda genocide has improved
the quality of materials available to the general public, within Rwanda and worldwide, for understanding and learning from the genocide has been enhanced.
Acrobot: Active Constraint Robots Improve Outcome in Arthritis Surgery
Collaboration between Imperial College Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Surgery led to the development of active constraint robot solutions which augment surgeon skills so that joint replacement components are implanted accurately and successfully. This led to the founding of Acrobot to develop innovative surgical technologies. Acrobot was acquired by Stanmore Implants Worldwide in 2010. An orthopaedic stereotaxic instrument, based on Imperial research, obtained US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance in 2013. This has led to Mako-Surgical purchasing Stanmore Implants Acrobot technology in April 2013.
Information and Computing Sciences: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
Medical and Health Sciences: Clinical Sciences, Neurosciences
Adoption of behavioural roadside training programme improves children's road crossing skills.
In a series of training studies on children between the ages of 5 and 12 years, a research team at the Department of Psychology successfully demonstrated that substantial improvements in roadside decision-making and behaviour can be achieved in children as young as 5 years. Based on their findings, the team developed and evaluated a training intervention (Kerbcraft) aimed at improving children's pedestrian skills through practical roadside activities which was formally adopted by the UK government. Since 2008, the majority of 5-7 year old children in the UK have received formal pedestrian skills training using Kerbcraft either in its full or adapted form. Kerbcraft now plays a key role in the UK Government's road safety strategy and has been cited as an example of best practice by the World Health Organisation and safety agencies across Europe, the US, Australia and in developing countries such as Ethiopia and Bangladesh.
Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience
Adoption of new engineering solutions to reduce the patient experience of intense acoustic noise during Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
Reduction of unpleasant ambient noise during MRI has been enabled through innovative engineering solutions developed at the Medical Research Council Institute of Hearing Research (MRC IHR). Intellectual property was licensed to Optoacoustics Ltd and the resulting OptoActive™ active noise-cancelling headphones for MRI are the only one of their type commercially available, enabling free conversation between patients and clinicians. The product was formally launched in September 2012 and has worldwide sales including in the USA, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
Physical Sciences: Other Physical Sciences
Medical and Health Sciences: Neurosciences
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A story of Ponies, Humans and Discord, and the tragedy lost to history.
Discord is going slightly stir crazy not causing chaos ever since he was reformed. His chaos is starting to get out of control, so much so it is leaking out of him. He is sad and depressed; and doesn't know what to do. Until he desides to visit a friend of a friend. Discord just hopes it isn't boring. However they come up with something that brings chaos to the table. He even gets more friends to share it with. However there is more to the story than causing chaos, we travel on adventures get to see behind the scene, and even get to meet some of his family (I'm afraid what will come). As in any story darkness will come to this one and it will be saved through the form of a bride. But hopefully she is in time before death seeps into the story.


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Q: Rails HTML Permit Sanitizer Not Working As I Expected I've been stuck trying to figure out how to use the Rails sanitizer. It doesn't seem to be working as I expected. Think I'm misunderstanding something.
Basically, I'm trying to sanitize all divs except divs that have an attribute that have a value of highlight. But for example's sake, I tried to use PermitScrubber on it's own.
I set my tags and attributes and am inheriting from PermitScrubber, but it scrubs my permitted tags and attributes anyway:
class ExampleScrubber < Rails::Html::PermitScrubber
  def initialize
    super
    self.tags = %w(img),
    self.attributes = %w(src alt)
  end

  # commented out for the example, but what I'm trying to ultimately do
  # def allowed_node?(node)
    # node.name == "div" && node.attributes.values.first.value = "highlight"
  # end
end

@comment.body = "
\n
yes
\n
tests
\n
\n\n

\n"
ActionController::Base.helpers.sanitize(
  @comment.body,
  scrubber: ExampleScrubber.new
)
#=> "\nyes\ntests\n\n\n\n"

So two things:
 1. Why is scrubbing the img tag and src and alt attributes?
 2. I know I could refactor the allowed_node? method, but I want to figure out number one first.
Thanks for reading ✌

A: The first problem ("Why is [this] scrubbing the img tag and src and alt attributes?") is caused by the stray comma after the array.
#             Here v
self.tags = %w(img),

TIL Ruby doesn't require the square brackets for arrays:
a = "b", "c" # => ["b", "c"]

So, that comma is turning your tags into an array of arrays:
ExampleScrubber.new.tags # => [["img"], ["src", "alt"]]

Which is causing issues and allowing the tag to be scrubbed. Removing the comma causes things to work correctly:
class ExampleScrubber < Rails::Html::PermitScrubber
  def initialize
    super
    self.tags = %w(img)
    self.attributes = %w(src alt)
  end

  # commented out for the example, but what I'm trying to ultimately do
  # def allowed_node?(node)
    # node.name == "div" && node.attributes.values.first.value = "highlight"
  # end
end

body = "
\n
yes
\n
tests
\n
\n\n

\n"
ActionController::Base.helpers.sanitize(body, scrubber: ExampleScrubber.new)
# => "\nyes\ntests\n\n\n\n"

So to accomplish your goal, to only keep divs and only if they have an attribute (any attribute) including the word 'highlight' you might try something like:
class ExampleScrubber < Rails::Html::PermitScrubber
  def initialize
    super
    self.tags = %w( div )
  end

  def allowed_node?(node)
    @tags.include?(node.name) && node.attributes.values.any? do |attribute_value|
      attribute_value.value.include?('highlight')
    end
  end
end

body = "
\n
yes
\n
tests
\n
\n\n

\n
Something

Else
"
results = ActionController::Base.helpers.sanitize(body, scrubber: ExampleScrubber.new)
# => "\nyes\ntests\n\n\n\n
Something
Else"


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Shifting paradigms and building resilience in the time of crisis
A conversation with Sebastian Lesch/BMZ, GDPRD Board member
What does it take to truly shift the paradigm on food systems? Why are short- and long-term responses important to tackling current and future global crises? Sebastian Lesch, newly appointed Head of Agriculture at BMZ, answers these difficult questions and more, and explains how Germany welcomes all hands on deck for collaborative donor action.
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Head of Division– Sustainable Agricultural Supply Chains, International Agricultural Policy, Agriculture, Rural Development, Innovation, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
Sebastian Lesch is the Head of Division, Sustainable Agricultural Supply Chains, International Agricultural Policy, Agriculture, Rural Development, Innovation, at the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). He is also the new Board Member for the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development.
Secretariat: With the COVID pandemic and the war in Ukraine, the development community is increasingly focused on emergencies and short-term assistance. As donors, how do we not lose sight of a longer-term lens? How do we continue work to increase the resilience of rural populations so they can better buffer future crises, and at the same time, make sure emergencies are better dealt with?
Sebastian: We are very much in a food crisis exacerbated by the Russian war on Ukraine, a climate and biodiversity crises, with conflicts in many parts of the world that influence food security and nutrition. In such a context, we have to both continue and accelerate our long-term transformation work on agrifood systems. This is about making people and markets resilient, improving incomes for rural populations, and ecological sustainability.
At the same time, we have to tackle the immediate fallout of the crisis. Of course, these are conflicting targets. You could deal with the immediate crisis but actually make the situation worse in the long-term, exacerbating future crises. We have seen these food systems crises come and go every few years. If anything, they have gotten worse.
It is easier said than done when it comes to making individual choices such as ensuring people don't starve, increasing local production sustainably, and making sure fertiliser is where it's needed so that there will be a next harvest. We also need alternatives to fossil fertilisers in order to break this dependency on imports.
This is very tricky. It needs to be broken down into individual aspects but at the same time, take the right pathways and show how it can be done differently in the future. That doesn't make the job any easier.
Secretariat: What do you think needs to change in how donors look at food systems, in particular considering the financing for development assistance? Everyone says, "we need a paradigm shift", but in your opinion, what does this actually mean and what needs to be done to achieve this?
Sebastian: Food systems are multidimensional and cater to different purposes, such as providing income and food, and conserving biodiversity. They need to both prevent and adapt to climate change. The shift is really from seeing this as a system that produces food to one that is part of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). SDG 2 is not independent from the others and we need that holistic view.
With the UNFCCC COP 27 in Egypt, we are, for the first time, tackling the nexus between food systems, agriculture and climate. At the UNCCD COP in Abidjan, we connected resilience, soils and land to food systems. We need this cross-silo nexus thinking to effect that change.
The complaint has long been we need more agricultural finance but looking at the whole agricultural system, there is plenty of finance including subsidies for various things in agriculture and food systems. Countries, including the European Union and developing countries that provide these subsidies, need to create pathways to set incentives within agricultural food systems, to improve sustainability and create that nexus thinking.
The food system not only contributes to but is also a victim of climate change. We need to move away from that perspective and ensure agricultural food systems contribute to the adaptation and mitigation of climate change.
Sebastian Lesch | Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), GDPRD Board Member. This video is a recording of the interview, conducted by the Secretariat of the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development in November 2022.
The paradigm shift is really from seeing food systems as a system that produces food to one that is part of the Sustainable Development Goals. SDG 2 is not independent from the others and we need that holistic view.
Secretariat: Germany held the G7 presidency in 2022 and spearheaded the Global Alliance for Food Security (GAFS) initiative. Other donors and organizations have launched similar programmes. How do we ensure we coordinate and expedite our actions around the various crisis response initiatives and work collectively within the donor community?
Sebastian: When the Russian war in Ukraine hit, everybody looked towards Berlin for G7 reaction in terms of food security. This triggered us to come up with GAFS, which is not an institution nor a mechanism. The idea was to create a platform to make sure everybody is on board and that we have an agile response.
This crisis is only starting, and we are still preparing for the worst. I am glad so many partners have stepped up with initiatives to complement this, such as the US, Italy, France.
I am glad the Rome institutions have stepped up and am especially thankful to do this jointly with the World Bank. This was a tremendous help and the World Bank is a great partner in GAFS with their convening and financial power. The Dashboard we launched is a good example of a first step in achievement.
But I want to stress this very clearly - this is not a competition. It is great that many initiatives are there and I think we are achieving a good degree of complementarity.
Secretariat: How do you envision our continued good work together in the Donor Platform? What will keep the momentum going and keep the Platform useful to members over the coming months and years?
Sebastian: This is a great platform with the contacts and unique holistic format. The Platform is not where agriculture people talk to each other but a place about rural resilience, climate change mitigation and adaptation, natural resources, biodiversity, income and jobs in rural places, and digitalization. It is valuable to talk about these issues in an environment that is open, inclusive, but also protected and with space for discussion without decision. I am glad we have the Platform to do just that.
Secretariat: As we near the end of 2022, what gives you hope for the new year?
Sebastian: From a European perspective, war has returned and people are afraid of things beyond their imagination only a short while ago. This is a terrible crisis for many people and one that occurs terrible losses. But crisis brings opportunity and a sense of need not only for change but an accelerated change to overcome systemic obstacles in transforming the food system. If we can harness that speed and momentum, then there is some good in this situation after all.
I have seen so many people step up this year, come to the table, and act and say we need to overcome those silos. This gives me courage that we are not lost and can make a difference this year and next.
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Miss Texas USA
The Miss Texas USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state Texas in the Miss USA pageant, and the name of the title held by that winner. This pageant is part of the Miss USA Organization, owned by Texas native Crystle Stewart, herself a Miss USA for 2008.
The pageant is currently held in Houston. It has previously been hosted by El Paso, San Antonio, South Padre Island, Lubbock and Laredo.[1][2][3][4][5][6] It was televised from 1971 to 2009.[7][3][8]
The current titleholder is R'Bonney Gabriel of Houston and was crowned on July 2, 2022 at Hilton Houston Post Oak in Houston. She represented Texas at Miss USA 2022 and won, earning her the right to represent the United States at Miss Universe 2022. Gabriel also won the Best State Costume award in the pageant, bringing their winners up to four and tying them with Alaska for the most "Best State Costume" award winners in the pageant.
Unlike the rest of Miss and Teen state pageants in the Miss USA system have annually scheduled at the same time, this Miss and Teen pageants in Texas are held separately in different months, the Miss pageant goes first and is held on first Sunday of September every year. Those events have affected from the regular September schedule such as the 2018 pageant was held in January 2018 due to Hurricane Harvey devastated the pageant's host city, Houston; and the 2021 pageant was held in September 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, exactly a year originally planned for September 2020.[9][10]
Ten Miss Texas USA titleholders have won the Miss USA title, including Chelsi Smith, has been crowned Miss Universe. In the 1980s Texas won the Miss USA title five consecutive years from 1985 to 1989, a streak known as the "Texas Aces".[11] Prior to this no state had ever won the Miss USA pageant more than two times in succession.[12] Past state directors have included Richard Guy and Rex Holt, "GuyRex" and Al and Gail Clark of "The Crystal Group".[13][7][1][14]
Contestants enter by winning local pageants or may choose to compete "at large" with an assigned title.[3][15] In 2001 a record number of former Miss Texas Teen USA winners, six, competed for the Miss Texas USA 2002 title.[8]
Texas Aces
Prior to the 1980s, no other state had won more than two Miss USA pageants in succession (the only two states to win twice in succession were Virginia in 1969-1970 and Illinois in 1973–1974). The five Texan Miss USA winners were all coached by "GuyRex", Richard Guy and Rex Holt, who held the Texas franchise from 1975. The term was first used in 1988 after Gibbs became their fourth consecutive titleholder, with Guy referring to the four queens as "four aces in a deck of cards", with their fifth titleholder, Kim Tomes (1977) as the "wildcard".[16] The following year Gretchen Polhemus became the fifth and final "ace". The term is still in use.
As well as directing the Texas pageant, GuyRex also acquired the Miss California USA franchise in 1986. In 1988, Diana Magaña of California placed first runner-up to Gibbs, the fourth ace. The two had both undergone extensive preparation by GuyRex, and even lived together prior to the pageant.[17][18]
The five Aces were:
1985 - Laura Martinez-Herring (Miss USA, Top 10 at Miss Universe 1985)
1986 - Christy Fichtner (Miss USA, 1st runner-up at Miss Universe 1986)
1987 - Michelle Royer (Miss USA, 2nd runner-up at Miss Universe 1987)
1988 - Courtney Gibbs (Miss USA, Top 10 at Miss Universe 1988)
1989 - Gretchen Polhemus (Miss USA, 2nd runner-up at Miss Universe 1989)
Lauren Guzman, Miss Texas Teen USA 2008 and Miss Texas USA 2014
Crystle Stewart, Miss Texas USA 2008 and Miss USA 2008 (pictured in 2014)
Stephanie Guerrero, Miss Texas USA 2004
Nicole O'Brian, Miss Texas Teen USA 2000 and Miss Texas USA 2003
Kandace Krueger, Miss Texas USA 2001 and Miss USA 2001
Michelle Royer, Miss Texas USA 1987 and Miss USA 1987
Christy Fichtner, Miss Texas USA 1986 and Miss USA 1986
Laura Martinez Harring, Miss Texas USA 1985 and Miss USA 1985 (pictured in 2011)
Lisa Allred, Miss Texas USA 1983
Miss USAs: Kimberly Tomes (1977), Laura Martinez Herring (1985), Christy Fichtner (1986), Michelle Royer (1987), Courtney Gibbs (1988), Gretchen Polhemus (1989), Chelsi Smith (1995), Kandace Krueger (2001), Crystle Stewart (2008), R'Bonney Gabriel (2022)
1st runners-up: Carelgean Douglas (1959), Diane Balloun (1964), Brenda Box (1971), Luann Caughey (1982), Lisa Allred (1983), Ylianna Guerra (2015)
2nd runners-up: Barbara Horan (1978), Nicole O'Brian (2003)
3rd runners-up: Betty Lee (1954), Ana Rodriguez (2011)
4th runners-up: Jo Dodson (1956), Aundie Evers (1975), Alexandria Nugent (2013)
Top 5/6/8: Christine Friedel (1994), Amanda Little (1997), Holly Mills (1998), Victoria Hinojosa (2021)
Top 10/11/12: Lavonne McConnell (1973), Candace Gray (1976), Anne Hinnant (1979), Barbara Buckley (1980), Diana Durnford (1981), Laura Shaw (1984), Stephanie Kuehne (1990), Katie Young (1992), Angie Sisk (1993), Kara Williams (1996), Kasi Kelly (2002), Lauren Lanning (2006), Magen Ellis (2007), Brooke Daniels (2009), Brittany Booker (2012)
Top 15: Joan Bradshaw (1953), Mary Daughters (1955), Gloria Hunt (1957), Linda Daugherty (1958), Jackie Williams (1962), Phillis Johnson (1965), Dorothy Pickens (1966), Bonnie Robinson (1967), Sandy Drewes (1969), Diane Swendeman (1970), Stephanie Guerrero (2004), Tyler Willis (2005), Logan Lester (2018)
Texas holds a record of 55 placements at Miss USA, being placed first overall.
Miss Congeniality: Diane Swendeman (1970), Chelsi Smith (1995)
Miss Photogenic: Susan Peters (1972), Lisa Allred (1983), Laura Shaw (1984), Tyler Willis (2005)
Best State Costume: Lavonne McConnell (1973), Kimberly Tomes (1977), Barbara Horan (1978), R'Bonney Gabriel (2022)
Best in Swimsuit: Chelsi Smith (1995)
Color key
Declared as Winner
Ended as runner-up
Ended as finalist or semifinalist
Local Title
Age[a]
Placement at Miss USA
Special awards at Miss USA
2023 Miss Texas USA 2023 will be crowned on July 15, 2023[19]
2022 R'Bonney Gabriel Houston Miss Friendswood 28 Miss USA 2022 Best State Costume First Asian American Miss Texas USA
2021 Victoria Hinojosa McAllen Miss South Texas 22 Top 8 Granddaughter of U.S. Representative TX-15 Rubén Hinojosa
2020 Taylor Kessler Houston Miss Lone Star 23
Previously Miss Grand USA 2017
Longest reigning Miss Texas USA (2 years and 3 days) and also the longest reigning Miss USA state titleholder under three calendar years in the organization's history
2019 Alayah Benavidez San Antonio Miss San Antonio 23 Previously Miss United States 2016
Later a contestant on season 24 of The Bachelor
2018 Logan Lester Houston Miss Harris County 23 Top 15 Shortest reigning Miss Texas USA (7 months and 27 days)
2017 Nancy Gonzalez Freeport Miss Kemah 27
Competed in Nuestra Belleza Latina 2010
2016 Daniella Rodriguez[20] Laredo[20] Miss Central Webb County 19
Previously Miss Texas Teen USA 2013
Married to Carlos Correa
2015 Ylianna Guerra[21] McAllen Miss Tropics of Texas 22 1st runner-up
2014 Lauren Guzman[22] Laredo[22] Miss Central Laredo 24 Previously Miss Texas Teen USA 2008
2013 Alexandria "Ali" Nugent Dallas Miss North Texas 19 4th runner-up Fan Vote Winner Niece of rock musician Ted Nugent
2012 Brittany Booker Friendswood Miss Houston 21 Top 10
2011 Ana Rodriguez Laredo Miss Central Laredo 24 3rd runner-up
2010 Kelsey Moore El Paso Miss El Paso 19
2009 Brooke Daniels[6] Tomball Miss Harris County 22 Top 10
2008 Crystle Stewart[23] Missouri City Miss Fort Bend County 26 Miss USA 2008 Top 10 at Miss Universe 2008. President of Miss USA and Miss Teen USA
2007 Magen Ellis[24] Tyler Miss Houston[24] 19 Top 10 Previously Miss Texas Teen USA 2004 (Top 15 at Miss Teen USA 2004)
2006 Lauren Lanning Friendswood Miss Houston 22 Top 10
2005 Tyler Willis Lubbock Miss Central Plains 25 Top 15 Miss Photogenic
2004 Stephanie Guerrero Lake Jackson Miss Houston 23 Top 15
2003 Nicole O'Brian Friendswood Miss Bay Area 20 2nd runner-up
1st Runner-up & Best in Swimsuit at Miss Teen USA 2000
Contestant on The Amazing Race 5
2002 Kasi Kelly Bridgeport Miss DFW 20 Top 12
2001 Kandace Krueger Austin Miss Austin 24 Miss USA 2001 2nd runner-up at Miss Universe 2001
2000 Heather Ogilvie[25] Houston Miss Southeast Texas 22
1999 Carissa Blair Houston Miss Southeast Texas 23 Previously Miss Texas Teen USA 1992
1998 Holly Mills San Antonio Miss San Antonio 22 Top 5
1997 Amanda Little Wylie Miss Metroplex 20 Top 6
1996 Kara Williams Houston Miss Harris County 23 Top 10 Previously Miss Texas Teen USA 1991 (Top 12 at Miss Teen USA 1991)
1995 Chelsi Smith† Deer Park Miss Galveston County 21 Miss USA 1995 Miss Congeniality and Best in Swimsuit
First African American Miss Texas USA[15]
1994 Christine Friedel El Paso Miss El Paso 22 Top 6
1993 Angie Sisk Houston Miss Fort Bend County 21 Top 12
1992 Katie Young Fort Worth Miss Fort Worth 19 Top 11
1991 Chris Bogard Tomball Miss North Harris County 23
1990 Stephanie Kuehne[26] Missouri City Miss Houston 22 Top 12 Miss Wonderland 1989
1989 Gretchen Polhemus[27] Fort Worth[27] Miss Fort Worth 23 Miss USA 1989
2nd runner-up at Miss Universe 1989
Mother of Miss Utah USA 2017, Baylee Jensen[28]
1988 Courtney Gibbs[2] Fort Worth Miss Metroplex 21 Miss USA 1988 Top 10 at Miss Universe 1988
1987 Michelle Royer[29] Keller[29] Miss Keller[29] 21 Miss USA 1987 2nd runner-up at Miss Universe 1987
1986 Christiane "Christy" Fichtner Dallas Miss Dallas County 23 Miss USA 1986 1st runner-up at Miss Universe 1986
1985 Laura Martinez Herring[30] El Paso Miss El Paso County 21 Miss USA 1985
Top 10 at Miss Universe 1985
First Hispanic Miss Texas USA[31]
1984 Laura Shaw[32] Burleson Miss Burleson 19 Top 10 Miss Photogenic
1983 Lisa Allred[33][34] Fort Worth[34] Miss Fort Worth 20[34] 1st runner-up Miss Photogenic Miss World USA 1983 & 6th runner-up at Miss World 1983
1982 Luann Caughey[35] Abilene[35] Miss Abilene[35] 23[35] 1st runner-up Miss World USA 1982 & 4th runner-up at Miss World 1982
1981 Diana Durnford[36][37] El Paso[37] Miss Sun City[37] 21[37] Top 12
1980 Barbara Buckley Midland Top 12
1979 Anne Hinnant[38] Houston Miss Harris County[38] Top 12
1978 Barbara Horan Dallas 2nd runner-up Best State Costume
1977 Kimberly Tomes Houston 21 Miss USA 1977 Best State Costume Top 12 at Miss Universe 1977, Miss Texas World 1974 and 1st runner up at Miss World USA 1974.
1976 Candace Gray†[39] El Paso Top 12 Died in a scuba diving accident in 1981[40]
1975 Aundie Evers El Paso 4th runner-up
1974 Debra Cronin McDade
1973 Lavonne McConnell[41] Fort Worth 19 Top 12 Best State Costume
1972 Susan Peters[42] Austin Miss Photogenic
1971 Brenda Box Amarillo 1st runner-up
1970 Diane Swendeman San Antonio Top 15 Miss Congeniality
1969 Sandy Drewes Dallas Top 15
1968 Jeannie Wilson Dallas
1967 Bonnie Robinson Houston Top 15
1966 Dorothy Pickens Edinburg Top 15
1965 Phillis Johnson Houston Top 15
1964 Diane Balloun Houston 1st runner-up
1963 Cheryl Wilburn Houston
1962 Jackie Williams Waxahachie Miss Lake Whitney Top 15
1961 Sheila Wade Dallas Miss Lake Whitney
1960 Pat Cloud Houston
1959 Carelgean Douglas Houston 1st runner-up
1958 Linda Daugherty Houston Top 15
1957 Gloria Hunt Houston Top 15
1956 Jo Dodson Houston 4th runner-up
1955 Mary Daughters Houston Top 15
1954 Betty Lee Houston 3rd runner-up
1953 Joan Bradshaw Houston 17 Top 15
1952 Charlene McClary Houston
^ Age at the time of the pageant
^ a b Belkin, Lisa (28 February 1988). "In Texas, Two Kings of the Beauty Queen Business". New York Times.
^ a b "Miss Metroplex crowned Miss Texas USA". Del Rio News Herald. 4 August 1987.
^ a b c "Miss Ricebelt pageant on tap for Sunday". The Facts. 11 February 1998.
^ "Miss Texas pageant planned at El Paso". Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. 6 March 1975.
^ Davis, John (18 July 2000). "Austin native claims Miss Texas USA crown". Lubbock Avalanche-Journal.
^ a b "Harris County's Brooke Daniels crowned Miss Texas USA". Houston Chronicle. 29 June 2008.
^ a b "Richard Guy and Rex Holt behind new Miss Texas USA". The Waco Citizen. 4 September 1975.
^ a b Davis, John (26 July 2001). "The Miss Texas USA pageant will go on ..." The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal.
^ Elliott, Amber (January 9, 2018). "Popular real estate agent Logan Lester wins the 2018 Miss Texas USA pageant". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved July 20, 2019.
^ "Event Information". Miss Texas USA Facebook. March 27, 2020. Archived from the original on 2022-02-26.
^ Anderson, Lindsey (28 September 2015). "El Paso's pageant king Rex Holt dies". El Paso Times.
^ Kennedy, J Michael (13 March 1987). "They Reign as Kings in the Land of the Beauty Queens". Los Angeles Times.
^ Gunderson, Edna (7 July 1985). "Beauty apostles look for winners". The Seguin Gazette-Enterprise.
^ "Texas beauty files suit over alleged snub". The San Bernardino County Sun. 8 August 1991.
^ a b Krenek, Melinda (8 July 1994). "New Miss Texas USA beginning her banner year with enthusiasm". The Galveston Daily News.
^ Lewis, Holden (1988-03-02). "Miss USA Contest Rewards Winners, Gurus". Associated Press.
^ "New Miss California". The San Francisco Chronicle. 1987-08-31. p. 6.
^ "Bringing Up Beauty / In the months before the Miss USA Pageant, advisers work on Miss California". The San Francisco Chronicle. 1987-10-01. p. 6.
^ "General Information". Miss Texas USA. Retrieved November 3, 2022.
^ a b Mendoza, Madalyn (2 September 2016). "Miss Texas USA isn't great at baseball, but her Instagram game is in the big leagues". San Antonio Express-News.
^ Flores, Daniel (11 July 2015). "RGV native Miss Texas USA ready for pageant". The Monitor.
^ a b Fechter, Joshua (16 September 2014). "Former Miss Texas serves in Texas State Guard". San Antonio Express.
^ Associated Press (1 July 2007). "Miss Fort Bend County takes Miss Texas title". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 2007-07-01.
^ a b "Miss Houston named Miss Texas USA". Plainview Daily Herald. 24 June 2006.
^ "Houston woman wins Miss Texas USA title". The Kerville Times. 6 July 1999.
^ "Stephanie Kuehne new Miss Texas". The Paris News. 27 June 1989.
^ a b "Fort Worth woman lands Miss Texas USA title Sunday night". The Paris News. 15 August 1988.
^ Chinn, Surae (April 28, 2017). "Utah woman follows in mother's footsteps, competes for Miss USA title". KTVX. Retrieved November 10, 2019.
^ a b c "Miss Keller will wear crown of Miss Texas USA in '87". The Seguin Gazette-Enterprise. 5 August 1986.
^ "Beauty pageant winner returns to glamour". The Baytown Sun. 5 September 1984.
^ "El Paso Model Miss Texas USA". Del Rio News Herald. 24 July 1984.
^ "Beauty Pinched". The Times-News. 3 August 1983.
^ "Texas USA title won". The Victoria Advocate. 23 August 1982.
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^ a b c d "Miss Abilene wins pageant". The Paris News. 11 August 1981.
^ Speakerman, Carol (18 March 1981). "Miss Texas USA Enjoying 'Good Year' for Texas". The Victoria Advocate.
^ a b c d "El Paso lass claims Miss Texas USA title". The Paris News. 19 August 1980.
^ a b "Miss Texas USA selected". The Taylor Daily Press. 22 August 1978.
^ "Miss Texas USA winners". The Waco Citizen. 4 September 1975.
^ "Diving Accident Kills Beauty Queen". The Montreal Gazette. 8 September 1981.
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^ "Miss Texas Universe named in San Antonio Competition". The Victoria Advocate. 1972-04-17.
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Find out more about Northstar's recent win in the Insight Management category at the MRS Awards. The winning paper used TV production principals to effectively bring a retailer closer to its customers.
News on Northstar's recent nomination for the upcoming MRS Awards in the following categories: Insight Management The Virginia Valentine Award for Cultural Insight.