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-Sharon Murch
"In sixth grade, my daughter suffered from depression and extreme self consciousness. Then she walked into Michael Lushington's theater workshop. Much later Mr. Lushington told me that when she first walked in, he thought a storm had entered the room, and he was intrigued to know what was at the center of it. This is a testimony to his intuitive abilities, and even more than that it is a testimony to his compassion. My daughter has participated in every workshop Mr. Lushington has held since, through middle school and on into high school. It has transformed her life, has given her something that makes life worthwhile, and has transformed her into a lovely and confident young woman always eager to take on new challenges. One of the great things about this workshop is that rather than just throwing the kids up on stage and telling them to play a part, it teaches method acting, which helps the kids to learn more about not only their characters, but themselves, and their lives, all done in an atmosphere of encouragement and acceptance. There are not enough good words I can say to convey how wonderful Michael Lushington is as a teacher, and the tremendous blessing he is to our children."
-parent of CVDAA student
Training for Writers
Many of CVDAA's productions are developed and written by the students in collaboration with an instructor. This creates opportunities for young writers to grow in their craft. Students are encouraged to write and when they do they have the opportunity to see the result of their work realized in performances. All students in our programs are encouraged to think about their work from the writer's perspective and to approach performance creatively and collaboratively.
When CVDAA started its first after school program with a group of fourth and fifth graders at Independent Elementary, a question arose: what material to work on with the students? It's not easy to find material written for young people that's age-appropriate, sounds genuinely like them, has circumstances they can relate to, and which provides enough meaty roles for 20-25 students. The simplest solution seemed to write something new.
So that's what we did.
CVDAA has continued to provide students with the opportunity to write and perform their own work throughout its history. In fact, the majority of the shows we produce were created solely by or in collaboration with our students. After all, who knows what middle school students are going through better than middle school students?
Here's how one of our pieces typically get created:
1) A theme or topic is presented to a group of students
2) Students are asked to either write or improvise a short scene or monologue around that topic
3) The student-written material is reviewed by our staff and workshopped in class
4) Students who express a particular interest in helping to write are mentored and supported by a staff member
5) Additional scenes are fleshed out and added by staff members who have been listening to this particular group of kids, and who can write for their particular "voice"
6) The script is finalized, rehearsed and performed!
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Cesar's Cheese
Cesar's Cheese, began their local cheese company in 2008 by introducing their hand-made, traditional Queso Oaxaca (Wah-HA-ka), a cheese similar to mozzarella. Cesar and Heydi Luis were happy to find that customers at area farmers' markets were wowed by the flavor and, almost five years later, they have begun to produce more varieties, including Manchego, Queso Fresco and more.
Between the tropical mountains and the Pacific Ocean, the State of Oaxaca, Mexico is where Cesar's grandmother nurtured his passion and skill for preparing good food and making cheese. Given the productive soils for cultivating cool- and warm-weather crops, the rural area where Cesar was raised sustains an abundant number of fresh markets to serve households and restaurants that rely on them for fresh ingredients.
A love of cheesemaking
Working in car repair and milking cows since being in Wisconsin, Cesar's love of cheesemaking gave him the determination and motivation to do whatever it would take to begin creating his own cheeses. After graduating from the UW's Wisconsin Master Cheesemaker's Program, Cesar's first cheeses were originally produced in a rented space at aShullsburg, Wisconsin creamery. This made for a very long commute (3+ hours one way) from their Random Lake home, until they found their new space at the Sassy Cow Creamery, near Columbus. As the parents of two children, Cesar and Heydi are enjoying the shorter commute, which has been a big relief, and the shorter drive gives them more time and energy for performing every step of the cheesemaking and packaging process.
Cesar and Heydi are producing their hand-made cheeses four days a week in 600-pound batches, using rBGH-free milk from Sassy Cow farms.
After pumping hundreds of gallons of Sassy Cow milk from the Creamery's bulk tank, Cesar and Heydi begin their day. Queso Oaxaca is in the category of "fresh" cheeses, which are not aged. To maintain a consistent flavor profile while capturing the fresh flavors of the milk, Cesar must be aware of any subtle, seasonal changes in the milk. During this time of year (spring), Cesar says, "When I put the rennet in, then I notice that it takes less time to coagulate. This time of the year is really good for milk, whereas on a really hot day, it takes longer to coagulate because there are less solids in the milk."
Once the milk reaches the correct level of coagulation, the cheese begins to take shape and is then repeatedly pressed to remove the waterywhey. During the final stages of production, the technique for creating Queso Oaxaca requires Cesar to follow a very physical regimen of pulling the cheese, which is over 100 degrees, into small ropes. Forming the traditional-style Queso Oaxaca, Heydi winds the rope into a ball, which can later be sliced for use in recipes, or melted on top of foods. However, the majority of the ropes Heydi finishes are then cut into sticks, or cheese sticks. Cesar explains, "In Oaxaca we don't make it in sticks. When I first tried to sell my cheese in Wisconsin, we sent them to the stores and we found that people didn't want to buy it. They didn't know what to do with it. One day, someone told me—this cheese is good, but I want you to cut it in sticks." After modifying the shape of the cheese to a more familiar form for Wisconsinites, there was an immediate burst of new sales, after which Cesar noticed that more fans were also picking up the traditionally shaped balls if/when the stores were out of the sticks.
Visitors to Sassy Cow are able to watch the cheese being made, and Cesar has attracted a good following of local people who come specifically to buy and taste the cheese immediately after it's removed from the brine, because, he says, "When it first comes out, it still has more of the salt on it, and the next day it's really good, but it's even better when it comes right out of the brine."
The variations in milk composition from Oaxaca and Wisconsin were evident to Cesar. In Mexico, he says, "The milk is usually 50 percent more acidic than Wisconsin-grown milk." Milk from the area of Mexico Cesar is from produces cheeses that are generally more tangy in taste and Cesar admits he's had to play around a bit with the recipe to account for this but that it's something he enjoys doing.
In noting more of the differences in producing cheese in Wisconsin, Cesar remembers having to stoke a wood stove to heat the milk in Mexico, which has given him a deep appreciation for access to the new and state-of-the-art cheesemaking equipment at Sassy Cow Creamery.
Currently, Cesar has started to focus on his Manchego cheese, which is traditionally made entirely with cow's milk in Mexico. Although Manchego cheese's origins can be traced back to Mexico, the Spanish Manchego is more common and contains both cow's and sheep's milk. Cesar recently brought samples of the Manchego to a meeting with Willy Street Co-op Cheese Buyers because he says, "Since Stuart [Mammel, our Cheese Coordinator] knows about cheese, if Stuart doesn't like something, he'll tell you right away, which is great. I like it; you gotta tell people the truth right away." Already available in the stores, Stuart, Patrick, and all of our cheese-mongers are excited to be offering this locally made classic.
They are perhaps even more excited about Cesar's Queso Fresco (a minimally processed, fresh, creamy white cheese with hints of feta and ricotta). Queso Fresco has a salty/sweet profile that is a good choice for melting over foods, stuffing into grilled chilies or as a cooling accompaniment to spicy foods. And to have a locally made option for this cheese is a big plus for the Co-op.
passion and drive
The subject of no less than a dozen articles and blogs in the years since introducing their traditional Oaxacan-style string cheese, Cesar and Heydi's passion and drive to produce their cheeses is a common theme. But, as Cesar adds, "Sometimes people don't understand how hard it is to make the cheese and that we use all-natural products to give people the best." for a visit
If you'd like to visit the Sassy Cow Creamery to watch Cesar and Heydi making their cheese, you can watch them on weekdays from 10:00am until about 2:00pm. Find them at W4192 Bristol Rd. Columbus, WI 53925 or give them a call at 608-837-7766 / 608-445-2010 tofind out more.

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Special election was a waste of time, energy and money
LEBANON, Maine - It may have been the lowest voter turnout in decades.
In fact, just 97 Lebanon residents turned out to vote at Lebanon Elementary School on Feb. 20, a Wednesday, to make the decision to stagger the terms of two new selectmen to the town's three-member board.
To handle the expected crowds the town spent $1,611.26 for nine poll workers plus another $161.90 for two meals for each one.
That's a cost of more than $18 per vote.
Town officials may have thought a lot more people would come out and vote between 6 a.m. and 8 p.m. on a cold February day during a school vacation week and they would need all the help they could muster.
They were wrong.
The vote totals show an average of seven people an hour cast ballots at LES.
The final vote was 104 to stagger the terms, with 32 voting to have both new selectmen installed to three-year terms. Some 40 residents, looking to avoid the rush, voted by absentee ballot.
The reasoning behind the selectmen's decision to have a Special Election instead of just invoking home rule privilege to implement the new board on a staggered basis has never been fully explained that this reader can find.
Maybe they thought they'd be challenged in Superior Court. Maybe they thought someone would file an injunction. Who really knows what they were thinking.
What selectmen finally did say in a Feb. 15 email bulletin was that a "no" vote would not reverse the November outcome, which many residents had thought was the case, which is why Selectperson Laura Bragg argued that the email bulletin should go out during a Feb. 14 selectmen's meeting.
By the way, the state's Home Rule provision notes that "It's the right of a town or city to enact laws that are municipal in nature and that do not frustrate or run counter to a state law and/or which the state has not prohibited it from passing."


Imperium DVD and Blu-ray release date was set for November 1, 2016 and available on Digital HD from Amazon Video and iTunes on August 19, 2016.
Nate is an analyst who has just embarked upon a career in the FBI. His is young and sees the world through the eyes of an idealist, but his assignment to go undercover with an extreme right-wing group seriously tests his conscience and resolve. Surrounded by ambassadors of hateful bigotry, can this agent stay true to what he knows to be right, or will he lose his sense of himself in the process of trying to assimilate?


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Mohamed Mohamud Guled (Gacmadheere), arab. محمد محموغعمدار (ur. 1954) – somalijski polityk, były minister spraw wewnętrznych. 16 grudnia 2008 został mianowany przez prezydenta Abdullahiego Yusufa premierem, czego nie zaakceptował jednak parlament. 24 grudnia 2008 sam zrezygnował z funkcji.

Życiorys
Mohamed Mohamud Guled urodził się w 1954 w dystrykcie Obbia w Somalii. Uczęszczał do szkoły koranicznej w Mudug, a następnie do szkoły średniej w Syrii. Ukończył studia z dziedziny ekonomii i rolnictwa w Rumunii.

Karierę zawodową rozpoczynał jako handlowiec. Wkrótce porzucił jednak interesy na rzecz polityki. Pod koniec lat 80. XX w. był więziony przez somalijskie władze za żądania obalenia dyktatury wojskowej.

W 2000 wziął udział w wyborach prezydenckich, przeprowadzonych w Dżibuti. Przegrał jednak z Abdiqasimem Saladem Hassanem.

Pod koniec 2004 Mohamed Mohamud Guled objął stanowisko ministra robót publicznych i mieszkalnictwa w rządzie premiera Alego Mohammeda Ghediego. 7 lutego 2008 został mianowany ministrem spraw wewnętrznych w jego gabinecie. Stanowisko to zajmował do listopada 2007, kiedy nowym premierem został Nur Hassan Hussein.

14 grudnia 2008 prezydent Abdullahi Yusuf zdymisjonował premiera Nur Hassana Husseina pod zarzutem niekompetencji. Ruchu tego nie zaakceptował parlament, który następnego dnia zdecydowaną większością głosów udzielił premierowi Husseinowi wotum zaufania. 16 grudnia 2008 prezydent Yusuf, wbrew woli parlamentu, mianował Mohameda Mohamuda Guleda nowym szefem rządu. Zgodnie z prawem parlament musi udzielić zgody na dymisję i mianowanie nowego premiera.

24 grudnia 2008 Mohamed Mohamud Guled zrezygnował z funkcji premiera elekta, tłumacząc iż nie chce stanowić przeszkody w procesie pokojowym.

Przypisy

Somalijscy ministrowie
Urodzeni w 1954

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Welcome to Apogeo Spatial
We are updating our site but please enjoy some of our great articles!
Changing Global Risk Perception
By Prof. Hans-Peter Plag, PhD on October 29, 2020
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Chloroethane
Standard sensitisation testing is not feasible for chloroethane since it is a gas.
Standard skin sensitisation testing is not applicable to chloroethane as it exists as a gas.
There are no data available of the sensitizing action of chloroethane in animals.
A case of sensitisation after use of a chloroethane spray was reported in a 66-year old woman, who showed severe and peculiar pattern of eczematous reactions after local anaesthesia with chloroethane spray to remove mollusca contagiosa. Patch tests were performed, examining that the patient suffered from a sensitisation to chloroethane (Aberer and Zonzits, 1989).
Van Ketel (1976) performed patch tests on two patients with eczema. The patch tests were strongly positive for chloroethane, while a third patient suffered an eczematous reaction after the use of chloroethane as a local anaesthetic, indicating that sensitisation to chloroethane can occur. Patch tests on 15 control volunteers were negative.
A punch biopsy taken from a woman with a positive patch test to chloroethane revealed observations consistent with a T-cell-mediated sensitisation reaction (Bircher et al., 1994). Microscopic examination showed marked spongiosis and a lymphohistocytic infiltrate. There was a marked dermal infiltrate of CD3+ T cells (pan T cells), with predominance of CD4+ T cells (helper/suppressor cell subtypes). Most of the cells expressed lymphocyte function-associated antigen. A considerable number of CD1+ Langerhans cells were also found in the epidermis.
However, in view of the frequent use of chloroethane in the past, these effects are probably rare cases.
Bircher, A.J. et al. (1994) Allergic contact dermatitis from ethyl chloride and sensitization to dichlorodifluoromethane. Contact Dermatitis31:41-44 (as cited in ATSDR, 1998)
Van Ketel, W.G. (1976) Allergic contact dermatitis from propellants in deodorant sprays in combination with allergy to ethyl chloride. Contact Dermatitis 2: 115-119 (as cited in ATSDR, 1998)
ATSDR (1998) Toxicological Profile for Chloroethane. U.S. Department of Health and human services, Public Health Service, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
The data is inconclusive.


The likely dependence of NAHR rates on levels of sequence similarity between paralogs suggests that monitoring the evolution of this similarity may inform our understanding of the time-depth of NAHR hotspots. One recent study of NAHR between paralogous human endogenous retrovirus (HERV) proviral sequences, flanking the Y-chromosome Azoospermia Factor a (AZFa) locus that when deleted causes male infertility, provided evidence for several hominid-specific gene conversion events that may have rendered the associated hotspots better substrates for chromosomal rearrangements in humans than in either chimpanzees or gorillas (41). Gene conversion generates signatures of concerted evolution in alignments of comparative sequences (see Fig. 3) and in the AZFa-HERVs these signatures are coincident with the location of the NAHR hotspots. If we continue the "premutation" analogy, homogenizing permutations have occurred on the hominid lineage and become fixed in an ancestral species to modern humans. However, because gene conversion and chromosomal rearrangement reflect the alternative products of a common intermediate, it may be that a recombinogenic sequence motif/structure underpins the association and the increased sequence identity resulting from gene conversion plays only a minor role in determining the frequency of chromosomal rearrangement. Nevertheless, the coincidence of signatures of concerted evolution and recurrent breakpoints of chromosomal rearrangements (mapped at the DNA sequence level) may enable the identification of putative rearrangement hotspots from analysis of comparative sequences from great apes.


A California task force has called for an overhaul of the state's high schools aimed at upgrading courses and strengthening the connection between school and work.
The structure of high-school education should be changed, the panel urged, to give students a broad exposure to core subjects in the 9th and 10th grades and a more focused final two years that would emphasize preparation either for jobs or college.
The task force took primary aim at what the report calls "the weak general-education or 'shopping-mall' curriculum.'' Citing a 1990 study that showed that 48 percent of the state's 10th graders were enrolled in a general-education track even though their career goals called for a college degree, the report says high schools should offer courses that are both more demanding and more flexible.
The report recommends, for example, integrating different subject matter within courses and making classes more individually paced.
Just as the reforms urge educators to treat students individually, Mr. Honig said he expects local school administrators to tailor the recommendations to their own needs.
The state plans 20 regional workshops to inform school officials about the work of the panel, which studied high schools for two years.
The report was a prime focus of last week's annual statewide meeting of school administrators, according to officials, who added that they were pleased with the panel's conclusions.
An integrated and upgraded core curriculum for 9th and 10th graders, after which 11th and 12th graders would be required to choose a program major combining classroom studies with applied courses and "field experiences'' that would build on basic subjects while providing career- or college-related skills.
An overhaul of teaching strategies designed to prompt students to solve problems, criticize their own work, work in teams, and master skills or crafts. The new classroom strategy would be linked to a new standards system setting benchmarks for each unit of study.
A new assessment system measuring students' thinking and problem-solving strategies, with an emphasis on application of knowledge. The assessments would be tied to the new quality standards.
A stronger support program for all students, new administrative efforts to monitor and encourage student performance, and broader responsibilities for teachers and administrators.
A group of high-school principals who have studied the recommendations said they were encouraged that the report reaffirmed the role of comprehensive high schools, while calling for increased attention on faculty planning and for a shift of the focus of education to application over recall and to coaching over lecturing.
The principals listed several concerns, however, beginning with the need for additional funding to implement the massive changes. They also asked for help from the state education department and university system in making complementary changes in college-entrance requirements and teacher certification, and in linking high-school curricula with middle schools, higher education, business, and social services.
Despite the challenges, however, officials said they were encouraged by the response to the panel's work.
Mr. Gordon, who worked as a staff member for the task force, said school administrators are in general agreement on the report's themes.
Similarly, a major school-reform law enacted in Tennessee last month will eliminate the general track for high-school students and strengthen vocational programs.
Commission officials in Washington said last week that nearly a dozen other states have established panels to implement the recommendations or have legislative or executive efforts to enact parts of the group's work.
"As money gets tighter, state governments are looking for ways to make sense out of their education system,'' said Betsy Brown Ruzzi, the assistant director of the commission.


Low carb Cinnamon Dippers are so yummy, and perfect for keeping your holiday appetizers low carb and your waistline trim. It's also the answer to Kathryn's request for a good alternative to enjoying this low carb cookie dough dip recipe.
The Cinnamon Dippers are a Fuel Pull on the Trim Healthy Mama plan, which means that you can enjoy a nice stash of these with S, E, or Fuel Pull toppings. How's that for versatile! And my very favorite part is how easy these are to make.
I start with 2-3 Joseph's Lavash breads, or Aldi's low carb flatbreads, and cut them into a nice dipping strip shape with a sharp knife. Lay them out on a pan, and brush with a tiny bit of melted butter.
We like our cinnamon-sugar [free] mix to be pretty cinnamon-y, so I do about a half and half mix. If you enjoy it sweeter, try 2 T. of erythritol, xylitol, Truvia, or sugar free sweetener of your choice to a salt shaker, and add about a T of cinnamon. Shake to blend, and then top your dipping strips with the mix.
I baked these at 350* for about 8 minutes to get a nice golden brown and crispy chip.
Simple and quick cinnamon sugar [free] dippers are fantastic and versatile...pair them with any type of snack or appetizer. They are a Trim Healthy Mama Fuel Pull recipe!
Cut each flatbread into 16 pieces with a sharp knife by cutting into 4 equal strips, and then cut each strip into 4 equal pieces. You may stack the flatbread up and cut them all at once to save time.
Brush crisps with a very small amount of melted butter to help the sugar [free] cinnamon mix stick.
Blend cinnamon and sugar, adjusting the ratio to your liking. I like to blend them in a salt shaker or spice jar.
Bake for 8-10 minutes, until a nice golden brown. They will continue to crisp up as they cool.
I'm a little bit lonely this week on Trim Healthy Tuesday, as Stacy is working on something new over at Stacy Makes Cents. The great news is that Stacy AND Trim Healthy Tuesdays are both working toward some wonderful changes over the next month. Trim Healthy Tuesday is still going to continue. So stick around, and I'll keep you posted!
In the mean time, please enjoy, link up, and don't let me be lonely over here on Trim Healthy Tuesdays!
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Thank you for hosting each week. Even when I can't link up, I enjoy reading others links and your recipes as well!
Thank you, Rashel! I really enjoy THT link up posts too…so many fun things to try!
yummy, been looking for something crispy and sweet. what is the amazing looking dip pictured with them?
Can you post the recipe for the dip pictured too? I love sweet dips like that. The crackers look delicious!
I'd like to try this recipe, but here in Germany you cannot buy low carb lavash or flatbread. Soo sad!
would carry it if you asked?
My gosh, this sounds awesome! I love recipes in which the first ingredient is packaged, processed food!
Thank you, Gwen, for hosting this and for sharing my pie recipe this week! I hope that those who try it enjoy it as much as I did.
I have been looking for Aldi's low carb flatbread but I cant seem to find it. Does it say low carb?? They only had two kinds at my local store, a whole wheat version and a regular one.
It's a high fiber, whole grain flatbread. The numbers are on par with Joseph's I believe.
Think low carb tortillas would work ok?
Thank you for all of your yummy delicious recipes! Man, I so appreciate them! 🙂 I just have one question about this one though, how in the world do you spread ONE TEASPOON of butter over all these pieces! lol I feel like I need a spray bottle!?!? lol 😉 TIA!
It's one teaspoon of butter per serving to keep you in FP mode. 🙂 You can switch and use egg whites if you want, but butter is yummier. I just use a brush and spread it thin!
Ah…pan color can definitely affect this. I baked on white parchment. Darker pans heat up a lot faster. You'll want to watch them!
So can I eat the entire piece of lavash bread and all of the cookie dough dip in one sitting?
Ha! Probably not a great idea, since the entire piece of lavash is a little more carbs than what you'd want with an S snack. I'd stick to half. 🙂 But on the bring side: your snack for later is already made!
How long can the Cinnamon dippers be stored? Does it make a difference if they are refrigerated or not for longer storage? I need a snack I can make ahead and easily take with me on a long summer trip that includes a conference where I won't easily have access to refrigerated snacks.
I store them in a sealed, dry container at room temp for extended periods. 🙂 I'd feel comfortable taking them on a trip as a snack!


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Q: Summary statistics: Multiple joins and group by I have a sidewalk inspection system:
SIDEWALK_INSP

   INSP_ID
----------
         1
         2
         3

SIDEWALK_DEFICIENCY

    DEF_ID      INSP_ID   DEF_LENGTH
----------   ----------   ----------
        10            1           .5
        11            1            1
        12            1          1.5
        13            2            2
        14            2          2.5

SIDEWALK_OBSERVATION

    OBS_ID      INSP_ID   OBS_LENGTH   OBS_TYPE
----------   ----------   ----------   --------
       100            2            5      a
       101            2            6      b
       102            2            7      b
       103            2            8      b
       104            3            9      a
       105            3           10      a
       106            3           11      b

create table sidewalk_insp (insp_id number(10));
insert into sidewalk_insp values (1);
insert into sidewalk_insp values (2);
insert into sidewalk_insp values (3);
commit;

create table sidewalk_deficiency (
    def_id number(10),
    insp_id number(10),
    def_length number(10,2));
insert into sidewalk_deficiency values (10,1,.5);
insert into sidewalk_deficiency values (11,1,1);
insert into sidewalk_deficiency values (12,1,1.5);
insert into sidewalk_deficiency values (13,2,2);
insert into sidewalk_deficiency values (14,2,2.5);
commit;

create table sidewalk_observation (
    obs_id number(10),
    insp_id number(10),
    obs_length number(10,2),
    obs_type varchar(5));
insert into sidewalk_observation values (100,2,5,'a');
insert into sidewalk_observation values (101,2,6,'b');
insert into sidewalk_observation values (102,2,7,'b');
insert into sidewalk_observation values (103,2,8,'b');
insert into sidewalk_observation values (104,3,9,'a');
insert into sidewalk_observation values (105,3,10,'a');
insert into sidewalk_observation values (106,3,11,'b');
commit;

I want to calculate the following in a single query:

*

*Length of deficiencies (per inspection)

*Length of observations, where observation type = 'a' (per inspection)

*Length of observations, regardless of type (per inspection)

The output would look like this:
+---------+------------+-------------------+----------------+
| INSP_ID | DEF_LENGTH | OBS_TYPE_A_LENGTH | OBS_ALL_LENGTH |
+---------+------------+-------------------+----------------+
|       1 |          3 |                   |                |
|       2 |        4.5 |                 5 |             26 |
|       3 |            |                19 |             30 |
+---------+------------+-------------------+----------------+

How can I create this query?

A: Here you go:
select
  si.insp_id, sd.def_length, so.obs_type_a_length, so.obs_all_length
from
  sidewalk_insp si
  left join
    (select insp_id, sum(def_length) as def_length from sidewalk_deficiency group by insp_id) sd
    on (si.insp_id = sd.insp_id)
  left join
    (select insp_id, sum(case when obs_type = 'a' then obs_length else 0 end) as obs_type_a_length,
            sum(obs_length) as obs_all_length from sidewalk_observation group by insp_id) so
    on (si.insp_id = so.insp_id)
order by
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Pelli Clarke Pelli to Design Weston Urban's Frost Bank Tower
by Robert Rivard September 16, 2015 October 7, 2016
Mckinney Olive in uptown Dallas Texas. © Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects
Weston Urban and its development partner, KDC of Dallas have chosen Pelli Clarke Pelli of New Haven, Conn. to build the new Frost Bank Tower, the first new office tower on the San Antonio skyline in 25 years. The 85-member firm is internationally respected and recognized with office towers in cities from New York to Hong Kong and more than 15 built projects in Texas.
Ground breaking is expected to begin in Fall 2016 with completion planed for 2018 or 2019.
"We are very selective in the projects we pursue, principally ones that are transformative and where we can make a real contribution," said PCP Principal Bill Butler, 58, who was born in downtown San Antonio at the Nix Hospital and remembers as a boy accompanying his father on trips to the Frost Motor Bank. "We want to be game changers and obviously this project in San Antonio is a game changer. I can't tell you how thrilled I am to be part of this."
Alamo Architects will work with Pelli Clarke Pelli on the tower and surrounding streetscape, which Weston Urban CEO Randy Smith has repeatedly stressed is key to designing and building "the truly memorable building San Antonio deserves and that will help transform our downtown.
"People focus on the top 30 feet of a tower and what that looks like when it's the bottom 30 feet, what people see from the street, that really matters," Smith said.
Among a strong list of finalists, Pelli Clarke Pelli impressed the selection team the most, especially when the firms' representatives arrived in San Antonio with an oversized, hand-crafted paper model of downtown that showed every surrounding building right down to the roof air conditioning units. A collection of different shaped towers were used to show the selection team the range of choices that could form a starting point for deciding what kind of tower best suited the stakeholders and the city.
Contextual model of downtown San Antonio. Courtesy of Pelli Clark Pelli.
Irby Hightower. Courtesy photo.
"It was a thorough process, and one that (Principal) Irby Hightower at Alamo Architects was instrumental in leading," Smith said. "We were looking for a firm that was good cultural fit, a firm with people who shared our values, and a firm that would help us establish from the very start that this project would not be business as usual, that just okay is no longer okay in San Antonio. We found that firm."
Hightower said the first task for Alamo Architects was to lead the development partners through the selection process.
"It was an intense process, but it was a pretty easy decision to select Pelli Clarke Pelli," Hightower said. "All five firms were extremely qualified, all had great tower work, and most were international. There might have been debate over who was number two, but there was no disagreement over who was number one."
Hightower said his firm's focus now will be working with the New Haven firm on the street level and "developing a community-wide design for downtown, where we activate the first floor of the building and the surrounding area."
"Pelli Clarke Pelli draws inspiration from their surroundings to create iconic works of architecture, sometimes understated, sometimes bold, but always sensitive," Hightower said. "This is the right firm to help San Antonio realize the first downtown office tower of the twenty-first century."
Butler said the firm was equally interested in the design for San Pedro Creek and expects the new Frost Bank Tower serves as a centerpiece along its path through downtown.
William E Butler. Courtesy of Pelli Clark Pelli.
"We very much want to be part of the conversation about San Pedro Creek," Butler said. "We think this building will be a critical element there. This project will bring a major corporate headquarters right to the part of downtown that needs it. It's a coup for San Antonio to retain such a historic business that has ben part of the city's story for so long, and to do it in a way that solves so many problems for Frost Bank, for the City of San Antonio and for everyone eager to see this side of downtown come back to life."
Frost Bank's leadership expressed enthusiasm for the firm's selection.
"We are really supportive of Weston Urban's choice of Pelli Clarke Pelli. They have a great reputation, and it's exciting for San Antonio to have the first new office tower in more than 25 years be designed by a world-renowned architecture firm," said Phillip D. Green, president of Cullen/Frost Bankers. Green will succeed CEO Dick Evans in March, who is retiring after a 45-year career with Frost Bank. "It's a wonderful step forward for the city as it moves ahead in its downtown development."
Green said Frost Bank, which will be headquartered in 250,000 of the new tower's 400,000 sq. ft., is confident the Weston Urban, Pelli Clarke Pelli and Alamo Architects team will produce a structure worthy of the Frost Bank name and heritage.
"It's Weston Urban's building, they and KDC are the developers, but just by the nature of this deal, they have been very collaborative with us, recognizing the branding component for the Frost Bank. We are very comfortable and confident this will turn out wonderfully for everyone involved," Green said.
The Rivard Report has assembled images of office towers (see galley above) designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli that have been built in U.S. cities and abroad. We invite readers to post comments on any towers they find the most striking, or that they believe might inform the Frost Bank Tower design.
Fred W Clarke. Courtesy photo.
Pelli Clarke Pelli has a considerable body of work already visible in Texas cities. One of the firm's co-founder and a senior principal, Fred Clarke, will be the lead partner on the project. He was born in El Campo, Texas, graduated from the University of Texas, and taught at the Rice University School of Architecture in Houston, where Butler was one of his students. Later, when Pelli Clarke Pelli was founded in 1977, Butler became one of the early hires. He later taught at the Yale School of Architecture for 14 years.
"We are thrilled and honored to be chosen as architects for the new Frost Tower. This transformative project will extend the commercial district of Houston Street to the vibrant redevelopment of San Pedro Creek," Clarke said. "As a Texas native, and with my business partner Bill Butler, a San Antonio native, we hope to embrace the Texan spirit, respond to the uniqueness of San Antonio and create a symbol for the city's tercentennial, as well as the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of Frost Bank."
According to a press release issued Wednesday, "Pelli Clarke Pelli has been a leader in environmentally sustainable design for over a decade. The firm's designs included sustainable strategies even before the U.S. Green Building Council established its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program and its work includes the country's first residential tower to achieve LEED Platinum, the program's highest rating. The firm has designed and developed towers across the world from the World Financial Center in New York to the Petronas Towers in Malaysia."
Butler said he lived in San Antonio until the fifth grade when his family moved to New Orleans, but he made regular visits here to see his father until his death 10 years ago, he said. His first outing as a newborn, he said, was with his parents to the Mexican Manhattan restaurant at 110 Soledad St.
"My father was an insurance broker, and he had his account at Frost Bank," Butler said. "I still remember trips to the drive-through bank on Broadway. As a child I remember the Tower Life building being illuminated in different colors that told you what the weather was going to be the next day."
Butler and others from the firm will spend several days a month in San Antonio, starting as soon as they begin their work.
"I think residential sounds like the best way to bring people back into the center city, which is what we see happening all over the world in cities," Butler said. "Residential also is what will bring San Pedro Creek back to life. San Antonio has an incredibly rich history and culture that no other Texas city can claim. That has to be the foundation to build on and attract people who want to be surrounded by that history and culture every day."
I asked Butler to talk about some of the firm's work in Texas.
"We have a number of projects in Texas, including the University of Texas campus," Butler said. "Fred Clarke was my professor at Rice. We did the UT Campus Master Plan, the Seay Psychology Building and the Melinda and Bill Gates Computer Complex. We also did the McKinney and Olive/Crescent Tower in Dallas. We have perhaps 18 built buildings in Texas, I even worked on the revamping of the UTSA campus with Boone Powell (principal and founder of Ford, Powell & Carson). I still get a handwritten Christmas card from him every year, and look forward to seeing him again. He's walking history of San Antonio."
KDC, Weston Urban's development partner on the project and a leading developer of major tower projects throughout the state and beyond, will add considerable experience to the team, given San Antonio's lack of tower construction for more than 25 years.
"KDC is very excited about the opportunity to work with Frost, Weston Urban and Pelli Clarke Pelli to develop a new headquarters that will not only symbolize the bank's dominant place in the market but also be a proud landmark for San Antonio," said KDC Executive Vice President Don Mills.
Butler said Pelli Clarke Pelli first learned of the Weston Urban project in the course of routine Internet searches for new projects.
"We poke around on the Internet and things pop up, and we found out about the Weston Urban project by reading the Rivard Report," Butler said. "So thanks for that."
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The question of (our) time
The field of mobility is governed by opposite priorities and concepts: On the one hand, the old credo that our civic liberties should include the right to unrestricted road use; on the other, the new ambition to reclaim urban space and transform it into a livable green ecosystem. The truth is to be found somewhere in between, for sure. But where exactly?
From today's perspective, the world of mobility of the economic boom years after WWII looks wonderfully simple: At that time, an international leitmotif was the 'car-friendly city' – a concept for which the book of the German architect and urban planner Hans Bernhard Reichow provided clear and simple policy recommendations, which boil down to a somewhat provocative maxim: All power to the car! In concrete terms this meant that all urban planning measures were to cater to the free flow of automobile traffic, even if this involved substantial encroachments on existing urban building structures.
Serious doubts regarding this largely one-dimensional view emerged only following the publication in 1963 of the so-called Buchanan report "Traffic in towns", which distinguished between necessary and optional car use. The British authors of the study advocated measures that would systematically restrain those optional journeys, the extreme increase of which they saw as one of the main causes for the traffic problems that were widespread already at that time – and growing. Moreover, the report was ahead of its time in proposing specific recommendations for context-dependent capacity restrictions and speed limits as well as drastic traffic restrictions in areas that were considered especially worthy of protection.
From car-friendly city to city-friendly traffic
The subsequent years saw the gradual emergence of what is basically the opposite idea to the car-friendly city: the concept of city-friendly traffic. However, several decades passed before the new school of thought actually was on a par with the old faction. The great extent to which auto-mobility had become a symbol of personal freedom, especially in the industrialized countries, became particularly visible during the Arab oil embargo in 1973 and 1974. In the US, for instance, there were incidents where drivers waiting in line at petrol stations shot or stabbed each other to death. And in Germany, a series of four car-free Sundays and a six-month period of generalized speed limits gave birth to the slogan that was later to become the rallying cry, so to speak, of a very vocal civil movement fighting for their automobile rights: "Free roads for free citizens!"
Fortunately, our mobile society has made one or the other step forward. Since the start of the 21 century at the latest, hardly anybody still thinks that yesterday's recipes could solve the problems of today and tomorrow. Such a belief has been defeated by the sheer magnitude, urgency and variety of today's challenges. Experts expect, for instance, that 90 percent of future population growth will happen in cities, especially as, since 2008, the number of people living in urban areas worldwide surpasses the number living in rural areas. And higher population density obviously leads to more concentrated traffic flows with the corresponding negative impacts. A decline in the quality of life is only one aspect of the problem. Much easier to quantify in euros and cents is another effect: Extrapolations show that in Germany alone, there is an average of 1,000 tailbacks every day, causing an overall economic loss of roughly €100 billion per year.
Many evolutionary steps – and one true revolution
Even more alarming, however, are the scenarios relative to the impact of climate change. While among conspiracy theorists, the causes and effects of climate change may still be contested, they have largely ceased to be controversial among leading scientists. The latter widely agree that the consequences for our planet will be disastrous if we do not succeed in drastically reducing the amount of man-made greenhouse gas emissions. Against this alarming background, the importance of environmental thinking has risen strongly over the past years also in the area of mobility, which by the way accounts for more than a quarter of global energy consumption. A 'nice-to-have" approach has long since turned into an absolute necessity.
Urban traffic in Berlin: The way in which we are moving about on our streets is in for a profound change.
But no matter how far-reaching the developments that urbanization and climate change have already triggered or will sooner or later call for… most changes are still of the evolutionary kind. One true revolution is already in the making, however: Automated and connected driving will probably cause a more radical transformation of personal mobility than any other development since the invention of the automobile more than 130 years ago. The way in which we are moving about on our streets is in for a profound change – and with it the layout and appearance of our cities in their efforts to adapt to the mobility habits of the next generation.
An important point is that more people will be mobile: Just think of all those who, today, are not able or allowed to take the wheel themselves because they are too young, too old, or temporarily unfit to drive. To protect our cities from a potential flood of autonomous taxis, we need innovative public mass transit services that are efficient and convenient enough to compete with the new mobility modes.
Unconditional support for holistic solutions
Among the new parameters facing today's traffic planners, futurologist Matthias Horx counts also certain deep-reaching changes in the motives that are behind our need to be mobile. "Over the course of human history, our reasons to move about have repeatedly changed in important ways. In the beginning we were all nomads, but later mobility became the privilege of aristocrats as well as an attribute of traveling craftsmen and tradespeople. With the onset of the industrial age, mobility was mainly an opportunity to gain personal or professional advantages. And in our present 'knowledge society' we are faced with a complex intertwined set of motives that is currently rearranging itself once again. Hence it is a mistake to believe that our desire to be mobile could always be met in the same old ways."
The interaction of several mega-trends requires not only the integration of the different transport systems, but also close cooperation between the main players who are shaping these systems. Only if municipal authorities, mobility providers, car manufacturers and infrastructure specialists keep working together, they will arrive at solutions that turn challenges into chances. In an interview given the ITS Magazine in early 2011, Dr. Martin Zimmermann, then Head of Strategy for Daimler AG, unconditionally supported the development of holistic solutions: "To state one thing clearly: We welcome the trend towards intermodality, and we support it wherever we can. A challenge as huge as ensuring sustained urban mobility can only be properly mastered in the long term through close cooperation."
High time to define new answers to new questions
But what does all this mean, in concrete terms, for the position that our mobile society is going to take in the wide field between the opposite poles, i.e. the old credo that our civic liberties should include the right to unrestricted road use, and the new ambition to reclaim urban space and transform it into a livable green ecosystem? The truth is to be found somewhere in between, for sure. Whoever wants to learn more must listen to those who really have something to say about the matter, including some skeptical voices like that of Professor Dr. Christoph Bernhardt of the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space, who arrived at a sobering conclusion in an essay recently published in the Studies in Contemporary History journal: "The car-friendly city is an un-dead concept – interred long ago as an urban planning model, but still very present in real-life society."
We, as the road traffic experts of Yunex Traffic, are getting a different picture. In our experience, many top-level players have long since understood that it is high time to define new answers to new questions. In this special edition, four of these thought-leaders are setting forth their position:
Henrik Falk, CEO of HOCHBAHN AG in Hamburg
Oliver Schmerold, CEO of the Austrian motoring club ÖAMTC
Professor Dr. Achim Kampker, CEO of StreetScooter GmbH, an affiliated company of Deutsche Post DHL Group
Olivier Reppert, CEO of car2go
We wish you an inspiring read and hope that you will let us know about your views on the matter. Just send us an e-mail to magazine@siemens.com.
Peter Rosenberger, a journalist in Bodman-Ludwigshafen
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Am I my Map? Cartography and Reworking Identity
Post author By nirvikthapa
Post date Oct 7, 2020
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We live in states as docile citizens and take a lot of things for granted. There are many facets which directly affect our nation that we have never even thought about. Maps are one of them.
The very creation of a map entails conceptualisation of borders and their representation. That is why maps are called 'projections'. The idea is to take an orange peel (originally spherical) and spread it flat, it can never fit neatly into a rectangle without stretching, cutting and bending it. When an n-dimensional globe is reduced to a 2 dimensional image on paper, it will lose its precision. We do this exercise with the orange peel on a global scale (quite literally) whenever we make maps.
We use maps in our daily lives. States use them to assert dominance and demarcate territory. In the process, we implicitly agree that the word 'projection' allows for distortions. On top of that, we understand that distortions are acceptable in any form of representation. The question here is exactly which distortions are we willing to accept?
Knowing this, it is unfathomable that borders are sort of a given. The more robust your border, the more secure your national identity. This is why soldiers get stationed to harsh climates, fight over land which is uninhabitable (as in the case of Ladakh) and countries use their maps to assert influence. The question to ask is why does your national identity depend on a border you have never seen?
We are all products of different identities– caste, class, gender, race; it's just a matter of context which identity gets called upon at what time. With the nation state, the identity that gets called upon most often is that of the citizen. As Sankaran Krishna brings up in his work, Cartographic Anxiety, While we don't relinquish our religious, linguistic or regional identity, they are rendered vestigial, at least for the time being. Cartography creates an 'India' on paper while simultaneously conversations, laws and political mechanisms create the 'Indian' in our minds. The existence of one serves as reinforcement for the other.
This conversation doesn't happen in a vacuum; India has experienced threats to its borders from Pakistan, Nepal and China in the past couple of months. These are intrinsically tied to cartographic representation as maps become important for both escalation of conflict and its eventual disengagement relevant in the current context.
Pakistan's new map, as explained by Prime Minister Imran Khan, shows the aspirations of its people as well as the people of Kashmir. For India, these aspirations mean showing the Indian territories of Jammu, Kashmir, Ladakh and parts of Gujarat as disputed. The new map came as a response to India's inclusion of areas like parts of POK and Gilgit-Baltistan in its own November 2019 map. While Pakistan claims to stand for the Kashmiri cause, India has called this battle of the maps "an exercise in political absurdity." The map here is defining the state's position but it's also defining what national matters are because it defines where the nation begins and ends quite physically in a political imagination.
In the case of Nepal, the new issue of the Indian map of November 2019 was exacerbated by another issue– the virtual inauguration of a road to Lipulekh by the Indian defence minister in May 2020. Nepal claimed that at least 17 kms of this road fell on its land. The issue gained traction in Nepali domestic politics as it saw protests with #BackOffIndia trending on social media. In the following month of June, Nepal's Parliament approved a revised map showing the disputed areas of Kalapani, Lipulekh and Limpiyadhura as its own.
The root of the Nepal problem can be tied back to different interpretations of the Sugauli Treaty of 1816 which demarcates the origin of the Mahakali river as the natural boundary. The countries differ on the point of origin. We have inherited borders drawn by British colonial powers. India is anxious to cement them in areas such as the western front, and contest them at other fronts.
India also shares a 3488 km long border with China. It is one of the longest disputed borders in the world. The current standoff at Galwan Valley deals, among other things, in occupying land that the two nations perceive to be theirs. It is a game of perceptions where ground reality matters little, simply because it would mean one side or the other giving up their claim.
The three instances seen through this lens tell us one thing– there is a connect between military confrontation, people's stance and map-making.
Nations can allow their maps to engulf more territories but never to shrink. Looking at India and its neighbours, redrawing the map must be seen in light of people's opinion and diplomatic arcs. Bookings Fellow Constantino Xavier said in an interview to Scroll "India cannot afford to think of permanent friends anymore in its neighbourhood."
In conjunction to this question of maps, we need to ask ourselves if we are taking a top-down view of the border. Does the map matter beyond the concerns of the state for border populations, especially in the case of an open border like India and Nepal? While the focus was on India, the conversation around borders and maps is larger. Questions of identity become important in dealing with refugee crises, in camps deliberately placed outside legal boundaries and in treating people as foreign, alien and different.
Many mechanisms are used to reinforce our citizenship. The map is one of them, it imprints a visual image in our mind of where we belong. This is why people in Nepal protest Indian encroachment, and Indians break TVs at a call to boycott Chinese products in the climate of the standoff. Maps show you the state as a natural, ideal entity. By placing troops, defiling natural features and building walls among others, the state seeks to fit this ideal.
Sanya is a student of History, International Relations, and Media Studies at Ashoka University.
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When the Music Dies – anglojęzyczny utwór azerskiej wokalistki Səbinə Babayevej, który reprezentował Azerbejdżan podczas 57. Konkursu Piosenki Eurowizji w 2012 roku w Baku.

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Utwór "When the Music Dies" opowiada o dramatycznej historii miłosnej piosenkarki. Kompozycja zawiera tradycyjne azerskie instrumenty, takie jak kamancza i bałaban oraz lokalne instrumenty perkusyjne – davul i ghawal.

Produkcja
Autorami utworu i tekstu są: szwedzki kompozytor, muzyk i producent muzyczny Anders Bagge, wokalistka i autorka tekstów Sandra Bjurman, szwedzki kompozytor i gitarzysta Stefan Örn oraz Johan Kronlund. Örn i Bjurman byli także autorami kompozycji "Running Scared", która wygrała Konkurs Piosenki Eurowizji 2011. Przy produkcji kompozycji pracowali także czołowi azerscy muzycy: Oqtay Şərifov, Sərxan Vahabov, Şirzad Fətəliyev, Yaşar Baxış i Alim Qasımov.

13 kwietnia opublikowano azerskojęzyczną wersję utworu – "Gəl", której tekst napisał Teymur Məmmədov. Poza tym, zaprezentowano jazzową oraz akustyczną wersję z dwiema gitarami, które według Məmmədova stworzyły niesamowitą atmosferę intymności i delikatności.

Podczas konferencji prasowej 57. Konkursu Piosenki Eurowizji przedstawiciel fanów Afryki Południowej Roy Van Der Merwe wręczył Babayevej płytę z afrykanerską wersję utworu nagraną przez Cole Van Dais.

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Oficjalny teledysk do "When the Music Dies" miał swoją premierę 19 marca 2012 roku w programie azerskiego nadawcy publicznego İctimai TV – Yeni Gün.

Konkurs Piosenki Eurowizji 2012
17 marca 2012 roku "When the Music Dies" zostało wybrane przez İctimai TV na propozycję z Azerbejdżanu na 57. Konkurs Piosenki Eurowizji, który za sprawą zwycięstwa duetu Ell & Nikki odbył się w Baku.

W sobotę, 26 maja 2012 roku Babayeva wystąpiła w finale z "When the Music Dies" jako 13. w kolejności. Utwór zdobył 150 punktów, co przełożyło się na 4. miejsce.

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Secretary Ben Carson to Graduates: "We Need Healers!"
Divine Mercy University (DMU) celebrated the 17th Graduation Mass and Commencement Exercises on May 18th, 2018, with 45 new masters and doctoral graduates from the Institute for the Psychological Sciences (IPS).
Most Reverend Michael F. Burbidge, from the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia, was the principal celebrant of the Graduation Mass and honored guest. DMU President, Fr. Charles Sikorsky, L.C., preached the homily and offered his words of encouragement to the graduating students.
"You have a very special calling and to be faithful to that calling. The Gospel gives us the key: 'Remain in me, as I remain in you.' If we remain attached to the Word of God, to the vine of Christ and his love, his mercy, his grace – we can do anything. We can overcome all human limitations. We realize we have a big mission and we also have a fear: are we going to be able to do something about this? This Gospel gives us great reasons to hope and to trust in the Lord to overcome that fear."
The Honorary Degree Recipient and 2018 Commencement Speaker was Dr. Benjamin S. Carson, United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Carson, who has a long and distinguished career in medicine and public service, shared with graduates his dedication to helping others and protecting human dignity throughout his professional career.
"I believe you have been blessed by a tremendous foundation from this great institution. Through a Christian framework, you are able to go about your life's work and God's work through you. If we are to help people live a full life, flourishing according to God's will, that is what it will take."
Carson addressed some of the real needs of this country, including mental illness and poverty. He encouraged the graduates to "continue to train harder than everybody else, continue your search for excellence. God has prepared you for the next step, but by no means does that mean learning stops with a degree. This should be a source of joy – a lifelong education."
Dr. Peter Martin, IPS Class of 2009, was honored with the 2018 Distinguished Alumni Award, bestowed upon an alumnus who has shown great dedication and leadership in his field. He reflected on two characteristics of the mercy of God, that God is unwavering and has tender compassion, and how these two qualities integrated into the life of a therapist are essential elements in the vocation of healing.
He shared that following graduation, there are many important life experiences ahead. "You [graduates] will learn more about your calling to heal than your academic training could have possibly equipped you before today. Embrace the sometimes challenging years of transformation to come in your work with your clients and grow in wisdom and virtue in the Lord as his faithful disciple."
The 2018 graduates embark on their unique mission to accompany those who are suffering, to be present to those in need and to share the insights regarding the human person with everyone they encounter. For highlight photos of the 2018 Graduation Mass & Commencement Exercises, view here. For the full Livestream of the ceremony, view here.
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Home Lifestyle Celebrity Killings: Nigeria is experiencing ethic cleansing, says Wole Soyinka
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A lot of people have spoken on the Benue Killings, stating their facts, expressing sadness, and whispering solutions.
The Diety of English himself, Wole Soyinka, has voiced this in a way that is best understood with calm and perhaps a literature book.
For people like me who don't understand the word 'ethic', it refers to a set of moral principles, especially ones relating to or affirming a specified group, field, or form of conduct.
Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has said Nigeria is on a terminal nose-dive and that its pilot, who he noted is missing, must cry for international help as many had advised.
Soyinka, who stated this in a statement he issued on Sunday titled, "May Day! May Day!! May Day!!!," in commemoration of the 2018 Workers' Day described the ongoing killings in the country as "ethic cleansing."
The critic, who said May Day, that he uttered thrice, signified a distress call, adding that long before its adoption for that function, however, and more traditionally, there did exist Labour (or Workers') Day, dedicated to the entitlement of workers to the value and dignity of their labour.
He noted that the Nigerian constituency was left to determine which attribution – or both, or none – was deafeningly clamorous on May 1, 2018.
Soyinka stated, "No matter, one feels it a duty to call the attention to the painful convergence of both appropriations. Could such a co-option serve equally as summons for a last-chance, eleventh hour reprieve?"
The celebrated playwright also drew what he termed 'eerie parallels' in the country's current situation to a "certain May Day disorder, one in which that distress call was never heard."
He further likened the present state of things in Nigeria to the Aeroflot Flight 593 of September 28, 1994 in which all passengers died because the captain unprofessionally left the pilot's seat for his family members while he went to salute the passengers.
Soyinka said, "After preliminary official denials, the undeniable – and tragically inappropriate factor of the crash was formally acknowledged – a laissez-faire, unprofessional conduct with human lapses, among which nepotism – by that, or any other name-loomed large. The captain was not even in the pilot's seat – others were! They were the pilot's family – mostly his children. The family member who actually begun the spiral of disaster by pulling the wrong control leaver was – the Captain's son, to whom his even younger daughter, some moments earlier, had yielded the controls. The pilot's seat had been turned into a family game of musical chairs.
"Where was the Captain? Somewhere along the aisle, saluting the passengers – all quite proper, and indeed encouraged by regulations. He had placed the plane on auto-pilot – just as this nation has been for some time – so he walked between the seats, dispensing and acknowledging greetings – it was a long flight to Hong Kong, after all.
"The plane went into a sharp turn after the wrong lever was pulled, and the auto-pilot disengaged. The original flight pattern was annulled -does that echo a campaign manifesto? – and the plane was now in unqualified hands. It took ages for the pilot to regain his control seat as some passengers were already tumbling from their seats into the aisle and he had to fight his way through bodily obstacles. All that, from reconstruction of events.
"There has been no sign of willing, while the screwed-up plane is now in its corkscrew dive. Even if this captain regains his seat before the crash, it is open season whether or not, like SUV Flight 593, it will not stall, and head straight for Zuma rockface. Strangers are in control in the cockpit. Put simply, the captain is missing. The rockface is in right in our faces."
He further called on President Muhammadu Buhari to order all land usurpers in the affected towns and villages across the country to vacate the forcefully occupied lands within 48 hours.
Soyinka urged him to order the military and the police to treat illegal land occupiers as terrorists wherever they were found.
He said, "Give a nationwide order to all land-usurpers in the affected towns and villages across the nation to quit those forcefully occupied lands within a forty-eight hours deadline.
"Issue orders to the military and police that, wherever illegal occupiers are found, they should be meted the same treatment as are accorded terrorists. Instruct all agencies that, once cleared of usurpers, the rightful occupants should be escorted back to their farmsteads and villages and provided maximum protection."
Saying that the government must go beyond arresting a token handful of herders caught with arms, he added that there were still hundreds of them in the forests.
He added, "It is not enough to back the anti-open grazing laws, so late in the day, but we shall leave that for later. Right now, the violated and dispossessed demand restitution, and with no further delay or subterfuge. All available forces should be deployed to right a hideous, unprecedented wrong that has left the nation drowning in blood – we simply cannot continue one day longer to endure this forceful feeding of human blood.
"The plain expression is "ethnic cleansing" and we must not beat around the bush. The shade of Rwanda hangs over the nation. Afterwards, we can move into reckoning. This spells meticulous investigation, identifying the high-placed sponsors within this nation, some of whom have launched mercenary units to intensify carnage and chaos in order to stem the stride of Nemesis closing in on them for past criminalities, and the cascade of corrupt revelations."
The celebrated playwright queried what the minister of defence, who allegedly openly justified the homicidal rampage of nomadic herdsmen, was still doing in the Buhari government.
Soyinka noted that there were still other pressing and disturbing questions which would be held back for now in order not "to impede the pressing imperatives and humane priorities of the current crisis."
"Right now, however, the agenda has to be restitution. Restitution to the displaced, the maimed, the traumatised survivors and the nation's suppurating psyche. The torrent of internally displaced persons is a national shame, and the growing number of the kidnapped an embarrassment.
"The plane cannot remain on auto-pilot as hitherto, while the pilot strolls up and down the aisle, assuring passengers that all is well. A Happy May Day – hopefully in the not too distant future – to all who labour for humanity."
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Turkey's prime minister has refused to heed Western demands to "do more" to stem the flow of foreign fighters joining Islamic insurgents fighting in Iraq and Syria, saying the country has already blacklisted 7,000 people and deported 2,000 more.
"If we left our borders open, it was not for the passage of terrorists. We kept the border open for children, whose fathers and mothers had died, and for innocent women to find shelter in our country," Davutoğlu said on Jan. 12 during a news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin.
"We could have shut down the border, but then the responsibility of every child massacred by the Syrian regime's bombs would belong to those who want us to close the borders," he added.
Davutoğlu was again forced to answer questions about foreign jihadists' transit to Syria through Turkey after a suspected accomplice in last week's attacks in Paris was revealed to have traveled through Turkey to Syria before coming to attention.
Denying the accusations, the Turkish leader asserted Ankara's border policy "had" to be shaped with humanitarian needs in Syria taken into consideration, insisting that the government was doing its best based on the cooperation it receives from Western countries.
Turkey has long been criticized by the international community for its alleged tolerance of foreign fighters passing through its territory to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Syria.
In the second half of 2014, Turkey increased its intelligence cooperation with European countries, as the former began placing a travel ban on several thousand foreign individuals.
The prime minister reiterated that Turkey welcomed 35 million tourists every year and said the authorities could not label foreigners as terrorists without proper intelligence information shared by other countries.
Acting on the names conveyed to Turkey, Ankara has blacklisted 7,000 people, including German citizens, and deported around 1,500 to 2,000 others, Davutoğlu said, stressing that the authorities first required intelligence in order to bar suspected travelers.
"We assess all intelligence we receive and we cooperate with the related country," he said.
On the issue of Hayat Boumeddiene, the suspected female accomplice of Islamist militants behind attacks in Paris, Davutoğlu said Turkey conveyed the information it detected about her without receiving a demand from France.
He recalled that it had been learned that Boumeddiene flew to Istanbul from Madrid, before traveling to the southeastern Turkish province of Gaziantep, from where she is suspected of crossing to Syria.
In the same press conference, the prime minister also said Turkey expected the same sensitivity shown over the Paris attacks to also be shown for terrorist attacks that Turkey has faced, recalling the suicide attack that killed a policeman in Istanbul a day before the Charlie Hebdo attack that killed 12 people on Jan. 7, as well as the Reyhanlı bombings in 2013, when 52 people were killed in a town near the Syrian border.


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Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry
by Emma Hine
Published by: Sarabande Books
72 Pages, 6.00 x 9.00 in
At the center of this stellar collection are three sisters and their imaginative fear of grief. Their great-uncle was bitten by a shark, their mother has a brain tumor, their neighbor hangs himself from a tree—and to cope with these very real terrors, the oldest sister creates an intimate fantasy world. We hear stories of a mountain lion that slaughters a deer, a transparent body washed up on a beach, a selkie who ventures to shore and becomes their mother: "On land her pelt was heavy / like stewed velvet, so she taught herself / to take it off." The sisters' environment of ocean and sand, forests and farmhouses, forms a lush backdrop to many of these poems. But later, as the speaker ages, we find ourselves in the mountains, in an art museum, in a spacecraft where a recorded voice "has the soft accent of someone only a generation or two removed from Earth." The voice in these poems is the perfect mix of grief and imagination, quiet and explosion. Stay Safe is delicate and extraordinary, a powerful debut.
Originally from Austin, Texas, Emma Hine received a BA from Washington University in St. Louis and an MFA from New York University. She currently serves as the Communications Manager at the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) and the Education Content Specialist at the Academy of American Poets. Prior to this, she was the Associate Content & Education Editor at the Academy of American Poets. She is also a co-founder and co-host of Debut Revue, a virtual reading series celebrating debut poetry collections. Hine's poems have previously appeared or are forthcoming in: 32 Poems, Arts & Letters, Copper Nickel, Gulf Coast, Hayden's Ferry Review, the Mississippi Review, the Missouri Review Online, Ninth Letter, The Offing, The Paris Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Radar Poetry, and The Southern Review.
Poets & Writers, "Galley Crush"
"Three sisters are at the heart of Hine's debut, which catalogues family stories and terrors. The speakers of these poems forge a fantasy world that combines imagination and grief."
—"Fall 2020 Announcements: Poetry," Publishers Weekly
"Simply said: this is the renewable energy we've been waiting for. So attuned are these poems to their introspective nature and terrors of the self, their wild narratives, and linguistic spells, this book begins to feel like its own solar farm: each page, a panel of skyshine and wonderments."
—Major Jackson
"Emma Hine's remarkable debut claims as its title an impossible injunction: stay safe. What does it mean to stay, to remain, to arrest a state of being that is fully immune to danger, which is to say, to living? Hine circles this impossibility in poems of dark lyricism, ones commanding our attention to the body at risk: its hidden danger zones, its collisions and impacts, its relentless hurtle forward. Like the speaker in these poems, we're made to understand we're 'not strong, not / permanent, just holding.' Stay Safe limns personal and collective griefs with searing insight, showing us how mythology and language can transmute fear and loss into something redemptive, something of strange beauty. This is a collection that is startling in its revelations and the latitudes it traverses, and Hine is a tremendous voice reminding us what it is to mark an existence and to endure."
—Jenny Xie
"Emma Hine's debut collection Stay Safe is like a rumble strip alerting her readers to potential dangers ahead, awakening us to the 'quivering systems of energy and grief' we traverse. The coming-of-age poems ripple with ominous sexuality and an awareness of loss ahead. Family history is transformed into near fairytale, and vice versa. 'Expect sometimes to be lonely,' a mother says in one of many poems charged with both love and loss. Hine's gift for metaphor marks these quiet hallucinations and keeps them free of sentimentality even when they pulse with feeling: 'Waves touch shore in little habitual apologies.' Taken together and singly, these poems become 'a torch into the tunnel-end of risk.'"
—Catherine Barnett


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Museum of Liverpool awarded another £1.2m
AEW Architects has been ordered by the High Court to pay a further £1.24m damages to National Museums Liverpool in addition to £1.1m awarded last month.
The High Court decision relates to design faults on ceilings, including one which is understood to have partially fallen in, as well as the cost of replacing faulty structures and of storing artefacts whilst repairs were carried out. The initial award in July was for external steps and terraces.
Sharon Granville, director of the Museum of Liverpool, said she was "very pleased with this latest settlement".
Interest and costs are due to be awarded in October.
Steve Burne, managing director of AEW, based in Manchester, said: "This is the final stage relating to the judgement, which was first issued on 31 July and we are glad that this matter is now concluded."
Burne said the amount of damages was less than the initial claim and £205,000 was being paid by contractor Galliford Try Pihl.
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Officially unveiled last year in a prototype version called inForm, Transform was exhibited for the first time this week in Milan at the Lexus Design Amazing 2014 exhibition. Transform fuses technology and design to celebrate its transformation from a piece of still furniture to a dynamic machine driven by the stream of data and energy.
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The motion design is inspired by the dynamic interactions among wind, water and sand in nature, Escher's representations of perpetual motion, and the attributes of sand castles built at the seashore. Transform tells the story of the conflict between nature and machine, and its reconciliation, through the ever-changing tabletop landscape.
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Hato Mayor del Rey – miasto we wschodniej części Dominikany; stolica prowincji Hato Mayor, liczy 61 571 mieszkańców. Położone jest 110 km na północny wschód od Santo Domingo. Hiszpańska nazwa po polsku oznacza wielka trzoda króla. Nazwa wywodzi się z czasów kolonialnych w XVI wieku, gdzie Hato Mayor del Rey było znane z pasterstwa, ze stadami dla króla Karola I.

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W mieście panuje klimat tropikalny. Średnia roczna temperatura wynosi 25 °C i obfite opady deszczu w ciągu większości roku wynoszą 1641,5 mm.

W mieście działalność religijną prowadzi Kościół katolicki, liczne grupy protestanckie oraz Świadkowie Jehowy.

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